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I had several requests to send in a copy of Aunt Nancy (Arney) Neff's memoirs of the trip from Indiana to Iowa. I got this from my grandmother, Nola Long Boss. It probably came from her mother, Rosalaine Arney Long. Aunt Nancy was the honored guest at a lot of reunions, I have a few reunion pamphlets where she is said to be the only surviving member of the wagon train. She is listed as speaking, so perhaps this is a copy of one of her speeches.
Alison Scott
>From the "Memoirs of Aunt Nancy Neff of the Trip of the Arneys from Indiana
to Iowa in the Fall of 1849"
" The migration from North Carolina to Owen County took place in 1820. Henry
Arney and his wife Mary Magdalene Arney, their children: Lizzie, Susan,
Jacob, Katy, Andy, Polly, Hannah, Henry, Lucy, Peggy, John, Anna and Laura.
Their daughters Lizzy and Susan were married and stayed in North Carolina.
Jacob settled in Ohio. John Arney came with his parents to Owen County,
Indiana and helped them get settled. Then he rode a horse back to North
Carolina to marry his sweetheart, Mary Boyles. (They called her Polly.)
Uncle Carey Arney said the Boyles were German and that John had to learn to
speak German, before he could "spark" his girl. His grandfather had told him
this.
Polly's sister Rebecca was married to Frederick Fiscus. They had started to
Indiana, but when they got over the mountains to Kentucky, they stopped. On
the way from North Carolina, the road was so rough a big round cheese
bounced out of the wagon and rolled downhill. He said "cooke a mool, cooke a
mool" - look a there, look a there. If someone could find out what language
that belongs to, it might point to the nationality of the Boyles and Fiscus
families. In traveling, if they met someone who asked where they were from,
they answered "Stokes".
John had been riding the horse, and Polly riding in the wagon. Now they put
what clothes they could in saddlebags, and they took turns walking and
riding until they reached Indiana, and the Arney home. John cut trees during
the day for the building of a log house, and in the evening they both burned
brush. These are the names of the children of John and Mary (Polly) Arney:
Lucindy - died at 6 months of chills and fever.
Noah - fell into a kettle of boiling water that sweet corn had been cooked
in and died. They cooked on a fireplace and the kettle was on the floor
beside it.
Rebecca - married Jacob Hauser Oct. 11, 1845, Minister Obediah Winters.
Martha - married Ayers Elsberry while still in Indiana.
Mary - married John Hauser.
William - married Betsy Boyles.
Frederick - killed by a falling tree in the woods in Indiana at 14 years.
Andrew - married Almyra Moser who came from Indiana with them.
Solomon - married Eliza Fulk.
Nancy Jane - married Henry Goodlow Neff.
John and Polly worked until they had 120 acres of land in Owen County. They
had the three sons, three of the girls were married. John called the family
into conference to talk of future plans where they might all live near each
other, since the holdings in Indiana were too small. He told the young men
that if they would go to look up a new country where it would be a healthy
place to live, and the land was good, he thought it would be better. The
first plan was for only the young married people to go, and the father and
mother and younger children to stay in Indiana. Later the mother made the
decision that where the six children went, they would all go.
William Arney, the oldest son, and Thomas Hauser (brother of Aunt Eliza
Irvin) were the ones selected to search out a new land. They rode horses.
Some of their friends and neighbors had pioneered to Iowa, and they had
written back of the rich land with an abundance of woods and water. So the
boys started to Iowa. They came back with a good report, then John Arney and
families began preparations for the journey to be made in the fall of 1849.
The first necessity was covers for the wagons, which the women wove of flax
grown on the farm. To know the yardage required would be interesting, also
to know the length of time required to make the linen from the straw to the
finished cloth. The front and rear bows took full widths, which had a wide
hem, through which rope was run and drawn up to close the doors (so to
speak) for privacy. At least three widths would be required for the top
proper, and all the sewing must be done by hand. Grandmother Mary had
somewhere along the busy way of her life, learned to do fine tailoring. In
later years when she made the suits from homespun for her grandsons in
Marshall County, she carried her paper of needles in the pocket of her
dress, and would not allow anyone else to use them. She kept a different
needle for every type of work and would not sew on a button with the same
needle she used to sew with. Jake Boustutter used to say he would rather
have a pair of overalls she had made by hand, than any he could buy in
stores that were machine made.
