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1. Buried Rehobeth Cemetery, Lovettsville, VA: Nancy Virts b. 28 Jul 1811
d. 23 Jan 1877 at 65y 5m 25d, wife of William Virts.
2. Death Records kept by Burr W. Paxson dated 25 Jul 1884:
Jan 24, 1877 Mrs. Wm. Virts of Janny buried. | Houser, Nancy (I122)
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1. Death confirmed, Frederick County, MD death records. | Virtz, George Washington (I389)
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1. Died at 70y 4m 29d | Virts, Joseph (I40)
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1. Died Feb, year unknown.
| Alder, Mary Ann (I538)
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At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Virts, Jay Vincent (I1140)
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1. Living in Augusta, NY at the time of her marriage. | Rue, Lulu Clara (I1464)
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At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Cook, Glenn Bryan (I1522)
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At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Byrne, Linda Ann (I1300)
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At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Virts, Eddie Lee (I1525)
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At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | McCall, Thomas Henry (I1483)
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At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Virts, Lois Jane (I1482)
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At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Hinkle, Dawn Marie (I1503)
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At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Thomas, Theresa Ann (I1526)
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At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Virts, Dennis Michael (I1501)
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At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Virts, Donald Thomas Jr. (I1502)
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At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Jenkins, Linda Sue (I1529)
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1. Living in Rye, NY at time of his marriage. | Radtke, William Albert (I1098)
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At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Stewart, Betty Jane (I1487)
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At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | McKenzie, Arlene Kathryn (I1516)
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At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Virts, Jeffery William (I1515)
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1. Living in Washington, DC at the time of his marriage. | Cameron, George Douglass (I1440)
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1. Living in Washington, DC at the time of his marriage. | White, Ernest Newton (I1452)
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1. Loudoun County Marriage Records: Eliza Wertz m. Peter derry on
on 4 Mar 1819; parent: Jacob Wertz.
2. Cemetery, Row T, Stone 5; Eliza Derry wife of Peter Derry,
d. 16 May 1827 at 25y. | Virts, Eliza (I147)
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1. Loudoun County Marriage Records: Margaret J. Vertz m. Truman W.
Bottenfield, date of license, 3 Dec 1851. Conrad Virts, father of
Lady present and attests to ages of both. | Virts, Margaret Jane (I347)
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At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Family (F552)
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1. Married Luthern church | Wurtz, Christina (I144)
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1. Never Married.
2. Was stung by bees and was in a mental hospital in Staunton, Virginia due
to stings. | Virts, Louis E. (I570)
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1. Nickname "Mandy".
2. Loudoun County Marriage Records, License 4 Feb 1856.
3. 26 Oct 1828 - Baptised NJEL, sponsors: Christina Wertz, widow
Records pg. 142 | Virts, Amanda Catherina (I133)
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1. Stone shows "daughter of Milliss & J.H. Virts. | Virts, Rhea Oledda (I1086)
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1. Stone shows "Jacob S. son of Jonas & M.M. Virts". | Virts, Jacob S. (I352)
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1. Times Mirror Obiturary: Elizabeth Virts on 19th Dec near Harpers
Ferry, West Virginia. Member of the Methodist church for 74 years. | Derry, Elisabeth (I100)
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10 Years Later, an Unsolved Killing Still Haunts a Town
By SARAH KERSHAW
Published: Saturday, August 21, 2004
Who killed James Phillip Brooks?
The question has circled through the cattle ranches, taverns and ruddy streets of Fossil and across Wheeler County, a wide-open expanse on the high desert of central Oregon, for almost a decade.
There were many suspects, many theories in the death of the young cowboy, who was shot near his heart on the last day of summer in 1994. And the perjury conviction last spring of a hunting guide who took elk hunters out on the ranch where Mr. Brooks was killed brought the case back to the pages of the local newspapers. But with no weapon recovered and no witnesses, the question lingers.
