Notes

[NI00001] James (Jim) was born in St. Joseph's hospital in Albuquerque.

[NI00010] Elmer's address is Box 530, Olton, Texas 79064. His telephone number is (806) 285-2027.

[NI00026] Allison has a twin sister, Vanessa.

[NI00027] Vanessa has a twin sister, Allison.

[NI00046] Garnett lived in a nursing home owned by Norma Norris Koran and her daughters at the end of her life. The nursing home was located on Ramsy Road near Dillonville and Mt. Pleasant Ohio.

[NI00049] Kent was adopted. He is from Montana.

[NI00050] Baby boy Conrad died at birth.

[NI00051] Richard was adopted.

[NI00057] Katherine was born at St. Joseph's Hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
She and John are twins.

After graduating high school, Katherine went to college at the University
of Arizona and Pima Community College, both in Tucson, Arizona.

She went to work for the United States Postal Service

[NI00065] Baby boy Cox died at birth.

[NI00068] Helen graduated from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. She began
raising afghan hounds and became very involved in showing dogs.

[NI00079] Bob Stein has 3 children from a previous marriage: Judy, Jennifer and
Steven.

[NI00083] Kelly Geiger is the adopted child of Hugh and Pat Geiger.

[NI00085] Leander was a coal miner. He remarried and had more children by a second wife after Liza's death. His second wife Martha had children from her previous marrige. Leander raised two of those children.

[NI00086] Mary died when Rose was only 3 years old.

[NI00089] Her father was a slave owner, according to family notes.

[NI00090] Mary Anne was born at Kettering Memorial Hospital in Kettering, Ohio.

Upon graduation from Palo Verde High School in Tucson, Arizona, she
worked various jobs before going to a technical school in Dallas, Texas
to learn the travel industry. She met Michael Irwin while in Dallas.

[NI00091] The 1890 Census of Jefferson County, Ohio, Veterans Schedule lists Thomas as a veteran of the civil war. He was a private in the Ohio Voluntary, OVI 30th, Company D. He was wounded on February 14, 1862 or 1863.

[NI00094] They appear in the 1880 Census of Jefferson County, Ohio, Mary's father, Thonas, lived with them at that time.

[NI00097] Unsure whether George Chamblin changed the family name to
Chamberlain, or if it was done by his children.

[NI00104] Napolean Chamberlain died in infancy.

[NI00118] Vera Echols Allen Pauley was how we had this name.

[NI00135] Zachary was born at St. Joseph's West Mesa Hospital.

[NI00136] John Richard Echols, Jr. was born in a naval hospital in San Juan, Puerto
Rico.

[NI00146] Emily was born at Harris Hospital.

[NI00151] Her first husband Wiley Eden fathered her first child, Rosa who is the half
sister to Katie B. Alice Garvin. He committed suicide somewhere in Oklahoma.

[NI00152] Fathered by Ms. Haney's first husband who committed suicide somewhere in
Oklahoma.

[NI00153] Fathered Rosa Eden, then committed suicide somewhere in Oklahoma.

[NI00154] Born possibly in Arkansas or Missouri.

[NI00155] Born possibly in Arkansas or Missouri.

[NI00157] Paul was born at St. Mary's Hospital in Tucson, Arizona.

He was married briefly from 9 April 1983 until 1986 to Renee A. Jones.
They had no issue.

Paul worked as an air traffic controller for the Federal Aviation
Administration, moving to many different states for his job.

[NI00163] Baby Boy Bruce was stillborn and received no name.

[NI00173] James died at approximately 18 months of age.

[NI00184] Orville donated his body to science.

[NI00187] Was baptised on August 23, 1942. her godparents were Peter and Clara Petranek. She was confirmed on April 20, 1950 in Bonnomeo Church, St. Charles, Missouri.

[NI00188] Was baptised on February 23, 1947. Her godparents were Theodore Gentile and Josephine Gerken. She was confirmed on October 9, 1956 in Bonnomeo Church, St. Charles, Missouri.

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Individual: Duhon, Joseph
Social Security #: 306-03-0826
SS# issued in: Indiana

Birth date: Feb 12, 1913
Death date: May 1961

[NI00190] Teddie Carol Maddon was born on a farm 4.5 miles N.E. of
Washington, Oklahoma.

[NI00191] Anne's birthdate is an issue.

[NI00192] He was born near the Polish border between Czech and Slovakia. In a
chemical manufacturing area, north of Brno-- In the same area as
Sigmund Freud.

Met his wife in Indiana. He was a coal miner in Jasonville. Died in Jasonville from a burst appendix.

[NI00193] Born in Chlebnice, Austria near Brno in Slovakia.

Came to America with her father in about 1902 at about 10 or 11 years of age. Her passport was pinned to her coat and when she got off the train, she removed her coat. The officials didn't know what to do with her because she had no identification, and then she put her coat back on, and all was well!

She worked for Atlas cement after her husband died. She repaired the cloth bags that held cement.

Her family farm was on the battleground of the last
battle of the 100 years war. Gregor Mendel was born near her.



Individual: Duhon, Mary
Social Security #: 314-50-6340
SS# issued in: Indiana


Residence code: Indiana
ZIP Code of last known residence: 46312
Primary location associated with this ZIP Code: East Chicago, Indiana

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[NI00195] She died during the great flu epidemic in 1918. She is related to
Einstein by marriage

[NI00196] Stepfather of Anne and Miche
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Individual: Glumac, Mike
Social Security #: 306-03-0987
SS# issued in: Indiana

Birth date: Jul 28, 1891
Death date: Jun 1968


Residence code: Indiana

ZIP Code of last known residence: 46312
Primary location associated with this ZIP Code:

East Chicago, Indiana

[NI00197] Frank (Gianfancisco) and Teresa (Teresina) Gentile, nee Stella, were born in Capestrano, Provincia D'Aquila, Italy. Their parents were farmers, sheepherders, and winemakers.
Frank wasn't too happy in that small town in Italy, so he came to America without his wife at the age of 24. In 1908, Teresa came to America with her brother, Luca, and her first-born child Dorina, age 4, who later developed diptheria and died in Jesseville.

Frank emigrated to the United States from Cherbourg, France on the vessel ST. LOUIS. The St. Louis arrived in the Port of New York, NY, on March 3, 1906. He became a citizen of the United States on March 27, 1913 in Gogebic County, Michigan. and was sworn in by Clerkof the Circuit Court, John Lutmore, Jr. and Deputy Clerk William J. Russell.
Frank worked in mines at Jessevilee, Michigan, which is a small town in northern Michigan, near the Wisconsin border. In a few years, Frank bought a dairy farm in 1911, one of the first in that area. Frank had two brothers; Anthony and Dominic. Anthony lived on the farm for five years and then he returned to his wife and children in Capestrano. All of Teresa's brothers stayed with her and helped with the work on the farm. They delivered milk by horse and buggy to homes and stores. Frank and Teresa worked hard on the farm: washing bottles, which were inspected by the state, and taking care of many cows.
Clara and Nickolas were born in Jesseville, Michigan; Doris, Rosie, Theodore, and Guido were born on the farm in Ironwood, Michigan; Viola was born in Hurley, Wisconsin.
After five years on the farm, Frank moved to Hurley and bought a tavern in partnership with Frank Stella. Later, Frank G. and F. Stella split up: Frank bought a hotel and Frank Stella kept the tavern. Then Frank Gentile bought the house on Copper Street to house his big family. He lived above the tavern for a few years but he saw that wasn't a fit place to raise a family.
Frank and Teresa attended English classes as the high school. Frank became a naturalized citizen. Frank was an entrepreneur--engaged in a number of businesses: farmer, milkman, tavern and restrauant owner, real estate (owned many buildings on Main Street) and he was a councilman in 1930. He helped form the Supreme Oil Company, which sold Deep Rock Oil. He was in the wholesale beer business (Crazio Caruso was his partner for a brief period). Frank was a mail carrier from Upson, Wisconsin.
Teresa worked hard on the farm alongside her husband. When the mines in Jesseville closed, Frank bought a farm, north of Ironwod, Michigan. He raised cattle for milking and he had borders to help with the farm work. Sicinaro kin were farmers in Capestrano. They had a "Dispence" Room where everything was kept; i.e. all homemade cheeses, et. al. The Gentiles lived on the farm for eight years. Frank delivered milk to the surrounding areas. After eight years on the farm, he bought a tavern in Hurley, Wisconsin. Her brother, Frank, was a partner in the business.

NOTE: By Doris Gentile Gerken

[NI00199] Teresa Stella Gentile, wife of Frank Gentile, mother of eight children, emigrated to the United States in 1908. The first born, Dorina, age 4, was born in Capestrano died. Frank came to the United States by himself and later asked his brother Lucca to accompany Teresa and baby to the U.S a couple of years later.
Teresa finished third grade in Italy; however, she was an accomplished speaker in Italian and was often called upon to deliver her "flowery" speeches to Italian groups.

Teresa had a cousin named Orazio Caruso, b. 1884, died 1973, married to Agatha Spera, b. 1890, died 1968. They had one daughter named Nancy, b. 1913. Nancy Aruso was a social worker and never married.

NOTE: By Doris Gentile Gerken

[NI00201] Bill moved to Tucson in the late 1970's to be with his family. He began
working at a game store called Things For Thinkers in the early 1980's,
and later became a partner in the store. He bought out the partners in
the late 1980's and was sole owner until early 1993, when he sold the
store and moved to Denver, Colorado to open a new game store called
Attactix.

[NI00202] Christened in St. Smbrose Church, Ironwood, Michigan in June, 1914.

[NI00204] Baptised September 9, 1917 in Hurley, Wisconsin.

[NI00206] Nickie was a messenger boy in a bootlegging operation during prohibition. his father was arrested for bootlegging once by the revenue men.

[NI00207] The three Gentile boys were orphaned early in life. Nicolo was accidentally killed by a bull or a cow.

[NI00208] Domenich Gentile emigrated to the United States from Havre, France, on the vessel La Touraine and arrived in the Port of new York on November 10, 1908. He filed papers to become a citizen on May 26, 1913 and became a citizen of the United States on December 6, 1918, being sworn in by Judge George Driscoll in Gogebic County, Michigan.

[NI00212] Debra goes by the nickname of Deby.

[NI00214] Served in the civil war out of Monroe, Louisiana

[NI00225] Frank died at birth.

[NI00228] Died in 1854 or 1855

Born in MS or AL

[NI00231] Katherine died following the birth of a son, who died at birth.

[NI00259] Never married.

[NI00270] 5th son.

Had 14 children, though not all lived. There is an account of a William
Echols leading an expidition into the Big Bend country of west Texas in
1859 and 1860. There is no indication that this William was from the
line ofRichard and Caty.

Also, there an Ed Echols in Tucson, Arizona, and was thought to be a
distant relative. (He was sheriff of Pima County in the 1940's and
1950's).

[NI00275] They had 10 children.

[NI00276] They had 8 children.

[NI00277] With John Echols begins Louis Moore's recording of the Echols family
history.

This is from the work of Milner Echols and is from the 16th century to
present. Milner is the grandson of John Echols, "Ol John's" fifth son.
Lois' nephew, Clarence Echols, is the one who found much of this
information, and much credit is due him.

It is known there were 3 persons in Virginia in the early 1600's. Joyce
Echol in 1652; Richard Eccles in 1653; Sylvester Eccles in 1654. There
are at least 15 different ways to spell it: the old-timers spelled it to
suit themselves! The contention being that "Eccles" was English and
"Echols" Welsh, but all of the same origin.

"Old John", as he was referred to, came to America at the end of the 16th
century, or the early 1700's. He bought land in Caroline County, Virginia.
Caroline County at one time was part of King and Queen Counties.

There is some indication that Old John was related to the Virginia Echols
mentioned above.

John and the next two generations to foloow him were Quakers.

John Echols was a Welsh Quaker.

[NI00280] Moved to North Carolina.

[NI00281] He moved to Georgia.

[NI00282] He became a Quaker preacher

[NI00290] Genevieve was never married.

[NI00291] Lois Moore remembers that her face was somewhat paralized on one side
(and suspects she had some paralysis as a child.) Melissa's

[NI00292] Louis was deaf as far back as Lois Moore can remember. He wore a long,
full beard and looked a great deal like Santa Claus!

Louis was one of the kindest men Lois ever new.

Louis was a farmer all of his life, raising cotton, corn, maize, and
federita. They lived on a farm that was owned by their third child, Kate
Hufstedler.

He and his wife moved from Tolar to Spur Arkansas around 1914 or 1915.

[NI00294] "Aunt Kate"

[NI00295] She was a character!

[NI00296] He died as a baby.

[NI00339] Lois Moore loved him dearly!

[NI00345] Second husband of Mary Gertrude.

[NI00348] She was a sweetie!

[NI00349] He was born about 1909.

This was Lois Moore's favorite cousin! They were very, very close. In
1920, Lois stayed with them while their house in Spur was being built.

Lois hopes to visit his wife, Virgie in 1996 (in Spur) if she has time!

[NI00365] He was born just across the street from Lois Moore's House in Spur. Lois
carried him around as a baby!

[NI00377] Notes indicate that William Robert Powell and Birdie Farmer had 11
living children, "no information."

John Winski-- notes from Lois Moore's Powell History records.

[NI00379] Dickie took over the family business "Winski's Market" when Grandpa Winski was
no longer able to run it.

[NI00381] Notes from Lois Moore indicate 3 children, "no information."

[NI00392] Not married.

[NI00395] Notes indicate that E.R. and Mattie had 3 children, but no information.

[NI00415] No issue.

[NI00422] No issue.

[NI00423] Emily was a small thing (about 4' 9"), but strong as a horse! She was a butcher and operated the meat wagon. One time, benedict got caught on a meat hook and Emily yanked her off the hook and carried him to the doctor. Everyone thought she was blind, but she had cataracts. She lived with her son John Thomas when she was older. Charlotte told me a great story about how she tricked her into showing that she was not in fact blind by asking her what the word "when" was on a page of homework when she was in 1st grade!

[NI00434] Valerie died at an early age, as a child.

[NI00445] John was born in St. Joseph's Hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

He graduated from the University of Arizona in 1988 with a Bachelor's
degree in Political Science. He graduated from the university law school
in 1992. He also received a degree from Georgetown University.

[NI00468] Died when he was a teenager. There are two stories: one, that he had a ruptured appendix and two, when a tractor rolled on him.

[NI00490] They lived on a hillside. The spring house was used as a hiding place for slaves before the civil war.

[NI00512] Rose Chamberlain was born on the same day that President
Ulysses S. Grant was elected to his second term.

Her mother died when Rose was only 3 years old. Rose lived with her
Uncle John Arnold until she was 9 and her father married again. John
was a riverboat captain. Rose sometimes got to go with him all the way
to New Orleans.

Her funeral was held at a big Quaker meeting house in Smithfield Ohio or Dillenville Ohio where they lived. The cemetery where she is buried is on a hillside.

[NI00522] Clairborn died as a child.

[NI00523] Lived in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio. She has a talking crow that lived in a cage in the back yard.

[NI00526] The Powell family history prepared by Lois Moore states "Mrs" Mary
Watters, indicating that she may have been previously married and
Watters is not her maiden name.

[NI00533] Note that Pearl and Earl were married on the same day to 2 BROTHERS!

[NI00545] Still living in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio

[NI00550] He was a nice guy! He was a cook on a ranch for cattle drives. He then
worked on oil rigs. He died in 1942, in Flagstaff, AZ and at the time did
construction work for Tom Moore

[NI00557] Harry was cremated shortly after his death.

[NI00563] Please note that the spelling in Lois Moore's text was "Marshl", but I
think that was a typo.

[NI00568] Margaret died 1 day short of 1 year after her husband Harry died.
Like Harry, she too was cremated shortly after her death.

[NI00579] Kimber was married to Glenn A. Vickaryous for a short time. They had a daughter
Annie Yvonne Vickaryous.

[NI00580] Col. Robert Jones was an early pioneer of Columbia County, Georgia.

[NI00589] Never married.

[NI00591] Never married.

[NI00594] Mary's first husband.

[NI00595] Mary's second husband.

[NI00599] Never married.

[NI00600] Never married.

[NI00607] This is the grandson of William Powell, who first moved to America
from the Isle of Wight, England, in 1688. He settled at Powell's Point,
Elizabeth River, Virginia.

It is not clear who the immediate issue of William Powell are.

John Powell went to Bladen (later Columbus County) North Carolina,
about 1740. It was there that he married Catherine Wilkerson.

[NI00612] Ruth Kay Maddon was born on a far 4.5 miles N.E. of Washington,
Oklahoma.

[NI00615] William Powell came to America from the Isle of Wight, England in 1688.
He settled at Powell's Point, Elizabeth River, Virginia.

[NI00616] G.T. Moore moved to Godley Texas (near Fort Worth) at a young age--
probably in his 20's.

He came from Virginia, where several generations of Moores had lived.

G.T. was in the construction business, and moved from Snyder Texas to
Lubbock, working on the construction of the railroad. In Lubbock, he
continued construction work and reportedly graded the first 20 Lubbock
streets to be paved.

[NI00617] Vinnie Bell is reportedly the first white born in Scurry county, Texas.
The largest town in Scurry County is Snyder, which remains the county
seat today (it is not clear whether she was born in Snyder or not).

Vinnie Bell came from a family of 8 children, and her mother hated
children!

[NI00618] Ardeth was George William's second wife.

[NI00621] Jerry is a stockbroker in Los Angeles.

[NI00622] Judy lives in California.

[NI00624] Melinda lives in Los Angeles.

[NI00625] Kimberly lives in Los Angeles.

[NI00626] Scott lives in Plano, Texas. He was married in 1995 and he works for
Texas Instruments.

[NI00627] He lives in El Dorado Hills, California near Sacramento.

[NI00629] William H. Norris was a civil war deserter.

[NI00631] Charlotte was a nurse and an anesthtetist for 23 years. She was also a world champion skeet shooter. She won 13 State Championships and 3 National championships. The permanent home grounds for the skeet championship is in Vandalia, Ohio.

[NI00633] Cornelius was murdered

[NI00636] James was a carpenter and worked at the Powhatan warehouse. He fell off of a ladder to his death.

[NI00638] Fred was the youngest child. HAd red hair

[NI00639] He was a Church of Christ Minister. He was also a retired mine foreman.

[NI00643] Died of food poisoning eating fish.

[NI00644] Abigail was a detective in Chicago, Illinios. She died at the age of 83.

[NI00649] Was a lithorgrapher.

[NI00654] This is the Uncle John that Rose lived with from the age of 3 when her
mother died until her father remarried, when Rose was 9.

[NI00670] Divorced.

[NI00671] Called Patsy. Divorced.

[NI00675] Lives in New Alexandria, Ohio. Works in Pittsburgh as a graphic design artist. Works for a company that patents invention.

[NI00676] Lives in Columbus and is a disco jockey.

[NI00677] Lives in Columbus.

[NI00703] Note: Earl is a Female, and is the twin sister of Pearl! They had a
double wedding marrying brothers.

[NI00706] The baby girl died when she was a year old.

[NI00708] Royce Jean lived in Rio Rancho, NM in 1995.

[NI00709] Frank and Frances are twins! In 1995, Frank lived in Rio Rancho.

[NI00710] Frances and Frank are twins! Frances lives in Bedford, TX that is, she did
in 1995!)

[NI00713] She was really nice! At one time, she lived in Colorado Springs.

[NI00714] He lived in Montana.

[NI00715] She lived in Montana.

[NI00716] He lived in Montana.

[NI00717] He lived in Texas. He was a travelling salesman. He died, driving 60 MPH
and turned his car over.

