FYI - Preble Co OH Kaylor connection. - ----------------------------------------------- > >Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 19:19:43 -0700 > >From: "Billy J. Baker" <billybak@erols.com> > >Source: PREBLE_CO_OH-L@rootsweb.com > >Subject: BIO - KAYLOR to Kansas > > > > >From - William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas > >First published in 1883 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL. > > > >Neosho County -- > > > >G. D. CLAPSADDLE, farmer, Section 29, P. O. Galesburgh, a native of > >Niagara County, N. Y., was born in February, 1824. In 1869 he came to > >Neosho County and turned the first furrow in this part of it, the > >country around being an unbroken wilderness. In 1870 his family came > >out. He had put up his cabin on Section 20, but afterward moved to his > >present site, where he is well established, with fine improvements and a > >farm of 320 acres, which he farms in grain and stock. In 1854 Mr. > >Clapsaddle married Miss Lydia A. Kaylor, who was born in Preble County, > >Ohio, in 1832. They have had eight children, six of whom are now living, > >four sons and two daughters. Mr. Clapsaddle has served as Justice of the > >Peace for eight terms. > > > >(Interesting. Lydia is found in Washington Twp. page 252 of the 1850 > >Census of Preble Co., OH. The mother is a widow with two children. It > >makes you wonder how or why the family went to Kansas. It also looks > >like some date manipulation above for it appears that the bride was 17 > >and the groom was 30 when you consider the Census evidence.)