16. Martin Tansey
1Jean Zmolek, Memories - Wm McCormick Family, 51.
photograph of Betsy and Martin Tansey and children.2Iowa State Census, (1885).
Iowa State Census of 1885 lists Martin as being aged 60, born in Ireland.3Iowa State Census, (1895).
Iowa State Census of 1895 lists Martin as being aged 74 (he aged 14 years since the last census 10 years before), a farmer, a Catholic and as being born in Ireland.4Iowa Cemetery Records (Ancestry.com, Online Database compiled from Works Project Administration. Graves Registration Project. Washington, D.C).
"Page: 87 Name: Martin Tansey Death Date: 20 Jul 1898 Age: 82 Cemetery: St Johns."
aged 82 at death, which means he was born ca 1816.5Wright County Monitor (Clarion, IA), Wednesday, 27 Jul 1898, page 5, col. 4.
He was an old resident of the locality where he lived and a man who enjoyed the confidence and respect of his neighbors. We are without particulars as to his early nativity and age."
"MARTIN TANSEY died at his home in Lincoln Township last Wednesday and was buried from the Catholic Church in this place the day following at 2 o'clock p.m., Rev. Father Egan officiated. The deceased had been a great sufferer from rheumatism and other ailments for a long time, his infirmities increasing with advanced years.6Tombstone Records of Wright County, IA, 87.
"Page: 87
Name: Martin Tansey
Death Date: 20 Jul 1898
Age: 82
Cemetery: St Johns."
17. Betsey Kimmitt
1Iowa State Census, (1885).
Iowa State Census of 1885 lists Betsy Tansey as being aged 55 and born in Ireland.2Iowa State Census, (1895).
Iowa State Census of 1895 lists Betsy Tansey as being aged 65, "keeping house," a Catholic and born in Ireland.3Wright County Monitor (Clarion, IA), Wednesday, 15 Nov 1899, page 5, col. 5.
Funeral services were held at the Catholic Church here Friday afternoon. Rev. Father Egan conducted the services after which the remains were carefully laid to rest by loving friends."
"MRS. BETSY TANSEY died at her home in Lincoln Township last Thursday afternoon, November 9, 1899 of a lingering illness with complications of ailments incident to old age. Mrs. Tansey had been a resident of this county many years and was a lady highly esteemed by all who knew her.
1Robert E. Flickinger, Pioneer History of Pocahontas County, Iowa (The Times Print, Fonda, Iowa, 1904), pages 713-14, Pocahontas Public Library, 14 Second Avenue NW, Pocahontas, Iowa 50574.
Jolliffe, John Blake (b. 1845), owner and occupant of a homestead on the ne1/4 sec.2, since April 25, 1866, is a native of England, a son of James and Mary Ann Blake Jolliffe, who came to this country when John B. was about ten, and located in the province of Ontario, Canada. He was brought up on a farm, and when he became of age, came to Pocahontas county and secured a homestead in Powhatan township. During the first season he lived a short time under a wagon box and did some breaking. During this and the next few years he realized what it was to be on the frontier. He was seven miles west of the Des Moines river and, with the exception of Robert and Edward Anderson, two miles south on 15, he was the furthest west of any of the settlers in that vicinity; and those at the Little Sioux river were thirty miles distant. At first, he worked for Judge Slosson, Henry Jarvis and Perry Nowlen, and occasionally went back and slept on his claim to hold it. During the second summer he put in a small crop, cared for and harvested it, having a boarding place in a little cabin two miles distant. Potatoes that cost $2.00 per bushel at the nearest market constituted the principal article of diet, and the only money available was the pelt of the muskrat. October 14, 1867 [actually, 1864] he married Jane, daughter of the Rev. Frederic Metcalf, of Des Moines township, and built first a sod shanty and later a log house. The latter was covered with a board roof that always leaked when it rained and both were very humble and unsatisfactory abodes. During the years that have passed since that date, he has added acre to acre, so that he is now the owner of 782 acres of valuable farm land and the old homestead has been improved with fine buildings, fences and groves. From a humble beginning he has attained a very high degree of success on the farm. He has rendered many years of faithful service in the various township offices and has been a leader in song in religious and various other assemblies. He is a member of the Methodist church. His family consisted of twelve children, of whom Emma, the sixth died at 18 in 1897, soon after the removal of a great tumor that weighed 100 pounds. Two others died before her, Cerinda, at 15 in 1890 and Ida in childhood. Rose Ella in 1890 married George Kinsey, a farmer, and has five children, Mary, Eva, Charles, Nellie and Edna. Mary in 1896 married Henry Tansey and located on a farm in Wright County. They now live near Plover and have one son, Lee. Albert in 1894 married Annie Gratzen, a farmer, lives near Mallard and has four children, Roy Bessie, Sadie and Mabel. Sarah in 1892 married Daniel Miller and located near Des Moines, where she died in 1898, leaving three children, Etta, Ray and Glenn. In 1900 Sarah married Henry L. Roush, a farmer, located near plover and has one daughter, Hazel. Ina, a teacher, Hattie, Clara, William and George are at home."
