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64. Joseph Morrison, born Abt. 1816
in Ireland; died Bet. June 20, 1860 - June 26, 1861 in
Richland Township, Wapello County, Iowa. He married 65. Eliza Forsyth Abt. 1851 in
Pennsylvania.
65. Eliza Forsyth, born March 10,
1827 in Northern Ireland; died June 10, 1866 in Richland
Township, Wapello County, Iowa. She was the daughter of 130. John
Forsyth, Sr. and 131. Elizabeth McKinley.
Notes for
Joseph Morrison and Eliza Forsyth:
See the link from my Home Page
"Forsyths of Wapello Co., IA - A New Line" or click here.
Joseph and Eliza first show up in an
Iowa document in the 1854 State of Iowa Richland
Township, Wapello County census (page 1). Joseph
and family appear on line 17 with 2 males (Joseph and
John Thomas) and 1 female (Eliza). Appearing on
line 15 is William Forsythe, line 26 John Forsyth, and
line 13 of page 2 Elizabeth Forsyth. Joseph's
entry is consistent with the 1856 State of Iowa
Richland Township census (page 369) where Joseph, age
35 and born in Ireland, Elizabeth, age 27 and born in
Ireland, and Thomas, age 2 and born in Pennsylvania,
are enumerated. They are shown as having been in
the state 2 years at that point. No grave or
gravestone has been found for Joseph or Eliza, and
there evidently was none in evidence when the WPA did
their cemetery survey as they were not
enumerated. All evidence indicates they were
very poor and would have not been able to afford very
enduring headstones, so likely the headstones were
destroyed by the elements long, long ago.
Child of Joseph Morrison and Eliza Forsyth is: |
| 32 | i. | John Thomas Morrison,
born October 21, 1852 in Pennsylvania; died March 07, 1914
in Bunch, Fox River Township, Davis County, Iowa; married
Nancy Rebeca Forsythe April 02, 1871 in John Forsythe's
residence, Davis County, Iowa.
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66. John Forsythe, born December 11,
1813 in Tyrone Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania;
died March 02, 1893 in Davis County, Iowa. He was the son
of 132. Thomas Forsythe, Jr.
and 133. Elizabeth ?. He
married 67. Mary Ann Johnson.
Notes for
John Forsythe:
The 1850 Pennsylvania census shows
John living in South Huntington Township, Westmoreland
County (page 281A) with occupation of potter and real
estate value of $500. The 1856 State of Iowa
census shows John and his family living with John's
parents in Marion Township, Davis County (page
451). He helps his father on the farm and was
also identified as being in the militia. This
census also identifies they had been in the State one
year when this census was taken, making their
migration to Iowa in 1855. Seven households
away, page 454, is John's sister Mary Ann Forsythe,
and her husband William Forsyth and six year old
daughter Elizabeth. Their census entry shows
Mary Ann and Elizabeth as arriving in Iowa two years
ago (1854), and her husband as having arrived three
years ago (1853). This is the William Forsythe
family mentioned in the Joseph Morrison narrative
above.
It is uncertain who was the first link
in the chain of migration to Iowa. The
Glassburner family lived in Westmoreland County,
Pennsylvania for serveral decades when they decided to
move to Marion Township, Davis County, Iowa in
1847. In 1851, John and Elizabeth McKinley
Forsyth, Mary Ann's in-laws, moved from Westmoreland
County to neighboring Richland Township, Wapello
County, Iowa. In 1853 William Forsyth,
brother-in-law of John, moved to Richland Township,
Wapello County, Iowa to be with his ailing
father. In 1854 John Forsythe, Thomas' brother
and this John's uncle, moved to neighboring Appanoose
County, Iowa and William Forsyth's wife, Mary Ann,
moved to Richland Township, Wapello County to be with
her husband. And Thomas and John and families
moved to Marion Township, Davis County in 1855, at
which time William and Mary Ann moved south one county
to join them in Marion Township. Who wrote to
whom and who was the first to make the decision is not
known.
The 1860 Federal Marion Township
census (page 695) notes that John had no real estate
value and a $300 personal estate value. John and
family are enumerated in their own household, but it
appears John is still assisting his father on the farm
as John is shown as a farmer and his father shows real
estate value of $1,200. This is consistent with
John and Thomas jointly purchasing the Marion Township
property (see notes for his father Thomas, Jr.).
According to the 1870 Federal census John, age 54, was
a farmer in Marion Township, Davis County, Iowa (Post
Office Bloomfield, page 113A). His real estate
was valued at $3,500 and he had a personal estate
valued at $1,000. In this census Thomas Forsyth,
age 71, was living with the John Forsyth family, thus
Elizabeth was deceased and John had taken over the
family farm.
A cetain amount of information is
known about this family from the letters written by
John to his cousins back in Fayette County,
Pennsylvania as quoted in the book "The Pioneer
Forsythes of Fayette County, Pennsylvania and Their
Descendants" by Glenn Luther Forsythe. In one
such letter to cousin Thomas dated 6 June 1859 he
gives farm to market information and speaks of the
health of the farm land - "I will now giv you our
Market. Wheat 1.00, Corn .75, oats .50, potatoes
.50 . . . . 8 to 10, horses 15, cows 10 to 15.
We have had a verry soft open winter and a cold spring
and verry wet. The farmers is not done planting
corn but if we git done the grain will git ripe (by
the) 4th of July. I think Iowa is the healthiest
part of the United States."
Both John and Mary Ann are buried in
Glassburner Cemetery in Marion Township, Davis County,
Iowa.
67. Mary Ann Johnson, born August
20, 1815 in Ohio; died September 06, 1885 in Davis County,
Iowa.
Notes for
Mary Ann Johnson:
Little is known of Mary Ann other than
she was born in Ohio as gathered from the various
census entries for her. John did spend time with
his parents in Brown County, Ohio as witnessed by
their presence in the 1820 Pleasant Township, Brown
County, Ohio census, page 383. Now Thomas,
Elizabeth and daughter Mary Ann appear to be in
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania in 1830. If this
is indeed Thomas, where was John? Was John, age
17 in 1830, apprenticed out (in 1850 he was listed as
a potter)? When did Thomas and family return to
Allegheny County? Could John have remained in
Brown County with uncle John Forsythe past 1830?
Could he have met Mary Ann there? No marriage in
Brown County has been found for John and Mary
Ann. Mary Ann's last name is known from the 1925
State of Iowa census. In the 1925 Marion
Township, Davis County, Iowa census (page 48) daughter
Sophia Forsythe Adams, age 82, is enumerated in the
household of her grandson Marion M. Adams. That
census asks the father's name and the mother's name
and Sophia states John Forsythe, born Pennsylvania,
and Mary Ann Johnson, born Ohio. She also states
her parents were married in Pennsylvania. It is
unknown whether she truly knew where they were
married, or if it was a guess on her part. The
obituary for the first born child of John and Mary
Ann, Eliza Jane Forsythe Glassburner, stated she was
born September 11, 1838 near Johnstown,
Pennsylvania. There is a Johnstown in the
southwestern corner of Cambria County, near the
eastern border with Westmoreland County and the
northern border of Somerset County. Could John
have gone in that direction to apprentice as a
potter? The answers to these questions are
unknown at the present. What we know is that
both John and Mary Ann are buried in Glassburner
Cemetery, Marion Township, Davis County, Iowa, along
with most of their children.
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i. | Eliza Jane
Forsythe, born September 11, 1838 probably in Westmoreland
County, Pennsylvania; died October 24, 1914 in home of son
David west of Bunch, Fox River Township, Davis County, Iowa;
married Christian Glassburner October 18, 1856 in John
Forsythe's residence, Davis County, Iowa; born June 09, 1837
in South Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland County,
Pennsylvania; died July 09, 1909 in Marion Township, Davis
County, Iowa. They farmed and lived in the Marion
Township area the remainder of their lives.
Christian Glassburner was the son of
Martin and Rachel Mellender Glassburner. Martin
Glassberner is found in the 1847 Marion Township, Davis
County, Iowa census (page 117). Prior to that they
were found in South Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland
County, Pennsylvania. Eliza and the Forsythes are
found in the 1840 Rostraver Township, Westmoreland
County, Pennsylvania census (page 264) and they are
found in the 1850 South Huntingdon Township census (page
281A). It is not known when the Forsythes moved to
South Huntingdon and whether Christian and Eliza Jane
knew each other in Pennsylvania, but it did not take
long for them to come together after John and his family
moved to Marion Township, Davis County in 1855.
They had 10 children, with only 3 living to
adulthood. Christian and Eliza Jane are buried in
Glassburner Cemetery, Marion Township, Davis County,
Iowa.
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ii. | William Forsythe,
born October 03, 1840 in probably Rostraver Township,
Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; died July 18, 1869 in
Marion Township, Davis County, Iowa.
William was likely born in Rostraver
Township based on Thomas and family located in the 1840
Rostraver Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
(page 264). That census has 1 male of 20 and under
30 (John?); 1 male of 40 and under 50 (Thomas); 1 female
under 5 (John's daughter Eliza Jane?); 2 females of 20
and under 30 (Thomas' daughter Mary Ann and
daughter-in-law Mary Ann?); and 1 female of 30 and under
40 (Thomas' Elizabeth in the wrong age group?).
William is shown in the 1856 Marion Township census
(page 451) and the 1860 Marion Township census (page
695A) and is identified as idiotic in both.
In one of the letters from John
Forsythe to cousins Thomas and Martha Forsythe in
Fayette County, Pennsylvania, dated 6 June 1859, and as
quoted in the book "The Pioneer Forsythes of Fayette
County, Pennsylvania and Their Descendants" by Glenn
Luther Forsythe, "William has fits all most every day
and is a grait trouble. He is a large boy (for) of
his age. He will way 160 lbs." William is
buried in Glassburner Cemetery in Marion Township, Davis
County, Iowa.
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iii. | Sophia Lorinda
Forsythe, born November 16, 1843 in Westmoreland County
Pennsylvania; died January 09, 1929 in home of son John near
Drakesville, Drakesville Township, Davis County, Iowa;
married George Henry Adams August 21, 1871 in Davis County,
Iowa; born June 09, 1838 in Bartholomew County, Indiana;
died December 23, 1916 in Drakesville, Drakesville Township,
Davis County, Iowa.
As with William above, Sophia was
likely born in Rostraver Township. There is an
additional reason to believe they may have still been in
Rostraver Township at this time. See John's
sister's, Mary Ann Forsythe, description in generation
#4.
George's parents were both born in
Maryland and married there on December 26, 1836.
In 1837 they moved to Bartholomew County, Indiana, where
George Henry, their oldest child, was born in
1838. In the spring of 1845 they migrated to Davis
County, Iowa. George was a Civil War veteran,
serving in Company B of the 30th Iowa Infantry
(certificate No. 1856). He was age 24 when he
enlisted August 9, 1862. He was mustered August
24, 1862 at Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa and mustered out
June 5, 1865 in Washington, D.C. By December 1862
the 30th Iowa Infantry had joined forces with General
Sherman and stayed with same through the end of the
War. They participated in battles of Chickasaw
Bayou, Arkansas Post, Vicksburg where Sherman's forces
joined with General Grant, Chattanooga, and Sherman's
march from Atlanta to the sea. The 30th Iowa was
in attendance when the Conferedate General Johnston
surrendered his army to General Sherman, which virtually
ended the Civil War. They marched on to
Washington, D.C. and took part in the Grand Review of
Sherman's Army by the President and General Grant before
boarding a train for return to Keokuk and home.
The 1900 Drakesville, Drakesville
Township, Davis County, Iowa census (page 36) has George
H. Adams, age 61 with wife Sophia L., age 55, and the
count that 3 children were born to them and 3 still
survive. George's obituary says he leaves 5
children, because he had 2 daughters by his first wife
Mary J. and 3 sons by Sophia. Living with them is
Polly Forsythe, age 88, born in Pennsylvania in January
1812 and identified as an aunt. This is Mary Ann,
the sister of Sophia's father. George is buried in
Adams Cemetery, Marion Township, Davis County, Iowa
along with his two wives.
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iv. | Noah Forsythe, born
October 06, 1846 in probably South Huntingdon Township,
Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; died March 28, 1851 in
South Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland County,
Pennsylvania.
Noah is one of the children in the
John Forsythe enumeration of the 1850 South Huntingdon
Township census (page 281A) and incorrectly identified
as age 6. Noah is buried in Jacobs Creek Cemetery,
South Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland County,
Pennsylvania.
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v. | Mary (Polly) Ann
Forsythe, born September 21, 1849 in South Huntingdon
Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; died March 27,
1866 in Marion Township, Davis County, Iowa.
Polly Ann died of consumption.
In one of the letters from John Forsythe to cousins
Thomas and Martha Forsythe in Fayette County,
Pennsylvania, dated 1 April 1866, and as quoted in the
book "The Pioneer Forsythes of Fayette County,
Pennsylvania and Their Descendants" by Glenn Luther
Forsythe, "I would have answered your letter sooner but
time and opportunity would not permit me to do so.
Polly Ann was at that time feeling very low. She
has now gon to pay the debt that we all must pay sooner
or later. She died on last Tuesday night half past
11 o'clock. She died verry happy. She told
us this was not her home. She said Heaven was her
home and she wanted to git there. She died
enjoying herself very much. This was a grait
satsifaction to us all. Her disease was
consumption. She suffered very much and took a
grait deal of medicine but nothing done any good.
She had to go...Dear Cozen Martha Forsyth. We send you a
small Morsel of Dear Pllys Hair to look at in
remembrance of her." Mary Ann is buried in
Glassburner Cemetery, Marion Township, Davis County,
Iowa.
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| 33 | vi. | Nancy Rebeca Forsythe,
born October 15, 1852 in South Huntingdon Township,
Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; died June 29, 1931 in
Bunch, Fox River Township, Davis County, Iowa; married John
Thomas Morrison April 02, 1871 in John Forsythe's residence,
Marion Township, Davis County, Iowa.
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vii. | Malissa Alice
Forsythe, born April 10, 1856 in Marion Township, Davis
County, Iowa; died May 20, 1886 in Iowa; married Newton
Jasper Parse September 1, 1879 in Davis County, Iowa; born
August 08, 1858 in Polk Township, Wapello County, Iowa; died
April 24, 1901.
There is some confusion on Malissa's
married name. Additionally, he and his parents are
missing from several census enumerations. I have
gone with the surname most common in the documents
found. The marriage certificate for Alice and
Newton (Book 4, Page 165) shows them married September
1, 1879 in Davis County. License says Alice M. Forsythe
and Jasper N. Parse. But where each person signed
the certificate, it appears he signed Jasper N.
Paris. He is first found in the 1860 Polk
Township, Wapello County, Iowa census (page 618A) with
his parents Zachariah and Sarah and the surname is
Parse. Zachariah entered into a second marriage on
August 26, 1866 in Appanoose County, Iowa to Emma Walden
and his surname was Parse. In 1870 Zachariah and
Emma are in Marion Township and enumerated as Pierce.
In the 1880 census, newly married
Newton is nowhere to be found and Alice is living with
her parents in Marion Township (page 5B) and her surname
is Pierce. In the 1885 State of Iowa census Newton
J. and Allis M. Pares are living with her parents and
have a daughter listed as Mettie E. Mary Ann dies
in May 1886 and Newton shows up in the 1900 Marion
Township census (page 83B) enumerated as N. J. Porse,
with new wife Sophia (married 11 years) and showing
daughter by Malissa Alice at Myrtle, born July
1880. Malissa Alice is buried with her parents in
Glassburner Cemetery, Marion Township, Davis County,
Iowa. Newton Jasper Parse is buried in Adams
Cemetery, Marion Township, Davis County, Iowa.
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68. Alexander Johnson Elder, born
June 20, 1828 in Jackson County, Ohio; died January 02,
1905 in Davis County, Iowa. He was the son of 136. Robert
Elder, Jr. and 137. Rachel McKinnis.
He married 69. Marcia Jane Baker
August 17, 1850 in Jackson County, Ohio.
Notes for
Alexander Johnson Elder:
I have no definitive document
identifying Alexander as the son of Robert Elder,
Jr. No obituary could be found for Alexander in
the few newspapers of the time. Death records
for 1905 Davis County, Iowa were not found on the
microfilm. Father Robert Jr. was last known to
live in Greene County, Missouri in the household of
son Lineas and family in the 1880 census. It is
not known when he died, nor if he left a will naming
children. What I know of Alexander Johnson Elder
follows.
The 1830 Clinton Township, Jackson
County, Ohio census entry for Robert Elder, Jr. (page
116) shows one child, a male aged under 5 years
(1825-1830). The 1840 Clinton Township, Jackson
County census (page 20) shows the Robert Elder, Jr.
family with 5 children, the oldest being a son aged
10-15 (1825-1830). The 1850 Washington Township,
Jackson County census (page 660) for the Robert Jr.
family shows no Alexander and the oldest male being
Lineas, born about 1831. It appears Alexander
was out of the Robert Jr. household by June 1, 1850
(official census day), and was not enumerated by a
census taker for he can not be found in the 1850
census, yet he was not dead. August 17, 1850 in
Jackson County, Ohio, Alexander Elder and Marsha J.
Baker were married by John Swain, E.C.C. (FHL film
#0301043 - Jackson County, Ohio, marriage records, v3,
1843-1857, Jackson County Probate Court, and book
"Marriage records, 1818-1865, Jackson County",
Jackson, Ohio: Captain John James Chapter,
D.A.R.). Marcia Jane was born in Luzerne County,
Pennsylvania and moved with her family to Jackson
County, Ohio about 1844. And, of course, Marcia
Jane is not found in the Benjamin Baker household in
the 1850 Jackson Township, Jackson County, Ohio census
(page 370). The above lends credence to
Alexander being in Jackson County, as does the
obituary of their 5th child, Clarissa Jane, which
states she was born in Jackson County, Ohio on
December 12, 1859. Another point of
corroboration comes from a 1914 history done for the
McKinnis reunion. That history includes the
names of the children for Robert and Rachel McKinnis
Elder as Alex, Lineas, Martha, Nancy, Jane and Clara
Elder.
According to the 1860 Polk Township,
Jefferson County, Iowa census (page 294A) Alexander,
age 33, was a farmer with no real estate value listed
and $100 personal estate value listed. This
location of Polk Township, Jefferson County shares the
eastern border of Wapello County. Across the
border and one township south in Wapello County is
Pleasant Township, where Robert Elder, Jr. and family
are found (page 890). The census for Alexander
and family was enumerated on July 16, 1860, just 7
months and 4 days after Clarissa was born in Jackson
County, Ohio. This is consistent with Clarissa's
census entry which shows her age as 7/12. Robert
Jr. and family preceded them to Iowa, arriving likely
in late 1856 or early 1857 since they were not
enumerated in the 1856 State of Iowa census, but
daughter Nancy Ellen married Isaac Meredith in Wapello
County, Iowa on July 30, 1857. In the 1860
Jefferson County census, the next family enumerated
after Alexander Elder is the Isaac and Nancy Ellen
Elder Meredith family.
The 1860 Jefferson County entry for
Alexander shows him as 33 years old and a farmer with
no value for real estate and only $100 for personal
estate value. He was likely a tenant farmer and
they were of very modest means. Not owning land
made it easier for them to move, and it appears they
did so frequently in that first decade in Iowa.
The 1895 State of Iowa census for their last two
children, both born in Iowa, showed the county in
which they were born. William Alexander Elder,
born in 1863, stated in the 1895 Marion Township,
Davis County census (page 326) that he was born in
Lucas County, Iowa. Rachel Louella Elder, born
in 1866, stated in the 1895 Pleasant Township, Monroe
County census (page 391) that she was born in Polk
County, Iowa. By 1870 Alexander has moved to the
county immediately south of Wapello County and appears
in the 1870 Soap Creek Township, Davis County, Iowa
census (page 167A). There Alexander, age 42, is
shown as renting a farm and his personal estate was
valued at $500. This census also reports that
Alexander could not write. His brother, Lineas,
has also moved to Davis County, appearing on page 168B
of Soap Creek Township in the 1870 census (Lineas,
with a badly namgled first name, is family 140 and
Alexander is family 117). They may have moved to
Soap Creek Township in the late-1860s as their mother,
Rachel, who died August 24, 1867 is buried in Baer
Cemetery in Soap Creek Township.
Alexander continues to be on the
move. In the 1880 Marion Township, Davis County,
Iowa census Alexander is shown on page 167A as a
farmer, and again shows Alexander as unable to
write. Times must have been tough at that time
as Alexander states he has been unemployed the past 10
months (as of the official census day of June 1) and
his son William, a farm hand by occupation, has been
unemployed the past 12 months. Others on that
census page displayed similar numbers. At this
point only two of their 7 children remain at
home. The 1885 State of Iowa census shows
Alexander as a farmer and states he could read, but
not write. This same census also lists Lucia
Baker and Thomas Good, laborer, living in the
Alexander Elder household. Lucia is Alexander's
mother-in-law, and shows a birth of May 1815 in New
York.
The 1900 Marion Township, Davis County
census (page 83A) shows Alexander and Marcia Jane as
having remained settled in the same relative location
for some 25 years. At age 72 he has finally
"arrived" as he is shown as owning/mortgaging the farm
on farm schedule 73. This census shows Alexander
and Marcia Jane having been married 49 years as of
June 1, and living with them is Marcia's mother Lucia
Baker and servant Emma Walden. Lucia's birth is
consistent with the 1885 State of Iowa census, born
May 1815 in New York. Alexander and Marcia are
buried in Breeding Cemetery, Marion Township, Davis
County, Iowa.
69. Marcia Jane Baker, born January
27, 1835 in Pennsylvania; died May 17, 1909 at Finley
Maines' Home, Soap Creek Township, Davis County, Iowa. She
was the daughter of 138. Benjamin Baker
and 139. Lucia Phinney.
