Our Family History
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| 1 | Abigail, the 9th child, married her cousin, John Hutchins. He was the son of Mary Farr Farnsworth's sister. Abigail and John lived in Groton until at least 1705, but then probably moved elsewhere. Not too much more is known about them and their descendants, but there are many Hutchins in the New England area, many of whom are believed to be descendants of this family. | FARNSWORTH, Abigail (I466)
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| 2 | According to Asher Judson Farnsworth, his father O. Judson Farnsworth was born in Vermont on Lake Champlain. He went to Illinois and was in Chicago before the great fire. From there he went to Iowa, where he married Sophronia. From there they went to Lincoln County, Kansas in 1870 and then to Oklahoma at the time of the land rush. They farmed and hauled freight to Osage County by wagon as there were no railroads there at that time. later they returned to Kansas. Sophronia died there in 1888. Judson lived until 1906, and at the time of his death lived with his daughter Miranda Montgomery in Salina, Kansas. | FARNSWORTH, O. Judson (I265)
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| 3 | Art Stout served during WW I, or is at least pictured in a uniform. In 1978, he and Lottie were living in Omaha, Nebraska. | STOUT, Arthur J. (I256)
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| 4 | As for Caroline Shaffer Stout's side of the family, Art Stout says he always understood that Caroline's ancestry was 1/2 German and 1/2 French. Helen Stout Bloyd said it was the Frnech ancestry in her that caused her to tan so easily. Shaffer is German for a shepard. | SHAFFER, Caroline (I251)
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| 5 | Bertha died of tuberculosis. | WILKINSON, Bertha (I75)
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| 6 | Beulah Stout Oliver's daughter, Jean Oliver Allen, said that Beulah went to help Jud and Helen Stout Bloyd when their first child, Reva, was born. Beulah slept by the fire for there were only enough blankets for Helen's bed. Reva was born January 14, 1908. Source: Dee Ann Harman Bishopp | STOUT, Beulah Frankie (I255)
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| 7 | Buelah's father, Nathan Stout, didn't think girls needed to go on to school, so after she graduated from 8th grade, she taught school for a year, then went to nurses training for a year. She alternated between teaching and nurses training for three years until she became a nurse. She met her husband, Jerry Oliver, when she was his nurse when he was hospitalized with appendicitis when he was in the army. Source: Dee Ann Harman Bishipp | STOUT, Beulah Frankie (I255)
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| 8 | Caroline (called Callie) Shaffer was born in Pekin, Peoria County, Illinois March 3, 1859. Her father was in the Civil War. Caroline remembered her father coming home from the war and working in the coal mines near their home. She used to carry his lunch to the mine at noon. We do not know about her father after that. There were 6 brothers and sisters in the family: Caroline, William P., Lula, Mary Julia and a younger brother. After their father was gone, their mother was unable to care for all of them and work for a living so she gave the two younger ones away to separate families. Caroline lost track of them. She later learned where Julia was. Julia lived in Iowa after she was married, but they never learned where the little brother lived. Aunt Gertrude Stout Phillips wrote, "Mother (Caroline) went to see her sister Julia after we children were old enough to be left with Daddy. We children never saw any of our grandparents." Callie, her mother, and possibly her sister, Lula, moved to Avilla, Mo. when Callie was about 14 years old. She started working for families then, and her mother died soon after. The mother is buried in a cemetery about 3 miles north west of Avilla. Callie worked at the farm home of Dr. Sheffield and probably met Nathan there. Nate Stout worked there for a time after he moved from Ill. Later Callie moved into Avilla and worked for the family who owned the general store. In 1932, Art and Lottie Lightfoot Stout took his parents to Avilla, Mo. where Callie had lived. They visited Dr. Sheffield, who was then 95, but he remembered Callie and Nate from 50 years earlier. Caroline wanted to visit the cemetery where her mother is buried, but the fence line road was too muddy. Caroline married Nathan Stout on April 11, 1884 in Carthage, Mo. There is a bit of a mystery here. I have a copy of their marriage license and it has the names as Nathan A. Stout and Caroline Corrier (not Shaffer). Neither Gertrude or Art had any explanation for this--neither remembered hearing the name "Corrier." It could have been an error on the part of the county recorder. Something that could hqave had a bearing on this name puzzle, is that in at least 4 of their letters to each other in late 1883, Caroline and Nate wrote about who to ask to be witnesses to go with her to Carthage about something that was to come up for a hearing in the spring of 1883. I have been unable to find out what this hearing was about. Another letter from Jerry Celand, Caroline's brother-in-law, mentiones that Callie should see a lawyer to see about her land, that the old man just got it away from her by a crooked deal. Whether or not any of this has to do with the name on the marriage certificate, or about her father, we don't know. Married names of the Shaffer children were: Caroline Stout; William P. Shaffer or Paola, Kansas; Lula Celand of Jerico, Mo.; Julia Basel of Latty, Iowa; and Mary Shaffer of Boise, Idaho. Mary married a Mitchell Shaffer--no relation. Lula married Jerry Cleland or Cealand August 3 1883 in Cedar, Mo. Callie was a cheerful person, able to meet most situations with a smile, according to her son, Art. She died April 24, 2949 at Gertrude Stout Phillip's home at 129 S. Connecticut in Salina, Kansas. Pneumonia was the cause of death. She was buried on April 27, 1949 in Monroe Cemetery in Beverly, Kansas. Source: Dee Ann Harman Bishopp | SHAFFER, Caroline (I251)