"2US Census, 1870, Powhattan Township, County of Pocahontas, State of Iowa, page 65.
John and Jane Jolliffe are listed in the 1870 census; he is listed as 25 years old, she as 22 Their daughter, Rose___, aged 2, is also named. John's occupation is listed as "farmer" and his real estate is valued at $1,200; personal property at 300, the wealthiest man listed on the page. Jane's occupation is listed as "keeping house." John is listed as being born in England, Jane in Connecticut.3Vital Records, State of Iowa, Certificate of Death.
4Pocahontas Record-Democrat, 25 February 1932, Certificate of Death.
"County Pioneer Passes Away".
"John Blake Jolliffe, oldest son of James and Mary Ann Jolliffe, was born in Stratton, England, January 25, 1842."5Vital Records, State of Iowa, Certificate of Death.
Document notes that John Blake Jolliffe had lived in Spencer, IA for 5 years, 8 months at time of death. He was a white male widower, married to Jane Ette Jolliffe. He was born 25 Jan 1842 and was aged 90 years, 18 days at death. He was a retired farmer and was born in England. His father was named James Jolliffe who was born in England. His mother was Mary Ann blake, also born in England. He was buried (or removed) to Pocahontas County, IA on 15 Feb 1932. The informant was one W. _ Jollliffe.6Vital Records, State of Iowa, Certificate of Death of John Jolliffe.
confirms marriage to "Jane Ette Jolliffe.".7Vital Records of Rice County, MN, Certificate of Death of John Jolliffe.
Death certficate of their daughter, Mary Ellen Jolliffe, lists her parents as Jane Metcalf and John Jolliffe.8Pocahontas County Recorder's Office, Vital Records of Pocahontas, Marriage Records, Book 1, page 6.
State of Iowa}
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Pocahontas County} I hereby certify that I did on the 14th Fourteenth day of October AD 1864 solemnize the marriage of John B. Jolliffe and Jane E. Metcalf. Given under my hand the 14th day of October AD 1864. (signed) Frederick A. Metcalf, Clergyman {seal}."
19. Jane Metcalfe
1The Rolfe Arrow, (newspaper in Rolfe, Pocahontas County, IA), 17 January 1926.