Notes for
Marcia Jane Baker:
Marcia Jane was born in Luzerne
County, Pennsylvania. According to her mother's
obituary, "about 1844 they moved still farther
westward to Jackson county, Ohio, near Jackson."
It was there that Marcia met Alexander. She
married Alexander when she was but 15 1/2 years
old. Her father died in Jackson County in 1869,
and her mother is shown in the 1870 Jackson County,
Ohio census (page 59A and listed as Lucius) as living
alone and having an occupation as midwife.
Sometime during the 1870s she moved west to Iowa and
is found in the Alexander and Marcia Elder household
in the 1880 and 1900 Marion Township, Davis County
censuses. The 1900 Marion Township, Davis
County, Iowa census (page 83A) also shows Marcia Jane
had 7 children, all living in 1900 and all were living
on their own. Marcia's obituary in the May 27,
1909 issue of the Bloomfield Democrate newspaper
identified her birthdate as January 27, 1835 and her
death as occuring at the home of Fin Mains on May 17,
1909. Finley J. Maines/Mains was the husband of
Marcia's sixth child, Clarissa Jane Elder and living
in Soap Creek Township, Davis County when Marcia
died. The obituary stated the funeral service
was also held at the Fin Mains residence. At
Marcia's death six of her seven children were yet
alive. She and Alexander had 4 sons and 3
daughters.
Children of Alexander Elder and Marcia Baker are: |
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i. | George Riley Elder,
born July 28, 1851 in probably Jackson County, Ohio; died
November 05, 1907 in probably Appanoose County, Iowa;
married Lydia A. Jones Abt. 1876; born Abt. May 1855 in
Missouri; died Aft. 1920.
George appears in the Alexander
Johnson Elder household in the 1860 Polk Township,
Jefferson County, Iowa census (page 294A) where he is
listed as 8 years old and born in Ohio. The
assumption is that he was born in Jackson County, Ohio,
although no proof has been found yet. In the 1870
census, George is still living with his parents, found
now in Soap Creek Township, Davis County, Iowa (page
167A), and helping his father on the family farm.
Information provided me by an Elder family relative
identified George's wife as Lydia A. Jones. George
and Lydia are found in neighboring Appanoose County in
the 1880 census (Bellair Township, page 547B) where he
is shown as a coal miner.
No marriage record has been found
yet for George and Lydia. The estimated marriage
date is derived from the 1900 Johns Township, Appanoose
County, Iowa census (page 82B) where it states they have
been married 24 years. That census shows daughter
Eva, born September 1889 in Iowa, yet the 1910 and 1920
censuses show Eva born in Missouri. It is possible
George and Lydia moved back and forth between Iowa and
Missouri. It is also possible their marriage could
have taken place in Missouri. Likewise, no death
record or burial information has been found for George,
and the death date comes from the Elder family relative,
with the location a supposition on my part. Lydia
is found in the 1910 Bellair Township, Appanoose County
census (page 10B) and enumerated as Lidy, a 55 years old
widow with two children at home yet. Both the 1900
and 1910 censuses show her as mother of 11 children with
7 alive. I have found 10, 5 sons and 5 daughters.
Lydia is found in the 1920 Denver,
Denver County, Colorado census (page 115A), and is
identified as a 63 year old widow. She has a 28
year old single daughter living with her who is working
in an overall factory making overalls.
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ii. | Robert Cramer
Elder, born March 09, 1853 in Jackson County, Ohio; died
September 11 1913 in McIntosh County, Oklahoma; married
Ellen Roll October 7, 1875 in Monroe County, Iowa; born
December 13, 1858 in Orange County, Indiana; died January 6,
1916 in McIntosh County, Oklahoma.
The Alexander Elder family in the
1860 Jefferson County census includes one Robert, age 7
and born in Ohio. When the Alexander Elder family
appears in the 1870 Davis County census their 17 year
old son's name is very hard to read, but is clearly not
Robert. The name appears to be Lawrence as near as
can be told. He is working on the family
farm. Ellen Roll is first found in the 1860 Cedar
Township, Monroe County, Iowa census (page 292) as the 1
year old daughter of Jacob and second wife Eliza Jane
Roll, born in Orange County, Indiana. In 1864
Jacob dies in nearby Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa
leaving a young wife Eliza (29) with 6 children.
This young family disappears from
the census rolls in 1870 and 1880 yet they must have
stayed in that general area. I say this because
Robert and Ellen married in Monroe County, Iowa October
17, 1875 (Monroe County Marriges, Book IV, page 265) and
are found in the 1880 Indiana Township, Marion County,
Iowa census (page 667A) with a son age 4 and a son age 1
who were born in Iowa. Also, Eliza Jane Roll
married Jesse C. Sherwood in neighboring Marion County,
Iowa on September 28, 1890. In the 1880 census
Robert is shown as a farm laborer. In 1900 Robert
C. and Melissa E. Elder are found in the Osage Indian
Reservation, Oklahoma census (page 170A) where Melissa
is identified as a miner. Obviously a
mistake. The census goes ahead to show that Robert
has been unemployed the past 12 months. Also, this
census shows Melissa as the mother of 5 children with 4
alive at the time. The census entries identify 3
sons and 1 daughter. In 1910, Robert and Ellen M.
are located in the home of their son William and his
family in Black Dog Township, Osage County, Oklahoma
(page 212B).
Robert died in 1913, and Ellen in
1916, and they are buried in Greenwood Cemetery,
Eufaula, McIntosh County, Oklahoma. Their joint
tombstone identifies them as Robert C. Elder and Ellen
Roll Elder.
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| 34 | iii. | Benjamin Baker Elder,
born January 05, 1855 in Jackson County, Ohio; died April
02, 1932 in Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa; married Mary
Lucinda Tharp March 30, 1880 in Drakesville, Davis County,
Iowa.
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iv. | Lucia Finney Elder,
born July 18, 1857 in Jackson County, Ohio; died December
17, 1926 in Iowa; married John Shepherd October 11, 1874 in
Davis County, Iowa; born April 15, 1843 in Morgan County,
Ohio; died June 17, 1916 in his home near Drakesville, Davis
County, Iowa.
Lucia was named after her maternal
grandmother, Lucia Phinney/Finney. Lucia appears
in the Alexander Elder family in the 1860 Polk Township,
Jefferson County census, erroneously enumerated as a
male. In the 1870 Alexander Elder family in the
Soap Creek Township, Davis County census she is shown as
Lucy. It may be during her stay in this township
that she met John Shepherd.
John was the son of Hezekiah and
Elizabeth Shepherd. This family was from Penn
Township, Morgan County, Ohio and settled about 1 1/2
miles south of Drakesville in Drakesville Township,
Davis County, Iowa in 1854. John lived and farmed
in that vicinity to the day he died. According to
his obituary from the June 29, 1916 issue of the
Bloomfield Democrat newspaper "John Shepherd expired
suddenly at his home near Drakesville, Saturday morning,
June 17, 1916, after working the day previous in the
cornfield, and seemingly retiring in his good
health. Mrs. Shepherd heard a moan about 2 o'clock
and called to her husband with no response. A son,
Ray Shepherd, investigated and found his father had
peacefully closed his eyes in death, apparently without
a struggle. Rev. Heckart, near Ottumwa, an
intimate friend of the deceased, conducted a short
funeral service at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon, at the
home where over five hundred assembled to pay their last
respects to a citizen whose absence will be felt
community wide...The funeral procession included one
hundred teams besides the autos and men and boys on
horseback.
In the 1900 Soap Creek, Davis
County, Iowa census (page 124B) John and Lucia are at
home on the farm and Lucia states she had 9 children
with 6 alive in June 1900. This coincides with
John's obituary. The nine children consisted of 5
sons and 4 girls. John's obituary gave his burial
location as Duke Cemetery north of Drakesville.
Lucia died at the home of her eldest daughter, Mrs.
Pearl Moss, of near Carbon, Davis County, following a
month's illness. He and Lucia are laid to rest in
Breeding Cemetery in Soap Creek Township, Davis
County. Breeding Cemetery is also north of
Drakesville. In a current list of Davis County
cemeteries there is no Duke Cemetery, thus it is
possible Bredding Cemetery was also known locally as
Duke Cemetery. Breeding Cemetery is also where
Lucia's parents and Robert's parents are buried as well
as two of their children.
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v. | Clarissa Jane
Elder, born December 12, 1859 in Jackson County, Ohio; died
October 09, 1943 in Davis County, Iowa; married Finley J.
Maines July 03, 1878 in Clara's parent's home in Davis
County, Iowa; born May 11, 1859 in Iowa; died August 27,
1953 in Seattle, Washington.
Clarissa, also known as Clara, was
just 7 months old and born in Ohio when found in the
Alexander Elder family in the 1860 Polk Township,
Jefferson County census. Her obituary appearing in
the October 19, 1943 issue of the Davis County
Republican newspaper gave her birth location as Jackson
County, Ohio.
Finley's parents, James and Barbara
Barnett Maines, were in Davis County by 1852, settling
first in Drakesville Township. James and family
appear there in the 1860 census (page 876) where James
is a mail carrier and Finley, their first son of 5
children, appears as 1 year old. James and family
can not be found in the 1870 census, but in 1880 they
are found in Soap Creek Township. It may be that
they had moved there and were close to where the
Alexander Elder family lived during the 1870s.
Finley and Clarissa were married in
her parent's home in 1878 and are found in the 1880
Bloomfield, Davis County census (page 99B) where he is
enumerated as James F. and is listed as a laborer.
By the 1900 census they are in in Soap Creek Township,
Davis County (page 125A) in the next household to
Finley's parents, and Finley is listed as a farmer with
their oldest child, George, helping on the farm.
Finley and Clara remain in Soap Creek Township through
the 1930 census (page 99A) where Finley, at the age of
70, is still shown as a farmer. Her obituary said
she had been in ill health for several years, but had
only been bedfast a week when she died. She and
Finley had been married 65 years at her death. In
Finley's obituary in the August 27, 1953 issue of the
Bloomfield Democrat newspaper it states he died at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. William (Anne) Steen in
Seattle, Washington. In addition to Anne, there
were two sons, Edward and Charles, living in Washington
state and Finley had been living there six years prior
to his death. His death followed a lengthly
illness.
Clarissa and he had 6 sons and one
daughter and are buried in Breeding Cemetery, Soap Creek
Township, as are 3 of their sons.
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vi. | William Alexander
Elder, born April 22, 1863 in Lucas County, Iowa; died
February 26, 1949 in Unionville, Davis County, Iowa; married
Rachel Arminda Brown September 11, 1884 in Bloomfield, Davis
County, Iowa; born July 11, 1864 near Ash Grove, Marion
Township, Davis County, Iowa; died June 22, 1950 in the home
of daughter, Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa.
William Alexander was not present in
the 1860 Polk Township, Jefferson County, Iowa census of
the Alexander Johnson Elder family. William was
the first child born in Iowa, and according to the 1895
State of Iowa census for Marion Township, Davis County
(page 326) he states he was born in Lucas County,
Iowa. That census also shows that the young family
made a move before coming back and settling down in
Davis County. The 1895 census shows the two oldest
children, ages 9 and 7, as born in Davis County, and the
youngest child, age 3, as born in Monroe County, Iowa.
Rachel Arminda (Minnie) was born in
Marion Township, Davis County very near where the
Alexander Johnson Elder family were located in
1880. In the 1880 census, William Brown was family
32 and Alexander Johnson was family 57. William
and Rachel are found in 1900 Marion Township (page 88A)
and 1910 Marion Township (page 78B) with William shown
as a farmer. In 1910 Minnie is shown as mother of
7 children with six alive. The oldest daughter at
home is a school teacher in a country school and the
oldest son at home is a wood chopper.
By 1920 the wild west bug had hit
and the family is found in 1st Ward Sheridan District,
Sheridan County, Wyoming (page 5A) and then in 1930 in
the Decker School District 1, Big Horn County, Montana
(page 75) where William is identified as a farmer in
both. They return to Iowa at some point as
William's obituary in the March 24, 1949 issue of the
Bloomfield Democrat newspaper says William died at his
home in Unionville, Appanoose County. Rachel's
obituary in the July 6, 1950 issue of the Bloomfield
Democrat newspaper says she died in the Ottumwa, Iowa
home of her daughter Mrs. Clara Chatterton. That
obituary states that two sons, Ray and Willis, remained
in Decker, Montana, while other children were scattered,
including Los Angeles and Yakima, Washington.
William and Rachel are buried in Wesley Chapel Cemetery,
Ash Grove, Marion Township, Davis County, Iowa.
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vii. | Rachel Louella
Elder, born May 16, 1866 in Polk County, Iowa; died March 3,
1945 in Burlington, Skagit County, Washington; married (1)
Leander Commons July 01, 1883 in Alexander Elder's
residence, Davis County, Iowa; born May 1861 in Davis
County, Iowa; died November 24, 1935 in Sedro Woolley,
Skagit County, Washington; married (2) Walter S. Ginnett aft
1935 in Washington; born February 24, 1864 in Burlington
County, New Jersey; died May 9, 1939 in Alger, Skagit
County, Washington.
The seventh and last child of
Alexander and Marcia was Rachel Louella, who was born in
Iowa. The 1895 State of Iowa census for Pleasant
Township, Monroe County (page 391) shows her as the wife
of Leander Commins and identifies her birth location as
Polk County, Iowa. Rachel is found in the
Alexander Elder household in 1880 Marion Township, Davis
County, Iowa (page 3B) in household number 57 while in
household number 83 (page 5A) is found Leander Commons,
age 18, living with his widowed mother.
Leander and Rachel were married in
her parent's home 3 years later. Rachel and
Leander settled down briefly in Davis County then
started on a lifetime of movement. The 1895 census
identified 5 sons in the family. The first two,
Francis age 11 and Clarence age 10, were identified as
born in Davis County. The next son, Sherman age 7,
was identified as born in Kansas while the fourth son,
Robert age 4, was identified as born in Nebraska.
The fifth son, Ernest age less than 1 year, was born in
Monroe County, where the census took place. The
1895 census listed Leander's occupation as a railroad
section hand and the 1900 census (page 113B) shows him
in the same location and with the same occupation.
The 1900 census shows sons Francis and Clarence, ages 16
and 14, as coal miners.
After the 1900 census, the family
goes on the move again. In the 1910 Landing
Precinct, Oneida County, Idaho census (page 35A)
Leander, enumerated as Lee, and Luella are found with
one son and two daughters, with Lee and son Robert shown
as farmers on a general farm. It is unclear where
they may have gone between the 1900 and 1910 census as
son Francis (Frank) is found in 1910 Martland, Huerfano
County, Colorado (page 131A) as a fireman in the coal
mines and Earnest is found in 1910 3rd Precinct,
Sedgwick County, Colorado (page 162B) as a farm
laborer. While Clarence could not be found in the
1910 census, his entry in the 1920 Krain Township, King
County, Washington census (page 273A) shows children
born in 1908, 1910 and 1912 in Colorado and a child born
in Utah in 1916. Likewise, Sherman could not be
found in the 1910 census, but his entry in the 1920 2nd
Ward Rupert Precinct, Mindoka County, Idaho census (page
124B) shows a child born in New Mexico in 1912.
By 1920 4 of their children are
found in Idaho, but Lee and Rachel have moved on to
Washington state (Guemes Precinct, Skagit County,
Washington, page 256B) as have the other 3
children. Leander is shown in that census as a
laborer repairing sail boats. Leander dies in
Skagit County and is buried in Green Hills Memorial
Cemetery, Burlington, Skagit County, Washington.
Sometime after that point, Rachel marries widower Walter
S. Ginnett. Walter dies in Skagit County in
1939. In 1945 Rachel dies in Burlington and is
buried next to Leander in Green Hills Memorial Cemetery.
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70. Conrad Moots Tharp, born
November 07, 1835 in West Liberty, Logan County, Ohio;
died September 11, 1926 in daughter's home near Unionville
in Udell Township, Appanoose County, Iowa. He was the son
of 140. Abner Tharp
and 141. Sarah Moots.
He married 71. Margret Sidwell
March 12, 1858 in Schuyler County, Missouri.
Notes for
Conrad Moots Tharp:
Conrad and family must have been
somewhat itinerant. While the young family is
found in the 1860 Wyacondah, Davis County, Iowa,
Conrad shows up nowhere in the state of Iowa in the
1870 census. In the 1880 Marion Township, Davis
County census Conrad is recorded as being a farm hand
and being unemployed 10 months at the time of the
census. He and family are found in the 1885
State of Iowa census in Union Township, Appanoose
County. The family is now complete with all
children that Conrad and Margret were to have
accounted for. This census enumeration also
included William Ellison living with the family.
William and daughter Sarah Tharp were to wed July 3 of
this year. They are in the 1895 State of Iowa
census in Union Township, Appanoose County, Iowa
yet. The Sidwell's (Margret's relatives) were in
Schuyler County, Missouri - the county immediately to
the south of Davis County, Iowa, and the county where
Conrad and Margret were married. They spent
their time going back and forth between the two
counties. The 1880 census also identifies son
Charlie as born in Missouri.
In 1900 Conrad and family are in
Moulton, Washington Township, Appanoose County.
The family includes Corad Thorp and his birth location
is given as Illinois while son Emery is in the
household and he says his father was born in
Ohio. Corad's occupation was given as teamster
and Emery's as grocer clerk. Margrett Thorp
shows as born in Iowa while Emery says his mother was
born in Illinois. Additionally Margrett shows as
having one child with one surviving. Certainly
more than its fair share of errors. The last
census that Margret appeared in was the 1905 State of
Iowa census. The household was found in
Appanoose County and consisted of C. M., Margarette,
and Emery Tharp. In 1910 he appears in the
household of his sister and brother-in-law, George and
Cassander Virginia Tharp Carter in Moulton, Appanoose
County. He is widowed at this point. In
1920 he is enumerated as Thorp and is enumerated in
the Taylor Township, Appanoose County home of Silas
and Laura Helen Tharp Matherly, his daughter and
son-in-law. In the 1925 State of Iowa census he
is back in Marion Township, Davis County living with
daughter and son-in-law William and Sarah Ann Tharp
Ellison. He was living with this daughter when
he died September 11, 1926, but by this time the
Ellison family had moved a little west into Appanoose
County in Udell Township near Unionville, as given by
the death register.
Conrad's obituary states he was buried
in Center Cemetery near Ash Grove, Marion Township,
Davis County, Iowa while his wife was buried in Mounts
Cemetery near Ash Grove. I am not clear whether
Center and Mounts are one in the same or not.
The stone next to Mary Tharp Elder (in Mounts
Cemetery) is inscribed with C. Tharp and has a G.A.R.
marker 1861-1865, indicating he served in the Civil
War.
Regarding the G.A.R. marker on his
grave, I thought it interesting there was no mention
of his service in his obituary. I have tried
pursuing Conrad's Civil War service, but have found no
evidence of his enlistment or service. Conrad
appears in the draft registration records enumerated
June 1863 of the Iowa First Congressional District
(Counties of Des Moines, Lee, Van Buren, Davis,
Jefferson, Henry, Washington and Louisa), as was
expected of all mentally and physically healthy males
between the ages of 20 and 45. C. Tharp is age
26, a farmer in Davis County, married and born in
Indiana (sic). Also included is M. Tharp
(Augustus Milton) of age 29, a farmer in Davis County,
married and also shown as born in Indiana (sic).
Brother Nathan Dee Tharp does not appear in this
registration as he had already enlisted in service.
According to the National Archives and
Records Administration pension cards of Civil War
veterans Conrad M. Tharp filed pension application
number 1111974, as an invalid, on May 12, 1892 from
the state of Iowa. He claimed service in Company
E of the 2nd Regiment of the Iowa Infantry. I
have been unable to find Conrad in any rosters, and
evidently the federal government was unable to find
any service records as well. The pension card
does not have a certificate number assigned which
would have indicated pension approval. The same
was the case for Augustus M. Tharp who filed pension
application number 1249329, as an invalid, on May 31,
1900 from the state of Iowa, but had no certificate
number assigned. On the other hand brother
Nathan's pension application card does have a
certificate number assigned, 961402, and his
enlistment is documented in "Roster and Record of Iowa
Troops In the Rebellion, Vol. 1 thru VI" by Guy E.
Logan; E. H. English, State Printer; Des Moines;
1908-11 -
Vol. 1, 1861-2, page 123, Company
G, 2nd Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry - "Tharp,
Nathan D. Age 20. Residence Bloomfield, nativity Iowa.
Mustered Aug. 16, 1861. See company G, Second
Infantry Consolidated Battalion."
Vol. 1, 1864, page 80, Company G, 2nd and 3rd
Veteran Consolidated Infantry - "Tharp, Nathan D.
Age 20. Residence Bloomfield, nativity Iowa.
Enlisted Aug. 16, 1862. Mustered Aug. 16,
1862. Mustered out May 30, 1865, expiration of
term of service. Transferred from company G,
Second Battalion."
71. Margret Sidwell, born probably
December 27, 1837 in Fayette County, Illinois; died
January 29, 1908 in Marion Township, Davis County, Iowa.
She was the daughter of 142. David Sidwell, Sr.
and 143. Mary Guthrie.
Notes for
Margret Sidwell:
The Sidwell family can be traced back
to England in the late 1600's, then Pennsylvania, to
North Carolina, to Tennessee Territory, to Kentucky,
to Illinois to Iowa and Missouri. The David
Sidwell family can be found in 1830 Precinct 2, Shelby
County, Illinois while father William Sidwell and
family are found in neighboring Fayette County.
The July 03, 1835 State of Illinois census shows the
David Sidwell family on the line following the William
Sidwell family in Fayette County. Margret was
born there most likely on December 27, 1837. On
January 21, 1837 David purchased 40 acres of Fayette
County property at $1.25 per acre for which the U.S.
