Emma Hoard

1851 - 1883  (32 years)

• Name	Emma Hoard
  Born	1851	, St. Joseph Co, Indiana, USA
  Gender	Female
  Died	Jan 1883	Waterford, Knox Co, Ohio, USA
  Person ID	I48617	A00 Hoar and Horr Families North America
  Last Modified	21 Jan 2013

  
  

  Father	Chester Hoard,   b. Abt 1824, New York, USA ,   d.
  Mother	Susannah (Unknown),   b. Abt 1833, Ohio, USA ,   d. Abt 1881, Ottumwa, Wapello Co, Iowa, USA  (Age 48 years)
  Family ID	F18332	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Benjamin Zweigart,   d. Mar 1877, Fredericktown, Knox Co, Ohio, USA
  Married	23 Dec 1872	Maryville, Nodaway Co, Missouri, USA
  Last Modified	27 Apr 2012
  Family ID	F18338	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Jay V. Stillwell,   b. Abt 1857, Ohio, USA
  Married	20 Jun 1878	Rockport, Atchison Co, Missouri, USA
  Children	1. Charles Stillwell,   b. Abt 1875, Missouri, USA   2. Gertie Stillwell,   b. Abt 1879, Missouri, USA ,   d. 11 May 1880, Rulo, Richardson Co, Nebraska, USA  (Age 1 years)   3. (Male) Stillwell,   b. 11 Apr 1882, Ottumwa, Wapello Co, Iowa, USA
  Last Modified	22 Feb 2010
  Family ID	F18339	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  1880 census says that both of her parents were born in Pa. Aunt: Betsy Sumstine http://unknownmisandry.blogspot.com/2011/09/emma-stillwell-american-serial-killer.html Marriage to Benjamin: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/V28Y-575 Reported to have had 4 children by her first husband. [[A murderer: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9402E6DC153DE533A25750C0A9679C94629FD7CF and "Mrs. Susan Snyder" http://fultonhistory.com/Process%20small/Newspapers/Cleveland%20NY%20Lakeside%20Press/Cleveland%20NY%20Lakeside%20Press%201880-1930.pdf/Cleveland%20NY%20Lakeside%20Press%201880-1930%20-%200522.PDF http://njsuttonfamily.org/Newspaper/jan1883.htm Mrs. Stillwell, of Mount Vernon, Ohio, wife of Jay V. Stillwell, employed on the Chicago, Burlington and Quncy Railroad, last Monday made a confession on her death bed of three murders. She is at the house of relatives in Knox county, O. The first was Benjamin Swegart her first husband, whom she says she killed in Maryville, Mo., in March, 1877, with the aid of her mother and brother. The second was a stranger whom the same parties killed for her money while stopping at a boarding house. The third was her own daughter, aged fourteen years, whom she strangled in the presence of her mother at Rulo, Nebraska, in May 1880. She is dying of consumption. Must I say it! Mother died by my own hand, and by mine alone! She bad murdered my father; also an illegitimate child sent tohsr to put put of the way. She is said to havedone this deed for pay ? a few dollars. Sad aided in tbe deeds I have just told you. She had sued the railroad officers for the injury done her; so I despatched her one night with tba hammer which was used in the death of others. This confession the dying woman made to the writer, and to Stillwell, ber father-ln-law, and when the substance of this terrible recital was read to her she assented to its truthfulness.