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28. Charles Enness(4) Shiras {Ellen Enness,(3) Susan,(2) William(1)} was born 7 June 1856[1] in Cincinnati and died 15 July 1891 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.[2] He grew up in Cincinnati and possibly attended school with his brother, William, in Racine, Wisconsin. On 28 May 1878 at Ottawa, Kansas,[3] he was married to Marie Antoinette Knapp [born 1 April 1860 in Coxsackie, New York,[4] the daughter of Clara Louisa (Jackson) and Dr. Abraham Huntley Knapp;[5] died 16 March 1934 in Mountain Home, Baxter County, Arkansas[6]].
The marriage notice, cited above, says of the couple:
For the past few weeks nothing has been talked of in society circles here but the approaching marriage of Mr. Chas. E. Shiras and Miss Marie A. Knapp, daughter of Dr. A. H. Knapp. Charley is one of the most popular young business men of the city, and Nettie, as her friends love to call her, is an acknowledged belle...Promptly at the hour the bridal party -- Dr. Knapp with the bride, and the groom with his brides mother -- advanced down the aisle...Charley and his bride took the afternoon train for the East, and will pass a few weeks in Cincinnati and other cities.
The Kansas state history cited above says of him:
C. E. Shiras, dealer in groceries, provisions, and wooden and willow ware, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, June 29, 1856, and came to Kansas in the spring of 1875, locating at Ottawa. He was for two years employed as a clerk in the People's Bank. In 1877 he engaged in dry goods business in company with C. D. Crane, remaining in that business about two years. Was then not actively engaged in business until January, 1882, when he purchased his present establishment from his brother, W. M. Shiras. The subject of our sketch has a nicely fitted up store, carries a stock of about $3,500, and is doing a large trade.
Nettie filed for divorce from Charley in August 1889 in Miami County, Kansas, where her parents lived in Ossawatomie. The divorce was granted in October, to be final in six months. In a statement of 19 October, she stated that Charles was at Sedalia, Douglas County, Colorado. His step-sister, Mary (Shiras) Jones, was living there at the time with her husband, Thomas. By 1893 when Nettie's father's estate was settled, she had married P. H. Gehr.
On the day before Charles' funeral, The Republican in Ottawa (17 July 1891) wrote:
William Shiras returned with the remains of his brother, who died at the Palace Hotel, Cedar Rapids, Ia., on the Kansas City train at noon today. They were taken to his residence from where funeral services will be held at 10 o'clock a.m. tomorrow. Rev. Morrill will conduct the exercises, and the interment will take place in Hope Cemetery.
Issue:
i. Thomas Spencer(5) Shiras {Charles Enness Shiras,(4) Ellen Enness,(3) Susan,(2) William(1)} was born 24 February 1879 in Ottawa, Kansas. After the divorce of his parents, his mother and her children lived in Kansas City, Kansas. Tom and his brother Enness worked at the Drovers' Telegram in Kansas City -- Tom as a reporter and Enness as a linotype operator.
In the early 1900's, Tom's mother and step-father, "Captain" P.H. Gehr, a miner, moved to Mountain Home, Baxter County, Arkansas, where Captain Gehr had a good deal of mining land. Tom loved the area, and a few years later purchased the local newspaper, The Baxter Bulletin, in partnership with his brother Enness.[7] The paper remained in the family for over seventy years.
On 15 January 1908 in Mountain Home, Tom was married to Mayme Case[8] [born 1880 and died 1978,[9] the daughter of Jennie (McFarland) and Dr. J. H. Case].[10] Tom died 15 January 1947, his 39th wedding anniversary.
ii. Edith Knapp(5) Shiras was born about July 1881 and died 21 January 1883.[11]
iii. Enness Barr(5) Shiras, my grandfather, was born 16 April 1883 in Ottawa, Kansas.[12] Like his brother, he was forced for financial reasons to quit school at an early age and go to work at the Kansas City Drovers' Telegram. Enness, however, was involved in the actual mechanics of printing rather than writing.
