EDDY, Josephine

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• Reference Number: 83666

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• Ancestral File Number: 2JL6-3C
• Reference Number: 24586
• Birth: Abt May 1824, , Virginia, or, Pensylvania, United States
• Death: Aft 18 Jun 1900, Probably in Pana, IL, USA

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!PHYSICIAN

!SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

!1. Written rep from Lee Co. Gen Soc, research Mrs. Loreine Duerkop corr sec,
1202 Bloudeau St., Keokuk, Iowa.

!2. Marriage rec Fort Madison Ct. House , Iowa Bk 12 p. 138.

!3. Keokuk Marr rec Bk. 1, p. 6 Lee Co., Iowa; death record

!4. Keokuk Deed Index, Bk. 9 Grantors Town Lots 1888-1904.

!5. 1860 Cen record Lee Co. Iowa; roll 69 Logan Utah Gen. Soc.

!6. 1870 Gen. record Lee Co., Iowa Roll 101 Logan Gen. Soc.

!THE EDDY FAMILY IN AMERICA, SUPPLEMENT 1968, P. 406:

!24586 GEORGE W. EDDY, b. ca. 1824, in Va.; aged 26 in 1850 Census of Perry
Twp., Monroe Co., Ohio; aged 36 in 1860 Census of Lee Co., Iowa; not mentioned
in 1870 Census of Lee Co., and prob. deceased; m. TABITHA (or TOBITHA)...; b.
ca. 1827, in Va.; aged 23 in 1850 Census; aged 33 1860 Census; aged 43 in 1870
Census; still alive on Jan. 9, 1895, which is the date on a deed for the sale
of property by Tobitha Eddy.

!George was a physician; according to Census reports, he was b. in Va, though
other sources indicate he may have been b. in Pa. He lived in Ohio as early as
1845 and remained until Aug. 26, 1850 (date the Census was taken) or later; by
1853 he had settled in Iowa. He might have served in the Civil War.

!Children:

!24587 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN EDDY, b. ca. 1845, in Ohio; aged 5 in 1850 Census; aged
14 in 1860 Census; aged 23 in 1870 Census; m. Jan 12, 1871, at Van Buren
Twp., Iowa, EMMA VAN DOREN.

!24588 THOMAS JEFFERSON EDDY, b. ca. 1847, in Ohio; aged 3 in 1850 Census; aged
12 in 1860 Census.

!24589 WILLIAM HARVEY EDDY, b. May 10, 1850, in Ohio.

!24590 ISAAC NEWTON EDDY, b. Oct 10 1853, in Iowa; d. May 24, 1882, aged 28
yrs., 7 mos., 14 days, at Croton, Lee Co., Iowa (VR); unm.

!24591 JOHN WESLEY EDDY, b. ca. 1860, in Lee Co., Iowa; age 1 in 1860 Census;
aged 10 in 1870 Census; m. Aug 3, 1881, at Keokuk, Iowa, CHERINE (or
CATHERINE) J. GOOD; b. ca. 1863, aged 18 at time of marriage (VR); dau.
of Leonard and Elizabeth (Turner or Fumer) Good of Keokuk.

!24592 LEWIS EDDY, b. Jan. 15, 1862, at Warren, Lee Co., Iowa; d. Sept. 25,
1883, aged 21 yrs., 8 mos., 10 days, at Croton, Lee Co., (VR); unm.

!(Typed by David G. Jenson).

!a. 11 April 1967, Max Sherman Eddy was Baptized for the men (George W. Eddy
Family) in the Salt Lake City Utah temple. Ann Mildred Eddy Jenson was
baptized for Tabitha Eddy in the Salt Lake City temple. Ann did orginal
research and submitted original information to the temple.
! Other inof. from Jean Dent, states He was born, May 1824 in Monongalia Co., Va,USA now W.VA
Also we belive the W.(middle name) is for Washington...Also Tabitha's last name from two diff erant sources, was Eddy...MSE 1997..

