21 February 2003
The reader is reminded that the original purpose of the book was only to link back to the immigrant Charles Woolverton those of his Woolverton or Wolverton descendants who were born before 1850. Material concerning events subsequent to that date was included because it seemed better to include it than to throw it away. It has not been as thoroughly checked as the earlier material, and no effort has been made to render it complete. The searches stopped where they stopped, even if it was likely that more information could be found in later censuses.
Page 22: 7. Thomas: In the first paragraph, “Health” should be corrected to “Heath”.
Page 53: List of children: In each instance “born on” should be changed to “born”.
Page 53: iii. Orpha: The entry should be replaced by the following:
Orpha, born 25 July 1781. She was married on 28 September 1803 at Grimsby, Niagara District, Upper Canada [Ontario], by Robert Nelles to Pierce Moore,1 who had been born on 8 May 1781 in Sussex County, New Jersey, son of John Moore and Dinah Pettit.2 He died on 28 January 1831 at Grimsby and was buried there in St. Andrews churchyard. She died on 16 September 1865 at the residence of her son-in-law, Joseph B. Anderson, in Oakville, Ontario, and was buried in the Oakville Cemetery.3
Page 103: 1.2.1.1.1 John K.: The speculative material concerning 1.2.1.1.1 John K. should be deleted; the census material appears on pages 685-686 as concerning 2.3.2.1.3.
Page 105: 1.2.2.1 George: He must have been born in the first have of 1799, as his father died in September 1798.
Page 121: v. Mary: The evidence that Robert Farnsworth, was a son of Robert Farnsworth and Sarah Moore is to be found at James Wamsley Moore, Rev. John Moore of Newtown, Long Island, and Some of his Descendants (Chemical Publishing Company, Easton, PA, 1903), 470, and in the archives of the Hunterdon County Historical Society in an old note that concerns the early members of the Rea, Moore and Furman families and is headed “From an old typewritten copy loaned me by Allan R. Moore, Mt. Vernon, Washington, Dec. 25, 1931. H. E. Deats.”
Page 152: 3.1.3 Levi: The final words of the second paragraph: “, given the fact Levi’s only known child was born around 1796” should be deleted, rendering it less certain that his wife was one of the children in the 1782 census although Levi’s own age suggests that she was.
Page 161: 4.1.2 Jonathan: Newly found circumstantial evidence strengthens the case for his second wife being Keziah Wilkinson. John Campbell, guardian of Keziah’s four Wolverton children in the document cited under page 163 below, married a Deborah ____, who seems to have been Deborah Wilkinson, sister of Keziah (____) Wolverton.
Page 163: 4.1.2 Jonathan: Kaziah Wolverton, widow of Jonathan Wolverton, late of Shamokin Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, having petitioned for the appointment of a guardian of her four children by Jonathan Wolverton: Isaac, Mary, Martha, and Deborah, all of whom were minors under the age of fourteen years, Adojinah Farnsworth and John Campbell were appointed on 7 August 1813 guardians of said minors.4
Page 163: 4.1.3 Isaac: In the first paragraph the name of the first wife of Isaac’s father should be stated as Abigail.
Page 166: 4.1.4 Ezekiel? Paragraph (2) concerning the appearance of a Balayand Wolverton in the 1900 census of Huron County, Ohio, has been interpreted incorrectly and should be deleted. See the entry below that concerns page 489. This has no effect on the hypothetical existence of 4.1.4 Ezekiel, who was introduced only as a device to permit the line of 4.1.4.1 Nathaniel Bailey to be included in the text.
Page 216: 6.3.4.5 xiii. William: It is likely that 6.3.4.5 William was a nephew rather than a son of 6.3.4 James Matthew, being the same person as 6.3.4.1.2 William Frierson on page 538.
Page 365: 2.3.5.1.1 i. Mahlon: Only the first paragraph and the third paragraph of the material concerns this Mahlon. The rest of it concerns 6.1.1.5 Mahlon and ought to have been included on page 485.
Page 377: 2.3.5.4 John A.: The following should be added to the paragraph describing the couple’s deaths and burials: “The grave of Charles F. Wolverton, 1879-1892, is adjacent to the graves of J. A. Wolverton and Maria Wolverton”, and footnote 2283 should be corrected to “The Williams County Genealogical Society, Brady Township Williams County, Ohio Cemetery Records (inclusive to May 1993) (1993), 50.
Page 445: 4.1.3.1.3 vi. Charles: The biography in the text is incorrect. He was born 28 May 1815 as indicated, but he married on 19 August 1845 in Putnam County, Indiana, Amanda Holland, who is listed as an unidentified Woolverton on page 815. He died at some time between the conception of his son Charles William, who was born on 27 February 1847, and the marriage of his widow, Mrs. Amanda Wolverton to Lewelin [viz. Llewellyn] Powell on 29 August 1848 in Winnebago County, Illinois, as indicated on page 814.
