BIRTH: 1850 Census Itawamba Co Miss. Roll 373 Pg 374B Line 36
Thomas Means 59 M Farmer 800 SC
Mary Ann 29 F SC
William F 23 M Farmer Ala
Samuel T 19 M Farmer Ala
Zemula A. 17 F Ala
John A. B. 12 M Ala
Edwin P. 11 M Ala
Zlija M. 9 M AlaMoved from Greene Co Ala to Mississippi in 1844, he was an Elder in Presbyterian Church
LETTER TO MARGARET AMANDA MEANS FROM HER FATHER THOMAS MEANS FROM ITAWAMBA CO. MISS. DATED MARCH 18, 1848 (The writting is very difficult to read, and I am sure I have made many mistakes in translation, but you will get the meaning I'm sure)
Dear Amanda, (Madison C, Georgia)
It is wih pleasur and deep felt sorow that I write to you at this time. The hand of God has been laid very heavy on us, and we are sore afflicted, your step mother is no more. She is gone to the world of spirits. She was taken unwell some time near the first of February, but kept --- son twelve days, and then was confined with something like a miscariage and a very considerable fluding, so that we thought she would die then, but we got the fluding stopped and she appeared to be mending for a few days, and she got up and was able to sit up, and went to carding wool, and then was taken down with a very severe chil on thursday three weeks ago. On friday she was better, and on saturday she had another chil, and on sunday I went for a doctor. He came on monday and said her case was a bad one and gave her medicine, and done evrything could be done, but her disease increased, and intensified on last monday. Was a week she appeared some easier and at night and became very delirious talked and raved for 48 hours without eating or sleeping. She then became quiet and fell asleep, and slept about 7 hours, and when she awoke she appeared reasonably in her senses. She talked at times sensibly and satisfactory, but got weeker and worse on so the last day and night she did not speak or move scarcely. She died on wednesday nite about two oclock, and I am in hopes she is gone to rest. My dear daughter as I am left the only parent of this family I want you and Mary Ann to come home and help me to keep house and keep the children together, and it is so arranged in the providence of God that it will be impossible for me to go or send for you this spring. William is very weakly and not able to go, and I will be ablied to stay and attend to making a craft, but if you cannot come or get some of your cousins to come with you, if God is willing I will go for you July , and I would be glad if you could get a cable to your aunt Sarah's. I will be so uneasy about the children and things at home, so write to me and let me no what to depend on.
I am enjoying as good health as I have done for several years. The rest of the family are well except William. He is verry weakly, he has a very hard rough cough, and his feet and legs are very much swelled. He is able to be up, but not able to do anything. Samuel Thomas is pale and bad colored, but does not complain. The rest is well and are anxious for you to come home. June and her family are all well and the neighbor are well. Your cousin James Means will bare his letter and will give you some more satisfaction then I have written. The children all join love to you and are all vey anxious that you would come home to me immediately, and let me no whether you will come or not. May God almighty bless you and guide you and protect you is the sincere and ardent prayer of your father.
Thomas Means
MEANS, Thomas Marriage
Wife: Margaret H. WEIR
Marriage Date: 12 Jun 1830 Recorded in: Greene, Alabama
Source: FHL Number 1290852 Dates: 1823-1868
Served in the confederate Army and died while home on leave of consumption
LETTER DATED MAY 22,1862 FROM A CAMP NEAR RICHMOND VA.
Mr Thomas Means,
Dear Father, I take the present opportunity of writing you a few lines in reply to yours of the 9th, which I recieved this morning. I have written you a letter since the date of your letter. I have recovered my health perfectly, I am truly sorry to hear of your bad health, and hope this will find it entirely recovered. You speak of William as being in bad health, and your prospect for a crop not good, but as Williams health always gets better as spring advances, and the weather here has been good for the last two weeks, I have reason to believe that they are a great deal brighter by this time. So hope you get on better than you anticipate.
I was in hopes I would get to come home and see you all this spring, and I still hope to get a leave of absence, sometime in the course of the summer, as to my getting a transfer, I think it very doubtfull. I handed Col. Stone, Captain Duncan's note. He said it was not in the proper form, and if it was, there would be not transfer granted at this time, and he thought they would not grant transferes from here to Mississippi. He didn't say that he would object, but that it was against Gen. Whitings orders for the present.