[NI00718] He lived in New Mexico.

[NI00729] Baptised August 24, 1941, Godparents: Fred Gerken and Viola Gentile. COnfirmed on October 24, 1948 in Bonnomeo Church, St Charles, Missouri.

[NI00737] William Gagner shares the very same birthdate as William J. Winski.

[NI00740] James was buried at Mount Calvary Cemetery in Dayton

[NI00744] John was a doctor. He went to school in Louisville, Kentucky. He never
went to school until he was 21 (they didn't allow him to.)

When he first stasrted his practice, he rode horseback.

He never turned anybody down, whether they had the money or didn't have
the money. He never refused a patient because of their color.

In 1916, he got his first car-- a model T Ford. He traded his 2 horses and
his buggy for the model T. He never really learned how o drive-- he mad
it down the road, but he never really learned!

Lois Moore remembers riding to Anson in the buggy-- it took all day.

[NI00745] She was 16 when she got married. She survived her husband by 18 years,
living with her sister Kate, and sometimes with Clarence.

She was a very good cook and seamstress. Lavada had curly dark brown
hair, with small, dark eyes. She stood 5'2", and weighed about 110
pounds.

Lavada was not one to lose her temper, she had a very even-temper. As
with most girls in those days, she probably did not have much schooling.

Lavada was a very warm person. She made friends easily and kept them.
Not overly religious, Lavada was a frequent church-goer. She attended
the Church of Christ.

[NI00747] Claudia died when she was 7 months old.

[NI00776] Buried alongside her husband in Laurel Hills Cemetery, St. Louis County, Missouri.

[NI00777] Buried in Laurel Hill cemetery in St. Louis County, Missouri.

[NI00787] Lived in Rayland, Ohio

[NI00833] Christened in October 1906, Italian Church, Iron Mountain, Michigan.

[NI00869] Wrote the book: "In the Marriage: You, Me, and Us"

[NI00880] Baptised March, 1921, Bessemer, Michigan. Buried in Mercer Memorial Cemetery.

[NI00894] She was a physical education teacher

[NI00923] After he married, Hugo and his wife Rosaria lived with Frank and Teresa until Hugo found a house in Jesseville, Michigan. Hugo worked on motor cars in the mines. He was killed in the mines when he was 29 years old.
When Hugo died, Teresa and grandma Rita told Rosaria that she must stay in the family and marry another Stella boy--namely Gabriel. After 14 months, she married Gabriel, bought a house on Oak Street, Hurley, Wisconsin. Gabriel started a tavern.

[NI00926] Emigrated from Naples, Italy on January 20, 1909. Declaration of intent , book 5, page 299 "First papers of Citizenship, April 29, 1917, Bessemer, Michigan.

[NI00930] She lives with a nephew at Contralto 10280, Corno e 2va20, Pescara, Italy.

[NI00936] Worked as a maintenance man for Ironwood schools.

[NI00938] Attended Stanford University

[NI00939] Dante was an accountant who lived in Ecuador while working for United Brand Fruit Company. He attended Stanford University.

[NI00944] Anthony earned a law degree and he worked as a teacher and a salesman for a book company.

[NI00945] Dora was the city treasurer for Hurley, Wisconsin

[NI00946] Edda was named after Mussolini's daughter.

[NI00948] He was sheriff of Iron County.

[NI01013] Verstorben an den Folgen einer Verietzung bei einem Bomben Angriff auf Koln: She died in a bombing incident in Koln, Germany

[NI01061] Walter was a printer.

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Individual: Kosinski, Mary
Social Security #: 316-64-7528
SS# issued in: Indiana

Birth date: Mar 24, 1909
Death date: Nov 1981


Residence code: Indiana

ZIP Code of last known residence: 46319
Primary location associated with this ZIP Code:

Griffith, Indiana

[NI01067] [Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 1 A-L, Ed. 5, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Date of Import: Apr 2, 1998, Internal Ref. #1.111.5.133266.7]

Individual: Kosinski, Harry
Social Security #: 306-03-2968
SS# issued in: Indiana

Birth date: Jul 17, 1907
Death date: Oct 21, 1991


ZIP Code of last known residence: 46319
Primary location associated with this ZIP Code:

Griffith, Indiana

[NI01074]

Joe was a half-brother of Michael, Anne, and Steve. He was born about a year after the death of his mother's husband. Joe worked for Amoco for many years.

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Individual: Duhon, Joe
Social Security #: 313-01-4392
SS# issued in: Indiana

Birth date: Mar 16, 1887
Death date: Apr 1969


Residence code: Indiana

ZIP Code of last known residence: 46375
Primary location associated with this ZIP Code: Schererville, Indiana

[NI01075] Died of a brain tumor

[NI01083] When he was about 17, he went South and was never heard from again.

[NI01085] Michael was a grocery store owner.

[NI01087] Died from a brain tumor at the age of 17 or 18. he was very brilliant.

[NI01096] Plays for the Chicago bears

[NI01105] Her native language was Slovak.

Helen did not come to America in 1902 when her husband and daughter Mary (who was 10 when she came to America) came over because Helen's father had just passed away, and her mother would have been left alone. She ultimately immigrated to America from Chlebnice, Austria in 1912 with her daughter, Teresa.

When her parents died, they were unable to sell the land that they owned because the border changed and there were legal issues regarding the boundaries. Her family farm was on the battleground of the last battle of the 100 years war. Gregor Mendel was born near her.

[NI01106] Immigrated to America from Chlebnice, Austria in 1912 with her mother, Helen. Teresa did not come to America when Mary and her father did, because Helen's father had just passed away, and Helen's mother would have been left alone.[Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 1 A-L, Ed. 5, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Date of Import: Apr 2, 1998, Internal Ref. #1.111.5.125665.181]

Individual: Kapral, Teresa
Social Security #: 305-70-2065
SS# issued in: Indiana

Birth date: Apr 17, 1890
Death date: Nov 1982


Residence code: Indiana

ZIP Code of last known residence: 46312
Primary location associated with this ZIP Code:

East Chicago, Indiana

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Individual: Kapral, John
Social Security #: 306-03-7545
SS# issued in: Indiana

Birth date: Mar 31, 1888
Death date: Jul 1968


Residence code: Indiana

ZIP Code of last known residence: 46312
Primary location associated with this ZIP Code:

East Chicago, Indiana

[NI01109] Tom and Tim are twins.

[NI01110] Tim and Tom are twins.

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Individual: Zalac, Michael
Social Security #: 306-03-7924
SS# issued in: Indiana

Birth date: Nov 10, 1911
Death date: Aug 1975


Residence code: Indiana

ZIP Code of last known residence: 46319
Primary location associated with this ZIP Code:

Griffith, Indiana

[NI01122] [Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 1 A-L, Ed. 5, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Date of Import: Apr 3, 1998, Internal Ref. #1.111.5.97836.46]

Individual: Halsen, Mary
Social Security #: 316-58-6163
SS# issued in: Indiana

Birth date: Jan 27, 1910
Death date: Jan 1996


Residence code: HC (Death reported by Health Care Finance Administration.)

ZIP Code of last known residence: 60438
Primary location associated with this ZIP Code:

Lansing, Illinois

[NI01125] [Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 1 A-L, Ed. 5, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Date of Import: Apr 3, 1998, Internal Ref. #1.111.5.97836.49]

Individual: Halsen, Ragnvald
Social Security #: 312-10-6088
SS# issued in: Indiana

Birth date: Jun 19, 1904
Death date: Aug 1971


Residence code: Indiana

ZIP Code of last known residence: 46312
Primary location associated with this ZIP Code:

East Chicago, Indiana

[NI01136] Helen is in a nursing home in north Hampton, Massachusetts (1998)

[NI01139] Three of his children had a disease similar to cerebral paulsey. The three boys had the disease. Only three families in the U.S. were known to have the gene for this disease. James (Johnny) Mark, and Tom

[NI01150] [Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 2 M-Z, Ed. 5, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Date of Import: Apr 3, 1998, Internal Ref. #1.112.5.117697.48]

Individual: Winski, Sophia
Social Security #: 188-54-9409
SS# issued in: Pennsylvania

Birth date: Mar 28, 1911
Death date: Mar 1985


ZIP Code of address where death benefit payment was sent: 15905
Primary location associated with this ZIP Code:

Johnstown, Pennsylvania

[NI01159] In Orlando, Florida

[NI01174] Lives in Wellsburg, WV

[NI01184] aka Bob & "Paw Paw Bob" by my only Grandchild (so far).

Started out as a labor at DuPont for about 3 weeks went into operations, worked shift work for a few years, then went into the instrument dept. where I stayed the last 31 years.
My hobbies after Retirement (12-31-86) besides " Honey do Jobs" are camping, Fishing,some travling, and spoiling Hannah my Grandchild.

[NI01185] aka Lou Ann & Ma Maw by only Grandchild

She paints in oils and acrylics.

[NI01186] Unmarried so far.

[NI01190] aka Carl

[NI01192] aka Ray

[NI01193] aka Gwen

[NI01194] aka Bill

[NI01196] aka Deb

[NI01213] aka Leroy

World War II , Korea, and Viet Nam Veteran. Retired from US Army as Warrent Officer. He died in Chiefland, Florida.

[NI01221] aja Joe

[NI01222] aka Mike
Mike is the Pastor of the Baptist church in Ripley.

[NI01223] aka Tim

[NI01226] aka Bill

[NI01227] aka Chuck

[NI01232] George is an engineer in Ft. Collins, Colorado with Hewlett Packard. His wife is an engineer as well.

[NI01235] William was a barber. He was crippled--walked with a limp. I am told that he was sick as a child with infantile paralysis (probably polio). His parents dipped him into a spring to heal him. He survived, but had a limp the rest of his life.

[NI01236] Abigail died at the age of 83. She was a cop and detective in Chicago in the 1890's. Her husband ran a print shop in Chicago.

[NI01332] Carpenter who built carraiges with benedict in Poland.

[NI01350] Worked shift work at Libbey Owens Ford Glass in Kanawha City for 18 years. He quit and went to work for himself in the Building business. Divorced and moved to Florida where he died. He was a jack of all trades and a good carpenter.

[NI01351] Oscar was a Dr. who Judy met in Peru, he went back to Peru for more education so he could become a doctor in this country, and was blown up in a hospital there, by terrorists.

[NI01352] aka Jack

Worked at Rhodes Walker Chevrolet for several yrs. Than had his own Service station and garage. Was killed in a head on collision on slick roads in the Sissonville area on Christmas eve, died shortly after midnight Christmas morning.

[NI01353] aka Ted

Worked for Columbia Gas which was later changed to Mountaineer Gas. He was a strong supporter of the union, and was its Financial Secretary for years. From 1959 to 1995 when he retired he had attended 11 OCAW International Union Conventions all over the USA.

[NI01354] aka Judy

[NI01356] Grandmother ran several boarding houses in the Charleston area at various times. I was born in the one on Capital Street. In her latter years she went to her daughters in California to live, where she died.

[NI01357] Operated Halstead Painting Co. at 370 Fairview Dr., Charleston until he retired and moved to Florida. Ted and I both worked for him at different times.

[NI01358] After Uncle Creasey died in VA she moved to Santa Ana California where she met and married Cecil Pullen, she died in a nursing home in Glendora, CA. and was buried in Cunningham Cemetary in St. Albans WV.

[NI01359] Operated Typewriter Business on Virginia St. in Charleston then moved it to his home on Sunset Dr. untill he retired and moved to Bedford VA where he died.

[NI01360] aka Dick

[NI01363] Charles was a Blacksmith and wagonmaker.

[NI01369] aka Will

Sold Singer Sewing Machines.
Was married by Rev. W. H. Browder. Witnesses were John F. Wright and M. E. Wright.

[NI01375] aka Charlie

Had a Singer Sewing Machine business in St. Albans, and also taught music throughout the valley, I took Violin and Hawaian Guitar lessons from him when I was a kid but never pursued it.

[NI01376] Was a building contracter throughout the valley building mostly residential houses, I worked for him when I was growing up.

[NI01378] In a writing about Uncle Ross it was stated: Called to the ministery at an early age, Mr. Taylor and a fellow minister founded the Abney St. Church of God in St. Albans and he was ordained there and pastored that church for a number of years. He moved to Dunbar to Pastor the church in Dunbar. In 1932 they moved to Henson Ave. in So. Charleston. He became pastor of the Fifth Ave. Church of God from 1932 to 1941. Uncle Ross founded and built the Suoth West Church of God, and was pastor there from 1945 to 1961. In the writings it is said: He founded a number of other churches in the valley and was a minister of thr Gospel for over 59 years. He went to Web School on Smith Creek where Uncle Celia Smith taught.

[NI01379] aka Doc

Was a Carpenter Forman at Union Carbide
Old relephone no. at 2 3/4 mile creek was 62J12.

[NI01381] aka "Doe" by my children

She was raised on two and three quarter mile creek ( what is now Green Valley Drive ) in St. Albans. She had to walk across the hill to a one room school on Smith Creek where she met my father who was staying at his Grandmothers house who was also a Taylor. My mothers maiden name was Grace Taylor and my fathers mothers maiden name was Grace Taylor.

[NI01404]
aka Jenny

Retired from Herbert J. Memorial Hospital after 41yrs. of service.

[NI01405] aka Jim

[NI01407] aka Marty

[NI01410] aka "Creasey" and Bill

He worked in construction most of his life, he was a field superintent for US Steele ,And worked all over the United States. When he retired they were living in Long Beach, CA where he and Aunt Beaulah had a trailer court and a grocery store. He also was a city inspector for Long Beach. In their latter years they moved to Bedford VA where his family lived, and he died there.
Aunt Beaulah moved back to Charleston, but she was dissatisfied so she went back to California where she had lived most of her life. She remarried there and died there.

[NI01411] His body was cremated and buried at sea 3 1/2 miles off Los Alamitos Bay, Long Beach, CA

[NI01413] He was President and chairman of the board of Cunningham Memorial Park. He taught school for four years at Smith Creek ( this is where both my parents went to school but not when he taught there ).Was formerly an employee of Consolidated Coal, and was a supervisor for C&P Telephone for 35 years. He was secretary and vice president of Cunningham Memorial Park before aquiring it in 1974. He was a member of Darlington Methodist Church, a former president of the WV Cemetary Association,and Chairman of the board of trustees of Thomas Memorial Hospital.
In 1937 he helped organize Cunningham Memorial Park becoming one third owner and was Vice President until 1974 when he became sole owner and President. He was President and chairman of the board of Cunningham Memorial Park. He taught school for four years at Smith Creek ( this is where both my parents went to school but not when he taught there ).Was formerly an employee of Consolidated Coal, and was a supervisor for C&P Telephone for 35 years. He was secretary and vice president of Cunningham Memorial Park before aquiring it in 1974. He was a member of Darlington Methodist Church, a former president of the WV Cemetary Association,and Chairman of the board of trustees of Thomas Memorial Hospital.

[NI01414] aka Bill

He and his brother Ray owned and operated Cunningham Memorial Park after their father died in 1982. But he had been President/Treasurer since 1977.aka Bill

He and his brother Ray owned and operated Cunningham Memorial Park after their father died in 1982.

[NI01421] aka Steve

[NI01422] aka Jeff

[NI01424] aka Debbie

[NI01432] aka Levi

Minister and a great Stonemason, his work is evident throughout the area he worked on the stone wall around the football field in South Charleston, also there is a seat in front of Casdorph-Curry Funeral home that he made.

[NI01438] While playing basketball for So. Charleston High School he injured his right arm, making it have a crook in it. His doctor advised him to take up bowling to try to straighten it out. Quoting the secretary of the Kanawha Valley Bowling Association: " He was probably the best bowler to come out of this valley". He worked at Union Carbide but he went pro as a bowler, and did very well. in 1952 he won the American Bowling Congress masters singles championship, The only West Virginian to do so. He was inducted into the WV Bowlers hall of fame. He was also a member and Chairman of the board of Southwest Church of God.

[NI01445] aka Bill

[NI01471] His headstone has as his date of death July 20 1960, but according to his daughter Dochia he died on her 21st birthday, which would make the correct date July 29 1961. She also said that the headstone was put on at a later date.

[NI01515] He was a teacher.

[NI01529] aka Will

[NI01530] aka Lummy

[NI01531] aka Charlie

[NI01556] aka Bill

[NI01590] aka Biggen

[NI01596] aka Booke

Was a Service Supervisor for Columbia Gas of WV.

[NI01603] aka Woote

[NI01623] aka Ray

[NI01626] aka Herb

[NI01627] Norma is employed at the Polk County school board, Florida

[NI01628] aka Jim

Jim worked at Union Carbide left and went to Florida where they ran a fishing camp. He retired, came back to WV and bought his parents house on A St. in St. Albans.

[NI01630] aka Ruth

[NI01632] aka Buck

[NI01635] aka Bob

[NI01637] aka Joe

[NI01641]

Was killed in a head on collision while going to work at Union Carbide.

[NI01642] aka Bob

[NI01755] aka Lonnie

[NI01761] aka Charles

[NI01762] aka Chuck

[NI01763] aka Randy

[NI01818] aka Woody

[NI01886] aka Carl

[NI01986] aka Gordie

Was killed in Viet Nam.

[NI02036] aka AL

Was hurt in a Auto Accident on the Nitro-St. Albans bridge and has ben confined to a wheel chair since.

[NI02080] aka Mike

[NI02082] aka David

[NI02083] Was in auto accident March 22 1974 and died two days later.

[NI02089] Tom was a live in hired hand. And no relation.

[NI02170] Carl McCormack changed the spelling of his name from McCormick when he was about 18 years old. An old family bible had the spelling as "McCommac" . Carl said his grandmother, Grandma Mooney, told him that they were spelling their name wrong and that it was spelled with an "a" and not "i".

[NI02329] Frank was a Russian emigrant who Grandma took in to work around the farm for his room and board. This was before WWII.

[NI02393] In 1799 he was chosen a constable of Monroe Co., it was at the time of the formation of that county. At that time it was Va.

[NI02397] The Van Dorans was a Dutch family that came to New York from Holland, then moved to Virginia in the middle 1700's. At this time, they dropped the "Van" from their names.

[NI02412] Widow of Benjamin Byrnside

[NI02446] aka Polly

[NI02480] Floyd died in U.S. army during Civil War.

[NI02498] Their was an interesting story about James Brown written by historian General Beckley in1888. It seems that when a babe in arms, this James Brown and his mother were taken into captivity by the indians, but were rescued by pursuing settlers in a shoot out with the indians at the Painted Trees on Paint Creek in present Fayette County, WV.

[NI02500] Served as a union soldier in Civil War.

[NI02525] After fighting a brush fire, Amos caught pneumonia and died.
He was a Campbellite minister.

[NI02536] Died of Typhoid fever during the civil war, having served in the union army and was buried in Greenbrier Co. near Alderson, WV. He was considered a giant because he was 7 ft. tall.

[NI02538] He was a flat boat builder.

[NI02542] He was veteran of the Civil War, serving in the Union Forces for two yeats and eight months under General Averall with Co. F of the 7th West Virginia Cavalry.

[NI02543] This family was of Union sympathies during the civil war while the rest of the Halstead's were Confederates.

[NI02547] Benjamine was living in what is now Boone Co. as early as 1841/42 when he signed a petition to form the new county and voted for Smootsville as the county seat. In 1847 he owned 400 acres on Rock Creek located 5 miles N.E. of the courthouse. Benjamine and Barbara are buried in the Atkins-Holstein Cemetary on the left fork of Williams Fork, Rock Creek, Boone Co, WV. The graves are marked with fieldstones which have no data.

[NI02580] A confederate soldier captured by union troops & died a prisoner of war at Camp Chase, Ohio.

