John Oaks

John Oakes was born about 1802 in Coits Gore, VT the son of John and Esther Cochran.  Little is known of his early life. 

He was most likely married twice, but no record of a first marriage for John has been found.  His first three children were born between 1822 and 1826 and there is enough evidence to show that his second wife, Sarah (Sally) Town, did not marry him until 1829.  As he was twice a witness to land records for Luther Poland, it might be worth looking for a relationship there.

"John Oakes, Jr was a witness of John Lock deed to James Horner 1827 in Waterville. Also witness of Ephraim Stevens deed to Luther Poland 1822 along with Moses Fisk and when Luther Poland sold to Aaron Pinney 1826. He witnessed a sale of Stephen Miller to Amos Willey, page 54. This property was on north part of lot 42, bounded on east by John Oakes, widow Brown, Ephraim Stevens, O. McFarland, Ira Olmstead. "

In her application for a pension Sally Town Oakes stated  that she was married to her son Oberon's father on 26 December 1829 at North Hero, Vermont, by John Knight.  North Hero appears to have been originally written North Hill, then Hill was written over to appear as Hero.

Confirmation of the marriage of Sarah Town and John Oakes can be found in a land deed in North Hero, Vermont dated July 30, 1845, registered as James Woodward to Edmund Town. James Woodward was married to Hannah, Sarah's sister;  and Edmund was Sarah's brother.   This deed held with the Hero Town Records and Deeds states in  Paragraph Two:  "To have and to hold all our rights, title and interest which we have in and to the said Pilots Point lot and quit clamed premises as heirs to the estate of Silas Town, deceased, with the appertunances thereof to the said Edmond Town, his heirs and assigns to his and their proper use and behoof forever, and furthermore we the said James Woodward and Hannah (Town) his wife;  John Oaks and Sally his wife;  and Jabez B. Town do for ourselves, our heirs executors and administrators covenant with said Edmund Town.........that we the said Jabez, James & Hannah his wife, John and Sally his wife will have and claim no right in or to the above released and quit claimed premises......

In witness thereof we have hereunto set our hands and saith this 30th day of July AD 1845, signed sealed and delivered  Jabez B. Town, James Woodward, Hannah Woodward in presence of W. Kenzie Payne, G.F. Cooke.    Augusta Knight (for James Woodward),

John Oaks, Sally Oaks, Nancy Hibbard (&Hannah Woodward)........................  There personally appeared the within named Jabez Town, James Woodward and John Oaks, signers and sealers of the foregoing written instrument and acknowledged the same to be their free act and deed..........

Before me Augustus Knight, Justice Peace State of Vermont North Hero Grand Isle County July 30.1845. "

Allen Stratton's  History Town of North Hero Vermont mentions that an Account Book to the store located at City Bay (then called Ladd's Bay) listed, on Oct. 9, 1826, Sally Town making a purchase on account. Since she was using the name Town and this is after the birth dates of Orson (1822) and Emery (1824), she is, almost certainly, not their mother. 

John sold his last property holdings in North Hero, Grand Island Co., VT in 1841. On 11 Nov 1842, the Burlington Free Press reported that John would be declared bankrupt in the office of Samuel Prentiss, District Judge, on 14 Dec in Montpelier.  On 10 May 1843 the paper reported his discharge.

The family moved to Missouri before 1847.  According to daughter Caroline, who claims to have been born on the New York side of Lake Champlain, John brought his family down the river to Quincey, IL and from there by ox team to Shelby County, MO where his brother Truman was already living.

In 1850 the were living in Shelby County.  Orson was living next door with his new wife Mary Nichols Madkins Oakes and her seven children. In close proximity was the family of Edward Naylor.  No land records for John were found in Shelby county, it seems likely he was living on land owned by Truman.

Shortly thereafter, John patented two lots in Knox county,  40 acres on 9/23/1853 and 80 acres on 1/18/1855 at $1.25 an acre.  These were first sale patents from the government.  John and Sallie first settled in the Locust Grove neighborhood and later moved to a farm north of Pelvna in Knox County. 

The 40 acres were deeded to Jabez Barnes on 4/10/1860 along with the land that Bronson sold to Jabez.

John died in 1856/1857 leaving his estate to his large family.  In 8 Jan 1867 his descendants signed over to Melvina Newell, one of the daughters, the rights to some land.

The 1860 Knox Co., MO Census shows Sally Oaks 56  in a household with dau. Lauretta 21, Albert T. Turner 30, Eusebia Turner 29, and a boy named John H. Harden 6.

Sally Oakes is also mention in the History of Monroe and Shelby Counties, Missouri, 1884 as a member of the Shelbyville Christian Church, one of the earliest members from it's organization in 1839.
 
On 16 January 1884 the Shelbina Democract reported, in a column called From Shelbyville, that "Old Mrs. Oaks died and was buried last week. She has been a resident of the county for a long time and died at a very advanced age."

John Oaks - Dropbox

The Children of William Naylor

William had eight known children four with each wife.

According to her daughter, Flora,
Leacy attended Madame Capon's
Boarding School in Pennsylvania.  

1. Leacy Ann (1804-1843) married Angus William McDonald III.  McDonald like his father-in-law was a member of the Romney Literary Society and a Prosecuting Attorney in Hampshire County.  He served as a Colonel in the Confederate Army under Lee.  He died 1 Dec 1864 in the home of his daughter in Richmond.  Leacy and Angus had 9 children. After Leacy's death Angus married Cornelia Peake and had 10 more children.  
1. Mary Naylor McDonald (1827-1901) m. Thomas Claiborne Green
2. Angus William McDonald (1829-1914)
3. Ann Sanford McDonald (1830-   ) m. James Williams Green
4. Edward Allen Hitchcock McDonald (1832-1912)
5. William Naylor McDonald (1834-1898)
6. Marshall McDonald (1835-1895)
7. Craig Woodrow McDonald (1837 - 1862) 
8. Susan McDonald (1839- 1930) m. John Beverly Stanard
9. Flora McDonald (1842 - )  Flora never married.  She was the author of the Glengarry  McDonalds 
2. Jane (1806- ) m Chichester Tapscott
1. Ann Tapscott
2. Sam Tapscott
3. John Tapscott
3. Ann Sanford (Nancy) (1810-  ) m. Joseph William Bronaugh, MD
1. William Naylor Bronaugh (1833-1862)
2. Francis Bronaugh (1837 -  )
3. Rosa Bronaugh (1845 - )
4. Joseph William Bronaugh (1847- )



