This memorial is for the bottom half of the stone, presumably child or children MANSELL. The top have is still unknown, but is entered under the name BENSHOFF.
Bottom half appears to be child or children of Rev. H Mansell. The children would have been grandchildren or nieces and nephew of Gasper Benshoff, whose name is on the other side of the marker. (Presumably, the children's mother was a daughter or sister of Gasper.)
Need to try to better read the stone, but here is info about the family:
1850 Census, Connemaugh, Cambria, Penn
Benchoof, William, 27, laborer, b. Pa
-, Esther, 32, b. Pa [maiden name Hill]
-, Ann E., 6, b. Pa
-, Gasper, 4, b. Pa
Holms, James, 27, laborer, b. England
-, Catherine, 26, b. Pa
[Ann E. a possibility for the top half of the stone]
1860 Census, Connemaugh, Cambria, Pennsylvania
Benshoof, Wm A., 37, R.R. Watchman
-, Esther, 46
-, Annie E., 16
-, Gasper H., 14
-, Sameida C., 5 [b. 10 Jun 1856, Pa]
[Annie E. a possibility for the top half of the stone]
1880 Census, Newark, Licking, Ohio
Benshoff, Esther, 56, widowed, b. Pa, parents b. Pa
Mansell, Hettie, 18, granddaughter, b. Pa
-, Wm. Albert, 16, grandson, b. India, parents b. Pa
-, Sarah Jane, 11, granddaughter, b India, parents b. Pa [m. Rev. John F. Thurston]
[Would be mother and children of Abie/Anna Elizabeth Benshoff Mansell, 9 years after her death.]
1900 Census, Porter Twp, Youngstown, Niagara, NY
Monroe, David C., 36, b. NY
-, Hester V., 38, b. Pa
-, Harry C., 9, b. India
-, Eric A., 4, b. India
[Would be married daughter of Abie/Anna Elizabeth Benshoff Mansell]
Hettie: From "Gender, Religion, and the Heathen Lands: American Missionary Women in South Asia 1860s to 1940s": "...others, in fact, choose the life of their parents. Hettie Mansell Monroe came to India as a seven-month-old baby with her parents, Rev. William Mansell (1814-1913) and his wife, Methodist missionaries from North America. After her early childhood in Moradabad, Bijnor, and Pauri, where Hettie and her brother helped with missionary work, the family returned on furlough in 1871 to the United States, where Hettie's mother died. Although both children grew up in Ohio, in 1884, soon after Hettie graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University, she returned to India, sponsored by the Women's Foreign Missionary Society to spend many subsequent years teaching at missionary girls' schools and colleges... she married a missionary from New York, Rev. D. C. Monroe, PhD. Together they taught four years in Sitapur, and four years in Agra, returning to America in 1898... returned... finally returned to American for health reasons in 1909."
From "The Christian Advocate": "Mrs. Hester Mansell Monroe, wife Dr. David C. Monroe, died at her home in Bristol, Conn., March 19, 1914. Born in Altoona, Pa., in 1861, she was the daughter of the Rev. Henry Mansell for years a missionary in India, where her early life was spent. She was graduated in 1880 from Ohio Wesleyan University with high honors, and returned to India as a missionary of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society. For some time she was in charge of a girls' boarding school at Morabodah, and later of the college department of the Isabella Thoburn High School. In Lucknow, she was married to the Rev. David C. [Casler] Monroe, also a missionary, and they remained in India until 1898, when they returned to the United States. Later she went to India again for nine years. Mrs. Monroe was a woman of rare Christian character and exercised great influence as a missionary. She is survived by her husband and three sons - Harry, Eric, and Alan."
Genforum posts indicates that Hettie married David Monroe, and that her mother's name was Abie Benshoff. Reply post noted that Hettie's parents were Henry S. Mansell and Anna Elizabeth Banshoff, who was his third wife; that Henry was famous for his work translating India literature; and that there were five children: Hester, William Albert, Sarah Jane, Edwin Parker, and John W.
There is a book entitled "The Life and Work of William Albert Mansell, Missionary" by Lewis A. Core, Methodist Publishing House, 1914.