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| 9 | Caroline pieced and gave to mother (Arthola Bloyd Harman) a red quilt. She pieced it around 1928. They were in Palacio, Tex. for the winter, and she was working on the quilt top but ran out of red material, so sen sent Nate to town to buy some more. In Palacio there wasn't much to choose from, so he took what he could get. That's why the quilt that I have was two shades of red. Caroline also made another quilt top about the same time and wanted to give one to Nellie Bloyd (Deeter) and one to Arthola. The two girls drew straws to see who got which one, and mother got the red one. Mother never got the quilt top stitched so Grandma Bloyd (Helen Stout Bloyd) quilted it for me in the 1950's. Jean Oliver Allen has a Stout heirloom quilt, quilted by Caroline Stout. She said it is made from cotton they grew 20 miles north of the Mason-Dixom Line. Perhaps they grew the cotton near Carthage, Mo. Ione Bloyd Saulmon told me in 2003 that Caroline grew her own cotton when they stayed at Palacio, Texas. She carded it and made the batting out of it to put inside the quilt. So apparently it was the cotton batting she did herself, not the fabric for the quilt itself. Source: Dee Ann Harman Bishopp | SHAFFER, Caroline (I251)
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| 10 | Caroline Shaffer Stout waqs born in Pekin, Illinois, March 3, 1859 and passed away at the home of her daughter Gertrude Stout Phillips (Mrs. Claude), Salinqa, Kansas, April 24, 1949. She was a ppioneer of Lincoln County, having come to that county sisty-five years ago, as a bride. She was married to Nathan A. Stout, at Carthage, Mo., April 1884. They settled on the Glendale Ranch, south-west of Tescott, Kansas, where they lived for two years. Later they moved to the Babb place joing the Sunrise School lot, where they lived while the house was being built on the home place. Moving there, they resided and raised their family. This was and still is known as "The Farm of Artisan Wells." There were six children. All grew to womanhood and manhood. Nellie A. Stout Vawter, who died Feb. 27, 1920 at Serbert, Colorado; Helen Stout Bloyd, Lamar, Colo9rado; Gertrude Stout Phillips, Salina Kansas; Beulah Stout Oliver, Corpus Christie, Texas; Joseph Leroy Stout, St. Louis, Missouri; Arthur J. Stout, Chicago, Illinois. Also surviving her are twenty-one grandchildren, twenty-eight great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild. She passed from this life, April 24, 1949. Funeral services were held Wednesday, April 27, 1949 at 2 o'clock at the Guy R. Ryan & Sons Mortury, Salina, Kansas. Reverand F.W. Prather officiating. Internment was in the Monroe Cemetery, south of Beverly at 4:00 p.m., April 27, 1949. | SHAFFER, Caroline (I251)
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| 11 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | GRIFFITH, Cheryl Sue (I181)
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| 12 | Clay married Jesse (Jay) Gillard 10 years after the dealth of his first wife Lois Griffit. Jan, Alice and Jim are her children from a previous marr1age. | GILLARD, Jesse (I208)
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| 13 | Cornelius was born about 1798 in New Jersey or New York. He was christened in Jew Jersey. His middle name was Augustus and his grandson, Nathan, also had Augustus (or Augusta) for a middle name. Cornelius had a land transaction of 160 acres at Bronson, Branch County, Michigan on November, 1, 1826. It was a cash sale. He married Mary Gray Comstock, reportedly in New York, in 1827. Their children were born in Michigan, so I wonder if the marriage really took place in New York, as he lived in Michigan before and after that. The 1850 census shows Cornelius to be a farmer in Adrian, Lenawee County, Michigan with #3,500 the value of the real estate he owned. | STOUT, Cornelius Agustus (I409)
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| 14 | Died at age 1 year. | IMLAY, Andrew (I373)
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| 15 | Died at age 2 months. | IMLAY, Annie Marie (I364)
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| 16 | Died at age 2 years. | IMLAY, Fletcher (I374)
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| 17 | Died at age 3 months. | IMLAY, Christina (I367)
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| 18 | Died at age 3 months. | IMLAY, Miller (I368)
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| 19 | Died at age 4 months. Twin to David Grant. | IMLAY, Louisa (I370)
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| 20 | Elizabeth Farnsworth, the oldest child of Matthias Farnsworth (senior) and was probably born in England, but possibly in Lynn, Massachusetts. She married James Robertson or Robinson (the name is spelled both ways). He was an original proprietor of Groton, Massachusetts, and had a "seven acre" right, living north of the present Groton. Elizabeth and James had one daughter, named Elizabeth, also, born in Groton, October 3 1660. The daughter married William Lakin. Source: Dee Ann Harman Bishopp Printed by the Utah Printing Company, October 1972 | FARNSWORTH, Elizabeth (I469)
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| 21 | Elizabeth Whitney was the daughter of Joshua Whitney and the grand-daughter of John Whitney, the emigrant. Joshua was born 1636 in Watertown, Massachusetts. | WHITNEY, Elizabeth (I485)
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| 22 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | HARMAN, Gary Elvan (I227)