Rev. James  S Naylor

5. Florence May Bronaugh (1849 - )
4. William Naylor  (1813 -  )  possibly to Howard County MO where he married Nancy Bragg, had at least four children and died in 1904.  Proof this is the right person has not been confirmed.
5. Edward Ralph
6. Millicent S (1815 - ) Millicent lived with her mother in Missouri. She never married
7. James (1821-1874) a minister who settled in Mississippi m. Ann Graham 
1. Eliza (1846 - )
2. Judith (1852 -  )
3. Mary (1855 - )
4. Anna (Nannie) (1856 - )
8. John Samuel (1824-1856) a medical Dr.  John died in Selby County MO less than two months before his brother Edward m. Virginia Comford

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William Naylor

pt 3.

1 first discovered the identity of William Naylor who died in Hampshire County, VA (WV) through a probate filing in Missouri.  That filing led to the original probate in Virginia and the wealth of information I found on William and his family there.

William died 4 Mar 1840 in Romney leaving his wife Susan (McGuire) and eight children by his two wives.  Susan moved to Selby County, Missouri where he oldest son Edward had settled sometime before 1850.  At that time the estate of William had still not been totally settled and Susan had brought slaves with her from Virginia.  In order to sort it all out probate documents were filed in Missouri but not before a few lawsuits had also been filed.

This is the will of William Naylor.  At the time of his death he had 11 slaves.  Although he didn't free them directly on his death, he did direct that they could not be sold for life and gave a timetable for manumission of all but the oldest who he said should be cared for for life.  When Susan died in 1850 the slaves were placed in the care of son Edward, some were rented out to William Moffat.  Edward in the meantime died in 1856 and when executor of the estate Edward McDonald tried to gain possession Moffat claimed ownership.  resulting in a lawsuit in 1859 in Missouri.

William Naylor - Probate Files including MO lawsuit  


William Naylor pt 1
William Naylor pt 2

William Naylor

Pt 2
From 1801 on William was taxed in Hampshire County, VA where he had fifty acres on Town Run. He gradually increased his holdings.  By 1806 he had added slaves to his property, and in the years 1809-1811 he paid takes on a chair carriage.

In 1808 he used two treasury warrants to put together a land holding of 355 acres.  He continued to buy land over the years, but as it appears he was a middleman in some of the documents, it is difficult to ascertain the exact lands that he held.

Nancy Sanford Naylor died between 1810 and 1813 and William married Susan McGuire the daughter of Edward.  The had four children, Edward (1813), Millicent (1815), James (1821) and John Samuel (1824).

In January 1818 William was elected as a director of the Valley Bank Branch in Romney.  His brother-in-law Edward McGuire was elected as a director of the of the company at large.

In 1822 William was appointed as a School commissioner for the year. He was also an active member of the Romney Literary Society.  The Romney Literary society met between two and four times a month to discuss the times.  They collected dues of 25 cents with which they bought books for a library.  It was against the society bylaws to publish the text of any speeches from their meetings.  The members went on record as supporting public school education over private.

 Between 1818 and 1829, William was the prosecuting attorney for Hampshire County.  He became involved in politics, serving on the constitutional committee and eventually running for congress.


Sketches of Members of the Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830

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William Naylor - pt 1

William Naylor

Part 1 - William Naylor was born about 1771 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania according to various sources, which go on to state his father was William Naylor and his mother an Armstrong.  Supposedly his grandfather is Robert Naylor, a Quaker from Darby, PA and his wife Elizabeth.  The sources go on to state that he was a graduate of Dickenson College who moved to lower Virginia in 1793 and on to Winchester in 1795 where he taught in Rev. Dr. Hill's school and studied law.  He was listed as a practicing attorney in Winchester in 1812.  Unfortunately, some of the information culled from these resources was wrong, but they did provide a starting point for researching William.

Old West - Dickenson College built 1805

William Naylor was born about 1771 probably in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the son of Ralph Naylor and Leacy Armstrong.  Growing up in Carlisle, he lived close to Dickenson School.  Dickenson was chartered as a grammar school in 1773 and as a college in 1783.  It was housed in a small two-room brick building on Liberty Avenue, near Bedford and Pomfret Streets Until 1799.  Unfortunately few records seem to be available from those early years, and to date I have found no corroboration of his attendance.  We do, however, know that he was educated, so attendance at least of the grammar school seems likely.

William was not found in the 1800 census in Pennsylvania, Virginia, or Maryland where he married his first wife later that year.  Most likely he was a resident in another household.  High on the list of possibilities would be that of Rev. William Hill.  Dr. Hill was instrumental in the establishment of the Presbytery of Winchester in 1794 and became Pastor of the same in 1800.  No mention of a school has been found in the biographies of Rev. Dr. Hill, but it seems probable that he might have run one, and it is definitely possible that William might have taught there as he pursued his studies in law.  His stint as a teacher, and marriage to Nancy are corroborated by his  granddaughter, Flora McDonald Williams,  in her family history, Glengarry McDonalds of Virginia.

On 2 Oct 1800 William married Ann (Nancy) Sanford of Allegheny County, Maryland.  Records show that he had been helping her father, William Sanford with the purchase of land in Hampshire county. 

William and Nancy took up residence in Romney Hampshire county, Virginia (now WV).  They had four known children

1. Leacy Ann m. Col. Angus William McDonald III, CSA , they had nine known children

2. Jane m. Chester Tapscott  they had three known children

3. Ann Sanford (Nancy) m. Dr. Joseph William Bronaugh they had five known children

4. William m. Nancy Bragg they had four known children 

William Naylor Dropbox

Edward Ralph Naylor and Cornelia Myers

Edward Ralph Naylor was born on 7 Aug 1813 in Romney, Hampshire County, Virginia (now West Virginia).  He was the oldest of four children of William Naylor and Susan McGuire.  He also had four older half siblings, the children of William and Nancy Sanford.