George married Tabitha Tobitha in USA. Tabitha was born about 1827 in Virginia; died in in Adair Co., Missouri, United States; was buried in [we belive at Kirksville, Missouri]. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Ancestral File Number: 2JL6-4J
• Reference Number: 16370
• Birth: Abt 1827, , Virginia, or, Pennsylvania, United States

Notes:

Tabitha EDDY Self W Female W 52 PA PA OH
Newton EDDY Son S Male W 25 IA PA PA
John EDDY Son S Male W 20 IA Laborer PA PA


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Source Information:
Census Place Van Buren, Lee, Iowa
Family History Library Film 1254349
NA Film Number T9-0349
Page Number 128C
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!?? Line 386: (New PAF RIN=122)
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1827 (33-1860)
Report from researcher-Lorreine D. Duerkop
states that the Keokuk "Weekly Gate City" had an artical reading as follows
Thursday, June 17, 1897 in Croton News, Croton,Iowa...June 14. Mrs Eddy an
old resident here,is very low with cancer and a broken linb at her son's in
Siublette, MO. ( note: I belive this should be Sublette in Adair Co., Mo.

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• Ancestral File Number: PVXR-0K
• Reference Number: 14919

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!COPY OF A DEED

!Deed-Samuel Eddy to Jefferson Straight. Be it remembrance that me Samuel Eddy
and Temperence his wife of Monroe County State of Ohio for and in consideration
of the sum of one hundred dollars to win hand paid by Jefferson Straight of the
County and State for said do grant sell and convey to said Jefferson Straight
the North half of the North East quarter of Section Twenty-nine in township in
township tow of said farm in the district lance (?) Subject to sale as Marritta
Ohio and we the said Samuel Eddy and Temperence his wife do consent with said
Jefferson Straight as follows. 1st that we are lawfully seized and said
premises 200 that we have good right to convey the same 300 that the same is
free from all incumbent to be that said Jefferson Straight his heirs assigns (?)
shall quielly oryay (?) the same 5th that we will warrant and force defence the
said premise to him the said Jefferson Straight his heir and signs against all
lawful claims what so ever we trifer (/) our hand and seal the eleventh day of
June in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and forty two of eccuty
in presence.

!Philip Huffman Samuel Eddy
Thomas Wood Temperence Eddy (mark)

!1. Temperence Straight
2. Jefferson Straight
3. William Milton Straight
4. Silas Jefferson Straight

!DEED WITNESSING

!The State of Monroe County, Before me Thomas Wood a Trusty in the Peace in and
for said county, Personally appearance the above named Samuel Eddy and
Temperence his wife and as known beyond the signery and sealing conveyance to
be their voluntary act and deed and the said Temperence being at same time
examine by me separated and apart from said husband and the content instrument
made known to her by me she there declared that she did voluntarily sign and
acknowledge the same and that she is still satisfied there with this 17th day
of June AD 1842.

!Thomas Wood JF

!Enter April 8th and recorded April 1843

!Copy Monroe County Deed Vo. 4 Page 27.
Lena E. Forshey Recorder.

!General Index to Deeds - Monroe County, Ohio

!Index I
June 11, 1842 Edy, Samuel (wife Temperence) to Jefferson Straight R.4 T.2
S.27 acres 80 N1/2 NE 1/4 Vo. 4 Page 27.

!26 August 1850 Census

!Samuel Eddy 1798 52 m Blacksmith 300 Va.
Temperence Eddy (Straight) 1786 63 f "
James Eddy 1828 22 m "
Elizabeth Straight 1805 45 f "

Samuel married Straight, Temperance in USA. Temperance was born about 1786 in , Monongalia Co., Viringia (now West VA), United States; died between 1850 and 1854 in , Monroe Co., Ohio, United States; was buried in West Union Cemetery, Monre Co., Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Ancestral File Number: 1x95-7d8
• Reference Number: 16371

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!A small genealogy is necessary to understand Temperance's forebares. This is
because her mother, Elizabeth, had Temperance and three other children,
Rebecca, Ann, and Jacob K. Straight, by Temperance's great uncle Jacob
Straight. Jacob Straight was the brother to Peter Straight which was the
father of Elizabeth. Therefore, Elizabeth's children's father, Jacob Straight,
was also their great uncle, and also, the uncle to Elizabeth Straight.

!The 1850 Census shows the following:

!Samuel Eddy (age) 52, Temperance (Straight) Eddy (age) 63. Therefore, if you
calculate the births of Temperance and Samuel from this Census, Samuel Eddy
would have been born in 1798 and Temperance would have had to be born sometime
in late 1786 because she was born before the Indian Massacre of 1786 (See the
account of the Indian Massacre in her mother's notes, and also, in her
step-father, William Kennedy's notes).

