Our Family's Journey Through Time
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| 451 | Mrs. Myrtle Frie was of Kalamazoo, Mich, when her mother died in 1919. "When Edith was 6 months old, the family moved to a farm in Kalamazoo Cty. MI and into the city of Kalamazoo when Edith was 6 years old. Mertie and Frank eventually divorced in the 1920's. Frank was killed in an accident at a railroad crossing in Comstock, Kalamazoo, MI in 12 Nov 1925. "Mertie continued to live in Kalamazoo until 1937 when she and Edith moved to Portland OR to be near son George Odell Frie....Daughter Ethel Blanche Frie married Robert Raymond Tinkham....They were divorced before Ethel and the children moved to Portland at the same time Mertie and Edith moved to Portland. "...George and Blanche with 2 young sons moved to Portland and established the Rose City Label Co. in 1928.... "Edith Mary Frie never married. She was educated in Kalamazoo and when she arrived in Portland with her mother, she was offered a job in the Portlandschools teaching handicapped children, a job she retained until retirement. She supported her mother and later her sister and never had time for herself." (AMF) Alfred Meade Fischer (AMF), husband of Virginia Frie, has collected and shared nearly all the data on the descendants of Henry and Mary L. (Rumsey) Buck. He reported: "I knew Myrtie and all four of her children and Edith Mary Frie, the youngest of the four, is currently living in Portland OR and we see her often... [George Odell Frie] had a notebook listing his mother's birthdate in Bushnell, her marriage to Frank Eugene Frie in Tower City, ND, and her dad's name, Henry Buck." All the birth dates of Mertie's children were given in her sworn affidavit of Dec 1938. E.[sic] E. Fry Killed When Train Hits His Auto at Comstock Former Proprietor of Witwer Hotel, 60, Drives on Crossing, Failing to See Engine Because of Rain F. E. Fry, for seven years proprietor of the Witwer hotel, 231 East Main street, met instant death shortly after noon Thursday when his automobile was struck by the east-bound "Wolverine" passenger train on the Michigan Central crossing at Comstock. Fry drove his machine directly in front of the approaching train, it is said. It was raining at the time and it is believed Fry's vision was somewhat impaired. He was about 60 years old. When the train was brought to a stop about 400 yards east of the crossing, the automobile and the body of the driver were still on the pilot of the engine.... (unknown paper of Tues., Nov. 17, 1925) - - - - - - - - - - - Cards of Thanks FRIE, FRANK--[thanks to friends for help and expressions of sympathy, signed by:] Mrs. F.E.Frie, Miss Edith Frie, Mrs. Ethel Frie Tinkham. - - - - - - - - - - - George O. Frie George O. Frie, a Portland resident since 1928, died at his home Tuesday, seven days short of his 94th birthday. No services were scheduled, and interment was at Lincoln Memorial Park Mausoleum. Mr. Frie was born Dec. 8, 1893 [July per his dau, Virginia Fischer], in Page, N.D. After his arrival in Portland, he founded Rose City Label Co., retiring from it in 1958. He was a veteran of World War I and served in France. Survivors include two sons, George O. Frie Jr., Portland, and Wayne Frie, Woodland, Wash., a daughter, Virginia Fischer, Trout Lake, Wash.; sister Edith Frie, Portland; seven grandchildren; and six great- grandchildren. | Buck, Mertie (I10555)
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| 452 | Nathaniel Rumsey was in the 1810 census of Marbletown, Ulster Co, NY, heading a household which contained 1 male and 4 females under 10 (Charles, Betsey, Emilia, Dolley, ? ), and both parents 26-44, listed near his brother John. This leaves unidentified 1 girl b 1801-10. By 1820 Nathaniel had moved to Walnut Twp, Pickaway Co, Ohio, where he had 3 males and 3 females under 10 (Nancy, Sarah, & ? , Stephen, Peter, & ? ), 1 male and 1 female 10-15 (Charles, Dolley), 3 females 16-25 (Emilia, ? , Betsey), 1 female 26-44 (Betsey). Nathaniel was 45 or over, and there was another female 45 or over, unidentified. Which leaves 1 male and 1 female unidentifed b 1811-20 who may be the unidentivied girl under 10 in 1810, and 1 fwemale b 1795-1804. Portrait and Biographical Album of Branch Co, Mich (1888), published by Chapman Brothers, (p 567) has a biographical sketch of John Rumsey, which said his parents were Nathaniel Rumsey and Elizabeth Rider. Nathaniel died in Marion Co, Ohio, and his widow, left with thirteen children, married Benjamin Stebbins and moved to St. Joseph Co, Mich, about 1835, where she lived the remainder of her life. However, the death record of John gave his father's name as Byron, a name which does not occur in any of the earlier Rumsey records so far uncovered, though John had a grandson Byron who was killed five years before John died. John's second marriage record gave his birthplace as Marion Co, Ohio, so Nathaniel may have left Pickaway Co, Ohio, soon after he was listed there in the 1820 census. Nathaniel Rumsey died, and his widow Elizabeth married Benjamin Stebbins 9 July 1829, in Marion Co, OH. Kris O'Dea reported finding Benjamin Stebbins in the 1830 census of Salt Rock Twp, Marion Co, OH. He was 50-59, his wife (Betsey) was 40-49, and with them were: 1 girl 15-19 (Sarah), 2 boys 10-14 (Stephen, Peter), 2 girls and 1 boy 5-9 (Nancy, Jane, John or George). She also found a deed of 15 Aug 1832, when Benjamin Stebbing and Stephen Rumsey bought land together in Marion Co. Benjamin Stebbins and Elizabeth his wife were of Marion Co, when they sold land there to James and Susannah Rhoads for $1000, on 19 Apr 1834. This must have been about the time they moved to St. Joseph Co, Michigan. (The Branch county history said about 1835.) Benjamin and Elizabeth were in the 1840 census of Colon, St.Joseph Co, Mich. He was in his 50s, she in her 40s. With them were: 1 male (in his 30s poss Stephen? who had perhaps left or lost his first wife by then), 2 males 15-19 (John, George), 1 female 10-14 (Jane), and 1 male 5-9 (a grandson?). There was no probate for Nathaniel Rumsey in Marion Co, Ohio. The Branch County history said that of the 13 children Nathaniel Rumsey left, only three were living at the time of publication in 1888, and named only John. And only eleven have been subsequently identified. The first clues as to the daughters were found in the following Stebbins deeds in St. Joseph Co, Mich. Their maiden name Rumsey appeared in marriage records, except for Betsey Schellhous, probably named for her mother. ST.JOSEPH CO, MICH - DEEDS 13:93 - Benjamin Stebbins of Colon, from Martin G. Schellhous & wife Betsey 6 Oct 1834. Sect. 10, Town 6, Range 9 13:94 - Benjamin Stebbings of Colon, from George F. Schellhous of Colon 1 May 1835. Sect. ll, Town 6, Range 9 13:95 - Benjamin Stebbins, to Florence M. Vaughan 16 Apr 1844. Sect. 10, Town 6, Range 9 13:96 - Elizabeth Stebbins of St.Joseph Co, to Florence M. Vaughan 19 Mar 1844. Wit: Benjamin Stebbins, Nathan Mitchell, Allen Goodrich 13:97 - Benjamin Stebbins of St.Joseph Co, to Florence M. Vaughan 17 Mar 1844 13:97 - George H. Shellhouse as trustee of Elizabeth Stebbins of St.Joseph Co, 16 Apr 1844 to Florence M. Vaughan, wit: Benj.Stebbins,Nathan Mitchell It turned out that Florence M. Vaughan above was the husband of one of the missing daughters - Jane. In 1850 Benjamin (ae 75) and Elizabeth (66) Stebbins were in Colon Twp, with them were Henry (16) and Elizabeth Cartright (14), both from Canada. Florence and Jane Vaughan were next door. Neither Benjamin nor Elizabeth were found in the 1860 census. Benjamin's death was recorded in the Michigan index for 1867-1892. So Elizabeth died after 1850, and before 1867. | Rumsey, Nathaniel (I5057)
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| 453 | On 19 Jan 1811, Richard Rumsey purchased from William Miller and his wife Lydia of Solon, Lot 27 in the town of Solon (that part which was added to Truxton 3 months later), Cortland Co, NY (LR O:165). This is the first record found of Richard, and he is presumed to be the son named Richard which Nathan3 Rumsey is said to have had, but proof is lacking. (See end of #12 for Lydia Miller as possibly mother of Richard.) Richard Rumsey was in the 1820 census of Truxton, Cortland Co, engaged in agriculture. He and his wife were 26-44, and they had 1 male and 2 females under 10. (Wm.Miller was also there in 1820, he and his wife both over 45.) He died before the 1830 census was taken, for in Truxton Gillen Rumsey headed a household of 1 female under 5, 2 males and 1 female 5-9, 1 male and 1 female 15-19, and Gillen was in her 30s (understated). In the 1840 census of Truxton, there was a woman aged 60-69 with Gillen's son-in-law Joshua Pratt. But this was too old for Gillen, though perhaps this was another error in age. On 6 Dec 1848, Gillin Brown, with Dennis Rumsey and wife Lydia, sold Lot 27 in Solon, "now Truxton", to Oliver Heath (LR 14:324). From this it would appear that Gillen Rumsey, the widow of Richard, had remarried after the 1830 census. But the fact that her second husband did not join in this deed may mean that he was deceased. Of her other children, George W. and wife Ophelia Rumsey had sold land in Cortland Co in 1845. David Martin and wife Lydia of Truxton, Joshua S. Pratt and wife Amy, and Jotham Childs and wife Phebe, sold their shares in Lot 27 to Dennis Rumsey 16 Nov 1847. Luther Rumsey and Jotham Childs purchased land in Lot 26 from Joshua S. Pratt, on 6 Dec 1848, the same date Gillin Brown and Dennis Rumsey sold Lot 27 (above). Luther was the only member of the family found in Truxton in the 1850 census. Dennis had recorded the birth of his son there in May 1849. Gillen was listed as "Helen Rumsey" in the 1850 census of Waukegan, Lake Co, Ill, aged 70 born Mass, with Joshua and Amy Pratt. Gillen/Gellin/Gillan/Jullen Brown is next found in Fond du Lac Co, Wis where, on 25 Jan 1851, Gillin Brown received from A. B. Bowen and his wife Mary Ann, all of Fond du Lac Co, a deed to the W1/2 SW1/4 of Section 28, Town 13 [Auburn], Range 19. (LR N:525). A Certificate for U.S. Military Bounty Land, on Warrant #63535, in the name of Harlow Humphrey, "has been located by Mrs. Gillan Brown" in Auburn, NE1/4 SW1/4 Section 34, dated 11 July 1853; and she was of Fond du Lac Co when she sold this in Nov 1855 to Michael Moran and wife Catherine (LR 14:607 rec 1858; 11;629 rec 1857). Finally, "I Gillin Rumsey" satisfied a mortgage given by Joshua Pratt in 1850 to Enoch B. Lawrence, 11 Oct 8,1858. Witnesses were L.H. Rumsey and Julia C. Pratt (Mort. l:286). In 1860, Jullen Brown aged 71, "Laborer" (!), was living with the family of J.S. and Amy Pratt in the 1860 census of Auburn, Fond du Lac Co, Wis. There is a family tradition, as reported by Sadie Brye (dau of #228-3) to Bernard Rumsey (#228-18) in 1958: "Julin Rumsey and Mr. Rumsey (his first name not known) came from the 'Isle of Man' [!] to Courtland Co, New York, place unknown. They had the following children: George, Lydia, Amy, Phoebe, Luther and Dennis. They left N.Y. and came to Fond du Lac Co, Wisconsin, and after that Lydia, Phoebe, Amy and Luther all settled in Meeker Co, Minn. Litchfield is the County Seat. Dennis visited them a number of times but they are all dead there now." (The 1880 and 1900 census for the three youngest children are no help in establishing the birthplace of Richard. With both Luther and Dennis in 1880, the space was left blank. Phebe, in both 1880 and 1900, gave Mass. for both her father and her mother.) | Rumsey, Richard (I5331)
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| 454 | On 24 Feb 1848, Watey Rumsey gave a life lease to John Rumsey, relinquishing her interest in 53 acres deeded to her by John Hoffstatter (#61-2), to allow John and his wife Saloma to live there as long as they lived, (LR OS-22:103, l04). As Watey Bristol, she sold 12 acres in Lot 8, Section 2, New London, on 4 March 1851, (LR 1:478). Amos and Watey Bristol were in the 1850 census of New London, Huron Co, OH. He was 26, her age given as 27, four years younger than her birth date as reported in her obituary and on her gravestone. It was Watey who owned the real estate, valued at $1000. Her widowed mother, Salomy Rumsey, was with them. Amos and Watey did not stay together long. For in 1860, Waitey Bristol and her 10 year old son John were in the census of New London. She was 35, without property. Frank W. Rumsey said: "I can well remember the old lady, as over the years I saw quite a lot of her when I was a boy, also her son John and Clara his wife." Amos Bristol was in Fawn River, St.Joseph Co, Mich in 1860, with a wife named Eliza who was 26 to his 36 years. He had $800 in real estate and $300 in personal property, with no occupation specified. They were living with farmer Jacob Hartman from Pennsylvania, who was 44. In 1870, Waty Bristol was "45" and living alone in New London. She had $2000 and $150 in real and personal property. In 1880 Watey Bristol was still alone in New London Tp, her age given as 57, divorced. In the 1900 census of New London Tp, John H. Bristol was 49 and a farmer, though FWR said he was a reporter. His wife Clara J. was 46, both her parents from Virginia. They had been married 7 years. With them was his mother, Watey B. Bristol, a widow who had had but the one child. Watey Bristol died a widow at the age of 83 in 1902, according to her death record. Her obituary, which FWR showed me, called her Watey B. Rumsey. | Rumsey, Watey B. (I5912)
