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Family of
Jotham
Churchill and his wife Euphemia
Randall
my
maternal gg grandparents
Jotham was
son of John Churchill and Martha Baldwin
Jotham is
six generations from Josiah
Churchill and Elizabeth Foote
Sources
on this Churchill Family listed at bottom of
page...
updated
as of 1st May 2004
Sixth Generation from Josiah
Churchill
Very little was known
about my great great maternal grandfather
Jotham Churchill
family until I started researching back in the 80's.
As information on the
family is found it will be added...
Irene
More information on
Jotham Churchill at bottom of page
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Jotham
Churchill (some
records show his name as Jonthan) was born 29 Dec 1804, Hubbardton,
Ruthland, Vermont and died before 25th June 1869 in Milton, Dodge, MN
married
Euphemia
Randall.
born 2 Feb
1810 Milton/Galway, Saratoga, New York (Randall family records) and
died between 4 Mar 1889-19 Sept 1891 in Berne, Dodge, MN. She is
buried in same cemetery as Jotham. Euphemia
was daughter of Joshua Randall
(1782-1852) born New York and Sarah
Smith
(1780-1865) born New
Jersey.
Dodge county has no
record of Jothams' death. I've based his death date, cemetery records
and when a petition was filed by his son George, stating his father
was of Milton, Dodge, Minnesota at time of death. The 1870 Mortality
Census Minnesota, township of Milton, Dodge county shows Jotham died
age 65 of Dropsy in June 1869, The Berne Cemetery records show Jotham
being buried in an unmarked grave in Milton, Dodge, MN.
To date no marriage record has been found when or where
Jotham married Euphemia who was (Dodge county
records show she was also called Malinda, as she signed her name this
way sometimes). Some family records show her as Euphemia Veloris
Randall.
Jotham Churchill,
our ancestor was son of John and Martha (Baldwin) Churchill, formerly
of Hubbardton, Ruthland, Vermont and later of Tully, New York when it
was part of Onondaga county. Our Jotham was ggg-grandson of Josiah
Churchell of Wethersfield, CT.
Jotham and family
moved to Indiana some time before daughter Eliza was born in 1837.
How long they stayed and where is not known, however they moved to
Laona, Winnebago, Illinois before 1849 where the last of their two
children were born. Laona is where Euphemia's mother Sarah (Smith)
Randall had moved with her son William Randall in 1836 from New York.
This would explain why Jotham and family were in Illinois. Jotham
along with family are listed on the 1850 census of Illinois,
Winnebago, Laona township, page 323, 3 Oct 1850. The family was still
there in spring of 1852 after which they moved to Iowa and on to
Minnesota.
Jotham and Euphemia's
children:
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and 2 - twin boys Churchill - born ca
1826, near Cortland county New York, died, lived only 3
days
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Silas Churchill - born ca 1828, East Scott, Cortland, NY
died on plains during gold rush days in California
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William
Veloris Churchill -
born 14 Dec 1832, East Scott, Cortland, New York died 6 Jun 1875,
Cherry Grove twsp, Goodhue, MN buried Maple Lawn cemetery, Wells twp,
Rice county MN; he was murdered; married first Barbara
Mattson born 1834 died 12 Feb 1859 at Virginia City,
Storey, NV. William married second 21 Sept 1864 at Virginia City,
Storey, NV to Lavina Burnette (ICH:
Vol A page 49 Storey county NV Records) William
applied for lic 23 June 1870 married 3rd on 31 Dec 1870 at Red Wing,
Goodhue, MN to Mary E. Minard
who died 21
May 1905.
After
William V. Churchill died Mary married William Henry
Butler and had Hattie, George H. and Eliza Butler.
(click on
William Veloris Churchill to go to his family pages)
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Martha Mandana Churchill
- born ca 1833, East Scott,
Cortland, New York died 1 Mar 1903, Jamestown, Stutsman, ND age 65
(ICH: death
date from Stutsman county ND Old Death Index)
married 3 Jan 1870 at Owatonna, Steele, MN to Talcott
Crosby Goodrich born Jun 1845 NY died 21 Jan 1898,
Jamestown, Stutsman, ND buried in the Highland Home cemetery,
Jamestown, ND son of George and Eliza (Russell) Goodrich.
