(Van Bibber Pioneers Newsletter July 2001)
VAN BIBBER PIONEERS E-NEWSLETTER

A free monthly electronic newsletter for the VAN BIBBER, VANBIBER, VAN BEBBER,
VANBEBER, VANBABER, VANBEVER, and VANBEVERS families.

Vol. 4 No. 9 - July 2001

Here it is the end of July and the dog days of summer are upon us. I am not sure about the rest of the country, but here in Salt Lake City it has been dry and hot.

Bruce Logan has finally found a permanent location for the VAN BIBBER website, that being rootsweb.com. The address is in the "Notices" section of this newsletter. You will find out he has now loaded all the back issues since I took over in January as editor. So, if you happen to be missing any of them just go to the Archived Newsletter section of the website. By the way, while you are there, please sign the guest book and let us know you visited.

We came ever so close to getting our 500th subscriber. If I had not of dropped a few of our subscribers for invalid addresses we would have been there. Next month for sure, and then it is on to one thousand!

Your Editor,

Gary R. Hawpe
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CONTENTS:

  1. New Subscribers -- Address Changes -- Invalid Addresses
  2. John C. Van Bebber
  3. Conrad Unfug and Zerelda Boone
  4. Appraisement Bill of the John Van Bibber Estate
  5. Mansion of John Reynolds Found
  6. David Boone Doty
  7. Real Estate of Jesse Yoakum, Sr.
  8. Excerpts of letters written by Zilla Zenora Van Bibber
  9. Obituaries
  10. Recent Deaths
  11. Military News
  12. Reunions
  13. Notices
  14. Queries
  15. Sound Off
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NEW SUBSCRIBERS:

Please welcome the following twenty-two new subscribers to the newsletter for the month of July. All twenty-two descend from a Van Bibber ancestor. Last month we ended with 479 subscribers so this would have put us at 501, but I had to remove six subscribers because of invalid addresses. We currently stand at a grand total of 495. Who will be the 500th subscriber, you will have to wait until next month to find out.

Why does someone subscribe to the Van Bibber Pioneers newsletter? Most likely because they descend from this family and want to find out more about their ancestors. They also probably enjoy reading the numerous articles provided in each issue. I list all new subscribers and what basic line they descend from because I am hoping you may find someone who descends from your branch. I am also hoping you strike up a correspondence with them and share family information with each other. You never know, that one cousin from your branch of the family may have the answer you have spent years looking for. To all the new subscribers, I recommend you go back through the last six issues and take a look at who has joined us over the last half year. That long lost cousin of yours just may be a subscriber.

The Richard Tillis and Elizabeth Van Bibber branch of the family have provided us with four of our new members. Three descendants of the George Dixon and Sophronia Van Bibber family have also joined us along with three new members from George Yoakum and Martha Van Bebber.

  1. Alan Williams -- [email protected] -- George Dixon and Sophronia Van Bibber
  2. Barbara Mills -- [email protected] -- Richard Tillis and Elizabeth Van Bibber
  3. Bob & Kari Mills -- [email protected] -- Richard Tillis and Elizabeth Van Bibber
  4. Bobbie Fulfer -- [email protected] -- Thomas Fulfer and Olive Van Bibber
  5. Brad & Laurie Streets -- [email protected] -- Peter Van Bebber and Martha Hunt
  6. David S. Van Bibber -- [email protected] -- William Van Bibber and Mary Williams
  7. Don Poff -- [email protected] -- Charles Poff and Hannah Van Bebber
  8. Edith Zaiss -- [email protected] -- Calvin Van Bebber and Barthena Van Bebber
  9. Geri Forrester -- [email protected] -- George Yoakum and Martha Van Bebber
  10. John Hutchison -- [email protected] -- George Yoakum and Martha Van Bebber
  11. Judy Taylor -- [email protected] -- George Dixon and Sophronia Van Bibber
  12. Kathie Stuart -- [email protected] -- James Van Bebber and Ruth Hooker
  13. Kay Butler -- [email protected] -- George Dixon and Sophronia Van Bibber
  14. Larry Lutz -- [email protected] -- Richard Tillis and Elizabeth Van Bibber
  15. Lori Richards -- [email protected] -- Jesse Boone and Chloe Van Bibber
  16. Michael L. Van Bibber -- [email protected] -- William Van Bibber and Mary Williams
  17. Patricia Lindeman -- [email protected] -- Ezekial Van Bibber and Susan Rice
  18. Roy Yoakum -- [email protected] -- George Yoakum and Martha Van Bebber
  19. Shelia Wright -- [email protected] -- Nathan Boone and Olive Van Bibber
  20. Sonya O'Brien -- [email protected] -- Richard Tillis and Elizabeth Van Bibber
  21. Trena Snider -- [email protected] -- Nathan Boone and Olive Van Bibber
  22. Williouise Parker -- [email protected] -- William Van Bebber and Elizabeth Barbee

ADDRESS CHANGES:

  1. Anita Bartel -- [email protected]
  2. Betty Vallance -- [email protected]
  3. David William Van Bibber -- [email protected]
  4. Karen Cramer -- [email protected]
  5. Kay Adams -- [email protected]
  6. Linda Ames -- [email protected]
  7. Sandi Van Bibber -- [email protected]
  8. Steve Van Bibber -- [email protected]

INVALID ADDRESSES:

Of the nine invalid addresses for last month, I have removed six of them from the distribution list because they never contacted me. Hopefully as time goes by, and they realize they are not getting the newsletter, they will contact me with a new address. The following addresses were invalid when I sent out the notice for this month's newsletter.

  1. Gayle Davis -- [email protected] -- Non deliverable.
  2. Nora Kirstein -- [email protected] -- User unknown.
  3. Marty Grant -- [email protected] -- Disabled.
  4. Sue Woods -- [email protected] -- User unknown.
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Isaac VanBibber and Sarah Davis
John VanBebber and Margaret Chrisman
  Isaac VanBebber and Mary Martin
    Isaac C. VanBebber and Sarah McWilliams
      John Crittington VanBebber

JOHN C. VANBEBBER

From the orthography of the name it is apparent that our subject's lineage traces, on the paternal side, back to the little Dutch kingdom of the Netherlands and, if the truth were known concerning the family's American founder, his history might disclose him as belonging to the early Knickerbockers of New York. However, as we have no facts, beyond the name, which would lead us to a warranted conjecture regarding any ancestor of our subject earlier than his father, we shall drop the unsolved mysteries of the past and present Isaac C. Vanbebber as the most remote ancestor in this personal review.

Isaac Vanbebber was born in 1827 in Claiborne county, Tennessee, and became a resident of Livingston county, Missouri. He was a Mexican war veteran and is believed to have enlisted from Missouri. He married in Kentucky, his wife being Sallie McWilliams, born in 1827 in Kentucky, who died in Linn county, Kansas, during the rebellion, to which locality she and her husband had migrated, and from which county and state Mr. Vanbebber enlisted in the Union army and served throughout the war. The children of their marriage were: Catherine; James N.; John C., Louisa; and Mary. For his second wife Isaac C. Vanbebber married Mrs. Margaret Bennett, and their two children are Andrew J. and Isaac C., Jr.

The Vanbebbers came into Texas October 29, 1875, as settlers from Livingston county, Missouri. After the war Isaac C. Vanbebber had taken his family back there from Kansas and had housed them in a rural home. The time of the children was taken up with the works of the farm and little knowledge of books came to any of them as pupils in the public schools. On coming to Texas the father first settled in Cooke county, but afterward removed into Montague county, and still later to the Territory, where he finally died. He was a man with a few youthful advantages himself and he failed to appreciate the value of an education for his own children, and some of them grew up absolutely unlettered.

John C. Vanbebber was born in Linn county, Kansas, June 22, 1861. He was several years minus his majority when he accompanied the family to Texas, and at seventeen years of age was unable to read. He became restless under the restraints of home and assumed responsibility for his own keeping at about the age of sixteen years. His labor was all he had to sell and for some four years he worked for wages on a ranch. He first came to Montague county in 1875, but a year or two later he went to Tarrant county and was employed on a ranch there for some two years. Immediately following this he hired to a man in the Territory and went up the old Chisholm trail with a bunch of cattle to Sweetwater, Kansas, where he remained as herder of the stock for a couple of years.

