Samuel Rickner married Permelia Baker in 1832. Rickner, an immigrant from Switzerland, married into a slave-holdinng family that had migrated to Missouri from Kentucky and who in previous generations had migrated from the Albemarle Sound region of North Carolina, all slave-holding states. In the mid 1830s, the Rickner family and Permelia’s brother, Moses J BakerContinue reading “Moses J Baker | Civil War”
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Samuel Rickner | Crawford Seminary
In 1850, Samuel and Jacob Rickner were living in Jasper County, Missouri in the southwest corner of the state, along the border of the Indian Territory that would become the Kansas Territory in 1854 and the state of Kansas in 1861. Samuel was working the land as a farmer. His real estate was valued atContinue reading “Samuel Rickner | Crawford Seminary”
Levi Garrison | Whiskey Rebellion
Levi Garrison moved from Cumberland County, New Jersey, to Wheatfield Township in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania in the 1780s. Westmoreland County was in Western Pennsylvania, on the western edge of the Allegheny Mountains. In the early decades of the nation, the county borders changed as newer counties were created when the populations grew. In the 1790s,Continue reading “Levi Garrison | Whiskey Rebellion”
Cader Edwards | Battle of Kings Mountain
Cader Edwards, b 1705 in Wales, was a sea captain who settled on the Tennessee/North Carolina frontier in the 1770s. Despite his frontier residence, he “kept in touch with the outside world to some extent, and was generally well posted in regard to the various political developments, both in the colonies and the mother country,Continue reading “Cader Edwards | Battle of Kings Mountain”
Joseph Bateman | Revolutionary War
In 1832, living in Rutland County, Vermont, Joseph Bateman applied for a Revolutionary War Pension based on his service in the Massachusetts Militia as a private and a corporal. He served almost a full year in the war, the first six months as a private, the remaining five months and a quarter as a corporal.Continue reading “Joseph Bateman | Revolutionary War”
George W. Lewis | Enslaver
George Washington Lewis, of Claiborne County, Tennessee, was married twice: first to Sarah “Sally” Bullard who died in 1840 and second to Cyntha Fulps, whose family was from Stokes County, North Carolina. Cyntha’s father wrote his will in February 1850 and in his will transferred the legal authority to enslave Black people to his children:Continue reading “George W. Lewis | Enslaver”
O. C. Crookham | Migration West
Oliver Cromwell Crookham was born to George and Sarah Crookham, old settlers of Jackson County, Ohio, in 1824. He was their tenth child. Pickaway County, Ohio In 1850, he married Mary Jane Walden in Jackson County. They moved from Jackson County, where both their parents lived, to Pickaway County, northwest of Jackson County, along theContinue reading “O. C. Crookham | Migration West”
Sarah Millikin | Parents
Sarah Millikin, widow of Jonathan Walden, died in 1896 and she was buried in the Pierce-Mathers Cemetery in Jackson County, Ohio, with her husband and a Mrs. Jane Millikin. It is likely that Jane Millikin is her mother. The death date on the marker is 1868. Census Record Review A review of census records forContinue reading “Sarah Millikin | Parents”
John Barkuloo | Dearborn County, Indiana
John Barkuloo had a name that nobody could spell. From Long Island, NY of Dutch descent, the record keepers of Indiana did their best to spell the unfamiliar surname. For consistency sake, I have settled on “Barkuloo” for when writing about the family. The records, though, and transcription of the records, will reveal much moreContinue reading “John Barkuloo | Dearborn County, Indiana”
Thomas Relf | Great Plains Roamer, pt 1
Thomas Relf (1857-1940) was born in Indiana and lived in Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska prior to 1900. Norton County, Kansas | 1879 In 1876, he married Sarah C Peniston in Madison County, Indiana. Shortly after their marriage, they migrated to Norton County in northwestern Kansas. It is the fourth county from the border with Colorado,Continue reading “Thomas Relf | Great Plains Roamer, pt 1”
Finding the Yellow Bricks 