I am sorry that Sam and John have to leave home, but I hope they will be spared long to enjoy the liberty, which with the blessings of God, we must and will defend.
I suppose the 31st will get into Gen. Beauregard's Army, where I think it will stand a much better chance for plenty of booty than in this. Our Army made a dangerous retreat from Yorktown, it was very sucessully conducted. We did not loose a single wagon, though the enemy were in a few miles of us nearly all the time. We had some skirmishing between the yankee advance guard and our rear guard, in all of which the enemy were repulsed. The first at Williamsburg was a pretty hard fight, it was fought by a part of Gen. Longstreet's division. I don't know the number engaged ar the loss. The 19th Miss. Reg. was in the fight and lost its Col. (Matt) killed. The Baldwyn C. lost several among whom were Joseph Gambel, and Allen Sanders, both killed. Needham Bryant and D. Allen were wounded, and I believe taken prisoner.
The 2nd near west point was fought by C. Brigade of Texans, formerly Wigfalls, now Gen Hood's Brigade. Gen. Whiting, our Brig. Gen commanded as Division Commander.Our brigade was almost in sight, but was not called into action. The other was all Calvery, only two companys on our side.
I got to the Reg. on the 11th, 28 miles from Richmond, they were not marching at that time. On the 15th we started to Richmond and got here on the 18th. Our --- told us we would not move any more soon, only to meet the yanks. I think it probable that it will be sometime before we fight here. I have no more news.
I want you to write to me often as you can. I amin hopes you will be well by the time you get this; but if your worst fears should be realized, I join with my whole heart in your wish that we may meet in heaven.
Give my love to all
Your loving sonE. P. Means
I frank my letter and expect to send it by hand but may be disapointed. Tell Eliza I would write to her, but I have no more paper, I will write soon, write to me.
LETTER WRITTEN ON SEPTEMBER 27TH 1862 from Montgomery, White Sulphur Springs, Va.Mr W. F. Means,
Dear Brother, I seat myself to write the same old story, that I am sick in the hospital. I have been waiting, hoping that I would get well before I would write, but I almost depair of getting well soon. The last letter I have received from home was from Pa dated some time in April, I got one from Amanda June 19th which is the last I have got from anyone. I have written a good many letters to the family though you may not have received them. I sent one to Pa by Mr. Vanghan, I suppose he surely got it. I also sent $2.oo by Mr. Vanghan, I was in the hospital then and have not been on duty but four days since. I started with the Reg. when it left Richmond, though I was sick when we left. Iwent with it to Gordonsville and could go no farther. I stayed 2 days at that place and was sent to Lynchburg, I stayed there over two weeks, I left there the 6th of Sept. and came to this place. I am able to walk about some, but I don't seem to get any stronger, I am just about like I was when I went home last year, only my cough is not as bad.
I don't know a thing about the Co.., I have not heard from them since the middle of Aug. They were in the fight at Manassas, but I don't know how they came out. There is none of the rest here but me. This is a fine place for a hospital. The place was built up for a summer resort. We have splendid rooms and good beds, there is only three beds in my room and a good fireplace.
Give my regards to all the family and inquiring friends and be sure and write me soon at this place.
Yours Truly
E. P. Means
BBrock.FTW]
Wynant Vanderpool was born in Augusta County, Virginia in 1743, the son of Abraham Vanderpool. The mother of Wynant is not definitely established but is considered to be Jannetze Weibling who was married to Abraham Vanderpool in 1734. (No other wife of Abraham has been found until his next marriage to a Rebecca, last name unknown, in about 1745).
Wynant married Margaret Carver in North Carolina in about 1765.
All of Wynant and Margaret Carver Vanderpool's children went to Ray County, Missouri except Abraham (married to Phoebe Isaacs) and Samuel. Abraham migrated to Marion County, Indiana in 1831 and Samuel died in Claiborne County, Tennessee.