Land Office Certificate #5970 was issued August 10,
1838.
There is some degree of confusion
regarding Margaret's birth and death dates. When
I walked the cemetery several years ago I found no
stone for Margaret. The Davis County
Genealogical Society charted the graves for this
cemetery February 03, 1973 and they recorded birth
date October 27, 1835 and death date January 21,
1907. Her sister, Mary Sidwell Ball, is buried
in Foss Cemetery, Foss, Washita County, Oklahoma and
her tombstone reads September 2, 1835 for her birth
date, so one or the other is incorrect. Checking
out the microfilm of "Record of Deaths" for Davis
County at the Iowa State Historical Library it gives
her death date as January 29, 1908. So that is
the first correction. She died in Marion
Township, Davis County of asthma. The death
record also gave her age at death in years, months
(01), days (02). Because of poor handwriting the
number of years can be read as 70, 75 or 78. I
believe it is likely the 70 is correct. That
would place the birth date at December 27, 1837 which
is consistent with the census records which agree on
ca 1837/38 and, in particular, the 1900 Appanoose
County, Iowa census, page 185A, which gives her birth
date as December 1837.
David's family was still in Fayette
County in 1840, but by 1850 they were in Wyacondah
Township, Davis County, Iowa. They were not in
the 1856 State of Iowa census, which would have told
us how long they had been in Iowa. However son
John and his new wife, Elizabeth Jane Young, are in
this 1856 census in Wyacondah Township (page 906) as
were son William and his young family (page
946). Both John and William state that they have
been in Iowa 6 years, so it appears the family was
newly arrived when they were enumerated in the 1850
Davis County census. In that 1850 census,
Margret's family was family #30 and Conrad Moots
Tharp's family (her future husband) was family
#36. Certainly proximity suggests opportunity
for Margaret and Conrad to have become acquainted.
Another association seems to suggest
they had ample opportunity to get to know each
other. In the book "Pioneer History of Davis
County, Iowa" by Federated Women's Clubs of the
County; Bloomfied Democrat publisher; Bloomfield, IA;
1924, the denomination called Primitive Baptists at
work in Davis County was described. "Most of the
adherents to this denomination, who were early
settlers in this County, came from the Southern states
... There were four early locations in the County
where meetings were held very much as other
denominations met in homes or school house. One
was near Mark, another in Fox River Township, another
in Savannah and another at Mars Hill. The first
churches of the Primitive Baptists were near Mark,
near the Atwood's in Fox River Township, and later a
Union church in Savannah ... We can give the names of
a few men who, with their families, kept alive the
faith: ... Isaac Sidwell, David Sidwell ..."
Both Tharp and Sidwell families settled in close
proximity of the village of Mark. Conrad Moots
Tharp's obituary states the "Rev. L. D. Easton, pastor
of the Unionville Baptist church was the officiating
minister." This Baptist association suggests the
possibility of additional opportunities for Margret
and Conrad to become well acquainted as youngsters.
The David Sidwell family is next found
in the 1860 Fabius Township, Schuyler County, Missouri
(page 717, family 744). Next door is son George
and his young family, while son John and family are in
Prairie Township, and son William and family stayed
behind in Wyacondah Township, Davis County.
Wyacondah Township is on the Missouri border and
Fabius Township, Schuyler County is on the Iowa
border, making for easy visiting back and forth.
That worked for Conrad and Margret as well - they
married in Schuyler County March 12, 1858.
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| 35 | i. | Mary Lucinda Tharp,
born January 18, 1859 in Schuyler County, Missouri; died
Bet. August 16 - December 31, 1946 in Davis County, Iowa;
married Benjamin Baker Elder March 30, 1880 in Drakesville,
Davis County, Iowa.
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ii. | Sarah Ann Tharp,
born January 22, 1862 in Davis County, Iowa; died August 8,
1951 in Chatfield Nursing Home, Ottumwa, Wapello County,
Iowa; married William Thomas Ellison, Jr. July 03, 1885 in
Appanoose County, Iowa; born January 16, 1863 in probably
Jackson County, Ohio; died January 6, 1935 at daughter's
home in Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa.
Sarah is found with her parents in
family 73, 1880 Marion Township, Davis County, Iowa,
page 4D, just one page away from sister Mary Lucinda
(family 60, page 4C) who was married to Benjamin Baker
Elder just a little over 2 months prior. Several
pages away (family 169, page 9B) is the family of
William Thomas Ellison, Jr., Sarah Ann's future
husband. William Sr.'s family is mistakenly
enumerated as Elis instead of Ellison. Immediately
ahead of this family is the Thomas Ellison family, also
mistakenly enumerated as Elis, and who is thought to be
a brother or cousin of William Thomas Sr.
William Thomas Ellison, Jr. was
likely born in Jackson County, Ohio. William Sr.
married Sarah Ann Leach September 4, 1859 in Jackson
County, Ohio. This couple was given by William
Thomas Jr. as his parents in the 1925 State of Iowa
census for Marion Township, Davis County. On
August 12, 1862 William Thomas Sr. entered service with
Company K of the 91st Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry
for the Union forces on August 12, 1862 at Camp Ironton,
Jackson County, Ohio to serve for a period of 3
years. This unit was involved in 15 engagements
and William Thomas Sr. made it until September 19, 1864
before he was wounded at Opequan, Virginia. He was
not incapacitated by his wounds and was able to complete
his full tour of duty and mustered out with the regiment
on June 24, 1865 at Cumberland, Maryland.
William Thomas Jr.'s obituary states
he was born to William and Sarah Ellison and that he
came to Iowa when he was 4 years old. This would
suggest he arrived in Iowa circa 1867, and he is found
in Des Moines Township, Jefferson County, Iowa, page 48,
in the 1870 census. They are found in the 1880
census in Marion Township, Davis County, and it was
there he met Sarah Ann Tharp. They married July 3,
1885 in Appanoose County, probably in Unionville in
neighboring Union Township. After that they made
their home in Marion Township, near Ash Grove, where he
was a farmer. It is fitting they were buried in
nearby Mounts Cemetery.
William and Sarah had 7 children,
Oliver (died when he was 2 1/2), Lillie May (Mrs. Joseph
Hopkins) of Appanoose County, Ethel M. (Mrs. John Swaim)
of Appanoose County, Walter Charles of Appanoose County,
Elmer Martin of Wapello County, Florence Belle (Mrs.
William Claude Albright) of Ottumwa, Wapello County and
Goldie Irene Mrs. Custer Okla Stufflebeam) of Des
Moines, Polk County, Iowa. William Thomas died at
the home of daughter Florence Belle Albright in Ottumwa,
Wapello County. Sarah Ann spent her final 20 years
living in Ottumwa, most of it in her daughter Florence
Belle Alrbright's home.
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iii. | William Sherman
Tharp, born June 08, 1865 near Unionville, Appanoose County,
Iowa; died May 07, 1946 west of Bloomfield, Davis County,
Iowa; married Rebecca Jane Stocker October 15, 1886 in
Appanoose County, Iowa; born November 22, 1869 in
Unionville, Appanoose County, Iowa; died December 25, 1945
near Bloomfield, Davis County, Iowa.
His obituary in the May 14, 1946
Davis County Republican newspaper states "He spent his
entire life in Davis County." More appropriately
he spent his entire live in the Davis County area,
including Appanoose County. After marrying in
Appanoose County they made their home in Davis County
and were found there in the 1895 State of Iowa
census. In the 1900 census they were found in
Pleasant Township, Appanoose County where William is a
farmer on a rented farm. They are found there in
the 1910 census and the 1915 State of Iowa census, but
by 1920 they are back in Davis County, farming on a
rented farm in Fox River Township. They were in
Fox River Township in the 1925 State of Iowa census, but
are then found at the other end of the county in
Wyacondah Township in 1930, again farming on a rented
farm. In 1940 they are in West Grove Township,
Davis County on a rented farm.
He married Rebecca Jane Tharp,
daughter of Hiram and Drucilla Scott Stocker.
Hiram was born October 28, 1840 in Tuscarawas County,
Ohio and came to Iowa with his parents when a small boy,
locating on a farm near Blakesburg along the Wapello
County/Davis County line. Hiram volunteered with
Company B, 13th Iowa infantry from August 1862 until
June 1865. Upon return he married Drucilla in
August 1865.
William and Rebecca were parents of
8 children, with a daughter dying in infancy and Ellis
Elmer, born September 1887 and died young between 1900
and 1905. Those children surviving were Homer Earl
and Harry of Appanoose County, Sherman and Glenn of
Scott County, Iowa, Winfred Russell of Davis County, and
Blanche B. (Edward W. Reece) of Flint, Michigan.
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iv. | Laura Helen Tharp,
born December 30, 1868 in Unionville, Appanoose County,
Iowa; died December 07, 1936 in Moravia, Appanoose County,
Iowa; married (1) Silas Matherly March 17, 1888 in Moravia,
Appanoose County, Iowa; born May 27, 1869 in Appanoose
County, Iowa; died March 03, 1921 in Moravia, Appanoose
County, Iowa; married (2) Robert Franklin Coltrain April 16,
1923 in Unionville, Appanoose County, Iowa; born October 4,
1861 in Moravia, Appanoose County, Iowa; died July 26, 1933
in daughter's home in Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa.
There is some confusion in the
location of Laura's birth because her obituary states
she was born in Missouri, yet every other occurence
gives her birth place as Iowa. That includes the
1895 State of Iowa census that states specifically that
she was born in Appanoose County. She married
first Silas Matherly, son of Albert and Margaret E.
Riley Matherly, and they resided most of their married
life in Appanoose County except for one brief stint at
farming which occurred in Marion Township, Davis County
near Ash Grove. Their other appearances show Silas
as a day laborer in Appanoose County. In 1920
Laura's widowed father, Conrad Moots Tharp, is living
with them.
Silas died in 1921 and Laura
remarried less that 2 years later to Robert Franklin
Coltrain, son of Solomon Lyndon and Mary Ann Croft
Coltrain. This was the fourth marriage for Robert,
the first being to Margaret Isabell Fisher on September
16, 1883 and together they had four children before
Margaret died January 11, 1897. Robert married
second Mary L. Paris in 1899, and she passed away
September 19,. 1908. Robert then married Lula Bell
Gary about 1910, and they divorced between 1915 and
1920. Robert and Laura likely knew each other
before, but were definitely thrown together when Chester
Ray Everett Coltrain, son of Robert and Margaret,
married Elsie Mae Matherly, daughter of Silas and Laura,
on July 19, 1917 in Moravia, Appanoose County,
Iowa. Robert and Laura divorced between 1925 and
1930.
According to a notice on page 3 of
the Centerville Iowegian and Citizen of December 3,
1935, "Moravia News - Mrs. Laura Matherly is dangerously
ill. The malady is cancer and she suffers
intensely. Her son, Fred, who is stationed at Los
Angeles in navy service, is expected to arrive here
Saturday. A daughter, Gladys, from Indiana, is
also enroute to Moravia, and Harley Matherly, a son from
Des Moines, arrived Thursday." She died at the
home of daughter Elsie Matherly Coltrain in
Moravia. Laura and Silas are buried in Moravia
Cemetery in Appanoose County. They were parents to
4 sons and 3 daughters, and she was survived by
all. Harley Arthur of West Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa; Roy Charles of Des Moines, Polk County;
Cora Edna (Henry Gomer Stocker), Elsie Mae (Chester Ray
Everett Coltrain) and Forrest Earl Sr. of Appanoose
County; Fred Guy of Mohave County, Arizona; and Gladys
Irene (James Van Huff) of Porter County, Indiana.
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v. | Conrad Edward
Tharp, born February 29, 1872 in Appanoose County, Iowa;
died March 13, 1933 in Yuma, Yuma County, Colorado; married
Minnie Viola Duffy March 28, 1893 in Albia, Monroe County,
Iowa; born 1874 in Iowa; died 1960 in Yuma, Yuma County,
Colorado.
This child is found under two or
three names. The 1880 Marion Township, Davis
County census (page 40D) shows him in Conrad and
Margret's family as son Eddie, age 4. In 1885,
just 5 years later, he is now age 13 and the family is
living in Union Township, Appanoose County and he is now
Carrel E. Tharp. He is next found in the 1900
census, enumerated as Ed Thorpe, and the family is
living in the town of Eddyville, in that part that is in
Wapello County, Iowa - Eddyville being at the
intersection of Wapello, Monroe and Mahaska
Counties. This census shows Edward as born in
Missouri, but also shows both his parents also born in
Missouri - wrong on all three counts. Ed shows an
occupation as day laborer section (perhaps working with
the railroad?), but it appears his wife and daughter
were operating a boarding house with 4 boarders (day
laborers) and a servant to assist. They move again
and are found in the 1905 State of Iowa census in Monroe
County with wife Minnie and daughter Pearl. And in
1910 Conard E., Minnie and Pearl are in Lincoln
Township, Appanoose County, page 8B, where he is a
farmer on a rented farm.
September 6, 1911 Pearl Ellen Tharp
married Albert Clark Taylor in Appanoose County,
Iowa. They lived in Union Township, near
Unionville and are found there in the 1915 State of Iowa
census where Albert is a laborer who earned $450 in
1914. Pearl is a lot trickier to find because the
census enumerator wrote her last name to look like
Faylor, not Taylor, and that is the way it is
indexed. Both cards identify the individuals as
married and the card number for Albert is #a91 and for
Pearl is #a92. It was evidently shortly after this
that the marriage ended as on April 18, 1917 Pearl E.
Thorp Taylor, born 1894 in Monroe County, Iowa, married
George H. Irlan in Centerville, Appanoose County.
Pearl's parents are identified as Edward Thorp and
Minnie Duffey. According to George's obituary of
August 13, 1959 in the Yuma (Colorado) Pioneer, "On
April 24 (sic), 1917, he was united in marriage to Pearl
Ellen Tharp and the couple moved to Yuma the following
March..."
Conrad Edward and Minnie moved at
the same time as per his obituary found in the March 16,
1933 Yuma Pioneer, "Edward Tharp was born Feb. 29, 1872,
to Conrad and Margaret Tharp in Davis Co., Iowa and died
at Yuma, Colorado Monday March 13, 1933 at the age of
61. On March 28, 1893, in Iowa, he married Minnie
Duffy. They lived in Iowa until they moved to Yuma
in 1918. Ed held a position with Yuma Lumber
Company until June, five years ago. He then built
the Golden Rod service station and operated the station
until December 22 of last year, when he leased
it." In addition to Pearl they had a son, Max E.
Tharp, born August 10, 1913 in Appanoose County.
Edward and Minnie, Pearl and George, and Max and Opal
are all buried in Yuma Cemetery, Yuma, Yuma County,
Colorado. Edward's tombstone contains the alst
variation of his name - Edwin.
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vi. | Charles Clarence
Tharp, born March 19, 1875 near Lancaster, Schuyler County,
Missouri; died June 10, 1951 in Unionville, Appanoose
County, Iowa; married Minnie Etta Wilson December 23, 1897
in Bride's residence, Albany, Davis County, Iowa; born
November 15, 1881 in Marion County, West Virginia; died
September 14, 1973 in Unionville, Appanoose County, Iowa.
Charles is the only Tharp sibling
born in Missouri. His obituary from page 5 of the
Centerville Iowegian June 12, 1951 issue, "Charles
Clarence Tharp, son of Conrad and Margaret Tharp passed
away at the age of 76 at Unionville. Iowa. He had
been ill for about eight days. Mr. Tharp was born
on March 19, l875 near Lancaster, Mo., and lived in and
around Appanoose county most of his life. He was a
member of the Pleasant Valley Baptist church since young
manhood.
Mr. Tharp was united in marriage to
Minnie Etta Wilson on Dec. 23, 1S97. He was
preceded in death by four infant children and one
granddaughter. He is survived by his wife and four
daughters, Mrs. Arthur (Mildred Genevive) Wilfaun, West
Grove, Iowa; Mrs. Lester (Margaret Lucille) Bailey and
Mrs. Ray (Wilma Doris) Howard, both of Des Moines; Mrs.
Clarence (Mary Elizabeth) Greene, Unionville, Iowa; two
sisters, Mrs. Sarah Ellison, Ottumwa; Mrs. Maggie Clark,
Centerville; and one brother, Emory Tharp, Omaha. Neb."
Minnie Etta was born in West
Virginia, the daughter of Calvin Wilson and Sarah
Elizabeth Wilson according to West Virginia Birth Index
FHL film number 835406. They came to Iowa circa
1890 and the family is found living next to the William
Sherman Tharp family in Davis County in the 1895 State
of Iowa census. This gave Minnie an opportunity to
meet other Tharp siblings, including Charles.
Charles and Minnie are buried in Unionville Cemetery,
Unionville, Appanoose County.
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vii. | Magaret Belle
Tharp, born November 24, 1878 in Moulton, Appanoose County,
Iowa; died February 08, 1953 at Jarvis Nursing Home,
Centerville, Appanoose County, Iowa; married Walter Clark
May 16, 1898 in Moulton, Appanoose County, Iowa; born August
26, 1878 in Appanoose County, Iowa; died February 13, 1956
in Centerville, Appanoose County, Iowa.
Walter Clark's origin seems to be
enigmatic. According to FHL film #1007178 of Iowa
marriages, Walter Clark married Maggie Tharp on May 16,
1898 in Moulton, Appanoose County, Iowa. That
record claims Walter's parents are James Clark and Jane
Taylor. Fast forward to the 1925 State of Iowa
census and Walter and Maggie, along with son Howard and
daughter Grace, are in Udell Township, Appanoose County,
Iowa. That census also shows his parents as James
Clark and Jane Taylor, both born in Iowa. I have
not been able to locate James and Jane in Iowa, let
alone with son Walter. Walter, age 6 and
enumerated as born in Appanoose County, appears in the
1885 State of Iowa census in Union Township, Appanoose
County in the household of John and Sarah Lockman (John
J. Lockman and Sarah Dudley married October 12, 1848 in
Bartholomew County, Indiana). In the 1900 Udell
Township, Appanoose County census Walter and Maggie's
household also contains Sarah Lockman, born May 1833 in
Indiana and widowed, who is identified as Walter's
grandmother! Walter had seemed to stay close to
Lockmans. In the 1895 State of Iowa census for
Appanoose County, Walter, age 16 and born in Appanoose
County, is living with George W. Stump and Mary
Gililbond. Immediately ahead of this household is
that of John J. and Moholy Taylor family, and 2
household previous to this is widowed Sarah Lockman and
a few of her children. Could this Taylor family be
related to Jane Taylor? How can Lockman be a
grandparent to Walter? Perhaps Jane was really
Jane Lockman who had married a Taylor, then remarried
James Clark? More digging will need to be done to
figure this out.
Walter and Maggie spent their
married life in Appanoose County. They are in
Union Township (near Unionville) in 1910, in Udell
Township (near Moravia) in 1920, 1925 and 1930, and in
Washington Township (near Moulton) in 1940. In
most of these enumerations Walter is a farmer on a
rented farm, with the exception of 1930 where he is
shown as a janitor at the school house.
The 1900 census shows that Margaret
Belle had one child, but that child was not
living. FHL film #4266284 contains a birth record
for Dorothy Clark, daughter of Walter and Maggie, born
in Udell Township on December 7, 1915. Yet in
1920, and subsequent censuses, Dorothy is not
present. Walter and Maggie did have four children
who survived. Daughter Mary Opal married Theodore
Audna Harrett and they both died in Hinckley, DeKalb
County, Illinois. Daughter Violet Lavelle married
Charles Francis Main and they both died in
Missouri. Son Harold Edwin married Dorothy Mae
Albertson and they both died in Appanoose County.
And daughter Grace Romaine married Logan Ray Jones and
they both died in Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa.
Walter and Maggie are buried in Fairview Cemetery, Udell
Township, Appanoose County.
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viii. | Emery Marion Tharp,
born August 12, 1882 in Davis County, Iowa; died January 10,
1958 in Los Angeles County, California; married Esta B.
Carpenter circa 1913 in Nebraska; born January 3, 1894 in
Nebraska; died April 1975 in Omaha, Douglas County,
Nebraska.
Emery M. appears in the first census
in the 1885 State of Iowa census in Union Township,
Appanoose county as the son of Conard M and Margared
Tharp. In 1895 State of Iowa census and the 1900
census he is with his parents in Appanoose County and is
enumerated as Emery Thorp and then is back to being
enumerated as Emery M. in the 1905 State of Iowa census
where he is found with his parents in Appanoose
County. In 1910 he is living with married sister
Mary Lucinda and her husband Benjamin Baker Elder in
Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa. Cousin Harley
Matherly, son of Laura Helen Tharp Matherly, is also
living in this household and both he and Emery are
enumerated as factory workers. Shortly after this
enumeration he left for Omaha, Nebraska.
His World War I draft registration
card identifies his full name as Emery Marion Tharp born
August 12, 1882. He is living on the south side of
Omaha, is an asbestos worker with Swift & Co. and
his nearest relative is given as Esta Tharp who was
living at the same address as was he. In the 1920
Omaha census, page 7B, he, wife Esta, and daughter Fern
M. are living in an upstairs apartment at 4409 S. 26th
St. and Esta's parents, John P. and Mary E. Taylor
Carpenter are living in a back downstairs
apartment. The 1930 Omaha census show Emery and
Esta with daughter Fern and with no additional
children. Based on the ages they gave for their
first marriage they were married circa 1913.
Emery is shown in several city
directories for Omaha. The 1920 directory shows
him living at the same address as the 1920 census and
shows him as a steamfitter. Then in the above 1930
census, Emery is enumerated as a shipping clerk.
After this point Emery seems to change his name out of
the clear blue. He is found in the 1931, 1935 and
1936 Omaha city directories but is identified as Robert
E. Thorp where is is variously a warehouse man and
shipping clerk and Johns-Manville Sales Corp. This
seems to be the same person as the wife is Esta.
