Between 1 and 1.5 percent of births ended in the mother's death. Since the average woman gave birth to five to eight children, her lifetime chance of dying in childbirth was quite high.
Elizabeth Oxley was born on August 29, 1795 in Fleming County, Kentucky. Elizabeth's name comes from her daughter, Celia's, husband, William Holmes', biography in the 1872 Atlas of Tazewell County, Illinois. Her parents were Eli and Margaret Oxley. The Oxley children were listed in an 1820 Fleming County, Kentucky deed.
Elizabeth died before 1832 in Dearborn (now Ohio) County, Indiana when William married again. She probably died of complications of childbirth when her daughter, Elizabeth, was born on December 27, 1830.
Ohio County was first created in 1844 from Dearborn County, Indiana. The county seat is Rising Sun which is in Randolph Township. Ohio County is in southeast Indiana on the Kentucky border. In 1826, Dearborn County Courthouse burned containing all records.
