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ISAAC VAN NUYS
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VANNUYS FAMILY HISTORY
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"Let the young generations yet-to-be look kindly upon this. Think how your fathers left their native land."
"The Peaks of Fame are very fair,
But chill with ice and snow — So let's not try to climb up there But linger in the valleys where The rose and lilies grow."
INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
&- -*,v N the hope that it may incite others to preserve /" ^T % further records, this little pamphlet is published \ /** ^as a very slight contribution to the history of the \«^' Van Nice or Van Nu^s family» as tne name was written by our not very remote ancestors. It is still so spelled by many branches of the family.
As we know that our earliest ancestor in America came from Holland, we suppose that he came from the village of Nuis in that country, whence the name Van Nuis or Van Nuys, Van in names meaning from. It is only a few hundred years since surnames came into use, the individ- ual in earlier times having been designated by his birth- place or occupation or by some peculiarity of appearance or character.
Theodore Banta says, "As is well known, the use of family names was not common among the early emigrants from Holland to New Netherlands. To distinguish one John from another, for example, there was added the baptismal name of his father, usually with the addition of s, se, or sen, indicating the relationship. Thus, Epke. the son of Jacob, was known as Epke Jacobs or Jacobse. Jan from the town of Wycke was called Jan Van Wycke to distinguish him from Jan from Norden who was called Jan Van Norden; or Jan the cooper was known as Jan Kuiper."
If the early settlers of New York and New Jersey had not been far more careful and conscientious than we of the present time in the preserving of records of births. baptisms, marriages, civil contracts, wills, conveyances, etc., it would have been impossible to obtain much of the data upon which most of the earlier items of this sketch are based. Their family records were kept religiously in the family bibles as well as in the church and town rec- ords.
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Ralph Voorhees, writing in 1S73. says, "In these bibles the names of the children were recorded, and as they passed away the succeeding generations registered their names beneath the first, and so the register was kept up from generation to generation. Some of these bibles may yet be found along the Raritan and Millstone in New Jersey, from 150 to 250 years old, and in a good state of preservation. They are the best genealogical records of our ancient families in existence."
I greatly regret that I am unable to carry down other branches of the family farther than they are here given, but have inserted what data was obtainable — from what ever source — as it will help in identifying others of the family wherever we may meet them.
May I express the hope that any into whose hands this may fall, if at all interested, will let me know of any er- rors they may note and will also send to me any addition- al information they may be able to give concerning the families mentioned.
Much of the credit for the records of the earlier gener- ations must be given to the work of Teunis G. Bergen and Theodore Banta, whose researches among old Colonial Records made available much of the material concerning all the early Dutch settlers. The Honeyman records were also helpful. I am greatly indebted as well to those of the present generation whose interest and co-operation have made it possible to obtain the records necessary.
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AUCKE JANSE VAX NUYS
FAMILY HISTORY
CHAPTER I
UCKE Janse Van Nuys was the common ances- <¥ f^% tor of the Van Nuys family in America, v. (£•>' ^ In 1651 he with his wife, Magdalena Pieterse. ^^F and some of his children emigrated from Hol- land to New Amsterdam (now New York.) He was a carpenter, and his name appears in numerous early records in New Amsterdam, Brooklyn, and Flatbush, from which records these items were obtained.
On May 6, 1653, he sold his house and lot in New Am- sterdam, and in 1654 he was employed as master carpen- ter in the erection of the first church on Long Island, in Flatbush, near New Amsterdam.
There are records of purchases of several tracts of land in this region. In 1673 he was appointed Schepen or mag- istrate, by Governor Colve, an office similar to that of ald- erman of the present time, and in 1674 he was one of the representatives to the "Convention of Delegates" called by the governor to meet in New Orange (Albany) after the capture of the Netherlands from the British.
His name is in the list of those who in 1687 took the oath of allegiance to Great Britain after New Nether- lands had been re-taken by the British. A fac-simile of his signature is given in Stiles' History of Kings County, New York, so we know that he was not an illiterate man.
He was three times married. His second marriage was to Lysbert Clausen and the third to Gurtruyd Jacobse.
Of his nine children five were born in America. The nine were Annetie, Gurtruyd, Janneke, Jan, Abagail. Pieter, Jacobus, Femitie and Ida. Very different name? these from those borne by the descendants of the present day.
His will was dated May 15, 169 4 and probated in 1698.
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CHAPTER II
. Second and Third Generations of descendants of Aucke Janse Van Nuys and Magdalena (Pieterse) Van Nuys. 1_2 ANNETIE, born in Holland, married in 1661, Win- ant Pieterse Van Eck, and second, Derick Janse Woertman. Children: 1_3 Pieter Winantse Van Eck, born Sept. 9, 1G63. 2_3 Ariaentje Van Eck, married Turian Vanderbevg. 3_3 Altje Van Eck, married Jan Bennett. 2_2 GERT RUYD, married 1666, Franz Joosten. Children : 1_3 Magdalen Joosten, born 1679. 3_2 JANNEKE, married 1666, Reinier Arendsz. Children: 1_3 Aucke Arendsz. 2_3 Barbara Arendsz, born 1679. 3.-3 Adrientje Arendsz, born 1682. 4_3 Gertruyd Arendsz. born August 27, 1634. 5_3 Theunis Arendsz, born March 29. 1696. 4_2 JAN, born in Holland. He came to America with his father in 1651. He also was a carpenter by trade, but he bought a farm in Flatbush in 1681. He mar- ried in 1673, Barbara Provoost; married 2d. in 1680. Eva Jacobse. Children : 1_3 Aucke Janse Van Nuys was a deacon in Flatlands church, but removed to the Raritan, in New Jersey. Children :
1_4 Barbara, born April 21, 1702. 2_4 Jantien, born April 20, 1704. 3_4 Jan, born April 3, 1706. 4_4 William, born August 4, 1708. 5_4 Aucke, bap. October 25, 1710. G..4 Ida, bap. August 25, 1715. 7_4 Abraham, bap. March 23, 1718.
All this family were members of the Raritan Dutch church. 2_3 William Van Nuys, bap. Sept. 28, 1679, in New Utrecht.
NOTE — The first figure indicates order in the family; the second indicates the number of the generation in America.
SECOND AND THIRD GENERATION
3_3 Jan Van Nuys, bap. July 17, 1681. Married Lena Duryea. A Jan Van Nuys, supposed to have been he, settled at New Brunswick, N. J., in 1722. Children :
1_4 Isaac, bap. March 9, 1708, in Brooklyn. 2_.4 Jacobus, bap. Oct. 17, 1725, in New Utrecht. 3_4 James.
All three above lived in New Jersey. 4_3 Gurtie Van Nuys, born 1682. 5_3 Barbara Van Nuys, born April 12, 1685. 6_3 Maria Van Nuys, born July 31, 1687. 7_3 Isaac Janse Van Nuys. born October, 1695. 8_3 William Van Nuys, bap. February 5, 1699. 9_3 Abraham Van Nuys, bap. February 5, 1699. (Twin of William). Children :
1_4 Abraham Van Nuys. 2_4 Maria Van Nuys. 5_2 ABAGAIL. married, Leffert Pieterse of Flatbush Long Island. She died in 1748, at a great age. She reared a large family of children who took the name of Leffert. 6.2 PIETER, bom Oct. 22, 1652. No further trace of
him. 7_2 JACOBUS. He married April 26, 1685, Maria Wil- lemse Cornel of Flatbush, Long Island. He died in 1710.
Records show that he resided in Flatbush from 1688 to 1696, but he afterward settled in New Jersey. He did not remain there, however, as his will was pro- bated in New Utrecht in 1710. The will give.- the names of his children as William of New Utrecht, Johannes or Jan, Aucke, Isaac, Magdalena, Mar- garite, Elizabeth, Maria and Jacobus of New Jersey. 8_2 Femite, baptized March 12, 1662. Married Oct. 8, 1680, Jan Stevense Van Voorhees. Children : 1.3 Aucke Janse Voorhees, born May 21, 1682. 2_3 Willemse Voorhees, born Feb. 24, 1684. 3_3 Jan Voorhees. born May 2, 1686. 4_3 Jacobus Voorhees ,born March 24, 1696, and (sup- posed) Roelof, Albert, Abraham, and Lucas. 9_2 IDA, married Auke Rynierse.
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Children :
1_3 Magdalen, born Oct. 23, 1698.
2.3 Hendrick, born Aug. 11, 1700.
Many of the foregoing names are familiar at the pres- ent time, but I have not been able to identify the bearers as descendants of these persons.
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CHAPTER III
Descendants of JACOBUS AUCKES VAN NUYS, (sev- enth son of Aucke Janse Van Nuys, the first settler) and Maria Willemse (Cornel) Van Nuys.
As far as we can learn, all the descendants of Jan, one of the two sons of Aucke Janse Van Nuys who had fam- ilies, remained in New York and New Jersey, at least for several generations, as did also many of the family of Jacobus, the other son, through whom we trace our lin- eage.
However, some of Jacobus' family, who settled on the Raritan and Millstone rivers in New Jersey, by the fourth generation were emigrating to Kentucky. So we of the present generation of Vannices (in Iowa and Nebraska) must trace our ancestry through the states of Indiana, Kentucky, New Jersey, New York, thence through Hol- land to France, from which country our forefathers fled at the time of the terrible Massacre of St. Bartholomew in 1572.
Jacobus and Maria Van Nuys had nine children (third generation in America).
1_3 WILLIAM Van Nuys, married Magdalena Joost. He died in 1771. It is said that the Van Nuyses now in Kings County, New York, are descendants of this William. Children : 1_4 William Van Nuys, married Annetje Verkerk. 2_4 Maria Van Nuys. married Ferdinand Van Sicklen. 3_4 Joost or George Van Nuys, bap., Sept. 16, 1716, married April 26, 1744, Elizabeth Emmans. Children :
1_5 Sarah Van Nuys, bap., August 19, 1750, mar- ried 1781, William Van Nuys her cousin. 2_5 Wilhelm Van Nuys, bap., March 8, 1752, died
1805. Married Nelly Hubbard. 3_5 Joost Van Nuys, married Jane Vanderbilt. 4_5 Elizabeth Van Nuys, born Feb. 2, 1762, married
Winant Bennett. 5_5 Johannes Van Nuys, born Nov. 25, 1763, died Oct. 16, 1826, married Nelly Lott.
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Children :
1_6 George, of Flatlands, born Sept. 10, 1802. Married, April 12, 1827, Margaret Ditmars.
Children:
1_7 Cornelia, married Holmes Van Brunt. 2_6 Jeromus, born Jan. 2, 1805, died Sept. 29. 1852, married Jan. 10. 1838, Ann Brinkerhoff. 3_6 Eliza, born May 11, 1807, married May 28,
1828, Adrian Bergen, of New Utrecht. 4_6 Lemma, born July 24, 1809, married Cornel- ius Suydam. 5_6 Maria, born March, 1810. 6_6 Eleanor, born Jan. 15, 1813, married 1833,
Tunis Bergen. 7_6 Magdalen, born, 1816, married Couvenhofen. 6_5 Jacobus, died single.
7_5 Helen, married 1764, Jacob Stellenwerf. 4_4 Jacobus Van Nuys of New Utrecht, married Sarah Rapelje.
2_3 JAN Van Nuys. married 1716, Adriaentje Wycoff.
Removed to New Brunswick, N« J., about 1727. Will
probated 1747.
.Children: 1_4 Jacobus Van Nuys.
2_4 Margrietje. bap. April 23. 1725, in New Utrecht. 3_4 Lena Van Nuys. 4_4 Elizabeth Van Nuys. 5_4 Ann Van Nuys. All this family lived in New Jersey.
3_3 AUCKE, married 1715, Aeltje Ammerman. Resided
in New Utrecht.
Children: 1_4 Catrina, bap., June 23, 1721. 2_4 Isaac, bap., 1732. 3_4 Elizabeth Griggs.
4_3 ISAAC, born Oct. 20, 1695, married Catrina.
This Isaac was the father of the Isaac whose entire family we have tried to locate on the family tree. He set- tled at Millstone, N. J., about 1727. We do not know the surname of his wife, but know it was Catrina from the baptismal record of their son Cornelius, which reads in the list of baptisms at Millstone:
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SARAH A. W. VAX NICE Wife of Peter C. Van IVice
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"July 13, 1735, Cornelius, son of Isak Van Nuys and wife Catrina." It is curious to note that previous to the Revolutionary War these entries were all made in Dutch.
Carpenter, in speaking of Derrick Hoagland in "The Hoagland Family", says: "Pie bought, about 1721 , lot 6 of the Hoolingen tract. His land lay to the westward of the Millstone river. Retaining the eastern part of the pur- chase, he sold 114 acres of the western part to Isaac Van Nuys." Then he goes on to say that this was the father of the Isaac whose wife's maiden name was Quick, and whose brother married Maria Hoagland. This, together with original records of agreements, and notes, receipts, etc., in possession of S. N. Van Nice, descended from his son Peter, and Charles C. Van Nuys, descended from his son Teunis, establish our line of descent from Aucke Janse Van Nuys through Jacobus, Isaac, Sr. and Isaac, Jr.
Children of Isaac Jacobus Van Nuys and Catrina Van Nuys of Millstone, N. J. :
1-4 John, born 1720, in New York. In 1741, married Martha Van Arsdalen. He died 17(33, having re- sided most of his life in Somerset County, New Jersey.
Children:
1-5 Jane Van Nuys, born March 23, 1743; married Peter Bergen of Somerset County.
2_5 Isaac Van Nuys, born 1746; married Nelly Quick.
3_5 John Van Nuys, born 1750, died 1780.
4-5 Jacobus, born 1753, died 1836; married Cath- erine Ditmas.
5_5 Cornelius, born 1755, married Marv. daughter of Isaac Van Nuys, his cousin, and in 1791 emi- grated to Kentucky with his father-in-law.
6.5 Catherine, born 1759, married Brugan Coevert of New Jersey.
7_5 Maria, born 1762, married Wm. Terhune and went to Kentucky. (See Chapter IV.) 2_4 Isaac Van Nuys, born Mar. 18, 1739. died 1804, married Vrouchie (Flora) Quick. (For further record see Chapter V).
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3_4 Jacobus Van Nuys, married Maria Hoagland, who was born in 1729, and was a daughter of Christo- pher Hoagland. They were both members of Har- lingen church in New Jersey. He died in 1805. No issue. 4_4 Cornelius Van Nuys was born July 13, 1735, and went to Kentucky when he was about sixty years of age. We have been unable to get any record of his family. 5_4 Mary Oakey Van Nuys, married Abraham Heyer and lived in New Jersey. 5_3 JACOBUS VAN NUYS, lived in New Jersey. Children : 1_4 Annetie, born March 2, 1753, died Aug. 24, 1832; married Simon Lott. 6_3 MAGDALINA. 7_3 MARGRIETA. 8_3 ELIZABETH. 9_3 MARIA.
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that child of my son Albert named Roelof, my gun and Great Bybel. To son Albertus, all that farm where I now live and the meadow mat lies in the Flatlands; and he shall pay 150 pounds to each of my five daughters, etc, etc."
Roelof Terhune died in 1761.
GERRET or Garret, 2_4, son of Roelof and Morretje (Wyckhoff) Terhune, was born at Flatlands Aug. 30, 1709. He went to New Jersey and married Alice Voor- hees, daughter of Stephen Coerte Voorhees, of New Brunswick, New Jersey, and they located in Somerset County, New Jersey, where he died Sept. 20. 1781.
(See Voorhees lineage).
1_5 STEPHEN TERHUNE. son of Garret and Alice (Voorhees) Terhune, was born in Somerset County, New Jersey, Nov. 27, 1735, and married, Sept. 5, 1755, Marg- rietje (Marget) Cornell, who was born the same day as himselt.
"Previous to the year 1755. there is nothing to help the genealogist in the construction of this Terhune record but musty wills, deeds, and long-forgotten court records. But with Stephen and Marget Cornel Terhune it is different. Faint memories of them still linger in the minds of their descendants. It has been remembered of Marget that she was a large woman of a pronounced blonde type, with a ruddy face, fine blue eyes, plenty of freckles, and a lot of bright red hair. The type still appears in pro- fusion among her descendants, even to the sixth genera- tion. Stephen and Marget lived on a farm near Harling- en, New Jersey. * * *
In this favored region they lived content. Their farm more than supplied the neecs of their growing family, and they took life easy. Of winter evenings they sat be- fore their cheerful fire of logs and read their Dutch Bible by the light of tallow candles. They spoke both the Eng- lish and Dutch tongues, but they attended the Dutch Re- formed church and brought up their children in that faith." They had a large family, and their family Bible. which is still in existence at Blawenburg, New Jersey, re- cords the following names and dates of birth of their ten children: (Terhune Notation)
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1_6 Garret, born July 25, 1756. 2_G WILLIAM, born Oct. 13, 1757. 3_6 Stephen, born Feb. 22, 1760. 4_6 Altie, born Aug. 29, 1762. 5_6 Margrietje, born Jan. 25, 1764. 6_6 Mary, born May 18, 1766. 7_6 Cornelius, born Nov. 30, 1768. S-6 Eva, born May 12, 1771. 9_6 Jeanethe, born May 5, 1773. 10_6 Roelof, born July 3, 1777.
Two of these. Garret and William, married into the Van Nuys family and so are concerned with this sketch.
Garret Terhune married Catherine Van Nuys, eldest daughter of Isaac and Flora Quick Van Nuys, (see fore- going), and William Terhune married her cousin, Maria Van Nuyse 7_5, daughter of John and Marie Van .Ars- dalen Van Nuyse. John was a brother of Isaac 1_4.
William Terhune, altho scarcely more than a bov had enlisted in the service of his country, against the wishes of his mother. And not only she, but the object of his ad- miration, the daughter of the widow Van Nuyce, a neigh- bor, watched him proudly march away, and anxiously awaited his return after an honorable record in the War of the Revolution.
The first twelve years of William and Maria Terhune's married life were spent on a farm near Harlingen, New Jersey, where five of their nine children were born. The nine were: (Van Nuys notation)
1_6 Stephen Terhune, was born, April 15, 1782, in New Jersey, and while yet a child was brought to Mercer County, Kentucky. Mercer County's beautiful hills were soon dotted with farms, and before she was a quarter of a century old her children were faring forth, ranging the wilderness afar in search of yet other beautiful building sites. And Stephen Terhune. along with others, thus be- came a pioneer again, even before emerging from his teens. However, not land, but a woman, was the lure that led his eager feet so far, in his ardent, boyish years.
Among many other Mercer County families that left their first location in Kentucky, and formed a second col- ony in the "Low Dutch Tract", in Shelby and Henry
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Counties, were the related families of the Bantas, the Vories's and the Montforts. And it was for Mary (Polly) Montfort, daughter of Francis* and Charity (Banta) Mont fort, that Stephen Terhune went to "The Low Dutch Tract", and it was she that he claimed in marriage in the year 3 802. She was born in Conewago, York County, Penn., March 3, 1776. Her father, Francis Montfort, was born at Millstone, N. J., in 1746, and Charity Banta Mont- fort, was born in Hackensack, N. J., March 3, 1749. They came to Conewago, Pa., in 1768, and to Kentucky in 1784, where he died April 22, 1825, and she died Dec. 6, 1828.
Stephen Terhune and Pollv Montfort, were the par- ents of JOHN, Stephen. William, and Patsy. Of none but the first born has a single trace been left. Stephen Ter- hune died Feb. 8, 1833, in Henry County, Kentucky.
1..7 John Terhune, son of Stephen and Polly, was born in Henry County, Kentucky, in 1803. He grew to man- hood in Henry County, where in 1823 he married Susan Garret, a daughter of William Garret, deceased. Her mother Sarah Cully Garret, after the death of her first husband, had married John Vories, by whom she became the mother of Hervey Vories, and the grandmother of Caroline Vories Terhune. Thus John Terhune married the step-daughter of his cousin. John Vories. In the year 1829, John Terhune brought his wife and three small children to the wilds of Johnson County, Indiana. He had been well endowed by nature with the strength to seize and subdue the wilderness. "Like some viking of old, with his fierce blue eyes and flaxen hair, he towered six feet four, and weighed two hundred and forty pounds. He was a typical pioneer, and excelled in those feats of strength which in his day were the measure of a man. He
*N"OTE — Francis Montfort traced his descent from Peter de Mont- fort (I) a French Hugenot refugee, living in Holland, and married to Sarah De Blanchan, in Amsterdam. Dec. 17, 1630. They came to New Amsterdam in 1631, where he was a planter, a magistrate, and a deacon in his church. He died Jan. 4. 1601 and left a son Peter Montfort (II), hern in 1652 and married to Maria de Luyster. Their eon Peter Montfort (III) was born in 1681, and emigrated to Som- erset County, New Jersey. He was the father of John Montfort (IV) of Flatlands who was born Feb. 7, 170 2, and was the father of Fran- cis Montfort (V), the emigrant to Kentucky, above mentioned and the father of Polly Montfort (VI).
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loved to sing ,and so powerful was his voice that its echoes rang far thro' the boundless woods. He never prepared his fuel a day ahead, but loved in winter, (or pretended he loved) to spring out of bed and stand bare- foot in the snow while he chopped 01T the logs of which he built his morning fire. His wife died in March, 1859, and he then went to Brownstown. Ind., where he married Mrs. Nancy Costello, Aug. 25, 1859. He died in 1S73. He and his first wife were the parents of twelve Children : 1_8 William Waller Terhune, born Nov. 19, 1824, in • Henry County, Kentucky, died Dec. 18, 1854, in Johnson County, Ind. He married Sept 22, 1846, Mary Ellen Wright, who was born Aug. 29, 1826, and who died, Nov. 28, 1857. 2_8 James Hervey Terhune, second son of John and Susan Garrett Terhune, born in Henry County, Ky., Oct. 26, 1827, died at Chancellorsville, Va.. May 3, 1863. He married. Sept. 22. 1858, in John- son County, Ind., Mary Jane Busing Holeman. who was born in Virginia, Nov. 1, 1827, and died at Morgantown, Ind., Aug. 12, 1867. They had two Children:
1_9 Alpharetta, born July 15, 1859, who was mar- ried on Mav 15, 1879, to Thomas H. Wrieht. who died March 23, 1881. She married ~2d, Dec. 1, 1900, Wm. E. Clayton, from whom she was divorced April 1, 1903. She married 3d. Jan. 25, 1908, William Davis Terhune, son of James and Eusebia (Nay) Terhune. William Davis Terhune is a brother of Thomas L. Ter- hune. 2_9 Douglas Terhune, son of Jos. Harvey and Mary Jane Terhune, was born May 12, 1861, and married Amanda Hilton, Nov. 1, 1883. 3_8 Martha Terhune, daughter of John and Susan Gar
ret, married James Burke. 4_8 Delphia Terhune, married Elijah Myers. 5_8 Lucy Terhune, married John Burwell. 6_8 Mary Terhune married James Detmore. 7_8 Sarah Terhune, married William Park. 8_8 Asa B. Terhune, third son of John and Susan Gar- ret Terhune. was born in 1838, and died in the army in 1862.
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9_8 Stephen Rowe Terhune, fourth son, was born in
1841, and died in the army in 1864 (?) ]0_8 Nathan Daly Fairchild Terhune, fifth son was born, Feb. 27, 1844, and is now living at Evans- ville, Ind. 11_8 Catherine Terhune, sixth daughter of John and Susan Garret Terhune, was born in 1847, and died in 1884. She married Riley Snowden. 12_8 John Terhune, sixth son of John and Susan Gar- ret Terhune, was born in Franklin, Ind., in 1849. He was formerly noted as a boxer. He now lives in Indianapolis. The military record of this one family of six sons in the Civil War was notable. But a few months after the war broke out James Harvey Terhune. Asa B. Terhune, and Nathan D. F. Terhune. volunteered and were muster- ed into the service as privates in Company G, 27th Regi- ment of Volunteer Infantry, at Morgantown. Ind., Sept. 12, 1861. All were brave soldiers.
James Harvey Terhune was promoted to 1st Sergeant, and gave his life for his country on the battlefield of Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863.
Asa B. Terhune contracted measles and died in a regi- mental hospital at Frederick City, Md., in December, 1862.
Nathan D. F. Terhune fought at Gettysburg, where on July 3, 1863, he lost his right leg.
Of Stephen Rowe Terhune's service as a soldier, little is known. We only know that he belonged to a battery of field artillery and lost his life in a skirmish somewhere in the state of Missouri.
2_6 John Terhune, second son of William and Maria (Van Nuyse) Terhune. was born Aug. 19, 1783, and died March 28, 1860, in Mercer County, Kentucky. He mar- ried Anna Comingore, March 1, 1806.
3_6 William Terhune, third son. born Nov. 3. 1786, died Oct. 20, 1845, at Greenwood. Ind. He married first Rachel Lowe, Nov. 27, 1806 and second, Anna Salter. April 2. 1821. She was born March 8, 1799, and died August 23, 1851.
_ 4_6 Martha Terhune born, at Harlingen, Jan 23, 1789, died August 13, 1822. in Mercer County; married Allen Haines, Oct. 19, 1811.
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5_6 GARRET TERHUNE
born November 15, 1791. (See sketch).
6_6 Isaac Terhune, born March 17. 1796, in Mercer
County, Kentucky; died March 13, 1869, at Vermillion, Illinois; married Elizabeth Shepherd, March 18, 1815.
7_6 Margaret Terhune, born July 13, 1797; died July 21, 1812.
8_6 James Terhune, born Jan. 14, 1801, died May 31, 1884, married Jan. 11, 1823, Parthenia Pancake, who was born Nov. 2, 1798, and died April 2, 1884. Both died in Brown County, Indiana.
9_6 Ruloff Terhune, born June 23. 1803, died June 13, 1872, married Aug. 26, 1824, Mary Vermillion, born Sept. 8, 1808, died July 1, 1864; married second, February 9. 1865, Margaret Brown, born March 7, 1806, died Sept. 18, 1867; married third, Lydia Comingore, May 28, 1868. All of Ruloff's family lived and died in Mercer County, Kentucky.
But to return to the parents of the foregoing:
In the early part of 1793, occurred a great migration from New Jersey to Kentucky; and William and Garret Terhune with many other families made their way thither. They went by wagon to Pittsburg, where they took flatboats and dropped down the Ohio to Limestone, (Maysville) Kentucky, whence the journey overland was made to Harrod's Station in Mercer County.
"At that time there was not a bridge nor a steamboat on the whole course of the Ohio river, but the change in a century has been inconceivably great. Three months were required to complete the journey from New Jersey to Harrod's Station. At night the caravan halted at some spring or stream of water and on the Sabbath they rested. Hunters helped to supply the company with food. When the cows were milked in the morning the milk was put into teapots, and by night the rough jolting of the wagons had produced butter ready, for use."
Soon after their arrival William Terhune bought a tract of about three hundred acres on Harrod's Run, and Garret secured about the same amount, three miles west of Harrod's Station. Here William died June 18, 1828, and his wife, Mary Van Nuys Terhune died Aug. 4, 1848.
