Ezekiel Newton Osborne - Generation 2

FATHER(name): Ezekiel Newton OSBORNE²
date and place of birth:  06 May 1844 in Surrey Co., NC
date and place of marriage: 31 Aug 1878, Wolf House, Norfork, Baxter Co., AR
other marriages: 
military service: Lieutenant, Company "H" 54th NC Infantry, C.S.A
date and place of death: 17 Oct 1911, Baxter Co., AR, buried Fairview Cemetery
father's father (name and date of birth): Marshall Osborne, ca 1795, KY
father's mother (name and date of birth): Sally Unknown,  ca 1810, NC
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MOTHER (name):  Mary Arkansas "Kance or Kansas" WOLF⁶
date and place of birth: 17 Mar 1858, Baxter Co., AR
date and place of marriage: 31 Aug 1878, Wolf House, Norfork, AR
other marriages: 
date and place of death: 08 Jul 1931, Coal, Co., OK
mother's father (name and date of birth): Jesse H. Wolf, 21 Jul 1826
mother's mother (name and date of birth): Nancy Jane Hargrave, 23 Jul 1831
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CHILD 1. (name): Jessie Ann OSBORNE
date and place of birth: 17 Jul 1879, Baxter Co., AR
married (name): Thomas Blassingame Blount
date and place of marriage: 07 Nov 1900, Jane Kellough Luther Wolf Home
other marriages: 
date and place of death: 08 Dec 1947, Durant, OK
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CHILD 2. (name): Marshall Ney OSBORNE
date and place of birth: 03 Nov 1881, Baxter Co., AR
married (name): 
date and place of marriage: 
other marriages: 
date and place of death: he was alive in 1906 in Indian Territory, OK.  Nothing more known of this person.
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CHILD 3. (name): Jacob Richardson OSBORNE
date and place of birth: 07 Oct 1884, Baxter Co., AR
married (name): Lela Armania JONES
date and place of marriage: Baxter Co., AR
other marriages: 
date and place of death: 14 Oct 1965, Chular, CA
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CHILD 4. (name): Elizabeth Maude OSBORNE
date and place of birth: 22 Dec 1886, Baxter Co., AR
married (name): Clefford Floyd Vickrey
date and place of marriage: 21 Nov 1925, Oklahoma City, OK
other marriages: 
date and place of death: 15 Jan 1975, Vernon, TX buried Frederick, OK cemetery  
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CHILD 5. (name): Oder Ezekiel OSBORNE
date and place of birth: 05 Dec 1889, near Norfork, Baxter Co., AR
married (name): Gertrude Unknown
date and place of marriage: ca 1917, Easter Ok, timber camp, divorced no children
other marriages:  2) Mattie Gay Henderson, ca 1919, Eastern OK, 3) Irey Dunn, ca 1925, Pauls Valley, OK 
date and place of death: 08 Mar 1966, Altus, OK, buried Frederick, OK, cemetery  
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CHILD 7. (name): Milam Wolf OSBORNE
date and place of birth: 1893, Eureka Springs, AR
married (name): Maude
date and place of marriage: unknown
other marriages: Pearl Collins, ca 1935
date and place of death: ca 1962, CA, buried Golden Gate National Cemetery
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CHILD 8. (name): Mary Bryan OSBORNE
date and place of birth: 14 Jul 1897, Baxter Co., AR
married (name): William Nicholas ARMSTRONG
date and place of marriage: ca 1934
other marriages: 
date and place of death: Nov 1984, Caldwell Memorial Hospital, Caldwell, Idaho, buried Grand Junction, CO     
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CHILD 6. (name): Edmond Nelson OSBORNE
date and place of birth: 06 Apr 1900, Baxter Co., AR
married (name): Stellen Dunn
date and place of marriage:1935, OK 
other marriages: 
date and place of death: 1976, Fair Oaks, CA, cremated and scattered in Pacific 
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Submitted by : dbton@yahoo.com
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      Mary Arkansas Wolf,⁶ (Jesse H.,⁵ Jacob,⁴ Michael,³ Jacob,²Michael¹) was born on the 17th of March 1858 in Norfork, Arkansas and she died on the 8th of July 1931 in Coal County, Oklahoma. She is buried near Clarita, Ok. in the Wilson Cemetery along side her daughter-in-law Irey Dunn Osborne. She married at the Wolf House in Norfork, Arkansas on the 31st of August 1878 to Ezekiel Newton Osborne who was born on the 6th of May 1844 in Surrey County, North Carolina. At the time of her marriage, her mother Nancy Jane Hargrave Wolf would have been dead a year and her youngest sister Emma was about 10. She and her husband lived in Baxter County where he was a surveyor and tenant farmer. E.N. Osborne died in the field from Angina Pectoris, and his youngest son Edmond who was about 8 was with him at the time. This was the 17th of October 1911. Thus, he was buried in the Fairview Cemetery which is just off the River Road or Old Military Road between Arkana, Shady Grove and Mt. Home. No grave marker is visible but his daughter Elizabeth said if you go in the gate you will be facing west so you turn back to your left or south and it is in the second or third row from the fence on your left and about half way to the southern most boundary of the cemetery. (When I visited the cemetery in June of 1984 there was no longer a fence but the directions still hold true. The pointed stone that she showed me to be the grave site is rather easy to pick out.)

