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Born: Abt 1866 - Walla Walla, Washington,
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Mother: Elsa (Abt 1828- )
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Husband Nathaniel Pegg
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Father: Daniel Pegg IV (Abt 1738-1778)
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Wife Rachel Pegg
Born: Apr 3, 1771
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Husband George Washington Moul Wilson 42
Born: Sep 17, 1830 - Ohio 66
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Died: Apr 17, 1911 - Pacific County, Washington
Buried: - Wilson Cemetery, Wilson Point, Pacific County, Washington
Father: Daniel Pegg Wilson (1804-1890) 32,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63
Mother: Rosanna Hough Moul (1814-1850) 64
Marriage: Dec 22, 1850 - Cass County Illinois 67
Other Spouse: Elizabeth Goodpasture (1836-1925) - Jan 22, 1873 - Eugene, Oregon
Wife Ann Eliza Clark
Born: Jul 18, 1829 - Virginia 66
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Died: Aug 13, 1868 - Pacific County, Washington
Buried: - Wilson Cemetery, Wilson Point, Pacific County, Washington
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1 M Orlando R. Wilson
Born: Sep 22, 1851 - Illinois
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Died: Jun 14, 1897
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Spouse: Sarah E. Rhoades (Abt 1857-1914)
2 F Mary Van Wilson 68
Born: Jul 1, 1854 - Washington Territory
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Died: 1942
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Spouse: William Richard Marion (Abt 1846-1910)
Marr: 1873
3 M Frank Edwin Wilson
AKA: Ed Wilson
Born: Abt 1859 - Oregon
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Died: Aug 24, 1933
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Spouse: Amanda Jane Horne (1872-1967)
Marr: Canyonville, Oregon
4 M Eugene O. Wilson
Born: Abt 1860 - Washington, Territory
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Died: 1946
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5 M George Washington Jr Wilson
Born: 1866 - Washington, Territory
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Died: 1941
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Spouse: Anna Charlotte (1873-1962)
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George W. Wilson was in the business of oyster harvesting in Willapa Bay, Washigton. He also was involved in cattle ranching on his land and being the respected patriarch of Wilsonville, a village on Willapa Bay, Washigton. George took up other lands adjoining his original claimaround Wilsonville until at one time he had a thousand acres. George was a prominent Pacific County Washington citizen, twice elected as County Commissioner.
George Wilson migrated with his father's family to the Oregon territory from Morgan County Illinois in 1852. George may have lived earlier in the Murphysboro area of Jackson County Illinois as it was said that he played the flute in the Murphysboro, Illinois band.
The following is an account of George Washington's experiences beginning after their arrival in Oregon City, as written by George Washington Wilson's son, Emerson J. Wilson:
They arrived in early September, made camp to rest a few days, then sold their wagons and animals and hired some Indians to take their household goods down to Portland. The goods were transported in Indian canoes, but they no more than got started when one upset and most of their things were lost. At Portland, camp was made near what is now Stark Street between First and Second. There were no buildings near them --- just uncleared land and stumps. (In after years, about 1882, Father took his family on a visit to Portland; it wasn't much of a town even in the '80's. He tried to find their old house. I remember Father said to Mother: "It was just about here the house stood --- there should be a big stump over there." However, the stump was gone and we could only approximate the location of the first Wilson home in the West.) In the late fall of 1852, Father went to work as a carpenter in Portland. He got $1.50 for a ten hour day, and he had to pay $50 for a sack of flour, with other goods proportionately high. A pair of hip-length rubber boots sold for $50 that year. Before spring came, one of the employers owed him $150. Unable to pay in cash, he offered to deed him two lots on Morrison Street for the bill. But Father said: "No, I don't want the lots. I'll wait until you can pay me the cash." I don't know if he ever got the cash, but the two lots would have later brought him a lot more than the wages. In the spring of 1853, Father heard of the oyster business on Shoalwater Bay. He decided to see this country, so he bought some lumber and built a large flat-bottomed skiff, also making oars, sails and a mast. After making arrangements to provide for his family while he was gone, he started out early one morning, sailed out the Willamette into the Columbia, down that river and turned into Baker's Bay. He then proceeded up the Wallicut as far as navigation was possible. Hauling his boat out of water, he covered it with brush and grass. Making up a pack of all he could carry, he took an old Indian trail north to Bear river, which empties into Shoalwater Bay. When he arrived at the head of Bear river, he found the country very rough and thickly covered with underbrush, making foot travel difficult. Nearby was an Indian burial place where the natives had placed their dead in canoes in a grove of trees. Father cut down one of these canoes, scooped up the bones which he buried in the ground, repaired the hull, made a launching into Bear river, and paddled on down the bay. He paddled past Long Island, the Naselle and Nemah rivers, Sand Point, Goose Point; it was clear, bright weather with not a cloud in the sky. As he looked across the Palix river he saw a beautiful shore, ablaze with the setting sun. He determined to go to that shore and camp for the night, as it was too late to go farther. When he landed, he said to himself: "I think this is what I have been looking for." He hauled his canoe up to high water mark and made camp under some sheltering spruce trees. Not far from where he camped there was a small Indian village. The next morning, while he was cooking his breakfast, an old Indian came up to converse by means of the Chinook jargon. Father asked the old man where the Bostons (Americans) were located, and the Indian pointed north, saying "Siah, wake siah kopa Willapa Chuck", which in English means "Not far up the Willapa river." Mud flats in front of the camp extended as far north as could be seen. A close inspection showed them to be covered with native oysters. Directly across the Palix river which, in conjunction with the Niawaukum, ran in front of his camp site, there was a peninsula running in a northerly direction, the tip of which was Goose Point. About three-quarters of a mile away, where the town of Bay Center is now located, Dr. James R. Johnson filed his homestead. Father explored the area thoroughly, and was sure this was the place for him. He fell to work building a cabin, a small one of logs. Then, launching his canoe again, he paddled north along the shore, passing Bone river, then called Querquellin by the Indians. Here James G. Swan compiled his book Northwest Coast; Three Years at Shoalwater Bay; or Three Years in Washington Territory. In due time, Father rounded Stony Point, which place was occupied by Charles J.W. Russell and afterward taken up by W.B. Clark, who lived there with his family of wife, three sons and two daughters for many years. One half mile east of Stony Point was the settlement of Bruceport. This place consisted of about twelve families and as many or more of Indians. There was a trading post on the order of the Hudson's Bay stores. About once every month a two-masted