Jane Ett Metcalf, daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Frederick Metcalf, was born at Toland, Conn., Mar. 6, 1848, and died at her home in Rolfe, Iowa, June 14, 1926, aged seventy-eight years, three months, and eight days. The family came to Clayton, county, Iowa and in 1862 moved to the vicinity of Plover, Iowa. On the 14th day of October 1867, she was married to J.B. Jolliffe. They made their home on the farm near Plover until 1913, when they came to Rolfe. This has been the family home since that time. From the age of six years, Mrs. Jolliffe's life has been identified with the state of Iowa. Mrs. Jolliffe was the mother of twelve children, namely: Rosella, Mary, Albert, Sarah, Cerinda, Emma, Ida, Ina, Hattie, Clara, Will and George. Cerinda, Ida, Emma and Sarah preceded their mother in death. All the others were present at her bedside when she passed away. Mrs. Jolliffe joined the Methodist church when she was a child. She was thruout her life a consistent Christian character. She was a woman whom you liked better the better you knew her. Quiet and unassuming, one needed to know her well to appreciate her fully. She was a faithful and devoted wife and mother, bearing the burdens and enduring the hardships of pioneer life, bringing up her family in the best way afforded by opportunity. During the last few years of her life she has been unable to go about from home. Most of this time she was a great sufferer. But her Christian faith and patience never failed her. Even thru the last few weeks of intense pain she was uncomplaining and patient. She leaves to mourn her passing her husband; three sons, Albert of Mallard, Will of Spencer; and George of Havelock; and five daughters, Mrs. Rosella Kinsey of Des Moines, Mrs. Nancy Tansey of Alden, Minn., Mrs. Hattie McNabb of Britt, Mrs. W.P. Bryant of Plover, and Miss Ina, at home. Funeral services were held from the Rolfe Methodist Church Wednesday afternoon of this week, Rev. S. T. Grove of Plover preaching the sermon, and Rev. J.H. Walker assisting in the service. Internment was in Powhatan Township Cemetery."
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Obituary
Mrs. J.B. Jolliffe2US Census, 1870, Powhattan Township, County of Pocahontas, State of Iowa, page 65.
John and Jane Jolliffe are listed in the 1870 census; he is listed as 25 years old, she as 22 Their daughter, Rose___, aged 2, is also named. John's occupation is listed as "farmer" and his real estate is valued at $1,200; personal property at $300, the wealthiest man listed on the page. Jane's occupation is listed as "keeping house." John is listed as being born in England, Jane in Connecticut.3Manuscript in Family.
In 1854 my father, my mother and family of four children, one brother, two sisters and myself came from Connecticut to Clayton County, Iowa, stopped in Dyersville with a second cousin of fathers, while father got a piece of land and put up a log house in which to live. This house had only two rooms, one upstairs and one downstairs. Our stove was a fireplace, it was not made for looks but was to keep the house warm and the only think to cook over or by. It was built in one end of the house by sawing out some of the logs, then stoned it up. It was about four feet deep and six feet wide, had a big stone hearth went back from the fire about six foot to save the sparks from getting on the floor. The chimney was built up on the outside of the house. To build a fire we would roll in the back log, as we used to call it, that was a log about two foot through and four foot long, then we had what was called andirons, two of them had three legs and the one leg was set up next to the back log and the other back on the hearth. The logs were about ten inches high, we would lay some kindling on them or across them, and start our fire then put on larger wood until we had all the fire we wanted. It was nice to sit by the old fire place, we used to sit around the fire and crack hazel nuts or butternuts. Mother used to cook over what they called a crain, this was andiron that would swing around so she could hang kettles on it, then swing it around over the fire.
"Experiences of Jane Metcalf Jolliffe
Our bread was mostly made from corn. To bake bread we had a kettle and would rake out coals, set the kettle on the coals, put a deep cover on that and fill that with hot ashes and coals.
Father and mother both taught school. Father was a Methodist minister, he preached on the circuit for four or five years, and at that time all father got was what the people donated.
In 1862, we moved to Pocahontas County, Iowa. My brother and oldest sister were both married, they came with us but soon got homesick and went back. They didn't stay long, came back again. They kept this up for a few years, then father, mother and my youngest sister went back with them. She married and I stayed here and worked for a dollar and a half a week. All this going and coming was done with a team, fording streams, etc. When we crossed the Des Moines River at Fort Dodge, father and the other men had to chain the wagon box to the running gears to keep them from floating off. They could not keep the oxen from drifting down the stream without getting into the water, so father, my brother and brother-in-law had to get into the water to keep the oxen from going down stream.
Fort Dodge was our nearest post-office at that time and was for about a year or more, then a stage carried our mail from Fort Dodge to Spirit Lake.
