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| 1101 | In his early years Ray worked for Illinois Light and Power Co., Nashville, Illinois, and St. Lois Furniture Co., St. Louis, Mo. He was an employee of Fischer Body for more than 40 years. He died of cancer after about a year's illness. From "Hoffmans 1662 - 1972" | REINHARDT RAYMOND FRED (I16105)
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| 1102 | In January 1613 a new mandate was issued against the Anabaptists, which was largely a repetition of that of 1585. On the basis of this mandate attempts were first made to win over the anabaptist peacefully through disputations or conversations. At the first disputation, which took place at Wadenswil on Jan. 26, the Zurich Burgermeister Rahn, aided by J.J. Breitinger, pastor at St. Peter's in Zurich, soon to be the leader of the the Zurich church, represented Qurich, while the elders HANS LANDIS and Rudolph Bachmann and a preacher Galatz represented the Anabaptsts. The meeting was fruitless. There was a second disputation but it was also fruitless. At last extreme measures were taken. Six Anabaptist leaders from Wadenswil and Horgen were arrested, among them HANS LANDIS, who finally was executed the following year as the last Anabaptist martyr in Zurich. The Ausbund (from 1655 on ) contains a hymn of 47 verses abut him. | LANDIS Hans Heinrich (Heine) (I31688)
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| 1103 | In Missouri Registry of Deaths, birth year was recorded as 1772 | PHILIBERT JOSEPH, I (I00921)
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| 1104 | In the book "Joseph Henry Noble and Annie Haigh Noble Family History and Genealogy" Vivian's middle name was spelled Janette. She received a B. A. in Elementary Education at Upper Iowa Colelge, Fayette, Iowa. Vee's occupation was Teacher at Ringstead School, Ringstead, Iowa. She lived at Riceville, Iowa. Subsequently at Ringstead, Iowa. Subsequently at Fort Dodge, Iowa. Seubsequently at Mtn. Home, Arkansas. Mary Ann Schmidt-Cramer, Vivian's step-daughter wrote on October 20, 1995: "John and Vivian knew each other throughout childhood. John married Vivian's first cousin Marie Asfahl. Upon Maries' early death, Vivian and John married. John had hired Vivian as a teacher in Ringstead, Iowa. He was the Superintendent of Schools there. thought plagued with arthritis in her last years, she never complained much. He sense of humor, love of nature, and travel gave me some very pleasant memories. She remained in every way a most outstanding christian lady! Her love for her Lord gained her a warm welcome into heaven as a saint went home on Easter Sunday." She died at Mtn. Home, Arkanssas on 11 April 1993. The cause of death was stroke. She was buried at Riverside Cemetery, Riceville, Iowa on 15 april 1993. The grave site is next to Orpha Gladys Noble. From "Joseph Henry Noble and Annie Haigh Noble Family History and Genealogy" | NOBLE VIVIAN JEANNETTE (I02281)
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| 1105 | In The Mennonites of America by C. Henry Smith, pubished 1909:iled from Berne in 1710 and 1711. These refugees, as we saw, were scattered throughout the Palatinate and other parts of Germany. they were never in prospersous circumstances. The country was wasted by wars. The churches were poor. They hac to gain a livelihood as best they could, often by the help of their brethren in the Netherlands. At the same time came a special invitation from King George I to settle the lands west of the Alleghanies. Consequently, in February of 1717 a number of elders met at Mannheim and decided to emigrate to Pennsylvania. The Committee on Foreign Needs which had been organized some time before at Amsterdam for the purpose of helping their needy brethren in the Palatinate, and to whom these exiles now applied for assistance, discouraged the movement due to fear that they would be pressed for more s composed largely of Scotch-Irish and English. Most of Lancaster County was, as a result, mostly a Mennonite community. In the first list of tax payers taken in 1718, there was included the names of Jacob Landes, Felix Landes, and Jacob Landes Jr.erg, from whence they emigrated in 1717 to district Old Chester (now Lancaster) Co, PA, received a patent for 400 acres there in Creek near Witmer's Bridge (now East Lampeter): of Lampeter twp 1737. Mennonites. John settled in Bucks Co, PA but Felix and Jacob remained in Lancaster Co, PA.r the land. Felix sold 200 acres of the land to his son in law, Johannes Binkley, and his daughter Barbara for 100 pounds. | LANDIS Felix (I31637)
