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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Ruann Best: Birth: 29 Jan 1822 in , Prob Tuscarawas, Ohio. Death: BEF 1846

  2. David Best: Birth: 26 Oct 1824 in , Prob Tuscarawas, Ohio. Death: BEF 1846

  3. RICHARD Best: Birth: 23 May 1826 in of Goshen Twp, Tuscarawas, Ohio. Death: 9 Jun 1873 in Nr Chico, Butte, California

  4. Samuel Best: Birth: 6 Jun 1828 in of Goshen Twp, Tuscarawas, Ohio. Death: 18 Jan 1908 in Yuba City, Sutter, California

  5. John Elvin Best: Birth: 17 Jun 1830 in of Goshen Twp, Tuscarawas, Ohio. Death: 18 Jan 1906 in Des Moines Twp, Lee, Iowa

  6. Henry W. Best: Birth: 25 Feb 1832 in of Goshen Twp, Tuscarawas, Ohio. Death: 26 Apr 1921 in Nr Yuba City, Sutter, California


Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Matilda Jane Best: Birth: 6 Oct 1833 in , Lee, Ohio. Death: 14 Dec 1912 in Stockton, San Joaquin, California

  2. Sarah Jane Best: Birth: 4 Oct 1836 in , , Ohio.

  3. Daniel Best: Birth: 28 Mar 1838 in Clinton, Crawford, Ohio. Death: 22 Aug 1923 in Oakland, Alameda, California

  4. Zachariah Best: Birth: 19 Mar 1840 in , , Missouri. Death: 13 Jan 1914 in San Leandro, Alameda, California

  5. Isaac Best: Birth: 28 Dec 1841 in , Gasconade, Missouri. Death: AFT 1908

  6. Mary Anne Best: Birth: 25 Nov 1843 in , , Missouri. Death: 16 Jan 1917

  7. Benjamin Banthan Best: Birth: 26 Sep 1846 in , Gasconade, Missouri. Death: 24 Jul 1921 in Revere, Clark, Missouri

  8. Rucilla Best: Birth: 24 Apr 1848 in of , Lee, Iowa. Death: 31 May 1923

  9. Priscilla Best: Birth: 24 Apr 1848 in of, Lee, Iowa. Death: 22 Mar 1924 in Wheatland, Yuba, California

  10. Nathaniel Best: Birth: 1 Apr 1850 in Vincennes, Lee, Iowa. Death: 26 Nov 1893 in Wheatland, Yuba, California


Notes
a. Note:   !BIRTH: BEST/STOKER Fam Bib in Poss Minnie (STOKER) STEVENS, El Margarita Rd, Yuba City, CA (dec) copied 31 Dec 1961: John G. BEST was born in the year of our Lord June 8, 1798. CONFLICT: History of Yuba & Sutter Counties, Calif. by Peter J. Delay, Historic Record Co., Los Angeles, CA, 1924; Pg 321: Henry Best [was] a son of John G. Best, whose birth occurred in Penn, about 1790...[he] settled on the Des Moines river on an Indian Reservation [where he] died at 65 years of age.
  !MARR #1: Tuscarawas Co, OH, Marr Rec, compiled by Western Reserve Historical Society. (GS #F/Ohio 41/Pt206) John George BEST md Tresse BUEL, 9 Jan 1821, Tuscarawas Co, OH, by John Hall, Justice of Peace. CONFLICT: Best/Stoker Fam Bible gives date of Marr, 9 Jan 1818; Alternate Last Name: BURRELL
  !MARR #2: BEST/STOKER Fam Bible (above): md 9 Dec 1835 to Miss Rebecca AARNOLD _____ (could not read); CONFLICT: Rebecca ARNOLD had previosly been md to (---) McFARLAND, and had one daughter
  !DEATH: Headstone in Oakland-Meek Cem, Vincennes, Lee Co, IA (Copied by John Elvin BEST, ca 1964) John G. BEST d age 62 yrs
  SOURCES: Ancestry.com; 1830 Census, Paint Twp, Holmes Co, OH: John G. BEST; Males: 2 <5-9> [Samuel & Richard]; 1 <30-39> [John G.]; Females: 1 <0-5> [Ruann age 8];1 <20-29> [Tracy] [IBID] 1850 Fed Census, Dist 29, Lee Co, IA; Enum 8 Oct 1850, John G. BEST, 52, m, w, farmer, b PA; [2nd wife] Rebecca BEST, 35, f, w, b OH; [Children of 1st marr] Richard BEST, 24, m, w, farmer, b OH; Samuel BEST, 22, m, w, farmer, b OH; John BEST, 20, m, w, farmer, b OH; Henry BEST, 18, m, w, farmer, b OH; [Children of 2nd marr] Sarah J. BEST, 14, f, w, b OH; Daniel BEST, 12, m, w, b MO; Zecheriah BEST, 10, m, w, b MO; Isaac BEST, 9, m, w, b MO; Benjamin BEST, 5, m, w, b MO; Priscilla BEST [twin], 2, f, w, b MO; Rusilla BEST [twin] 2, f, w, b MO; Nathaniel BEST, 1, m, w, b MO; Matilda BEST [Rebecca's child from previous marr] 16, f, w, b OH [IBID] 1860 Fed Census, Vincennes, Lee Co, IA; John G. BEST, 64, m, farmer, person prop $100, b PA; Rebecca BEST, 44, f, b OH; Zachariah BEST, 20, m, b MO; Benjamin BEST, 14, m, farmer, b MO; Percilla BEST, 12, f, b IA [twin]; Rucilla BEST, 12, f, b IA [twin]; Nathaniel BEST, 10, m, b IA, Isaac BEST, 18, m, farmer, b MO, md w/in yr; Rachel BEST, 18, f, b IA md w/in yr BEST/LEES Fam Bible Rec rcvd from Brent Galloway (10 Jan 1964) Familysearc.org; IGI, Mar 1992; Pg 4173; Batch 7005522, Sh 30 [IBID] IGI, 1994 Edition, v3.04: Film #1903692, B 21 Sep 1993 ATLAN, E 23 Nov 1993 ATLAN, SP 23 Nov 1993 ATLAN; CONFLICT: IGI give birthplace as <, Tuscarawas, Ohio> [IBID] Ancestral File, v4.15, Submission #AF83-005018, F#1394026 by Florence J. SKONITZKI, 1203 Summit St., Dothan, AL 36301 National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol 84, #4, Dec, 1996, Pg 283: Isaac BEST & John BEST signed a deposition for claims against the Sac & Fox Indians [in Eastern Missouri ?] in July 1814 History of the State of Calif., & Bio. Record of the Sacramento Valley, by Prof. J.M. Guinn, Chapman Publ. Co, 1906, Pgs 1181: Bio of Henry BEST, his father, John G. BEST, was b in PA abt 1790, served in army in Ohio as a hunter REL: John George Best is a 3rd gg father of Charles I. Davis


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