William's father died in 1837 and Edward moved to Missouri along with a number of his siblings.

There he met Cornelia Myers the daughter of Jacob Francis Myers and Elizabeth.  Elizabeth brought her  daughter to Missouri after the death of her husband in Virginia.  Cornelia and Edward were married on 9 Sep 1841.

In 1850 the family is living in District 94 in Shelby County, Missouri. Besides Edward and Cornelia, there are four children and Cornelia's mother Elizabeth Myers. Slave schedules for the district also show one 8 year old male slave.  By 1856 there were two additional children.

Then tradgedy struck.  It was most likely cholera that took five year old Gilbert in July of 1856.  Edward's death followed on 18th August.

Edward left a good estate for his wife and children.  With no will the property passed mainly to his wife.  Those items that were sold netted Cornelia over $1000, a goodly sum in the years before the Civil War.

Cornelia continued farming the land for the next six years. Millicent, Edward's unmarried sister, moved in to help.  Then in 1862 Cornelia became the third wife of Matison Vanosdol.  They had two children, Craig born in 1863 and Mattie born in 1865.  In 1877 tragedy struck again, both Craig and Mattie died within a month of each other.

At this time Cornelia left the home she had shared with Matison.  The 1880 Census finds her in the home of her son James Monroe Naylor. When James moved to Colorado permanently she moved in with another son John Meyer Naylor.  This is where she was living when she died at the age of 76 in 1896.

Cornelia is buried  in Kings Graveyard near Pelvna, with the Vanosdols, including Craig and Mattie.  Edward is buried in the Naylor Cemetery on the old homestead in Bethel township along with son Gilbert.

The Children of Edward Ralph Naylor and Cornelia Myers

1. Susan McGuire  1842 MO - 1930 NM m. James Redd Brawner
2. William  
3. John Monroe  1846 MO - 1933 MO
4. Edward Ralph 1849 MO - 1925
5. Gilbert Francis 1851 MO - 1856 MO
6. James Monroe 1854 MO - 1935 CO

William Naylor

Part 2

Although William moved to Loveland about 1873 and soon settled in the Thompson Valley 2 1/2 miles NE of town, no land records have been found prior to 1885.  He may well have filed for a land grant much earlier, perhaps it took him longer that expected to satisfy the requirements, or perhaps he leased land for a while, while deciding whether Loveland was where he wanted to stay.  What we do know is that in 1885 he received a federal land grant of160 acres.  He purchased an additional 160 acres the following year. 

William was involved in building extensions to Louden ditch, succeeding in running water through it in 1880.  He was head of the Louden ditch company for twenty years according to his biography in the History of Larimer County.  

Fort Collins Courier
14 Sep 1904

Newspaper articles through out the 1890s and early 1900s link him to various water projects in the area.  

William and Ellen continued to farm until 1904 when they retired to the city.  They had purchased three lots at the corner of Seventh St and Cleveland Ave (147) the prior year.    

In 1919, William and Ellen sold the house which was moved from the lot.  They were living with their daughter while a new house was being built when Ellen suddenly dropped dead from heart problems.

William's daughter Cora and her husband are living with William in 1920.  

The Long Beach Press noted: Died Feb. 28, 1921. Aged 77. He came to Long Beach from Loveland, Colo., four months ago to visit his daughter, Mrs. W.H. Trindle, 2267 Elm Ave. He died of acute indigestion. He was a member of the G.A.R. in Loveland, where he will be buried. Also survived by sons Edgar W., J.S., and Carl Naylor; daughters Mrs. Cora Farnsworth of Loveland, Miss Eva Naylor of Denver, and Mrs. Fern Thomas of Washington.

The Loveland Herald of 28 Feb noted:   "William Naylor, brother of James Naylor city councilman for Loveland, died this morning at Long Beach, Cali.  He was spending the winter with his daughter, Mrs. W H Trindle of Long Beach.  The cause of his death is not known but he died after but a few hours illness...... Naylor is one of the oldest residents of Loveland, coming here 40 years ago."

William and Ellen are buried in Loveland Burial Park.

More:

Local Loveland: Louden Ditch Company and Personel

Western Waters Case 4081

William Naylor

Part I

William Naylor was born 28 Sep 1844 in Shelbina, Missouri, the second of six children of Edward Ralph Naylor and Cornelia Myers.   His father died when he was just fourteen, leaving William and his four younger brothers to help run the farm.

Civil was soon disrupted life in Missouri, pitting family against family as the inhabitants of the area took sides in the battle.  William enlisted as a private in D company 14 Missouri Cavalry just a month before the final battle of the  Civil War, but his late entry into the war did not save him from the fate that met so many of the participants.  According to pension papers filed in 1890 in Loveland, Colorado, William was suffering from scurvy at the time the troops were dispatched to Fort Levenworth in Kansas to be discharged. The scurvy resulted in mouth disease and the loss of teeth. Furthermore, on the trip to Fort Levenworth, which was by open boat he developed pneumonia which developed into lifelong lung disease. Military hospital records show hospitalization in March and Sep of 1865 for diantura.

According to an affidavit by Orson Oakes, "...he was suffering at the date of our discharge from the service in Oct 1865; that claimant lived with me about one year after his discharge from the service and he was then suffering from said Lung trouble and continued to so suffer up to the time he left my house in Shelby Co MO, about the Spring of 1868."

"That the facts stated above are personally known to the affiant by reason of being a member of my company and seeing him nearly everyday while in the service, and also seenig [sic] him daily after his discharge in 1865 and until the Spring of 1868.  And know that he was not able on account of his disabilities to do any manual labor.  And I further know that at the time of his discharge at St. Louis MO claimant was in such poor condition of health that I and his brother had to take him home to Shelby County, MO, and as long as I knew him he was still suffering from said lung trouble."