The Brooks case never made it to national television (the county sheriff tried to land it a spot on ''America's Most Wanted''), but the people here in the county seat, a town of 460 people, are as worked up as they were 10 years ago.
''You can't close that door until you know why,'' said Patsy Percy, 50, the Fossil florist, who like almost everyone here either knew Mr. Brooks or his family.
The sadness and the rumors are still as fresh as the scent of high desert junipers on a wet day. Was it because of drugs, a woman, a hunting trip gone bad? Did he have an enemy?
Ms. Percy was having a beer at the Shamrock, one of two bars in town, with four friends and her 24-year-old daughter; several of the women cried when they talked about Mr. Brooks, who was known as Phillip. Ms. Percy said solving the case would ''put the whole county to rest.''
Mr. Brooks, 23, was killed by the bullet of a high-powered hunting rifle in elk season while he was kneeling on a rocky ridge of a ranch about an hour from here, where he had worked and lived, sleeping in a camper he kept inside an old barn.
Once it became clear that Mr. Brooks was missing, more than 70 residents of Wheeler County joined the search. He was killed on a Tuesday, Sept. 20, but it was not until Thursday, after the police called in ''man trackers,'' from the Warm Springs Indian Reservation not far from here, that his body was found.
Mr. Brooks still had his cowboy hat on his head. If his death was a murder, it was the first homicide since 1935 in Wheeler County, where there are more cows (about 3,500) than people (about 1,500).
If it sounds like a classic Western whodunit, it is, though an author working on a book about the killing said he thought the mystery might all be explainable as an accident and a cover-up. Still, the Wheeler County sheriff, David P. Rouse, said of the writer, Rick Steber, ''He hasn't got the last chapter.''
Mr. Rouse helped search for Mr. Brooks, but he did not take over the case until 2000, when he was elected sheriff. He spent the first 18 months on the job, he said, intensely focusing on a suspect he now no longer believes committed the crime.
The sheriff has since turned his attention to getting information from Michael Williams, the guide convicted of perjury after a judge found that he lied to the grand jury about whether he had information about the killing, and Mr. Williams's wife, Roetta Williams. Both Roetta and Michael Williams -- he is serving a 90-day jail sentence -- cited their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination before the grand jury.
Ms. Williams has refused to take a polygraph test and to cooperate with the authorities, Sheriff Rouse said. A lawyer for her, Thomas Howes, did not return calls to his office.
Both the sheriff and the Wheeler County district attorney, Thomas W. Cutsforth, said several scenarios could explain the killing, including an accident, perhaps involving a hunter who mistook Mr. Brooks and his horse for an elk.
Mr. Cutsforth said part of the difficulty was the crime scene itself, a wooded area trampled by elk and antelope, where searchers may have covered the tracks or other evidence.
''My worst nightmare is a hunting accident, or a person goes out and makes it look like a hunting accident,'' Mr. Cutsforth said. ''Forensic evidence goes to hell.''
Mr. Steber, the author of 33 fiction and nonfiction books about the West, has spent almost as much time researching the case as the authorities have. Mr. Steber, who lives in Prineville, Ore., about 50 miles from the scene of the killing, said he was not sure whether he would write a true-crime book or a novel.
''This is an old-time story that's been plucked out of the 1800's and dropped in our lap today,'' he said. ''It's a story about a cowboy, out in the middle of nowhere getting shot through the heart.''
Mr. Steber added, "If it was an accident, it's a story about a coward.''
The mystery is, of course, most painful for Mr. Brooks's parents, Jim and Joyce Brooks, who live on a small ranch near Mitchell, Ore., about 40 miles south of here.
''All they do is guess, and I guess,'' Mr. Brooks, 68, said, tears streaking down his face. ''But what good is that?''
Mrs. Brooks said: ''There is never any closure when you lose somebody. You just wish they'd walk back in the house, that you'd see him walk in the door, into the place where he learned to crawl, where he learned to walk.''
Mrs. Brooks hung dozens of pictures of her son in their living room after his killing. If they ever did find out who killed her son, she said, she would take most of his photographs off the wall, leaving room for pictures of her other children and her grandchildren.