In the fall of 1863 we had an Indian scare. All the settlers that could, went to the old brick Court House in Rolfe and took all the firearms they had, as we heard that the Indians were coming that night, but they didn't come. In a day or so after that, there were three or four Indian squaws came to our place, begging for food. Mother gave them something, they would take anything she could give them, as they went out they would grunt to one another and kind of smile.
In 1867 I was married to John Blake Jolliffe on October 14th. Mr. Jolliffe had a homestead in Pocahontas County, Iowa. We stayed on the homestead six weeks that fall to put up what little hay we needed. This had to be done with a scythe, the old fashioned way. While there we had to live under some boards set up like a roof of a house with blankets hung up at the ends for doors. Everything was wild looking those days, I stayed two nights alone, with wolves howling round every night. After our hay was up, we stayed with Tim Cooper the following winter.
I helped old Mr. Cooper do his chores and used to walk home every other day and feed what few chickens we had, that was two miles and no roads and lots of snow. In 1868, we went back on the homestead, but during the past year we had cut sod and made a sod shanty sides and a board roof and a loose board floor. We done all we could that summer and fall to get our logs out and hauled for a log house, so we managed to get the body up and a board roof and we thought that better, but it was a wet summer and the water would wet everything in the house. Had to set dishes on the bed to catch water. The next day it was hang out the clothes, if it didn't rain, if it did, we did the next best. The windows in our sod shanty was a bunch of hay stuck into it to keep out mosquitoes. The windows were small, half windows of the old fashioned kind. It was impossible to get windows for we would have had to go to Boone to get them, but could not buy without money. We went back and stayed with Mr. Tim Cooper who was always ready to do a good turn for someone. We had no screens those days so had to make smudges out or dry straw and put green grass on top and let it smoke. My oldest child was born in that old sod shanty, she came to us on July 29, 1868. We had no roads or bridges those days, it was wallow through sloughs and ford creeks the best we could. Mr. Jolliffe going after help the night of the 29th was with an ox team, of course, it was dark and a thunder storm to, which made it hard to find the way through creek and mud, was partly lost and got stuck in the creek, had to carry the lady out and then get the team and wagon out, at least they got home and found our daughter had been here about an hour. As I have said before, we had no roads those days so just imagine yourself out in the dark without anything to guide you.
Our living was not like to-day, corn was mostly our bread and glad to get that. In the latter part of October in 1867, the hoppers came the first time. They were so thick you could scrape them up lots of places by the shovel full. Couldn't keep them out of your face as we walked along. They stayed long enuf to lay the ground full of eggs, as we had a big crop of grasshoppers the next year and they took the early crop as fast as they could. The crop of hoppers stayed until harvest, done all they could to harvest the crop. They seemed to have a good appetite for everything but peas and onions, ate everything right down to the ground. After they flew, we thought good-bye, but no, here they came again and filled the ground with the eggs for three years, then they went with a south wind, wouldn't go unless they had a favorable wind. The third year they got up and went way up so that they looked like a cloud before the sun, the last we heard they tried to cross the Gulf of Mexico, the wind changed so into the Gulf they went. The papers stated they were six or seven feed [sic] deep, ships could hardly get to shore they were so thick and such a stench. Their going and drowning themselves was good news for the poor people of this country. Of course, that made it all the harder times. Between cranes, wild geese, ducks and prairie chickens with hoppers and every fall such big prairie fires, it was fight something all the time. Nights we usually had a good time fighting mosquitoes, if you can call it a good time.
To protect us from a prairie fire, we would sow two or three swaths and skip a place and mow again. When dry, burn the strips then after a while burn the strip between, then if it came with a big wind, stand out by our straw sheds or some hay stacks or house, with a tub of water and a mop to put out fire if it kindled any place. I have stood by when it was so hot and smoky I could hardly breathe and fight with a wet sack or even your coat, if you were not prepared otherwise. When the fire was past, we would look at each other, of course we were so black and almost too tired to stand.