According to an affidavit by his brother John, "I was with my brother William Naylor who is my brother during his time of service in the army and on till the year of 1873, i took care of the said William Naylor while he as sick in the army and after he was discharged from the Service.........."

According to his brother Edward, "By being with him on his return home; he was confined to his bed something like three weeke at Shelbyville MO immediately after his discharge befor he was able to be moved Home.  At the end of that time, I went after him in a wagon and brought him home on a feather bed. (about ten miles) and he was confined to bed for some time after I got him home, and was never strong afterwards the doctor doctered him for Scurvy for a year or more after coming out the army, and he had Pneumhony [sic] when discharged.  And his lungs have been week ever Since he came out the army and teeth loose from scurvy"

While no picture of William has shown up in family records we do have the following description of William from his induction into service 1865.

While recovering in the home of Orson Oakes, William had a chance to get to know Orson's daughter Ellen.  On 20 Feb 1868 they were married in Shelbyville.  Within a few years they had moved to Loveland, Colorado, where they had seven children.

1. Annie Dora 
2. Edgar William   2 Feb 1872 Shelbina MO - 4 Oct 1933 CO m. Georgia Virden
3. Mary Eveline (Eva) 20 Apr 1875 CO - 4 Oct 1946 CO m. James Clyde m2 Soule
4. James Francis 16 Jan 1879 CO - 19 Nov 1937 CO m Daisy F Andrews m2. Edith
5. Carl Chester  20 Aug 1881 CO - 15 Oct 1923 CO m. Elizabeth Kroh
6. Cora May 1 Sep 1883 CO - 27 Feb 1970 CA m. Owen M. Farnsworth m2. S Lee Mosher
7. Fern Marion  22 Mar 1886 CO - 1961 WA m. Frank Leonidas Thomas

To be continued

Annie Dora Naylor

Annie Dora, born 7 Mar 1869 in Shelbina, Missouri, was the oldest of the seven known children of William Naylor and Sophia Ellen Oakes. Her parents left Missouri and settled in Loveland, Colorado when she was four years old.  Her childhood was spent on the farm in the Thompson Valley northwest of the town.

On 18 Dec 1889 Dora married Walter Trindle.

 "Go where you will, you will meet someone from Carlisle" A proverb among them / Carlisle Old & New: Find the Bells of Old Carlisle.  Did Walter and Dora know on their wedding date that their great-great-grandfathers knew each other in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania?  Had the families been in touch in the ninety years since they had last lived in or near Carlisle? Did they know that Walters great-grandparents were married there on Dec 19 nearly a century before. These are questions we can't answer.  We can only speculate.

It must have been hard for Dora when she and Walter took their young family on the train to their new home in Long Beach, California.  We know that before she left she copied family information from both the Naylor and Trindle family bibles.  Those pages still exist today, tucked into a ticket envelope from the journey. 

Little is known about Dora, but her granddaughter Beulah Osborn Garrison reminisced
"Grandma was an excellent quilter and always had a quilt on a frame. Whenever we visited her we always quilted.  No one just sat.  After Grandpa died she took in three to five men as boarders to pay her way. she cooked, washed and ironed for them!  I have no idea what the rent was.  I always thought of her as a special person and loved her a lot. She had great determination against all odds.  When Uncle Pink (Clarence) was so terribly burned as a teenager (17 I think) and the doctors said there was no hope for him, Grandma bought zinc oxide in five gallon pails and moved a cot into his hospital room and kept him plastered with it.  He was in hospital for two years, mother said. I'm not sure Grandma stayed all that time in the hospital." 

After Walter's death in 1930, Dora traveled to Hawaii with her son Ivan and just a year and a half before her own death, on 18 Jul 1941, she married Oldis Whiting Blanchard in Long Beach.

Annie died on 2 Nov 1942 and is buried in Inglewood Cemetery in Long Beach.

Annie Dora Naylor - Dropbox Folder

Family Traditions

William Trindle came to America from (Wales, Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man) with his two older brothers in an as yet undisclosed year.  William was still underage so the two brothers left him in an undisclosed city and went on to further adventures.

I find this story fascinating in the Trindle genealogy, not because it is an uncommon tale but because it is told thru many lines always about a William but the place of origin, destination, and time frame change.  There is no telling for sure where the story belongs.

Over the years Trindle researchers have shared stories with limited research. Only as we started doing extensive census and pre-census research have  family lines started to come together.

I do admire the research of Helen Trindle.  She refused to make connections that were not proven, instead gathering information and presenting through her newsletter.  Unfortunately, Helen's original research has gone missing, but at least there are the newsletters and the collections she left in various libraries.

Most  prevalent of the Williams to which the story is attached is William Trindle bn abt 1709 died 1874 in Trindle Springs, Pennsylvania.  This is the William that everyone strives to find a connection to as his life is relatively well documented.  But, we do not know his country of origin or the date of his arrival in Philadelphia.  Supposedly he was apprenticed to a tailor there, but I have not found the records to prove this.

It seems likely that William had brothers as there is a John Trindle Sr. in Cumberland County, PA at a time when John the son of William was still young.

A second William that came with the story attached is William Wesley Trindal born 1802 in New Jersey.  Now this William comes with the further complication of the following note....

"Our Great Grandpa William Wesley Trindal sent to England money for our Great Grandma Harriet Spaulding to return to the United States. This was shortly after his first wife Agnes (McCurdy) Trindal died (1851).  He remarried to Harriet a few months later in 1851.  He and his first wife had 12 offsprings, while he and our great grandma had 10 offsprings." 1987 Lucy Bolser

Problems....Well, although Agnes McCurdy died in 1849 (not 1851), William is listed with his son William in Indiana County PA in 1860.  This presents a bit of a problem with the listing in 1860 with Harriet in Wisconsin.  Further complications are introduced by the story written in "The Ligonier ECHO" issue of 3 February 1892: OLD-TIME RECOLLECTIONS No. XXVII. by Francis McConaughy, "A Neighbor"

The account states that Agnes (Nancy) died young when she was in fact her tombstone gives her age as 65.