When he first saw the facilities of the newspaper that Tom had purchased in Mountain Home, he was horrified by what he considered the primitive equipment. Soon, however, he had grown to love the people of the Ozarks, as they loved him.
On 12 June 1912 in Evansville, Indiana, Enness married the art teacher at Mountain Home Baptist College, Francesca Posey [born 24 January 1883 in Petersburg, Indiana, the daughter of Harriet Emeline (Brown) and Francis Blackburn Posey].
Francesca died 27 December 1957 in Mountain Home and was buried in the Mountain Home Cemetery. Just three years later, Enness' wish was granted, and he joined her on 27 February 1961. His son, Charles Peter "Pete" Shiras, who was the Editor of the Baxter Bulletin at that time, wrote a touching remembrance.
iv. Harriet Knapp(5) Shiras was born on 16 February 1885[13] and died in 1942 in Mountain Home. She is buried there in the Mountain Home Cemetery. She was unmarried.
29. William Mortimer(4) Shiras {Ellen Enness,(3) Susan,(2) William(1)} was born 21 May 1859 in Cincinnati.[14] He moved to Ottawa, Kansas, in 1875 and
he has been identified with this flourishing city and has done much to promote its interests. Identified with the board of trustees of Ottawa University...he has done much to aid this worthy institution..is very fond of his guns and dogs...came to Ottawa and entered the People's National Bank as assistant cashier, in time becoming a stockholder and director...1881, he bought an interest in the excelsior mill, of which he is one of the proprietors...also interested in a gas company which is prospecting for gas...Politically he is a Republican...
Newspaper stories of the day and area report that William married Cornelia Belle Adams of Cleveland, Ohio, on 14 May 1879 in Cleveland.[15] She was born 4 July 1859 in Cleveland, the daughter of Seymour A. and Elizabeth (Hoyt) Adams, and died 8 August 1943.[16] William Mortimer Shiras died 22 October 1904.[17]
Issue:[18]
i. William Mortimer(5) Shiras {William Mortimer Shiras,(4) Ellen Enness,(3) Susan,(2) William(1)} was born 30 January 1880 and died 16 July 1914 in Dallas, Texas, after being hit by a train.[19]
ii. Ralph Adams(5) Shiras was born 18 September 1881 and died 17 November 1928 in Ottawa while assisting in the rescue of persons trapped in a flood.[20] In the obituary of his brother, he is called "Dr. R. A. Shiras." A relative of his second wife reports that he had graduated from medical school and begun his internship when he discovered that he didn't want to practice. He became a postman, instead. He was married twice, to Clara Eola [(-) maiden name unknown][21] and to Ann Fitzgerald.[22] There was no issue of either marriage.
iii. Howard Hoyt(5) Shiras was born on 3 June 1884 and died 23 February 1970 in New York.[23] He did not marry. His obituary from the New York Times reports that he was
a retired ophthalmologist, who had practiced from 1919 to 1948 in Cleveland and had headed there the eye department of St. Vincent Charity Hospital and the City Hospital, died Monday at his home, 230 East 50th Street...he also lived in Cleveland.
Dr. Shiras, who was born in Ottawa, Kan., received his medical degree in 1912 and served as a lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps in WWI.
iv. Eleanor Enness(5) Shiras was born 13 September 1888 and died 23 May 1951 in Ottawa.[24] She did not marry.
30. Anna Elizabeth(4) Ellison {Andrew Barr Ellison,(3) Anna,(2) Samuel(1)} was probably born about 1835. On 1 February 1865 in Manchester, she was married to Rev. Robert B. Herron of Hamilton County.[25] He may have been born in Hillsborough, Highland County, Ohio.[26] She died in Manchester on 23 January 1870 "while on a visit to her father's."[27]
Issue:
i. Andrew G. (5) Herron {Anna Elizabeth,(4) Andrew Barr Ellison,(3) Anna,(2) Samuel(1)} was born about 1864.[28]
ii. Anna E. (5) Herron was born in September 1869.[29] She was married to Dr. A. C. Flack and lived in Fredonia, Kansas, until her death about 1905. There were children of the marriage, but their names are unknown.[30]
31. Rachel Means(4) Ellison {Andrew Barr Ellison,(3) Anna,(2) Samuel(1)} was born 30 July 1849[31] at Manchester, Ohio. On 23 October 1867[32] at Manchester she was married to Peter Shiras [born 18 August 1843[33] at Center Furnace, Ohio, the son of William M. Shiras[34] (see #15) and his first wife, Elizabeth J. Rodgers;[35] died 5 November 1918 at Ottawa, Franklin County, Kansas[36]].
