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Descendants of John Wakefield


Generation No. 8


19. GEORGE WASHINGTON8 WAKEFIELD (WILLIAM 7, HENRY (JR) 6, HENRY 5, ABEL 4, ABEL 3, THOMAS 2, JOHN 1) was born Abt. 1795 in South Carolina, and died 1856 in Cass, Missouri. He married JOANNA / RUTH OSBURN September 24, 1826 in Virmillion County, Illinois, daughter of ROBERT OSBURN and MARY PRICE.

Notes for GEORGE WASHINGTON WAKEFIELD:
George Washington Wakefield was killed in the Kansas raids of 1856. He appears to have moved from Missouri to get away from slavery only to lose his life to the Missouri raiders in the struggle that followed.
Tranny Burrow Wakefield tells about a family where brothers fought against each other. George and Nancy Smith Wakefield (not the same as George Washington Wakefield) had three sons, Benjamin and James Monroe who both enlisted with the CSA and Thomas L. Wakefield who enlisted in the Union Army.
According to the Wakefield Memorial, George Washington Wakefield, son of John Wakefield was born in South Carolina. He removed with his father to Illinois in 1810. He served in the war of 1812 and the Black Hawk War; removed to Missouri about 1838 and settled in Bates county. In 1854 he removed to Bourbon County, Kansas where he was taken by pro-slavery men, from Missouri, and after being robbed of $3000 of money and livestock, he was carried away and murdered, all because he was a "free state man," leaving his six orphan children destitute on the ashes of their burned home. His wife Ruth Osburn had died just previously.

       Children of GEORGE WAKEFIELD and JOANNA OSBURN are:

  i.   WILLIAM9 WAKEFIELD, b. Abt. 1827.

  ii.   JOHN ALLEN WAKEFIELD, b. 1831.

  iii.   SUSAN WAKEFIELD, b. Abt. 1833; m. DANIEL FRANCIS.

  iv.   ALMEDA WAKEFIELD, b. Abt. 1834, Illinois; d. November 27, 1878, Zenia, Kansas Stevenson Cem.; m. DANIEL FRANCIS, March 31, 1853, Xenia, Bourbon County, Kansas.

  v.   MARTH ADELINE WAKEFIELD, b. August 15, 1838, Illinois; d. December 16, 1911, McMinnville, Oregon Masonic Cem.; m. WILLIAM J. MORGAN, 1853, Missouri.

  vi.   DIANNA WAKEFIELD, b. 1843; m. ? CLARK.

  vii.   RUTH EMMA WAKEFIELD, b. September 18, 1846; m. WILLIAM H.T. WAKEFIELD, December 22, 1869, Mound City, Lynn County, Kansas.

  viii.   GEORGE WASHINGTON WAKEFIELD, b. March 31, 1849, Bates, Missouri; d. October 11, 1931, Mound City, Lynn County, Kansas (Curry Cem.); m. ELIZABETH J. SMITH, February 14, 1881.
20. JOHN ALLEN8 WAKEFIELD (WILLIAM 7, HENRY (JR) 6, HENRY 5, ABEL 4, ABEL 3, THOMAS 2, JOHN 1) was born January 22, 1797 in Pendleton, Richland County, South Carolina, and died June 18, 1873 in Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas. He married ELIZA THOMPSON 1818 in Bourbon, KY.

       Children of JOHN WAKEFIELD and ELIZA THOMPSON are:

  i.   ALVIN9 WAKEFIELD, b. Abt. 1819; d. Abt. 1820, Vandalia, Fayette County, Illinois.

  ii.   LYSANDER WAKEFIELD, b. Abt. 1820; d. Abt. 1821, Vandalia, Fayette County, Illinois.

  iii.   GEORGE WASHINGTON WAKEFIELD, b. Abt. 1821; d. Abt. 1866.

  iv.   MARY ANNE WAKEFIELD, b. June 11, 1823, Vandalia, Fayette County, Illinois; d. December 07, 1903, Los Angeles, CA; m. ALEXANDER WILLARD II, December 24, 1837, Grant, Wisconsin.

  v.   MARTHA ANN WAKEFIELD, b. Abt. 1825; d. 1855, Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas.

  vi.   EMILY B. WAKEFIELD, b. October 01, 1829, Vandalia, Fayette County, Illinois; m. (1) EMMONS DIX CHASE; m. (2) JOHN CULVER TERRY.