schooner from San Francisco would call and buy oysters. Father inquired as to selling oysters, and was told the prospects were good. He was advised to bring along all he could get, but to make it a point to have them there the day before the schooner was due. At the store, he purchased a pair of oyster tongs, a rake, scoop shovel, and other needed supplies. These he loaded into his canoe and returned to his cabin on the Palix river. The more he looked around, the more he was convinced that this was the spot to settle on. The rivers were full of king, silver and calico salmon. There were many ducks, geese, brant, and snipe. He saw herds of deer and elk grazing on the tidelands, mud flats were filled with an abundance of oysters and clams. Truly, a good living was just a matter of a muzzle-loading shot gun and a shovel! Father consulted with the old Indian he had met the morning after his arrival; his American name was Sam, and he became a fast friend and good companion. He brought two or three of his fellow tribesmen to help in harvesting oysters for market. These they brought closer to shore to cull, or sort, then left them until the schooner was expected. At the schooner bed, they pulled along side and waited their turn to discharge the cargo. After being paid off, they would go ashore, buy such supplies as they needed, and return home. On the days the tides were wrong for oystering, they made exploratory trips together, looking over the land, paddling up the Niawaukum and Palix rivers, finding areas suitable for stock grazing. In the early fall of 1853, Father returned to Portland, and that winter he again worked as a carpenter. He filed for a donation claim of 620 acres, though in the following years he took up other lands adjoining the original claim until at one time he had a thousand acres. By the spring of 1854, there was a river steamer running between Portland and Astoria. Grandfather Daniel, one son and two daughters, came in April of that year to Astoria, across the Columbia into Baker's Bay by canoe, and on to the claim on the Palix to clear land and otherwise improve the place. In the summer, Father brought his wife and son down, and engaged in planting seed oysters on his grounds in the bay. Grandfather took up a claim on the south fork of the Palix, and the Indians called it "Yeomstead", and by that name it was known for many years. In addition to his muzzle loading shot gun, Father had a muzzle loading rifle, known as a Yauger, which shot an ounce round ball; balls and patches were carried in the storage compartment in the stock of the gun. With this rifle, he killed many elk, deer, bear and a few wolves. Grandfather, too, was quite a hunter; in fact, he was given the nickname of "Cougar Wilson".
Lest this account grow too confusing, let me here give a brief history of my immediate family. Father's wife Ann Eliza, whom he brought to the claim that summer of 1854, was not my mother; she was the mother of Orlando, Mary Van, Edward, Eugene and George, Jr.
THE ERA OF THE INDIAN WARS
Now, let us go back to the year 1855 and resume our narrative. At that time, the Indians east of the mountains went on the war path and the Indians in the Sound country "raised", as the settlers termed their uprisings. The natives on this bay were peaceful, as the coming of the white man had been an asset rather than a liability. There was plenty of game and seafood for all, and by working at gathering oysters, they could buy goods at the store; they were not inclined to make trouble. The Indians had their own grape-vine method of obtaining news from east of the mountains, Vancouver, British Columbia, and even as far north as Alaska. This was via the trade route. The Columbia river, Shoalwater bay and Grays Harbor Indians traded dried and smoked salmon and oysters east of the mountains in exchange for basket grasses which grew in the Cascades, food and flints for arrows. They also traded Kliskwiss, mats made of local flag reeds; these were used for bed blankets and to line their houses to keep out the cold. On these trading expeditions, the news from various parts of the country was passed along. When the uprisings of 1855 took place, the local Indians were badly worried. They held a pow wow among themselves and, after it was over, the head man, or local chief, came to see Father and said he represented the tribe and wished to make a treaty with him. The Indians valued their freedom to come and go above everything else, and their greatest dread was of being put on a reservation. "So," said the local head man, "We have held our counsel. We like the Boston people and wish to have a good feeling talk with you and make a treaty." Father said he was willing to do this and asked the Indian to state his case. "You see that the Great White Father does not put us on a reservation and we, the head Indians, will not go on the warpath or in any way molest the people around here. We will live in good spirit with the Boston men." Father agreed to do all he could, and all through the Indian trouble around the Sound country, the local natives kept their agreement with my father, and lived in peace and harmony forever after. One morning, a little before daybreak, Pather heard a knock on the cabin door. He found the Indian with whom he had made the treaty standing outside. The man was excited and said: "Come quick. Bad Indian come from far away, wants Indians to shoot white people. Take your gun and shoot bad Indian." Father quickly dressed and, grabbing his Yauger and powder horn off the wall, set out with the Indian. They took a trail over the hill that led down to the sandy beach on the east side of the long point of land jutting out into the bay. It was on this beach that the strange Indian had landed. But when Father and his friend reached the spot, the canoe and the trouble maker were gone. Looking across the water, Father could see the Indian paddling for all he was worth in the direction of Tokes Point, but he was out of shooting range. Perhaps other Indians had warned the intruder to clear out. At any rate, that was the nearest thing to an uprising happening on the bay in my father's time. Meanwhile, at the little settlement of Bruceport, a block house had been erected. Father bought supplies there. One day Captain Riddell asked him when he was going to bring his family in so as to be near the block house in case of trouble. He replied: "I am not going to bring my family in at all. We are going to stay right where we are." Others spoke up then, and there was a general discussion of the matter. Finally some one said: "Wilson, you can stay there and be scalped if you want to, but we are going to bring your family here where they will be safe." Father told them: "Don't try that. I've got guns and plenty of ammunition and you will have a war on your hands that you will long remember --- if you live through it. The Indians are my friends and will help defend my family and me." With that, he carried his goods to the canoe and paddled away. Blockhouse life was rough, and Father did not wish to expose his family to it. After returning home, he looked up the head Indian for a pow-wow, and was told: "You stay here and we will protect you from both bad Indians and bad white men. We will help each other and we will remain 'Kloshe tillicums' (good friends)." The men at the blockhouse did not go through with their threat, and father was never bothered by them. The oyster industry on the bay had increased rapidly, and some of the oysterman began to build sailboats and flat-bottom bateaus to use instead of the native canoes. There were two small boats shipped out of San Francisco to our bay on the deck of a schooner. They were twenty-two feet long and seven foot beam, clinker built cat boats with sail and mast, with long overhanging stern and center board. Father bought one of these boats and built a bateau, twenty feet in length and seven foot beam, square stern, half