Cooley and Tryon in Kansas

My husband’s Aunt Mary had worked on the family history for many years before he and I became acquainted.  Or at least before I became interested in the family history.  Mary Elizabeth (Chandler) Fields had a room full of notebooks with hundreds of letters, at least the same number of photographs, and many records relating to the Chandler family - her Dad’s side, and the Tryon family - her Mother’s side.  But one thing she didn’t have was a birth record for her mother, Lora Belle Tryon.  Lora was said to have been born in Baxter Springs, Cherokee Co, Kansas and also in Wichita, Sedgwick Co, Kansas. 

Lora Belle Tryon

One one of our early genealogy trips, my husband and I stopped in Baxter Springs.  We liked the town very much and spent an afternoon at their wonderful history museum, which I see has become even more wonderful.  Considering how many records were available to us in Baxter Springs, it was a surprise and disappointment to us that we didn’t find a record of his grandmother’s birth.  She was born in 1885 and that wasn’t so very long ago. 

About 4 years ago I finally found a good record, although it’s not a birth certificate, per se.  It’s a census record.  I haven’t bothered to send for the birth record, although I may one day do so.  In the meantime, here’s what I found:

1885 Kansas, Sedgwick Co, Kechi, p 19, line 18
Cooley, Isaac, 79, b Pennsylvania

Caroline, 49, b Pennsylvania

Adeline, 17, b Pennsylvania

Emma, 14, b Pennsylvania

- - -

Tryon, H Z, 36, b unknown

Mary, 21, b unknown

Olive May, 2, b unknown

[line 25]  Baby, 7 days, b unknown

Baxter Springs comes into the picture later:

1895 Kansas, Cherokee Co, Lyons Twp, Baxter Springs, 1 March

44/45  H Z Tryon 46, b Indiana, from Indiana to Kansas, farmer / M E, 32, f, b Kentucky, from Kentucky to Kansas // Olive, 11, b Kansas; Lora, 9, b Kansas; Roseta, 7, b Kansas

Isaac Cooley was born in Franklin Co, Indiana in 1805.  His sister Mary Ann was born 1815, also in Franklin Co, Indiana.  

Mary Ann 

married

Noah Tryon 

in 1836

Of their eight children, son Hiram Zachariah “Zack” Tryon was the father of Lora. 

Zack's parents had stayed in Indiana, but Uncle Isaac had come to Kansas by 1880 and Zack had come with him, listed as a bachelor with Isaac Cooley’s family.

Zack Tryon married Mary Elizabeth Thompson in October 1880.  

Thus, it is that, on that 1885 census, Zack and Mary Elizabeth (Thompson) Tryon and their two tiny daughters were living with Zack’s uncle.  

Isaac's land is the NW4 of Section 5 on this map:

This is where the “fun” comes in,  for me.  After all those years of not knowing where my husband’s grandmother was born, it turns out that one of her descendants, Lora’s great-grandson, who was born in Oklahoma, grew up in Michigan, and travelled the country for a few years, now  lives just a few miles down the road from Kechi - - in Park City, Kansas.

Olive, Mary Elizabeth, Zack Tryon

Lora and Rosetta

Crocks

I didn’t realize for a long time that I collect crocks.  I would see a piece of crockery I liked and bought it - or was given it - and over many years I finally noticed that I had more than just a few. 

One of my most useful crocks I posted last October.  That’s the one with my gardening hand-tools in it, with the blue enamel make-shift lid.

This 3 gallon straight-sided crock is not very old.  It’s just the right size, though, for a pair of pelargoniums - Dr Livingston, Skeleton Rose.  (Or vice-versa.  I never can remember which name comes first).  The smell is wonderful when I rub the leaves; they are bearing small pale lavender and purple flowers.  The crock sits on a handmade cabinet next to my Chair.  I bought the plants last fall from an Oklahoma Food Co-op producer, Skyridge Farm.  Monica always sends me really nice plants - healthy and full.  These two were about a foot tall when they came; they tower over 3 feet now.

The drawstring bags that are on the table I’ve crocheted for game pieces: dice for Farkle, Chinese Checker marbles, wooden checkers to go with the handmade Traditional Checker-Chess board, and the brown bag has small rocks for Mancala. 

The black crock used to be a cookie jar, from the writing on the bottom.  It no longer has a lid and I use it for a doorstop.

The 5 gallon sits by my door and holds fabric, or tote bags, or whatever I need to store in that place.

  

The two gallon is an old crock.  In it I keep grocery sacks for my trash. 

This little half-brown crock is from England and holds tea - whatever I’m drinking at the time.  I’ve changed, from the loose tea I’ve been drinking these last 7 years, back to Twinings and found this wonderful Black Currant tea.  I love black currant anything and the tea is good. 

I’m not much for flavored teas, except Earl Grey and this one.  I have been purchasing two kinds of loose tea from one of the Oklahoma Food Co-operative producers, but the business changed hands and the quality of their tea plummeted.  I’ve been trying whatever I can find at the grocery store, for now, just in case there was something really good on the shelf that I had been missing  all these years.  Twinings always holds up to a high standard.  Harney & Sons suits me, too, but is more difficult to locate here in the City.

This crock is an old one and was given to me.  It has become a pot for lavender and for rose petals from my own bushes - - or now the kids’ bushes.  The pot next to it was hand-made by someone who lived in Stillwater, Oklahoma.   I bought it at a market there and use it for my dried, used-tea-leaves and crushed egg shells.  

Not much in my room is just for decoration.  If it’s not used regularly or looked at often, I don’t see any point in keeping it around.  The little crock is very old.  I use it for my collection of nails - some of which are hand-made square-cut nails.  Those came from my husband’s uncle’s house.  He was a house carpenter.

A Passion for Textiles

I’ve always enjoyed embroidery, my own and that of others.  My mother is a fine embroiderer.  My mother-in-law never learned to do needlework even though her mother was an excellent embroiderer. 

