Celia Augusta Belden
1856 - 1929 (73 years)-
Name Celia Augusta Belden Birth 29 Jan 1856 New Haven, Allen, IN 
Gender Female Death 16 Mar 1929 Houston, Harris, TX - Obit: Mrs. Celia Drollinger, 73, died Saturday morning at 9:20 o'clock at the home of her son Harry at Houston, Texas. Mrs. Drollinger made her home with her daughter, Mrs. G. W. Ferguson, 1801 Crescent avenue, this city, but some time ago went to the home of her son in Houston to spend the winter. Surviving are three sons, Harry and Clyde of Houston and Grover of East Rochester, O.; two daughters, Mrs. Ferguson of this city and Mrs. Milton Bolerjack of Albany. The body will be brought to this city, arriving this evening. Funeral services will be held at the home of Mrs. Ferguson Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, Rev. E. Garfield Johson officiating. Burial in Lindenwood. 1929 March 18; Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Mrs C A Drollinger
Gender: Female
Race: White
Age: 73
Birth Date: 29 Jan 1856
Birth Place: Ohio
Death Date: 16 Mar 1929
Death Place: Houston, Harris, Texas, USA
Burial Ft. Wayne, Allen, IN - Burial: Lindenwood Cemetery
Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana, USA
Person ID I2892 Drollinger Genealogy Last Modified 29 Dec 2019
Family Martin Van Buren Drollinger, b. 28 Mar 1837, Preble County, OH d. 25 Oct 1911, Ft. Wayne, Allen, IN (Age 74 years) Marriage 4 Jan 1876 Wabash, Wabash, IN - Indiana Marriage Collection
Name: Martin V. Drollinger
Spouse Name: Celia A. Belden
Marriage Date: 4 Jan 1876
Marriage County: Wabash
Performed By: J. P. Wm. L. Russell
Source Title 1: Wabash County, Indiana
Source Title 2: Marriage Records 1861 - 1882 Bk. C
Source Title 3: Compiled by Wabash County Historical Museum
Book: 482
OS Page: 8
Children 1. Eva Rilla Drollinger, b. 4 Jan 1877, Wabash County, IN d. 31 Oct 1951, Muncie, Delaware, IN (Age 74 years)2. Grace Arvilla Drollinger, b. 13 Aug 1878, Roann, Wabash, IN d. 20 Sep 1953, Ft. Wayne, Allen, IN (Age 75 years)3. Hazel Marie Drollinger, b. 22 May 1883, Roann, Wabash, IN d. 14 Aug 1884, Roann, Wabash, IN (Age 1 year)4. CPT Grover Ira Drollinger, b. 22 Apr 1885, Stockdale, Wabash, IN d. 18 Jul 1941, Defiance, Defiance, OH (Age 56 years)5. Harry Iven Drollinger, b. 25 Jul 1889, Roann, Wabash, IN d. 22 Jan 1964, Cushing, Nacogdoches, TX (Age 74 years)6. Clyde Orton Drollinger, b. 20 Jul 1892, Roann, Wabash, IN d. 28 Feb 1945, Urbana, Champaign, IL (Age 52 years)Family ID F937 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 29 Dec 2019
- Obit: Mrs. Celia Drollinger, 73, died Saturday morning at 9:20 o'clock at the home of her son Harry at Houston, Texas. Mrs. Drollinger made her home with her daughter, Mrs. G. W. Ferguson, 1801 Crescent avenue, this city, but some time ago went to the home of her son in Houston to spend the winter. Surviving are three sons, Harry and Clyde of Houston and Grover of East Rochester, O.; two daughters, Mrs. Ferguson of this city and Mrs. Milton Bolerjack of Albany. The body will be brought to this city, arriving this evening. Funeral services will be held at the home of Mrs. Ferguson Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, Rev. E. Garfield Johson officiating. Burial in Lindenwood. 1929 March 18; Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
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Event Map 
Birth - 29 Jan 1856 - New Haven, Allen, IN 
Marriage - 4 Jan 1876 - Wabash, Wabash, IN 
Death - 16 Mar 1929 - Houston, Harris, TX 
Burial - - Ft. Wayne, Allen, IN = Link to Google Earth
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Photos 
1895
Back row L to R: Grace and Eva
Front row L to R: Harry Ivan, Martin, Grover, Celia Belden, Clyde
Documents 
At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld. 
Family Bible - Deaths
Family Bible - Deaths
Death Certificate
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Notes - Ancestry.com
http://interactive.ancestry.com/51639/News-IN-LO_DA_TR.1918_10_26-0006/481650694?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fgst%3d-6&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults&rc=3952,3154,4029,3187;4044,3154,4198,3187
The Daily Tribune 28 Oct 1918 Page 6
Hoover (note: according to Google search, Hoover is an unincorporated place in Adams Twp, Cass County, IN)
"Mrs. Celia Drollinger is staying at Henry Long's"
from: Harry Drollinger hb_drollinger@hotmail.com
to: Dave Drollinger
date: Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 11:52 AM
subject: RE: Celia Drollinger
Hi my distance cuz'n Dave;
What are you doing crawling down one of my rabbit holes? full story to follow.
Thanks for this short bit from a news paper because it confirms what I have been tracing for several weeks trying to prove that George Belden was Celia's Drollinger brother, but first let me backup ...
Several years back, a Belden cousin, grandson of Ira Belden aka Grover Drollinger, ask me to get Celia Drollinger's Texas Certificate of Death to determine where she was born and who her parents were but I just had not had the time to travel to Houston and stand in line to get it. Well, about 6 weeks ago, this data was put on line through Acenstry.com and I came across it. At the time of her death, she was spending her winter with my grandfather in Houston and he did not have or couldn't supply the Harris County Vital Statistics this information on his mother. So I got to digging around and was able to track Celia through her brother back to Elkhart County Indiana in the 1860 census. Her mother, Mary A Belden, appears to be a widow because she is the Head of Household listing both George and Celia in the household. By 1870, Mary A Belden had remarried to a Isaac Frank and had two more children; Charles and Lilly Frank. Some time after the 1870 census and before Jan 1876, the Franks family moved to Roann Indiana where Celia Augusta Belden married Martin Van Buren Drollinger in January of 1876.
All the census records on Mary A Belden Frank, show her son George living with her and his job description is laborer. After his mothers death on Aug 1, 1904 in North Manchester, Wabash County, Indiana, George moved in with his step-sister, Lilly Frank Long, wife of Henry Long. Both George's step-sister and step-brother lived around Hoover Indiana and died there. The records show that Mary A Belden Frank hada total of 9 children and that only George and Celia Belden and Charles and Lilly Frank survived to adulthood. I have acquired all the obits but Lilly Long on the family and it still does not give me insight to what Mary A Belden Frank's maiden name was nor what Belden she was married too. AS to Celia Belden Drollinger, I am not sure where she was born, but the records at Lindenwood Cemetery says that she was born in New Haven, Indiana (small town outside of Ft. Wayne Indiana but an on site search of historical records of the town at the time of Celia's birth, did not even list a Belden being in the town).
What your newspaper clip shows, that Celia Drollinger is visiting her brother and half-sister. It show interact with her siblings which I had not been able to find before. Thanks.
If you come across any more records on her, please forward them and if you find her parent's names, boy that would be great.
I hope this helps,
Ben
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