Moses Adams
1848 Military service eligible males 6
1839 Signatory, Claims Association 7
Secondary sources: 16
Excerpt from family group sheet, "Emmons Family Tree," Sharon Emmons-Mason, ":1845856" database, ID I88014259; and "Tamara & Jerry's Genealogy," Jerry L. Neville, "jerr_bear" database, ID I6058 (Ancestral File W6RZ-6Q ): Moses Adams b. 2 Nov 1815, Oxford, Oxford County, ME m. 8 Jan 1859 to Sarah Jane Keislar (b. 16 May 1836, Columbiana,Columbiana County, OH) d. 23 Mar 1899, Solon, Johnson County, I bur. Oakland Cemetery, SolonA man named Moses Adams is shown in the 1830 Census, New York, Chautauqua County, Ripley Township, p. 435 39
Ebenezer Adams
1838 Territorial Census 3
Louisa Adams
m. John C. McGrew (See McGrew below)
Secondary sources: 16
Excerpt from family group sheet, "Rose/McGrew/Turner/Klaenhammer Family," Fred Rose, "fredrose27" database, ID I777: Louisa Adams b. 1821 m. 25 Aug 1852, Muscatine County, IA d. 1864, Muscatine County, IA
Excerpt from a family group sheet and family tree, "Kah Genealogy," Kathleen Hunt, "lyngaas," database, ID I17525 :
"Abner Arrasmith" b. 9 July 1812, Paris, Bourbon, KY m1. 25 Dec 1831, Colbrook, Warren County, IL to Elizabeth Corbin Peckenpaugh(Elizabeth b. 9 Mar 1814, Breckenridge, KY, d. 31 Jan 1868, Olathe, Johnson Co. KS) 10 children, 6 b. in Cedar Rapids, 4 born in Big Grove Township [Johnson County] m2. 5 Oct 1869 to Charlotte Kent d. 19 Jan 1885, Olathe, Johnson County, KS Father: Wesley Arrasmith Mother: Elizabeth Reed
P.C. Brown
1844 Iowa State census, household of 5 souls 4
1838 Territorial census 3
1839 Signatory, Claims Association 7
Edwin A. Brown
1838 Territorial census 3
1840 census 14
J.G. Brown
1844 Iowa State census, household of 1 soul 4
Huldah Brown
1844 Iowa State census, household of 3 souls 4
Excerpt from family group sheet and family tree,"Eric Crandall Satterthwaite's Ancestry," by Eric Satterthwaite, "esatterethwaite" database,ID I1447: Norman Calkins b. 28 Nov 1811,Elizabethtown, Essex County, NY m. 12 Dec 1832, Mary Thompson d. 10 Dec 1859, Big Grove Township, [Johnson County], IA Father: John Calkins Mother: Lucy Kellogg
Excerpt from family group sheet of James Craig Sutton, Pedigree Resource File Disk 28 pin 871689;17 see also "James C. Sutton Genealogy," "suttonja" database, ID I00971.1830 [a William Cannon found in census, St. Lawrence County New York, Stockholm Twp, p.45] 17
Wilbur D. Cannon
b. 6 Nov 1840, Solon, IA
d. 1915
First white child born in Johnson County (Old Settlers Yearbook, 1866-1897, p. 17 47
Biography at State Historical Society 18
His home in Iowa City is now an historic landmark.19
Father: William D. Cannon (above)
Mother: Julia Pratt
Secondary sources: 17
Excerpt from family group sheet of James Craig Sutton (above)
Joseph B. Case
b. about 1816, OH 11
m. Margaret____ 11
1844 Iowa State Census, household of 5 souls 4
1850 census 11
Secondary Sources : 16
Excerpt from family group sheet, "Jeannie's Family Tree," Jeannie____,"themiyamas1" database, ID 12047216: Joseph Bonner Case b. 8 Mar 1816, Adams County, OH m. 29 Mar 1838, Adams County, OH to Margaret Cloud (Margaret b. 25 Mar 1818, Highland County, OH) d. 10 Feb 1853, Johnson County, IA Father: Othanial Case Mother: Mary Ann Starn
Excerpt from family group sheet, "Our Family Tree," Ellen____,"familyinfo" database, ID I351316: Presley Nevil Connelly b. 1819, OH based on U.S. Census 1850-1880 m1. Amanda Isabella Dennis, 20 Nov 1845, Johnson County, Iowa (3 children) m2. Martha Malvina Huss, 14 Oct 1856, Sandusky County, Ohio (6 children )Charles Connelly
