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David Tilton died during the 1840’s (possibly in Franklin County, Ohio), Anna and two of their |
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children are living in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio at the time of the 1850 census |
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1850 |
Ann C. Tilton 45 F b.PA [Anna, b.14 Oct. 1805, age 45 in the 1850 census] [Note 22] |
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Mary C. Tilton 21 F b.Ohio [dau. Mary C. 'Mollie' Tilton, b.8 Jan. 1830, age 21 in 1850] |
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Joseph Tilton 18 M W [occ] Foundry b.Ohio [son Joseph Tilton, b.est.1831-1832] |
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Anna’s father, Henry McAninch, died in 1856, and, sometime during the 1850’s, Anna returned to |
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Jackson County, Ohio, and is living with her mother Mary (Lucas) McAninch in the 1860 census |
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1860 |
McAnninch [sic], Mary 72 F b.Pennsylvania $400,$700 [Note 19.a.] |
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Tilton, Anna C. 55 F "[b.Pennsylvania] [Henry and Mary’s oldest daughter Anna] |
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Mary (Lucas) McAninch probably died during the 1860’s, and her daughter Anna C. (McAninch) |
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Tilton (widow of David Tilton) was still living in Jackson County in the 1870 census |
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1870 |
Tilton, Anna C., 64 F Keeping House b.Ohio [sic] [single-person household] [Note 23] |
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Anna C. (McAninch) Tilton’s 1873 Shooting Incident, Jackson County, Ohio |
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Three years later, at age 68, the widow Anna shot and killed a young boy on her land; there are |
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multiple published reports of the shooting incident, and of her subsequent trial and conviction: |
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“Nov. 14, 1873, an old lady by the name of Anna C. Tilton shot and killed Wm. Franklin |
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Johnson, a boy about ten years of age, on his return from school. She had been considerably |
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worried, on account of trespasses, and had threatened to shoot any one coming on her premises. |
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The boy was not, however, trespassing, and the case was proven one of willful murder, but |
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being a woman, and nearly seventy years of age, the jury mercifully brought in a verdict of |
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manslaughter. She was sentenced March 8, 1874, to hard labor in the penitentiary for three years. |
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The judge was much affected, but being a plain case, he did his duty, leaning, however, on the |
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side of mercy. She served her time and was discharged.” [Note 24] |
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[and] “Mrs. Anna Tilton, a widow living a mile east of Jackson, shot a boy named William |
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Franklin Johnson, aged 10 years, Monday morning, November 24, 1873, as he was returning |
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from school with some little mates along a path through her land. She was a daughter of Henry |
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McArmich [sic], one of the pioneers. Her trial began March 9, 1874, and lasted seven days. |
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She was found guilty of manslaughter and given a sentence of three years.” [Note 25] |
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After three years in prison, Anna would have been released in 1877, and may (or may not) have |
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returned to Jackson County, but Anna has not been found in the 1880 census. Anna’s daughter, |
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Mary ‘Mollie’ (Tilton) Hunt, is living in Cincinnati in 1880 [26], and Anna’s son Joseph Tilton |
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is also in Cincinnati [27], but Anna is not living with either of her children in the 1880 census. |
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McAninch Family History NL v.XXII n.1 / Jan. 2014 / Frank McAninch, Editor / page 2014-05 |