(click on
martha Mandana Churchill to go to her family pages)
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John Irwin
Churchill - born 1834, East Scott, Cortland, NY; family
had not seen him after 1855
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Isaiah
Ezekiel Churchill -
born ca 1836 East Scott, Corland, NY died 22 Aug 1873 Stewartville,
Olmsted, MN buried Pilot Grove Cemetery in Racine township, Mower, MN
(the cemetery is now deserted) married ca 1867 Mary Jane
(Jennie) Edwards born 27 Jan 1845 Roxbury, VT died 13 July
1900 Stewartville, Olmsted, MN daughter of Joseph B. Edwards and Mary
Kinney. Mary Jane Edwards Churchill married 2nd Marshall
Howard born ca 1833 IL. (click
on Isaiah Ezekiel Churchill to go to his family pages)
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Eliza
Ursula Churchill
(my
maternal great grandmother)
born 20 Mar 1837 Indiana died 27 May 1900 Milton township, Dodge, MN
of dropsy of Kidneys. Married 1st 4 Jun 1855 at West Union, Fayette,
IA to John Robert Linn born 23 Sept 1823 Windsor
Town, Kennebec, ME died 30 Aug 1863 on Steamer "City of Memphis"
during Civil War. John Robert and Eliza divorced 3 June 1860 in
Fayette county IA. Eliza married second unknown and third married 9
Apr 1872 at Waterloo, Black Hawk, IA to William Fracher
who died bef 26 Jan 1895 Cherry Grove, Goodhue, MN;
William and Eliza had no children.
(click on Eliza Ursula Churchill to go to her family
pages)
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Julia
Clarinda Churchill
born 26 Oct 1840 Indiana died 29 May 1922 Masonic Home, Decoto,
Alameda, CA married first 19 Jan 1856 Preston, Fillmore, MN to
Myron Edward Billings born 8 July 1837
Booneville, Onedia, NY died 11 Nov 1919 Calistoga, Napa, CA. son of
Jarvis Billings and Almira Partridge. Julia married second 23 Oct
1898 Geneva, Fillmore, NE to William Warner born
Sept 1826 England died 1903 Geneva, Fillmore, NE. Julia and Myron
divorced Oct 1870. (click
on Julia Clarinda Churchill to go to her family pages)
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Irena
Churchill
born 1841 Indiana died 8 June 1923 Rochester State
Hospital, Rochester, Olmsted, MN age 83 yrs 11 mos 1 d married 1875
to Leonard Bacon Marvin born ca 1839 MI died
1907 Detroit Lakes, MN. (click
on Irenea Churchill to go to her family page)
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Sylvester
Churchill born 1844 Indiana died 10 Feb 1925 Hastings
State Asylum, Hastings, Dakota, MN age 81 yrs never
married
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George Edwin Churchill born 1845 Laona, Winnebago, IL died
16 Feb 1884 Milton, Dodge, MN never married
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Frances
Alceta Churchill
born Aug 1849 Laona, Winnebago, IL married 1st on 30 Mar
1865 Steel county MN to Ezra W. Darling. Frances
married 2nd to F. A. McEwen. (Click
on Frances Alceta Churchill to go to her family page)
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Arminda Isabel Churchill born Aug 1850 Laona, Winnebago,
IL died Nov 1851 Laona, Winnebago, IL buried
there
Notes on Jotham:
Jotham and
family moved to Indiana some time before daughter Eliza was born in
1837. How long they stayed and where is not known, however it may
have been in Decatur county Indiana as the 1840 Federal Census for
Indiana shows Jothel Churchal listed in Decatur county mixed
townships page 241. From Indiana they moved to Laona, Winnebago,
Illinois before 1849 where the last of their two children were born.
Laona is where Euphemia's mother Sarah (Smith)
Randall had moved with her son and Euphemia's brother
William Randall in 1836 from Cortland county New
York. This would explain why Jotham and family were in Illinois.