When Mr. Vanbebber returned to Montague county from his Kansas journey he bargained for a farm of eighty acres on the Queens Peak road, but after two years he sold it and followed his decision to locate in Arizona. He went to Cresno to stay, but ten days of that western health resort was sufficient for him and he returned to Indian Territory, where he raised one crop and again sought Montague county, Texas. After renting a year he bought one hundred and seventeen acres of his present place, upon which he built a dug-out for the reception of his family. This temporary subterranean retreat gave place to a twelve by twelve box shanty the same fall, and this, in turn, to his modern home of today. All the main products common to Texas soil grew on his place and in the main his era in the county has been a prosperous one. His farm has increased to one hundred and sixty two acres and he is regarded as one of the sage and conservative farmers at the head of Denton creek.

January 5, 1883, Mr. Vanbebber was first married, his wife being Miss Belle Wilson, who died in Montague county in 1885, and has no living issue. March 28, 1887, Mr. Vanbebber married Mrs. Emerine Dane, a daughter of Mrs. Nancy Gossage, of Georgia. After the birth of one son, Claud, Mrs. Vanbebber died, in 1890, and in 1892 our subject married his third wife, Mrs. Mollie Johnson a daughter of B.F. Ashton. The issue of her marriage with Mr. Vanbebber is: Emma E., Lillian Beatrice, Andrew Jackson, Joe Bailey, George Washington, Ben Franklin, and May.

John C. Vanbebber maintains himself a plain, quite citizen, and mentions the chief points in his somewhat checkered and eventful career with becoming modesty and with no attempt to add to or subtract from the facts as presented above. Nothing outside the business of the hour has attracted him and the material prosperity he enjoys has come to him as a reward for the toil of years. He clings to the principles of Democracy and owns a membership in the Missionary Baptist church.

History and Biographical Record of North and West Texas, Capt. B.B. Paddock, Editor, Illustrated Volume II., The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago -- New York, 1906, Pg. 707 & 708.

Submitted by Gary R. Hawpe -- [email protected]
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John VanBibber and Chloe Staniford
Chloe VanBibber and Jesse Bryan Boone
  Van Daniel Boone and Mary Ann Randall
    Zerelda Engleton Boone and Conrad Frederick William Unfug

CONRAD FREDERICK WILLIAM UNFUG

Conrad Frederick William UNFUG born 5 Sep 1850 Bielefeld, Westphalia, Germany. Arrived Denver 1874. Married 4 March 1889 Pueblo, Colorado to Zerelda E. BOONE.

Conrad celebrated his 15th birthday on the high seas while enroute to St. Louis in 1865. Here he worked until the dream of finding his fortune in Colorado led him to the boom town of Denver, arriving there in 1874.

Hearing of the gold excitement in the Black Hills of South Dakota, he communicated with a brother, William and the two formed a partnership to establish a trading post to serve as an outfitting point at Cheyenne, Wyoming. The venture, however did not meet expectations and he returned to Denver the following year. When he reached Denver excitement was centered on California Gulch, which was later to become Leadville. There he went with high hopes, but after a years hard toil and disappointment he decided on making his stake elsewhere.

On 5 Feb 1879, Conrad and several others established the gold mining camp of Kokomo which was later to be in Park county. During the spring of that yearhordes of miners swept over the range from Leaddville. The following year the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad was to make Kokomo its terminal and the camp thus became one of the embryo cities of the famous Ten Mile Mining District. Fire destroyed a large part of Kokomo during the winter of 1881. It was then that Conrad decided to come to Walsenburg, although he kept in touch with his mining interests in the years that followed.

In the meantime, during the '80s, he was engaged by the D& RG Railroad to help survey the lines being extended from Garland City (now Alamosa) to the points in the San Luis valley. With the completion of the work he returned to work with his brother in the UNFUG store. Later after his marriage in 1889, he moved to Pueblo where he engaged in business until 1904. He and his family then returned to Walsenburg to remain permanently.

ZERELDA E. BOONE

Zerelda E. BOONE born 24 Apr 1852 at Westport (now Kansas City), Missouri. Arrived Colorado 1860. Died 25 Jan 1918, Walsenburg. Buried Masonic Cemetery, Walsenburg, CO.

A great granddaughter of the famed Daniel BOONE, a niece of one of Colorado's best known pioneer citizens, Col. Albert G. BOONE, and whose parents were pioneer builders of southern Colorado. Zerelda came west in 1860. Her father, Van Daniel BOONE, was urged to come west through his brother, Albert. The brothers settled on several thousand acres of land located about 20 miles east of Pueblo. Gradually a military post was developed and a small community flourished which was known as Booneville and
the name changed later to Boone.

Zerelda's parents stayed until the following year when the family returned to Westpoint, MO because of the homesickness suffered by Mrs. BOONE. But conditions brought on by the Civil War caused the family to leave in 1862 and return to Colorado territory. Colorado remained their home.

Zerelda's mother Mary Ann and her father became prominent in the business and social life of early Pueblo and the Arkansas Valley. Her uncle Albert was to become one of the states most revered persons. He became well known and respected among the Indian tribes and served as Indian Agent for Colorado at
Ft. Lyons. He was largely responsible for making the treaty with the Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribes for the relinquishment of their claims to Colorado and Wyoming.

Following Zerelda's marriage to Conrad UNFUG, she lived in Walsenburg several years. Later they moved to Pueblo where they lived until 1904. They then returned to Walsenburg for their permanent home. Children: Vernie B. (Mrs. H. HUTCHCRAFT) 1893-1964; and Mary H. (Mrs. Robert R. ROBERTSON) 1889-(no date).

Submitted by Edith Todd -- [email protected]

The above articles and pictures of the Unfug family can be located at the Francisco Fort Museum in La Veta, Huerfano County, Colorado.
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Isaac VanBibber and Hester Op den Graeff
Jacob Isaacs VanBibber and Christina ___________
  Isaac Jacobs VanBibber and Frances Schumacher
    Peter VanBibber and Anna __________
      John VanBibber and Chloe Staniford

APPRAISEMENT BILL OF THE JOHN VANBIBBER ESTATE

At a Court held for Kanawha County a the Court House.

Thereof on Monday the 12th day of November, 1821

An Appraisement Bill of the Estate of John Vanbibber amounting to the sum of $1,878.00 was this day presented in Court and ordered to be recorded.

Pursuant to an Order of the County Court of Kanawha to wit directed we have this day proceeds of the first being duly sworn to appraise the personal estate & Slaves of the late John Vanbibber deceased. Or so much thereof as was show by the adm.

Plime a negro man 550.00 Seal & her infant child about 1 ..yr old 1,000.00
Anthony a negro man 550.00 1 Cow 18.00

Jerry A Boy 350.00 1 Cow Old 10.00

17th March 1820

David Ruffner, John Anderson, T Ruffner appraisers

And at a court held for Kanawha County at the court house thereof on Tuesday the 10th day of June 1823.

A report of the division of the Estate of John Vanbibber deceased was received, examined by the Court and ordered to be recorded, which report was in the words & figures following.

Pursuant to an order from the Court of Kanawha dated at March Term 1823, directed to Charles Venable, William Tompkins, Tobias Ruffner, Andrew Park, and James Wilson, or any three of them for the purpose of dividing the Estate of John Vanbibber decd of the said Estate. We the under signed according to the foregoing order of court after being duly sworn have proceeded to make the division of said Estate in the following manner, that is to say. To Col Andrew Donnally Lot No 1, consisting of one negro man named Anthony valued at $450 to receive from Lot No. 3 $20 dlls To James Vanbibber Lot No. 2 consisting of one negro man named Plim valued at $450 to receive Lot No. 5 $20 dlls, To Hannah Slaughter Lot No 3 consisting of negro boy Jeremia and Lucy daughter of Celia valued at $490 To the representatives of Chloe Boon Lot No 4 consisting of Celia her child Clarissa and Malida in the hand of James Vanbibber, valued at $465 to receive from Lot No 5 $5. Dlls To Miram Reynolds Lot No. 5 consisting of one negro Nathan Matilda daughter of Ceila & … in the hands of James Vanbibber valued at $495, As witness our hands this 13th day of March, 1823.

Andy Parks

T Ruffner

James Wilson
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The above appraisement bill on John Van Bibber can be viewed on the Kanawha County, West Virginia website. Transcribed from microfilm by Tammy and Steve Barber.