I have one piece of my mother’s embroidery - a teacloth - and the rest of her work is still in her own house. 

I was fortunate enough to be able to choose several pieces of embroidered work from my mother-in-law’s estate - no one else was interested in them.  Even so, my sister-in-law and I packed up a cedar chest and a large chest of drawers with hooked rugs, quilts, bedding, and table linens, waiting for the next generation to become householders in need of heirloom textiles.  But I’m finding that the young people today don’t care much about having crocheted or tatted or embroidered things in their homes. 

I still like having them around. 

This is one piece I did many years ago.  The pattern and photograph of the original were found in an oversize book at the library, “The Woman’s Day Book of American Needlework” by Rose Wilder Lane.  Yes, the very daughter of my favorite Laura Ingalls Wilder.

When I worked the embroidery, I borrowed the book from the library, traced the pattern (that could have even been before there were photocopiers in libraries) and worked the threads in different colors on an even-weave linen.  I made the embroidery into a small pillow and displayed it on my couch for Years.  It received a lot of hard wear and a few washings.  It finally began to come apart.  Not the embroidery, but the fabric itself.  In the photo you can see the wear. 

So, like the woven coverlet that is too good to just throw away, I’m especially fond of this particular embroidery of mine, and wonder what I can do with it other than just leave it in a drawer.  Maybe one of these days I’ll frame it, just so I can look at it and remember how much I liked making it.

A few years ago I noticed a copy of the book for sale on the internet.  I immediately bought it and now enjoy looking through it again and again, on my own time.

Here are a few of the pieces that I'm sheltering:

Dock and Eliza

Another one of my husband’s family lines is Berry.  The earliest I’ve found - and been able to half-way document - is Richard Berry and Zaney Cunningham.  They were married about 1796 or so in Virginia - in what became Monongalia Co, West Virginia. 

Their son was John H Berry, b abt 1799, Monongalia Co, Virginia; his son John Alpheus Berry, b 1829 in Morgantown, Monongalia Co, Virginia.

By 1850, John A had crossed the Ohio river to reside in Monroe Co, Ohio, with his mother’s family.  There he met Deborah Jane Adamson and in 1854 they were married.  Deborah was the youngest daughter of Isabella, of the Woven Coverlet fame.

John A and Deborah had 9 children, the youngest of whom was Eliza Berry. 

Eliza Berry married a Strosnider - Wesley “Dock” Strosnider, to be exact, in 1903.  Eliza had been living in Putnam Co, Missouri; Dock lived in Pottawatomie Co, Kansas. 

Both the Berrys and the Strosniders occupied a large area of northwestern Virginia in the early 1800s and are easily documented.  The Strosniders eventually moved west - straight on from West Virginia to Kansas, according to the 1885 Kansas State Census. 

Several years ago I had corresponded with Merrie Pinick, the ultimate historian in Pottawatomie Co, Kansas.  Merrie has a page on RootsWeb that lists as much Pott Co history and genealogy as she can locate in all sorts of records - "Havensville, Pottawatomie Co, Ks Area working database".  She is a fine lady and I was very pleased to spend the afternoon with her one very chilly day in  March of that year, in the museum in Havensville.

While I was able to find plenty of information about the Strosniders, I found little additional material about the Berry family.  They had been in Havensville, Pottawatomie Co, and a little further east in Jackson Co, Kansas. 

This photo has been in my husband’s family since it was taken in April 13, 1903; it is the wedding photo of Eliza Berry and Wesley Strosnider. 

Soon after their marriage, the couple came to Blackburn, Pawnee Co, Oklahoma.  Family tradition says that Eliza gave birth to one stillborn child, then later died during another childbirth. 

I’ve not made a trip to Blackburn to look for Eliza’s grave, nor have I been to the Oklahoma History Center to search newspapers for a death notice for her.  That’s on my to-do list.  This wedding picture is the only photo I’ve seen of her.

I’m not sure about Wesley’s nickname of “Dock”, in that I’ve not seen any written explanation.  Some researchers show it as “Doc”, as if shortened from Doctor, but Wesley is always listed as a farmer and I can’t explain either form of his nickname.  In my husband’s family, the spelling of his nickname is consistently with the “k”.

About 1909 Wesley re-married, had five children, lived in Oklahoma for many years, and died in 1946.

Two Riddles

No, I haven’t taken to printing puzzles other than genealogical ones.  The two Riddles are sisters Rilla and Louisa, daughters of Preston Riddle and his second wife Emily (Wilson) Smith. 

Emily is my husband’s great-great grandmother.  Emily was born in Kentucky in 1833.  She married James Jefferson “Jeff” Smith in Grant Co, and by 1860 they had moved to Wayne Co, Iowa, then Putnam Co, Missouri.  Jeff served in the Civil War - from which he never returned.  His military record says “Died at Camp Oglethorpe, Macon, Ga, May 14, 1862 [then in red ink] June 18, 1862.”  

The four children of Emily Wilson and James Jefferson “Jeff” Smith all survived to adulthood - one of them my husband’s great-grandmother, Mary Elizabeth (Smith) Greer.

In 1868, Emily married widower Preston Riddle in Putnam Co, Missouri.  Together they a son, Marvin, who died at age 14, and two daughters, Louisa and Rilla. 

I found on the internet that Rilla is German or Irish - depending on who says - and means brook or stream.   Louisa married and had one child, then died at age 25.  Rilla was 19 when she died.  

I can't quite figure out the hairdos in the photograph.  Is the hair really cut as short as it looks?  Or is it pulled into a terribly tight knot off to the side of the head?  

Rilla left behind an autograph album.    I have typed the text of some pages which mention family and friends from 1887, 88 and 89.

Title page (front cover is missing):  The Hendschel Album [printed with illus.]

p1)  Powersville Mo   December the 6  1888   Remember well and bare in mind that a true friend is hard to find so when you find one that is true never forsake the old one for the new   Your friend  T B Donan

p2)  Dec 6 - 1888   Remember me when this you see    Powersville Mo  Isa Hinne

p4)  Friend Rilla  "One word, one thought, one line  To cheer your youthful mind

When I have left my friends so fair   Remember me in your prayers."

