NEW INFORMATION - Hiram's Family- The 1840 Census

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The 1840 census has most likely been found.  Even though Hiram's name is spelled Kellick, that is still a sound variation of Kellogg.  It very well may hint at how the name was pronounced by many Kelloggs in 1840, and the person taking the census just wrote down what he heard.

This answer leads to many more questions... Where were the children ?  Were they staying at relatives homes while Hiram and Catherine were creating a new home and farmland? The transition to new land would have to be a several year project. Especially when it came to clearing such a large amount of property. The oldest 2 boys, James and William may have already left, and the girls, Christine, Mary Ann, Olive(ia), and Alisha, may have been either married (Christine) or  staying with Family or Friends of Family.  Neither George, David, nor Cyrus had yet been born.

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Hiram's Family

When I first found Hiram, I thought he was a very bitter man in his old age.  At this point, after looking at his children, I see he was a very generous man.  His children and grandchildren were welcome in his home until his death. 

Hiram Kellogg had 10 children with his wife Catherine (Shook)  Kellogg.  They were married on September 16th 1821 in Sandy Township Stark county. 

  He was 26 years old she was 18 years old their first children were James, William, Christina, and Mary Ann.  These four were born in Sandy Township proven by both the 1830 census and Hiram's will. 

 Somewhere between 1830 and 1850, Hiram purchased Land in Washington township in Columbia County.  In 1850 a map locates the property near the south east corner of the township.  It is near Salineville.

In   the 1850 census, Mary is still living with them but also Olivia, ALISHA, George, David, and Cyrus. 

In the 1860 census, Carolyn is mentioned, but she is not mentioned in Hiram's will. 

In many of the census, ALISHA is masculinized into Elisha, and marked as male.  This is corrected in Hiram's will.

*James moved to Texas after marrying Elizabeth Frye in Illinois.  Their children were William, Joseph, Mary, Stephen, Molly, and John.

*William is noted in Hiram's will to be last found in Illinois.

*Christina (Lee) was living in ?  Ohio

*Mary Ann married John  Heubethal and lived in Salineville.  They had two daughters, Catharine and Ida. 

*Olivia married a Fo?  And lived in Indiana.

*George married Floretta Irene Johnson and had four daughters: Hattie, Lillian, Viola, and Bertha.  George passed away in an 1885, two years after his father.

*Hiram's son David had already married Eleanor Niles  in 1865, and was already living on his own farmland when Hiram died.  His Brother George had applied for David's marriage on the application certificate.  David and Eleanor had 12 children:  Cora (who married Moses Jackson) William F, Etta Marie, Anna, Lula, John F, Thomas, Emma, Fred, Theodore, Albert, and the Edward.  

*Both Cyrus and George inherited the farmland from Hiram.

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And The Mystery Continues

Well, unless my Hiram had two wives in two different locations, the one in Butternut Ridge has been disproved.  Hiram buried at Butternut Ridge is buried with Sally and the following confirms Sally's relationship as his wife:

(Grindstone City Advertiser, 29 Mar 1877)
OLMSTED. On Friday evening of last week Mrs. Sally Kellogg, wife of Hiram Kellogg, living about one and one-half miles west of this village had an attack of apoplexy which resulted fatally on Sunday morning.
Mrs. Kellogg was seventy-four years old. She came to Ohio from Vermont with her husband forty-four years ago, and soon after they settled on the place where she has lived ever since. Had she lived until July they would have celebrated their golden wedding. She has always been a very active and industrious woman, doing her own spinning and weaving up to the time of her death, having left a piece of cloth in the loom which she had not had time to take out since she finished it. They have always kept a large number of cows and it has been a part of her labor to help milk them, in which occupation she had been engaged when she was attacked, having just finished milking five cows.
Thus have passed away with very little or no warning, two of our oldest settlers, who came here when the country was a wilderness, and have lived to see it blossom as the rose. 
Inscription:
wife of Hiram Kellogg 
Burial:
Butternut Ridge Cemetery

So is Hiram buried:

1 In the Kellogg section of the graves at Columbiana County... in an unmarked or poorly marked grave?

2 On the farm property that HIram left to George and Cyrus? ( and it was a sizable piece of land)

3 Or was his body quietly taken to another gravesite not yet mentioned?

As Hiram had no obituary published that has been found, yet. is it even possible there was no remains left to bury? Was there some kind of accident?

We have already taken one field trip to Hudson,  Ohio, where we found one of their residents, Bradford Kellogg, moved to Sandy, Stark  County, yet we have found no relation to Either David or Hiram of Sandy.

Our next field trip is going to be Stark County Historical Society, to see what clues we can find there.

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The Hiram Kellogg Mystery... Yearning to be Solved!

Hiram Kellogg was born in 1795, according to Columbiana county, Ohio records.   He died June 8th 1883, however no burial site is listed for him.  Census record verify that he lived in Sandy Stark County. David appr 22 years older than Hiram, also lived in Sandy Stark County.  He is also from New York . Many Family trees place David as Hiram's father, but since we have found no birth record for either, this cannot be verified.  

I have called the Stark County Historical Society, and they have given their opinion that David , born 1773 in Columbia county NY, and Hiram, Born Circa 1795 were brothers rather than Father and son. I tend to agree. 

Hiram left his property to his wife, 2 of his sons, Cyrus and George, and to the rest of his children, $10 a piece. A newspaper article found by the Columbiana County research center found that the will was in preparation to be contested, but nothing further was found. There is no Grave cited as his, leading me to believe that he wasn't buried there. While most of the many children probably couldn't have cared less about his gravesite, I don't think Cyrus or George would have let him lie in an unmarked grave in Columbiana County.

I am proposing this theory: Hiram was temporarily buried on the family property and then 2 1/2 months later was quietly moved to a gravesite in Butternut Falls, North Olmsted Ohio, where his burial date was recorded as his death date on the tombstone, Is there anybody here who could find documentation to verify my theory?

This is a mystery that I intend to solve, and from where I stand right now, I am not the first person to try to solve it,  but I would like to be the final one who did.

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