Ella Gertrude Stine was ninth of the ten children of Hester Frances (née Stansbury) and Charles Stine, born in Arrowsmith Township, McLean County, Illinois, where her family farmed.

Ella Stine and F. W. (Frank William) Zick were married on 5 July 1894 in Valley Springs, Minnehaha County, South Dakota. The couple's first child, Earl Carl, was born there in 1895. By 1898, the Zick family had moved to Oshkosh, Wisconsin, where the couple's second child, Hester F., was born.

"Besides being a member of the Tenth Street Methodist church [Ella Zick] was a member of the Friendship circle, Women's Society of Christian Service, Woman's Relief corps, and the Royal Neighbors of America."*

Notes

1880 U.S. Census, E.D. 180, Arrowsmith Twp., McLean Co., Illinois; dwelling 103, family 106, lines 34-42, p. 568B (printed), p. 12 (written), 9 Jun 1880.
34. Stine, Charles, head, 52, farmer; born in North C., father in Pa., mother in Georgia.
35. ----- Esther F., wife, 49, keeping house; born in Tennessee, father in Va., mother in Tenn.
36. ----- Harritt, 17, daughter, Illinois
37. ----- Louiza B., 14, daughter, Illinois.
38. ----- Temperance A., 12, daughter, at school, Illinois.
39. ----- Ellie G., 10, daughter, at school, Illinois.
40. ----- Nora, 8, daughter, at school, Illinois.
41. Harris, Mary E., 20, daughter, Illinois.
42. ----- Elis A., 23, son [in] law, farming, Illinois.

Marriage license: F. W. Zick & Ella Stine, 5 Jul 1894, Valley Springs, Minnehaha Co., South Dakota. (Index of Minnehaha Co. Marriages, Sioux Valley Genealogical Society.)

1900 U.S. Census, E.D. 145, Ward 9, Oshkosh, Winnebago Co., Wisconsin; dwelling 211, family 220, lines 12-15, p. 94 (printed), p. 11A (written), 9 Jun 1900.
12. Zick, Frank, head, Dec 1866, 33, married 7 years; born in Wisconsin, parents in Germany; day laborer.
13. ----- Ella, wife, Aug 1870, 29, married 7 years, 2 children (living); born in Illinois, parents in "Germany."
14. ----- Earl, son, "Jan 1894, 5," S. Dakota.
15. ----- Hester, daughter, Aug 1898, 1, Wisconsin.

"Mr. and Mrs. [Charles] Stine were the parents of ten children, eight of whom survive, as follows: [...] Mrs. F. W. Zick, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin." ("Charles Stine, of Saybrook, is Dead," The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Illinois, 14 Feb 1914, p. 7, col. 5.)

1940 U.S Census, E.D. 70-47, Ward 15, Oshkosh, Winnebago Co., Wisconsin; dwelling 377, lines 18-20, p. 953 (printed), p. 18A (written), 24 Apr 1940.
18. Zick, Frank W., head, 74, Wisconsin, glazer, sash and glass co.
19. ----- Ella, wife, 69, Illinois.
20. ----- Hester, daughter, 40, single, Wisconsin, credit mgr.

* "Mrs. Frank G. Zick Passes Away at Age 75," Oshkosh Daily Northwestern, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 16 April 1946, p. 4. (An obit for Frank W. Zick was published in the same newspaper on 20 March 1952, p. 4).

Reviewed 25 May 2022.