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5_6 GARRET TERHUNE fifth child of William and Mary (Van Nuys) Terhune, was born at Harlingen, New Jersey, Nov. 15, 1791, and was brought by his parents to Kentucky when only eigh- teen months old. He married Nancy Davis, only daughter of Edward and Sarah Davis, Aug. 15, 1813. She was born in Tennessee, April 9, 1794, and died in Trafalgar, Johnson County, Indiana, Feb. 14, 1851. They had 12
Children: 1_7 Sarah, born Aug. 10, 1814, died April 21, 1896, mar- ried, Oct. 25, 1833, Fielding Utterbach, who was born Nov. 23, 1809, and died July 31, 1881. Both died in Mills County, Iowa. 2_7 Mary Ann Terhune, born Aug. 25, 1815, died Aug. 5, 1842, married Henry Utterbach, May 13, 1832. He was born Sept. 11, 1805, and died in Johnson County, Indiana, Nov. 21, 1886. 3_7 Harvey Terhune. born March 22, 1817, married Oct. 31, 1839. Susan Wilson. They went to Missouri, but no further trace of them. 4_7 William Terhune, born March 22, 1819, died Feb. 3. 1880, married Deborah Zook, who was born Mar. 1, 1822, and died April 10, 1895. 5_7 JAMES TERHUNE, (See sketch). 6_7 Martha Terhune, born July 3, 1822, married Sept. 26, 1839, William Robert Hunt, who was born Dec. 14, 1818, and died Aug. 20, 1886, at Trafalgar, Indiana. Martha Hunt died Jan. 9, 1908. 7_7 Margaret Terhune, born Aug. 7, 1824, married Mar. 16, 1843, Henderson Ragsdale, who was born Nov. 9, 1823, and who died March 29. 1913, at Trafalgar, Margaret Ragsdale died Aug. 17, 1911. 8_7 Lucinda Terhune, born March 8, 1826. died Feb. 22, 1901, married December 26, 1844, Harry Ragsdale, born May 13, 1825, died Aug. 9, 1904. 9-7 Ida Riker Terhune, born Oct. 5, 1829. died Feb. 9. 1894, married July 13. 1848, James A. Nay, born March 3, 1828, died March 4, 1902, in Boone Coun- ty, Indiana. 10_7 Davis Terhune, born in Mercer County, Kv., Sept. 23, 1831, died Oct. 5, 1877, married first, on Jan. 27. 1854, Cynthia I. Riker of Boyle Countv, who died Oct. 2, 1854, at Trafalgar, Indiana.
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He married second, on Oct. 19, 1S58, Mary Jane Terhune, daughter of William and Judith Ann Bates Terhune, in Johnson County, Kentucky. She was born Sept. 16, 1833, in Boyle County, Kentucky. After her husband's death, she married again on Sept. 2, 1890, John Brown. She died March 8, 1908.
11_7 Minerva Jane Terhune, born January 10, 1834, died June 30, 1906, married on December 27, 1854, Joel H. Hoback, who was born July
25, 1835. He was Captain of Co. H, 57th Regiment of Indiana Volunteer Infantry.
12_7 Obadiah Terhune, born April 10. 1836, died July
26, 1837.
The three youngest of these children were born in Johnson County, Indiana, whither Garrett and Nancy (Davis) Terhune had gone, with his brother James in the fall of 1830. Here in the wilds of a new country they en- dured all the hardships incident to frontier life. The two families lived in open camps until a double cabin of logs could be built.
"The next spring the first and second plantings of corn failed", writes a son, " and the third, which came, was ruined by the frost. There was no grain for the stock, and many cattle died. The horses were so poor that they could not be worked at the plow more than two hours at a time, and time had to be allowed for the grazing, which was their only means of subsistence." But this condition of affairs was not peculiar to the time nor the place ; most of the pioneers of Indiana, Illinois and Iowa, experienced at times the same adverse conditions. After the death of his wife, Garret Terhune on Aug. 3, 1851, married Mrs. Jane Forsythe, who died Feb. 2, 1856 and he married again, Sept. 4. 1857, Mrs. Nancy Pickerel. He died Jan. 24, 1875. He was a member of the Christian Protestant Church and in politics was a Democrat.
5_7 JAMES TERHUNE, fifth child of Garrett and Nancy (Davis) Terhune, was born in Mercer County Ken- tucky, Feb. 3, 1821, and at the age of nine was brought to the wilderness of Johnson County, Indiana. On March 17, 1842, he married Eusebia Neville Nay, who was the daughter of Asa B. and Lucinda (Whitesides) Nay, and was born in Oldham County, Kentucky, Oct. 11, 1825. Asa B. Nay was a son of Samuel and Nancy Nay of Cul-
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pepper County, Virginia. Samuel Nay was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. After his marriage, James Terhune
thought a farm west of Trafalgar on which they resided until 1882, when they moved to Franklin. Altho' he had had meager schooling, and that in a log school house with greased paper windows and heated by a huge fireplace, this education stood him in good stead, and he became an energetic and progressive farmer, and a public-spirited citizen of the highest character. He and his wife were faithful members of the Primitive Baptist Church. He died Jan. 21, 1892, and she on Dec. 19th, following. They had seven
Children : 1_8 THOMAS LINVAL TERHUNE, born April 17,
1844. (See sketch). 2_8 Asa Garret Terhune, born Sept. 20, 1846, died March 17. 1898, married May 21, 1869, Nancy Williams, born July 11, 1851. 3_8 William Davis Terhune. born Aug. 11, 1849, mar- ried first. Sept. 16, 1873, Sarah Forsvth, born Dec. 22, 1851, died Sept. 24, 1902. He married second, on Jan 25, 1908, Mrs. Alpha T. Clayton, born July 15, 1859. Mr. Terhune is a man of promi- nence in his community and represented his Coun- ty in the State Legislature in 1893. 4_8 Lucinda Margaret Terhune, born Nov. 18, 1852, married Oct. 23, 1872, Samuel Nelson Schuck, who was born Dec. 22, 1849, and died Feb. 22, 1896. 5_8 John Walter Terhune, born May 5, 1856, died Oct.
18, 1879. 6_8 Erminie Addie Terhune, born Jan. 5, 1861, mar- ried James R. Shank. 7_8 Dillard Webster Terhune, born Jan. 7, 1864, died
November 7, 1865. 1-8 THOMAS LINVAL TERHUNE, eldest son of James and Eusebia (Nay) Terhune, was born April 17. 1844, in Johnson County, Ind., and after passing through the country schools he went to the Edinburg High School, and Franklin Academy to fit himself for the work of teaching, which he followed in that county with great success for over thirty years, an unusual record for those times.
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He married, Dec. 7, 1S65, Caroline Vories, born in Johnson County, Indiana, Aug. 30, 1844. She was a daughter of Hervey and Alzannah (Carter) Vories. Hervey Vories was a son of John and Sarah Vories and was born in Henry County, Kentucky, Jan. 28, 1821. He died Jan. 11, 1903. She had preceded him Jan. 17, 1898,
John and Hervey Vories were descendants of Steven Coerte Voorhees, the common ancestor of the Voorhees and Van Voorhees families in America, and who came to New Amsterdam in 16G0 in the ship Bontekoe. (See Voorhees lineage).
Hervey and Alzannah (Carter) Vories were the par- ents of eight children: Uohn Rufus, 2 CAROLINE, 3 William Allen, 4 Emmeline, 5 James Montgomery, 6 Angeline, 7 Catherine and 8 Hervey Daniel.
After the death of his wife, July 29, 1896, Thomas Linval Terhune went to Whiteland to reside, and he died there Feb. 14, 1903. They were the parents of two Children :
1_9 Rufus Webster Terhune. 2_9 Violet Vories Terhune, born July 9, 1869.
Rufus Webster Terhune, M. D., is a successful practi- tioner of Whiteland .Indiana. He was born near Samaria, in Johnson County, Indiana, Oct. 21, 1866. After gradu- ating from High School he taught for a time before en- tering the Kentucky School of Medicine, at Louisville, where he received his M. D. degree in 1891, and entered at once upon the practice of his profession at Whiteland,. Indiana, where he still resides.
Dr. Terhune is a member of the County and State Med- ical Associations, and of the American Medical Associa- tion.
He is the author of "Historical Sketches of Medicine and Medical Men in the Early Days of Johnson County," and some other historical writings. He is an enthusiast in genealogical research, the results of which he has embodied under the title of "Albert Albertse Ter Huen and his Descendants," from which the foregoing sketch was compiled, and for which we are greatly in- debted to him. In religious faith Dr. Terhune is affiliat- ed with the Presbyterians. Politically he is a Democrat, and he is a member of the fraternal orders, Modern Wood man of America and the Knights of Pythias. He has been
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twice married; first to Mrs. Lena Enfield Doran, of Louis- ville, Kentucky on June 21. 1892. She was a daughter of Bryant R. and Catilena (Creal) Nail of Larue County, Kentucky. After her death, Oct. 15, 1898, Dr. Terhune, on Aug. 11, 1909, married Evabel Robinson of Minneapo, lis, only daughter of Henry and Cynthia Ellen (Burr) Robinson. She was born June 6. 1878, at Lemond, Minne- sota. She is a graduate of the University of Minnesota, where she specialized in the languages. This training and some years of travel have eminently fitted her for the varied activities to which recent years have introduced her. She is a member of the Alexander Hamilton Chau- ter D. A. R.
Her paternal grandfather, William Robinson, was born near New Romney, Kent, England, and he came to Ontario, previous to 1838, when he married Ann Mat- thews. In the maternal line Evabel Terhune is descended from a long line of New England ancestry, traced to Benjamin Burr, who came from England, in the Winthrop Company, who landed at Salem, Massachusetts, June 22, 1630.
Dr. Terhune and wife are the parents of three Children :
1_10 Helen Irene, born Sept. 7, 1910. 2_10 Webster Lucian, born Jan. 7, 1912. 3_10 Stanley Robinson, born Sept. 11, 1915.
VORIES LINEAGE
Caroline Vories Terhune, mother of Dr. R. W. Terhune, was descended in the paternal line from (II) STEVEN COERTE or STEVEN KOERS. the common ancestor of the Voorhees and Van Voorhees families of America, who with his wife and daughter Merghein, emigrated in April 1660. in the ship Bontekoe (Spotted Cow).
In the old world Steven Coerte had no family name, but when he began life anew in the great new world, he adopted as his surname the name of the village or com- munity in Holland from which he came. This happened to be a small neighborhood of nine houses and fifty people near Ruinen, Drenthe, Holland, known locally as "Hees" or "Hies".
The father of Steven Coerte was (I) COERTE ALBERTS, who lived in front of "Hees" or before " Hees". The word "voor" signifies "before" so the two words were
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combined into the name "Voorhees". The prefix "Van" meaning "from", was often used and these three words, "Van Voor Hees", from before Hees, thus combined formed the full family name of the descendants of Stev- en Coerte in America.
Steven Coerte was born in 1600. On November 29th. 1660, he bought a farm of 31 morgens of land at Flat- lands of Cornelius Dirckson Hoogland, for which he gave 3000 guilders. His first wife died, and he married sec- ond, in Flatlands, Willempie Roelofse Seuberg, who was born in 1619, and died in 1690. Steven Coerte died at Flatlands, February 16. 1684. Kis first wife, whom he married in Holland, and whose name has not been pre- served, was the mother of his children.
His son (III) LUCAS STEVENSE (VAN VOORHEES), was born in Holland, in 1650; came to America with the family in 1660. and lived at Flatlands. He married first, Katherine Van Noorstrandt; second, Jan, 26th, 1689, Jannetje Mennis.
His son (IV) JAN LUCAS (VAN VOORHEES), of Flatlands was baptized Feb. 19, 1675, and married Ren- sie Wyckhoff, March 5th, 1704.
His son (V) ROELOF (VAN VOORHEES, shortened to Voorhees) was born August 9th, 1707. He married De- borah Cortelvou, and lived at Flatlands until his death in 1782.
His son (VI) PETER (PETRUS) VOORHEES, was born in 1730, and married Sophia de Bogart. Other data are lacking, but they left the old home at Flatlands, and lived in New Brunswick, New Jersey, where presumably the following children were born:
1 Jacobus (James), March 17, 1751.
2 Margaretta, April 1, 1753.
3 Neetje, June 26, 1756.
4 John, 5, Jannetje, 6 Christina.
7 (VII) FRANCIS, March 17, 1766.
The family removed to Conewago, York County, Penn- svlvania, in 1768, where two more children were born, Helena, June 3rd, 1770 and Shram, Oct. 11, 1772.
PETER VORIES, died in Conewago, and in 1784. the widow Sophia and children, in company with the related family of John Banta, started on the long journey to Kentucky. John Banta died of smallpox while they
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were on the way, and later, when the land of promise was well nigh within their reach, and they were camping for the night, a terrific wind storm arose and Mrs. Banta was killed by a falling tree. When the remainder of the little band reached Harrod's Station they found most of the best land in the county already taken and they ultimately settled in Shelby County, Kentucky.
Her son (VII) FRANCIS VORIES, was united in mar- riage with Catherine Montfort, February 1st, 1788, in Mercer County, Kentucky.
Catherine Montfort, was born at Conewago, York Co., Perm., Sept. 22. 1772, and died Jan. 3, 1857. She had descended from Peter Montfort, who came from Holland to New Amsterdam in 1631, and who died Jan. 4, 1661.
After the marriage of (VII) FRANCIS VORIES and Catherine Montfort, they lived for two years near Dan- ville, Kentucky. They then moved to Shelby County, Ken- tucky, where they lived on the farm of a relative for ten years. This farm had been bought of Squire Boone, a brother of Daniel Boone. May 19, 1800. Francis Vories bought 200 acres of land of the commissioners of Patrick Shields, on the waters of Mill Creek, in Henry County, Kentucky. Here (VII) FRANCIS VORIES lived and here he died Feb. 22, 1843. They were the parents of twelve children.
1 Sophia, born Feb. 3, 1789, in Perkins.
2 Peter H. Vories, born May 22, 1791, died Oct. 26, 1825. Married Mary N. Vories, July 8, 1813. She was born May 28, 1796 and died Oct. 17, 1885.
3 Charity, born June 22, 1793, married William Craw- ford.
4 Francis, born May 3, 1795, died April 24, 1882.
5 (VIII) JOHN, born May 3, 1797. died Oct. 14, 1880. Married Sarah Cully Garrett, 1819. She was born Feb. 3, 1782, died Dec. 19, 1866.
6 James, born June 22, 1799, died August 21, 1881, married Elizabeth Pyles.
7 Mary (Polly) born, April 3, 1801, married Elder T. L. Townsencl.
8 Margaret (Peggy), born March 11, 1803, married Primrose Yarbrough.
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9 Katherine, born Aug. 17, 1805, died 1891, married James Haydon.
10 Eliza, born May 7, 1808, died 1848, married J. W. Thomas.
11 Henry M., born May 25, 1810, died 1876.
12 Preston, bom Feb. 24, 1813.
Nov/ (VIII) JOHN VORIES, of the above named family, after his marriage to Mrs. Sarah Cully Garrett, was the father of 1. Hervey Vories, and 2 Catherine Vories.
(IX) HERVEY VORIES, only son of John and Sarah Cully Garrett Vories, was born near Campbells- burg, Henry County, Kentucky, Jan. 28th, 1821. He was brought to Johnson County, Ind., in the autumn of 1830. He was married February 17, 1842, to Alazannah Carter. She was a daughter of John and Margaret (McClure) Carter and was born near Christiansburg, Montgomery County, Virginia, April 1st, 1815, and came to Johnson County, Indiana, with an uncle, John Dusing and family, in the year 1838.
After a long life of usefulness and devotion to her fam- ily, Mrs. Vories passed away Jan 17, 1898, and Mr. Vories followed her to their long home, Jan. 11, 1903.
AN OLD LETTER SI
CHAPTER V
ISAAC VAN NUYS
ISAAC VAN NUYS(2_4)son of Isaac (4_3)son of Jaco- bus (7-2) son of Aucke Jans, was born Mar. 18, 1739, and died in 1804. He married Vrouchie or Flora Quick, prob- ably a daughter of Teunis Quick, one of the early Dutch families on the Raritan. They were members of the Dutch Reformed Church in Millstone, New Jersey, and of the same Church in Kentucky, to which state they emigrated in 1791, as the following letter, of which he was one of the signers, will show.
As it may be of interest to his many descendants, I give it. They had been in Kentucky only about four years, and were anxious about a church organization.
They had settled near where Harrodsburg now is, in Mercer County.
TO THE CLASSIS OF NEW BRUNSWICK.
Believers in the Lord, Grace, Peace and Mercy.
Having at this time made a call for a minister of our Low Dutch Reformed Church, by the consent of our Low Dutch Society at Salt River, Mercer County, in the state of Kentucky, we hope it may have its desired effect. There fore we do in the name of our Lord desire of you. our Rev- erend Classis, to aid and assist us with all possible speed.
It is further the sincere wish and prayer of us that in case you could not send us a minister agreeable to our wish — that is one that can preach in both English and Dutch, that we then have a speedy supply, either in the Dutch or English language, to establish a consistory, to preach, to baptize, etc.. as there are at present upwards of forty children to be baptized. And further, as we are like to be a scatterede people, we hope a speedy remedy may take place, as our desires are great, our case is distressing, our church affairs and religion in many re- spects lamentable.
Though we have through the blessing of God so far united, and as it is the desire of our society to send us a minister who can preach both languages, we hope we shall be blessed with such a man, and if not to be expect- ed in a short time, then we pray for a supply as above mentioned, and we, the subscribers, shall reward him well
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for his cost and trouble ; and once more we crave a speedy remedy, as we have reason to fear that we will soon be scattered — which we hope God will forbid.
We shall add no more, as we hope that God will grant us His blessing, that our Rev. Classis may aid and assist us as soon as possible, that our society may be estab- lished and religion flourish in this and all other places, is the sincere wish and prayer of us, the subscribers, chosen as the voice of the people.
Given from under our hands this 13th of August, in the year of our Lord, 1795.
Hendrick Banta.
John Smock.
Albert Banta.
Samuel Durie.
Garret Dorland.
Isaac Van Nuys.
Cornelius A. Van Arsdalen.
Abraham Brewer.
In November another letter was sent to Rev. John Liv- ingston, stating their condition more fully, and setting forth that members of another denomination had been treated with more consideration of their needs by their church authorities, and that the members of the Dutch Reformed church, whose numbers were greatly superior, were becoming a reproach on account of their staunch ad- herence to a church that paid no heed to their importun- ities for a pastor at "The Head of Salt River, in Mercer County, Kentucky."
This letter was signed among others by both the father, Isaac Van Nuys, and father-in-law, Lawrence De Mott, of Peter Van Nuys, Sr. our ancestor who afterward re- moved to Hendricks County, Indiana, about 1830.
Collins History of Kentucky tells us that the Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church in 1796 sent a missionary, Rev. Peter Labagh, to the Salt River country. He made the trip on horseback from New Jersey to Harrodsburg, about seven hundred miles, and returned in the same way after spending several months in Kentucky. While there he organized the Dutch settlers into a church and in 1800 they were able to build a church, the historic "Old Mud Meeting House." A literal copy of the title deed to the land on which it was built is given in the history of this
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"meeting-house" read by A. H. Scomp, L. L. D. (a de- scendant of one branch of the Van Nuys family) on the occasion of the Centennial Celebration of its erection. A curious sounding document,
THE TITLE DEED begins: "This Indenture, made this 22 day of December, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred, between Dav- id Adams and Elizabeth, his wife, of the County of Merc- er and the Commonwealth of Kentucky, of the one pari, and John Van Bryck, Isaac Vannice and Peter Canine, agents and overseers (and their successors) of the Re- formed Church on the Dry Fork of Salt River in Mercer county of the other part; Witnesseth, that the said David Adams and Elizabeth, his wife, for and in consideration of the sum of four pounds, ten shillings. Virginia curren- cy, in hand, well and truly paid by the said John Van Bryck, Isaac Vannice, and Peter Canine, the receipt whereof he, the said David Adams doth hereby acknowl- edge (and also doth hereby acquit, discharge and exon- erate the said John Van Bryck, Isaac Vannice and Peter Canine and their successors of the said Reformed Church forever) hath granted, bargained, sold, aliened, and con- firmed, and by these presents doth bargain, sell, alien, and confirm to the said John Van Bryck, Isaac Vannice and Peter Canine as agents and overseers, and their suc- cessors of said Reformed Church forever all that Messu- age survey and parcel of land situate, lying and being in the county of Mercer, snd Commonwealth of Ken^uckv on the Dry Fork of Salt River, beginning at two elms on the brink of the Dry Fork thence down the same North 29 degrees West Twenty poles to two Water Beeches, two Buckeyes and a Hickory on the bank of said FoHv, thence bouth and West Twenty five poles to a stake between an Ash and Hackberry, thence South and East Twenty poles to another stake between an Elm and Hackbevrv, 'thence 1 1 oegrees East Twenty four poles to the beginning. Con- taining three acres of land together with appurtenances, to have and to hold all and singular the premises etc etc., etc.
This was one of the earliest churches built in Kentucky. it was called the "mud" house as its walls were of sturdy uprights interlaced with sticks and mortar. Thus we see that our progenitors have been a race of pioneers; Aucke
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Janse Van Nuys, as we have seen, having been master car- penter in the erection of the first church on Long Island. Isaac Van Nuys of the third generation having helped in establishing the Dutch Reformed Church in Millstone. New Jersey, and now Isaac of the fourth generation this Church in Kentucky.
Then Peter C. Vannice of the sixth helped found one in Indiana and some of his children, Samuel and Joanna one of the earliest in Lucas County, Iowa.
But to return to the "Old Mud Meeting house" there is now ni possession of S. N. Vannice at Russell, la., one of the subscription papers used in soliciting the wherewithal (we cannot say funds) with which to launch this church enterprise.
I give it, that we of later generations, who know no measure of value except "the almighty dollar" may real- ize the scarcity of money in those pioneer times, the hard- ships resulting, and the resourcefulness of our fathers in the face of such disadvantages. Doubtless they erected the building with their own hands, the subscriptions be- ing made to pay for material.
CHURCH SUBSCRIPTION 1800 We, the subscribers, promise to pay to the managers of the New Dutch Meeting-house on the Dry Fork of Salt River the following sumse in trade viz. such as schall be put apposite our respective names, on or before December 31, One thousand and 8 hundred, the said trade to be de- livered at Peter Canines on Salt River. Persons' Names:
John Smock, one second rate cow. Isaac Van Arsdale, one second-rate cow. Bernardus Van Bryck. one second-rate cow. John Conninger, same and one ewe and lam. Henry Banta, one 3 year old heifer and 10 bushels of rye. Peter Carnine, 3 pounds sterling in trade. Cornelius Van Nuys, 24 pounds in trade. John De Motte, 15 pounds in trade. Henry Vandiveer, 1 two year old heifer. Peter De Motte, a fat steer. Lawrence De Mott. 1 fat steer. Peter Van Nuys, 1 heifer. Abraham Van Arsdale, 20 pounds in trade.
1593338
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Simon Van Arsdale, IS pounds in trade.
etc., etc.
These thing's give us glimpses of life (entirely unfamil- iar to us) on the frontier in the early days when there were few roads, no markets, no railroads, nor telegraph or telephone lines and few newspapers or periodicals — fewer books. But it was a life in which the graces of hos- pitality and neighborliness came into full bloom, and the virtues of industry and initiative and self-reliance were continually fostered and reached fruition.
According to Collins, Harrodsburg is the oldest town in Kentucky, and in 1800 it had only 124 people; so this church, altho' one of the oldest in the state, was not on the very farthest frontier of Kentucky.
Isaac Van Nuys of the fourth generation died in Mercer County, Kentucky, in IS 04. Several sale notes, yellowed and worn by age, but still legible, are held by his descend- ants, and are of date Oct. 4, 1804. The administrators of his estate were Isaac Van Nuys, Peter Van Nuys (sons) and Cornelius Van Arsdale. The administration was not completed and settlement made until Sept. 17, 180G.
Flora Quick Van Nuys survived her husband many years, dying in Mercer County, about April 1, 1829, as proved by the following receipt held by Charles C. Van Nuys of Franklin and Winona Lake, Indiana, grandson of Teunis.
"Received of Teunis Van Nuys eight dollars for mak- ing a coffin for Mrs. Van Nuvs, this 14th day of April, 1*29. N. G. Fitzgerald."
As the holder remarks, "This amount would scarcely pay for the nails in a casket now days," and it illustrates the increase in values that accompanies a more complex society.
Samuel Noel Van Nice has the original of an agreement signed by the heirs of Isaac Van Nuys, who lived in Merc- er County, providing for the comfortable support of their widowed mother, but they were remunerated therefor, as shown by receipts for board, signed for different years by these heirs. Charles C. Van Nuys has another agree- ment, dated Mav 15. 1*29, which begins,
"ARTICLE of AGREEMENT entered into this day be- tween the heirs of Isaac Van Nuys, deceased. According to appointment they met at the house of Teunis Van Nuys
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in Shelby County, Kentucky, towit: Peter Van Nuys. John Van Nuys, James Van Nuys, Henry Van der Veer, married to Lana Van Nuys, Richard Carnine, married to Charity Van Nuys, William Terhune, son of Caty Ter- hune, daughter of Isaac Van Nuys, deceased, Henry Van- derveer and William Terhune acting; for Abraham Van Nuys, Peter Van Nuys acting- for Polly Van Nuys, daugh- ter of Isaac Van Nuys. deceased, Teunis Van Nuys and James Van Nuys acting for Isaac Van Nuys, all heirs of the said Isaac Van Nuys, deceased. The undersigned heirs have this day met in order to settle the estate of their mother Flora Van Nuys, deceased." * * * Terms of settlement follow, merely agreement to divide the estate equally. Signed by
Peter Van Nice, Henry Van der Veer. James Van Nuys. William Terhune. Tunis Van Nuys, John Van Nice, Rich- ard Canine, Abraham Van Nice, Isaac Van Nice.
15th day of May, 1S29.
This last signature is of a later date.
From these agreements we learn that Isaac Van Nuys and Flora Quick had ten children who married and left descendants: Catherine, who married Garret Terhune, Mary, who married her cousin, Cornelius Van Nuys, Is- aac, Peter. Magdalen, who married Henry Van der Veer. John. Teunis, James. Abraham, and Charity, who mar- ried Richard Canine. None of the Van der Veer line have been located, but most of the descendants of the other nine appear in the following records, which have been grouped according to families instead of by generations.
For Revolutionary War records, see Terhune. Canine, Demaree, and other ancestors in different families.
Inquiry has been made by several correspondents about the Van Nuys ancestors in the Revolution. There are names of several Van Nuyses, Quicks. De Mottes, Demarees and others in the army of rosters of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and one Jacobus Van Nuys from New Jersey, but as the only Jacobus in our direct line was of an earlier generation, and no other name in our line occurs, we probably had no Van Nuys ancestor.-- in thai war. But there may have been De Motts or Quicks, as we do not know certainly, the names of the parents of our maternal ancestors of those names earlier than Lawrence
JOHN I'OGUE WILLIAMSON I>. I).