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Text: Date of Import: Aug 4, 2000Title: Myra Vanderpool Gormley Database, Certified Genealogist and Eula Blakesley, descendant of Jane Vanderpool
ORDINANCE: Ordinance reference data, 8411802 73 S/N: 00219-1 077 41
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1810 CENSUS - KENTUCKY, CHRISTIAN CO. 89He was Killed by william Riley in Jefferson County Alabama
!DEATH: Headstone marker from united methodist church cemetary, south of Plantersville, Mississippi, and from information on previous cemetary published in, Lee Co. Mississippi Cemetary Records 1820-1976, Sutro Library, San Francisco, CA.,Call No. 347,L45
LETTER BY EDDIE WILSON LONG TO W. S. ADAMS DATED 13 MAY 1969 FROM GUNTOWN, MISS.
Dear Cousin, I met a woman sunday, a miss Benjamin Dilworth of Alcorn Co. Miss, she told me her mother was a McShan and either her g-grandmother or gg-grandmother was Anna Mcshan, she was of the McShan family near and around verona Mississippi. The presbyterian Minister there was her grandfather's brother. She also said that Anna McShan's maiden name was Houston, and she was a cousin of Gen Sam Houston of Texas Fame, and family tradition says that Gen. Sam attended Anna's wedding, she did not know where the wedding took place. There were plenty of Houston's in Abeville Co. S C. in the early days, before 1880. She said that the family thought that Gen. Sam was something of a charecter, for when he came to the wedding he picked Anna up and kissed her!
Sincerely, Eddie
Comments on the above information by Jane McAshan
It is EXTREMELY likely that Almanzon Huston knew Sam Houston due to his political involvement (though they may at times have been on opposing sides - particularly on the subject of the Indians). However, I don't think they were actually related, despite the similarity in the names (certainly the active genealogists in that branch make no such claim). Sam Houston might have attended Malvina Huston & William McShan's wedding - but since he died in 1863, he could not have attended the others.CENSUS: 1830 Census - Jefferson County Alabama, pg 162 image 21 aol
Ann McShan
2 Males ages 10-15
1 Female 15-20
1 Female 20-30
1 Female 40-50CENSUS RECORDS, 1850 - MISSISSIPPI, ITAWAMBA CO PAGES 325 #328
McShan Anne F 70 SC
Stephens Ziddoch M 30 Ky
!SOURCE: 1880 Census, Navarro County, Texas (Film 48459 pt 856) 129th Emmeration District - Village of Chotfield
Adams, James A. M 45 Farmer Ala. S.C. KY
Adams, Nancy A. F 40 Wife Ga S.C. Tenn
Adams, Ann E. F 11 Dau Miss Ala Ga.
Adams, Claud M 9 Son Miss Ala Ga.
Adams, Alberta F 4 dau Texas Ala Ga.
!SOURCE: 1880 Census, Navarro County, Texas (film 48459 pt 856)
129th Emmeration District - Village of ChotfieldCensus Place: District 129, Navarro, Texas
Source: FHL Film 1255321 National Archives Film T9-1321 Page 333C
Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace
Cornelia KESTLER Self F W W 40 AL
Fa: NC Mo: KY
Samuel S. KESTLER Son M S W 12 MS
Occ: At School Fa: NC Mo: AL
Collie KESTLER Dau F S W 10 MS
Occ: At School Fa: NC Mo: AL
Maud KESTLER Dau F S W 7 MS
Occ: At School Fa: NC Mo: AL
Willie KESTLER Son M S W 6 MS
Occ: At School Fa: NC Mo: AL
Lizzie KESTLER Dau F S W 3 MS
Occ: At Home Fa: NC Mo: AL
Elizebeth ADAMS Mother F W W 70 KY
Fa: KY Mo: KY
SOURCES: 1880 Census, Navarro County, Texas (Film 48459 pt 856) 129 Emmeration - Village of Chotfield
CENSUS: 1880 Census -Navarro County, Texas (Film - 48459 Pt 856) 129th Emmeration District - Village of Chotfield
Name Sex Age Occupation Born Father Mother
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Adams, Frank M 32 Farmer Miss N.C. KY
Adams, Amanda F 30 Wife Texas N.C. Ala
Adams, Lind F 7 Daughter Texas Miss Texas
Adams, Viola F 3 Daughter Texas Miss Texas
Cox, Isaac M 29 Farm Laborer
Burial: Myrtle Cemetery, Ennis, Ellis, TX
CENSUS: 1880, TX, Navarro Co., V.25, E.D.129, Sheet 7, line 9
Amanda Adams (nee Sessions) W F 30, wife of Frank Adams
born TX, father b. NC, mother b. AL1860, TX, Navarro Co. page 207.