I have seen fires, especially the lead fire, go faster than any horse could go, so if you are ever traveling in a prairie country that is new, be sure and have matches, so if a fire is coming on to you, light a fire and as soon as you can drive on where it is burned. Some of the new settlers took all of their things in a covered wagon and left the country.
Those days the settlers would take turns to get groceries from Fort Dodge, the railroad came to Fort Dodge, then to Algona which was a little nearer, then to Emmetsburg, then to Rolfe and Plover, so we could begin to do our own running to town.
At last we got our log house, with a shingled roof, finished and a back room without any floor and a small room upstairs. We have had, at different times, people who were lost come in. Those days if anyone got lost, they would shoot a gun or maybe holler, if heard they would ring a bell or maybe make a bonfire with hay, anyway to call them in. We have had seven or eight in one night, we always seemed to have room as long as they could lay on the floor with straw, and keep fire to keep them warm. They would stay until they could find their way, we always gave them something to ear, usually the same as we had ourselves and welcome. If you could have seen some of them driven in by the storm, they would be snow all over them and blown in so tight and they could hardly see out of their eyes.
In the winter of 1868, Mr. Jolliffe was lost in a blizzard during the month of January. He had been away working, shoveling snow out of a neighbors shed, it was warm and nice and about four o'clock it began to snow easy then very fast. He finished his work and had a little corn meal to bring home (that we had lent), only a few pounds, so he started home, it was about a mile. All at once the wind raised, the storm got so bad he couldn't see anything and missed home, so was out all night and until the next day about ten o'clock. He came up to the same place he had been working and did not know the cattle in the shed, didn't think it was the same place, of course, on account of the terrible storm everything would look different, so he got to the house of Mr. Henry Cooper, who met him at the door and Mrs. Cooper said "For God sake John's been out all night." They had to cut his boots off his feet and rub his feet and legs in snow to take out the frost. I was home alone, never thinking he would start home in such a storm, but that is one night to be remembered, but such is life in the far west, as they used to say.
Those days all the settlers were almost like one big family, always accommodating. We used to get to the mill to get our grinding done, sometimes it would happen that we could not get there, so if we got out of corn meal, we would have to grind the corn on a coffee mill, enough to make some corn bread. One of the neighbors bought a small grinder, so we used to go there and do some grinding. As Rutland was our nearest mill, it took three or four days to go and come on account of the roads.
I think it was the winter of 1870 that Mr. Jolliffe went out to Bush Lake to trap, he used to be gone a week or two at a time. I was home along with only my baby and would have to leave her in the house alone to go out and do the chores. Sometimes when I would go out the snow would be blowing so you could not see where the barn was. Many a one used to take a rope and tie it to the door and go to the barn if he could, if not, he could follow the rope back to the door. I have started to the barn in a storm, got outside the house and run into a snowbank higher than my head and the snow flying so tick you could not see.
Rosie, when about seven years old, used to go out and watch the cows, as we had no fences. Then everyone took care of their own fields. The grass used to be so big I have often wondered how Rosie ever found home, but she never got lost. When Albert was eight years old, he had to herd, sometimes alone, and sometimes he and Rosie together. I remember one summer we were herding cattle for neighbors and had altogether close to three hundred head. We had some of them that we had to drive across the creek, the creek was high that summer and I have been down in that creep up to my arms in water, trying to get those cattle across the creek. The children were too small to do anything with them. Many a time I have run onto the prairie to see where the children were and to help them to hold the cattle in a storm as they would always go in a storm. At last we got a pony to use for herding, then it didn't seem so hard and Albert was big enough to dig a hole in the ground and get down in that out of a storm, as long as the cattle would stay. Lots of long hard days he put in on the prairie in the hot sun.
With some of the other hard work, was milking, which at times seemed to be no end. We started with two cows the first year and so on until one summer we milked eighty-six, that was but one year, then got down to sixty, then to forty, then thirty and so on. I want to tell you now, if there is anything in the world that makes a slave of a family, it is milking and caring for milk and butter.