deck, which carried the oysters in the hold. This bateau was propelled with a long pole, cut and peeled from a spruce sapling. Using the pole, one would walk along the deck, bow to stern, pushing the en on the muddy bottom. There was also a sculling chock on the stern with an oar to scull with when the water was too deep to pole. Sometime after Father purchased the Staten Island skiff, he had occasion to go north across the bay to Tokes Point was in the month of January, just after a very cold spell of weather, and the bay had been frozen over. The rise and fall of the tides had broken up the family in so as to be near the block house in case of trouble. He replied: "I am not going to bring my family in at all. We are going to stay right where we are." Others spoke up then, and there was a general discussion of the matter. Finally some one said: "Wilson, you can stay there and be scalped if you want to, but we are going to bring your family here where they will be safe." Father told them: "Don't try that. I've got guns and plenty of ammunition and you will have a war on your hands that you will long remember --- if you live through it. The Indians are my friends and will help defend my family and me." With that, he carried his goods to the canoe and paddled away. Blockhouse life was rough, and Father did not wish to expose his family to it. After returning home, he looked up the head Indian for a pow-wow, and was told: "You stay here and we will protect you from both bad Indians and bad white men. We will help each other and we will remain 'Kioshe tillicums' (good friends)." The men at the blockhouse did not go through with their threat, and father was never bothered by them. The oyster industry on the bay had increased rapidly, and some of the oysterman began to build sailboats and flat-bottom bateaus to use instead of the native canoes. There were two small boats shipped out of San Francisco to our bay on the deck of a schooner. They were twenty-two feet long and seven foot beam, clinker built cat boats with sail and mast, with long overhanging stern and center board. Father bought one of these boats and built a bateau, twenty feet in length and seven foot beam, square stern, half deck, which carried the oysters in the hold. This bateau was propelled with a long pole, cut and peeled from a spruce sapling. Using the pole, one would walk along the deck, bow to stern, pushing the end on the muddy bottom. There was also a sculling chock on the stern with an oar to scull with when the water was too deep to pole. Sometime after Father purchased the Staten Island skiff, he had occasion to go north across the bay to Tokes Point. It was in the month of January, just after a very cold spell of weather, and the bay had been frozen over. The rise and fall of the tides had broken up the ice with the exception of the shore line. As Father's business was pressing, he decided to try the journey. He hired an Indian to go with him to help bail in case the waters grew so rough as to make that necessary. The day was dark and cloudy, and a fair breeze was blowing as they set sail on their five mile run across the bay. They proceeded north down the Palix channel, past Pine Island, across the Willapa river to Tokes Point which is now called Tokeland. When they rounded to, off the point, the wind had increased to a gale from the southeast, and the bay was showing white caps. The boat began to ship water and the Indian started bailing. He thought he could sail in behind the point and find a harbor from the wind and seas, but on closer approach he could see that the ice extended out from the shore too far at that spot. He tried to put about and beat to windward, but the increasing gale and high seas were too strong and the little craft was soon blown back against the ice over which the waves were breaking. The first crash against the ice shook the little boat until it seemed her planking would give way. The Indian was badly seared, but kept on bailing and soon had the water in the boat reduced, but had to keep at it steadily to prevent swamping. Father looked astern some fifty feet and saw a crack in the ice running toward shore. He said: "Our best chance is to try and work the boat back to that crack and see if we can chop along through the ice to where we can get some protection from the wind." They had two axes aboard and when they had the boat secured they both got out on the ice and began chopping a channel wide enough for the boat to enter. They cut in about twice the length of the boat, then cut a right hand turn in the ice so the seas wouldn't have a clean sweep at her. Then they hauled the boat in the opening, ran their anchor line out, cut a hole in the ice, and secured the anchor. By this time, the boat was nearly full of water again, so they bailed her out and felt she was pretty safe for the time being. They were nearly frozen and, as they walked ashore across the ice, their discomfort was increasing every minute. They made for the cabin of the settler whom Father had come to see. As they neared the house, the door was flung open and the man welcomed them into a warm room where he had a good fire going. Their host said: "Come in! I put the coffee pot on when I saw you crossing the bay. I was afraid you would lose your boat for sure." The warm stove and hot coffee soon thawed them out, and Father and the man transacted their business. After about an hour the wind shifted to the northwest and the storm was over. They boarded their boat, worked her out of the improvised channel, hoisted sail and were soon on their way. When Father paid the Indian for his help he said: "Mike delate kumtux, klatawa kopa skookum chuck," which meant, "You are a good sailor in a storm or rough water." The family was proud of this little sail boat and kept her many years, even after Father bought a much larger one. He finally sold her to an Indian named George Squamaup, who was the father of Joseph George who became famous for building round-bottomed crab and trolling boats. When W.R. Marion was a young boy, he left his native Ireland, following the sea, sailing in English ships. On one voyage he landed at Panama. After being paid off, he got a job carrying railroad iron along the path where a track was being built. Though he stood a good six feet and was a husky young man, this was a Herculean task; he had a hump on his back which he claimed was caused by carrying these loads of iron. Working his way across the Isthmus to the Pacific side, he shipped up the coast to San Francisco, where he took a job with a company handling oysters from Shoalwater bay and it wasn't long until he made up his mind to come up here. On his arrival in 1870, he had just fifteen cents in his pockets. Father gave him a job and took him into our home to live. In about a year, he and my half-sister, Mary Van, were married. Father gave "Dick" and Mary thirty acres of the donation claim as a wedding gift, land north around the point from the home place. They had one child, a daughter, who died when she was five years old. Dick worked hard and saved his money. After they had built a house about 300 yards from the beach he, with the backing of my father, bought an old flat bottom sloop and went into the oyster business for himself. In the meantime, he had staked out about 60 acres of tide flats between Bone river and Stony Point which was suitable for raising oysters. This was known as "the mountain bed" because it was of a higher elevation than the surrounding ones. Dick used his sloop to gather oysters from the South bay and transplant them to his own private grounds. In 1875, Dick, Father, his oldest son Orlando Wilson, Fred Craft, A.S. Bush, Captain West, Swanberg, L.H. Rhoades and L.A. Rhoades formed the Bay Center Oyster Company which was referred to as the BCO Co. Swanberg and West handled the San Francisco end; the other members shipped the oysters via schooner which generally loaded at Bruceport.