                 Yours _ct.       J A Foutah

          Dec. 25, '87.        Campbellsburg, Indiana

p6)  Friend Rilla            Your Friend    Lewis West     Oct. 22 - 88      Corydon, Iowa

p8)  January 11th  1888         Complements of your Friend.  May Snodgrass

p12)  Powersville, Mo       Sister Rilla

                    When the golden sun is setting

                    And from care you are free

                    When of absent ones you are thinking

                    Will you sometimes think of me.

                                    Marvin Riddle                   April 27th, 1888

p19)     St John  Mo            March.22.89

   Dear Rilla: Ever remember the pleasant times we have spent together.  As you go out to try the stern realities of life, Never forget you have a friend that will lighten your heaviest burden.  That friend is Christ,          Ever your friend,   Rose Beary

p20)     written Mar 21. 89  at York Seminary

Miss Rilla   Remember me when death shall close my ev[y]elids in their last repose  when the evening breeze shall gently wave    the grass above your schoolmates grave

                                     Your Friend & wellwisher           Beecher Rowan

p22)     To Miss Rilla        Cleopatra Mo   Jan 11th  1888

                Some may wish you welth

                While others gold in store

                I wish you heaven after death

                And what could you wish for more

                              yours

                                 H. H. Snodgrass

p24)   28th 1888        Dear Aunt,       Remember me dear Rilla      When on these lines you look        Remember it was Emma         Who wrote this in your book.

                                   From a Niece              Emma Greer                 To Rilla

p29)   Miss Rilla

             "Sow ye beside all waters

              Where the dew of heaven may fall;

              Ye shall reap if ye be not weary,

              For the Spirit breathes o'er all.

              Sow, though the thorns may wound thee;

             One wore the thorns for thee;

             And though the cold world scorn thee,

             Patient and hopeful be.

             Sow ye beside all waters,

             With a blessing and a prayer,

             Name him whose hand upholds us,

             And sow thou everywhere."

                         Sincerely,

                             Luella Martin 3, 10. '89    Warsaw Ia

p32)  March the 12  1889

          Dear Rilla,

               May thy pathway ever be

            strewn with flowers.

                      Your friend

                        May Rowan

p33)    May the 9   89

                         Dear Rilla

               a place for my

               name in your

              album   a place for my

               love in your hart

            a place for us both in heven

              where love ones never part

         your friend

              Dora

                 Bates

p36)     May the 27    88

                Dear Sister

            Tis not the price of candy

             That we ____ just now sister

            O no it is not that by _____

             It is the price of paint that

             make Pa grumble.

                               E Riddle

                            Clio

                              Iowa

p38)  "Friendship's a silken tie

         which binds friendly hearts together

      If we do not break that tie

        We will be friends forever"

                Truly your friend

                       Nelse Franklin Livonia  Mo

   Jan. 15  1888

p44) [drawing of a bird in nest in a style reminiscent of copperplate handwriting]

                        [signed]   With Respect,

                                        J A Long

       Powersville, Mo    4 - 28 - 89

Last year I sent the album to the Putnam Co Historical Society in Unionville, Missouri.  I received no response to the mailing and hope it arrived safely.  If you are ever that direction, you might ask about the album.

While we’re on the Riddle family, here’s one last strand - a wedding photo of Cora Riddle and her new husband Edgar Otis Rynor, taken in 1904.   Cora is the granddaughter of Preston Riddle and his first wife Elizabeth.  Her father is their son William.

Isabella Adamson and the Woven Coverlet

A Woven Coverlet has been handed down through my husband’s family. 

It was made by his great-great grandmother, Isabelle Johnston/Johnstone Adamson.  Isabella was born December 25, 1802 in Washington Co (now Green Co), Pennsylvania; she married Barnet Adamson in 1818, in the same county: by 1825 they had moved to Monroe Co, Ohio where they lived the rest of their lives.  Barnet died in 1862 and Isabella in 1879. 

Family tradition says that Isabella raised the sheep from which the wool was taken, carded and spun the wool into yarn, and then wove the coverlet.  Family tradition dates the coverlet from about 1840, when Isabella would have been in her late thirties.   It is a reversible double-weave and very finely done - it is a masterpiece. The coverlet has split into two pieces - lengthwise - which makes it easy to view both sides at the same time.  

Isabella made more coverlets than this one, according to family letters.  One daughter received two of the coverlets, and I would imagine that many were made during Isabella’s lifetime and passed down to her children.

Isabella and Barnet had 9 known children - there don’t seem to be any gaps in the ages of the children - so I think they were fortunate and didn’t lose any children prematurely.

My WorldConnect database gives the documents for Barnet and Isabella.  While I, and others, have tracked Barnet’s Adamson family back three more generations, I have been unable to find Isabella’s family. 

I keep the coverlet in a glass-fronted cabinet so that I can see it every time I look that direction.  It is a beautiful piece of work; I admire Isabella and her skill at weaving.  The coverlet has quite a bit of damage to it, both from age and from some improper storage over the years.  

Isabella Johnston/Johnstone Adamson appears unnamed on the 1820 Pennsylvania, Greene Co, census; then unnamed on the census records for Green Twp, Monroe Co, Ohio in 1830 and 1840; finally by name on the records of 1850, 1860, and 1870 Ohio, Monroe Co, Green Twp, Laings. 

Woodsfield is the county seat of Monroe County - the Adamsons lived just a few miles away.  Isabella and Barnet’s grandson - my husband’s grandfather -  was born “near Woodsfield”.  I was in Ohio, and particularly Woodsfield, two years ago.  I loved the town and the area.  Here’s what one of those 1880s county histories had to say:

“Woodsfield was then much out of the world.  Indeed the entire county was quite primitive; its people largely dwelt in cabins.  This seemed to me a good thing, saving many the worry of having so much to look after.  Great possessions, great cares.”   I really like that worded image.