Bottom half appears to be child or children of Rev. H Mansell. The children would have been grandchildren or nieces and nephew of Gasper Benshoff, whose name is on the other side of the marker. (Presumably, the children's mother was a daughter or sister of Gasper.)
Need to try to better read the stone, but here is info about the family:
1850 Census, Connemaugh, Cambria, Penn
Benchoof, William, 27, laborer, b. Pa
-, Esther, 32, b. Pa [maiden name Hill]
-, Ann E., 6, b. Pa
-, Gasper, 4, b. Pa
Holms, James, 27, laborer, b. England
-, Catherine, 26, b. Pa
[Ann E. a possibility for the top half of the stone]
1860 Census, Connemaugh, Cambria, Pennsylvania
Benshoof, Wm A., 37, R.R. Watchman
-, Esther, 46
-, Annie E., 16
-, Gasper H., 14
-, Sameida C., 5 [b. 10 Jun 1856, Pa]
[Annie E. a possibility for the top half of the stone]
1880 Census, Newark, Licking, Ohio
Benshoff, Esther, 56, widowed, b. Pa, parents b. Pa
Mansell, Hettie, 18, granddaughter, b. Pa
-, Wm. Albert, 16, grandson, b. India, parents b. Pa
-, Sarah Jane, 11, granddaughter, b India, parents b. Pa [m. Rev. John F. Thurston]
[Would be mother and children of Abie/Anna Elizabeth Benshoff Mansell, 9 years after her death.]
1900 Census, Porter Twp, Youngstown, Niagara, NY
Monroe, David C., 36, b. NY
-, Hester V., 38, b. Pa
-, Harry C., 9, b. India
-, Eric A., 4, b. India
[Would be married daughter of Abie/Anna Elizabeth Benshoff Mansell]
Hettie: From "Gender, Religion, and the Heathen Lands: American Missionary Women in South Asia 1860s to 1940s": "...others, in fact, choose the life of their parents. Hettie Mansell Monroe came to India as a seven-month-old baby with her parents, Rev. William Mansell (1814-1913) and his wife, Methodist missionaries from North America. After her early childhood in Moradabad, Bijnor, and Pauri, where Hettie and her brother helped with missionary work, the family returned on furlough in 1871 to the United States, where Hettie's mother died. Although both children grew up in Ohio, in 1884, soon after Hettie graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University, she returned to India, sponsored by the Women's Foreign Missionary Society to spend many subsequent years teaching at missionary girls' schools and colleges... she married a missionary from New York, Rev. D. C. Monroe, PhD. Together they taught four years in Sitapur, and four years in Agra, returning to America in 1898... returned... finally returned to American for health reasons in 1909."
From "The Christian Advocate": "Mrs. Hester Mansell Monroe, wife Dr. David C. Monroe, died at her home in Bristol, Conn., March 19, 1914. Born in Altoona, Pa., in 1861, she was the daughter of the Rev. Henry Mansell for years a missionary in India, where her early life was spent. She was graduated in 1880 from Ohio Wesleyan University with high honors, and returned to India as a missionary of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society. For some time she was in charge of a girls' boarding school at Morabodah, and later of the college department of the Isabella Thoburn High School. In Lucknow, she was married to the Rev. David C. [Casler] Monroe, also a missionary, and they remained in India until 1898, when they returned to the United States. Later she went to India again for nine years. Mrs. Monroe was a woman of rare Christian character and exercised great influence as a missionary. She is survived by her husband and three sons - Harry, Eric, and Alan."
Genforum posts indicates that Hettie married David Monroe, and that her mother's name was Abie Benshoff. Reply post noted that Hettie's parents were Henry S. Mansell and Anna Elizabeth Banshoff, who was his third wife; that Henry was famous for his work translating India literature; and that there were five children: Hester, William Albert, Sarah Jane, Edwin Parker, and John W.
There is a book entitled "The Life and Work of William Albert Mansell, Missionary" by Lewis A. Core, Methodist Publishing House, 1914.