Jotham along with his family are listed on the 1850 census of
Illinois, Winnebago, Laona township, page 323, 3 Oct 1850. The family
was still there in spring of 1852. It appears the family may have
also lived in Iowa near Fayette and Bremer counties after they left
Illinois as my great grandmother Eliza
Churchill was married to John Robert
Linn in 1855, they lived at Waverly, Bremer County and
West Union, Fayette county, Iowa. Eliza's sons Warren and Wallace
were born there. According to the History of Winona, Olmsted and
Dodge County MN, page 900-901, Jotham's sons William and Sylvester
were already in Minnesota in 1855. Minnesota records show that Jotham
was located on Military Bounty land, Warrant 27300, 160 acres 28 July
1857, on SE1/2 Sec 6 township 108 Range 16 West. This warrant was not
issued to him for personal service but was assigned to him by one
Eliza Bullock, widow of John
Bullock.
signture
of Jotham and Euphemia "Malinda"
Churchill
Sources for Jontham
Churchill:
The
D.A.R. has a file " Jontham Churchill Family " by
Evangeline Linn Halleck (Evangeline was Warren Linn's daughter and
granddaugther of Eliza (Churchill) Linn Fracher) who sent her
research papers to the D.A.R.
State of NY
1830 census Index for Cortland county township Preble page 137
Jotham
Churchill family
1840
Federal Census Decatur county Ind
Churchel,
Jothel males 1 age 0-5; 3 age 5-10; 1 age 30-40; females 2 ge 0-5; 1
age 5-10; 1 age 20-30
1850 Census
for United States, Illinois, Winnebago, township Laona
3 Oct 1850 page 323,
house #36 Family # 37
Jothan
Churchill age 44 born VT farmer
Eupheme
Churchill age 40 born NY
William
Churchill 17 born NY
John Churchill
15 born NY
Isaiah
Churchill 13 born NY
Louisa
Churchill 12 born Ind
Julia
Churchill 10 born Ind
Irene
Churchill 8 born Ind
Sylvester
Churchill 6 born Ind
George
Churchill 5 born Ind
Francis
Churchill 2 born IL
Arminda
Churchill 2/12 born IL
1852 State
Census of Iowa, township Pleasant Valley, Fayette, IA page
12
Jotham
Churchill
1857 MN
Terr, Index Roll 4, Goodhue county MN
town 109
Range 17W Vol Fr-G Page 66 or 1857 Terr. MN
Census
township 109 Range 17W Goodhue county, MN
pg 222 Line
12 Family #13 taken 20 Oct 1857
Isaiah
Churchill age 22 farmer born NY
Jonathan
Churchill (should be spelled Jotham) age 53 farmer born
VT
Euphronia
Churchill age 46 born NY (this is Euphiema Melinda
Randall)
Wm Churchill
26 born NY
Martha
Churchill 21 born NY
Eliza
Churchill age 19 born NY (all census records after 1857 show her
being born in IN)
Julia
Churchill age 17 born IN
Irena
Churchill age 15 born IN
Sylvester
Churchill age 14 born IN
Edwin
Churchill age 12 born IL
Frances
Churchill age 9 born IL
1860 State
census MN, Dodge county, Milton twp page 48 P.O. Mantorville taken 16
July 1860:
Jonatham
Churchill age 55 born VT (Jotham)
Irene
Churchill 19 born IND
Sylvester
Churchill 16 born IND
Edwin
Churchill 14 born IND
1860 State
census MN, Goodhue county, Cherry Grove twp. P.O. Fairpoint page 79
taken 12 July 1860:
J.A. Churchill
23, farmer born NY (this is John Irwin
Churchill)
Euphemia
Churchill 46, born NY
Frances
Churchill 11, born IL
1865 State
MN Census Dodge county, township Milton:
Eupheme
Churchill
George
Churchill
Irene
Churchill
Sylvester
Churchill
William
Chuchill
Jotham
Churchill
Florence
May
1865 State
MN Census Dodge county Milton township 1 June 1865 Family
#80
Jothan
Churchill
Sylvester
Churchill
Geo.
