Youngest child of Stanford Jester and Hannah Culbertson.
Melissa was age 3 when she was enumerated with the family in Washington County, Pennsylvania in 1850.[1]
Melissa made the move with the family to Muscatine County, Iowa, where she is found in the 1860 Census at age 12.[2]
Sources
↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4Z7-DKR : 24 December 2020), Malifser J Jester in household of Stanford Jester, Union Township, Washington, Pennsylvania, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
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