Sallie Myrtle Ray

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Sallie Myrtle Ray
b. 12 March 1884, Shawswick, Lawrence County, Indiana, to Thomas and Susan (Kern) Ray
d. 5 December 1949, Arimo, Bannock County, Idaho

m. 19 September 1911, Sanpete County, Utah
Charles Dana McCormick
b. 1882, Gallia County, Ohio
d. 1955, Arimo, Bannock County, Idaho

Children with Charles Dana McCormick:

  • Fred L. Ray (b. 1912)
  • Nina Ruth (b. 1916) married [–?–] Hardin
  • Charles Ray (b. 1922)

Sallie emigrated from Lawrence County, Indiana, to Malad City, Oneida County, Idaho, in 1910. Sallie was the eleventh child in her family and taught school for several years in Bedford, Lawrence County, Indiana, before being encouraged by her brothers to join them in the West. The Rays were a close family and often gathered at the McCormick farm for family get-togethers.

Submitted by:
Ruth Ray Edwards
Cincinnati OH

Fred Merton Ray

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Fred Merton Ray
b. 11 February 1882, Shawswick, Lawrence County, Indiana, to Thomas and Susan (Kern) Ray
d. 29 May 159, Pocatello, Bannock County, Idaho

m. 1 June 1900, Malad City, Oneida County, Idaho
Rachel Jones
b. 12 May 1884, Malad City, Oneida County, Idaho
d. 26 September 1963, Pocatello, Bannock County, Idaho

Children with Rachel Jones:

  • Ralph (b. 1911)
  • Helen (b. 1913) married [–?–] Madden

Fred emigrated from Lawrence County, Indiana, to Malad City, Oneida County, Idaho, in 1904. He taught school in Malad City in 1904 and then left to attend medical school at Northwestern University. He was a graduate of the University of Idaho school of Pharmacy and completed graduate medical studies in Vienna, Austria. He practiced for several years in Portland, Oregon, before joining his brother Dailey in his practice in Pocatello, Idaho. During World War I, he served as a captain in the medical corps.

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Ruth Ray Edwards
Cincinnati OH

Dailey Cooper Ray

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Dailey Cooper Ray
b. 18 February 1877, Shawswick, Lawrence County, Indiana, to Thomas Todd and Susan (Kern) Ray
d. 19 March 1966, Pocatello, Bannock County, Idaho

m. 20 March 1912, Oneida County, Idaho
Martha “Mattie” Lewis
b. 13 May 1890, Oneida County, Idaho
d. 8 November 1965, Pocatello, Bannock County, Idaho

Children with Martha Lewis:

  • Daniel (b. 1908)
  • Jesse (b. 1913)
  • George (b. 1914)
  • Kathryn (b. 1918) married [–?–] Hyde
  • Robert (b. 1919)
  • Margaret (b. 1923) married [–?–] Pendola

D. C. was the eighth child in his family and the second to emigrate to the West from Indiana. After graduating from Louisville Medical College, he opened a practice in 1902 in Malad City, Idaho. In 1920, he moved to Pocatello, Idaho, where he practiced for many years. He served three terms in the Idaho State Legislature and was president of the Idaho Medical Society.

Dr. Ray was proud to be an old-fashioned country doctor. In the severe Idaho winters, he had to reach his patients by bob-sled. He delivered many babies in country homes and performed emergency operations on the kitchen tables. Three of the children followed their father into the health care field: Jesse and George were physicians, and Robert was a pharmacist.

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Ruth Ray Edwards
Cincinnati OH

Charlie Newland Ray

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Charlie Newland Ray
b. 10 September 1874, Shawswick, Lawrence County, Indiana, to Thomas Todd and Susan (Kern) Ray
d. 6 June 1960, Salt Lake City, Utah

m. 18 June 1902, Salt Lake City, Utah
Lulu Grace Bourgard
b. 1866, Bingham Canyon, Sanpete County, Utah
d. 1966, Salt Lake City, Utah

Children with Lulu Grace Bourgard:

  • Florence (b. 1904) married [–?–] Malmiquist
  • Charles (b. 1909)

Charles Newland was one of twelve children. All completed teachers college and taught school. In 1899 Charlie, the seventh child, was the first of five of the children to go West.