Churchill
Arene
Churchill
Eliza Lynn
Fred Lynn (my
maternal grandfather)
1870
Federal Census MN Dodge county Milton twp
Churchill, S.
age 26 born IND
Churchill,
Irene age 28 born IND
Churchill, Wm.
age 11/12 born MN
Churchill,
Euphema age 50 born NY
Churchill,
George E. age 21 born IL
1875 State
Census, Dodge county, Milton township Family 169; 1 May 1875:
Leonard Marvin
age 36 born Mich
Irena Marvin
age 34 born Ind
Joseph Marvin
age 5 born MN
Eugene Marvin
age 2 born MN
May B. Marvin
under month old born MN (born April 1875)
Ephemia
Churchill age 57 born NY
George E.
Churchill age 26 born IL
Jotham sold
per Shff to Joseph Potter on May 27, 1862 in Book F page
533
SE 1/4 Section
6 Town 108 Range 16 160 Acres. (from Mantoville, Dodge county MN
Courthouse records)
Jotham sold
40 acres to Sylvester Churchill on Sept 2,
1867
SE 1/4 of SE
1/4 Section 6 Town 108 Range 16 (from Mantoville, Dodge county MN
Courthouse records)
Probate
file case #111 Dodge county, MN, 25 June 1869 Jotham
Churchill (Admin.) Film Sam 163 Roll 6 at Minnesota Historical
Center, St. Paul, MN or case file #111 at Dodge County Courthouse,
Mantorville, MN as follows:
"Petition of
Geo. E. Churchill for Special Adm. Filed in the office of Probate
Judge on the 25th day of June A.D. 1869" (State of Minnesota, County
of Dodge, Probate Court, In the matter of the Estate of Jotham
Churchill deceased) To the Judge of said Court: the Petition of
George E. Churchill of the town of Milton, county of Dodge and state
of Minnesota, respectfully represents that Jotham Churchill late of
Milton, Dodge county, Minnesota deceased died interstate, leaving
heirs as follows: viz: Uphamia Churchill his wife, and nine children
viz: Wm. V., Martha M. & Isiah E. Churchill, Eliza U. Lynn, Julia
C. Billings, Irena Churchill, Sylvester Churchill, George E.
Churchill, & Francis A. Darling. That by reason of certain
interested parties, taking, selling and removing personal property
belonging to the Estate of said Jotham Churchill deceased, it is
necessary that a special administrator be appointed and take charge
of the estate of said deceased; and your petitioner would further
represent that the goods, chatlets, credits & effects of said
deceased amount to about three hundred dollars as he verify believes.
Your petitioner would therefore pray that, M. E. Billings be
appointed special administrator of said estate. Dated June 25, 1869
sign: George E. Churchill
The following I found among
notes and copies of old letters sent to the D.A.R .by cousin
Evangeline (Linn) Halleck daugther of
Warren Linn. Evangeline had done research on
Jotham's family in early 1930-40's when she was writting a book
"Descendants of George Linn" on her fathers family. The Linn book was
published at Ann Arbor, MI 1941.
Quote from
a note from 1940's: Halsey Stevens another cousin had a
letter written by Eliza Churchill Linn (my
great-grandmother) dated 19 Feb 1865, Milton, Iowa (should be
Minnesota not Iowa as Eliza was in Milton, Dodge county, Minnesota
with her parents and divorced from John Robert
Linn). Eliza wrote: Father has a timber farm of 160 acres.
He has about 25 acres cleared on it. My oldest sister, Martha's
health is very poor. My sister Julia, next younger than me, is very
much out of health, she has been married about 9 years this winter,
she has two children, a boy and girl, and has lost two little girls,
Minnie and Elly. My sister Irena, next younger than Julia, is 24
years old this winter, and my baby sister was 16 years old last
August, she is boarding with my brother Isaiah in Steele Center,
Minnesota this winter and going to school. My oldest brother Silas
went to California in 1849 and we don't know whether he is alive or
not. We moved away from Illinois and we don't know where to direct to
him and if he is alive he don't know where to direct to us. My
brother William is living in the state of Nevada, in Virginia City.
He has been there about six years. Brother John has been dead about
seven years. My brother Sylvester, is at home this winter going to
school, and my brother Edwin is in Steele Center, Minnesota going to
school. I am spending the winter at home, and have two of my children
with me, the oldest 5 years old and the other one year and a half.
(ICH: This would be Wallace and Frederick. The oldest son Warren was
living with his father's sister.)