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| 455 | Richard D.Hansen (RDH) of Salt Lake City reported in Apr 1994, about the name of Michael Nowland's wife: "His will lists her as Mary. The Deaths of Wayne Co., MI. lists the father [parents?] of William as Michael and Elizabeth. This is all I know." DBRX called her Mary Elizabeth. Mrs. Cecil W. (Nancy) Warner of Ann Arbor, Mich (CWW) was the major source of information for the above in 1975. SMH added more data 1991. The approximate birth dates were determined from ages in census records, and approximate dates of marriages from the age of the eldest child at home, or the number of years married in the 1900 census, unless dates were supplied by correspondents. CWW gave the names in the following sequence: Thomas, Andrew, Michael, Henry, Hiram, William, George, Moses, Hamilton*, Ellis, Elizabeth, Jane, infant, Harriet, John, David*, Frank*, Mary Ann, Nathaniel, Mahalia. I suspect the three starred were, instead, the sons of Michael, found with him in census records, so not included above. But Hamilton was said to have gone to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he owned and operated a pharmaceutical company, instead of living in Charlevoix Co, Mich, where the son of Michael was found. In the 1820 census of Fayette Tp, Seneca Co, NY, William Nowland headed a household of 5 males and 2 females under 10. His wife was 16-25, and he 26-44. James S. Rumsey of Wilmington, Dela, reported from his family records that William Nowland sold his farm at Bluffs Point (in Jerusalem Tp, as per other deeds), Yates Co, NY, to his brother-in-law David Rumsey in 1828. The scanty notes I took on land records in Yates Co many years ago do not have such a deed in David's name, and other deeds show David still in Fayette, Seneca Co as late as 1831. However, he was in the 1835 census of Jerusalem, Yates Co, so he may have purchased William Nowland's farm in the early 1830s. William Nowland is not indexed in the 1830 census of New York or Michigan. William was said to have worked on the Erie Canal with his brother Andrew before moving west to Michigan. (CWW) In the 1840 census of Huron Tp, Wayne Co, Mich., William Nowland's household consisted of 1 female under 5 (Harriet), 2 males and 1 female 5-9 (Nathaniel, Ellis, Jane), 2 males and 1 female 10-14 (Moses, George, & ?), 3 males 16-19 (Hiram, Henry, & ? ), 1 male and 1 female 20-29 (William, Mahala or Elizabeth), and 1 male and 1 female 50-59. On the next line was listed Andrew Nowland, followed by John Nowland and his wife who were 20-29. In the 1850 census of Huron Tp, William Nowland Sr. headed the household at age 66, born in Pennsylvania. He was a farmer with $1200 in real estate. With him were William "J." 29, George 24 and Moses 23, all born in NY, Harriet 13 born in Mich, and Nancy 17 born in NY, the latter being the wife of William Jr though not so designated. Thomas and his family were next door. There was a Mary Ann Nowland, aged 14, in the 1850 census of Brownstown, who was probably the Mary Ann reported by CWW as a daughter of William and Elizabeth Nowland. She was living with Simon and Elizabeth ( ) Rumsey (#81), first cousin of Elizabeth (Rumsey) Nowland, who had also come from Fayette, Seneca Co, NY. DBRX said "Mary Ann" marriede Joses Rice. William was living alone at the age of 70, in the 1860 census of Brownstown Tp, which borders Huron Tp in Wayne Co, employed as a lighthouse keeper. Next door to him was his son George. He owned $3000 in real estate and $600 in personal property. (In 1900, New Boston, Huron Tp, Wayne Co, there was a widow Sabina Nowland aged 36, born in Michigan in Dec 1863, who had two children living. The only person with her was her widowed father, William Shick aged 70, born in New York. I have been unable to discover, through census records, the name of her Nowland husband since she would not have been married in 1880.) (Also in New Boston in 1900, was a 71 year old widow, Levina Nowland, who had had no children so may have been a 2nd or 3rd wife of an unidentified Nowland. She was born in NY in March 1829, and her parents had come from Vermont and Conn.) | Nowland, William (I5398)
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| 456 | Robert G. Rumsey was 4 months old in the census taken November 1850, Cass Tp, Fulton Co, Ill. In the 1860 census of Lee Tp, Fulton Co, he was 11, and in 1870 was 20. He gave his age as 28 on his marriage certificate in December 1879, which is one year off. The birth given in the 1900 census as May 1852 was two years short of his age. And the date of 16 May 1853 was shown on the family group sheet sent by Mrs. Dorothy Gordon (DG), the year probably taken from the copy of the census she saw, though presumably the day and month are correct. This sheet gave his birthplace as Bushnell, McDonough Co, just across the town and county line from Lee Tp, Fulton Co, where the Rumseys lived a little later. However, they were in Cass Co in the 1850 census, so Robert was probably born there. In 1860, before Ocie Sexton was born, Thomas and Jane Sexton were in Lee Tp, Fulton Co. Among their seven children was Allen aged 7, later known as Wiley A. The only member of the family spotted in either Lee or Bushnell in 1870 was Emma who was 1 in 1860 and 10 in 1870, with Allen and Jennie Sparks. Ocie was not found in 1870. Mrs. Gordon reported that Ocie Ann was in Harris Tp at age 9, working for Robert & Anna Kays. (Marjorie R.Bordner ed.- Fulton Co.Heritage [1985]) Mrs. Dorothy Gordon wrote me in Sept 1983: "Robert G. Rumsey and my grandfather Wiley Sexton [Allen W., brother of Ocie Ann] left Fulton Co, Illinois, together to find work. They left from Bushnell, McDonough County, Illinois. My grandmother and [her] little girl (age 15 months) [so this must have been about 1878 - JR] stayed with her parents in Bushnell. The men found work on the Burlington Northwestern Railroad at Friend, Nebr. which was the end of the line at that time as it was extending West. They then sent for my grandmother and baby and she went from Bushnell to Friend, Nebr. and she was accompanied by Wiley's sister Ocie Sexton. Ocie was the youngest of 11 Sexton children, she was quite small when orphaned. Later, Ocie Ann Sexton and Robert G. Rumsey married. Wiley Sexton and Robert G. Rumsey took out homesteads in Holt County Nebr. near the now defunct town of Dustin, Nebr. The Rumseys had 11 children. [She listed only 10.] Robert G. tried farming and then ran a ferry on the Niobrara river (as we hear his father before him did on the Mississippi - but this is only hearsay and where it took place is unknown to the family.) "I was related to Mrs. Robert Rumsey by blood. My father, son of Wiley Sexton, grew up with his cousins, the Rumsey family. After WW I my father turned to farming in S.D. and there was only letter contact except for a few visits by some of the Rumseys. Then in 1948 Robert G. Rumsey's youngest son Andrew Jackson Rumsey and his family moved to Hot Springs [S.D.]. He and his wife live here yet, one daughter lives 30 miles away... "His oldest sister, I am doing this from memory - I think it was Mary, [she was the next to oldest - JR], came to Robert G.'s funeral. At that time she lived in S.D. but I have not found her in the census at all so maybe they moved on. It seems that Robert G. left Illinois in rather a huff under the impression that he had been cheated out of something that belonged to his parents, family ties were pretty well cut and the only time any of the Robert G. Rumsey branch of the family saw any of their Rumsey kin was when this one sister came to the funeral." The marriage certificate of R. G. Rumsey and Ocie Sexton, a copy of which DG sent me, gave his age as 28, Ocie's as 18, and named the parents of each. Her brother A. W. Sexton (grandfather of DG) was one of the witnesses; others were C. B. Wilkins and L. M. Scott. In the 1880 census of "N" Precinct, Seward Co, Neb, there were three families living together. First were Henry C. and Martha E. Wilson, both 33, and their 8 month old son. Next were Allen W. and Cora Sexton, aged 27 and 24, and their two dauughters Bessie 3 years and May one month old. Third were Robert G. and Ocie Rumsey, aged 27 and 18, and their month old daughter Minnie. In 1900 Robert G. Rumsey was in Dustin Tp, Holt Co, Neb, a farmer aged 48. Ocie A. was 38, and they had been married 21 years. One of their nine children had died, the rest were all still at home - Minnie 20, Zoa I. 18, Charles L. 15, Jessie J. 12, Louis A. 8, Oscar A. 6, Rossie R. 4, and Elmer L. 1 year old. (Andrew J. was not yet born.) There are discrepancies between the film copy and the copy in Lincoln, Neb, used by DG, in her typed version. The film has for Robert: his birth 1852 in Ohio, and birthplaces of his parents as "Unknown." DG's copy has Robert's birth as 1853 in Illinois, and his parents in NY - these places being the correct ones. For Ocie, the film has her birthplace correctly as Illinois, her parents' as Ohio. DG's version had her father born in Virginia, her mother in Washington, DC. On 24 May 1905, Robert G. Rumsey received a Government Patent, "pursuant to the Act of Congress approved the 20th of May, 1862. To secure Homesteads to actual Settlers on the Public Domain, and the acts supplemental thereto." It was located in Holt County, Neb, described as the "North west quarter of Section ten in Township thirty three North of Range fourteen West of the sixth Principal Meridian in Nebraska, containing one hundred and sixty acres" , (rec. Vol 11:34). The map from a 1904 Atlas (xerox provided by DG) shows this to be two sections south and one east of the Sexton farm on which is located the cemetery where Sextons and Rumseys are buried. DG was told in the County Court House at O'Neil, that the Rumseys lost their homestead, and after Robert's death Ocie Ann bought it back. But on the map it is listed in the name of O.A. Rumsey, so it was apparently in her name before Robert's death in 1907. Recollections of Vesta Adams, whose family had purchased the Sexton farm on which the cemetery is located, tell that: "In 1918 came the flu epidemic. We had a beautiful, warm fall, and then the sickness. Jess Rumsey was buried on a beautiful Sunday in early October. There was no public gathering for his funeral--just a few men met and dug his grave in the Sexton Cemetery, then they brought his body in a Model T Ford truck. Only two memebers of his family were able to come, and his brother Oscar asked Father to say a prayer, and then the grave was closed. Another brother, Ross, was buried about a week later." (Before Today - A history of Holt County, Nebraska. Centennial Edition, by Nelly Snyder Yost (1976), p.437 - copied by DG) Ocie's parents were named again on her death certificate, giving both of their birthplaces as Illinois. Ocie's birthplace in Illinois did not specify where. Ocie always claimed to have been born in Bushnell, McDonough Co, but there is a good chance she was born in neighboring Lee Tp, Fulton Co, where the Sextons had their home in 1860, the year before Ocie was born. After her parents died, she was raised by relatives in McDonough Co. Ocie was blind for several years before she died, but for the last 14 years of her life was well cared for by her daughter Zoa in California. She was mentally alert until the day she died. (DG) | Rumsey, Robert Gordon (I10093)