Photos: Jim and Joyce Brooks have lined the doorway of their Mitchell, Ore., home with school pictures of their son, who was shot to death 10 years ago. Sheriff David Rouse continues to work on the death of James Phillip Brooks. | Brooks, James Phillip (I88668)
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116th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
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126th Infantry Regiment of the 32nd Division | Skaggs, Otto Ralph (I66219)
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1765
Conrad and Maria marriage is estimated to be about 1765 and in Pennsylvania since their oldest son Peter was born in 1766 and in Pennsylvania. Conrads wife has been noted as both Maria, Barbara and Barbaray. This is proven in the Lutheran Church baptism records where they are sponsors for their children and others children. Also in the deed for water rights sold to John Binns, Deed Book 2E, Loudoun County Virginia.
1767
Conrad first appears in Loudoun County Virginia in 1767 in the Loudoun County Virginia Tax List as Conrod Werts. The the 1768 Tax List he apperas as Conrad Verts, 1769 as Coonard Wurts, 1770 as Coonrod Verts, 1771 as Conrad Verts, 1772 as Cunrod Werts, 1774 as Cunrod Worts, 1775 as Cunrod Worts, 1781 as Conrod Verts, 1782 as Cunrade Warts, 1784 as Cunrod Verts along with his son Peter Verts, 1785 as Conrad Verts and son Peter Verts. Loudoun County, Virginia Tithables, 1758-1786.
1772
November 27, 1772, Conrad appears in a lease between William Virtz and George William Farifax, naming wife Catharina and son Conrad, Deed Book I, pages 135 thru 139, Loudoun County Courthouse, Leesburg, Virginia.
1782
In a Loudoun County Virginia court on April 9-10, 1782 public claims were presented for examination and approval of payment. The claims were for property impressed or taken for public service during the Revolutionary War. Conrad Warts was allowed 5 Pounds payment for 300 pounds of beef. Virginia Public Claims, Loudoun County.
1787
Conrad leased 105 acres in Loudoun County on May 2, 1787. The lease was between Conrad Virtz and George William Farifax. Deed Book Q, pages 87-91. Conrad was to pay a yearly lease of 2 Pounds, 4 Shillings and 7 Pence-Half Penny, due the first day of May each year. The property was in the Parish of Shelburne in the County of Loudoun on the braches of "Kittoctin", today known as the Catoctin. Three of Conrads sons, John, William and Adam Virtz are named as parties to the agreement which is for a term beginning as dated and extending during their natural lives.
Conrad is listed in the book The 1787 Census of Virginia - Loudoun County, The Personal Property Tax List for the Year 1787 for Loudoun County Virginia. He shown as Cunrad Verts, with 6 horses and 10 cattle.
1789
Conrad is listed in the book, The Personal Property Tax List for the Year 1789 for Loudoun County, Virginia. He is shown as Cunard Verts. He paid taxes on 5 horses.
1799?b?
?/b?Conrad purchased 126 1/4 acres of land in Loudoun County, December 9, 1799. He paid 507 Pounds. The deed was between Conrad Wirts and Timothy Hixon and William Howell, execurtors of Hugh Howell. Deed Book Z, Loudoun County Courthouse, Leesburg, Virginia. The description of the land is noted as bounded along one side by property owned John Binns, along antoher side by property owned by John Hough and then on another side by that formerly owned by William Hixon. The property is said to have been a part of a larger tract granted to Calesby Cooke and John Mercer. The property was sold after Conrads death by his sons Peter and Adam.
1802
Conrad sold the lease on 105 acres leased from George William Fairfax in 1787 to Joseph Smith. Joseph paid 300 pounds. The lease was transfered on May 8, 1802. Deed Book 2B. Conrad is shows as Conrad Virts in this transaction.
