JANUARY, 1924         Volume 2   LINCOLN, NEBR   Number 1

 

The Nebraska Genealogical Society will be glad to consider for publication in the Nebraska and Midwest Genealogical Record

First .- Manuscript genealogical records of family lines including record of the original settler in America and the first five succeeding generations of is descendants, provided such material has not been completely published elsewhere, or where such material is a correction of matter previously published. References to printed authorities, giving volume and page, should when possible accompany such material.

Second.-Manuscript genealogical records of the last four or five generations, accompanied by a transcription of Bible records or tombstone inscriptions to substantiate the dates of birth, death and marriage.

Third.-Verified church records including vital records of births, baptisms. marriages, deaths and burials.

Fourth.-Verified transcriptions of old burying ground inscriptions.

Fifth.-Verified transcriptions of old wills, provided they have not been previously published elsewhere.

Sixth.-Transcriptions of Bible records of single families prior to 1850.

Mrs. C. R. Peterson, University Place, Nebr.
Miss Roxy V. Ammerman, Fairmont, Nebr.
Mrs. B. G. Miller, Crete, Nebr.
Mrs. R. J. Kilpatrick, Beatrice, Nebr.
Mrs. S. D. Kilpatrick, Beatrice, Nebr.
Mrs. R. C. Hoyt, Omaha, Nebr.
Mrs. David Hill, Salina, Kas.
Mrs. John J. Reimers, Genoa, Nebr.
Mrs. William Rogers, Lincoln, Nebr.
Mrs. M. W. Ferris, Lincoln, Nebr.
Mrs. H. K. White, Wahoo, Nebr.
Mrs. Walter L. Anderson, Lincoln, Nebr.
Mrs. D. 0. Cleghorn, Chadron, Nebr.
Dr. David C. Hilton, Lincoln, Nebr.
Mrs. Ada Delano, Lincoln, Nebr.
Mrs. Keith Neville, North Platte, Nebr.
Mrs. George Thatcher Guernsey, Independence, Kas.
Mrs. R. S. Merrell, Fairbury, Nebr.
Mrs. Frank P. Larmon, Omaha, Nebr.
Mrs. Charles L. Sprague , Beatrice, Nebr.

Mrs. R. J. Kilpatrick, Beatrice, Nebr.
Mr. J. V. Thompson, Uniontown Pa. (Mr. Thompson is preparing to write a history of the Thompson and Finley families.)

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   JOHN¹ EVARTS was made freeman in Concord, Mass., Mch. 1637-8. He removed to Guilford, Ct., in 1650 and took freeman's oath there Feby. 5, 1651-2; b. abt. 1610, d. May 9, 1669, at Guilford, Ct., m. 1st Elizabeth -----, m. 2nd May 27, 1663, Elizabeth, widow of John Parmelee, who died Jany. --, 1683. Children of John Evarts and Elizabeth were:

   JOHN² EVERTS (John¹), b. Feby. 29, 1639-40, at Concord, Middlesex County, Mass., d. Nov. 1696, at Guilford, New Haven County, Ct., m. Sept. 14, 1665, Mary French, dau. of Thomas French, who died in 1668; m. 2nd, Mary Bow who died Apr. 25, 1700. She was a dau. of Alexander Bow. Children of John Everts and Mary French were:

Children of John Everts and Mary Bow were:

   NATHANIEL³ EVERTS (John², John¹), b. July 24, 1675, Guilford, New Haven County, Ct., d. May 1739, at Guilford, New Haven County, Ct., m. May 7, 1707, Margaret Hastings, dau. of Dr. Thomas Hastings, b. July 7, 1674, at Hatfield, Hampshire County, Mass., d. Oct. 8. 1740, at Guilford, New Haven County, Ct. Children of Nathaniel Everts and Margaret Hastings were:

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   JOHN⁴ EVERTS (Nathaniel³, John² John¹), b. Sept. 21, 1708, at Guilford, New Haven County, Ct., d. Sept. 25, 1786, at Salisbury, Litchfield County, Ct., m. Oct. 2, 1734, Submit Stone, dau. of Stephen Stone and Elizabeth Leman, b. Mch. 25, 1717, d. Jany. 19, 1802, at Salisbury, Litchfield County, Ct. Children of John Everts and Submit Stone were:

   Contributed by Mrs. David Hill of Salina, Kas. who is a descendant of John Everts of Concord, Mass., through the Revolutionary patriot, Jobs Evarts, of Salisbury, Ct.