Amanda (or Amandy) Sessions 11 F listed with I.B. Sessionsnote: My grandmother, Viola Amanda Lorraine told me her grandmother's
maiden name was Viola Amanda Sessions. However, I believe she
was suffering from poor memory in her old age. I believe her
grandmother was Amanda Emily Sessions. Wayne Rousseau Oct 2000.
1880 Census, Union Twp, Worth, Iowa
Cobeen Albert M 58 Farmer Bohemia
Annie f 61 Bohemia
Peter M 19 Wisconsin
John M 19 wisconsin
Katie F 35 BohemiaCOBEEN FAMILY HISTORY
Albert Kubin was born in Tabor, Bohemia in the year 1822. he married Annie Sheka in the year 1844. A daughter, Katherine, a son Joseph, and twin daughters were born in Bohemia. The twin daughters died while quite young from smallpox vaccination.
Albert was a drayman using horses instead of oxen. He was appointed or elected Justice of the Peace which was an important office at that time. He had two brothers who stayed in Bohemia and for some time they corresponded with Albert after he came to America, then all contact with them was lost.
Through arrangements with a Company from New York, Albert, his wife, son and daughter left Bohemia for America in 1854, while they were crossing the ocean a son Albert Jr. was born. Information of the trip from New York to Wisconsin is not available but no doubt was made by train and boat to Milwaukee, then by wagon to Watertown, Wisconsin.
They bought 40 acres of land in Jefferson County North of the town of Johnson Creek through the previous arrangements with the New York Company. While living there Albert cut wood, hauled it to Watertown to sell, and probably farmed the land part time. On March 14, 1861 twin sons, John and Peter were born, although no written record of their birth could be found in 1961.
During the farm transaction, Albert Cobeen Sr. being unable to talk or write the American language, and the land agent being unable to understand his Bohemian language, they changed the spelling of his name to Cobeen. The records at the Jefferson County court house show deeds and mortgages signed using both name spellings. The books were partly burned in a fire at the court house during the 1890's, when the records were rewritten the original books and signatures were destroyed.
Joseph enlisted in the army at the age of sixteen and travelled, through much of the middle west, being discharged from the army at the end of the Civil War in the state of Texas. He had been through Worth County, Iowa and liking the country, upon returning to Wisconsin, convinced his father to sell their land and move to Iowa. In 1866 Joseph and his father came to Iowa, borrowed riding horses and looked for suitable land. Albert bought 80 acres in section 20 Union Township and Joseph bought 80 acres in section 32 of the same township. They made arrangements with Langschadel to stay with them until the next year, on his farm a mile East of where Plymouth is now located. His farm was later sold to Chehock.
In May, 1867 the Cobeen's sold their Wisconsin farm, bought another team and built canvas covers over their wagon boxes and migrated to Iowa. While crossing the Mississippi River at Prairie Du Chien on the ferry. The horses wouldn't ride but swam the river alongside the boat. While this trip no doubt took considerable time as there were no bridges over streams, swamp land and hills were difficult to cross, and there were only faint trails for roads. Eventually they arrived at Langschadel's where they stayed until they dug a cellar and put a roof over it on their farm where they lived for two years while building the log house. The logs for the house were cut and hauled from the timber southeast of Plymouth on land latter owned by Navratil. At this time the local towns of Plymouth, Manly, Grafton and Rock Falls were not yet established.
Wheat was the only crop raised the first years. It was planted by hand, the field being worked with a row cultivator made of wood with iron shovels, after which a long wooden rail was dragged crosswise to level the ground. The first crops were cut with a cradle scythe, bound into bundles by hand using straw for bands, then shocked. Albert and his son, Joseph bought a hand feed, horse powered thresher to thresh their own and neighbors' crops. The wheat was taken to a mill at McGregor, Iowa to be ground into flour. This trip took about sixteen days. Charles City was on the way to McGregor so they bought supplies there.