Peter Shiras was a Civil War Veteran, having served in Company G of the Fourth Ohio Cavalry.[37] He was a banker in Manchester and continued in that profession after the family moved to Ottawa[38] about 1872. Rachel died 26 October 1930 in Ottawa, Franklin County, Kansas..[39]
Issue:
i. Edna Ellison(5) Shiras {Rachel Means,(4) Andrew Barr Ellison,(3) Anna,(2) Samuel(1)} was born 20 July 1868 at Manchester, Ohio.[40] On 1 January 1891 at Ottawa, Kansas, she was married to Francis Gamble Blair [born 8 September 1860 in Buffalo, Illinois, the son of Alexander McGinley and Amanda (Gamble) Blair; died 9 October 1938 at Tuscaloosa, Alabama[41]]. Edna died 29 June 1955 in Birmingham, Alabama, and was buried at Elmwood Cemetery.
ii. Frederick Mortimer(5) Shiras was born 2 January 1870 in Manchester, Ohio. On 12 September 1894 in Akron, Ohio, he married Addie Henrietta Commins [born 20 October 1869 in Akron, Ohio, the daughter of Addie Henrietta (Starks) and Alexander H. Commins; died 2 June 1922 at Ottawa, Kansas]. Frederick, a banker like his father, died 3 May 1918 in Ottawa and is buried there in Hope Cemetery.
iii. Ellison Findlay(5) Shiras was born 16 June 1871 at Manchester, Ohio,[42] and died 11 July 1878.[43]
iv. Eleanor(5) Shiras was born 29 October 1872 in Ottawa, Kansas.[44] On 26 October 1891 at Louisiana, Pike County, Missouri, she was married to Ralph Asa Harris[45] (born 12 March 1871, the son of John P. and Sarah Harris; died 7 August 1930 in Ottawa).[46] Ralph was a newspaperman and founded what has become small a communications empire, still run largely by the Harris family.[47] Eleanor died 13 March 1952 in Kansas City, Missouri. Her obituary from The Ottawa Herald of 13 March 1952 notes that she had been the Republican National Committeewoman from Kansas since 1936. She is buried in Hope Cemetery, Ottawa.
v. Mary(5) Shiras was born 9 November 1874 in Ottawa.[48] On 30 October 1901[49] she was married to Alston Fitts (born 10 March 1867; died 29 May 1950 and buried in Tuscaloosa Memorial Park).[50] Mary died 30 January 1932, probably in Tuscaloosa.[51]
vi. James Oliver(5) Shiras was born 29 August 1876 in Ottawa.[52] On 9 May 1906 in Terre Haute, Indiana, he was married to Sarah Sophie Wheeler [born 21 December 1880 in Terre Haute, the daughter of Sarah Sophie (Deming) and Daniel Davis Wheeler; died 1927[53]]. James Oliver was killed in a car wreck in St. Louis on 2 October 1915,[54] and Sarah married (2) in 1918, Sumner Crosby.[55]
vii. Alice Barr(5) Shiras was born 20 July 1879 and died 26 November 1881.[56]
32. Mary Ann(4) Ellison {Mary Keys Ellison,(3) Anna,(2) Samuel(1)} was born 11 August 1834. On 30 December 1851 she married Rev. D. V. Moore, who was later pastor of a Presbyterian Church in Hutchinson, Kansas.[57]
Issue:
i. Mary Emeline(5) Moore {Mary Ann Ellison,(4) Mary Keys Ellison,(3) Anna,(2) Samuel(1)}.
ii. William(5) Moore.
iii. Edward Monteith(5) Moore was born 27 April 1861.
iv. Anna Belle(5) Moore died young.