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De Molt.. There was a Samuel Demaree in the army from York County, Pennsylvania ; and almost all the Crmines mentioned herein are descendants of the Peter Canine who was a sergeant in the Revolutionary Army — all not descended from Andrew.
Millstone was in the British1 line of march, and consid- erable damage seems to have been done by the British troops to live stock, fences, and buildings, on their way back to New York.
In a list of claims for damages, Isaac Van Nuys was awarded 40£ sterling, and Abraham Quick, son of Teunis Quick, was awarded 383£.
Howe's army was on the south side of the Raritan at Middlebush and Millstone, and Washington's was on the north side along the hills there, and the British attempted to destroy all property between Middlebush and New Brunswick.
"On Oct. 28, 1911, a Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution unveiled a tablet and marker at Millstone on land owned by Jacob Van Doren, a great- grandson of John Van Doren. The marker is of concrete about three feet high, bearing this inscription: By this Route Washington with his army Retired after his Victory at Princeton January, 1777. erected by Camp Middlebrook Chapter D. A. R.
VAN NUYS FAMILY INCIDENT The following Van Nuys family incident taken from one of the Somerset County, New Jersey, His- torical Quarterlies, may be of interest to some branches of the family.
"Four or five brothers of the Van Nuys family came to New Jersey about 1727. One settled at New Brunswick, where his descendants now are. An Isaac came to Hills- borough (Millstone) where Abram Vcris now lives, and Jacobus lived where Joseph Davis now lives. A party of
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British came to his house one night, called him out and shot him. The British officer then in command at Mill- stone, on complaint being made, caused the bodv to be taken to Millstone, and marched his men around it, com- pelling each one to touch it, under the superstition that when the murderer touched the body the blood would gush out. It is needless to say that the perpetrator was not discovered .
CATHERINE VAN NUYS TERHUNE
CHAPTER VI
CATHERINE VAN NUYS TERHUNE Catherine 5, Isaac 4, Isaac 3, Jacobus 2, Aucke 1.
(See Terhune genealogy.) 1—5 CATHERINE VAN NUYS, daughter of Isaac and Flora Quick Van Nuys, was born about 1761 at Millstone. New Jersey, and married there Sept. 3, 1778, Garret Ter- hune, born July 25, 1756, oldest son of Stephen and Mar- get (Cornell) Terhune. They lived near Harlingen, New Jersey until 1793, the year after Kentucky was admitted into the Union, when they, with a large company of others from New Jersey, emigrated to Harrod's Station, near Salt River, Mercer County, Kentucky. Here he bought about three hundred acres of land, which they developed into a comfortable home, and here they spent the re- mainder of their lives. "He probably went to the relief of his invaded and ravaged country, as did his brother William, but we have no positive proof of the fact, al- tho a musket and bayonet of Revolutionary pattern was left to his descendants.'*
He was drowned in Salt River Feb. 8, 1821. The sale oi his property was held Feb. 26, 1821. He was a slave holder in those early days, as shown by the following record in the settlement of the estate, which has been preserved, and which begins:
An inventory of the appraisement of the personal property and the slaves of Garret Terhune, deceased, late of Mercer County, Kentucky:
Articles:
Negro Tom $575.00
Negro Jeff 450.00
Negro Pollv 325.00
Negro George 200.00
One bald sorrel horse 50.00
One brown horse 77.00
One bav mare 60.00
Scythe and Cradle 2.00
etc., etc.,
All reaching a total of $2755.00
It is interesting to note that his daughters' names do not
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appear in the list of legatees, but the names of their hus- bands instead, as Peter DeMotte, legatee, Henry Coming- ore, legatee.
Catherine Van Nuys Terhune lived until 18
>J:>.
'In the old Peter Terhune Family burying ground three miles west of Harrodsburg, Kentucky, there is a rough sandstone slab, weather-beaten and moss-grown on which may be deciphered the roughly carved letters, G. T. ; and this is all that remains to mark the last resting place of Garret Terhune, Revolutionary soldier and pioneer of Mercer County, Kentucky." — R. W. T. They had ten or eleven children. Children:
1_6 STEPHEN TERHUNE Eldest child of Garret and Catherine (Van Nuys) Terhune, was born May 28, 1779, and was bap- tized at Harlingen, New Jersey, July 2, 1779. He went with his parents to Mercer Co., Kentucky in 1793. where he married Elizabeth Green. She was born Aug. 20, 1780 and died Sept. 13, 1857. She was a woman o: fine proportions, and she had an abundance of glossy black hair, which never turned gray. At the time of her death, her hair was as richly black as it had been in her prime. They lived on a farm near Harrodsburg, where he died Sept. 7, 1856. His grave is in the old Stephen Terhune family burying-ground near Harrodsburg. They had
Children : 1_7 Garret. S. Terhune, born Jan. 12, 1S03. On Feb. 19, 1822, he married Rachel Cozatt, born Oct. 10, 1805. He died September 29, 1862. His wife died June 7, 1886. Children: 1_8 Mary Jane Terhune. born Aug. 26, 1823. 2_8 Margaret C. Terhune, born May 11, 1825, married
I. W. Tucker, March 4, 1845. 3_8 Stephen S. Terhune, born July 25, 1827, married on Jan. 6, 1867, Anne Jane Terhune, (Jinkie). born March 29, 1843, daughter of John D. Ter- hune. Stephen Terhune died April 11, 1896. Jin- kie Terhune died, 1900.
NOTE] — The first figure indicates order in the family; the second indicates the number of the generation in America.
DESCENDANTS GARRET AND CATHERINE TERHUNE 4'
Children : 1_9 Harry C. Terhune, born Nov. 16, 1867. married Hattie, daughter of Isaac Terhune. She was born June 16, 1874. Children : 1_10 Frank Terhune. born Aug. 12, 1893. 2_10 Ina Terhune, born April 12. 1895. 3_10 May Terhune, born Aug. 5, 1899. 4_10 Harry Terhune, born Nov. 24, 1902. 5_10 Nancy Terhune, born March 10, 1906. 2_9 Edgar Terhune, born Jan. 26, 1870, married Eva
Moss. 3_9 Iva Terhune, born Sept, 17, 1873. 4_9 John Terhune, born August 24, 1876, married
Lizzie Westfield, Feb. 23. 1897. 5_9 Myra Terhune, born Jan. 30, 1879. 6_9 Grant Terhune. born June 13, 1880. 4_8 William H. Terhune, born Nov. 25, 1829, married
Nov. 23, 1854, Eliza Jane Finnell. 5_8 David C. Terhune, born July 1, 1833. married El- len Springer Nov. 23, 1854. He died Nov. 24, 1900. Children : 1_9 Hugh D. Terhune, born — , married — Children: 1_10 Virginia Terhune. 2_10 Beulah Terhune. 2_9 Ida Terhune, born — , married — ■ 3_9 Lily Terhune, born — , married — 4_9 Walter C. Terhune 5_9 Guy Terhune, born — , married — 6_8 Elizabeth Terhune born March 5, 1836, married
W. H. Tumey, Dec. 21, 1852. 7_8 Anna Jane Terhune, born Dec. 6, 1837. married Jerry Tumey in May 1858. She died March 13, 1904. There were evidently two Jerry Tumeys 8_8 Isaac W. Terhune, bom Dec. 22. 1838, married Sarah C. Van Fleet, Sept. 18, 1862. Children: 1_9 Bowman Terhune. 2_9 Charles Terhune
3_9 Hattie Terhune, born June 16, 1874. married Harry C. Terhune, son of Stephen S. Terhune.
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Children: 1_10 Frank Terhune, born Aug. 12, 1893. 2_10 Ina Terhune, born April 12, 1895. 3_10 May Terhune, born Aug. 5, 1899. 4_10 Harry Terhune, born Nov. 24, 1902. 4_9 Clara Terhune, married Van Fleet. 5_9 Lee Terhune, born — , married Jessie Woolwich. 9_8 Garret Terhune. born Jan. 4, 1843, married Ann E. Terhune in 1864. He died Feb. 12, 1897. Children: 1_9 Laura Terhune 2_9 Price Terhune 3_9 Mildred Terhune 4_9 Margaret Terhune 5_9 Owen Terhune 6_9 Abraham Terhune 7_9 William Terhune 8_9 Lucy Terhune. !_7 WILLIAM G. TERHUNE, second son of Stephen and Elizabeth Terhune, and grandson of Garret and Catherine (Van Nuys) Terhune, was born in Mercer County, Kentucky, June 6, 1804. On Nov. 16, 1823, he married Charlotte Tumey, who was born Oct. 4, 1805. They went to Franklin, Indiana, in 1851, where he died, Dec. 15, 1859. She died Jan. 2, 1883. They had Children : 1_8 Ralph Terhune. born in Mercer County, Kentucky, Sept. 5, 1824, married Sarah Ann Gregor, Feb. 2, 1855. Children: 1_9 Laura Terhune, born — , married — Grider. 2_9 George B. Terhune, born Oct. 6, 1861 ,at Frank- lin, Indiana, married Laura Watson, Aug. 28, 1889. 2_8 William Alva Terhune, born Nov. 10, 1826, mar- ried Feb. 22, 1848 Alice Tumey, born Sept. 20, 1824. She died Aug. 22, 1880. He married 2d, Mrs. Mary J. Terhune, widow of William Marcus Terhune, on Jan. 31, 1884. He died Nov. 27, 1893. Children : 1_9 Mary Belle Terhune, born May 24, 1848, died Oct. 13, 1861.
DESCENDANTS GARRET AND CATHERINE TERHUNE 4:
2_9 Anna Terhune, born Aug. 12, 1850, married John
Rynearson, Dec. 31, 1874. 3.. 9 John L. Terhune, born May 24, 1854, married Amanda J. Richardson, Oct. 13, 1881. He mar- ried second, Ellen Richardson, Aug. 22, 1889, after death of Amanda J. in Oct., 1886. Children: 1_10 Roscoe Terhune, born Dec. 28, 1882. 2_10 Alonzo Terhune, born April 5, 1886. 4.9 Ellen Sophronia Terhune born Oct. 13, 1856,
married Samuel Bryant April 28, 1881. 5_9 Jennie Terhune, born Sept. 10. 1860, married
Charles Yearslev. She died May 30, 1889. G_9 William Terhune, born March 31, 1862, died March 26, 1883. 3_8 John Terhune, was born in Mercer County, Ken- tucky, Sept 17, 1828. He married Barbara Ann Edwards in Franklin, Indiana, Aug. 25, 1856. She was born Feb. 21, 1840. He was a painter by trade. He died on Jan. 24, 1908. Children : 1_9 Charles Oscar Terhune born March 31, 1858,
died Nov. 19, 1863. 2_9 Franklin Wayland Terhune, born Aug. 1, 18G0,
died Nov. 11, 1863. 3_9 Lily Dale Terhune, born March 13, 1862, mar- ried Ora Ellsworth Williams on Jan. 18, 1894. Children : 1_10 Estelle Oneida Williams, born Dec. 4, 1895. 2_10 Barbara Lucretia Williams, born Nov.3,1899. 3_10 Charlotte May Williams, born March 5, 1903. 4_9 Avery C. Terhune, born Nov. 15, 1864, married Nellie Woods in 1902. 1-10 Paul Avery Terhune, born Aug. 12, 1907. 5_9 Sidney Terhune. born June 21, 1867, married Laura Roberts. June 21, 1892. They had one child 1-10 Clarence Roberts Terhune, born Oct. 29, 1895. 6_9 Bertie Terhune, born Sept 15, 1877, died Dec.
2, 1877. 7_9 Leota Terhune, born Sept. 22, 1879, died July 20, 1908.
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4_8 Charles Terhune, born March 10, 1831, died Jan. 27, 1865.
5_8 Andrew Terhune. born Oct. 31, 1834, married Zerelda Harlow, May 28, 1856, died Nov. 20, 18S0. Children : 1_9 Addie Terhune. 2_9 Nathaniel Terhune. 3_9 Charles O. Terhune. 4..9 Amanda Terhune. 6_8 Mary A. Terhune ,born March 21, 1841, married John Burnett, Jan. 21, 1856. 3_7 ISAAC TERHUNE, third son of Stephen and Eliza- beth (Green) Terhune, was born Jan. 23, 1806, in Mercer County, Kentucky, and Oct. 15, 1829 he married Sarah VanArsdall, who was born April 20, 1812, and who died Nov. 19, 1887. Isaac Terhune died April 18, 1887. He was by trade a wagon maker, but owned a farm of 200 acres west of Har- rodsburg, where he spent his life. He was a dark complexioned man with black eyes and hair, about six feet tall, slender of build and erect in carriage. He was a slave owner, and in politics a Democrat. He and his wife were Methodists in religious belief. Children:
1_8 Dorinda Terhune, born April 20, 1831, married
Louis James. 2_8 Mary Adeline Terhune, born March 24, 1833, mar
ried Daniel Stagg. She died in 1863 or 1864. 3_8 Locke Terhune, was born Aug. 6, 1835 in Mercer County, Kentucky. He went to LaFayette County, Missouri, in 1862, and married there Mary Rainey on Oct. 3, 1876. He was a prosperous and influ- ential citizen and a man of sterling worth. He left his widow a fine farm of six hundred acres, with a modern home on the State Highway, the Sante Fe Trail, near Lexington, Missouri. This farm she herself has conducted since the death of her hus- band, June 12, 1893. Here were born their five Children: 1_9 Alice Terhune, born Aug. 18, 1877, married Nov. 14, 1896 to Oswald Winkler of the Winkier Fur- niture Company in Lexington. No children.
PROF. CLAUDE CORNELIUS VAX XUYS
Now at the head of the Department ol Physics, Colorado State School of Mines.
(See Page 135)
DESCENDANTS GARRET AND CATHERINE TERHUNE 4
2_9 Maud Terhune, born April 11, 18S0, married April 10, 1901 to Harry Caldwell. They live on a farm near Lexington, Missouri. No children. 3_9 James Terhune. born Sept. 23, 1882, married Aug. 8, 1908, Effie Marquis of Lexington. He is a farmer near that place. They have Children : 1_10 James Terhune Jr. 2_10 Edward Terhune. 4_9 Myrtle Terhune, born Oct. 30, 1885, married Lynn B. Gordon in 1907. He was County Col- lector of LaFayette Countv. She died April 28, 1908. 5_9 Cleveland Terhune born Sept. 22, 1887, married Feb. 18, 1910, Minnie Stone of Liberty. Missouri. He is a traveling salesman and lives at Lexington. 4-8 Henry Clay Terhune, born Dec. 26, 1838, near Harrodsburg, Kentucky, married on Oct. 8, 1861, Lucy B. Finnell, who was born Oct. 8, 1841. They moved to Missouri, but in 1863 returned to Ken- tucky, and lived at first near Harrodsburg. He now resides at Salvisa. Mercer County, Kentucky, where Mrs. Terhune died Jan. 7, 191L 1_9 Etta Terhune, born July 28, 1862, died in March,
1863. 2_9 Jonnie Terhune, born July 26, 1863, died in
March 1866. 3_9 William Logan Terhune. born March 15, 1865. married Lizzie Bunton. They live at Salvisa, Ken- tucky, where he is a farmer. In religion they are Presbyterians; in politics Democratic; no child- ren. 4_9 Dora Terhune, born July 23, 1866, married Lee Coleman Aug. 19. 1882, in Cincinnati. They are members of the Presbyterian church, and live at Harrodsburg. where he is in the U. S. Mail ser- vice. No children. 5_9 Frederick Gray Terhune, born March 12, 1868. married. Oct. 8, 1890. Mary Hall Wilson. They live at Salvisa, Kentucky, where he is a farmer and an undertaker. They are members of the Presbyterian church, and are affiliated with the Democratic party. They had two
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Children : 1_10 Lvle Terhune, born Feb. 21, 1892, died April
2, 1894. 2_10 Earl Taylor Terhune, born March 21, 1894, who is unmarried. 6_9 Myrtle Lyle Terhune, born Jan. 11, 1870, mar- ried to Edward V. Wilson Nov. 16. 1892, in Sal- visa. They lived at Danville, Kentucky, where he is in the internal revenue service. They are mem- bers of the Presbyterian church. Children : 1_10 Mary Louise, born Dec. 29. 1897. 2_10 Ruth Bohm, born Oct. 31. 1898. 5_8 Monroe Terhune, born Mar. 8 1840, died, March
18, 1855. 6_8 Madison Terhune, born, April 27, 1842, married
— , no children. He died March 31, 1881. 7_8 Drusilla Terhune, born Aug. 1, 1844, married to John Irvin. They lived in Louisville, Kentucky, where she died. 8_8 Taylor Terhune, born Oct. 20, 1846, married Louise Wollaston. They live at Danville, Ky. Children : 1_9 Font Terhune. 2_9 Kyle Terhune. 3_9 Frances Terhune. 9_8 Stephen Terhune, born April 20, 1849, married Ophelia Brewer. They live at Van Arsdall, Ky. Children: 1_9 Howard Terhune, married — , Brown. 2_9 Winifred Terhune, married James Ingerman. Thev live at Harrodsburg. 10_8 Sarah Elizabeth Terhune, born, May 18, 1852,
never married. Lives at Salvisa, Kentucky. 11_8 Catherine Terhune, born Oct. 31, 1854, married W. S. Wollaston. They lived at 3320 Western Parkway, Louisville, Kentucky, where she died in January, 1916. She was a member of the Presbyterian church. They have one son, C. T. Wollaston of Louisville. 12_8 Georgia Terhune, born July 1, 1857, married Andrew Hampton. She died April 3, 1898.
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L.7 Catherine Terhune, daughter of Stephen, and grand- daughter of Garret and Catherine (Van Nuys) Ter- hune, was born in Mercer County, Kentucky, July 14, 1807, and was married on March 12, 1831 to John B. Van Arsdall. He died in 1852. She died, April 10, 1868. Children: 1_8 Mary Van Arsdall, born Feb. 22, 1833, married 1st, Wardle Williams, 2d, Joseph Martz. They live at Shelbyville, Indiana, and are members of the Methodist Church. No children. 2_8 Stephen Van Arsdall, born in Mercer County, Ken- tucky, Nov. 14, 1834, married Mary C. Voris in 1855, at Franklin. Indiana. She died in 1868, and he married 2d, Martha Voris, who died on — . He is living at Kokomo, Indiana. They were mem- bers of the Presbyterian Church. Children: (bv first wife.)
1_9 William Van Arsdall, born July 8, 1856 in John- son County, Indiana, married Belle White June 29, 1915. They live on a farm near Kokomo. 2_9 Kitty Jane Van Arsdall, born April 9, 1858, married John Dolen in Kokomo, July 5, 1874. To this union were born three Children:
1_10 Gertrude Dolen, who married James Voris,
of Tipton, Indiana. She died Dec. 29, 1914.
2_10 Maud Dolen, who married Marion Passwait-
er. He is a farmer near Curtisville, Indiana.
Thev have three children.
1_11 Delcie Dee Passwaiter, born Feb. 23, 1903.
2_11 Zethel Gertrude Passwaiter born Aug. 25,
1904. 3_11 Orval Shirley Passwaiter, born Nov. 21, 1907. 3_10 Earl D. Dolen, who married Zella Simons in March, 1913, and lives in Kokomo, Ind. Kitty J. Van Arsdall married 2d, John W. Harrison. To this union two children were born:
4_10 Katherine Harrison, who married James Flynn, June 23, 1915. They have one child. 1_11 Phillis Jane Flynn, born in April, 1916. 5_10 Ethel Harrison.
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3_9 Mary Alice Van Arsdall, born July, 1S64, mar- ried Newton White, Oct. 10, 1881, in Johnson County. They live in Kokomo. Children :
1_10 Leona White, who married John Conover, on Feb. 7, 1913. They live on a farm near BlufFton, Ind., and have one child. 2_10 Etta White. 3_10 Thomas White. 4_9 Charles Van Arsdall, bom Nov. 9, 1868. mar- ried Minnie Hite in 1890, at Kokomo. They They live in Houston, Texas, and have nine Children :
1_10 Coral Van Arsdall, who married Cecil Mc Kinney and lives in Kokomo.
2_10 Loran, who married and lives in Rudd, Iowa. 3_10 Tessie, married — . And Lee, Claude, Stella, Marie, Harry, Lena, who live with their parents. 3_8 Sarah Cynthia Van Arsdall, born Aug-. 2, 1837, married Francis Davis. They had one child who died in infancy. They are both dead. 4_8 America Van Arsdall, born Jan. 8, 1839. married John R. Adams. They were members of the Meth- odist church. She died in 1S99. They had seven Children : Dora Adams, Frank Adams, Mary Adams. Kate Adams, Harry Adams, Cora Adams, John Adams, 5_8 Abram Brewer Van Arsdall, Jr., born Oct. 11, 1840, married Melvina Arbuckle. In religion they were Presbyterians and in politics, Democrats. He died in 1882. They had eight children: Monta, John, Gilbert, Kate, Lillian, Mary, Wood, Delia.
G_8 Lydia A. Van Arsdall, born Nov. 16, 1843, mar- ried Joseph L. Martz. She died in 1876. Children :
1_9 Kate Martz, married — Montgomery, no chil- dren. 2_9 Ward Martz, deceased. 3_9 Harvey Martz, married, but no children. 4_9 Atwood Martz, married, one child.
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7„S Elijah Van Arsdall, born Feb. 17, 1846. He mar- ried 1st, Lucy Judd, married 2d, Jennie Lydia Coats, 3d, Lillie Herring and 4th, Nancy Jane Wheeler. He had two children by his second wife. He was in the 70th Regiment of Indiana Volun- teers in the Civil War, and was in thirteen battles. but is still alive to tell the story. He is a member of the Baptist church and is a Republican. They live in Shelbyville, Ind. Children:
1_9 Elmer Van Arsdall.
2_9 Catherine Van Arsdall. who married Van Coers. 8_8 John Wesley Van Arsdall was born March 10. 1848. He married Belle Thayer and they had one son who died in infancy. He married 2d. Annie Murphy, who died Oct. 4. 1886. In 1888 he was again married to Mrs. Clara Allen, who had one daughter. Glenn Allen. They live in Shelbyville. Ind.. and are members of the Methodist Church. They are adherents of the Republican party. Children (by 2d marriage) :
1-9 Orpha Van Arsdall. born Oct. 4, 1S86, married 190G, Garnett Flemming. They have one son. 1_10 John Wesley Flemming, born Sept. 13, 1910. Children (by 3d marriage) : 2_9 Blanche Van Arsdall, died in infancv. 3_9 Ruth Van Arsdall, born Nov. 22, 1892, married Aug. 17, 1910, Harry R. Stewart. They live in Shelbyville, Indiana. 4_9 Dolph Van Arsdall. born July 5. 1893. married in 1913, Bernice Snellman. One child. 1-10 Ruth Van Arsdall. born July 12, 1914. 9-8 James A. Van Arsdall, born June 13, 1850, mar- ried Delia Rhodes. They live at Shelbyville. Indi- ana, and are members of the Methodist church. They have eight children: Mina, Venia, Everett, Roy, Enrl. Una. Paul and Joseph. 10-8 Cora B. Van Arsdall. born March 30, 1855, mar- ried Talma Ludlow. They live at Benton Harbor, Michigan. Children:
1-9 May Ludlow, who married — Hiatt and has two children.
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2_9 Kate Ludlow, who married — Spooner. They
have three children. 3_9 Nellie Ludlow, who married — Bradford and has two children. 5_7 Charity Terhune, daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth (Green) Terhune. was born in Mercer County, Ky., and on Oct. 9, 1832, was married to Abram Brewer Van Arsdall. She died March 11, 1849. Children : 1_8 Merritt C. Van Arsdall, born March 23, 1834, mar ried Mary Edmonia Mitchell, on Oct. 29, 1863. He died at Lexington. Jan. 12, 1911. Some years ago when Dr. R. W. Terhune was collect- ing data concerning the Terhune family, Merritt Van Ars- dall was greatly interested and rendered all the assist- ance in his power, so that both Dr. Terhune and the com- piler of this record owe him a debt of gratitude. Children :
1_9 Lynn Van Arsdale, born April 7, 1865, was mar- ried in 1887 to Emma Price of Lawrenceburg, Ky. He is a railway conductor, residing at Lou- isville, Ky. They have two Children :
1_10 Ford Van Arsdale, born in 1888, was mar- ried in 1910 to Carrie Neighbors of Louis- ville. He is a traveling salesman at Louis- ville, Ky. One daughter. 1_11 Elizabeth Van Arsdale. 2_10Lynette VanArsdale. who was born in 1892. 2_9 Belle Van Arsdale, who died June 4, 1883, in
Mercer County, Kentucky. 3_9 Mary Brewer Van Arsdale, born March 27, 1869, was married July 22, 1897 to Benjamin Spilman of Harrodsburg, Ky. He died in 1906, and his widow was married again on April 3, 1913, at JefTersonville. Ind., to Samuel Shannon, who is a dealer in antique furniture at Lexing- ton, Ky., where they reside. Mary Brewer has one son bv her first marriage. 1_10 Charles Merritt Spilman, born Oct. 1, 1898, who lives with his mother at Lexington. 4_9 Guy Van Arsdale. born Mar. 17, 1871, died un- married, in Louisville, in February, 1893.
DESCENDANTS GARRET AND CATHERINE TERHUNE r.l
o_9 Herbert Van Arsdale, born Oct, 24, 1872. Was married in Harrodsburg, about 1896, to Sarah Campbell. He is an electrical engineer at Lou- isville. Three Children:
1_10 Herbert Van Arsdale, who died at the age
of nine. 2_10 Charlotte Elizabeth Van Arsdale. 3_10 Calvin Bertram Van Arsdale. 6_9 Elizabeth Van Arsdale, born April 25, 1874. is bookkeeper for the Bell Telephone Co., at Har- rodsburg. 7_9 Willette Van Arsdale, who was born April 3, 1876, died unmarried at Harrodsburg, in July, 1899. 8_9 Alice Van Arsdale. born Jan. 14, 1878, is a sten- ographer at Nashville, Tenn. 9_9 Abraham Van Arsdale, born Dec. 3, 1879, is un- married. He is a detective for the Southern Express Co., at Birmingham, Ala. 10_9 Kary Van Arsdale, born Nov. 4, 1883, is a dressmaker, living in Harrodsburg, Ky. Merritt C. Van Arsdale and all his family were Pres- byterians.
2_8 Martha Hanna Van Arsdall, daughter of Charity and Abram Brewer Van Arsdall, who died March 6, 1849. 3_8 Belle Van Arsdall, no record. 6„7 Eliza Terhune, who married — Whitenack, no fur- ther record. 7-7 Stephen Terhune, who died unmarried, in the Black- hawk War. 8-7 John Terhune, who died unmarried, in Cincinnati. O. 9.7 Abram Terhune born April 10. 1819, married Cvn- thia Ann Young. Oct. 12, 1843. She was born Nov. 3, 1825, and died July 6, 1894. He died Jan. 12, 1901. Children: 1-8 William Terhune. 2_8 Harvey Terhune. 10_7 Mary Terhune, married Garret Terhune, July 15, 1852, a son of Garret and Rachel Rynearson Ter- hune. They were cousins.