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| 457 | Samuel and Eunice (Osborn) Hawkins were early settlers in Mount Hope (COR). His will was dated 25 July 1820 and probated 5 Dec 1822, in which he mentioned his daughter Mary, wife of Ebenezer Rumsey (PR G:60). In the 1820 census of Wallkill, Orange Co, Ebenezer Rumsey was engaged in Manufacturing and Trade. His household had 3 males under 10 (Nathan, Samuel and ? ), his wife under 26, and he 26-44. Shelford believed this Ebenezer was a son of Nathan3 and Lydia Rumsey. I have found no proof, but the name of his first son is significant, as is the name of his second son for the maternal grandfather. Ebenezer Rumsey purchased land 12 Dec 1826 from James R. Mapes and his wife Elizabeth of Sullivan Co, NY. This may have been the farm in Mount Hope mentioned in Ebenezer's will. (In 1825 the town of Calhoun had been formed from Wallkill, and was renamed Mount Hope in 1833.) In 1830 Ebenezer was in Calhoun. He had 1 male under 5 (Ebenezer), 2 females 5-9 (Mary Jane, Parmelia), 1 male 10-14 (Benjamin), 2 males 15-19 (Samuel, Nathan), 1 female 30-39 and 1 male 40-49. In Mount Hope in 1840, Ebenezer Rumsey had 1 male and 1 female under 5 (Charles & ? ), 1 female 5-9 ( ? ), 1 male and 1 female 10-14 (Ebenezer, Mary Jane), 1 female 30-39 and 1 male 40-49. Parmelia, who seems to be missing, would have been 15-19. The will of Ebenezer Rumsey of Mount Hope township was dated 24 June 1850 and probated 29 Aug 1850. He bequeathed to his widow Mary her dower right in the farm, all the household furniture, and two cows. To his sons Nathan and Samuel H., and to his daughters Permelia Rumsey and Mary Jane Rumsey, he gave $100 apiece. His son Charles to receive his $100 when he reached the age of 21. He gave his farm of 57 acres in the town of Mount Hope to his sons Ebenezer and Charles. As executors, he appointed his friends Joshua Corwin Jr. and Seth Mapes. The witnesses were Stephen S. Mapes and Ernestus Swezy, both of Mount Hope. (PR Wills Q:267) In the administration of his estate, John C. McConnell of Goshen was appointed guardian for Charles on 8 July 1850. The heirs were listed as the widow Mary Rumsey, Parmelia Rumsey and Ebenezer Rumsey of Mount Hope, Nathan Rumsey and Mary Jane Rumsey of the town of Campbell, Steuben Co, NY, Samuel H. Rumsey of the town of Victor, Ontario Co, NY, Benjamin Rumsey of the town of Chemung, Walworth Co [should be McHenry Co], Illinois. Citations were served on Mary Jane and Nathan by Daniel Ogden of the town of Erwin, Steuben Co, NY. (PR Letters Test. B:329) The 1850 census is very confusing. Heading a household in Mt. Hope, Mary Rumsey was 55, a widow with $1750 in real estate. With her were Parmelia 27, Ebenr 22 and Cha 17, both with "no" occupation. Next door was a household headed by Ebeneser Rumsey who was 66 and a farmer, but no real estate shown for him. Following him was John Newkirk 26, Polly Shoomaker 18, Henry Newkirk 18, and four Pelton boys between the ages of 8 and 14. No relationship of these to the Rumseys has been found. I believe this enumeration of Ebenezer to be in error. The census was taken 13 September, but was supposed to be as of 1 June. Ebenezer had been alive in June but had died before the census taker got around to his farm. So he probably listed Mary and her children, then discovered that her husband had been alive on 1 June so added him on the next line. But the next dwelling number was placed on that line instead of the line below for John Newkirk. In the 1855 State census of Mt.Hope, widow Mary Rumsey was 60, a land owner. With her were Pamelia "25", Ebenezar "24" and Charles 22, both farmers, their frame house valued at $400. John and Pauline Newkirk were next door. In Mt. Hope in 1860, Mary Rumsey was a farmer aged 65, and had $2000 in real estate and $1000 in personal property. Ebenezer and Charles were still at home, their ages given as 25 and 21 (!). Parmelia was missing. In the same household were John and Pauline Newkirk and two children. There was also a domestic servant. In the state census of 1865, in Mt. Hope, widow "Mary Hawkins Rumsey" was 70. Still with her were sons Ebenezer 37 and Charles 22, farmers, and daughters-in-law Elizabeth 19 and Caroline 17. The widow Mary Rumsey left no will. Letters of Administration were granted to her son Ebenezer Rumsey 23 Oct 1865. Her heirs were: sons Ebenezer and Charles Rumsey of Mount Hope, Nathan Rumsey of Steuben Co, Samuel Rumsey of Chemung Co, Benjamin Rumsey of Illinois or Iowa; and daughter Mary Jane Cady of Steuben Co, NY (PR Admn K:277) | Rumsey, Ebenezer (I5330)
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| 458 | Samuel G. Lewis was in the 1810 census of Goshen, Orange Co, NY. He and his wife were both under 26, and they had 2 boys and 1 girl under 10. This appears to include the infant Henry. Samuel was not found in Orange Co in 1820. But there was a Samuel G. Lewis in the town of Sweden, Genesee Co (later Monroe Co), he and his wife 26-44, but with no children. If this is the same, perhaps they left their children in Goshen with relatives, and returned before 1830. In 1830 Samuel Lewis of Goshen was in his 50s, his wife in her 40s (though both born the same year), and they had 1 male and 1 female under 5 (Oliver? & ? ), 1 female 5-9 (Charlotte), 1 female 10-14 (Mary), 1 male 15-19 (Henry), 1 female 20-29 (Ethelinda), and another female 40-49. (This omits Samuel.) Samuel G. Lewis has not been found in Goshen in 1840 or 1850. In the 1st Election District of Goshen in 1855, Phineas and Charlotte Rumsey had her parents and sister with them. Samuel Lewis was 65, Mary was 64 and Julia 23. There was also a Henry Lewis 13, nephew of Samuel Lewis. In 1860 Samuel and Mary Lewis were in Goshen, both aged 73. Samuel was a farmer with $18,000 in real estate and $3,000 in personal property. With them was their daughter Charlotte Y. aged 34 and five children, all dittoed as Youngs instead of Rumsey. (Phineas Rumsey, had died in 1855.) They were followed by a domestic servant and three farm laborers, all Irish. In Goshen in the 1865 state census, Samuel and Mary Lewis still had Charlotte and her children with them, but this time properly named as Rumsey. Mary Lewis had born 8 children. Both she and Samuel were 78, born in Orange Co, and had been married but once. In 1870 Samuel and Mary Lewis of Goshen were both 84. Samuel was a retired farmer, and had $5500 in real estate. The Rumsey family were still with them. Samuel died in 1872, and "Maria" Youngs, a widow aged 72, was boarding with her son Oliver in the 1880 census of Geneseo, Henry Co, Ill. | Lewis, Samuel Gale (I5741)
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| 459 | The 1840 census of Huron Tp, Wayne Co, Mich, listed Michael Nowland with a household of 1 male under 5, and 1 male and 1 female 20-29. In the 1850 census of Huron Tp, Michael Nowland was 34, a farmer with $800 in real estate. His wife Sarah Ann was 32, and they had Russell F. 10, David R. 8, Henry L. 5, and George D. 3. In 1860 in Huron, Michael Nowland was 44 and had $1200 in real estate and $800 in personal property. He was a farmer. His wife Sarah was 42, and with them were Russell 20, David 18, Henry 15, George 13, Hamilton 7, Franklin 4 and Lucy 1 year old. (DBRX gives a Michael b 9 May 1857, d 9 Aug 1861, but not in the 1860 census. Could this be the same as Franklin, also given by DBRX?) In the 1870 census of Marion Tp, Charlevoix Co, Mich, Michael Nowland was a farmer with $1000 in real estate and $150 in personal property. He was 48, his wife Sarah was 45. With them were George 22 and Hamilton 17, farm laborers, Lucy 11 and Mary 8. His son Russell was next door, listed between his uncles Andrew and Thomas Nowland. Russell was 28, a farmer with $600 and $100 in property. His wife Josephine was 25, and the children were Levirta 8 and Frank 4 Nowland. Levirta was really a Hawkins, Josephine's child by her previous marriage. Henry Nowland, 25, was alone in Eveline Tp, Charlevoix Co, a farmer who had $500 in land. In 1880, Michael and Sarah A. were again in Marion Tp, at the ages of 64 and 62. Only Hamilton W. 27 (works on farm), and Mary D. 18 (doing housework) were with them. Their son Henry and his wife "Kite" were 36 and 22, in Eveline Tp, Charlevoix Co, and had a son John who was 9 months old, and a cousin George Potter 12, whose parents were born in Vermont and Ohio, so was probably related to Kite whose mother was born in Ohio. Their son George was living in the village of Charlevoix, Charlevoix Co, on a "Street not yet named", where he was a laborer aged 30. His wife Rose was 25, and they had George 5, Minnie P. 3 and Archy M. 1 year old. Russell Nowland was in Eveline Tp, a "Salor" aged 40. His wife was called Josephene Hawkins and was 37. Dittoed as "Hawkins" were both Eva aged 18 (Levirta "Nowland" of l870), and Michael 13 ("Frank" Nowland of 1870). In 1900, Michael Nowland, a widower aged 84, was living with his son Hamilton in Marion Tp. Hamilton was 47, his wife Annie B. 27, and they had been married 9 years. The children in the household were Ida, Rosa and Lelah (Annie's children), and Marion, Libby, Mabel and Kate (children by his 1st wife). Widower Henry was 55 and had his two children with him in Eveline Tp, Charlevoix Co, listed as John 20 and Ethel 16. George was in Charlevoix Village, a widower at the age of 51. With him were Minnie 23, James 18, Myrtle 17, Raymond 13, Blanch 8, Vera 6 and Clare 4. His daughter Myrtle was also listed with Henry and Sarah H. Blackman as "niece", perhaps related to her mother Rose, in Garfield Tp, Grand Traverse Co, Mich. George's son Archie was also in Charlevoix with his wife Katie, both 21 years old. He was a day laborer, had been married 2 years, and their daughter Helen was 9 months old. | Nowland, Michael Dallas (I10233)
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| 460 | The birthplace of Jeremiah Rumsey was reported to be Blooming Grove, which was formed from Cornwall in 1779, seven years after his birth. The town of Cheescocks was formed from Cornwall at the same time, and later renamed Monroe. In the 1800 census, Jeremiah Rumsey was enumerated in Cheesecocks, heading a household of 4 males under 10, 1 female 16-24 and 1 male 25-44. In Monroe in 1810, his family consisted of 4 males and 1 female under 10, 2 males 10-15, 1 female 16-15 (servant?), and both parents who were 26-44. He was listed in Monroe in 1820, with 4 males and 1 female under 10, 3 males and 1 female 10-15, 1 male 16-18 and 1 male 19-25, 1 female 16-25, 1 female 26-44 (his 2nd wife), and Jeremiah himself over 45. Four members of the household were engaged in agriculture, one in manufacturing and trade. He was again in Monroe in 1830, heading a household of 2 males and 1 female 10-14, 1 male 15-19, 1 female 40-49 (his 3rd wife), and 1 male 50-59. In the intermediate state census of 1835, Jeremiah Rumsey was in Monroe. His household had 3 males, of whom two were subject to militia duty, one was entitled to vote, and one had been born during the past year. Of the 3 females, one was married and under 45, and one was under 16. One female had died during the past year (his 3rd wife). He was not indexed in 1840. Jeremiah was a farmer and a blacksmith (SNY). His farm was near Hazard's Pond, now called Cromwell Lake, in that part of Monroe township which became Woodbury township, near Highland Mills where he was buried. "Mrs. McWhorter, town historian of Woodbury, Orange Co, says that Rumsey Pond...was named for Jeremiah Rumsey who lived at the lake, whose name was changed to Cromwell Lake...used for their water supply. The Rumseys had a blacksmith shop." (FMR) It appears as Hazard Pond in Monroe in French's 1860 N.Y. Gazetteer. Also in the 1875 Orange Co atlas, which shows O.Cromwell hotel at the outlet. In the 1850 census, Jeremiah Rumsey was living alone in Monroe at the age of 78, a farmer with real estate valued at $5,000. Next door were the Ostranders and the Benjamin Earls. Near by was his son "Celah" Rumsey. In 1855 in the 2nd Election District of Monroe, Jeremiah was 83 and a land owner, a lifelong resident of Monroe, boarding with Luke and Hannah Rose, a young couple who had lived in Monroe only three years. Next door was Selah H. In the 2nd Election District of Monroe in 1860, Jeremiah was 88 and owned $4500 in real estate. He was listed with farmer William Smith aged 48 and his wife Frances A. 47, no known relationship, and their six children. His son Selah H. Rumsey was next door. Jeremiah Rumsey of Monroe was 86 when he wrote his will 4 Sep 1858, probated 7 Dec 1861. He left $100 to each of the following sons: Benjamin E., Samuel D., Selah H., Joshua L., Jeremiah K., Alfred T., Isaac J., Courtland F., and Warren S. Rumsey. To his daughter Rosetta Jane Jadwin he left $70. To his son Rensselaer Rumsey and to his daughter Jerusha Ostrander he left $50 apiece. His