Category Archives: Madison County

Chief William Anderson

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CHIEF WILLIAM ANDERSON
b. 1750-60, Ohio or Pennsylvania, to a Delaware Indian and a white trader named Anderson
d. October 1831, Kansas

m. about 1780 the widow of Twee Hul Lah Lah, who was the sister of Captain Patterson
d. after 1784

Children:

  • Se So Cum (bef. 1780-1825)
  • Me King Ees (aft. 1780-ca. 1862)
  • Sar Cox Le (1784-ca. 1886)

The family came to Anderson’s Town on the White River in Madison County about 1798. They left in 1820. The tribe was first moved to Missouri, then Kansas, then later to Oklahoma. Se So Cum was killed in Arkansas by Osage Indians while on a hunting party. Anderson, a Chief of the Delaware, died just a year after the tribe moved from Missouri to Kansas.

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Marion G. Harcourt
Indianapolis IN

Me King Ees Anderson

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ME KING EES ANDERSON
b. after 1780, possibly in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, to Chief William Anderson and the sister of Captain Patterson (Twee Hul Lah Lah)
d. about 1862, Kansas

m. around 1801, Anderson’s Town, along the White River in Madison County, Indiana
William Conner
b. 10 December 1777, Lichtenau, Tuscarawas County, Ohio
d. 28 August 1855, Noblesville, Hamilton County, Indiana

Children with William Conner:

  • John (1802-1869) married (1) a Delaware Indian (name unknown), (2) Nancy Wilson, (3) Mrs. Charlotte Wolf Bullette
  • Hamilton (abt. 1805-aft. 1873) married a Caddo woman
  • Nancy (abt. 1805-abt. 1852) married (1) a Delaware Indian named Wilson, (2) John Quincy Adams, (3) remarried Wilson
  • William Marshall (abt. 1813-1861) married (1) Ah Le Now, (2) Nancy Qua To Too
  • James (abt. 1817-1877)
  • Eliza (1818-1877)

The family came to Anderson’s Town, Madison County, around 1798, then they began and operated Conner’s Trading Post in Hamilton County. In 1820, Me King Ees left with her children and her tribe as one of the provisions of the Treaty of Greenville. Me King Ees and William Marshall Conner set up a trading post on the Current River, then after 1822, they set up a post on the Red River in southwestern Arkansas.

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Marion G. Harcourt
Indianapolis IN

Merritt Herbert Markle

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Merritt Herbert Markle
b. 19 August 1831, Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, to Adam and Mary (Henderson) Markle
d. 30 July 1911, Springport, Jackson County, Michigan

m. 4 July 1851, Horseheads, Chemung County, New York
Charlotte Carson
b. 6 October 1833, Schuyler County, New York
d. 9 August 1879, Springport, Jackson County, Michigan

Children with Charlotte Carson:

  • Mary Elizabeth
  • Alfaretta
  • Frank Adelbert
  • Harriet
  • Adam
  • Fred
  • Belle
  • Charles Edward
  • George M.
  • Herman
  • Herbert

Merritt came to Indiana about 1855 from Hector, Tompkins County, New York. He resided at Markleville, Madison County, Indiana. He emigrated from Indiana about 1859 to Springport, Jackson County, Michigan.

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Mary J. Davis
Webster Groves MO

John Wesley King

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John Wesley King
b. about 1827, Madison County, Indiana, to William and Nancy (Owens) King
d. 23 January 1865, Paducah, Kentucky

m. 9 January 1859, Madison County, Indiana
Mary Catherine Hendricks
b. 29 September 1843, Lafayette Township, Madison County, Indiana
d. 19 May 1903, Fellsburg, Edwards County, Kansas

Children with Mary Catherine Hendricks:

  • Nancy Lucinda
  • William
  • Elizabeth Angeline

John Wesley King left Indiana to serve in the Civil War and volunteered 28 October 1864, from Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana. He died of typhoid fever at the post hospital in Paducah, Kentucky, and is buried in the U.S. military cemetery at Mound City, Illinois. Having left three young children and a 21-yearold widow, he illustrates the tragedy of the war between the states.