This memorial is for the bottom half of the stone, presumably child or children MANSELL. The top have is still unknown, but is entered under the name BENSHOFF.
Bottom half appears to be child or children of Rev. H Mansell. The children would have been grandchildren or nieces and nephew of Gasper Benshoff, whose name is on the other side of the marker. (Presumably, the children's mother was a daughter or sister of Gasper.)
Need to try to better read the stone, but here is info about the family:
1850 Census, Connemaugh, Cambria, Penn
Benchoof, William, 27, laborer, b. Pa
-, Esther, 32, b. Pa [maiden name Hill]
-, Ann E., 6, b. Pa
-, Gasper, 4, b. Pa
Holms, James, 27, laborer, b. England
-, Catherine, 26, b. Pa
[Ann E. a possibility for the top half of the stone]
1860 Census, Connemaugh, Cambria, Pennsylvania
Benshoof, Wm A., 37, R.R. Watchman
-, Esther, 46
-, Annie E., 16
-, Gasper H., 14
-, Sameida C., 5 [b. 10 Jun 1856, Pa]
[Annie E. a possibility for the top half of the stone]
1880 Census, Newark, Licking, Ohio
Benshoff, Esther, 56, widowed, b. Pa, parents b. Pa
Mansell, Hettie, 18, granddaughter, b. Pa
-, Wm. Albert, 16, grandson, b. India, parents b. Pa
-, Sarah Jane, 11, granddaughter, b India, parents b. Pa [m. Rev. John F. Thurston]
[Would be mother and children of Abie/Anna Elizabeth Benshoff Mansell, 9 years after her death.]
1900 Census, Porter Twp, Youngstown, Niagara, NY
Monroe, David C., 36, b. NY
-, Hester V., 38, b. Pa
-, Harry C., 9, b. India
-, Eric A., 4, b. India
[Would be married daughter of Abie/Anna Elizabeth Benshoff Mansell]
Hettie: From "Gender, Religion, and the Heathen Lands: American Missionary Women in South Asia 1860s to 1940s": "...others, in fact, choose the life of their parents. Hettie Mansell Monroe came to India as a seven-month-old baby with her parents, Rev. William Mansell (1814-1913) and his wife, Methodist missionaries from North America. After her early childhood in Moradabad, Bijnor, and Pauri, where Hettie and her brother helped with missionary work, the family returned on furlough in 1871 to the United States, where Hettie's mother died. Although both children grew up in Ohio, in 1884, soon after Hettie graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University, she returned to India, sponsored by the Women's Foreign Missionary Society to spend many subsequent years teaching at missionary girls' schools and colleges... she married a missionary from New York, Rev. D. C. Monroe, PhD. Together they taught four years in Sitapur, and four years in Agra, returning to America in 1898... returned... finally returned to American for health reasons in 1909."
From "The Christian Advocate": "Mrs. Hester Mansell Monroe, wife Dr. David C. Monroe, died at her home in Bristol, Conn., March 19, 1914. Born in Altoona, Pa., in 1861, she was the daughter of the Rev. Henry Mansell for years a missionary in India, where her early life was spent. She was graduated in 1880 from Ohio Wesleyan University with high honors, and returned to India as a missionary of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society. For some time she was in charge of a girls' boarding school at Morabodah, and later of the college department of the Isabella Thoburn High School. In Lucknow, she was married to the Rev. David C. [Casler] Monroe, also a missionary, and they remained in India until 1898, when they returned to the United States. Later she went to India again for nine years. Mrs. Monroe was a woman of rare Christian character and exercised great influence as a missionary. She is survived by her husband and three sons - Harry, Eric, and Alan."
Genforum posts indicates that Hettie married David Monroe, and that her mother's name was Abie Benshoff. Reply post noted that Hettie's parents were Henry S. Mansell and Anna Elizabeth Banshoff, who was his third wife; that Henry was famous for his work translating India literature; and that there were five children: Hester, William Albert, Sarah Jane, Edwin Parker, and John W.
There is a book entitled "The Life and Work of William Albert Mansell, Missionary" by Lewis A. Core, Methodist Publishing House, 1914.