Excerpt from family group sheet, "Our Family Tree,"Ellen____, "familyinfo" database, ID I40416: James Dennis b. 1784 Pennsylvania m Martha Fife (b. 1787, Allegheny County, PA) d. 18 Nov 1859, Johnson County, IA Moved from PA to OH about 1826, to Iowa 1842/3 Buried at Oakland Cemetery, Big Grove Twp, Johnson County, IA[Milton] Dennis
Excerpt from family group sheet "Price Family Tree," Barry Price, Ids 151186 and 1151187.These group sheets contained minimal source citations. Porter Estabrook [Sr.] b. 1 Oct 1773, Hartford, Windsor County, VT m. 31 Dec 1795, Lebanon, Grafton County, NH; spouse, Eunice Smith Thurston d. 1815, Waterloo, Seneca County, NY Father: Joseph Estabrook: b. 2 May 1741, Mansfield Center, Tolland County, NY Mother: Theda Porter: b. 16 Sept 1739, Mansfield Center, Tolland County, NYPorter Estabrook [Jr.] b: 20 Aug 1807, Hartford, Windsor, VT 16
Excerpt from family group sheet "Covey Connections," Wes Covey, ID I07622616 Charles Chauncey Fowler b. 8 Oct 1829, Middlebury, Addison County, VT Father: William Chauncey Fowler Mother: Harriet Webster
Excerpts from family group sheet, "John West of New York and James Griffith of Virginia," Marilou West Ficklin, "alfred_01" database, ID I1.
Excerpt from family group sheet, "The Eugene and Judith Whorton Henderson Family Tree," Judith L. Henderson, "jlhenderson742," ID 145909.16 Mrs. Hannah (Stout) Hill b. 16 July 1806, Denton, NC m1. Zachariah Yarborough m2. Joseph Hill m3. John West d. 20 Jan 1872, Iowa City
Excerpt from family group sheet, "Pelton and Barbe Families....," Gary Garbe, "garygarbe60" database, ID I03779: Harvey (Harry) Lyman b. 13 Dec 1794, New Keniford, CT m. 8 Apr 1830 to Mary Sopronia Pelton (b. 21 Sept 1805, Gustavus, Trumbull County OH)Josiah Lyman
Lyon
Charter Member ME Church 2, 18
John Chevalier Mcgrew
Secondary source: 17
Ancestral File, Trudy Arlene Fincher, FLWX-SG; Pedigree Resource File, CD20, Pin 543145 b. 6 Feb 1815, Dayton, Montgomery County, OH m1 Lydia Ann Willetts, 11 Aug 1837, Muscatine County, IA m2 Louisa Adams, 25 Aug 1852, Johnson County, IA (see Adams above) m2 Isabel J. Beck O'Donnell, 29 May 1866 d. 12 July 1889, Muscative, Muscatine County, IA Father: William Mcgrew Mother: Charlotte Chevalier
Joseph Payn
b. about 1814, OH 11
m. Mary ____ (b. about 1823, OH) 11
Secondary sources: 16
Excerpt from family group sheet, Ellen___, "Our Family Tree," "familyinfo" database, ID I888016 Joseph Payne b. 9 Sep 1814, Licking County, OH m. Mary Lake (b. 11 Mar 1824, OH) d. 3 Jan 1895, Solon, Johnson County, Iowa Father: William Payne (b. 1784, Hampshire County, VA) See William Payn above. Mother: Ellen Kelso (b. 1792/3, VA) William Payne shown in the following census: 1820 Licking County, Washington Township, Ohio20James Payn
Ephraim Pratt
1848 Military service eligible 6
Petit Juror 1858 5
Secondary source: 16
Excerpt from family group sheet (fgs),"Ancestors of Jennifer & Adam Fisher," Susan Fisher, "catlover" database, ID I0352.16 This well-documented fgs contains a transcription of an interesting biography. Ephraim Porter Pratt b. 1820, PA m1. 27 May 1843, Athens County, OH to Amanda M. Roberts (Amanda b. 1822, OH) m2. 1864 to Mary Ford Bentley (b. 10 Dec 1830, Bradford County, PA) d. 10 May 1890, Washington County, IACharles Pratt
Julia Pratt
Secondary source: James Craig Sutton, Pedigree Resource File
Disk 28 pin 87169017:17
b. 11 Feb 1823 at Temple, ME
m1 William D. Cannon.