!According to the Kennedy History of the Indian Massacre it stated that Rebecca
was (age 9) and Temperance (was calculated to be age 7) when the Massacre took
place. Later in the Kennedy History it is stated that Ann's Tombstone gives
her date of death as 9 Aug 1834, and lists her age as 50 years old when Ann
died. Ann's calculated birth would have been 9 Aug 1784. Therefore, according
the the 1850 Census and Ann's Tombstone, at the time of the Indian Massacre,
Ann would have been about 2 years old and Temperance would have been a baby of
only a few months in the story.

!However, most histories state that it was Ann who was the baby.
Unfortunately, we only have the 1850 Census at this time bo determine
Temperance's birth. If she was 7 at the Indian Massacre, she would have had to
be born about 1779 which would have made her 70 in the 1850 census rather than
63 and this would have made her 18 years older than her husband Samuel rather
than 11 years older.

!1850 Census dated August 26:

!Calc. Birth Name age

!1798 Samuel Eddy 52 m
1786 Temperance Eddy 63 f
1828 James Eddy 22 m
1805 Elizabeth Straight 45 f

!General Index to Deeds - Monroe County, Ohio

!Index I

!June 11, 1842 Eddy, Samuel (wife Temperance) to Jefferson Straight R.4 T.2 S.27
acres 80 N 1/2 Ne 1/4 Vol. 4 Page 27.

!April 7, 1837 Eddy, Samuel from Jonathan Stiles R. 5 T.3 S. acres 143 SW
1/4 Vol. 8 Page 63.

!THE KENNEDY RECORD OF THE 1786 INDIAN MASSACRE:

!A dramatic even (the Indian attach) took place at Straight's Run in Oct. 1786.

!Straight's Run, located 1 mile north of present day Barrackville, W. Va., was
an indian path. The pioneers used these roads also, as primitive as they
ere....most generally larger than a game trail, but as the early settlements
grew up on these pathways they were the direct route of access. The indian's
were very familiar with this area and in winter and fall camped on the hill
over looking the Straight's Run valley. This camping area was called Fort Hill
because of its easy defense; it was used to process the game killed prior to
it's shipment to the indian's towns in the Ohio area. The indian's who died on
these hunting journeys were buried on Fort Hill.

!The indians had been pushed westward against their will, almost all treaties
had been broken and the Shawnee Nation was grouping for a great offensive
action against the whites. The tribes were massing in the Wabash River area
and many raiding parties had been sent to steal horses prior to the expected
battle. The Ohio Shawnee were led by Chief Blue Jacket; a white man from
Virginia named Marmaduke Van Sweringen who had joined the tribe when he was 15
years old. The indians were frantic, river travel was very hazardous and on
land raiding parties were frequent. The British at Detroit were helping arm
the indians by paying a bounty of 50 to 100 pounds sterling for white scalps in
prime condition.

!One such raiding party descended on the Straight's Run settlers on Oct. 6th,
1786. While most of the men were out hunting, or helping a neighbor, (Glenn
Lough says the men were clearing land at Asa Hall's at Bellview) the settlers
staying at the Straight's Run cabins were Jacob and Elizabeth Straight and
children Nicholas Woods at Jacob Straight's cabin. In a cabin near the
property line, where Elizabeth (Straight) Dragoo and her children, she was a
sister to Jacob Strait. As the time's dictated, when most of the men were away
the early settlers would gather in their cabins as a refuge against danger.

!Mrs. Dragoo had taken her children to the garden to pick fodder beans. (These
were planted after the corn grew.) So Mrs (Elizabeth Straight) Dragoo was in
the corn field, with her children William and a baby, when the indians captured
them.

!When she did not return, Jacob Straight and Nicholas Woods came to the garden
to investigate her prolonged absence. Upon approaching the garden they were
fired upon and Nicholas Woods fell, dying instantly.

!Elizabeth (Straight, Jacob's wife), who out of curiosity, had followed the ment
to the crest of a small rise which sheltered the cabin from the wind, fled for
her life when she heard the shots. Upon reaching the cabin, she picked up her
small daughter Ann and raced southward toward the creek. The other girls,
Rebecca (age 9) and Temperance (age 7ca) tried to keep up, with their mother,
as she raced along the woodland trail. One girl fell in a brier patch and was
undetected, while the other hid under some fallen trees.