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| 23 | Ernest Independence Vawter was born in Beverly, Kansas on the 4th of July. His middle name was given because he was born on Independence Day. He was a tall slender dark headed man with a good sense of humor. He was always doing something. His parents were James robert Vawter and Sara Ann Brace and they homesteaded from Indiana to Kansas. James was a farmer in an area south of Beverly, Kansas. James and Sarah lived in a two story limestone house that had a living room on one side of the stairs and a kitchen on the other side with two bedrooms upstairs. James was sick most of his later life with Bright's Disease and died in 1916. Sarah Ann would take a fresh egg and break it over the head of her grandchildren and rub the egg into their hair. Every grandchild got the treatment which wasn't fun but they went through it because grandma said so. Sarah Ann had a stroke in her later years and died in 1930. Ernest had a younger brother named Ora (Orie) and an older brother named Fredrick. Ora married Alta Phillips and had four children named Theora, Georgia, Darlene, and James (Jimmie). Fredrick spent the rest of his life in Kansas on the family homestead and limestone house which is still standing today. Ernest also had an older sister named Daisy Elsie who had red hair and was never married. Ernest married Nellie Anna Stout who was also born in Beverly, Kansas. Her parents were Nathan Agustus Stout and Caroline Shaffer. Nellie and Ernest were married in a dual wedding with Nellie's sister, Helen Stout and Jud Bloyd. Nellie and Ernest were both teachers. In 1909, Ernest taught 1st through 7th grades at Sunrise School District #30 in Madison Township, Lincoln County, Kansas. The school had a total of 20 pupils that year including Art Stout in 5th grade and Beulah and Roy Stout in 7th grade. (Art, Beulah, and Roy were Nellie Anna's sisters and brothers.) The same year, Alma Theora was born. After Alma, Nellie gave birth to four sons including one set of twins. They all died shortly after birth from RH negative blood problems. Between 1915 and 1917, Nellie and Ernest packed up and moved to Flagler, Colorado along with Ernest's brother Ora and sister Daisy. They left Beverly, Kansas in a wagon loaded with belongings, one milk cow, a dog, and some chickens. Dan and Charlie, the two horses, pulled the wagon which had iron bows and a canvas cover. The United States government was offering homesteads of one square mile and they decided to settle in an area about 18 miles south of Flagler. Ernest, brother Ora, and sister Daisy were all issued homestead legal land patents for 320 acres each in September 1919. Ernest and Ora both used their land for farming. Ernest farmed corn and had a Wallace tractor to cultivate his fields. He build a chicken coop which they used to raise chickens for eggs and chickens, now and then. It held about a dozen chickens and had a slanted roof. Early on, they made two attempts to drill a well and both times the casing caved in due to quick sand. The drill was powered with a horse hitched and traveling in a circle. Without the well, they had to travel to Ora's every night to fetch water. After one year, they moved north about five miles closer to Flagler. They moved to a small house with two bedrooms, a kitchen, living room and a barn. The chicken coop was moved, too. They thought they were in heaven even though they had no electricity and used kerosene lamps for light. Dan and Charlie were hitched to the buggy every Sunday so they could go to church. The two room church was a Congregational church south of Flagler and used as a school during the week. The church was later moved to Flagler and is still standing today. Ernest drove school busses at South Central for a number of terms. Nellie had a great big garden where she grew all kinds of vegetables. She was real good at growing things and also canned a lot of foods including ducks and chickens. She would cook the canning jars for several hours and then seal them with bees wax as they cooled. Corn was removed from the cob and spread out on a sheet, covered with cheesecloth. Once the corn was dry, Nellie would put it into bags and hand them inside from the peak of the roof. Corn was also hung out to dry evceryday so that later it could be boiled. In the fall, they would buy a bushel of apples and everyone would get 1/2 an apple every day. When a cow was slaughtered, all the meat would be cooked, canned and covered with bees wax. Nellie would cook three loaves of bread at a time. One loaf would always have other stuff added to it and was used to make biscuits. She would cook them in a big iron stove which was fired with cow chips. Sometimes they would use coal but never wood because there weren't any trees in the area. In the winter, they would wash clothes and hand them outside to dry. They would freeze still qand flap around until dry and then brought into the house to defrost and be folded or ironed. During the winter, Ernest hunted coyotes for the pelts. | VAWTER, Ernest Independence (I397)
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| 24 | Fanny and her sister Lavinia married brothers, Orrin and Abel Parker. | FARNSWORTH, Fanny (I539)
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| 25 | Farnsworths who are descendants of Johathan Farnsworth and Ruth Shattuck have ancestors traceable through kings and queens of England, and into well-known biblical names. See Royal Ancestors of some L>D.S. Families, compiled by Michel L. Call. Source: Dee Ann Harman Bishopp | FARNSWORTH, Jonathan (I467)
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| 26 | Gustavus Farnsworth married his 4th cousin Patty Farnsworth. Gustavus Farnsworth and his brother Horace, married sisters, Patty and Sally Farnsworth. The sisters were the daughters of Levi Farnsworth, and cousins of Horace and Gustavus. Gustavus and Patty lived in Westford, Vermont, but apparently later lived in Illinois. Gustavus' brother, Horace, served in the War of 1812 and, years later, filed for and received bounty land based upon his war service. On Septermber 20, 1856, Gustavus Farnsworth, resident of Antioch, Lake County, Illinois, signed a document stating that he had been present when Horace signed his name to the bounty land application. | FARNSWORTH, Gustavus (I427)
