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Peter Van Scoyoc

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Peter Van Scoyoc
b. 5 October 1841, Akron, Ohio
d. 4 October 1928, Oakhill, Clay County, Kansas

m. 1870, Avilla, Noble County, Indiana
Mary Ann Kruse
b. 28 January 1850
d. 29 May 1929, Oakhill, Clay County, Kansas

Children with Mary Ann Kruse:

  • Sherman (1871-1943)
  • Minnie married [–?–] Sutter
  • Marvin P. (1873-1948) married Hattie E. Baker
  • Frances M. (b. 1875)
  • William M. (b. 1876) married Neva Swan
  • Della (1878-1975) married James Goheen
  • Fred (b. 1880) married Lizzie McMillen
  • Alice (b. 1881) married Samuel Hutcheson
  • Guy (b. 1890)
  • Nola (b. 1892)

Peter moved by covered wagon to Clay County, Kansas, in 1871.

Peter’s ancestors came from the Netherlands, and his wife Mary’s ancestors were German-Swiss. Two of their sons became doctors and located out of the state of Kansas. The other three sons farmed in Oakland Township, Clay County, Kansas. Three of their daughters became teachers.

Submitted by:
Gretel Smith
Garett IN
[found in Riley County Genealogical Society’s Pioneers of the Bluestream Prairie, page 70, Clay county, and reprinted in The Van Schaick Kinfolks Quarterly, 1992, volume 9, Number 3]

Greene Rosborough

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Greene Rosborough
b. 22 September 1817, probably at Gibson County, Indiana, to Joseph and Ruth (Patton) Rosborough
d. 8 October 1881, Petty Township, Lawrence County, Illinois

m. 8 February 1838, Gibson County, Indiana
Elizabeth Manessa Carter
b. 24 October 1824, Posey County, Indiana, to Rene Chastain and Magdalena Sarah (Chastain) Carter
d. 14 December 1905, Petty Township, Lawrence County, Illinois

Children with Elizabeth Manessa Carter:

  • William Silas (1839-1922) married (1) Mary Ellen Stewart, (2) Jessie McClarin, (3) Emma Burkholder
  • Joseph Rane (1841-1923) married Mary Ellen Bach
  • Thomas Alexander (1844-1929) married Rachel Jane Baker
  • Eliza Ann (1846-1898) married Austin David Rutter
  • John Newton (1849-1930) married Nancy Ellen Keplinger
  • Martha Elvira (1850-1923) married Thomas Keplinger
  • Ruth Ann (1854-1923) married William C. Brown
  • James Franklin (1857-1939) married Clara Maria Correll
  • Elizah H. (1859-1860)
  • Mary Magdalena (1861-1948) married George Andrew Albert
  • Manesa Mary (1864-1865)

Greene emigrated about 1866 from Montgomery Township, Gibson County, Indiana, to Petty Township, Lawrence County, Illinois.

Submitted by:
Judith E. Svoboda
Longmont CO
E-mail: jzsvoboda@earthlink.net

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.

Submitted by:
Barbara Vorseth Benson
Wyoming MI

August Quante

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August Quante
b. 16 August 1839, Cincinnati, Ohio, to Johann and Sophie (Waitinger) Quante
d. 23 April 1920, Nemaha County, Nebraska

m. 19 August 1868, Nemaha County, Nebraska
Rosetta Snyder
b. 13 December 1849, Wood County, Ohio
d. 13 February 1910, Nemaha County, Nebraska

Children with Rosetta Snyder:

  • Clara Elizabeth (1869-1964) married Robert Baker
  • Franklin Henry (1871-1966) married Nettie Lare
  • Augusta Sophie (1874-1977) married Daniel Bagley
  • William James (1867-1949) married Florence Cole
  • Rosa Belle (1879-1966) married Lee Graham
  • Emma Lucretia (1883-1917) married David Chiles

August Quante immigrated with his parents to Franklin County, Indiana, as an infant. He joined the Indiana 1st Regiment Cavalry in 1862. He emigrated first to Kansas and then moved to Nebraska. He worked outfitting wagon trains and hauling government supplies west.

Submitted by:
Elizabeth Quante Ward
Evansville IN

John T Quackenbush

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John T Quackenbush
b. 25 November 1847, Orange County, Indiana, to John and [–?–] Quackenbush
d. 17 January 1915, Clay County, Illinois

m. 3 October 1869, Clay County, Illinois
Nancy Jenkins

Children with Nancy Jenkins:

  • J. I.
  • Jesse M.
  • George
  • Hester married [–?–] Baker

John moved to Clay County with is parents when he was a young man. He and Nancy had two other children who died young.