!Elizabeth had run 3/10 of a mile with the child in her arms when she came to
the rocky ledge area of the creek. Exhausted, she scrambled under a shelving
rock ledge below the path.

!In a few very short minutes, Jacob came running down the same path. He had
been behind them about 150 yds, and was trying to lead the indians away from
where he thought his family was hiding. The indians caught him a short
distance past the spot where Elizabeth layed and concealed with her baby (The
Straight account says she stuffed a hankerchief or rag into its mouth to keep
her from crying). It is said that Elizabeth heard him bargain for his life
when he was overtaken, and heard the tommahawk blow that killed him. I'm sure
she gave the returning hunters her account of the massacre.

!"John Dragoo (by the account given by Jaj. Harding to the Pittsburg Gazette Aug
to Dec 1786) had escaped himself, being in a field pulling beans and hearing
screams of the children; his wife was killed, also Jacob Shoyler's (Straight)
family was killed or taken, not any escaped.....Mr. Dragoo who saw the savages
thinks there were about 15"

!Monument:

!INDIAN MASSACRE

!Here nicholas Wood and Jacob Straight were killed and Mrs. Elizabeth Dragoo
captured during Indian raid in 1786. Mrs. Straight and daughter made their
excape from the Indians by hiding under sheltering rocks near by.

!TEMPERANCE STRAIGHT:

!The history written by James E. Kennedy gives no dates pretaining to Temperance
and her husband James Mayfield. Most of the early Mayfields had settled near
the Cheat River and moved toward the Dellslow-Sabraton area, James may have
been some of these people. (There is an early Mayfield cemetery in Sabration.)

!The records for Monongalia County have little information; the burning of the
courthouse records in 1797 may account for this.

!James Mayfield is living in the Hagans area in the 1830's and appears at the
estate sale of William Kennedy in 1834. He buys one Clevis for 50 cts; 2 old
chairs for 64 cts and 4 head of hogs for the sum of $2.41.

!It has been mentioned in other accounts that they moved to the Whetzel County
area with Jasper Straight in the 1820's. I believe they moved Later. Land
records for Whetzel County show a parcel of 150 acres sold by Isaac Hog on 19
July 1856 to a James Mayfield, but I believe this is most likely a son because
of the date of the deed.

!On June 13, 1834, James Mayfield, Temperance's first husband bought One Clevis
for .50 cents, Four head hoges 2.41 and Two old chairs at William
Kennedy's Estate Sale at William's death. We also see Samuel Eddy,
Temperance's second husband at the same sale. Samuel bought One pair of Horse
geers for .95 cents and one pitchfork for .28 cents. (See William Kennedy Jr.'s
notes for -compleat Bill Sale.)

!It is very obvious that all of these people knew each other.

!Temperance, the other girl connected with the Indian Massacre married James
Mayfield:James and Temperance moved to Whetzel County, West Virginia. their
son married Elizabeth Thorn, widow of Archbald Thorn. She was a daughter of
George Wilson. (cousins).

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!Straight Genealogy:

!Temperance b. abt 1780 m. James Mayfield - no record found. They supposedly
relocated to Whetzel Co. (See W. VA. Heritage Encycl Suppl Vol I, "Hardesty" p.
198 - Tyler Co. refers to a Samuel Mayfield MO b. 1834 in Monongalia Co and son
of James & Permelia (Straight) Mayfield. It gives the year 1855 as the year
James Mayfield and his family settled in Whetzel Co. This may be a different
Mayfield.)

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!April 1, 1993

!Dear Mrs. Vines,

1I was given your address by David Kennedy of Fairmont, WV. I, also, have
corresponded with Mary Virginia Sprouse of Clarksburg, WV.

!By way of introduction -

!my great great great grandparents
Samuel and Temperance (Straight) Eddy

!great great grandparents
George W. and Tabitha ( ) Eddy

!great grandparents
Benjamin Franklin and Amy M. (VanDorn) Eddy

!grandparents
Job E. and Minnie Jane (Eddy) Jones

!parents
James and Amy Belle (Jones) Maxwell

!me
Jean L. (Maxwell) (Turner) Dent
my husband - Edward H. Dent

!In David Kennedy's material he indicates that Temperance Straight married James
Mayfield. Our family has no knowledge of this marriage. I corresponded with
David about the source of this information but he just states it as fact. I
find only the record of James and Parmelia (Straight) Mayfield. I don't know
to which Straight family she belonged, but I'm sure she was closely related.
She had daughters, Temperance and Ann, and a son, Samuel. In the 1840 census,
they were listed next to the Jacob K. Straight family whose wife was Permelia
(Shuman). I wonder if there is a connection between the Permelias.

