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THE DESCENDANTS OF [WILLEM?] KLINCKENBERG


27. MERCY "MASSIE"6 CLINKENBEARD (JOHN5, WILLIAM4, JOHN3, WILLEM2 KLINCKENBERG, [WILLEM?]1) was born 8 November 1796 in Sevier County, Tennessee244, and died 3 August 1869 in Fleming County, Kentucky245. She married JONATHAN A. CLINKENBEARD 15 October 1822 in Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky246,247, son of WILLIAM CLINKENBEARD and MARY MOONEY. He was born 16 July 1785 in Constant Station, Clarke County, Kentucky, and died 3 July 1862 in Fleming County, Kentucky.

Notes for MERCY "MASSIE" CLINKENBEARD:
Mercy married her first cousin, Jonathan Clinkenbeard, the son of her father John's brother, William. The Rev'd John McFarley officiated at Mercy and Jonathan's wedding on 15 October 1823 in Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky.[a]
Mercy Clinkenbeard was interviewed by Draper, the 19th-century historian, on 18 October 1866, when she was aged 69, at the home in Fleming County, Kentucky, of her son Robt: Clinkenbeard. Regarding her father, John Clinkenbeard, Mercy said:
"JOHN CLINKINBEARD, her father, early settled on French Broad River, East Tennessee. The Indians took Gillaspie's Station, where sixty men gathered to go to the Cherokee Nation---one half backed out---the rest went on from the French Broad river, Clinkinbeard among them; went to a town, took over thirty prisoners, & brought them to the Settlements tied on their horses; & on the return of the whites, they built a house on French Broad, in which they kept them till exchanged.
"THE CLINKINBEARDS.---John Clinkinbeard drew a [Revolutionary War] pension; he died in Clark Co. Ky, twenty nine years ago, in Feb. 1837---wd. have been 83 in June [sic] following had he lived till then.
"The Clinkinbeards were from Shepherdstown, Berkley Co. Va. Wm. Clinkinbeard would not apply for a [Revolutionary War] pension (he lived, I think, in Clark Co. Ky); but Isaac Clinkinbeard, who resided in Bourbon County, Ky, perhaps got a pension: He was at the taking of Fort Lee, N.Y."[b]
Mercy was buried in Flemingsburg, Fleming Co., Kentucky, Flemingsburg Cemetery.
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a. Bourbon County [Ky] Marriage Book 2, page 84, cited in Norman Cooper Emerick, A GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE GEORGE COOPER (KIEFER) FAMILY & ALLIED FAMILIES, Chapter ___: "The William Clinkenbeard Family," with Bibliography (Baltimore: N.C. Emerick, pre-publication draft as of Aug 1995); photocopy of Chapter & Bibliography MS. in poss of J.E. Stockman; pp. 39-39A.
b. DRAPER MSS., 21S; photocopy from Cherel Henderson, East Tennessee Historical Soc., Knoxville, Tenn.

Notes for JONATHAN A. CLINKENBEARD:
      The birthplaces of the children of William's son Jonathan disclose that he and his wife Mercie (they were married in Bourbon County, Kentucky, on 15 October 1823) were living in Owingsville, Bath County, Kentucky, from 1824 through at least May 1831 (later they were living in Fleming County, Ky., according to the 1850 Census).
      The Jonathan whom the 1830 Census found living next to John in Bourbon County, Kentucky, has to have been John and Mary (Lucas) Clinkenbeard's son who died in 1836, and not their nephew/son-in-law who appears to have lived continuously in Bath County, Kentucky, through at least May 1831, and then in Fleming County, Kentucky, by 1850. There is no evidence that he ever lived in Bourbon County after he married there in 1823. The fact that the Jonathan who lived next door to John in Bourbon County does not appear in Censuses after 1830 is consistent with John's son Jonathan having died in 1836.
      There is some confusion in the research concerning Jonathan's marriage(s). Before his marriage to Mercy "Massie" Clinkenbeard on 15 October 1822, one record has him marrying on 15 March 1822 in Carter County, Tennessee, Mary "Polly" Carter, born in 1790 in Dandridge, Jefferson County, Tennessee. One child, Isaac, was reportedly born to them on 15 Feb 1823. This is obviously in error, Mary and Isaac being the wife and son of John Clinkenbeard Jr, the brother of Mercy "Massie" Clinkenbeard.
     