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11_7 Martha Terhune, married Jerry Tumey, Dec. 2,
1840. 12_7 James G. Terhune, youngest child of Stephen and Elizabeth Green Terhune, was born July 23, 1S2G. and died May 2. 1S72. He married Mollie Welch of Nicholasville, Ky. He bought the Stephen Terhune farm and spent his life there near Harrodsburg. Children: 1_8 Elizabeth Terhune.
2_8 Martha Terhune, who married James Davis and lived in Lincoln County, Kentucky. No record of their family.
2_6 MARIA TERHUNE, eldest daughter of Garret and Catherine (Van Nuys) Terhune, was born Nov. 9. 1780 in Somerset County, New Jersey, and married Peter De Mott, in Mercer County, Kentucky, on March 19, 1796. She died May 27, 1862.
3_6 ISAAC TERHUNE, second son of Garret and Catherine Terhune was baptiz- ed at Harlingen, New Jersey, on March 20, 1785. No fur- ther record.
4_6 GARRET TERHUNE third son of Garret and Catherine (Van Nuys) Terhune, was baptized at Harlingen, New Jersey, Dutch Reformed Church, Aug. 12, 1787, and married Rachel Rynearson Jan. 16, 1814, in Mercer County, Kentucky, whither he had come with his parents in 1793. Rachel Rynearson was a daughter of Barnett and Ann (Banta) Rynearson. Gar- ret Terhune was a wagon-maker by trade, and he taught all his three sons the same trade.
Children : 1_7 Marv Terhune, who married James B. Mann, Oct. 3, 1833.
Children: 1_8 John Mann, who is a business man in Harrods- burg, Kentucky. No record. 2_8 Alice Mann, who married Hopkins Meyer, and lives in Boyle County, Kentucky. No further rec- ord available. 2_7 Jane Terhune, died in infancy.
3_7 William Terhune. born Feb. 18. 3 818, married in 1839, Mary Jane Van Arsdall of Boyle County, Ky., who died in December 1857. He married again on
DESCENDANTS GARRET AND CATHERINE TERHUNE 5!
Nov. 14, 1862, Mrs. Sarah Byers, and to them were born five children, all of whom are dead. After his first marriage he lived near Perryville, Boyle Coun- ty, but in 1844, he moved to Parksville, where he fol- lowed the trade of wagon-maker. Four of the child- ren by the second wife died before reaching maturi- ty, but one, Lillie, married — Freeman. She died in 1890, and left one child, William Freeman, whose address is unknown. In politics Wm. Terhune was a Whig in early life, and a Union man, and in later life was affiliated with the Democratc party. They were Cumberland Presbyterians. Mrs. Terhune died in 1901. William Terhune d'ed in 1905, at the home of his son James G. Terhune. He was in his 88th year. They are buried at Parksville. Children (by first wife) : 1_8 Sallie Ann Terhune, born in 1841, died in 1851. 2_8 James Garret Terhune, born in 1843, in Boyle County Kentucky, married in 1867, Sarah Brownfield of Larue County, Kentucky. Until 1870 they lived near Per- ryville, where he was a wagon-maker as his father and his grandfather had been. He then moved to Jersey- brook Farm, near Buffalo in Larue County, where he is engaged in cattle-raising and dairy-farming. He is a hroad-minded; far-seeing, genial man, a deacon in the Baptist church, and a staunch Democrat. Sarah Terhune died in 1912. and in 1913 he married Mrs. Olive Brown- field, sister-in-law. No children by either marriage.
3_8 Commodore P. Terhune, son of William Terhune, was born July 13, 1848, and married first, Martha Byers, Nov. 20, 1876. After her death he was again married on Nov. 6, 1883 to Susan Cook. She died, and he married on Oct. 17. 1889, her sister, Emma Cook, who was born June 10, 1856. With his brother he was taught the trade of wagon-maker by his father, but while yet a young man he gave it up and went to Danville, Ky., where he still lives. By his last wife he has one son.
1-9 Allen Cook Terhune, born March 15, 1893, at Danville, Ky., — the sole representative of his generation in the family of Wm. Terhune. He is unmarried, and is engaged in the banking business in Danville, Ky.
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4_7 Sarah Terhune, married first, David Robertson, and
2nd, Peter Van Arsdale. 5_7 Garret Terhune, son of Garret and Rachel Rynear- son Terhune, married first, Nancy Silcox, and after her death he married his cousin Mary Terhune, July 15, 1852. He married 3d. Hannah Hall. He had one son by his first wife. 1_8 J. Taylor Terhune, married Lavini Wingfield of Mercer County, Ky., about 1865. They lived at Hiseville, Ky., a long time, but finally moved to Shelbyville, Ky., where he died about 1912. They had children but names are not known. 6_7 Jane Terhune married William Allen. They had children, whose names are in none of the records a- vailable. One daughter married and lived in Lex- ington, Ky., and one of her sisters who was single lived with her. Indications are that they were re- lated to the Isabel Allen, who married James Van Nuys and left a daughter, Leah, and a son. John. 7_7 Barnett Terhune, son of Garret and Rachel Rynear- son Terhune, and grandson of Garret and Catherine Van Nuys Terhune, was born July 13. 1828 ,and died Sept. 27, 1903. He married first. Elizabeth Cather- ine Van Arsdall, born Dec. 4, 1827. died July 14. 1862. He married 2d, Mrs. Ellen Ewing Mitchell on Oct. 4, 1866. She was born June 30, 1840 and died July 8, 1908.
Children (bv first marriage; : 1_8 John Tavlor Terhune, born May 29, 1847. He was killed in the R. R. service at Gallion. Ohio, in 1868, after he came out of the Union Navy, Mississippi Squadron, in which he served on the Gunboat — Naumkeag. 2_8 Sanford McBrayer Terhune, born Jan. 7, 1851,
died in 1852. 3_8 Desdemona Terhune, born July 16, 1854. married John B. Powell at Perryville, Ky., Sept. 30, 1873. Children :
1_9 Clarence Powell, born — , married Louise Mc- Grew at Pulaski, Tenn. They live at Danville, Kentuckv. 2_9 William Barnett Powell, born Dec. 24, 1877, married Nancy Givens of Hustonville, Ky. They live at Bradfordsville, Ky.
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Children :
1_10 Charlotte Powell. 2_10 William Barnett Powell. 3_10 John Powell. 3_9 Elizabeth Powell, lives with parents. 4 8 Mary Sanford Terhune. bom Sept. 29, 1856, mar- ried William A. Thornton, on June 27, 1878. They live at Bradfordsville, Ky. Children :
1_9 Nellie Elizabeth Thornton, born Jan. 25, 1880, married James Raymond Glasscock at Brad- fordsville, Ky., Feb. 20, 1901, where they live. 1_10 Imogene Glasscock. 2_10 Hugh Glasscock. 2_9 Harrison Barnett Thornton, born 1890, married Jessie Paibel of Lebanon. Ky.. in 1914. They also live in Bradfordsville. and have one child : 1_10 Harrison Barnett Thornton, born in July, 1915. 3_9 Desdamona Ellen Thornton, born Feb. 21, 1893. married Walter W. Murrel of Columbus, Ohio. on Feb. 23, 1915. They live at Louisville. Ky., and have the youngest child in the connection. 1_10 — Murrel. born Feb., 1916. 4_9 Grace Thornton, born in April, 1895. Unmar- ried. Children (by second marriage) : 5-8 Thomas Gilliam Terhune. born Sept. 6, 1868, died
Nov. 10. 1869. 6_8 Carrie G. Terhune died in infancy. 7_8 Thomas Barnett Terhune. born March 16. 1870. married Abagail Elizabeth Prine, May 24. 1892. He received the degree of A. B. at Center College. Danville. Ky., in 1890, and graduated from Mo Cormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, in 1893. The degree of D. D. was conferred by Hanover College m 1909. For a number of years he has been the devoted. and successful pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Huntington. Ind., a man of intellectual force and ac- knowledged pulpit ability. He was Moderator in the Synod of Indiana the pa^t year and has served his church on many important committees, as well as in the evanee- listic field, and as a writer and lecturer. He is an elo-
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quent and popular platform speaker and has done ac- ceptable work for Chautauqua and other bureaus, with- out losing sight of his mission. He has recently had the satisfaction of seeing the completion by his congregation, of a splendid new church building. Thomas B. and Aba- gail have four
Children :
1_9 Mary Terhune, born July 6, 1894, who gradu- ated from Western College for Women, Oxford, Ohio, in June, 1916. and has accepted the Chair of Modern Languages in Fairmount College Tex as, a Presbyterian School for girls. 2_9 Paul Barnett Terhune, born May 5, 1897, now in
Hanover College. 3_9 Thomas Jackson Terhune, born May 21, 1901. 4_9 Thornton Powell Terhune, born May 6, 1903. 8_8 Carrie Ellen Terhune, born Aug. 18/1871, died
Sept. 8, 1872. 9_8 Baker Ewing Terhune, son of Barnett and Ellen Mitchell Terhune, was born Aug. 24, 1873, and married Katherine B. Drye, at. Hustonville, Ky. They live at Bradfordsville, Ky., and have three Children :
1_9 Louise Fidler Terhune. born Dec. 16, 1903. 2_9 Ralph Barnett Terhune, born June 6, 1906. 3_9 B. E. Terhune. (no other name), born in 1908. 10_8 Robert Lee Terhune, born March 17, 1876, died June 10. 1915. He married Mary Adams at Hust- onville, Ky., June 29, 1904. She died Aug. 3. 1906. He was a man of the highest character, and was widely and favorably known. He was killed in the wreck of his automobile. 1_9 Martha Ewing Terhune. born June 22. 1905. 2_9 Mary Lee Terhune. born July 18, 1906.
Lee Terhune was married the 2d time to Eliza- beth Buckner Cox. To them one child was born. Elizabeth Cox Terhune lives at Campbellville, Kv.
3_9 Lucy Lee Terhune, born in July, 1915. 11_8 Lucy Ellen Terhune, born May 12, 1878, married George A. Farris. July 8, 1903. She is described as a woman "beautiful in person, character and disposition." They live at Lebanon, Ky. No child- ren.
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12_8 Charles Armstrong: Terhune. born Oct. 31. 1880. married Etta Willard Purdy, Jan. 12, 1909. Live at Bradfordsville. One child. 1_9 Virginia Ellen Terhune, born Oct. 23, 1909. 13_8 Alice Meyer Terhune, born Dec. 27, 1887, mar- ried Harry Davis Foxworthy, April 1, 1909. They live at Bradfordsville. Children:
1_9 Samuel Lee Foxworthy, born May 20, 1910. 2_9 Harry Davis Foxworthy.
5.6 PETER TERHUNE fourth son of Garret and Catherine (Van Nuys) Terhune was born at Harlingen, New Jersey, May 9. 1790. and was brought by his parents to Kentucky, in 1793. He went to Tennessee in 1817, where he married Lucy Eaton. In 1821, they returned to Mercer County, Kentucky, where Lucy Eaton Terhune died, and he married Agnes Hou- chins, in 1837. He died April 17, 1855. Children : by first wife.
1_7 ELIZABETH TERHUNE, born Feb. 18, 1818 in Nash ville, Tennessee. Came to Harrodsburg, in 1821. She married Henry Canary, July 9, 1835. She died May 19, 1902, at Franklin, Indiana, where they had gone in 1845. Children : 1_8 Margaret Canarv. born April 29, 1836, married
Jan. 26, 1854, Jefferson Vandiver. 2_8 John Canary, born Oct. 15, 1837, married Lucinda
Vandiver. 3_8 Mary Ann Canary, born Dec. 8, 1839, married
Cornelius Van Arsdall. 4. .8 Abraham Canary, born May 7, 1842, married 1st, Rachel Demaree, married 2d, Mary Small.
5_8 Christopher Canary, born March 10, 1845, mar- ried Margaret Vandiver 6_8 P. A. Canary, married Anna Cole.
2-7 ROBERT TERHUNE, born at Nashville, Tennessee. April 15, 1819, married first, Sarah Comingore, Sept. 10, 1841. No children by his first wife, who died. He married again Oct. 16, 1871, Sarah Whitenack. He died Feb. 15, 1892.
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Children : 1_8 Eugene Terhune, born Sept. 12, 1S73, married Em- ma Graves. 2_8 Mary Terhune, born July 8, 1875, married Harry
Tumey. 3_8 Alonzo Terhune, born May 10, 1878, married Verne Cummins. Children:
1_9 Robert Terhune. 2_9 Reuben Terhune. 4_8 William Terhune. born Oct. 10. 1880. 5_8 Alice Terhune, born Nov. 1, 1881, married Rufus
Ross. 6_8 Lee Terhune, born Feb. 26. 1884. 7_8 Lucinda and Cordelia Terhune, twins, born Sept. 6, 1885. 3_7 MARY TERHUNE, married Cornelius Vandivier, her
cousin. 4_7 LUCINDA TERHUNE, married Simon Van Arsdall. 5_7 FRANCES TERHUNE, married James Vandiver. 6_7 CATHERINE TERHUNE, married William Vandi- vier. 7.7 ISAAC TERHUNE, died young.
Children by second wife: 8_7 PAULINA E. TERHUNE, born 1840, married John Silcox, March 20, 1859. Children : 1_8 Emma Silcox, married John Mattingly. Children :
1_9 Sadie Bell Mattinglv, married E. G. Wills. 2_9 Charles, died. 2_8 Charles Silcox, married — . No children. 3_8 Agnes Theresa Silcox, married William D. Phillips
No children. 4_8 John Silcox, married — . 5_8 Nancy Silcox, not married. 6_8 Thomas Silcox, not married. 9_7 GEORGTE ANNE VAN NUYS TERHUNE, born Apr. 17, 1842, married Charles S. Van Arsdall May 17, 1858. Children : 1_8 William Abner Van Arsdall, died unmarried at the age of twenty one.
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2_8 John Coleman Van Arsdall, married Emma Vaught. Children : 1_9 Annie May Van Arsdall, married Claude L.
Strode. Children :
1_10 Doris May Strode. 2_10 Gladvs Strode. 3_10 Claude Leslie Strode. 2_9 Laura Pearl, died — . 3_9 Charles Van Arsdall, died — . 4_9 Julius Edwin Van Arsdall, died — . 3_8 Riker Samuel Van Arsdall, married Maud Rose. Children :
1_9 Ormond Van Arsdall. married Mabel Currens. 2_9 William Smith Van Arsdall. 3_9 Charles Rose Van Arsdall. 4_9 Clarence Riker Van Arsdall. 5_9 Marion W. Van Arsdall. 6_9 Maud Rose Van Arsdall. 7_9 Sarah Jane Van Arsdall. 8_9 George Alger Van Arsdall. 4_8 Charles Condit Van Arsdall, died at age of three
years. 5_8 Condit Brewer Van Arsdall, married Sarah Eliza- beth Carter. Children :
1-9 Elizabeth Rinehart Van Arsdall. 2_9 Condit Brewer Van Arsdall, Jr. 6_8 Hugh Van Arsdall, married Orpha Prewitt. Children :
1-9 Charles Robert Van Arsdall. 2_9 Hugh Oliver Van Arsdall. 3_9 Sallie Lee Van Arsdall. ^ 4_9 William Condit Van Arsdall. 7_8 Joseph Young Van Arsdall. married Sallie Lee James. Children :
1-9 Charles Suydam Van Arsdall. 2_9 John Aaron Van Arsdall. 8-8 Sallie Ann Van Arsdall, died at the age of twelve years.
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6_6 JOHN TERHUNE, son of Garret and Catherine (Van Nuys) Terhune, was born probably in Kentucky. He and his brother Peter, both went to Nashville, Tenn., when very young and there married sisters, Prudence and Lucy Eaton. How- ever, they soon returned to Mercer County, Ky., where they lived and died. John died in 1875. He had two
Children: 1_7 WILLIAM TERHUNE, who died in 1849, unmar- ried. 2_7 JAMES P. TERHUNE, who married Rachel Stagg. He died in 1903. Children : 1_8 Eugene A. Terhune, who married Anna S. Van
Arsdall, Oct. 21, 1869. 2_8 William B. Terhune, who married Belle Terhune, Dec. 29, 1867. She was a daughter of Abram and Cynthia Ann (Young) Terhune. 3_8 John A. Terhune, born Nov. 25, 1850, married Em- ma Reece, Sept. 7, 1871. 4_8 Abram L. Terhune, who married Maggie Silcox,
Sept. 21, 1871. Deceased. 5_8 Buckner Terhune, deceased. 6_8 James H. Terhune, married Hattie Gentry Dec. 21,
1875. 7_8 Prudence Terhune, married E. K. Shoemaker. 8_8 Mary Porter Terhune, married Robert Coffey. 9_8 Ruth Terhune, deceased. 10_8 Nora Terhune, deceased. 11_8 Catherine Terhune.
7_6 WILLIAM TERHUNE married Sarah Hart. He died in 1857. No children.
8_6 RULOFF or RULE TERHUNE married, one report states, Sarah Green, another savs Betsey Green, on Oct. 5, 182G. He died in 1839, in Merc- er County, Kentucky. No children.
9_6 MARGARET TERHUNE married May 10, 1802, Henry Comingore. She was bur- ied at Bethel Church.
10_6 EVA JANE TERHUNE married Henry Whitenack.
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11_6 It is supposed that there was another daughter of Gar- ret and Catherine who married a Vandiver, but this sup- position may have arisen from the fact that Henry Van- diver's name appears in the list of legatees of Garret Ter- hune as guardian of "Rule" Terhune. Garret Terhune had a brother-in-law named Henry Vanderveer, husband of Magdalen Van Nuys.
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CHAPTER VII
MARY VAN NUYS
Mary 5, Isaac. 4, Isaac 3, Jacobus 2, Aucke 1. DESCENDANTS of Isaac and Flora or Vrouchie (Quick) Van Nuys, in line of their daughter Mary.
2_5 MARY VAN NUYS, was born in 1763. near Mill- stone, Somerset County, N. J., and was married April 10. 17S1,* in that county, to Cornelius Van Nuyce(as he spell ed the name), her cousin, who also was born in Somerset County in 1755, and was a son of John and Marie (Van Arsdalen) Van Nuys. His sister Maria married William Terhune, a brother of Garret Terhune, and they also came to Kentucky.
Cornelius went to Conewago, Pennsylvania, with the New Jersey colony which settled that place. It was in York County (now Adams) near Gettysburg. But he went to Mercer County, Ky.. sometime between 1790 and 1801, in which latter year there is record of land deeded to him in Mercer County. He died in Kentucky in 1820. Mary Van Nuyce died in 1845. Six of their children grew to maturity.
1_6 FLORA VAN NUYCE whose baptismal record in the Dutch Church at Cone- wago reads: "Vroutie, child of Cornelius and Mary Van Nuyce, Dec. 6, 1789." She married Henry De Schamp (Scomp) in 1814 in Mercer County, Ky.
Children : 1_7 JOHN VAN NUYCE SCOMP, who married Cather- ine Wilson. Thev had one daughter, 1_8 MARY REBECCA SCOMP, who married J. T. Cunningham in December, 1882. He is a farmer. They live near Harrodsburg, Ky., and the descend- ants of Isaac and Cornelius Van Nuys, and Wil- liam and Garret Terhune, who married Van Nuys women, have been identified with the develop-
*One note sent in gives "17S7, at Conewago", as the date and
(place of the marriage of Cornelius and Mary tut their names do not appear in the records of licenses there, and they do appear in the Somerset County records.
NOTE: — The first figure indicates order in the family; the sec- ond indicates the number of the generation in America.
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ment of the region from its early settlement to the present time. J. T. and Rebecca Cunningham have three Children :
1_9 Fayreen Scomp Cunningham. 2_9 Forrest Van Nuyce Cunningham. 3_9 Stella Comingore Cunningham. 2_7 SARAH SCOMP who married first William Slaugh- ter, and second S. Van Arsdall. One son, 1_8 James Van Arsdall, who married Bettie Hardin. James has several children, but nothing is known of them. :3_7 WILLIAM SCOMP. son of Henry and Flora, mar- ried Sarah Minor. Two Children: 1_8 HENRY A. SCOMP, who was born in 1844. mar- ried Margaret Weedin in 1872. In his educational and professional career the degrees of Ph. D. and L. L. D. were conferred up on him. He was professor of languages and was a versatile writer. In an exhaustive and intenselv interesting historical sketch of "The Old Mud Meeting House", which Dr. Scomp read at the celebration of the centennial anniver- sary of its erection in 1800. he gives many facts and inci- dents which illustrate the character and strength and de- votion of our ancestry, and of the Dutch immigrants in general. He mentions long lists of names connected with this historic church, which are familiar to us as Van Nuys descendants or connections of the family. He died in 1912 and is buried at Danville, Ky. Children: 1-9 Viola Scomp. 2_9 Corine Scomp. 2_8 MARTHA K. SCOMP, married E. B. Moore. Children : 1-9 Wm. H. Moore married Linn Worthington in
1909. 2_9 Hugh Moore, married Estelle Robinson in 1897.
They have four Children:
1_10 Josephine Moore. 2_10 Eugene Moore. 3_10 Warren Moore. 4-10 Margaret Moore.
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3_9 Edith Moore, married Roy Williams in June 1913. They live in California. 4_7 GEORGE SCOMP, third son of Henry and Flora (Van Nuyce) De Schamp, died, unmarried, in Ken- tucky. 5_7 MARY SCOMP, died unmarried. 6_7 CYNTHIA SCOMP died in Kentucky unmarried, as
did also, 7_7 CORNELIUS SCOMP.
2_6 JOHN VAN NUYCE Married Letty Canine? No record of his family has been found.
3_6 ISAAC VAN NUYS No record. If these two sons of Mary and Cornelius left descendants, it is hoped that they will supply the records.
4_6 CORNELIUS VAN NUYS, JR. Son of Cornelius and Mary Van Nuys, was born June 23, 1799 in Mercer County, Ky., and was married there Dec. 16, 1824 to Ann Adams, who was born Sept. 7, 1795 and died Sept. 18, 1852. They lived at Harrodsburg, Ky., where he died June 3, 1846. Ann was a daughter of Archie and Phebe (Caldwell) Adams, and her sister Car- oline married Lawrence Van Nice, son of Peter, who was a son of Isaac and Flora.
Children: 1_7 DAVID ADAMS VAN NICE, who was born Nov. 4, 1825, in Mercer County, Ky., married Susan Allen Sept. 22, 1852, in Bethany, Park County, Ind. A few years after their marriage they moved to Bushnell, 111., thence in 1859 to Chillicothe, Mo., but in two years returned to Bushnell. In 1869 they moved to Kansas, near Gardner, but in 1886 went to Allen County, Kan., near Humboldt, where they spent the remainder of their lives. He died August 30, 1900. He was a farmer and a member of the Presbyterian church. Susan Allen Van Nice died in 1899. Children: 1_8 WILLIAM VAN NICE, born in Waveland. Ind., in 1853, married Mary Jewett, in Kansas. They have living, Children:
1_9 Minnie Van Nice married to E. Towles. Have one son.
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2_9 Jessie Van Nice. 3_9 Victoria Van Nice. • 2.8 CHARLES VAN NICE, son of David and Susan, was born in Indiana in 1855, and died in 1863 in Illinois. 3-8 MARY VAN NICE, only daughter of David A. and Susan Van Nice, was born in Illinois. No rec- ord. 4_8 DWIGHT CORNELIUS VAN NICE, third son of David A. and Susan Van Nice, was born at Chil- licothe, Mo., July 1, 1860. and went with his par- ents to Kansas. He was agent and telegraph op- erator for the Union Pacific R. R. until 1891. Since then he has been engaged in the hardware busi- ness and fine stock raising, at Richland, Kansas, where he is a prosperous and public spirited citi- zen, identified with all the best interests of the town. In 1886 he married Laura Neese at Rich- land, Children :
1_9 Pearl Van Nice, born May 20, 1888, was mar- ried to J. G. Myers on May 12, 1914. They have one daughter, 1_10 Frances Mvers, born March 2, 1915. 2_9 Fred Van Nice, born April 7, 1893. 5_8 THOMAS VAN NICE, born in 1867, near Bush- nell, 111. Married Jennie Ross in Allen County, Kansas. They have two sons, 1_9 Ray Van Nice. 2-9 Russell Van Nice. 2_7 JAMES VAN NICE, son of Cornelius and Ann, bom April 5, 1832. He married Wilmath Maderes. He died in Waveland, Indiana, Sept. 27, 1905. No chil- dren living. 3-7 MARTHA J. VAN NICE, was born March 26, 1835. She married Thomas E. Milligan at Waveland, Ind., April 8, 1856. He died in August, 1908. She still lives at Waveland. Children: 1-8 CHARLES A. MILLIGAN, born Jan. 12, 1859, un- married, a city farmer. 2-8 EDWIN T. MILLIGAN, born March 10. 1861.
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Married Carrie Kerr Dec. 13, 1893. They live at Waveland, Ind., where he is a city farmer. Children :
1_9 Martha Virginia Milligan born Feb. 27, 1895. 3_8 John V. Milligan, born March 19. 1870. married Grace Blatchley, Jan. 1, 1S96 and they live at Waveland, Ind. He is a farmer. Children :
1_9 Ruth, born Nov. 18, 1901. 2_9 Harry Blatchlev, bom Nov. 1, 1903. 4_7 MARGARET VAN NICE, born July 30, 1838, at Harrodsburg, Ky., married Rev. Isaac B. Moore, a minister in the Presbyterian Church, Sept 21, 1859. She died in Indiana. They had five Children : 1_8 CLARA MOORE, deceased, born March, 1860, at Gilman, 111., married Frank Adams in 1889, at at Monticello. Ind. No children. ' 2_8 ANNA MOORE, married John McGill. They liv- ed at Rock Island, 111., and died leaving no chil- dren. 3_8 IDA MOORE, born in 1871, married William Mack in 1893. Thev live in Spokane. Children: Llovd, Olive, Mabel, Hilda and Ethel. 4_8 GEORGE MOORE. Lives near Spokane, Wash. 5_8 RHODA MOORE, married Theodore Piatt. Children:
1_9 Donald Dwight, 2_9 Theodore Moore, 3_9 Margaret Ellen. 5_7 ELIZABETH VAN NICE, married in Illinois. No children.
5_6 JAMES VAN NICE son of Cornelius and Mary Van Nuyce, lived to be very old, and was reputed to be very wealthy. He died in Kentucky, unmarried.
6_6 MARY VAN NUYS youngest daughter of Cornelius and Mary Van Nuyce. was born March 31, 1800, and married William De Mott. Feb. 16, 1821. She was a member of the Hopewell Pres- byterian Church in Johnson County, Ind. She died Feb. 24, 1886.