While life may have been primitive, Isabella's designs are not.  

Isabella JOHNSTON was born 1802 December 25 in Greene Co, Pennsylvania, died 1879 September 17 in Green Twp, Monroe Co, Ohio, and was buried in Monroe Co, Ohio. Isabella married Barnet ADAMSON, son of Thomas ADAMSON Jr and Sarah Jane EAGON, in 1818 in Washington Co, Pennsylvania.  They had nine children: John J, Ruth, Sarah A, Martha "Polla," William J, Eunice Isabel, Cassandra "Cassie Ann," Deborah Jane, and Barnet.

CENSUS:

1820 Pennsylvania, Greene Co, p348a

Barnett Adamson   101 / 001

male, under 5 - John J, b 1819

male, 19-25 - Barnet, b 1794

female, 16-25 - Isabella

1830 Ohio, Monroe Co, Green Twp

Barnet Adamson  101001 / 22001

male, under 5 - Wiliam J, b 1827

male, 10-15 - John J, b 1819

male, 30-40 - Barnet, b 1794

female, under 5 - Eunice Isabel, b abt 1829

female, under 5 - Martha "Polly", b 1825

female, 5-10 - Sarah A, b abt 1823

female, 5-10 - Ruth, b abt 1821

female 20-30 - Isabella, b 1802

1840 Ohio, Monroe Co, Green Twp, p 23

Barnet Adamson  1010001 / 022201

male, under 5 - Barnet, b 1838

male, 10-15 - William J, b 1827

male, 40-50 - Barnet, b 1794

female, 5-10 - Deborah Jane, b 1835

female, 5-10 - Cassandra "Cassie Ann", b 1832

female, 10-15 - Eunice Isabel, b abt 1829

female, 10-15 - Martha "Polly" b 1825

female, 15-20 - Sarah A, b abt 1823

female, 15-20 - Ruth, b abt 1821

female, 30-40 - Isabella, b 1802

1850 Ohio, Monroe Co, Green Twp, 20 August, 85/85

Barnett Adamson, 55, farmer, vore 2000, b Pennsylvania / Isabella, 48, b Pennslvania // William, 22, farmer, b Pennsylvania; Deborah, 15, school, b Ohio; Barnett, 11, school, b Ohio

1860 Ohio, Monroe Co, Green Twp, Lange, 212/212

Barnet Adamson, 65, farmer, vore 5000, vope 350, b Pennsylvania / Isabella, 58, b Pennsylvania

1870 Ohio, Monroe Co, Green Twp, Laings, 3 June

33/33  Berry, John A, 40, farmer, vore 1200 vope 400, b West Virginia / Deborah J, 35, keeping house, b Ohio // John W, 15, school, farm laborer, b Ohio; Adamson R, 11, school, farm laborer, b Ohio; Robert J, 9, school, b Ohio; Thomas M, 6, school, b Ohio; Isabel F, 4, b Ohio; Everet D, 9/12, b Aug, b Ohio

- - -

34/34  Adamson, William J, 42, farmer, vore 1500 vope 500, b Pennsylvania / Mary, 42, keeping house, b West Virginia // Elizabeth J, 13, school, b Ohio; Isabel C, 9, school, b Ohio /// Brady, William, 13, school, farm laborer, b Ohio

- - -

35/35  Adamson, Isabel, 67, keeping house, vope 100, b Pennsylvania

- - -

36/36  Huffman, George H, 50, farmer, vore 5000 vope 1500, b Pennsylvania / Polly M, 45, keeping house, b Pennsylvania // Barnet A, 21, schoolteacher, b Ohio; Isabel A, 19, b Ohio; George H, 17, farm laborer, b Ohio /// Brown, Peter, 93, jour, blacksmith, b Atlantic Ocean, father and mother of foreign birth; Corn, Mary J, 8, school, b Ohio

DEATH:

---Ohio, Monroe Co, Woodsfield Court House, Spring 2011, Probate Ledger, 1880, page 116

June 9, [1880], number 82, Adamson, Isabel, date of death: 1879, Sept 17; widowed; age 77y 1m 24d; died Green Twp, Monroe Co, Ohio; born Green Co, Pennsylvania; [no occupation or parents listed]; cause of death: cancer; residence Green Twp, Ohio; reported by Finley Workman.

PUBLICATIONS:

------Monroe Co, Ohio Newspaper Abstracts, Woodsfield Republican 14 Sept - 21 Sept 1860 and The Spirit of Democracy 31 Dec 1862 - 31 Dec 1867; by Rita Bone Kopp for the Monroe Co Chapter of the Ohio Gen Society

page 6, The Spirit of Democracy, 7 Jan 1863, Vol 19, No 44

W J & Isabel Adamson appt admr of estate of Barnett Adamson decd, 4 Nov 1862

---Monroe Co, Ohio Gen Records, Vol 5, p 62, Feb 25th 1868; Partition Notice; [FHL film 0859780 copied by Linda Chandler]

-Isabel Adamson, Polly H Huffman and Geo H Huffman, her husband; Deborah J Berry and John A Berry, her husband of Monroe Co; Ruth Shriver and Abraham Shriver, her husband; Cassann Shriver and Benjamin Shriver, her husband of Wayne Co, Iowa; Sarah A Shriver and Evan Shriver, her husband of Johnson Co, Kansas; Barnett Adamson, Isabel Miller, Wm Adamson, Elizabeth Adamson and Maria Adamson of Washington Co, Ohio, will take notice that a petition was filed against them on the 27th day of Jan 1868 in Monroe Co by Wm Adamson for partition of real estate.