That account goes on  "Of this number William Trindle is a representative and has a pleasant home on section 32, West Point township. He comes of Scotch ancestry, the family having been founded in America by his grandfather, William Trindle, and his two brothers, Andrew and John, who crossed the Atlantic and settled in Pennsylvania. John, who remained single, secured a position in connection with government surveys and at the time of his death left a large fortune, but the family could not establish a claim to it ; for the records of his two brothers had been destroyed."

Are the two men the same, well they could be, but I sincerely doubt it.  William of Wisconsin was supposedly born in 1802, William of West Point Township was born by 1795.  He first bought land in 1815 which suggests a birth by 1794.  William of PA supposedly died (no sources) in 1864, William in Wisconsin was still alive in 1880 (no death sources to date).  There is nothing that absolutely contradicts them being the same person as we know the census can be inaccurate.

The Ligonier added names for the two brothers, John and Andrew.  And the back story for John.  John's back story is of interest as we know there was another John in Cumberland County.  If, however, he had no children then who is John in Westmoreland County.  The only records likely to help us solve these problems are probates.  I keep hoping they exist and that I will eventually find them.

Jessie Trindle

Living in Richmond, Indiana in 1896 we find Jessie Trindle.  It is reported that she is visiting her grandparents Dr. and Mrs. Taylor in Cambridge City.

Cambridge City Tribune - 16 Jul 1896

Is Jessie the daughter of William Hamilton (Billy) Trindle, the Sheriff of Wayne County.  If so we have a question that arises.  William Hamilton Trindle and Ida Viola Hand were married in 1878 and still married in 1896.  Had Ida been married previously?  Was her mother remarried?   In otherwords who are the Taylors?

Some other newsclipping from the Cambridge City Tribune about Billy Trindle and family.

14 Nov 1889

19 Aug 1876

11 Dec 1890

8 Jan 1891

16 Jul 1896

Poor Orson Oakes II

Life supplied Orson with a wealth of woes.  The first being the lack of a known mother.

When she applied for a pension based on her son Oberion's CW service, John's wife Sarah (Sallie) Townsend said they were married in 1829.

Orson was born sometime between1822 and 1828.  In 1901 Orson wrote in his pension papers that he was 73 (1828) The 1850 census gives his age as 28 (1822). The 1840 census says shows one son15 and 20 (1820-1825) whether this is Orson or Emory is unknown, one or the other was most likely working on a farm elsewhere. In 1863 his enlistment papers in the 14th calvary give his age as 45 (1818).

Based on an 1828 birth, we might question a birth before marriage, however, his brother Emory was born abt 1824 and his sister Melvina about 1826 and Sallie is found in records unmarried in 1826.  It seems most likely that John had a first wife who died sometime between 1826 and 1829.

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Although Orson lived until 1904, there is no known picture of him.  We have to rely on the description from his military records for a picture .....6 feet tall with a dark complexion and hazel eyes. His brothers Emory and Ransom, according to their military records were fair.

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Orson was dissed by his brother in law!!! Orson married Mary Nichols Madkins on 12 Jan 1847.  He was somewhere between 19 and 25 years old.  Mary was the widow next door.  She was 36 and had seven children ranging in age from 2 to 13.  Well, Mary's brother John couldn't think of any good reason for Orson to marry Mary.  On the death of Washington Madkins, the land that Mary was living on was in the control of John.  It is unclear why, but the fact remains, that he deeded the land to her, with the caveat that Orson could have no interest in the land whether held or leased.

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After the war, Orson & Mary appear to have moved around within Missouri which makes them hard to track.  I can not find Orson, Mary or any of their children in 1860.  It would seem the census taker missed them.  In 1870 I find Orson living with Eliza 18 and Frank 12.  Did he and Mary have three children?  I find no other reference to either Eliza or Frank.  Perhaps they children of another relative, but I do not find them in other families in 1860 or 1880.
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In the 1870s Orson was appointed a Road Overseerer in Shelby county.  Adding to his woes, his petition for a road was denied.

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 It appears that Mary died in Shelby County in 1881 and Orson sold his last land in the county in 1883.  He married Hannah Inman in Knox County in 1882 and Anna Winget in Macon County in 1898. When he died in 1904 the newspaper reported.....

April 7, 1904
ORSON OAKES
Orson Oakes, a respected citizen of this place, died yesterday morning, aged eighty-three years. The funeral was preached today at 10 o'clock by Rev. L.W. Gumby and the remains were laid to rest in the La Plata cemetery.
A wife, one son, and many other relatives are left to mourn his death.

LA PLATA HOME PRESS, La Plata, Missouri

(Orson's daughter Sophia Ellen Oakes Naylor was definitely alive but it seems unknown to those in La Playa, and is that son Frank?  If so where is he!!!!!)

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However, even in death the woes continue.  The La Playa Press on 4 Aug 1904 reported that

Poor Orson Oakes

“I cannot furnish the evidence called for in the enclosed letter for this reason.  There were but three

men who were my neighbors from Nov 1862 to March 1865 and they are dead.  during the past 12 years I have promptly furnished all the evidence called for - but there is a limit to this.  And I think I have reached that point.  I am now 78 years old and am not able to carve a living on account of age and health.  I believe I have already furnished the evidence covering this now called for.  I can only stte under oath that I contractd rheumatism while in the first service and that I have never been entirely free from it to this day" 

The time is 1901 and  for the first time in his eighteen years of dealing with the United States Pension Board, Orson has shown his frustration.  He has supplied them with every document they asked for,  in fact his pension file is nearly  200 pages long.  The file is filled with affidavits from dozens of doctors, compatriots and family members giving details of his service, his life and his injuries.  Orson himself has written much of his life story in an effort to get his pension set at an appropriate amount.

In fact in 1899 when Orson applied for an increase to  his $12 a month Invalid Pension. The board doctors stated...."Rheumatism of both knees of back and shoulders have gradually increased in severity so that he is totally disable for any manual labor.  The disease of heart has increased. all the joints are stiff -- he walks with difficulty, general debility increases with age (79).” They went on to pronounce him eligible for a $30 pension.  The increase was denied.

