Name: varla_wright -- Ancestry of Bertha A. Brush

Updated: 08-03-2020 19:08:80. Owner: Varla Wright


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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Elam Wesley Boyer: Birth: 15 Dec 1859 in , Mahaska, Iowa. Death: 23 Jun 1917 in Jefferson, Poweshiek, Iowa

  2. David Washington Boyer: Birth: 6 Oct 1861 in Oskaloosa, Mahaska, Iowa. Death: 20 Sep 1929 in Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa

  3. Emma Florence Boyer: Birth: 10 Apr 1864 in York, Tama, Iowa. Death: 24 Jul 1941 in Chelsea, Tama, Iowa

  4. Charles Elmer Boyer: Birth: 29 Apr 1867 in York, Tama, Iowa. Death: 19 Apr 1942 in Toledo, Tama, Iowa

  5. Loretta Boyer: Birth: 1872 in York, Tama, Iowa. Death: 1873 in York, Tama, Iowa

  6. (Daughter) Boyer: Birth: 1872 in York, Tama, Iowa. Death: 1872 in York, Tama, Iowa

  7. William Frederick Boyer: Birth: 11 May 1876 in Nr Cultier, Tama, Iowa. Death: 27 Jun 1936 in Chelsea, Tama, Iowa


Sources
1. Title:   1895 Iowa State Census
Author:   State of Iowa
Publication:   Ancestry.com; MyFamily.com, Inc. 2003 database online
2. Title:   1870 Census of York Twp., Tama, Iowa
Page:   pg 13
Author:   Bureau of the Census
Publication:   Images Online

Notes
a. Note:   ater, her father was thrown from his horse into a tree and died. The children were separated; Eliza was raised by Thomas B. Stafford, a Quaker minister. Thomas Stafford was born in Perquimans, North Carolina in 1782 and died in 1860 in Mahaska Co. Iowa. He md. Elizabeth Boswell. most of their children were born in Wayne Co., Indiana, where he established a congregation of Quakers. They were living in Wayne twp., Tippecanoe Co., Indiana near the Wabash River when they took Eliza Jane into their family. No formal adoption papers were ever filed as far as Indiana records show.
  Some of her older siblings were members of the Fancher Wagon Train and were killed in the Mountain Meadows Massacre in southern Utah. A Zebulon P. Fawcett, a young scout for the wagon train who was traveling with the younger Reeders and their Uncle Charles, had gone ahead to check on the trail, water, etc. When he returned, he found everyone except himself and his fellow scout had apparently been killed. He rode rapidly for San Francisco, from where he wrote to family members in the midwest to inform them of the death of their kin. Letter and picture of him from his daughter, Francis Fawcett, to Jennie Lillian Hall Brush is currently in the L.D.S. Church Historian's document collection [Ms d 4574].
  On the 1880 Census for Salt Creek Twp., Tama, Iowa, she goes by Jane and states that she was born in Indiana.
 On the 1920 Census she states that both of her parents as well as herself were born in Ohio.
Note:   !. Eliza Jane was orphaned at a young age when her mother died in childbirth. A few months l

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