The son of Charles Wolverton and Amanda Powell who appears as William Powell, 3, in the 1850 census on page 814 is also found in the 1860 census of Champaign, Champaign County, Illinois, as Charles W. Powell, 13; and in the 1880 census of Tuscola, Douglas County, Illinois, as Chas. W. Woolverton, stepson, 32. He can be found as No. 109350 in the RootsWeb.com World Connect Project as having been born in Belvidere, Illinois, on 27 February 1847, son of ?? Woolverton and Amanda Holland, with a daughter named Lutie Holland Woolverton.
Thus the person who is described as having married (1) Margaret Reed and (2) Jemima Thompson and who treated at length as 4.1.3.1.3 Charles Wolverton on pages 736-740 has been assigned to the wrong parents. Concerning this see the following entry, concerning pages 456-458, and the entry concerning pages 736-740.
Pages 456-458: 4.1.3.4 Charles: It appears likely that 4.1.3.4 Charles married twice, his first wife probably dying as a result of giving birth to the son who has wrongly been numbered 4.1.3.1.3 Charles and is treated on pages 736-740. It would not be the first time within the Wolverton family where the descendants by a second marriage were unaware of the first marriage.
Concerning the putative son Charles, see the entry under page 736 below.
Page 485: 6.1.1.5 Mahlon: Some material that concerns 6.1.1.5 Mahlon has been erroneously entered on page 365 under 2.3.5.1.1 Mahlon.
Page 489: Elizabeth Ann, widow of 6.1.3.3 Alva Woolverton, was listed in the 1900 census of Huron County, Ohio, as Betty Ann Woolverton, born in February 1829. The entry can be found on page 166, where it was misread as “Balayand Woolverton”.
Page 545: 6.4.1.1 William: The mother of the children born after 6.4.1.1.2 John was Ann Hoagland rather than Elizabeth Hoagland.
Page 591: 6.6.4.1 John: The entry concerning daughter ii. Sarah should be replaced by the following:
ix. Eleanor Leslie, born 11 July 1869.5 She married on 30 July 1891, at the East Baptist Church, Philadelphia, Charles Jacob Faunce, who had been born in Philadelphia on 13 March 1869, son of Jacob Michael Faunce and Sarah Elizabeth Sheets.
Charles Faunce died in Abington, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, on 27 January 1944, and Eleanor Faunce died on 7 September 1961. Both were buried in the Oakland Cemetery, Philadelphia.
Page 597: 7.1.4.1 Thomas: The child shown with the family as Samuel, 12, in the 1850 census was not a son of Thomsa but was 7.1.4.5 Samuel, Thomas’s younger brother, who is treated at page 248 of the principal text. He was probably the male < 5 who was shown on page 248 with his father’s family in the 1840 census, which leaves open the question whether he was also found with Thomas’s family in the same census, shown on page 597, or whether Thomas Wolverton and Phebe Scott had a son of their own of that age. If they did, he must have died before the 1850 census.
Page 608: 7.2.1.2 Jonathan: It has been suggested that the Jane Wolverton who was listed in the family of 7.2.1.3 David was not this Lydia Jane but rather a Catharine Jane, who is listed simply as vi. Catharine in the family of 7.2.1.3 David.
The fact would remain that there was a Lydia Jane, apparently a daughter of 7.2.1.2 Jonathan, who married Robert King in 1858.
Page 611: 7.2.1.3 Isaac David: The entry concerning iv. Son states wrongly that he was not named in his father’s will. As page 610 shows, his father left $600 to John.
Pages 657-8: 2.2.1.2.3 Benjamin S.: The entry concerning ii. Richard P. does not correctly set out the information in the 1900 census, which itself was somewhat in error.. The daughter listed as Anne Melanchton should have been listed as Annie Lambert, as later censuses show her to have been the wife of Melanchton Lambert; a son Frank, born in October 1888 was omitted; and the son was listed as Joel rather than Joll.
Page 671: 2.2.3.2.1 John: Insert the following after viii. Lemuel Boone and renumber the subsequent children accordingly:
ix.
Washington Irving
or Washington Irvin,6
born 14 February 1863 in Erie County, Ohio. His parents removed to Jackson County,
Kansas, in 1865.7He married on 27 December 1893 Hallie Eleanor Donaldson.8She had been born on 29 December 1869 in
Butler County, Kansas, daughter of George T. Donaldson and Eleanor Vaught.9
On 30 April 1901 Washington I. Wolverton of Avery, Erie County, Ohio, was
issued United States Patent No. 673,189 for vehicle couplings. He was described in his widow’s obituary
as a hardware manufacturer.
