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Author: vsfoote
Surnames: Zorns
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Gayle,
Sorry, changed ISPs a while back, just found your post...
Regards Minerva Zorns in Homer/Sidney IL--the Jones line from Greenup KY remains
unresolved Zorns line is pretty clean but always nice to add detail.
Sorry about the loss of formatting. But hope it is helpful.
Stuart
San Antonio, TX
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John Zorns - Mary Jones family sheet
Name: John Zorns(1)
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Birth: abt 1795 Kentucky
Death: 16 Jul 1839 St. Joseph Twp, Champaign, Illinois
Occupation: Farmer
Father: Johan Martin Zornes (1750-1838)
Mother: Catherine Stout (~1760-)
Marriage: 4 Jun 1816 Greenup Co (Carter), Kentucky2
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Spouse: Mary Jones(1)
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Birth: abt 1801 Kentucky
Death: bef 1850 Champaign Co, Illinois
Father: Jones
Mother: Huldah (unknown) (Jones) Johnson
Children:
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1 M: William S Zorns
Birth: 8 Mar 1817 Greenup Co (Carter), Kentucky(3,4)
Death: 29 Apr 1855 Grant, Green, Iowa4
Burial: Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Grant, Green, Iowa(4)
Spouse: Sarah Jones
Marriage: 12 Nov 1843 Champaign Co, Illinois(5)
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2 F: Minerva Zorns
Birth: 14 Jun 1820 Greenup Co (Carter), Kentucky
Death: 2 May 1854 Sidney, Champaign, Illinois
Spouse: George Washington Towner
Marriage: 8 Feb 1838 Champaign Co, Illinois(5)
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3 M: Cyrus Jones Zorns
Birth: 1 Jan 1822 Greenup County, Kentucky(6)
Death: Dec 1850 Pekin, Tazewell, Illinois6,(7)
Spouse: Amanda Melvina Towner
Marriage: 7 Nov 1847 Champaign Co, Illinois(5)
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4 F: Miranda Zorns
Birth: abt 1826 Kentucky(8)
Death: abt 1863 St Joseph Twp, Champaign, Illinois
Spouse: Henry Rudisill
Marriage: 30 Jan 1859 Champaign Co, Illinois
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5 F: Mary B Zorns
Birth: abt 1832 Ohio
Death: 1856 St Joseph Twp, Champaign, Illinois
Spouse: Henry Rudisill
Marriage: 17 Feb 1850 Champaign Co, Illinois(9)
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6 M: Zorns
Birth: abt 1839 St Joseph, Champaign, Illinois
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Notes for John Zorns
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1820 & 1830 Greenup Ky; lvg w/adj to Moses Jones & wife, and Cyrus Jones &
wife
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lvg 1833 at Salt Flat stlmnt Champaign Co IL accd first county tax assesment
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name spelled both ZORNS and ZORNES in numerous documents
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settled in St Joseph Twp (19n 10e of 3d meridian) in 1832. GLO land script for NWSE of sec
36, twp 19 rng 10 dtg 10 Oct 1833 additional land acq in sect 36 by purchase 1836, 1837
and GLO script 1837.
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Son William S. also acq land NESW of sec 1, twp 18 rng 10 dtg Apr 1 1837.
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died 16 Jul 1839, Champaign County, will to probate in Sep 1839. Widow Mary Zorns signs
over admin of estate to William Peters 28 Aug 1839. Probate settlement and subsequent land
deed grants record 5 children. William S. ZORNS, Mary B. ZORNS (RUDISILL), Minerva ZORNS
(TOWNER), Cyrus J. ZORNS, Miranda ZORNS.
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1820 Greenup KY - John Zorns family Census children 1 M under 10, 1 F under 10. [William S
(1818), Minerva (1820)]
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1830 Greenup KY - John Zorns family Census children 1 M 5-10, 1 M 10-15, 1 F 0-5, 1 F
10-15 [Cyrus (1822), William (1818), Miranda (1826), Minerva (1820)]
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1840 Champaign IL - Mary Zorns, widow, children: 1 boy 0-5, 1 boy 15-20, 1 boy 20-30, 1
girl 5-10, 1 girl 10-15 [(unknown infant (1839-40), Cyrus J - 18 (1822)., William S - 22
(1818), Mary B - 8 (1832)., Miranda - 14 (1826)] Minerva 20, married to George W. Towner.
