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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Alexander Woodside: Birth: ABT 1853 in Franklin Twp., Des Moines Co., Iowa.

  2. Alice Lydia Woodside: Birth: JUN 1857 in Franklin Twp., Des Moines Co., Iowa. Death: AFT 1930

  3. Warren Robert Woodside: Birth: 9 OCT 1859 in Franklin Twp., Des Moines Co., Iowa. Death: ABT 1946 in Washington Co., Iowa


Notes
a. Note:   1861: Des Moines Co., IA>Fresno, Fresno Co., CA
  From what I can gather and deduce from census data and FamilySearch.org's "Ancestral File," John Stewart Reyburn, wife Nancy Davisson Reyburn and their three children, Susan M. (1830), Matilda F. (1833) and James John, (1836), arrived in Iowa Territory from Clark Co., OH sometime between 1837 and 1840 and settled in Des Moines County. The children were all born in Clark Co.,Ohio. John Stewart died in Burlington, Des Moines Co. on 1 May 1840, age 38. Nancy was pregnant, and a fourth child, Joseph Davisson, was born posthumously on Christmas 1840. "Nancy Reybourn" is indexed as a head of household, Des Moines Co., "Unknown Township" in the 1840 Census.
 "Nancy Raboon" is still head of household, ten years later, in the 1850 Census, Des Moines Co., IA, Flint River Twp., p. 414. She is 55, b. in VA. "Matilda" 17, "James" 15 were b. in OH and "Joseph" 9, in IA. Matilda married James Woodside in 1852 and had three children by the summer of 1860 when the family is found in Franklin Twp. (See James Woodside). Matilda's brother James and his wife, Mary, were also living in Franklin Twp. as was her 63 yr. old mother, Nancy. Nancy was living with Robert Davisson Pool(e) and family; her son by her first marriage. She would die in October of that year.
 What happened next and why is a great mystery. It appears that sometime between July 1860 and October 1861Matilida packed up and left her husband, James H. Woodside, and children in Iowa and trekked out to California, to Fresno County! She probably travelled with one or both of her brothers and possibly her sister, Susan, since all three of her siblings settled in the Fresno, Clovis and Visalia areas and spent their lives there. The journey had a sad ending, however, for Matilda died in Fresno, Fresno Co., CA on 31 October 1861. She couldn't have been there long. What was she doing? Was she scouting prospective places for settlement, or did she leave to start anew? Her mother-in-law, Mary "Polly" Woodside, was living with them in 1860. Was this part of the problem?
 Her eldest child, the 6 yr. old Alexander of the 1860 Census, was gone, probably dead, by 1870. James, left with two or three young children, remarried quickly - in 1862 to Nancy Chrisinger; she took over the "mothering". They had five or six of their own children and were married for over 50 yrs. But why was "Matilda I. Rayburn" listed as "wif" in the Iowa Grave Records?


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