Children of MERCY CLINKENBEARD and JONATHAN CLINKENBEARD are:
71. i.   ISAAC7 CLINKENBEARD, b. 15 February 1823, Bath County, Kentucky; d. 1909, DeKalb County, Missouri.
  ii.   WILLIAM CLINKENBEARD, b. 30 July 1824, Owingsville, Bath Co., Kentucky248; d. 28 December 1858.
  Notes for WILLIAM CLINKENBEARD:
      William died of Typhoid Fever, and was not one of the four siblings who were buried in Flemingsburg Cemetery, Bourbon County, Ky. [Norman Cooper Emerick, A GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE GEORGE COOPER (KIEFER) FAMILY & ALLIED FAMILIES, Chapter ___: "The William Clinkenbeard
Family," with Bibliography (Baltimore: N.C. Emerick, pre-publication draft as of Aug 1995); photocopy of Chapter 7 Bibliography MS. supplied to J.E. Stockman courtesy of author; p. 39A.]

72. iii.   ROBERT CLINKENBEARD, SR, b. 25 February 1826, Fleming Co., Kentucky; d. 14 July 1903, Sheldon, Vernon Co., Missouri.
  iv.   MARY JANE CLINKENBEARD, b. 27 March 1828, Owingsville, Bath Co., Kentucky; d. 8 August 1849248.
  Notes for MARY JANE CLINKENBEARD:
      Mary was buried on 12 August 1849 in Flemingsburg Cemetery, Flemingsburg, Fleming County, Kentucky. [Norman Cooper Emerick, A GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE GEORGE COOPER (KIEFER) FAMILY & ALLIED FAMILIES, Chapter ___: "The William Clinkenbeard Family," with Bibliography (Baltimore: N.C. Emerick, pre-publication draft as of Aug 1995) p. 39A; photocopy of Chapter & Bibliography MS. supplied to J.E. Stockman courtesy of author.]

  v.   JOHN L. CLINKENBEARD, b. 3 October 1829, Owingsville, Bath Co., Kentucky; d. 12 August 1858.
  Notes for JOHN L. CLINKENBEARD:
      One source relates in regard to Jonathan and Mercy's children that: "A child 'S' was born October 3, 1829 and died August 12, 1878."[a] We will assume that this child was this John. John died of Typhoid Fever, and he was not one of the four children buried in the Flemingsburg Cemetery, Fleming County, Kentucky.[a] The IGI lists a John Clinkenbear (sic) marrying an Elizabeth Toleman on 18 August 1852 in Pendleton County, Kentucky.[b] That is likely this John.
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a. Norman Cooper Emerick, A GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE GEORGE COOPER (KIEFER) FAMILY & ALLIED FAMILIES, Chapter ___: "The William Clinkenbeard Family," with Bibliography (Baltimore: N.C. Emerick, pre-publication draft as of Aug 1995) p. 39A; photocopy of Chapter & Bibliography MS. supplied to J.E. Stockman courtesy of author.
b. LDS International Genealogical Index (Kentucky), as of March 1992 (Family History Library) p. 4,732.
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  vi.   GEORGE W. CLINKENBEARD, b. 26 May 1831, Bath Co., Kentucky; d. 24 March 1884248.
  Notes for GEORGE W. CLINKENBEARD:
George was buried in the Flemingsburg Cemetery, Flemingsburg, Fleming County, Kentucky.



28. PHEBE6 CLINKENBEARD (JOHN5, WILLIAM4, JOHN3, WILLEM2 KLINCKENBERG, [WILLEM?]1) was born 26 December 1798 in Sevier County, Tennessee249,250,251, and died 27 December 1881 in Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois252,253. She married SAMUEL ELDER 20 March 1813 in Sevier County, Tennessee254. He was born 22 June 1787 in Sevier County, Tennessee254, and died 24 October 1846 in Rochester, Sangamon County, Illinois254.

