GED4WEB version 4.41 Menefee Bennett [Male] b. 4 MAR 1827 Front Royal, Virginia - d. 15 DEC 1919 Carroll County Missouri
Bennett Menefee migrated from Virginia to Muskingkum County, Ohio at age 25. He moved to Mercer County, Illinois and farmed.
In 1869, he moved to Mandeville, Carroll County, Missouri, by wagon.
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Title: Strahan Family Reunion .FTW
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Author: John H. "Buster" Strahan
Title: A Strahan Story
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Title: Strahan Family Reunion .FTW
EXCERPTS (sometimes reworded for clarity)
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GENEALOGY of the
JOHN MENEFEE and MARY JAMES Family
In America or The Descendents of JOHN MENEFEE
who died in September or October 1765 in Culpepper County, Va.
by:
Ferdinand Northrup Menfee
with acknowledgement and sincere appreciation of extensive and prolonged help and research by Mr. & Mrs. Bill John Douglass
and CDR. F. W. McIntosh, M.S.C., U.S.N. Ret.
A quotation favored by many genealogists is:
"He who takes no interest in the history of his ancestors does
not deserve to be remembered by posterity."
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For many years a group of Menefee descendents have been working on the history of the Menefee family.
To America in the year: 1622George - born in England
1625Henry - born in England
1639William - born in England
1641Charles - born in England
1680John of Spotsylvania (Virginia);
born about 1680. Location unknown
The first four names given above were in Jamestown on the dates shown.
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JOHN MENEFEE was one of four brothers whose activities were largely confined to the Tappahannock River Valley on the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The four brothers and their wives were:
John and wife Mary James
Jonas and wife -- possibly Elizabeth Chew
Gerrard and wife -- possibly Agness Sutherland
William and wife -- probably Mildred Gaines
JOHN's wife was MARY JAMES, a daughter of John James who died after 1726. Mary's mother was Alice James who married Ambrose Grayson about 1727 and James Stevens in 1744.
We do not know the date of Mary's death, but she most likely predeceased John -- for while John left a well written Will, except for spelling, Mary's name was not mentioned.
Child of JOHN MENEFEE (1) and MARY JAMES
JOHN MENEFEE (2), born 1738-9; died 1822.
Married MILDRED JOHNSTON
JOHN MENFEE, born 1738-9, was a son of John Menefee (1) and Mary James. His wife was Mildred Johnston. John died June 2, 1822. Mildred died 1832. She was the daughter of William Johnston, born about 1696 in Scotland; came to America about 1750, his wife was Jane _____.
Child of JOHN MENEFEE and MILDRED JOHNSTON
CHARLES JUIT MENEFEE (3) , born March 6, 1782 in Virginia;
died August 27, 1856. Married MARY MATTOX.
CHARLES JUIT MENEFEE, born March 6, 1771 (previous notation gives date of birth 1782 -- note by M. S. Timmerman), died August 27, 1856 in Culpepper County, Virgina, son of John Menefee (2) and Mildred Johnston; married MARY MATTOX on August 4, 1802.
Child of CHARLES JUIT MENEFEE and MARY MATTOX
BENNETT MENEFEE (4), born March 4, 1827 at Front Royal,
Virgina . He married LUCY HANNAH WOODS, born November 30,
1829; the daughter of RUEBEN and PHOEBE WOODS.
BENNETT MENEFEE, born March 4, 1827 in Front Royal, Virginia, son of Churles Juit Menefee and Mary Mattox. Married LUCY HANNAH WOODS on May 1, 1859. LUCY HANNAH WOODS was born November 30, 1829, and died November 21, 1890, in Michigan.
BENNETT MENEFEE migrated from Virginia to Muskingkum County, Ohio at age 25. He moved to Mercer County, Illinois, and farmed. In 1869 he moved to Mandeville, Carroll County, Missouri by wagon. He died December 15, 1919, and was buried in Low Gap Cemetery in Carroll County, Missouri.
Child of BENNETT MENEFEE and LUCY HANNAH WOODS
NETTIE MENEFEE (5) was born October 11, 1863. Nettie was born
in Mercer County, Illinois, and moved with family to Missouri in
1869. Nettie was one of eight children of Bennett and Lucy.
NETTIE MENEFEE was married to ROBERT PALMER DENHAM on November 23, 1881. Nettie died November 25, 1952.
Before Willis Henry was four years old he had lost both of his parents. Shortly there after he was taken by William Nells Mitchell and PearlShaffer (husband and wife) to raise. There are stories that he was adopted by the MITCHELL's; but the records of the Ellis County, Oklahoma Court House were lost in a fire and this adoption could never be proven. Thirteeth Census of the United States: 1910-Population of Benton Township, Arnett, Oklahoma; Willis Henry is listed as Sandford, Willis, boarder,age 12, born in Oklahoma and both parents were shown to be born in Kansas. However, he carried the name of MITCHELL thoughout the rest of his life and passed it on to his children.
Note of interest: At the time he was taken into the Mitchell's home, Willis Henry was separated from his brothers. In 1911 Charles Freddie (Fred) Sandford was taken to Animas, New Mexico by Alex P Lovitt (1866 - 1942) and was raised there. Willis knew nothing of his family until an Aunt sent Fred's address to him in France during WW # 1. Willis found his brother in the war zone of France and learned about his family. (MOM TOLD ME THIS WITHIN A YEAR PRIOR TO HER DEATH).
Willis was raised by Mr. and Mrs. William Nelson Mitchell at Arnett, Okla.
Gloria and her sister were adopted by Pytel. Gloria was always known as
CANDY to all her family and close friends.