[NI02726] The Halstead Cemetery is located 1.2 miles West of Foster on Rt. 3. The cemetery is 1000 feet north of highway. The graves are marked by two fieldstones, Letha's with no data and Obediah's with "ODG June 12, 1881"

[NI02777] aka Shug

He was the owner of the Halstead construction co.

[NI02784] He helped build the railroad and ran the first train from coal river to St. Albans, WV.

[NI02796] aka Holm

[NI02855] aka Betty

[NI02900] Glen took the maiden name of his mother after Ira and Carrie divorced (Laymon). He married a Rich; they had two children whose names are not known.

[NI02904] Peggy retained her maiden name after divorcing Lee.

[NI03168] aka Marion

[NI03242] Johnny Hesicar McCormick died at Rakymond City Coal Company after three days of work in a slate fall. His wife Cloea was pregnant with their only child. She later married Charles Withrow, brother of Betty Elisabeth Withrow, wife of James Edward McCormick.

[NI03246] aka "Uncle Renis" by his family

[NI03247] aka Bill

[NI03512] aka Elmer

[NI03515] aka Rucker

[NI03580] Boone County Prosecuting Attorney.

[NI03622] Had a son, Bobby Lew Halstead, am not sure who the father was.

[NI03817] aka Butch

[NI03832] Single, his mother died less than a month after he was born and william B. and his brother Lewis E., were reared by their grandparents, John Jr. and Jane (Halstead) Dolin.

[NI03877] A Seventh Day Adventist minister.

[NI03879] He was killed by a train while driving his truck across the tracks south of St. Albans, WV.

[NI03883] A seventh day adventist minister.

[NI03901] He lost a leg while working on the railroad and his limb was buried at the Halstead cemetery.

[NI03914] She was a bible worker for the Seventh Day Adventist Church.

[NI03916] Albert appeared in several movies using the name Michael Trowbridge.

[NI03918] He was a missionary.

[NI03926] She divorced Harry and took back the Halstead name.

[NI03940] She was an Army Nurse during WW 2 in England.

[NI03959] Died when he fell from the roof of a building he was constructing in Charleston, WV

[NI04037] He was cremated and his ashes were scattered among the blue bonnet flowers in a field in east Texas.

[NI04051] aka Christy

[NI04052] aka Missy

[NI04127] seventh day adventist minister.

[NI04130] Jim received a Dr. of Dental Surgery Degree 18 Dec 1977 from Loma Linda University, CA.

[NI04145] Was a Church of Christ minister. Who died suddenly after helping fight a field fire .

[NI04325] Billy is a retired Air Firce Veteran with 22yrs of service.

[NI04941] Dennis was co-founder and President of Cunningham Memorial Park.

[NI04944] aka Ray

He and his brother Bill owned and operated Cunningham Memorial Park after their father died in 1982. He now lives in the house his parents owned.

[NI04985] Came as a young man from St. Louis, Missouri to Lincoln, Missiouri in Benton County. Buried in St. Peters Cemetery, Lucas & Hunt Roads, St. Louis County, Missouri.

[NI04986] Buried in St. Peters Cemetery, Lucas & Hunt Roads, St. Louis County, Missouri.

[NI04991] Changed his surname to St. Peter.

[NI05056] John worked at Lockheed Aircraft Corp. in California.

[NI05067] Louie was a pharmacist in Green bay, Wisconsin. He was married and adopted 3 children born to his wife by a former marriage.

[NI05069] His address: Via Papa Giovanni XXIII, No. 51
66100 Chieti, Italy

[NI05072] Cousin of Teresa Stella Gentile.

[NI05074] Nancy was a social worker and never married.

[NI05075] Came to America in 1870 with his brother Freidrich and settled in St. Charles, Missouri. H attended Immanuel Lutheran School.

[NI05095] Came to America at the age of 14 in 1852.

[NI05096] She died at the age of 30 giving birth to her sixth child. She had tuberculosis for several years befor her death.

[NI05099] He was a doctor who attended Indiana Normal School in Valparaiso, Indiana. He also attended Missouri Dental College which was merged with Washington university of St. Louis in 1892. He received his doctor of dentistry on March 10, 1892 and was valedictorian.

[NI05199] Carolyn is a member of the Catholic Theological Union

[NI05338] Charlotte and Frederich were twins. They both died at only four months of age after having been given milk from a cow that had eaten poisonous weds and this was the cause of their deaths.

[NI05339] Charlotte and Frederich were twins. They both died at only four months of age after having been given milk from a cow that had eaten poisonous weds and this was the cause of their deaths.

[NI05345] Clifton was an officer in the U.S. Air Force and was killed when a B-17 Bomber crashed on a mission overseas during World War II. He was missing in action.

[NI05377] Emigrated to the United States in 1850. He arrived at the Port of new Orleans, Louisiana. Bernhard was a carpenter and a farmer.

[NI05378] Emigrated to the United States in 1852, two years after her husband. She traveled with her three sons: William, henry, and Frederick, and her daughter, Wilhelmina (Minnie). They arrived in Jersey City, Misissippi.

[NI05392] Died as an infant.

[NI05393] Died as an infant.

[NI05396] He is buried in New Bethlehem Cemetery.[Welsch5-2001.FTW]

He was christened March 21, 1852 by the name of Caspar Heinrich Osiek in the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Borgholzhausen, Westfalen, by Reverend Hedinger. He lived for a while in his early teens with Johan Horstman, and emigrated to the United States with the Horstman Family.

[NI05397] I received this information from familysearch.org.

[NI05403] Buried on December 23, 1926

[NI05409] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

twin to Walter. He only lived a short time according to later records of their mother.

[NI05410] Buried on October 12, 1970 in Bethlehem Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri

[NI05444] Note on family tree outline from Jim Echols says : "gl Schulmeisters". I am not sure whether this means that she was a school teacher, or perhaps that her mother's maiden name was Schulmeisters.

[NI05528] Ordensschwester "Conradine" seit 1858 Schwester der "Christlichen Liebe". 1874 Ausgewand nach USA.

[NI05557] He was killed in battle during the war in Russia.

[NI05561] He was killed in battle during the war.

[NI05575] [Siegel.ftw]

Cousins.

[NI05596] Seit 1911 unter dem Ordensnamen "Marzellina" als Benediktinerin in der Abtet St. Hildegard bei Rudesheim/Rh.

[NI05598] Seit 1921 unter dem Ordensnamen "Florentina" als Benediktinerin in der Abtet St. Hildegard bei Rudesheim/Rh.

[NI05602] [Siegel.ftw]

Cousins.

[NI05607] the census of 1910 shows her as Lenora. Died in a mental hospital in Masslin (?) Ohio. She was a beautiful woman with white hair and a red face.

[NI05640] [Siegel.ftw]

Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863, major engagement in the American Civil War fought 35 miles (56 km) southwest of Harrisburg, PA., generally regarded as the turning point of the war. After defeating the union forces of General Joseph Hooker at Chancellorsville, VA., in May, Confederate General Robert E. Lee decided to invade the North in hopes of further discouraging the enemy and possibly inducing European countries to recognize the Confedercy. His invasion army numbered 75,000 troops. When he learned that the Union Army of the Potomac had a new commander, General George G. Meade, Lee ordered General R. S. Ewell to move to Cashtown or Gettysburg. However, the commander of Meade's advance cavalry, General John Buford, recognized the strategic importance of Gettysburg as a road centre and was prepared to hold this site until reinforcements arrived.
The first day of battle saw considerable fighting in the area, Union use of newly issued Spencer repeating carbines, heavy casualties on each side, and the simultaneous conclusion by both commanders that Gettysburg was the right place to fight. On the second day there were a great number of desperate attacks and counterattacks in an attempt to gain control of such locations as Little Round Top, Cemetery Hill, Devil's Den, the Wheatfield, and the Peach Orchard. There were again heavy losses on both sides. On the third day Lee was determined to attack. Some 15,000 Confederate troops assaulted Cemetary Ridge, held by 10,000 Federal infantrymen. The southern spearhead broke through and penetrated the ridge, but there it could do no more. Critically weakened by artillery during their approach, formations hopelessly tangled, lacking reinforcement, and under savage attack from three sides, the Southerners retreated, leaving 19 battle flags and hundreds of prisoners. On July 4 Lee waited to meet an attack thet never came. That night, taking advantage of a heavy rain, he started retreating toward Virginia. His defeat stemmed from overcnfidence in his troops, Ewell's inability to fill the boots of General "Stonewall" Jackson, and faulty reconnaissance. Though Meade has been critizied for not destroying the enemy by a vigorous pursuit, he had stopped the Confederate invasion and won a critical three-day battle.
Losses were among the war's heaviest: of 88,000 Northern troops, casualties numbered about 23,000; out of 75,000 Southerners, more than 20,000. Dedication of the National Cemetary at the site in November 1863 was the occasion of President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. The battlefield became a national military park in 1895, and jurisdiction passed to the National Park Service in 1933.

[NI05671] He was a bag machine operator in Wellsberg, WV. He served in World War II. He is buried in Franklin Cemetery in Wellsberg. Chambers Funeral Home.

Frank and Betty Jane raised johnita and Pam after their father, John Samuel Wallace died in 1950. Johnita was only a few weeks old. Betty was John Wallace's niece. Johnita and Pam's mother, Margaret Ellen Wallace was unable to care for the two girls because she was busy raising her other children (she had 13 in all).

NOTE: This information was provided by Johnita Wallace Mulkins and her daughter, Tonya Siegel.

[NI05676] Lives in Follansbee, West VirginiaWas in a mental hospital and committed suicide

[NI05685] He appears twice in the census records of 1910. One listing shows Frank as being 28 years old at the time of the census. This would mean he was born in 1882. At the time, he, his wife Laura, and their three sons (Carl, John, and Patrice) lived with Benjamin Winski.

The second listing shows him as being 31, meaning he was born in 1879. This is consistent with what Margie Moore told me.

[NI05692] Seit 1926 unter dem Ordensnamen "Hedwig" als Ursulinerin un Ursulinen-kloster zu Werf.

[NI05705] He was killed in battle during WWII in Russia

[NI05718] He was killed in battle in Russia during WWII.

[NI05770] She was killed during a bombing raid in WWII.

[NI05781] There is a note on the family tree paper I received from Jim Echols that says: Lioba, Rote Kreuz Schwester. I think this means she entered the sisterhood.

[NI05801] He was killed in battle during WW II.

[NI05908] He was killed in battle in Danzig, Germany during World War II.

[NI05941] He was killed in battle during World War II.

[NI05954] He died during World War II while fighting in Japan.

[NI06109] He was killed in battle during World War II.

[NI06201] Norma and her daughter or daughters had a nursing home outside on Ramsy Road near Dillonville and Mt. Pleasant Ohio. Both grandmother Garnett Winski and Helen Winski Starr were in her care until they passed away.

[NI06208] Birth record located in Vol. 1 1867-1879 for Jefferson County

[NI06211] He is the descendant of John Bane, a Ohio trapper.

[NI06212] [Lighthizer family.FTW]

According to a letter written by Lottie Grabandt (1882-1975), Henry Lighthizer was a slave overseer of Col. Dorsey's plantation. (Col. Dorsey was a great uncle of Mrs. Colliflower). A copy of this letter was sent to me by Alton Davis in July 2000.

[NI06248] There is a newspaper article that says that Mrs. Will Lewis of Covington, KY stayed with Martha during her sickness and that attending her funeral were: Dr. & Mrs. Fisher of Bridgeport; Mrs. Campbell Collins of Toronto; and Miss Mary Collins of Richmond, Indiana.

[NI06253] Hannah lived with her daughter Martha and Martha's husband Thomas Chamberlain at the time of the 1880 Census.

[NI06271] Was five years old when he went to Texas

[NI06277] [Lighthizer family.FTW]

Henry Baxter Lighthizer was named after his uncle, Henry Budd Lighthizer, who was an attorney, Lieut. in the Civil War, and a Judge in the Territory of Arizona. Henry Baxter went through the 8th grade and did a variety of work in his lifetime. As a young man, he worked as a cowboy and chuck wagon cook in the Colorado Rocky Mountains; worked in the coal mines; he had a homestead in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado (Hayden, Routt County, Colorado); did painting and wall paper hanging. When I was a child, I remember he drove the Yellow Cab and worked as a night watchman for the Miller's Super Market in Denver. He loved to play baseball and was a pitcher on the Hayden baseball team when he was a young man. He was also a very good card player and won enough money gambling to pay cash for the home in Denver where we lived before I started school (on S. Pennsylvania). He never drank liquor but did smoke a pipe and enjoyed reading Western Romances. My father was not one to demonstrate emotion, but I knew he loved me.

He played the harmonica and was the one who made sure I took piano lessons. He taught me how to play checkers and I remember helping him put a large puzzle together -- the tortoise and the hare. I remember one day he played a game out in the back yard with the neighbor kids and me. It was a lot of fun. He often took me outside to teach me how to throw a baseball and how to catch one. He would throw it over our big fir tree in the backyard and expect me to catch it. He loved baseball and boxing. He also loved horseback riding and he and Uncle Ben took Wana Lee and I horseback riding at a riding academy when my sister and her family were visiting us.

He was never one to buy gifts nor send cards but about a week before his first stroke, he gave me some doll furniture and a doll washing machine for no apparent reason. He sent mother and I valentines on February 14th, 1949 the day he had his first stroke. He may have felt that his health was failing.

My father had several strokes during the two year period before his death. After his first stroke, he was paralyzed on one side and his speech was affected but after a few weeks, he got some better. It was during this time, before his next stroke, that he accepted Jesus as his Savior. Charles Blair was the pastor who came out to the house and led him to the Lord. Pastor Blair was the pastor of the Central Assembly of God Church in Denver and, several years later, his church became the largest in Colorado.

The last stroke my father had took his mind. He never knew any of us again. About a year later, after many months of tremendous difficulty in trying to care for him in him in his condition, he died October 11, 1951. I remember that I didn't cry when he died because of the horrendous stress I was under during the last two years of his life.

[NI06278] [Lighthizer family.FTW]

Annie Francis (Morris) Lighthizer

[NI06279] [Lighthizer family.FTW]

James William Morris, my grandfather, was noted for being well liked by all who met him. He was very outgoing and made friends easily. His children, however, remember his sternness. He was gifted musically and could play almost any instrument even though he never had music lessons. He was brought up in a poor family with six brothers and five sisters. Even though he did not have an opportunity to go to college, he educated himself through the years and received teaching certificates in several states, Missouri, Oklahoma, Washington and Oregon. My mother remembers her father reading to her and her brothers during the long winter evenings. He read the classics and other well-known works of the time. Because of his love for learning, his children received an amazing amount of education even though they did not go to high school.

At a very young age he developed pneumonia and almost died. My mother remembers her grandmother Morris telling how she put "Will" on a blanket on the floor behind the wood burning stove in order to keep him warm. After many months, he regained his health but lost a lung in the process. It was because he had only lung that he died on the same disease in 1932.

After the death of his first wife, Barbara Ellen Tow, he never told their three living children anything about her or her family. My mother, the only daughter of Barbara Ellen and her father, was in her 90's when I found information about her mother's family.

[NI06299] [Lighthizer family.FTW]

Copy of Marriage Bond for Riley Tow and Mary Harris provided by Norma Wilson, Independence, KS (related to Noah Tow).

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Noah Tow(e) was hit by a car while walking home late at night. He had missed the bus so decided to walk. This happened in Willard, Missouri, north of Springfield. (see obituary)

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It is assumed that Dorsey Octavis Lighthizer was ordained as a Baptist minister in Iowa. According to the 1880 Iowa census, he lived in the County of Ida with his wife Wealtha and his children Ada, Florence and Flora (Sadie). Sam and my father, Henry Baxter, were also born in Ida County. Dorsey was pastor of a small town Baptist church in Sydney, Iowa from at least January 1895 until his resignation June 26, 1896. He and his family were leaving Sydney, Iowa to travel to North Dakota to start a church. The family traveled by covered wagon. Dorsey died en route, somewhere in Nebraska and, according to family information, Wealtha Elmina took the girls back to Sydney by train with Dorsey's body, and my father and Sam drove the wagon back to Sydney. I have not been able to find a record of his burial. There is a memorial mention of Dorsey Lighthizer on the tombstone of his wife, Wealtha, at Riverside Cemetery, Denver, Colorado.

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On July 2, 1904, in Hayden, Routt County, Colorado, Weltha E. Lighthizer applied for a homestead of 160 acres. She was 50 years old, and she paid $16.00 for the homestead. On November 22, 1909, she states, "I built my house during February 1905-March 1, 1905. Total value about $300.00." She lived on the land continuously except for the time she had to leave to earn money (family sewing) to improve the place. She cultivated 10 acres for three seasons. The improvements included the house, well and 1 1/4 miles of fencing. In the homestead application papers, there seemed to be concern that there was coal on the property. The witnesses for the homestead improvements and testifying that there was no coal on the property were Charles Cussins; George Pearson; David Walgamont; Osochia Wilkinson.

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Aunt Florence was one of the first school teachers in Routt County, Colorado (Hayden and Steamboat Springs). Cousin Ed told me he remembered that as a child, he saw Aunt Florence ride her horse past their house going to the little one room school where she taught. The school was built of rock and was still standing in 1996 but it was overgrown with brush and in very poor shape. I did not have the time to go see it while I was visiting Cousin Ed and Bonnie.

Aunt Florence was a tall distinguished looking woman and very thrifty. She gave me several things than belonged to her mother, my grandmother Lighthizer. A fan, sewing cabinet, several doilies with stated edging with the initial "A" in the center. Grandmother Lighthizer made them for Florence when she married John Adair. Also a set of serving pieces, gravy ladle and serving fork. I believe she said those belonged to Samuel Francis Lighthizer. Aunt Florence also gave me her wedding dress which I have saved in my trunk.

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The first portion of this information was taken from the, "History of Hayden and West Routt County, 1876-1989" county history book and the material was submitted by Bonnie Lighthizer, Ed Lighthizer's wife.

"Samuel Dorsey Lighthizer was named after his father, Dorsey Octavis Lighthizer and his grandfather on his mother's side, Samuel Miller.

In 1904, Samuel Dorsey, his brother Hal (Henry Baxter) and sister, Florence, came went to Hayden, Routt County, Colorado to homestead. Sam purchased a section of land up the Elk Head road by Dry Fork from the government and proceeded to build a cabin.

In 1905, Sam went to Eldridge, Missouri and married Pearl Hollandsworth who had been waiting for his return from Colorado. The couple went to Hayden to the homestead to make their home. They farmed and raised pigs, sheep, cows and horses.

They had three children, Leonard born September 1, 1908, Dorsey Samuel born October 17, 1911 and Wilma born in 1914. All three children were born on the homestead.

When the children were old enough to attend school, they rode horses and in the winter, Pearl and the children would move into town so that the children could attend school. Because of chores on the homestead, hard winters, and the depression, it took the boys longer than 12 years to finish school. All three of the children graduated from Hayden Union High.

In 1931 the Lighthizer homestead burned and the family moved into town. Sam sold off his livestock but kept the horses. He purchased the Highway Bar and Liquor store and put slot machines and poker tables in the back. Sam was a good gambler.

Wilma died at the age of 18, and Sam never fully recovered from loosing his daughter.

Sam and Pearl separated and Pearl moved to Craig. She sent to work at the Mt. Streeter Hotel, and cooked for the miners that worked at the Streeter mine. Sam and Pearl did not divorce until 1957.

Sam sold the liquor store and Bar and moved to Healdsburg, California. He bought a ranch (movie star's former home). He married Helen Weber in Minden, Nevada in 1958.