Bottom half appears to be child or children of Rev. H Mansell. The children would have been grandchildren or nieces and nephew of Gasper Benshoff, whose name is on the other side of the marker. (Presumably, the children's mother was a daughter or sister of Gasper.)
Need to try to better read the stone, but here is info about the family:
1850 Census, Connemaugh, Cambria, Penn
Benchoof, William, 27, laborer, b. Pa
-, Esther, 32, b. Pa [maiden name Hill]
-, Ann E., 6, b. Pa
-, Gasper, 4, b. Pa
Holms, James, 27, laborer, b. England
-, Catherine, 26, b. Pa
[Ann E. a possibility for the top half of the stone]
1860 Census, Connemaugh, Cambria, Pennsylvania
Benshoof, Wm A., 37, R.R. Watchman
-, Esther, 46
-, Annie E., 16
-, Gasper H., 14
-, Sameida C., 5 [b. 10 Jun 1856, Pa]
[Annie E. a possibility for the top half of the stone]
1880 Census, Newark, Licking, Ohio
Benshoff, Esther, 56, widowed, b. Pa, parents b. Pa
Mansell, Hettie, 18, granddaughter, b. Pa
-, Wm. Albert, 16, grandson, b. India, parents b. Pa
-, Sarah Jane, 11, granddaughter, b India, parents b. Pa [m. Rev. John F. Thurston]
[Would be mother and children of Abie/Anna Elizabeth Benshoff Mansell, 9 years after her death.]
1900 Census, Porter Twp, Youngstown, Niagara, NY
Monroe, David C., 36, b. NY
-, Hester V., 38, b. Pa
-, Harry C., 9, b. India
-, Eric A., 4, b. India
[Would be married daughter of Abie/Anna Elizabeth Benshoff Mansell]
Hettie: From "Gender, Religion, and the Heathen Lands: American Missionary Women in South Asia 1860s to 1940s": "...others, in fact, choose the life of their parents. Hettie Mansell Monroe came to India as a seven-month-old baby with her parents, Rev. William Mansell (1814-1913) and his wife, Methodist missionaries from North America. After her early childhood in Moradabad, Bijnor, and Pauri, where Hettie and her brother helped with missionary work, the family returned on furlough in 1871 to the United States, where Hettie's mother died. Although both children grew up in Ohio, in 1884, soon after Hettie graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University, she returned to India, sponsored by the Women's Foreign Missionary Society to spend many subsequent years teaching at missionary girls' schools and colleges... she married a missionary from New York, Rev. D. C. Monroe, PhD. Together they taught four years in Sitapur, and four years in Agra, returning to America in 1898... returned... finally returned to American for health reasons in 1909."
From "The Christian Advocate": "Mrs. Hester Mansell Monroe, wife Dr. David C. Monroe, died at her home in Bristol, Conn., March 19, 1914. Born in Altoona, Pa., in 1861, she was the daughter of the Rev. Henry Mansell for years a missionary in India, where her early life was spent. She was graduated in 1880 from Ohio Wesleyan University with high honors, and returned to India as a missionary of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society. For some time she was in charge of a girls' boarding school at Morabodah, and later of the college department of the Isabella Thoburn High School. In Lucknow, she was married to the Rev. David C. [Casler] Monroe, also a missionary, and they remained in India until 1898, when they returned to the United States. Later she went to India again for nine years. Mrs. Monroe was a woman of rare Christian character and exercised great influence as a missionary. She is survived by her husband and three sons - Harry, Eric, and Alan."
Genforum posts indicates that Hettie married David Monroe, and that her mother's name was Abie Benshoff. Reply post noted that Hettie's parents were Henry S. Mansell and Anna Elizabeth Banshoff, who was his third wife; that Henry was famous for his work translating India literature; and that there were five children: Hester, William Albert, Sarah Jane, Edwin Parker, and John W.
There is a book entitled "The Life and Work of William Albert Mansell, Missionary" by Lewis A. Core, Methodist Publishing House, 1914.
Gravesite Details
On Benshoff family marker, reverse of Caspar H Benshoff
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