The following is paraphrased from page 70-71 of the book, The Family History of Judge Ellsworth B. Belden and Collateral Families, 1980.

Mary Frances Belden second daughter of Henry Belden and Fanny (Frances) Bennett was born 23 September 1818 in Monroe Twp., Ashtabula Co., Ohio.
She married Philo Belden in La Porte, Indiana 6 June 1839 where her family had moved from her birthplace.
She died 27 September 1909 in Honey Creek, Walworth Co., Wisconsin and is buried in Rochester Cemetery, Racine Co., WI.

Her family had moved to LaPorte when she was about sixteen.
She died at the home of Mrs. D. Drummond who had taken her in to better care for her.
Following Philo's death she had lived for a time in Milwaukee with her son Henry but later roomed at Beaumonts in Rochester.

Rochester residents rembered her as very stately and prim, almost stern when she walked to the village from Belden Hill.

1. Henry Ward, born 9 November 1840, died 30 May 1915, he married Emily F. Brown
Edward J., born 17 July 1842, died 10 January in California, he married Nellie.
3. Albert O. born 16 March 1847, died about April 1918, he married Jennette Ormistrom
4. Allen H., born in July of 1849, he first married Ella A. Robertson 3 July 1873 at Rochester, Wisconsin, was divorced, and married second Etta Burns 11 July 1893 at Racine.

In the Racine County Atlas for 1887, the map of Rochester shows P. Belden on 60 acres at the south edge of the village on the east side of the Fox River.