33. Sarah Jane(4) Ellison {Mary Keys Ellison,(3) Anna,(2) Samuel(1)} was born 30 March 1843 and married Archibald Means.[58]
Issue:
i. William Ellison(5) Means {Sarah Jane Ellison,(4) Mary Keys Ellison,(3) Anna,(2) Samuel(1)} was born 18 May 1868.
ii. Archibald Long Means was born in April 1870.
iii. Annie Means.
iv. Robert Wells Means was born 12 October 1873.
v. Sadie Means was born in 1877.
34. Robert Hamilton(4) Ellison {Mary Keys Ellison,(3) Anna,(2) Samuel(1)} was born 21 April 1845 and married Isabelle Harris (the daughter of Francis and Margarete (Sexon) Harris of Green County, Ohio) on 7 October 1868. He was a banker and farmer.[59]
[he] received his education from the public schools. May 14, 1872, the Manchester National Bank was organized and our subject was made its cashier...In 1876 Mr. Ellison retired from the active management of the bank's affairs, but still retained his stock in it. In 1879 he was elected by the Republicans auditor of the county over a large Democratic majority, and filled the office for three years. He then returned to the banking business, and also dealt extensively in tobacco. In 1889 the bank closed out its business, and after this Mr. Ellison gave his attention to farming, in which occupation he is still engaged. The property now occupied by Mr. C. C. W. Naylor was built by Mr. Ellison in 1869, and occupied by him till 1879. Later he moved into the residence which he now occupies, located on the Ridge, and built by his father in 1855 [This may now be a bed and breakfast.- JRS]...Mr. Ellison is a member of the I.O.O.F. and the K. of P.[60]
Issue:
i. Mary Margarete Ellison {Robert Hamilton Ellison,(4) Mary Keys Ellison,(3) Anna,(2) Samuel(1)} was born 17 January 1873 and died 19 September 1949. She was married to Bert Fisher; there were no children.
ii. Francis Harris(5) Ellison was born 21 August 1874 and died 20 January 1960.[61] He was married to Martha Schriver (born 7 August 1877) on 28 April 1898.
35. Julia Morris(4) Ellison {Mary Keys Ellison,(3) Anna,(2) Samuel(1)} was born 25 July 1853 and married John A. Murray on 20 June 1877. She died on 10 September 1883.[62]
Issue:
i. William(5) Murray {Julia Morris Ellison,(4) Mary Keys Ellison,(3) Anna,(2) Samuel(1)}.
36. Anne(4) Sinton {Jane Ellison,(3) Anna,(2) Samuel(1)} was born in Cincinnati. On 4 December 1873 she married Charles Phelps Taft [born 21 Dec 1843 in Cincinnati, the son of Fanny (Phelps) and Alphonso Taft; living at 316 Pike Street in Cincinnati in 1925]. Charles was the editor and publisher of the Cincinnati Times-Star from 1879 and a member of the United States Congress in 1895-97. His father, Alphonso, was Secretary of War from March to May 1876 and Attorney General in 1876-1877 under President Ulysses S. Grant. After the death of Charles' mother, the father remarried Louisa Maria Torrey. The second child of this second marriage was William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States.[63] Anne's date of death is unknown.
Issue:[64]
i. Jane Ellison(5) Sinton {Anne Sinton,(4) Jane Ellison,(3) Anna,(2) Samuel(1)} was born in Cincinnati on 15 September 1874. She married Albert Stimson Ingalls.
ii. David(5) Sinton was born in 1876 and died in 1891.
iii. Anne Louise(5) Sinton was born 31 May 1879 in Cincinnati. She married William T. Semple.
iv. Charles Howard(5) Sinton was born in Cincinnati in 1882.