---Monroe Co, Ohio Newspaper Abstracts, The Spirit of Democracy, 7 Jan 1868 - 31 May 1870 and 7 June 1870 - 31 Dec 1872, by Rita Bone Kopp for the Monroe Co Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society

page 4: Partition Notice - filed 27 Jan 1868 by William J Adamson, against Isabel Adamson; Polly M Huffman and husband George H; Deborah J Bery (sic) and husband John A, of Monroe Co, Ohio; Ruth Shriver & husband Abraham, Cassan Shriver & husband Benjamin of Wayne Co, Iowa; Sarah A Shriver & husband Evan of Johnson Co, Kansas; Barnet Adamson, Isabel Miller, Wm Adamson, Elizabeth Adamson, & Maria A Adamson of Washington Co, Ohio; NW4 Sec 1 T4 R5 & NW4 SW4 same STR, also S2 SW4 SW4 Sec 2 same T & R, 218a, also SW4 SE4 Sec 14 & NW4 NE4 Sec 13 T3 R6, 81 a.

Children:

➼  John J ADAMSON was born 1819 November 2 in Greene Co, Pennsylvania, died 1861 October 9 in Ludlow Twp, Washington Co, Ohio, and was buried in Ludlow Twp: Blue Bird Cemetery, Washington Co, Ohio.  John married Nancy SMITH, daughter of Samuel SMITH and Mary CUNNING, 1839 June 13 in Monroe Co, Ohio. They had 11 children: Sarah Jane, Mary, Isabella, Matilda, Elizabeth, Barnet, Eunice, William J, Elisabeth, Nancy E, and Mariah A.

CENSUS:

1850 Ohio, Monroe Co, Green Twp, 20 August

83/83  John Adamson 30, farmer, b Pennsylvania / Nancy 25, b Ohio // Sarah 9, school, b Ohio; Mary 7, school, b Ohio; Isabella 5, school, b Ohio; Matilda 3, b Ohio; Barnett 1, b Ohio

1860 Ohio, Washington Co, Ludlow Twp, Flints Mill, 7 August

138/138  John J Adison, 40, farmer, vope 200, b Pennslvania / Nancy, 36, b Ohio // Mary, 18, b Ohio; Matilda, 14, school, b Ohio; Barnet, 11, school, b Ohio; Unis, 10, female, school, b Ohio; William, 8, school, b Ohio; Elisabeth, 6, school, b Ohio; Mariah A, 1, b Ohio

PUBLICATIONS:

---Adamson-Duvall and Related Families.  Ree Adamson Fraelich; Publisher: Ree Fraelich, Pittsburgh, PA, 1974; 127p.

-The following news item appeared in the newspaper Marietta Intelligencer October of 1861:

"Stabbing: on the 8th Inst at the Election House of Ludlow Twp, JJ Adamson was stabbed by a dirk knife in the hands of Henry Elder. The unfortunate man lived but a few hours. Elder was brought to town and lodged in jail. The Grand Jury has found a true bill against him for murder in the first degree."   Fraelich quotes excerpts from the Records of the Court of Common Pleas of Washington Co Ohio, vol 29. The trial was held in the February term, 1862, and the jury found Elder guilty of manslaughter. John's estate was settled 16 Aug 1867, Washington Co Court, Docket E, p46.

➼  Ruth ADAMSON was born about 1821 April 20 in Greene Co, Pennsylvania, died 1870 April 8, and was buried in Warren Twp: Green Ridge Cemetery, Wayne Co, Iowa. Ruth married Abraham SHRIVER, son of Elias SHRIVER and Unknown, about 1840.  They had seven children: Elias, William, S A, Eunice, Delilah, Lucy, and Adamson.

CENSUS:

1850 Ohio, Monroe Co, Green Twp, Dist No 106, 21 August

117/117  Abraham Shriver, 33, farmer, vore 1500, b Virginia / Ruth, 28, b Pennsylvania / Elias, 8, school, b Ohio; Isabella, 6, school, b Ohio; William, 4, school, b Ohio; Sarah, 3, b Ohio

1860 Iowa, Wayne Co, Grand River Twp, Grand River, 17 July

450/406  Abraham Shriver, 44, farmer, vore 1600 vope 808, b Pennsylvania / Ruth, 39, b Pennsylvania // Elias, 19, farmer, b Ohio; Wm, 15, school, farmer, b Ohio; S A, 13, female, school, b Ohio; Eunice, 10, school, b Ohio; Delila, 8, school, b Ohio; Lucy, 5, school, b Ohio; Adam, 3, b Iowa

BURIAL:

---Tombstone: Wayne Co, Iowa Cemeteries,  Wayne Co Genealogical Society

Green Ridge Cemetery, Warren Twp, Section 30, Wayne Co, Iowa

*SHRIVER, Ruth, wife of A Shriver / died Apr 8, 1870 / age 48 yr 11m 18d

➼  Sarah A ADAMSON was born about 1823 in Greene Co, Pennsylvania and died about 1883 May in Olathe, Johnson Co, Kansas. Sarah married Evan SHRIVER, son of Elias SHRIVER and Unknown, about 1841. They had six children: Barnet, Elias M, Rachel F, Isabella J, Owen, and Ruth Ann.

CENSUS:

1850 Ohio, Monroe Co, Green Twp, Dist No 106, 23 August

156/156  Evin Shriver, 30, farmer, vore 1000, b Pennsylvania / Sarah, 27, b Pennsylvania // Barnett, 7,  school, b Ohio; Elias, 6, school, b Ohio; Rachel, 5, b Ohio; Isabella, 3, b Ohio; Owen, 1, b Ohio

1859 Kansas, Johnson Co, Olathe, Voter List, p 3

Evan Shriver, date of settlement Nov 1857, Sarah A Shriver female over 18 years of age

1860 Kansas Territory, Johnson Co, Olathe Twp, Olathe, 25 August

785/885  E Shriver, 44, farmer, vore 5000 vope 1400, b Pennsylvania / S N, 38, female, b Pennsylvania // B, 17, female[sic], school, farmer, b Ohio; E M, 16, male, school, farmer, b Ohio; R, 14, female, school, b Ohio; I, 13, male, school, b Ohio; O, 11, female [sic], school, b Ohio; R A, 4, female, b Iowa /// Jno Lawson, 25, labourer, vore 1000 vope 600, b Ohio; Jos Cox, 22, labourer, vore 2600 vope 200, b Kentucky