Then the old cane mill that we run twenty-five or thirty years. Every fall we made from sixty gallons to twenty-five hundred gallons. One fall we made so much, we started the mill the 15th of September and kept it going until the first of December.
Then the hay business was another big lot of hard work. I remember one summer we had twenty-five hired men, that meant something, as our own family was large. These twenty-five men, we had for six months and had to set the table for eighteen twice over. I would like to have anyone try it and see what a snap they have. All along the way there has been sickness and death, one by diphtheria, one by summer compliant and another by a large tumor, the weight of which was 120 pounds. She survived the operation and lived three months, when another tumor took her away. Jane Metcalfe Jolliffe, a descendant of Gov. Bradford of the Mayflower and Plymouth Colony, was born 6 Mar 1848 in Mansfield, Tolland County, CT. She died on 14 Jun 1926 in Old Rolfe, Pocahontas County, Iowa before her husband. John Blake Jolliffe was born 25 January 1842 in Cornwall, England and died in Spencer, Iowa on 13 Feb 1932. His body was returned to Old Rolfe for burial, presumably by Jane's side."4Vital Records of Mansfield, Connecticut, FHL No: 1376017.
(Birth certificate shows that "Janette" Metcalf was born to Frederick A. Metcalf and Ruhannah P. Metcalf, March 6th, 1848).5Susan W. Dimock, Births, Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths from the Records and of the Town and Churches in Mansfield, Connecticut, (New York: Baker & Taylor Co., 1898), page 128, Gen R 974.62 M28Di.
"Child of Frederick A. and Ruhamah Metcalf
Jannette, b. March 6, 1848."6Vital Records, State of Iowa, Certificate of Death, No. 76-554.
Listing birth date as 6 Mar 1848.7J.R. Cole, History of Tolland County, Connecticut (W.W. Preston & Co, New York: 1888), Certificate of Death, No. 76-554.
"Frederick Austin Metcalf married Ruhamah Perry, of Woodstock, Conn., January 1st, 1839. Their children were:...Jane Etta, born March 6th, 1848."8Vital Records, State of Iowa, Certificate of Death, No. 76-554.
The deceased's full name is listed as "Jane Ette Jolliffe, " born on 6 Mar 1848 in CT. Her father's name is listed as _____ Metcalf and her mother as, "Rebecah Perry." She was 78 years, 3 months and 8 days old at death. The informant is one Miss Ina Jolliffe of Rolfe, Iowa.9Vital Records, State of Iowa, Certificate of Death.
1Shirley Family Bible.
In possession of Lois Shirley Tansey.2Iowa Cemetery Records (Ancestry.com, Online Database compiled from Works Project Administration. Graves Registration Project. Washington, D.C), 1:422.
3Waterloo Courier (Waterloo, IA), 28 May 1906 (Monday evening).
Pioneer of Poyner Township Passes to the Beyond. He Came to Black Hawk County in 1858.
"GEO. SHIRLEY PASSES AWAY
George Shirley, a pioneer settler of Black Hawk county, passed away at 6 o'clock Sunday morning at his home, five miles east of this city, at the age of 85 years. The funeral will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon from the house and burial will be in Poyner cemetery. The funeral is held from the home because of the ill health of Mrs. Shirley, who has been very frail since last December. The pall bearers will be chosen from among the pioneers of this part of the county. Mr. Shirley came to Black Hawk county in 1858, settling on a farm of 800 acres east of this city, to which was later added 200 acres. He was born in Morgan Co., O., Dec. 22,1821. He came here with his parents bringing his household effects in wagons overland. He drove four horses and eleven head of cows, making the journey without mishap or inconvenience, although the country was filled with Indians. Mr. Shirley by his industry and improved methods of farming brought his big farm under an ideal state of cultivation. The buildings were abundant and built for the comfort of the stock and the convenience of those who cared for them. The Shirley farm has long been known as an ideal country home, with orchards and shade trees in abundance and with all of the improvements which comfort and convenience could suggest. Mr. Shirley was twice married. His first wife was Louisa Clogston, who died in Illinois, leaving one son, George, who is a resident of Oregon. On May 21, 1857, Mr. Shirley married Hannah S. Pierce, who was born in Delaware Co., N. Y., and reared in Pennsylvania. The children of the second marriage were Elizabeth A., Joseph, Bird, B., Abbie, Della and Dora (twins), and Charles. Joseph lives on the home place; Bird B. has been a teamster in Waterloo, Alvin A. a farmer in Barclay, Abbie is the widow of Charles Kimble, of Knox Co., Neb., Della is the wife of William Prangley of Hancock, S. D.; Dora is the wife of Edward Engle of Sioux Falls, S. D., and Charles is a private in the United States army, belonging to the 32nd regiment coast artillery, stationed at Ft. Baker, Calif. Mr. Shirley was a member of the Methodist church and was a devoted Christian."4Medieval Genealogy Newsgroup.