AUCHAMPACH, JAMES, b. Feby. 8, 1827, aged 26 yrs.
AUCHAMPACH, ISABELLA, dau. of George and Helen Lasher, and relict of the late James Auchampach,
   d. Feby, 6, 1828, aged 26 yrs., 7 mos., 18 days.
BUCHANNAN, MARY ELIZABETH, dau. of John G. and Catharine, d. Aug. 24, 1830, aged 1 yr.
CONOLY, P----, aged 107 yrs.
CLAYTON, JONATHAN, d. Apr. 6, 1810, aged 80 yrs., 11 mos., 19 days.

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CLAYTON, ANNA ANDERSON, wife of J. I. Clayton, b. Dec. 30, 1761, in New Jersey, d. May 22, 1825.
CLARK, CATHARINE, wife of William, d. Feby. 22, 1796, aged 52 yrs.
CLARK, MARY, d. May 27, 1864, aged 60 yrs., 18 days,
CLARK, ALEX B., d. Aug. 14, 1860, aged 20 yrs.
CLARK, MATHEW, d. May 22, 1846, aged 65 yrs.
CLARK, OSCAR, d. Mch 5, 1860, aged 21 yrs., 21 days.
CRAMER, REBECCA STEENBURG, Wife of George Cramer, d. Nov. 2, 1818, aged 48 yrs., 11 mos.,
    16 days.
CRAMER, GEORGE, b. Dec, 12, 1762, d. Oct. 30, 1840.
DEMING, ANNA W., d. Apr. 8, 1836, aged 50 yrs., 2 mos., 3 days.
DEVENPECK, ABRAHAM, b. Oct. 7, 1809, d. Jany. 28, 1891.
DEVENPECK, JOHN, d. Nov. 4, 1837, aged 73 yrs., 1 mo., 22 days
DEVENPECK, SUSANNAH, wife of John, d. Jany. 21, 1857, aged 87 yrs.
DEVENPECK, SARAH, d. Feby. 4, 1872, aged 60 yrs., 15 days.
EGLESTON, JESSE, d. Dec. 16, 1827, aged 74 yrs.
EGLESTON, SARAH WILLIAMS, wife of James Egleston, d. June 6, 1829, aged 75 yrs.
I. + H., d. June 24, 1787, aged 75 yrs.
HALLADAY, JOHN, son of James, d. June 21, 1816, aged 20 yrs., 1 mo., 2 days.
HOLIDAY, ELIZABETH T., wife of James, d. Oct. 31, 1819, aged 55 yrs.
JEFFERS, DANIEL, d. Nov. 18, 1849, aged 73 yrs.
JEFFERS, ELIZABETH, wife of Daniel, d. Nov. 26, 1852, aged 77 yrs.
JEFFERS, GEORGE, son of Robert B. and Elizabeth, d. July 25, 1837, aged 13 yrs., 19 days.
JOHNSON, JOHN, d. Apr. 28, 1827, aged 65 yrs., 4 mos., 6 days.
JOHNSON, MARY, wife of John, d. Jany. 19, 1849, aged 88 yrs.

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JOHNSON, MARGARET, dau. of John and Mary, d. Apr. 2, 1819, aged 21 yrs. 10 mos., 15 days.
LE ROY, CATHARINE, wife of Peter, d. Aug. 25, 1856, aged 83 yrs.
LASHER, ISABELLA, dau. of George and Helen, and relict of the late James Auchampach, d. Feby. 6,
   1828, aged 26 yrs., 7 mos., 18 days.
LASHER, JAMES, son of George and Adelia D. Lasher of Duanesburgh, d. June 28, 1828, aged 5 mos.,
   4 days.
LOCKWOOD, EBENEZER, d. Jany. 5, 1839, aged 74 yrs.
LOCKWOOD, MARY SHILLIND, wife of Ebenezer Lockwood, d. June 24, 1830, aged 67 yrs.
LOCKWOOD, ANNE SHARP, widow of E. Lockwood and former wife of Thomas McMaster, d. Aug.
   24, 1863, aged 79 yrs.
LOCKWOOD, PRUDENCE. d. Jany. 8, 1861, aged 88 yrs., 6 mos., 20 days.
LOCKWOOD, DAVID, son of Ebenezer and Mary, d. Aug. 27, 1824, aged 25 yrs., 9 mos., 4 days.
LOCKWOOD, EBENEZER, son of Ebenezer and Mary, d. May 12, 1805, aged 21 mos.
LOCKWOOD, JAMES, son of Ebenezer and Mary, d. Sept. 4, 1822, aged 20 yrs., 4 mos., 4 days.