sons James A. and George W. Rumsey were to receive only #10 each. (These last four were children by his second wife.) All the real and personal estate was left to Archibald Campbell and Alfred T. Rumsey as his executors, for payment of debts and legacies. Then, to the first group of sons he left all the residue of his estate to be equally divided among them, and if any of them has a claim it shall be paid out of his share. The witnesses were William H. and Peter Earl, both of Highland Mills. (PR Wills Z:690) S. W. Fuller was appointed guardian for Adaline, Mary E., Jerome, Charles E. and Obed Ostrander, all of Monroe, obviously the children of Jerusha who had died in 1860 after the will was written. Citations were served on [the children of eldest son Benjamin who also died in 1860]: Schuyler Rumsey, John Rumsey, Elizabeth Rumsey, Rachel Terry, Bradford Rumsey, Jared Rumsey and Antoinette Rumsey, all of Enfield, NY. Also served were Samuel D., Selah H. and Cortland F. Rumsey, and Susan M. Cole [eldest dau of Jerusha Ostrander], all of Monroe; Joshua L., Jeremiah K., Isaac J., James A. and Rensalaer Rumsey, all of Van Etten; Jane Jadwin of Elmira; George Rumsey of Erin; Warren S. Rumsey of Chester. The citation was served on Warren by leaving a copy with his daughter. Bennett S. Rumsey of Monroe [son of Selah] served the papers on those living in Chemung and Tompkins counties, in the towns of Enfield, Van Etten, Elmira and Erin. The witness Peter Earl had left for South America in July 1861, and had not been heard from since. The death notice in the 31 July 1861 issue of The Whig Press of Middletown, Orange Co, gave the date of Jeremiah's death as 20 July, (p.113 of abstracts published 1978 by George & Virginia Gardner), mentioning that his son was A. T. Rumsey. The gravestone for Jeremiah and Fannie at the back of the church in cemetery of the Highlands, as sent by Mrs. Nozell in 1961, is wrong for the date of Fannie's birth, perhaps a copying error. And the slight difference in the day (30th) of Jeremiah's death, as against the day (28th) in his probate, would not be unusual. The stone was erected by Fannie's son, Rev. G.W.Rumsey. The bible (published 1857) from which the births of all the children were taken, as well as the births of Jeremiah and his first two wives, may have belonged originally to Fannie's son James A. Rumsey, for it continues with his family. The earlier generation was obviously copied from a previous record. | Rumsey, Jeremiah (I5059)
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| 461 | The births of the first two children were given in the Fayette Centennial Historical Sketch (CHF), as well as that of John, son of David5. The 1810 census of Fayette, Seneca Co, listed John Rumsey Junr with a household of 3 males under 10, and 1 male and 1 female 26-44. (Seneca Co had been formed from Cayuga Co in 1803. The earlier deeds of Cayuga Co have not been checked.) On 14 Dec 1816, John Rumsey Jr and his wife Sally of Fayette, Seneca Co, sold land in the Village of Ovid to Shadrack N. Knapp (LR L:141). On the same day, Shadrick N. and Jerusha Knapp of Middlesex Tp, Ontario Co, sold land there to John Rumsey of Fayette, Seneca Co (LR 35:463, rec 16 May 1820). (Yates Co was formed 1823, from Ontario and Steuben counties. Middlesex, in Ontario or Yates Co, eventually became Jerusalem, Yates Co, between 1825-30.) (See deed below, recorded in Yates Co 1825, perhaps dated 1815?.) The same land in Middlesex, Ontario Co, was involved in a deed of 4 Nov 1817, with John Rumsey Jr of Middlesex, Ontario Co, and (his brother-in-law) Andrew Nowland of Benton Tp (later in Yates Co), described as that which had been conveyed 10 March 1809 by Abraham Lane to Shadruck N. Knapp (LR 29;205). The following year, John Rumsey and his wife Sally of Middlesex, sold land there to Jonathan Willson, 27 Jan 1818 (LR 32:307). A Yates Co deed recorded 1 June 1825, dated 22 Nov (year copied as 1825! perhaps it should have been read as 1815?), gave the residence of John Rumsey Jr still as Fayette, when he purchased of Potter & Potter, land in Middlesex, Ontario Co (LR 1:516). (There has been no opportunity to check this.) John Rumsey was listed in the 1820 census of Middlesex Tp, Ontario Co, as having 3 males and 1 female under 10 (Peter, John, Andrew ?, & Watey), 2 males 10-15 (Timothy, George), his wife 26-44, and John over 45. The 1825 state census of Middlesex, Yates Co, showed John Rumsey heading a household consisting of 6 males, two of whom were subject to militia duty (between the ages of 18-45), and one who was eligible to vote; 2 females, one of whom was married, and one who was under 16. George and his father would be the males of military age, and the others were probably Timothy, John, Peter and Elisha. John had 4 acres of improved land, 8 neat cattle, 1 cow, 4 hogs, and they had produced 15 yards of "fulled cloth manufactured in the domestic way, in the same family, during the preceding year." A Yates Co deed of 15 June 1825 called him John Rumsey "Sen" of Middlesex Tp when, with his wife Sally, he sold land to Hezekiah Roberts of Penn Yan (LR 2:2). This suggests that his son John may have been living at that time and in Middlesex, though he was probably under 15. His younger brothers David and Thomas, each with a son John, did not arrive until 1828. John Rumsey was among those who received a payment from his father's Seneca Co estate in 1829. In 1830 John Rumsey was in Jerusalem Tp, Yates Co, where he had 1 male and 1 female 10-14 (Peter, Watey), (there was no boy under 10 to account for Elisha, raising doubts that he belongs in the family), 1 female 20-29 (probably domestic help), his wife in her 50s, and John in his 60s. George had his own household, but the others have not been found. The John Rumsey listed in Jerusalem in the 1835 census was not this John, but David's son. But this John was still of Yates Co when, for $450, he purchased from Jacob Ackwright and his wife Ratchel [sic], 66 acres in New London Tp, Huron Co, Ohio, which he mortgaged to Ackwright 27 May 1835, with Peter Kinsley JP and David Rumsey Jr as witnesses, (Huron Co LR OS-10:285; OS-9:521). According to Watey's obituary, she had told of her family starting out from Yates Co on 10 May 1835 with a team of horses and a team of oxen, reaching New London, Huron Co, Ohio on 2 June 1835. In the 1840 census of New London, Huron Co, John Rumsey and his wife were listed as both being in their 60s. Only Watey was still with them, in her 20s. Elisha might have been with his brother George. On 24 Feb 1848 Watey Rumsey gave a life lease to John Rumsey, relinquishing her interest in 53 acres deeded to her by John Hoffstatter. John Rumsey was to live there as a home, and she was to "give said John Rumsey and Saloma Rumsey wife of said John a life lease for his life", and to Saloma after his death. (LR OS-22:103,104) John Rumsey died within six months of this lease, and Saloma may have died early in 1851, the year on her gravestone. For on 4 March 1851, Watey Bristol sold to Ambrose Ketchum Lot 8, Section 2 in New London, consisting of 12 acres deeded to her on 24 Feb 1848 by John Hofstatter (LR 1:476). He was probably the John Hofstatter who married her cousin Mary6 Rumsey (#61-2). There are three uniform stones in the small Prosser cemetery in New London Tp, on Route 60 at Prospect Road, for John Rumsey 1770-1848, Saloma Rumsey 1779-1851, and Watey Bristol 1819-1902. There is an older single stone for John Rumsey, saying he died Sept. 1, 1848 Aged 78 Yrs. The names of John Rumsey's children were listed in family records of James S. Rumsey (JSR), a descendant of John's brother David. No dates of birth or death, and no marriages, were given to help identify them. From the above it is obvious that Watey was John's daughter. The descendants of John or David (there are many records of the latter) who stayed in Huron Co were those of John's son George P. Frank W. Rumsey (#60-72), who took me to the Prosser Cemetery, was sure that Watey Bristol was a sister of his grandfather George, and that the rest of the Rumseys in the county, most of whom settled around Fitchville, were more distant cousins. My reason for identifying the above Timothy as John's son Timothy, is the similarity of names among his children, which included Watsey, Andrew and Sally. The connection with Peter Rumsey who married Charlotte McClung is through family records that claim he was born in Seneca Co, NY. As for Elisha, there is little evidence to connect him with John except that John was said to have had a son Elisha. But there is considerably more doubt about placing him here than about the other two. The History and Directory of Yates County, by Stafford C. Cleveland, has an Isaiah Youngs from Sussex Co, NJ, where he married Mary Haggerty. They settled in the town of Milo, Yates Co, about 1802. He died 1829 aged 80, so was born about 1749; she died 1833 aged 82, so born about 1751. Their children were: Elizabeth, who died unmarried in 1811 aged 34, so born about 1777 (a contemporary of Saloma Young), Nancy, Experience and Temperance (twins), Stephen (unmarried), Peter who married Hannah Green of Milo and had George N., Peter and Waity, and George who also had children (p.692). Note the names Peter, George and Waity, which correspond with the names of Saloma's children. This is the only suggestion of any possible connection of Saloma with this family. | Rumsey, John (I5382)
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| 462 | The family of Simon and Mary Pruyn was listed in the 1850 census of Brownstown Tp, Wayne Co, Mich, and included Abraham who was 22, a ship carpenter like his father. They had come from Canada to Ohio some time betwee 1838 and 1841, judging by the birthplaces of the children. Abraham "Pruine" was still in Brownstown in 1860, now a fisherman who owned no real estate and but $100 in personal property. He was 31, his wife Harriett was 23, and their two children were Charles 4 years, and Mary 4 months old. | Pruyn, Abraham Steel (I10263)
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| 463 | The father of Henry Youngs died when he was only two years old, and his mother died two years later. He inherited his father's homestead in Goshen where his children were born. He enlisted 2 May 1780 in the 5th regiment Orange Gounty Militia when he was 15. ("Doc.Colonial Hist. NY XV:232" pr VCY) "Henry Youngs, grandfather of Henry, was an early settler in Goshen Precinct, where he was Captain for a troup of horse for Orange County 20 June 1738 and where he died Sept 1743, survived by wife Ruth, son Henry, . . . [who] married Abigail, daughter of Barnabus Horton, and had but two children, Henry and Eunice to whom by will of 23 February 1767 he left his home farm land in Connecticut Government in New England. . ." (RSC, p.38) In Goshen in the 1790 census, a family of Henry Youngs had 1 male over 16, 2 males under 16, and 3 females. This is possibly the wrong family, for there was another Henry Youngs who was married in Goshen in 1784. In 1800 in Goshen, "Henry Young Jr" had 2 males and 2 females under 10 (Oliver, Hiram, Julia, Eunice), 1 male and 1 female 10-15 (Henry, Mary), and he and his wife were 26-44. The will of Henry Youngs was dated 14 Oct 1803 and proved 30 Jan 1804. He named his wife Elizabeth, and children Henry, Hiram, Oliver, Mary, Eunice and Julianna. (Orange Co Wills, pr RSC) In Goshen 1810, Elizabeth Youngs was over 45. With her were 1 male and 1 female 10-15 (Oliver, Julia), and 2 males and 1 female 16-25 (Henry, Hiram, Eunice). Next door was her son-in-law Samuel G. Lewis. Elizabeth Youngs was listed in the 1820 census of Goshen as being over 45. With her were 1 female under 10 (who?), 1 male 10-15 (Oliver), and 1 male and 1 female 16-25 (Henry & Eunice?, or a married couple?). Elizabeth was not indexed for the 1830 census. She was probably with her son Oliver in Goshen in 1840, in her 70s. In the 1843 probate of her bachelor brother, Peter Rumsey, Elizabeth Young of Goshen was among the heirs. Henry, son of Henry and Elizabeth (Rumsey) Youngs, was said to be a million-aire of New York City. In the 1850 census of Ward 15, Henry Youngs was 55 and a merchant, Charlotte was 50, and they had two Irish domestic servants. | Youngs, Henry (I5737)