John Arney had one wagon with four horses hitched to it and one wagon with
two yoke of oxen hitched to it. Frederick Hauser had a wagon with two yoke
of oxen. Ayers Elsberry had a wagon with one yoke of oxen. Timber John
Hauser had a wagon with one team of horses. (This is not a complete list.
Somewhere in my notes is an accurate number of the wagons.) John Arney had
three cows and one calf tied behind one wagon, so they had milk and butter.
The butter churned by the jolting of the wagon. The friends and neighbors
came to the Indiana home to see them start off on the journey, which was so
long at the time. Later, many of them came to Iowa. One of my recollections
of my childhood is of my father, Frank Long, sending money to members of the
family to come to Iowa. Our home on the farm at Manning was the stopping
place for all of them.)
The first river they crossed was the White River according to Aunt Nancy.
Horses can be driven through the water, but the oxen always drift
downstream, so the men had to wade or swim and lead them across the rivers.
No record was kept of how far they traveled the first day, or succeeding
days. When they camped at night, they drove the wagons around in a circle.
They had feed boxes on the back of the wagons for the horses. The left the
yokes on the oxen and let them graze. They had to hunt wood for a campfire
to cook supper. They also had hot breakfasts, but ate a cold lunch at noon
to gain time.
A young man named Archie Mann offered to drive the four horse team, if John
Arney would board him and give him a place to sleep. He rode the saddle
horse, the left horse on the first team to the wagon. The saddle was put on
with lines on the front team. As he rode along, he would pick peaches off
the trees and toss them back into the wagon. This was in Illinois. They
could buy them cheap and often people gave them peaches when they stopped to
camp.
Great Grandmother had a large clothes chest in the front of the wagon. They
put a sheepskin over it and it was her seat. Three could sit on it.
Grandfather John sat on it as he drove the ox team, but the greater part of
the time he walked and drove the oxen. Andrew drove the oxen part of the
time. The chest sat lengthwise in the wagon. Bushel sacks of dried peaches
and dried apples were packed in beside it, to fill the wagon. On top of that
were the beds where John Arney and wife slept - a feather bed made it
comfortable. The wagon box was longer than the chest, and behind it the
wagon was filled with hanks of twisted flax, ready for weaving. On top of
these a bed was made for Nancy Jane Arney, and Almyra Moser, from bedding
and clothing. Archie Mann, Andrew and Solomon slept in their wagon. Jacob
Hauser and wife Mary, and their two children, Polly, about five years old,
and Sarah Jane, three months old, slept in their wagon. Ayers Elsberry and
Martha, and their two children, Mary and John (named for their grandfather
and grandmother Arney) slept in their wagon. John Hauser and wife Mary slept
in their wagon.
Nothing of special note happened on the trip as they were passing through
country which was already settled. They crossed the Illinois River on a
ferry and the Mississippi by going seven miles upstream on a steamboat.
After crossing the Mississippi, they did not see any more houses. They drove
in a general north-west direction, but after driving all one day with no
road or trail to follow, concluded that they were lost. That night they
could not find any wood to cook supper, so ate what they had. The women were
crying, the children were afraid. In the morning, grandfather had the horse
teams start off. If they found any signs of settlers, they were to report.
They went but a little way when they saw a house, and found that they had
reached the settlement at Timber Creek, for which they had been headed. They
arrived first at the home of Blakely Brush, whom they had known in Indiana.
They cooked some hot breakfast in the Brush fireplace, then the word got out
that the wagon train had arrived and the five families in the settlement
came to see them.
The five families were Joseph Cooper, Joseph Ferguson, Jackson Smith, Judge
William Smith (first Judge at Albion) and Blakely Brush. They invited the
new arrivals to move in with them. Joseph Cooper said they would take Jake
Hauser and his family of four. William Smith invited Ayers Elsberry and his
family of four. They took their wagons and went to these homes. Joseph
Cooper had only a log house of one room, so he let their boys go and sleep
in our covered wagon with our boys. The four men went out and began chopping
down trees for a house and in two weeks we moved in. The floor was only half
laid. Mother stepped in at the door and said "I thank the Lord that I am
under a roof I can call my own once more." It was a puncheon floor, and on
that clean puncheon floor the pie crust was rolled for the famous pumpkin
pie of Arney tradition. The roof was of clapboards. A fireplace was in one
end, for both heat and cooking.