Notes for PHEBE CLINKENBEARD:
      Cousin Mary Elizabeth (Lindsay) Brosveen, D.A.R., of Albuquerque, New Mexico, writes that "....my father's cousin was Lindsay Hillman of Springfield, Illinois. Lindsay stated that he well remembered his grandmother Phoebe Clinkenbeard Elder....that she was blonde with blue eyes, and that she WAS 1/4 CHEROKEE. [Emphasis added.] Maude [Clinkenbeard Spencer, another cousin/researcher] also told me that there is an Indian Chief in Florida by the name of Clinkenbeard . . ."[a]
      The rumour of Clinkenbeard Cherokee blood continues to surface amongst family researchers. Was Elizabeth Edwards, wife of Edward Lucas and Phebe's grandmother, a full-blooded Cherokee Indian? Or has confusion arisen in connexion with the unrelated Cherokee Indian, Henry Clinkenbeard, who assumed the Clinkenbeard surname because of admiration for a Clinkenbeard man?
      Phebe and Samuel had twenty children, the last being Hannah R.[b]
      On 11 December 1813, Phebe's husband, Samuel Elder (and Phebe, too?), was received by "by letter," and her father John "by experience," into the Dumplin Baptist Church on Dumplin Creek across the French Broad River from John's plantation. Curiously, however, in 1814 John was excommunicated, and Samuel and his wife Phebe (John's daughter) were "dismissed" from membership, for reasons now unknown.[c]
      Mary Elizabeth (Lindsay) Brosveen, D.A.R., of Albuquerque, New Mexico, descends from John Clinkenbeard, Revolutionary War Soldier, through his daughter Phebe:[d]
1. PHEBE CLINKENBEARD, b.1798, Tenn.; d. 1846, Ill.; m. SAMUEL ELDER, b.1787, No.Carolina; their child:
2. SARAH ELDER b.1825, Ind.; d. 1888, Ill.; m. ISAAC LINDSAY, b. 1819, Penn.; d.1892, Ill.; their child:
3. WILLIAM EDWIN LINDSAY, b.1864, Ill.; d. 1925, Ill.; m. MARY CATHERINE COE, b.1867, Ill.; d.1967, Ill.; their child:
4. ISAAC E. LINDSAY, b. 1889, Ill.; d. 1947, Minn.; m. ANNE EVA NEILSON, b. 1891, No. Dakota; d. 1959, Minn.; their child:
5. MARY ELIZABETH LINDSAY, b. in No. Dakota; m. ALTON D. BROSVEEN.
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a. Letter of Mary Elizabeth (Lindsay) Brosveen, D.A.R., Albuquerque, N.M., to J.E. Stockman.
b. Norman Cooper Emerick, A GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE GEORGE COOPER (KIEFER) FAMILY & ALLIED FAMILIES, Chapter ___: "The William Clinkenbeard Family," with Bibliography (Baltimore: N.C. Emerick, pre-publication draft as of Aug 1995); photocopy of Chapter & Bibliography MS. supplied to J.E. Stockman courtesy of author; p. 41.
c. Ibid, pp. 15, 34A, 35.
d. Daughters of American Revolution, National Society: Application of Mary Lindsay Brosveen, #459971, verified and approved 25 Aug 1983; photocopy in possible of J.E. Stockman.
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Children of PHEBE CLINKENBEARD and SAMUEL ELDER are:
73. i.   LAVINA7 ELDER, b. 12 February 1815, Sevier Co., Tennessee; d. 1880.
  ii.   HARRISON ELDER, b. 29 February 1816, Sevier Co., Tennessee255; d. 1830255.
  iii.   MARY B. ELDER, b. 18 May 1817, Sevier Co., Tennessee; d. 7 September 1847; m. JONATHAN C. CONSTANT, 19 May 1836, Sangamon Co., Illinois; b. 30 September 1809, Fleming Co., Kentucky256; d. 22 December 1879, Mechanicsburg, Sangamon Co., Illinois.
  Notes for MARY B. ELDER:
Mary was buried in the Mechanicsburg Cemetery, Mechanicsburg, Sangamon County, Illinois.