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| 1106 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Living (I00787)
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| 1107 | Index to Birth Records: Knox County, In. 1882-1920, Vol. 1, A-G, W.P.A. Ch.21 P. 112. | GINES EDITH NELLINE (I00446)
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| 1108 | Index to Birth Records: Knox County, IN. 1882-1920, Vol. I A-G, W.P.A. Ch. 20, P. 97, City Health Office, Vincennes, Indiana. Church of the Hills, Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills A Service of Memory for Dorothy B. Riggs BornFebruary 19, 1906 Vincennes, Indiana Passed AwayJune 18, 1982 Highland Park, California Service HeldJune 26, 1982 11:30 a.m. at the Church of the Hills Service conducted byDr. Donald Riggs, Free Methodist Church, Oregon Eulogy byThe Reverend James Dennison Dolos byRich Hoover James Alexander Cathy Musulli OrganistVirginia King Funeral DirectorForest Loawn Mortuary, Hollywood Hills IntermentSummerland, Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California | GINES DOROTHY BURGET (I00477)
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| 1109 | Index to Marriage Records, Daviess County, IN. 1850-1920, Vol. 11, Book 15, P. 305. | HOSS CHARLES 0. (DAMON) (I00478)
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| 1110 | Information from Philip Geins' Bible. Name is not clear, but it is assumed to be Philip. | GEINES PHILIP (?) (I36174)
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| 1111 | Information from Philip Geins' family bible. Born between 11 and 12 noon under the sign of the fish. | GEINES ELIZABETH (I36172)
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| 1112 | Information on Descendants of August F. Spoenemann were provided by Ann Brammeier Spevor , 9825 Tiffany Square Pkwy., St. Louis, MO 63123-6267. | SPOENEMANN AUGUST F. (I11696)
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| 1113 | Information on Descendants of Joann Friedrick Wilhelm brammeier were provided by Ann Brammeier Spevor, 9825 Tiffany Square Pkwy., St. Louis, Mo 63123-6267. | BRAMMEIER JOANN FRIEDRICK WILHELM (I11739)
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| 1114 | Information on descendants per Tina Gerard with exception of Elizabeth Barada. | BARADA ANTOINE (I11409)
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| 1115 | Information on this line received from Marvin Owens. Burton was a farmer. His education and religion was unknown. According to Marvin Owens, few knew of Burton's marriage to Cora, at about the age of 19, and those few knew only unverified rumors of what happened. The most likely story is that Albert Burton and Cora had a son, Burton, shortly after they were married, and that Cora took the son and moved to Oklahoma. No one has been able to verify this. Marvin thought he possibly was born in Tennessee. Per Sonja Bentley, Burton and Marion Arminda were married June 3, 1892. Per Sonja Bentley, Burton and Marion have another child, Luther Owens, b. 1890. This was before they were married and no one else in the family has this information. Could Burton's child by his first wife have been named not Burton, but Burton Luther and this was the child referred to. | OWENS BURTON ALBERT (I00759)
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| 1116 | Information on William Truslow and his descendents provided by Dennis Truslow | TRUSLOW WILLIAM NICHOLAS (I18120)
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| 1117 | Information received from Russell Hohman via E-Mail on Sept. 1, 2009. | GREEN BERNICE IDA (I07321)
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| 1118 | Institutional Chaplain, St. Paul, Minnesota. | Rev. MANKE EDWARD (I14340)
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| 1119 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Living (I17047)