On May 13, 1802 Conrad purchased 16 1/4 acres in Loudoun County from Asa and Sarah M9oore. He paid 421 dollars for the land. Deed Book 2C. Conrad is shown as Conrad Virts in this transaction. The property was sold by Conrads sons Peter and Adam after his death.
Conrad paid 4 Pounds and 10 Shillings to Mr. Stouzenberger towards the construction of a new church building for the New Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lovettsville, Virginia on June 13, 1802. Transcribed by George M. Smith form the origianl church register, 1784-1836.
1804
Conrad and Barbara, his wife, sold water rights to John Binns on December 5, 1804. Deed Book 2E in Loudoun County Courthouse, Leesburg, Virginia. Both signed the document with an 'X'. Conrad is noted as Conrad Verts.
1807
March 3, 1821 Conrad purchased 27 acres in Loudoun County from William and Jane Paxson for 675 dollars. Deed Book 2C. In January 1824 Conrads sons Peter and William sold the land.
1821
Conrad Virtz will, dated June 7, 1821, Will Book O, Loudoun County Courthouse, Leesburg, Virginia.
"Be it remembered that I Conard Virtz of Loudoun County calling to mind the uncertainty of this life and being desirous to dispose of my worldly Estate do make and ordain this my last will and Testament in manner and four following viz. my will is that my eight children now living shall have equal shares of my estate that it is to be equally divided between Peter, John, William, Adam Virts and my Daughters Elizabeth, Caty, Barbary and Christinas after paying to my two grandchildren, William and Betsy Virts children of my son Henry three hundred dollars each when they become of age, my four sons to have one hundred dollars each more than my Daughters; my will is that my Negros is not be sold unless they wish to be but to be divided amongst my children. My son Adam Virts to have my farm one year after my death clear of rent. If a majority of my children should be of opinion that it would be more advantages to the Heirs to sell my land I hereby authorize my Executor to sell the same on such terms as my children as before stated. Lastly I nominate and appoint my two sons Peter and Adam Virts Executors of this my last will and Testament revoking all others I witness where of I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 7th day of June one Thousand eight hundred and twenty one-1821."
1822 Nov 11 - Estate appraisal of Conrad Wertz, note in hands of William Wertz for property sold before death of Conrad for $518.83, total $2539.45 1/2.
The settlement of Conrad Wirts' estate, who died 27 Dec 1821 in Lovettsville, Virginia.
18 Sep 1822?tab?To amount of tax paid to Sheriff?tab??tab? $8.83
08 Dec 1822?tab?To Cash padi Isaac Walker for burying clothes?tab? 2.46 ?
30 Jan 1823?tab?Cash paid David Mock for service as clerk at sale 5.35
31 Jan 1823?tab?Cash paid John ______ for crying sale?tab??tab? 5.00
31 Jan 1823?tab?Payton Drewy bill for recording certificate of probate of Will?tab? ?tab??tab??tab??tab??tab??tab??tab??tab??tab? 5.18
31 Jan 1823?tab?Cash paid George W. Shaven?tab??tab??tab? 8.00
31 Jan 1823?tab?Amount of C. Binn fee bil1?tab??tab??tab? 5.33
31 Jan 1823?tab?Cash paid John M. Lacman preaching funeral?tab? 3.00
31 Jan 1823?tab?Cash paid Edward Dorsey for making coffin?tab?12.00
1823?tab??tab?Amount received by Adam Virts at Sundry times
940.27
17 Feb 1823?tab?Cash paid Robert Moffet for crying sale of land 5.00
10 Sep 1823?tab?Amount of C. Binn's 2 fee bills?tab??tab??tab?11.92