W. I. Wolverton died on 31 January 1918 in Holton, Jackson County,
Kansas.10
Hattie Eleanor Wolverton died on 13 January 1961 in Evanston, Cook
County, Illinois.11
The following were buried in the Holton Cemetery, Holton, Kansas:12
Wolverton, W. I., father 14 Feb 1863 - 31 Jan 1918
Wolverton, Hallie Elizabeth, wife of W. I., mother
29 Dec 1869 - 13 Jan 1961
Pages 684-5: 2.3.2.1.2 William Sigler: He and Sarah Wolverton had at least one further child, as the long gap between the birth of Charles in 1850-1851 and the birth of William F. in 1864 suggests. A daughter Amy, was born around November 1852 and died on 3 February 1853 in Lower Alloways Township, Salem County, New Jersey.13
Page 690: 2.3.2.2.1 Charles It has been suggested that “Daniel E.” and “E. Ellsworth”, shown as two sons of John A. and Jennie Wolverton, were the same person.
Pages 690-691: 2.3.2.2.1 Charles: It was daughter Mary J. rather than daughter Sarah Elizabeth who married Stephen Apgar.14
Page 714: 2.3.5.4.1 Daniel F.: The record concerning the burial of Daniel F. Wolverton, which was missing from page 377, will be found above, and footnote 4207 should be revised to conform to footnote 2283.
Page 720: 4.1.1.3.3 Stephen: The family of Stephen Wolverton and Sarah Hurd has been found at page 14 of the 1860 census of the First Ward, City of Flint, Genesee County, Michigan, as:
Stephen Wolverton 45 Farmer b. New York
Sarah Wolverton 34 b. New York
George Wolverton 7 b. Flint, Michigan
Edward 6 b. Flint, Michigan
May 2 b. Flint, Michigan
The list of children should reflect the existence of ii. Edward, b. 1853-4, and Mary should be renumbered as iii. Mary.
Page 736: 4.1.3.1.3 Charles: The person described here as 4.1.3.1.3 Charles Woolverton, son of 4.1.3.1 William B. Woolverton and Susanna Hall, has been assigned to the wrong family. See the entries above concerning page 445 and pages 456-460. The present Charles was probably a son of 4.1.3.4 Charles Wolverton by a first marriage, in which event he could be numbered 4.1.3.4.0 Charles.
According to his obituary (cited in the principal text) he was born 22 January 1818 in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. He was left an orphan when quite young and lived with his uncle until 16 November 1838 when he was married to Margaret Reed. If that uncle was 4.1.3.1 William, with wife Susanna, Charles would have named his first daughter Susanna after her foster mother rather than after her true mther.
Page 737: In line 2, “Mary died on 5 June 1857 …” should be “Margaret died on 5 June 1857 …”
Page 739: ix. Joseph R. was born on 3 April 1854.15 He married only once. He and his wife Elnora are found at E. D. 97, page 4A of the 1920 census of Sheldon Township, Iroquois County, Illinois.16 He died on 2 February 1929 in hospital in Kankakee Township, Kankakee County, Illinois, aged 74 years 9 months 29 days, survived by his wife Eleonora and two children.17
The woman incorrectly identified as Joseph R. Wolverton’s second wife was actually the wife of his nephew, Joseph H. Wolverton. He appears on page 739 as Henry, 3, in the 1880 census of the family of Joseph R. Wolverton’s brother Alexander Charles.18 The obituary of Joseph H. Wolverton which appeared in the Huntington, Indiana, newspaper of 15 April 1965, states that he was born on 27 May 1877, son of Alexander C. and Julia Ann (Nunemaker) Wolverton and that he married Cora A. Penland on 8 March 1899 in Warren, Indiana.
Page 745, 4.1.3.5.1 Joseph Snapp: The paternal lineage should be corrected to “(Isaac5-4-3-2, Charles1).
Page 767: 6.4.1.1.3 William: In the entry concerning v. Norman Nelson the wife’s middle name should be“Veronica” rather than “Victoria”, and her mother’s name should be “Berry” rather than “Beery”.
Page 767: 6.4.1.1.3 William: In the entry concerning vi. William Edgert, his name should be “Eggert” rather than “Edgert”.
Page 776: 7.2.1.1.1 Abner: A further child by Abigail Keever should be listed: Eliza G., born 1842-3, who was listed as aged 7 in the 1850 census but appears to have died by the time of the 1860 census.