William Ballard had settled west of Albion. He heard of the newcomers on
Timber Creek and came down to get acquainted. He said the land was better
across the river. They came up to look at it and decided to move. He bought
John Ballard's claim. He entered it when it came on the market for $1.25 an
acre. He traded a horse for the first 160 acres. There was one log cabin
where Marshalltown now stands. Also one log cabin at Marrietta, where they
crossed the Iowa River. In the spring of 1850, they moved to the farm at
Arney Bend."
This didn't appear originally so I am forwarding to the list.
-----Original Message-----
From: jack and Betty anderson [mailto:tejasltd@netjava.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 2:52 PM
To: INOWEN-L-request(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [INOWEN] ROLL CALL: ANDERSON
My owen co connection is Charles W Anderson who was born in Kentucky
in 1808 and married Sarah (unknown) born in 1811 also in Kentucky. They
were married in Kentucky and settled in Washington Township of Owen Co
around 1832. They had the following children: James R Anderson born
1831 in Kentucky., Sarah E Anderson born 1832 in Owen Co, Elizabeth E
Anderson born 1835 in Owen Co, Abin Anderson born 1836 , Nancy A
Anderson, Barbara A Anderson, and William M Franklin Anderson born in
1849 in Owen Co.
William M Franklin Anderson is my gggrandfather. I Know that this family
was on the census in 1850, 1860 and 1870.
If any one out there has any information on this family I would be glad
to share.
Jack Anderson
Amarillo, Tex
tejasltd(a)netjava.com
I just heard that the town of Arney in Owen County was once called
Middletown. Does anyone know of a book or website that would have
information such as when the town's name changed?
At 03:06 AM 2/21/2000 , MAUDEENW(a)aol.com wrote:
><< Would love to hear from all of my "cousins" with any information to share.
>I
> have a family story about both treks copied (from "Aunt Nancy" [Arney] Neff)
> that is interesting to read. >>
>
>Would love to see this! My Weatherly/Roarks came from NC to IN and settled
>with the Hauser/Fulk/Arneys and then Arneys married Hausers, Hausers married
>Weatherlys, etc., etc. To hear the story of their treks would be very
>interesting.
The saddest words of email lists - - - Me too!
Please share - I have often wondered how that journey went - there had to
have been some documentation left behind over the years. I will make an
effort to post it on my web page once it is moved to RootsWeb - assuming
there are no copyright issues involved.
I am forwarding this to the list it was sent to me in error,please direct
all responses to Glorianne.
-----Original Message-----
From: Gfahs(a)aol.com [mailto:Gfahs@aol.com]
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2000 8:36 AM
To: tara37(a)comsys.net
Subject: My roll call
Tara, I sent the following a couple of days ago, but it did not appear.
Glorianne
Subj: Roll call - Beaman, Indiana & Rogers, Kentucky
Date: 00-02-19 15:52:38 EST
From: Gfahs
To: INOWEN-L(a)rootsweb.com
The Beaman family arrived in Owen County in 1824, from Montgomery County,
North Carolina. They settled in Jennings, Jackson and Morgan Townships,
where they remained through several generations. Along with them came James
Langdon, father-in-law of two of the Beaman men. I am interested in all
families of the Beaman surname.
George and Nancy (West/Scott) Rogers, originally from the Franklin County,
Kentucky area, arrived in Owen County in 1836, after living in Jefferson and
Decatur Counties, Indiana for a few years. Children were: Melissa m. West
P.
Oakly and Jacob Huffman; John Sr, m. Lucinda Ann Fortune and Anna A.
Constable; Lucinda B. m. Samuel Beaman Jr.; and Charity m. Gilbert Trent.
Glorianne
Hello,
Sorry, I missed Roll Call. I just wanted to let everyone know that I'm
still searching for that ye old Harris family.