  Notes for EMILY B. WAKEFIELD:
Resided in Vandalia, IL, Galena, IL, and St. Paul Minnesota.


  vii.   ELIZA J. WAKEFIELD, b. May 1835; d. December 07, 1902, Los Angeles, CA; m. GEORGE H. SNYDER, September 03, 1851, Grant, Wisconsin.

  viii.   WILLIAM H.T. WAKEFIELD, b. December 13, 1834, Vandalia, Fayette County, Illinois; d. July 26, 1913, Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas; m. RUTH EMMA WAKEFIELD, December 22, 1869, Mound City, Lynn County, Kansas.

  ix.   JOHN ALLEN JR. WAKEFIELD, b. 1837; d. January 31, 1865.

  x.   THOMAS JEFFERSON WAKEFIELD, b. 1838; d. November 01, 1890, Denver, Arapahoe County, Colorado.

  xi.   SARA WAKEFIELD, b. Abt. 1840.

  xii.   DIANA WAKEFIELD, b. Abt. 1842.
21. ANDREW BANGSTON8 WAKEFIELD (CHARLES 7, HENRY 6, CHARLES 5, ABEL 4, ABEL 3, THOMAS 2, JOHN 1) was born December 1803 in Tennessee, and died June 05, 1852 in Shelby County Illinois. He married MARTHA PATSY CORLEY December 07, 1823 in Fayette Illinois, daughter of JONATHAN CORLEY and DELILAH BASSHAM.

Notes for ANDREW BANGSTON WAKEFIELD:
Andrew's marriage is listed in the Marriages of Fayette, County Illinois by Henry Walker, Justice of the Peace. In the 1850 census He is listed as owning 3000 acres of land.

Andrew settled ona farm 3 miles southeast of Williamsburg, Shelby Co. Illinois where he raised his family. He was one of the first settlers in Shelby County.


Andrew Sale type Descrip. Section Acres Price per acre Date and county
Wakefield
FD SW 30 160 1.25 12/28/1835 Shelby

Notes for MARTHA PATSY CORLEY:
Martha Corley was born in the Blue Ridge Mountains while her parents were moving to Kentucky. She was known as Patsy Wakefield among her family and friends. She is listed in the 1860 census as a 52 year old farmer/widow with 2500 acres and 1000 cultivated. Her sons Joseph, Jonathan and Charles lived with her.


       Children of ANDREW WAKEFIELD and MARTHA CORLEY are:

  i.   PERNETTY A.9 WAKEFIELD, b. October 13, 1824, Shelby County, IL; d. May 07, 1894, East Cem. Pana, Christian County, IL; m. JAMES M. RHODES, February 23, 1840, Shelby County, IL.

  Notes for JAMES M. RHODES:



  ii.   MELINDA JANE WAKEFIELD, b. January 18, 1827; d. March 28, 1912, East Cem. Pana, Christian County, IL; m. JAMES R. BABCOCK, September 19, 1841, Shelby County, IL.

  Notes for MELINDA JANE WAKEFIELD:
Died Childless

Notes for JAMES R. BABCOCK:
The 1850 census lists James Babcock as farming 500 acres. They have no children.

From Land Sales Lakewood Township James R. Babcock

Sale type Descrip. Section Acres Price per acre Date and county

FD E2SE 07 80 1.25 5/2/1837 Shelby
FD SWSE 10 40 1.25 5/29/1838 Shelby


  iii.   JOHN ALLEN WAKEFIELD, b. February 18, 1829, Cold Spring Twp. Shelby County, IL; d. March 03, 1865, Laurel Grove Cem. Savannah, GA; m. (1) ANGELINE HALL, November 07, 1848; m. (2) MARY J. MOORE, March 31, 1853, Cowden, Illinois.