(This is transcribed from a handwritten copy by Mabel Recca Boyles Mitchell)
Archabald Boyles - Elizabeth Stevens - - Parents of Henry S. Boyles
Henry Stevens Boyles, born June 17, 1856, in Michigan (Lansing) moved to Missouri, Shelby County 1875, had 2 brothers 1 sister, Orville, Arch and Lydia, were twins. Lydia died 1906, she was married to Will Gibson, thay had 3 children. Arch married Susan ? 2 children. Thay was divorced, then he married Oria Pruitt Boyles, thay had 1 son Archie Lee, he lives in Alaska. Orville married Fannie ? thay had 5 children Lee, Nettie, Loyd, Bertie, and Carson.
Henry died and was burried in Shelbyville, MO June 18. 1941. Rebecca Ann Perrigo, born May 6, 1864, in Illonois, died May 23, 1936 burried at Plesant Pairie Bethel, MO. married Henry Boyles Sept. 16, 1883 in Shelby County, MO. Thay had 11 children, Delmar O., born July 4, 1884, Martin P. born April 20, 1886, Charles L. born Mar. 1, 1888, Archie W. born Mar 8, 1890, Lucy May born, January 21, 1892, Alta Myrtle born, Dec. 24, 1893, Teddy Lee born, March 10, 1896, Eula Pearl born April 10, 1898, Mabel Recca born, March 9, 1900, Lydia Elizabeth born, May 4, 1903, and Opel Glen born April 17, 1906.
THE FOLLOWING IS A COPY OF AN ARTICLE WRITTEN FOR THE ELLIS County, OKLAHOMA HISTORICAL RECORD. WRITTEN BY JULIA H. GRACE.
BOYLES, HENRY STEVEN
Arnett
Henry Steven Boyles was born June 17, 1856, in Michigan. His parents, Archibald and Lydia Ann (Stevens) Boyles, are believed to have lived near Arnett, Oklahoma, before Henry moved there. However, the father, Archibald, died in Shelby County, Missouri, in 1873, when Henry was only seventeen years old. The mother, Lydia, survived him many years, and died in Oklahoma. She was buried at Arnett. Henry's brother, Arch, also lived there with their widowed mother at the time Henry moved his family to Ellis county in 1909.
Henry Steven Boyles married Rebecca Ann Perrigo, September 16, 1883, in Shelby County, Missouri. Rebecca was born in Illinois, May 6, 1864. There in a longline of the Perrigo family -- many that lived in Shelby County, Missouri, two ancestors being founders of the Perrigo Pharmaceutical Company.
Henry and Rebecca were blessed with eleven children, all born in Shelby County, Missouri. Delmar, born July 4, 1884, married Minnie Waibel. They had six children. Martin, born April 20, 1886, married Katie Stevenson -- they were parents of three children, Charlie was born in 1888. His wife's name was Katie and they had one child. Arch was born in 1890. He and his wife, Alma, had four children. Lucy, born Janyary 21, 1892, married Tony Willie -- they had ten children. Alta (Polly), b. December 24, 1893, married Hurley Tuggle. They were parents of three children. Teddy Lee was born in 1896. He and his wife Florence, had four children. Pearl, born in 1898. married Newton Curtis and had four children, Mabel, born in 1900, married Willis Mitchell. They had twelve children. Lydia, born in 1903 married a Mr. Mallett, but htere were no children from this marriage. Opel Glen (Punch), born April 17, 1906, married Miidred Irene Bowen and they had seven children.
Henry, wanting to be near his widowed mother, Lydia Boyles, and his brother, Arch, moved to Oklahoma, December 1909. He and his wife Rebecca and the six youngest children traveled by train. They lived east of Arnett with, and then nearby, the rest of the family. Afterward, the mother Lydia, died. Rebecca took sick with pneumonia and almost died. After she recovered, yearning for her oldest children that remained in Missiouri, she and the children returned in 1910 by train. Henry came to Missouri and they returned to Arnett in 1911.
Lucy, daughter of Henry and Rebecca, and her husband, Tony Willie, not yet having any children, moved to Arnett in 1912. Tony was a mail carrier and owned a "hack". It was a wagon with a wooden enclosed cover on it, and was horse drawn. They traveled in this. They lived there five years and had Blanche in 1913, and Edward in 1915. Lucy was expecting their third child when they made the return trip to Missouri, in the same horse drawn "hack". Merrell was born safe and sound in 1917, in Missouri.
Some of the younger children of Henry and Rebecca remained in Arnett, married and raised their families. Ted and Florence bought the farm east of Arnett. Their children were George, Eddie, Bernita and Willie (Bunky).
It was on his brother, Ted's, farm that O. G. (Punch) Boyles met Bill Powers and Roy Lamb. They were hired to work in the fields. Punch was a young boy then, and didn't know that in later years these two men would be his uncles by marriage. During the 1930's, Roy Lamb married Hazel Powers, sister of Bill, and Punch married Mildred Bowen, whose mother Glessie, was the oldest sister of Bill and Hazel Powers. O.G. (Punch) Boyles and Mildred's children wer Donald Ray, Virgil Glen, Jimmy Louis, Carol Ann, Eva Jean, Shirley Kay and Bobby Lee.
Sources of information for Benedict's family are as follows:
1. 1820, 1830, 1840 Census records of Licking County, Ohio
2. 1850 Census, Licking County, Ohio (GS F# 5008, pt 10)
3. 1860 Cenus, Licking County, Ohio (GS F# 5007, pt 14 #127-130)
4. Marr Rec, Licking County, Ohio (GS F# 49516, pt 1, p 9)
5. Vital Records, Licking County, Ohio (GS F# 41094, pt 121)
6. Land Records, Licking County, Ohio
7. Probate Records, Licking County, Ohio (GS F# 49520, pt 2)
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