Children:
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1_7 CLARISSA DE MOTT, born Oct. 29, 1824. No fur- ther record. 2_7 MARY JANE DE MOTT, born July 28, 1827. No
other report. 3_7 SARAH ANN DE MOTT, born Feb. 27, 1828, mar- ried David B. Low, Feb. 20, 1851. He gave his life for his country in the Civil War. Sarah Ann Low died in 1916, in her 8 9th year. She was a typical pioneer and was widely known for her hospitality and neighborly kindness. Children : 1_8 JANIE LOW, born Dec. 9, 1851, married Taylor Wheat, Aug. 28, 1873. She died Oct. 28, 1875. Thev had one son. 1_9 William WTheat, born Nov. 26, 1874, died Dec. 13, 1906. 2_8 ANSON LOW, bom Jan. 1, 1860, married Celia Graham, Feb. 16, 1881. He died July 21, 1891. Children: 1_9 Nellie Low, born May 12, 1887, married Edwin
C. Boswell, Oct. 16, 1907. Children :
1_10 Edwin Clair Boswell, born Oct. 11, 1909. 2_10 Joan Boswell, born Julv 10, 1913. 3_8 ETTA LOW, born Feb. 16, 1863, married Charles A. Brown, Nov. 22, 1883. He is one of Indiana's famous corn growers, and he has won many prizes at state and national corn exhibits. Children : 1_9 Iliff Isaac Brown, born Feb. 15, 1887, married
Edith Ditmars, March 28, 1911. Children :
1_10 Isaac Brown, born Sept. 6, 1913. 2_10 Virginia Brown, born July 31, 1915. 2_9 Mary Brown, born Dec. 15, 1891, married Cor- tez Ditmars, May 15, 1913. 4_7 ZERILDA DE MOTT, born April 10, 1830, married Joseph V. Covert, Nov. 27, 1862. She died May 15, 1893. Children: 1-8 IDA COVERT, born Sept. 8, 1863, married Wil- liam Eli Henderson, Nov. 29, 1883. She died May 16, 1902.
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Children :
1_9 Neva Henderson, born Oct. 17, 1885, married
Harry Hay, Oct. 10, 1912. They have two Children:
1_10 Marian L. Ray, born Oct. 13, 1913. 2_10 Ida E. Raw born Sept. 26, 1915. 2_8 WM. D. COVERT, born Feb. 14, 1869, married Anna Brewer, March 4, 1890. Children :
1_9 Virgil Covert, born Jan. 22, 1892. 2_9 Marie Covert, born Oct. 21, 1895. 5_7 JOHN J. DE MOTT, born in Mercer County, Ken- tucky, March 12, 1835, married Sarah Covert, Oct. 2, 1856. She died June 3, 1S86. His second mar- riage was to Mrs. Martha Terrell, Aug. 14, 1890. No children by the second marriage. He died Dec. 19, 1915, at Hopewell, where he had spent his life from the age of six years. John J. De Mott was a success- ful farmer, but was a successful man in a higher sense. He was elected ruling elder in the Hopewell Presbyterian Church at an early age, and was noted for his Christian counsel and ministration among his neighbors. His power in prayer and the resultant gift of consolation, caused his services to be sought in the conduct of funerals, and he had officiated on more than fifty such occasions. Children : 1_8 WILLIAM DE MOTT, born July 11, 1857, mar- ried Elizabeth Aten, May 17, 1881. He died July 27, 1900. One son, 1_9 Norville De Mott. born April 30, 1882, married to Lida Staff, Oct. 22, 1907. 2_8 EFFIE DE MOTT, born April 12, 1862, married John A. La Grange, Aug. 6, 1879. Children : 1_9 Edna LaGrange, born June 2, 1880, married
Louis Eber Bateman, Oct. 3, 1905. Children :
1_10 Eber LaGrange Bateman, born September
15, 1906. 2_10 Harriet Bateman, born Oct. 29, 1909. 2_9 Mabel La Grange, born June 1, 1883, died Feb. 13, 1911.
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3-8 MARGARET DE MOTT, born July 22, 1867, mar- ried Dr. William Carson, Nov. 27, 18S5. They had one daughter, 1_9 Sarah De Mott Carson, born Feb. 1891, died June, 1891. 4_8 ANNA DE MOTT, born Sept. 28, 1871, married William A. Terrill, Sept. 22, 1892. Children :
1_9 Ruth Terrill, born Jan. 24, 1894. 2_9 William Terrill, born May 19, 1896. 3_9 Martha Terrill, Horn Nov. 4, 1898. 4_9 Mark Terrill, born Sept. 26. 1901. 5_9 Howard Terrill, born Sept. 1, 1905. .7 MARTHA DE MOTT, born Dec. 30, 1838, married Isaac F. Voorhies, Oct. 13, 1859. Children : 1_8 LAURILLA VOORHIES, born Aug. 11, 1860, mar- ried Cyrus Alexander, Nov. 2S, 1878. One son, 1_9 Ray Adams Alexander, born April 25, 1882, married Bess W. Mason. Oct. 6, 1909. 2_8 ANNA MARY VOORHIES, born May 9, 1864. 3_8 SARAH ALICE VOORHIES. born July 24. 1867, married Willard Mortimer Day, Dec. 26, 1900. Children:
1_9 Mildred Vione Dav, born Dec. 2, 1901. 2_9 Willard Franklin Day, born Sept. 2, 1904. 4_8 LEMMA MAE VOORHIES, born April 10, 1876, married Clinton Churchill Collins, Dec. 30, 1903. Children:
1_9 Martha Josephine Collins, born Sept. 14, 1910. 2_9 Catherine Skidmore Collins, born July 21, 1913. .7 GEORGE DE MOTT, born April 10, 1840, married Elizabeth Ann Vandiveer, Oct. 22, 1862. Married 2d, Martha Ransdall Dec. 24, 1874. He died March 30, 1880.
Children by 1st marriage: 1-8 LESSIE DE MOTT, born July 26, 1863, married John McQuiston, Oct. 26, 1889. Children : 1-9 Ralph McQuiston, born Aug. 7, 1890, died Aug.
21, 1890. 2-9 Catherine McQuiston, born Feb. 21, 1893.
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3_9 Elizabeth McQuiston, born March 18, 1900, died Oct. 11, 1909. 2_8 OPHELIA DE MOTT, born June 29. 1865. 3_8 DAVID DE MOTT, born Oct. 26, 1S67, married Cora Cook, Oct. 18, 1892. Children :
1_9 Boweri De Mott, born Oct. 30, 1899. 4_8 MAGGIE DE MOTT, born Nov. 4. 1870, married Dr. H. A. Adams, April 17, 1901. Children by 2nd Marriage : LENA DE MOTT, born Aug. 24, 1876, married Elmer Boone. Nov. 23, 1898. Children:
1_9 Mary Boone, bom Dec. 7, 1899. 2_9 Howard Boone, born April 16, 1903. 3_9 Emma Boone, born May 17,1903. 4_9 Pauline Boone, born Nov. 5, 1904. 5_9 Josephine Boone, born Aug. 1911. 6_9 Francis Boone, born Jan. 1915.
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CHAPTER VIII
ISAAC VAN NUYS
Isaac 5, Isaac 4, Isaac 3, Jacobus 2, Aucke 1.
Descendants of Isaac and Flora (Quick) Van Nuys in line of their son Isaac.
3_5 ISAAC VAN NUYS, was born May 3, 1765, near Millstone, Somerset Co., N. J. On May 22, 1793, in Mercer Co., Ky., whither each has gone, he married Leah Banta, born Sept. 12, 1774, in Penn., daughter of Hendrick and Maria (Stryker) Banta. They went to Switzerland County, Indiana, in 1816, and he died there, Dec. 28, 1845, it is supposed, altho his grave is in the burying ground of the Old Dutch Meeting house in Mercer Coun- ty. Ky. Leah Banta Van Nuys died June 11, 1857. He was a farmer. They had a remarkable family of four- teen children, all of whom grew to maturity, and with one exception, left descendants. Nearly all of this numer- ous family were of the Presbyterian faith.
Seven of the fourteen removed to Iowa long before the Civil War, Henry locating in Benton County, near Vinton, and the others in Des Moines County, north of Burlington.
The following is taken from "A History of Yellow Springs and Huron Townships in Des Moines County.''
"In 1842- and earlier there came five brothers to this region and made their home here. They were Abraham, Cornelius, Albert, Thomas and William Van Nice. They settled close together and near their sister, Mrs. Mary Bandy, who had settled here in 1838, but the homes of two, Abraham and Thomas were just over the line in Benton Township. Thomas died soon after he came, leaving two sons, Henry and Samuel. Abraham, altho living in Benton Twp., contributed his share to the pros- perity of our townships."
In reading this history we find that the Van Nices and Bandys were very prominent among the early seitlers of Des Moines County, John and Mrs. Bandy and daughter Rachel, and Cornelius and Susan Dickerson Van Nice were five of the eleven charter members of the New School Presbyterian Church, organized at Kossuth, Sept. 12,
NOTE — The first figure indicates order in the family; the second indicates the numher of the generation in America.
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1840, and all these six families helped to found the Yel- low Springs College, so important an institution in that region before the war.
1_6 LEAH VAN NUYS born in Mercer County, Kentucky, Feb. 24, 1794, was married there Aug. 1, 1811, to Peter Banta, sun of Peter and Rachel Banta. He was born Dec. 23, 1792, and died Oct. 6, 1851. She died March 1, the same year. They moved to Johnson county Indiana in 1828, where they united with the Hopewell Presbyterian Church. He was a farmer, a modest retiring man. He was a soldier in the Indian wars.
Children: 1.7 RACHEL BANTA, born Oct. 9, 1812, married Fran- cis Johnson Dobbins Sept. 26, 1839. He was born in South Carolina, May 3, 1808 and died en June 14, 1881. She died Oct. 30, 1882. Children : 1_8 JAMES HARVEY DOBBINS, born July 3. 1840. 2_8 WM. MILLER DOBBINS, born Jan. 21, 1843, died
Sept. 24, 1850. 3_8 PETER BANTA DOBBINS, born May 15, 1844, married Sarah M. Botefuhr, Jan 26, 1874, who was born in Hoboken, N. J., Feb. 8, 1850. They lived at Jacksonville, Florida. Children :
1_9 Etta Frances Dobbins, born Sept. 12, 1880. 2_9 Gussie Dobbins, born Dec. 2, 1882, died Dec. 2,
1882. 3_9 Mary Harvey Dobbins, born May 4, 1884. 4_9 Alice Estelle Dobbins, born April 16, 1886. 4_8 MARY CATHERINE DOBBINS, born Sept. 16,
1845, died Sept. 26, 1846. 5_8 ALBERT NEWTON DOBBINS, born Feb. 17, 1847, married Malinda Howell, June 24, 1875. She was born in Georgia, July 31, 1853. They liv- ed in Jacksonville, Fla. Children:
1..9 Arthur Newton Dobbins, born April 1, 1876. 2_9 Emma Gertrude Dobbins, born Sept. 4, 1877. 3_9 Annie Irene Dobbins, born March 7. 1879. 6_8 LOUISIANA WOODS DOBBINS, born June 9, 1850, died Sept. 29, 1850.
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2.7 ISAAC BANTA, born Oct. 18, 1814, died Sept. 15,
1817. 3-7 LEAH BANTA, born Jan. 4, 1816, died Sept. 11,
1817.
4_7 POLLY BANTA, born Jan. 28, 1818, died June 18, 1822.
5_7 ANNA BANTA, bom April 18, 1819, died March 7, 1821.
C_7 ABRAHAM BANTA, born Nov. 16, 1820, died in 1843.
7.7 ZURILDA BANTA, born 1822. Married A. Hender- son.
8_7 ISAAC BANTA, born Dec. 4. 1823, married Nancv
Rodgers, Oct. 10, 1844. No issue. 9_7 LEAH BANTA, bom Nov. 25. 1825, married Win.
Huffman. She died Sept. 29. 1853. 10_7 ALBERT BANTA, born Aug. 31, 1827, married Martha Sebern, April. 13, 1848. She died in Sep- tember, 1854. He married again. Mary Jane Dick- son, who was bora at Armagh. Ireland, April 23. 1829. He was a contractor in Indiana. He died March 22, 1882. His widow lives at Jefferson, Texas. Children by first wife : 1-8 ABRAHAM CORNELIUS BANTA, born Julv 8, 1849, married Margaret Carnine, Feb. 17, 1876, who was bom June 29. 1853, and died July 12, 1881. Sept. 13, 1882 he married Eiminia Van Ars- dale, who was born Sept. 3, 1863. They were Presbyterians and lived at Bridgeport, Indiana, where he died in 1912. His widow is still living there. Children by first wife :
1-9 Samuel Nicholas, born April 27, 1877, Children by second wife: 2_9 Ethel May Banta, born May 2, 1884. 3-9 Bessie Banta, born Dec. 28', 1886. died Dec. 29
1886. 4_9 Albert McCauley Banta, born Dec. 29, 1887
died Aug. 1, 1888. 5-9 Leonie Banta, born Julv 24, 1889, died Au" 2 1889. '
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Children of Albert Banta by second wife: 2_8 WILLIAM ALLEN BANTA. bom March 29, 1856, died Oct. 17, 1876.
3_8 SARAH BELL BANTA, born Oct. 7, 1859. Live?
at Jefferson, Texas. 4_8 ALBERT DICKSON BANTA was born at Frank- lin, Johnson County, Ind., Dec. 11, 1863. His home is at Jefferson, Texas, but he is secretary and treas- urer of a company in the lumber business, which keeps him much away. 11_7 JACOB BANTA, born June 22, 1829, married Sar- ah F. Waltman. He died and his widow married again Thomas J. Kelso. One son. 1_8 HIRAM BANTA. 12_7 SAMUEL BANTA, born May 16, 1831, married El- zora Hedden, Nov. 27, 1862. They lived in Frank- lin, Ind. No children. 13_7 KATHERINE BANTA, born March 16, 1833, died
Nov. 2, 1839. 14_7 MARY ANN BANTA, born March 20, 1835, died
May 22, 1838. 15_7 ROBERT M. BANTA, born April 16, 1838, married Esther Ann Crump, April 2, 1874. She was born Oct. 16, 1852. He was a farmer at Greenfield, Ind., where he died Aug. 2, 1909, and where his widow still resides. Children : 1_8 ISAAC BANTA, born May 16, 1875, in Hancock Countv, Ind., married Jan. 19, 1898 at Van Buren, Ind., Nellie Huff, bom June 11, 1880. They had three children, of whom only one 1_9 Claude Banta is living. He married 2nd. Ethel L. Howells, nee Smith of Los Angeles, on Dec. 30. 1911. She was born Aug. 6, 1889. They live at Watts, Calif., where he is manager of an oil der- ricks company. They have one son. 2_9 Robert H. Banta, born March 25, 1913. 2_8 MARTHA ELLEN BANTA, born March 26, 1879,
died July 13, 1879. 3_8 MARY ELZORA BANTA, twin to Martha, died July 15, 1879.
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4_8 NOBLE EARL BANTA, born Nov. 29, 1881. mar- ried Feb. 7, 1902, Cassie A. Pulley, who died May 17, 1913. He lives at Greenfield, Ind. Children:
1_9 Jennie Banta, born in 1903, died in 1907. 2_9 Julia Banta, born Dec. 4, 1908. 5_8 ANDREW ALEXANDER BANTA, born Aug. 9, 1885, married Oct. 14, 1909 at Los Angeles, Hulda Wickland. He makes his home in Baldwin, Calif., but is working in China for the Standard Oil Co. No children. Now spells the name Bonta. 6_8 WESLEY BANTA, born Dec. 29, 1886. married Oct. 10, 1909, Victoria Chatman. They have one son.
2_6 HENRY VAN NICE son of Isaac Van Nuys and Leah Banta, was born in Ken- tucky, June 22, 1795, and on June 22, 1819. his twenty, fourth birthday, he was married to Leah Voris, who was born March 6, 1799. (See Voorhees lineage). They went to Switzerland County, Ind., in 1822, and lived there on a farm until 1836, when they removed to Johnson County, Ind. In 1853 they again turned their faces westward, go- ing to Iowa, where they located in Benton County, near Vinton. Here he died Aug. 10, 1873. They were mem- bers of the Presbyterian Church and grounded their children firmly in the faith.
Mrs. Leah Williams Beresford has a record, part of which reads, "Albert Voris, father of Leah Van Nice, fought in the Revolution, and Henry Van Nice in the War of 1812."
Henry and Leah Van Nice were the parents of twelve Children: 1-7 MARY ANN VAN NICE, born June 22, 1820, mar- ried John V. Covert in 1841. She died July 22, 1866. Children : 1-8 SARAH JANE COVERT, born Jan. 2, 1842, mar- ried William Westover, Jan. 22, 1859. She died April 23, 1880. Children :
1-9 Myron Westover of Schenectady, N. Y., who married Louise Ham. One son, 1-10 Wendel Westover, born Aug. 2, 1895. 2_9 Mary Westover, deceased.
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3_9 William Westover, now deceased, who married
Laura Pitts, Dec. 19, 1888. Children:
1_10 Winifred Westover Pearson of Cedar Rap- ids, Iowa. 2_10 Marion Westover of Vinton, Iowa. 3_10 Myron Westover. 4_10 Raymond Westover. 2_8 ALBERT N. COVERT, born Nov. 5, 1843. died in 1913. He married Julia Banta, and after her death married again. Two of his Children :
1_9 Homer Covert. 2_9 Mabel Covert McGee. 3_8 ELIZABETH AMANDA COVERT, born Oct. 13. 1845, died about 1914. On Jan. 1, 1871 she was married to T. B. McClue. They live at Lanesboro, Iowa. Children:
1_9 Charles McClue. 2_9 Byron McClue. 4_8 HENRY V. COVERT, born May 26, 1848, married Theresa Holmes in March, 1873. They live at Cherokee, Iowa. Children : 1_9 Lillie Covert, born Jan. 7, 1874. She resides in
Omaha. 2_9 Clarence Covert, born Jan. 24, 1876. 3_9 Jessie Covert, born Oct. 18, 1882. 4_9 Hazeltine Covert. 5_8 CORNELIUS M. COVERT, born March 23, 1850, married on Oct. 1, 1874 Ernalissa Ransdell. Children :
1_9 Elsie Covert, born March 6, 1876. 2_9 Lola Covert, born Jan. 19, 1881. 3_9 Clifford Covert, born in June, 1886. All of this family live in Cherokee, Iowa. 6_8 JOHN HARVEY COVERT, born July 19, 1854, deceased. He married and left two Children : 1_9 Percy Covert. 2_9 Howard Covert. Both live in Florence, Nebr.
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7_8 LEAH CHRISTINA COVERT, born March 31, 1S58, married L. E. Smock, Nov. 30, 187G. They live at Vinton, Iowa. Children: 1_9 Anna Smock, who married David Sebern and
had three Children:
1_10 Leah Jeanette Sebern. born Dec. 31, 1906. 2_10 Wendel Elmore Sebern, born July 24, 1908. 3_10 Ivan Sebern, born Aug. 7, 1911, died May 20, 1914. 2_9 Ray Smock, who lives at home. _7 ALBERT VORIS VAN NICE, son of Henry and Leah Voris Van Nice, was born in Shelby County, Ky., Aug. 8, 1821, and was brought by his parents to Switzerland County, Ind., thence to Johnson County. where he married Rachel Kerlin, Sept. 23, 1847. She was born in Henry County, Ky., on Jan. 14, 1827, and was a daughter of George and Rachel (Banta) Ker- lin, who had been married in Kentucky, Dec. 5, 1816 and had moved to Johnson County, Ind., in 1828. Albert and Rachel Van Nice emigrated to Benton County, Iowa, in 1853. where he entered a fine farm, which was increased to 600 acres. When the town of Vinton was incorporated he donated the site for the first school house and for a Presbyterian church and parsonage, and also the land for the cemetery. He lived to see the wild prairies of the region trans- formed into prosperous farms interspersed with thriving towns, in bringing about which change he had a prominent part. He died in March, 1888. Children: 1-8 MARY C. VAN NICE, born Aug. 28, 1848 in John- son County, Ind., was married to J. R. Culp, Oct. 18, 1866. She died March 14, 1894, leaving four Children:
1-9 Elmer Culp, of Gregory, South Dakota. 2_9 Edward Culp, also of Gregory, S. D. 3_9 Albert Culp of Hartford, S. D. 4_9 Katherine Culp, of Paulina, Iowa. 2-8 LEAH A. VAN NICE, born June 27, 1850, died in infancy.
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3_8 HENRY CALVIN VAN NICE, born Nov. 10, 1S52. in Johnson County, Ind., married Carrie D. Chap- in, Sept. 24, 1873. He died May 15, 1893, leaving two Children :
1_9 Annie Rachel Van Nice, who married M. H. Long, Feb. 28, 1899. They live in Chandler, Minn. Children :
1_10 Dorothy Duret Long, born Nov. 14. 1900. 2_10 Helen Nina Long, born Jan. 21, 1902. 3_10 Francis Wayne Long, born Jan. 5, 1904. 4_10 John Henrv Long, born Nov 19, 1910. 5_10 Lois Long, born April 24, 1916. 6_10 Lola Long, twin of Lois. 2_9 Glenn C. Van Nice, who married on Nov. 26, 1903, Delia Leah Eggleston, born Aug. 14, 1882. Children :
1_10 Harris Calvin Van Nice, born Sept. 12, 1904. 2_10 Jeanette Irene Van Nice, born Oct. 14, 1905. 3_10 Rachel Alien Van Nice ,born July 27, 1908,
died Feb. 3, 1914. 4_10 Francis Robert Van Nice, born March 27,
1911, died March 29, 1911. 5_10 Isaac Clinton Van Nice, born April 10, 1912. 6_10 Robert Warren Van Nice, born May 9, 1916. 4_8 JOHN NEWTON VAN NICE, born July 8, 1855,
in Iowa, died in infancv. 5_8 GEORGE A. VAN NICE, born Nov. 17, 1857, in Benton County, Iowa, married Rachel Ravens- croft, Dec. 19, 1878. He died Jan. 25, 1891, leav- ing four Children:
1_9 Warren Lee Van Nice of Hampton, Iowa. 2_9 Mattie Van Nice of Minneapolis. 3_9 Mae Van Nice, Minneapolis. 4_9 Leona Van Nice of Huron, S. D. G_8 KATIE E. VAN NICE, born in Iowa July 11, 1860, married A. L. Findley, Jan. 1, 1890. They lived at Traer, Iowa, where she died May 15, 1893. One daughter, 1_9 Margaret Findley Hightown, who lives at Mus- catine, Iowa.
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7 8 EDMOND HARVEY VAN NICE, born Feb. 6,
1863, died single, May 18, 1889. 8_8 RACHEL LEAH VAN NICE, born June 8, 18G5,
died unmarried March 23, 1891. 9_8 JAMES ANDREW VAN NICE, born Sept. 18,
1867, died unmarried July 15, 1904. 10_8 ISAAC W. VAN NICE, bom Feb. 5, 1871, in Ben- ton, County, Iowa, married Margaret Greenley, June 30, 1897. They live near Garrison, Iowa, where he is engaged in banking, farming and the fine stock business, and is prominent in every movement for the progress and welfare of the community. Children :
1_9 James Andrew Van Nice, born Jan. 2, 1902. 2_9 Rachel Leah Van Nice, born June 4, 1905. 3_9 Florence Ellen Van Nice, born Oct. 18. 1909. 3_7 ISAAC VAN NICE, son of Isaac and Leah, born Nov.
24. 1822. No further record. 4_7 ELIZABETH VAN NICE, born Feb. 15. 1824, mar- ried Bern". F. Williams. March 21, 1859. He died Oct. 30, 1912. Elizabeth Williams died Feb. 3, 1916, at the. home of her daughter, Mrs. Beresford, near Garrison, Iowa. She lacked only twelve days of reaching the age of 92 years. Children : 1-8 LEAH MARGARET WILLIAMS, born Dec. 15, 1859, married Howard L. Beresford, Dec. 16. 1879. They live near Vinton, Iowa. Children :
1-9 Cecile Alien Beresford, bom Sept. 28, 1881, married Arthur J. Auld, Jan. 23, 1902. They live near Vinton in Benton County, Iowa. Children :
1-10 Emorv Auld, born Dec. 2, 1902. 2_10 Leland Auld. born May 13, 1905. 3_10 Bvron Marine Auld, born May 9, 1907. 4_10 Howard Stephen Auld, born Feb. 9, 1911. 2_9 Ethel Margaret Beresford, born Aug. 19, 1883, married Dr. J. B. Porter of Dysart, Iowa, Aug. 19, 1908. Children:
1-10 Rex Tudor Porter, born Oct. 16, 1910. 2_10 Philip Beresford Porter, born Jan. 5, 1915.
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3_9 Edgar Rex Beresford. born Dec. 18, 1885. mar- ried Mary Blogotte, Sept. 26, 1912. They live at Ames, Iowa. One son, 1_10 Robert Beresford, born June 17, 1914. 4_9 Frank Leon Beresford, born Dec. 22, 1890, mar- ried Nellie Patterson, Oct. 6, 1915. They live at Garrison, Iowa. 5_9 Emory Hobart Beresford, born Dec. 6, 1896. 6_9 Helen Elizabeth Beresford, born Jan. 5, 1900. 7_9 Howard Clinton Beresford, born Sept. 11, 1902. 2_8 NELSON HARVEY WILLIAMS, born Jan. 17.
1861, died Nov. 27, 1889. 3_8 EDGAR SAMUEL WILLIAMS, born Nov. 8, 1862,
died May 11, 1889. 4.8 MARY H. WILLIAMS, born April 29, 1868, died July 22, 1868. 5_7 CATHERINE VAN NICE, daughter of Henry and Leah, born Dec. 2, 1825. after the death of her sister. Mary Ann in 1866, married John V. Covert in Oct. 1873. She died in March. 1885. 6_7 LEAH JANE VAN NICE, daughter of Henry and Leah Voris Van Nice, was born March 22, 1827, in Switzerland Co., Ind., and was married to Abraham Sebern in Benton County, Iowa. Children : 1_8 ORIEN VAN NICE SEBERN, born in Johnson Co., Ind., Nov. 13, 1848, married Lois Velina Goodell at Vinton, Iowa, Jan. 3, 1883. They live at Merid- ian, Idaho, near Boise. Children :
1_9 Earl Goodell Sebern, born Oct. 22, 1883, died in Wyoming, where the family then lived, at the age of sixteen. 2_9 Edith Lois Sebern, born Oct. 28, 1884. 3_9 Oral Wvoma Sebern, born Nov. 11, 1892. 4_9 Glenn Edgar Sebern, born May 2, 1895. 2_8 EMMA SEBERN, born in Indiana, Dec. 2, 1851, married Charles Lee of Vinton, Iowa. Children:
1_9 Muzetta Lee of Vinton, la. 2_9 Regina Lee of Odebolt, la. 3_9 Pearl Lee of Odebolt, la.