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| 1120 | IRENE M. HADLEY OBITUARY Irene M. Hadley, 98, of Centralia died Sunday, Oct. 15, 1995, at her home. She was born June 10, 1897, in Washington County, daughter of William E. and Mary (Dueker) Brink. She married William L. Hadley on Nov. 17, 1917, in Homing, Okla., and he died Oct. 5, 1972. Survivors include one nephew, Ralph Jensen of Centralia; two nieces, Betty Rose Johnson and Anita Brink, both of Centralia; and other nieces, nephews, great-nieces, great-nephews, great-great-nieces and great-great-nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, husbnd, nine brothers and one sister. Mrs. Hadley grew up in Centralia, moved to Oklahoma in 1917 and lived there until returning to Centralia in 1961. She was a home maker and member of First United Methodist Church in Centralia. Services are 11 a.m. Wednesday at Pacey Funeral Home in Centralia with the Rev. Paul Prater officiating and the Rev. Mark Meyers assisting. Interment will be in Hillcrest Memorial Park. Visitation is 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday and 8 a.m. to time of services on Wednesday at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to First United Methodist Church or Visiting Nurse Association and will be received at the funeral home. | BRINK IRENE MARY (I02643)
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| 1121 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Living (I14283)
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| 1122 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Living (I14001)
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| 1123 | Isaac Carson (1841-1898) was born in Ballybay, Ireland, son of John and Elizabeth Wilson Carson, came to America in 1860 and settled in St. Louis, then to Madison County, then to Washington County. Nancy Boyle Carson (1840-1917) was born in Londonderry County, Ireland, near Dungiven on the River Roe, the daughter of John and Elizabeth Sterling Boyle. They came to America in 1852. She met and married Isaac in 1863 at Oakdale R. P. Church by Rev. A. Todd. By Florence Brammeier From 1979 WASHINGTON COUNTY ILLINOIS HISTORY | CARSON ISAAC (I05658)
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| 1124 | It is believed that Andrew's mother, Margaret, died in Tennessee. Andrew appears in the 1840 Washington County, Missouri census, Harmony Township, and we lose track of him after that. | OWENS ANDREW (I00912)
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| 1125 | It is possible that Rosina is from the Witner family in Switzerland. | WITNER Rosina (I31636)
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| 1126 | J. Boone listed a Brink born 1647 of Eicksen #6, Westfalen, Prussia. Do not know if that is the same as Daughter Brink originally listed with not dob. | BRINCK DAUGHTER (I08015)
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| 1127 | J. C. Auld is the way the name is found on his marriage license and other important papers and the family assumed the name was John Calvin until in 1979 an old Bible record was found listing the marriage of his parents, births and marriages of his brothers and sisters. There, his name is listed as John Cameron Cargill Auld born on Thursday 10/14/1858. He married 3/20/1884 to Isabelle (Belle) McMaster Hood b. 5/10/1858 d. 6/26/1942. For while, they lived on a farm south of Oakdale and then in April 1890, they bought the family farm from his parents. He farmed and was skillful in treating diseases of animals for his friends and neighbors. He d. 9/7/1919 at the Anna, Illinois Hospital. A few years later his widow moved to Oakdale. The last weeks of her life were spent on the farm where she had lived. Their three children were: Ollie Hood Auld (See Ollie H. Auld); James Earl Auld b. 1/26/1891, d. 10/1/1972. He married 12/1/1915 in Morning Sun, Iowa to Mary Edna Robb b. 3/2/1896 d. 3/10/1977. They have one daughter Mary Imogene b. 1/13/1918 who was married 6/7/1939 to Harold Lewis Chrissinger b. 11/6/1916. They have one daughter Sandra Claire b. 10/1/1940. She married 2/18/1962 Charles Russell Orr (b. 7/31/1941). Their children are: Steven Russell b. 10/6/1962. Diana Lynne b. 11/24/1963 Curtis William b. 7/7/1971; Harold McMaster Auld (see Harold M. Auld). By Maxine Musselman From 1979 WASHINGTON COUNTY ILLINOIS HISTORY He was a farmer, lived on the ridge just south of the old homestead, north of Oakdale, Illinois, per Narratives of Randolph County, Sparta Public Library, Sparta, Illinois. | AULD JOHN (CALVIN) CAMERON CARGILL (I05877)
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| 1128 | Jack has a degree from the U. of Mo. and his M.A. from S.I.U., Edwardsville, Illinois. | CRAWFORD JACK (I14082)
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| 1129 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Living (I16262)