m2 ____Whipple 15
d. 17 Mar 1877, Solon
Charter member ME Church 2, 18
Excerpt from family group sheet,"Ancestors of William E. Love," database "dehinten," ID I1083.See also "spurrier relativity", Duane Spurrier, database "duanespurrier799," ID I522733794: Warner Spurrier b. 19 Aug 1807, Maryland m1. Mary Hoops, 11 Oct 1827 m2. Harriet Ballan McHugh (b. about 1810, OH) 6 children sons: William Monroe and Wilmot below d. 9 Apr 1888, Lisbon, Linn County, IAWilliam Monroe Spurrier
William Spurrier b. about 1846/7 Father: Warner Spurrier Mother: Harriet BallouWilmot H. Spurrier (shown as Wilmot E. in 1850 census)
Excerpt from family group sheet (fgs), "Maher, DeMean, Portr, DeVault," Don Patterson, ":445394" database, ID I305.16 This fgs contains a short and interesting biography of Warren Stiles. Warren Stiles b. circa 1804, West Chazy, [Clinton County], NY m. bef 1825, NY to Clarissa ___________ d. 1850, San Francisco, CA bur. Solon
Excerpts from family group sheet, "John West of New York and James Griffith of Virginia," Marilou West Ficklin, "alfred_01" database, ID I32.Orson West
Moses Adams, of Cedar township, who came here in '39. Mr. Adams is 80 years of age, and cast his first vote for William Henry Harrison two days after he was 21 years of age. (date of reunion not known) [b. about 1819] Description by Miles K. Lewis in 1900 Old Settlers Association Yearbook, p. 11: "Mose Adams, who to my personal knowledge bached all alone. I staid over night with Mose and he used an old broken saucer for a lamp, with a wick torn from his underwear, the same being dipped in fried meat grease and lit with a spark from his old flint lock youger, and that lamp gave such a brilliant light that we could hardly tell one card from the other."
Henry and Elizabeth Felkner were prominent pioneers of Iowa. The Felkner family is of German and Scotch descent and for several generations, on the mother's side, had been members of the Quaker faith. They came from Ohio into Iowa soon after the Blackhawk Purchase was thrown open for settlement and brought with them an inherited veneration for those forms of free government so aptly expressed by Manasseh Cutler in the "Bill of Rights" for the North West Territory.
Henry and Elizabeth raised 3 sons, the youngest, William, was born on the family farm in the vicinity of Iowa City, July 18, 1852. Like his father, William was stalwart in form, large hearted and kindly. Henry had been one of Johnson County's earliest settlers, one of the organizers and law givers of the State of Iowa, and of him it has been said by one of his noble associates that "He was a typical pioneer. Who that has looked upon his giant form, crowned by a face limned in benignity and strength can forget him!" This man of strength, of courage, of ability and honor--this pioneer Henry Felkner, came into the wilderness of Iowa then known as the Blackhawk Purchase as early as 1837 accompanied by two others of our celebrated and greatly beloved pioneers, Philip Clark and Eli Myers. These brave young men, joined by a few others of like courage and foresight, came into this region when the Indian trails and the rivers were the only highways of communication, and settling on the western edge of the Purchase, set to work at once to lay the foundation of the future State of Iowa. By peaceful though strenuous labor they in a few years wrought marvelous changes in the community that had but recently been a wilderness inhabited only by the Indian and the trapper. By the hands of these pioneers, the Indian trails of this vicinity were widened and along their deep cut banks the wigwams were giving way to the settlers' cabins. Meanwhile the tomahawk and scalping knife were being sheathed and the breaking plow and other instruments of peaceful husbandry were transforming the prairies into cultivated fields.
In 1843 Mr. Felkner returned to his boyhood home in Ohio and claimed for his bride the sweet young Quakeress, Elizabeth Lewis, the choice of his youthful heart. Elizabeth was the daughter of Enoch Lewis and Mourning, his wife, and she was possessed of many virtues and graces inherited from a long line of noble and talented ancestry from which she sprang.