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3_8 SOPHRONIA SEBERN, born in Indiana, married Clinton C. Lytle. They live at Denison, Iowa. Children:
1_9 Guy Sebern Lytle, of Odebolt, Iowa. 2_0 Blanche Lvtle, of Gilman, Iowa. 3_9 Lola Millie Lytle. 4_9 Rollo C. Lvtle of Milton. Oregon. 4_8 HARVEY ORLANDO SEBERN. born at Vinton, Iowa, in 1858, married Alice Lawrence of Boise, Idaho. No children. 7.7 HENRY VAN NICE, son of Henry and Leah, born
Dec. 4, 1828, died March 27. 1834. 8_7 JOHN NEWTON VAN NICE, born Sept. 20, 1831, married Callie Williams. They lived at Omaha, Nebr. They had two sons, Charles and William bur their whereabouts are unknown. 9_7 CORNELIUS HARVEY VAN NICE, born Dec. 2,
1833, died Dec. 3, 1853. 10.7 HENRY CALVIN VAN NICE, born May 17, 1836,
died Aug. 4. 1843. U_7 ARCHIBALD VAN NICE, born Jan. 7, 1838, died
Jan. 21, 1844. 12_7 EMELINE VAN NICE, born Dec. 20, 1839, died Jan. 24, 1843.
3_6 ISAAC VAN NICE son of Isaac and Leah Banta Van Nice, was born Nov. 2, 179G, in Kentucky. He married first, Agnes Blunk in 1820, in Switzerland County, Ind., and married 2nd, Jane E. Benefiel, who was born Dec. 8, 1798, in Clarke Coun- ty, Ky. He was a farmer. They first lived in Jefferson County, Ind., then about 1834 removed to Clinton, Coun- ty, where he died Oct. 3, 1844. In 1853 his widow moved to Lebanon. Ind.. and in 1871 to Taylor County, Iowa, where she died, March 13, 1883. Children bv first marriage: 1-7 LEAH VAN NICE, born June 16, 1825. was married Oct. 13, 1846 to Reuben Peter of Rossville, Ind. She died in January, 1903. Children : 1-8 HARRIET I. PETER, born Oct. 15, 1848, died Oct.
22, 1865. 2-8 JAMES C. PETER, born Sept. 9, 1850, married Rebecca A. Fritz, Oct. 3, 1872. He died Jan. 7, 1874.
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3_8 IRVIN S. PETER, born Oct. 16, 1S52, married
Hettie A. Wilev. 4_S JOHN Q. A. PETER, was bom April 19. 1855, and was married to Mary O. Gimkle. Aug. 20, 1882. He is a prominent citizen of Rossville, Clin- ton County, Ind. They and most of their family are Methodists. Children:
1_9 Madison Chester Peter, born at Rossville, lnd.T Nov. 29, 1883, married Henrietta Moore at Mul- berry, Ind., Nov. 19, 1910. He is a plumber. He is Republican in politics and a K. of P. They si a Republican and a K. of P. Thev are mem- bers of the Methodist church at Palmdale, Calif 2_9 Bessie EInora Peter, born Sept. 13, 1885, mar- ried Oscar Benton Haslet at Rossville, Nov. 19, 1902. He is a farmer at Geetingsville, Ind They are Presbyterians. Children :
1-10 Bethel Lorena Haslet, born March 14, 1903. 2_10 Leslie Leroy Haslet, born Aug. 24. 1904. 3_10 Mary Jane Haslet, born April 4, 1907. 4_10 Howard Benton Haslet, born Aug. 17. 1912. 5_10 Marvin Elmo Haslet, born Feb. 21, 1914. All born at Geetingsville. 3_9 Jessie Alice Peter, born Aug. 3, 1887. married Robert Andrew Kemper at Frankfort, Ind.. Nov. 23, 1912. He is a carpenter at Marshalltown, Iowa. They are Methodists and Republicans. 4_9 Lelia May Peter, born at Rossville, Aug. 30, 1889. She is a telephone operator at Ross\ille. 5_9 Wm. Harrison Peter, born Dec. 1, 1891 is a K.
of P. at Rossville. 6_9 Mabel Gwendolyn Peter, was born in Lincoln, Nebr., Jan. 18, 1895. She is an instructor in a school at Rossville. 7_9 Naomi Ruth Peter was born at Lincoln, Aug. 5,
1897. 8_9 Delbert Dale Peter was born at Rossville, Ind.,
May 19, 1900. 9_9 Clarence Valentine Peter was born Feb. 14,
1903. 10_9 John Maurice Cleo Peter born in Rossville, Sept. 7, 1906.
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5_8 HENRY F. PETERS was bom June 9, 1857 and on April 22, 1888 married Mary Popjoy of Ores- ton, Iowa. He is in the real estate business at Lin- coln, Nebraska, where they live at 2817 Holdrege Street. They have one daughter, 1_9 Frances L. Peters, born March 1, 1889 at Cres- ton, Iowa. She married on Oct. 14, 1914, Mr. Hosic, special accountant for Woods Eros, at Lincoln. They are all members of the Metho- dist church. 6_8 LANORA ALICE PETER was born "Feb. 20. 1859, near Rossville, Ind., and was married April 10, 1879 to Myron V. Steward, a teacher. He died in 1883, and on May 2, 1889 she was married again at Lincoln, Nebr., to Albert K. Harder. He is a carpenter and they live in Indianapolis. They are members of the Presbyterian church.
Children, 1st marriage:
1_9 Laura Mabel Steward, born Sept. 2G, 1880, died
Jan. 5, 1884. 2_9 Arthur Leroy Steward, born July 20. 1883. He
is a dentist in Indianapolis. Children, 2nd marriage :
3_9 Bernice Lucile Harder born Jan. 21, 1891. 4_9 Mildred Marguerite Harder, born Oct. 12, 1899. 7_8 EDWARD LAUREL PETER was born Aug. 12, 1861 and married on July 31, 1882, Cora A. Rob- inson. He is a physician and surgeon at Flora, Ind. He graduated in 1889 and his professional practice has been continuous since. He has been R. R. surgeon for the Pennsylvania Line since 1902. He is a 32d degree mason of "Valley of Indianapolis" and a York Rite mason, Delphi Com- mandery, No. 40, K. T. He and all his family are Presbyterians. Children : 1-9 Nellie Genevra Peter, born Jan. 18, 1884, died
in 1907. 2_9 Thomas Dewitt Peter, born Feb. 20. 1885, mar- ried Ella Withers in 1906. No children. He is a physician and has been in partnership with Iv's father since he graduated in 1906. He is a 32d
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degree Scottish Rite Mason, "Valley of Indian- apolis". 8_8 MARION C. PETER, born March 24, 1864. died
June 2, 1865. 9_8 ORION F. PETER, born Nov. 22, 1865, married Henrietta Ballon of Lincoln, Nebraska, where they live at 2925 Apple St. Children:
1_9 Clair E. Peter, born Sept. 5, 1893. 2_9 Hobart M. Peter, born Dec. 28. 1896. ' 3_9 Oval D. Peter, born May 15, 1898. 10_8 ELIZA DELL PETERS, born Dec. 17, 1868, mar- ried Irwin H. Bossuet, Sept. 9, 1888 at Creston, Iowa. He was born April 26, 1863. He is a mem- ber of I. O. O. F. and M. W. A. Lodges. They are members of the M. E. Church and live in Duluth, Minn. Children :
1_9 Orien Harris Bossuet. born Dec. 28, 18S9. at Lincoln, Nebr., married Evelyn Paulu at Proc- tor, Minn., Jan. 1, 1913. One daughter 1_10 Jane Fay Bossuet, born in Duluth, Aug. 3, 1914. He is chief clerk in the mechanical department of the Canadian Northern R. R. at Duluth. They are members of the Presbyterian church, of Scottish Clan and M. W. A. 2_9 Harry Dean Bossuet, born July 12, 1891, at Lin- coln, Nebr., married Fern B. Rappold, Oct. 20, 1914. He is a minister in the M. E. Church at Onamia, Minn. One daughter, 1_10 Miriam Ardell Bossuet, born Nov. 11, 1915, at Onamia. 3_9 Leah Sarah Bossuet born in Le Sueur County, Minn., July 14, 1897, H. S. graduate of 1916. ' 2_7 JOHN VAN NUYS, son of Isaac and Agnes Blunk Vannice, was born June 12, 1826, and was twice mar- ried.
Children of Isaac by second marriage. 3_7 MARY ANN VAN NUYS, born Dec. 29, 1833, died
June 2, 1834. 4..7 AGNES BLUNK VAN NUYS. bom Nov. 29, 1834, died June 2, 1853.
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5_7 ELIZA BENEFIEL VAN NUYS, bom Oct. 29, 1836, was married in Clinton County, Ind., Dec. 25, 1855, to David Henry Hamilton. He was an attorney in Lebanon, Ind., many years, but in 1871 he removed to Taylor County, Iowa, where he died Jan. 2, 1895. Eliza Van Nice Hamilton is living- with her son Frank in that County, but their post office is Hopkins, Mo. They had eleven children, all but three of whom died in infancy. Eliza Hamilton has one of the old fam- ily Bibles, the entries in which she believes to be in her father's handwriting, but he omitted dates of both his marriages. Children: 1_8 FRANK HAMILTON was born in Lebanon. Ind., April 6, 1857, and went with his parents to Taylor County, Iowa, where he married Louise Dresner Dec. 25, 18S3. He is a farmer in Taylor County. One son was born to them. 1_9 James Ross Hamilton, born Aug. 24, 1887, died July 16, 1S90. 2_8 JESSIE ADELIA HAMILTON was born Feb. 24, 1859, at Lebanon, Ind., and was married at Bed- ford, Iowa, Nov. 17, 1878 to Walter Ross. They lived in Creston, Iowa, three years before moving to Kansas City, Mo., in 1886. She died there June 11, 1889. Her husband is a merchant in Kansas City. They had three Children :
1_9 Irene Ross, born Feb. 4, 1884, married Nov. 24, 1911, Ernest Johnson, who is in the insurance business. They live at 2604 East 5th St., Kan- sas City, Mo., and have one son. 1-10 Ernest E. Johnson, Jr., born Oct. 15, 1914 at Pittsburg, Pa. 2-9 Olga Ross, born April 29, 1889, at Kansas City, married Henry C. Booker, June 14, 1913. They live in Kansas City, and have one son. 1-10 Walter Ross Booker, born July 16. 1914. 3-9 Olive Ross, twin of Olga, born April 29, 1889, married to Harold Wheelock. June 26, 1915. He is an architect at Arcadia, Ohio. 3-8 KATHERINE B. HAMILTON, born in Lebanon, Ind., Aug. 10, 1867, married Augustine H. Craw-
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ford, June 15, 1SS7. The next year they went to Denver. Colo., but in 1914 returned to Sioux City, Iowa, where he is in the real estate business. Children :
1_9 Vera K. Crawford, born March 12, 1889. at Creston. la., was married to Bert Brines. June 15, 1907. They live in Sioux City, Iowa, where he is a telephone lineman. They have one son, 1_10 Morris Brines, born Aug. 27, 1910, at Den- ver, Colo. 2_9 Ruth Hamilton Crawford, born Aug. 15, 1901. 6_7 MARTHA J. VAN NICE, daughter of Isaac and Jane Benenel Van Nice, was born Sept. 24, 1838 and died unmarried Feb. 15, 1866. 7_7 ESTHER C. VAN NICE, born Feb. 13, 1841, died un- married Feb. 19, 1866.
4_6 PETER VAN NUYS son of Isaac and Leah (Banta) Van Nuys, was born in Shelby County, Ky., Feb. 5, 1798, and was married June 7, 1821 to Elizabeth Banta of Bourbon County, Ky., bom Dec. 17, 1798, and a daughter of Henry and Sallie (Shuck) Banta. They moved to Switzerland County, Indiana, probably about the time his father went, which was in 1816, and he died there in 1867. He was a farmer, and an elder in the Presbyterian Church.
Children : 1_7 SARAH ANN VAN NUYS was born July 21, 1822, in Switzerland County, Ind., and was married to Wil- liam M. Weaver, Nov. 5, 1840. He was born in Nich- olas County, Ky., Oct. 16, 1814 and died in Indiana, Dec. 10, 1890. She died at Lebanon, Ind., where they lived. They had eleven Children : 1_8 JAMES HENRY WEAVER, born Sept., 1841. in Switzerland County, Ind., died Feb. 13, 1863, at Murfreesboro, Tenn, in the Civil War. 2_8 MARY ELIZABETH WEAVER, born Nov. 6. 1842, married William H. Richey, Dec. 25, 1866, in Boone County, Ind. She died March 31, 1876. Children :
1_9 Jennie E. Richey, who married F. M. Can*, March 13, 1889. They have two sons.
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2_9 James W. Richey, who married, Aug. 1898, and had a son and a daughter, but both died young. 3_9 Charles E. Richey, married Sept. 25, 1895 Millie Caldwell. They have four children. 3_8 LEAH ANN WEAVER, born Jan. 1, 1844, in Swit- zerland County, Ind., married in Tipton County, Ind., April 2, 1862, John H. Sexton. Leah Weaver died Jan. 10, 1869, at Attica, Ind. They had one child. 4_8 JOHN WESLEY WEAVER, born April 29, 1845, in Switzerland County, Ind., married Sarah E. Stephenson in Lebanon, Ind., Dec. 24, 1867. He died Dec, 1901. Children :
1_9 Walter Weaver. 2_9 Charles Weaver, died young. 3_9 Lillian Weaver, died young. 4_9 Elmer Weaver. 5_9 Cora Weaver. 5_8 MARGARET ALMIRA WEAVER, born, Jan. 5. 1847, married William H. Richey, April 13, 1875 at Kokomo, Ind. Five children were born to them. 1_9 Frank W. Richey, born May 16, 1876, died Dec.
10, 1885. 2_9 Edgar H. Richey, born Aug. 19, 1879. died Feb.
25, 1900. 3_9 Elmer A. Richey, born July 4, 1881, married Elizabeth Higgins, at Lebanon, Ind., Oct. 15, 1902. One daughter. 1_10 Margaret Eleanor Richey. 4_9 Elbert T. Richey born July 4, 1881, married at Fowler, Ind., Oct. 9, 1905, Elsie Barnes. They have one son. 1-10 Senior B. Richey. 5_9 Ray Ralph Richey was born Aug. 24, 1S86, and married Ada Shaffer, Sept. 8, 1906. They have three Children:
1-10 Melvin B. Richey. 2_10 Ralph E. Richey. 3_10 Jane S. Richey. 6-8 RACHEL ELLEN WEAVER, born Aug. 16, 1849, in Switzerland County, Ind., married William Rob-
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ert Morrison, Aug. 2, 1874, in Tipton County, Ind. No children. 7_8 WM. HENRY HARRISON WEAVER, born Aug. 4, 1851, married Sept. 20, 1874, Caroline Clark, who was born March 17, 1S55. He died Jan. 28, 1901. They had thirteen . Children :
1_9 Jacob M. Weaver, born Oct. 24, 1875. 2_9 Stella E. Weaver, born Feb. 3, 1878, was mar- ried Sept. 24, 1897 to Charles T. Nichols, born June 12, 1867. They had four Children :
1_10 Sophia Nichols, bom Julv 17, 1898.
2_10 Ola Nichols, born Dec. 24. 1900.
3_10 Maynard Nichols, born May 6, 1903, died
June 10, 1906. 4_10 Farrel Nichols, born Dec. 6, 1909. 3_9 Beryl M. Weaver, born April 24, 1880. 4_9 Iza O. Weaver, born March 26, 1882. 5_9 Clarivel A. Weaver, born Nov. 29, 1883. 6_9 Flossie M. Weaver, born April 5, 1885. 7_9 Vernon Weaver, born Aug. 24, 1886. 8_9 Fannie R. Weaver, born Nov. 29, 1887, died
Dec. 13, 1887. 9_9 Ross M. Weaver, born Feb. 1, 1889. 10_9 Harvey D. Weaver, born May 9. 1890. 11_9 Chester B. Weaver, born Jan. 20, 1892. 12_9 August C. Weaver, born Sept. 22, 1895. 13_9 Esther G. Weaver, born June 6, 1898. Died Oct. 3, 1898. 8_8 PETER VAN NUYS WEAVER, born May 23,1853, in Switzerland County, Ind., was married to Jane E. Hughes bv Rev. T. M. Moulder, on Jan. 27, 1877, in Howard County, Ind. They had elev- en Children :
1_9 Alfred Ulysses Weaver, born Sept. 19, 1878, married Elizabeth Patterson June 29. 1910. One son. 1_10 Norman Rex Weaver, born May, 1911. 2_9 James Edgar Weaver, born Oct. 30, 1880. 3_9 William Alexander Weaver, born Sent. 28, 1882.
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4_9 Lucretia Crystal Weaver, born Sept. 6, 1884, married Philip J. Roy, March 22, 1913. One daughter. 1_10 Irene Marie Roy, born March 8, 1914. 5_9 Lillian Letitia Weaver, born April 9, 1886, died
April 7, 1890. C_9 Benjamin Harrison Weaver, born July 3, 188S,
married Ila Hawk, Jan. 16, 1910. 7_9 Omer Weaver, born May 27, 1891. 8_9 Sylvester V. Weaver, born Aug. 2, 1894, mar- ried Grace Trooper, May 18, 1915. 9_9 Leora Maude Weaver, born Nov. 30, 1897. 10_9 Leota May Weaver, twin to Leora. 11_9 Clarence Everett Weaver, born Feb. 12, 1900, died March 13, 1906. 9_8 MARTHA JANE WEAVER, born June 14, 1855. in Tipton County, Ind., married Amos Endaly. Jan. 28, 1875. Seven Children:
1_9 James H. Endaly, born Nov. 27, 1875. was mar- ried in 1S96 to Nettie Mav Miller, and was mar- ried 2d, to Matilda R. Bradshaw. 2_9 William Oliver Endaly, born Dec. 1, 1877, mar- ried Louella Vawters in Sept, 1903. They have two Children :
1_10 Alpha May Endaly, born March, 1913. 2_10 Martha Elizabeth Endaly, born Aug. 12, 1915. 3_9 Martha Victoria Endalv, born Sept. 16, 1880.
died Dec. 22, 1912. 4_9 Mary Delsena Endaly, born July 4, 1882, mar- ried James V. Howe, Aug. 28, 1901. Three Children:
1_10 Kenneth Elisha Howe, born July 15, 1902. 2_10 Stella Valona Howe, born Dec. 18, 1903. 3_10 Ravmond Andrew Howe, born Oct. 16, 1906. James V. Howe died in April 1908, and Mary D. Howe was married again Aug. 11, 1911 to Elmer L. Mikels. 5_9 Martha Ellen Endaly, bom Feb. 20, 1885, mar- ried Claude C. Debord, in Aug. 1900. Four
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Children :
1_10 William Merle Debord, born April 24, 1901. 2_10 John Dale Debord. born Aug. 23. 1903. 3_10 Anna May Debord, born May 15, 1905. 4_10 Grace E. Debord, born Nov. 23, 1911. 6_9 Elisha Robert Endalv, born March 9, 1S88, died
Oct. 12, 1892. 7_9 Walter Cooper Endalv, born March 10, 1893, died Sept. 7, 1897. 10_8 THOMAS ANDERSON WEAVER, born Jan. 19,
1861, in Tipton County, Ind., died Feb. 18, 1885.
11_8 SARAH ETTA WEAVER, born Feb. 9, 1869.
married Dec. 24, 1SS6, John H. Sexton. She died
June 16, 1S91, at Sheridan, Ind. They had one son.
2_7 ISAAC VAN NUYS, born Dec. 24, 1823, died Aug.
27, 1825. 3_7 LEAH VAN NUYS, born Feb. 11, 1825. married Henry Charlton, March 13, 1851. She died July 18, 1868. They lived at Pleasant, Switzerland County, Indiana. Children : 1_8 NEWTON EDWIN CHARLTON, born in Switzer- land County, Nov. 28, 1851, married on Jan. 23, 1878, at Falmouth, Indiana, Susan McGregor, born Jan. 19, 1852, a granddaughter of John Van Nays (brother of Peter Van Nuys) Present residence is Clayton, New Mexico, where he is a practicing Physician, with some other business interests. Children :
1_9 Maggelline Charlton, born Aug. 6, 1880, mar- ried Earl Messenger. No children. 2.9 Alice Charlton, born June, 1885. 3_9 Dale Charlton, born Sept., 1889. He is connect- ed with a milling company at Clavton, N. M. 2_8 FRANCIS M. CHARLTO:< born Nov. 25, 1852, married Oct. 5, 1877, Josie Rushton of Madison, Indiana, daughter of David and Elizabeth Rush- ton. For about twenty five years he practiced law in Chicago, but in 1907 they went to San Fran- cisco, where they now reside at 1072 Sanchez St. One son, 1_9 Rushton H. Charlton, born May 1, 1879, mar- ried July 20, 1903, Hermine Spitz. He has been
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the government forest supervisor in a California district since 1903. One daughter, 1_10 Louise Frances Charlton, born Oct. 16, 1907. 3_8 WILLIAM S. CHARLTON, born in Switzerland County, Ind., April 20, 1859, married Matilda Black, of Greensburg, Ind. He was a jeweler. He died April 17, 1891, and his widow in 1905. One son. 1_9 Dwight Charlton, born 1892, died in 1913, or 1914. 4_8 ROLLIN C. CHARLTON, born Feb. 11, 1861, mar- ried Mattie E. Eaton, daughter of Stephen and Mary Porter Eaton. They live near Arnett, Okla- homa, where he is a farmer. Children :
1_9 Marv Leah Charlton, born at Pleasant, Ind., Dec. 17, 1882. She is a teacher at Arnett, Okla. 2.-9 Thomas H. Charlton, born June 11, 1886, mar- ried Myrtle Brooks at Arnett, Oct. 9, 1909. They live on a farm near Paradox. Colo. 3_9 Leslie E. Charlton, born Jan. 15, 1889, at Spring field, Colo., married Mvrtle L. Eldredge, at Arnett, June 2, 1914. They live at Gage, Okla. He is a teacher in a college. 4_7 MARGARET VAN NUYS, born Feb. 18, 1827, mar- ried John Demaree, June 5, 1856. He was born July 23, 1819. She is a widow living at Lebanon, Ind., in her 90th year and in reasonably good health. (She died in September, 1916). Children : 1-8 LIZZIE BANTA DEMAREE, born June 25, 1857,
died March 5, 1882. 2_8 PETER SYMMES DEMAREE, born May 19, 1862, in March. 1883, married Sarah Smith, born Dec. 17, 1860. They live in Wichita, Kan., and have two Children :
1_9 Arthur E. Demaree, born Aug. 15, 1888. 2_9 Earl Gilbert Demaree. 5-7 MARY VAN NUYS, born Feb. 3, 1829, married Nov. 16, 1848, Joseph Voris, who was born June 6, 1825, and died Dec. 8, 1898. His widow and daughter Rozella still live on the old homestead near Pleasant in Switzerland County, Indiana. At the age of al-
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most eighty seven years her faculties are unimpaired and her memory remarkably retentive, enabling her to keep in touch with the family connection through a wide correspondence. The longevity of the Van Nuys family is noteworthy. All must have remarked the great number of octogenarians still active, and interested in the progress of events. Mrs. Voris her- self writes entertainingly of the early history of the family in Kentucky, when Indians scouting about the woods was a common occurrence; and her grand father Banta was shot through the shoulder by one of them. Children :
.8 JOHN A. VORIS. born at Pleasant, Indiana. Nov. 20, 1849, married Lucy Atkinson, Dec. 13, 1875. She was born Feb. 10. 1855, and died June 30, 1885. He married again April 23, 1888, Margaret Ann Van Nuys, born Nov. 30, 1849, daughter of Samuel and Amy List Van Nuys. He was educat- ed at Hanover College, and teaching was his life work. They lived at Lebanon, Ind. Children by first marriage:
1_9 Guy M. Voris. born at Lebanon, March, 1876. married Leah Cory in April, 1902. He was grad- uated from Wabash College. He is now in the in surance business at Lebanon, Indiana. Children:
1_10 Lida Harriet Voris, born August, 1903. 2_10 Mary Voris, born Jan., 1904. 3_10 Fremont Neil Voris, born September, 1908. 4_10 Martha Jane Voris, born August, 1911. 5_10 Robert Voris, born February, 1915. 2_9 Bruce H. Voris, born February, 1879. married Maybelle Rae, Dec. 25, 1907. He is a telegraph operator at Newton Falls, Ohio. Children :
1_10 Lucy Rae Voris, born June, 1909. 2_10 John Bruce Voris, born December, 1910. 3_10 James Calvin Voris, born November, 1912. 4_10 Donnell Voris, born Jan., 1915. 5_10 Dorothy, twin of Donnell. 3_9 Mary L. Voris, born July, 1881, married James W. Eads, September, 1901. They live on a farm near Hopewell, Ind.
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Children:
1_10 James Edwin Eads, born August, 1902. 2_10 Marion Bright Eads, born Sept., 1903. 3_10 John Wesley Eads, born May, 1905. 4_10 Frank Voris Eads. born Dee., 1908. 5_10 Chester Buren Eads, born in Jan.. 1912. 6_10 Carroll Milton Eads, born Nov., 1913. 4_9 Florence R. Voris, born at Lebanon, Ind., June, 1884. She has been engaged in social settle- ment work in Chicago, but is novv- a visiting nurse at Spokane, Wash. She is a graduate of St. Luke's Hospital, Chicago. 2_8 ROSELLA E. VORIS, born Feb. 14, 1851. 3_8 HARVEY B. VORIS, born April 24. 1852, married Mary L. Wilson, Sept. 7, 1S82, who died in 1883. He married 2nd. Mary A. Culbertson, Sept. 9, 1886. She was born Sept. 4, 1858, and died May 26, 1897. He lives on a farm near Pleasant, Ind. Children : 1_9 Paul C. Voris, who is a minister at Hinckley,
Minn. 2_9 Harrison S. Voris, born Nov. 1, 18S8. He is a
teacher at Charles City, Iowa. 3_9 Clarence Voris, born June 11. 1890. He is a
teacher in Illinois. 4_9 Anna Voris, born Jan. 26, 1895. In college at
Hanover. 5_9 Harvev H. Voris. born May 2, 1897. 4_8 MILTON T. VORIS, born April 15, 1853, died
May 22, 1854. 5_8 PETER VAN NICE VORIS, born Feb. 25, 1855, married Emma Campbell, Aug. 16, 1883. Is a teacher at Versailles, Ind. Children: 1_9 Katherine Voris, born Feb. 28, 1885. She is a
teacher. 2_9 Harold Voris. born in 1886. died young. 3..9 Mabel Voris, born Jan. 31, 1889. She also is a teacher. 6-8 CORNELIUS A. VORIS, born May 19, 1856, died Aug. 4, 1906, married Mrs. Mollie Cooper, who died April 22, 1902. He was a farmer near Pleas- ant, Ind. One son. 1-9 Harold C. Voris, born April 18, 1902.
