Della Legganer or William Jesse Owen from Hazleton

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Originally Posted by Russ.Dill

The Della in question is almost certainly Idella Lagenour, daughter of Elijah Rice Lagenour and Sarah Ellen Lagenour:

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH9R-53W

You can find her gravestone here:

Cem_WhiteRiver_HazletonIOOF N-R

The number of spellings and transcriptions of Lagenour/Lockenhour is quite humorous, I've even seen it transcribed as Fegman.

Yes, I was going to say that Della can also be short for Idella: Behind the Name: Meaning, origin and history of the name Idella

But I wouldn't be too sure that Sarah Ellen is Idella's mother. This looks like Elijah Rice Lagenour's marriage to Sarah Ellen, in 1880, when Idella was already about 3 years old:

Rice Lagenour
in the Indiana, Marriage Index, 1800-1941
Name: Rice Lagenour
Spouse Name: Sarah E Bateman
Marriage Date: 13 Jun 1880
Marriage County: Martin

This looks like Elijah's parents marriage:

Francis Lagenoer
in the Indiana, Marriage Index, 1800-1941
Name: Francis Lagenoer
Spouse Name: Sarah Rogers
Marriage Date: 31 Jan 1850
Marriage County: Washington

[Meowen]

wow...thanks for all this new information guys. Ultimately what I really want is to discover more about her husband William Jesse Owen so I can search my lineage through my last name Owen, as far back as possible.