Charlie Ray graduated in 1898 from the Louisville Medical School, now the University of Louisville. In 1899 he was practicing medicine in Utah. He wrote home that he was usually paid in chickens and produce but had received $30.00 for a surgery. He became company doctor for the Utah Copper Company, now Kennicott Mining, in Bingham Canyon, Utah. The family lived in a sixteen-room house with the first floor used as a hospital and the second as the family residence. Lou Ray worked with her husband as a nurse. After a few years, Charlie opened a practice in Salt Lake City.

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Ruth Ray Edwards
Cincinnati OH

Elizabeth Rarrick

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Elizabeth Rarrick
b. 7 December 1784, New Jersey, to Henry and Elizabeth (Roods) Rarrick
d. 12 November 1877, Monticello, Jones County, Iowa

m/1. 26 March 1801, Morris County, New Jersey
John Morss/Mors
b. 25 June 1780, Cayuga County, New York, to Benjamin and Irena (Mead) Morss

m/2. 1819
Benjamin Crouch
b. about 1776, Massachusetts
d. 1856, probably St. Joseph County, Indiana

Children with John Morss:

  • Anna B. (1802-1829)
  • Henry D. (1803-1817)
  • Elizabeth (1806-1896) married Chauncy Mead
  • Benjamin (1808-1892) married Sophronia Mead
  • Simeon (b. 1811) married Jane Manliff
  • John (1813-1814)
  • David A. (1815-1909) married Moriah Carpenter
  • Daniel (1818-1903) married Sarah Nancy Milliken

Children with Benjamin Crouch:

  • Ephraim (1821-1845)
  • Eleazer (1824-1892) married (1) Lucinda Matthews, (2) Ann Maria Wells
  • Nathan (b. 1827) married Susan Tracy

Elizabeth was one of eight children. She moved to Monticello, Jones County, Iowa, where she resided with her daughter Elizabeth (Morss) Mead until her death.

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Barbara Taylor Szabo
Osceola IN

Jacob Tyrrell Railsback

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Jacob Tyrrell Railsback
b. 19 October 1845, near Clermont, Marion County, Indiana, to Thomas Jefferson and Beulah Ann (Barnhill) Railsback
d. 9 February 1932, Sierra Madre, Los Angeles County, California

m. 27 May 1868, Clermont, Marion County, Indiana
Joan Pauline Mendenhall
b. 11 November 1853, Brownsburg, Hendricks County, Indiana
d. 9 October 1928, Sierra Madre, Los Angeles County, California

Children with Joan Pauline Mendenhall:

  • Thomas Alveron (1869-1946)
  • Walter Ellsbrook (1870-1930)
  • Agnes Beatrice (1872-1954)
  • Linnie Martha (1875-1888)
  • John William Hornaday (1877-1952)
  • Beulah (1887-1888)
  • Jacob Tyrrell (1891-1969)
  • Bryan Mendenhall (1896-1980)

Jacob enlisted in the 8th Indiana Cavalry, 39th Regiment, in 1864. He was wounded in November 1864 near Waynesboro, Georgia. He was one of General Grant’s bodyguards at the surrender of General Lee.

After his marriage, his family moved to Crawfordsville in 1868, then to Rockville in 1874, and back to Crawfordsville that same year. Jacob’s family, his mother Beulah Bailey, and brother Amasa Walter moved to Kansas in 1877 where Jacob worked for the railroad. Later in his career with the railroad, he invented a coupling device, and even though it was widely used, he never received credit for it. He moved his family to Kansas City, Missouri, about 1889. Jacob and Joan moved from Missouri to California after May 1918. Both Jacob and Joan are buried in Atchison, Kansas.