Contributed by Mrs. S. D. Kilpatrick, Beatrice, Nebr.

(To be continued)

   The bodies of five soldiers of the Revolutionary War are buried in Iowa. All of them migrated to the territory of Iowa as old men and the youngest of them was eighty years of age when he died. The two oldest were ninety.

The list of Revolutionary veterans who are buried in Iowa follows:

WILLIAM BLAIR,born in Lancaster, Pa., 1760, died in Des Moines County in 1840.

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TIMOTHY BROWN born in 1761,died in Washington County in 1854.
JOHN OSBORNE, born in Virginia in 1763, died in Lynn County in 1840.
GEORGE PERKINS, born in South Carolina in 1754, died in Lee County in 1840.
CHARLES SHEPARD, born in Pennsylvania in 1760, died in Henry County in 1846.

   The following was taken from the court records of Wallingford, Ct., by Mrs. Seth Hall of Meriden, Ct., for Mrs. John B. Clotworthy of Hillman, Georgia.

   Mrs. Hall has from other sources the immigrants and children's births not given in Wallingford, one a daughter, from New London, Ct. The dates of the marriages of the sons who settled in Wallingford, Ct., with many of their descendants are given.

   In "Somerset Visitations" by Philmore & Company, Vol, 1, p. 116, it says Robert Royce of Martock, Somerset, married June 4, 1624, Mary Sims of Long Sutton, Somerset. He is said to have come in the ship Francis from Ipswich. He was first found at Stratford, Ct. In 1644, he was at New London, Ct. He died 1676 and his widow was living on his estate in 1688. Without dates the order of birth of their children cannot be given. Children of Robert Royce and Mary Sims were:

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   Miss Katherine Dickerman in the July, 1923, number of the Nebraska and Midwest Genealogical Record, p. 44, gives the birth of Samuel Royce as 1672, when from the above record it shows that he was married to his first wife in 1667. Mrs. J. B. Clatworthy is descended from two of their children, namely Robert, their eldest, who married Mary Porter in 1692, and Prudence, who married John Austin. Samuel names his eldest son, Robert, in his will, as also one of his children by Sarah Baldwin. Sarah married in New London and Ruth was born there. Sarah may have been the eldest.

   NEHEMIAH² ROYCE (Robert ¹) married Nov. 20, 1660, Hannah Morgan, dau. of James Morgan. Their children were:

   NEHEMIAH³ ROYCE, JR. (Nehemiah,² Robert ¹), b. Oct. 30, 1725, m. Keziah Hall. Their children were:

   JAMES⁴ ROYCE ( Nehemiah ,³ Nehemiah,² Robert ¹), b. June 30, 1715, d. Jany. 20, 1760, m. Feby. 18, 1741-2, Miriam Munson, who died Aug. 20, 1757, aged 37 years. Their children were:

   JAMES⁵ ROYCE, JR. (James ,⁴ Nehemiah ,³ Nehemiah,² Robert ¹), b. Dec. 18, 1748, m. Aug. 5, 1771, Mary Tyler. Their children were:

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   NEHEMIAH⁶ RICE (James,⁵James ,⁴ Nehemiah ,³ Nehemiah,² Robert ¹), b. Nov. 7, 1773, d. Apr. 8, 1811, m. 1st Ruth Hall, m. 2nd Abigail -----. Children of Nehemiah Rice and Ruth Hall were:

   ELIJAH⁷ RICE (Nehemiah, ⁶James,⁵James ,⁴ Nehemiah ,³ Nehemiah,² Robert ¹), b. July 28, 1806, d. Sept. 8, 1877, m. Oct. 8, 1834, Elizabeth Hall. Their children were:

