Archibald Jessee Census Return

Archibald Jessee

U.S. Census Records



1840 Russell County Virginia
David Jessee, 35
males <5 (1) Vincent
males 5-10 (1) Archibald Jessee
males 10-15 (1) Robert
males 30-40 (1) David Jessee
females <5 (2) ??
females 5-10 (2) ??
females 10-15 (1) ??
females 30-40 (1) Martha Stinson Jessee, Archibald's mother

See www.jessee.org for complete Jessee family Tree

1850 Scott County, Virginia
David Jessee (45)
Martha Jessee (43)
Robert(22) Archibald(20)
Amy(18), Jane(17) Biddy(15)
Eliz.(13), Vincent(11),Gover(8)
Elihu (8), ribseen(4) John(2)

The farm next to the David Jessee farm is the Purcell family farm.
Archibalds future wife, Mary Ann Purcell, 16, lives there.

The family legend is that Archibald, 20, and Mary Ann, 16, rode
a "white mule" over the mountain into Tennessee to get married
in 1850.

1860 Scott County, Virginia
Archibald Jessee, 29
Mary Ann (Purcell) Jessee, 26
Sarah (9), Martha (7), Nancy (5)
David (3), Emanual (9mo)

Purcell family farm next door.

1870 Census - Marshfield, Ozark Township, Webster County, Missouri
Archibald Jessee, 39
What are they doing in Missouri?....a long way from Virginia..
Mary Ann Jessee, 36
Nancy J (14), David (12), Emanual (10),
William (8), Virginia (5), A. Lincoln (2)


1873 � Archibald Jessee is 43 when his wife Mary Ann Purcell Jessee dies at age 40
after bearing 10 children in Scott County, Va.
1874 - The next year, he marries G.W.Blackenbeckler's sister Mary Alice, 33.
She will live to 1914, age 73. Arch will live to 1911, age 81

1880 Census - Fulkerson, Scott Co, Va
Archibald Jessee, (50)
Mary A. (37) 2nd wife Mary Ann Blankenbeckler
Virginia E (14)
Archibald C (8)
Abraham Lincoln Jessee 11 = "farm labor"

1870's and 1880's Jessee families start migrating to Kansas for free 160 acre farms



1990 U.S. Census is lost, so we don't know where Archibald is.
Sometime between 1880 and 1900 he migrated to Kansas to join
his daughter Sarah Jessee Addington and family.

Some of Archibalds other children have also migrated to Kansas and are
in 1890 Kansas census records.

1890 Kansas Census









1910 Census - Westminster, Orange Co., California
Arch Jessie, 78 (Archibald Jessee)
Mary A, 68 - married 35 yrs, no children
living next door is Arch C Jessee (son) with wife Mollie & family - farmers