Thank you,
Carla
charris(a)texas.net
My Harris family migrated from Ohio to Owen Co., IN. Jacob S. Harris, my
great-great-grandfather, was born in Ohio abt. 1838 and died in Owen Co., 11
Mar 1914. He married Margaret Balder, 13 Aug 1865 in Tuscarawas Co.,
Ohio(IGI). Margaret was born in Germany. This info came from a 1900 Clay
County census that contained my great-grandfather, Phillip Harris. Jacob and
Margaret had 10 or 11 children. I have a copy of Jacob's will and he states
all of the children below except Charles Harris. My great-grandfathers
obituary, Phillip Harris, states he had a brother Charles that lived in Ohio
in 1948. That is how I know of him. These are Jacob and Margaret's children:
1.)Phillip Harris, my great-grandfather, born in Ohio 28 Feb
1864 and died 29 Dec 1948 in Marion Co., IN, married his wife, Olive (Ollie)
SUMMERS in Owen Co., IN. 17 Aug 1890. Phillip and Ollie moved to Clay City
where they had their children.
2.) Jacob J. Harris, married Lucy FRANK in Owen Co., 18 May 1895.
3.) Margaret (Maggie) Harris, born 6 Jul 1878 married Jacob GRAFE, 17 Oct
1914 in Owen Co.
4.) Rose (Rosy) Harris married John KIFFARBER, 22 Oct 1902 in Owen Co.
5.) Julia A. (Juliann) Harris married John G. STEINER, 9 Jan 1890 in Owen
Co.
6.) Katie (Catharine) Harris married Adam FRANK 24 Jun 1888 in Owen Co.
7.) Ada Harris, born 17 May 1887 married Harry B. SUMMERLOT 19 Feb 1907 in
Owen Co.
8.) John S. Harris married Sarah O. SPEARS 25 Dec 1901 in Owen Co.
9.) Lizzie (Elizabeth) Harris married Christian M. WILLEN 31 Jan 1893 in
Owen Co.
10.) Mary Harris married John KAISER 29 Oct 1899 in Owen Co.
11.) Charles Harris, no info.
Searching for info on America Elizabeth Murphy and Samuel L Beaman married
in Morgan Co,
on August 03, 1888. Samuel and America Beaman possibly had a daughter born
May 21, 1889 in Owen Co, IN.
K Hembree
John W. WILLIAMS b. 12/10/1836 d. 5/18/1909
m. Elizabeth EVANS
Their children:
1. Emma L. m. William D. STEVENS
2. John Butler (died in infancy)
John remarried Sarah COOK-BEAMAN
Their children:
3. Lucinda BEAMAN m. Samuel PARRISH
4. Margaret Ann +never married+
5. Davis Joseph m. Etta Jane HOPKINS
6. Mary C. 1m. Daniel QUERY 2m John CARNEY
7. Elizabeth 1867-1872
8. Frank Martin 1869-1871
John remarried Rhoda CAIN
Their children:
9. Nancy Ella m. Curtis CRAFT
10. Eliza H. m. James B. KING
11. Lydia Alice m. Isaac MODESITT
John remarried Minerva JONES
They had no children.
John (around 1790) & Jemima (around 1800) WILLIAMS
Their known children:
1. Jane b. 1826
2. Anna b. 1832
3. John b. 1834 or 36
1m. Elizabeth EVANS, 2m. Sarah COOK-BEAMAN, 3m. Rhoda CAIN, 4m. Minerva
JONES.
Jemima was a midwife, who attended many births in the area.
Patti Daviau
Indianaplois, IN
daviau1(a)juno.com
John EVANS b. 1810 KY m. 3/24/1831 Owen Co., IN to Lucy Ann MASSEY b.
1811 KY
Their children:
1. David b. 1832 m. Louisa STEVENS
2. Mary Jane b. 1834 m. Hiram B. STEVENS
3. Elizabeth b. 1836 m. John WILLIAMS
4. Rachel b. 1837 m. John LOCKHART
5. Lucy b. 1841
6. Margaret b. 1846
7. Lucinda b. 1849 m. Richard BARTLETT
Patti Daviau
Indianaplois., IN
daviau1(a)juno.com
In a message dated 2/21/00 12:38:48 AM Pacific Standard Time,
scott1(a)worldpath.net writes:
<< Would love to hear from all of my "cousins" with any information to share.