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| 464 | The marriage of John Hudson to Mary Rumsey was abstracted from the Monroe Presbyterian Church records by Mrs. Joseph (Myrtle) Edwards of Chester, NY. According to the Roebling edition of Rev Silas Constant's records (abstracted by Elery D.Clark at Conn.State Lib.), the marriage took place at Blooming Grove. In the 1790 census, John Hudson and his family were living in Goshen, Orange Co. There were 3 males 16 and over, 1 male under 16, and 3 females. In Goshen in 1800, John Hudson was listed next to Phineas Rumsey. His household contained 1 male 10-15, 1 male and 1 female 16-25, and 1 male and 1 female 26-44. In 1810 John Hudson was in Wallkill, Orange Co. He had with him 1 female 10-15, 1 male and 1 female 16-25, and he and his wife were both over 45. In 1820, John Hudson of Monroe, Orange Co, had a household of 1 female under 10, 1 male and 1 female 16-25, while he and his wife were over 45, one person engaged in manufacturing or trade. He was not indexed in 1830 or after. Mary, wife of John Hudson, had died before the probate of her brother, Peter Rumsey, 18 May 1843. Among the list of Peter's nieces and nephews was Horace Hudson, son of Peter's sister Mary Hudson deceased, a resident of Monroe, Orange Co. Since Horace was the only child of Mary Hudson listed, he must have been the only child living at that time. | Hudson, John (I5138)
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| 465 | The name Elisha was the last among the children of John5 Rumsey, in a list provided by James S. Rumsey of Wilmington, Dela. The above Elisha is placed here very tentatively, as he does not seem to be in the John Rumsey household in either 1830 or 1840. But he might be one of the young men in his brother George's family in 1840. The 1850 census listed Elisha Rumsey in the town of Quincy, Branch Co, Mich. He was a lawyer aged 28, his wife called "California" was 26, and their children were Charles 7, Hennetta 4 and California 2. The published St.Joseph Co, Ind, marriage record of George Crull called his bride "Calpuma", but as his wife in the 1880 census the name was "Calipurnia." A search of Penn Tp, St.Joseph Co, in 1860 revealed Elisha practicing law there at the age of 39, with $200 in personal property. His wife was listed as "Calphurna", aged 36, and they still had their three children with them. Charles was now 15, Henrietta 13 (born in Michigan instead of Ohio as shown in 1850), and Calphurna 11. Not far from them was an Alexander Grant aged 29, who might be the one who married Henrietta five years later when he gave his age as 31, while "Etta" was only 17. When "Etta" Rumsey was married in 1865 she was a resident of Mishawaka, St.Joseph Co, Ind, which is in Penn Tp. None of the family were discovered in either Penn Tp, or in Mishawaka, in the 1870 census. They were found by Douglas B. Rumsey in Bainbridge, Berrien Co, Mich. Elisha was 57, a farmer, "Calferda" was 47, Charles 22, occupation "Lightning rods." With them also were (probably Charles' wife) Maggie 20 and (child) Willie 1 year old. A William Rumsey died unmarried in Chicago 24 Dec 1914 at the U.S. Marine Hospital, b Mich 1871 (VR33165-7), parents unknown. He had been a seaman 1899-1914. Could that be "Willie" son of Charles and Maggie? | Rumsey, Elisha (I5914)
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| 466 | The only Hiram Youngs checked in the 1850 census of New York City, may have been a son of Hiram and Sophia. He was 28 and in the hardware business. His wife Emeline was 22, and they had two children - Mary aged 2 and William 4 months old (census taken 16 Sep). They were living in the 17th Ward, and had 3 Irish maids. | Youngs, Hiram (I5749)
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| 467 | Thomas Russell Nowland was obviously named for Elizabeth's maternal grandfather, Thomas Russell. CWW reported his 1812 birthplace as in Yates Co, NY. DBRX had Seneca City, NY, as also the place his parents were married. His family was in Fayette Twp, Seneca Co, NY in 1820. I find no "Seneca City", so perhaps she should have said Seneca "County". He was 38 in the 1850 census of Huron Tp, Wayne Co, Mich, a farmer with $300 in real estate. His wife Experience was 26, and with them were Lydia Ann 5, James P. 3, and daughter Sedate C. 1 year old; also his 12 year old nephew, Andrew J. Nowland, son of John and his deceased first wife Elizabeth, and a 16 year old farmer named Elisha Smith. Thomas moved from Wayne Co to Charlevoix Co, reportedly with his brother Michael, though Michael was still in Wayne Co in 1860, when Thomas had disappeared. (Charlevoix Co was formed 1869 from Emmet Co, but I have not found Thomas there or in Huron Co in 1860.) They established Nowland Lake in Marion Tp, where Andrew also joined them some time after 1860. In 1870 Thomas Nowland, and Michael and Andrew, were in Marion Tp, Charlevoix Co. Thomas was a farmer with $500 in real estate and $175 in personal property. He was 51, his wife Experience was 47, and with them were Matilda 20, Betsey 18, Thomas 16, Amos 14, Abraham 12, Amanda 10, and William 7. Their ages in this census do not corresponded with those in other years. Thomas and Experience were in Marion in 1880, aged 68 and 55. Both his parents were reported as born in Pa. Still at home were Amos H. 21 and Abriham P. 19, both working on the farm, Alba A. 16, William E. 11, and David M. 9. The family of John and Lydia Ward was near by. Thomas Jr was not found. Thomas died in 1892, and Experience was not found in 1900 so may have died also. Their son William was a day laborer aged 31 and single, in Charlevoix Village with John Ward 58 and A. Lydia 54, married 32 years, and their daughters Jennie and Myrtle. Thomas Jr and his wife Johan were in Charlevoix Village with their 4 children Grace, Jenett, Alba and Thomas. They had been married 17 years. Abe and Amy Nowland were in Marion. They had been married 14 years. One of their children had died. With them were Thomas, Clare, Roy and Abe. | Nowland, Thomas Russell (I10228)
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| 468 | Timothy Rumsey was in the 1850 census of Cass Tp, Fulton Co, Ill, taken 28 Nov. There were two families in one dwelling. First was Lodema Bayless, aged 45, and her four children, all under 10. She owned $200 in real estate. Second was Timothy Rumsey 47, a farmer with no real estate, who could neither read nor write. He and his wife May, who was 37, had been born in NY. Their children were Watsey S. 11 (later called Saloma E.), Mary A. 10, Andrew 8, Martha 6, Sally 3, all born in Ohio, and Robert G. 4 months old, born in Illinois. Next door was a Jacob Bayless aged 40, and family. (History of Fulton County, Illinois, published by Chas. C. Chapman & Co (1879), p.585, has a brief biographical sketch of Jacob Bayless in Cass Tp, P.O. Cuba. His father's name was Richard. It is quite possible he was a brother of Mary.) Timothy Rumsey first purchased 160 acres in the SW 1/4 of Section 20, Lee Tp, Fulton Co, on 15 April 1858, from George R. Clark, and conveyed the same to Clark in a trust deed of the same date. (LR #31344, #31380 - 45:38) He appeared in Lee Tp in the 1860 census at age 47 again, his wife Mary being the same age. He now had $500 in real estate and $350 in personal property. His eldest daughter was married by then. The other children were Andrew 18, Robert 10, Martha 15, Sarah 12, Rachel 6, and Mary 20. Andrew was also listed as a farm laborer aged 17 with George and Arlina Snyder, just four dwellings from John and Emeline Day. On 1 Aug 1867, Timothy Rumsey and his wife conveyed 120 acres to Isham G. Davidson, and Davidson conveyed 40 acres to Mary Rumsey by deed, (#46403, #46926 - 68:481; 71:589). On 20 Dec 1870, George R. Clark and wife gave a deed for 40 acres to Mary Rumsey (#54264 - 81:533). These complete the transactions for Timothy and Mary in Lee township, according to BG who did the research in Fulton Co for Mrs. Gordon. She reported in 1980 that "on the 1871 atlas it shows Mary as owner and where they lived was close to a little country cemetery...I talked with the owner, who lives in Bushnell. He said that about ten years ago someone went in the cemetery with a bulldozer and took all the stones, evidently to make a sidewalk! He didn't know who had been buried in the cemetery as he has only owned it the last few years. This cemetery is only about a 1/2 mile down the road from where the Rumseys lived." Timothy and Mary were aged 60 and 55 in 1870 in Lee Tp (P.O. Avon), and he had $800 in real estate. Only Robert and Rachel were still at home, aged 20 and 15. Timothy was again shown to be illiterate. Mary Rumsey died 12 Oct 1872, intestate, at her residence in Lee Tp, Fulton Co, Ill. Mary L. Buck signed the Petition for Administration of her estate, 30 September 1874, showing that she left a husband Timothy Rumsey, and her children and heirs at law were Saloma Day, Mary S. Buck, Andrew Rumsey, Martha Buck, Robert Rumsey and Hattie Tally [reported by BG as Tolly]. She left "the following described Real Estate...Towit the North West quarter of the South West quarter of Section number Twenty (20) in Township number Seven (7) North in Range number one (1) East of the fourth principle Meridian in the County of Fulton, and State of Illinois which will more fuly appear by Reference to the Records of Deeds in said county of Fulton the Undersigned would further Represent that Daniel Buck one of the Heirs of Said Estate has purchased all the Shears of the Rest of the Heirs of said Estate Less one, of which Shear I am the owner." (PR File #1940, abstracted first by BG in 1980, who reported there were bills from a doctor in Prairie City. Xerox copies of the above were supplied by Alfred M. Fischer in 1993.) Timothy died intestate at his residence in Putnam Tp, Fulton Co, 13 Sept 1874. Again Mary S. Buck applied for Letters of Administrator on 22 Sep 1874, a week before filing on Mary Rumsey's estate, and the children were again listed as Saloma Day, Mary L. Buck (the petitioner), Andrew Rumsey, Martha Buck, Hattie Tally, and Robert Buck [sic, shd be Rumsey]. [Hattie had been listed before Robert in Mary's estate]. Mary, Martha and Soloma lived in Bushnell, McDonough Co. "There was some kind of court battle between Mary S. Buck and Robert Rumsey over some land", making the file rather large. (PR File #1939, as abstracted by BG. Xerox of Petition from A.L.Fischer.) It will be noted that the children are listed in chronological sequence. Therefore Watsey S. of the census would be Saloma of the probate, named for Timothy's mother Saloma, and his sister Watey, though that name appeared only in the 1850 census. A problem arises in the names of Rachel who was in the 1860 and 1870 census as born about 1855, and Hattie Tolly/Tally of both probates. As shown on the page for #20, Rachel and Hattie were the same person, married to Thomas Tally. | Rumsey, Timothy (I5905)
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| 469 | When Jerome Wells was baptized in the First Presbyterian Church of Goshen in 1822 with all the children of Joshua Wells, they were listed in this order: Alfred, Mary Jane, Jerome, Frances, Julia Ford & Elizabeth Eunice, "the first four by a former wife & the last two by Catherine his present wife." Joshua Wells had been married to Jemima Sayre 10 Feb 1801 (GPCh p.22). The wife of Joshua Wells, Junr., died 27 Jan 1812 of pneumonia at age 36 (GPCh p.81). Doctor Jerome Wells died of consumption in 1839, at the age of 35. On 6 Feb 1841, Charlotte Wells, widow of Dr. Jerome Wells, was admitted to the Presbyterian Church at Goshen, unbaptized (GPCh p.70). (Jerome not indexed 1830 NY census, Charlotte not indexed 1840.) Charlotte Wells has not been found in the 1850 census. In 1860, in incorporated Goshen, Charlotte Wells was 51, living alone except for an Irish domestic servant. She owned $3000 in real estate and $8000 in personal property. In 1870, Charlotte Wells of Goshen was 62. She owned $5000 in real estate and $10,000 in personal property. Boarding with her were John C. Wallace 63, an insurance agent, his wife Caroline 45, and son William 7. In 1880, widow Charlotte Wells was in Goshen Village at the age of 72. The Wallace couple were still boarding with her. She had a domestic servant both years. | Wells, Dr. Jerome (I5811)
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| 470 | William Buck was of Eldora, IA, when his mother died in 1919. AMF reported: "I found a reference in the Mormon IGI for the birth of William Henry Buck in 1880 in Tower City, ND, so it was easy to connect him with Mertie Buck", from records of Ruth (Buck) Smith (above) whom he contacted, and who supplied all the above family records. | Buck, William Henry (I10558)