In 1902 Andrew Winget, 24 attested " I have known Orson Oakes all my life.  for the last 5 years I have met him frequently and since November 1901 have lived by him and done work for him.  He is not able to do anything.  He is not able to carry in a small stick of wood and hardly able to get up when down and needs constant assistance.  and it takes much of one persons time to wait on him.  His wife does this so far as she is able."  

Yet at the time of his death 1904, it is noted that Orson’s last pension payment had been in the amount of $17.  And the government didn’t stop there.  Anna’s fight to get a widows pension was eventually denied.

Why? There was no question that Orson served two different times in the Great Rebellion.  There was no question that he contracted Typhoid fever in 1862 which left his body devastated and no question that he rejoined the cause in 1865 when he was once again healthy.  Muster rolls and witness statements tell the story.
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According to his pension papers Orson served with I company of the 3rd Missouri Militia Cavalry, A company of the 11 Missouri Militia Cavalry and D company of the 14th Missouri Cavalry.

Although pension papers say the 3rd Regiment, but I would guess that the 2nd is correct is correct.  The 2nd Regiment was organized in Dec 1861 and consolidated with the 11th Regiment in April of 1862.  Attached to the District of Northern Missouri, Department of Missouri during the time Orson was a part of it

He first enlisted as private in 14 Mo Volunteer Calvary Reg 11 of the Volunteer Cav F (I) 2nd Reg. Mo Calvary on 16 Jan 1862 and was discharged on 25 Nov 1862. 

Orson reported for duty as a private in Company A of the 11th Regiment of the Missouri Cavalry Volunteers in January and was reported present in March and April. This company subsequently became Company I, Second Regiment Cavalry, Missouri State Militia.

At the time of roll call in May and June he was reported absent, in pursuit of enemy.  He was also reported absent in July and August with the note that he was sick since august first.  According to pension papers, Orson contracted Typhoid and was considered too sick to remain in the military.

On the 20th of March 1865 in Shelbyville, MO Orson reenlisted in the Company D of the 14th Regiment of the Missouri Volunteer Calvary.  He was mustered in in Benton Barrocks MO for a one year term which was credited to Black Creeks in Shelby Co MO.  Bounty due but unpaid was listed as $100.  On the enlistment papers Orson stated he was 45 years old born in Lamoil County Vermont and his occupation was a carpenter. On the muster in papers he listed his occupation as farmer.   He is listed as 6 feet tall with brown eyes, dark hair and a sandy complexion.  A $33.33 head bounty was paid for his enlistment by Captain Hamilton on May 5 from St. Louis.  Payroll vouchers show Orson was present Mar 31 to April 30, May and June 1865 (a special note on this voucher shows that the value of shells carelessly lost was 53 cents., July and August 1865,

Orson was mustered out on October 26 1865 a few weeks before the rest of the regiment which was mustered out on November 17th 1865.   The muster out voucher states that his clothing account was never settled but he had drawn a total of $56.17.  It is also listed that he had received a bounty of $33.33 and was due the same amount.  I would guess that because of the early mustering out he lost the additional $33.34.

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Did the government believe he fought on the side of the south during the missing years?  His background was Massachusetts to Vermont to Missouri.  His son in law William Naylor, who had been collecting a pension longer than Orson served a shorter amount of time and had roots to Slavery in the south.  Orson’s brother Oberion gave his sanity to the war.

Was it just government bureaucracy or is there still a tale untold?

 Perhaps a little history could enlighten us to the thoughts of the government.

When Missouri was granted statehood as a non-slave state it did not bring peace to the state but rather ushered in a reign of terror, according to historians.  Pro-south sentiment developed during the first year of the civil war.  In Missouri, Mother of the West, Walter Williams and Floyd C Shoemaker state that the resulting guerilla movement “was pitiless, its banner the black flag and its battle cry the fearful monosyllable DEATH....having no hope for themselves they left none to their victims.”

In October 1861 the state convention decided to create the Missouri State Militia led by Brigadier General John M. Schofield.  In Shelbyville, Colonel Henry S. Lipscomb organized the Eleventh Missouri State Militia.  It was the Cavalry unit of the Eleventh that Orson joined in 1862.

At the time of his induction into this unit, Orson was nearly forty, much older than the average Union soldier. But his illness was not due to age, the rigors of war hit young and old alike.  Disease slew more men than weapons and many of those who survived were never healthy again.

 or.....

Perhaps it was the background of his first wife, who had deep roots in the South. More on that later!!

Orson Oakes Pension File
Orson Oakes Service Record
Anna Oakes Widows Pension

 11th REGIMENT STATE MILITIA CAVALRY.
Organized in Missouri at large January 1 to April 20, 1862. Assigned to duty in District of North Missouri. Actions at Cherry Grove June 26 and July 1. Near Memphis July 18. Newark August 1 (Detachment). Kirksville August 6 (Detachment). Near Stockton August 8 (Detachment). Consolidated with 2nd Regiment Missouri State Militia Cavalry September 2, 1862, which see.