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| 27 | Helen Stout was born in Kansas in 1887 and she said she was "born in a barn" which is true, because the family built the barn first and lived in it while they were building their stone house4. I don't remember her talking about her childhood too much, except for a few little things. She played with the children of some Russian immigrants (the Roosians, as she called them)who lived up the road. She also mentioned remembering her mother with pins held in her mouth to be handy when she was sewing. She mentioned the "Red Birds" they had in Kansas and once said she never really got used to the way the rivers spread out in Colorado, as opposed to the way they were in Kansas. When they came to visit us at Christmas, 1964, she saw the China Berry trees growing here in Arizona and said they had them in Kansas when she was a girl, and they used to string the berries and then let them dry for necklaces. My aunts said that in the last year or two of her life, Helen did mention the stone house where she grew up quite often. Once in the 1950's Helen's sister, Gertrude Phillips, came to visit and Gertrude was remembering when Jud Bloyd came to court Helen. In 1903 Helen was a pupil in Sunrise School District #30 in Lincoln County, Kansas. In 1907, she was teaching at Masmer School, District #70, Garfield Township, Ellsworth County, Kansas. She had 8 students. Judson Bloyd also taught school for awhile. Helen married Cyrus Judson(Jud)Bloyd on Easter Sunday in 1907. It was a double wedding with her sister Nellie marrying Ernest Vawter at their parent's home. Helen said the lilacs were in bloom and they cut them for bouquets. Helen and Jud came to Colorado by covered wagon and homesteaded southeast of Lamar. With 8 children and not much money, they worked hard, but they had a happy and close-knit family. For a time, Jud and Helen moved often, to where ever there was work. In 1916, when Arthola was born, they were in Olathe, Colorado, where Jud and his team of horses worked with a dredge boat on a canal project. Later he did the same thing at Rodky Ford, Colorado. In about 1918, the family moved back to Lamar, Colorado on a horse-drawn hayrack, camping out along the way. Helen had her dishes packed in a wash boiler and they were lost along the way. When they got to the Lamar area, they stayed in a corn crib at Jud's brother Roy's place near Wiley. They lived on the Jones place. In the 1930's and 1940's and until about 1951 they lived on a farm just east of Lamar. When I was a child, all the family gathered there on many Sundays. I always spent a week each summer there, often riding the bus or the "doodle-bug," a small local train, the 36 miles between Las Animas and Lamar. Their house was always a second home for me. My cousin, Nellyne Davidson, and I periodically would tell Grandma we didn't think she could turn summersaults and more, so she would go out on the lawn and show us she could. She liked to run, but the doctor told her she had heart trouble and shouldn't do it anymore. In about 1951, Jud and Helen "retired" and built a house in Lamar. They had more than one city lot in town and most of it was taken up with a garden. They usually planted more garden in the elderly next-door-neighbor's yard, too, and shared the produce with her. Helen did a lot of the gardeing because Jud began doing a lot of carpentry jobs for people who called and wanted cabinets built, etc. Helen always canned and froze a lot of the produce, and was a good housekeeper, seamstress, can cook. After they moved to town, she did a lot of quilting. She couldn't "just sit." She never learned to drive, and I remember a lady asking her once if she didn't get bored with Jud working a lit and not being able to drive places. She laughed and said, "No, I enjoy my own company." After my mother (Arthola Bloyd Harman) died. Helen and her daughter, Nellie Deeter, drove to Las Animas regularly to spend the day cleaning house and cooking for us. I remember what a good feeling it was to come home from school and see Aunt Nellie's car and know they were there. Helen also took over our sewing and made my clothes, so peridically I would go to her house for the weekend to buy material and be fitted for the clothes she was making. In 1965, some creeks flooded, sending water into Lamar streets. Helen and Jud had gone to bed early and weren't aware of the flood, but in the night there was an explosion in their house. A flash of fire burned them and many things in the house. They thought the house was burning down, and went out through the water to a neighbor's. The phones were out, but people relayed the message from house to house to the fire department, who came and took them to the hospital. Helen had a minor heart attack in the hospital. Though Helen was 73 at the time, and Jud was 81, neither seemed like old people at all and characteristically, took it in stride. They seemed to recover and went about their work again uncomplaingly. Still, Helen, especially was never in as good health after that. The explosion was caused when the flood water sealed a leak in the gas line under their house. Provided by: Dee Ann Harman Bishopp | STOUT, Helen (I243)
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| 28 | Horace Farnsworth and his brother Gustavus, married sisters, Patty and Sally Farnsworth. The sisters were the daughters of Levi Farnsworth, the brother's uncle, and cousins of Horace and Gustavus. | FARNSWORTH, Horace (I522)
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| 29 | Horace was in the War of 1812 in Captain Beenean's Company, Col. Dixon's Regiment. Horace was 18 years old when he volunteered at Fairfax, Franklin County, Vermont in August of 1814. His description at the time of his enlistment: "Farmer, 5'9" tall, brown hair, gray eyes and a light complexion." The company was composed of men rom Fairfax and neighboring towns. They marched from Fairfax to engage the British at the Battle of Plattsburg, New York. Horace was in the pine woods back of Plattsburg, and helped drive the enemy back after they forded the river. He was then verbally discharged, but then was one of 30 men who volunteered to go in pursuit of the retreating British. He served for about 15 days and received no pay. In 1869, he received a land grant in Illinois for his war service. On March 28, 1878, Horace also signed an application for a pension, based on the new Act of March 11, 1878, for War of 1812 veterans. He was then 81 years old and lived at No. 500 W. 15th Street in Chicago. He did not receive the pension because he had not served for at least 60 days as was required by the Act. I have a copy of the bounty land and pension file, War of 1812 on Horace Farnsworth. It is a copy of documents on file at the National Archives. Source: Dee Ann Harman Bishopp | FARNSWORTH, Horace (I522)