1865 Kansas State Census, Johnson Co, Olathe, 26 June

243/258  Evan Shriver, 46, farmer, vore 4400 vope 2679, b Pennsylvania / S A, 44, female, b Pennsylvania // Barnet, 22, farm laborer, single, school, b Ohio; Isabel, 18, school, b Ohio; Owen, 16, school, b Ohio; R A, 8, school, b Iowa /// R'd Lindsay, 23, vope 400, single, b Canada; David Jones, 21, vope 200, single, b Canada; S Casen, 20, female, black, married, b Missouri; Geo S Casen, 3, black, b Missouri

1870 Kansas, Johnson Co, Olathe Twp, Olathe, 9 June

317/321  Shriver, Evan, 50, farmer, vore 10,000 vope 3000, b Pennsylvania / Sarah A, 48, keeping house, b Pennsylvania // Ruth Ann, 13, school, b Iowa /// Cline, Rhoda, 18, domestic servant, b Iowa; Malone, Henry, 16, works on farm, b Iowa

1875 Kansas State Census, Cowley Co, Sheridan Twp, Tisdale, 1 March

O Shriver, 26, farmer, vore 500 vope 280, b Ohio, to Kansas from Iowa / M, 20, female, b Texas, to Kansas from Texas // W R, 3, male, b Kansas; Orlie, 1 1/12, male, b Kansas

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E Shriver, 55, farmer, vore 500 vope 303, b Pennsylvania, to Kansas from Iowa / S A, 53, b Pennsylvania, to Kansas from Iowa // R A, 18, b Iowa, to Kansas from Iowa /// J Black, 16, male, b Illinois, to Kansas from Iowa

1880 Kansas, Cowley Co, Sheridan Twp, 11 & 12 June

104/104  Shriver, Evan, 69, farmer, b Pennsylvania Pennsylvania New Jersey / Sarah A, 57, wife, keeping house, b Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania // Ruth A, 22, dau, single, at home, b Iowa Pennsylvania Pennsylvania /// Lawson, Sarah, 11, grdau, school, b Kansas Ohio Ohio; Black, John Black,  21, boarder, laborer, b Illinois Ohio Illinois; Cunt, William, 25, laborer, b Ohio Ohio Ohio; Rayford, Philip, 17, laborer, b Texas Georgia Georgia

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106/106  Shriver, Owen, 30, farmer, b Ohio Pennsylvania Pennsylvania / Kary L?, 24, wife, keeping house, b Texas Georgia Georgia // William K, 7, son, school, b Kansas Ohio Texas; Erle?, 5, son, school, b Kansas Ohio Texas; Pearl, 1/12, b May, son, b Kansas Ohio Texas

DEATH:

---RootsWeb, US GenWeb, Kansas, Johnson Co, Obituaries from Johnson County Newspapers

*Shriver, Mrs Evans, May 3, 1883, Johnson County Democrat, article

➼  Martha "Polla" ADAMSON was born 1825 May 30 in Monroe Co, Ohio, died 1910 December 23 in Washington Co, Ohio, and was buried in Grandview Twp: Matamoras Cemetery, Washington Co, Ohio. Martha married George Harvey HUFFMAN, son of Jacob HUFFMAN and Nancy MITCHELL.  They had four children: Jacob, Barnet A, Isabel Ellen, and George H.

CENSUS:

1850 Ohio, Monroe Co, Dist 106, Green Twp, 19 August

48/48  George H Huffman 27, blacksmith, b Pennsylvania / Polly 25, b Ohio // Jacob 2, b Ohio; Barnett 1, b Ohio /// Catharine Huffman  17, b Ohio / John A Berry 22, wagon maker, b Virginia; Solomon Berry 20, wagon maker, b Virginia; Peter Brown 73, blacksmith, b on the ocean

1860 Ohio, Monroe Co, Perry Twp, Antioch, 24 July

200/201  George H Hoffman, 37, blacksmith, vore 1042 vope 100, b Pennsylvania / Polly M, 34, domestic, b Pennsylvania // Jacob L, 13, school, b Ohio; Barnard A, 11, school, b Ohio; Isabel, 9, b Ohio; George H, 7, b Ohio /// Peter Brown, 84, blacksmith, b Sea

1870 Ohio, Monroe Co, Green Twp, Laings, 3 June

36/36  Huffman, George H, 50, farmer, vore 5000 vope 1500, b Pennsylvania / Polly M, 45, keeping house, b Pennsylvania // Barnet A, 21, schoolteacher, b Ohio; Isabel A, 19, b Ohio; George H, 17, farm laborer, b Ohio /// Brown, Peter, 93, jour, blacksmith, b Atlantic Ocean, father and mother of foreign birth; Corn, Mary J, 8, school, b Ohio

1880 Ohio, Washington Co, New Matamoras, 15 June

217/217  Huffman, George H, 60, landlord, [maimed, crippled, bedridden, or otherwise disabled], b Pennsylvania West Virginia Pennsylvania / Polly M, 55, wife, keeping house, b Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania // Barnett A, 31, son, single, [maimed, crippled, bedridden, or otherwise disabled], b Ohio Pennsylvania Pennsylvania; Isabel E, 29, dau, single, b Ohio Pennsylvania Pennsylvania; George H Jr, 27, son, single, b Ohio Pennsylvania Pennsylvania /// Coen, Mary J, 18, orphan, b Ohio Pennsylvania Pennsylvania; Theis, Louis W, 39, boarder, boot & shoe maker, b Ohio unknown unknown

[1880 Census Commentary:  14 out of the 50 people listed on this page are marked as "maimed, crippled, bedridden, or otherwise disabled"]

