This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Metheny, Jobe, Gilbert, Devolt, Jordan, Brown, Copeland, Frisbie, Fletcher, Henson, Everman, Hiatt, Gates, Landreth, Large, Morton, Greenwood, Yowell, May Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4098.23 Message Board Post: 1. METHENY of Lacy Grove, Fremont county, Iowa. a.-- A.N. Metheny thinks he will move his saw mill before long.--SUN of Jan. 2, 1896. b.-- Alfred Metheny entertained Charles Jobe and wife of Sidney, Sunday.-- SUN of April 30, 1896. 2. The family of Alfred Newton Metheny as far as known: ALFRED NEWTON METHENY, b. January 1, 1842 at Fairmount, West Virginia - d. Feb. 11, 1918 at Bly, Missouri; married (2) RUTH GILBERT, b. July 25,1849 at Springfield, Illinois - d. April 5, 1918; married on January 19, 1868 at Carl, Iowa. Son of Noah G. and Hannah (Devolt) Metheny. Moved to Bly, Missouri in 1911.....Civil War veteran of the 6th Virginia Artillery......They came to Fremont county in 1883....... For years, he operated an elevator and flour mill where the Sidney depot now is located......Buried at Sidney CHILDREN: Her obituary said the couple had 14 children, of whom 10 were living; in 1900, she told the census enumerator that she was the mother of 15 children, of whom 10 were living; in 1910 she told the census enumerator that she was the mother of 14 children, of whom 9 were living. (1). Mary V., b. ca. 1869 in Adams county, Iowa; married Charles M. Jobe, b. ca. 1862, son of Thomas H. and Mary Catherine (Jordan) Jobe....In 1918, 1952, were living in Omaha. (2). James Luther, b. Apr. 14, 1870 in Carl township, Adams county, Iowa - d. April 30, 1898. (3). Cora, b. ca. 1872; married W. O. Brown. In 1918, they were living in Hamburg. (4). Elmer Dennis, b. ca. 1873 - d. June 5, 1945; married Mrs. Mack (Jennie) Copeland in Oct. 1916. (5). Kate Mae "Katy", b. Jan. 2, 1875 in Adams county,Iowa - d. Apr. 16, 1952; married Charles Edward Fletcher, b. Jan. 7, 1871 - d. Jan. 23, 1937; married on Nov. 26, 1892. Son of James and Ann (Frisbie) Fleltcher. Buried at Sidney. (6). Charles C., b. in Feb. 1878. (7). William C., b.Apr. 1879 - d. 1950; married Mary Henson, b. Mar. 26, 1883 - d. Jan. 1, 1970. Buried at Hamburg.....In 1918 were of Bly, Missouri. (8). Jesse Thomas, b. Jan. 7, 1881 at Harlan, Shelby county, Iowa. In 1951, was of Chapman, Merriok county, Nebraska. (9). Bessie J., b. Mar. 1884; married John H. Hiatt on March 6, 1904 at Sidney, Son of David and Elizabeth (Everman) Hiatt. In 1918, were living at Gravity, Iowa. In 1952, were of Hastings, Nebraska. (10). Alva Clarence, b. Aug. 1885; married Vada Elizabeth Gates. In 1918 were living at Ayr, Adams county, Nebraska.....Their son, Clifford Dean, was born June 22, 1914 at Sidney, and in 1953 was of 128 South Mason, Fort Collins, Colorado. (11). Francis, b. May 1892 (12). "Dick", b. ca. 1878 in Shelby county, Iowa; married Abbie Landreth, b. ca. 1885 in Fremont county; married on Aug. 5, 1903 at Sidney, Iowa. Daughter of Moses Ora and Mary (Large) Landrith. In 1907, 1915, they were living 4 miles northwest of Sidney; in 1918, at Hemingsford, Nebraska; in 1938, at Grand Island, Nebraska. (13). Claudy Lee, b. June 7, 1889 - d. July 16, 1890. Bur. Sidney. (14). Robert. In 1952, was living at Denver, Colorado. 3. Charles M. Jobe was the uncle of Lawrence Jobe for whom the Sidney American Legion Post was named. 4. Charles Edward Fletcher was a nephew of Nancy Jane (Fletcher) Morton who figured prominently in the Plum Creek Massacre along the Platte River in Nebraska. 5. John H. Hiatt was the nephew of John Greenwood, son of Old Caleb Greenwood, famous mountain man and trapper in the GREAT WEST. 6. Moses Ora Landreth was a son of Jonathan and Martha Ann (Yowell) Landreth, and were therefore shirt-tail relation of the Mays of the Earle May Seed and Nursery Company of Shenandoah, well known throughout the mid-west. 7. Alfred Newton Metheny's mother died in Sidney on July 15, 1906 at age 86.