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| 30 | HOUSE The Stout home was located 9 miles south east of Beverly, Kansas. Grandma Bloyd (Helen Stout Bloyd) was born in the barn there. It was built first to be used as a temporary house, until the permanent house could be built. The barn, like the house later, was built in 2 parts, each about 20'x14', with a drive between the parts and a single roof over both. The barn where Helen was born is gone now, but she could answer "Yes," if asked if she was born in a barn. The limestone for the house and barn came from a big deposit just north of Beverly. Pastures in that area also had the stone used as fence posts and many buildings in Beverly are limestone. Now, people almost have to guard their stone posts, as people want one and usually break them off getting them out of the ground. There was an artesian well which still flows. The well was dug where a man who witched for water said to dig it. It came in the day Art Stout was born, August 23, 1898, and has been flowing constantly ever since--94 years when we visited in 1992 and is probably still flowing. Source: Dee Ann Harman Bishopp --------------------- In 1908 or 1909, Helen Stout and Jud Bloyd came back to Kansas for awhile in a wagon Jud had built. It was after dark when they arrived and they parked under mulberry trees at the end of the lane. Art Stout was about 10 and he got to sleep in the covered wagon that night. Helen and Jud stayed all summer and Jud with Art's help, put a new roof on the barn. Art joked that he was glad Jud had come to help him put on the new roof. Source: Dee Ann Harman Bishopp ---------------- Buelah Stout Oliver told her daughters, Kaye and Jean, that when Nathan and Caroline built their house, it was the grandest house around, but it had no floor upstairs. They had to wait a year until they had enough money to build the floor so they could use the 2nd story. At first, they had to haul water 1/4 mile from the creek, so the kids were busy bringing water. They used as little amount of soap for dishes as possible because the chickens got the water when they finished doing the dishes. When the water-witch came Caroline asked him to try the spot where the dog always liked to lie. And that was the spot where the water-witch said to dig. -------------------- Beulah said she thought that Nathan and Caroline lived in a dugout for a time, perhaps while the barn was being built. She said the dugout had a hard-packed dirt floor and a leather door. But Art Stout said he never saw any sign of a dugout. -------------------- In 1992 we found the sandstone house that Nathan and Caroline Stout built near Beverly, Kansas around 1887. The artesian well they had is still flowing and we saw the cellar where Nathan hid his money. It isn't connected to the house as I had always pictured but is a short distance away in the back yard. **Later I realized that the celler in the story was at their place in town, not on the farm. I learned this in 2003. Don Bloyd says there were also fruit baskets stacked in front of where the money was hidden.** The house is owned by Marjorie Echart now, who took very good care of it from all reports. Unfortunately, she had to move into Salina for health reasons. When we visited Joe Morgan, a bachelor, was renting the place from Marjorie Eckjhart, and the house doesn't seem as well cared for. He didn't invite us to see the inside. Source: Dee Ann Harman Bishopp | STOUT, Nathan Agustus (I250)
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| 31 | In Hammer Cemetery near Lincoln, Kansas, is the grave of LeRoy's first wife, Leona Bolte. Leona L. Stout nee Bolte June 18, 1887-August 1, 1914. She died in child birth. She is buried next to Earl I. Bolte Dec. 3, 1904-July 15, 1991. I have a lovely little painted plate that my mother's (Arthola Bloyd Harman) Aunt Leona gave to her. LeRoy remarried years later. He lived and died in St. Louis. | STOUT, Joseph LeRoy (I254)
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| 32 | Information about O. Judson and Sophronia C. Farnsworth is from C. Judson Bloyd's records that he gave to Judson Evan Bloyd and from newspaper clippings C. Judson Bloyd had saved. Copies of clippings in this book. Information also from Phrona Bloyd Wyrick in 1974. Marrage data of Judson and Sophronia from Buchanan County, Iowa, District Court. Also data from Farnsworth family Bible which is in the possession of W. Harlow Farnsworth of Ponca City Oklahoma. W. Harlow Farnsworth is the sone of Asher. | FARNSWORTH, O. Judson (I265)
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| 33 | It is not certain where Matthias, Jr. lived, but the tradition has it that he built a house and lived in it about a quarter of a mile south of his father's house on the same side of the way toward "the mill". A Matthias Farnsworth was living there in 1830, over 100 years later, and it used to be said that the house had been occupied by one of that name from Matthias Farnsworth, Jr., down. Probably, he continued living there until his death, which took place about 1693, as his inventory is dated November 8, 1693 and he must have been dead before that date. Matthias, Jr., was alive March 17, 1692, when he was assigned to the Farnsworth Garrison, organized for defence against the Indians. People had been building garrisons for protection after the settlers returned from Concord, and after the terrible Indian invasion of Groton in 1695, all of the people lived in garrisons. His death undoubtedly occured during the disturbances caused by the Indian wars--probably in consequence of them. His children were still not very old and were left fatherless in the wilderness. Sarah, his widow, caused his estate inventory to be made November 8, 1693, but she did nothing with it until December 6, 1698, when she applied for the appointment as administratrix of his estate. She was so appointed and married John Stone ten days later, at Concord. Matthias, Jr. was only about 45 years old when he died, but he had held several town offices. He served under Major Willard in King Phillip's War in 1675 in an expedition to Brookfield. Information from Farnsworth Memorial and Vermont Historical Society. Source: Dee Ann Harman Bishopp | FARNSWORTH, Matthias Jr. (I445)
