To continue the story from Fayette Co IL list regarding all her marriages . . . any clues or comments? Is this appropriate for me to copy material from another list for presentation to the Reavis list? Chris -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, November 12, 2000 4:05 AM Subject: Re: [ILFAYETT-L] McKinneys, McAlileys & Sages >Frances McKinney, daughter of William and Nancy (McAliley) McKinney, married >Samuel Wood Osborn 14 Sep 1864, Fayette Co, IL (in " Van Dalia," according to >marriage page in Bible). Samuel was the son of John and Sarah "Sally" (Nolen) >Osborn who (by 1859) moved to Fayette County from Scott Co., VA (with a short >stop in Pulaski Co., KY, in between) >____________________ > >There seems to be some misunderstanding. I didn't even mention Mary Ann Reavis >(aka Revis) in an earlier posting -- and certainly didn't say she married Samuel >Osborn. However, Miles C. McKinney, uncle and guardian of Frances (McKinney) >Osborn, was the third husband of Mary Ann Reavis Ledbetter Dycus McKinney >Ellison Bennett. > >On 25 Apr 1864, Mary Ann appeared before Charles W. Jenks, Clerk of County >Court, to apply for her widow's pension. She swore "That she is the widow of >Miles C. McKinney who was a Private in Company F. commanded by Captain John >Welsh in the Ninety Seventh Regiment of Illinois Volunteers in the War of 1861, >who died on the twenty third day of January AD 1863 at Vicksburg Mississippi of >disease contracted in the said service, viz of Erysipelas." > >She also declared "that she was married to the said Miles C. McKinney on the >14th day of January AD 1858, That her name before her said marriage was Mary A. >Dycus . . . and that she has remained a widow since his death." > > Also mentioned in the pension application are two "surviving children of said >soldier under sixteen years of age at the time of his decease, viz: Rebecca Jane >McKinney, aged five years September 9th 1863, Daniel Uriah McKinney aged three >years August 8th 1866 . . . ." The document was witnessed by Daniel Uriah >McKinney and Martin Welch (aka Welsh). > >Mary Ann married twice after Miles McKinney's death: to Robert Ellison in 1866 >(as stated below) AND to Joel Bennett on 21 Mar 1872. A year after that, Mary A. >Bennett gave consent for her daughter, Rebecca McKinney, to marry Robert J. >Bennett (30 Jul 1873). > >The 1870 Fayette County census for Sharon Twp (p. 76, p. 188 of FCGS's printed >copy) shows Mary Ellison 36, William 14, Lincoln 8 and Rebecca 12. William >probably is Mary's son by Thompson Dycus. Lincoln either was a nickname for the >young Daniel Uriah McKinney (to distinguish him from the older D. U.) -- or else >an error on the part of whomever extracted the census. > >I only have printed versions of the Fayette County censuses. If any lister has >access to the actual images and could clarify this listing, it would be very >much appreciated. > >Also, does anyone out there know if/how Mary's husband Joel Bennett and her >son-in-law, Robert J Bennett, are related? Or what happened to Robert Ellison? >He and Mary Ann supposedly had a daughter, Iola, b. abt.1867. >____________________ > >FYI: Mary Ann Reavis' first husband, Henderson Ledbetter had previously been >married to Samantha Sage, daughter of George and Tamar Christine (Hollingshead) >Sage. Fayette County marriage records note: "Henderson Ledbetter, being duly >sworn, says that George Sage consented that license might issue to join his >daughter Samantha in marriage with the said Henderson Ledbetter, and that the >said George Sage came to town with him, the said Henderson, for the purpose of >giving his consent in person, but being unable to find the clerk, the said >George left town." The license was granted 30 Aug; the couple married 7 Sep >1845. > >On 18 or 19 May 1855, Henderson Ledbetter married Hester E. Radcliff in St. >Clair Co., IL. Does anyone know to whom Hester belongs? > >Carol in Cornhuskerland > > >[email protected] wrote: > >I have that Mary Ann Reavis (b. Oct. 16, 1831 MO, d. ca. 1818 Fayette Co., IL, >dau. of Somomon and Mary (Greene) Reavis), married: > >1) Henderson Ledbetter, May 21, 1850, Fayette Co., IL >2) Thomason Dycus, Aug. 26, 1855, Fayette Co., IL >3) Miles C. McKinney, Jan. 14, 1858 (he died ca. 1864, Civil War) >4) Robert Ellison, Aug. 1, 1866. > >Is this the same Mary Ann, widow of Miles C. McKinney, who married Samuel Wood >Osborn? When were they married? > >[email protected] wrote: > >After John D. McAliley died, Miles C. McKinney (another of William and Frances >Emeline sib's), took over as young Frances' guardian. Unfortunately, Miles died >in 1863 (Civil War). After losing her parents and two uncle guardians, poor >young Frances must have had it. In 1864, she married Samuel Wood Osborn -- and >they became my husband's 2great-grandparents. > > > >> > >