Descendants of John VanBibber
From the files of Gary R. Hawpe


Generation No. 1

        1. John5 VanBibber (Peter4, Isaac Jacobs3, Jacob Isaacs2, Isaac1) was born January 1733/34 in Lancaster Co., PA, and died 1820 in Charleston, Kanawha Co., (W)VA. He married Chloe Staniford. She was born April 23, 1737 in Baltimore Co., MD.
        
Children of John VanBibber and Chloe Staniford are:
James6 VanBibber, born August 02, 1762; died August 05, 1841 in Greenup Co., KY. He married Lois Reynolds; born December 03, 1770 in VA; died August 30, 1850 in Greenup Co., KY.
  1. Rhoda VanBibber, born Abt. 1769; died Abt. 1787. Killed by Indians.
  2. Chloe VanBibber, born August 13, 1772; died August 1822 in MO. She married Jesse Bryan Boone September 1790 in Point Pleasant, (W)VA; born May 23, 1773; died December 27, 1820 in MO.
  3. Hannah VanBibber, born November 23, 1778; died June 28, 1858 in Kanawha Co., (W)VA. She married Goodrich Lightfoot Slaughter May 17, 1797 in Kanawha Co., (W) VA; born January 24, 1770 in Culpeper, VA; died July 03, 1833 in Kanawha Co., (W) VA.
  4. Miriam VanBibber, born 1779; died February 13, 1850 in Kanawha Co., (W) VA. She married John Reynolds; born November 15, 1758; died February 29, 1832 in Kanawha Co., (W)VA.
  5. Margery VanBibber, born March 13, 1781; died February 14, 1850 in Kanawha Co., (W)VA. She married Andrew Donnally, Jr. May 31, 1801 in Kanawha Co., (W)VA; born October 17, 1778 in Fort Donnally, Botetourt Co., Va; died June 21, 1849 in Kanawha Co., (W)VA.

Submitted by Gary R. Hawpe -- [email protected]
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Isaac VanBibber and Hester Op den Graeff
Jacob Isaacs VanBibber and Christina ___________
  Isaac Jacobs Vanbibber and Frances Schumacher
    Peter VanBibber and Anna __________
      John VanBibber and Chloe Staniford
      Miriam VanBibber and John Reynolds

GLIMPSE OF SALT BARON'S LIFE UNEARTHED
Nearly 200-year-old mansion, graves found near Dupont City

After unearthing the remnants of a slaves cabin late last year, archaeologists working in the construction zone for the new Marmet Locks have found the remains of salt baron and Virginia assemblyman John Reynolds' mansion.

"It's 40 feet long and 32 feet wide and probably two stories tall, with fireplaces at each end," said William D. Updike, archaeologist for Cultural Resource Analysts Inc. of Teays Valley, as he stood beside one foundation wall. "We think it was probably built around 1811, not long after Reynolds bought this property."

The Reynolds home, described in a newspaper account from the 1880s as a "white frame mansion," fronts the Kanawha River near the mouth of Burning Springs Branch on the western outskirts of Dupont City.

Updike believes the home was built in the Federalist style, and was probably similar in appearance to the restored Dickinson home along the Kanawha in nearby Malden, the residence of another pioneer salt manufacturing family.

The remnants of outbuildings, built in neat alignment with the mansion's walls, are also evident following weeks of excavation by a 20-person crew, working under contract to the Army Corps of Engineers.

"Here, along the back wall, where we found a lot of bricks standing on end when we started, we found what turned out to be a root cellar," said Updike, peering into a brick-lined pit.

Many nails found at the site showed signs of having been exposed to fire, prompting archaeologists to speculate that the home eventually burned.

"Since the most recent artifact we found in the house was a 1907 penny, we think it probably happened sometime around 1910," Updike said.

A short distance away lie the remnants of a beehive-shaped bread oven, built away from the house to reduce heat and fire risk in the living quarters. A stone-lined privy pit has also been uncovered, along with a huge rainwater cistern, a barn or stable building and a second root cellar.

Artifacts found at the site include numerous pieces of whiteware associated with higher-income households, salt-glazed stoneware, pocketknives, marbles, and a smoking pipe with the initials "FR" printed on its side.

"It may have belonged to either Fenton Reynolds or Franklin Reynolds," Updike said.

The remains of two salt furnaces have been found across Burning Springs Branch from the home site.

John Reynolds, a major in the Virginia militia who represented Kanawha County in the Virginia Assembly from 1806 to 1810, was a member of the Kanawha Valley's salt cartel. But he entered the business just as it started to enter a decline, as the nation's meat-packing trade shifted from Cincinnati to Chicago.

"There were 32 salt furnaces operating here prior to 1812," said Army Corps of Engineers archaeologist Bob Maslowski, "but by the 1880s, there were only two. It became much cheaper for the Chicago meat packers to use salt from Michigan than to bring it all the way from West Virginia."

"He had money problems, but he at least kept up the appearances of wealth," Updike said.

Reynolds died in 1833, and the Burning Springs property remained in his family's hands for another 14 years before bankers foreclosed on the tract. The salt maker's wife, Miriam, is believed to have continued to live on the property until the 1850s.

Behind the home, on a knoll overlooking a bend of Burning Springs Branch, members of the archaeological team have located 19 graves, including those of Reynolds, his sons, Van Bibber and Fenton Mercer Reynolds, Van Bibber's wife, Elizabeth, and a grandson, James. The grave of Reynolds' wife has not yet been found.

The remains found in the plot will be reinterred at Montgomery Memorial Gardens.

"All of the graves were oriented east to west, with the heads to the west," said Alex Bybee, a physical anthropologist for Cultural Resource Analysts.

Several gravesites contained coffins that were hexagonal, which dates them earlier than the 1860s. Two of the rectangular, late 19th century coffins were equipped with oval glass viewing plates.

The land on which the Reynolds home was located was used as a vegetable garden until early this year, when the government acquired the property.

It turns out it was a garden spot long before the Reynolds clan occupied the site.

When archaeologists began to excavate mansion grounds, they were surprised to find a series of postholes and hearths that indicated the presence of a fortified Native American village of the early Fort Ancient culture.

"It probably dates back to about 1300 or so," said Maslowski. "They grew corn, beans and squash here, besides fishing and hunting for deer and turkey. The corn cobs found here have been tiny," he said, extending his thumb and forefinger the length of a gum packet.

Attention will shift to the Native American village once work concludes on the Reynolds house in a few weeks.

An exhibit of artifacts found at the mansion, in the slaves' home and in the Indian village will be displayed in the visitor center for the new lock complex, scheduled to open in 2006.

By Rick Steelhammer
Staff Writer
Charleston Gazette, Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia
July 1, 2001 (Sunday)
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Peter VanBibber and Marguery Bounds
Olive VanBibber and Nathan Boone
  Delinda Boone and James Craig
    Harriet Jane Craig and Timothy Doty
      David Boone Doty

DAVID BOONE DOTY

DOTY, David Boone, county sheriff of Carroll county, is a native of the county, born in Mt. Carroll township, September 19, 1856, a son of Timothy and Jane (Craig) Doty, the former a native of Canada. The father was educated in his native country and at the age of twenty-one years came to Illinois. He had been reared to farm work and had attended the common schools. About 1842 he came to Savanna and for four years worked at whatever employment he was able to find. When he married he settled on a farm in Mt. Carroll township, where he spent the remainder of his life, dying in 1890.

After attending the district schools in his native township, David B. Doty engaged in farming and in 1883 moved to a farm near Galesburg, Neosho county, Kans., where he carried on agricultural pursuits about five years. He then retired to Savanna, Ill., and for some nine years worked for a railroad company. Mr. Doty is a Republican in politics and has always been interested in public affairs. He has always enjoyed the confidence and regard of his fellow citizens and in 1902 was elected to the office of sheriff, being re-elected in 1906 and again in 1910. He had previously served some time as station police officer at Savanna so was well fitted by experience and study for the office of sheriff, the duties of which he has performed in a satisfactory manner.

Mr. Doty was married (first) December 18, 1879, to Maggie Shannon and they had five children: Lee, who was born October 5, 1890, married Ollie Allison and lives at Portland, Ore.; Jennie, who was born October 31, 1882.; William, who was born September 9, 1885, married Zella Feter and lives in Mt. Carroll; Mabel, who was born April 4, 1888, married Clarence Poffenbarger, issue--Clarence and an infant; and Dee, who died in early childhood. Mrs. Doty died March 21, 1900, and is buried in the Savanna cemetery. Mr. Doty was married (second) on November 22, 1906, to Anna McCall, of Mt. Carroll, and they had two children: Dee McCall, born December 1, 1907; and Margaret E., born January 12, 1911. Mr. Doty is a member of the Masonic lodge and the Modern Woodmen of America.

Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois, edited by Newton Bateman, LL.D. and Paul Selby, A.M. and History of Carroll County, edited by Charles L. Hostetter, Volume II, Chicago Munsell Publishing Company, Publishers, 1913. Pages 775 & 776.

Submitted by Gary R. Hawpe -- [email protected]
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Isaac VanBibber and Sarah Davis
Martha VanBebber and George Yoakum, Sr.
  Jesse Yoakum Sr. and Anna Berry

REAL ESTATE OF JESSE YOAKUM, SR.

This indenture made and entered into this fourth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four by and between Alvis Yoakum and Elizabeth Yoakum wife of said Alvis, William Yoakum and Sarah Yoakum wife of said William, Jesse T. Yoakum and wife Rebecca Yoakum wife of said Jesse T. Yoakum, and James B. Kesterson and Catharine Kesterson wife of said James B., heirs at law of Jesse Yoakum, Senior, now deceased, parties of the first part, and Isaac Yoakum party of the second part. Witnesseth, that the said parties of the first part for and in consideration of the sum of Three Hundred Dollars to them in hand paid by the said party of the second part, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged have granted, bargained and sold and by these presents, they the said parties of the first part do hereby grant, bargain and sell, convey and confirm unto the said parties of the second part and to his heirs and assignees forever all that land situated in the County of Ray in the State of Missouri, known and designated as the North East quarter of the North West quarter and the North West quarter of the North East quarter both pieces in Section thirty two in Township fifty four of Range twenty seven, containing Eighty acres, be the same more or less with the appertainances to have and to hold the lands aforesaid together with all the rights, privileges and appertainance thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining unto the said party of the second part and his heirs and assigns forever and the said parties of the first part for themselves and each of them their heirs, executors and administrators and each of them covenant and agree to and with the said party of the second part and his heirs and assigns against the lawful claim and claims of all persons whomsoever to warrant and forever defend by these presents ----In testimony whereof the said parties of the first part hereunto set their hands and seals on the day first herein written.

/s/ Alvis Yoakum
/s/ Elizabeth (x) Yoakum
/s/ William (x) Yoakum
/s/ Sarah W. Yoakum
/s/ Jesse T. Yoakum
/s/ Rebecca Yoakum
/s/ James B. Kesterson
/s/ Catharine (x) Kesterson

State of Missouri, County of Ray: Be it remembered that on this fourth day of May in year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and fifty four, before me, Abraham Hayler, the undersigned, a Justice of the County Court of the County of Ray, aforesaid personally came the aforesaid Alvis Yoakum and Elizabeth Yoakum the wife of the said Alvis, William Yoakum and Sarah Yoakum the wife of said William, Jesse T. Yoakum and Rebecca Yoakum the wife of said Jesse T., and James B. Kesterson and Catharine Kesterson the wife of the said James B., all of whom are known to me to be the same persons whose names are subscribed to the above and foregoing conveyance as parties thereto and they severally acknowledged that they executed and delivered the same as their voluntary act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned and the said Elizabeth Yoakum and Sarah Yoakum and Rebecca Yoakum was by me first made acquainted with the contents of the said conveyance and they severally acknowledged on an examination apart from their respective husbands that they executed the same and relinquished their dower in the real estate therein mentioned freely and without compulsion or undue influence of their said husbands, and the said Catharine Kesterson was by me also made acquainted with the contents of the said conveyance and she acknowledged on an examination apart from her husband that she executed the same freely and without compulsion or undue influence of her husband. Taken and certified on the day and year last aforesaid.

/s/ Abraham Hayler, One of the Justices of the County Court.

Filed for record 25th April 1856. R. Revier, Recorder.

Ray County, Missouri Deed Book K, Pages 147 & 148.
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State of Missouri, County of Ray, In the Ray County Court of Common Pleas, Saturday 24th November Term 1855.

Rebecca Yokum, Administrator of the estate of Jesse T. Yokum, deceased. vs Isaac Yokum, Alvis Yokum, William Yokum, James B. Kesterson and Catharine Kesterson.

Now at this day comes the Plaintiff by her attorney and here makes to the Court due proof of publication of the order notifying Isaac Yokum, now a nonresident defendant of the commencement of this suit, and this being the sixth and last day of the present term of this Court, the said Defendants came not, nor do they or any of them answer the petition of the Plaintiff but leave the said action against them herein undefended. It is therefore considered by the court that the allegations contained in said petition be taken as confessed and a judgement by default and decree nisi is here entered against said Defendants in the premises according to the prayer of said petitioner as follows, to wit: It appearing to the court that Jesse T. Yokum, the deceased, and the Defendants were the heirs and legal representatives of their father, Jesse Yokum, deceased, and as such were entitled to partition in certain real estate, and it also appearing that said heirs and legal representatives were all of full age and having the right to make partition as aforesaid among themselves, they agreed to do so and in pursuance of said agreement each executed to the other a deed of conveyance, thereby vesting in each in severalty the part of said real estate as they had agreed it should be divided and in pursuance of said agreement, the said Jesse T. Yokum, in his life time and his wife the Plaintiff and petitioner of said Jesse T. Yokum, deceased, in manner and for the purposes as stated in Plaintiffs petition in this suit, joined in separate deeds to each of said Defendants by which they acquired the right in severalty to said real estate so agreed to be divided among them, and it also appearing that said deeds were accepted by each of said Defendants, as a full compliance of the agreement in Plaintiff's petition. It further appearing that Defendants in executing a deed in compliance with their said agreement with said Jesse T. Yokum, now deceased, made a mistake in properly describing a portion of the real estate intended to be conveyed by them to said Jesse T. Yokum, now deceased, and that by said mistake there was a misdescription of the following parts of said real estate to wit: The North East quarter of the South East quarter and the North West quarter of the South West quarter of Section sixteen, in Township fifty four, of Range twenty seven, which is the true description of the said real estate, but by the deed as executed by Defendants as aforesaid they have by mistake described the same as being in Range twenty, whereas it should have been described as in Range twenty seven, and the Court is satisfied that said mistake ought to be rectified by said Defendants, and that they should be required by a decree of this Court to rectify said mistake, and the Court being satisfied that since the execution of the defective deed asforesaid, that the said Jesse T. Yokum has died intestate leaving the Plaintiff, his widow, and Mary Frances Yokum, Daniel W. Yokum, and Elizabeth H. Yokum, his infant children and heirs at law of said real estate. It is therefore ordered and decreed that said Defendants make, execute, and deliver to the said petitioner as Administrator of the Estate of Jesse T. Yokum, Deceased, a good and sufficient deed in fee simple, to be made and executed to the said Mary Frances, Daniel W., and Elizabeth H. Yokum, as the heirs and legal representatives of said Jesse T. Yokum, Deceased, and which said deed shall embrace and contain the following described lands situated in the County of Ray, in the State of Missouri, to wit: The North East quarter of the South West quarter and the North West quarter of the South West quarter of Section sixteen in Township fifty four of Range twenty seven. It is further ordered, adjudged, and decreed that the right and title of the land aforesaid, be divested out of the said Defendants and that the said infant heirs of Jesse T. Yokum, Deceased, be invested with the legal and equitable right and title in and to said lands as above described, reserving to the Plaintiff, as the Widow of said Jesse T. Yokum, Deceased, her right of dower in the same, and that unless the said Defendants shall appear in this Court at the next term thereof and show good cause for setting aside this decree, the same will be made final and absolute, and this case is accordingly continued.

State of Missouri, County of Ray, In the Ray Circuit Court, Saturday 8th March Term 1856. Rebecca Yokum administratrix of the estate of Jesse T. Yokum, decd. vs Isaac Yokum, Alvis Yokum, William Yokum, James B. Kesterson and Catharine Kesterson.

Now this day came the Plaintiff aforesaid and it being shown to the Court here, that in this case which has been transferred to this Court from the Ray County Court of Common Pleas, in accordance with the Act of The General Assembly of the State of Missouri repealing the Act establishing said Court of Common Pleas, by the records of said Court that an interlocutory judgement by default was rendered against said Defendants therein in the cause aforesaid at the last term thereof, and the said defendants failed to appear in this Court, nor do they or any of them show to this Court any cause for setting aside said judgement and decree. It is therefore ordered, adjudged, and decreed by the court here that the said intelocutory judgement by default and decree nisi, be and the same is hereby made final and absolute against said Defendants, and it is further considered by the Court here that the said Plaintiff recover against the said Defendants her costs by her about her suit in this behalf expended, and that she have execution thereof.