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CENSUS YR: 1850 STATE or TERRITORY: IL COUNTY: Cass PAGE NO: 125
22 850 867 CLARK William 42 M Miller 2,000 Va
23 850 867 CLARK Ann E. 20 F Va
24 850 867 CLARK Mary E. 15 F IL X
25 850 867 CLARK Frances V. 13 F IL X
26 850 867 CLARK Nancy J. 10 F IL X
27 850 867 CLARK William L. 7 M IL X
28 850 867 CLARK Helen L. 4 F IL
29 850 867 CLARK John H. 1 M IL
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Husband Daniel Pegg III
Born: 1725 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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7 M Daniel Pegg IV
Born: Abt 1738 - Greenwich Twp, Sussex Co. (Now Warren Co.), New Jersey
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8 F Milly Pegg
Born: 1742
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9 F Rachel Pegg
Born: 1744
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10 F Hannah Pegg
Born: 1748
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11 M Isaac Pegg
Born: Jul 25, 1751
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12 M Benjamin Pegg
Born: 1753
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13 M Elias Pegg
Born: Abt 1755 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Spouse: Elizabeth Onsettler ( -1819)
Marr: 1785
14 F Mary Pegg
Born: Aug 9, 1764
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More About DANIEL PEGG III:
Census: 1790, (?) U.S. Census; Peg, Daniel of Bucks Co., PA; pg. 048.
Religion: The Religious Society of Friends or "Quakers"
NJ Wills; Volume III ; 1751 - 1760; Pg. 108; A Daniel Pegg is a witness to the will of William Emley, 1751, Mar. 28, of Kingwood Township, Hunterdon Co., NJ.
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The following is a newspaper account of the lease of Daniel Pegg, to the City of Philadelphia for a tract of land. Copied by permission from W. Miller. When the family went in search of this lease in the record book it could not be found, nor was their any evidence that one ever existed.
Pages 203-4, June 10th, 1793.
From Daniel Pegg to the city of Philadelphia, Pa.; five hundred and fifty (550) acres of land to have and to hold in contract on lease by me for ninety-nine (99) years. It laying direct in line commencing at my brick house which is on the Delaware river, north three hundred (300) chains, there being five hundred and fifty (550) acres in all, and also three hundred (300) acres in the Northern Liberties in the city limits of Harrisburg, Pa.
I, James Wilson, Justice of the Supreme Court of Philadelphia, Pa., here witness and set my seal this 10th day of June, 1793.
Witnessed and sworn to by James Polk, Clerk of the Court and officers Smith, Meredith, and James J. Scott.
This for the benefit of my children, my daughter Nellie Pegg, my son Elias Pegg and my daughter Rachel Pegg, they do receive the rentals of the said land every twenty years, or their offspring as they agree.
I, James Wilson, make this agreement with Daniel Pegg in Harrisburg, Pa., June 10th, 1793, supporting and constituting this agreement with Daniel Pegg. James Wilson, C. of C.
Recorded in book of C. of C. Folio 503.
Husband Daniel W. Collies
AKA: Daniel W. Collis
Born: Abt 1828
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Buried: - Los Angeles National Cemetery, Los Angles, California
Marriage: Jan 13, 1852 - Morgan County, Illinois
Wife Sarah Jane Wilson
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Daniel Collis Joined up with John Brown in Osawatomie, Kansas and was with him on his famous crusades to liberate the slaves. Near the Collis home in Osawatomie a battle was fought, during which several of Brown's men were killed and many wounded including Daniel Collis, he carried a Mini ball in his back for the rest of his life.
The Muster roll of the Company of Brown organized at Lawrence on the 7th of December is as follows:
Muster roll of Capt. John Brown's company in the Fifth Regiment of the First Brigade of Kansas Volunteers, commanded by Col. George W. Smith, called into the service of the people of Kansas to defend the city of Lawrence, in the Territory of Kansas, from threatened demolition by foreign invaders, enrolled at Osawatomie K. T., called into service from the 27th day of November. A. D. 1855. when mustered to the 12th day of December, when discharged. Service sixteen days.
Name and Rank. Age.
John Brown, Sen., Captain........................ 55
Wm. W. Updegraff, 1st Lieutenant................. 34
Henry H. Williams, 2d Lieutenant................. 27
James.J. Holbrook. 3d Lieutenant................. 23
Ephraim Reynolds, 1st Sergeant................... 25
R. N. Wood, 2d Sergeant.......................... 20
Frederick Brown, 3d Sergeant..................... 25
John Yetton, 4th Sergeant........................ 26
Henry Alderman, 1st Corporal..................... 55
H. Harrison Updegraff, 2d Corporal............... 23
Daniel W. Collis, 3d Corporal.................... 27
William Partridge, 4th Corporal.................. 32
Amos D. Alderman ................................ 20
Owen Brown ...................................... 31
Salmon Brown .................................... 19
John Brown, Jr................................... 34
Francis Brennen ................................. 29
William W. Caine ................................ 19
Benjamin L. Cochran ............................. 34
Jeremiah Harrison ............................... 22
(Endorsed.)