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| 34 | Jared Comstock Stout's middle name, Comstock, was the same as his mother's maiden name. He married Mary (or Martha) Montgomery on December 26, 1862 in Lewawee County, Michigan. In 1869, they moved to Kansas City, Kansas. Jared was master painter for the Kansas Pacific Railroad, now Union Pacific, in charge of the local shops. He was one of the substantial citizens of Kansas City, Kansas, a member of the board of education and its treasurer. Later he was city treasurer. He dien in Horton, Kansas in 1910. Jared had bought 1/4 interest in the Glendale Ranch near Beverly, Kansas and it was because of him that his nephew, Nathan A. Stout, went to Kansas in 1881. Nathan was ranch manager there for 3-4 years. The ranch was in two parts. The main part was 3 miles east and 1 1/2 miles south of what became the Nathan Stout home place. Nathan bought the first quarter section while he still worked on the ranch. When Nathan and Caroline had a child, Jared sent them a willow baby carriage that all their children used, except for the youngest Arthur Stout. Jared Comstock Stout's brother, Joseph, had a sone that he named Jared. Jared Comstock and Mary Stout son, Ralph, was managing editor of the "Kansas City Star". He married Mary McCabe. Ralph and Mary McCabe Stout had two children: Martha, who married Franklin gledhill and David. Ralph died October 10, 1926. David Stout became a rancher near Tucson, Arizona. Jared and Mary Stout also had a daughter, Helen Stout, living in chicago in 1826. | STOUT, Jared Comstock (I415)
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| 35 | John Nutting was an original proprietor of Groton, holding a "17 acre" right and lived directly north of the place where James Brook crosses the Groton Main Street. His house was one of the most ancient of the garrisons of the town and not very far from the garrison house of Captain James Parker. Parker was on the south side of the brook, Nutting on the north. | NUTTING, John (I450)
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| 36 | John, the third child of Matthias, was in public office for most of his adult life. He represented the town of Groton in the Colonial Legislature for several years. John had nine children--5 sons and 4 daughters. Three of the sons lived to be married, but he had only one grandson, which died in childhood. There are no more descendants of John with the surname Farnsworth. Source: Dee Ann Harman Bishopp from the Utah Printing Company, 1972 | FARNSWORTH, John (I470)
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| 37 | Johnson A. Stout's father Cornelius Augustus Stout's father was Johnson Stout, so Johnson A. was probably named for his grandfather. The 1850 Michigan census says Johnson A, age 20 and still living in his parent's home, was a carpenter. The 1880 Minnesota census shows Johnson being 50 years old, born in Michigan, that his mother's and father's birthplaces were New York, and that he was a mill wright by occupation. His wife was sarah J. Stout, age 36, born in Vermont. They had a daughter, Jennie E. Stout, age 7, born in Minnesota. This census record was taken in Sumner, Fillmore County, Minnesota. Fillmore County was where Nathan Agustus, Joseph B. Stout's son was born. Perhaps Joseph B. and Johnson A. moved to Minnesota at about the same time. | STOUT, Johnson A. (I412)
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| 38 | Jonathan, the 10th child, married Ruth Shattuck. See earlier note abou their descendants having "royan blood". Several descendants of Johathan in the 1800's joined the early Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints and suffered persecution because of it. Several emigrated to Utah in wagons in long and difficult journeys. Some practiced polygamy. Moses Franklin Farnsworth was a descendant of Jonathan. He was the compiler and publisher of the first "Farnsworth Memorial". His accomplishments include helping found the settlement of Kanab, Utah in 1870. He had five wives. | FARNSWORTH, Jonathan (I467)
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| 39 | Joseph B. Stout was born 1836 or 1840 in Michigan. Minnesota land records show a land transaction on April 2, 1857 by Joseph B Stout in Brownsville, Minnesota. Brownsville is in Hamilton County but in the vicinity of Fillmore County. Brownsville is 8 miles south of LaCrosse, Wisconsin on the Mississippi River. Brownsville and Hamilton are about 50 miles apart. Joseph and his first wife, Amanda, had a son, Nathan, born in Hamilton, Fillmore County, Minnesota on March 1, 1859. Hamilton still existed in 1973, but its mail came through Spring Valley, Minnesota. Joseph Stout was in the Civil War. He joined July 3, 1861 in Vandalia, Illinois for a 3 year period. Military records say he was 19 years old. He was sworn in at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri on August 6 and mustered in at St. Louis Arsenal, Missouri August 28, 1861.He was in Co. B 35 Reg't of the Illinois infantry, but in July 1863 was detailed to 8 Independent Battery of the Wisc. Light Artillery by order of Brig. Gen. Davis, and served with them for most of the rest of the time, thought was still officially part of Illinois Infantry Co. B. Also, during that time period he was in a hospital in Nashville, Tennessee from December 27, 1863 to January 12, 1864. On May 1, 1864, he was promoted from private to corporal and on June 8 returned to Co. B. of Illinois Infantry and was mustered out September 27, 1864. The record at that time showed he had last been paid June 30, 1864 and $21.61 was due him. (Joseph's military file is in the National Arcvhives, Washington, D.C.) In later years, Nathan urged his father, Joseph to apply for a pension as a Civil War veteran. Joseph was reluctant to do so and apparently never did. Not too long after Nathan was born, Joseph and Amanda moved to Union County, Illinois and lived in a small log house, 2 m,iles north west of Cobden. After Amanda's death, Joseph and Nathan moved across the road. See notes under Nathan's entry. Joseph married Mary Braswell in 1869 in Jackson County, Illinois. Nathan was 10 years old. Mary had some children at the time. Three Braswell children are listed on the 1880 census. Gertrude Stout Phillips said they were still in Jackson County in 1873. After Nathan went west in 1881, Joseph stayed on in southern Illinois. The 1880 census has Joseph's family still in Illinois, in Irvington Precinct, Washington County, in June of that year. That census lists Joseph's occupation as a farmer and carpenter. Joseph and his family eventually went from Illinois to Marmaduke and Halliday, Arkansas. Arthur Stout said Joseph and family were in Centralia, Illinois until 1884. They were in Arkansas in about 1903 when Nathan went there to visit them and urge Joseph to apply for a veteran's pension. Nathan Stout's obituary in 1939 lists half-brothers and sisters: C.R.Stout of Marmaduke, Arkansas; Jared Stout of Raymond, Washington; Retta Kirby of Ferndale, Michigan; and Nora Stonecipher of Normandy, Oklahama. Provided by Dee Ann Harman Bishopp | STOUT, Joseph B. (I267)