Submitted by:
Dawne Slater-Putt, from Clay County, Illinois, Roots, fall 1993, p. 50

Thomas Jefferson Murphy

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Thomas Jefferson Murphy
b. 15 October 1814, Jennings County, Indiana, to Daniel and Nancy (Baker) Murphy
d. 10 February 1922, Siloam Springs, Benton County, Arkansas

m/1. 29 January 1863, Jennings County, Indiana
Mary Jane Lewis
b. 15 March 1848, Jennings County, Indiana, to Timothy B. and Mahala (Lett) Lewis
d. by January 1877, Jennings County, Indiana

m/2. 21 January 1877, Jennings County, Indiana
Mary Delanzo Carpenter
b. about 1859, to Watis and Anna (Graston) Carpenter
d. 18 March 1896, near Stockdale, Riley County, Kansas

m/3. 29 April 1899, Riley County, Kansas
Saphronia (Carpenter) Allison
b. 12 September 1855, to Watis and Anna (Graston) Carpenter

Children with Mary Jane Lewis:

  • Elnora (1864-1870)
  • Cora (b. 1867)
  • Minetta E. (b. 1870) married John S. Carpenter
  • Timothy Thomas (1871-1933) married Katie May Dobson
  • Nancy Mae (1873-1885)
  • Samuel Hall (1875-1942) married Ida Adelia Brundige

Children with Mary Delanzo Carpenter:

  • [–?–] (1878-1878)
  • Louella (b. 1879) married Warren W. Maloney
  • Ida Belle (1881-1954) married John S. Thomson
  • James Leland (1884-1973) married Lucinda Marietta Johnson
  • Frances A. (1887-11974) married Ace Applebee
  • Mabel Pearl (1888-1972) married Charles Anderson Trotter
  • Homer C. (1889-1967) married Ada M. Deckert
  • Howard (b. 1892) married Pearl [–?–]
  • Henry F. (1894-1970)
  • [–?–] (1896-1896)

Saphronia (Carpenter) Allison was Mary Delanzo Carpenter’s sister.

Thomas Murphy served in Company G, 145th Indiana Regiment, during the Civil War. He and his second wife Mary Delanzo (Carpenter) Murphy emigrated from Jennings County, Indiana, to Grant Township, Riley County, Kansas, in 1865. Mary and Saphronia were sisters. Thomas Jefferson Murphy claimed 21 children.

Submitted by:
Kevin L. Stilley
Manhattan KS
E-mail: trlrhouseman@aol.com

Samuel Marquart

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Samuel Marquart
b. 17 April 1839, Perry County, Ohio, to Jonathan and Catherine (Bashore) Marquart
d. 22 May 1923, Lake Arthur, Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana

m. 17 February 1861, Fontanelle, Adair County, Iowa
Susanna Emerson Miller
b. 7 August 1845, Columbia County, Pennsylvania, to George and Mary Jane (Histe) Miller
d. 23 November 1902, Lake Arthur, Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana

Children with Susannah Miller:

  • Ida A. (b. 16 August 1863) married George B. Baker
  • Samuel Lorn (14 May 1867–18 July 1870)
  • Oran Glen (b. 16 November 1869) married Edith Mae Segrist
  • Emerson Lavern “Vern” (b. 5 September 1886) married Lelia Vencent August

Samuel immigrated to Marion Township, Allen County, Indiana, with his parents when he was four or five months old, in the fall of 1839. He moved to Marshall County, Indiana, in 1850 but soon afterward moved back to Allen County, Indiana. He joined the George Miller family in moving to Fontanelle, Somerset Township, Adair County, Iowa, in the summer of 1857.

In 1866, Samuel’s brother, Frederick and his son Daniel W. Marquart, joined Samuel in Fontanelle, where Daniel married Sam’s wife’s sister, Mary Etta Miller, on 18 March 1868.

In February 1898, Samuel, with his nephew Daniel W. Marquart, and ten other men, organized a party to go to the Klondike gold fields. They tried to get through to Dawson by way of White Horse Pass, but snows in the mountains proved too great an obstacle. They returned without reaching the gold fields.

Submitted by:
Virgil V. Marquart
Fort Wayne IN

Mary Fruit

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Mary Fruit
b. 19 January 1826, Bartholomew County, Indiana, to David and Elizabeth (Baker) Fruit
d. after 1900

m. perhaps 15 August 1848, Lee County, Iowa
Andrew Jackson Highland
b. 19 November 1822, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio
d. before 1900

Children with Andrew Jackson Highland:

  • Louis G. (b. 1846)
  • William (b. 1849)
  • George (b. 1854)
  • Martha J. (b. 1859)
  • Zora May (b. 1862)
  • Isaac (b. 1864)
  • Andrew Jackson (b. 1865)

Mary resided in Bartholomew and Vigo counties in Indiana. She emigrated from Indiana to Centerville, Appanoose County, Iowa, in 1862. Mary apparently moved to Iowa after the birth of her daughter Zora May on 6 May 1862 at Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana.

Submitted by
Karen Kellogg Mason
Mt. Vernon WA

Nellie Mae Drake

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Nellie Mae Drake
b. 6 January 1894, Huntington County, Indiana, to William Tell and Elizabeth Theodosia (Slack) Drake
d. 27 June 1972, Springfield, Ohio

m. 10 September 1913, Chicago, Illinois
Arthur William Baker
b. 11 November 1888, London, England
d. 11 May 1965, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Children with Arthur William Baker:

  • Phyllis Theodosia
  • Betty Ann
  • Barbara Jean

Nellie moved to Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, before 1913.

Submitted by:
Dawne Slater-Putt
Huntertown IN 
E-mail: dslaterput@aol.com

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