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| 1130 | James and children came to Johnson Co., MO in 1911. James' wife died before they came to MO. | HAUN JAMES ALEXANDER (I18024)
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| 1131 | James Auld of New Concord, Muskingum County, Ohio (b. 6/28/1824 d. 1/1/1901) was a farmer and a carpet weaver. He m. 2/17/1848 Sarah Reynolds b. 3/21/1829 in Ohio, whosse grandfather was Col. John Reynolds in the revolutionary War. James came to Illinois on the train from Ohio, with his wife, 2 daughters Lessie and Jane, his mother and a sister Ann in 1858. They then lived on the old Auld homestead north of where Harold Auld now lives. There his mother Mary d. 4/1/1962. In May 1865, he bought from Andrew Todd a farm about 1/2 mile south of where they lived. There his wife Sarah d. 2/1/1890. Sarah was well known and appreciated for her assistance to other families in times of sickness and grief. In April 1890, he sold the farm to his son John C. and his wife Isabelle. He continued to live with them after the deaath of his wife and continued as a weaver. He made an overnight visit with his daughter Jane and her family and died quietly in his sleep that night. Their children were: Mary Celesta (Lessie) Auld (See James McKnight Torrens); Sarah Jane Auld b. 3/6/1852, d. 4/12/1932, m. 3/10/1870 Richard Boyd; William Reynolds Auld (See William R. Auld); John C. Auld (See John C. Auld); James Oliver Auld b. 2/14/1868, d. 8/17/1885 aged 17 years 6 months 3 days. He was overheated putting hay in the barn. He is buried in Oakdale, Illinois Cemetery. By Maxine Musselman From1979 WASHINGTON COUNTY ILLINOIS HISTORY Per Narratives of Randolph County, James was a farmer and a weaver of cloth, as bedspreads, etc. He in his late years wore a paisley shawl over his shoulders when in church. He was tall and erect. | AULD JAMES (I05930)
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| 1132 | James Brown Clay, junior, enlisted in the Confederate Army in 1862, and served on the staff of General John C. Breckinridge during the greater part of the war. Soon after the battle of Chickamauga he ran the blockade from Wilmington, North Carolina, via Bermuda and Halifax, to Montreal, Canada, reaching there in time to see his father before his death. In the following spring he returned to the Confederacy and rejoined General Breckinridge. When the latter became Secretary of War, Lieutenant Clay joined the staff of General Echols, serving until the close of the war. He married, January 20, 1880, Eliza, daughter of Boone Ingles, of Lexington. Taken from "The Clay Family", p. 210. | CLAY JAMES BROWN (I19812)
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| 1133 | James helped his parents and taught school, then married and farmed, then retired to Coulterville, Illinois. Per Narratives of Randolph County, Sparta Public Library, Sparta, Illinois. | BOYD JAMES OLIVER (I31051)
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| 1134 | James is owner and manager of a glass co. store in Wenatchee, Washington. | PARKER JAMES WENDELL (I13380)
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| 1135 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Living (I16591)
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| 1136 | James Owens is presumed to be the father of Green (John) Owens. This presumption is backed, but not positively proved, by the research of a number of concerned genealogists. The presumption is that he moved from Rutherford County, NC to Warren County, TN, time unknown. However, according to the Warren Co. Deed Book G, dated April 1828-October 1853, a James Owens bought land in Warren County on July 7, 1821 from Thomas Hopkins. The main basis for the presumptions made about James Owens is study of U.S. Census Reports from 1820 through 1850. Perhaps several older children not yet found in records. | OWENS JAMES (I10493)
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| 1137 | James Randall, Sr., and his wife Nancy were living in North Carolina when their daughter Mary (called "Polly") was born in 1785. the family later moved westward into Tennessee and settled in Dist. #19 of Maury County. | RANDALL JAMES, SR. (I06913)
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| 1138 | James Randall, Sr., and his wife, Nancy were living in North Carolina when their daughter Mary (called "Polly") was born in 1785. The family later moved westward into Tennessee and settled in Dist. #19 of Maury County. | RANDALL MARY "POLLY" (I00914)