  Notes for JOHN ALLEN WAKEFIELD:
According to a GENEALOGY OF CORLEYS, He lived happily with his second wife until he enlisted in the army of the Civil War. He was a farmer, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church from boyhood. He went with Sherman on his famous march to the sea, took part in the capture of Savannah, Georgia, after which he was taken sick and sent to a hospital, and died. His enlistment was October 15, 1864. He died March 3, 1865.
He would have been 35 years old when he enlisted. We think it was unusual for a man that old with wife and children to enlist into the civil war. Also his brother, my great great grandfather William Harrison Wakefield was two years younger and was not in the Civil War.


Notes for ANGELINE HALL:
The 1850 census lists John as 21 years old and a Sariah as 17. It may be a middle name for Angeline as this was common but it does make one wonder if this listing is correct. They were farming 500 acres.


  iv.   WILLIAM HARRISON WAKEFIELD, b. February 18, 1831, Mechanicsburg, Illinois; d. May 19, 1916, Elma Washington Odd Fellow Cemetary; m. ELIZA ELIZABETH A.J. MEARS, September 03, 1851, Shelby County Illinois.

  Notes for WILLIAM HARRISON WAKEFIELD:
William (Harry as he was called) is mentioned in his father Andrew Wakefield's will as receiving 140 acres of land including 20 acres of timber on Williamsburg hill plus a team of cattle known by the name of Ball and Peter, and John and Brandy which he had to divide with his brother John Allen Wakefield. He also received one log chain and with his brother John Allen a prairie plow.
In the 1860 census William is listed as having 2000 acres of which 700 is farmed. We are not sure just how the census lists this land. Son William A. is seven years old, James A. is five and Jerome is two.
It was apparent that Andrew wished his sons to stay and farm the land he left them but within 17 years William had moved his family to Kansas. Perhaps it was because the family lost two girls who both were born and died about a year later. In addition his brother Jonathan Cheatum Wakefield also lost two girls, one at the age of about three years old and another at 3 months.. In fact Sarah Lavisa, Jonathan's daughter died the day before Harry's daughter Eunice died. All four are buried in the same plot in Mount Olive cemetary.
Perhaps he read a letter we saw in the Greenwood County Historical Society extolling the climate and fertility of that area. Also he maybe he could sell his land at a profit and buy cheaper land in Kansas. We know that a 20 acre tract of land of his was sold in Shelby county for taxes.
moved his family from Illinois to Eureka, Greenwood county Kansas in 1869 and then came by wagon train to Elma, Washington in 1879. He was a pioneer of Greenwood County, Kansas where he was a farmer and stockman.
He bought a claim west of Elma and his original farm of 160 acres is now in the city limits. He later entered the real estate business and he and David Byles platted a part of the Wakefield farm and put it on the market as the Wakefield and Byles addition to the town.
In 1889 he organized the Bank of Elma. At the time the Northern Pacific Railroad had came and the outlook for the rapid growth of the town was good.
These prospects dimmed with the panic of 1893. In the county voting list dated Oct. 21, 1890 William is listed as 60 years old and his occupation as a "Capitalist".
Mr. Wakefield and his wife lived the last of their lives quietly on their home on West Main Street.

In the 1870 Greenwood county Kansas census the following Wakefields are listed.

Surname Given Name Age Township

Wakefield Charles A. 26 Eureka (Brother to William Harrison)

Wakefield Depolman
(Depalmer) 6 Eureka

Wakefield Eliza 32 Eureka

Wakefield James 15 Eureka

Wakefield Jerome 12 Eureka

Wakefield Marry 1 1/2 Eureka

Wakefield Otis O. 3 Eureka

Wakefield William 39 Eureka

Wakefield William A. 17 Eureka

Shortly after this William moved his family to the Elma, Washington area.

