Found some info at Ancestry.com
Hi Glasshopper,
I have an account at Ancestry.com, so just tried doing a search on Eliza. McDonald there in Indiana, with a birth year about 1852 and death date as seen on the grave marker (16 JULY 1861).
There is an Ancestry.com user (sheefrog is her username from LaPorte County Indiana) who has Eliza, her brother Sidney, more siblings and her parents in a family tree posted at Ancestry.com. Pictures of the same two stones are posted there as well.
Some text about those grave markers that is added to the photos, by "sheefrog" I copy/pasted here -
Eliza and Sidney
This is showing both their headstones in the woods. Both had fallen over, and I took the time to straighten them back up. At the bottom of the center of the picture you can see the remains of the fencing that used to go around the area of the headstones.
sheefrog originally shared this on 10 Aug 2011
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Eliza McDonald Sidney McDonald
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Here is some information about the location of the graves I copied from that person's citation information:
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Source Citation for McDonald Homestead (Porter Co., IN), Grave Markers
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Citation Information
Transcript: She is buried on the Family Homestead, which is now part of the National Lakeshore Park system in Porter Co., IN. Detail Private family cemetery.
Source Information
Title - McDonald Homestead (Porter Co., IN), Grave Markers Note McDonald Homestead (Furnessville, Westchester Twp., Porter Co., IN). Grave markers. The area of woods where she and her brother are buried are now considered part of the National Lakeshore Park System, and is now known as the Li Ko Kee Wee Trails.
Repository Information
No repository specified for this source
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In addition, there is an 1860 Census record attached to Eliza's profile that lists the following family members:
Henry R. McDonald, age 32, farmer, born in Canada
Martha McDonald, age 24, born in New York
Eliza, age 8, born in Minnesota
Charles, age 5, born in Indiana
Martha, age 2, born in Indiana
The family tree I'm looking at online shows Sidney being born in 1861, so he would not appear on the 1860 US Census. The tree also shows several other children and that Martha, the mother's maiden name as Martha Mathilde Wilson and she was born in 1835 in New York City, NY.
Henry and Martha's parents and other past generations also are in this tree.
Hope this sheds a little light on this for you.
Jim