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| 1139 | James Renwick Piper (September 15, 1869-December 11, 1957), the eldest son of John and Margaret (Little) Piper, ws born on a farm in Pilot Knob Township three miles east of Oakdale that his father had purchased in 1864, while he was a young soldier of the Union Army. ren lived on this farm for 68 years until he retired and moved to Oakdale in 1937. In 1917 he purchased an adjoining farm of 80 acres for $2500. Ren's ancestors were all members of the Reformed Presbyterian (Covenanter) Church and his grandfather Robert Piper, who came from the North of Ireland, was one of the early settlers of Washington County. During his boyhood Ren helped build the present Covenanter Church building at Oakdale and he was later an elder in this church for 34 years. After completing his elementary education he attended classes in the former Covenanter Church building and he later attended classes in the Coulterville Academy. As a young man Ren helped to lay the roadbed for the Illinois Southern Railroad (now Missouri-Illinoois) using a team of horses and a road scraper. During World War I he was instrumental in the purchase of mules for the United State Army. On August 12, 1903, Ren was united in marriage with Nancy Emily (Emma) Blair (January 13, 1874-August 13, 1966) of Cutler, Illinois and they were the parents of seven children: 1) John H., 2) Dwight F., 3) Irene (November 1, 1907-December 7, 1968), 4) Evelyn (Mrs. Clarence Stevenson), 5) Hazel (February 7, 1911-July 2, 1937), 6) Wilmer R., 7) Helen (Mrs. Archie Woodrome). Before her marriage Emma taught for ten years in the rural one-room schools of Perry and Randolph counties. It was largely through her influence that all seven of her children earned degrees in Higher Education and all became school teachers. Hazel was teaching in Midland, Pa. and Irene in Okawville High school at the time of their deaths. Irene taught in various schools in Washington County and taught for four years in the American Academy in Nicosia, Cyprus. Hazel, Irene and their parents are buried in the Oakdale Cemetery. By Dwight Piper; Evelyn (Piper) Stevenson; Helen (Piper) Woodrome From 1979 WASHINGTON COUNTY ILLINOIS HISTORY | PIPER JAMES RENWICK (REN) (I06066)
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| 1140 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Living (I31101)
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| 1141 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Living (I13501)
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| 1142 | JAMES W. INGELS, retired; P. O. Paris. In the year 1782, James Ingels, the grandfather of the James W., left Pennsylvania, and, with his family bent his steps toward Kentucky, the country, then, as the reader can well imagine, was anything but promising or inviting, but the wayfaring man was seeking a home for himself and family, and was prepared to meet hardships, in passing through Maysville, having no gun, he contracted with a gunsmith there to make him one and take his pay in bacon when it could be procured; Mr. Ingels came on with his family, locating at Grant's Station, near Bryant's Station, Mr. Ingels finally raised the necessary amount of bacon and sent a hired boy with it to Maysville to make the exchange; strange to say, the boy, horse and cart, bacon and gun were never heard from until several years later, when Mr. Ingels received a letter from the boy, then a grown-up man, saying that he had wandered off into Ohio instead of going to Maysville, had bought him a home and was doing well, and if he (Mr. Ingels) would come there he would pay him for his bacon, horse and cart, etc., Mr. Ingels never went. The old pioneer died on the place he settled in 1803, he had five sons and four daughters born to him, Joseph the oldest, married Mrs. Bryant, a niece of Daniel Boone; James settled on the homestead; Thomas and John settled in Indiana; Edith married Welson Hunt, and located in Missouri; Nellie became the wife of Mr. Victor, and settled in Nicholas County; Boone Ingels, the father of our subject, was born at Grant's Station, 1781, and raised a farmer until seventeen, when his father died, in 1808 he came to Paris, where he carried on the hatter's trade until his death in 1837, when 53 years of age, he raised a