In May 1854, treaties were made with the Delaware and Shawnee in eastern Kansas, opening the land up for settlement. Furthermore, on May 30, 1854, the Douglas Bill was signed by President Franklin Pierce, repealing the Missouri Compromise and organizing the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska with the right to determine the question of slavery for themselves. Towns and newspapers were established, each focusing on it's support or opposition to slavery. Passionate supporters of both sides of the issue poured into Kansas hoping to tip the balance to their respective side. On November 29, 1854, an election for a delegate to Congress was held. On March 30, 1855, an election of the Territorial Legislature was held. In both elections, abuses were flagrant and severe. Thousands of pro-slavery Missourians crossed the border and posing as Kansas, demanded the right to vote at gun point. They browbeat judges, stuffed ballot boxes, and otherwise transformed the election into a grim farce. Violent scuffles were commonplace. Abolitionist forces shipped guns and munitions to their supporters. This was the beginning of what is termed "Bleeding Kansas."
THE BATTLE OF OSAWATOMIE.
This was the most memorable battle of the Border War. It was fought August 30, 1856. Capt. John Brown, Dr. W. W. Updegraff and Capt. Cline commanded the defense, and Gen. John W. Reid the attacking party of 400 Missourians. Gen. Reid's command, after crossing the Marias des Cygnes, at Bundy's Ford, four miles northwest of Osawatomie, approached the town about daylight, Rev. Martin White acting as guide. Frederick Brown was making preparations to return to Lawrence that day, and on his way to Rev. S. L. Adair's, met Gen. Reid and Rev. White with a small body of men in advance of the main force. He saluted them with "Good morning, boys; are you going to Lawrence to-day?" Rev. White replied:"Why, I know you!" and taking deliberate aim with his rifle, fired at Brown, shooting him dead in the road, about a mile west of town. This was twenty minutes before sunrise. Messengers were immediately dispatched to notify the people in town, and Capt. Brown, who was a half-mile east of town. He, Dr. Updegraff and Capt. Cline collected their men together as rapidly as possible. At first it was designed to make use of the block-house as a defense, but learning that Reid had a cannon with him, this plan was abandoned and Brown and his men, forty-one in number, all told, took up their positions in the timber along the south side of the Marais des Cygnes, facing south; Capt. Brown, with seventeen men, on the right, Dr. W. W. Updegraff with ten men, in the center, and Capt. Cline, with fourteen men, on the left. There was also an independent command still further to the left, in the Emigrant Aid Company's mill, consisting of "Pap" Austin, an ex-regular soldier, and his large rifle, to which he had applied the fancy name of "Kill Devil", carrying an ounce ball. When the forces were arranged in the woods the enemy was passing within about 600 yards of them, Mr. Holmes, a volunteer, advanced towards the top of the hill, on the southwest of the town to reconnoiter, and finding the enemy close at hand, fired at them, striking one of them in the mouth or chin and causing him "to bleed like a pig" as one of his companions afterwards expressed it. He then retreated to the woods, the enemy following him closely and forming a line from O. C. Brown's house to William Chestnut's premises-the high ground west of where the "John Brown monument"now stands. They then fired three guns, as they afterwards stated to Robert Reynolds, one of the prisoners whom they took, as a signal to the State force to surrender. Capt. Brown had given orders to his men not to fire a shot until he gave the orders, but when these alleged signal guns were heard, the men became so impatient, believing the enemy had opened fire upon them, that they could not be restrained. Jason Brown raised his gun to fire, and the rest under Capt. Brown's immediate command did the same, although as one of the number states,"they knew it was contrary to orders." This first attack, which was made on the right wing of the Free-state line, was partially repulse, when the enemy brought up their cannon and placed it in position within about 400 yards of the timber where Capt. Brown's men were stationed, at each successive shot moving it farther east to scour the timber. The cannon was loaded with grape shot but did no damage, the missiles passing over the heads of the men. During this time the Free-state forces kept moving east and returning the fire of the enemy, who finally ceased firing the cannon, dismounted and made a charge in to the timber when the main body of the Free-state men, having gallantly held their ground for an hour against ten times their number, were compelled to surrender or retreat. Most of them escaped across the Marais des Cygnes, some swimming and others in a skiff. Robert Reynolds, H. K. Thomas and Charley Keiser were taken prisoners by Capt. Warren Harris, of Platte county, MO and taken under guard to the town. While attempting to swim his horse across the river, George Partridge was shot. Samuel Wright sprang into the river on the same horse, swam across, and, by means of the bushes climbed the steep bank on the north side of the river and escaped. The Missourians, on entering the town, commenced to pillage and burn it, first firing on the block-house, in which were stationed several men, who escaped before the cannon was brought up. There were no women in town except those belonging to the families of Messrs. Chestnut and Sears. Every house but four was burned-Mr. Starkey's, Mr. Woodbury's and two small cabins. The invaders left town with twelve covered wagons, two filled with wounded men and a large part of the remainder of the plunder.