State of Missouri: I, Robert Sevier, Clerk of the Circuit Court of the County of Ray aforesaid, certify that the foregoing is a true and perfect copy of the interlocutory judgement by default and decree nisi rendered by the Court of Common Pleas of said County, and also of final decree and judgement of said Circuit Court in the cause aforesaid, as the same appears of record in my office. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Circuit Court at Office in Richmond, this 12th day of November 1856.

/s/ R. Sevier, Clerk.
Filed for record 1st July 1857. R. Sevier, Clerk recorder

Ray County, Missouri Deed Book K, Pages 444 & 445.
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Descendants of Jesse Yoakum, Sr.
From the files of Gary R. Hawpe


Generation No. 1

        1. Jesse4 Yoakum, Sr. (George3, Valentine "Felty"2, Matthias1) was born 1787 in Muddy Creek, Greenbrier Co, VA, and died Bet. 1850 - 1854. He married Anna Berry. She was born January 17, 1799 in VA, and died September 21, 1850 in MO. Anna is buried in Yoakum Cemetery, North end of Taitsville, Ray County, Missouri.
        
Children of Jesse Yoakum, Sr. and Anna Berry are:
  2. Alvis Yoakum, born January 10, 1813 in Claiborne Co., TN; died December 23, 1885 in Ray Co., MO. He married Elizabeth McCuitsion August 18, 1838 in Ray Co., MO.
  3. Catherine Yoakum, born 1819 in Claiborne Co., TN. She married James B. Kesterson January 07, 1841 in Ray Co., MO; born 1819 in Lancaster, VA; died in NE.
  4. William Yoakum, born 1820 in Claiborne Co., TN; died 1893 in CA. He married (1) Sarah W. Stone May 25, 1849 in Ray Co., MO; born October 31, 1831; died August 31, 1856 in MO. He married (2) Eliza Eveline Kincaid August 31, 1858 in Ray Co., MO; born May 17, 1840 in MO; died January 26, 1876 in MO.
  5. Jesse T. Yoakum, born 1821 in Claiborne Co., TN; died August 06, 1854. He married Rebecca Branstetter November 28, 1848 in Ray Co., MO; born 1830 in TN; died Bef. 1900. After the death of Jesse, Rebecca married James R. Means on March 01, 1857 in Ray Co., Mo. They migrated to Oregon and raised a large family.

Submitted by Gary R. Hawpe -- [email protected]
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Peter VanBibber, Jr. and Marguery Bounds
Jacob VanBibber and Sarah Miller
  Soloman H. VanBibber and Mary Jane Bryson
    Ezekial VanBibber and Rebecca Jane Clowers
      James Albert VanBibber and Zilla Zenora Warren

EXCERPTS FROM LETTERS WRITTEN BY ZILLA ZENORA VAN BIBBER
TO HER CHILDREN
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  • 9-20-1925Bokoma, Ok. Dear children picking and hoeing are the children's and my side line. The
    present price of cotten is about 135 on bale seed, and it looks like we will get about 9 bales. I have not been in the fields in a week. I had rather pick cotten then to do a big washing.

    9-15-1927 Bokoma, Ok. Dearest children, well sweet girl, I am so sorry we can't be closer together but I have not lost hope that we will live closer together someday. I have throat trouble and the doctor says it will take about a year to cure it. When I went to the oven some mornings I could not cook for an hour account of hard breathing. I can hardly stand to be so far away from you. I am missing so many happy hours, but we all have a mission here on earth and if this is mine, I pray God will help me do it well.

    2-6-1930 Sweetwater, Tx. Dear daughter, well you are about to have another birthday and I am too poor to send you a present, but I think of you and pray for you. I have pieced 3 string quilts and am piecing another and I think I will have have enough strings for 3 more.

    4-8-1930 Sweetwater, Tx. Dear children, I feel well most of the time, but oh so weak I can't step down or up the steps. I fell once but it didn't hurt me much. I still hope to be strong and able to work again. Since I haven't been able to work, I let my imagination build us all a little love nest up in Ark, where we used to live when we had plenty of everything, good schools and churches, we did not know how happy we were then but poppa lost his horses so we had to sell everything and come back to Texas and we had a hard time. Today is our anniversary we have been married 34 years and we were happy young people then. But today we are sad. There is only 9 people still living out of the 50 or 75 that were at our wedding. I am sending you a box of butter beans to plant. I don't want to loose one seed of them. Maybe I will get to plant a garden next year if is God's will for me to live.

    4-16-1931 Crockett, Tx. Dear children, I washed clothes this morning, got dinner, cleaned up, churned butter, cleaned up the milok things, then I washed my feet and doctored my corns, they hurt so bad. It will soon be night and I will have to sprinkle the clothes and get supper and milk. I have made only $5.25 since last Oct. cleaning houses and sewing. It seems hard that I have to work after I am old and worked down. And people don't consider the work a woman does at home to worth anything. I wish I could send you some money to help out but I can't. I sell 1 qt of sweet milk a day for 10 cents but use it for stamps and I give 5 cents to Sunday school once in a while. Honey when others do you wrong only think of them with a prayer so you won't sin.

    1-21-1936 Norman, Ok. Last rites for Mrs. Zilla Zenora Van Bibber of Norman, Ok., were conducted at Trinty Baptist Church by Rev. Anson Justice. She was born into this world Jan .18, 1876 and left it on another cold Jan. day in 1936, 60 years later. She died after a brief illness with heart disease and was buried in I.O.O.F. cemetery.


    Descendants of James Albert VanBibber
    From the files of Marc Herron

    Generation No. 1

            1. James Albert9 VanBibber (Ezekial8, Soloman H.7, Jacob6, Peter5, Peter4, Isaac Jacobs3, Jacob Isaacs2, Isaac1) was born April 11, 1873 in MO, and died November 19, 1949 in OK. He married Zilla Zenora Warren, daughter of Joseph Warren and Sarah Hocott. She was born January 18, 1876 in KY, and died January 21, 1936.

            
    Children of James VanBibber and Zilla Warren are:
    1. Grethel Cirfroney10 VanBibber, born February 07, 1898 in English, TX; died April 12, 1967 in Norman, OK. She married Forrest Herron January 12, 1918 in Idabell, McCurtain Co., OK; born January 14, 1894 in TX; died February 1980.
    2. Earl L. VanBibber, born March 29, 1900 in English, TX; died January 12, 1985 in Norman, OK. He married (1) Billie May March 07, 1927 in TX. He married (2) Lucille McBee.
    3. Etta Amelia VanBibber, born February 24, 1902 in English, TX; died August 09, 1990 in Norman, OK. She married Edgar H. Herron March 06, 1920 in Idabell, McCurtain Co., OK; died August 29, 1986 in Norman, OK.

    Submitted by Marc Herron -- [email protected]
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    OBITUARIES:

    Isaac VanBibber and Sarah Davis
      Peter VanBebber and Ellinor VanBibber
        Jacob VanBebber and Catherine Ann Guthrie
          James Henry VanBebber and Ruth Ann Hooker
            Arthur Ruthland VanBeber and Celia Charity Bruton

    --and--

    Peter VanBibber, Jr. and Marguery Bounds
      Ellinor VanBibber and Peter VanBebber
        Jacob VanBebber and Catherine Ann Guthrie
          James Henry VanBebber and Ruth Ann Hooker
            Arthur Ruthland VanBeber and Celia Charity Bruton

    RETIRED WORKER PERISHES IN FIRE
    Four Injured in Blaze Outside City Limits

    A 67-year-old retired city employee, father of ten, died in flames which burned his home at 2500 North Mill, to the ground Friday morning. He was Arthur Van Beber, who failed in the struggle to find a way out of the burning house.

    His wife, daughter and two sons were also injured in the fire.

    Most seriously injured was the daughter, Jewel, a 17-year-old student of Central High School, who was taken to the Muskogee General Hospital in a critical condition. Early Friday evening hospital authorities reported her condition as "fair."

    The son, Parker, 34, received burns on the face, arms and chest while attempting to rescue his father from the blazing one-story house.