37. John Keys(4) Sterrett {Jane Buffum Keys,(3) Margaret,(2) Samuel(1)} was born in the 1830's, probably in Ohio. Of his two marriages, the name of his first wife is unknown; his second wife was Rebecca Cloon.[65]
Issue:
i. Jane S.(5) Sterrett {John Keys Sterrett,(4) Jane Buffum Keys,(3) Margaret,(2) Samuel(1)} married a Thomson.
ii. Martha S.(5) Sterrett married a Johnson.
iii. Elizabeth E.(5) Sterrett was unmarried.
iv. Harry L.(5) Sterrett married but had no issue.
v. Lillian Cloon(5) Sterrett was unmarried.
38. Margaret Jane(4) Sterrett {Jane Buffum Keys,(3) Margaret,(2) Samuel(1)} married John Titus.
Issue:
i. Thomas(5) Titus {John Keys Sterrett,(4) Jane Buffum Keys,(3) Margaret,(2) Samuel(1)}.
ii. Margaret(5) Titus.
iii. John(5) Titus.
iv. Edwin(5) Titus.
v. Alan(5) Titus.
vi. Virginia(5) Titus married Cliff Allen.
vii. Ann(5) Titus married Alex. Johnson.
39. Richard Sterrett(4) Keys {Richard Wilson Keys,(3) Margaret,(2) Samuel(1)} was born 3 August 1847 and died 6 February 1920. On 21 October 1869 he was married to Rose Russel (born 7 May 1846, died 18 November 1922).
Issue:
i. Mary(5) Keys {Richard Sterrett,(4) Richard Wilson Keys,(3) Margaret,(2) Samuel(1)} married Frederick George Lawton (d. 1928).
ii. Richard(5) Keys died young.
iii. Bessie(5) Keys was living in Detroit, Michigan, when the Sterrett Genealogy was published in 1930.
iv. Alexander Russel(5) Keys married Katherine Godfrey.
v. John Findlay(5) Keys married Charlotte McDonald. When the genealogy was published, they were living at 1031 Bishop Road, Grosse Point, Michigan.
40. Harry Lardner(4) Keys {Richard Wilson Keys,(3) Margaret,(2) Samuel(1)} was born 31 January 1851 and died 5 July 1917. On 18 August 1873 he was married to Laura A. Cole (born 17 October 1852, died 4 August 1929).
Issue:
i. Cornelia(5) Keys {Harry Lardner,(4) Richard Wilson Keys,(3) Margaret,(2) Samuel(1)} was born about 1875 and died in infancy at Anaheim, California.
ii. Helen Day(5) Keys was born 31 August 1882 and married on 6 August 1923 to Benjamin Franklin Francis. In 1930 they were living at 704 St. Charles Street, St. Louis, Missouri.
iii. Walter Cole(5) Keys was born 9 June 1885. On 22 December 1917 he married Helen May See.
41. William Barr(4) Keys {William Barr,(4) Richard Wilson Keys,(3) Margaret Barr,(2) Samuel(1)} was born 29 April 1852 and died 17 June 1884. On 28 December 1875 he was married to Emma Dorcas Harkness (born 5 July 1854, died 29 October 1922).
Issue:
i. William Harkness(5) Keys {William Barr,(4) Richard Wilson Keys,(3) Margaret Barr,(2) Samuel(1)} was born 2 November 1876 and died 26 January 1908.
ii. Pierson Douglass(5) Keys was born 12 August 1878 and died 24 December 1927. On 7 April 1909 he married Lucy Stephenson Stearns, who lived in 1930 at Wyoming, Ohio.
iii. Richard Thompson(5) Keys was born 29 September 1881 and died 14 November 1925. On 2 June 1909 he married Margaret Raymond Randall (born 17 November 1887).
42. Mary Virginia(4) Keys (Richard Wilson Keys,(3) Margaret,(2) Samuel(1)} was born 23 August 1855 and died about 1927. On 31 August 1882 she was married to Dr. Willard F. Shepherd, who died in 1928.