As General Reid's command approached the town in the morning, David R. Garrison and George Cutter, who remained in the house of Mr. Carr over night, attempted to escape to the timber along the Pottawatomie, and give the alarm to the town. A detail of Missourians was made to pursue them, Garrison was killed, and Cutter seriously wounded and left for dead. The invading force retired from the town about 10 o'clock a. m., taking with them as prisoners William Bainbridge Fuller, Robert Reynolds, Charley Keiser, H. K. Thomas, Mr. Morey, young Spencer Brown, who was taken prisoner at the burning of his father's house, and William Williams, from Miami Village. Of these prisoners, Williams, formerly of Westport, Mo., which place he had been forced to leave on account of his free-state proclivities, was taken to the edge of the town site and there shot; Charley Kaiser was shot September 1-the second day following. Keiser was one of the party under Captain John Brown who captured F. N. Coleman, the murderer of Charles W. Dow, at the battle of Black Jack, and Coleman had then made threats against him. When therefore, Keiser found that Coleman was among his captors, he declared to his companions his belief that he would be killed. The party encamped, Sunday night, on the east side of Cedar Creek, on the old Sante Fe road, and Keiser was taken out on Monday morning to a guard of Kickapoo rangers and shot. Besides the Free state losses mentioned, must be added Theron P. Powers, who was, at the time of the invasion, lying sick in a house near the timber. He crawled out of the house and into the woods for protection, and was lying there completely exhausted, when he was found by the ruffians and shot. Among those who participated in the defense of Osawatomie were John Brown, Sr., Captain; Dr. W. W. Updegraff, Captain; --Cline, Captain; Harrison Updegraff, Charley Keiser, Cyrus Tator, George Ferris, August Bondi, Robert Eaton, George Grant, George Partridge, William Partridge, Samuel Wright, J. M. Anthony, William Quick, Hugh Kilbourn, William A. Sears, ____Mills, R. W. Wood, D. W. Collis, Capt. Holmes, H. K. Thomas, James Clark, J. J. Holbrook, Jacob Benjamin, Caleb Shearer, __Baker, __Woodbury, Henry Kilbourn, Freeman Austin, Luke Parsons. As before stated, Frederick Brown and David Garrison were killed on the approach to the town, and George Cutter badly wounded; George Partridge and T. P. Powers were killed during the progress of the battle and the retreat; William Williams on the outskirts of the town and Charley Keiser at Cedar Creek. Dr. Updegraff and D. W. Collis were wounded. The Freeman Austin, or "Pap Austin," alluded to, was encountered on the return march of the Missourians. After burning and sacking the town, they started eastward, with the purpose of crossing the Marais des Cygnes, in the vicinity of the Emigrant Aid Company's mill. Here they encountered Austin and the "kill devil" Austin opened fire upon them, calling out "Come on boys, plenty of men here," loading and firing as rapidly as possible. Not anxious to encounter :plenty of men" Reid faced about and left Osawatomie by the way he came, crossing the Maria des Cygnes at Bundy's Ford, four miles above.
The Free-state men who escaped re-assembled at a log house north of the river, Brown and Updegraff among them. The next day they removed to the south side, and commenced fortifying another camp, but were prevented by sickness from carrying out their design.
The losses of the Missourians are not generally known--probably not much greater than those of the Free-state men. There are numerous surmises and guesses as to what those losses were; but according to Reid's own statement, it was two killed and a few wounded. The disparagement in number-ten to one - and with but eighteen of the number armed with Sharpe's rifles, was too great for Capt. Brown or any of his men to reasonably expect to win a victory, even if they had had plenty of ammunition. The most that could be done under the circumstance was to make a show of resistance, and to retreat across the Marais des Cygnes when their ammunition was exhausted, which they did.
Nothing was ever done by the Free-state forces to punish Gen. Reid for thus attacking and destroying a defenseless town, or to interrupt his return march to Missouri, except a faint feint by Gen. Lane, at which he was adept.*
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In May 24-25, 1856, John Brown and his followers murdered five pro-slavery settlers in cold blood near Pottawatomie Creek. The victims were mutilated, some were beheaded, and the attack became known as the Pottawatomie Massacre, a particularly horrific event even by "Bleeding Kansas" standards but John Brown believed that he was doing God's work and that he had God on his side. What he didn't have was an unlimited supply of weapons and money. John Brown, his sons, and antislavery followers were accused of the massacre. Warrants for their arrest were issued, but the case never came to trial. This massacre in was one of the most famous events leading up to the American Civil War.
John Brown was later captured, tried and hanged for his unsuccessful raid on Harper's Ferry, West Virginia in 1859.
The search for the murderers at Pottawatomie Creek threw southeastern Kansas into turmoil. Affidavits were sworn out and warrants issued; the investigation going much beyond the immediate question of the massacre. The Hoogland examination was a part of that wider investigation into the affairs of southeastern Kansas, and in particular, into the nature of the Lawrence expedition headed by John Brown, Jr.
Daniel Collis testified before a Congressional inquiry known as the The Hoogland Examination; The United States v. John Brown, Jr., et al. The Hoogland Examination investigated events surrounding the Pottawatomie massacre and border conflict in southeast Kansas in 1856.
