Rosella Ann Pancake Helman 1857-1925
2010
Rosella Ann Pancake was born in Jefferson Township, Coshocton County, Ohio to William and Maria Gallagher Pancake. She was the oldest child and daughter. She had two sisters, Mary Lucinda and Cora. Her little brother Oliver died at the age of two. He was the third child and only son of her parents. In 1865, after serving in the Union Army for a year, her father William returned home to his little family. Only a few weeks later he died from the illness and infection he had contracted while in the war. He had been confined to a military hospital for some time before his obligation of one year was completed. When her grandfather William Pancake Senior died two years later, in 1867, he remembered the children of his deceased son in his Last Will and Testament and named the three little girls by name.
When Rosella grew to adulthood she married William Helman in 1878. They didn’t travel far from her childhood home, but lived in Ohio for the rest of their lives. Rosella and William were the parents of three sons. They were Roy, Charles and William. Rosella has posterity to the present day. She was the niece of our direct ancestor Samuel Crawford Pancake and thus a first cousin of our ancestor Edith Glendora Pancake Watrous.
Her parents and her younger brother are all buried together in the churchyard where the early Methodist Church once stood near the small town of Warsaw, Ohio. The church is gone but the graveyard within its fences remains. Grave stones mark the final resting place of Rosella’s parents, brother and many extended family members.
The migration of Rosella Ann Pancake Helman
Ohio