Then in the 1940 Omaha census, page 11B, Robert E. and
Esta Thorpe are at home with divorced daughter Fern
Barbaca and granddaughter Jacquelene Barbaca.
Robert is shown as age 57 and born in Iowa, just as
Eemry would be and Fern is identified as his daughter,
not step-daughter. In 1940, 1942, 1945, 1946,
1948, 1951, and 1953 Omaha city directories he continues
to be listed as Robert E. with wife Esta and he changes
from warehouse man to being a bottler at Falstaff
Brewing starting in 1945.
According to the California Death
Index, Emery M. Thorp, born August 12, 1882 in Iowa,
died January 10, 1958 in Los Angeles County. From
a death notice in the April 18, 1975 Omaha World Herald,
page 32, "THORPE-Esta C., 2500 B St., age 81.
Survivors, daughter, Ferne Weaver, Long Beach, Calif.,
Sister, Alta Tankersley, Freer, Texas, Granddaughter,
Mrs. Donald (Jakcie) Upah, 2 great grandchildren,
Omaha..." It is not known for certain why and how
Emery died in California. Were he and Esta
visiting daughter Fern in Long Beach. Were he and
Esta divorced and he was living there?
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72. William Riley Robertson, born
January 02, 1822 in Claiborne County, Tennessee; died
October 31, 1908 in Taintor, Prairie Township, Mahaska
County, Iowa. He was the son of 144. Lazarus Robertson
and 145. Jane Leeper.
He married (1) Gabriella Stephens April 20, 1845 in Brown
County, Indiana; born July 3, 1821; died October 21, 1848
in Brown County, Indiana; buried Lanam Ridge Cemetery,
Needmore, Brown County, Indiana; married (2) 73. Elizabeth Jane Bailey September
06, 1849 in Monroe County, Indiana.
Notes for
William Riley Robertson:
William Riley was the eldest of nine
children born to Lazarus and Jane Leeper
Robertson. He was 4 years of age in 1826 when
his family moved from Claiborne County, Tennessee to
Indiana, settling first in Washington County and later
in Brown County. He married Gabriella Stephens
in 1845 in Monroe County and to them was born Francis
Marion Robertson. Gabriella died in 1848, and in
1849 William Riley married Elizabeth Jane Bailey in
Monroe County. To them were born two sons,
William Parker and James Monroe.
In 1856 William Riley sold his land in
Brown County, Indiana and he, his wife and three
children left Brown County for Iowa. Family lore
has it that about three days into Iowa, after crossing
the Mississippi River on a ferry, their horse and dog
left during the night. They went all the way
back to the ferry to look for the animals. The
ferryman had their horse but said the dog had gone
onto the ferry and slipped off the other side.
The Robertsons collected their horse and went on to
their new home in southern Poweshiek county.
Later their Indiana relatives wrote that their dog had
returned to its old home.
They located in Sugar Creek Township
in Poweshiek county, near Taintor, Iowa. They
located near his uncle Joseph who preceded him to Iowa
and where brothers Moses and Charles and widowed
mother Jane would settle in the late 1860's.
Likely Joseph's move 6 years earlier influenced
William Riley to make this move. Even though
they were uncle/nephew, the relationship likely seemed
more like brothers since both were born in 1822.
William Riley was a farmer and Quaker preacher.
He presided over many weddings in the area, including
those of many of his relatives. William Parker
followed in his father's footsteps as a farmer and
Quaker preacher in the Taintor area.
Elizabeth died in 1892. In the
1900 census (Sugar Creek Township, Poweshiek County,
Iowa, page 11A) and in the 1905 State of Iowa Census
(Sugar Creek Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa, Cards
49-53) widower William Riley is found in the household
of his son James Monroe and family. It is likely
he died there. He, his wife Elizabeth, and his
mother Jane are buried in Stewart Cemetery west of New
Sharon, Prairie Township, Mahaska County, Iowa.
73. Elizabeth Jane Bailey, born 1826
in Kentucky; died 1892 in Mahaska County, Iowa.
Notes for
Elizabeth Jane Bailey:
Information regarding Elizabeth is
skimpy at best. Her parentage is unknown and, at
this time, no death record or obituary has been
found. Knowledge of William Riley's two wives
comes from the material printed by Fred Robertson in
December 1956 outlining the descendants of Lazarus
Robertson. Fred identifies his first wife as
Gabriella Stephens and the marriage date as
1845. He mentions William's second wife only as
Elizabeth Jane, with an assumption left to the reader
that the marriage probably took place in 1849 since he
gave Gabriella's death date as October 21, 1848 and
the first born of William Riley and Elizabeth Jane as
born in 1850. The Monroe County, Indiana GenWeb
site contains a listing of Monroe County Marriages
1818-1850 as compiled by James D. VanDerMark.
Among that listing are two entries for William
Riley. Riley "Robinson" and Gabrella Stephens
are shown marrying April 20, 1845. Then on
September 7, 1849 William "Robinson" and Elizabeth
Bailey marry. Further affirmation of Elizabeth's
maiden name is given in James Monroe's notes below.
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i. | Francis Marion
Robertson, born Abt. 1846 in Brown County, Indiana; died
Unknown; married Margaret A. Reid May 16, 1872 in Poweshiek
County, Iowa; born August 20, 1856 in Lynn Grove Township,
Jasper County, Iowa; died April 4, 1922 in Havelock,
Lancaster County, Nebraska.
Francis Marion was born abt 1846 in
Brown County, Indiana. He is found with his father
and step-mother in 1850 Van Buren Township, Monroe
County, Indiana (page 335B) and 1860 Sugar Creek
Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa (page 483). In
1870 William Riley's family is found in Sugar Creek
Township (page 392B) but Francis Marion is not at home
with them. I have not been able to locate Francis
in any census record for that year. Yet in 1872
Francis is back to marry Maggie A. Reid on May 16, 1872
in Poweshiek County, Iowa (LDS film #1028402 Poweshiek
County, Iowa Marriage Records vol. A-D 1848-1885).
Francis Marion is not the only one
who can not be found in the 1870 census. Margaret
A. Reid/Reed is the daughter of Philip T. Reid/Reed and
Eliza H. Reid/Reed. Philip T. Reed married Eliza
H. Reed October 24, 1847 in Henry County, Indiana.
On December 15, 1855 Philip received a patent for 80
acres of land located in Poweshiek County, Iowa.
The family is found in the 1856 Iowa State census in
neighboring Lynn Grove Township, Jasper County with the
column asking how long they had lived in Iowa populated
with 1 year. The youngest child in the census is
Martha, age 2, born in Indiana, and not Margaret.
This creates a conflict since her tombstone gives her
birth date as August 20, 1855. My assumption is
that she was born August 20, 1856. She is found in
the 1860 Sugar Creek Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa
census, page 480, in the Philip T. and Eliza Reed family
as 3 years old and born in Iowa. Francis Marion is
in his parents household on page 483 in the 1860
census. This close proximity allowed them plenty
of opportunity to get to know each other.
As is the case with Francis,
Margaret is also not to be found in the 1870
census. Sister Martha, age 17, is found in Sugar
Creek Township (pge 388B) living with the Thomas Morgan
family and brother Thomas, age 22, is found in
Washington Township, Poweshiek County (page 433B) living
with the James Davis family and employed as a farm
laborer. One researcher shows mother Eliza H.
Reid/Reed as deceased in 1865 with no source proof
given. Philip is found in 1880 Rock Branch
Township, Norton County, Kansas, age 71, and shown as
divorced (not widowed). Francis and Margaret had a
son, Fred C., born March 22, 1876 in Poweshiek County,
Iowa. He married Lulu Eleanor Fudge March 24, 1897
in Mahaska County, Iowa. In 1880 no trace is found
of the Francis Marion Robertson family. That is
likely because Margaret married Hiram Williams September
12, 1878 in Grinnell, Poweshiek County, Iowa (LDS film
#1028402 Poweshiek County, Iowa Marriages Vol. C, page
262, item #234). Fred is found with the Hiram and
Margaret Williams family in the 1880 Grinnell, Poweshiek
County census, page 30B, erroneously enumerated as Fred
Williams. Francis has not been found in any
further documents. It is as though he
disappeared. It is unknown whether he died or they
were divorced and he left for parts unknown. Son
Fred appears to have done something very similar later
in life. He and wife Lulu moved first to
Marshalltown, Marshall County, Iowa in the early 1900s
then to Havelock, Lancaster County, Nebraska where he
worked in the railroad shops and then as a travel
agent. He is not found in the 1920 census and
turns up in the 1930 census in Los Angeles with new wife
Jane. All the while Lulu in Nebraska is
identifying herself as the widow of Fred.
One last note regarding Francis
Marion. Several people show the Francis Marion and
Nancy S. Robertson found in Monroe Township, Washington
County, Indiana censuses as the son of William Riley
Robertson based largely it seems on the name and
birthdate. The Francis, husband of Nancy, is
definitely not the same Francis as discussed here.
Francis Marion Robertson married Nancy S. Davis August
29 1872 in Washington County, Indiana. That is
roughly the same timeframe where the Iowa Francis was
marrying Margaret Reid.
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Children of William Robertson
and Elizabeth Bailey are:
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born September 02, 1850 in Monroe County, Indiana; died
February 10, 1930 at home in Taintor, Prairie Township,
Mahaska County, Iowa; married (1) Sarah Elizabeth Knox
February 28, 1871 in Sarah's father's residence in Sugar
Creek Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa; married (2) Margaret
J. Jones June 28, 1923 in Mahaska County, Iowa.
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ii. | James Monroe
Robertson, born March 29, 1852 in Indiana; died June 5, 1935
in Havelock, Lancaster County, Nebraska; married Margaret A.
Reid May 23, 1888 in Kirkman, Shelby County, Iowa; born
August 20, 1856 in Lynn Grove Township, Jasper County, Iowa;
died April 4, 1922 in Havelock, Lancaster County, Nebraska.
James is found with his parents in
the 1860, 1870, 1880 and 1885 Sugar Creek Township,
Poweshiek County, Iowa censuses where James is
single. The 1860 census is the only one to show
his full name and it is given as James Madison
Robertson. The family history names him as James
Monroe, and his memorial on Find A Grave also gives his
name as James Monroe, thus this is the name chosen
here. By the time James appears in another census,
1900 Sugar Creek Township, he is married to Margaret and
their family is complete with son Harry L., age 10, and
daughter Lela L., age 7. This census shows they
have been married 11 years, and it also shows that
Margaret has had 6 children with 4 still living.
Fred, son of Margaret and Francis, was talked about
above. The 1885 Iowa State census for Margaret and
husband Hiram Williams (Marshalltown, Marshall County,
Iowa, page 388) shows Fred from her marriage to Francis,
age 8 and again erroneously enumerated as Fred Williams,
and a new son, Raymond Williams, age 3 and born in
Poweshiek County, The two children of James and
Margaret makes for 4 children living. Family
history says that she and Francis also had twin
daughters, but gives no names. The assumption is
that they did not live very long. This accounts
for the count of 6 children shown on the census.
According to the 1910 census, this marriage is the first
for James and only the second for Margaret. We
know this not to be correct.
Father William Riley lived with this
family in the 1900 and 1905 censuses. From
1899-1901 James operated a general merchandise store in
Lynnville, Jasper County, Iowa. In 1910 the James
Monroe Robertson family is still at home in Sugar Creek
Township, but now includes the new husband of Lela, Fred
A. Huston, age 22. But by 1911, with both parents
dead, James and family move to Lincoln, Lancaster
County, Nebraska, where James is listed as farmer.
Son Harry Lester does not follow his parents to
Nebraska. His 1917 World War I draft registration
card shows him at home in Marshalltown, Marshall County,
Iowa with a wife and 2 children. This card also
shows him born November 17, 1889 in Kirkman, Iowa.
Kirkman is in Shelby County, Iowa which is in extreme
western Iowa near the Council Bluffs-Omaha area.
The Shelby County, Iowa Marriage
Register 1838-1889, page 95, item #102, shows the
marriage of James M. Robertson and Margaret Williams on
May 23, 1888 in Kirkman, Shelby County. This entry
also gives Margaret's parents as Philip Reed and Eliza
Reed, thus verifying this person as the same one who
married Francis Marion. James' parents are given
as W. R. Robertson and E. J. Bailey, thus affirming the
maiden name of William Riley's wife. And this
entry also confirms this as Margaret's third
marriage. As a note, we know this time that
Margaret and Hiram were divorced because Hiram continues
to appear with his new wife, Lydia Turner, whom he
married in Grinnell, Poweshiek County on December 1,
1888. But what were James and Margaret doing in
Kirkman. The following narrative from
"Biographical History of Shelby and Audubon Counties,
Iowa"; W. S. Dunbar & Co.; Chicago, IL; 1889; page
532 helps to explain:
"J. M. ROBERTSON is a native of
Brown County, Indiana, born March 29, 1852, a son of
W. R. and Elizabeth J. (Baily) Robertson, natives of
Tennessee and Kentucky. In the fall of 1855 he
came to Iowa with his parents, locating in Poweshiek
County, on a farm where he was reared and where he
received his education in the common schools of the
neighborhood. He was brought up on a farm and
spent his life in this capacity until February,
1888, when he came to Kirkman. He figured
quite prominently in the local political field in
Poweshiek County, holding the office of justice of
the peace and several minor offices, an evidence
that he had the confidence of the people, especially
in the good old Democratic party, which he
represented. He is a lover of good horses, and
is working to improve the quality by introducing a
couple of standard stallions, a Norman and a
Clydesdale, which he has brought with him to Shelby
County. In May, 1888, he purchased the Kirkman
House, the only hotel in Kirkman, which he now owns
and controls, and where he and his wife can be
found, who will give you a cordial greeting and
extend the comforts of a home. They are well
adapted to the avocation they have chosen, and
Kirkman has need to be proud of her hotel and its
proprietors. Mr. Robertson was married May 24,
1888, to Margaret, daughter of Phillip and Eliza
Reid, who was born August 20, 1855, in Jasper
County, Iowa; her parents were natives of New
Hampshire and North Carolina. She had two
children by a former marriage, Frederick and
Raymond."
When James and Margaret moved to
Lancaster County, Nebraska, Lela and her new husband,
Fred Huston, also go with them. In 1911 Fred is
shown as a mechanic in the BC & Q rail yards in
Lincoln. In 1920 he is a travel agent, perhaps
working with Fred Robertson, son of Francis Marion and
Margaret, who was also working as a travel agent in
Lincoln at the same time. By 1925 Fred Huston is
employed as a policeman in Havelock and then in 1930 he
becomes a fireman in Lincoln, and remains so until
retirement by 1958. Lela's brother, Harry,
remained in Marshalltown, Marshall County, Iowa where he
was a Chiropractor. A snippet from the Havelock
Notes section of "The Nebraska State Journal (Lincoln,
Nebraska)" of June 9, 1940 says, "Here from
Marshalltown, Ia., over the week-end were Dr. and Mrs.
Harry Robertson, and family. They were the guests
of Dr. Robertson's sister, Mrs. F. A. Huston."
James Monroe and Margaret are buried in Wyuka Cemetery,
Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska.
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74. John William Knox, born Abt.
1822 in Jay, Franklin County, Maine; died June 06, 1885 in
Logan, Phillips County, Kansas. He was the son of 148. Moses
Knox, Sr. and 149. Susannah Perkins.
He married 75. Elizabeth Clark
March 15, 1843 in Mercer County, Illinois.
Notes for
John William Knox:
I had identified Sarah E. Knox as the
person who married William Parker Robertson. I
first found her as part of the John Knox family unit
in the 1870 census for Sugar Creek Township, Poweshiek
County, Iowa, page 392A. Sarah at age 15 in this
1870 census would say that she was born in late 1854
or early 1855. This is consistent with the
birthdate given in her obituary of 13 December
1854. Knowing that a large contingent of Maine
Knoxes settled in Mercer County, Illinois was also
consistent with her obituary stating she was born in
Aledo, Mercer County, Illinois. In checking the
1860 Mercer County, Illinois I found a Sarah Knox in
Keithsburg Township, page 733.
The ages are fairly consistent between
the common members of the two censuses, but the names
are somewhat different. The biggest difference
is that the head of household in 1860 Mercer County is
William and in 1870 Poweshiek County is John.
What makes me think they are the same family?
John and William's ages and birth locations are
consistent as are the ages and birth locations for his
wife Elizabeth.
Additionally, two of the children in
the 1860 Mercer County census were present in
Poweshiek County. Daughter Marilda Jane, and
husband Marion Stanton, and daughter Sophronia Orilla,
who married Michael Fleener in Poweshiek County, were
there. Chances are they were there because of
family ties. Also, in the 1870 Poweshiek census
John and Elizabeth have an Ennis McCauslin listed
among their household, and when daughter Sophronia
married Michael Fleener she gave her name as Sophronia
McCauslin (first husband's name).
In addition to Sarah and Sophronia
marrying in Poweshiek County, son Lafayette Columbus
Knox married Rebecca Jane Hiller 19 January 1872 in
Sugar Creek Township, Poweshiek County.
I have given him the name of John
William since both names were used in different census
records as well as the fact that he had a grandson
that was given that name as well.
75. Elizabeth Clark, born November
1821 in Maine; died Bet. 1900 - 1910 in Dewey County,
Oklahoma ?.
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i. | Marilda Jane Knox,
born October 08, 1843 in Abington, Mercer County, Illinois;
died December 13, 1906 in Logan, Phillips County, Kansas;
married Marion D. Stanton February 07, 1861 in Mercer
County, Illinois; born August 17, 1839 in Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Indiana; died February 11, 1908 in Logan, Phillips
County, Kansas.
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ii. | Sophronia Orilla
Knox, born June 29, 1846 in near Aledo, Abington Township,
Mercer County, Illinois; died January 31, 1911 in New
Sharon, Mahaska County, Iowa; married (1) William Henry
McCauslin August 23, 1860 in Mercer County, Illinois; born
Unknown; died Unknown; married (2) Michael Fleener, Jr.
December 24, 1867 in Poweshiek County, Iowa; born August 27,
1846 in Texas County, Missouri; died September 14, 1892 in
Adair County, Iowa (or Missouri); married (3) William A.
Barrett June 04, 1899 in Taintor, Prairie Township, Mahaska
County, Iowa; born March 1841 in New York; died Unknown.
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iii. | Mary A. Knox, born
1848 in Abington, Mercer County, Illinois; died Unknown.
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iv. | Lafayette Columbus
Knox, born December 11, 1850 in Keithsburg Township, Mercer
County, Illinois; died June 18, 1918 in Wellsford, Kiowa
County, Kansas; married Rebecca Jane Hiller January 19, 1872
in Sugar Creek Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa; born
November 1856 in Iowa; died Bet. 1900 - 1910 in Dewey
County, Oklahoma ?.
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v. | Josiah Knox, born
Abt. 1852 in Keithsburg Township, Mercer County, Illinois;
died Unknown; married Toletha Carver Abt. 1880 in Kansas;
born Abt. 1867 in Iowa; died Unknown.
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December 13, 1854 in Aledo, Mercer County, Illinois; died
March 23, 1922 in at home, Taintor, Prairie Township,
Mahaska County, Iowa; married William Parker Robertson
February 28, 1871 in Sarah's father's residence Sugar Creek
Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa.
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vii. | Ada G. Knox, born
1857 in Keithsburg Township, Mercer County, Illinois; died
1924; married John Charles Marvin December 20, 1873 in
Phillips County, Kansas; born Abt. 1847 in Iowa; died
Unknown.
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viii. | Steven Knox, born
1859 in Keithsburg Township, Mercer County, Illinois; died
Bef. 1870.
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ix. | Simon Knox, born
October 1863 in Mercer County, Illinois; died Unknown;
married Lily R. ? Abt. 1888; born September 1873 in
Nebraska; died Unknown.
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76. Calvary T. Sexton, born May 20,
1824 in Cabell County, (West) Virginia; died September 06,
1892 in Mahaska County, Iowa. He was the son of 152. William
Sexton and 153. Mary Jarrett.
He married 77. Nancy Young Dodd
March 25, 1847 in Sangamon County, Illinois.
Notes for
Calvary T. Sexton:
Calvary T. Sexton, was the first-born
of William Jr. and Mary Jarrett Sexton. Calvary
was born in Cabell County, [West] Virginia May 20,
1824 and was our first Sexton ancestor who eventually
settled in Mahaska County. C. T. is buried in
Peoria Cemetery in the village of Peoria, Richland
Township, Mahaska County, Iowa. His name on the
headstone is listed as Calverny T. The headstone
also lists him in Co. D 2nd Infantry Reg. of
Illinois. While his headstone lists his first
name as Calverny, his Mexican War papers identify him
as Calvary and several of the Morris and Swann
families that were close to William's parents named
their children Calvary. I have chosen Calvary as
the primary name, with Calverny as his aka.
Calvary was less that 4 years old when
the family packed up and moved to Sangamon County,
Illinois. At that age, he may not have
understood what all was happening, especially with two
smaller siblings and 5 or 6 cousins of comparable ages
as part of the traveling company. The new
territory was still very rough and unsettled,
including threats of Indian raids that were no longer
a part of the territory they left behind. Father
William was finding work where he could, and if that
was not difficult enough for the family, his father
died when Calvary was only about 8-9 years of
age. Elizabeth Jarrett Ray, sister of his
mother, died sometime before 1834 leaving that family
struggling to care for themselves. Catherine
Jarrett Swann, another sister, and her family left
Sangamon County to go back to Cabell County around
1838. Mary likely looked to her Jarrett and
Morris relatives in Sangamon County to help her and
her young family survive.