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7_8 OLIVER L. VORIS, born May 21, 1859, married Carrie Pietsmyer, of Chester, Ind., Dec. 29, 1891. He is a teacher at Patriot, Ind. One daughter. 1_9 Mary Edna Voris, born Jan. IS, 1S95. She is a teacher in Wayne County, Ind. 8_8 JOSEPH H. VORIS, born Nov. 11, 18G2, married June 22, 1904, Margaret Murray of DeWitt, 111. He is a teacher at Odeboit. Iowa. 9_8 MARY ELIZABETH VORIS, born May 3, 1863,
died Oct. 6. 18S3. 10_8 ROSCOE S. VORIS, born Sept. 12, 186S. died Aug. 11, 1871. 6.7 HENRY VAN NUYS, son of Peter and Elizabeth Banta Van Nuys, was born Nov. 9, 1330, and married Catherine Demaree, March 11, 1858. She died May 26, 1865, and on Nov. 22. 1874 he married Jerusha Hammond, who died Sept. 27, 1876. He died in Lebanon, Ind., June 26, 1916, in his 86th year. Children : 1_8 CATHERINE ELIZABETH VAN NUYS, who died
in 1864. 2_8 MARY MINERVA VAN NUYS, who is a practic- ing physician at Lebanon, Ind. 3_8 CLARA VAN NUYS, who is a teacher at Elkhart, Ind. By second wife : 4_8 EVA BLANCHE VAN NUYS, who married M. B. Stokes. He is a physician in Houston, Texas. 7_7 JOHN C. VAN NUYS, born Dec. 11, 1832. He and Mary Ellen Carnine were married, Dec. 25, 1856, by Francis Symmes, at Pleasant. Switzerland County. Indiana. He died in 1908. They lived at Thorn- town, Ind. Children : 1_8 HARVEY EDWARD VAN NUYS. born Oct. 30, 1857, near Pleasant, Switzerland County, Ind., married Dec. 17, 1891, Loulie B. Thomson of Thorntown, Boone County, Ind., where they still live. He is engaged in farming. Children : 1_9 Harold Thomson Van Nuys, born April 30.
1893, near Thorntown, died June 28, 1915. 2_9 John LefFord Van Nuys, born Jan. 7, 1900, near Elizaville, Ind.
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2_8 CHRISTENA ELIZABETH VAN NUYS, born Aug. 12, 1860, near Pleasant, Ind., married Dec. 31, 1885, Willard Stephenson of Thorntown, Boone County, Ind. To this union was born one daughter, May 3, 1887. Mary Grace Van Nuvs.
3_8 A son, born Dec. 16, 1863, died Jan. 11, 1864. They live at Lebanon, Ind.
4_8 JOHN CHAUNCY VAN NUYS, born July 5. 1868, near Thorntown. Ind., married June 16, 1897, Car- rie Maud Graves of Thorntown. He is a physician at Lufkin, Texas.
Children:
1_9 Leonard Graves Van Nuvs, born Nov. 16, 1898
died June 2, 1900. 2_9 Frances Graves Van Nuvs, born March 24, 1902
at Lufkin, Texas. 3._9 John Chauncy Van Nuys, Jr., born Sept. 12,
1905, at Lufkin.
5-8 ALBERT RAYMOND VAN NUYS, born March 29, 1876, Unmarried. Lives at Idaho Falls, Idaho, where he is engaged in editorial work and farm- nig.
8.7 THOMAS VAN NUYS, born March 8, 1835, died in the army in the Civil War, June 5, 1865.
9-7 ANDREW BANTA VAN NUYS, born Aug. 4, 1837, in Switzerland County, Indiana, married October 5, 1866, Harvenia Frances Mount, who was born May 10, 1847, in Montgomery County, Indiana. She is a sister of Ex-Governor Mount of Indiana. They live on a farm near Lebanon, Indiana. On October 5, 1916, they happily celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage.
Children:
1-8 ETTA IOLA VAN NUYS, born August 25, 1867, died Nov. 24, 1882.
2-8 EMMA LUCINDA VAN NUYS, born Aug. 14, 1869, died April 13, 1893.
3-8 ASHTON MOUNT VAN NUYS, born Aug. 7, 1872, married Dec. 22, 1904, Josephine S. Jones, who is an ardent D. A. R. He is a prominent at- torney at Muncie, Ind.
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4_8 MABEL ESTELLA VAN NUYS, horn April 15, 1879, married June 22, 1901, Chester Fuller Ran- ney, a farmer near Lebanon, Ind. Children:
1_9 Ralph Carroll Ranney, born Oct. 8. 1903. 2_9 Mildred Frances Ranney, born April 9, 1906. 3_9 Wilma Lucinda Ranney. born Oct. 9, 1909. 4_9 Mabel Van Nuys Ranney, born Oct. 17. 1913. 5_9 James Lowell Ranney, born April 1, 1916. 10_7 PETER SYMMES VAN NUYS, born Jan. 24, 1840, married April 19, 1866. Amanda Holby Matthews, who was born Feb. 5, 1S43. and died Jan. 17, 1911. He died Jan. 17, 1880. They lived at Thorntown, Ind.
Children: 1_8 ROBERT GAYLE VAN NUYS. born at Lebanon, Ind., April 29, 1875, was married to Grace G. Marquis, on June 26, 1901. He is in the insurance business at Frankfort, Ind. Children :
1_9 Dorothy G. Van Nuys, born July 26. 1902. 2_9 Mary V. Van Nuys, born Nov. 25. 1907. 3_9 Roberta G. Van Nuys, born Oct. 26. 1909. 2_8 MARY MATTHEWS VAN NUYS, born June 11, 1878, died Dec. 28, 1882.
5_6 MARY VAN NUYS daughter of Isaac and Leah (Banta) Van Nuys, was born Nov. 11, 1799, in either Mercer or Shelby County, Ky.. and she came with her parents to Switzerland Counts, Ind., in 1816, the year the state was admitted into the union. She married Albert D. Voris, June 4, 1819, near Vevay, in the same county. He died within a few months, and on April 14, 1821, she was again married to John Bandy, born June 4, 1794. In 1838, the year Iowa was organized into a separate territorial government, John and Mary Bandy again sought the frontier, settling on a tract of government land near Kossuth, in Yellow Springs township, Des Moines County, Iowa.
"He was one of the pioneers .who brought the influence of a Christian life with him, and that influence is still felt for good in this community." — From History of Yellow Springs Township.
He was a soldier in the War of 1812, and he had four
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sons, one son-in-law, and a grandson, who served in the Civil War.
They reared a large family, all of whom were a credit to the name. John Bandy died May 5, 1873 near Kossuth, Iowa, and his widow died at Fairfield, Iowa, June 2, 1881.
Children : !_7 WILLIAM BARTON BANDY, was born Jan. 20, 1822, in Switzerland County, Inch, and went with his parents to Iowa. He was marred three times. His first wife and their one child died early. In the early '50's he removed to Minnesota, and died near Jordan, Scott Co.. May 20, 1892 He and his family were Pres- byterians. He was a soldier in the Civil War, serving in the 34th Minnesota Infantry. He fell in a sunstroke a-t the Battle of luka, and never recovered from its effects, the injury to his eyes causing him to be al- most blind at the time of his death. Children by 2nd marriage: 1_8 MARY ISABELLA BANDY, born at Jordan, Minn., Oct. 31, 1S56, was married at Kossuth, la., Oct. 2, 1875 to Jasper E. Ware, who died Aug. 1, 1877, at Cottonwood, Nebr., and she was again married on April 8. 1884, at Fairfield, Iowa, to Daniel Bradbury. He served four years in Co. A, 3d Iowa Cavalry in the Civil War. He is a farm- er and a Republican, and thev are members of the M. E. Church. Children bv first marriage: 1_9 Glenn Ware, born Sept. 6, 1876, died March 4,
1877, at Kossuth, la. By second marriage :
2_9 Frank Bradbury, born Jan. 12, 1887 at Colby Kansas, married Nellie Lurena Gilbert at Grand Junction, Colo., Sept. 27, 1911. They live at Whitewater, Mesa County, Colo., where he is engaged in farming and stock raising. He is a Republican. Children :
1_10 Vera Lurena Bradbury, born June 19. 1913.
2_10 Nina Louise Bradbury, born Feb. 19. 1915.
3_9 Kate Bradbury, born June 8, 1888, married at
Whitewater, Colo., on June 5, 1907, Earle R.
Caldwell. They live at Mina, California, where
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he is a farmer. They are members of the Con- gregational Church. Children:
1_10 Elvin Russell Caldwell, born Feb. 29, 1908. 2_10 Marjory Caldwell, born March 21. 1911. 3_10 George Caldwell, born April 21, 1913. Children by third marriage of William Bandv; 2_8 THOMAS JOHN BANDY, born Sept. 24, 1874. He is a farmer at Jordan, Minn. He is married and has four Children:
1_9 Jessie Marie Bandy, born Aug. 22, 1902. 2_9 Florence Louise Bandy, born April 9. 1905. 3_9 Thomas Ford Bandy, born Mav 15, 1907. 4_9 Edith Ann Bandy, born Aug. 27, 1912. 2_7 ISAAC BANDY was born March 20. 1S23, and mar- ried May 2. 1845 Lucy Dean Middieton, who was born June 16, 1830. They went to Minnesota and remained some years, but returned to Kossuth. Iowa, and he died there June 30, 1885. Lucy Dean Bandv died Dec. 16, 1900. Children: 1_8 MINOR DERWIN BANDY, born April 8, 1847. He served in a Minnesota regiment in the War, but returned later to Iowa. He married May Nelson. No record of children furnished. Lives near Kos- suth.
2_8 MARY F. BANDY, born Jan. 4. 1849, died in 1854.
3_8 JOHN OSCAR BANDY, born Nov. 3, 1850. mar- ried Judith Hyden. He went hunting in the woods of Minnesota, Nov. 18, 1893, and was not heard from again. His body was found in Mav. 1894.
4-8 HIRAM NEWTON BANDY, was born Mav 26. 1852, and he married Lucinda Dix. He died April 18, 1912.
5.8 OWEN ALONZO BANDY, born Aug. 25, 1855, married Mary Ellen Patterson. They live near Mediapolis, Iowa. No record of their children.
6_8 HORACE EVAN BANDY, born April 17, 1858, married Pollv Davis.
7_8 IDA LEAH BANDY, twin of Horace. She married James Davis.
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8_8 ALVA HARRISON BANDY, born Jan. 3, I860
married. 9_8 EVA LAURA BANDY, born Jan. 23, 1862, mar ried James McKeown. They live near Kossuth Iowa. 10_S ELLA LOUISE BANDY, born July 3, 1865, mar
ried Eloff Anderson. 11_8 FRANK WARD BANDY, born June 10, 1867
married Urilla Freeland. 12_8 FRED ARTHUR BANDY, born April 19, 1870
is married. 13_8 EMMA MAY BANDY, born Aug. 18, 1873, m
ried James Harwood. 7 RACHEL BANDY, born at Kossuth, Iowa, Sept. 16 1824, married there Samuel Alonzo Hall of Berk shire County, Mass., May 5, 1843. He died in Santa Cruz, Calif., in 1902, aged eighty six years. Rache Bandy Hall died at the home of her grand children Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Peck at Soquel, Santa Cruz Coun- ty, California in October, 1905, aged eighty two years. Their home had been in Soquel, Calif. They had one daughter, 1_8 LOUISE ISABELL HALL, born Jan. 25, 1850, at Kossuth, la. She was married to Henry Harvey Green of Pescadero, California, on Nov. 15, 1871, at Soquel. Calif. He was killed at Pescadero, Cal., Nov. 7, 1873. Children :
1_9 Herbert Alonzo Green was born at Soquel, Cal., Sept. 23, 1872, and died at Santa Cruz, Decem- ber, 1881, aged 9 years. 2_9 'Mary Green, born at Pescadero, Oct. 23, 1873, was married to Schuyler Colfax Peck of Soquel, Cal., at the home of her mother at Santa Cruz, Sept. 16, 1896, In 1907 they removed to Ceres, Stanislaus County, California, where they now reside. Children :
1_10 Raymond Harvey Peck, born at Soquel, July
7, 1897. 2_10 Alberta Leona Peck, born May 2, 1900. 3_10 Burton Howard Peck, born Jan. 6, 1905, at Soquel.
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.7 THOMAS BANDY, son of John and Mary Van Nice
Bandy, was born in Indiana, April 28, 182G, and went
with his parents to Kossuth, Des Moines County,
Iowa, in 1837. He was married on Dec. 7, 1854 to
Elizabeth Ware, and moved to Jordan, Minnesota
in 1855, where they remained until 1878, when they
went to a farm near Volga, S. D. He died there on
his 87th birthday, April 28, 1913. His widow, in her
84th year, is living at Volga. Thomas Bandy was a
farmer. They were the parents of twelve children,
one dying in infancy.
1_8 JOHN STUART BANDY was born in Jordan,
Minn., Dec. 15, 1855, and on Nov. 11, 1885 was
married to Alice J. Albertson. He is in the real
estate business at Sioux Falls, S. D.
Children:
1_9 Thomas Walter Bandy, born Sept. 3, 1886. 2_9 Mary Emmeline Bandy, born Dec. 17, 1890, was married in June, 1916, to Dr. Herbert James Day, the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Man- ley Day. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri, and received his M. D. degree at the University of Minnesota. He has since estab- lished a successful practice at Harrisburg, S. D., where they reside. 3_9 Charles Dickerson Bandy, born July 15, 1900. 2_8 MATTHIAS W. BANDY, was born Aug. 12, 1S57 in Jordan, Minn., and on March 21, 1896 was mar- ried to Mary E. Sherwin, who died in 1903. He lives on a farm at Volga, S. D. Children:
1_9 Thomas Henry Bandy. 2_9 Ruth Emmeline Bandy. 3_9 Mary Grace Bandy. 3_8 THOMAS WALTER BANDY was born Jan. 4, 1859, and was married to Bertha E. Ross of Ha- warden, Iowa, Sept. 14. 1898. He is a mason and is a Republican in politics. They are members of the Presbyterian Church. They live at Huron, S. D., where he is a locomotive engineer. Children :
1_9 James Ross Bandy, born Sept. 16, 1899. 2_9 Margaret Elizabeth Bandy, born Julv 1, 1903. 3_9 Virginia Alice Bandy, born Feb. 5, 1911.
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MR. AND MRS. TANDY ALLEN
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4_8 MARTHA LEA BANDY, born in 1860, was mar- ried in 1S84 to J. A. Ware, who is in the mercan- tile business at Pontiac, Mich. Children.
1_9 Thomas Arthur Ware, born Aug. 31, 1886, at Volga, S. D., was married Nov. 25, 1906. He is a mason at North ville, Mich. They have two children, Sidnev and Donald. 2_9 Fred Wilber Ware, born Dec. 10, 1887, was married in April, 1914, and has one daughter, Grace Eleanor Ware. They live in Pontiac. 3_9 Paul Leighton Ware, born Mar. 6, 1889. at Lyndon, Ross County, Ohio. He is a machinist at Pontiac. 4_9 Lottie Lee Ware, born Nov. 2, 1891, at Jordan,
Minn. 5_9 Ralph Bandy Ware, born Dec. 9, 1892 at Jord- an, Minn. He is a florist in Pontiac. 6_9 Webber Waldo Ware, born May 29, 189G. 7_9 Rachel Katherine Ware, born Oct. 10, 1902 at Lyndon, Ohio. 5_8 KATE BANDY was born in IS 62, and was mar- ried to A. M. Ware in 1885. He died in 1907. Children : 1_9 George A. Ware, born at Lyndon, Ohio, July 3,
1887. He is married and has two Children:
1_10 Lois Alberta Ware. 2_3 0 Alfred Newton Ware. 2_9 Florence E. Ware, born at Volga, S. D. June 15, 1889, married. They live on a farm at Volga and have three children. Margaret Ethel, Wal- ter Serial and Clyde Amos. 6_8 HENRY A. BANDY, was born in 1864, at Kossuth, Iowa, and was married in 1894, to Martha Albert- son. He is a locomotive engineer and they live at Hawarden. Iowa. Thev have one daughter. 1_9 Esther D. Bandy. 7_8 SAMUEL W. BANDY, born in 1865, at Jordan,
Minn., died in infancy. 8-8 ELIJAH G. BANDY, born in 1868, married to Maude Van Oosterhout in 1S95. He is a farmer at Jordan, Minn. They have one son, John Bandy.
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9_8 ALBERT B. BANDY was born in 1870 and was married 1913 to Anna Yankz. They live on a farm at Jordan. 10.8 LOUISA JANE BANDY was born in 1872, at Jordan, and was married in 1897 to R. O. Albert- son. They live on a farm at Volga, S. D. Children :
Charles Paul, aged 16, and Alice Faye, Margaret Rachel, Doris Elizabeth, Mildred Edith and Mary Irene. 11-8 GEORGE A. BANDY, born in 1876, at Jordan, Minn., was married to Mary Albertson in 1900. They are engaged in farming at Espanola, Florida. Three children, Dorothv, William and Mary Eliza- beth. 5_7 JOHN BANDY, son of John and Mary Van Nice Bandy, was born Oct. 11, 1827, in LaFayette, Ind., and came to Iowa in 183S, settling in Des Moines County with his parents. He was in California 1850 to 1857, but returned and in 1860 married Guelima Statherun. He was a soldier in the Civil War in the 2d Iowa Cavalry. They went to Scott Co., Minn., in 1865, but returned to Fairfield, Iowa in 1884, and went to Fairfield, Nebr., in 1899, where he died in 1901. He was a farmer and business man. They were members of the Presbyterian church. Three of the four sons are ministers. Children : 1_8 CHARLES HENRY BANDY, D. D., born in Des Moines County, Iowa, in 1862, graduated from Parsons College in 1890, and from the Omaha Theological Seminary in 1893. He married Mary King in 1890. Having offered themselves for the foreign missionary field under the Presbyterian Board, when he had completed his theological course they went at once to India, U. P., and are stationed at Fahtegahr. 2_8 ROBERT S. BANDY, D. D. S., born in Des Moines County, Iowa, in 1863, graduated from Iowa State University in 1891, and entered upon his dental practice in Davenport, Iowa, but since 1893 has practiced in Tipton, Iowa. He married Rebecca Thomas of Iowa City in 1893. She died in 1900,
DESCENDANTS ISAAC AND FLORA VAN NUYSUSAAC 3_5) 10!
and in 1910 he married Mrs. Blanche Scott Sher- wood of Tipton. Iowa. He is a Republican. They are members of the Presbyterian church. Children:
1_9 Geneva Kathryn Bandy, born in 1896. She grad- uated in June. 1916 from the Normal Art School of Chicago, where she is living at the Three Arts Club. 2_9 Rebecca G. Bandy, born in 1900. 3_8 REV. PAUL STATHERUN BANDY, born in 1870, in Scott Countv, Minn., was married in Alameda, Calif., Aug. 31, 1904, to Florence Bently Hakes, born at Rock Island, 111.. Aug. 11, 1883. He has a pastorate at Jackson, Ore. One daughter, 1_9 Virginia Gulielma Bandy. 4_8 REV. JOHN VAN NICE BANDY, born in 1877, is pastor of a church at Fowler, Ind. 6_7 SAMUEL GREGG BANDY, born June 9, 1829, in In- diana, came to Kossuth, Iowa, with his parents, and married there, Lucinda Frances Johnson, who died in 1884, leaving three sons. He was married again in 1886 to Virginia Barr of Kossuth. He died there Feb. 17, 1896. Children : 1_8 GLENN BANDY, born Nov. 23, 1857 at Kossuth, married Nettie May Edson at Livermore, Iowa, Feb. 16, 1886. He was a telegraph operator for thirty years, but is now in the insurance business at Fort Supply, Okla. Children: 1_9 Zoe Edson Bandy, born Nov. 29, 1888, married
Wittenberg, May 2, 1911. They live in
Detroit. Children:
1.10 Jack Wittenberg, born in 1912. 2_10 Mantia Lea, born 1915. 3_10 Child died in infancy. 2_9 Gregg William Bandy, born Sept. 27, 1890 at Kanaranzi, Minn, married Amy Chandler at Buffalo, Okla Children:
1_10 Chandler Bandy, born in 1912. 2_10 Wvatt Bandy, born 1914.
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2_8 HARRY BANDY, born M&y 1, 1866, was married to Margaret Ray at Livermore, Iowa. He was killed at Estherville, Iowa, on the R. R., on which he was employed, Dec. 1, 1894.
Children :
1_9 Fanny Belle Bandy, born Nov. 22, 1887, married Fred Cotten, June 14, 1911, an accountant for the C. and N. W. R. R. 2_9 Melvina Maud Bandy, born June 6, 1889. mar- ried Frank Hall, Sept. 24, 1913. Employed on C. N. W. R. R. One child. 1_10 Gail Earline, born Jan. 30, 1915.
Their mother makes her home with these two daughters at Eagle Grove. Iowa. 3_8 DAVID BANDY, born May 1, 1869. married Em- ma Carolyn Lunsett, Feb. 15, 1899. at Las Vegas, N. Mex. They are now located in Florida, where they are interested in extensive land deals. No children. 7_7 DARWIN PETER BANDY, born March 17, 1831, died April 6, 1910. He married Nancy Dooley and moved to Doolyville, Minnesota, then to Missouri. and finally to Kansas, where he died. He was a farm er. He and all his family were Presbyterians and Republicans. Children: 1_8 WM. H. BANDY, born Sept. 11, 1861, in New Elm, Minnesota. He is a teacher in Tar River, Okla., and was never married. 2_8 SQUIRE PARKER BANDY, born April 3, 1867
died in 1871. 3_8 EVA LENA BANDY, born in Dooleyville, Minn.. May 26, 1869. She married Frederick Collins at Atchison. Kansas, in 1897. She was a music teacher before her marriage. They live in New York City. 1_9 Virgil Dewey Collins, born July 6, 1898, in Chi- cago, 111. He is a student in Columbia University, New York City. 4_8 LEONORA BANDY, born Jan. 13, 1874 in Dooley- ville, Minn. She is a music teacher in Tar River, Oklahoma.
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5_8 FLORA BANDY, twin of Leonora Bandy, died in
September. 1874. 6.8 J. G. BANDY, born July 30, 1880. He is unmar- ried and owns a hotel and restaurant in Tar River, Oklahoma. S_7 HENRY BANDY, born 1833, died Sept. 28, 1853. 9_7 JACOB F. BANDY, born Dec. 6, 1835, died Oct. 11, 1878. He married, Rosanna McDonald, Dec. 12 1865. He served through the Civil War as Captain in the 2nd Iowa Cavalry, and then located in Mem- phis, Tenn., where he married and died. His widow and family then moved north to Fairfield, Iowa, where she died Dec. 14, 189G. Children : 1_8 CHARLES A. BANDY, born Aug. 26, 1867, mar- ried Agnes Fenner, June 3, 1896. She belongs to the Christian Church. He is a Republican. Is a book keeper in Phoenix, Arizona. Children:
1_9 Florence Pearl Bandy, born March 26, 1897. 2_9 Ruth Marie Bandy, born Jan. 23, 1899. 3_9 Lois Hester Bandv. born Sept. 18, 1901. 4_9 Walter Kenneth Bandy, born Aug. 24, 1904. 5_9 Herschel Hampton Bandy, born Nov. 24, 1909.
6_9 Dorothv Inez, born February 6.
7_9 Chas. A. Bandy, born Feb. 16, 1916. 2_8 MARY LEA BANDY, born March 28, 1870, mar- ried C. Gilbert Sargent, Sept. 28, 1899. He is a specialist in Rural Education at the Colorado State Agricultural College, Ft. Collins. He is an elder in the First Presbyterian Church. Children :
1_9 Cecil Gilbert Sargent, born Feb. 6, 1901. 2_9 Helen Marie Sargent, born May 18, 1902. 3_9 Roger Browning Sargent, born Dec. 14, 1907. 4_9 Homer Bandy Sargent and Howard Benoit, born July 6, 1910. 3_8 CLAUDE WRENTON BANDY, born Sept. 30, 1872, married Lillian Kimball in Sept., 1913. They are members of the Lutheran church. He is a dentist in Moline, 111. 4_8 PEARL J. BANDY, born May 8, 1879, married
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Robert Carlisle in Aug., 1911, who died in October 1911. One son. 1_9 Robert Dean Bandy, born May 18, 1912. 10_7 LEA ANN BANDY, was born in Indiana, Jan. 7, 1838, and came with her parents to Des Moines Co., Iowa, in the same year. As were the rest of her younger brothers and sisters, she was educated at the Yellow Springs Academy at Kossuth. She taught school until her marriage on June 25, 1865, to Lyman Beecher Pierce, of Kossuth, a soldier in the 2d Iowa Cavalry, same Co., K., with John, Jacob and Elijah Bandy. He was at that time at home on a furlough to publish a history of his regiment, which he had written, and which proved to be very valuable, giv- ing as it did an accurate and true history of the 2d Cavalry, from the time of its enlistment to its dis- charge. Mr. and Mrs. Pierce lived first at Kossuth, then went to Manhattan, Kansas, where he was sup- erintendent of schools for five years. He then exer- cised his soldier's privilege of taking up a homestead in Kansas, near Solomon City. In 1875 they return- ed to Iowa and he has since been engaged in the manufacture of drain tile at YVinfield, Iowa, with his son John Edmund as manager. Lea Bandy Pierce is still living, loved and honored by all.
Children: 1_8 HARRY CLAUDE PIERCE, born at Kossuth June 23, 1866, married Myrtle Kerr July 1, 1894. He is an engineer on the C. B. and Q. R. R., having been in their employ over twenty years. They live at Winfield, Iowa.
Children :
]_9 Delbert Pierce, born April 19, 1895.
2_9 Donald Pierce (twin of Delbert) died July 9,
1895. 3_9 Paul Pierce, born May 7, 1896, died August 27,
1896. 4_9 Harold Pierce, born June 7, 1897, died August, 1897. 2_8 GRACE MAY PIERCE, born at Manhattan, Kan., Feb. 7, 1868, married Wm. M. Price, Dec. 21, 1893. He is a baker at Winfield, Iowa.