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Notes for Mary Jones
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1820 Greenup KY - John Zorns family Census children 1 M under 10, 1 F under 10. [William S
(1818), Minerva (1820)]
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1830 Greenup KY - John Zorns family Census children 1 M 5-10, 1 M 10-15, 1 F 0-5, 1 F
10-15 [Cyrus (1822), William (1818), Miranda (1826), Minerva (1820)]
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1840 Champaign IL - Mary Zorns, widow, children: 1 boy 0-5, 1 boy 15-20, 1 boy 20-30, 1
girl 5-10, 1 girl 10-15 [(unknown infant (1839-40), Cyrus J - 18 (1822)., William S - 22
(1818), Mary B - 8 (1832)., Miranda - 14 (1826)]
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Notes for William S (Child 1)
eldest son, witnessed on several of John's transactions late 1830s.
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consolidated interest in sec 36 twp 19 rng 10 from siblings by 1850, sold farm 20 Feb 1854
to Levi Harmeson; rcrd 7 Aug 1854, vol G, pg 32
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removed to Grant, Green, Iowa by mid-1854.(4)
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1850 census entry mis-indexed as TORN, age 33. 2/10/2001 viewed image on film and should
have been ZORNS.
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Notes for Minerva (Child 2)
data was obtained from Linda Kay POWELL Garrett descendant of Elijah Towner Jr. (ident 74
iv) 11 Jan 2001
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1820 Greenup KY - Zorns family Census 1 F under 10, 1 M under 10. Minerva & William
S;. Cyrus not born till 1822. Miranda born 1826; Mary B. born 1832 in Ohio.
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lvg 1850 census Sidney, Champaign, IL Minerva (Zorns) Towner, age 30, IL (1850 Fed Census,
Champaign Ill, Dist 21, pg 91A)
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Notes for Cyrus Jones (Child 3)
GENSERV DB SMIA9JT INDI 178061; source of SMIA9JT data was obtained from Linda Kay POWELL
Garrett descenaent of Elijah Towner Jr. (ident 74 iv) 11 Jan 2001 (and subsequent
correspondence)
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Living Pekin Tazewell Illinois as of 10 Dec date of 1850 Census, with Amanda and 1 child 1
y.o. Listed as laborer. Child name "Euniclipes" marked as F. Census misindexed
as Gorens, Cyrus. Enumerator spelled as "ZORENS".
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Notes for Miranda (Child 4)
present 1860 census St Joseph Ill, age 34 born Kentucky8
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Notes for Mary B (Child 5)
lvg 1850 Champaign IL - Census Dist 21 (d 43 f 43), age 18, fm Illinois. w/Henry Rudisill,
age 24, fm Ohio. In same dwell/fam is Cyrus Stewart, age 28, fm Ohio w/Nancy (Rudisill)
Stewart, age 21, fm Ohio.
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J.P. ceremony recorded Feb 17 1850, but husband and wife by 1848 (land sales with brother
Willaim S Zorns signed by Henry vice Mary).
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Sources
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(1). Marriage Bonds Greenup County (Kentucky) 1803-1851, 1954, LDS Family History Library,
0343995, microfilm.
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(2). Marriage Bonds Greenup County (Kentucky) 1803-1851, 1954, LDS Family History Library,
0343995, microfilm, Cyrus Jones was bondsman, consent of Huldah Johnson mother of Mary
Jones.
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(3). Ruth Thompson (email), Re: Zorn/Zorns/Zornes Family,
http://genforum.genealogy.com/zornes/messages/22.html, March 29, 1999.
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(4). Ruth Thompson (email), RE: Family of William S Zorns b. 1817,?h Friday, June 29, 2001
6:50 PM, vsfoote Outlook Zornes/Zorns dbx.
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(5). Pre-1865 Marriage Records Champaign County, Illinois, 1991, Urbana Free Library
Champaign County Historical Archives, Volume 8: Groom's Surnames S-T, Microfilm,
photocopied, Urbana Free Library.
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(6). Historic Michigan, land of the Great Lakes, A third volume devoted to Kent County,?h
White, A editor, National Historical Assoc., Dayton Ohio, 1924, pg 244, pg 304.
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(7). 1850 Federal Census - Tazewell County Illinois, Pekin, 10 Dec 1850, Microfilm, San
Antonio Public Library, 3 May 2001.
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(8). 1860 Federal Census - Champaign Illinois,?h Town 19 N 10 E (St Joseph) Post Office St
Joseph, 4 Aug 1860, microfilm (M653 roll 160 pg 506-507), San Antonio Public Library, 6
June 2001.
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(9). Pre-1865 Marriage Records Champaign County, Illinois, 1991, Urbana Free Library
Champaign County Historical Archives, Volume 8: Groom's Surnames S-T, Microfilm,
photocopied, Urbana Free Library, #197 - J.P. ceremony by William Elliott on license dtd
14 Feb 1850.
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