A few years later they started raising corn which was also planted by hand. Two-row wooden hand-crop planters were soon available, these required the field to be marked crosswise with a two-runner sled ahead of the planter. When planting the corn, one operator drove the team while the other sat on a small seat in the front, tripping the planter when it crossed the marks made by the sled. This was called check row planting and was used in later years when button wire was invented to trip the planter mechanically. Soon after the corn planters, riding sulky plows, broadcast seeders, discs and harrows came into general use.
Reapers manufactured by McCormick were first used in the early 1870's. The first ones only cut the grain, then it had to be raked off the platform by hand, picked from the ground, bound into bundles using straw for bands and were made by Adams & French. About 1890 twine was invented for bands replacing straw and wire. Seadle and Barnes were some of the first manufactures of farm machinery.
In August 1886 Albert Cobeen Jr. and his brother John bought a steam traction engine made by J. I. Case from a dealer in Northwood, Iowa which they used for threshing for several years. The grain was stacked in the summer and threshed in the fall. Threshing required an engineer, separator man, water hauler, two or
four men pitching bundles onto a table for the band cutters, two band cutters, one feeder, two or more stacking straw, two measuring and sacking grain, and two grain haulers. Usually sixteen or more men comprised the crew. After a number of years operating this outfit, Albert, and John sold it to Fred Kroger, a resident of Union Township.In 1881 Katherine Cobeen died at the age of 37 years, and was buried in the cemetery at Plymouth, Iowa. Peter went back to Wisconsin in 1882 to work on the railroad with his cousin Al Sheka and other members of the Sheka family who were railroad men. Peter married and lived in Janesville and married old, and was an engineer for the Northwestern railroad until his retirement. He lived to the age of 93 and is buried at Janesville, Wisconsin.
Joseph farmed several farms in Union and Lincoln townships then moved to Oregon, California, Washington, and Montana, where he died in 1923, and is buried in the little cemetery by highway # 9, three and a half miles east of Manly, Iowa.
Albert Jr. bought a farm in section 13, Lincoln township, Worth County, farmed it several years then moved to Manly where he operated a furniture store. He was very adept to fixing the first automobiles and telephones. He drove one of the first automobiles for DR. C. W. Sanders, an MD who practiced in Manly, later moving to Northwood. Albert Jr. died in 1919 and is buried in Manly.
John stayed on the home farm, adding to it as time and finances permitted. In 1890 he bought 40 acres across the road for $15.00 per acre from Frank Larkin, later he bought 20 acres from the same man adjoining the original 80 acres on the south. In 1921 he bought 160 acres from George Smith for $200.00 per acre, this joining the farm on the North. In 1902 he built a new eight room house on the 40 acres in Section 19, and in 1909 a big barn, then the other buildings, most of which are there now. Carpenters and masons who built these buildings were Al Lantz, Holly Redingtoh, Matthew Kraubetz, James Stroner, Gilbert Peshak and Ralph Cobeen.
During the 1870's the towns of Plymouth, Grafton, Manly, and Rock Falls were established. The Milwaukee Railroad was built from Austin, Minnesota to Mason City, Iowa about the same time. About 1902 rural mail routes were started, the one serving section 19 in Union Township coming from Manly as it does today. Some of the first metal boxes are still in use. Meldrum Wadsworth, Ralph Cobeen and
Hugh Monahan bought a Model T Ford car. Due to muddy roads and drifted snow mail delivery was hard work and uncertain.The event of the first telephones in 1904 made a big change in communication between families and neighbors. The lines were built and maintained by the farmers to the office in Plymouth where Jess Carmany was the operator, doing the work alone for some years until he was assisted by Barbara Chladek and Sophia Rezab. Radios were first used in homes during the 1920's, an average set cost $125.00 and was powered by batteries. It was not until 1939 when electricity came into general use on most farms.