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Glenn Albert Railsback, III
Pine Bluff AR

Joseph Raichart

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Joseph Raichart
b. 19 December 1832, to George and Anna Maria Raichart
d. 21 May 1906, Nebraska

m/1. 1 July 1847, Tuscarawas County, Ohio
Elizabeth Beck
b. 8 March 1828
d. 10 May 1855, Huntington, Huntington County, Indiana

m/2. 26 March 1863, Whitley County, Indiana
Margaret A. Koontz
b. 16 May 1839, to Baltzer and Suzannah Koontz
d. 21 March 1906, Nebraska

Children with Elizabeth Beck:

  • Daniel Stewart
  • Emaline married [–?–] Herndon
  • Diantha married [–?–] Burham
  • Irena married [–?–] Goodman
  • Peter
  • Lydia

Joseph came to Indiana about 1855 from Tuscarawas County, Ohio. He lived in Clear Creek Township, Huntington County, and Washington Township, Whitley County, Indiana. He left Indiana about 1878.

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Ruth A. Summers
Fort Wayne IN

Daniel Raichart

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Daniel Raichart
b. 26 March 1815, Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, to George and Anna Maria Raichart
d. 22 September 1883, Hamilton County, Nebraska

m. 18 July 1838, Stark County, Ohio
Julia Ann Vandorston
b. 18 October 1817, Ohio
d. 10 August 1876, Jackson Township, Huntington County, Indiana

Children with Julia Ann Vandorston:

  • Emiline
  • Cordilia
  • Franklin Pierce
  • Daniel Webster

Daniel moved from Indiana about 1882.

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Leah Graft
Rye CO

Charles Bentley

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CHARLES BENTLEY
b. 23 August 1819, Tyringham, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, to John and Mary (Chapin) Bentley
d. 3 February 1895, Bangor Township, Marshall County, Iowa

m. 17 March 1846, Wabash County, Indiana
Cordelia Baker
b. 1 August 1829, Cattaraugus County, New York, to Peter and Catherine (Marvin) Baker
d. 18 July 1905, Laurens, Pocahontas County, Iowa

Children with Cordelia Baker:

  • Mary Jane (1847-1913) married Nicholas Moore
  • Peter John Lewis (1849-1918) married Caroline Charlotta Moore
  • George Silas (1850-1852)
  • Harriet Adelia (1853-1854)
  • Joseph Marvin (1856-1944) married Bonnie Bell Johnson
  • George Edwin (1858-1949) married Margaret Ann Valentine
  • David Waldo (1860-1906) married Eunice Etta Marshall
  • Rebecca Josephine (1862-1901) married Thomas Hudson

In the fall of 1840, Charles Bentley, along with his brothers, Joseph, Ezra, and Silas, and their families, moved west. They left Berkshire County, Massachusetts, crossed Lake Erie on a ferryboat, and followed the Wabash River to settle in the woods of southwestern Wabash County, Indiana. They had an ashery west of Pioneer. The Baker family had settled in Wabash County in 1841 on the Indian Reservation. In 1853, Joseph Bentley went to see what the land was like to the west. The Bentley brothers sold their homes and started west about the first of September 1854. There were four couples and fourteen children in horse- drawn covered wagons. They reached Bangor Township, Marshall County, Iowa, on 12 October 1854.

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Barbara Vorseth Benson
Wyoming MI

Willie Missouri Benner

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WILLIE MISSOURI BENNER
b. 27 September 1864, Indiana, to Josiah and Suzanna (Butt) Benner
d. 17 April 1949, Rago, Kingman County, Kansas

m. 1 August 1885
Francois “Frank” Lafayette
b. 5/6 July 1853/57, Joliet Township, Will County, Illinois
d. 11 July 1942, Belmont, Kingman County, Kansas

Children with Francois Lafayette:

  • Ellen Iris
  • Eli Joseph

It is not known when Willie left Indiana, but both of the children were born in Missouri.

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Elizabeth Nash
Garden City KS