I am at a BRICK WALL and I am asking for some assistance from all the great
people on this site!
I am trying to accomplish two things --- first, to find the maiden name of
John Dean's wife, second, to find the parents of each John and Mary.
I have written to the Jefferson County Library and to the Historical Society
and nothing can be found. I have also written to the Health Dept for death
records and there are none. If John and Mary died in 1865 and are buried at
the Smyrna Cemetery, why aren't they on the 1860 census? Are the dates
wrong? Were the markers placed there by someone after their death who only
guessed at the dates?
KEEPING MY FINGERS CROSSED THAT SOMEONE OUT THERE CAN HELP!!!
Thanks,
Karen
Here's what I have:
Descendants of John Dean +
Generation No. 1
1. John1 Dean + was born February 23, 1781 in NY, and died August 31,
1865 in Jefferson Co., IN. He married Mary Ann. She was born July 6, 1793
in England, and died January 5, 1865 in Jefferson Co., IN.
More About John Dean +:
Burial: September 1865, Smyrna Cemetery, Smyrna Twp., Madison, Jefferson Co.,
IN1
More About Mary Ann:
Burial: January 1865, Smyrna Cemetery, Smyrna Twp., Madison, Jefferson Co., IN
Children of John Dean and Mary are:
+ 2 i. Archibald C.2 Dean, born December 4, 1822 in NY; died April 1,
1891 in Madison, Jefferson Co., IN.
+ 3 ii. Mary A. Dean +, born February 26, 1835 in OH; died September 20,
1903 in Jefferson Co., IN.
Generation No. 2
2. Archibald C.2 Dean (John1) was born December 4, 1822 in NY, and died
April 1, 1891 in Madison, Jefferson Co., IN. He married Josephine. She was
born September 18, 1835, and died November 1, 1908 in Jefferson Co., IN.
More About Archibald C. Dean:
Burial: April 1891, Smyrna Cemetery, Smyrna Twp., Madison, Jefferson Co., IN
Cause of Death: Disease of the bladder and bowel2
Funeral Home: Branhauer & Ritchie
More About Josephine:
Burial: November 1908, Smyrna Cemetery, Smyrna Twp., Madison, Jefferson Co.,
IN
Children of Archibald Dean and Josephine are:
4 i. Huburt3 Dean, born Abt. 1858.
+ 5 ii. Sophia ("Sophie") Dean.
3. Mary A.2 Dean + (John1) was born February 26, 1835 in OH, and died
September 20, 1903 in Jefferson Co., IN. She married John Robert Ritchie +
October 23, 1856 in Jefferson Co., IN, son of John Ritchie and Sophie
Branham. He was born May 27, 1831 in IN3, and died December 12, 1893 in
Jefferson Co., IN.
More About Mary A. Dean +:
Burial: September 1903, Smyrna Cemetery, Smyrna Twp., Madison, Jefferson Co.,
IN
More About John Robert Ritchie +:
Burial: December 1893, Shiloh Cemetery, Smyrna Twp., Jefferson Co., IN
Census: 1880, Smyra Twp., Jefferson County, IN
Occupation: 1850, Engineer
Children of Mary Dean and John Ritchie are:
+ 6 i. Walter3 Ritchie +, born September 1860 in IN; died March 15, 1938
in Smyrna Twp., Jefferson Co., IN.
7 ii. Lucy Ritchie, born 1866.
8 iii. Bertha Ritchie, born June 1871. She married Wallace.
Generation No. 3
5. Sophia ("Sophie")3 Dean (Archibald C.2, John1) She married William
M. Amsden April 19, 1888 in Jefferson Co., IN, son of Caleb Amsden and Nancy
Moncrief. He was born July 28, 1857 in Jennings or Jefferson Co., IN.
Notes for William M. Amsden:
Excerpt from the 1889 Biographical and Historical Souvenir of Jefferson
County, Indiana by W.P. Henricks
"William M. Amsden, County Superintendent of Public Schools, Smyrna township,
the son of Caleb and Nancy (Moncrief) Amsden, was born July 28, 1857, in
Smyrna township, Jefferson County, Ind.; was brought up in this township,
attended the public schools of this county, and graduated from Hanover
College in 1886. While attending college, during the vacations, for six
years from 1880 to 1886, for four months of each year, he acted as traveling
salesman for McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, of Chicago, Ill. After
graduating he was clerk of the Indiana House of Representatives, remaining
there the session of 1887.
In June, 1887, was elected County Superintendent of Public Schools for
Jefferson county, on the Republican ticket.
Mr. Amsden was married, April 19, 1888, to Miss Sophia Dean, daughter of Mr.
A.C. Dean of this township.
He was Deputy Assessor of Smyrna township from 1881 to 1885, four years; and
has been a law student since 1881. He was made secretary of the Republican
Committee from 1888 to 1890. He has been Delegate to two Republican State
Conventions, to two Congressional and one Judicial Conventions. And is chair
man of the Smyrna Precinct Committee. He was a candidate for the Legislature
in 1888, but was defeated in convention.
His father, Caleb Amsden, was a native of New York State, and came to Indiana
in 1830, and located in Jefferson county, at Madison. He was a traveling
salesman for Mr. E.C. Barbour, of Madison. Has been a traveling salesman for
the greater part of his life. In 1865 he located in Smyrna township, on a
farm, where he had been ever since. He is a Mason and an Odd Fellow, and is
a member of the Baptist Church at Wirt. He is now in the seventy-second year
of his age.
Mrs. Amsden, the mother of the subject of this sketch, is a native of
Jefferson county, Ind., and was the daughter of Abner Moncrief, who was a
native of Kentucky, and came to this county in 1808, and was one of the first
settlers of the county. He was a farmer, and died in 1872, at the age of
seventy-two years. He was an active member of the Baptist Church at Wirt,
and was a deacon of his church for many years. Mrs. Amsden is still living,
being fifty-nine years old.
More About William M. Amsden:
Occupation: Lawyer, living at Marion, IN
Children of Sophia Dean and William Amsden are:
9 i. Hayworth4 Amsden.
10 ii. Daisy Amsden.
11 iii. Agnes Amsden.
12 iv. Gertrude Amsden.