16 Oct 1823?tab?Tax paid to Sheriff on land?tab??tab??tab? 3.70
Jan 1824?tab?Cash paid for supporting negros?tab??tab? 9.25
07 Apr 1824?tab?Cashing paid Pansy French on account proved?tab? 2.50
02 Sep 1824?tab?Cash paid M. Cordell for bringing negro woman and 2
children from Jefferson County?tab??tab? 5.00
26 Oct 1824?tab?Cash paid Sheriff for Tax?tab??tab??tab? 10.91
26 Dec 1824?tab?Amount of two clerk notes?tab??tab??tab? 6.78
Apr 1825?tab?Amount of Clerk fee bill?tab??tab??tab? 2.96
1825 To Peter Wirts account for clothing and boarding negro Boy for 2 ? years @ ?tab??tab??tab??tab?$20.00 per year?tab??tab??tab??tab??tab?50.00
1825?tab??tab?To Peter Wirts account for moving negros from Jefferson?tab? ?tab??tab??tab??tab??tab??tab??tab??tab??tab??tab?3.00
1825?tab??tab?Sheriff account?tab??tab??tab??tab? ?tab? 1.06
1825?tab??tab?Amount paid Henry Mock at Sundry times?tab?750.00
1825?tab??tab?Amount paid William Wirts at Sundry times?tab?884.03
1825?tab??tab?Amount paid P. Fry at Sundry times?tab??tab?750.00
1825?tab??tab?Amount paid Taupinman (Tauberman) at Sundry times?tab??tab??tab??tab??tab??tab??tab??tab?700.00
1825?tab??tab?Amount paid Jon Wirts at Sundy times?tab??tab?850.00
1825?tab??tab?Amount paid Elizabeth Tribby?tab??tab??tab?600.00
1825?tab??tab?Amount paid John Winer at Sundry times?tab?750.00
1842?tab??tab?? Fee bil?tab??tab??tab??tab??tab?750.36
1842?tab??tab?Coinnipion (?) allows on $5049 at 3 percent of Land?tab??tab??tab??tab??tab??tab??tab??tab??tab??tab??tab?151.47
1842?tab??tab?Coinnipion allow on $1982.36 ? percent property?tab??tab??tab??tab??tab??tab??tab??tab??tab??tab??tab??tab?99.10
1842?tab??tab?Lawyers fee?tab??tab??tab??tab??tab? 5.00
1842?tab??tab?Coinnipioncy (?) fee for making this testament
?tab??tab??tab??tab??tab??tab??tab??tab? 3.00
$6698.45 ?
1842?tab??tab?Peter Wirts' share of the estate?tab??tab? $741.50
TOTAL?tab??tab??tab??tab??tab??tab??tab??tab?$7438.85 ?
1823?tab??tab?By amount of sale of personal property?tab? $1982.36 ?
1824?tab??tab?By amount of first payment of land?tab??tab? 1262.25
1825?tab??tab?By amount of second payment on land?tab??tab? 1262.25
1826?tab??tab?By amount of thirdy payment on land?tab??tab? 1262.25
1827?tab??tab?By amount of fourth payment on land?tab??tab? 1262.25
By _of_ in the foregoing -__?__?tab??tab? 4?tab??tab??tab? 07.49
$7438.85 ? | Wirtz, Conrad (I53)
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1790 U.S. Census shows a Christian Mussetter living in Frederick County, Maryland
1830 U.S. Census shows a Christian Mussetter living in Eden, Seneca County, Ohio
1840 U.S. Census shows a Christian Mussetter living in New Market, Frederick County, Maryland.
I have found several pieces of research that has this Christian Mussetter marrying a Boyer. That had a son Christian Mussetter, who married Adah Vanfossen, and he is died May 3, 1877 and is buried in Mount Zion Cemetery, Iowa County, Iowa, and this Christian is the aforementioned one living in Ohio in 1830 Census.
We must keep in mind that this Christian Mussetter, born 1764 and married Regina Laufer is not the only Christian Mussetter living in Frederick County Maryland during this time. The is Christian Musstter born abt. 1748 and died in New Market, Marlyand around 1836. He was the son of a Michael and Mary Mussetter, Their is another Christian Mussetter born about 1771 in Maryland, that married a boyer and was living in New Market, Maryland that I have also found.