Dear Ms. Harvey, Many thanks for offering to do look-ups in the Illinois marriage CD. Could you check and see if you have any information on the marriage of George Benjamin Shirley and Hannah S. Pierce on 21 May 1857 in Franklin, Morgan County, IL? Many thanks! Roger Tansey
"Subj: Morgan County Marriage Look-up
Date: 12-Feb-01 6:41:01 PM Dateline Standard Time
From: RTansey959
To: Notchbaby
Hollywood, CA
<< Grooms name Brides name County date vol/page SHIRLEY, GEORGE PIERCE, HANNAH S DEKALB 05/21/1857 A/901 >>."5Vital Records of Dekalb County, IL, DeKalb County Clerk, 110 E. Sycamore St., Sycamore, IL 60178.
21. Hannah S. Pierce
1Shirley Family Bible.
In possession of Lois Shirley Tansey.2IGI Record.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hannah S. PIERCE
Source Information:
Film Number: 184234
Page Number: 12
Reference Number: 264.
"International Genealogical Index
Sex: F Event(s):
Birth: 12 Dec 1835
Delaware, New York Parents:
Father: Moses PIERCE
Mother: Sarah BLACKMAN."3Iowa Cemetery Records (Ancestry.com, Online Database compiled from Works Project Administration. Graves Registration Project. Washington, D.C), 1:422.
22. Esau Prangley
1Iowa Cemetery Records (Ancestry.com, Online Database compiled from Works Project Administration. Graves Registration Project. Washington, D.C).
"
Buchanan County Burial Records
Page: 337
Name: Ezra Prangley
Birth Date: 1838
Death Date: 1919
Cemetery: Cedar Crest
Town: Perry
Comment: add. 1, lot 250 (Emma buried on this lot)."
Buchanan County Burial Records.2US Census 1870, Township of Barclay, Blackhawk County, State of Iowa, 306.
3Iowa Cemetery Records.
"
Buchanan County Burial Records
Page: 337
Name: Ezra Prangley
Birth Date: 1838
Death Date: 1919
Cemetery: Cedar Crest
Town: Perry
Comment: add. 1, lot 250 (Emma buried on this lot)."
Buchanan County Burial Records.4Iowa Cemetery Records.
"
Buchanan County Burial Records
Page: 337
Name: Ezra Prangley
Birth Date: 1838
Death Date: 1919
Cemetery: Cedar Crest
Town: Perry
Comment: add. 1, lot 250 (Emma buried on this lot)."
Buchanan County Burial Records.5US Census 1870, Township of Barclay, Blackhawk County, State of Iowa, 306.
23. Emma Chaplin
1US Census 1870, Township of Barclay, Blackhawk County, State of Iowa, 306.
Ilists Emma's birthplace as New York and gives her age as 20).
1Civil War Pension File of Charles W. McKenney, Declaration of John A. Diehl, dated 25 Feb 1891.
Soldier's Certificate No: 655106.
1Civil War Pension File of Charles W. McKenney, Circular No. 3-402, dated 15 Jan 1898.
Soldier's Certificate No: 655106.
In the circular, Charles W. McKenney states that his daughter is Mary E. Diehl, born 17 Jan 1855.