Issue:
i. LeRoy Keys(5) Shepherd {Mary Virginia,(4) Richard Wilson Keys,(3) Margaret,(2) Samuel(1)} was born 29 June 1883 and married Lucile Grandin (born 10 December 1896) on 20 August 1918. In 1930 he was living at 3208 Menlo Avenue, Cincinnati.
ii. Alfred Willard(5) Shepherd {Mary Virginia,(4) Richard Wilson Keys,(3) Margaret,(2) Samuel(1)} was born 2 February 1885 and married on 1 January 1917 to Madeline Coy (born 5 October 1894). In 1930 they were living at 18 Lenox Place in Maplewood, New Jersey.
iii. Willard F.(5) Shepherd {Mary Virginia,(4) Richard Wilson Keys,(3) Margaret,(2) Samuel(1)} was born 6 January 1891. He was married to Elizabeth Owen (born 30 December 1894, died 22 April 1919). In 1930 he lived in Glendale, Ohio.
43. Robert Taylor(4) Keys {Richard Wilson Keys,(3) Margaret Barr,(2) Samuel(1)} was born 25 May 1857 and died 10 January 1909. On 24 May 1894 he married Lucy Darling (born 25 December 1872).
Issue:
i. Ethel(5) Keys {Robert Taylor,(4) Richard Wilson Keys,(3) Margaret Barr,(2) Samuel(1)} was born on 28 October 1896. On 28 February 1915 she married Ray Edgar Walters (born 18 June 1893). In 1930 they lived in Nappanee, Indiana.
44. Anna Danforth(4) Keys {Richard Wilson Keys,(3) Margaret,(2) Samuel(1)} was born 25 November 1860. On 20 March 1884 she married Nathan Hazen Biggs (born 22 November 1861, died 23 Jan 1910). In 1930 she was living at 75 Spring Street, Somerville, New Jersey.
Issue:
i. Nathan Hazen(5) Biggs {Anna Danforth,(4) Richard Wilson Keys,(3) Margaret Barr,(2) Samuel(1)} was born 16 April 1885. On 1 December 1917 he married Averel C. Tobin (died 25 December 1929). They had no children. In 1930 he was living at 419 West 115th Street, New York City.
ii. Richard Keys(5) Biggs was born 16 September 1886. On 29 August 1918 he married Lucienne Gourdon. In 1930 they were living at 1424 Das Palmas Avenue in Hollywood, California.
iii. Anna Danforth(5) Biggs was born 3 May 1889 and died 23 May 1889.
iv. Thomas Jacob(5) Biggs was born 27 May 1898 and married Ruth Dubois on 2 July 1921. In 1930 they lived at 1467 D. East California Street, Glendale, California.
v. Mary Emeline(5) Biggs was born 2 July 1904 and married Arthur P. Demaray, Jr. on 1 September 1923. In 1930 they lived at 75 Spring Street in Somerville, New Jersey.
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Footnotes:
[1] His stone in Hope Cemetery, Ottawa, Kansas, says he was "Aged 35Y 1M 8da" at his death on 15 July 1891, which would make his date of birth 7 June 1856, but History of the State of Kansas (Chicago: A. T. Andreas, 1883), page 612, gives the date as 29 June.Back
[2] The Republican, Ottawa, Kansas, 16 July 1891, page 4, column 2: "Died - At Cedar Rapids, Ia., July 15th, 1891, Charles E. Shiras, aged 35 years."Back
[3] Marriage License from Franklin County, Kansas.Back
[4] The Baxter Bulletin, 23 March 1934, obituary.Back
[5] Varied sources, including family knowledge. Documentary sources include History of Kansas City, Missouri (published about 1908, but no author or publication data is available), typescript from Frances (Shiras) McClelland; Alfred Averill Knapp, Nicholas Knapp Genealogy, Winter Park, Florida, 1953), page 557; The Ottawa Republican, 30 May 1878 (marriage notice of Charles Shiras and Marie A. Knapp).Back
[6] Her obituary, as cited above.Back
[7] The story of Tom's life is in "The Walking Editor of the Ozarks," his as yet unpublished autobiography.Back
[8] Ibid.Back
[9] Years of birth and death from her tombstone in the Mountain Home Cemetery.Back