   EPHRAIM⁴ ROYS (Nehemiah ,³Nehemiah,² Robert ¹), b. Feby. 9, 1717, d. Sept. 4, 1762, in. Jany. 26, 1739, Eunice Harris. Children of Ephraim Roys and Eunice Harris were:

EPHRAIM⁵ ROYS (Ephraim,⁴ Nehemiah ,³ Nehemiah,² Rob-

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ert ¹), b. June 30, 1744, m. Oct. 4, 1764, Abigail Fox. Their children were:

   AARON⁵ RICE (Ephraim,⁴ Nehemiah ,³ Nehemiah,² Robert ¹), m. Jany. 25, 1770, Anne Yale. He was a Revolutionary soldier. The children of Aaron Rice and Anne Yale were:

   EBENEZER⁵ ROYS ( Ephraim,⁴ Nehemiah ,³ Nehemiah,² Robert ¹), b. Dec. 8, 1745, m. Dec, 27, 1766, Phebe Rice. Their children were:

   JOEL⁶ RICE (James,⁵ James,⁴ Nehemiah ,³ Nehemiah,² Robert ¹), b. Sept. 7, 1787, m. Lucretia Yale. Their children were:

   ANDREW¹ MCKEE, aged sixteen, with his two brothers, landed at Boston. He settled in East Hartford, Ct., five miles east of the old Hartford city. in 1707, and became a farmer. It is supposed that the other brothers settled, one in Virginia, the other in Kentucky. Andrew McKee was born in the north of Ireland in 1691. His father was Scotch, a chief among men, and his mother was Irish. He died Sept. 24, 1765, and was interred at Manchester Center, Ct. He was twice married. Children by his first wife were:

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Children by his second wife were:

   ROBERT² MCKEE (Andrew ¹), b. 1726, d. Mch. 29, 1797, m. Mabel Hollister. He became a wealthy farmer with 400 acres Of land in the vicinity of his father; was deacon of the Presbyterian Church in his neighborhood for 40 years, until he died and was interred near his father. Children of Robert McKee and Mabel Hollister were:

2. Andrew, m. Hannah Hills. Their children were:

3. APPLETON, b. Dec. 19, 1760.
4. Polly, m. Captain Mathew Ford. Their children were:

 5. Eliezur, m. Abigail Fox. Their children were:

6. Alexander, m. Persis Cooper. They had one child:

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8. Jesse, died in infancy.
9. James, m. Sarah Fox. Their children were:

10. Mabel, m. Elijah Skinner. Their children were:

   APPLETON³ MCKEE (Robert,² Andrew¹), b. Dec. 19, 1760, d. May 7, 1832, m. 1st 1784, Mercy Hills, b. July 20, 1766, d. Oct. 5, 1822, aged 56 years; m. 2nd Oct. 9, 1823, Mrs. Sabra Wood, who died Oct. 23, 1856. Children of Appleton McKee and Mercy Hills were:

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Children of Appleton McKee and Sabra Wood were:

   APPLETON HOLLISTER⁴ MCKEE (Appleton,³ Robert,² Andrew¹), b. July 20, 1785, d. Nov. 2, 1869, m. 1st Sept. 10, 1809, Sarah Smith, who died Mch. 11, 1824, m. 2nd Aug. 17, 1825, Polly Cooper, who died Aug. 20, 1834, m. 3rd June 24, 1839, Permila Shepard, b. Jany. 26, 1815. He was a resident of Sacket Harbor, N.Y. Children of Appleton Hollister McKee and Sarah Smith were:

Children of Appleton Hollister McKee and Polly Cooper were:

Children of Appleton Hollister McKee and Permila Shepard were:

   MALVINA⁵ MCKEE (Appleton Hollister, ⁴ Appleton,³ Robert,² Andrew¹), b. July 4, 1850, m. Dec. 29, 1866, Milo Franklin Corey, b. Jany. 28, 1840, d. Dec. 12, 1918. Their children are:

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   Contributed by Mrs. W. B. Price from records in the possession of Mr. Wirt S. McKee of San Francisco, Cal., son of Julius C. McKee.