The 1924-1925 Yearbook of Old Settlers states on page 4 that in 1837 Mr. Henry Felkner was engaged in building a sawmill on Rapid Creek about three miles northeast of Iowa City. His supplies being exhausted, he walked eight miles to the home of the nearest acquaintance, borrowed a horse and rode to Bloomington, forty miles distant, and procured his supplies. Returning to the home of his friend, he walked eight miles carrying seventy pounds of provisions.
In 1839 there came to Johnson county a young unmarried man from the state of Pennsylvania. He made a claim and afterwards entered land in Big Grove township, and with Timothy B. Clark and Paul B. Anders subsequently made a dedication of the original townsite of Solon and gave it the classic name which it bears of the great Athenian lawgiver. He was the first postmaster at Solon, and served as such for a number of years. This man was Hamilton H. Kerr, who departed this life some years since, and it is felt that something should be said here in honor of his memory. Mr. Kerr was a man of most sterling worth and unblemished character, always aligning himself on the side of the right as he understood it against the wrong; a good neighbor, a fast friend, just in all his dealings with his fellow men, a public-spirited citizen and withal so modest and unassuming, so wanting in self-assertion, that people who were not his immediate neighbors knew but little of his intrinsic worth. He lived for many years at the home he first established and then sold out and bought a small farm near Iowa City across the Iowa river, on which he reisded several years, until his advanced age and that of his wife made it advisable that they should give up the active operations of the farm, after which they made their home with their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Breese of Union township. This continued to be their home until Mr. Kerr's death in 1897, and it is still Mrs. Kerr's home.
Mr. Kerr was very social in his tastes and highly prized the society of his old friends and neighbors and in the later years of his life made man visits to their homes, where he was always received with the greatest pleasure and cordiality. In short, suffice it to say that his life was a model of domestic, social and civic virtue, and if any man among the pioneers in letter and very spirit kept every one of the command of the decalogue and observed in all its divine beauty the precept of the Golden Rule, that man was Hamilton H. Kerr.
His early life here had all the trials and vicissitudes incident to those pioneer days, but he was called upon to go through a trial and endure a privation that did not necessarily belong to pioneer life.
I said at the outset that when he came here Mr. Kerr was an unmarried man;; now, while this was true, it is also true that he came to select a place in which to establish home which a fair daughter of the old Keystone state had promised to share with him. She, his affianced wife, he left behind him until he should go to the fraway trans-Mississippi country, the land of beautiful Iowa, which was then firing the imagination of the young men and maidens of that day in the older states, as the place of others in which to seek and build elysian homes for themselves and their offspring.
When Mr. Kerr came it was his purpose to return within a year and ask the young lady who had promised to become his wife to fulfill her promise. He brought with him a sum of money, the savings of his modest earnings for some years. This money would enable him to provide the home which he was looking forward to with so much anticipated happiness, and to pay his expenses back to Pennsylvania and the return with the wedded woman of his heart. But, alas, he had formed the acquaintance of an honest (?) blacksmith of the neighboring county of Cedar, to whom he loaned his money as an accommodation for a few days; but the few days grew into many days, and the days into months and months into years, and his money was still loaned--a permanent investment--and so the years of this painful waiting dragged their weary length along, until the celebrated historical waiting of Jacob for Rachel was threatened with eclipse.
As it was out of the question for Mr. Kerr to get the money he had loaned he was compelled to wait the slow process of earning enough to assist him in carrying out the plans so dear to his heart. But earning money then in Iowa was a slow process at best in any vocation, and Mr. Kerr being an artisan patronized only by those who could afford tailor-made apparel, his patrons were not many and his earnings were necessarily slow.
But at last in 1847, eight long years after he came, Mr. Kerr succeeded in getting his affairs in shape, and as all things are said to have an end, so this long waiting, and he hied himself away to the betrothed of his heart, and as he had withstood the charms and blandishments of the pioneer belles and beauties of Iowa in that early time, and she had kept her plighted troth, they were married; and who shall say that the long enforced separation of this devoted pair, the "hope deferred that maketh the heart sick," has not added zest and bliss to the almost fifty years of their wedded life which followed, for it was a most happy union. Not that they had no sorrow, for that is not possible in the lives of sentient beings like ourselves. For out of a family of six children born of this union four sweetly sleep beside their father, beneath the grassy sod in the little cemetery at Solon. It has been said that "it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved," and is it not better that children be born, though they die in infancy, than that the parents should always have been childless? For is not the memory of these departed little ones and the hope of meeting them in the great hereafter a source of sublimated joy and happiness?
