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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What made you change your mind about his traits of bitter vs generous?
ReplyDeleteI want to answer this reply carefully, as more than one person has asked me this. When I first found Hiram I had just completed David, his son. David seemed to start out with a large chunk of land of his own, but died as a common laborer. The first thing I found about Hiram was his will. He left all the children except two $10. But David's immediate older brother George and his younger brother Cyrus were left the farm. When I called up the Columbianna Historical Society, they said there was an article about proceeding to contest the will, but nothing had been followed up on. A first sight, I thought "Wow I bet they were angry!" I even wondered if the reason nobody has found his grave was because they all just scattered his ashes over the darn farm.
ReplyDeleteThe I found out that George, who already had a wife and children, died just a few years after him, and was most likely ill at the time Hiram wrote his will. The farm would provide a place for his widow and children to stay once George passed.
I then looked back and realized David was already married and living on his own property. His losing the land had nothing to do with any apathy on Hiram's part.
Cyrus would be the only one left there to continue the farm work, so it was only natural he be chosen the estate's executor and also given half of the farm.
The oldest sons and daughters had moved to Illinois, Indiana and Texas. They had their own families. They had moved on from their childhood ties. That ten dollars he gave each of them was like a note that said, "I still remember and love you, too."
Who knows what shape the estate was in, and he needed to provide a place for his beloved wife, who bore him 10 children during their long and fruitful marriage. And she left to them all equally the remainder of what she had when she passed.
It is because of this later rethinking of the subject that I have changed my mind on the nature of Hiram Kellogg.