John Cobeen lived on the same farm in Union Township for 74 years and saw the county change from unbroken prairie to the cultivation it is today. At first there were only a few crude bridges across streams and the roads were only faint trails made by wagons. Rattlesnakes were a common sight and when first plowing the prairie almost every man wore high leather boots to prevent being bitten. Wild ducks and geese, prairie chickens and quail were plentiful and were a supply of food for the people. From no roads to grades and gravel, then pavement; from oxen to horses; from horses to tractors and automobiles were more of the changes that took place during these 74 years, John died March 13, 1942 and is buried at Plymouth, Iowa.
At the time Albert Cobeen and his family were living at Johnson Creek, Wisconsin, Joseph Madera and his parents were living at Watertown having come from Bohemia via New York. After a time they moved to St. Anager, Iowa. Joseph married Marie Zemane and with their children moved to Union Township, section 28, on September 18, 1894 their daughter, Angelina married John Cobeen, which is shown in the
Pesnak, Madera, Mahacek family history.Some of the relatives of Albert Cobeen Sr. and his wife stayed in Wisconsin while others came to Iowa. Frank Sheka married a sister of Albert's (given name unknown), and they were parents of Al, Joe John, and Frank Jr.. Jacob Sheka, a brother of Mrs Albert Cobeen Sr. married Roanlind (last name unknown), and they were parents of Henry E. and Josephine Sheka, Josephine married Frank Hainy of Union Township, Henry E. married Mary Chada and their children were William, Edward, Emma, Minnie, and Fred. Henry bought land in section 22 in Union Township, part of this land still is owned and operated by his descendants (part of this paragraph may be in error).
Throughout this relationship several set of twins and one set of triplets were born. The first being the twin girls who died in Bohemia. Others were John and Ralph born in Johnson Creek, Wisconsin: Laura, Nora and Theodore Factor, triplet children of Martin and Mary Cobeen Factor: Lorette and Cektta daughters of Ed and Laura Cobeen Reindl: Charles and twin brother (name unknown) sons of Peter and Emma Jerg Cobeen: Kathleen and Kathryn daughters of Robert and Rosemary Garvey Cobeen: Alton and Arthur, sons of Harold and Elvetta Barnes Cobeen: Jean and Jane, daughters of Glen and Angie Toye Sheka: Sheila and Sherman, children of Clara Leona Adams ( daughter of Maude Cobeen) and James L. Hambel: Ralph Adams and his wife Elida were parents of twins that died at birth: grandchildren of Chris and Barbara Cobeen Urbatch are another set of twins.
Some of the early settlers coming to Union Township before the Cobeen family were Frank Parker, Silas White, Joseph Hunchis, Joseph Molsberry, George Russel, Dan Boughton, Darius Gardner, John A. Heiny, Whitcomb, and Henry Sheka Family.
Schools were almost non-existent before the 1870's. John and Peter went to school a short time in a stone building located in section 32. They carried sorghum and bread for their noon lunch and almost always went barefooted except in the colder weather. In the 1880's a school was built on the northeast quarter of section 30, about on the border of the Jim Stroner and Wm. Jirsa farms. A two year high school was operated in Plymouth about 1900. In 1895 a school building was built on the northeast quarter of section 19 and Mary Smith was the first teacher.
Of considerable interest is a scale model of the log house built by Albert Cobeen Sr. modeled by his grandsons Gaylord and Leonard Cobeen, using material salvaged from the original house. They made the model house of logs scaled in proportion with the model house.
Edna, Gaylord and Leonard live in the eight room house built by John Cobeen, their father, in 1902. They own and operate the original 80 acres and 140 acres bought latter. Floyd, another son of John Cobeen and his wife, Katherine, own and farm 80 acres of the 160 acres bought in 1921 which had been owned at different times by George Russel, I. H. Peshak and George Smith.
This History was written by Floyd Cobeen in 1964. Information was garnered from several relatives, court house records, cemeteries, etc. Gaylord and Albin Cobeen helped a great deal in its compiling. Dates and names are missing where no records were available.
Kate never married
1880 Census, Union Twp, Worth, Iowa, Image 19 AOL
Jacob Forman m 67 Bohemia
Annie F 57 Bohemia