  Notes for JONATHAN C. CONSTANT:
The 1860 Federal Census for Sangamon County, Illinois, enumerated Jonathan Constant, 50, Farmer, b. Kentucky; Sarah (Carrico) Constant, 59, b. Kentucky; John W., 20, b. Illinois; Samuel, 16; Allen, 6. At the 1870 Census, the family were living in Dawson, Mechanicsburg Township, Sangamon County, Illinois, and consisted of Jonathan Constant, 61, b. Kentucky; Celia, 58, b. Ohio; Mary B., 18, b. Illinois; and Lewis A., 16, b. Illinois. The 1880 Martality Schedule for Sangamon County, Illinois, listed Jonathan Constant, aged 70, a farmer, born in Kentucky, and showed his parents both to have been born in Kentucky. Jonathan died from Erysipelas. [---GEDCOM file (clink.ged) from Jas: Houpt, Port Orange, Fl., to J.E. Stockman on 27 March 1995.]

  iv.   JAMES ELDER, b. 24 October 1821, Scott Co., Indiana257; d. 15 January 1904; m. HARRIET WALKER, 27 February 1844, Sangamon Co., Illinois257; b. 8 September 1822, Ohio; d. Unknown.
  Notes for JAMES ELDER:
      James and Harriet had seven children, including Sarah Jane Elder, born 25 May 1846, died 14 September 1859; W.[illiam?] Walker Elder, born 22 July 1855, died 5 September 1858; and Hattie Ann Elder, born 1868. Sarah and William, at least, were buried in the Mechanicsburg Cemetery, Mechanicsburg, Sangamon County, Illinois. [Norman Cooper Emerick, A GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE GEORGE COOPER (KIEFER) FAMILY & ALLIED FAMILIES, Chapter ___: "The William Clinkenbeard Family," with Bibliography (Baltimore: N.C. Emerick, pre-publication draft as of Aug 1995); photocopy of Chapter & Bibliography MS. supplied to J.E. Stockman courtesy of author.

  v.   RACHEL ELDER, b. 8 December 1822, Scott Co., Indiana; d. November 1835, Sangamon Co., Illinois..
74. vi.   SARAH ELDER, b. 4 March 1825, Scott County, Indiana; d. 26 January 1888, Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois.
  vii.   JONATHAN ELDER, b. 24 July 1826, Bourbon Co., Kentucky; d. Unknown; m. JOSEPHINE FLAGG, 17 February 1850, Sangamon Co., Illinois; b. about 1831; d. Unknown.
  viii.   MERCY ELDER, b. 7 January 1829, Bourbon Co., Kentucky; d. 27 January 1858; m. ISAAC LINDSAY, 9 January 1851; b. 16 May 1819, Franklin County, Pennsylvania; d. 27 February 1892, Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois.
  ix.   ISAAC ELDER, b. 12 March 1830, Bourbon Co., Kentucky; d. Unknown; m. HARRIET LANNING, 3 November 1853, Springfield, Sangamon Co., Illinois; b. about 1835; d. Unknown.
  x.   SAMUEL S. ELDER, b. 5 May 1831, Bourbon Co., Kentucky; d. Unknown; m. SARAH A. SHIVES, 17 December 1851, Springfield, Sangamon Co., Illinois; b. about 1836; d. Unknown.
  xi.   ELIZABETH F. ELDER, b. 30 May 1832, Bourbon Co., Kentucky; d. Unknown; m. ETHAN P. MAY, 1850, Sangamon Co., Illinois; b. 12 June 1829; d. Unknown.
  xii.   SINAI ANN ELDER, b. 16 June 1833, Bourbon Co., Kentucky; d. Unknown; m. FRANKLIN HOYT, 14 October 1852, Sangamon Co., Illinois; b. about 1828; d. Unknown.
  xiii.   SARAH ELDER, b. 4 July 1833, Pennsylvania; d. Unknown.
  xiv.   HARRIET ELDER, b. 15 August 1835, Sangamon Co., Illinois; d. Unknown; m. LEVI F. DYSON, 11 January 1855, Sangamon Co., Illinois; b. about 1830; d. Unknown.
  xv.   DAVID L. ELDER, b. 25 May 1839, Sangamon Co., Illinois; d. Unknown; m. MARY BERRY, Sullivan, Moultrie Co., Illinois; b. about 1844; d. Unknown.
  xvi.   HANNAH R. ELDER, b. 1 July 1841, Sangamon Co., Illinois; d. Unknown; m. GEORGE P. SIDENER, 9 February 1858; b. 5 December 1833, Bourbon Co., Kentucky.; d. Unknown.
  xvii.   HARRIET ELDER, b. 6 March 1855, Auglaize Co., Ohio; d. Unknown.