Likely Calvary took on whatever jobs
possible as soon as he was able to contribute to the
family. Just after turning 22 years old Calvary
enlisted June 1, 1846 at Springfield, Illinois for
service in the Mexican-American War. The war was
popular with the majority of the people because of the
economic conditions of that time period. There
was an over abundance of labor resulting is an
unusually high unemployment rate. Money was
scarce and farmers were unable to sell crops so most
people were engaged in bartering for goods and
services. So many men found this as a way of
making money that the first call for arms from the
Governor generated a response of 8,370 men. This
number was well over the state's quota and only 3,720
were accepted between June 12-26 and were required to
serve 12 months from May 25, 1946 to May 25, 1847.
Calvary was accepted as a private in
Company D, 4th Regiment of Illinois Infantry
Volunteers commanded by Colonel E. D. Baker. The
captain for Company D was Achilles Morris, 1st cousin
of Calvary's mother, Mary Jarrett Sexton.
Achilles also served as a captain in the Black Hawk
War of 1831-1832. As stated in William Sexton,
Jr.'s narrative, the roll for the troop mustered June
4, 1831 and discharged July 2, 1831 included private
William, Jr. And now son Calvary is serving
under Achilles in the Mexican War. An estimated
35,000 U.S. Army troops and 73,000 state volunteers
fought in this war. For the entire war American
casualties numbered approximately 13,283, which
included 1,733 combat casualties. Captain
Achilles was one of the non-combat casualties, as
described in a letter home from a Sangamon County
soldier reprinted in the March 25, 1947 issue of the
Illinois Weekly State Journal newspaper, "Tampico
(Mexico), February 15, 1847 ... It is with pain I
announce to your the death of Capt. Achilles Morris,
who departed this life at the hospital in
Tampico. Capt. M. was generally liked throughout
the regiment, although he was not much esteemed as an
officer, (which he was willing to confess he was not,)
still by his liberal sentiments on all subjects
connected with the welfare of the regiment, he won
good will of many; and the countenance of every one
indicates the sorrow which is felt on account of his
death. He died of a lingering disease, which the
surgeons could only name chronic diarrhoen
(sic). He was attacked at Violoria dreadfully
with vomiting and purging, which clung to him till his
death..." He died at Tampico, Mexico February
15, 1847 and was buried there on the 16th..
According to his Mexican War pension
application, "On this 2nd day of March A. D. 1887,
personally appeared before me F. E. Smith Clerk of the
District Court that same being a Court of Record
within and for the County and State aforesaid Calvary
T. Sexton aged 62 years, a resident of Mahaska County,
State of Iowa, who being duly sworn by me according to
law, declares that he is the identical person who
served under the name of Calvary T. Sexton as a
private in Company "D" commanded by Captain Achellis
Morris, in the 4th regiment of Illinois infantry vols.
Commanded by Colonel E. D. Baker in the war of 1846
with Mexico, that he enlisted at the City of
Springfield, County of Sangamon, and State of
Illinois, on or about the 1st day of June A. D. 1846,
for the term of one year and continued in actual
service about five months and was honorably discharged
at the City of Comargo, Mexico, during the month of
November A. D. 1846. The following is a brief
statement of his services as he now remembers the same
viz: He marched with said Company and regiment from
the City of Springfield to the City of Alton, State of
Illinois; thence went by steem-boat to Jefferson
Barracks, State of Missouri, thence to the City of New
Orleans, State of Louisiana, thence by ship to Brazos
de Santiago near the mouth of the River Rio Grande;
thence to Lower Camp Patterson, thence to Middle Camp
Patterson, thence to Comargo, Mexico; thence about
two-day's march toward Monterey Mexico as body guard
of General Shields; thence with the guard he returned
to Comargo, Mexico and as while he was acting as body
guard for General Shields, he was attacked with
measles, he was never able for duty again after his
return to Comargo, Mexico."
Later in that same application,
"Applicant declares that he was born in Cavel (sic)
County State of Virginia, that he is 62 years old, 6
feet high, of Dark Complexion, Black eyes, Black hair,
now a little gray, and by occupation a farmer, his
occupation at and before the time of his enlistment
was that of a farmer." Upon his return to
Sangamon County he did two things in quick succession
- on March 25, 1847 he married Nancy Young Dodd in
Sangamon County and on January 26, 1848 he used his
military pay to purchased for $1.25 per acre 40 acres
in the southwest part of the county where he was
raised, and for which he received U.S. General Land
Office land grant certificate # 21495 on November 1,
1849. They started a family and farmed there for
approximately 7 years before pulling up stakes moving
to Mahaska County in 1854. They settled on 80
acres in the northwestern part of the county, located
approximately 5 miles west and 1/2 mile south of New
Sharon, at the intersection of a line emanating
northward from Flint P.O. and a line emanating
eastward from the village of Peoria.
In 1856 Calvary reported that of his
80 acres he had 10 acres of meadow that produced 5 ton
of hay, 3 acres of spring wheat that produced 83
bushels and 4 acres of oats that produced 160
bushels. When Pierson (son) and Mary Sexton were
celebrating their 50th anniversary he stated that his
parents moved to Iowa in 1850 (sic) and that their 4
room house was one of 4 between their place and
Oskaloosa (approx. 10 miles). First, the
population in that part of Iowa was still very small
and second, it was quite possible there were houses
between their farm and Oskaloosa smaller than 4
rooms. In fact, most were likely 1 room.
In 1856 Calvary was just getting
established in his new farm. By 1860 he was
beginning to really settle in and by 1870 his farm had
increased in value to $3,005 and things looked to be
going well. According to the "History of Mahaska
County, Iowa" published in 1878, Calvary supplemented
his farming income by being a tanner. Then in
the 1880 census, taken June 8th, Nancy is reported as
being disabled with rheumatism. They did have a
servant to help with the housework. At the time
son Charles, age 19, was at home but would be leaving
shortly. There were also sons Pierson, age 13,
and Robert, age 10 at home, so the presence of a
servant was a big help to the family. Shortly
after the taking of the census, Nancy died October 6
and was buried in Peoria Cemetery.
On February 11, 1882 Calvary married
Mary Ann Miller who was widowed a second time.
It is the register for this marriage that gives the
all important parentage information for Calvary -
Father: Wm Sexton, Mother: Mary Gerratt (clerk's
phonetic attempt at Jarrett). This information
combined with his birth location from his Mexican War
Pension papers points to his ancestry, as far a
records found thus far. With this marriage there
was no longer a need for the servant. In 1885
the household included the same three sons and also a
son of Mary by her first husband, Milton Spain.
Interestingly enough Charles Sexton and Milton Spain
were enumerated as lodgers even though they were
family members (more on this under Charles'
narrative).
A short notice in the September 15, 1892 issue of the weekly "The Herald" of Oskaloosa, Flint C. T. Sexton died at his home Monday, Sept. 5, aged 69 years. He was a good Christian man and loved by all his neighbors. Frank Pickering and wife, of Kearney, Nebraska, and Mrs. Maggie Godby, of Alva, Nebraska, are visiting friends around here, having been called hither by the death of their father, C. T. Sexton. was the only notification made of his death. Calvary is buried with his first wife
Nancy in Peoria Cemetery, Richland Township, Mahaska
County, Iowa.
77. Nancy Young Dodd, born April 11,
1827 in Tennessee; died October 06, 1880 in Prairie
Township, Mahaska County, Iowa. She was the daughter of 154. Josiah
Dodd and 155. Elizabeth Duncan.
Notes for
Nancy Young Dodd:
Nancy was born in Tennessee, likely
Jefferson County. After her father died in 1822
many of her siblings began leaving Tennessee for
Morgan County, Illinois. Then about 1838 Nancy's
widowed mother and other family members, including
Nancy's family, joined the rest of the clan in Morgan
County.
Josiah Dodd, farmed on rented land in
Morgan County, Illinois for a few years before
purchasing 40 acres in Sangamon County in the
mid-1840s. It was there on March 25, 1847 that
daughter Nancy Young Dodd married Calvary T. Sexton as
discussed above. Josiah and Elizabeth continued
to farm in Sangamon County for another year after
Calvary and Nancy left for Mahaska County. Then
in late 1855 they picked up stakes and moved, with
their other 4 children and their families, to Mahaska
County as well.
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i. | William Josiah
Sexton, born April 10, 1848 in Sangamon County, Illinois;
died May 30, 1934 in Deaconess Hospital, Marshalltown, Iowa;
married Elizabeth Caroline Weist December 24, 1872 in
Mahaska County, Iowa; born December 07, 1847 in Orange,
Preble County, Ohio daughter of Elias L. Weist and Mary Jane
McChord; died January 11, 1912 in Prairie Township, Mahaska
County, Iowa.
William Josiah Sexton was born April
10, 1848 in Sangamon County, Illinois. William was
named for his two grandfathers - William Sexton and
Josiah Dodd. He would have been about 6 years of
age when they moved to Mahaska County. When not
attending school he was helping his father in farming
activities as soon as he was old enough.
Then, at age 15, he traveled to
Oskaloosa with the intent to enlist in the Union
cause. He was able to enlist October 30, 1863 by
lying about his age, claiming he was 18 years old.
He was mustered into Company I, 9th Cavalry Regiment,
Iowa Volunteer in Davenport. In December they were
moved to St. Louis and were quartered there and at
Benton Barracks, Missouri until May 1864. At that
point they were dispatched to Arkansas where they spent
the duration of the War. Their assignments were
guard duty, keeping law and order in the areas secured
by the Union Army, and a few minor skirmishes resulting
from search and pursue actions against renegade
Confederate forces and bushwhackers.
His obituary states his horse was
shot out from under him at the battle of "Rich
Woods". This may have happened, but the engagement
at Richwoods was far from a battle and there is no
information to support or refute this claims. I
simply take it at face value until more information is
found. Of the 1,353 men in the 9th Iowa Cavalry, 9
were killed, 10 more died of wounds received, and 165
died of disease with 89 more discharged for disease.
During his time of service William
was promoted from private to 8th Corporal on September
28, 1865 and then 7th Corporal on November 1,
1865. These promotions were after the end of the
War and during the time they were serving in a peace
keeping capacity in Arkansas. William was mustered
out at Little Rock, Arkansas March 15, 1866.
After returning home he enrolled in
Oskaloosa College. In 1881 most of the staff, led
by Civil War veteran General Francis Marion Drake, left
the college and established a university in Des Moines
now known as Drake University. One of Drake's
colleges is the College of Law, one of the 25 oldest law
schools in the country. It was this education that
William undertook and he became a member of the Mahaska
County Bar in 1878. Because he was only 15 when he
enlisted, he first had to complete some high school
coursework in addition to the college work needed for
preparation for the bar. Acting as Calvary's
lawyer he submitted his father's pension application for
service in the Mexican War.
On Christmas Eve 1872 William
married Elizabeth Caroline Weist in Union Church,
immediately to the east of Flint P.O. She was in
the Simon G. Gary household in the 1870 census, age 23
and with occupation listed as dress maker. The S.
G. Gary 120 acre farm was in close proximity to
Calvary's farm being east and little south of Calvary's
property. They had 3 daughters and 1 son.
Elizabeth died January 11, 1912 when congestion in her
lungs broke and she strangled before a doctor could make
it to their home.
William continued to be a lawyer in
New Sharon after his wife died. He stated in 1915
that he had made $300 for the year. He was also
receiving $30/month pension for his military
service. He was evidently slowing down, both due
to age and due to health. On November 27, 1918, at
age 70, he was admitted to Battle Mountain Sanitarium in
Hot Springs, South Dakota. This was a U.S.
National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. He
had a plethora of ailments at admission - mitral
regurgitation (heart condition where blood leaks
backward through the mitral valve), cataracts in both
eyes, hemorrhoids, chronic colitis (inflammation of the
inner lining of the colon), cholecystitis (inflammation
of the gallbladder), and anemia. He was discharged
nearly 5 years later, on August 6, 1923, and his
condition at discharge was not given, although it is
likely he had his anemia and hemorrhoids taken care of,
and possibly his inflammations of the colon and gall
bladder.
When discharged he returned to New
Sharon, but had no family there to take care of
him. His son, Bertis Angelo Sexton, and one
daughter, Olive Winona Sexton Kramer, were dead with the
other daughters at a distance - one near Sioux City,
Lena Elena Sexton Pressler, and the other in Minnesota,
Florence Eva Sexton Martin. He roomed in New
Sharon until about 1928 when he took a room at the
Pilgrim Hotel in Marshalltown, waiting for an opening at
the Iowa Veterans Home there. This also placed him
close to Deaconess Hospital. I do not know if he ever
got into the Iowa Veterans Home, but he did spend his
last year of life in Deaconess Hospital, dying there on
May 30, 1934. He is buried with his wife in
Friends Cemetery in New Sharon.
As an interesting side note, it
appears William was not only a lawyer, but an inventor
of sorts. William J. Sexton of New Sharon was
issued patent number 1,085,304 on January 27, 1914 for a
stovepipe cleaner and damper.
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ii. | Martha Ellen
Sexton, born January 1851 in Sangamon County, Illinois; died
October 5, 1930 in Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington;
married William Frankliln Pickering October 19, 1870 in
Mahaska County, Iowa; born January 18, 1845 in Ohio; died
September 22, 1925 in Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington.
Martha Ellen Sexton was the second
child of Calvary and Nancy Dodd Sexton, born January 11,
1851 in Sangamon County, Illinois. She was only 3
years old when the family moved to Mahaska County.
On October 19, 1870 she married William Franklin
Pickering, Sr. in her parent's home.
William Pickering, Sr. was born
January 18, 1845 in Morgan County, Ohio. His
family moved to western Lee County, Iowa (the
southeastern most county containing Fort Madison and
Keokuk) when William was 2 years old. His father
died there about 1850 leaving his mother with 4 young
children to care for. His mother persisted in
farming there with the help of one of her
brothers. Then about 1857 she moved her family
back to Ohio to be near her relatives for support and
stability. On October 1, 1864 William enlisted as
a private in Company C, 182nd Ohio Infantry Regiment and
was mustered in at Camp Chase near Columbus, Ohio.
On November 1 the Regiment was ordered to move to
Nashville, Tennessee and on November 6 joined General
Sherman's forces. They took part in the battle of
Nashville and remained there performing guard and
provost duty until July 7, 1865 when the Regiment was
mustered out.
After the War William moved to
Prairie Township, Mahaska County, Iowa working as a
farmer on the Amos Randalls farm. Amos was his
cousin, a nephew of his mother. His 80 acres was
east and south of Flint P.O. not far from Calvary's
farm. After William and Martha married he
continued to farm, although farming was not really his
calling.
By 1875 they had moved their young
family to Kearney, Nebraska where William began a career
as merchant, first as a retailer of dry goods and
groceries, then settling solely on groceries. They
had 3 children while living in Mahaska County. Two
of those children survived to move to Nebraska, but son
Calvary Pickering died at one year of age and is buried
in Peoria Cemetery in the village of Peoria, Mahaska
County. In addition to the 2 surviving children,
William and Martha had 5 children in Nebraska, with son
Lester Pickering dying at age 6 months on July 16, 1880.
About 1906 William and Martha moved to Tacoma,
Washington where several of their children had
previously moved. He worked some in retirement as
a carpenter. He died September 22, 1925 and Martha
on October 5, 1930 in Tacoma and both are buried in
Mountain View Cemetery in Lakewood, Washington.
Those children surviving Martha were daughters Mrs. Ina
Florence Pickering Danford of Tacoma, Washington and
Mrs. Martha Pickering Abbott of Fresno, California and
sons Hiram Cleveland Pickering and William Franklin
Pickering, Jr. both of Tacoma Washington and son Charles
Ezra Pickering of Council Bluffs, Iowa. One
daughter, Eliza Lyda Jane Pickering Wilson, survived her
father, but died October 17, 1928.
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iii. | John L. Sexton,
born November 09, 1853 in Sangamon County, Illinois; died
June 15, 1859 in Mahaska County, Iowa; the first of several
Sextons to be buried in Peoria Cemetery.
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iv. | James W. Sexton,
born Abt. 1856 in Prairie Township, Mahaska County, Iowa;
died December 31, 1859 in Mahaska County, Iowa; buried next
to brother John in Peoria Cemetery.
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v. | Margaret Elizabeth
Sexton, born September 29, 1859 in Peoria, Prairie Township,
Mahaska County, Iowa; died January 25, 1945 in Portland,
Multnomah County, Oregon; married Emery Godbey December 29,
1875 in Mahaska County, Iowa; born August 26, 1854 in
Mahaska County, Iowa; died August 14, 1934 in Portland,
Multnomah County, Oregon.
Emery was son of William Godbey and
Ingaba Ryan and was born August 26, 1854 in Mahaska
County. His father's farm of 80 acres was located
straight west of Calvary's about 3 plots. About 3
years after they married they moved to Cass County,
Nebraska, south of Omaha along the Missouri River.
They moved there with his parents and siblings and lived
on an adjoining farm. The one sibling to not go
with the family to Nebraska was sister Harriett who had
married Theophilus Dunbar Tice July 3, 1878 in Mahaska
County, and lived out her life there.
About 1895 they left his parents
behind in Nebraska and moved on to Portland,
Oregon. They had 5 sons and 1 daughter, the last 3
born in Portland. They were Warren Homer Godbey
(1878-1961), Clyde Elmer Godbey (1880-1961), Maud Beu
Godbey Paulin Danford (1885-1971), Oral Eugene Godbey
(1893-1940), Lee Roy Godbey, Sr. (1895-1980), and Ralph
Ryan Godbey (1897-1975).
Emery worked in Portland for a
transfer company, first as a teamster and then as a
clerk. After the children left home, Margaret
worked as a practical nurse for private families.
Emery died in Portland August 14, 1934 and Margaret died
there January 25, 1945.
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vi. | Charles L. Sexton,
born Abt. October 1860 in Prairie Township, Mahaska County,
Iowa; died December 6, 1905 in Denver, Denver County,
Colorado.
Charles is the 6th child born to
Calvary T. and Nancy Young Dodd Sexton and was born on
the farm located in Section 19 at the western edge of
Prairie Township, directly north of the Flint, Iowa post
office and directly east of the village of Peoria.
The 1870 census has Charles attending school and he must
have attended to some of his studies as his signature
later in life shows very good penmanship. However
his later years seemed to demonstrate a restlessness and
even self-destructive nature.
In 1880 a Charles Sexton who seems
to fit our description appears in two federal
censuses. The one for which there is no question
is his entry in his parent's home in Prairie Township on
the enumeration date of June 8. He is 19 years old
and is shown with occupation simply as "At Home".
The other entry is in Longmont Precinct, Boulder County,
Colorado where a Charles Sexton, age 21 and born in
Iowa, is enumerated on June 2 and 3. He is a farm
laborer in the household of Charles and Lizzie
Howard. It would have been difficult for Charles
to have been in two places in the space of 5 or 6
days. The other thing that makes the Colorado
census entry somewhat suspect is that he has his parents
both born in Missouri, although he had both his parents
born in the wrong states in a later census.
I have not been able to find another
Charles Sexton born between 1858 and 1862 in Iowa.
Later records show Charles seemed to like the western
states. Perhaps he had been in Colorado earlier
and was visiting his parents in Iowa when the census was
taken there. Perhaps he took the train to Iowa and
got recorded on the census there after being recorded in
Colorado? Perhaps the Howards in Colorado went
ahead and gave Charles' information to the census taker,
knowing he would be returning from Iowa soon? It
would not be the first time I have found an individual
or family recorded twice in the census for a specific
year. Perhaps the Howards gave the information for
Charles and simply gave incorrect information, including
age and/or birth location? Either way there is not
enough information to know what is what.
The next time Charles surfaces is
December 21, 1881 when Chas. L. Sexton, born in Mahaska
Co., Iowa, age 22 years 11 months (circa Jan 1859), with
occupation farmer enlisted in the U.S. Army at West
Leavenworth, Kansas. He was identified as having
hazel eyes, brown hair, fair complexion and height 5' 11
1/2". He was assigned as a private in Company M of
the 8th Cavalry, but it was not long before he realized
he was not cut out to be a soldier. He was listed
as deserted February 22, 1882. That was also short
lived as he was apprehended March 4, 1882 and sent to
Fort Snelling, Minnesota to await sentencing for
desertion. He was sentenced April 13 to military
prison at this garrison for a period of 2 years and
subsequent rolls included him among the "military
convicts." Then the June 1883 roll records Charles
as "Escaped from Parole June 5, 1883." He seems to
have made good this escape as he does not reappear in
the Fort Snelling rolls.
In the 1885 Iowa State census Chas.
J. (sic) Sexton, age 24, appears in the household of
father Clavin (sic) and stepmother Mary Miller Sexton in
Prairie Township, Mahaska County, Iowa. In the
remarks column it identifies him as a lodger, not a farm
laborer. It appears this is just a pass through
for Charles.
Sure enough, because on November 18,
1886 Charles Sexton, born in Oskaloosa, Iowa (county
seat of Mahaska County), age 23 years 10 months (circa
Jan 1863), with occupation barber enlisted in the U.S.
Army at Omaha, Nebraska. He was identified as
having brown eyes, brown hair, ruddy complexion and
height 5' 11 1/4". Interestingly he stated his
occupation as barber. Did he learn this trade
while a convict in military prison? Or did he pick
up that occupation while in Iowa after he deserted from
Fort Snelling? On December 1, 1886 he was assigned
to Fort Douglas, Utah as a private in Company G of the
6th Infantry, and he continued to experience issues with
tending to business. He lasted a little longer
this time, about 6 months, but on the roll from May 26,
1887 to June 4, 1887 he was reported as "Location Not
Known" and "absent without leave." On June 4, 1887
his status was officially declared as deserted.
His third desertion.
This time he evidently wised up and
was not apprehended. His name came up later in
court records and newspapers in 1890, as reported in
these two articles:
The U.S. had a law in place
outlawing polygamy and bigamous or unlawful cohabitation
dating back to 1862, but the Mormon Church still had
doctrines supporting what they called plural
marriage. The Mormon church did not expunge this
doctrine until September 25, 1890. This hearing
was to determine if George Noble was married to two
women.