E.N. Osborne had come to the territory while serving the "H" Company 54th North Carolina Infantry Regiment C.S.A. as a Lieutenant. The story is told that he saw Mary Arkansas Wolf at the Wolf House sweeping the porch. He rode up on his white horse and tipped his hat to her and said, "You're the cutest thing I ever saw and when you grow up I am going to come back and marry you." Even though he was considerably older than she, that is exactly what took place. Nothing much is known of his family except some notes submitted by Martha Osborne who said the information come to her by way of the Masonic Lodge records show his father to be Nelson Frank Osborne born in 1814 in England and his mother to be Mary Elizabeth Morton also born in England in 1818. E.N. had two brothers and a sister. There are some people like a Dr. Thomas Osborne and someone named Sally from which the family has correspondence. Mary Blount Elmore has the letters which were written to her mother Jessie Osborne Blount. We cannot determine how those people were related to the family. We thought Dr. Thomas was a brother but that name is not listed on the records as such. I, Dorothy Boynton have a picture of three children and it says, "nephews of E.N. Osborne," but no other identification. One name is listed as Willie Oder so I suppose that is maybe where Oder Ezekiel got his name. One of E.N.'s brothers was supposed to have been killed in a "horse" accident as he was preparing the animal to make a trip to Arkansas from North Carolina to see the Arkansas relatives. It is thought that the family may have been in the harness business. At any rate E.N. Osborne had a great desire to read and study and he conveyed this love for an education to his children as four of them took college degrees (before 1924), which was most unusual for that day and time.

As a widow, Mary Wolf Osborne, moved to Oklahoma soon after her husband's death as her sons had become engaged in the farming and timber industry there, and two of her daughters were teaching there. She was a beautiful woman, judging from her pictures available. I know she was certainly the driving force behind the family and was greatly loved by her children and grandchildren. She loved music and had a piano. She had her own home in Ada and was somewhat independent as she received a pension from the C.S.A. following the death of her husband. She was tiny, as were two of her daughters, Mary and Elizabeth. She was religious and she was "somebody."

     E.N. Osborne was a surveyor for Baxter Co., AR, and a farmer.  He was a well educated man and passed the love of knowledge on to his children.  His daughters Jessie, Elizabeth, and Mary all received college degrees as well as his son Edmond.  The daughters taught in Baxter Co., at Shady Grove School.  During the Civil War he was captured at Rappahannock Station, VA, in Nov of 1864.  He was released on oath June 13, 1865 from Johnson's Island, OH, prison camp.  He returned to Baxter Co., having come through there during the war and met the Wolf family, and married and established his residence.  He died , hoeing corn in the  field in Baxter Co., AR,  from the heart condition, angina pectoris.  His youngest child , Edmond,  who was eight at the time,  was with him.  He is buried in Baxter Co., AR,  in the Fairview Cemetery.
References:  E.N. Osborne Family Bible, Jesse H. Wolf Family Bible, 1850 NC Census Surrey Co., 1880-1910 AR Census for Baxter, Marion, Izard Counties.

Children:
 295-1 (RN877 ID 1-2-2-1-7-4-1) Jessie Ann Osborne
295-2 (RN 878 ID 1-2-2-1-7-4-2) Marshall Ney Osborne
295-3 (RN 879 ID 1-2-2-1-7-4-3) Jacob Richardson Osborne
295-4 (RN883 ID 1-2-2-1-7-7-4) Elizabeth Maude Osborne
295-5 (RN891 ID 1-2-2-1-7-4-5) Oder Ezekiel Osborne
295-6 (RN897 ID 1-2-2-1-7-4-6) Milam Wolf Osborne
295-7 (RN902 ID 1-2-2-1-7-7-7) Mary Bryan Osborne
295-8 (RN904 ID 1-2-2-1-7-4-5) Edmond Nelson Osborne