    Celia Van Beber, 60, wife of the dead man, and another son, M.D. Van Beber, 23, escaped with only minor injuries.

    The latter's injury was a cut right arm, sustained when he smashed a window in an attempt to escape the burning house.

    Because the house was situated outside the city limits, and was not insured, the fire department could not assist in putting out the fire.

    M.D. Van Beber said he thought the fire had originated from a stove in the northeast wing of the L-shaped house, where his father was sleeping.

    According to neighbors at the scene, the elder Van Beber could be seen at times inside the house, struggling to find a way out. They said he was unable to be reached.

    The elderly man worked his way to a door in the middle portion of the house before being overcome.

    M.D. Van Bebber carried his injured younger sister from the burning structure. He said, however, that he was forced back from an attempt to re-enter to search for his father.

    He said he had been awakened by the cries of other members of the family .

    Another daughter, Lorraine, 20, was not at home at the time of the fire.

    The family did not carry insurance.

    Arthur Van Beber is a former resident of Wagoner County, moving to Muskogee in 1943. He was employed by the city until he retired in 1948.

    Before living in Wagner County, Van Beber had spent 22 years in Leach, Oklahoma.

    He is survived by the widow, Celia, four daughters: Mrs. Mildred Gaylor of Oregon, Mrs. Mary Coffman, 1508 North Ash, Miss Lorraine Van Beber of the home and Jewell Van Beber of the home; six sons: Francis of Choteau, Walter and Charles of Kansas City, Kansas, Homer of the U.S. Army in Tokyo, Parker of the home and Marvin of the home; two brother: Jim Van Beber of Muldrow and Bert Van Beber of Zena, Oklahoma.

    Arrangements are as yet incomplete and will be announced later by the Green Funeral Home, Wagner.

    The Muskogee Daily Phoenix, Muskogee, Muskogee County, Oklahoma. December 30, 1950, Page #1, Column #1.

    Submitted by Gary R. Hawpe -     [email protected]
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    Isaac VanBibber and Sarah Davis
      Peter VanBebber and Ellinor VanBibber
        Jacob VanBebber and Catherine Ann Guthrie
          Calvin VanBebber and Barthena A. VanBebber
             Elizabeth Jane VanBebber and Thomas Henry Wallace
              Annie Bertha Wallace and Henry Elbert Stephens

    CHICO WOMAN DIES WHILE VISITING COUNTY SEAT

    Mrs. Annie Bertha Stephens     succumbed in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Madalene Rystrom, of Oreville, yesterday morning. She had been visiting there for the past two weeks.

    Mrs. Stephens was born in Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 5, 1878, to Mr. And Mrs. Thomas Wallace, who were also natives of Missouri. When she was 2 years old, the family moved to Angeles Camp, where Mrs. Stephens was raised and received her education.

    Following her marriage to Henry Elbert Stephens, she and her husband moved to Chico where they lived until 1913 when they moved to Richvale. They were among the first settlers in that community, and Mr. Stephens was the "village blacksmith" for several years prior to becoming actively engaged in rice growing.

    In 1923 Mr. and Mrs. Stephens returned to Chico where he became district foreman for the California Lands Company and held that position until his death in 1939.

    Mrs. Stephens was a member of the Royal Neighbors of America..

    Survivors include four children, Lester, of Richvale, Arlet of Sacramento, Mrs. Marie Fisher, of Chico, and Mrs. Madalene Rystrom, of Oreville. Her brothers are Franks and Jake Wallace, both of Chico, and her sister is Mrs. Belle Jacobs, of Redding. There are seven grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren who survive.

    Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. in the Brusie Funeral Home and interment will be in the Chico Cemetery by the side of her husband.

    Chico Enterprise, Chico, Butte County, California, February 24, 1955

    Submitted by Wendell Wallace --     [email protected]

    Note: Annie Bertha Wallace Stephens descends from four branches of the Van Bibber family but only one line was used.
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    Isaac VanBibber and Sarah Davis
      Isaac VanBibber, Jr. and Elizabeth Hays
        Matilda VanBibber and James Estill
          Rachel Estill and William Mullins
            Jamima Alice Mullins and William Henry Rodrock
              William Henry Rodrock, Jr. and Elizabeth Jane Milton

    MRS. RODROCK DIES
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    Encephalitis Fatal to Former Pawnee County Resident on Visit Here.

    Mrs. Elizabeth Jane Rodrock, 35, wife of William Rodrock of Mapleton, died at 3:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon at a local hospital from encephalitis or sleeping sickness. The funeral was held Saturday morning at 10 o'clock at the Beckwith mortuary.

    Mrs. Rodrock was born in Mound City in 1900, but lived most of her life in Pawnee county. She came here with her parents in 1908, and lived here until her husband and family moved to Mapleton about four years ago.

    She came to Pawnee county for a visit with relatives while Mr. Rodrock cared for his wheat harvest about three weeks ago. She was taken ill soon after with what was believed to be influenza. Two weeks ago she sank into a coma and was brought to the Larned hospital where her condition had been critical ever since.

    She is survived by her husband and four children. Freda, 15, Marvel, 11, Gordon, 7, and Velma, 3, all of Mapleton; her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. A.F. Milton, Mound City, Mrs. Gail Wyrick, Tuscumbia, Mo.; Mrs. Huey Duncan, Thurston, Neb.; and Mrs. Frank Minor, Mrs. Leon Rigg, and Mrs. Harve Unruh, all of Pawnee county; and two brothers, H.E. Milton, Paola, and LaVerne Milton of Mound City. Burial will be in the Lanard cemetery.

    Submitted by Robert Rodrock --     [email protected]
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    Isaac VanBibber and Sarah Davis
      Martha VanBebber and George Yoakum, Sr.
        Isaac Yoakum and Mary Davis
          Moses Yoakum and Elizabeth Grimes
            George Washington Yoakum and Julia Ann Schooler
              Moses Edward Yoakum and Margaret Ann Clark
                Millard Clede Yoakum

    MILLARD CLEDE YOAKUM

    Millard Clead Yoakum, 74, 120 Henry Street, died at 3:55 a.m. Sunday, March 26, 1972 at the Ray county memorial hospital after a lengthy illness.

    Born Oct. 29, 1897 near Dockery, he was the son of the late Moses E. Yoakum and Margaret (Clark) Yoakum. He had lived in Ray county all of his life, except for a six year interval, in which he lived in Kansas City. He had been a painter and decorator, was employed by a Ray county road district, worked at the Watson slaughter house, and while in Kansas City, with Nutrena Mills.

    On Feb. 25, 1917 he was married to the former Jennie Whitmer of Henrietta. The couple observed their 55    th anniversary on Feb. 22, 1972 at home.

    Besides his wife, of the home, Mr. Yoakum is survived by two sons, Millard C. Yoakum, Jr., and Whitmer Yoakum, Kansas City, Kansas; a foster son, Clifford Crossley, Independence, two daughters, Mrs. John W. (Mildred) Pike, Kansas City, Kans., and Mrs. John O. (Lula) Cahow, St. Joseph,; a brother Earl Yoakum, Richmond, a sister, Mrs. Orville (Mabel) Rippy, Marionville, Mo., 16 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren.

    A son, Earl David** Yoakum, was killed in WW II; a grandchild and a great grandchild died earlier.

    Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Thurman funeral home, with the Rev. William R. Smith officiating. Burial will be in Richmond memory gardens.

    Pallbearers will be Charles Ruckdeshell, Ralph Herod, Fred Herod, Melvin Herod, Clarence Stevens, and J.W. Maddux.

    The family will receive friends from 7 to 8 p.m. tonight, at Thurman's. The family requests contributions in lieu of flowers for the American Cancer society or the heart fund.

    Richmond Daily News, Richmond, Ray County, Missouri.

