Melissa Fast ^{1 2 3 4 5}

  Noted events in her life were:

• She appeared on the 1850 US Census in Ruggles Township, Ashland County, OH on 24 October 1850. ¹

1850 US Census
Page 497B, Dwelling 4, Family 4, Roll 658
Ruggles Township, Ashland County, Ohio
Melissa Fast..7..OH
(Living with parents.)

NOTE - If her birth date was 8 Mar 1844, then her age should have been 6 instead of 7.
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• She appeared on the 1860 US Census in Ruggles Township, Ashland County, OH on 5 June 1860. ²

1860 US Census
Page 16, Roll 930, Dwelling 124, Family 121
Ruggles Township, Ashland County, Ohio
Malissa Fast..16..OH
(Living with father and step-mother.)
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• She appeared on the 1870 US Census in Troy Township, Ashland County, OH on 28 June 1870. ³

1870 US Census
Page 14, Roll 1169, Dwelling 107, Family 106
Troy Township, Ashland County, Ohio
Melissa Fast..26..OH..Teaching
(Living with father and step-mother.)
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• She appeared on the 1900 US Census in Troy Township, Ashland County, OH on 7 June 1900. ⁴

1900 US Census
Sheet 3B, District 16, Dwelling 72, Family 72
Troy Township, Ashland County, Ohio
House owned, no mortgage
Melissa Strickland..Head..Mar 1844..56..OH..Divorced..Nurse..1/0

(Melissa was divorced and living alone.)
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• She was buried after 5 December 1907 in the Nova Cemetery in Nova, OH.

The gravestone reads "Melissa Fast Strickland, Mar. 8, 1844 - Dec. 5, 1907 ".
Find A Grave Memorial 29259923
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• Her obituary was published in the Ashland Times and Gazette on 11 December 1907 in Ashland, OH.

STRICKLAND, Maliscia, nee FAST, born Troy Twp. Mar 1844, died Bank Saint home 5 Dec, buried Nova Cemetery, 63y 9m.

(Source: Ashland Times and Gazette, Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio, 11 Dec 1907)
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Melissa married Strickland before 1900. (Strickland was born about 1839 and died on an unknown date.)