1900 Ohio, Washington Co, Grandview Twp, New Matamoras, 1 June  [v10-09LC]

6/7  Huffman, B A, head, b April 1849, 51, m 16 yrs, [no occupation given], b Ohio Ohio Pennsylvania / E A, wife, b Dec 1855, 44, m 16 yrs, 4 ch 3 liv, b Ohio Ireland Ireland // Almeta, dau, b Mar 1884, 16, school, b Ohio Ohio Ohio; Lucy, dau, b Mar 1892, 8, b Ohio Ohio Ohio; Helen B, dau, b Aug 1898, 1, b Ohio Ohio Ohio /// Polly A, mother, b May 1825, 75, wd, 4 ch 3 liv, b Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania

1910 Ohio, Washington Co, Grandview Twp, New Matamoras, Front Street, 15 April

24/25  Huffman, Barnett, head, 60, marr 1, m 26 yrs, prop[rietor] - hotel, b Ohio Pennsylvania Pennsylvania / Elizabeth A, wife, 54, marr 1, m 26 yrs, 4 ch 3 liv, b Ohio Ir[e]land Ir[e]land // Lucy I, dau, 18, school, b Ohio Ohio Ohio; Helen B, dau, 11, school, b Ohio Ohio Ohio /// Pollie M, mother, 84, 4 ch 3 liv, b Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania; Dixon, Anna, servant, 19, servant - hotel, b Ohio Ohio Ohio; Little, Ester, servant, 17, servant - hotel, b Ohio Ohio Ohio; Piatt, Ed, boarder, 30, single, tool dresser - oil field, b Ohio Ohio Ohio

MARRIAGE:

---Newspaper: Spirit of Democracy, Monroe Co, Ohio, 25 Feb 1868

BURIAL:

---Washington Co, Ohio, Historical Society: Cemetery Index, online

*HUFFMAN, Polly M, 1826-1910, Matamoras, Grandview Twp

*HUFFMAN, G H, [no dates given] Matamoras, Grandview Twp

CORRESPONDENCE:

---from Loren DeWitt

letter from Belle Duncan to Isabell DeWitt in 1933 says: "I don't know any of their ages, only Aunt Polla and mother’s, that is, I know Aunt Polla just lacked one day of being 10 years older then mother, mother's birthday over May 29, Aunt Polla's May 30.

➼  William J ADAMSON was born 1827 June 15 in Monroe Co, Ohio and died 1900 September 25.  William married Mary SHRIVER. They had two children: Elisabeth J and Isabel C.

CENSUS:

1860 Ohio, Monroe Co, Green Twp, Newcastle, 18 June

213/213  Wm J Adamson, 32, farmer, vope 350, b Pennsylvania / Mary, 31, b Virginia // Elisabeth J, 3, b Ohio; Isabelle C, 3/12, b Ohio

1870 Ohio, Monroe Co, Green Twp, Laings, 3 June

34/34  Adamson, William J, 42, farmer, vore 1500 vope 500, b Pennsylvania / Mary, 42, keeping house, b West Virginia // Elizabeth J, 13, school, b Ohio; Isabel C, 9, school, b Ohio /// Brady, William, 13, school, farm laborer, b Ohio

1880 Ohio, Monroe  Co, Green Twp, 8 June

30/30  Adamson, William J, 52, farmer, b Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania / Mary, 53, wife, keeping house, b West Virginia West Virginia Pennsylvania // Elisabeth J, 23, dau, single, b Ohio Pennsylvania West Virginia; Isabel C, 20, dau, single, school, b Ohio Pennsylvania West Virginia // Shriver, Isabel A, 40, servant, single, domestic servant, [maimed, crippled, bedridden, or otherwise disabled], b Ohio West Virginia Pennsylvania; Hickman, John, 43, servant, single, servant, b Ohio Ohio Ohio

1900 Ohio, Monroe Co, Green Twp, 5 June

19/19  Adamson, Wm J, head, b June 1827, 72, marr 48 yrs, owner free, farmer, b Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania / Mary, wife, b Feb 1826, 74, single [sic], married 48 yrs, 3 ch 2 liv, b West Virginia West Virginia West Virginia /// Shriver, Isabell A, s-in-law, b May 1840, 60, single, b Ohio West Virginia West Virginia

➼  Eunice Isabel ADAMSON was born about 1829 in Monroe Co, Ohio and died 1844 November 23.

➼  Cassandra "Cassie Ann" ADAMSON was born 1832 May 6 in Monroe Co, Ohio, died 1886 July 9, and was buried in Kilburn Rankin Brown Cemetery, Wayne Co, Iowa. Cassandra married Benjamin SHRIVER in 1850. They had six children: William Harvey, Evan, Barnet A, Mary "Polly," Benjamin, and Ellis Elias.  Cassandra next married Abraham SHRIVER, son of Elias SHRIVER and Unknown, about 1870.

CENSUS:

1850 Ohio, Monroe Co, Green Twp, Dist No 106, 20 August

92/92  Benjamin Shriver, 30, farmer, vore 500, married within year, b Ohio / Casander, 18, married within year, b Ohio

1860 Iowa, Wayne Co, Jackson Twp, Warsaw & Corydon, 5 July

238/213  Benjamin Shriver, 34, farmer, vore 1625 vope 352, b Ohio / C A, 28, female, b Ohio // Wm H, 9, school, b Ohio; Erin?, 6, male, school, b Ohio; Mary, 10/12, b Iowa

1870 Iowa, Wayne Co, Warren Twp, Corydon, 5 August

21/21  Shriver, Caseanna, 38, keeps house, vore 4000 vope 1520, b Ohio // William H, 18, farm work, b Ohio; Evan, 15, school, farm work, b Ohio; Polly, 11, school, b Iowa; Benjamin, 9, school, b Iowa; Elias, 5, school, b Iowa

1880 Iowa, Wayne Co, Grand River Twp, 28 June

35/35  Shriver, Abraham, 61, b Virginia Virginia Virginia / C A, 48, wife, keeps house, b Ohio Virginia Virginia // Adamson, 22, son, single, b Iowa Virginia Virginia; Mary, 20, dau, single, b Iowa Virginia Virginia; Benj, 17, son, school, b Iowa Virginia Virginia; Elias, 15, son, school, b Iowa Virginia Virginia