family of nine children, eight sons and one daughter. Our subject was raised to the business his father prosecuted, after going for him to St. Louis to buy furs, in 1832 he went to Jacksonville, Ills., where he spent two years in business with Forsythe & Butler, he returned in 1834; the year following he married Amanda Crose, a native of this county, daughter of Levi Crose. Mrs. Ingels died 1855, having borne him nine children; Benjamin, Wilson, Boone, Ella, Belle and George were the number raised. In 1857, Mr. Ingels married Mary Davis, a native of this place, daughter of George and Mary (McClintock) Davis, both natives of Virginia; he born 1791, she, two years later. Mr. and Mrs. Ingels have one daughter, Lizzie. Mr. Ingels has been a successful man in business; he owned 4,000 acres of land at one time, which he sold at a large advance; for twenty-five years he had charge of the paupers in this county. Mr. Ingels has been retired from business several years, and is living in retirement, and enjoying the fruits of his labor in quiet and happiness; has been a member of the Christian Church over forty years. http://www.shawhan.com/families/ingelsJ.rtf; History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & County, Chicago, 1882, pp. 472-473. | INGELS JAMES W. (I19730)
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| 1143 | James was in general construction work and also owned a laundry business. There is a photograph on p. 567 Stone County History Book with the following heading: James Clement Owens and family. From left: William David Owens, Silas Delayfette Owens, James Clement Owens, Margaret V. (Hilton) Owens, Lucy Eldorado Owens, and Pearl Esther Owens. | OWENS JAMES CLEMENTS JR. (I01257)
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| 1144 | James, the oldest son of Martha and John Noble was born in 1817 and died at Burlington, Wisconsin, in 1898. He married Zilpha Ferth, and they came to America with a baby son, John William in 1842. Zilpha died at the home farm in 1887 at the age of 68. They settled on what is now the Frank Squire farm. This farm has been owned and occupied by some member of the James Noble family ever since. Earl and Everett Squire being the sixth generation of the family. To James and Zilpha, nine children were born. John William married Louisa Sheard. Thomas Allen, who married Olive Frost, Martha Ann who married Joseph Squire, Charles Frederick who married Susan Bell (and later Ida V.). Mary who died in infancy. Mary Jane, Ella Elizabeth, Anna who married John Bickford and Alice who married Frank Nealy. The James Noble family have the distinction of being the only branch of the family to have six generations to bear the Noble name in this country. Names, John, James, John William, Archie, Willard and his sons, Richard and Willard. From "Joseph Henry Noble and Annie Haigh Noble Family History and Genealogy" | NOBLE JAMES (I20744)
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| 1145 | Jan 5, 2013 E-Mail from Jeffrey Green: Description: I am the great great grandson of Noah B. Owen. I have found records where he is listed as Brantley Owen so is guess the B was for Brantley. Noah and Martha Lockhart married April 12, 1842. After she died, Noah married Mary Ann Robertson June 2, 1855. After she died and Noah had served in the Civil War, Noah married for a third time to Kessiah/Kessa Adams on April 5, 1864. Noah and Kessiah had one son Noah B. Owen, Jr. who was my great grandfather. Sadly, Noah and Kessiah both were apparently dead by 1870. In the 1880 Census of Williamson County, we find Noah B. Owen Jr. (age 14) listed as living with his brother John M. Owen & his wife Eliza Booker. John M. Owen's mother was Martha J. Lockhart. In a history of the Brown's Guards - Company G of the 1st Tennessee (Field's) Infantry, Brant Owen and John M. Owen are listed as serving. I found John M. Owen's record but only located Brant Owen's record as being listed as Napoleon B. Owens. Perhaps an error or someone embellishing the name. I also have a copy of the land grant given to Reuben Owen for his purchase of land along Snow Creek in Maury County, TN on July 21, 1838 from Mr. William L. Sparkman. My research shows Reuben Owen as being born November 13, 1775 in Fincastle, Virginia. His family (Mom/Dad/Siblings) moved from there to Somerset, Kentucky in 1803. From there Reuben launched out on his own to settle in Maury County Tennessee in the town of Santa Fe around 1838. Thank you for your site as it has provided me with much valuable information. | OWENS NOAH B. (I06916)