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| 471 | William Rumsey was in the 1810 census of Fayette, Seneca Co, NY, with a household of 2 males and 1 female aged 26-44, 1 male 10-15, and 3 males and 2 females under 10. This appears to include an extra adult male, one under 15, as well as two females under 10 who have not been identified. In 1820 William Rumsey was in Lyons, Ontario Co, NY, where his son Leonard was reportedly born earlier that year. He was over 45, his wife was under 45. With them were 3 boys and 2 girls under 10, 3 boys 10-15, and 1 female 16-25. By 1830 William had moved his family to Enfield, Tompkins Co, NY. He and his wife were in their 50s, and they had 1 male and 2 females 10-14, and 2 males 15-19. In 1834 William Rumsey purchased land in Enfield from William A. G. Thompson, (LR LL:197, rec 1839). In the 1835 State census, William Rumsey of Enfield headed a household of 2 males and 1 female. Neither of the males was subject to militia duty, William being too old, and only one male was eligible to vote. So the other male was probably his youngest son Leonard. In 1836, William and Phebe Rumsey conveyed land in Enfield to Isaac Rumsey, and William purchased land in Newfield from the Treasurer of the State of Connecticut, (LR LL:188; RR:508). In the 1840 census William Rumsey of Newfield and his wife were both in their 60s. With them was only a small girl under 5, possibly a grandchild. On 1 March 1843, William Rumsey and his wife Phebe deeded 25 acres in Newfield to their son Henry, at which time all were of Newfield (LF UU:317). William was said to have fallen into an excavation at Ithaca that year and was killed, (NoP). One of VES's correspondents said he died in Enfield in 1843. Next to his son William, in the Rumsey cemetery in Enfield, is a stone for a William Rumsey who died 4 April 1845, aged "20 yrs., 11 mos." (NYGBR 54:388). This may have been a misreading of the years, for aged 70.11. would match the date of birth VES showed for William #32. There is no known William of the area who was born May 1824. He had no probate in Tompkins Co. But the first of the following deeds could have been transacted 5 months after his death. On 3 Sep 1845, Hudson Savacool and his wife Betsey of Chemung Co, gave a Quit Claim to Henry Rumsey of Newfield, for land formerly ownd by William Rumsey dec'd, (LR UU:318). Henry also received deeds for land formerly owned by William dec'd, from Leonard Rumsey and his wife Susan B. of Chemung Co, 5 Feb 1846, and from William B. Rumsey and his wife Julia of Enfield, 22 Aug 1846. Each was for 17 and 50/100 acres in Newfield, (LR VV:36; WW:318). In the 1850 census his widow Phebe, aged 72, was living with their son Henry in Newfield. She was still with him there in 1860 at age 80, where she died of old age (87 yrs), according to the mortality list in the 1865 census. The 1878 will and probate of Henry Rumsey, who had no children, fills out the family of William and Phebe. He named his brother Leonard Rumsey, his sister Betsey Savercool, his adopted son Levi, his nephews Will and George Savercool, nieces Rene Savercool, Jane [Savercool] Canfield and her husband William Canfield, and Harriet [Savercool] Carpenter, (Tompkins Co PR Wills O:445). The estate papers showed that the only surviving brothers in 1878 were William and Leonard Rumsey, and the only surviving sister was Elizabeth Dimond. It also listed the descendants of Jane Ferris, Robert Rumsey and Ben Rumsey, all deceased (PR Pkg 121R). | Rumsey, William (I5064)
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| 472 | As soon as the girls were raised, sometime in the 1920s, Albert and Ethel separated, but never divorced. It is unknown why Ethel left him, but it is suspected by her granddaughter that it may have been that Ethel discovered that Albert was previously married. Being a very proper lady this may have caused problems, but with the whole Paynter family in the area it is unlikely that she never knew about this. | Paynter, Albert Jennings (I796)
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| 473 | Grandma McConnell passed away Sunday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. R. E. Preble, after an extended illness. She had been feeble for a year or more. She had made her home with her son, John, south of town until about eight months ago when she was brought to town to be closer to the doctor. She had been confined to her bed about six weeks. She had been an unusually strong woman and all her life had been very healthy and well until she began to fail a year or more ago. Miss Mary McCuskey was born September 11, 1834, in Ohio county, West Virginia. She died September 6, 1914 and was therefore a few days under 80 years old. She was married December 17, 1854 [*] , to John McConnell, Sr. who passed away January 13, 1886. They came to Russell county March 1, 1879, and located on the farm now owned by John McConnell. They had eight children as follows: a child who died in infancy, Mrs. Lewis (Margaret) Brown who died December 11, 1886 [**], Mrs. Thomas (Mary Emmaline) Andrews who died July 27, 1888 [***], three daughters who died in the summer of 1869, Mrs. T. E. (Correna Estella) Preble and John McConnell, both of whom were with her at the end. She leaves two sisters and one brother-Mrs. Margaret Reed of Elmwood, Illinois, Jane and Albert McCuskey of Elm Grove, West Virginia. She also left thirteen grandchildren. She was a faithful member of the United Brethren church. Grandma McConnell lived a quiet simple life and was of the finest character. She was known as a good woman, one with the best thoughts and the kindliest feelings toward everybody. She had many sorrows in her life but lived to see several of her children grow to useful maturity and rear their families which were a comfort to her. She labored unceasingly to lead them in the right way and passed away with the satisfaction of knowing that she had had much success. Such a life is worth living and such an example lives long after the heart ceases to beat. The funeral service was held Monday afternoon from the United Brethren church and was conducted by Rev. S. A. Fisher, the pastor. Interment was in the Russell cemetery. We desire to express our thanks to our many friends and neighbors for their sympathy and kindness shown us during the sickness and death of our mother, and for the beautiful floral offerings. Their kindness will never be forgotten. Signed: Mrs. R. E. Preble and family, John McConnell and family. | McCuskey, Mary Jane (I4921)
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| 474 | Mrs. Mary McConnell passed away last Sunday morning, September 6, 1914, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ed Preble with whom she had made her home for the last eight months, after an illness of six weeks. Grandma McConnell would have been 80 years old had she lived until tomorrow. She had been in declining health for some time. Mary McCuskey was born September 11, 1834 in Ohio County, West Virginia. She was married December 17, 1854 to John McConnell at Ohio, West Virginia, by Rev. Greer. Eight children were born to the union, six of whom including an infant are now dead. The deceased children are Mrs. (Margaret Ellen) Brown who died December 11, 1886; Mrs. Thomas (Mary Emeline) Andrews, died July 27, 1883; Jane Amanda; Julia Ann and Nettie Lee. Two children, Mrs. Ed (Corena Estella) Preble and John Mc Connell both of Russell, survive her. Her husband died January 13, 1886 and is buried in the Russell cemetery. She leaves one brother, Albert McCuskey, Elm Grove West Virginia, and two sisters, Jane McCuskey, of the same place and Mrs. Margaret Reed of Elmwood, Illinois. Thirteen grandchildren and three great grandchildren are living. Grandma McConnell was a faithful devoted Christian, having belonged to the United Brethren Church in Russell. She leaves the example of a beautiful life to those who knew her. Funeral services were held Monday morning at the United Brethren Church by Rev. S. A. Fisher. The pall bearers were from among the older men: A. G. Urton, Henry Delp, I. W. Holl, C. A. Newcomer, J. R. Freed and Stewart Brown. Interment was made in Russell Cemetery. | McCuskey, Mary Jane (I4921)
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| 475 | Between 1930 and 1940, Nora served as the Superintendent of Schools in Marion County, Iowa. | White, Nora (I9313)
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| 476 | "(There was no response to a letter addressed in 1964 to Mrs. Stanley Withers, 127 Lee St, Fredericksburg, Va, the address having been provided by her niece, Suzanne Rumsey.) The family outline of Gene Elbert Rumsey said that the Withers "moved to Alabama in 1952 where he was a car hauler out of [the] port of Guntersville (on the Tennessee River). Both children were born there. [They] Moved to Virginia (back home) in 1961. Mary was bookkeeper for K Mart Corp. from Feb 1963 till retirement in Aug. 1991." (Rumsey, "Descendants of Simon Rumsey") | Withers, Stanley (I8761)
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| 477 | "According to persistent tradition among the descendants of this Robert, he was a distance connection of the numerous Otis families already settled at this period in the New England colonies. One of his ancestors - supposedly Thomas, his great grandfather - was said to have left England and settled in Ireland. As such an emigration probably did occur, and as the traditions of the two sides of the house seem to coincide, this branch of the family is, therefore, at least temporarily placed in this relationship, awaiting some good evidence that the assumption is incorrect. In considering the probablity of this relationship, outside evidence should also be considered. For instance, the fact that he was a Protestant would strongly point to his family not being of the Irish race, but rather English immigrant; even if it were not a fact that any name approaching our own has as far as known, never appeared in Ireland, except as belonging to English families. Moreover, in England itself, the name of somewhat similar spelling was pronounced by the North English family in one syllable, while ours was always in two. It appears he was kidnapped on shipboard at Donegal when only fourteen years old, and after numerous wanderings, all more or less tradiitonal, he finally landed in Rhode Island about 1720. He then drifted over into Connecticut, where he settled at Lyme at the mouth of the river of that same name. According to one tradition, he is said to have lived until the early part of the 19th century, dying at the very advanced age of one hundred three years. According to another tradition, he enlisted in the War of 1776, when eighty years of age, as a wagon master, and remained in the field during the war; came home stout and hale, at the age of one hundred; went blind, remaining so ten years, when his sight returned, and he could see to read without glasses. He remained so for five years, and then died at the age of 115 years." (Otis, Otis Family in America) | Otis, Robert (I2404)
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| 478 | "Although careful investigation of records in the U.S. War Department has as yet failed to discover any one of that name who was an officier in this battle, still, he is said, by his descendants, to have been a Major upon the staff of General Warren at the battle of Bunker Hill, and when the latter was wounded, to have taken command. Shortly after he was captured by the British and held for some time as a prisoner. Finally, when upon the point of being exchanged, all the prisoners were given a drink of rum. This, it was claimed, had had small-pox virus put in it, so that he very shortly came down with a most virulent form of the desease. Not only he, but his wife and one daughter died of the pest. Infuriated by this inhuman deed, all of the sons vowed vengeance, and to kill as many English as possible. With this end in view, those who were old enough at once entered the Continental Army, and the younger ones followed as rapidly as possible. Stephen is said to have died before the birth of his son, Edward H. in 1766, according to Prof. Merrill Otis of Columbia, Mo. This, if true, would, of course, be the end of the Revolutionary war story, and in view of the U.S. War Department's official records, that portion relative to Bunker Hill is discredited. Although it will be a blow to many descendants, who prefer irresponsible and glorious tradition, rather than commonplace, uninteresting facts. That he was in the Revolution War [although not an officer at Bunker Hill] is more probably, since, as he had a daughter born after 1776, he was alive at that period." (Otis, Otis Family in America) | Otis, Stephen (I2402)