Isabella's son was named Charles
Edgington, even though Isabella had divorced a Mr.
Edgington in 1883 according to these articles.
Charles Edgington was born January 8, 1888 and DNA
testing definitely confirms he is not an
Edgington. Charles Sexton deserted from Fort
Douglas on June 4, 1887. This would have been just
about a month and a half after conception, perhaps
around the time Isabella would have been figuring out
she was pregnant. Charles appears to be running
from responsibility again.
The above information, with the
exception of the 1880 Colorado census entry which is
still a question mark, was brought to my attention by
brothers John and Mike Jensen. I thank them for
pushing me to check this out and accept their findings.
There seems to have been a bit of
obfuscation in the testimony given to the
commissioner. Isabella and George Noble were
indeed married at the time of the inquiry, having
married March 3, 1889, 18 months prior to the
hearing. They turned the hearing away from a one
on possible polygamy into explaining who the father of
the child was. If they were that good at obscuring
the facts, then how do we know if Charles Sexton was
really the father of the baby and not George
Noble? Isabella named her child Charles, most
probably after Charles Sexton, but that is a weak
argument. In looking at my autosomal DNA matches
on Ancestry.com I find two descendants of Charles
Edgington, who would be my 3rd cousins from common
ancestor Calvary T. Sexton, with extremely high
confidence level matches, one with 90 cM shared across 7
DNA segments and the other with 95 cM across 8
segments. A 4th cousin also appears with good
confidence level match at 25.6 cM across 2
segments. It would appear to be a pretty good
possibility that the baby was the child of Charles L.
Sexton.
Isabella reports at the time of the
hearing that Charles was not in Utah, but rather in
Ohio. He must have moved on to Pennsylvania since
I found an entry for Charles in 1890 Philadelphia.
He again turned to the armed services when on October 8,
1890 Charles Sexton, with usual place of residence of
Philadelphia, enlisted at the U.S. Naval Rendezvous,
League Island, Pennsylvania. He stated he was born
in Oskaloosa, Iowa, had an occupation as fireman, and
was age 35 years, 9 months (circa Jan 1855). Did
he not know when he was born or how old he was? He
was identified as having hazel eyes, brown hair, fair
complexion and height 5' 11 4/8". Except for the
age, the other descriptions seem to point to this
Charles Sexton and those of Fort Leavenworth, Fort
Snelling and Fort Douglas are one and the same.
Charles enlisted for a period of 3 years and was
assigned to the naval vessel St. Louis as 2.C.F. (second
class fireman?) at pay rating of $30/month. No
other records have been located to know whether Charles
actually served his full enlistment period or deserted
as he had done every time before.
In 1900 Charles is single and back
out West, this time living in Colorado Springs, El Paso
County, Colorado. He is a lodger in the M. E. and
Adrene Brown residence working as an ice man. He
says he was born October 1860 in Iowa, and this time he
gives the birth place of his parents as Illinois.
At least he is closer this time as both parents lived
and married in Illinois. This is proven to be our
Charles by the appearance of the following newspaper
article from the December 7, 1905 issue of the Denver
Rocky Mountain News, page 9:
I do not know what happened to
Charles between 1890 and 1900. I do not believe he
ever went back to Iowa after he left in 1885/86.
When his father Calvary died in 1892 a very short notice
appeared in The Oskaloosa (Iowa) Herald of September 15,
1892. It simply said he "died at his home Monday,
Sept. 5, aged 69 years. He was a good Christian
man and loved by all his neighbors." Following
that death notice, "Frank Pickering and wife (daughter
of Calvary), of Kearney, Nebraska, and Mrs. Maggie Godby
(another daughter), of Alva, Nebraska, are visiting
friends around here, having been called hither by the
death of their father, C. T. Sexton." This is why
Mrs. Martha E. Pickering received a letter from Charles
to come to Colorado. But it is also worth noting
that while all the other children except Charles were in
the immediate area of Calvary's home, Charles was not
included among the children who came back to Iowa for a
funeral. Did the Denver newspaper say he was from
Nebraska because he actually spent time there after his
stint in the Navy, or was it simply because he had
written his sister who was from there? The
newspaper issue of December 8 recorded that a burial
permit had been issued for Charles L. Sexton, age
46. He is buried in Block 26, Lot 280, Section 4
in Riverside Cemetery, Denver, Denver County, Colorado,
with no marker on the grave.
But this does not represent the
total story. To leave it here would continue to
suggest that Charles was a heel of major
proportions. Another story appeared immediately
under the page 1 masthead in the December 7, 1905 issue
of The Herald Democrat of Leadville, Colorado which
reads as follows:
This also seems to square with
Isabella's statement to the commissioner that Charles
was no longer in Utah, but was then in Ohio at the time
of the polygomy hearing. There had evidently been
some communication between the two, suggesting that
Charles must have truly cared. It is unfortunate
Charles was not able to see son Charles William
Edgington grow up, marry in 1911 and have a famiy of 5
children by 1920. When Charles Edgington died in
1944 his wife and children survived, as well as 13
graandchildren.
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vii. | Alfaretta Sexton,
born October 09, 1863 in Prairie Township, Mahaska County,
Iowa; died October 11, 1877 in Mahaska County, Iowa.
The census spelled her name
Alfaretta and the headstone has Alpha Retta. She
is buried in Peoria Cemetery.
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born January 05, 1867 in Garden Hall, Prairie Township,
Mahaska County, Iowa; died July 11, 1950 in Hillcrest
Nursing Home, University Park, Mahaska County, Iowa; married
Mary Eleanor Farr December 25, 1888 in Mahaska County, Iowa.
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ix. | Robert Miller
Sexton, born April 21, 1870 in Prairie Township, Mahaska
County, Iowa; died May 15, 1939 in Cedar Rapids, Linn
County, Iowa; married (1) Ida May Harris August 14, 1892 in
Mahaska County, Iowa; born April 10, 1877 in Boone County,
Iowa; died November 02, 1919 in Cedar Rapids, Linn County,
Iowa; married (2) Pearl L. Whitting July 06, 1910 in Mahaska
County, Iowa; born Abt. 1867 in Rock Island County,
Illinois; died January 18, 1935 in Cedar Rapids, Linn
County, Iowa.
The last child of Calvary and Nancy
Dodd Sexton, Robert Miller Sexton, was born in Mahaska
County April 21, 1870. Robert helped his father
with the farm work until approximately 3 weeks before
Calvary's death. On August 14, 1892 he married Ida
May Harris in Mahaska County. Ida May was born
July 11, 1875 near Lacey, Mahaska County, Iowa.
She came to the marriage with a child. On October
19, 1891 she had Ethel Della Kirk by George Kirk out of
wedlock.
They lived in a rented farm house
and Robert worked as a farm laborer. Robert and
Ida had 6 children - Ada Mae (1893-1972); Lela Pearl
(1895-1977); Rena Fay (1898-1991); Carl Christian
"Dutch" (1902-1984); Nellie J. (1904-1980); baby girl
(1906- ). Baby Girl Sexton was born May 12, 1906 near
What Cheer in Keokuk County according to birth
records. By this time Robert and Ida were divorced
and Ida was living with her parents until the baby was
born. I have been unable to find any record of
what happened to this daughter, but she did not survive
to adulthood if subsequent census records are any
indication. In 1907 Ida May married Andrew Dunlevy
and moved to Oskaloosa. She died there November 2,
1919 after a year long illness.
After the divorce, Robert lived in
the Cyrus and Christina Hess household on a farm near
Peoria, Iowa. He was a farm laborer on Cyrus'
farm. Christina was the sister of his ex-wife
Ida. Then on July 6, 1910 he married Pearl Louise
Whiting in Mahaska County. Pearl was born about
1867 in Rock Island, Illinois. She married first
Thomas Hughes on February 5, 1890 in Ottumwa.
They moved to Oskaloosa and 4 children and 17 years
later they divorced. Pearl was working as a
servant for a private family in Oskaloosa when they
married.
After marriage he and Pearl moved to
Newton where he worked as a laborer. Then about
1917 they moved to Cedar Rapids where Robert took a job
as a laborer in a mill. Then in 1930 Pearl shows
as proprietor of a home laundry, with Robert shown as an
assistant and Marie Melsha, a daughter of Pearl by her
marriage to Thomas Hughes, working as presser.
Pearl died at St. Lukes Hospital in Cedar Rapids January
19, 1935 of acute pancreatitis intestinal obstruction
and Robert died at home in Cedar Rapids May 15, 1939 of
carcinoma of the gall bladder. First wife Ida May
is buried in Woods Cemetery, Mahaska County, Iowa,
second wife Pearl is buried in Murdoch-Linwood Cemetery
in Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa, and Robert is buried
in Shiloh Cemetery in Hiawatha, Linn County, Iowa.
Robert's death certificate also
identifies Robert's third wife as Mildred. In the
Cedar Rapids city directories Robert is living alone at
420 A Ave. NE in 1935, after the death of wife
Pearl. Then in the 1938 directory Robt M. and
Mildred L. Sexton are living at 1104 2nd Ave. SE in
Cedar Rapids, the house where he died the following
year. It is possible they were married earlier as
Mrs. Mildred Sexton, a saleswoman at Barron's, appears
in the 1937 Cedar Rapids directory living at 853 2nd
Ave. SE, but Robert does not appear in the
directory. Mildred's Social Security Application
appears to support the earlier date where she is shown
as Mildred Louise Saxton as of July 1937. She is
Mildred Louise Hughes, born July 22, 1896 in Oskaloosa
to Thomas Hughes and Pearl Louise Whiting. In
other words, Mildred's fourth marriage was to
step-father Robert Sexton.
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78. Joseph Farr, Jr., born March 02,
1827 in Fayette County, Pennsylvania; died March 30, 1916
in Prairie Township, Mahaska County, Iowa. He was the son
of 156. Joseph Farr, Sr.
and 157. Catherine Caton.
He married 79. Ellen Funk
November 15, 1853 in Avondale, White Eyes Township,
Coshocton County, Ohio.
Notes for
Joseph Farr, Jr.:
Joseph Jr. was born March 2, 1827 in
Fayette County, Pennsylvania to Joseph Sr. and
Catherine Caton Farr. Joseph Jr. was only 9
years old when his father died September 16, 1836 in
Coshocton County, Ohio. According to his
obituary that appeared in the Oskaloosa (Iowa)
Saturday Globe March 30, 1916 and the New Sharon
(Iowa) Star of April 5, 1916, "He came with his
parents, when seven years of age to Avendale (sic),
Coshocton county, Ohio." Soon after his father
died, he and his eldest brothers, George Washington
Sr. and Andrew Jackson, were then mothers only support
and would have taken care of her early on after their
father's death. In 1850 Catherine was shown as
the head of household in their Adams Township,
Coshocton County home by virtue, it appeared, of her
age. Joseph, age 22, was then the oldest child
in the household and he was shown as a farmer with the
entry that showed $600 worth of real estate.
That real estate value was not very much, so the plot
of land must have been fairly small. Of course
Joseph Sr. was a stonemason, not a farmer. In
the same census Joseph Jr. was also listed as a
laborer on uncle Daniel Caton's farm in White Eyes
Township. It would appear he was doing
everything possible to support his mother and his 3
siblings still at home, and her Caton relatives were
helping as well.
An obituary appearing in the Coshocton
(Ohio) Morning Tribune of April 12, 1916 give more
details on how Joseph Jr. supported the family, "Then
after more of the family grew up to take his place,
deceased (Joseph Jr.) left home and was employed as a
laborer on the Ohio Canal, at points from Louisville
to Cleveland. Worked at this occupation for a
few years previous to his marriage to Ellen Funk, Nov.
15, 1853." The canal was actually the Ohio and
Erie Canal. He was a laborer on some of the
boats that plied the Canal and the Ohio River.
The Canal was constructed in the 1820s and the early
1830s digging segments that connected various rivers
to allow a continuous path from Lake Erie to the Ohio
River. The Canal carried freight traffic from
1827 to 1861 after which the arrival of the railroads
killed the market. After that, until 1913, it
was a waterway servicing towns and industry along its
path and as a recreational waterway. From the
time of this 1850 census forward mother Catherine was
always shown living in the Joseph Jr. household.
In the 1850 White Eyes Township,
Coshocton County census Daniel Caton's family, where
Joseph Jr. was laboring, was household number
97. Household 98 was the Jacob Funk
family. One of the Funk children was daughter
Ellen, age 17. Just 3 years later, on November
15, 1853, Joseph Farr, Jr. married Ellen Funk in
Avondale, Coshocton County. [Note: This Avondale
is now called Fresno; another case of the railroad
changing town names. It was changed in the late
1800's to very early 1900's because there was another
Avondale, Ohio near Cincinnati with a larger
population. To lessen the mail mix-ups that were
occurring the Avondale in Coshocton County was
renamed.] There is some confusion as to when
they moved to Mahaska County, Iowa. Joseph Jr.'s
obituary stated they moved March 3rd, 1854. I am
assuming it meant this was when they left Ohio.
A short biography of Joseph Jr. that appeared in the
book "History of Mahaska County" stated they came to
Mahaska County March 31, 1856. The 1905 Iowa
State census said they had been in Iowa 48 years, i.e.
since 1857. The 1915 Iowa State census said they
had been in Iowa 58 years, i.e. also since 1857.
This looks more likely since they were not enumerated
in the 1856 Iowa State census. Whichever the
case, Joseph Jr. and Ellen were in Mahaska County
prior to 1859 when son Charles was born. Mother
Catherine Caton Farr came with them and lived with
them until her death December 3, 1885.
An 1871 plat map for Mahaska County
shows that Joseph Farr had 120 acres in Prairie
Township south of the Flint P.O. and almost to the
south township line. They were not stationary
however. In the 1860 census they were enumerated
in Prairie Township, where their 120 acre plot shows
on the plat map. Then in the 1870 census they
were shown in neighboring Black Oak Township, back to
Prairie Township in the 1880 census, then neighboring
Madison Township in the 1895 Iowa State census and
1900 Federal census. It could be that he kept
his farm land, which was in the southwestern corner of
Prairie Township and they just lived in a house on the
other side of the township line during some of those
enumerations. His obituary states that twice
they lost all but their cabin home from prairie
fires. Then in 1902, according to his obituary,
they sold their farm and bought a few acres near
Oskaloosa. He does appear in 1905 in Lincoln
Township near the west edge of the Oskaloosa
fairgrounds and near what would become the old Iowa
State highway 163 to Pella, Iowa. At that time
the Oskaloosa fairgrounds were on the edge of town and
the residential area had not grown to what it is
now. He gave his occupation as farmer of small
fruit. By this time he was nearly blind and in
1910 Federal and 1915 Iowa State censuses he was
enumerated as fully blind.
By 1915 Joseph Jr. and Ellen were
living back in Prairie Township, with their daughter
Mary Farr Sexton. Joseph died there March 30,
1916 and Ellen died 5 months later. Prior to his
death the couple was the oldest known married couple
of Prairie Township. Joseph's obituary stated he
was buried beside his 3 children and his mother.
That would have been Appel Cemetery near Peoria and
not in Friends Cemetery as the obituary goes ahead to
say. Ellen's obituary stated they were going to
move Joseph from Appel Cemetery to Friends Cemetery in
New Sharon to be buried with her. Joseph's death
register entry stated he was buried in Appel Cemetery,
likely to be near their 3 children and his mother as
his obituary stated., so Ellen's obituary was
correct. Note: A tombstone for only one of the
three children has been found.
79. Ellen Funk, born January 22,
1833 in West Bethlehem Township, Washington County,
Pennsylvania; died August 31, 1916 in Prairie Township,
Mahaska County, Iowa. She was the daughter of 158. Jacob
Funk and 159. Anna Margaret Miller.
Notes for
Ellen Funk:
"Mrs. Ellen Funk, daughter of Jacob
and Annie Funk, was born in Washington county
Pennsylvania, Jan. 22, 1833. She departed this
life August 31, 1916; age 83 years, 7 months and 9
days.
"About three weeks previous to mother
Farr's death, she stepped out into the yard and in
some manner caught her foot on a short piece of board
and received a hard fall, and that with other
infirmities and old age caused her death. She
suffered a great deal in her last days but bore her
sufferings with great patience.
"Father Farr will be removed from the
Appel Cemetery to the Friends Cemetery and interred
beside mother Farr."
From Ellen's obituary appearing in
September 6, 1916 New Sharon Star newspaper.
Children of Joseph Farr and Ellen Funk are: |
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i. | Charles C. Farr,
born May 10, 1859 in Prairie Township, Mahaska County, Iowa;
died October 12, 1872 in Mahaska County, Iowa.
Charles C. Farr was born May 10, 1859
in Prairie Township in Mahaska County. He died
October 12, 1870 and is buried in Appel Cemetery near
Peoria in Mahaska County. This child is known
because he appeared in two census records in the Joseph
Jr. household. Also, his tombstone survives to
this day in Appel Cemetery. This is the only stone
for a child of Joseph Jr. and Ellen despite his obituary
stating there were 3 child graves in Appel
Cemetery. Since Joseph Jr. and Ellen were married
in 1853, I assume they had a child, and possibly two,
before Charles was born but are unknown because they do
not appear in any records. Could those children
perhaps have been buried in Coshocton County?
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ii. | Joseph J. Farr III,
born Abt. June 1861 in Mahaska County, Iowa; died 1917 in
Mount Pleasant, Henry County, Iowa; married Ruth Millie
Tolles March 11, 1887 in Mahaska County, Iowa; born July 09,
1863 in Arlington, Columbia County, Wisconsin; died October
03, 1941 in New Sharon, Mahaska County, Iowa.
Joseph J. Farr, III was born to
Joseph Jr. and Ellen in June 1861 on their farm in
Prairie Township near Peoria. On March 11, 1887 in
Mahaska County he married Ruth Millie Tolles. Ruth
was born July 9, 1863 at Arlington, Wisconsin and when 3
years old her family moved to Mahaska County, near
Barnes City. By 1880 they had moved east of New
Sharon. After Joseph and Ruth married they settled
in Prairie Township neighbors to his sister and her
husband, Pierson and Mary Farr Sexton. Joseph was
helping Pierson on his farm.
By 1900 Joseph and Ruth, and family,
were farming east of New Sharon, near Union Mills, on a
farm Joseph owned free of any mortgages. But by
1905 they were living near Ewart (small village in
Poweshiek County close to Montezuma) and he was now a
farm laborer. From there they moved to Mahaska
County close to Barnes City and they were living on a
rented farm, but Joseph was without occupation according
to the census. Their oldest unmarried daughter,
Emma, was bringing in money by working as a servant
outside her home.
One of Joseph's descendants reports
he was a school teacher, and a music teacher, and loved
to play the violin. These are items not found in
any other documents. His 1915 Iowa State census
entry said that he was in Mt. Pleasant and that he was
insane. The same family researcher says details
behind that entry are that he was working with one of
the horses on the farm where they lived and he was
kicked in the head. He was critically injured, as
you might guess. He was transported to Mahaska
County Hospital in Oskaloosa, Iowa, but they were not
equipped to handle his severe case. He was
subsequently moved to the state hospital in Mt.
Pleasant, Henry County, Iowa. He was in a coma and
never recovered, dying there in 1917. He is buried
in the Barnes City Cemetery. I have not been able
find any records or newspaper stories that might add to
this history.
Ruth never remarried and died October
3, 1941 in New Sharon. She is buried with Joseph
in the Barnes City Cemetery. They were parents of
5 daughters who married and lived in the Barnes City/New
Sharon, What Cheer and Oskaloosa areas.
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iii. | Jasper Clifford
Farr, born March 12, 1865 in New Sharon, Mahaska County,
Iowa; died December 8, 1950 in Newark, Licking County, Ohio;
married (1) Evee Emerilla Stover April 20, 1897 in Danville,
Vermilion County, Illinois; born February 20, 1864 in
Coshocton County, Ohio; died May 20, 1933 in Newark, Licking
County, Ohio; married (2) Emma Stewart June 29, 1936 in
Washington, Washington County, Pennsylvania; born January 4,
1878 near Woodsfield, Monroe County, Ohio; died July 28,
1961 in a long-term care facility, Monroe, Monroe County,
Ohio.
Jasper Clifford Farr was born to
Joseph Jr. and Ellen Funk Farr on March 12, 1865 in New
Sharon. The first twenty years of his life he was
fortunate enough to have grandmother Catherine Caton
Farr living in his parent's home. I am sure he
heard many family stories, and it is thanks to him that
I found some information that led to knowing what
Catherine's maiden name was. It unlocked many
family lines as laid out above and in the previous
generation. It also seems certain that Jasper made
several trips with his family to Coshocton County, Ohio
to visit Farr and Caton relatives.
The visits to Coshocton County, Ohio
likely included some where he was not with the
family. During at least one of those visits he met
Evee Emerilla Stover who was born in Coshocton County
February 20, 1864. In 1897 they eloped and on
their way back to Iowa they married April 20 in
Danville, Illinois. They made their home in
Oskaloosa, Iowa renting a residence at 501 High Ave.
West. In the 1900 census, Jasper was shown as a grocery
man. It did not say he was owner of a grocery
store, so he either was working in a grocery store or he
was working with a wholesaler selling groceries to
retail grocery stores.
Within a short time they had
purchased a home worth $1200 at 514 No. A St. and Jasper
had changed occupations to carpenter. Then in 1907
they moved to Licking County Ohio, adjacent to Coshocton
County. Perhaps Evee wanted to get back closer to
"home". Her father had died April 9, 1896 and her
widowed mother was not doing well at the time they
moved. She died March 12, 1908, but they continued
to make Newark, Licking County their home where they had
a mortgage and were buying a house. In 1910 Jasper
was a house carpenter and had worked 36 weeks out of the
previous 52 weeks. His wife was working as a
dressmaker out of their home, but had worked only 12 of
the past 52 weeks.