Also there is futher proof that Christian moved to Martinsburg, Berkeley County West Virginia as he had a home in Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia located on the corner of Maple and King Street. See the ?i?Martinsburg Gazette?/i?, February 13, 1823 and August 31, 1826 where Adam Stewart, his son-in-law is renting out the property. According to the ?i?Mussetter Genealogy?/i?, Volume 4, Christian was a blacksmith during his youth residing in the Middle Plantation home in Frederick County, MD, near the Mt. Pleasant community. He was 25 years old when he built his home in Martinsburg, which would have been about 1789. | Mussetter, Christian (I3372)
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1790 Virginia Tax List Census - No Lilly or any spelling varation of the name listed in Loudoun County Virginia
1800 Virginia Tax List Census - No Lilly or any spelling varation of the name listed in Loudoun County Virginia
1850 U.S. Census shows a William Lilly born in Pennsylvania about 1810, he is the only Lilly shown in Loudoun County Virginia. William is listed as single and living in the Frank Mormon household as a labor. No record of William Lilly after this census. | Lilly, Joseph (I29878)
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1810 and 1820 U.S. Census living in Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky | Priest, Rodham (I62974)
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1830 U.S. Census living in Casey County, Kentucky, household of one male 5-10, one 30-40; one female less than 5, one 10-15, one 20-30.
1840 U.S. Census living in Martin County, Indiana, household of one male 5-10, one 15-20, one 20-30 and one 40-50; one female less than 5, one 5-10, one 10-15, one 20-30 and one 40-50. | Miles, Hillery (I77192)
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1830 U.S. Census shows that both James and his wife, living in Leesburg, Loudoun County Virginia. According to the ages on the census, Charles, Ann, Thomas, Emily are all accounted for. However the census does list 2 male childre between the age of 8-10 that have never been accounted for.
1840 U.S. Census shows that both James and his wife, living in District 1 of Loudoun County Virginia. According to the ages on the census, Charles, Ann, Thomas, Emily and Richard are all accounted for. However the census does list 2 male children between the age of 8-10 that have never been accounted for. | Speaks, James (I52592)
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1830 U.S. Census, living in Casey County, Kentucky, household shows one male less than 5, one 5-10, one 10-15, one 15-20, one 40-50; one female less than 5, one 5-10, two 10-15, one 15-20 and one 40-50.
1840 U.S. Census living in Martin County, Indiana, household shows three males less than 5, two 5-10, one 10-15, three 15-20 and one 40-50; one female less than 5, one 5-10, one 10-15, two 15-20 and one 30-40.
1850 U.S. Census, John and his family, along with Levi and his wife, and his mother Priscilla were all living in the same house in Brown, Martin County, Indiana, next to his brother Felix and his family, and his brother Charles and his family were living a short distance away. | Miles, John Barton (I76676)
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1833-1930, 36th Virginia CSA, Co. A "Buffalo Guards" | Wertz, John Wilson (I3095)
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1840 U.S. Census living in Saugerties, Ulster County, New York Can not find him after this census. | Hommel, George Isaac (I53545)
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1850 U.S. Census living in Brown, Martin County, Indiana | Miles, Levi (I76688)
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1850 U.S. Census living in Clay County, Illinois | Speaks, John (I89310)
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1850 U.S. Census living in Clay County, Illinois | Speaks, Daniel (I89311)
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1850 U.S. Census living in Lee County Virginia with his wife Sarah and daughters Ann and Rebecca | Speak, Rev. Nicholas (I71623)
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1850 U.S. Census living in Linn County, Iowa with his wife and children | Speake, John Kennett (I74797)
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1850 U.S. Census living in Loudoun County Virginia with his parents and siblings
1860 U.S. Census living in Hopewell Township, Perry County Ohio, with his parents
1870 U.S. Census living in Ohio with his parents
1910 U.S. Census living in Marion, Jasper County Indian with his children, shown as widowed. | Speaks, Jacob Willard (I47295)
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1850 U.S. Census living in Marion, Clinton County, Ohio with his wife Henrietta | Shank, John Alexander (I101257)
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