Bordon Josiah Hosner (b: 17 January 1847) was the tenth and last child of Isaac and Adaline (Cleveland) Hosner.
Bordon
married first abt 1869 Clara M. Terry (b: 1851).[1] They had two daughters: Myrta A.
Hausner (b: 1872), and Ada S. Hausner (b: 1874).
No
comments were made in his mother’s journal about the marriage to Clara or the
birth of the two daughters until an entry on Sunday, April 6, 1879 when Adaline
notes, “His (Bordon’s) wife didn’t make him any trouble. Bordon did not try to
see his little girl. She lives with his wife’s parents. So Bordon was not
disturbed, went back [to Michigan] in good health and in peace and may the God
of peace be with him.”
The
journal entry tells us two things. First, sometime between 1875 and
1879 Bordon and Clara split up. He moved to Pittsfield, Washtenaw, Michigan.
The 1880 federal census for Pittsfield, Michigan shows Bordon as a border in
the family of Josiah and Mary Rundell. Josiah is a farmer; Bordon is an
“engineer.” Bordon fell in love
with and married the farmer’s daughter - Jeanette Rundell, age 26, a
schoolteacher.
In
1880 Clara M. (Terry) Hosner and her daughter, Myrta Hausner were living with
George and Adaline Terry in Hector, Schuyler County, New York. George was a
house painter; Clara was a schoolteacher. In that household also lived Clara’s
brother, 25 year old Hamilton Terry, also a schoolteacher.
On
29 November 1881 at the age of thirty-three Bordon Joshua married Nettie
(Jeanetti) E. Rundell.[2]
Second, the journal entry
suggests one of Bordon’s daughters died at a young age. Upon further
investigation it was Ada (b: 1874) that died.
In
1882 Bordon writes that he wants to come home for a visit, but his mother notes
in her journal that she fears his first wife will make trouble and can even
have him jailed. Bordon’s mother was determined to write to him to discourage
his visit. That must have been
painful for her. I imagine she ached to see her youngest child again before she
died.
Bordon
and Nettie remain in Michigan through the 1900 federal census that shows Bordon
is a farmer. Nettie reports she
has had one child with none living.
They don’t appear on the New York 1905 census, so I assume he continued
living in Michigan until his death in 1906.
Bordon
Josiah Hosner died 1906 and is buried in the Mecklenburg, New York cemetery.[3]
[1] Adaline
Hosner’s journal states Bordon’s wife and child went to live with her parents
after they separated. The 1880 federal census shows Clara M. Terry age 28 school
teacher living with her parents George and Adaline Terry. In that household is
granddaughter Myrta Hausner.
[3] Bordon Josiah
Hosner information from the Mecklenburg, NY Cemetery transcription.
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