The following is the testimony of Daniel W. Collis before the Hoogland Examination:
[TESTIMONY OF DANIEL W. COLLIS]
Daniel W. Collis sworn. I reside in Osawatomie. I went with the people from Osawatomie as individuals to Hickory Point or Palmyra as mentioned in the evidence of Mr Higgins on this Examination. All I know about the expulsion of Mr Jones was that a Mr. Clayton came riding down on a horse with six chickens & a side saddle which he said a woman gave him. The chickens I cooked & the saddle he took down to the camp. He said Mrs. Jones gave them to him. Did not hear Mr. Brown or either of these prisoners speak about Jones's Degrees. We all left Palmyra & got to Ottawa Jones's on Sunday night the side saddle with us. At about 2 miles from Palmyra I first heard of the murder of Wilkinson & others. Just as Brown Jr was going into Pottawatomie Brown Jr remarked concerning the murders that it was not best to talk about them much that it would agitate the minds of the people. I was cooking in the camp-I next saw Mr Brown, after I reached Osawatomie back of Adair's on the Marais des Cygnes bottom in the woods where I had a conversation with him. Mr. Adair said Brown had crossed the creek. I went down to see if he had. After a while on coming back I heard some one talking. I had then come up the bank & on looking across the ravine I saw Mr Brown with a rifle in his hand. He asked me who I was-whether I was a proslavery man? I asked him if he did not know me. He said yes he believed he did. I had ridden a horse down to the bank in company with another man, in whose charge I left the animal while I went to see Brown. About this time the man in whose care I left my horse rode off with the animal. Brown then asked me if the man mentioned was a pro-slavery or free state man. I answered a Free State man. Brown said then "it is all right." He then told me to go to Osawatomie and raise what men I could and go to Lawrence as the road was clear. I told him I could not raise many men. I asked him if his brother was there with him-he said yes, that he was there in the brush with him-that his brother was going right on to Lawrence. Mr Hughes rode up then and I had no more conversation with him at that time. Have had no conversation with Brown at any time concerning the laws nor heard him express his intentions. Before I went to the woods to see him Mr Adair had told me that John Brown Jr was a little deranged-that he was crazy. I went across the ravine then to see his brother-not this one here John Brown Jr came across to see me. His brother said if I would come on that evening he would wait for me and go through to Lawrence as they had more horses than they had men to mount-this was in the presence of John Brown Jr. This prisoner John Brown Jr was in command of the Pottawatomie Co at Palmyra. Did not know that John Brown Sr had any command under John Brown Jr. Williams, Partridge & Morse were present at the camp as part of Brown's Co. at Palmyra. Dent know, but understood Williams was Lieutenant in the Company. I was not there at the time & consequently do not know what created disturbance or division between the Osawatomie & Pottawatomie men.
CROSS EXAMINED
When I saw Brown in the Bottom as mentioned was two or three days after our return from Palmyra. I thought while I was talking with him that he was in his right mind; but when I saw him in the camp next day I thought he was not. He had been taken prisoner that morning. He seemed excited when I saw him in the Bottom & wilder than I had ever seen him before. I knew him previously,-had spoken with him several times.
The object of the assembling of the companies was that two or three messengers had come down from Lawrence asking for assistance as Lawrence was to be burned and all Free State people were to be driven out. Understood these things were to be done by a mob from Missouri and a part of Buford's party. It was to prevent the burning of Lawrence that these companies assembled. We had no intention of resisting the laws in any way whatever. I speak of those from Osawatomie. At Palmyra for a time all three of the camps were subject to John Brown Jr's orders. I knew of no insurrectional object then existing in the camp as thus combined-nor in any of the companies separately before or afterwards. I think I knew the designs & intentions of the several companies. [Signed] D. W. Collis
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Daniel W. Collis Burial:
Los Angeles National Cemetery
950 S. Sepulveda Boulevard
Los Angeles
Los Angeles County
California, USA
Plot: 26, F-13
General Notes: Wife -
"Aunt Sarah used to tell how she loved to sit on Abe Lincoln's lap and listen to him tell stories." - Hope Wilson Clark, of Bay Center, Washington. The 1871 affidavit states that Sarah was alive that year in Minnesota.
Sarah Jane Wilson and her mother, Mary, were both living with the Stanley family just before Sara Jane married Daniel W. Collies. I believe this is true from the 1850 Census.
1850 Census of Morgan County:
Page 163
5 1091 1123 STANLEY Thomas 30 M Farmer 100 Tenn
6 1091 1123 STANLEY Mary 29 F Ohio
7 1091 1123 STANLEY John 8 M IL
8 1091 1123 STANLEY Landon 6 M IL
9 1091 1123 STANLEY Elizabeth 3 F IL
10 1091 1123 WILSON Mary 66 F Del
11 1091 1123 WILSON Sarah 25 F Ohio
Note:
A daughter of James Wilson and Mary Emory, named Mary, married a Thomas Stanley. We see that Mary Wilson (Sarah's mother) and Sarah Jane, later married a Daniel W. Collies. We see here that Mary Wilson (Sarah's mother) and Sarah Jane, who later married a Daniel W. Collies are listed as living in the Thomas Stanley house.
Notes: Marriage
Husband Arthur Connely 16
Born: Oct 24, 1764 - Augusta Co., VA. 17,69,70,71,72
Christened:
Died: Aug 9, 1815 - Montgomery Co., KY. 17,70,72,73
Buried:
Father: Thomas Connely (Abt 1740-1794) 16,17
Mother: Margaret Walker (Abt 1742- ) 16
Marriage: Dec 6, 1785 - Augusta Co., VA. 72,73,74,75,76,77,78
Noted events in his life were:
• Alt. Birth 79, Alt. Birth, Nov 24, 1763 - Augusta Co., VA.
Wife Jane Dale 16
Born: Nov 10, 1766 70,72
Christened:
Died: Jul 12, 1839 - Putnam Co., Ind. 70,72,74
Buried:
Father: Alexander Dale (Abt 1720- ) 16
Mother: Isabella Gilmore (Abt 1722- ) 16
Children
1 F Margaret Walker Connely 16,17,21,23,24,25
AKA: Margaret W. Connely 70,22,80
Born: Nov 1, 1792 - Montgomery Co., KY.
Christened:
Died: Feb 12, 1881 - Pleasantville, Marion Co., Iowa 17,69
Buried: - Pleasantville Cem., Pleasantville, Marion Co., Iowa 17
Spouse: Samuel Logan (1796-1865) 18,21,22,23
Marr: Nov 17, 1814 - Montgomery Co., KY.
General Notes: Husband -
Arthur Connelly migrated from Augusta Co., Va. to Montgomery Co., Ky. in 1790/1791. He and his wife, Jane, raised their children there.
There is some disagreement as to the date of Arthur Connely's b irth. In the first "Connelly Connection" (see CONL-0010) Roger R. Connel ly states that Arthur was born in 1763. In the second issue (see CONL-00 11), quoting information from the family Bible of Gilmore Franklin Connel y, Arthur's birth date is given as 24 October 1764. Since the second dat e was recorded in the family Bible, I have accepted it as the correct dat e. There is a discussion of this problem in the text of CONL-0011.