In 1975 Samuel Dorsey Lighthizer died at the age of 94. Helen sent him home to Hayden to buried next to Pearl and their daughter, Wilma."

The following information are some of the memories and information I have regarding Uncle Sam.

From what my father said (Sam's brother), Uncle Sam changed a great deal after the death of his only daughter, Wilma Lighthizer. They said that I looked enough like Wilma to be her sister.

Uncle Sam was always very nice to me. I remember when my father spent one winter in Hayden managing Sam's liquor store, mother and I went up to spend the Christmas holidays with him. We stayed in the small apartment with my father in the back of the liquor store storage room. The storage room was very large and filled with what appeared to be family stuff (furniture and odds and ends). He had a large victrola which I loved to wind up and play (It had the horn type sound box attached to the needle). He came in one day and said I could have anything I wanted in the store room. I spied a vase on the top shelf and thought mother would like it so I asked Uncle Sam for it. I remember he seemed surprised that I chose something like a vase but he climbed up and got it for me. Too bad I wasn't old enough to understand what a wealth of family history was probably packed away in those boxes.

Several years later, after my father died, he sold his saloon and other property and moved to Healdsburg, California. He purchased a movie star's ranch (female star but I can't remember her name). Before my father died, he made a trip to California to visit his brother and when he came back, he described the house as being huge, with a very long living room that had a fireplace at each end. The house overlooked the ocean.

Many years later, after I married Don and Clark was born, I was cleaning the house when I heard a car stop outside. I looked out of the window and saw an elderly, white haired man get out of the car. I knew immediately who it was. Uncle Sam had decided to visit all of his relatives as he was in his eighties and not well. We had a delightful time.

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Samuel Miller:

According to census records and family information, Samuel Miller was born in Pennsylvania (Youngstown?). The earliest document located is his marriage with Sarah E. Stewart in Broadman, Trumbull, Ohio on June 6, 1842. In the Ohio 1850 Federal Census, the Miller family is living in Youngstown Township, Mahoney County, Ohio with their children, Homer A., Mary A. and Florantha J. They are listed in the 1860 Wisconsin Census, Dane County. In 1870, Sarah is listed as a widow with the remaining children. No record has been located of Samuel's death as of 1998.

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Sarah (Stewart) Miller

The first record of Sarah Stewart is in Trumbull County, Ohio (a wealthy community) where she married Samuel Miller of Youngstown, June 6, 1842. Census records and family information indicate that he was born in Pennsylvania (family record said Youngstown, PA), however, Trumbull, Ohio is on the edge of Youngstown, Ohio. Birth place of Samuel Miller has not been verified as of 1998. In the 1880 Wisconsin Federal Census, Dane County, Sarah is living with her son Cassius (Samuel Miller has died) and it is noted that her father was born in Ireland and her mother in Virginia.

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SAMUEL FRANCIS LIGHTHIZER

FACTS: (Documents found)

Samuel Francis Lighthizer was born about 1814-16 in Baltimore, Maryland. He married Elizabeth S. Budd on December 22, 1836 in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. Their children were:

Name Born Where

Henry Budd June 15, 1839 Ogle County, Illinois
Dorsey Octavis 1854 Oregon Village, Illinois
Cora December 15, 1955 Mt. Zion, Macon Cnty., Illinois
Walter E. 1860 Maple County, Wisconsin

According to the 1840 Illinois Census, Samuel Francis lived in Ogle County with his wife Elizabeth and their oldest son, Henry Budd. On September 5, 1884, Samuel Francis purchased a track of land in the Town of Oregon, Illinois for $108.00. It is not known if he used this land for his home or his trade as a black smith.

In the 1850 Illinois Census, he is listed with Elizabeth and Henry Budd and is noted as being a black smith with real estate valued at $1,700.

In 1855 Illinois State Census, he is listed with Elizabeth, Henry Budd, 2 females under 10 years of age, one of which must have been Cora. It also states that Samuel Francis served in the Militia. Early tax records showed him as serving in the Militia.

In 1870 the family of Samuel Francis is listed in the Wisconsin Census; Samuel, Elizabeth, Dorsey, Cora and Walter. Henry Budd is now living in Missouri after having served in the Civil War. The census lists Samuel Francis as being a farmer with real estate valued at $8,000 and personal property as $4,000.

Samuel Francis is listed in the 1900 Iowa census as a widower living with his daughter-in-law, Wealtha Elmina, the recent widow of Dorsey Octavis Lighthizer. They are living in Sidney, Iowa.

Samuel Francis evidentially went to live with his daughter Cora Turpin in Decatur Illinois because his death record shows he died September 23, 1901 in Decatur, Macon Cnty., Illinois and his occupation was listed as a merchant. He's buried in the Mt. Gilead Cemetery, Macon Cnty. Illinois.

Verbal History: (Most information not verified as of December 31, 1998)

In a letter from Aunt Esther to her niece, Kathryn Claussen (Aunt Sadie's daughter), she said that "great grandfather Lighthizer was a student at a University in Germany when Napoleon Bonaparte caused so much trouble with the German people. He and several other students rebelled against the crown and great grandfather Lighthizer's estates were confiscated. He sailed for America and finally settled on a large plantation just outside Baltimore. He evidently had quite a lot of money as grandfather had a colored nanny and a boy to wait on him. They (I assume she meant the servants, but she might have meant her great grandfather) were alive when Ada and Florence were babies. When great grandfather was dying, he received word that if he returned to Germany, he could have his estates back. He refused to go and made his sons promise they wouldn't go to Germany either. Just before Wealtha Elmina (Esther's mother and my grandmother) died, she met a woman from Germany who knew where this estate was -- a village and some kind of an old house (probably called a castle in those days.)"

She goes on to say that "Samuel Francis married Elizabeth Budd in Cincinnati, Ohio where they lived for a while until Dad (Dorsey Octavis) was born. Then they moved to Madison, Wisconsin where Grandpa had the largest store in Madison until his partner skipped to France with all of the money. Grandma and Grandpa separated and he divided up what was left. Grandma Lighthizer never weighed over 86 lbs. Grandpa was 86 when he died and I was 25 years old at the time. He died at my Aunt Cora's (his daughter) in Peoria, Illinois. Grandma Miller (Wealtha Elmina's mother) died in Dow City sometime after Dad died. Grandmother Lighthizer's people were wealthy (the Budd's) and her father went to Europe many times. At one time, I had a beautiful cameo her father had brought her from Italy." This account, I feel, is probably the most accurate of the verbal family history.

My father (Henry Baxter) and his brother (Samuel Dorsey) told the story that there were two Lighthizer brothers who were Barons in Germany. They lived in the Lighthizer castle on the Rhine. During the uprising of the Rinelanders against the Czar of Germany, the three brothers fled their homeland for the United States. One died before reaching the U.S., the other settling in either Massachusetts or Maryland. Sam said that he had friends in Hayden, Colorado who took a trip to Germany and they found the ruins of the Lighthizer castle on the Rhine.

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The first portion of this information is taken from the, "History of Hayden and West Routt County, 1876-1989" submitted by Bonnie Lighthizer, wife of Ed Lighthizer.

"Leonard spent his childhood with his brother, Dorsey and Sister, Wilma, on a homestead in the Elk Head, Colorado area.

On December 24, 1930, Leonard married Pauline Purcell. They had been high school sweethearts but the marriage did not last long. Leonard and Pauline were divorced, and Leonard married Mildred Weber on June 27, 1935. They homesteaded a section of land on the west side of Hayden. they built their home down by a grove of trees next to the river. Dorsey lived with Leonard and Mildred and helped with the sheep and horses. they raised registered quarter horses. Leonard and Mildred were married for fifteen years but never had any children.

In 1946, Leonard Dorsey and others in the town of Hayden started building a roping arena for the town.

Mildred and Leonard were divorced, and Leonard married Bessie Gledhill Conyers. They moved to Grand Junction, Colorado in 1969 where he died several years later."


The following information are memories I have of Cousin Leonard and Mildred, his wife.

When I was a young child, Leonard and Mildred would come over to see my father and mother when they were in Denver for the Stock Show. Leonard and Mildred always had stock to show and rode their horses in the program. I remember how awe struck I was when they would come through the door. Leonard was a tall, handsome cowboy dressed in western clothing, a big cowboy hat and boots. Mildred had blond curly hair and wore beautiful full skirted dresses with lots of ruffles. I fell in love with anything that had to do with cowboys and ranch life.

One year when Mother and I had gone to Hayden to visit my father who was spending the winter in Hayden helping his brother Sam run the liquor store, my parents took me out to Leonard and Mildred's ranch to send the day and they planned on returning the in evening for dinner. To me, Mildred was an amazing woman. She sat me on a stool and gave me a crochet needle and a ball of yarn and taught me how to do the chain stitch. She told me she wanted me to crochet a piece of yard that would reach around the house. I spent most of the day completely happy in my new task. A couple of horses got loose and she ran after them -- every exciting to a city girl. Cousin Leonard came and took me to see his quarter horses that the raised and raced. He sat me on a huge brown horse named Snowball. I didn't have a saddle so he sat me very close to the base of the neck and told me to hang on the the horses mane. Leonard led the horse to a drinking hole and when the horse bent his head down to drink, I almost slid down his neck. Leonard caught me and laughed but I didn't think it was very funny. He took me to the barn and I watched him milk a cow. I was shocked to find out that milk came from an animal -- I thought it came in a bottle. Everyone laughed at me again.

When it was getting on toward dinner time and Leonard was supposed to be in from the chores, Mildred asked me to wash my hands for dinner, which I did. But in the process of washing my hands, the bar of soap slipped from my grasp and landed in a barrel of ice tea that Mildred had sitting on the floor next to the sink. I was too scared to tell her what had happened and I though my father would spank me if I told him, so I decided to just pretend nothing happened. Soon my parents arrived for dinner and Leonard came in directly behind them and the first thing he did was to go to the ice tea barrel got a drink from the big ladle that was in the barrel. He took one swallow and spit out the rest of the drink into the sink. He said a few words I don't remember but when I started to cry, they soon found out I was the one who spoiled the ice tea. Instead of a scolding or spanking, again they laughed at me.

My few memories of being in Hayden, Colorado with my father's family are very dear to me. I only wish I could have known them better.

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The first portion of information is taken from the "History of Hayden and West Routt County 1876-1989" which was submitted by Bonnie Lighthizer, wife of Ed Lighthizer.

"Dorsey was named after his father and grandfather Lighthizer. He lived with his parents, brother and sister on the family homestead in the Elk Head, Routt County area until he married Pearl Montieth, November 23, 1939. The marriage lasted less than one year.

Dorsey met Phyllis Lowe at a dance in Hayden and they were married January 19, 1941 in Russell Springs, Kansas.

Dorsey and Leonard worked in the Mt. Harris coal mine, which employed many of the men in the Hayden valley. They still saved time, however, for their horses they raced Roman style and rodeoed.

Their son, Edwin Dorsey, was born in 1941 and in 1948, Philann was born. In 1951, Philann was stricken with polio and she has had to wear leg braces since that time.

Dorsey's father, Sam, helped him purchase a ranch on the outskirts of Hayden where they made their home. They farmed, raised milk cows and horses. In 1954, Dorsey sold a favorite horse to President Roosevelt's wife, Eleanor. The President and his wife had a ranch up on the White River just out of Meeker, Colorado.

Dorsey died of pneumonia in the winter of 1956.

Phyllis never remarried. She died in 1989 and is buried next to Dorsey in the Hayden Cemetery."


The following are memories I have of my Cousin Dorsey.

I only remember seeing Dorsey once, and that was on a trip mother and I took to visit my father who was helping his brother, Sam run the liquor store in Hayden.

My parents and I went out the Dorsey's home. I remember it as being very big but withe very little furniture. They put me in a bedroom with other children who were supposed to be cousins of mine. I don't remember any of their names but I do remember they were teasing me and making me very angry. I got so angry at one little boy, that I gave him a push. He fell out the bedroom window and landed in a rain barrel that was sitting under the window. When the grownups heard the commotion, they came in. My parents were not very happy with me, but Cousin Dorsey laughed.

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The first part of this information is from the "History of Hayden and Routt County, 1876-1989" submitted by Bonnie Lighthizer, wife of Ed Lighthizer.

"As a young boy, Ed was taught how to ride, milk and care for the cows and how to farm the fields. He was expected to help on the ranch with the chores but still had time to be a boy and enjoy his horse. In the winter, he helped his dad feed the cows before he went to school. They would load the sled with hay, hook up the horses to the sled and go across the fields knocking hay off for the livestock.

Since Leonard and Mildred had no children of their own, they often did special things for Ed. Mildred would make Ed fancy western shirts to wear.

Dorsey and Phyllis would take Ed to rodeos during the summers. In the winter, when chores were done, Dorsey would go to the pool hall and play cards. The pool hall was the hangout for the men of the area.

After graduating from Hayden Union High in 1959, he went to work in Rawlins, Wyoming for a surveying company. When he married Bonnie Hoffman of Craig, Colorado in 1959, they bought a small mobile home and moved it to Rawlins. In the spring of 1960 they moved back to Craig where their first son, Rodney Dorsey was born.

Ed became interested in stock car racing and was sponsored with his own car and expenses by Superior Tire. Ed became president of the stock car organization in the Craig area.

In 1967, Ed and his family bought a house on west Washington Street in Hayden. They found out later that the house was built on the land that had originally been owned by Sam Lighthizer, Ed's grandfather."



The following information are memories I have of Cousin Ed.

After several years of sending Christmas cards during the 1970's and 1980's I was finally able to meet Ed and Bonnie while I was in Denver in 1991 visiting my mother. I had contacted Ed with the information that I had found out that my grandmother, (his great grandmother) was buried in Riverside Cemetery in Denver and asked if they would like to come down to meet me and go see the grave. It was such fun meeting them and having an afternoon talking about the family.

In 1993, my son Scott and I took a trip to Denver so that Scott could meet many of the family members he had never met. One of the highlights of this trip was our journey to Hayden for him to meet his Lighthizer cousins. It was a wonderful time of visiting with Ed, Bonnie and their children and grandchildren. Ed died of a heart attack in that winter.

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There is little known about Baxter Miller. There is no record of a marriage. However, the following copy of an article was given to me by my father, Henry Baxter Lighthizer. My father was named after this uncle, Henry Budd, on his father's side, and his uncle Baxter Miller, on his mother's side. The article was probably from a newspaper in Iowa or from Nebraska because of the mention of "bluffs".

"AN ENCOUNTER WITH A WILD CAT. A correspondent writing in from Ticonic, over the signature of "Josh" says that recently Baxter Miller was out hunting deer and when in the vicinity of C. Barber's farm, he was crossing a little ravine when he suddenly came upon a very large wild cat. Taking quick aim, he fired but only succeeded in giving it a slight wound, which so enraged the animal that is sprang for his face. Having no time to reload he clubbed his rifle and dealt the animal a terrible blow on the head bringing it to the ground, but in an instant it was up and with a spring at the hunter who dropped his rifle and drew a large hunting knife. Then commenced a life and death struggle in which the hunter came out victorious receiving only a few slight scratches. The wild cat measured three feet, four inches in length and weight sixty-five pounds. It is supposed that this is the same animal that attacked Thas. Cook sheep herders one night list fall while they were out in the Bluffs."

On the back of this article, there is a short piece about Edison's Inventions.

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This information was sent to me by Lois Goodson, a friend of my cousin, Kenneth Turpin. She is also a family researcher. This account is from the "History of Edwards County, Illinois".

Andrew Jackson Turpin, the fourth child of Madison and Verlinda (Wheeler) Turpin, was born June 15, 1858 in Mt. Zion, Macon County, IL. "Jackson", by trade, was a carpenter and a farmer. In 1882, Jackson went to Kansas to visit his half-sister, Mrs. John (Mary) Elliott. It was at his sister's that he met Cora Frances (Lighthizer) Howland, a widow. She was a music teacher to Mary's children. After a few months of courtship, he married Cora on June 22, 1882, in Hiawatha, Brown County, Kansas. She is the daughter of Samuel F. and Daisy (Elizabeth Budd?) Lighthizer.
Jackson took his bride to Macon County, IL and settled down to married life with a family. Cora had a son, Hayward Budd Howland. they had three children: Samuel Lee, Daisy, and Ethel Pearl. Jackson's father, Madison Turpin, died on October 18, 1886. Madison's estate was settled by January 1889. Shortly after Jackson received his inheritance, they decided to make their home in Kansas. Jackson joined a wagon train that left Decatur for the prairie state. Sometime after their arrival in Kansas, Jackson bought a livery stable and farmed on the prairie where they had a sod house. The wind was so strong at times that when one came in from the fields you could throw your hat against the building and it'd still be there when you came back. One day, while they were sitting down to the table to eat, lightning hit the house and knocked them all away from the table. Whey they became conscious, the food was cold. They didn't know how long they had been knocked out.
Kansas didn't prove to be hospitable to the Turpins, whether from bad luck or other. Their funds were about to run out. After making arrangements to return to Decatur and buying train tickets, they had just enough money to get back home. Jackson returned to carpentering and Cora assisted the income, being a seamstress, music teacher, barmaid, and cook. Although she was born with a clubfoot, it did not stop Cora from being a capable person. Jackson had the reputation of being one of the best carpenters in the Decatur area.
Andrew Jackson and Cora's children were: Samuel Lee, born in Mt. Zion Twp., Macon Cnty, IL; Daisy, born September 22, 1884, Macon Cnty., IL. She married Rev. Robert Conway Mann (son of Joseph C. and Mary (Schultze) Mann. They had no children. Daisy died April 27, 1959 in Portland, OR; Ethel Pearl, born January 3, 1890 in Macon Cnty., IL. Ethel married Jasper Garfield Goodrich (son of James K and Ruth (Patrick) Goodrich) on February 25, 1909, at Decator, Macon Cnty., IL. They had one son, Ronald Gene Goodrich, born November 28, 1934 at Decatur, IL.
In 1907, Jackson's health began to fail, so much so that by the fall of 1908 he had to spend the winter with his son, Samuel Lee. On the last day of February 1909, he became critically ill and died on March 3, 1909. He was buried in the Mt. Gilead Cemetery on March 5 in Decatur, IL. His widow, Cora Francis, later married a man by the surname of Hermann. Cora died at Decatur, Macon Cnty., IL in June 1951.

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From the death certificate, Walter worked for the Eureka Tea Co. as a salesman.
He was buried in the City Cemetery, Port Washington, Ozaukee Cnty., Wisconsin.

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According to the Forest Hills Cemetery, Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin, Henry Budd purchased a family plot on July 23, 1864. He paid $15.00. There are six family graves but only two of the graves are marked and/or have information. On November 20, 1924, someone (no name in cemetery records) paid $100 into a perpetual fund for the care of the graves.



The following is a quote from "The Arizona Republic", a book of biosketches of prominent men in the Arizona Territory/State. (From the Arizona Historical Society) It is the most complete background information that I've been able to locate for Henry Budd Lighthizer.

THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC

"Hon. H. B. Lighthizer, member and secretary of the Board of Railroad Commissions of Arizona, is a lawyer of prominence well known throughout the Territory and the Northwestern States, and resides in Phoenix, where he enjoys an extensive and lucrative civil practice, chiefly confined to the commercial, land and corporation branches of the law.
He well merits his reputation of being thoroughly up in his profession, and in every respect honorable and reliable, and as was recently said of him by the Phoenix press, "he is considered one of the safest counselors in the city." He is a close student, and is familiar with all of the latest decisions of the courts.
He was born in Oregon, Ogle County, Illinois, June 5, 1839. Received a collegiate education in the "old sand stone" or Rock River Seminary, at Mt. Morris, Illinois, and in the Wisconsin State University at Madison, Wisconsin, and a thorough business training, at intervals, in the mercantile houses of his father at Oregon and Polo, Illinois, and Madison, Wisconsin.
He entered upon the study of the law in the spring of 1857, at Madison, Wisconsin in the office of Smith, Keys and Gay, then one of the leading law firms of the State of Wisconsin, and by close attention to his studies and the adaptability which he displayed for the profession of his choice, at the end of the first year he was promoted over the heads of a number of senior competitors, from a junior law student to managing clerk of the firm at an annual salary fully equal to the average income of a respectable majority of the practicing lawyers of that time and place.
In November 1859, he was admitted to the Dane county bar, and still preserves and exhibits with pardonable pride his certificate of admission, bearing the signature of that eminent jurist, Hon. Harlow S. Orton, now and for many years past one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin and of that gallant soldier and prominent statesman, Gen. Lucius Fairchild, ex-Secretary of the State and ex-Governor of Wisconsin, as Judge and Clerk respectively of the Dane County Court.
In 1860 Mr. Lighthizer was admitted to the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, and further distinguished himself in the same year by casting his first vote for Stephen A. Douglas for President.
The breaking out of the civil war found him practicing his profession at Jefferson City, Wisconsin and in April 1861, he took part in the organization, and was elected Second Lieutenant of the Jefferson County Guards, better known as Company E. of the Fourth Wisconsin Cavalry, which in addition to its military record, has recently distinguished itself by furnishing the great State of Wisconsin two Governors in succession, though of opposite politics, viz: Ex-Governor W.D. Hoard, and Governor George W. Peck.
Lieut. Lighthizer was subsequently promoted to Captain and with his company, participated in all its campaigns in Virginia, Maryland and in the Department of the Gulf, was present at the occupation of New Orleans on May 1, 1862 and at the first investment of Vicksburg by the Federal forces, and at the bombardment of that city and the attempted cutting out of the ram Arkansas from under the Confederate batteries on the night of July 15, 1862 by the combined fleets of Admirals Farragut and Porter; also participated in the battles of Baton Rouge, Camp Bisland, and the siege of Port Hudson, and numerous minor skirmishes both in Louisiana and Tennessee.
Being permanently disabled from active field service by a severe attack of swamp fever and acute inflammatory rheumatism, he was placed for a time in command of the invalid camp at Baton Rouge, and after the fall of Port Hudson and Vicksburg, resigned his commission and returned to Madison, Wisconsin, where in the fall of 1863 he resumed the practice of his profession with marked success.
In the spring of 1866 a milder climate having become a decided necessity for an invalid wife, he removed to Missouri; he first located at Cape Girardeau, and rode the circuit of the southeastern counties of the State in attendance at the first courts held therein after the outbreak of the civil war, but although greatly encouraged in his profession, being engaged on one side or the other of every case, the fevers of that section of the country proved too much for him physically, and in the fall of the same year, he opened his office in the city of St. Louis, where he remained in active practice during thirteen years, attending considerable eminence in his profession, and coming well up to the front ranks thereof.
In 1879, the mining excitement in Southern Arizona brought him to Tucson to the interest of an eastern mining company. "Hope deferred which maketh the heart sick" changed what was originally intended as a temporary sojourn in the "sun-kissed land," into a residence of some years, and finally resulted in his permanent location in Phoenix in April 1885.
In politics a life-long Democrat, he is in no sense a politician, and has never sought or held a political office, and his case presents the rather unusual anomaly of a lawyer who has never asserted his "divine right" to be fed at the public crib, but who, during his whole life, "quietly worked and earned his own bread" at his profession, and to this may be attributed his proficiency as a lawyer, and his evident fitness for the judicial ermine which most certainly awaits him when our judiciary shall become elective and the best judgment of the electors of Arizona are exercised at the pool of the State of Arizona.
Of private honors, however, he has gained not a few. He is a prominent member of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Masonic fraternity - Past Post Commander of J.W. Owens Post, No.. 5, 6. A.R. of Arizona; Past High Priest of Arizona Chapter, No. 1, R.A.M., and Eminent Commander of Phoenix Commandery No. 3, Knights Templar. He is also Past Eminent Commander of Ivanhoe Commandery, No. 8, and St. Aldemar Commander, No. 18, Knights Templar, of St. Louis, Missouri."

**This is retyped from a document received from the Arizona Historical Society. It appeared in the Arizona Republican (Special Edition) August 1892.

According to the above account and the Civil War records, Henry Budd was married before moving to Arizona. Since the above information states his wife was an invalid, I assume that she died. Henry Budd's second wife was Louis Gilbert. They had not children.
The obituaries included with his Civil War record stated that he died suddenly at 55 years of age of complications of pneumonia on June 4, 1894. the death notice in the Arizona paper said his funeral was the largest one that Phoenix had ever had. Arizona was still a territory at that time.

1880 Arizona Census, Pima County, Tucson, lists H. Lighthizer as an attorney. He indicates he is married but no wife is listed with him. According to the Arizona Historical Society, he is listed in the Tucson City Directory for 1883/84 as "Attorney at Law, 412 Pennington St., Tucson, Arizona.

An interesting note: In the town of Tombstone, just a short distance from Tucson, the Earp brothers and their families are listed. It's very possible that since Henry Budd was an attorney, he may have met or seen Wyatt or Virgil Earp during the years that he lived in Tucson. It lists the Earps as Virgil, Alley, Wyatt, Mattie, James, Bessie and their daughter, Hattie.

My father, Henry Baxter Lighthizer, was named after his uncle, Henry Budd on his father's side and Baxter Miller, his uncle on his mother's side.

[NI06390] [Lighthizer family.FTW]

Name and birth information came from the Civil War documents of Homer A. Miller, the father. On July 4, 1898, Homer Miller signed one of the Civil War documents stating that William was deceased.

[NI06589] [Lighthizer family.FTW]

According to the 1850 Izard County, Arkansas, William Morris' children attended school (Jane - 14 yrs. old through John G.- 8 years old). William Morris was listed as a farmer.

[NI06632] [Lighthizer family.FTW]

According to Forest Hills Cemetery, Marion died of bronchitis, 61 1/2 years old. Henry Budd Lighthizer paid for the family plot on July 23, 1864 for $15.00.

[NI06633] [Lighthizer family.FTW]

According to the information from Forest Hills Cemetery, "Will" died at 23 years of age by suicide. He is buried in the Lighthizer family plot that Henry Budd Lighthizer purchased July 23, 1864 for $15.00.

[NI06675] [Lighthizer family.FTW]

The following information was sent to me by my cousin, Kenneth Turpin, and appeared in the county history book, "History of Edwards County, IL".

Samuel Lee Turpin first married Amie Ida, daughter of Joseph C. and Mary (Schultze) Mann, on August 25, 1901, Decatur, IL. Hugh Arthur was born the first year of their marriage and Leslie Ralph was born July 3, 1905. He died at the age of three after falling into a tub of scalding hot water, containing lye, while attempting to wash his feet in a kettle of water which had been heated in the yard for laundry. There was usually a pan of water on the porch for him to wash his bare feet in when he came in from the fields. He must have mistakenly thought the big pot was for washing his feet, and when he tried to get out, he fell back into the hot water, burning his back severely and swallowing some of the lye water. His death was due to the lye affecting his kidneys. He died July 10, 1908. He was buried in Mt. Gilead Cemetery, Macon County, IL.

[NI06683] [Lighthizer family.FTW]

The following information is found in the, "History of Edwards County, IL" county history book and was sent to me by my cousin, Ken Turpin.

Kenneth Eugene Turpin, second son of Samuel Lee and Joy Ethel (McKinney) Turpin, was born August 7, 1931, Decker Twp., Richland Cnty., IL. He spent his first eight years of school learning the "3 R's", reading, writing, arithmetic. He spent a short while working at the Olney Shoe Factory before going to work at a bakery in Champaign (1948 and 1949). Kenneth married Nona Joan Gawthorp, March 10, 1951, in West Salem, Edwards Cnty., IL. Joan was the daughter of Elbert and Ida Grace (Wade) Gawthorp, of Edwards Cnty. He was drafted into the armed forces in January 1952 and had basic training at Camp Gordon, Georgia. He was shipped overseas and arrived in Korea, August 1952. Turpin served as a cook for 519 MP, 8th Army, Company A. he was discharged from service December 1953.
After service, Kenneth worked at Thordarson-Meisner in Mt. Carmel and in the oil fields. He started working at Champion Laboratories in West Salem, February 1961 and was transferred to the Albion Division as foreman of the Air Filter Line in 1965. He is still employed in this capacity at the time of this writing.
Kenneth and Joan bought a 40-acre farm where they enjoy gardening and truck patching. They rent out part of the land but have strawberry, blackberry, gooseberry, and raspberry patches as well as fruit trees. They keep doves, peacocks, guineas, pigeons, chickens, bantams, rabbits, and a goat at the farm too. They tend a variety of flowers that can be found around the farm.
Kenneth had open-heart surgery July 1980, balloon surgery October 1988, and a second open-heart surgery November 13, 1989. There is a history of heart trouble throughout the Turpin lineage. (In 1992 he had an aorta surgery.)
Kenneth and Joan have lived most all of their lives in Edwards County.

[NI06818] [Lighthizer family.FTW]

Kathleen was 3 months old when she died.

[NI06860] [Lighthizer family.FTW]

According to the claim for the Civil War Pension of William Morris, James L. Morris, child of William Morris, states that his younger sister Emily and younger brother "Tennessee Rosin" died at ages 10 and 12. According to the 1860 Arkansas Census, the boys name was Rawson so it's unclear if the Tennessee Rosin was a nick name or if the person taking the census didn't understand the name.

[NI06862] [Lighthizer family.FTW]

He is listed as Indian as his nativity in his Civil War records. In his father's (Leonard Earls) Civil War records, William is listed as living in the Choctaw Nation.

[NI06863] [Lighthizer family.FTW]

Name and birth date came from Civil War documents of Homer A. Miller, father. A Civil War document was signed by Homer Miller on July 4, 1898 stating that Maime Miller was deceased.

[NI06864] [Lighthizer family.FTW]

Name and birth date came from Civil War documents of Homer A. Miller, father.

[NI06865] [Lighthizer family.FTW]

Name and birth date came from Civil War documents of Homer A. Miller, father.

[NI06866] [Lighthizer family.FTW]

Name came from death certificate of Elizabeth (Eliza) Jane Miller.

[NI06867] [Lighthizer family.FTW]

Name came from death certificate of Elizabeth (Eliza) Jane Miller.

[NI06873] [Lighthizer family.FTW]

May 6, 2000: According to information from Alton Davis, he has a copy of a letter written by Lottie M. Miller Grabandt (1882-1975). She is recording information about her family and states that Henry Lighthizer was born in 1760 in Hesse, Kassel (Castle) Germany and came to Virginia in 1789. He had a son named Henry who had four sons: William born December 14, 1806; Henry born November 15, 1812; Samuel born August 6, 1814 (Samuel Francis Lighthizer's birth date matches) and Robert born February 6, 1829. The elder Henry had a half brother, George.

[NI06925] [Lighthizer family.FTW]

Letter from Lottie Grabandt: Williard died at 5 years of age

[NI06926] [Lighthizer family.FTW]

Letter from Lottie Grabandt: Jennie drown at 8 years of age.

[NI06968] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

Look at notes on Marynell [King} Englaender Tuack..Brother and sister were adopted out to Joesph and Mabel Englaender when very young. Raymond never knew his real father Noah Adam King or mother Mary Pinkston. He died on Hogkins Diease and left 5 children. Married to Dorothy Jeanne Naples. His was in WW11 over in Europe and his adopted father and sister both died while he was gone. Always thought his birthday was October 30, 1923 but real birth records and court records show he was born on October 29, 1923. Mabel Grant Englaender family is buried in Valhalla Cemetary in St. Louis, Missouri, under the Grant name. These relatives would be her father, mother, sisters, and brother. Her sister Edith Grant Hurst, married to Clarence N. Hurst is buried with his father, mother, brothers and sisters along with their spouses in Calvary Cemetary in St.Louis, Missouri. Mabel Englaenders sister Christine was married to William Palmer. No known burial cite. Mabel Englaender never told Raymond and Marynell they were adopted till later in their life. Marynell secretly married Rodrick Tuach and only told Mabel when she became pregnant. Marynell died in childbirth along with the child up in Cincinnati, Ohio. Mabel brought her body back to St. Louis for burial next to her adopted father Joseph Englaender. No one knows what happened to her husband [Tuach]. There is no record of the child being buried with her.

[NI06979] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

everyone has always thought Blanche knew where her two youngest siblyings had been adopted too, but she never told anyone if she did. She went to the Ozark School or College paid for by Mable Grant Englaender who adopted her younger brother and sister.

[NI06983] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

Marynell and her younger brother Ramon Price were adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Joesph Englaender when young. None of the other children of Noah Adam King and Mary Pinkston were adopted out but they all spent time in an childrens home when they're mother died in childbirth with the 10th child and their father couldn't take care of them. Marynell married a man by the name of Tuack and she died in childbirth along with the child as far as anyone knows. She is buried in St. Louis, Missouri next to her adoptive parents. Her younger Brother Raymond [King] Englaender is also buried in St. Louis, Missouri. Neither children ever met their real father or siblings before dying.

[NI06996] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

Daniel and Sarah left Franklin Co., Virginia with their family and 200 head of hogs. They stopped in Monroe Co., Kentucky by 1820 and arrived in Madison Co., Missouri between 1821-1826. Daniel served in the War of 1812 under the command of Robert Hairston in the Franklin Co., 110th VA Regiment as a private. He received $7. 42 cents for his service. It is thought that Daniel may have first moved to Puxico, Missouri area.

[NI07035] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

born in Paris, France and went to military school in Sarbonne, and graduated with degree in chemical or civil engineering. came from rich family who were in printing business for king before Napoleon. Was Captain in army, taken prisoner by Germans during the French-German War of 1870. After release at end of war he reenlisted for 1 year and then deserted running from french government and ending up in Naples, Italy where he changed his last name to Naples before boarding a ship to USA. He joined the US Army for one term of enlistment and getting good jobs with high officers in the Cotton Exchange in New Orleans, as a civil or chemical engineer for the Santa Fe Railroad and also as Chief engineer at a large coal mine in Frontenac, Kansas. He quit his job at the mine because the owners would not follow any safety rules that he suggested . A short time later a dust explosion in the mine killed a lot of miners. About this time he met and married Cynthia Cagley on 1-23-1878, who was the youngest of seventeen children and they had a son named Daniel S. Naples born 1-25-1878. When Daniel was about 2 years old Lucinda died in childbirth and she is buried near Nevada, Missouri. Daniel was raised by his mothes relatives. Adolph went back to France to see his mother and see if he could get part of the Paris estate. some of the relatives informed the French government that he had returned to france and history does not say whether he ever was able to see his mother or not but he did stay in Europe for 7-8 years before returning to the United States. Adolph spoke quite a few languages including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portugeses. One day many years later his son Daniel was harrowing a newly plowed field and that a man he had never seen had him stop the team and then said to him "hello Dan, I'm your father". Daniel said he didn't believe him and kept working until evening where he found out later the man was telling the truth. Adolph stayed in the neighborhood for sometime because he opened a coin and stamp business in Mulberry, Kansas. The government ran him out of business because as good engraver he altered stamps and postmarks. When Daniel was abt. 14 years old he had saved enough money for a horse, saddle, and rifle. Adolph either tried to get this money from Daniel's uncle Asa Pitts who he ws living with or attempted to steal it. As a result Daniel left Missouri and Kansas and got a job in Littleton, Colorado on a ranch. He never told Adolph where he went but one day he was working in a barn lot when Adolph walked in and tried to collect his salary from Daniel's boss. Daniel got alittle upset and hit Adolph with a broken fork handle breaking his thumb and too fingers. To get away from Adolph Daniel took a job as a driver and helped drive cattle down to Mexico and then came to St. Louis County, Missouri where he met and married Mathilda Boenker. [see Daniel S. Naples genealogy line]. Not too long after Daniel married Mathilda in walks his father Adolph who stayed a few days and left stealing Daniels suit and forty dollars. This must have been around 1903-1904 when his Daniel's son, my grandfather Arch Naples was a baby. The next time Adolph turned up he lived and worked in St. Louis and sent a messenger to his sons home to tell him he was sick. The next day Daniel and his son Arch who was now about 8 years old went to see Adolph and Arch sat on the edge of the bed and heard this whole story. When Adolph went back to france the last time there was an estate there but he being a fugitive of the law in France there ws no chance to get it. After the visit the next day Adolph died which was October 4, 1911. Daniel wanted the city to bury his father in the potters field but his wife Mathilda insisted that they bury him in a cemetary . Daniel always said that he figured some where along the line he would bet his dad was a horsethief and would have been hanged had he been caught. This is the whole story told by Archibald A. Naples, grandson of Adolph L. Naples.

[NI07037] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

5 Boenker brothers came to the USA ...... the two oldest boys first and then the 3 youngest along with their parents came later. These 5 brothers were Hermann, Johann Henrick, Fredrick, George, and William. Our family history starts with Johann Heinrick who married Anna Maria Elsabeth Hollrah. Johann Henrick and his wife Anna Maria Hollrah Boenker are buried in the Immanuel Luthern Cemetery in St. Charles, Misssouri along with alot of the other members of both families. They are both in section 1 of the cemetery but each has their own headstones and are not buried side by side. Anna Maria is buried right next to the road and her husband Johann is buried 5 plots away towards the middle of the row. They each have tall dark gray monuments with their names, birth and death dates on them written in German. I suspect most of the Boenkers in this cemetery plus St. Peters and St. John Cemeteries have alot of the relatives of these two people.

[NI07101] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

John D. Sullivan married Bertha Florence Francis in 1899 at the Church of the Annumciation in California, Missouri.

[NI07102] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

Bertha Florences parents divorced and her father moved to Eldon, Missouri and her mother Melissa moved in with John David Sullivan and Bertha.

[NI07107] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

Maurice "O" Sullivan and his brother came to New York, N.Y. in the early 1850's. Maurice came to Missouri [we believe he worked on the railroad as far as Missouri where he decided to homestead 160 acres northwest of Centertown, Missouri. Another 80 acres was purchased later]. The "O" was dropped after he arrived in America. We believe his brother settled in Canada.
John Leonard, his wife Hanorah Flahavin Leonard along with one daughter [6 months] and Hanorah's sister Mary Martha Flahavin arrived in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1851. Mary Martha Flahavin married a Robert Stack and had two children abt. 1864. When Robert Stack died Maurice married Mary Martha Stack, and they had 1 son named John David Sullivan.

[NI07108] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

Mary Martha Flahavin was born in Bully, County Kerry, Ireland. She came to the USA along with her sister Honorah Flahavin and her husband John Leonard and their 6th month old daughter. They went to New Orleans, Louisiana in 1851 before coming to Missouri. Mary Martha married Robert Stack about 1864 and had 2 children named Maude and Maurice Stack. After Robert died she married Maurice Sullivan and had 1 son named John D. Sullivan and a son named Ioamay Sullivan who died at the age of 8 years-2 months old. It is possible Mary Martha died in childbirth.
Mary Martha's brother-in law John Leonard, his wife Honorah, Mary Martha herself and Maurice and Ioamay are buried on the east side of the Catholic Cemetery in California, Missouri. All have tombstones except Mary Martha.

[NI07145] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

Tree fell on him as it was being cut down and split and part of it fell on him and killed him.