Page 776: 7.2.1.1.1 Abner: Daughter Dora A. married on 30 January 1879 in Delaware County, Indiana, William Harvey Meranda.19
Page 781: 7.2.1.2.1 Jacob: Son v. Francis P. married on 17 October 1881 Ella Young.20
Pages 788-9: 7.2.1.3.2 Jacob: It has been suggested that there is a discrepancy between the death of Phoebe Jane Wolverton on 2 February 1872 and the birth of her son, Orlando Price, on 14 February 1872.21
Page 832: Jacob M. Woolverton: The second paragraph of the entry concerning ii. Nicholas Winant should be replaced by the following:
Nicholas W. Woolverton was a member of the Independent Order of Rechabites in New York City I 1846. He married (1) probably in New York City, Mary Ann Weaver, who was born around 1823 in New York and died in 1847 in New Orleans. He obtained a license to marry (2) Emma Beverly on 3 March 1849 in the Parish of New Orleans, J. M. Woolverton, apparently his father, acting as bondsman and attesting that Nicholas was over 21 years of age.
Nicholas was erroneously identified as W. W. Woolverton at page 522 of the 1860 census of the Second Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana, where the family should appear as follows:
888/823 N. W. Woolverton 36 Lin store b. New York
Mary Ann Woolverton 14 b. New York
/1824 James Nobles [blank] b. New York
Page 832: Jacob M. Woolverton: The entry concerning iii. William Wilkins should be replaced by the following:
William Wilkins, born 23 October 1826, baptized __ February 1827 at the Scotch Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, as son of Jacob and Abigail Wolverton.
He is said to have left home when he was a young man. No more is known.
Page 833: Jacob M. Woolverton: Add to the material on viii.
Catharine: “She was married on 22
May 1854 to Joseph P. Mays or Mayer or Mayo by Rev. Joseph B. Walker in the
Methodist Episcopal Church at 185 Carondelet Street, New Orleans, A. J. Howard
signing as tutor ad hoc for
Catharine, a minor aged 20.22
1 R. Janet Powell, Annals of the Forty, No. 1 (The
Grimsby Historical Society, Grimsby, Ontario, 1950, rev. 1955),
88-89.
2 Communication from a descendant indicating that the
source was one or more issues of Powell's Annals of the
Forty.
3 Obituary in the Canadian Champion of 21
September 1865; communication from the Oakville Cemetery.
4
Northumberland County Orphans' Court 5: 349.
5 All information
concerning this couple, other than the information concerning the 1870 census,
has been provided by a granddaughter on the basis of a family Bible and the
relevant marriage records, death certificates, and cemetery
records.
6 The middle name appeared as Irvin in his marriage
record but as Irving in his obituary. A grandson recalls being told that his
grandfather had changed his name.
7 The date and place of birth
and information concerning the family's removal to Kansas are taken from a copy
of his obituary, presumably in the Holton Signal.
8 Dan
Fenton, Jackson County, Kansas Bride and Groom Index, Volume II (January 1,
1885 to December 31, 1895) (1992), in which she was identified only as
Hallie E. Donaldson. She was identified in her obituary as Hallie Eleanor
Wolverton.
9 Date of birth from gravestone, place of birth from
grandson citing birth record of her son Charles Donaldson Wolverton, names of
parents from grandson, source not cited.
10 Gravestone as to date;
obituary as to place of death, but it states that he had lived in Holton for the
past twenty-five years, inconsistent with his living in Ohio in
1901.
11 Obituary in Evanston Review of 15 January
1961.
12 Allen Gardiner, Monumental Inscriptions from Jackson
County, Kansas, Cemeteries (1981). Eleanor, which was the name of her
mother, was given as Mrs. Wolverton's middle name in her obituary and by a
grandson, but the published record of her gravestone inscription states that the
name as Elizabeth on her gravestone. The stone itself has not been
examined.
13 New Jersey Archives, Salem County Death
Records.
14 Communication from a correspondent citing the
Hunterdon County Democrat of 23 January 1877 and the 1900 census of
Clinton, Hunterdon County, New Jersey.
15 Calculation from
obituary in the Milford, Illinois _____, date not known.
16
Communication from a correspondent.
17 Obituary, Sheldon
Journal, date not determined.
18 Obituary of Joseph H.
Wolverton, Huntington, Indiana, Herald, 15 April 1965.
19
Communication from a correspondent.
20 Communication from a
correspondent.
21 Communication from a correspondent. No attempt
has been made to determine which, if either, of the sources cited has been cited
incorrectly.
22 Communication from Dalton L. Woolverton citing
First Justice of the New Orleans, Second district Court, NOPL mf VEB 678, roll
10.
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