Ella and Alton lived in Austin, Pa. By 1910, Ella was identified as married but living with the family of her daughter Mary Wirtner in Galeton, Pa. By the time her husband Alton Larkham died in 1919 in Oklahoma, she had relocated with her daughter’s family to Buffalo, NY.

In 1892, William and Ella lived in Olean, NY. William was engaged in lumbering. In 1895, it was reported that William was arrested at the Olean train station, having arrived with his wife and child from Bradford. “The arrest was a pitiful scene. Mantz and his family were plainly dressed and the infant child particularly was a picture of starvation and poverty. It was hardly more than than a skeleton and moaned and cried as if in agony.” William was taken into custody because of an assault he perpetrated on Ms. Archie Larkham in East Olean on December 20, 1894, springing from a thicket and brutally beating her while she was with her daughter, “presumably taking that lady for his wife.” William was taken into custody, found guilty and sentenced to pay a fine of $30 or be incarcerated at the Erie penitentiary.

In 1915, at the age of 53, a “Wm. Mantz” served 60 days in Pennsylvania at the Allegheny County Workhouse for injury to a person.

In 1919, Alton disappeared from his home on Blackwell, Okla., and his body was found 4 weeks later. Ella was living in Buffalo, NY at the time, and Alton left four children by his first wife Clara. His body was returned to his native Olean NY, and buried at the Pleasant Valley Cemetery. His disappearance was sudden and mystified the local police in Blackwell. He had a severe bout with influenza but had partially recovered. He became despondent, however, when advised by a physican to quit work and stay indoors. His room was found to be empty at the time of his disappearance. His tombstome incorrectly markes his death year as 1921.