29. ISAAC6 CLINKENBEARD (JOHN5, WILLIAM4, JOHN3, WILLEM2 KLINCKENBERG, [WILLEM?]1) was born 20 November 1801 in Sevier County, Tennessee258,259,260, and died 19 August 1850 in Gentry County, Missouri261,262. He married IVEA/IVA/IVY/IDA JOSS ALLEN 28 May 1827 in Bourbon County, Kentucky263,264,265, daughter of DAVID ALLEN and ELIZABETH WRIGHT. She was born 30 March 1808 in Kentucky266,267, and died 29 March 1874 in Atchison County, Kansas268.

Notes for ISAAC CLINKENBEARD:
Three sources relating to Isaac's marriage contain somewhat conflicting information. Two name Isaac's wife as IVEA or IVA, and give the date and place of marriage respectively as "May 1828, Bourbon Co., KY" and "1 May 1828, Jefferson Co., KY."[a] The third source, locating the marriage in Bourbon County, Kentucky, states: "Isaac Clinkenbeard and JOSS Allen, dau. of Bondsman David Allen, 27 April 1828."[b] Yet another source reported that Iva Allen and Joss Allen were one and the same person---the daughter of David Allen, Bondsman, and that the correct date of marriage was 28 May 1827, the minister who married them being G. Gates.[c] This source would appear to be the correct one.
The Federal Censuses from 1830 to 1870 reveal the following:

---1830 Census: Isaac (b. 1800/10) and Iva (b.1800/10) were living in Bourbon County, Kentucky, three years after their marriage. Living with them in the household were two males, one born 1810/15 (too old to be Isaac's and Iva's child), and one born 1750/60 (very probably Iva's father, David Allen); two females, one born 1810/15 (too old to be Isaac's and Iva's), one born 1825/30 (was this Julia Ann, born 20 January 1831, or was this a prior daughter who did not survive?); and one slave.[d]

---1840 Census: Isaac (b.1800/10) was shown TO BE REGISTERED in Marshall Twp., Platte Co., Missouri, in 1842/3; living in the household were two males, one born 1830/35 (David), one born 1835/40 (James L.); and three females, one born 1800/10 (Ivea), one born 1825/30, one born 1830/35 (Julia Ann), and one born 1835/40 (Sarah Jane). No slaves were enumerated.[e]

---1850 Census: The family were living in Gentryville (in? or?) Miller Township, Gentry County, Missouri:[f]
· Isaac Clinkingbeard, 47, Male, Farmer, b. Tennessee
· Iva " 42, Female, b. Kentucky
· Julia Ann " 19, Female, b. Kentucky
· David A. " 15, Male, b. Kentucky
· Sarah J. " 12, Female, b. Kentucky
· James L. " 10, Male, b. Kentucky
· Nancy " 8, Female, b. Missouri
· Isaac " 6, Male, b. Missouri
· Socraties " 5, Male, b. Missouri

---1860 Census: Iva, Widow, and her family were living in Crawford Township, Buchanan County, Missouri:[g]
· Ida Clinkingbeard, 48, Female, Farming, Personal Estate Value $1,018, b. Kentucky
· David " 25, Male, Farming, b. Kentucky
· Sarah " 23, Female, b. Kentucky
· James " 21, Male, b. Missouri
· Nancy " 18, Female, b. Missouri
· Isaac " 17, Male, b. Missouri
· Cratis " 15, Male, b. Missouri

---1870 Census: Ivy and her son James L. were living in the same household in Easton Township, Leavenworth County, Kansas:[h]