Then they sold their home about 1917
and moved out into the township where they took out a
mortgage on a small farm. Jasper and his wife set
up a small truck farm. This seemed to agree with
them as they continued truck farming until Evee's death
on May 20, 1933. Jasper and Evee had no children.
Sometime in mid-1936 Jasper helped
Pierson and sister Mary Farr Sexton by buying their
house in New Sharon. This was a form of reverse
mortgage of that time period. He paid them money
that allowed them to continue to live in the house and
meet the expenses of their daily lives. In return,
Jasper had ownership of the house. I do not know
what was meant in a little news article in the New
Sharon (Iowa) Star newspaper of August 1937 that Jasper
was going to make his home there. In June 29, 1936
Jasper had remarried, with no intent of moving to New
Sharon.
On June 22, 1936 Jasper and Emma
Stewart Dieterich filed application in Licking County,
Ohio for license to marry. At this time Jasper had
gone back to his occupation of carpenter since his first
wife had died, leaving him without help in running his
truck farm operation. Emma was living in Paden,
Wetzel County, West Virginia at the time of this
application. How did they know each other when he
was living in Ohio and she was living in West
Virginia? The only explanation I can come up with
is that she had relatives in the Licking County, Ohio
area which allowed them to meet. Then, after going
to the effort of applying in Licking County, they
applied in Washington County, Pennsylvania and were
married there on the 29th of June. It is puzzling
why they went to a completely different state to execute
the marriage, but it is also interesting that this was
the home county of his grandmother Catherine Caton Farr.
They made their home in Paden, West
Virginia in Emma's house she had from her first
marriage. Jasper was carrying on as a
carpenter. Late in 1940 they moved to Newark,
Licking County, Ohio. They lived there until
Jasper's death on December 8, 1950. He is buried
with his first wife in Darling Run Cemetery, Nellie,
Coshocton County, Ohio.
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| 39 | iv. | Mary Eleanor Farr,
born May 05, 1869 in Garden Hall, Prairie Township, Mahaska
County, Iowa; died August 03, 1947 in Mahaska County
Hospital, Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa; married Pierson
Grant Sexton December 25, 1888 in Mahaska County, Iowa.
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80.
Unknown Father(s), born Unknown; died Unknown. He
met 81. Carolina Ottosdotter.
81. Carolina Ottosdotter, born
November 15, 1832 in Ostra Loa Rote, Ramsberg Parish,
�rebro L�n, Sweden; died Unknown. She was the daughter of
162. Unknown Father and 163. Maja
Ottosdotter.
Notes for
Carolina Ottosdotter:
From Ramsberg parish birth records:
"F�dda Ramsberg 1832
"No 105 Carolina Nov. 15 d�pt 18 Pig. Maja
Ottosdotter hos Bon. P. A. S.:
"�. Lo� Grufdr. And. Persson, hu Cathr. Bergdahl
son Carl Johan, a pig
"Maja Sunastr�m alls fr�n Fl�jfonper ---
"O�kta 25-30."
O�kta translates to false. Carolina is the
illigitimate daughter of Maja Ottosdotter. Thus
while she goes by Ottosdoter, since her father is
unknown she then went by her grandfather's name.
So, if Carolina went by her
grandfather's name in the absence of a father, why did
her son Andrew not go by his grandfather's name in the
absence of a father? Nabben G�rd, Nederhyttan
Rote, Ramsberg Parish, �rebro L�n, Sweden parish
records for 1865-1871 - Film #0424146, Page 140 - Here
Karolina is shown in line 5 with her family unit at
the time, father Lars, brothers Per and Lars, and
sister Lovisa. Karolina is identified as
"dotter" of Lars (actually step-daughter). The
line below Karolina has Anders August listed and
identified as o�kta, illegitimate. The Flyttat
till (move to) column shows Karolina left here 19
December 1865 for N�sby Parish, �rebro L�n,
Sweden. Carolina Ottosdotter was found in N�sby
parish records, film #0423922 page 12, but she was
listed as Carolina Larsdotter and was shown with
daughter Anna Lovisa, but no Anders August. The
birth record for Anna Lovisa shows the name of Anders
Jansson and Carolina Larsdotter and the column
trolofvad is checked indicating Anders and Carolina
were engaged/betrothed.
Norlund Rote, Fellingsbro Parish,
�rebro L�n, Sweden parish records 1866-1875 - Film
#0423915, Page 126 - Carolina Larsdotter is found with
three children (Anna Lovisa, Emma Carolina and Gustaf
Adolf) and her "partner" Anders Jansson. The
�ktenskap Gift (marriage) column for Carolina and
Anders is blank indicating no record of them being
married, and there is a notation of o. d., meaning
o�kta dotter (illegitimate daughter) for Anna Lovisa
and Emma Carolina and o. s., meaning o�kta son
(illegitimate son) for Gustaf Adolf. Thus, while
the birth record for Anna Lovisa indicated that
Carolina was betrothed to Anders, they never married
and thus Anna was declared illegitimate.
Could this be why Andrew's name was
Andersson? Could Anders Jansson have been his
father, but since his mother never married him Andrew
was declared illegitimate?
Children of Unknown Father(s) and Carolina Ottosdotter are: |
| 40 | i. | Anders August Andersson,
born January 23, 1859 in Nabben G�rd, Nederhyttan Rote,
Ramsberg Parish, �rebro L�n, Sweden; died May 20, 1937 in
University Hospital, Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa;
married Anna Lovisa Grund September 07, 1887 in St. Paul,
Ramsey County, Minnesota.
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ii. | Carl Johan
Andersson, born December 23, 1864 in Norlund Rote,
Fellingsbro Parish, �rebro L�n, Sweden; died Unknown.
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iii. | Emma Carolina
Andersdotter, born November 22, 1869 in Norlund Rote,
Fellingsbro Parish, �rebro L�n, Sweden; died June 08, 1878
in Norlund Rote, Fellingsbro Parish, �rebro L�n, Sweden.
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iv. | Gustaf Adolf
Andersson, born May 20, 1872 in Norlund Rote, Fellingsbro
Parish, �rebro L�n, Sweden; died Unknown.
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82. Johan Pettersson Grund, born
January 03, 1836 in Grundsj�hyttan Rote, Nordmark Parish,
V�rmlands L�n, Sweden; died Unknown. He was the son of 164. Petter
Larsson and 165. Maria Nilsdotter.
He married 83. Maja Lovisa Ramkvist
June 23, 1865 in Grufarbetare, Norra Gr�ngesberg Rote,
Grang�rde Parish, Kopparbergs L�n, Sweden.
Notes for
Johan Pettersson Grund:
Johan was the son of Petter Larsson
and Maria Nilsdotter. Thus his name would be
Johan Pettersson. But for some reason he took
the surname of Grund. His middle name shows as
Pettersson because it appears he made the decision
himself to take the name Grund when he reached an age
to make such a decision. It is presumed he took
the name from the farm where he was born,
Grundsj�hyttan Rote, althought it is not known why he
did that.
Johan moved 27 May 1865 to
Gr�ngesberg, Grang�rde Parish, Kopparberg L�n, where
he married Maja Lovisa Ramqvist 4 weeks later and Anna
Lovisa was born 2 weeks after that. 22 April
1869 Johan moved to Amerika, leaving his family
behind. He was never heard from again.
Death records for Grang�rde in 1872 states that Maja
died at age 27 years, 5 months, 6 days from
complications of childbirth. Now if Johan
disappeared in 1869, then who was the father of Maja's
child in 1872? Chances are though that Johan's
disappearance is not just another family story since
the 1900 Arvon Township, Baraga County, Michigan
census, page 2A, shows an entry for a J. Peter Grund,
born in Sweden in January 1836 and who immigrated to
this country in 1869. Could this be the same
person? It certainly seems so.
83. Maja Lovisa Ramkvist, born May
22, 1845 in Gr�ngesberg Rote, Grang�rde Parish,
Kopparbergs L�n, Sweden; died October 28, 1872 in
Guvdr�ngshustru G�rd, Norra Gr�ngesberget Rote, Grang�rde
Parish, Kopparbergs L�n, Sweden. She was the daughter of 166. Per
Ersson Ramqvist and 167.
Anna Andersdotter.
Children of Johan Grund and Maja Ramkvist are: |
| 41 | i. | Anna Lovisa Grund,
born July 11, 1865 in Gr�ngesberg, Grang�rde Parish,
Kopparbergs L�n, Sweden; died May 10, 1950 in daughter's
home, Fremont, Mahaska County, Iowa; married Anders August
Andersson September 07, 1887 in St. Paul, Ramsey County,
Minnesota.
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ii. | Karl Johan Grund,
born September 18, 1867 in Gr�ngesberg, Grang�rde Parish,
Kopparberg L�n, Sweden; died Unknown.
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iii. | Per August Grund,
born September 28, 1872 in Gr�ngesberg, Grang�rde Parish,
Kopparberg L�n, Sweden; died 1873 in Gr�ngesberg, Grang�rde
Parish, Kopparberg L�n, Sweden.
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84. Isaac Waterhouse, born August
13, 1823 in New York; died May 12, 1914 in What Cheer,
Keokuk County, Iowa. He was the son of 168.
John Waterhouse, Sr.
and 169. Sarah Reynolds.
He married 85. Elizabeth Philenia
Palmer March 08, 1844 in Scott County, Iowa.
85. Elizabeth Philenia Palmer, born
October 20, 1824 in New York; died May 13, 1913 in What
Cheer, Keokuk County, Iowa. She was the daughter of 170. William
Palmer, Sr. and 171.
Amanda ?.
Children of Isaac Waterhouse and Elizabeth Palmer are: |
| 42 | i. | Nelson Waterhouse,
born December 19, 1844 in Illinois; died November 21, 1915
in What Cheer, Keokuk County, Iowa; married (1) Sarah
Shearer January 01, 1867; married (2) Mary M. Coghlan August
31, 1884 in Keokuk County, Iowa.
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ii. | Philenia V.
Waterhouse, born January 11, 1846 in Iowa; died June 29,
1897 in Iowa; married (1) George Washington Carl; born
Unknown; died Unknown; married (2) Henry Cutter August 16,
1888 in Keokuk County, Iowa; born Abt. 1853; died Unknown.
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iii. | Algin Waterhouse,
born June 24, 1848; died September 02, 1860 in What Cheer,
Keokuk County, Iowa.
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iv. | Albin Waterhouse,
born Abt. 1856 in Iowa; died Bef. 1915.
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v. | Centrilla
Waterhouse, born Abt. June 1859 in Iowa; died Bef. 1915;
married Truman A. Sampson September 24, 1879 in Keokuk
County, Iowa; born Abt. 1854; died Unknown.
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86. Isaac Watson Coghlan, Sr., born
September 05, 1809 in Salem Township, Warren County, Ohio;
died September 07, 1880 in Van Buren Township, Keokuk
County, Iowa. He was the son of 172. James Coghlan, Sr.
and 173. Peggy Watson.
He married 87. Lydia Easton
December 23, 1859 in Keokuk County, Iowa.
Children of Isaac Coghlan and Lydia Easton are: |
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i. | Joseph Coghlan,
born 1860; died Unknown.
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ii. | Charles Coghlan,
born Abt. July 1861; died May 12, 1932; married Lucinda Linz
November 14, 1886; born Unknown; died Unknown.
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iii. | General McClellan
Coghlan, born April 1863 in Steady Run Township, Keokuk
County, Iowa; died 1930 in Chapman, Dickinson County,
Kansas; married Mary Emaline Sanders November 14, 1887 in
her parent's home in Deep River, Powesheik County, Iowa;
born February 01, 1862 in Danville, Des Moines County, Iowa;
died December 02, 1943 in Dacona, Boulder County, Colorado.
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| 43 | iv. | Mary M. Coghlan,
born August 13, 1865 in Keenersburg, Keokuk County, Iowa;
died November 05, 1938 in What Cheer, Keokuk County, Iowa;
married (1) Nelson Waterhouse August 31, 1884 in Keokuk
County, Iowa; married (2) William R. Mikesell November 17,
1917 in Keokuk County, Iowa; married (3) William G. Allen
October 1921 in Keokuk County, Iowa.
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v. | Daniel Coghlan,
born August 12, 1867 in Keokuk County, Iowa; died December
28, 1950 in Keswick, Keokuk County, Iowa; married Amanda
Shaw December 24, 1888 in Keokuk County, Iowa; born 1870;
died 1946 in Keokuk County, Iowa.
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vi. | Gideon Coghlan,
born Abt. 1872; died Unknown.
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88. Johannes Zimmermann, born
October 13, 1829 in Massenbachhausen, Oberamt Brackenheim,
Kingdom of W�rttemberg, German Confederation; died April
24, 1895 in Massenbachhausen, Oberamt Brackenheim, Kingdom
of W�rttemberg, German Empire. He was the son of 176. Adam
Zimmermann and 177. Maria Barbara Leisle.
He married 89. Katharine Schwarz
May 13, 1856 in Massenbachhausen, Oberamt Brackenheim,
Kingdom of W�rttemberg, German Confederation.
Notes for
Johannes Zimmermann:
According to the baptismal records of
Johannes he was the son of Adam Zimmermann, a citizen
and weaver of Massenbachhausen and Maria Barbara nee
Leisle. Johannes was born at 11:00 p.m. and the
witness was Leobold Gartner, the single son of Johann
Gartner, master wagon builder of Massenbachhausen.
At the christening of Maria Barbara in
1857, Johannes is shown with occupation of weaver.
At the christening of Elisabeth in
1858, Johannes is shown with occupation of baker.
At the christening of August in 1859,
Johannes is again shown with occupation of weaver.
At the christening of Adam in 1861,
Johannes is back to being a baker again.
At the christening of Theresa in 1862,
Johannes is shown with occupation of weaver.
At the christening of Johann Adam in
1864, Johannes is shown with occupation of baker
again.
At the christening of Johann in 1865,
Johannes is shown with occupation of baker.
At the christening of Nicolaus in 1866,
Johannes is shown with occupation of weaver.
At the christening of Pauline in 1867,
Johannes is shown with occupation of trader.
At the christening of Joseph in 1869,
Johannes is shown with occupation of weaver again.
At the christening of Katharina in
1872, Johannes is not shown with an occupation.
At the christening of Margaretha in
1873, Johannes is shown with occupation of weaver.
At the christening of Nikolaus in 1876,
Johannes is shown with occupation of weaver.
At the birth of their stillborn child
in 1877, Johannes is shown with occupation of weaver.
89. Katharine Schwarz, born October
22, 1831; died February 24, 1901 in Massenbachhausen,
Oberamt Brackenheim, Kingdom of W�rttemberg, German
Empire. She was the daughter of Adam
Schwarz and Therese Neumeiler.
Children of Johannes Zimmermann and Katharine Schwarz are: |
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i. | Maria Barbara
Zimmerman, born March 31, 1857 in Massenbachhausen, Oberamt
Brackenheim, Kingdom of W�rttemberg, German Confederation;
died Auguat 26, 1910 in Massenbachhausen, Oberamt
Brackenheim, Kingdom of W�rttemberg, German Empire; married
? Merkle; born unknown; died Unknown.
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ii. | Elisabeth
Zimmerman, born October 21, 1858 in Massenbachhausen,
Oberamt Brackenheim, Kingdom of W�rttemberg, German
Confederation; died December 26, 1858 in Massenbachhausen,
Oberamt Brackenheim, Kingdom of W�rttemberg, German
Confederation.
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| 44 | iii. | August Zimmerman,
Sr., born December 17, 1859 in Massenbachhausen, Oberamt
Brackenheim, Kingdom of W�rttemberg, German Confederation;
died December 24, 1936 in Tilton, Poweshiek County, Iowa;
married (1) Carolina Hochwarth August 04, 1883 in Geneseo,
Henry County, Illinois; married (2) Harriet H. Wainright
Bates May 12, 1917 in Keokuk County, Iowa; married (3) Vesta
Mefford October 04, 1925 in Colorado
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iv. | Adam Zimmerman,
born July 2, 1861 in Massenbachhausen, Oberamt Brackenheim,
Kingdom of W�rttemberg, German Confederation; died August 2,
1861 in Massenbachhausen, Oberamt Brackenheim, Kingdom of
W�rttemberg, German Confederation.
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v. | Theresa Zimmerman,
born August 2, 1862 in Massenbachhausen, Oberamt
Brackenheim, Kingdom of W�rttemberg, German Confederation;
died February 23, 1942 in Geneseo, Henry County, Illinois;
married Will Michael Drager July 23, 1887 in St. Malachy's
Catholic Church, Geneseo, Henry County, Illinois; born
October 1859 in Austria; died December 18, 1908 in Geneseo,
Henry County, Illinois.
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vi. | Johann Adam
Zimmerman, born March 28, 1864 in Massenbachhausen, Oberamt
Brackenheim, Kingdom of W�rttemberg, German Confederation;
died August 2, 1864 in Massenbachhausen, Oberamt
Brackenheim, Kingdom of W�rttemberg, German Confederation.
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vii. | Johann Zimmerman,
born April 16, 1865 in Massenbachhausen, Oberamt
Brackenheim, Kingdom of W�rttemberg, German Confederation;
died May 26, 1865 in Massenbachhausen, Oberamt Brackenheim,
Kingdom of W�rttemberg, German Confederation.
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viii. | Nicolaus Zimmerman,
born March 13, 1866 in Massenbachhausen, Oberamt
Brackenheim, Kingdom of W�rttemberg; died July 16, 1866 in
Massenbachhausen, Oberamt Brackenheim, Kingdom of
W�rttemberg.
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ix. | Pauline Zimmerman,
born May 14, 1867 in Massenbachhausen, Oberamt Brackenheim,
Kingdom of W�rttemberg; died April 11, 1868 in
Massenbachhausen, Oberamt Brackenheim, Kingdom of
W�rttemberg.
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x. | Joseph Zimmerman,
born February 27, 1869 in Massenbachhausen, Oberamt
Brackenheim, Kingdom of W�rttemberg; died July 7, 1955 in
Massenbachhausen, Heilbronn Kreis, State of
Baden-W�rttemberg, Germany.
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xi. | Katharina
Zimmerman, born March 11, 1872 in Massenbachhausen, Oberamt
Brackenheim, Kingdom of W�rttemberg, German Empire; died
April 2, 1872 in Massenbachhausen, Oberamt Brackenheim,
Kingdom of W�rttemberg, German Empire.
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xii. | Margaretha
Zimmerman, born January 11, 1873 in Massenbachhausen,
Oberamt Brackenheim, Kingdom of W�rttemberg, German Empire;
died February 5, 1873 in Massenbachhausen, Oberamt
Brackenheim, Kingdom of W�rttemberg, German Empire.
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xiii. | Karolina Zimmerman,
born December 20, 1873 in Massenbachhausen, Oberamt
Brackenheim, Kingdom of W�rttemberg, German Empire; died
December 22, 1873 in Massenbachhausen, Oberamt Brackenheim,
Kingdom of W�rttemberg, German Empire.
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xiv. | Nikolaus Zimmerman,
born February 13, 1876 in Massenbachhausen, Oberamt
Brackenheim, Kingdom of W�rttemberg, German Empire; died May
1, 1876 in Massenbachhausen, Oberamt Brackenheim, Kingdom of
W�rttemberg, German Empire.
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xv. | Anonymous
Zimmerman, born July 8, 1877 in Massenbachhausen, Oberamt
Brackenheim, Kingdom of W�rttemberg, German Empire; died
July 8, 1877 (still born) in Massenbachhausen, Oberamt
Brackenheim, Kingdom of W�rttemberg, German Empire.
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xvi. | Adam Zimmerman,
born July 21, 1878 in Massenbachhausen, Oberamt Brackenheim,
Kingdom of W�rttemberg, German Empire; died July 21, 1878 in
Massenbachhausen, Oberamt Brackenheim, Kingdom of
W�rttemberg, German Empire.
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90.
Unknown Father, born Unknown; died Unknown. He
met 91. Katharina Eva Hochwarth.
91. Katharina Eva Hochwarth, born
June 11, 1830 Helmhof, Grand Duchy of Baden, German
Confederation; died Unknown. She was the daughter of 182. Karl
Johann Hochwarth and 183.
Dorothea Margaretha
Fasch.
Child of Unknown Father and Katharina Eva Hochwarth is: |
| 45 | i. | Carolina Hochwarth,
born November 07, 1861 in Helmhof, Grand Duchy of Baden,
German Confederation; died November 06, 1916 in hospital,
Rochester, Olmsted County, Minnesota; married August
Zimmerman, Sr. August 04, 1883 in Geneseo, Henry County,
Illinois.
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92. Samuel McKay, Sr., born December
20, 1845 in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland; died
January 02, 1929 in the home of his daughter Eliza Perkins
in Black Hawk Township, Rock Island County, Illinois near
Sherrard, Mercer County, Illinois. He was the son of 184. William
McKay and 185. Margaret Longhery.
He married 93. Margaret Flemming
November 8, 1866 in Bovevagh Presbyterian Church, County
Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
Notes for
Samuel McKay, Sr.:
Associated death documents create some
confusion regarding Samuel's birth date. His
obituary states he died January 2, 1929 at age 93 and
was born in Ireland, December 20, 1835. That
arithmetic works out, but his death registration from
LDS film #1642978 Mercer County, Illinois Death
Certificates says Samuel's death age is 83, while his
birth date is given as December 20, 1835, same as the
obituary. Since his parents were not married
until May 13, 1845, it seems unlikely the 1835 date
could be correct. Unfortunately there is no
tombstone, although that might not solve anything
since the information already discussed was likely
given by his children and would likely be the same
situation for the tombstone. He and Margaret and
their family were enumerated in the 1881 Canada census
and there he is listed as age 35. That
calculates to a birth year of 1845. Thus the
birth year provided here.