His wife Mary Catherine emigrated from Indiana for Kansas sometime before her death in 1903.

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Eugene F. Gray
East Lansing MI

Elias Pierce Hollingsworth

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Elias Pierce Hollingsworth
b. 7 November 1820, near Pendleton, Madison County, Indiana, to Elias and Eliza (Curtis) Hollingsworth
d. 1884, Windom, McPherson County, Kansas

m/1. 1836–1837
Malinda Shinkle
d. 1839

m/2. about 1840
[–?–]

m/3. 1844, Madison County, Indiana
Mary Jane Morrill
b. 1826, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio
d. 28 April 1892, McPherson County, Kansas

Children with Malinda Shinkle:

  • John Shinkle

Children with [–?–]:

  • Martha

Children with Mary Jane Morrill:

  • Mary E.
  • Elsie A.
  • William
  • Lucy Jane
  • David
  • Elias Pierce “Lyle”

Elias Hollingsworth started out in life as a shoemaker but then was taught brick making by his uncle William Morrill. He emigrated from Madison County, Indiana, to Unionville, Macon County, Missouri, in 1860, where he made the brick for a seminary in Unionville, Macon County, Missouri, in the 1860’s. He then moved his family from Missouri to Appanoose County, Iowa.

From 1880 to 1884, Elias was a farmer and a hotel keeper at Mormontown, Taylor County, Iowa. In 1884 he moved his family to Windom, McPherson County, Kansas, where he died a few months after settling there.

Submitted by:
Eileen Hollingsworth Gray
Florence OR

Elias Hollingsworth

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Elias Hollingsworth
b. 1794, 96th District, Union County, South Carolina to Benjamin and Phebe (Posey) Hollingsworth
d. 21 January 1846, Osage County, Missouri

m. 1813, Ohio
Eliza Curtis
b. 1794, Harrison County, Virginia
d. 23 April 1849, Richland, Madison County, Indiana

Children with Eliza Curtis:

  • James
  • Phebe
  • Benjamin
  • Elias Pierce
  • Frances Minerva
  • Elizabeth
  • Mary
  • William Flacher
  • Leonard
  • Absalum
  • Susannah

Elias immigrated to Indiana in 1820 from Springfield, Clark County, Ohio. He emigrated from Madison County, Indiana, to Osage County, Missouri, in 1844.

Elias Hollingsworth came from a long line of Quakers, but when he married Eliza Curtis, a Methodist, he was disowned for marrying out of unity. Their son Elias Pierce was the first white child born in Madison County.

Elias and Eliza held Methodist church meetings in their home, and in 1823, along with several neighbors, they established the Fall Creek Methodist Church. In 1844 the Hollingsworth family moved to Osage County, Missouri, where Elias built a church and designated a burial ground. On 21 January 1846, he died of blood poisoning from an ax wound on his leg and was buried in his graveyard in Osage County. After his death, Eliza took their children back to Indiana to live with her eldest son, James, in Anderson, Madison County, Indiana.

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Eileen Hollingsworth Gray
Florence OR

Clara Rosetta Arnold

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ARNOLD, CLARA ROSETTA
b. 15 January 1873, Avilla, Noble County, Indiana, to William and Clarissa (Dosch) Arnold
d. 16 June 1968, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
m. 20 June 1893, Elwood, Madison County, Indiana

Hiram Griswald Coy
b. 3 July 1870, Stark County, Ohio, to Lafayette Waldo and Armintha (Kellogg) Coy
d. 18 June 1942, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio

Children with Hiram Griswald Coy:

  • Ralph Waldo (1895-1967) married (1) Gladys John, (2) Marie Stuart
  • Hazel Ione (1897-1970) married Harold Owen Drenning
  • Marguerite Leona (1898-1985) married Carl Frederick Melter
  • Hubert Lafayette (1900-1995) married (1) Dorothy Fitzsimmons, (2) Eleanor Cowin, (3) Winifred Samber
  • Chester Vaughn (1904-1993) married (1) Marie Gilbert, (2) Mary Pavlovich
  • Ethleene Lucille (1909-1994) married Clayton William Beach
  • Harry Arnold (b. 1911) married Helen Keichel
  • Helen Eloise (b. 1913) married Jalbert Cramblett

The family lived in Avilla, Noble County; and Elwood and Alexandria in Madison County, Indiana, until they emigrated in 1907.

