Martha Matilda Drollinger
1836 - 1886 (50 years)-
Name Martha Matilda Drollinger Birth 7 May 1836 Wills Twp, La Porte County, IN 
Gender Female Death 25 May 1886 Wills Twp, La Porte County, IN [1] Burial La Porte County, IN - BURIAL Sauktown Cemetery
La Porte County, Indiana, USA
Martha Tennis tombstone, Sauktown Cemetery, LaPorte County Indiana, [11 miles from the LaPorte courthouse on road 150N], read and photographed by Kay Germain Ingalls, May 2002.
Person ID I2925 Drollinger Genealogy Last Modified 29 Jun 2021
Father Gabriel Drollinger, b. 13 Jul 1810, Guilford, Orange, NC d. 18 Dec 1887, Wills Twp, La Porte County, IN (Age 77 years) Mother Mary Elizabeth Chapman, b. 7 Oct 1816, Cayuga County, NY d. 17 Oct 1893, Wills Twp, La Porte County, IN (Age 77 years) Family ID F950 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Phillip Lewis Tennis, b. 5 Aug 1828, OH d. 9 Apr 1864 (Age 35 years) Marriage 21 Apr 1860 Wills Twp, La Porte County, IN [2] - Indiana Marriage Collection
Name: Phillip Tennis
Spouse Name: Martha H. Drollinger
Marriage Date: 21 Apr 1860
Marriage County: Laporte
Source Title 1: Laporte County, Indiana
Source Title 2: Index to Marriage Records Letters: S - Z Volume V
Source Title 3: W. P. A. Compiled by Indiana Works Progress Admini
Book: R-E
OS Page: 5
Indiana Marriage Collection
Name: Martha M. Drollinger
Spouse Name: Phillip Tennis
Marriage Date: 21 Apr 1866
Marriage County: Laporte
Source Title 1: Laporte County, Indiana
Source Title 2: Index to Marriage Records Letters D - H Volume II
Source Title 3: W. P. A. Compiled by Indiana Works Progress Admini
Book: R-E
OS Page: 5
Index to Marriage Records
Laporte County, Indiana
Index to Marriage Records Letters: S - Z Volume V 1850 to 1920 Inclusive
W. P. A. Compiled by Indiana Works Progress Administration 1939
County: Laporte
Name: Phillip Tennis
Spouse: Martha H. Drollinger
Marriage Date: 21 Apr 1860
Date: 21 Apr 1860
Book: R-E
Original Source Page: 5
Children + 1. Gabriel Phillip Tennis, b. 2 Feb 1861, Wills Twp, La Porte County, IN d. 10 Jul 1938, La Porte County, IN (Age 77 years)Family ID F951 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 2 Feb 2020
- BURIAL Sauktown Cemetery
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Event Map 
Birth - 7 May 1836 - Wills Twp, La Porte County, IN 
Marriage - 21 Apr 1860 - Wills Twp, La Porte County, IN Death - 25 May 1886 - Wills Twp, La Porte County, IN 
Burial - - La Porte County, IN = Link to Google Earth
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Headstones 
Sauktown Cemetery
La Porte County, IN
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Notes - Very little is known about Martha and Phillip's life together. They were married only three months when the census enumerator came knocking. They lived in Phillip's home area, Kingsbury, Union Township, LaPorte County where he was a hotel keeper with $1,200 in real estate. Curiously, there does not seem to be a hotel in this township, nor do Phillip and Martha have any one else living with them. Their immediate neighbors were all single family households with their own dwelling numbers. The occupation of "hotel keeper" indicates that he was an owner, but perhaps he was instead a hotel manager working in the city of LaPorte or another nearby town. Another explanation is that he was planning to be a hotel keeper. On the same day as the census enumeration, 27 July, Phillip bought Lots 1, 2, and 3 in Kingsbury for $1,500 from Joseph Tennis. Perhaps his plan was to build a hotel on these lots. Within a year Martha and Phillip had a son Gabriel P. a namesake for Martha's father. The "P" probably stands for Phillip although there is no official confirmation of that in records pertaining to him; he appears always as Gabriel P.
Martha was widowed before 1870 and she and Gabriel moved in with her parents. Phillip was the right age to serve in the Civil War, but searches of the Report of the Adjutant General for the State of Indiana and the online indexes of the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System turned up no listings for Phillip Tennis. There are no estate records for a Phillip Tennis and he is not buried in the Sauktown Cemetery where Martha's family had been burying their dead for many years before 1870. Records searched in conjunction with Martha and Gabriel P. also do not refer to Phillip, so at this time no more is known about Phillip and little is known about Martha. She and Gabriel were still in her father's household in 1880 and she died in 1886. Her grave in the Sauktown Cemetery is marked with a small monument just to the right of the large Drollinger monument. No will or probate records were found.
Kay Germain Ingalls 2003
- Very little is known about Martha and Phillip's life together. They were married only three months when the census enumerator came knocking. They lived in Phillip's home area, Kingsbury, Union Township, LaPorte County where he was a hotel keeper with $1,200 in real estate. Curiously, there does not seem to be a hotel in this township, nor do Phillip and Martha have any one else living with them. Their immediate neighbors were all single family households with their own dwelling numbers. The occupation of "hotel keeper" indicates that he was an owner, but perhaps he was instead a hotel manager working in the city of LaPorte or another nearby town. Another explanation is that he was planning to be a hotel keeper. On the same day as the census enumeration, 27 July, Phillip bought Lots 1, 2, and 3 in Kingsbury for $1,500 from Joseph Tennis. Perhaps his plan was to build a hotel on these lots. Within a year Martha and Phillip had a son Gabriel P. a namesake for Martha's father. The "P" probably stands for Phillip although there is no official confirmation of that in records pertaining to him; he appears always as Gabriel P.
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