[10] Frances H. Shiras, History of Baxter County Arkansas From the Beginnings to 1939, (Mountain Home, Arkansas: J. W. Daniel and Shiras Brothers Print Shop, 1940), Second Printing: Anne Ramey, 1982, page 111.Back
[11] From her stone in Hope Cemetery: "Edith Knapp daughter of C.E. and M.A. Shiras died January 23, 1883 Aged 1 yr. 6 mos."Back
[12] All information from this family is from the children and grandchildren of Enness Barr Shiras.Back
[13] From her delayed birth certificate.Back
[14] All information on this family, unless otherwise noted, is from Gen and Bio Record, Franklin County, Kansas, page 464.Back
[15] This date from her obituary, cited below.Back
[16] The Ottawa Herald, (Ottawa, Kansas), 9 August 1943.Back
[17] The Ottawa Herald, (Ottawa, Kansas), Monday, 24 October 1904.Back
[18] All birth and death dates are from their tombstones in Highland Cemetery, Ottawa, Franklin County, Kansas.Back
[19] The Evening Herald, (Ottawa, Kansas), Friday, 17 July 1914.Back
[20] The Ottawa Herald, (Ottawa, Kansas), 19 November 1928.Back
[21] The New York Times, (New York: 27 January 1926), page 26.Back
[22] Anderson County Kansas marriage license record (Book H, page 41) shows that they were married on 17 June 1921.Back
[23] His obituary is in The New York Times, for Friday, 27 February 1970, page 37, column 1.Back
[24] The Ottawa Herald, (Ottawa, Kansas), 23 May 1951.Back
[25] The Cincinnati Daily Gazette, Monday, 6 February 1865.Back
[26] Nixon-Ellison Genealogy, on page 163, quoting Caldwell's Atlas, says he was "of Hillsborough."Back
[27] Ibid.Back
[28] His age is given as 6 in the 1870 census of Adams County, when he and his baby sister were living in the home of Andrew Ellison.Back
[29] Her age in the 1870 census is given as 9/12.Back
[30] All information from the obituary of her aunt, Susan Barr (Ellison) Drenan (#19-ii).Back
[31] From the family Bible (published in 1872), photocopy of pages sent by Mrs. Eleanor Hassinger.Back
[32] Ibid.Back
[33] Ibid.Back
[34] Will of his step-mother, Ellen (Enness) Shiras (#15).Back
[35] Lawrence County Marriage Records.Back
[36] Kansas State Death Certificate.Back
[37] Henry A. Ford and Mrs. Kate B. Ford, History of Hamilton County, Ohio, (Cleveland: L. A. Williams & Company, 1881), pages 168-170.Back
[38] From his obituary in The Ottawa Herald.Back
[39] From her obituary in The Ottawa Herald.Back
[40] From the family Bible.Back
[41] Information on Francis Gamble Blair from his granddaughter, Eleanor Blair (Sibley) Hassinger.Back
[42] From the family Bible.Back
[43] From his tombstone in Hope Cemetery, Ottawa, Kansas.Back
[44] From the family Bible record.Back
[45] From the family Bible record.Back
[46] Information from Hud Stander.Back
[47] Information provided by the family.Back
[48] Family Bible record.Back
[49] Ibid.Back
[50] From Mary (Fitts) Bennett.Back
[51] Ibid.Back
[52] All information unles otherwise cited is from James' chart, "Descendants of John Ellison."Back
[53] Virkus.Back
[54] St. Louis Post Dispatch, Sunday, 3 October 1915, page 1.Back
[55] Virkus.Back
[56] Family Bible record.Back
[57] All information on this family from Nixon-Ellison Genealogy, pages 115 and 181.Back
[58] Ibid., page 115. Her middle name from page 181.Back
[59] Ibid., pages 115-116 and 175-183.Back
[60] Ibid., pages 182-183.Back
[61] All information from Nixon-Ellison Genealogy, page 116.Back
[62] Ibid., page 117 and 182.Back
[63] Virkus.Back
[64] Ibid.Back
[65] All information on John Keyes Sterrett and his family is from Sterrett Genealogy, pages 23-27.Back
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