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| 40 | Joseph, the 11th child and 2nd to be named Josephy, died at age 10. | FARNSWORTH, Joseph (I468)
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| 41 | Joseph, the first child of that name and Matthias' fifth child, died at age 17. | FARNSWORTH, Joseph (I462)
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| 42 | Jud Bloyd and his team of horses worked around the state where there were jobs. Daughter Arthola, was born in Olathe, Colorado when Jud was hauling coal for the dredge boat working on building a canal. The family lived in a tent house there and the four older kids slept in one room. One night they argued about who was bothering the others' feet. It turned out there was a little mouse nibbling around their toes. Jud came home from the mountains one day with a columbine flower in his lunch bucket. The family then lived in Rocky Ford, Colorado, where Jud again worked on a canal dredge boat. Ione was 4 years old when they moved from Rocky Ford back to Lamar on a horse drawn hay rack and camped along the way. It is a distance of about 67 miles. Helen had her dishes packed in a wash boiler that got lost on the trip. they went to live on the Jones place north of Lamar. The house wasn't finished so they stayed in a corn crib at Jud's brother Roy Bloyd's place near Wiley until fall when they could get into the house. A tar paper shack in Jud and Helen's field as the school for a while when Reva was in the 8th grade. They got the two-room Channing School build about Christmas time. Source: Dee Ann Harman Bishipp Information learned at the Bloyd reunion in 2003. | BLOYD, Cyrus Judson (I242)
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| 43 | Lavinia and her sister Fanny married brothers, Orrin and Abel Parker. | FARNSWORTH, Lavinia (I537)
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| 44 | Lincoln Sentinel-Republican October 5, 1939 Nathan A. Stout, one of the early settlers of the Beverly community, died unexpectedly at his home in Beverly Monday morning. Apparently in his usual good health, Mr. Stout ate his breakfdast and it was a severe shock to Mrs. Stout when she found him dead a short time later on on his bed. He was more than 90 years of age. Mr. Stout came to Lincoln County in 1872 and was closely identified with the pioneer days. His mind was ever keen and alert and he brought pleasure to the many who knew him by his intelligent conversation and interest in both the past and present. As I remembered hearing about Nathan's death when I was a child, I thought Caroline found him in a chair, but apparently he was on his bed. DAHB ---------- BEVERLY RESIDENT DEAD N.A. Stout Had Been There Most of 80 Years Beverly, October 3 N.A. Stout, 80, longtime resident of this community where he had been a prominent farmer, died suddenly at the his home here Monday morning. Born in 1859 at Hamilton, Minn., Mr. Stout spent nearly all of his life in this community, having farmed south of Beverly until he retired and moved into town about 20 years ago. Beside the widow he leaves five children. They are Mrs. Helen Bloyd, Lamar, Colo.; Mrs. Gerturde Phillips, Salina; Mrs. Beulah Oliver, Buryn, Meb.; (Mr.)A.J. Stout, Los Angeles, Calif; and LeRoy Stout, St. Louis, Mo. Funeral Services will be held at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon from the Beverly township hall. ------------------- Nathan A. Stout Nathan A. Stout was born in Hamilton, Minnesota, March 11, 1859 and passed away at his home in Beverly, Kansas, October 2, 1939. He was a Lincoln county pioneer, having come to that county fifty-eight years ago. In 1882 he was united in marriage with Miss Caroline Shaffer. He leaves to mourn his departure a wife, three daughters, Helen Bloyd of Lamar, Colorado; Gerturde Phillips of Salina, Kansas; Beulah Frankie Oliver of Berwyn, Mebraska; two sons, Joseph Leroy Stout of St. Louis, Mo.; and Arthur J. Stout of Los Angeles, Calif. One daughter, Nellie Anna Vawter preceded him in death. Also surviving are twenty one grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren, by other relatives and many friends. Funeral services were held at Colorado Township Hall inn Beverly on October 5, 1939 with the Rev. C.D. Flood in charge. Internment was made in Monroe Cemetery. --------------------- Nathan Agusta Stous was born at Hamilton, Minn., March 11, 1859. He pioneered to Kansas 58 years ago in 1881 and was married to Caroline Shaffer in 1882. To this union four daughters and two sons were born. One daughter, Nellie A. Vawter, having preceded him in death. He passed away at his home in Beverly, Kan., October 2, 1939 at the age of eighty years, 6 months, 21 days. His is survived by his wife; three daughters, Mrs. Helen Bloyd of Lamar, Colo.; Mrs. Gertrude Philips of Salina, Kans.; and Mrs. Beulah Frankie Oliver of Berwin, Nebr.; and by two sons: Joseph Leroy Stout of Eureka, Mo.; and Arthur J. Stout of Los Angeles, Calif.; by 2 half-brothersL C.R. Stout of Marmaduke, Ark.; and Jared Stout of Raymond, Washington; by 2 half sisters: Retta Kirby of Ferndale, Michigan, and Nora Stoneclipher of Normandy, Okla.; by 21 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren; by other relatives and many friends. Funeral services were held at Colo. Township Hall in Beverly on Oct. 5, 1939, with the Rev. C.D. Flood in charge. Internment was made in Monroe Cemetery. (I copied this from a paper written in long-hand that Grandma Bloyd (Helen Stout Bloyd) had. Probably someone had copied it from a newspaper for her.--DAHB) | STOUT, Nathan Agustus (I250)