[NI07499] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

Newton died of Hypothermia in a winter rain storm on his way to Jackson, Missouri on horseback. Phillis drowned in the Mississippi River and her death was ruled as a suicide. A riverboat pilot found her body on a sandbar at Bird's Point near Cairo, Illinois and buried her there. During one winter afrter Newton's death, she and the children had only sweet potatoes to eat. A neighboring farmer would sometimes bring her flour and his trips to Jackson and not charge her. She and Newton have a memorial head stone at New Bethel Cemetery.

[NI07500] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

William died of Blood Poisoning after being kicked by a horse while shoeing it. A nail he was using punctured his skin and he died 10 days later.

[NI07844] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

Rachel Englaender did not marry the fathers of Caitlin, her daughter, and her son Jordan. Her son Dylan's father is Anthony Vogel. He was born on April 17, 1977 in St. Louis, Missouri. His father is Ray Anthony Vogel and his mother is Kathleen Sue Faulkner.{she is adopted} Ray Vogel's birthday is May 30 and Kathleen Sue Faulkners birthday is September 15, 1958

[NI08068] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

twin to Leander Ohsiek.

[NI08176] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

Edward Antonio Bresette was born on November 24, 1871 in South Bend, Indiana. His father was James Edward Bresette and his mother was Sarah Elizabeth Schooks. His mother passed away when he was only 3 years old and his father remarried and later moved the family to Topeka, Kansas around 1880. Edward met his wife Sarah Rogena, who was from Vermont and they married in 1892 In Topeka, Kansas. 3 of their children were born in Kansas and then he moved the family to Kansas City, Missouri in 1907 where the rest of their children were born. Edward was a carpenter by trade and lived to be 75 years old. He died on a heart attack in 1946 at Providence Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri and is buried at Calvary Cemetary in Kansas City, Mo.

[NI08182] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

James Bresette was the first one of the family to be born in the United States. In 1861 when the Civil War broke out James volunteered and joined the 48th Regiment on December 6, 1861. He was listed as a private and his cousin Charles Theodore who also joined with him. His uncle Charles [his mothers brother] was the Marshall of South Bend at the time, and also joined as a captain. The regiment was organized in Goshen on the 6th of Decemeber 1861 and with Norman Eddy as Colonel they left for Fort Donelson by way of Cairo on December 1, 1862 where they arrived the day after the surrender. They then moved to Paducah, where they remained until May, then they moved up the Tennessee river and engaged in the siege of Corinth. At the surrender of Vicksburg the regiment remained in that vicinity until August and then moved up the river to Memphis, and from there marched across the country to Chattanooga where they engaged the enemy at Tunnel Hill, Huntsville, Alabama, Cartersville, Georgia, and was then kept in that area on duty looking after guerrillas and protecting General Sherman's railroad communications during the campaign against Atlanta. It continued this duty until Hood's Invasion where they joined Sherman's army and marched with the First Brigade, Third Division of the Fifteenth Army Corps in its campaign from Atlanta to Savannah to Beaufort, and then on through the Carolinas, Raleigh, to Petersburg, 165 miles in six days. From Petersburg they marched to Washington and soon after its arrival were transferred to Louisville, Kentucky where they were mustered out of service on July 15, 1865. On returning to Indianapolis it was present at the public reception given to a large number of returned troops in the capitol grounds on the 18th of July 1865 where speeches were given by Governor Morton, General Hove and others. During they're term of service the regiment lost in battle 213 men either killed or wounded.
James was listed as one of the men severely wounded, however I do not know what battle it was. Shortly after the war was over James married a local South Bend girl named Sarah Elizabeth Schooks from Ohio. They had 3 children and in 1873 Sarah died leaving James with the children and a widower. About a year later he fell in love with a friend named Mary Farancis Johnson and they married in 1874. They moved from South Bend, Indiana to Topeka, Kansas in 1880 where a daughter was born to them. On July 18, 1882 James and his cousin Charles Theodore Chandonia submitted a claim the government relative to their rights to occupy certain unoccupied lands on the Potawattomi Reservation in Jackson County, Kansas. The claim was denied on March 16th, 1883 on the grounds that their names did not appear on the 1861 census roll of Potawattomi Indians.
When Mary Francis Bresette died and James found himself once again a widower with children to care for married the kids tutor Anna May Byers. He died on March 30, 1935 after living 88 years, 10 months, and 23 days. He is buried in Mt. Calvary Cemetery in Topeka, Kansas. A futher note on James Edward Bresette shows that he was mustered out of the army because of a gunshot wound in his left knee, and that around 1880 he went to Rossville, Kansas applied for a military pension based on this wound in 1882.
When James married Sarah Elizabeth Schooks there was a civil ceremony in a neighboring county probably around 1866-1867. Since Sarah converted to Catholism there was clearly a difference in Relgigions before they got married, and perhaps this difference created opposition form both sides of the families forcing them to get married elsewhere.

[NI08184] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

Lewis Bresette immigrated from the Province of Lower Canada on December 28th, 1939. He arrived in South Bend, Indiana on October 2, 1840 and the court received his immigration and naturalization paperwork in September 1843. The circuit court of St. Joseph, Indiana appointed Daniel Dayton, William Sisson, and C.M. Wright, school examiners. This record was found in book 5, page 38 at the circuit court. In March 1846 Immigration/Naturalization papers whereby citizenship was granted. On January 12, 1852 Probate Court records for Lewis Bresette shows divisions of his land between his wife, children, and his brother-in-law.
Lewis Bresette was the first Bresette to emigrate into the United States by way of Detroit, Michigan on December 28, 1939. He moved to South Bend, Indiana October 2, 1840. He was of the CAtholic faith and met his future wife Mary Louisa Chandonia in Indiana. The were parishioners at the Parish of Notre Dame Du Lac. [St.Mary's of the Lake]. They married in 1841 and their daughter Mary Serina was born on October 2, 1843. Mary's brother Charles and her mother Mary Louisa were the god-parents. In 1849 Lewis was part of the joint-stock company which formed to go to California to search for gold. On February 20, 1849 according to "The Register" [South Bends newspaper], the 30 men set out for the gold region. Apparently, this adventure turned worthless because Lewis returned to South Bend and died there in 1850. He only lived 11 years in the United States and was only 32 when he died. He was buried in Cedar Cemetery at Notre Dame.
The Bresette and Chandonia families kept their affiliation with Sacred Heart Church through the early 1850's at which time the parish boundaries were more firmly established, and they became members of St.Joseph church. According to letters to a Tipton Lindsey it states that Lewis Bresett of the Joint Stock Co. died on Christmas of "Typhus Fever" which is a accute infectious fever, characterized by high fever, dizziness, and headache] in Weaverville, California but St. Joseph County Probate Records, box 15 indicates that Lewis Bressett had died in May 1950.

[NI08185] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

Mary Louisa Chandonnet was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1822. Her father was John Baptist Chandonia who was half Potawattomi Indian. Her mother was a French woman named Mary Louisa Chapoton. Mary lived in Detroit with her mother at the fort while her father lived with his Indian wife "Kesis" near La Porte, Indiana. In the early 1830's after her father's wife {Kesis} died, Mary, her brother Charles, and her mother were sent for by her father. They were brought to South Bend, Indiana to live with him and his Indian Children [Kesis, Hortense, Lewis, and Poskow]. Mary met Lewis Bresette in 1840 and married him in 1841. They had 3 children together before Lewis died in 1850 and Mary died in 1853. Married died of Erysipelas which is a skin diease caused by Strep Infection which devastates the blood. Mary's
husband Lewis was also known as Louis Bresette.

[NI08189] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

other birthdates are March 20, 1794 ......
census 1. 1850....Portage Township, St. Joseph co., Indiana
lived on a fort with her mother
nationality.....French

[NI08190] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

One needs to remember that in order to be sucessful i the fur trading busines, the trader needed to establish a firm relationship with a band or bands of tribes, depending upo how large his business, these establishments were usually finalized by marriages between the French and Native Americans. May of these marriages were in the "Native tradition" and not solemnized by civil or church ceremonies. If anyone claims their French fur trading ancestors had no Indian blook, they need to do their homework. I cannot think of one French fur trading family that did not have Indian blood. The children of these French-Indian marriages were contemptuously called "half-breeds" by the English[ who seldom married Indians and were less successful in trading with the Indians], but the French called them "Metis", or mixed bloods. The Metis formed the communication basis that made the fur trade actually work because they felt at home both in the Indian and white worlds. Thus, you could have Metis moving easily between the Potawatomi [and other tribes] and the white communities in Michigan, Wisconsin, Chicago, Porter County, Detroit, the St. Joseph region, and South Bend. The metis were often used as interpreters in Indian Treaties because they had the respect of both the Indians and the white man. Jean B. Chandonia fits this profile, he is the son of Charles Chandonnet. It is said that Charles Francis Chandonia was married to Marguerite Marcot's sister Charlotte, both of french-Indian blood.

[NI08191] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

Margaret-Margot is identified in family papers as a Pottawatomie from Detroit, possibly half Potawatomi. She was also known as Chippewaqua-Chippewa woman which was her Indian name. She was the sister of Topinabee, the last Pottawatomi "war chief". Marquerite Marcot was her French name and is written this way on her sons wedding register. She also had a son named Joseph Daze LOuison. One needs to remember that in order to be successful in the fur trading business, the trader needed to establish a firm relationship with a band or bands of tribes, depending upon how large this business. These establishments were usually finalized by marriages between the French and Native Americans. Many of these marriages were in the "Native Tradition" and not solemnized by civil or church ceremonies. The children of these French-Indian marriages were contemptuously called "half-breeds" by the English [who seldom married Indians and were less sucessful in trading with the Indians], but the French called them {Metis}", or mixed blood.
The Metis formed the communication basis that made the fur trade actually work because they felt at home both in the Indian and white worlds. Thus, you could have Metis moving easily between the Potawatomi [and other tribes], and the white communities in Michigan, Wisconsin, Chicago, Porter County, Detroit, the St. Joseph region, and South Bend. The metis were often used as interpreters in Indian Treaties because they had the respect of both the Indians and the white man. Jean B. Chandonia fit this profile. This information is courtesy of John Palmer, Local History/Genealogy Room, St. Joseph County Public Library.

[NI08196] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

information for this line of Meloche by Don and Linda Laforge

[NI08274] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

Brought to the South Bend, Indiana area by their mother in the early 1830's after their father's Indian wife Kesis died. Charles Benjamin {Benedict} married Lucille Pellitier of Frenchtown, Michigan and together they had 5 children. During the Civil War, Charles joined the 48th regiment and was enlisted as a Captain. Charles was also the Deputy Sheriff of South Bend, Indiana. He died of Typhoid and Erysipelas. During the Civil War, Charles joined the 48th Regiment and was enlisted as a Captain. Charles was also a Deputy Sheriff of South Bend, Indiana

[NI08305] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

Jean was born in 1790 and his mother wa a Potawattomi Indian, her Indian name was Chi-Pe-Wa-Qua and she was supposedly the sister of Topinabee, the last war chief of the Potawattomi. Her french name was Marguerite Marcot. It is also written in history that his father Charles Francois Chandonia was married to Marguerite Marcot's sister Charlotte, both of French/Indian blood. Jean Baptiste was supposedly adopted by Charles Chandonnet and his wife Charlotte Marcot and took his last name, and then was known as J.B. Chandonnet. Jean's natural father Charles Agacouchin wa a Potawatomie and believed to be the brother of Topinabee making Jean Baptiste Topenabee's nephew. In the early part of the War of 1812 67 men were exacuated from the historic U.S. Army post called Fort Dearborn, near present day Chicago. They were accompanied by the residen settlers and a body of supposedly friendly Indians. On the way to Detroit, the Indian escort party joined with another large forces of Indians and attacked the group. 2/3's of the Americans were killed and the rest were subsequently ransomed at Detroit. Jean was kept in irons by the British and he received credit for assisting Captain Heald to escape. During the 1812 war Jean was employed by Generals Lewis Cass and William Henry Harrison, future president of the United States, as an Indian Scout and special messenger. He remained in the service for some years afterward in the capacity of a peace convoy of the Indians. Bartlett's "Tale of the Kankakee" tells about Chandonet... "an Indian scout in the secert service of the United States Government, whose duty was to promote peace in the camps of the Potawattomi.".. The chapter refers to "The First Citizen of the Parkovash".
The matrimonial register of St. Anne's Church in Detroit contains the following: "The year of our Lord 1815, the 8th day of the month of August, after three publications of banns of marriage, between Jean-Baptiste Chandonnet, a son of Charles Chandonnet, deceased, and Marguerite Marcot, a native of St. Joseph, residing in this parish, on one part and Louise Chapoton, daugher, under 21, of Benoit Chapoton and Therese Meloche, of this parish, having the consent of her father on the one hand, and there being on the other hand no legal or canonical impediment..... "signed by Father Gabriel Richard. Jean [John] went to Chicago and engaged in the fur trade of that region. His wife joined him there in 1816 travelling with a Mrs. Baird from Machinac by schooner. Together John and Mary Louisa had a daughter named Margaret, however she died a few short years afterwards. They had their first son in Detriot, Michigan in 1816 and they named him Charles Benedict Chandonia.
The August 29th, 1821 treaty stated, "Two sections of land on the river St. Joseph were granted to Jean B. Chandonia, the son of Chip-pe-wa-qua. One section of land adjoining the tract granted to Chandonia wa also granted to Joseh Daze, another son of Chip-pe-wa-qua. John was granted the two sections of land in Indiana as well as numerous other sections. These grants were for his services to the government and because of his mothers rank in the Potawattomi tribe. In 1822 he went to the area and sold all but one section. Around this time, he was granted 640 acres by the Potawattomi Indians near La Porte, Indiana for marrying an Indian girl named Kesis. John lived with Kesis on this land while his French wife remained in Detroit, Michigan with his 2 children. Kesis died and John sold their land and moved to the property in South Bend. He brought his 4 Indian children with him. He tried to sell this land in March of 1823 but was denied saying that he would be left destitute and that it should be a secure retreat for his wife and children.
When Jean [John} died in 1837 his wife Mary Louisa had to borrow money from Pierre Navarre to purchase a burial shroud. He only lived 47 years, but in that time he made his mark in history and had a very exciting life. Old records in City Cemetery of South Bend, Indiana verify that John Chandonnet is buried in the area referred to as the "Old Military Plot", but it is not marked in any fashion. In May 2000 his burial plot was finally found and a marker was placed there. He was truly a remarkable man and a hero of the War of 1812.

INDIAN LIASON....From a publishcation Courtesey of Mrs. John B. Chandonia of South Bend, Indiana

Jean Baptiste Chandonia [or Chandonnai] a half French, half Potawatomi Indian and nephew of the famous war chief Topenebee played an important role in the development of Northern Indiana. A hero at Fort Dearborn massacre in Chicago, he saved the lives of several white prisoners, including the fort commander and his wife. He served in the War of 1812 and worked for the government as an interpreter and scout. He also worked with the State in the building of the Madison to Michigan City Indiana road, and he attended the Council of Greville where a peace treaty was signed by tribes at war with the U.S. Jean Baptiste Chandonia died in 1837 at the age of 42. He was buried in an unmarked grave in the old soldiers section of the South Bend Cemetery.

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Bernhard and Catherine Achelpohl, nee Runde, were born in Hilter in the Kingdom of Hanover, Germany. I have found two towns bearing the name of hilter in the Kingdom of Hanover on the map. One is alittle north of Meppen and the other is about fifteen miles southeast of Osnabruck. Bernhard was born April 16, 1812 and he died December 1, 1876 at the age of 64 years. Catherine Runde Achelpohl was born April 28, 1808 and died July 21, 1882 at the age of 74 years. After the death of her husband Bernhard, Catherine Achelpohl married Rudolph M. Moentmann on May 14, 1878. He preceded her in death. Berhard and Catherine were called "Grossmutter and Grossvater" and this lettering is on small markers at the head of their graves. If you enter the Lutheran Cemetery in St. Charles, Missouri from the street called Private Drive[often called "Cemetery Lane" their graves are on the left along the drive shortly before you come to the crossroad. There is a large marker with their names inscribed erected between the two graves.
Bernhard Achelpohl emigrated to the United States in 1850. After his arrival in New Orleans, Louisiana he worked for two years in order to obtain the money where-with to bring his family to America. This result was accomplished in 1852, Bernhard going to Jersey City, Mississippi to meet his loved ones which included his wife and 3 sons: William, Henry, Frederick, and a daughter named Wilhelmina[Minnie].
By trade Bernhard was a carpenter and also a farmer. The family stayed in Jersey City for three months and then moved to St. Louis, Missouri and remained there wheile the father prospected in various parts of Missouri for a small farm on which to settle. His means were extremely limited but he finally rented a tiny farm near St. Charles and with $90.00 dollars in cash pruschased two horses. They continued to reside on this farm for 6 years, and as they were very poor these were years of deprivment and toil. Often times they were obliged to exchange their grain and crops for meat and provisions. The parents were frugal and industrious and by economizing and trading in one way or another managed to save $900.00 dollars in addition to providing for the needs of the family. In 1858 Bernhard bought thirty acres of land near St. Charles in the Cul-de-sac area about two miles north of the city of St. Charles. This farm was on the banks fo the Missouri River, being in Township 47, Range 5 East, Block No. 10 lower bottom of the St. Charles Commons. The story is told that this farm was planted in wheat and was under about 6 inches of water being flooded by the Missouri River when Bernhard looked at it. The owner was very anxious to sell this land that he told Bernhard he would reduce the price considerably if he would purchase it while it was flooded. The price was agreed upon and Bernhard became the owner. That night the river dropped suddenly and instead of the water damaging the wheat it was beneficial and a very good wheat crop was harvested.
Alittle about the children of Bernhard and Catherine Achelpohl now. William Achelpohl was born in Hilter, Germany on January 23, 1838. He was 14 years old when he came to America. He married Johanna Hallemeier on February 13, 1861. Johanna was born March 15, 1842 and she died March 17, 1872 and buried in the Luthern Cemetery in St. Charles, Missouri. Six children were born to this couple, their names were Henry, Caroline[Lena], Wilhelmina [Minnie], Dr. Frederich H. Boenker, Elisa[Lissie], and an infant who died at birth when the mother died. After his wife died William married Maria Ossenbrink on July 10, 1872, just 4 months after Johanna died. Maria Ossenbrink Achelpohl was born on January 10, 1855. She had lived on an neighboring farm and was seventeen years old when she married. For a numer of years she had helped care for the Achelpohl children in their home since their mother was ill with tuberculosis. The story is also told that when William and Mria went to see the pastor of Immanuel Lutheran Church to get married Pastor Graebner was very concerned since Maria was only seventeen years old and William was thirty-six. But William told the pastor they loved each other and wanted to get married and that the children also dearly loved her. No children were born to this union. William lived on a farm adjacent to that of his parents. His father had given him some land and from time to time he also purchased additional land in this area. A disastrous flood of the Missouri River in 1882 washed many acres of this land into the river. The house where Bernhard and Catherine Achelpohl resided after they bought the farm was also washed into the rier but the home of William and Maria was not destroyed. About 1900 William and his wife moved to St. Charles and made their home at 1015 North Fifth Street. Maria Achelpohl died Mary 16, 1924 at the age of 69 years. Her husband William Achelpohl died November 11, 1926 at the age of 88 years. Their graves are located near the center of the Lutheran Cemetery in St. Charles, a little dstance suthwest of the tool shed,and markers at the head of their graves. One of the most significate reasons I wrote this little story was to get to Caroline [Lena] Achelpohl. She was born August 7, 1864 and married Henry C. Osiek who was born in 1859. Henry was the son of Casper Henry Osiek and Katherine Wilhelminia Bredenbeck of Hanover, Germany also. Henry died in 1941 at the age of 82 years. His wife Caroline died in 1948 at the age of 83. They are the parents of William, Ernst, Mamie, Edward, Henry C. II, Walter, Emil, Ervin and Omar. Caroline was William and Johanna Achelpohl's second born child and if not for her we would not have the Osiek's in our family genealogy history. Henry C. Osiek is the brother of Katherine Wilhelmminia Charlotte Osiek who is my great-great grandmother. Now another reason is Caroline's younger brother Frederich H. Achelpohl. He was the fourth child born to Johanna and William Achelphol on January 29, 1868. He married Wilhelmine [Minnie] Poll who was born March 10, 1874 in St.Clair, ILLinois. They were married September 6, 1893 and Wilhelmine was the daughter of William and Minna [nee Niedringhaus] Poll. Her father died April 5, 1875 at the age of 37 years of age and she was one year old. Frederich was a doctor who went to school at Indiana Normal School in Valparaiso, Indiana. Then he taught in the small one room public school which was located at the corner of Wiedey Road and the North Bottom Road for the school year of 1889-1890. He attended dental college which was merged with Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri in the year 1892. He received his degree in denistry from Washington University on March 10, 1892 and was Valedictorian of his class. He practiced dentistry in St. Charles then went into the furniture and undertaking business in 1911 becoming a partner with John Koenig in St. Charles but this partnership was dissolved after 2 years. Dr. Achelpohl died February 6, 1927 at the age of 59 years. His wife Minnie died January 24, 1948 at the age of 73 years. They are buried in the Luthern Cemetery in St. Charles, Missouri. Many of our ancestors were laid to rest either in this cemetery or the Fee Fee cemetery for all sides of the families. Because if not for a brother and sister marrying into 2 of St. Charles most interesting families we the Englaender's would not be here today. Wilhelmine [Minnie] Polls father William is a brother of Ernest Heinrick Fredick Poll married to Henry C. Osiek's sister Catherine Wilhemina Charlotte Osiek. It gets alittle hard to figure out but if you just look at it long enough you see the family ties. Two [2] Achelopohl siblings managed to bring 3 family lines together by marriage....... ACHELPOHL, OSIEK, AND POLL.
Ernest Henrich Fredrick Poll and his wife Catherine W. Charlotte Osiek had 6 children, one being Anne Katherine Wilhelminia Poll, born August 7, 1875, who married Arthur Elwood Davis, born August 17, 1880/died August 30, 1939. They had 4 children one being Elvera Naples born August 8, 1906 who married Archibald August Naples with them having one child named Dorothy Jeanne born January 14, 1929. She married Raymond [King] Englaender and they had 5 children named Donna Rae, Patricia Lynn, Cynthia Anne, Raymond Scott, and Elizabeth Jeanne.