The Land Grant Records of Marshall Township, Platte County, Missouri, show the following land to have been granted to Isaac in Marshall Township, Platte County, Missouri: A quarter of Section 18 was granted him on 13 May 1844, and a quarter of Section 17 was granted him on 14 May 1844.[i]
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a. LDS International Genealogical Index (Kentucky), as of March 1992.
b. BOURBON CO., KY, MARRIAGES, 1785-1851, cited in letter of Pauline S. (Mrs Lawrence O.) Neel to Norman John Porter, 26 April 1965.
c. Letter of Katie Wilson, Topeka, Kansas, to J.E. Stockman, 21 September 1994, enclosing the pre-1972 Clinkenbeard Genealogy of (Mrs) Arlene Conte of San Jose, Calif., granddaughter of Nancy Clinkenbeard Ellison who was a daughter of Isaac Clinkenbeard and Iva Allen.
d. 1830 U.S. Census (Kentucky), Nat'l Archives Pub. No. M19, roll 33, p. 349.
e. 1840 U.S. Census (Missouri) p. 24; from abstract submitted with letter of LaVerne Taulbee, Platte City, Mo., to J.E. Stockman, 22 Sep 1995.
f. 1850 U.S. Census (Missouri); Nat'l Archives Pub. No. M432, roll 399, p. 202.
g. 1860 U.S. Census (Missouri); Nat'l Archives Pub. No. M653, roll 609, p. 123.
h. 1870 U.S. Census (Kansas); Nat'l Archives Pub. No M593, roll 437, p. 176.
i. From a Land Grant Records chart enclosed with letter of LaVerne Taulbee, Platte City, Mo., to J.E. Stockman, 22 September 1995.

Notes for IVEA/IVA/IVY/IDA JOSS ALLEN:
The 1870 Census Schedule disclosed that Ivy and her son James were living alone in Easton, Leavenworth County, Kansas, next door to Iva's daughter Julia Ann Clinkenbeard and Julia's cousin/husband Robert Clinkenbeard. [1870 U.S. Census, National Archives pub. no. M593, roll 437, p. 176.] Ivea was buried in April 1874 in Old Huron Cemetery, Atchison County, Kansas.
     
Children of ISAAC CLINKENBEARD and IVEA/IVA/IVY/IDA ALLEN are:
75. i.   JULIA ANN7 CLINKENBEARD, b. 20 January 1831, Kentucky, probably Bourbon County; d. 29 November 1910, Easton, Leavenworth County, Kansas.
76. ii.   ROVINA/ROWENA CLINKENBEARD, b. 1832, Kentucky; d. Bef. 1880, Touse, Buchanan County, Missouri.
  iii.   DAVID A.(LLEN?) CLINKENBEARD, b. 1835, Kentucky269; d. Unknown; m. MIRANDA ELLISON, about 1860270; b. about 1840; d. Unknown.
  iv.   SARAH JANE CLINKENBEARD, b. 12 July 1837, Kentucky271,272; d. Unknown; m. THE REVEREND ROBERT S. COOK, 14 November 1861, Buchanan County, Missouri273,274; b. about 1832; d. Unknown.
  Notes for SARAH JANE CLINKENBEARD:
      Sarah's husband was a Baptist minister. [Norman Cooper Emerick, A GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE GEORGE COOPER (KIEFER) FAMILY & ALLIED FAMILIES, Chapter ___: "The William Clinkenbeard Family," with Bibliography (Baltimore: N.C. Emerick, pre-publication draft as of Aug 1995); photocopy of Chapter and bibliography MS. supplied to J.E. Stockman courtesy of author.]

77. v.   JAMES L. CLINKENBEARD, b. 28 June 1839, Missouri; d. 7 January 1911, Easton, Leavenworth County, Kansas.
78. vi.   NANCY M. CLINKENBEARD, b. 1842, Missouri; d. Unknown, California.
79. vii.   ISAAC N. (L.?) CLINKENBEARD, b. 1 June 1842, Missouri; d. 10 July 1921, Jefferson County, Kansas.
80. viii.   SOCRATES CLINKENBEARD, b. 31 May 1846, DeKalb, Buchanan County, Missouri; d. April 1919, Leavenworth County, Kansas.

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