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Henry Shreckengost

Probable father of Ella (Shreckengost) Warner

Henry Shreckengost

Probable

Probable father of Ella (Shreckengost) Warner

Sources
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Research status

Research status: PROBABLE as the father of Ella (Shreckengost) Warner Probable confirm or correct →. Evidence: an index of Ella’s 1910 marriage at Council Bluffs, Iowa, names the bride’s parents as Henry Shreckengast and Mary Miller S1558. What is weak or missing: this is read from the index only and the register is not yet read; and Ella’s own place in this record, as mother of Maude Melville Warner, is itself Probable. Know more? Use ‘Add to this record’ to confirm or correct it. Card added 8 October 2026

Evidence: An index of Ella Shreckengost Warner's 1910 marriage at Council Bluffs names her parents as Henry Shreckengast and Mary Miller; a Henry 'Schnepenger', 35, born in Pennsylvania, heads the 1860 Winslow, Illinois household that fits Ella's 1870 one. Weak or missing: The 1910 marriage is read from the index only; the 1860 page gives initials, a garbled surname and no relationships; our reading of the 1870 page found no man in the house where its index lists Henry, 49; his birth and death are not found; Ella's own link to this record is Probable. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

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Burial1822
No birth or death date is published here. A grave index has a Henry Shreckengost, 9 July 1822 – 20 April 1896, buried in Butler County, Nebraska, where Ella lived; it is a lead only, and no record read ties that grave to this man

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Probable
Probable confirm or correct → Probably the Henry “Schnepenger”, 35, a farmer born in Pennsylvania, at Winslow, Stephenson County, Illinois, in July 1860, with M., 26, P. J., 10, C., 8, E., 3, and Samuel, 72 S1523. Evidence: M., C. and E. fit Mary A., Clement and Ella of the 1870 household at Lena in the same county. What is weak or missing: initials only, a garbled surname, and no relationships stated. Know more? Use ‘Add to this record’
Probable
Probable husband of Mary A. Miller. In June 1870 our reading of the census page at Lena found Mary A. Shreckengost, 37, at the head of the household and no man in the house S1318; the index of the same page lists Henry, 49, at its head. One of the two is wrong, and re-reading that page settles it

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Henry Shreckengost · Sources

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Sources cited on this card

3 of the record's sources are cited here. The numbering is the record's own; the full list, with where else each is cited, is at Sources.

  1. S13181870 census — Mary A. Shreckengost household, Town of Lena, Stephenson County, Illinois, p. 27. Ancestry, “1870 United States Federal Census”, record 17424985. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Probable Dwelling 214, family 232: Shreckengost, Mary A., 37, keeping house, born Pennsylvania; Clement, 18; Ella, 11, at school; Milton, 8; Rena, 6; John E., 5; and Minnie, 3; the children all born in Illinois. No man is in the household. ⚠ The 1870 census states no relationships, and the father is absent (the index’s “Henry” is not on the page). That this Ella is Clifford Warner’s wife rests on the surname, her age, an Illinois birth and a Pennsylvania-born mother, which fit her 1880 and 1920 entries. PROBABLE.
  2. S15231860 census — Town of Winslow, Stephenson County, Illinois, p. 513, dwelling 3763, family 3625, lines 26–32 — Henry “Schnepenger” household. Ancestry, “1860 United States Federal Census”, record 38105272. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 1 October 2026. Probable Henry “Schnepenger” [probably Shreckengost], 35, a farmer born Pennsylvania; M., 26; P. J., 10; C., 8; E., a girl of 3, born Illinois; and Samuel, 72; July 1860. ⚠ Initials only, a garbled surname, and no relationships stated.
  3. S1558Iowa county marriages — James Martin and Ella Shreckengast Warner, Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, 31 August 1910. FamilySearch, “Iowa, County Marriages”, index entries XJ85-4JP and QJDS-V3X4. Index only; the register image is not yet read. Probable The bride, a widow born in Illinois in 1859 (1857 in the second entry), is the daughter of Henry Shreckengast and Mary Miller; the groom was born in West Virginia in 1861. With it, the FamilySearch index of Find a Grave, entry QVGB-KZWJ: Henry Shreckengost, 9 July 1822 – 20 April 1896, Butler County, Nebraska. ⚠ Two index entries, not the record; the grave is not seen.

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