Their third child, Joseph, was born
August 1871 in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
and their next child, Margaret, was born July 1873 in
Ontario Province, Canada. That likely places
their immigration from Northern Ireland as circa
1872. The 1900 Greene Township, Mercer County,
Illinois census, page 47A, shows Sam "McKee",
father-in-law and widower, living in the Andrew
Perkins household, and he is shown as having
immigrated in 1886. If that is correct then
Margaret must have died very shortly after arriving in
Mercer County.
Daughter Margaret's Canadian birth
registration shows Samuel's occupation as railway
employee. The other Canadian birth
registrations, as well as the 1881 census record, show
Samuel's occupation as laborer. While the 1900
census entry above does not show an occupation for
Samuel, the 1910 Greene Township, Mercer County,
Illinois census, page 129A, where he is living in his
son-in-law's, Robert Selfridge, household he is shown
as working in a brick yard.
Samuel and Margaret were parents to 8
children, 3 daughters and 5 sons, according to
Samuel's obituary. Seven children can be
accounted. Six surviving children are listed in
the obituary and it goes ahead to say two sons
preceded him in death. One of those two is
known, but the other is unidentified at this
time. With the birth date spacings of the seven
identified children appearing to be "just right", it
seems logical to think the eighth child is the unknown
son and so I have listed him last. Could it be
there was difficulty with that birth and that Margaret
died as a result? Samuel is buried in Aledo
Cemetery, Aledo, Mercer County, Illinois.
93. Margaret Flemming, born May 5,
1848 in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland; died June
27, 1886 in Mercer County, Illinois. She was the daughter
of 186. John Fleming
and 187. Mary Irwin.
Notes for
Margaret Flemming:
Margaret's birth date has been
calculated by using her tombstone inscription.
There she is identified as dying on June 27, 1886 at
the age of 38 years, 1 month and 22 days. The
LDS film #101250 Ireland Civil Registration Marriages
Index 1866-1868 showed Margaret Fleming and Samuel
M'Kay marrying in 1866 in the Newtownlimavady
Registration District. A local in County
Londonderry confirmed the marriage of Samuel McKay and
Margaret Fleming as being November 8, 1866 in Bovevagh
Presbyterian Church, County Londonderry, Northern
Ireland, located between the towns of Limavady and
Dungiven.
Margaret's parentage has been
determined via a roundabout route. The 1925 Iowa
State Census for Prairie Township, Keokuk County, Iowa
shows the household of Samuel McKay, Jr.. Living
with the family is Elizabeth Fleming, who is
identified as Samuel's aunt. She is aged 81,
born in Ireland, and gave her father's name as John
Fleming and her mother's name as Margaret Irwin.
Elizabeth never married, so Fleming is Elizabeth's
surname and she is Margaret Fleming McKay's
sister. She is found in the 1910 Edgington
Township, Rock Island County, Illinois census, page
159A, and again in the same location in the 1920
census, page 234A. In all three censuses she is
shown as single marital status and in the 1910 and
1920 censuses she is enumerated with brother William
Fleming. William's death registration (LDS film
#1556733 Rock Island County, Illinois Deaths and
Stillbirths for 1922) shows his parent's were John
Fleming and Mary Irwin. In the notes for Samuel
Sr.'s brother, James McKay, in generation 4 it is
noted that he cared for sister-in-law Jane Osborne
when her health was failing. Her deceased
husband's first wife was Jane Fleming according to LDS
film #1869511 Ontario Province Canada Marriages Vol.
D-F for 1881. That marriage registration notes
Jane's parents as John Fleming and Mary Irwin.
Prior to Elizabeth and William living by themselves in
1910 and 1920 they were found living with James and
Elizabeth Loughery Fleming in 1900 Buffalo Prairie
Township, Rock Island County, Illinois, page 204A,
where they are identified as brother and sister of
James. Thus James is a son of John and Mary
Irwin Fleming, and the last of their children known to
me. John and Mary are buried in Aledo Cemetery,
Aledo, Mercer County, Illinois, which is also where
Margaret Fleming McKay is buried.
Children of Samuel McKay and Margaret Flemming are: |
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i. | William John McKay,
born May 10, 1867 in Dungiven, County Londonderry, Ireland;
died December 10, 1953 in home in Thornburg, Keokuk County,
Iowa; married (1) Sadie Brooks March 16, 1898 in Fayette
County, Indiana; born May 10, 1861 in Kentucky; died
December 7, 1909 in Rush County, Indiana; married (2)
Harriett (Hattie) Henrietta Wainwright September 16, 1926 in
Sigourney, Keokuk County, Iowa; born November 9, 1864 in
Beverly, Adams County, Illinois; died October 20, 1951 in
Thornburg, Keokuk County, Iowa.
William John, being the first born
son, was likely named after his grandfather McKay.
However, he went by John in most situations, including
his tombstone. There are several unanswered
questions from John's early years. His obituary
and his tombstone show his birth date as May 10, with
the obituary having the year as 1867 and his tombstone
as 1866. His birth registration on LDS film
#101145 Ireland Birth Certificates Vol. 7 for 1867 shows
William John born in Dungiven, County Londonderry,
Northern Ireland on November 23, 1867 to Samuel McKay
and Margaret Fleming. If Samuel and Margaret left
for Ontario Province, Canada in 1872 it would be assumed
John was with the family. In checking the 1881
Canadian census all children are accounted for except
for John. I have not been able to locate him with
any other family in that census.
John is found as a farmer in the
1900 Noble Township, Rush County, Indiana census, page
50A, which adds to the list of questions regarding his
early years. What was he doing in eastern Indiana
when none of the rest of the family was there? The
other family members were in far western Illinois,
nowhere close to Rush County. His census entry
says he immigrated in 1880. If that is correct, he
came to this country when he was only 13 years
old! Would he have stayed with relatives in
Ireland while the rest of the family immigrated to
Canada, then come to America with these relatives?
If so, who were they and where were they? This
1900 census shows he is married to someone who was
married previously and is either widowed or
divorced. The length of marriage column shows he
and Sadie have been married 2 years. The entry for
the children erroneously show them with McKay surname,
yet they are ages 19 and 14. LDS film #469769
Marriage Records; Applications and Licenses for Fayette
County, Indiana Vol. 4-5 1893-1905, shows John Mckay
married Sadie Brooks on March 15, 1898 in Fayette
County. This marriage record does not give names
of the parents of bride or groom, so it is not clear if
Brooks is her maiden name or the name of her first
husband. The census shows her born in May 1871 but
aged 39. Her tombstone has been located on Find A
Grave to be in Glenwood Cemetery in Rush County and her
birth and death are as given above. Her 1909 death
matches the fact that John appears in the 1910 Noble
Township, Rush County, Indiana census, page 61A where he
is a lodger and a thresherman on the Charles Wright
family farm, and is a widower. At this time I have
been unable to locate Sadie with her first husband, and
have been unable to locate her daughter or son in
marriage records or census records.
John appears as a farm laborer in
the 1920 Union Township, Rush County, Indiana census,
page 32A and is still widowed. When John next
appears it is in the 1930 Prairie Township, Keokuk
County, Iowa census page 2A where he is married to
Harriet and her mother, Lucena Wainwright, is living
with them. He is not found in the 1925 Iowa State
census, so either he was not in Iowa yet, or too newly
arrived and missed the cutoff to be included, or missed
by the census taker. LDS film #1870907 Keokuk
County, Iowa Marriage Records Vol. 19-20 for 1917-1927
contains the marriage record for John Mckay and Harriett
Wainwright Bates on September 16, 1926 in Sigourney,
Keokuk County, Iowa. Her parents are given as
Stephen Wainwright and Lucina Roach. This suggests
that Harriett was previously married. What it does
not show is that she was previously married twice.
On January 16, 1900 Hattie Wainwright married Oliver
John Bates in Prairie Township, Keokuk County, Iowa (LDS
film #1005837). They made their home near
Thornburg where Oliver was a farmer. Oliver died
May 12, 1916 and is buried in Sixteen Cemetery west of
Thornburg, Prairie Township, Keokuk County, Iowa.
On May 12, 1917 Harriet Henrietta Wainwright Bates
married August Zimmerman, Ardis' great grandfather (see
Generation #3, person #44), in Sigourney, Keokuk County,
Iowa. They are found in the 1920 Thornburg, Keokuk
County census, page 108A with Hattie's twin daughters by
Oliver. They are living on Broadway St. and August
is a merchant in his general store. August and
Hattie divorced circa 1922.
William John died at his home in
Thornburg on December 10, 1953 after having been bedfast
for one week. His obituary mentions being sruvived
by his three step-daughters, the daughters of Hattie,
but no mention is made of his step-children in
Indiana. William John is buried in Sixteen
Cemetery west of Thornburg, Prairie Township, Keokuk
County, Iowa. His headstone is Jno. McKay, b. May
10, 1866 (sic); d. Dec. 20, 1953. Buried next to
him is H. H. McKay (Harriett Henrietta or Hattie) b.
Nov. 9, 1865; d. Oct. 20, 1951. Next to her is
Oliver J. Bates, b. May 24, 1881; d. May 12, 1916.
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ii. | Mary McKay, born
May 5, 1869 in Dungiven, County Londonderry, Northern
Ireland; died February 17, 1936 in Boden, Mercer County,
Illinois; married Robert Selfridge, Sr. February 20, 1894 in
Mercer County, Illinois; born November 2, 1867 in County
Londonderry, Northern Ireland; died April 28, 1932 in East
Moline, Rock Island County, Illinois.
Mary Mc Cay was born May 5, 1869 in
County Londonderry, Northern Ireland to Samuel Mc Cay
and Margaret Fleming (LDS film #101185 Quarterly Returns
of Births in Ireland Vol. 6 for 1869). When
William and Margaret and family immigrate to Ontario
Province, Canada in 1872 Mary is with the family as
evidenced by her presence in the family home in the 1881
Canada census. She is the oldest of the siblings
present in that census.
Mary migrates with her family to
Mercer County, Illinois and there on February 20, 1894
marries Robert John Selfridge, Sr. (Illinois Statewide
Marriage Index, Vol. 1, Page 186, License Number
6248). Robert's parentage is determined by two
different vital records (LDS film #101160 Quarterly
Returns of Births in Ireland Vol. 1 for 1867, and LDS
film #1684332 Death Certificates for Rock Island County,
Illinois for April 1932 Deaths) as James Selfridge and
Jane McQuiston. James McKay, a brother to Samuel
McKay Sr., married Rose Ann Selfridge (see Generation
#5, person #184, child James). She was the
daughter of William Selfridge and Mary McQuiston.
According to the book "The McQuiston, McCuiston and
McQuesten Families 1620-1937" by Leona Bean McQuiston;
Standard Press; Louisville, Kentucky; 1937; Jane and
Mary McQuiston are sisters, daughters of William and
Mary Ellen Douglas McQuiston, who married Selfridge
brothers, James and William. Thus Robert and Rose
Ann are cousins while spouses Mary McKay and James McKay
are uncle and niece.
From the 1900 Aledo, Mercer County,
Illinois census, page 101A, Robert is shown as working
for the railroad. In both the 1910 Greene
Township, Mercer County census, page 129A, and the 1920
Preemption, Mercer County census, page 168A, Robert is
listed as a coal miner. By 1930 Robert is retired
and he and Mary are living in his daughter's home,
Curtis D. and Ethel M. Temple, in Galesburg, Knox
County, Illinois, page 67A. He and Mary were the
parents of four children - Margaret J., William James,
Ethel May, and Robert John Jr. According to her
obituary, Mary died at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
John Jones (Margaret), following a stroke of
paralysis. She had been in ill health for five
years. She and her husband are buried in Farlow
Grove Cemetery, Matherville, Mercer County, Illinois.
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iii. | Joseph McKay, born
July 18, 1871 in Dungiven, County Londonderry, Northern
Ireland; died March 07, 1919 in Aledo, Mercer County,
Illinois; married Margaret E. Downey October 15, 1891 in
Mercer County, Illinois; born April 23, 1869 in Duncan
Township, Mercer County, Illinois; died April 30, 1908 in
Aledo, Mercer County, Illinois.
Joseph's obituary states that he was
born August 9, 1870 in County Derry, Ireland and his
death registration shows his birth date as August 10,
1870. But his birth registration (LDS film #255825
Quarterly Returns of Births in Ireland Vol. 11- to 11-2
for 1871) shows Joseph Mccay to have been born July 28,
1871 to Samuel Mccay and Margaret Flemming. He
immigrated to Ontario Province, Canada with his family
and is found at age 9 in the 1881 Canada census.
He migrated with his family to Mercer County, Illinois
and there on October 15, 1891 married Margaret Elizabeth
Downey (Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, Vol. 1, Page
162, License Number 5935).
Margaret's tombstone birth year is
given as 1870 with the inscription Wife of Jos. McKay,
Born Apr 23, 1870, Died Apr 30, 1908, Aged 38 ys. 7
ds. However, Margaret is found in the 1870 Duncan
Township, Mercer County, Illinois census, page 172 as
the daughter of John Downey (John Nathaniel Downey, Jr.)
and Rox Ann Downey (Roxanna Landreth) and 1 year
old. The census taker was to record "age at last
birthday as of June 1, 1870". "If under 1 year,
give months in fractions". Thus on April 23, 1870
she was 1 year old.
Joseph's obituary states, "Mr. McKay
was injured in a coal mine at Wanlock twenty-one years
ago (circa 1897-1898), since which time he has been a
suffering invalid ... He was bereft of his wife and
companion in April, 1908, when Mrs. McKay passed to her
reward. As time passed he became more feeble and
new complications developed until death came to his
relief." Joesph and Margaret had 4 sons, Thomas
Forrest, Andrew Wesley, Samuel A. and Orville
Downey. At the time of Joseph's death son Samuel
was with the U.S. Army in France. Joseph and
Margaret are buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Millersburg,
Mercer County, Illinois.
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iv. | Margaret McKay,
born July 28, 1874 in Komoko, Middlesex County, Ontario
Province, Canada; died October 28, 1962 in Cambridge City,
Wayne County, Indiana; married Larkin (Lark) L. Lemmons
November 25, 1897 in Connersville, Fayette County, Indiana;
born 12 January 1871 in Falmouth, Pendleton County,
Kentucky; died September 22, 1963 in Reid Memorial Hospital,
Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana.
Margaret was born July 28, 1873, the
first child of Samuel and Margaret to be born in Ontario
Province, Canada (Ontario Province, Canada Births
Schedule A for 1873, page 280). She is enumerated
with the family in the 1881 Ontario Province, Canada
census at age 7. She likely migrated with the
family to Mercer County, Illinois circa 1886, yet she
ends up in the Rush/Fayette Counties area of Indiana
where brother William John was located. When her
mother died in 1886 it left father Samuel with 6 or 7
children at home yet. It is possible Margaret went
to the Rush County, Indiana area to live with brother
John and relieve the pressure on father Samuel
somewhat. From Margaret's marriage registration
(LDS film #1630369 Rush County, Indiana Marriage Returns
1896-1911) her residence is described as Glenwood, which
is along the county line between Rush and Fayette
Counties and the registration return shows the license
issued in Rush County, while she and Larkin married in
Fayette County. John married in Fayette County in
1898 and was enumerated in the 1900 Rush County
census. This seems feasible possibility for
Margaret being in eastern Indiana, and in the same area
as brother John, while the rest of the family is in
western Illinois, and the locations of each in eastern
Indiana seem to support it.
Larkin's birth year is in
doubt. His social security death index entry shows
his birth date as June 12, 1872. He is found in
the 1880 Pendleton County, Kentucky census, page 410A,
with parents William H. and Ursula Jane Williams Lemmons
and age of 9. He later appears in the 1900
Connersville, Fayette County, Indiana census, page 101A,
with new wife Margaret and his birth date is shown as
June 1871. In November 1957 they celebrated their
60th wedding anniversary in Cambridge City and the
newspaper article concerning this celebration states,
"Mr. Lemmons, 86 years old was born in Falmouth, Ky.,
but has spent most of his lifetime in Fayette and Wayne
Counties (IN.), where he has engaged in farming until
recent years". At age 86 he was born in
1871. His obituary, published September 26, 1963,
identifies Lark as age 92 - thus born in 1871.
Lastly, his tombstone gives his birth year as
1871. I have gone with 1871, knowing that we have
no primary documentation at this time to prove this
date.
Lark and Margaret had two children,
daughter Gertrude Margaret and son Irvin Larkin.
Lark and Margaret are buried in Dale Cemetery,
Connersville, Fayette County, Indiana.
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| 46 | v. | Samuel McKay, Jr.,
born February 12, 1876 in Komoko, Middlesex County, Ontario
Province, Canada; died January 02, 1962 in Mahaska County
Hospital, Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa; married (1) Annie
Jones December 15, 1896 in Davenport, Scott County, Iowa;
married (2) Bula Crampton Ferguson November 1935.
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vi. | Eliza Jane McKay,
born February 12, 1878 in Komoko, Middlesex County, Ontario
Province, Canada; died August 8, 1957 in Moline Public
Hospital, Moline, Rock Island County, Illinois; married
Andrew Perkins November 7, 1894 in Aledo, Mercer County,
Illinois; born April 23, 1866 in Boden, Mercer County,
Illinois; died August 4, 1955 in Sherrard, Mercer County,
Illinois.
Eliza is another situation where
birth dates do not match in all situations.
Eliza's tombstone has a birth date of February 10, 1879,
yet her birth registration (Ontario Province, Canada
Births Schedule A for 1878, page 434) gives her birth
date as February 12, 1878. Lizzie, age 3, in with
the family in the 1881 Ontario Province, Canada census.
Andrew was the son of James and Mary
Jane West Perkins. He spent his life in Mercer
County, working as a farmer and a coal miner. He
and Eliza were parents of Elizabeth Jane, Lillie Mae,
Andrew Jr., James, George W., and Dorothy Violet.
They are buried in Aledo Cemetery, Aledo, Mercer County,
Illinois.
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vii. | Robert James McKay,
born January 15, 1881 in Komoko, Middlesex County, Ontario
Province, Canada; died November 03, 1968 in Oakview Nursing
Home, Aledo, Mercer County, Illinois; married Clara A.
Willnitz December 19, 1906 in Immanuel Lutheran Church, Rock
Island, Rock Island County, Illinois; born September 17,
1884 in Moline, Rock Island County, Illinois; died December
24, 1967 in Andalusia, Rock Island County, Illinois.
Robert James' birth date is
confirmed by his birth registration Ontario Province,
Canada Births Schedule A for 1881, page 83. Robert
J. appears in the 1881 Canada census in the Samuel and
Margaret Fleming McKay household at age 2 months.
Coming up with a consistent birth date has been a
challenge for this McKay family thus far and Robert is
no different. His obituary does show his birthday
as January 15, 1881 as well, however his World War I
draft registration card, his World War II draft
registration card and his Social Security death index
all show his birth year as 1882.
Clara's birth and death information
comes entirely from her obituary, which also identifies
her parents as Julius Willnitz and Wilhelmina
Kotzing. Both Robert's and Clara's obituaries
state "Mr. McKay was a member of the Rock Island County
Farm Bureau. He was a retired farmer, having
farmed in Buffalo Prairie community until six and one
half years ago years ago when he moved to
Andalusia". Additionally Robert's obituary states
"He came to the Buffalo Prairie community as a young
man". The 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930 and 1940 censuses
show him and, after marriage, his family living in
Duncan Township, Mercer County, Illinois while Buffalo
Prairie is in Rock Island County. Duncan Township,
Mercer County (population 272 as of 2012) is on the
other side of the county line from Buffalo Prairie
Township, Rock Island County, and Buffalo Prairie
community is in the extreme southern part of its
namesake township, nearly on the county line. It
must be that their farm spanned the county line with
their residence in Mercer County for census purposes,
but with the bulk of it lying in Buffalo Prairie
Township.
Robert and Clara were the parents of
3 children - Harold W., Delmer L. and Laurene
Marie. They are buried in Zion Lutheran Cemetery,
Edgington, Rock Island County, Illinois.
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viii. | Son McKay, born
Unknown; died Unknown.
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94. Robert Jones, born March 16,
1832 in County Fermanagh, Ireland; died October 04, 1904
in home near Preemption, Mercer County, Illinois. He
married 95. Ann Whan March 23,
1865 in Mercer County, Illinois.
95. Ann Whan, born January 25, 1829
in County Antrim, Ireland; died June 07, 1908 in Mercer
County, Illinois. She was the daughter of 190. Francis
Whan and 191. Esther ?.
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i. | Urissa Jones, born
March 10, 1866; died June 04, 1939 in Preemption, Mercer
County, Illinois; married John Lincoln Briggs January 27,
1891; born July 31, 1864 in Preemption, Mercer County,
Illinois; died December 02, 1943 in Montezuma Hospital,
Montezuma, Poweshiek County, Iowa.
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ii. | George W. Jones,
born April 18, 1867 in Milan, Illinois; died 1949 in
Lutheran Hospital, Moline, Illinois; married (1) Maggie ?
Bef. 1889; born Unknown; died Unknown; married (2) Ida Moore
October 24, 1889; born Unknown; died Unknown; married (3)
Augusta Vollmer September 1896 in Moline, Illinois; born
Unknown; died April 1907; married (4) Ida Chalfant April 04,
1923 in Davenport, Scott County, Iowa; born Unknown; died
Unknown.
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| 47 | iii. | Annie Jones, born
June 09, 1870 in Preemption, Mercer County, Illinois; died
December 14, 1931 in home near Thornburg, Keokuk County,
Iowa; married Samuel McKay, Jr. December 15, 1896 in
Davenport, Scott County, Iowa.
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iv. | ? Jones, born
Unknown; died Unknown.
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