Absalom Otis

1865 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	Absalom Otis  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	26 Oct 1865	Xenia, Nodaway Co., Missouri, USA   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Census	1870	Nodaway Co., Missouri, USA   [3]
  	Absalom Otis, 5-M-W, MO
  		1870 U.S. census, Union Twp., Nodaway Co., MO, p. 656
  Census	1880	Home, Nemaha Co., Kansas, USA   [2]
  		1880 U.S. census, Home, Nemaha Co., Kansas, USA p. 11C
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Notes	Absalom attended the public schools at Hopkins, MO, until seventeen years of age, when in company with his father and brother, George W., he went to the Blacks Hills in South Dakota. This was in the spring of 1883, the trip being made overland, driving "a bunch" of cattle. He finally located on a ranch of over six hundred acres, eighteen miles east of Rapid City and near Farmingdale, Pennington Co., SD. The following fall the father and brother returned to Missouri, leving "Ab," as he was called, to keep bachelor's ball, which he did for the next six years. He and his family still made their home on the ranch in 1924, and had always been engaged in some form of stock raising; in 1908 it being sheep. [1]
  Person ID	I2240	Rumsey/Ballou Family Tree
  Last Modified	13 Feb 2009

  
  

  Father	Merrill Edward Otis,   b. 1 Apr 1825, Tuscarawas Co., Ohio, USA d. 6 Mar 1890, Xenia, Nodaway Co., Missouri, USA (Age 64 years)
  Mother	Tamer Myers,   b. 24 Feb 1833, Ohio, USA d. 19 Aug 1877, Xenia, Nodaway Co., Missouri, USA (Age 44 years)
  Marriage	1 Dec 1850	Tuscarawas Co., Ohio, USA   [4]
  		Marriage record of Merrill Otis and Tamer Myers Tuscarawas Co., 1837-1870, p. 233, entry 5935
  Family ID	F278	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Olive M. Doud
  Marriage	4 Jul 1889  [1]
  Children	1. Myrtle Otis
  Family ID	F1659	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2008

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 26 Oct 1865 - Xenia, Nodaway Co., Missouri, USA Census - 1870 - Nodaway Co., Missouri, USA Census - 1880 - Home, Nemaha Co., Kansas, USA  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources

  [S398] William A. Otis, A Memoir of the Otis Family, (no publisher), p. 574. [S710] Ancestry.com, 1880 U.S. census, 13 Feb 2009, sheet 11C, p. 81 (stamped). citing NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 390 [S711] Ancestry.com, 1870 U.S. census, 13 Feb 2009, p. 11, 656 (stamped). citing NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 795 [S49] Various Ohio County Courthouses, Ohio, County Marriage Records, 1774-1993, (Ancestry.com), 31 December 2019, Tuscarawas Co., 1837-1870, p. 233, entry 5935, marriage of Merrill Otis and Tamer Myers .