Susan E. Hamsher

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Susan wrote her Will on 18 April 1864 and states the following regarding her personal property. "I give and devise to my Husband Edmund Hartman his heirs and assigns all that tract or parcel of land situate in the Town of North Dansville and bounded as follows: on east by Main Street, on the North by the Dutch Lutheran church lot; on the west by lot of Stephen Brown and on the south in part by Franklin Street and in part by lot of Mrs. Brown and being the same premises purchased by me of Aaron Brown and wife, together with all the hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining: To have and hold the premises above described to my husband Edmund Hartman his heirs and assigns forever."

Hartman- In this village, April 16th, Susan E., wife of Edmund Hartman, aged 45 years, 1 month, and 12 days. Mrs. Hartman was a great sufferer during ten painful years, but a patient one, as became her sterling Christian character, she was an earnest, consistent member of the English Lutheran church from a child of twelve years, and her life of devotion to Christian principles causes many to bless her memory.
(Dansville Advertiser, Thursday, April 24, 1873)

An article in the same paper as her obituary(24Apr1873) states of "A Remarkable Case" in which Mrs. Edmund Hartman suffered close to ten years with dropsy and tumor. "Mrs. Hartman was a great sufferer during ten painful years, but a patient one, as became her sterling Christian character. She was an earnest, consistent member of the English Lutheran church from a child of twelve years, and her life of devotion to Christian principles causes many to bless her memory."
(Dansville Advertiser, Dansville, New York, Thursday 24 April 1873)

Susan married Lieutenant Edmund Hartman about 1855 in North Dansville, Livingston County, New York. Edmund (son of Henry Hartman and Elizabeth Zerfass) was born on 30 Apr 1830 in Sparta, Livingston County, New York; died on 19 Jun 1876 in North Dansville, Livingston County, New York; was buried in Greenmount Cemetery, North Dansville, Livingston County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Frances' cemetery inscription reads, "adopted daughter of E. and S.E.
Hartman"

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In Dansville, Oct.5, Eliza L., adopted daughter of Edmund and Susan L. Hartman, aged 1 years, 11 months and 27 days.
(Dansville Advertiser, Dansville, New York, Thursday, October 8, 1863)