BURIAL:

---Tombstone: Wayne Co, Iowa Cemeteries,  Wayne Co Genealogical Society

Killbourn-Rankin-Brown Cemetery, Warren Twp, Section 24, Wayne Co, Iowa

*SHRIVER, Cassey A / wife of B Shriver / died July 9, 1886 / age 54 yr 2 m 3 d

➼➼  Deborah Jane ADAMSON was born 1835 May 29 in Monroe Co, Ohio, died 1918 October 3 in Grant Twp, Jackson Co, Kansas, and was buried in Powersville: Cemetery, Putnam Co, Missouri. Deborah married John Alpheus BERRY, son of John H BERRY and Mary HUFFMAN, 1854 March 2 in [---], Monroe Co, Ohio. They had nine children: John William, Adamson Randolph, Robert Johnson, Thomas Millard, Frances Isabella "Belle," Everett Dally, James Oatis, Viola Jane "Ola," and Eliza Alma.

CENSUS:

1860 Ohio, Monroe Co, Green Twp, Lang, 20 June

239/239  John A Berry, 30, wagonmaker, vore 400 vope 175, b Virginia / Deborah, 25, b Ohio // John W, 5, school, b Ohio; Adamson R, 3, b Ohio; Robert J, 4/12, b Ohio

1870 Ohio, Monroe Co, Green Twp, Laings, 3 June

33/33  Berry, John A, 40, farmer, vore 1200 vope 400, b West Virginia / Deborah J, 35, keeping house, b Ohio // John W, 15, school, farm laborer, b Ohio; Adamson R, 11, school, farm laborer, b Ohio; Robert J, 9, school, b Ohio; Thomas M, 6, school, b Ohio; Isabel F, 4, b Ohio; Everet D, 9/12, b Aug, b Ohio

1880 Ohio, Monroe  Co, Green Twp, 7 June

28/28  Berry, John A, 51, farmer, b West Virginia New Jersey West Virginia / Deborah, 45, b Ohio Pennsylvania Pennsylvania // Adamson R, 23, laborer, b Ohio West Virginia Ohio; Robert J, 20, school, b Ohio West Virginia Ohio; Thomas M, 17, school, b Ohio West Virginia Ohio; Frances I, 14, dau, school, b Ohio West Virginia Ohio; Evert D, 10, school, b Ohio West Virginia Ohio; James O, 8, school, b Ohio West Virginia Ohio; Viola J, 6, school, b Ohio West Virginia Ohio; Eliza E, 3, b Ohio West Virginia Ohio

1900 Kansas, Jackson Co, Grant Twp, 5 June

47/49  Berry, James O, b May 1873, 28, single, farmer, b Ohio West Virginia Ohio /// Viola J, sister, b Sept 1875, 24, single, b Ohio West Virginia Ohio; Debora J, mother, b May 1835, 65, wd, 9 ch 8 liv, b Ohio Pennsylvania Pennsylvania

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48/50  Berry, Everett D, b July 1868, 31, mar 1 yr, farmer - farm 51, b Ohio West Virginia Ohio / Florence, b June 1878, 21, 1 ch 1 liv, b West Virginia West Virginia Germany // Ira N, b Oct 1899, 7/12, b Kansas Ohio West Virginia

1910 Kansas, Jackson Co, Grant Twp, 28 April

86/87  Salisbury, Elmore H, head, 35, marr 1, m 9 yrs, farmer - general farm 98, b Kansas Indiana Indiana / Viola J, wife, 35, marr 1, m 9 yrs, 5 ch 5 liv, b Ohio West Virginia Ohio // Otis G, son, 8, b Kansas Kansas Ohio; Wayne M, son, 7, b Kansas Kansas Ohio; Noel W, son, 5, b Kansas Kansas Ohio; Guy E, son, 3, b Kansas Kansas Ohio; Ethel, dau, 7/12, b Kansas Kansas Ohio; Berry, Deborah J, mother-in-law, 74, wd, b Ohio Pennsylvania Pennsylvania

MARRIAGE:

---marriage records for Monroe Co, Ohio are unavailable for this time period.

DEATH:

---Death certificate, Kansas

Mrs Deborah J Berry, widow, age 73 yrs, 4 months, 4 days, died October 3, 1918, Grant Twp, Jackson Co, Kansas, of arterioschorosis and influenza.  Length of residence in state: 25 years, at place of death: 25 years.  Born May 27, Monroe Co, Ohio, father Barnet Adamson, b Pennsylvania; mother Isabell Johnston, b Pennsylvania.  Informant: Everett Berry, Osage Kansas.  Removal to Powersville, Missouri.  Undertaker, W A Irwin, Havensville, Kansas.

BURIAL:

---Tombstone: photographs taken in 1994

Powersville Cemetery, Putnam Co, Missouri

---World Connect, Havensville, Pottawatomie Co, Kansas area working database, posted by Merrie Pinick, excerpt

*OUR HERITAGE

Berry - Strosnider

-Everett Berry and his mother, brother Oatis and two sisters, Viola and Eliza came from Ohio, with a few years' stop in Iowa, to Kansas in 1892, and first made their home south of Havensville. Later they moved to the Avoca neighborhood. . . .

➼  Barnet ADAMSON was born 1838 November 24 in Monroe Co, Ohio and died 1854 October 11.

CENSUS:

1850 Ohio, Monroe Co, Dost 106, Green Twp, 20 August

85/85  Barnett Adamson, 55, farmer, vore 2000, b Pennsylvania / Isabella, 48, b Pennslvania // William, 22, farmer, b Pennsylvania; Deborah, 15, school, b Ohio; Barnett, 11, school, b Ohio

I've eliminated duplicates, for the most part.  My method is to add all records that name an individual so that one doesn't have to find the parents to look at the full record.