Looking for info on Ellen Frantz Merriman of Eau Claire, PA
I'm trying to help my mother research her family and we have hit a roadblock with her great grandmother, Ellen Frantz Merriman (b.1854, d.1934). We found her buried in the cememtery in Eau Claire (Butler County), PA alongside her parents (either birth or adopted) Jacob and Susannah Frantz and some of their children. Jacob and Susannah's son B.F. (Benjamin Franklin) Frantz is listed as Ellen's brother in her obit. We don't see her listed on any census records until 1880 when she appears in the Venango/Eau Claire Census as "Ellen Merriman" and mother to my mom's great aunt Bertha (Merriman Coulter) and grandmother Charlotte (Merriman Ensminger). We have no idea who the husband was, if there even was one. Ellen's obit also refers to a daughter Grace Merriman McAlpin of Warren, PA and a son A. I. Merriman of Baltimore, Md. Any assistance would be appreciated. Thank you!