    Submitted by Roy Yoakum --     [email protected]

    Note: **Were it states "A son, Earl David Yoakum, was killed in WW II" this is in error. It should have read "Earl Donald Yoakum".
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    RECENT DEATHS:

    Peter VanBibber, Jr. and Marguery Bounds
      Olive VanBibber and Nathan Boone
         Jemima Boone and Henry Zumwalt
           Sarah Jane Zumwalt and John Jump, Jr.
             Jemina Jump and John Andrew Rentfrow
               Sarah Jane Rentfrow and Joseph William West
                Maude Eliza West and Fred Andy Morgan

    MAUDE E. MORGAN

    Maude E. Morgan, 101, a resident of Albuquerque since 1923, loving mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, great-great-grandmother and great-great-great-grandmother, died Friday, April 13, 2001. She is survived by her daughters, Mary Jane Saunders of California and Wanda Fae Vaughan of Albuquerque; nine grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; 19 great-great-grandchildren; and one great-great-great-grandchild. Maude was preceded in death by her husband, Fred A. Morgan; son, John W. Morgan; two grandsons; and one great-grandson. She came to New Mexico in a covered wagon in the early 1920's. Maude was a longtime member of the Church of Christ. She loved to quilt. Services will be held Tuesday, 12:00 p.m., at French Mortuary, University Blvd. Chapel, 1111 University Blvd. NE. Interment will follow at Sunset Memorial Park, 924 Menaul Blvd. NE. Friends may visit French Mortuary, 1111 University Blvd. NE, Tuesday, 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Should friends desire, memorial contributions may be made to New Mexico Boys & Girls Ranch, 6209 Hendrix NE, 87110. French Mortuary, 1111 University Blvd. NE.

    Albuquerque Journal.com, Albuquerque, New Mexico - April 17, 2001

    Submitted by Pat Gay --     [email protected]
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    MILITARY NEWS:

    Peter VanBibber, Jr. and Marguery Bounds
      Jacob VanBibber and Sarah Miller
        Peter VanBibber and Nancy Mary Devore

    BOUNTY LAND FILE OF PETER VAN BIBBER

    Peter VanBibber served as a Private in Captain Benedict Bacon's Company, 16    th Regiment, Kentucky Militia, War of 1812. This company was designated at various times as Captain George Bishop's and Captain Benedict Bacon's Company.

    The following is from the Bounty Land File of Peter VanBibber. It was received from the National Archives.

    Know all men by these present that I Peter VanBibber of the County of Philips and State of Arkansas do constitute, nominate, empower and appoint William H. Hamilton, Esquire of the City of Washington, D.C., my Agent and Attorney in fact with plenary powers to receive the land warrant due me from the United States for my service in the War of 1812, said warrant being due under the provisions of the Act passed September 28, 1850, hereby satisfying what my said agent and attorney may do in the premises in as full and complete a manner as if I were present and to do the same myself.

    Given under my hand and seal the 5    th day of September 1851 at Sterling, Philips County, State of Arkansas.

    /s/ Peter Vanbibber

    Attest: W.M. Martin and Samuel Royall.

    Sworn and subscribed before me, the 5    th day of September 1851.

    /s/ M.W. Allen
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    Sir - Herewith please find the application of Mr. Peter Vanbibber for a Land Warrant under the provisions of Act of September 28, 1850. When the Warrant is issued please send to the undersigned, as per the accompanying Power of Attorney.

    Yours, etc.

    /s/ Wm. H. Hamilton

    Submitted by Earl Quintrell -- Winchester, TN
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    Bounty Land Warrants for Military Service in the
    War of 1812

    by Jan Bishop McFarland

    After the War of 1812, Congress enacted legislation to reward military service by entitling veterans to claim land in the northwest and western territories. This so-called "bounty land" was not granted outright to the veterans, but was instead awarded to them through a multi-step process beginning with a bounty land warrant.

    Bounty land warrants weren't automatically issued to every veteran who served. The veteran first had to apply for a warrant, and then, if the warrant was granted, he could use the warrant to apply for a land patent. The land patent is the document which granted him ownership of the land.

    Basically, the warrant is a piece of paper which states that, based on his service, the veteran is entitled to X number of acres in one of the bounty land districts set up for veterans of the War of 1812. These land districts were located on public domain lands in Arkansas, Illinois and Missouri.

    The warrants, themselves, were not delivered to the veterans; all the veteran actually received was a notification telling him that Warrant #XXX had been issued in his name and was on file in the General Land Office.

    Prior to 1842, if a veteran chose to redeem his warrant for land, he was required to choose land in one of the three states listed above. (After 1842, he could redeem his warrant for public lands in other states.)

    Warrants could be assigned or sold to other individuals.

    Benjamin Hibbard, an American public lands historian, believed that the government chose to set the land districts up in these frontier areas because they thought it would be really nifty to have a few thousand battle-hardened war veterans & their families acting as buffers between established settlements and the Native American population. For good or for ill, the veterans were too smart to fall for that one, and most chose to sell their patents to land speculators. So keep in mind that, even if your ancestor applied for a patent, he may never have set foot on his land.

    The Bounty Land Warrant File

    A veteran who decided to redeem his warrant was issued a patent for the land itself, and a "Bounty Land Warrant File" was created in the General Land Office. This file contains the surrendered warrant, a letter of assignment (if he assigned his interest to another party) and any other documents pertaining to the transaction. The warrant itself should include the name of the veteran, his rank on discharge, his branch of service (including company, etc.), and the date the warrant was issued. It may also include the date the land was located and a description of the land.

    If he obtained bounty land, you should be able to find your ancestor in National Archives Microfilm Series M848 (14 rolls), War of 1812 Military Bounty Land Warrants, 1815-1858. This series includes an index to patentees in Missouri & Arkansas, a partial index for Illinois, and an index for patentees under the 1842 act (the one that allowed them to choose lands in areas other than MO, AR & IL). If you find that he patented his land, and you want more information than is contained on the microfilm, you may be able to obtain it by writing the National Archives and having them search the General Land Office abstracts of military bounty land warrant locations.

    http://www.ultranet.com/~deeds/bounty.htm
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    REUNIONS:

    JAMES VAN BIBBER FAMILY REUNION HELD

    James VanBibber     was born February 03, 1842 in Greenup Co., KY, and died December 03, 1914 in MI. He married (1) Sarah Margaret "Molly" Bradburn November 07, 1867 in Greenup Co., KY, daughter of Michael Bradburn and Elizabeth Alexander. She was born 1850 in KY, and died March 04, 1887. He married (2) Margaret Jane Webb March 03, 1888 in Hood Run, Greenup Co., KY, daughter of Daniel Webb. She was born January 1866 in OH, and died April 22, 1922. James and Margaret are buried in Lodi Cemetery, Kalkaska, Kalkaska Co., MI


    The collective families of the descendants of James and (1) Sarah Margaret "Molly" (Bradburn) Van Bibber, and of James and (2) Margaret Jane (Webb) Van Bibber held their annual reunion on June 30, 2001. It was to have been held at the Greenup, Ky. Lock and Dam Park, but when the first few arrived they discovered the grounds were filled to capacity with other family reunions, and not a spot to be had for the Van Bibbers. But the Van Bibber descendants, quick thinkers that we are, promptly chose another park and posted a directional sign at the entrance. The 'grapevine' began swinging, and word soon spread that the Van Bibbers were on the move. Everyone at least we hope everyone - finally arrived at the newly designated park - The Greenup City Park. It turned out to be a blessing in disguise, as we had a lovely scenic view of the Ohio River, a large shelter, and a super-nice playground for the children.
    The attendance was as follows: The descendants of James and Molly: Harrison B. Van Bibber of Myrtle Beach, S.C., James Chad Van Bibber of Oxford, Ohio, Neville and Hazel (Van Bibber) Trimble of South Portsmouth, Ky., D. Faye (Hall) Hern of Raceland, Ky., Lindsey Ryan Brown (12) (Faye's gr.dtr.) of Worthington, Ky., Katie (13) (Lindsey's friend) of Salt Rock, W.Va., D. Etta (Shepherd) Van Bibber (w/o Tim) of Portsmouth, Ohio, C. Irene (Van Bibber) Bryan of Green Hills, Oh., April Dawn (Bryan) Lay of Cincinnati, Oh. and N.Jean (Van Bibber) Murphy of New Boston, Oh.

    The descendants of James and Margaret: Donald J. and Vivian (Commire) Van Bibber of Fairfield Glade, Tn., Dorothy M. (Colley) McGinnis of Portsmouth, Oh., Raymond and Irene J. (Colley) Taulbee of Greenup, Ky., T. Michael and Pamela (Holcomb) Taulbee of South Shore, Ky., Nathan Hernandez (8) (s/o Pamela) of South Shore, Ky., Donald and Annette K. (Pace) Taulbee of Wheelersburg, Oh., Faith Ann Taulbee (11) (d/o Donald and Annette) of Wheelersburg, Ohio, Hope Beatrice Taulbee (8) (d/o Donald and Annette) of Wheelersburg, Oh., and Steven and Penny S. (Taulbee) Ruggles of Franklin Furnace, Oh.