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| 45 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | NELSON, Lindy (I389)
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| 46 | Mary, the sixth child, married Samuel Thatcher of Watertown, Massachusetts, and they raised their family in Watertown. Source: Dee Ann Harman Bishopp from the Utah Printing Company, 1972 | FARNSWORTH, Mary (I463)
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| 47 | Matthias Farnsworth (senior) was probably born in or near Farnsworth, Lancastershire, England in 1612. He was christened there is 1615. The first record of Matthias in this country was at Lynn, Massachusetts in 1657. He had a farm near what later became Federal Street in Lynn until 1660 or 1661. He was listed as a weaver in one record, but spent most of his life as a farmer. He probably moved to Groton in 1660 with the first settlers, and he was one of the original proprietors granted land there. The country was a wilderness of unbroken forest and the settlers cleared land to build their log houses. They were far from markets and all their food and clothing was the product of their efforts on land they had cleared. Among the crops grown by Matthias were flax, Indian corn, tobacco, rye, barley, and oats. Also he had pigs, sheep, cattle and horses. In 1676, Indians assaulted Groton, as part of "King Phillip's War". All but four of the town's buildings were burned. A small party of dragoons and 40 foot soldiers came to the town's relief and escorted the survivors of Groton in a convoy of 60 carts, two miles in length, to Concord. Indians ambushed the procession along the way, with some loss of life. Their homes and possessions, the product of 15 years of hard work in the wilderness, were burned and abandoned. Two of Matthais' children, Mary and Joseph, had earlier been sent to relatives in Lynn due to Indian trouble, and Joseph died there. Groton settlers remained in Concord for two years until the worst danger from Indians died down. In 1678, Matthias and his family and some of the other original settlers, returned to Groton to start anew. There was still constant danger from Indian attack. Sixteen years later in 1694, the settlement was again attacked and many settlers were murdered and their homes burned. Matthias filled many offices in the town and church from the beginning. His last term of office was in 1684 when he was 72 years old, even though he lived far from the center of town. Matthias' wife was Mary Farr, the daughter of George Farr of Lynn, Massachusetts. Most probably, she was his second wife. The great probability was that the first three children were by his first wife, whose name we do not know. Mary Farr, in her will, makes her first bequest to "my well beloved son, Benjamin", which was probably her first born living son at that time. Mary Farr was considerably younger than Matthias. Matthias' oldest daughter, Elizabeth, was born in 1647, and his last child, Joseph, was born in 1670, a span of 31 years, making it unlikely that Mary was the mother of all his children. The probability is that he married and lost one wife before he married Mary Farr, so Mary Farr is not likely the mother of Matthias, Jr. Printed by the Utah Printing Company, October 1972 Source: Dee Ann Harman Bishopp | FARNSWORTH, Matthias (I447)
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| 48 | Matthias Jr.'s son, Matthias III, was taken prisoner byu the Indians in about August of 1704. He was carried into Canada, where he was delivered to the Frnech. He was long thought to be dead, but later his name appeared in a list of prisoners of the French in Canada. By the parish records of Montreal it appears that he was baptised into the Catholic church there. The record in French gives his name as Matthias Claude Farnet. The name Claude seems to have been given him by his godfather, Claude de Ramezay, who was connected with the French government. The name Farnet is the approximate spelling by French authorities of the name, Farnsworth. He was naturalized at Montreal, and he married Catherine Charpentier, by whom he had nine children. The Parish authorities, as the children were baptized and married, spelled the name in different ways. His descendants were entered in records as Farnet, Farnef, Pharnef, and Phaneuf. Some of his descendants were among French-Canadians who emmigrated to the United States through the years. Matthias III is thought to have been about 14 when captured. For many years after Matthias III was born, the Massachusetts colony was subject to the raids of Indians and to the loss of children. The Indians seemed to especially want to capture children, perhaps because there was a better market for them among the French, than for adults. Information from Farnsworth Memorial Source: Dee Ann Harman Bishopp | FARNSWORTH, III, Matthias (I482)
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| 49 | Most of Josiah and Mary Pierce Farnsworth's sons have military records. Ebenezer settled in Charlestown, New Hampshire about 1750. He was captured by Indians near Charlestown along with the Johnson family, Mariam Willard and Peter Larabee on August 30, 1754 and taken to Canada where he remained until shortly before Montreal and was surrendered to the English. Later he was taken to England and then sent home. After his return, he joined in an expedition that was sent against Canada, during the war with France. Later, he served in the Revolutionary War and was in the army that made attack on some of the same places then held by the British. | FARNSWORTH, Ebenezer (I452)
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| 50 | Most of Josiah and Mary Pierce Farnsworth's sons have military records. James settled in Charlestown, New Hampshire. He was on the roll of Captain Humphrey Hobbs' company of rangers in 1748, that fought the Indians in June of that year, 12 miles west of Fort Dunbar. He was a member of the company of Captain Phineas Stevens for the defence of No. 4 in 1750. He was also one of the grantees under New Hampshire. He was a lieutenant, captain and general in the Revolutionary War. | FARNSWORTH, James (I493)
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