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It's said that after he and his brother came over to America and landed in New York, his brother Maurice came to Missouri to settle and farm and Humphrey went to Canada.

[NI08692] Bolek J. Winski was born in 1887 in Rypen, Poland which was then
Austria-Hungry and came to the United States as a child. His original
Surname was Wisniewski, but was shortened to Winski upon arrival in
the U.S.

He and Garnett are burried in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio.

[NI08694] When Benjamin came to the United States, Frank was walking. Bolek was carried. John was born in the United States

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The surname Cagley was changed from the name Kegley and from Kegley to the orginal German surname of Goeckel when John George Kegley and his wife Katterina emigrated to the United States in the mid 1700's. There are many other ways the surname has changed over the years with the different families such as Kockhle, Goeckel, Geckley, Gockle, Keckly, Koegley, and our family line of Cagley.
Evidently in the late 1700's there was a massive family feud and most of George and Katterina's children took off in all directions in the country changing their last names as they went about marrying and having their own children. Several of the siblings moved to Virginia and Tennessee which is wear John Jacob Kegley was born on October 8, 1764. As of right now no one knows his wifes name nor when they married. John Jacob was born in Lancaster Co., PA and he had a son named Lewis who married Elizabeth Grubb in 1826. They had 9 children, one being Lucinda F. Cagley our great-great grandmother. Lucinda met and married Adolph L. Naples [see his story] on January 23, 1878 in Vernon Co., Missouri. We have a copy of their marriage record on file. They had one son named Daniel Stanious Naples who was born in 1879 in Ft. Scott, Kansas. According to census files in the state of Missouri Lucinda shows up in the 1880 state census when Daniel was a couple of years old. We believe she died anywhere from 1882-1885 because his grandson Archibald A. Naples remembers stories told to him by his father that he was a very young boy when his mother died. It is said she may have died in childbirth along with her second child. At this time no one knows where she died and is buried. She could be buried either in Kansas or Missouri somewhere around the Vernon Co. area. We also know that her son Daniel use to visit a uncle named Asa Pitt [supposedly a brother -in law of his mothers; and can only believe that one of her sisters married this man since this gentleman doesn't show up in any other family linerage. There also was a uncle named Ward, but we have no idea who this man may be, possibly another brother-in law of Lucinda's.
The Kegley family immigrated from what is now Germany about 1750-60 and settled in what was at that time Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, near present day Annville, which is now Lebanon Co. John George Kegley Sr., whose original German name was Jorg Goeckel, and his wife Catherine eventually settled in the area of present day Wythe Co., Virginia. Many of the original family members are buried in the area around Wytheville, Virginia. Descendants are still counted among the residents of that area. Our branch of the family moved from SW Virginia in the 1800's due to the scarcity of good farm land at that timeand settled first in Eastern Kentucky. From there they branched out across the US and have family members located in Wisconsin, Kentucky, North Carolina,Kansas,Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, Washington, Iowa, and so on.

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Sarah Jane and John L. Pitts, her husband, were married in Anderson County, Tennessee. They moved to Vernon County, Missouri and lived near Ft. Scott, Kansas where Lucinda Cagley her younger sister lived with her husband Adolph L. Naples and where their only son Daniel S. Naples was born in 1879. In my research looking for any relatives of my gg-grandmother Lucinda this is the first time I found the mention of a Pitt connected to a Cagley which a uncle Asa Pitt was mentioned in a letter about my g-grandfather Daniels childhood. We always assumed that this Asa Pitt was married to one of Lucinda's sisters, but it could be he was the father of John L. Pitt himself, or a brother possibly. Sarah died September 1, 1886 when her youngest child was 5 years old. Both Sarah and her husband are buried in Clarksburg Cemetery near Garland, Kansas. John and Sarah lived near Bronaugh, Missouri at the time of Sarah's death.

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Johann Gerhard Boenker was born in Germany along with his wife Adelhest Behlings. No known birth or death dates right now. Their son Johann Gerhard Daniel was born February 8, 1798 in Menslage, Kingdom of Hanover, Germany. He married Helene Maria Adelheid Bune [birth&death dates unknown] and had 5 sons named Hermann Diedrich born 1824, Johann Heinrich born 1831, Hermann Friedrich born 1834, Johann Gerhard born 1840, and Hermann Wilhelm born 1843.
Johann Gerhard Daniel and his wife came to America with their two youngest sons Gerhard and Wilhelm aboard the ship Ernestine landing in New Orleans, Louisiana on November 20, 1858. They made their way to Missouri settling in St.Charles, Missouri where they met up with their 3 oldest sons who had emigrated over to the states a couple of years earlier. They lived with their oldest son Hermann Diedrich Boenker and his family. The Boenker's were mostly land owners farming the St.Charles and St. Louis area, although as the sons had families and their grandchildren grew and spread out into neighboring area's they also lived in the Harvester, Missouri area too.
Hemann Diedrich Boenker came to America alone in 1851 making his way to St. Charles, Missouri. He married Anna margaretha Esselmann who he was betrothed to while they were children. She followed over to America on December 19, 1853, landing in New Orlean, Louisiana aboard the ship named Adonis. She and Hermann were married in St. Charles, Missouri on February 25, 1854 by Pastor Lange, a Luthern minister.
Johann Heinrich the second oldest son married Anna Maria Hollrah on February 24, 1855. It is not known when he arrived in the United States or what ship he sailed on. They also were married by Pastor Lange over in St. Charles, Missouri. He was still living there with his wife and 8 children when the 1876 census was taken, then he moved his family to Bridgeton, Missouri which is in Pattonville district, which is a subdivision of St. Louis Co., Missouri.
Hermann Freidrich Boenker sailed to America arriving in New Orlean, Louisiana on November 3, 1856 aboard the ship named Mississippi. Also on this ship was his future wife Maria Catherine Wilhelmina Hollenberg and her family. Friedrich and Maria Catherine lived in St. Charles, Missouri according to the 1876 census along with their family. Freidrich died December 12, 1876 and there isn't any information on his children at this moment. It is believed that his wife's parents and siblings moved to Bridgeton, Missouri.
Johann Gerhard [George] Boenker married Catharine Maria Adeheid Hollenberg. It is believed they lived in Bridgeton, Missouri also. They stayed members of Immanuel Luthern Church over in St. Charles, Missouri though. They had nine children. No other info is on this family at the moment.
Hermann Wilhelm Boenker married Helena Katherine Meyer. They had five children and lived in Harvester, St. Charles Co., Missouri. They owned a grocery and drygoods business then later farmed.
This is all the information I have on this son and his family at the moment.
Most of the Boenker family ancestors are buried in the St. Louis County area cemeteries. Our ancestor Johann Heinrich Boenker was born on December 18, 1831 and died January 21, 1889. His wife Anna Maria Hollrah Boenker was born on June 29, 1832 and died February 21, 1891. They are buried probably either in the Immuanel Luthern Cemetery over in St. Charles, Missouri or the Fee Fee Cemetery in Bridgeton, Missouri. In the Immanuel Cemetery they do not have any records for the old section and alot of the tombstones have broken off or too worn with age and weather to be read correctly for info. The property that Fee Fee Cemetery sits on belonged to their oldest son Hermann Heinrich August Boenker and his families farm. He deeded it over to the Mispah Church and the Baptist church to be used as a cemetery and it is still opened and used today in 1999. We have alot of relatives who were laid to rest there including the family names of Branneky, Boenkers, Walendy, Ameling, Palilzsch, and Hollrah, and Kuhlmann. This family linerage is filled with alot of St. Louis County history along with the St. Charles, Missouri area history. They farmed the lands around these areas while bringing up large families under difficult circumstances alot of times. The family name Boenker is mostly pronounced like "Banker" but the orginal way to pronoun this surname was told to me by a 84 year old cousin named Florida like Boen'ker[Ben-ker]. The reason for this was told to me because during the 1st. and 2nd. World Wars with Germany our ancestors had to hide the fact they had German names even though they may have had an accent and hadn't lived in the old country for many years.
Johann Heinrich Boenkers daugher Anna Maria Mathilda Boenker, our great-grandmother, married Daniel S. Naples October 9, 1901. They had two sons named Archibald Augusta [our grandfather, born in 1903, died in 1984 and Elmer George Naples born in 1908 and died in 1923 at a very young age. It is not known how Anna and Daniel met but they are both buried at Zion Cemetery in St. Louis Co., Missouri next to each other although Daniel had remarried after Anna died in 1914. She is also buried right next to her son Elmer. Daniel Naples went on to have 4 other children with his second wife Ignatia Kirsher Naples.

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Johann Gerhard Boenker, son of Johann Gerhard Boenker and Adelhest Behlings Boenker, married Helene Maria Bunte. Her birthdate is unknown and so is Johann Gerhard Daniel Boenkers parents. We know that his parents were born and raised in Germany and probably married and died there. There is no record of them migrating to the United States with their sons. Johann Gerhard Daniel and his wife Helene came to America with their 2 youngest sons Gerhard and Wilhelm landing in New Orleans, Louisiana on November 20, 1858 aboard the ship "Ernestine". They made their way to St. Charles, Missouri by wagon train to join their other 3 sons. They lived with their oldest son hermann and his wife. Johann Gerhard Daniel died May 14, 1866 at the age of 68 ys. x 3 months x 6 days and is buried in the old section of Immanuel Luthern Cemetery in St.Charles, Missouri. There is no records for this section and have not found any information for helene maria Adelheid Boenker in any census records. But this is not surprising since most of the time the male of the household was the only name written down on census records along maybe with the sons of the family. There oldest son Hermann Diedrich came alone to America in 1851 and settled in St. Charles, Missouri. He married his wife Anna Esselmann who he was betrothed to when they were children. She came to America on December 19, 1853 landing in New Orleans, Lousisiana aboard the ship named "Adonis". She and Hermann were married in St. Charles, Missouri on February 25, 1854 by Pastor Lange, a Luthern minister. Heinrich married his wife Anna Maria Hollrah in 1855 by Pastor Lange. He was still living in St. Charles, Mo with his wife and 8 children when the 1876 census was taken, but later moved to Bridgeton or Pattonville, Mo [which are subdivisions of St.Louis County, Missouri]. Freidrich came to America arriving in New Orleans, Louisiana on November 3, 1856 aboard the ship named "Mississippi". Also on this ship was his future wife and her family. He married Maria Catherine Wilhelina Hollenberg and they lived in St. Charles, Missouri according to the 1876 census . Maria Catherine Hollenberg's parents are thought to have settled in the Bridgeton, Missouri area. There is no information on this sons family. Johann Gerdard [George] Boenker married Catharine Maria Adeheid Hollenberg. I believe they also lived in Bridgeton, Missouri but they stayed members of Immanuel Luthern Church over in St. Charles, Missouri. They had 9 children. I believe Johann Gerdard married his sister-in laws younger sister. The youngest son, Hermann Wilhelm Boenker married Helena Katharine Meyers. They had 5 children and lived in the Harvester, St. Charles Co., Missouri area. They had a grocery and dry goods store and then later farmed.

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John Harrison Pitts was in the Union Army during the Civil War. He enlisted September 16, 1863 in Loudon, Tennessee: 11th Reg. Tn Cv Vol w/Colonel Panson; trasferred to Co.,G. 9th Tn Cav Vol; and died Comanche, Oklahoma. He is buried at Clarksurg Cem, Garland, Kansas

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John Hutsell was born in Prince George Co., Maryland. Along with his brothers Ludwig and George they migrated to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia in the 1770's. He married Elizabeth Davis on April 10, 1775 in Shenandoah, Virginia and she is the daughter of John Davis who apparently accompanied the Hutsells through the Shenandoah Valley of Montgomery Co. which is now Wythe Co., Virginia prior to 1781. By 1781 John and Elizabeth were living in Montgomery Co., Virginia and John is listed on the roster in Capt. James Finley's Company of the Virginia Militia in 1781. His family mostly lived in rented farms or on property of relatives until May 8, 1804 when he bought 120 acres of land on Cove Creek, Wythe Co., Virginia. John when he died left his land and property to his two sons John and George Hutsell, and it is believed his wife Elizabeth went to Blount Co., Tennessee with her sons. It is unknown where she died. John and Elizabeth had 4 children named Catherine, Susannah, John and George H. Hutsell.

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Johannes Georg Hutzel was nine years old when his father died. On August 29, 1730 Georg and his brother Ludwig Hutzel arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from the Palatinate on the ship "Thistle".
It is possible that the brothers left the Palatinate for a more prosperous and peaceful life which was promised by the leaders of "The New World". Wars in the Palatinate had been almost continuous for 100 years and the porspect of freedowm must have been more than tempting. Many Germans were immigrating to the colonies during this era. Little is known about Johann Georg during the first nine years of his life in America. It is reasonable to assume that he lived near his brother Ludwig in eastern Pennsylvania when they first arrived in the new land. In the year 1736 Johann Georg was a found as sponsor to a Baptism at Muddy Creek Lutheran Church of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
The first record of Johann Georg being in Maryland was found in the records of Rev. John Casper Stoever when Georg Hutzel of Monocacy, Maryland, married Anna Maria Magdalena Schweinhardt on June 17, 1739. She was born on January 8, 1725 in Pennsylvanic. Johann Georg was a farmer and appears to have purchased his first land from his father-in law George Schweinhardt on March 14, 1747 for the sum of 16 pounds "current Maryland money". This trac of land called "George and Margarett" was in the vicinity of the present day Yellow Springs, Maryland, which is just a few miles northwest of Frederick on the east side of Cotoctin Mountain.
John George Hutzel was certified a naturalized citizen in the American colonies at the October 1743
term of the Provcencial Court of Maryland. The French and Indian War brought about a new challenge to Johann George for as a citizen of the colonies he became quartering soldier under Cpt. Elias Delashmuts in 1757. Johann Georg and Anna maria Magdalena Hutzel had 12 children. He died in Frederick Co., Maryland in 1778 of a stroke while on his way to see a friend whose surname was Ringer. Magdalena died in Frederick Co., Maryland in 1788 of a stroke. Both were buried in the church yard or "God's Acre" of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Frederick, Maryland.

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George Washington Pitts was a farmer and horse breeder. He moved from Knoxville,Tennessee to Whitehall, Illinois, then Oklahoma for the land rush lottery there, and this is where his first wife Ella Durham died. George then moved to settle just south of Ft.Scott,Kansas. He made the move from Tennessee to Illinois to work as a cattle feeder for an uncle [his mothers brother]. While in Oklahoma for the Land Lottery in the Commanche Territory it is said he had a location staked near his brother Stephen Pitts, then later sold it and this is when he returned to Vernon Co. Mo and Ft. Scott, Kansas. He and his son Pleasant "Hap" then moved to Ft. Scott, Kansas and the horses could hardly pull the wagons because somedays they only made 3 miles. Just after they crossed the Mississippi River the wagon bogged down and a nearby resident who had a team of big horses pulled them out and recommended they stay camped until the weather cleared. So they stayed a week. George Washington Pitts owned 96 acres of land in Vernon County,Missouri. During this time those people who settled in the western plains beyond Missouri needed lumber to build on their homesteads and they would come back to Missouri and buy small acreages along the river banks that were filled with timber, cut the lumber and then abandon the acreage. George would then buy these small acerages and that is how he came to own 96 acres for his farm. George then married his second wife Anna Josephine Mullen and they had 4 children that were born in Vernon Co., Missouri. It has been told by Georges daughter Sarah Ellen Pitt /Larkin that their father told the children he road a pony[an old mare] named "Gin". George W. Pitt died 10 days after being kicked in the chest by a colt as he was holding it by a rope. He died in his own bed and his casket was made by neighbors and his burial was from his home. He was buried in the McKill Chapel Cemetery in Vernon Co., Missoui He was married to Anna J. Mullen for 6 years and owned his farm with no mortgage. He could read and write also.
George's first wife Ella was raised by the Pleasant Crabtree Family around the Hannibal, Missouri area. It is believed this family was so kind of relative to George Washington Pitt. There is no known family or relatives for Ella at this time, and there are no burial records for her although family stories tell of her being buried under a tree near a stream near Mulhall, Oklahoma. Georges second wife Anna died in a hospital in Ft.Scott, Kansas. When George W. died it is told that Anna's younger sister Mary Ida Pitts/Larkin offered to take her 2 daughters (Sarah Ellen and Mary Belle) and care for them, but Anna refused insisting they were her children and she would take care of them. When Anna Mullens/Pitts died she was 49 years old which would make her birth year around 1885. She died on the operating table during some kind of surgery according to her son Elmer Pitt. She didn't attend schooling but could read and write by the time she married George W. Pitt.