I
have a family story about both treks copied (from "Aunt Nancy" [Arney] Neff)
that is interesting to read. >>
Would love to see this! My Weatherly/Roarks came from NC to IN and settled
with the Hauser/Fulk/Arneys and then Arneys married Hausers, Hausers married
Weatherlys, etc., etc. To hear the story of their treks would be very
interesting.
~Maudeen
Eli Williams and Ellen Waltz from Ohio had at least 2 daughters Anna Eliza and Mary Jane. Anna was born 7 Oct 1848 in Ohio and died in Owen Co and buried at Mt Zion in Clay County. She married Richard Newport
Mary Jane was born 16 Jun 1835 in Ohio and died in Owen Co and is buried at Patricksburg. She married Mathias Newport.
Does anyone have info on these sisters?
Israel Newport was born in Ohio 1816 and married Susanah Little. She was born 7 Sep 1811. They had a son Richard Newport born 26 Mar 1845 in Ohio but died in Owen Co.
Rachel Bolen came from NC and was married to Zachariah Langon of North Carolina. Zachariah was born 1778 and died in 1861 in Owen Co. Rachel was born 1791 in NC and died in Owen Co 1868. Trying to find more infor on Rachel.
Rachel and Zachariah had a son William Clark Langdon who married Martha Ann Sipple and had a daughter Cornelia A. Langdon who was also know as Vina. What does the A. stand for?
Trying to trace Deborah Reynolds born 13 Apr 1817 in NC and Married John Sanford Hauser. They died in 1898 and 1899 and are buried in Owen Co.Deborah father was William and mother was Emma Caroline
Looking for info to continue the search for ANDREW EVANS
Andrew was born 9-28-1759 in Mecklenburg NC and married Elizabeth Fain in
1781 in Jonesboro,Washington county TN.
Andrew was in Owen county by about 1819 although he took out land there in
1817.
He was one of the first sheriff's in Owen county,he died 12-5-1840 and I
would like to find who his parents may have been.
He and Elizabeth had 12 children:
David,Nathaniel,Jesse,John,Elizabeth,Nancy,Samuel,Andrew,Mary,William,James,
and Rachel. Most of these settling in Owen county.
I did a search on Andrew and
found a tree showing his father as being DAVID (mother & other data
unknown); David's father as PETER (mother &: other data unknown); Peter's
father as LOT THE SECOND (b. 1666 other data unknown); and LOT the second's
father as
LOT the first. No other details on any of these men-- no location, no
birthdates,
etc.
Any help appreciated.
Debra Carter
tara37(a)comsys.net
Searching for the parents of SARAH YOUNG
born 4-27-1825 she married JESSE JONES 4-25-1839 and she died 11-10-1912 in
Putnam or Owen county. I have info that her father was GEORGE,not sure if
this is right.
Debra Carter
tara37(a)comsys.net
Looking for info on John McCullough born in Lancaster county PA 6-17-1755
and he died between 1840-1850 in Owen county.
I have these dates from Pension records.
John migrated from Lancaster county PA to Carrabbas county NC and then to
Cox County TN, onto Pulaski county KY and finally to Owen county IN.
There were the following children:
1.Elizabeth born 1781 married David Evans 1-26-1802 in Pulaski county KY
2.Sarah married Robert Hasty
3.Jonathan born 12-15-1790 who settled and died in Greene county IN he
married Elizabeth Staton
4.Mary born about 1791 married Enoch Evans 2-4-1812 in Pulaski county KY
5.William born about 1793
6. Margaret married James Modrell 9-3-1803 in Pulaski county KY
7. Rebecca married Wm Camp 8-30-1811 in Pulaski county KY
8. Robert married Polly"Betsy" Modrell 1-9-1809 in Pulaski county KY
I have info stating that the father of John McCullough was also named John.
John McCullough fought in the RW in various areas, PA and numerous
enlistments in NC.
I would like to find any additional info regarding this line,such as the
father of John and the wife of John.
Thanks very much
Debra Carter
tara37(a)comsys.net