Quote from
letter written by Julia Clarinda Churchill Billings Warner, dated 12
Jan 1907, Geneva, Nebraska to her nephew Herbert Churchill
in Minnesota. Julia was daughter of Jotham and Euphemia Randall
Churchill. Julia writes: Father Jotham Churchill was very handy, he
learned the shoemaker's trade and used to make our shoes. Otherwise
in the hard times in the early days in old Winnebago, northern
Illinois, we children would certainly have had to go without shoes,
he was handy in all kinds of work, as well as mother. He used to make
his sleds and axhelves. Nearly all the wells in the early days in
Illinois, for miles around, father stoned, as few could stone so they
would not cave-in. He also was in constant demand during harvest and
haying time, because he could stack both hay and grain to shed water
and not tumble over. All father's and mother's work have been unusual
all kinds of work.
Of the various
brothers and sisters, she wrote: Silas Churchill, oldest living
child, went overland to California with the first company that went
from northern Illinois. He was 21 or 22 years old and a real mother's
boy. From the time he could earn small sums, above necessary
clothing, it was all brought home and given to mother, a tribute from
a loyal loving heart to his own mother who was comparatively young
and a very handsome woman. A mother who was very kind and forgiving
to everybody, and always loving and forgiving her children. Brother
Silas wrote a letter to mother when he and the company he went with,
was on the mountains in sight of San Francisco, but I believe 200-300
miles away from the golden city. He said when "he got his boots full
of gold he would come back, buy a farm and build her a fine house."
Had he lived he surely would have done it. We never heard from him
again. John Irving Churchill, we don't know what became of him. None
of us have seen him since 1855. I believe there was foul play in his
being among the missing.
Sylvester
Churchill, good disposition, smart in business, a boy who worked and
bought calves when he was but nine years old. Princely in manners at
15, without a thought that he appeared better than other boys, not
married. George Edwin Churchill, the last of the boys, not married,
died a bachelor at about 40 years of age. Arminda Isabel Churchill,
father's and mother's last baby, lived a puny and sickly life, died
at age of one and a half years. Well I remember tho but a little
girl, when she was buried. the bleak November day, the large flakes
of snow, the sad thought of the little sister being buried in the
ground and when the grave was filled and the foot and head boards put
in place, how father took off his hat and thanked all the friends and
neighbors for their kindness. How a neighbor took father, mother and
six of us children home with them to a late dinner, then to bed.
Father and mother to stay all night, until father took four of us
older ones home and went back himself. Eliza and I were sad, sad,
little mourners. We did not know what to do with ourselves. We
finally got the hymn book and sang to the best of our ability,
thinking that the only appropriate thing we could do. Isaiah was a
rail splitter. John took Daguerreotypes. William made a large fortune
in the early days at Virginia City, Nevada. In the early days, Martha
was a dressmaker. Eliza was a skilled worker in making hair switches,
curls, puffs and was a schoolteacher and one of the neatest
housekeepers and worker you ever saw.
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Sources used to
put together our Churchill information
above:
The
Ancestry of William Francis Joseph
Boardman
History
of Wethersfield, CT
Churchill
Family in America
Puritan
Settlers of Connecticut
Research
done my 1c1r Evangeline Linn Halleck in
1940's
Family
History of Central NY, Vol III page
1569
My own
research mostly done in Minneosta and census
records
ancestry.com
for leads on families
New
England ancestor.org online for members
only
A
Family Odyssey: The Connecticut Churchills and the Settling of
America 1635-1900
by
cousin Malcolm H. Churchill
Many
copies of old letters, old research information from eaarly 1940's
can be found under
"Jontham
Churchill Family" files at DAR library by Evangeline Linn
Halleck
niece
of my maternal grandfather Fredrick Henry
Lynn
Cemetery listings in NY where
you can find some of our Churchill's
buried: https://sites.rootsweb.com/~nyononda/CEMETERY/COLDBROO.HTM
Cold Brook (South Spafford)
cemetery in Spafford, Onondaga county NY
(Note: Geauga county OH
Genweb.com has birth, marriage and death records online which shows
many of our Churchills among county records)
Read
about the battle of Hubbardton, VT where our Samuel Churchill
grandfather of Jotham Churchill was caught
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