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Eleanor Foster Mitchell was born at Cherry Fork in Adams County,O., on the 16th of February, 1805, the daughter of Robert Foster Margaret McCord, his wife. She was reared in that community,. on the 20th day of December, 1825, was married to Alexander Mitchell, by Adam Kirkpatrick, a well known magistrate of Wayne Township. Shortly after her marriage, she and her husband moved to mouth of Beasley's Fork, of Brush Creek, where he carried on a new saw-mill. Early June 1835, he and Dr. William Voris floated a boat down Brush Creek to its mouth, and thence to Maysville. The boat was ladened with lumber furnished by Mr. Mitchell and the hallow-ware, furnished by Dr. Voris.

While the boat was tied up at Maysville, Mr. Mitchell was taken with the Asistic cholera and died few hours. The following were the children of this marriage, Mre Margaret Burwell, wife of Samuel Burwell, of West Union; Mrs. Sarah Barber, wife of John Milton Barber, of Portsmouth, Ohio; and Mrs. Martha Mackey, widow of George Mckey, of Portsmouth,Ohio; William M., a son, died at the age of ten years; Robert Alexander Mithchell, of Portsmouth, Ohio, was her youngest son and child. After Mrs. Mitchell's husband's death, she and her little family moved to the farm of William Kirker, in Liberty township, Adams County, where she resided until 1862, when she removed to Ironton, with her family and resided there until 1855.

At that time, she removed to Portsmounth, which has been her residence ever since, though she has spent much time with her children elsewhere. Shw was a member of the Presbyterian church in West Union under the ministry of the Rev. John P. Van Dyke, and when she came to Portsmouth, she joined the First Presbyterian church by letter, and remained a member of that church until the organization of the Second Presbyterian church, when she became one of the original members of that organization, and continued a faithful one until her death.

Mrs. Mitchell was a remarkable woman. She possed great strength of character, and very industrious and energetic. She reared all her position in life to the best of her ability. All who had the pleasure of her acquaintance, esteeemed her for her most excelliant quailites and her pleasant disposition. As she did her duty in every respect in this world, there can be no regrets now that death has ended her career.