I should say that Mrs. Kerr (or rather Miss Brooks, for this was her maiden name) beguiled the tedium of the eight slow-passing years of Mr. Kerr's absence in Iowa before his return to her by teaching school, and that among her pupils who attended her school for a number of terms in her young girlhood was the mother of the Honorable A.B. Cummins, and who shall determine how much this teaching of his mother by Mrs. Kerr has influenced the aspirations and ambitions which have led him to the conspicuous place he occupies in the eyes of the people of Iowa and made him the candidate of the great Republican party for the highest office in their gift?
In jutsice [sic] to Mrs. Kerr I wish to say that she did not know that there was to be anything said here today in relation to her late husband or herself, otherwise I have no doubt her native modesty and disposition to shrink from public observation would have caused her to withhold her consent. I beg her pardon for taking such a liberty, my only justification being that the valuable lesson of their lives should have more publicity.
To the north and northwest of Solon, in Big Grove Township, stretched a broad expanse of level, fertile, well-watered land. It was here that Thomas Lingle, a miller as well as a farmer by trade, located a dam and mill not far from his claim. In 1840 the mill was completed and in operation; the full-flowing creek which furnished the power was known henceforth as Lingle's Creek. But ill-fortune hung over this mill though it was well patronized by the whole countryside. After having been damaged several times by floods, in the early fifties, it was completely washed out and destroyed. Then Frank Riddle took it over in 1854.
As a teacher Mr. McGrew was not averse to corporal punishment, but he only resorted to it once at that term. The victim was Alban Brown, a son of P.C.Brown, one of the early pioneers. On this occasion the teacher sent one of the boys out to cut a whip with which to chastise Alblan, who was a particular friend of mine, whom I did ot wish to see whipped, and accordingly when it was about time for the boy to be back with the whip I slipped out and stayed until the scene was over.
Stiles Family Came in 1838
Built 2-room Log House, Biggest Along the Dillon Furrow
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2. Aurner, Clarence Ray. Leading Events in Johnson County, Iowa, History
(Cedar Rapids: Western Histoical Press, 1912-13) pp. 164, 309.
3. 1838 Wisconsin Territorial Census for Johnson County, Iowa, comp.
Ronald Vern Jackson (Bountiful, UT: Accelerated Indexing Systems, 1981)
4. 1844 Iowa State Census, Johnson County, transcription at
5. Petit Jurors, Johnson County District Court 1858 Special Term, sheriff's summons, 9 Aug 1858; Johnson County, Iowa Miscellaneous Records, item #1, microfilm 985414, LDS.
6. "Johnson County, Iowa, Military Service Eligible Males, 1848," reproduced at .
7. 1839 signatory to Constitution and Laws of the Claims
8. 1830 U.S. Census, Chautauqua County, New York, Ripley, p. 137,
9. Although reference 1 (above) attributes the name "Solon" to one of Ander's sons, the 1850 census does not show such a son in Ander's household. Perhaps the child had died by then. Alternatively, the origin of the name "Solon" might reflect the hometown of one of the founders, ae, Solon, Cortland County, New York.
10. "Hamilton H. Kerr," 35th Annual Reunion: Old Settlers of Johnson County (Iowa City: Iowa Citizen Publishing Company, Printers, 1901)
11. 1850 U.S. Census, Johnson County, Iowa, Big Grove Precinct, 8 Oct 1850, NARA microfilm M432, Roll 208.
12. Iowa District Court Records, Johnson County, 1839-1841 Second Judicial District, Iowa State Historical Society, Box 2, LDS microfilm 989168, item #1.
13. Index to 1830 U.S. Census, New York, Ronald Vern Jackson (Bountiful, UT: Accelerated Indexing Systems, 1977)
14. 1840 U.S. Census Iowa, Johnson County, comp. Rowena T. Obert (Salt Lake City, UT, 1968)
15. Probate Records, Johnson County, IA, LDS FHL microfilm 985944.
16. World Connect, Rootsweb.com at wcrootsweb.com
17. LDS FHL
18. Wilbur D. Cannon Papers, 1860-1915, State Historical Society of Iowa, Special Collection, Iowa City, Iowa City Library Manuscripts, BL 71.
19. Wilbur D. Cannon,Iowa City mansion in series on historic
landmarks of Iowa city, Iowa Press Citizen, Aug. 1-4, 2004, Iowa City.