   EDWARD¹ MARVIN married Margrette -----. Their child was:

   MATHEW² MARVIN (Edward¹), b. 1600 in England, d. 1680-87, in Hartford Ct., m. Elizabeth -----, b, 1604, in England, d. 1640, in Hartford, Ct. Their children were:

   SARAH³ MARVIN (Mathew, ²Edward¹), b. 1631, d. 1701, m. 1st 1648 Ensign Willam Goodrich, who died 1776, m. 2nd William Curtis. Children of Sarah Marvin and Ensign Goodrich were:

   SARAH⁴ GOODRICH (Sarah ³ Marvin Goodrich, Mathew ² Marvin, Edward¹), b. 1649, d. 1700, m. 1667 John Hollister, Jr., son of Lieut. John Hollister and Joanna Treat of Wethersfield, Ct. Among their children was:

   THOMAS⁵ HOLLISTER (Sarah ⁴ Goodrich Hollister, Sarah ³

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   CHARLES⁶ HOLLISTER (Thomas⁵ Hollister, Sarah ⁴ Goodrich Hollister, Sarah' Marvin Goodrich, Mathew' Marvin, Edward¹), b. 1701, d. 1753, m. 1729 Prudence Francis, dau. of John Francis of Wethersfield, Ct. They had a daughter:

Contributed by Mrs. W. B. Price, Lincoln, Neb.

WINNIE STANDISH. Winnie Standish, a graduate of the Kansas State Normal School, traces a dimple in
     her chin back three hundred years without a break in the succession to Miles Standish, the illustrious
     captain of Plymouth. Her father, Miles Standish, is a farmer living near Holton, Kansas. She is one
     of six children born in Cass County, Nebraska.

MARY JOHNSTON. Mary Johnston, author of "To Have and to Hold"," Croatan", "Silver Cross", etc., is
     an aristocrat by birth. She is descended from Peter Johnston, who in 1727 arrived in Virginia from
     Scotland, and behind him the Annandale clan of Johnston, seated in Dumfrieshire since William the
     Conqueror. On her mother's side she comes from a Scotch-Irish family which traces itself to one of
     the citizen soldiers in the siege of Londonderry in 1668. She had many ancestors and kinsmen in the
     Revolutionary and Civil Wars. Joseph E. Johnston, the celebrated Confederate general, was her uncle.

THE KANSAS MAYFLOWER SOCIETY. The Kansas Mayflower Society held its meeting in Kansas City,
    Kan., Nov. 21, 1923. Two of the members of our gen-

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Topeka Daily Capital, Nov. 25, 1923     

   GOVERNOR EDWARD¹ WINSLOW was the eldest son of Edward Winslow and Magdalen -----. He was born in Droitwick, Worcestershire, England, Oct. 28, 1565 (Mayf. Desc. Vol. 2, p. 120), d. May 18,1635, m. 1st May 6, 1618, at Leyden, Holland, Elizabeth Barker. She died Mch. 24, 1621. He m. 2nd May 22, 1621, Susanna (Fuller) White, widow of William White (Mayf. Desc. Vol. 1, p. 88). She died Oct. 1, 1680. Edward Winslow and Susanna (Fuller) White had four children:

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 iii. Edward b. May 14, 1667, d. young. (Mayf. Dose. vol. 2, p. 111)
 iv. Isaac b. 1670, d. Dec. 6, 1738, m. Sarah Wensley, who died Dec. 16, 1753.
     Their children were:

 v. Penelope b. Dec. 21, 1704, d. 1737, m. James Warren, b. Apr. 14, 1700, d July,
     1757. Their children were:

vi. Elizabeth b. Dec. 13, 1707, m. Benjamin Marston, Nov. 22, 1729. Their children
     were:

vii. Ann b. Jany. 29, 1709, d. young.
viii. Edward b. June 7.1714, m. 1st widow Hannah Deper, m. 2nd widow Miller. His
       children were:

4. Elizabeth, d. after 1694, m. 1st Robert Brooks, m. 2nd Sept. 22, 1669, (Mayf. Desc. vol. 1, p. 239)
    Capt. George Curwin, b. Dec. 10, 1610. Their children were:

 iii. Susanna b. Oct. 10, 1672, m. 1st Nov. 29, 1694, Edward Lynde, who died before
      1701, m. 2nd Benjamin Wadsworth.
 iv. George b. 1674, d. before 1684.

Compiled by Mrs. C. C. Waldo, Lincoln, Nebr.

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