Notes for ELIZA ELIZABETH A.J. MEARS:
Eliza was the daugher of William Mears, known as Uncle Billy, in cold spring Township, in Shelby County, Illinois.


  v.   SARAH DELILAH WAKEFIELD, b. March 16, 1833; d. March 26, 1873, Ridge Cem. Lakewood, Shelby County, IL; m. HUGH A. BABCOCK, February 17, 1850, Shelby County, IL.

  Notes for SARAH DELILAH WAKEFIELD:
They lived on a farm two miles west of Lakewood, Illinois( Shelby County near Andrew Wakefield's original homestead. I don't have a complete list of their children.


  vi.   ANNIE I. WAKEFIELD, b. Abt. 1837.

  vii.   JULIA F. WAKEFIELD, b. January 15, 1836; d. Oconee, Shelby County, IL; m. LEVIN A. MOORE, January 18, 1853, Shelby County, IL.

  viii.   JOSEPH L. WAKEFIELD, b. August 24, 1839; d. June 04, 1923, Ridge Cem. Lakewood, Shelby County, IL; m. (1) MRS. JOHN STORY; m. (2) SARAH E. PUGH, November 08, 1863, Tower Hill, Illinois.

  Notes for JOSEPH L. WAKEFIELD:
Joseph Wakefield was a prosperous farmer and lived four miles west of Tower Hill, Shelby County, Illinois.


  ix.   JONATHAN CHEATHAM WAKEFIELD, b. December 27, 1841, Shelby County, IL; d. May 16, 1914, Mt. Olive Cem. Shelby County, IL; m. SUSAN J. MCDANIEL, January 06, 1861, Shelby County, IL.

  Notes for JONATHAN CHEATHAM WAKEFIELD:
He was a farmer and resided the latter part of his life at Cowden, Illinois. In the 1860 census He is listed as a 18 year old farm laborer living with his mother Martha (Patsy).


  x.   CHARLES ANDREW WAKEFIELD, b. December 12, 1844, Shelby County, IL; d. October 12, 1896, Eureka, Greenwood County, Kansas; m. ORLENA SOPHIA BROWN, November 16, 1870, Topeka, Kansas.

  Notes for CHARLES ANDREW WAKEFIELD:
Charles Wakefield was born near Williamsburg Hill in Shelby County, two miles southwest of Lakewood, attended the country school and Pana High School.

In William G. Cutler's history of Kansas:
C.A. Wakefield M.D. (Charles Andrew Wakefield) was born in 1844 in Shelby County IL and in 1864 he enlisted in Company E, One hundred and Forty-third Illinois, at Mattoon, and was subsequently detailed for hospital duty at Memphis, and during the attack of Gen Forrest he participated with the Seventh Illinois Cavalry in repelling the attack and pursuing the retreating rebels. His term of enlistment having expired, he was mustered out with the regiment at Mattoon, September, 1864. He subsequently attended college at Springfield and Eureka, IL, and then attended the Ann Arbor Michigan Medical College, graduating in chemistry in 1868 and from the St. Louis Missouri Medical College as M.D. in 1869. In the fall of that year, he located in Eureka, Kansas where he has since remained in practice, with the exception of 1874-1877, which he spent in Colorado. At Topeka, November 16, 1870, he married Miss Orlena Brown, by whom he has three children-Aimee, born September 25, 1871, Frank, born August 27, 1875, and Carl, Born March 8, 1880. Besides his handsome residence on Walnut street, the Doctor owns several stores, etc, on Main street, all of which are insured. He was one of the first Trustees of the town, and has been Coroner since locating here. He is a member of the Odd Fellow and Masonic lodges.


  xi.   MINERVA WAKEFIELD, b. Abt. 1846.

  Notes for MINERVA WAKEFIELD:
Died unmarried.


  xii.   AIMEE ISABELL WAKEFIELD, b. Abt. 1852; d. September 01, 1853.