11th REGIMENT CAVALRY.
Organized at Benton Barracks and St. Joseph, Mo., March 28 to December 11, 1863. Attached to District of Stt. Louis, Mo., Dept. of Missouri, to December, 1863. District of Southwest Missouri, Dept. of Missouri, to January, 1864. District of Northeast Arkansas, 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Arkansas, to May, 1864. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 7th Army Corps, to September, 1864. 3rd Brigade, Cavalry Division, 7th Army Corps, to February, 1865. 2nd Brigade, Cavalry Division, 7th Corps, to March, 1865. Separate Cavalry Brigade, Cavalry Division, 7th Army Corps, to July, 1865.
SERVICE.--Duty in District of St. Louis, Mo., till December, 1863. At Springfield and Rolla, Mo., till February, 1864. Expedition from Springfield to Huntsville, Carrollton and Berryville, and skirmish, November 10-18, 1863 (Detachment). Operations in Northeast Arkansas January 1-30, 1864. Martin's Creek January 7. Rolling Prairie January 23 (Co. "B"). At Batesville, Ark., February to April. Expedition from Batesville to Searcy Landing January 30-February 3. Morgan's Mill, Spring River, White County, February 9 (Detachment). Independence, Mo., February 19. Waugh's Farm, near Batesville, February 19. Expedition from Rolla to Batesville, Ark., February 29-March 13. Scout from Batesville to West Point, Grand Glaze and Searcy Landing March 15-21 (Detachment). Expedition from Batesville to Coon Creek, Devil's Fork, Red River, March 24-31. Van Buren County March 25. Scout from Batesville to Fairview March 25-26 (Detachment). Near Cross Roads March 27. Spring River, near Smithville, April 13 (Detachment). Jacksonport April 20. Expedition from Jacksonport to Augusta April 23-24. Near Jacksonport April 24. Ordered to Duvall's Bluff May, 1864, and duty there till October. Scout in Craighead and Lawrence Counties June 25-26 (Co. "M"). Clarendon, St. Charles, June 25-26. Clarendon June 27-29. Scout to Searcy and West Point July 26-28 (Detachment). Des Arc July 26 (Detachment). West Point July 28 (Detachment). Hay Station No. 3 July 30 (Detachment). West Point August 5. Expedition from Little Rock to Little Red River August 6-16. Operations in Central Arkansas, with skirmishes August 9-15. Duvall's Bluff August 21 and 24. Long Prairie August 24. Jones' Hay Station August 24. Duvall's Bluff September 6. Searcy September 13. Expedition from Duvall's Bluff toward Clarendon October 16-17 (Detachment). Brownsville October 30. Duty at Brownsville till February, 1865. Expedition from Brownsville to Augusta January 4-27, 1865 (Detachment). Moved to Little Rock February 4, and duty there till June. Moved to New Orleans, La., June 27-July 3. At Greenville till July 27. Mustered out at Greenville July 27 and discharged at St. Louis August 10, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 2 Officers and 28 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 5 Officers and 181 Enlisted men by disease. Total 216.

 14th REGIMENT CAVALRY.
Organized at St. Louis and Springfield, Mo., November 30, 1864, to May 13, 1865. Attached to District of St. Louis, Mo., to June, 1865. District of the Plains, Dept. of Missouri, to November, 1865.
Duty at St. Louis, Mo., till June, 1865. Scout from Waynesville to Coal Camp Creek May 23-26. Moved to Nebraska, and frontier duty on the Plains till November. Mustered out November 17, 1865.
Lost during service 2 killed and 34 by disease. Total 36.
14th REGIMENT STATE MILITIA CAVALRY.
Organized in Missouri at large March to May, 1862. Attached to District of Southwest Missouri, Dept. Missouri, to March, 1863.

SERVICE.--Action at Neosho May 31, 1862. Near Fayetteville, Ark., July 15. Scout in Polk and Dallas Counties July 19-23 (Cos. "B," "C," "E" and "H"). Ozark August 1-2 (Cos. "D," "F," "G" and "H"). White River, near Forsyth, August 4. Scout from Ozark to Forsyth, and skirmish, August 8-9 (2 Cos.). Mt. Vernon from Ozark to Forsyth August 14-17 (2 Cos.). Mt. Vernon September 19 (1 Co.). Expedition from Ozark toward Yellville, Ark., October 12-16 (Detachment). Mountain Home October 17. Operations about Cassville and Keetsville November 17-18. Battle of Prairie Grove, Ark., December 7. Expedition from Ozark into Marion County, Ark., December 9-15 (Cos. "D," "F," "G" and "H"). Expedition over Boston Mountains to Van Buren December 27-29. Operations against Marmaduke in Missouri December 31, 1862, to January 15, 1863. Fort Lawrence, Beaver Station, January 6, 1863 (2nd Battalion). Defence of Springfield January 8. Disbanded March 3, 1863.

The Ancestry of Margery McCuiston

Dunscaith Castle By John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0,  

In his book McUisdean, James A McQuiston, FSA Scot suggests the following lineage for Robert, the father of Margery.  This is well researched, but still conjecture.  I definitely recommend that you read his book as well as that of Leona Bean McQuiston. James' discussions of the family connections are well thoiught out, he does offer a couple of other remote possibilities for the ancestry of Robert, severing at #28 Donald below.  The book refers to DNA connetions, noting that only one family in the US does not match, and suggesting that their shared background suggests McCuiston heritage from the female side.

This numbering system is suggested by James.

 (1) Conn of the 100 fights
(26) Alexander McDonald, 10th Earl of Ross d. 1449 (See the Peerage) and McUisdean for skipped generations.

 (27) Hugh of Sleat, Uisdean McDonald was born at Dingwall Castle 1436. He received a charter to the Isle of Skye from his half brother in 1449. He took over Dunscaith Castle about 1469 and received a royal charter for his lands in 1476 and in 1495. He died at Paisley Abbey in 1498.  Hugh had six sons by six different women according tradition.

(28) Donald Gallach McUisdean (a Mary/ Elizabeth Gunn) was born Caithness, Scotland early 1460s. In 1505 he took over leadership of the clan and Dunscaith Castle.  He is murdered by his half-brother Alexander in 1506.

(29) Alexander McHugh Gallach McUisdean goes to Ireland in 1565 to fight for his first cousin, Sorley Boy McDonnell taking his sons with him. He is killed at the age of 80 in 1586 while leading 100 gallowglass warriors at the massacre of Ardnarea.  Records identify him as the grandson of Hugh of Sleat.

(30) Donald Gorm Mor, last Chief of Clan Uisdean pays a fine in 1591. He builds Caisteal Uisdean on Skye in 1601.  When he died in 1616 the title of Chief of Sleat is retired.

(31) James McQuiston of Antrim served under Sorley's son Randal

(32) Alexander  who served under James Hamilton.  He had brothers John and Bryise

(33) Daniel McCuiston was born about 1660 in Dunigiven, Londonderry, Ireland.  He was among the brave defenders of Londonderry when it was seiged by enemy troops, serving under Gustavus Hamilton.  He married before 1680.