    Descendant of Van Bibber/Smith: Bruce E. Logan, Jr. of Wheelersburg, Oh.

    The 'Ceramic Animal' prizes were made and donated by Etta Van Bibber. They were won by the following: Harrison Van Bibber for coming the farthest distance, Raymond and Irene Taulbee for coming the shortest distance, Neville and Hazel Trimble for being married the longest (62 yrs.), Mike and Pam Taulbee for being married the shortest length of time (10 mos.), Neville Trimble for being the oldest man there (83), Dorothy McGinnis for being the oldest lady there (84), Nathan Hernandez for being the youngest boy there (8 yrs.) and Hope Taulbee for being the youngest girl there (8). No prize was given, but the couple being married next to the shortest length of time, was Clyde and Dorothy McGinnis, who were married May 13, 2000. We were very pleased that our cousin, Bruce Logan, one of our original Van Bibber Researchers and the former Editor of the 'Van Bibber Pioneers News Letters' was able to attend. Bruce and I were both surprised to learn that his Mother, Nora (Smith) Logan, and I know one another, and worked together in the early and mid 1950s, at the Ohio Consolidated Telephone Co., which later became the General Telephone Co. (GTE) in Portsmouth, Ohio. The name of the Co., now, is Verizon. We all enjoyed the sharing of the good food, the good fellowship, and viewing family photos and family histories. Bruce brought a book on 'Vanceburg, Ky.', which my aunt Etta thoroughly enjoyed, as she is from that area and recognized most of the contents. The decision was made that we have our next family reunion on June 30, 2002 at the same park - The Greenup, Ky. City Park. We hope to see you there!

    Footnote: A cousin, Nancy (Wheeler) and husb., Jack Fulk of Three Rivers, Mich., were unable to come to the reunion, but came later for a four day visit with Raymond and Irene Taulbee, and were able to visit with some of the other cousins, while here.
    Submitted by Jean (Van Bibber) Murphy -- [email protected]
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    NOTICES:

    Fellow Van Bibber researchers,

    I have updated the web page and included the last five issues of the newsletter (Feb. - June) for you to read and download in both HTML and MS Word 97/6.0 format. They are stored in the usual place.

    I have also changed Internet Providers and therefore e-mail addresses.

    Please look the web page over and let me know if you have anything to add in the area of marriages, land grants, or other areas of the Van Bibber part of the page. Also, let me know if you find any mistakes or additions on the GEDCOM. I already have a couple of updates to make, but thought I should get the newsletters posted first.

    Bruce

    Bruce E. Logan Jr.
    2234 Concord Dr.
    Wheelersburg, OH 45694
    [email protected]
    Logan Family and Van Bibber Web Page     http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~blogan
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    Hi,

    My name is Rhama Gilbert and I subscribed to the newsletter right after Bruce's last edition. When Gary took over as the new editor a year later and was provided the address book of all the subscribers, my name was listed and therefore I was never listed as a new member in any of the editions. I just wanted to let everyone know I am a subscriber and descend from James C. Maxwell and Letitia Van Bibber. I would enjoy hearing from anyone else who descends from this branch of the family. The following is my two Van Bibber lineages.

    Peter VanBibber, Jr. and Marguery Bounds
      James VanBibber and Jane Irvine
        Joseph VanBibber and Susan Boone
          Letitia VanBibber and James C. Maxwell
            Lucinda Maxwell and Joseph Franklin Roberts
              John Wesley Roberts and Rosa Emily Gregory
                Leta Pearl Roberts and Rexford Bates Cragg
                  Rhama Ruth Cragg and Leonard Alan Gilbert

    --and--

    Peter VanBibber, Jr. and Marguery Bounds
      Olive VanBibber and Nathan Boone
        Susan Boone and Joseph VanBibber
          Letitia VanBibber and James C. Maxwell
            Lucinda Maxwell and Joseph Franklin Roberts
              John Wesley Roberts and Rosa Emily Gregory
                Leta Pearl Roberts and Rexford Bates Cragg
                  Rhama Ruth Cragg and Leonard Alan Gilbert

    Sincerely,

    Rhama R. Gilbert --     [email protected]
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    QUERIES:

    I am looking for additional information on my father, Bobby Luther Van Bebber, the son of Luther E. Van Bebber and Myrtle May Hollingsworth. I am a daughter of his from his first marriage to Loretta Mildred Smith. There was also another daughter from this marriage Bobbie Lee Van Bebber. My father's second marriage was to Mary Jane Burris in which he had three children Kim, Robin and Bobby. I know very little about my father and half siblings. From the social security death index he was born on February 28, 1926 and died on July 15, 1987. His residence was listed as Kirksville, Adair County, Missouri. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

    Donna Van Bebber Willis --     [email protected]
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    SOUND OFF:

    From:      [email protected] (Louise VB Kuldas)
    To:      [email protected] (Gary Hawpe)

    Your newsletter is super as all the rest have been. Keep it up my fellow shirt tail cousin.
    Louise VB Kuldas

    From:      [email protected] (Susan Bradford)
    To:      [email protected] (Gary Hawpe)

    Gary,
    I really enjoyed the last newsletter with such good stories, good information and lots of it, and some 'cousins' descendants of my ancestor Emily Yoakum Stephens' brothers. Thanks for all you do to put the newsletter together! Susan Bradford

    From:      [email protected] (Steve Van Bibber)
    To:      [email protected] (Gary Hawpe)

    Gary - Thank you for continuing to publish the newsletter. I've enjoyed every issue.
    Thanks, Steve Van Bibber

    From:      [email protected] (Joan Bergbower)
    To:      [email protected] (Gary Hawpe)

    Hello Gary, I just finished reading the June Newsletter--it was great! Joan

    From:      [email protected] (Shelia Wright)
    To:      [email protected] (Gary Hawpe)

    Gary, just my first newsletter you sent., WOW! Shelia

    From:      [email protected] (Valorie Richards)
    To:      [email protected] (Gary Hawpe)

    Sergeant Major Hawpe,

    I finally had time to read the latest Van Bibber Newsletter. Great job!! ALSO--- Congratulations on your Meritorious Service Award!!! What an honor.

    Valorie Richards

    From:      [email protected] (Rhama Gilbert)
    To:      [email protected] (Gary Hawpe)

    Gary,

    It is so wonderful of you to continue with the Newsletters and such a thrill to read every last word. I was happy to see 2 more people who are descended from Letitia and James in the May Newsletter. I haven't contacted them yet, but I will soon.

    Sincerely, Rhama R. Gilbert

    From:      [email protected] (Bobbie Fulfer)
    To:      [email protected] (Gary Hawpe)

    You are a very busy person! I will be reading for a long time. I really appreciate all the information.
    Bobbie

    From:      [email protected] (Kay Adams)
    To:      [email protected] (Gary Hawpe)

    Gary, Thank you for the newsletter for June. I sure do appreciate the hard work you are doing on this.
    It is a great deal of information in this one letter. Kay

    From:      [email protected] (Barbara Molencupp)
    To:      [email protected] (Gary R. Hawpe)

    Gary,

    I have really enjoyed getting the newsletter and always look forward to reading it every month. I share the newsletters with my sisters and will share them with my brother when I see him again, he doesn't have a computer. Keep up the good work on the newsletter. Barbara VanBibber Molencupp

    From:      [email protected] (Barbara Mills)
    To:      [email protected] (Gary Hawpe)

    Hi Gary,

    I have got to hand it to you...You are very good at this :-) This side of your family tree is a very family minded bunch. This is absolutely amazing me!!!! I have been reading your newsletters and all I keep saying is, " Oh, my goodness," I have never seen anything as wonderful in my life...I see names and places that I know. You are a wonderful Editor……Barbara Mills

    From:      [email protected] (Steve Samples)
    To:      [email protected] (Gary Hawpe)

    Gary,
    Great job on the June newsletter. One question on the battle of Point Pleasant. Were either Peter Vanbibber or his son Matthias involved? I'm trying to figure out how I inherited land from an uncle, (John) and I think the answer is, I didn't. Steve
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    Editor of the Van Bibber Pioneers Electronic Newsletter:
    Gary R. Hawpe --     [email protected]
    (Owner of the Van Bibber FTM database - 39,502 names)