General Notes: Wife -
The children of Jane Dale and Arthur Connely are listed in the Connely book.
After her husband, Arthur Connely, died in 1815 she and most of their children left Ky. and settled in Putnam Co.,Ind. Their oldest son remained in Montgomery Co., Ky. until 1835 when he migrated to Tippecanoe Co., Ind.
Notes: Marriage
Husband Samuel Logan 18,21,22,23
Born: Mar 19, 1796 - Montgomery Co., KY. 17
Christened:
Died: Aug 27, 1865 - Pleasant Grove Twp., Marion Co., Iowa
Buried: - Pleasantville Cem., Pleasantville, Marion Co., Iowa 17
Father: William Logan (Abt 1770-Bef 1840) 18
Mother: Martha ? (Abt 1774-Between 1850) 18,21
Marriage: Nov 17, 1814 - Montgomery Co., KY.
Wife Margaret Walker Connely 16,17,21,23,24,25
AKA: Margaret W. Connely 70,22,80
Born: Nov 1, 1792 - Montgomery Co., KY.
Christened:
Died: Feb 12, 1881 - Pleasantville, Marion Co., Iowa 17,69
Buried: - Pleasantville Cem., Pleasantville, Marion Co., Iowa 17
Father: Arthur Connely (1764-1815) 16
Mother: Jane Dale (1766-1839) 16
Children
1 M William Harrison Logan 18,23,27,28,29,30,31
Born: Aug 16, 1815 - Montgomery Co., Ind. 17,29
Christened:
Died: Jan 6, 1899 - Toledo, Lincoln Co., Ore.
Buried: - Toledo Cem., Toledo, Lincoln Co., Ore.
Spouse: Ruth Alley (1821-1855) 26,27
Marr: Oct 6, 1836 - Putnam Co., Ind.
General Notes: Husband -
Samuel Logan moved to Ind. about 1826.
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1850 Putnam Co., Ind. Census, Cloverdale Twp., taken 7 Sep 1850 [Ancestry.com, Cloverdale Twp., Image #30]:
Samuel Logan - age 57 - Wagoner - RE Value $1500 - b. Ky. - Dwelling #170 - Family #170
Margaret " - age 51 - b. Ky.
James " - age 25 - Farmer - b. Ky.
Thomas " - age 24 - Farmer - b. Ky.
Mary " - age 22 - b. Ind.
Isabel " - age 20 - b. Ind.
Amanda " - age 18 - b. Ind.
Samuel " - age 16 - b. Ind.
Franklin W. " - age 14 - b. Ind.
Alexander Conneley - age 3 - b. Ind.
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1860 Marion Co., Iowa Census, Pleasant Grove Twp., P. O. Pleasantville, taken 21 June 1860, p 70 [Ancestry.com Image #72]:
Samuel Logan - age 67 - Farmer - RE Value $2500 - Pers. Estate Value $700 - Dwelling #493 - Family #463
Margaret " - age 66 - b. Ky.
Mary " - age 29 - b. Ind.
Isabel " - age 27 - b. Ind.
Franklin W. " - age 23 - Farmer - RE Value $400 - Pers. Estate Value $100 - b. Ind.
William Craig " - age 52 - None - b. Ky.
Samuel A. " - age 19 - b. Ind.
William Craig Logan is the brother of Samuel Logan. Samuel A. Logan is Samuel Logan's nephew and the son of William H. Logan.
General Notes: Wife -
1870 Marion Co., Iowa Census, Pleasant Grove Twp., P. O. Knoxville, taken 5 Aug 1870, p 10 [Ancestry.com Image #426]:
Logan, S. A. - M - age 36 - Druggist - RE Value $1000 - Pers. Estate Value $1250 - b. Ind. - Dwelling #73 - Family #72
" , E. - F - age 24 - Kpg house - b. Ohio
" , M. W. - F - age 78 - Kpg house - RE Value $600 - Pers. Estate Value $500 - b. Ky. - can't write
" , W. C. - M - age 68 - shoemaker - b. Ky.
M. W. Logan is Samuel A. Logan's mother, Margaret W. Logan.
W. C. Logan is William Craig Logan, son of Margaret and uncle of Samuel A. Logan.
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1880 Marion Co., Iowa Census, Pleasant Grove Twp., ED #121, taken 28 June 1880, p 20 [Ancestry.com, Other Twps., ED #121, Image #20]:
Miller, Jacob - age 62 - Farmer - b. Pa. - F born Pa. - Dwelling #183 - Family #185
" , Mary - age 47 - Wife - Keeping House - b. Ind. - F born Va. - M born Ky.
Duckworth, Elleor - age 16 - Step-Dau - At Home - b. Iowa - F born Mo. - M born Ind.
" , Walter - Step-son - age 14 - Step-son - Works on farm - b. Iowa - F born Mo. - M born Ind.
Browning, Charles - age 3 - Grandson - b. Iowa - F born Pa. - M born Iowa
Logan, Margaret - age 88 - Mother-in-law - dependent - b. Ky. - F born Va. - M born Va.
Notes: Marriage
Husband Thomas Connely 16,17
Born: Abt 1740 - Ire.
Christened:
Died: 1794 - Augusta Co., VA. 17
Buried:
Marriage: Abt 1760
Wife Margaret Walker 16
Born: Abt 1742 - VA.
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Living 17
Mother: Living 74
Children
1 M Arthur Connely 16
Born: Oct 24, 1764 - Augusta Co., VA. 17,69,70,71,72
Christened:
Died: Aug 9, 1815 - Montgomery Co., KY. 17,70,72,73
Buried:
Spouse: Jane Dale (1766-1839) 16
Marr: Dec 6, 1785 - Augusta Co., VA. 72,73,74,75,76,77,78
General Notes: Husband -
Thomas Connely, his brother, Arthur, and a sister, Mary, together with their father and mother, emigrated from Ireland to Virginia. They left behind them a married sister who never had any children.
Notes: Marriage
Reference Number:209474