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Barbara Anderson
Green Valley AZ

Minnie Belle Alley

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Minnie Belle Alley
b. 18 February 1878, Indiana, to James and Tamzen (Johnson) Alley
d. 15 January 1965, Chanute, Neosho County, Kansas
m. 21 August 1892, Gray County, Kansas

Oliver James Christy
b. December 1867, Illinois, to John J. and Mary Ellen Christy
d. August 1936, Mulvane, Sumner County, Kansas

Children with Oliver James Christy:

  • Laura (1894-bef. 1900)
  • Lydia A. (1896-1980) married Jess Marion Boan
  • Ira Leonard (b. 1898)
  • Harrison Emerson (b. 1901)
  • Doris May (b. 1906)

Minnie emigrated from Madison County, Indiana, to Logan, Gray County, Kansas, in late 1889 or early 1890.

Submitted by:
Regina Falcetto
Emporia KS

James Lane Alley and Tamzen Johnson

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James Lane Alley
b. 25 October 1849, Decatur County, Indiana, to Hiram and Emily (Selby) Alley
d. 4 March 1932, Garden City, Finney County, Kansas
m. 6 April 1874, Decatur County, Indiana

Tamzen Johnson
b. 7 September 1856, Decatur County, Indiana
d. 16 December 1921, Finney County, Kansas

Children with Tamzen Johnson:

  • Emily Izora (1875-1893) married Robert English
  • Minnie Belle (1878-1965) married Oliver James Christy
  • Hiram Vorhees (1879-1932) married Mamie E. Baker
  • Lydia Ann (1880-1963) married Lewis I. Buck
  • Lewis Korseman (1882-1957) married Fanny Agnes Buck
  • Jessie Melissa (1885-1945) married Fredrick Samuel Wolking
  • Clarence Franklin (1888-1889)
  • Ocea Matilda (1890-1968) married Lewis E. Leonard
  • Samuel (1892-1895)
  • Eliza Jeanette (b. 1894) married Wallace L. Dagget
  • William Robert (1895-1979) married Anna Jane Brown

James resided in Decatur and Madison counties in Indiana before emigrating from Madison County, to Gray County, Kansas, in 1889-90.

Submitted by:
Regina Falcetto
Emporia KS

Hiram Vorhees Alley and Emily Shelby

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Hiram Vorhees Alley
b. 4 December 1821, Decatur County, Indiana, to Doddridge and Jane (Phillips) Alley
d. 4 March 1905, Logan, Gray County, Kansas
m. 31 December 1843, Rush County, Indiana

Emily Shelby
b. 9 February 1827, Rush County, Indiana, to Joshua A. and Mary (Riggan) Selby
d. 10 November 1913, Logan, Gray County, Kansas

Children with Emily Shelby:

  • Lydia Ann (1845-1925) married Lewis Korseman
  • Noah (1847-1847)
  • James Lane (1849-1932) married Tamzen Johnson
  • Emily Isora (1851-1860)
  • Doddridge Buchanan (1853-1940) married America Jane Hilligass
  • Joshua Breckenridge (1858-1933) married Matilda Louise Kidder
  • Samuel Jesse (1860-1913) married Melissa J. Wilburn
  • William Seymour (1863-1927) married Etta E. Christy
  • Jonathan Osborn (1865-1955) married Jenetta Weaver Lewis (b. 1872)

Hiram resided in Decatur and Madison counties in Indiana before emigrating from Madison County in 1889-1890 to Gray County, Kansas.

Submitted by:
Regina Falcetto
Emporia KS