Page from Robert's notebook listing his
arrival on 6 Aug 1735

(34) John McCuiston   m. Isabel Crelon in 1699. John served as Quartermaster to Gustavus Hamilton.  In 1702 he was sent to Jamacia for a year, most likely arriving home in 1704.  John died abt 1715.  James suggests that John might have leased land upon his return home in 1704.  The normal term of leases at this time was 31 years and that would be the time when his sons Robert and Thomas left Ireland, probably the result of the rents in the area going much higher as the landholders tried to clear those engaged in the linen trade from their lands as they were hurting the industry in
England.

(35) Robert was born in Paisley in 1710.  He had brothers, James born 1700, Thomas born 1704, Alexander, Benjamin and  sisters Margory (Hamilton)  and Ann (Fleming).  Robert immigrated in 1735 with his brother Thomas, settling in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania on land adjacent to James. He married Ann Denny and they had  seven known children.  In 1765 he left Pennsylvania for Rowan County, North Carolina.  He died that same year as did his brother James.  Alexander died the same year in Ireland.

(36) Margery m. John Trindle



Sources

McQuiston Documents (Dropbox)

McQuiston, James A., FSA Scot, McUisdean, 2016 author  (ScotsIrishNet) (Mountain Echo Online)

McQuiston, Leona Bean, The McQuiston, McCuiston and McQuesten families 1620-1937. , Louisville, KY, Standard Press 1937.  Link leads to Internet Archive where you can borrow book

Walker, George, A True Account of the Siege of Londonderry, 1689

Witherow, Thomas. "A True Account of the Siege of Londonderry ", Derry and Enniskillen in the Year 1689,

Edward McGuires Ancestry - pt 2

Enniskillen Castle - Home of the Maguires

While the exact lineage of Edward is not proven, his Uncle John Sigismund's connection to the house of Lurg was documented.

There is little doubt that the family was involved in the Irish Rebellion of 1641 and that Edward's grandfather was relocated to the area around Ardfert because of that involvement.

The rebellion began as an attempt to seize control of the English administration by surprise in order to force concessions for the Catholics.  Conor Maguire and Hugh Oge MacMahon were to seize Dublin Castle and Phelim O'Neill and Rory O'Moore were to take control of Derry and other northern towns.  Unfortunately, Owen O'Connolly revealed the plot to authorities before the 23 Oct 1641 attempt and Maguire and MacMahon were arrested.

While the plan failed,  the uprising continued.  Known as the Irish Confederate Wars, the fighting pitted Irish Catholics against English and Scots settlers.  Additionally many Catholic families either did not participate, or fought on the side of the English.

At the time in Fermanagh, there were two prominent related Maguire families:

The Irish Maguires  were the family of  Cuchonnacht II the 14th Prince who died in 1589. His son, Hugh Aodh Mag Uidhir was Lord of Fermanagh during the reign of Elizabeth I.  He died in 1600 while fighting the English in the 9 year war (1595-1603).  His son Cuchonnacht III, the 16th Prince, fled to Genoa where he died in 1608.  Portions of this family settled in Tempo, some remained loyal to the British in the 1641 rebellion, others fought on the side of the rebels.

The English Maguires were the House of Lurg.  Conor Roe (Cornelius) Maguire was knighted by Elizabeth on 15 May 1585.  He was considered a traitor by his Catholic relatives.  Bryan (Sir Bernard Maguire became the first Lord of Enniskillen in 1627.  He married a sister of General Owen O'Neil and died in 1633. His son Lord Conor Maguire was born in 1616 and executed by the English for his part in the Uprising in 1645.   His son Conor inherited the title and died wihout issue.  Rory Magwire of Hassets towne (Barony of Lurge) was considered an arch rebell. He died in 1648. His son Rory became the 5th Lord of Enniskillen.

It is this second family that Edward is most likely connected to, most likely as a descendant of a younger son of either the first Conor, or of Bryan.  The 1641 depositions are full of references to Rory Maguire.  Stories by English settlers of being evicted from their homes and left naked on the road are common.  There are a few mentions of James, is one or more the supposed grandfather of Edward?  The first names brother Rory and Bryan.

"James ô Gallogher of Dresternen in the Countie of Fermanagh yeoman a protestant sworne & examined saith That in the begining of the Rebellion vizt the xxiiijth of October 1641 Hee this Deponent at Dresterman aforesaid was forceibly deprivd robbd or otherwise dispojld of his beastes Cattle & Mares Corne howsehold goodes apparrell and debts of the value & to his losse of fowr score < a > Powndes ster By and by the meanes of Brian Maguire of the Monntaines nore Callohill in the same County gent his 2 brothers James Maguire & Rory Maguire his brother & their servantes souldjers and partakers whose names he knows not: And quickly thereupon this deponent with his wiffe & their children fled away for saffety of their lives to the howse of one Mr Dennis Sherriden a minister whoe dwelleth at drumcore in the County of Cavan: Where he this deponent & they (amongst a great number of other English) were harboured & pr savd from the rage & fury of the malicious & Cruell irish Rebells vntill about a month nere & then they came thence with the English army
Signum predicti Jacobi Gallogher
Jur 4o Augusti 1643
Joh Watson
Edw Pigott"

A second document names James of Knocknynny, gent  with a brother Cahill and a third names  James oge Maguire of Ballykilcome gent along with a long list of Maguires including Rory the son of Bryan.

Read More

• Princes of Fermanagh
• The 1641 Depositions and the Irish Rebellion edited by Annaleigh Margey, Eamon Darcy, Elaine Murphy 2015
• 1641 Depositions - Images and Translations - Trinity College
• History of Ireland - 1641  The Irish Uprising
• Irish Rebellion of 1641
• The Plantation of Ulster - The Story of County Fermanagh
• The 1641 Rising and English Civil War
• The Greater Story of the Maguires
• The History of Enniskillen