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| 479 | "Carlton George Rumsey was a harness maker of Jefferson, aged 20 when he was married in April 1917. Bertha Backus was 21 and a resident of Pittsford Tp. Witnesses to the marriage were Ava and Clyde E. Rumsey of Pittsford, his eldest brother and wife. In the birth records of their children, Carl was a farmer. In the 1900 census of Watertown Tp, Sanilac Co, Mich, E. A. Backhouse was a grocer, he and Lucinda having come from English Canada. Their daughter Bertha was 4 years old. Carl was injured in a tractor accident in August 1963, and lost two toes." (Rumsey, Descendants of Simon Rumsey) | Rumsey, Carlton George (I7933)
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| 480 | "Clyde Elliott Rumsey was 18 in his father's probate of 1905, and 22 when he married in 1909. In 1959 he wrote from Spotsylvania, Va: "We left Michigan in 1929 on account of my wife's health and went to Guilford College, N.C., was in N.C. 20 years and sold out as my youngest boy Gene was a farmer clear through. He was offered good jobs when he graduated from school in N.C., but refused. While he was in the army I sold out and bought up here in Virginia for more work land and timber, as we combine forestry with our farming. The last two years Gene has been County Fire Warden for the State. His division Headquarters are in Charlottesville. As we run beef cattle and hogs, I can do most of the tractor work and he has time off to help with the rest." His business card gives: "Hilly Acre Farm, / C.E. and G.E. Rumsey / Spotsylvania Virginia, R.R.3 / Registered Berkshires / Breeding stock for sale at all times / Farm located 22 miles Southwest of Fredericksburg/on State Route 208." (Miss Alice A. Rumsey of Jackson, Mich, b 25 Apr 1886, who sent information from Mrs. Clyde E. Rumsey in 1969, said: "I am quite sure the birth date for Clyde should be 1887, as I think he is a little younger than I." This agrees with the 1900 census, though his birth was entered before hers in Hillsdale VR for same year.) "Asa" Nichols, probably a misunderstanding of "A.Z.", and Edna were in Ransom Tp, Hillsdale Co, in the 1900 census. Their eldest of four children was Ava, aged 10 years. Clyde E. and Ava N. Rumsey were living close to his widowed mother in 1910, in Jefferson Tp, Hillsdale Co, having been married less than a year. He was 23 and a farmer, she was 20." (Rumsey, Descendants of Simon Rumsey) | Rumsey, Clyde Elliott (I7931)
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| 481 | "Edward died at the age of eighty-six years, when on one of his trips his horse fell and so injured him that he died as a result. He spent his last years with his son, Merrill. Rice Harding writes, in December, 1908: "I am the only living relative who knows where he was buried, and I have a permit to remove the remains and shall do so in the spring, as he is buried in a neglected graveyard. I shall remove him to my lot in Buchanan, [Michigan]." According to family tradition, like the other brothers, he is said to have vowed vengeance against the English, and made oath to kill as many as he could. With this end in view, he tried to enter the Revolutionary Army, but being only twelve years old, was not allowed to do so, and only got in as a driver of a baggage team, seizing, however, occasion as he could to use a gun against the foe. At sixteen he was regularly enlisted, and at the conclusion of peace, mustered out. According to the records of the US Pension office, on Mar. 25, 1833, while living at Salt Creek, OH, he made application for pension, which was granted, for eleven months active service as a private in the Connecticut troops. It appears that he enlisted from Lyme, and served under Captain Lord and Colonel Stare. At one time he was wounded and carried off the field, but after recovery, re-enlisted and served until the war closed. He then went to live with his grandfather in Lyme, CT, but eventually moved to Vermont, where he settled at Onion River. In 1810 he left Vermont and went to Ohio, where he already had numerous relatives, settled near Sandyville, Tuscarawas Co., and continued preaching. For a great many years he was a missionary and Baptist preacher, going from place to place preaching to the scattered faithful, being the first minister of that description in Ohio. In 1823 he moved to Holmes Co., OH; went to Henry Co., IL in 1837 and to La Porte Co., IN in 1851. When he was seventy-five years old he rode on horseback twelve hundred miles on a trip to Illinois, thence returning to Ohio, then to his old home in Vermont, and back again to Ohio." (Otis, Otis Family in America) | Otis, Rev. Edward Hackett (I2400)
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| 482 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Rumsey, G.E. (I7940)
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| 483 | "In Bronson Tp, Branch Co, in 1900, farmer Levi Schultz and his wife Sophia had with them their grandson, Verna Leib aged 17, a farm laborer born in May 1883. When they were married in December 1903, Vern L. Leib gave his age as 21, a farmer. Iva M. Rumsey was 16. Both were residents of Noble, but were married across the state line in Indiana. The names of their parents were given in full. Witnesses were "Sair" Long, perhaps the minister's wife, and Dora Shutt. In the 1910 census of Noble, Iva Lieb was with her parents, married 6 years (not divorced or a widow), and had had but one child - Mable Lieb who was 5 years old. In 1920, in Gilead Twp, Branch Co, Mich, George A. Lytle was 42, b Indiana, his wife Iva M. was 32, b Mich. With them were "Bulah" Lytle age 5 years 2 months, and LeRoy Lytle age 1 year 7 months, both born in Michigan, and Mabel B. Leib, daughter age 25, b Mich. In 1930 the Lytle family was in Millgrove Twp, Steuben Co, Indiana. George was now 52, had been married (his 1st) at age 35. Iva M. was 42, and had been married at age 24, i.e. ca 1911-12, so this must have been her marriage to George Lytle, not her first marriage. With them still were Beulah M. Lytle 15, b Indiana this time, and LeRoy L. Lytle 11. In the 1946 estate of her mother, Sarah Ann Rumsey, Iva Lytle was 58, her address given as Rte 1, Bronson, Mich." (Rumsey, Descendants of Simon Rumsey) | Leib, LaVerne L. (I8946)
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| 484 | "In the Detroit City Directory of 1954 Erwin Henry Rumsey lived at 19353 Bloom Ave, and worked for Barns Gulf Service. In 1963 he lived in Warren, Macomb Co, Mich, a suburb of Detroit." (Rumsey, Descendants of Simon Rumsey) | Rumsey, Erwin Henry (I7935)
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| 485 | "John Rumsey, son of Nathaniel and Betsey (Rider) Rumsey, settled in Matteson Tp, Branch Co, Mich, where he first purchased land in Section 26, in 1846. He farmed and lived there for 20 years. He then purchased a farm of 80 acres in Section 14, Noble Tp, and made it one of the best farms of the region, with a neat substantial dwelling, suitable barns and outhouses, and one of the finest orchards in the township. He was a Menonite, and a Democrat. (BCM) (John had move to Noble by 1860. Branch Co deeds have not been checked to learn when he first purchased land in Matteson and in Noble.) John was married in Matteson in 1841, the witnesses being Elizabeth and William Staily. They were there in the 1850 census. John was 27, a farmer for whom no real estate was listed. His wife Maria was 28 and could neither read nor write. They had four children: George 8, Luana 6, Jane 3 and Margaritt 1 year old. They were living not far from his brothers Stephen and George Rumsey. In 1860, John and Maria were in Noble Tp, P.O. Round Lake. Both were 37 years of age, and he had only $450 in real estate and $250 in personal property. Maria was still illiterate. Their family now consisted of George W. 17, Lowana 15, Jane 13, Margaret 12, Susan 6, and John A. 1 year. Maria died in 1868, and later that year John married again. But he lost his second wife Eliza Jane before the 1870 census, and had no surviving issue by her. Eliza Jane Peterson was 42 when married, born in Green Co, Ohio, but a resident of Mill Grove, Ind. (Not found there in the 1860 census.) Witnesses to this marriage were Lester Peterson and Margaret Rumsey, who were married less than a month later, he a resident of Mill Grove. It is quite possible that Eliza Jane was a widow, with Lester her son. John Rumsey had no wife in the 1870 census, when he was 46 and had land worth $2000 and personal property worth $600. Keeping house for him in Noble was his daughter Mary L."Gibson", who had married "Stuart Gibson" the previous December 1869. (The names should be reversed in this census, Stuart being the last name.) Mary was 26, and Stuart was 29, another farmer. The only other child still at home was John A. Rumsey who was 12. Also in Noble in 1870 were Jacob and Mary Imhoof, ages 32 and 26, both born in Ohio. He was a farmer with $1300 and $500 in real and personal property. Their children were Elizabeth 8 and Sarah 6, born in Indiana, and Catharine 4 and Mary 2, born in Michigan. John Rumsey married the widow Mary Imhoof as his third wife in July 1880, (though the 1880 census taken 25 June had them already married), the witnesses being Eunice Earl and George Cauright. Mary appeared with him in the census that year, though married after the official census date of June 1st. John was "54", Mary 37, and his son John was aged 21. Three of Mary's "Imhoff" children were also with them, called step-children of John Rumsey. They were John 7, Samuel 5 and Annetta 3. Mary had other Imhoof child named Peter (VHR) who never appeared with her in the census, probably born soon after the 1870 census and possibly died before 1880. The delayed birth record of Ernest Rumsey, son of John Rumsey and Mary Anglemyre, filed in Branch Co 31 Dec 1941, gave their residence as Greenfield Mills, (LaGrange Co), Ind, in 1883, though the birthplace of Ernest was in Noble, Mich (VR G:303). (His eldest half-brother George was living there in 1880.) The death record of John5 Rumsey gave his father's name as Byron Rumsey! John had a grandson of that name who had died five years before, but there are no known early Rumseys of that name who could have been father of John, earliest b 1847. And the Branch County history named his parents as Nathaniel Rumsey and the Betsey Rider who married (2) Benjamin Stebbins in Marion Co, Ohio. No probate was indexed in Branch Co for John Rumsey. In 1900, widow Mary Rumsey was with John A. Rumsey in Noble, and called his mother-in-law. She was also his step-mother. She was 55 and had borne 9 children, all of whom were living. This would be her 8 Imhoof children and 1 Rumsey child, though 1 of the Imhoof children had presumably died young. Her son Ernest Rumsey, aged 17, was called brother-in-law, living with William Henderson and his wife Elizabeth (Imhoof), in Cheshire, Allegan Co, Mich, working for them as a farm laborer. Elizabeth was his half-sister. Mary Rumsey's death record gave the names of both her parents, residents of Michigan. In the 1880 census their birthplaces were given as Pennsylvania, and in 1900 as Ohio." (Rumsey, Descendants of Simon Rumsey) | Rumsey, John (I5492)
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| 486 | "Lloyd Moses Rumsey had been living with his daughter Loretta Travis, at 1036 Maple Ave, Jackson, Jackson Co, Mich, before his death. Being a veteran of World War I, he went to the Veterans' Hospital, Ann Arbor when he became ill, and died there." (Rumsey, Descendants of Simon Rumsey) During World War I, Lloyd served as a private in the Michigan 338 Ambulance Co. | Rumsey, Lloyd Moses (I7932)
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| 487 | "Neil A. Z. Rumsey's maternal grandfather, A. Z. Nichols, was asked for a first name when he went into the navy so adopted the name Abner. However, Neil Rumsey's middle initials do not stand for any name. In July 1964, his daughter Suzanne wrote from 126-B St.Andrews Blvd, Charleston, SC, 19407, expressing a real interest in the genealogy of Thomas5 Rumsey I had done for the descendants, which those in Michigan had copied and distributed among various branches of the family. At that time she reported that she was "a junior at St.Andrew's Parish Senior High School in Charleston, South Carolina. My brother, twenty-two years old, is a senior at Virginia Polytechnic Institute at Blacksburg, majoring in Mechanical Engineering. My sister, twenty-one years old, attended William and Mary College in Norfolk, Virginia, and now lives in Richmond. I plan to attend Virginia Tech. Since my father is on construction (tunnels, bridges, and land fills, such as they did at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, where we lived for three years), we move quite frequently...." Douglas B. Rumsey found in US Search on the Internet, in 2003, a Diane (Sinhel) Rumsey ae 50, daughter of N.S. Sinhel, ae 84, & Ina (Olson) Sinhel, ae 82. These were the only Sinhels in N.C. Gene Elbert Rumsey had reported a 2nd marriage for Joseph Neil, but did not have the name, and DBR surmised this was that person." (Rumsey, "Descendants of Simon Rumsey") | Rumsey, Neil Az (I7938)