  Notes for AIMEE ISABELL WAKEFIELD:
Died in infancy


22. ALLEN8 WAKEFIELD (CHARLES 7, HENRY 6, CHARLES 5, ABEL 4, ABEL 3, THOMAS 2, JOHN 1) was born September 08, 1811 in St. Clair Illinois, and died December 16, 1855 in Shelby County Illinois. He married MALINDA BECK August 11, 1831 in Shelby County Illinois.

Notes for ALLEN WAKEFIELD:
Allen Wakefield is buried in Ridge Cemetary in Lakewood, Shelby County, Illinois. According to Mike Wakefield, 12812 S. 73d E. Avenue. Bixby Oklahoma 74008

From Land Sales Lakewood Township

Allen Sale type Descrip. Section Acres Price per acre Date and county
Wakefield
FD NWSE 18 40 1.25 2/20/1836 Shelby
FD E2SE 18 80 1.25 4/20/1837 Shelby

       Children of ALLEN WAKEFIELD and MALINDA BECK are:

  i.   ALBERT R.9 WAKEFIELD, b. September 05, 1838; m. NANCY J. PERRYMAN.

  ii.   MARANDA WAKEFIELD, b. Abt. 1839; m. (1) SCHAZENA SEVERNS; m. (2) JAMES HENRY.

  iii.   CHARLES WAKEFIELD, b. August 19, 1840; m. MAHALA ROBINSON.

  iv.   SARAH SERENA WAKEFIELD, b. Abt. 1842.

  v.   SILAS H. WAKEFIELD, b. Abt. 1844; m. PERNETTIE A. HALL.

  vi.   JAMES HENRY WAKEFIELD, b. Abt. 1846.

  vii.   MARY ELIZABETH WAKEFIELD, b. Abt. 1848.

  viii.   DAVID EWING WAKEFIELD, b. December 15, 1850; d. October 12, 1925, Wayne County, Illinois; m. (1) ELIZABETH CHATUM, October 17, 1869; m. (2) RACHEL BAUGHER, 1884.
23. MARGARET ANN8 WAKEFIELD (CHARLES 7, HENRY 6, CHARLES 5, ABEL 4, ABEL 3, THOMAS 2, JOHN 1) was born June 05, 1822. She married GREENBURG HAVERTON RHODES March 16, 1837.

       Children of MARGARET WAKEFIELD and GREENBURG RHODES are:

  i.   MARTHA9 RHODES, b. 1838.

  ii.   JAMES RHODES, b. 1840.

  iii.   JANE RHODES, b. 1842.

  iv.   MARY RHODES, b. 1844.

  v.   CAROLINE RHODES, b. 1847; m. KING.
24. HARRIET8 WAKEFIELD (WILLIAM 7, ALEXANDER 6, CHARLES 5, ABEL 4, ABEL 3, THOMAS 2, JOHN 1) was born October 21, 1824, and died July 11, 1881 in Burke County, North Carolina. She married THOMAS S. ALEXANDER February 24, 1845, son of SAMUEL ALEXANDER and JEAN PENLAND.

       Children of HARRIET WAKEFIELD and THOMAS ALEXANDER are:

  i.   CYNTHIA C.9 ALEXANDER, b. January 23, 1846; d. August 23, 1932; m. CHARLES A. MCGIMPSEY, November 26, 1865.

  ii.   JOHN P. ALEXANDER, b. 1848.

  iii.   SUSAN JANE ALEXANDER, b. November 13, 1849; d. June 14, 1898; m. E. D. BURGESS.

  iv.   ALLINE EUNICE ALEXANDER, b. 1852.

  v.   MARY FRANCES ALEXANDER, b. March 26, 1854; d. January 06, 1895; m. THOMAS PINKNEY SCOTT.

  vi.   THOMAS WILLIAM ALEXANDER, b. July 30, 1856; d. November 03, 1916; m. ANNA ENGLAND, November 20, 1892.

  vii.   SAMUEL S. ALEXANDER, b. December 01, 1860; m. JANE PENLAND.

  viii.   HARRIET E. ALEXANDER, b. September 12, 1863; d. April 26, 1950; m. JAMES W. WINTERS, November 21, 1888.

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