20. Index to 1820 U.S. Census, Ohio, Ronald Vern Jackson (Bountiful, UT: Accelerated Indexing Systems, 1971)
21. "Women of Big Grove," comp. Jacob Risora, Johnson County, Iowa Miscellaneous Records, item #1, LDS Film 985414.
22. Dr. James Griffith birth calculated from age given in obituary, Chicago Tribune, 28 April 1884, p. 3.
23. Griffith/Hall, Knox County Probate Court Marriage Records 1808-1838, p. 117, LDS Film 1294304.
24. Mrs. Elizabeth Griffith birth calculated from age given in obituary, Chicago Tribune, 25 Sep 1891, p. 3. Elizabeth Griffith, Chicago city Board of Health Death Certificate 1891-5219.
25. James Griffith, Chicago City Board of Health Death Certificate 1884-39938.
26. Alpheus H. Harlan, History and Genealogy of the Harlan Family (np,1914)
27. James Griffith, Certificate 3117, Iowa City Land office, 16 Sep 1850, patent 1 Apr 1850, nw 1/4 se 1/4 sec 22, T81N R6W, Johnson county Recorder Bk. 6, p. 218.
28. U.S. 1860 Census Johnson County, IA, Newport Twp., NARA microfilm M653, 2d filming, roll 327, p. 541, Household 365.
29. Marriages of Johnson County, IA, 1839--1867, Vol. 3, p. 142, Johnson County Recorder, Iowa City.
30. Marriages of Johnson County, IA, 1839--11867, Book 3, p. 22, Johnson County Recorder, Iowa City.
31. 1870 U.S. Census, Johnson County, IA, Newport Twp., NARA microfilm M593, Roll 400
32. Johnson County, IA District Court, Guardianships 1851-1938, UGS 1990, microfilm 1705134, item #1.
33. Johnson County Probate Records, Vol. 8, p. 201, LDS FHL microfilm roll 985947.
34. Johnson County Probate Index, Vol. 1, 1840-1883, UGS microfilm 985942.
35. 1870 U.S. Census, Johnson County, IA, Iowa City, p. 7, NARA microfilm M593, Roll 400.
36. LDS FHL. (No documentary sources cited for this submittal).
37. 1830 U. S. Census, New York, Chautauqua County, Ellery,
38. 1825 New York State Census, Chautauqua County, Ellery,
39. 1820 U. S. Census, New York, Chautauqua County, Chautauqua,
40. Elliot Storke, History of Cayuga County, New York, 1789-1897( Syracuse: D. Mason, 1879), p. 260.
41. Cyrus Sanders and Henry Felkner, "Unfinished History of Johnson County," manuscript, Iowa State Historical Society, Iowa City, Iowa.
42. Iowa State Census 1854 transcribed at
43. Willliam Monroe Spurrier, International Genealogical Index (IGI), LDS FHL.
44. Irvin Weber, "Solon History," in "History of Johnson County Iowa," Iowa Press Citizen, 24 Sep 1975, p. 2; see also Solon Reaper, 28 July 1982; and Aurner (2 above), Leading Events..., p. 164.
45. Johnson County Recorder, Iowa City, Iowa
46. Iowa Writers ProgramHistory of Johnson County, Iowa<\/em>,State of Iowa Work Projects Administration, 1941.
47. Yearbook of Old Settler's Association of Johnson County, IA, State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
www.rootsweb.com/~iajohnso/JCmilitary1848.htm
Association of Johnson County, Iowa, adopted 9 Mar 1839 as transcribed at
www.kinyon.com/iowa/claim/constitution.htm
trans. Virginia Barden and Lois Barris, Chautauqua County Genealogical
Society, 1995, at:
www.rootsweb.com/~nychauta/CENSUS/Ripl1820.htm
p. 322, trans. Jay Priest, Chautauqua County Genealogical Society:
www.rootsweb.com/~nychauta/CENSUS/Elle1830.html
p. trans. Mrs. Lester Lewison, NSDAR
www.rootsweb.com/~nychauta/CENSUS/Elle1825.html
p. 55,trans. Virginia Barden and Lois Barris, Chautauqua County
Genealogical Society, 1995, at:
www.rootsweb.com/~nychauta/CENSUS/Chau1820.htm
iagenweb.org/census/johnson/1854/IA-1854-BigGrove.txt