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| 488 | "Richard married and settled at Canaan, New Hampshire. He was a Revolutionary soldier. According to the authority of a granddaughter, he had a family of ten children." (Otis, Otis Family in America) | Otis, Richard (I3122)
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| 489 | "Richard was called of Portsmouth at the time of his marriage to Jane, described as of Taunton. It is not proved that this was the same man who later married Mary Tisdale, but there is every reason to suppose that he was the same. It has been suggested that Jane's husband was of Portsmouth, N. H., because there was a Haskins family near there at Great Island. However, the editors of Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (pp. 316-317) repudiate this suggestion; no Richard is found in that family or region; and if from there, the Taunton record would more likely have described him as of Piscataqua than as of Portsmouth. On the other hand, members of the William Hoskins family of Plymouth were already living at Taunton, and Richard may have gone in youth to Portsmouth, R. I., no great distance to the south of Taunton. Richard lived in the South Purchase of Taunton, which was set off in 1712 as the town of Dighton. He was one of the signers, 11 Oct. 1708, of the petition for the erection of a township in the South Purchase. He is proved brother of John Hoskins or Haskins of Taunton and Dighton, and was executor of his will. The name was spelled in both forms at this period both in Bristol County, Mass., and in Norwich, Conn., but Haskins became the standard form in both places, and is used as the preferred form in the printed Taunton Vital Records. Whether Richard had any surviving issue by Jane is not known. She could have been mother of John and Mercy, evidently the oldest children, but from Mary on they must belong to Mary Tisdale, since Mary was named in her grandfather Tisdale's will, and it physically possible that all the children were by Mary Tisdale. Richard Hoskins was one of those who contributed money for the Canada Expedition in 1690. He bought 170Ùa acres from Samuel and Hannah Waldron, 9 May 1692, and on 19 Feb. 1694/5 bought several pieces of land from Mary Street which had belonged originally to her father, Francis Street. On 2 Sept. 1695, he bought from Joseph Tisdale, whose wife Mary consented. This was an uncle of Richard's wife. On 2 Dec. 1696, Richard Haskins of Taunton, for ¹3 14s. in silver money of New England, sold to Philip King of Taunton, half a purchase right, including future divisions of land. Two acres were laid out to Richard Haskins, 11 Mar. 1696/7, adjoining the westerly side of a brook called Browne's Brook, flanking his own former land. On 29 Aug. 1705, Joseph Tisdale of Taunton, for a horse valued at ¹8, sold to Richard Haskins of Taunton, two or three acres bounded by Haskins' land, mentioning Browne's Brook. Benedict Arnold of Newport, R. I., on 29 Nov. 1705, for ¹300, conveyed to Richard Haskins of Taunton, weaver, certain divisions in the Township of Taunton on the west side of Taunton River. On 20 Jan. 1708/9, Richard Haskins of Taunton, for ¹11, sold to Gilbert Winslow of Swansea, 1Ùa acres in Swansea, a small piece of salt meadow. Samuel Waldron of Dighton, on 22 Feb. 1713/14, in an exchange of land, conveyed to Richard Haskins of Dighton lots 64 and 65 in the upper division, known as Taunton South Purchase but now within the limits of the town of Dighton, each lot supposed to contain between 60 and 70 acres. On 16 Mar. 1714/15, at a meeting of the Proprietors of the South Purchase, "Richard Hoskins was chosen Clarke for ye South Purchase in Dighton and was sworne to the faithful Discharge of ye office of Clarke," attested by Jared Talbot, Justice. On 1 Mar. 1716/17, Richard Haskins of Dighton, for ¹900, sold to Mr. Daniel King of Scituate, "my Dwelling house, shop, and barne" and his home land in Dighton, his wife Mary releasing her right of dower. He rendered his final accounting as executor of his brother John's estate, 2 Apr. 1717, and made his first purchase in Norwich, Conn., just a week later. On 9 Apr. 1717, Thomas Stodder of Norwich, with the consent of his wife Deborah, for ¹604, sold to Richard Haskins of the Town of "Deiton," County of Bristoll, Massachusetts Bay, 199 acres in eight parcels adjoining together "upon ye middle hill . . . . with ye two Dwelling houses and ye Barn." The inventory of the estate of Richard Haskins of Norwich "who dyed December ye 26: 1717" was taken 21 Jan. 1717/18 by Obadiah Smith, Joseph Kingsbury, and Jonathan Metcalf; and was sworn in Court by his widow, Mrs Mary Haskins, 11 Feb. 1717/18. The house and land were valued at ¹604; other items, including a bill and bond from Daniel King and a bond from James Tisdale, totaled over ¹446. Administration was granted the same date to Mary and John Haskins of Norwich. The order of distribution, 14 July 1719, permitted the eldest son to retain the real estate, by giving security to the other heirs. The widow was to have her third; the eldest son, a double portion amounting to ¹185.13.5; the eldest daughter, Mercy, 50s. with what she had in her father's lifetime; and each of the other seven children, ¹92.16.8Ùa. There is a receipt in the file from Joseph Kingsbury to John Haskins "upon ye account of what was du to me from his father," and on 1 Apr. 1718, Daniel Haskins receipted to John Haskins for "six shilins in mony due to me from my fathers Estate." An administration account includes two "Journeys to Dighton 24 days to get in ye Debts at 4s P day." [Probate Rec. New London, B-249; J2-24, 53; File 2522.] On 20 Mar. 1727, John Hoskins of Norwich conveyed to his brother, Daniel Hoskins, 48 acres on Middle Hill, for what is due towards his portion and also for what is due to him for sister Rebecca Hoskins' portion, as Daniel is guardian to said Rebecca. The above records, and the grandfather Tisdale's will, prove that the following children belong to Richard: John, Mercy, Mary, Daniel, and Rebecca. Sarah, Elizabeth, and Hannah were married in Norwich and cannot be placed in a later generation. This accounts for eight of the nine children who are known to have survived; the evidence for Martha is not so good, but in additiona to the reasons stated in The Waterman Family (1-102 to 106) for believing her to be a Haskins, Mary Tisdale had a sister of that name." (Waterman, The Granberry Family) | Haskins, Richard (I6489)
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| 490 | "Robert enlisted in Capt. Ely's Comany Mar.17, 1777, and served three years; he then re-enlisted, and deserted July 13, 1782. Later he joined General LaFayette's command somewhere up the Hudson River, and served until the close of the war. To desert was not at that time considered unusual, however, and the men left, joined their companies, or more often returned and planted their farms when they pleased. His sword is now in the possession of his great, great grandson - John M. Otis" (Otis, Otis Family in America) | Otis, Robert (I3121)
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| 491 | "Syntha" Rumsey was in the 1820 census of Scipio, Cayuga Co. Her household had 3 females under 10 (Marabah, Lucy, Nancy), 1 female 10-15 (Phebe), 1 male 16-18 (John) and another 16-25 (Isaac), 1 female 16-25 (Jane), 1 female 26-44 and 1 male 45 or over. In 1843 Cynthia Rumsey of Veteran, widow, sold land on 22 Mar to Wessel Vernooy and others. | Mosher, Cynthia (I4947)
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| 492 | "The "Ernes" Rumsey born April 1883 found in the 1900 census of Cheshire Tp, Allegan Co, Mich, brother-in-law to William Henderson, was probably the above Ernest. Henderson's wife Elizabeth was 38, which would correspond to Ernest's step-sister, Elizabeth Imhoof, of earlier enumerations. (See #136) A letter addressed to Ernest Rumsey at Bronson, Mich, written 21 May 1961, was forwarded to his daughter, Mrs. Genese Teller, RFD #1, Allen, Mich. Her reply gave no specific data, but said it would take some time to get it together, as she had 11 children, 21 grandchildren and 3 greats, with another on the way. Also, her sister Grace had been married twice and had 3 deaths in her family. Nothing further was heard from Genese. In 1910 Earnest Rumsey of Noble was listed two farms from his half-brother, John A. Rumsey. He was 27, and had been married 7 years to Nellie who was 24. Their two daughters were "Genere" (as it appeared) 5, and Grace 4. Walter Rumsey of Orland, Ind (#136-14), told me that Genese was about the age of his wife, who was born Dec 1898. But Genese was 7 years younger, and her parents were not even married in 1900. Walter also said Grace was much younger. Walter mentioned only one husband for Grace. DBR found Grace, dau of Ernest, in the 1930 census of Bronson Village (ED4), living with her parents at age 25, having been married at age 16. She had a son Ernest M. age 8. (She probably remarried.) In Bronson Twp there were Michael D. and Almira 75 Kashmer, perhaps too old to be parents of Earl. (DBR)" (Rumsey, Descendants of Simon Rumsey) | Rumsey, Ernest (I8942)
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| 493 | John Edgar Brown, son of Louis (Lewis) and Margaret Brown was born at Russell, Kansas April 30, 1885 and departed this life, October 23, 1962 at Trego Lemke Memorial Hospital, Wakeeney, Kansas. He was united in marriage in marriage to Olive Dutt April 3, 1907 at Russell, Kansas. To this union was born five children. Two sons preceded him in death, both having died in infancy. He is survived by his wife and three daughters, Mrs. George (Faye) Schmitt, Kansas City, Mo., Mrs. Virgil (Naomi) Chapman, Asland, Kansas and Mrs. James (Nola Mae) Jones, Caldwell, Kansas. Edgar is also survived by three sisters; Mrs. Clarence (Stella) Tilton, Sharon Springs, Kansas; Mrs. Wm. (Nettie) Palkowski, Russell, Kansas; Mrs. Chas. (Dorothy) Razak, Collyer, Kansas; five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Edgar moved here with his family in 1911 and spent the remainder of his life near Collyer and Wakeeney. Funeral services were held Thursday, Oct. 25 at 2:00 p.m. at the Hendrick Chapel with interment in the Collyer cemetery. | Brown, John Edgar (I507)
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| 494 | Isaac Rood, a resident of this town for over half a century, died at his home east of this village on Sunday, the 27th of December, 1896, aged 73 years and 10 months. Mr. Rood was born in Cayuga county. He is survived by a wife, one daughter, Miss Rebecca Rood, and one son, Mr. Frank Rood. | Rood, Isaac (I6112)
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| 495 | (Medical):Brant was killed while returning home on Highway 1 toward Fredericksburg, VA when a truck ran into the back of the car Brant was riding in. | Slayton, Brantly Herbert (I6984)
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| 496 | (Medical):Charles died as a result of a stroke he had on 23 May 1926. He lived for about 40 days after the severe stroke, during which time he could only move his eyes. | Cass, Charles Henry (I7335)
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| 497 | (Medical):Death certificate number 106148. | Paynter, Cole Bert (I6168)
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| 498 | (Medical):Hit and killed by a train near her great grandparent's home. | Holmes, Dolly May (I9600)
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| 499 | (Medical):Jeremiah drowned in the Roanoke River in 1822. | Slade, Jeremiah (I1200)
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| 500 | (Medical):Luverne was asphyxiated in a motel by a gas heater on her way to California to look for work. | Cummins, Luverne (I10600)
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