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John Pitts told Elmer Pitts [his nephew] that he participated in the Oklahoma Land Lottery, but that it was unsuccessful; consequently, he purchased a winning lottery ticket from another participant, possibly from a cousin of John Pitts, but he doesn't remember. His claim was in Commanche Territory, Ok. John lived in a dugout for the first year he was on his Oklahoma land and planted cotton the second year after cleaning some acreage for it. The dugout had a hole in the back for smoke to escape from the fireplace. John didn't pipe for the flu so he used an old hollowed out log for the flu---the old log dried out and caught fire. John Pitt ignored a "spot" on his face......it developed to be cancer and despite treatment at a New York hospital he eventually lost his eye and the continuely advancing cancer lead to his death. John was a farmer all his life until his death.

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Alot of legal documents indicate Pleasant H. Pitts real name was Pleasant Harrison Pitt, but the popular assumpiton is that his name was Pleasant Harry Pitts, with the nickname "Hap". Pleasant's mother died when he was 18 months old in Mulhall, Oklahoma. His father George Washington Pitt and uncle John Pitts along with Pleasant moved back to Polk Co., Missouri. At the age of 12 Pleasant left home in Vernon Co., Missouri and went to live with his Aunt Rosa Pitts/Padget in Idaho. When his father died in 1916 he was working on a farm around Spokane, Washington and left to make the trip down to Missouri for his fathers funeral. He arrived too late for the services and then traveled down to Billings, Oklahoma to live with his Uncle Steve Pitts. Pleasant worked in the oil fields until going into the army and was in France until WW 1 was over. On his return to Billings,Oklahoma he met his future wife Laura May Bryant and then made the decision to move back to Rimby,Polk Co., Missouri to farm his uncle John Pitts place. He and his wife Laura married in Bolivar, Missouri on December 29, 1920. His children were born on the farm and lived there until they returned to Billings, Oklahoma abt. 1926 to farm southwest of Billings. At one point Pleasant went to work as a pumper for Roxanna Oil Co., in 1928 before it was known as Shell Oil company. He worked there until he retired in 1953 at the age of 60. Pleasants main interests in life were his home and family.

[NI10337] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

When Mary Beasley was 16, on January 12, 1889, she married Samuel M. Dalton in Garnett, Kansas. Mary became pregnant and often her sister Annie would stay with her. One night when Annie was there, Samuel came home in a rage. He grabbed Mary and made her drink some kind of a liquid which Annie supposed to be poison. He then grabbed their cat, stuffed it in a paper sack and left. {no one has any idea what the cata has to do with anything}. Before he left he told Annie that she should not tell her parents about teh incident, and if she did he would "get her too". Well, evidently Annie must've told her parents or Samuel thought she had. The girls in the jBeasley family, Lottie, Annie, and Axxie, shared a sleeping loft in their parents home. One night Samuel came into the house, proceeded to the loft where the girls slept and raped who he thought to be Annie. However, he got the wrong girl, and raped Lottie instead. On June 5, 1891, Lottie gave birth to her daughter Ada. In the Anderson County Courthouse you can find 2 suits against Samuel Dalton. The first one was dated February, 1888, and did not seem to be of a very serious nature though you cannot find out exactly what he was charged with. It is interesting that a William Beasley, Henry Dalton, Sol Hufferd, Charles and Fred Rumbley and another Hufferd who's name could be William or Nick, had been witnesses for him at that time. It appears to have been an appeal to the State warrant, summons, arrest and _____. The next court action was a trial dated September 25, 1891, in which Samuel M. Dalton was convicted of rape and sentenced to five years at hard labor in the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas. The record does not tell who is raped but a later article in the newspaper says that he was escorted to Leavenworth by the sheriff to begin his jail term for rape. No one knows exactly when or how Mary Beasley Dalton died, but that she had supposedly took her own life because she could not face the disgrace of the whole thing. It has occured to me that she may have become sick and died after Samuel forced her to drink whatever was in that bottle. since Samuel married again in July of 1897, after his prison term was over, the assumption is that Mary was deceased before then. There is no burial record for Mary as of yet to be found. The Beasley family soon moved away from the rest of the family....{ the Huffords remained in Garnett, Kansas} and started a new life in Argentine which is near Kansas City, Kansas. The records of Dale and Joyce Britt, descended from jSamuel's sister do not show that he was ever married to Mary Beasley at all. This story was told to Ruth Smith Joy, of California, whose mother was Annie Beasley, sister of Mary Beasley Dalton, and told to June Wilson. This is about Samuel M. Dalton, son of Samuel Michael Dalton and brother of John L. Dalton.

[NI10375] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

According to Cecil and Aldine Serl, Lizabeth Hufferd was raped by A.D. or Abie Collins, and her daughter Annie was a product of that rape. They further stated that he was a neighbor, having found Liz alone at home one day, and that when her brothers found out what had happened[probably not until after her pregnancy became quite obvious], they rode Mr. Collins unceremoniously out of town, never to return. The 1895 stte Argicultural census shows a 3 month old child, unnamed infant, living in the Hefferd household.

[NI10411] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

From the Iola Register, June 17, 1919,,,,, Ralph Hufferd shot by Accident. Fatal Bullet fired by Melvern Prentis last evening. Death was immediate, careless use of weapon results in shocking tragedy. Both families are prostrated with grief in which they have the sympathy of their friends.
At about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, June 16, Melvern Prentis, age 14 years, living in East Iola, fired a shot from a 22 rifle at a tin can as a target, resting halfway across the trestle of the Missouri Pacific Cement Plant spur. The shot missed the can and glanced from the eight inch stringer that runs along the ends of the ties, down onto a tie and up again, striking Ralph Hufferd, age 12, in the neck. The bullet cut the carotid artery and ranged upward into the brain, lodging in the medula oblongata. With the single word, "Oh!" the stricken boy fell and within a few minutes he was dead. His little brother endeavored to staunch the flow of blood by binding a handkerchief around the neck of the dying boy, but in vain. Death, however, resulted from the injury to the brain before it could have been caused by the loss of blood. Ralph's father after being summoned to the accident site, run all the way to the spot and was so overcome partly from running all those blocks and from the site of his dying son, collapsed with an attack of heart failure from which he has not yet recovered. Both parents are in such a state funeral arrangements have not been made yet. Some members of the family felt Ralph's death was not an accident. Ralph and Mervern were not on friendly terms. But this is just rumored and wasn't in the obit for him. 6 of his closest friends were his pallbearers.

[NI10506] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

Christian Kegley was born on a farm. He had a practical knowledge of surverying and he also studied Medicine with his uncle Dr. John Ribble. In 1850 he became entirely helpless and during the remainer of his life required the care and nursing of a child. He made visits to his patients on horseback carrying his pills in saddlebags made of muslin by his wife. Christian made 3 trips back to Virginia on horseback also. His father Ludwig[Lewis] Kegley as a slave owner in Virginia and when he died Dr. Christian Kegley inherited all his property, and although he did not believe in slavery, he could not free them by law. So he had them all chose their own masters and sold them.

[NI10528] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

it is thought that Susannah Ribble is the child of her mothers first marriage or out of wedlock from a relationship her mother Katrinka Brenckenhof had before marrying Dr. Christopher Ribble. Whether he adopted Susannah or she just took his name is not known.

[NI11490] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

Mary Magdalene Kegley UmBarger lived on a farm in the Sally Run area near Wytheville, Virginia until she died. There are other instances of marriages between the Kegley's, Umberger/Umbargers, and Pence families. They shared a common backround and migration pattern. Descendants of all three families migrated to Iowa following the Civil War, living in Jackson, Jones, Chickasaw, Cerro Gordo, and Sac Counties. The Kegley's were maternal ancestors of Nathaniel Brown Umbarger. There is another date for Mary's birth which is April 6, 1823.

[NI11575] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

Joseph Moad went to California during the Gold Rush

[NI11584] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

Family migrated from Rutherford Co., North Carolina to Campbell Co., Tennessee and then to Cole Co., Missouri.

[NI11587] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

Rebecca Linville Pauley was married before to a unknown man and this marriage produced with unknown children. She was 1/2 Cherokee Indian.

[NI11589] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

Ezekial Vincent Hollingsworth was a member of the Grand Jury in Cole Co., Missouri January term, 1821 along with James Moad and Moses Chambers.

[NI11591] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

Her name could have been Therbia Van Buren. Also spelled Phereby in 1850 census.

[NI11593] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

"Old Families of Randolph Co.", Missouri gives info on Wiliam Mayo. Only 7-10 children are listed

[NI11595] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

buried in cemetery on Tom Taggart Farm. Johnson Wade settled in Cole Co., Missouri in 1828 on Section 10 of Township 45, Range 13 as one of the first settlers in the area. The Mexican War Volunteers in May of 1946 included Johnson Wade in the Cole Co., Dragoons. He was a 2nd LT. and served under Col. Philip Kearney. The company was paid in gold, and mustered out one year later in New Orleans, Louisiana.

[NI11597] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

also called Sally

[NI11603] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

possibly caused of death: child birth after the birth of last child Barbary.

[NI11605] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

1840 census shows 2 sons and 1 daughter born between 1836-1840

[NI11611] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

may have been other younger Dawson Children

[NI11615] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

William Moad fought in the Mexican War as a private from June 16, 1846 at Jefferson City,Missouri. He was discharged June 21, 1847 in New Orleans. He was a farmer and the census notes his wifes name as Mary and lists 6 children.

[NI11617] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

Granville served in the Mexican War. He was a minister in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He filled Pastorates in Coope,Platte, and Henry counties in Missouri and in Leavenworth, Kansas. He was ordained October 4, 1853 and in later years he studied medicine and became a licensed physician.

[NI11619] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

James Moad went to California during the Gold Rush period.

[NI11623] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

living with his brother William in 1860 census . No further info on Benjamin Moad

[NI11624] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

Ezekiel was amember of the Grand Jury in Cole Co., Missouri January term, 1821 along with James Moad and Moses Chambers.

[NI14054] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

from History of Pettis Co., Missouri....1882 G.A. Notch....... John Wesley McVey had children with his first wife Martha Gent, four were still living in 1882. He also had 3 children with his second wife Nellie Wattson , one of them still living in 1882.

[NI14305] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

Lucille McVey made movies before marrying her husband Sidney White Drew. I suspect this marriage happened in California around the Los Angles area. There are copies of the movies they made together in "The Library of Congress" and the "Smithsonian Video." The title of one of the movies is "A Florida Enchantment" and was made in 1914 and is one of two rare surviving 5 reel features. Also on the same video is "The Patchwork Girl of Oz".

[NI14333] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

Frank always said he wanted to be buried between his 2 ladies.... his wife and his sister-in-law...

[NI14481] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

John Chapoton was born in 1684 in the old home in the parish of St.John Baptist diocese of Uzes city of Bagnoles on the river Rhone in the Province of Languedoc in the south of France. John studied surgery in France and became a surgeion in the French Army. He was sent to Ft. Ponchatrain of Detroit as the surgeion of the garrison late in the year 1719. John obtained from the French Government 20 arpents [a french measure of land with one arpent roughly equalling betwen 5/6 and 1 1/4 of an acre] frontage and 40 arpents depth now called private claim #5 or the Charles Moran farm bounded on the east side by Hastings street. This grant was issued June 18, 1734 and Dr. Chapoton took residence on his farm. He did not confine himself to surgery but was the practician and the only physician for the garrison and for the inhavitants of Detriot and vicinity.
According to Detroit River connections by Judy Jacobsen, 1994, pg. 92-93 Jean Baptiste Chapoton was born between 1684-1690 to Andre Capoton and his wife Anne Lassaigne in St. Jean Baptiste Parish, Bagnols on the Rhone River in France. The 1758 parish register referred to him as the "master surgeon of this town". Chapoton in additon became quite a tradesman, dealing at various times with medicine, grain, and building materials. And he appeared in records as groomsman at the wedding of Jean Baptiste Gouyou dit la Garde and Mary Rose. Jean Baptiste married his wife Marie Madeleine Estene/Estever in July of 1720 and she was only 13 years old. But alot of other records state she was born in 1704 making Marie approximately sixteen years old at the time of her marriage. Jean and Marie had 20 children and he retired in circa 1752 leaving his surgeon's post at the fort to his son-in law Gabriel Legrand de Sentre, the husband of his daughter Mary Magdelene Chapoton. Jean [John] Chapoton retired from the army several years before the English conquest and that is when he settled on his estate that had been granted to him. ..... This information was acquaired with Canadian Genealogy index's, Dictionnaire Genealogique des Famillis Canadiennes Depuis la Foundation de la Colonie Jusqu'a Nos Jours, Deuxieme Volume, Depuis 1608 jusqu'a 1700. The author is L'Abbe D Tanguary, ADS and the publisher is Eusebe Senecal and publication was 1886.

[NI14533] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

Peter moved to Detroit after his marriage, probably in the fall of 1729 and on his farm later known as the Hunt Farm, Private claim Nr. 7. He transferred his rights to his son John Baptist Meloche and his wife Mary Louise Robert and they deeded it on July 14, 1802 to their son-in-law Maurice Moran.

[NI14559] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

She was old and couldn't use her legs. Her son LaFourche, age 18, took her outside and let her freeze to death in a snow storm.

[NI14574] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

Joseph died from gunshot wounds.....fur traders said the Indians did it....... Indians stated that the fur traders didn't like the money Joseph was making, and took him out, got him drunk, and then killed him.

[NI14689] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

other WTF information {volume 3} suggests Marie Bloquin was his wife and mother of Francois Meloche, born 1674.

[NI14695] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

Infomation on the Meloche family lines came from Meloche, Bresette, Chandonnet, Chapoton family relatives and also Mary K. Freel who sent me lots of Meloche research. Also alot of information was gotten from the book "Genealogy of the French Families of the Detroit River Region, 1701-1911>>> Vol. 1, by The Reverend Fr. Christian Denissen.

[NI14713] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

They married by contract[ct. October 7, 1663 Duquet] Chateau-Richer. He was a doctor, and on the 1666 census for Ile Orleans has him 27 years old.

[NI15460] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

Elizabeth had 16 children with only 5 children living to become adults. She had 3 sets of twins and only their daughter Lucy lived lived out of these 3 sets. She died at the young age of 6 or 7.

[NI16127] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

currently living in Japan {as of February 2001} and uses mother's maiden name of Fukuda.

[NI16146] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

hopes to earn a Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine degree..... date.... November 2000

[NI16342] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

In 1850 census Stephen and Polly were overseers of a county poor farm, which was located near the present hosptial in Wytheville, Virginia. About that date Steven purchased a farm in the Sally Run area near Wythewille. When the civil war started all of Stephens sons except Lemuel went early. Because Steven was in his forties when the war began he probably was exempt until quite late in the war. Just before the surrender of Appomatox on April 5, 1865 at Amelia Courthouse Steven was captured. His papers say he was a private in Company K, 1st. Regiment, Virginia Infantry, the Williams Rifles. He was taken to City Point, Virginia on April 13, 1865 and then transferred to the infamous Prisoner of War Camp at Point Lookout, Maryland. It was there he died on May 26, 1865 of diarrhea, and was buried in the POW cemetery. So family stories say he was impressed into the Union Army and was captured and died in Andersonville Prison. During the time of Stephen {Steven} the spelling of the surname changed from Umberger to Umbarger. His date of birth may have been November 6, 1820 and married on October 28, 1841, and may have died on May 25, 1865.
This information on the Umberger/Umbarger family lines are taken from research done by John Sammons, Duane and Ruth M. Umbarger, Dr. Fritz Braun, and reports found at the Kegley room of the Community college at Wytheville, Viginia.

[NI16347] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

Henry may have a son named William Umbarger/Umberger who married Polly Creger and had a daughter named Rhonda Jane Umbarger who married Rufus Leedy. As of right now I haven't been able to make the connection between the two.

[NI16349] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

Michael immigrated to America on the ship James Goodwill. He arrived on September 11, 1728 only 4 years before Henrich Umberger. Michael, his wife Anna Christine, and their children moved to Wythe Co., Virginia in either 1781 or 1782.

[NI16351] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

Until he attained the age of majority he became a ward of first Nathaniel, then John after his mother Mary Magdalene Kegley Umbarger died.

[NI16730] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

died at the home of her daughter Mrs. Gilbert Lesperance.

[NI17467] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

newspaper dated 12/30/1869 states he died in Paintsville, Kentucky jail when a federal court got him for violation of internal revenue laws.

[NI17472] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

Ralph moved from Staffordshire, England to County Germanagh, Ulster, North Ireland abt. 1760. He married Jane Kane abt. 1777 in Ireland. He came to PA with brothers James, Edward, and John . He took the oath of allegiance to the U.S. A. on JUne 19, 1778 in Cumberland Co., Pa. and later he and his family moved to Trigg, in the Pleasant Hills area of Giles Co., Virginia on Big Walker Creek in 1785. He and his wife had 4 children, and his will was written in April 1793. He fought in the Revolutionary War with the Continental Army receiving woonds at the Battle of Yorktown which caused his death.

[NI17554] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

Mary Boyleyn was the mistress of King Henry the V111 before he married her sister Anne Boyleyn. She then married Thomas Howard.

[NI17570] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

Quince and Lula separated and Quince sent Mamie and Sadie to the Presbyterian Home for Children in Farmington, Missouri on April 26, 1928. On May 21, 1932 Lula took the 2 girls to live with her. Joseph remained with Quince during the seperation. Lula died of Cancer...

[NI17582] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

It is said that she died from eating cherries that her father was picking... evidently the pits caused some complications for the two year old girl.

[NI17586] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

Sadie's children all had different fathers and she didn't marry any of them.

[NI17623] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

James was born at St. Ann's Orphan's Home in St. Louis, Missouri. He was adopted at the age of 13 months by Robert Milton Peters and Virginia Marie Enright.

[NI17637] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

Michael was adopted by Charles and Lois Bucher. His real name is George D. Gray.

[NI17674] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

Lillie was widely used as a midwife in the Neely's Landing area. Her mother was raised by William D. McCain who donated the property for the New Bethel Church in 1880.

[NI20288] [Welsch5-2001.FTW]

it was thought her parents were Jean Baptiste and Marguerite LeBeau, but new documentation shows that her parents were Jean Baptiste Bare and Marie Josephte Peltier {Pellitier}

[NF0134] Marriage record located in Jefferson County OH book 6, 258-772, page 43.

[NF1513] [Lighthizer family.FTW]

Marriage date and place document by Marriage Bond

[NF1537] [Lighthizer family.FTW]

Married at the Zion German Lutheran Church, Gay Street and Hourt House Plaza, Baltimore, MD.

[NF1553] Marriage record located in Jefferson county Ohio records, Book 8, page 639.

[NS190862] Accurate

[NS191421] Certified true photographic copy in possession of writer.

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[NS191423] Vital Registration Office Bldg. 3, Rm. 516 Capital Complex Charleston, WV 25305

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[NS190913] Vital Registration Office Bldg. 3, Rm. 516 Capital Complex Charleston, WV 25305

[NS192061] Certified true photographic copy in possession of writer.

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[NS192063] Vital Registration Office Bldg. 3, Rm. 516 Capital Complex Charleston, WV 25305

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[NS191592] Accurate

[NS191593] 1100 West 49th St. Austin, TX 78756-3199; 512-458-7111

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[NS191072] Accurate

[NS191073] Vital Registration Office Bldg. 3, Rm. 516 Capital Complex Charleston, WV 25305

[NS192231] Standard Certificate of Death West Virginia State Department of Health

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[NS192233] Vital Registration Office Bldg. 3, Rm. 516 Capital Complex Charleston, WV 25305

[NS191721] Certified copy in possession of writer.

[NS191722] Accurate

[NS191723] State of Ohio Department of Health P. O. Box 118 Columbus, OH 43266-0118

[NS036381] Certified true photographic copy in possession of writer.

[NS036382] Accurate

[NS036383] Vital Registration Office Bldg. 3, Rm. 516 Capital Complex Charleston, WV 25305