!Temperance Straight was married to Samuel Eddy by 1820 (we believe ca 1818) in
Monongalia Co. Our g-g-grandfather, George W. Eddy, was born there in May
1824. At the estate sale of William Kennedy in 1834, Samuel Eddy and James
Mayfield were both in attendance. By 1836, Samuel and Temperance were living
in Monroe Co. OH. Temperance died after the 1850 census and before 1855 when
the family moved to Iowa. She is buried in the West Union Church Cemetery in
Monroe Co. OH near Antioch. I am enclosing a copy of George W. Eddy's second
marriage record. Not that he listed his mother as Temperancy Kennedy. She has
a son, Jefferson Straight, and possibly two daughters (?) before she was
married. We looked at Jefferson's death record in Monroe Co. OH and his parent
is listed as Tempie Straight. He was born in 1806. In 1850, an Elizabeth
Straight, age 45, was living with Samuel and Temperance, possibly a daughter of
Temperance (?). I'm wondering about Permelia, also - no documentation on
either of them.

!I wrote to the Wetzel Co. Genealogical Society and received information about
James Mayfield's grave. (see enclosed)

!We have found no record of Jacob Straight having a brother, Peter. We don't
know the source of this information. We have copies of DAR charts for Riter
Nicholas Straight and Effie Wilson which show that Elizabeth, wife of Jacob
Straight, Jr. was a Dragoo. This agrees with information from Mary Virginia
Sprouse.

!We don't know the parentage of Samuel Eddy. We feel sure that Gawen Eddy was
his grandfather but don't know which of Gawen's sons was Samuel's father.

!My sister, Lea Maupin, and I have been working on our family history for about
three years and have become completely addicted to it. A year and a half ago,
we made a trip to WV and visited Fairmont and Morgantown. We drove down
Straight's Run. That was quite and experience for us. We hope to get back to
that area some day.

!We would appreciate very much if you could share any additional information or
correct any misinformation we may have. I am enclosing material that may make
my letter a little clearer.

!Sincerely,

!Jean

!Mrs. Jean L. Dent
303 South Johnson Drive
Odessa, MO 64067

Other Events and Attributes:

• Ancestral File Number: PVXV-76
• Reference Number: 14907
• Birth: Abt 1768, Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States

Notes:

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!Isaac Eddy may have been the first Eddy in Greene County as he appears in the
following early census records and tax lists. In 1790 he was listed in the
Federal Census as in Washington County, Pennsylvania. In 1808 he was taxed in
Wayne Township and censured in the same township in 1810 and 1820. The index
to the original patents for Green County (Volume iii of the Horn Papers) does
not show an Isaac Eddy.

!He most likely lived on what is now known as Eddy's Run which enters Hoover's
Run at the location of the Thomas Hoy home on the outskirts of Brave. The 1876
Atlas of Green County by Caldwell (page 95) shows that 434 acres were owned by
individuals with the name Eddy.

!Records of Marion Co., W. Va. list the following tracts of land owned
Alexander's children and other relatives such as his brother to Issac Eddy and
Father (Gawen): Alexander, Jr., 62 acres on Paw Paw Creek, 1841; David, 72
acres on Paw Paw Creek, 1841; Gowin (or Gawen), 111 acres on Paw Paw Creek,
1829; Isaac, 147 acres, 1823; Margaret, 5 acres, 3 rights adjoining James
Baker, 1831; Michael, Jr., 60 acres at the forks of little Paw Paw Creek, 1841;
Michael, Jr., 60 acres at the forks of Paw Paw Creek, 1838; and Joseph, 231
acres in Amwell Twp., Washington Co., Pa, 1786.
.

Isaac married Kiener, Catherine in 1766 in USA. Catherine was born about 1766 in , , , Scotland; died in in , , , United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Ancestral File Number: PVXQ-RD
• Reference Number: 16372