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| 1149 | Jean Baptiste Ortes, grandfather of our Joseph Philibert, was born in the province of Bearne, France, near the Pyrenees. He came to Louisana with Pierre Laclede in 1755 as a boy and learned the carpenter trade. He was one of the 30 tradesmen that was with Laclede at the founding of St. Louis, Missouri, in 1765. He married Elizabeth Barada in St. Louis and lived there until he died in 1814. Elizabeth Barada was born in Vincennes, 1762, and brought to St. Louis by her parents in 1768. She died there at the age of 104 years. JEAN BAPTISTE ORTES AND ELAZABETH BARADA The following is an excerpt from a series of articles depicting the early days of St. Louis, Missouri published in the Missouri Historical Society Bulletin, Vol. 4 Part I, pages 15 and 16: Two joiners or carpenters, early associated in business - Jean Baptiste Ortes and Jean B. Cambas - who were granted a double lot as partners - "Mensuisiers Associes" (carpenters partners) in 1767 on which they built a frame house together. Ortes, the better known of the two, was born in the province of Bearn, France and came to St. Louis in 1765. In 1768 he contracted to build a "poteaux en terre" (post into land) house, 18'x22' on La Grande Rue Royals for Francois Cottin, Royal Crier, Ortes to furnish all the work and materials except one thousand shingles, part of the posts and planks, hardware for the doors and windows and the plastering, the whole to be completed in three months. The year 1771 was busy one for Ortes. On April 30, 1771 the Archives show that he contracted to build a house for Joseph Robidoux, a shoemaker recently arrived from Montreal, for 500 "livres" (pounds) in beaver or deerskins and three pairs of shoes. This house was to have 3 rooms and to be built of horizontal logs "en piece sur piece" (Piece upon piece) of cottonwood, ash or walnut. Late in the fall he prepared to build a barn, part of which he was to use for his workshop. At the end of the year he contracted to complete the roof on Louis Vige's house for 165 "livres" in skins, Vige to furnish all materials and two unskilled helpers, this job he completed but Vige left town without payment and Ortes had to fall back on a mechanic's lien. In 1772 Ortes sold his half of the house built in partnership with Cambas, reserving the right to live in it until the following July. He in the meantime was to keep the roof from leaking, to build in two corner cupboards and improve the barn. Nothing more appears in the records concerning Ortes' work except that in 1799 he made an inspection of the buildings at Fort San Carlos for the Governor. His name is frequently found as a landowner, as a witness to documents and in other connections such as his purchase at a sale in 1779 of a pair of crimson velvet breeches and two tin flower pots. In 1780 he was a member of the local militia. In 1782 he married Elizabeth Barada, born in the old French post of Vincennes. Ortes died in 1814 but his widow survived him to reach the remarkable age of 104 years. Of all the local craftsmen, Ortes alone has an example of his work known to remain. It is a fine walnut "Armoire" (cupboard) in the collection of the Missouri Historical Society, a simply, well made piece, thoroughly French in character. Walter B. Stevens tells about the founding of St. Louis by the first 30 men who were mechanics of all trades and how they dragged their boat up the Mississippi and began building St. Louis in the middle of February. John Baptiste Ortes was born in the province of Bearne, France near the Pyrenees. When Pierre Laclede came to Louisiana in 1755, Jean Baptiste Ortes, a boy of eighteen, accompanied him. Ortes was with Laclede at the founding of St. Louis in 1765. He had learned the trade of a carpenter. He married in St. Louis and lived there until 1814. His wife who was Elizabeth Barada, born in Vincennes lived in St. Louis until 1868, dying at the age of 104 years. She was brought by her parents in 1768. Ortes did not leave his name to posterity - his children were daughters. St. Louis, the 4th City…W.B. Stevens | ORTES JEAN BAPTISTE (I00923)
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| 1150 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Living (I13453)
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