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Children:
1_9 Louise Price, born Dec. 16, 1894, graduated from the Kansas Agricultural College, June, 1916. 2_9 Harold Price, born Dec. 25. 1904. 3_8 JOHN EDMUND PIERCE, born July 31, 1870, married Flora Roberts, Sept. 16, 1897. Manager of the tile plant at Winfield. 1_9 Barry R. Pierce, born Oct. 21, 1898. 4_8 MARY LOUISE PIERCE, born at Solomon City, Kan., Feb. 6, 1872, married Gilbert J. Van Zile. He was a lawyer at Carthage, 111., where he died in 1899. She now resides at Manhattan, Kan., where she is Dean of Women and Professor of Domestic Science at the State Agricultural Col- lege. She has two Children :
1_9 Ralph Van Zile, born Dec. 24, 1893. He grad- uated from the State Agricultural College, June, 1916. 2_9 Loren G. Van Zile. born October 14, 1898. 5_8 KATE HALL PIERCE, born at Solomon City, Kan., Oct. 1, 1873. was married March 16, 1897. at Winfield, to Horace W. Baker. He has been Aud- itor of Louisa County, for five terms. Children :
1_9 Kenneth Baker, born August 23. 1898. 2_9 Vera M. Baker, born August 17, 1900. 3_9 William H. Baker, born Nov. 16, 1902. 4_9 Pierce Baker, born Feb. 12. 1905. 6_8 NELLIE PIERCE, born June 27, 1876, died March
27, 1877. 7_8 GEORGE HARPER PIERCE, born April 4, 1880, died at Winfield, Iowa, Sept. 14, 1886. 11_7 ELIJAH WOOD BANDY, youngest son of John and Mary Van Nice Bandv, was born at Kossuth, Iowa, March 25, 1840. On May 22, 1873, he married Elizabeth Lea Frame, who died June 3, 1902, and he was again married. May 16, 1905, to Virginia Ban- Bandy, the widow of his brother Samuel. She died Jan. i4, 1911. He was a member of Co. K. 2nd Iowa Cavalry in the Civil War. He has lived his entire life near Mediapolis, (where he still resides with his
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son John), having retained possession of the farm entered by his father until within a few years. He is an active member and an officer in the Presbyter- ian Church. Children : 1_8 JOHN EVERETT BANDY, son of Elijah and Eliz- abeth Frame Bandy, was born April 11, 1ST7, at Mediapolis, Iowa, and was married March 5, 1902, to Elizabeth Belle Pierce, daughter of Lu- cian F. and Susan H. Pierce. They lived on his father's farm until 190S, and on a farm near Mer- cedes, Tex., until 1914, but since then he has been engaged in the hardware business at Oakville. He is a Republican. They are members of the Pres- byterian church. Children : 1_9 Ruth Elizabeth Bandy, born Jan. 11, 1903, died
Jan. 23. 1903. 2_9 Henry Edwin Bandy, bom May 1, 1904. 3_9 Russell Pierce Bandy, born April 14, 1907. 4_9 William Everett Bandy, born at Mercedes, Tex., Nov. 28, 1913. 2_8 HERBERT FRAME BANDY, son of Elijah and Elizabeth Bandy, married Leah Libby of St. Louis, on July 5, 1911. They also are Republicans and members of the Presbyterian Church at Media- polis, Iowa, where they reside. He is in the auto- mobile business. They have one son, 1_9 Walter Herbert Bandy, born Nov. 30, 1914. 12_7 CATHERINE BANDY, born April 17. 1842. died Sept. 3, 1914, in Washington, D. C. She married Isaiah Messenger, who manufactured the first drain tile made in Iowa. He afterward went to Fairfield and engaged in the same business, then to Colorado, to California and finally to Washington, D. C. Children : 1_8 EDWARD MESSENGER, born in June, 1868, died
Dec. 16, 1868. 2_8 JOHN MESSENGER, born Feb. 11, 1870, died
June 25, 1870. 3_8 MARGARET MESSENGER, born in 1872, died
Nov. 11, 1884. 4_8 One son is living in Washington, D. C.
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6_6 JOHN VAN NUYS, son of Isaac and Leah (Banta) Van Nuys, was born in Kentucky — probably in Shelby County — Oct. 20, 1801, and went with his parents to Switzerland County. Indi- ana, in 1816. He lived for fifty years on the same farm. where he died Dec. 17, 1873. He married on April 13. 1829, Elizabeth Henry, born April 3, 1803, a daughter of Samuel Henry, who brought his family from Sligo, Ire- land, in 1787. His wife died near Lynchburg, Va., and Elizabeth Henry took charge of the family. Her father made his home with her until he died at the age of 99 years. She died Feb. 21, 1874. John Van Nuys express- ed the wish that his family Bible should pass to the oldest surviving member of the family, on the death of the hold- er, a rule, the observance of which will doubtless help sustain interest, both in the family record and in the Di- vine Word.
Children : 1_7 ALICE VAN NUYS, born Sept. 23, 1830, married Thomas B. McGregor, Jan. 18, 1849. She died Dec. 18, 1853. They had three Children: 1_8 ELIZABETH McGREGOR, born March 3, 1850, married George Frank Hays. She died near Noblesville, Ind., leaving one son, 1_9 Howard Hays. 2_8 SUSAN McGREGOR, born Jan. 19, 1852. married at Falmouth, Ind., Dr. Newton E. Charlton, Jan. 23, 1878. They live at Clayton, New Mexico. Children:
1_9 Maggelline Charlton, born August 6, 1880: mar- ried Earl Messenger. 2_9 Alice Charlton, born June, 1885. 3_9 Dale Charlton, born September, 1889. (See Leah Van Nuys) 3_8 JOHN McGREGOR. born Dec. 9, 1853, married Ida May Stapp, daughter of William Stapp of Madison, Ind. John McGregor is a lawyer at Mad- ison. He was a member of the Indiana State Sen- ate several years. Children: 1_9 Thomas B. McGregor, a lawyer at Madison.
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2_9 Helen McGregor, named for the wife of Rob Roy. She is a student of music. 2_7 WILLIAM VAN NUYS. son of John and Elizabeth (Henry) Van Nuys, was born Feb. 19, 1832, and mar- ried Agnes S. Heaston, November 23, 1S59. He was a physician at Anderson, Ind., where he died August 28, 1898, and where his widow now lives. Children :
1_8 MINNA VAN NUYS, born Aug. 24, 1860.
2_8 JEAN VAN NUYS, born July 10, 1865, married Thomas M. Rust, Jan. 19, 1888. One son, 1_9 Raymond Van Nuys Rust, born Feb. 26, 1889. He is a teacher of manual training in Austin, Texas.
3_8 KATE VAN NUYS. born March 12, 1868. She is a milliner in Indianapolis.
4_8 OPHELIA VAN NUYS, born Dec. 29, 1877, mar- ried Oscar Sines. Children:
1_9 Virginia Sines, born Nov. 21, 1903. 2_9 William Sines, born in 1908. 3_7 DAVID HENRY VAN NUYS, son of John and Eliza- beth (Henry) Van Nuys, was born Nov. 27, 1834 in Switzerland County, Ind., and on June 19, 1864, mar- ried Catherine Custer, of Dublin, Wayne County. Indiana. He graduated from the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia in 1855, and practiced med- icine many years in Falmouth, Rush County, Indiana, but in 1905 he moved to Anderson, Ind., where he died Oct. 15, 1915. He had been in active practice over fifty years when he retired. It is told that Dr. and Mrs. Van Nuys were never apart since their marriage except two days. A brother's wife writes. "Few married lives have been so happy as were theirs — fifty one years, and even death could not separate them", for she died on Wednesday night and he on Fiiday night, of the same disease, pneu- monia. A double funeral was held on Sunday and they were buried in a double grave. The filial devo- tion of their two sons was beautiful. The eldest had written to them and heard from them every day in the thirty years he had been away from home. Children :
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1_S FRANKLIN BACHE VAN NUYS. bom May 2, 1865, married Delia Wisner, Sept. 20, 1887. He is a physician at Anderson, Ind., and Areola. 111. They have an adopted daughter two years old. 2_8 FREDERICK ROLLIN VAN NUYS, born April 16, 1874, a practising attorney at Anderson, Ind. He is state senator from Madison County, well known and popular throughout the state. Unmarried. 4_7 JANE VAN NUYS .born Nov. 17, 1836, married David P. Anschutz, May 8, 1864, died April 7, 1S68. Children : 1_8 ELWOOD ANSCHUTZ. born April 4, 1865. Lives in Kentucky. No record. 5_7 GEORGE VAN NUYS, born Nov. 2, 1839, died in
1842. 6_7 THOMAS CHARLTON VAN NUYS, born March 24, 1844, married Mary L. Hunter, Dec. 28, 1875. "He was graduated from the Medical College of Ohio. Cincinnati. March 1S67. and practiced medi- cine in Evansville. Indiana, until 1869, in the spring of which year he went to Germany and became a student of Liebreicht, in the chemical laboratory of the Pathological Institute of the Berlin University. He worked there until the fall of 1871. when he re- turned to Evansville and resumed the practice of medicine, and taught chemistry in the Evansville Medical College and in a select school for young ladies. In 1873, he returned to Germany and stud- ied chemistry and physics in the Scientific Institute at Wiesbaden, of which Fresenius was director. In one year he completed the course given in that Insti- tute, and received a statement, or diploma to that effect. He returned t« tlrs country, and in .June, 1874. was appointed to the Chair of Chemistry in the Indiana University at Bloomington. In 1S76. he aga:n went to Germany and studied organic chemistry with Fittig, in the University of Strassburg. He returned to the Indiana University the following year." — The- odore M. Banta.
Dr. Van Nuys was Professor of Chemistry in this University over twenty years. 1874-1895. and was Professor Emeritus at the time of his death, which occurred at Charlottesville, Virginia, Aug. 1, 1898.
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He was the author of three scientific textbook.-. which were used in the university classes. His wid- ow resides at Seattle, Washington. They had two Children :
1_8 FRESENIUS VAN NUYS, born September 28, 1876 at Strassburg, Germany, married Jane Hardin, Aug. 2. 1905. He is a physician at West- on Massachusetts. He received his A. B. degree from the University of Virginia, and M. D. from Harvard. 2_8 MORTON HUNTER VAN NUYS, was born Mar. 5, 1879, at Bloomington. Ind. He also received his A. B. and L. L. B. degrees at the University of Virginia, and took a post graduate course at Har- vard. He is a lawyer, with offices at 415 Boston Block, Seattle. He is not married. 7_6 ABRAHAM VAN NICE, son of Isaac and Leah (Banta) Van Nuys, was born June 15, 1802, in Kentucky, and was married'. Feb. 28. 1827. to Elizabeth Demaree in Switzerland Countv, Indiana. She was born in Kentucky. Dec. 11. 1811. She had brothers. James and Jesse, and sisters. Patsy and Lucy. Abraham and Elizabeth moved to Iowa in the fall of 1841. and set- tled on a farm which he "homesteaded" near the village of Kossuth, north of Burlington, and near what is now Mediapolis. He died there August 12, 18GG. His widow died June 29, 1883.
Children: 1_7 NANCY ANN VAN NICE, was born June 3. 1828. near Vevay, Ind. She married Joel Wilson, Nov. 26, 1846, in Des Moines County, Iowa. In 1860, the\ moved to Burlington, and in 1887 went to Broken Bow, Nebr., where he died Dec. 21. 1894. She died at Grand Junction. Colorado, April 3, 1910. Joel Wilson was a cooper by trade. Children : 1-8 ASHBEL JOSEPHUS WILSON, born Nov. 19. 1848, died unmarried, near Burlington, Iowa, April 4, 1874. 2_8 DRUSILLA JOSEPHINE WILSON, twin of Ashbel
Josephus. died in November, 1853. 3.8 ELLA WILSON was born April 17, 1852, near Kossuth, Iowa, and was married March 14, 1895,
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to L. C. Olcott at Broken Bow, Nebr. They live near Grand Junction. Colo. No children. 4-8 FLORA WILSON, born Dec. 20. 1854, married O. M. James, April 29, 1896 at Grand Junction, where they live. No children. 5-8 LEANDER WILSON, born May 19, 1857, near Kossuth, la., was married in Burlington, la., Aug. 2S, 1884. to Sarah L. Roberts. They moved to Broken Bow, where they lived until 1895, when they went to Grand Junction, Colorado, where he is now a carpenter and a fruit grower. Children :
1-9 Leroy J. Wilson, born Jan. 11, 1886. at Broken Bow, Nebr., married Katherine M. Hixson, Jan. 22, 1908. at Grand Junction, where he is a Post Office Clerk. Children:
1_10 Lois May Wilson, born Nov. 13, 1908, at
Grand Junction. 2_10 Elvin Kieth Wilson, bom July 31, 1910. 3_10 Llovd Algernon W'Ison. born June 11. 1913. 4_10 Gladys Kathryn Wilson, born Julv 10, 1915. 2_9 Elmer Kirkley Wilson, born Jan. 3, 1888. at Broken Bow, Nebr., married Augusta Clark. Feb. 18, 1909, at Grand Junction, where he is a farmer. One child. 1_10 Mildred Ethel Wilson, born Nov. 4. 1911. 3-9 Kenneth Ashbel Wilson, born April 21, 1890, married Constance Cartmel, Dec. 20. 1911. at Grand Junction. He is a farmer at Price, Utah. Children :
1_10 Harold Everett Wilson, born Dec. 29. 1912. 2_10 Juanita May Wilson, born Oct. 1, 1915, near Price, Utah. 4..9 Hazel Sarah Wilson, born Sept. 12, 1891, near
Broken Bow, Nebr. 5-9 Gladys Ann Wilson, born Dec. 26, 1893, mar- ried Clarence E. Hurd, Dec. 25, 1915, at Grand Junction. Colo. 6_9 Leander William Wilson, born Feb. 28, 1896,
near Grand Junction. Colo. 7-9 Kieth Wilson, born March 26, 1903, died March 26, 1903.
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2_7 ISAAC VAN NICE, born Dec. 10, 1829, near Vevay, Indiana, died unmarried April 27, 1895, at Kirks- ville, Mo. He was a fanner. 3_7 JAMES VAN NICE, born April 11, 1832, married Perlina Howe, March 14, 1860, in Des Moines Coun- ty. He lived all his life from childhood in this Coun- ty, where he died in 1912. 1_8 ILA VAN NICE, born in 1861, who married Thom- as Fewens and lives at Woodbine, Iowa. They have five children. 2_8 PETER VAN NICE, whereabouts unknown. 3_8 ANDREW VAN NICE, who married Mary Deets. He was a blacksmith at Mediapolis, where he died in 1913.. Children :
1_9 Ruth Van Nice. 2_9 Paul Van Nice. 3_9 May Van Nice. 4_8 ROSE VAN NICE, died in childhood. 5_8 GRANT VAN NICE, who married Fannie Rankin. He is a farmer near Kirksville, Mo. Three children. 6_8 REUEL VAN NICE, who married and had three children. He is a farmer near Mediapolis, Iowa. 7_8 GEORGE VAxNNICE. who is a farmer near Brok- en Bow, Nebr. He is married. No children. 8_8 JOHN VANNICE, who is a farmer near Media- polis, Iowa. 4_7 LEAH MATILDA VAN NICE, born September 11, 1834, near Vevay, Indiana, married Charles Wesley Hukill, a farmer at Mediapolis, Iowa, Oct. 14, 1852. She had come to Des Moines County, with her par- ents in 1841, and so was familiar with the hardships and privations of frontier life. But she was a wom- an of rare disposition, always optimistic and cheer- ful ; even in the most trying1 circumstances of life she had the faculty of seeing- the brighter side. This entire country side will remember Mrs. Hukill as one of the matrons who graced her home, her church and the community in which she lived — was said of her when she with her daughter Rose went to Ox- ford, Montana, to make their home in June, 1914. She died there March 20, 1916, and was buried be- side her husband in the cemetery at Kossuth, Iowa,
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near her long-time home. Charles Wesley Hukill died Jan. 6, 1897. Altho* ill at the time, Mrs. Hukill expressed much interest in the family history and assisted materially in the preparation of her father's branch of this record. Children: 1_8 REBECCA ELIZABETH HUKILL, bom August 30, 1853, near Mediapolis, Iowa, died there Aug. 21, 1894. 2_8 JOHN WESLEY HUKILL. born February 26, 1855, married Emma Blanchard, Dec. 22, 1880. at Mediapolis. They lived on a farm here until 1900, when they removed to Oklahoma City, Okla., where they still reside. Children :
1_9 Charles Melvin Hukill. born Jan. 20, 1881. mar- ried Lottie . He is a farmer near Oklahoma City.
One son,
1_10 Euerene Hukill. 2_9 Effie Pearl Hukill, born September 27, 1883, married Earl Abernathy. One daughter, 1_10 Margaret Ruth Abernathy. 3_9 Morell Hukill, born 1888, an engineer, married
and has three Children.
1_10 Richard Hukill. 2_10 Mildred Hukill. 3_10 Infant Hukill. 4_9 Elizabeth Hukill. born 1894. 3.8 URSULA MAY HUKILL, born February 18. 1857, married Dr. E. A. Parker, June 23, 1878, at Med- iapolis, Iowa, They live in Oxford, Montana. Children :
1_9 Ella Maude Parker, born August 23, 1880. She is a graduate of Iowa Wesleyan University and is engaged in teaching. 2_9 Charles Emmet Parker, born April 30, 1883, married Sadie Seeds at Mediapolis, Iowa, on Nov. 25, 1915. He is a farmer near Oxford, Montana. 4_8 WILLIAM WILEY HUKILL. born March 7, 1859. He is unmarried, and is engaged in mining at Sal- ida, Colorado.
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5_8 LINCOLN HANNIBAL HUKILL, born Feb. 12, 1861. Unmarried. He is a farmer and stock deal- er at Idalia, Colorado. 6_8 ROSE ELLA HUKILL, born Oct. 31, 1870. She is a graduate of Iowa Wesleyan University and of the Chicago Polyclinic Training School for nurses. As a graduate nurse she is registered in Iowa as well as in Montana, the state where she resides, at Oxford. 5_7 LUCY VAN NICE, bom February 28, 1837, mar- ried Abraham Cawley, in Des Moines County, Iowa, March 23, 18G8. Her husband lived only a few- years and after his death she followed dressmaking in Burlington, Iowa, where she died April 23, 1907. Children : 1_8 JOCENNA CAWLEY, died in infancy. 2_8 MARTIN JOCEPHAS CAWLEY, married Kath- erine Masters. He is in the life insurance business in Burlington, Iowa, where they live at 721 Harri- son Avenue. They have one son, 1_9 Lester Cawley. 3_8 JOESPHINE CAWLEY died in infancy. 6_7 ABRAHAM VAN NICE, born March 28, 1839, mar- ried Hannah Bown on Jan. 1, 1866, at Burlington, Iowa. About 1870 thev moved to Kirksville, Mo. They lived in Ft. Scott, Kansas, from 1872. to 1875, but returned to Kirksville, where he died June 1, 1909. They lived on a farm. He obeyed his coun- try's call in the Civil War and served three years in Co. K. 14th Iowa Infantry. His widow survives him at Kirksville, Mo. Children : 1_8 CLARENCE M. VAN NICE, born in Iowa Nov. 7.. 1866, went with his parents to Missouri. He graduated at Kirksville Normal in 1893, then taught for some time. Married Mary Fowler Feb- 24, 1895. He is pastor of a Baptist Church in Adair County, Missouri, where they live on a farm. 1_9 Rav Vannice, born Dec. 6, 1895. 2_9 Robert Abraham Vannice, born May 12, 1903. 2_8 JOSEPH WESLEY VANNICE, born Jan 5, 1869, married September 28, 1898, Alice Carver at
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Grand Junction, Colorado, where he is in the real estate business. Children : 1_9 Loren Wallace Vannice, born December 22,
1899. 2_9 Dean Hall Vannice, bom April 11, 1902. 3_9 Carroll Alden Vannice, born April 14, 1904. 4_9 Alice Rachel Vannice, born July 20, 1907. 5_9 Wendell Joseph Vannice, born Oct. 6, 1912. 3_8 ROSELLA MAY VANNICE. born Feb. 20, 1872, married Nov. 14, 1899, at Kirksville, Mo., David L. Shriver. They moved to Grand Junction, Colo., in March, 1901. They now live on a farm at Clif- ton, Colo. Children:
1_9 Leland Mark Shriver, born Aug. 6, 1902. 2_9 Eva May Shriver, born July 26, 1905. 3_9 Hurschel A. Shriver. born Aug. 29, 1910. 4_9 Ariel Fern Shriver, born Oct. 8, 1911. 4_8 CORA VAN NICE, born near Kirksville, Adair County, Missouri, October 11, 1875, married Dec. 25, 1901, Charles Clyde George, who was born in New York, and who died Aug. 17, 1912. She lives at Bozeman, Montana. Children : 1_9 William Wayne George, born in Albia, Iowa,
May 6, 1903. 2_9 Clarence Clifford George, born in Staunton, 111.,
August 6, 1905. 3_9 Marcella Gladvs George, born in Staunton, March 15, 1908. 7_7 JESSE HARBIN VAN NICE, born May 15. 1841, near Vevay, Indiana, died in Des Moines County, Iowa, March 4, 1842. 8_7 EMILY VAN NICE, born September 24, 1843, in Des Moines County, Iowa, married Samuel Zerber, in 1877 (?) at Burlington, Iowa, where they continued to reside. But after the death of her husband she took a homestead at Broken Bow, Nebraska. She now lives with her onlv daughter, 1-8 ROSE BELLE ZERBER. who married Luther Cole. They live at Rangdy, Colo., and have three chil- dren, Chester, Clifford and Wilma.
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9_7 WESLEY MARTIN VANNICE, youngest son of
Abraham and Elizabeth Demaree* Van Nice, was
born July 1, 1847, in Des Moines County, Iowa, and
was married to Sarah J. Myers, at Kossuth, Iowa,
Nov. 19, 1S74. For several years he was a merchant
at Northeld, Iowa, but they now live on a farm near
Broken Bow, Nebr. He served two years in Co. M.
8th Iowa Cavalry in the Civil War.
1_8 AVALO P. VANNICE, born September 20. 187G.
at Kossuth, Iowa, married Mabel Ann Burdick at
Salem, Oregon, in May, 1904. He is a minister in
the United Brethren Church, and is stationed at
Kearney, Nebraska. Two
Children:
1_9 Marvin W. Vannice, born September 13, 1906,
at Broken Bow. 2_9 Bernice L. Vannice, born July 17, 1912, at Coats field. Nebr. 2_8 ROSS W. VANNICE, born May 7, 1878, at North- field, Iowa, died Nov. 12, 1898, at Broken Bow, Nebr. 3_8 ASHBEL W. VANNICE, born Feb. 17, 1885, at Broken Bow, married Jennie Johns, of York, Ne- braska, on Aug. 4, 1915. He is principal of the high school at Crab Orchard, Nebr. 4_8 CHESTER A. VANNICE, born Oct. 30, 1887, died
Jan. 12, 1895. 5_8 MERLIN C. VANNICE, born Sept. 7, 1892. He is a farmer at Broken Bow, Nebraska. 8_6 JAMES VAN NUYS, sixth son of Isaac and Leah (Banta) Van Nuys, was born in Shelby County, Kentucky, April 9, 1805. He went with his parents to Switzerland County, Indiana, in 1810. His first marriage was to Isabel Allen, of Scotch descent, in this county. She was probably related to William Allen,
*NOTE — Elizabeth Demaree was a daughter of John and Nancy Demaree who had seven children, James, Jesse, John all of whom moved to Ripley County, Indiana and owned farms there and Martha Lucy, Elizabeth and Nancy. Jesse and John married sisters, Betsy and Sally Myers, Martha married John Carnine, Nancy married James Lewis and Lucy married Drury Clark. The parents died the same year and the children were scattered, Elizabeth being brought to Indiana.
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who married Jane Terhune. To this union two children were born. He married 2nd on May 5, 1836, Elizabeth Van Osdale. He was a farmer and a cooper. They were members of the Presbyterian church. James Van Nuys died near Pleasant. Switzerland County, Indiana, March 19, 1891. Elizabeth Van Osdale died March 9, 1906.
Children, by first marriage: 1_7 LEAH ANN VAN NUYS, born March 5, 1832. No definite information concerning her or her brother. One informant thinks both died young. Another says she married and had children and went to Iowa. 2_7 JOHN VAN NUYS. No record.
Children, by 2nd marriage: 3_7 SUSAN VAN NUYS. was born Feb. 17. 1837, and died March 10, 1899. She was married Dec. 9, 1852, to James Paulley, who was born Nov. 9, 1829. and who died June 1, 1913. He was a farmer in Switzer- land County. They had nine Children : 1_8 INDIANA JOSEPHINE PAULLEY, born June 17,
1854 .died May 12. 1862. 2-8 SARAH ELIZABETH PAULLEY. was born Aug. 23, 1856, and was married to Edgar Miles, Nov. 14. 1875. He was born Aug. 1, 1853 and is a farmer in Switzerland County. Children :
1_9 Frederica Gertrude Miles, born Jan. 26. 1877. married Alexander Harper, Nov. 16. 1895. They have one child. 1_10 Bernice Harper, born Aug. 11, 1896. 2_9 Carl Seymour Miles, was born Dec. 29. 1878, and was married to Elizabeth Aldred Dec. 27, 1899. They live at Bennington, where he is a farmer and trader. One child. 1_10 Thelma Miles, born July 24, 1901. 3-9 Earl Stanley Miles, born Jan. 6, 1881. married Estelle Thatcher. Nov. 19. 1911. They live at Cross Plains. Indiana, and have one daughter, 1_10 Luriel Miles, born Nov. 9, 1912. 4_9 Katherine Isabel Miles, born Feb. 23. 1888. was married May 8. 1907. to Walter C. Vandiver. He is a farmer at Avonburg, Indiana.
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Children :
1-10 Ross Vandiver, born Oct. 17, 1909, died
Sept. 24, 1911. 2_10 Hazel Vandiver. born Jan. 20, 1911. 5_9 Lois Edna Miles, Mas born July 28, 1894. and married Ardie Kinder of Fairview, Ind., Fob. 27, 1915. He is a farmer. 3_8 ADELINE PURDY PAULLEY was bom June 13, 1860, and was married to B. F. Hayes, Oct. 31, 1878. Children :
1_9 Royal Edwin Hayes, born Aug. 1, 1879. mar- ried Zella Stout, She died about 1903, and he married Alpha Benefiel. There was one daugh- ter by the first marriage, 1_10 Linnie Hayes. 2_9 Daughter, died in infancy.
3_9 John Van Nuys Hayes, born Aug. 17, 1889, mar- ried Catherine Crawford. Children :
1_10 John Manley Haves.
2_10 Hayes.
4_8 JACOB CYRUS PAULLEY, born October 22, 1862, married Emma Berry, Feb. 3, 1889, at Springfield, Mo., where she died June 20, 1890. Jacob C. Paulley died March 28, 1895. One son, 1_9 Irvin Leroy Paulley, born Sept. 24, 1889, died June 8, 1890. 5_8 IDA ISABELLE PAULLEY, was born June 9, 1865 and was married to Marion E. White, Nov. 28, 1886. They have four Children :
1_9 Carroll Stanley White, born Sept. 11, 1887. 2_9 Lee Arnold White, born Aug. 13, 1889. 3_9 Cordelia White, born Oct. 8, 1891. 4_9 Catherine White. 6_8 SUSAN CATHERINE PAULLEY, was born April 21, 1867, and was married to F. B. Gaumer, Nov. 28, 1886. After his death she married B. R. Vandiver. Children, by first marriage:
1_9 Indiana Josephine Gaumer, born Nov. 4, 1887, married Clarence Copher. Two
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