THE HOUGH FAMILY

EDWIN ALBERT HOUGH'S FAMILY

ca1990 Edwin & Edith with daughter Jane and grandson Gianmarco. Picture; Jane L Hough

JANE, EDWIN & EDITH HOUGH

ca1944 Picture; Jane L Hough

~~~~~~~~~~~~~REVISED: 08-24-09~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To view particulars concerning individuals visit; http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com , databases; califia1 , :3308431 or HOUGH, G Everett , and/or :688702, :2496338, :3172221, jmac ALSO; http://usgwarchives.org , "Missouri", for family obituaries and biographies.

EDWIN ALBERT HOUGH (pronounced "Huff") and his known ancestral family ~ ~ ~> ~ ~ EDWIN (1908MO-1995DC) was born in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri, friday, 23 October 1908, calling it home nearly thirty of his earliest years. Cremains of Edwin and wife of nearly sixty years, native Edith Boggess (1906MO-1996DC), were returned to the town of their births, as wished, where parents and many family members, are also interred, - - - 13 May 1996 by daughter Jane and grandson Gianmarco.

EDWIN's HOUGH FAMILY HISTORY HAS IT THAT; Three Hough brothers migrated to Canada from their well educated, wealthy family in England with notation, all with spelling "HOUGH" are related. They settled in Prescott, Ontario, Canada, across Saint Lawrence river from Ogdensburg, New York where today are recorded Houghs. Benji becoming married, working the mills at Bishops Mills, she giving birth to four children, moving to Illinois, he operating a large mill, leaving family with substantial funds. Edwin's family history barely notes brother Charles, Frank or other Hough's existence.

Seemingly, Charles, Frank and Benjamin Hough, possibly others, came from Derby, Derbyshire, England, where starting early twentieth century Rollis-Royce automoblies and aircraft engines were built, (Derbyshire is an inland county in Central England. The county town Derby is about 130 miles North of London.) http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~jimella/derbys.htm to Prescott. Ontario, Canada. were a close-knit family, indications of other possible relatives with modern day Houghs found in Ogdensburg, New York, whom we don't know. Edwin is traced to Benjamin, finding brother Charles, NO Frank except mentioned in family history notes. Many family births may not be recorded because the mortality rate for children in the nineteenth century was about 30% at birth with additional 20% within 1st five years. 1)- Charles (1812ENG-1883MO), reportedly born 23 May 1812, married an english girl named Johanna Shankster (1824ENG-1891MO) from Whittgift, Yorkshire, England ca 1844 in Quebec, Canada, they having two known children in Canada, Lois Ann, (1845CAN-1934CA), & Charles Wesley, (1848CAN-1915CA), others born in Illinois, Jar, 1852 , Sarah Agusta, (1852IL-1927MO), George W, July 1857 (made quite a name for himself in Jasper county, Missouri) and Elvira, 1862. 2)- Frank's birth, life, family and death is one big fat mystery, other than being a miner in the Colorado high country of Hinsdale and Ouray counties, with offices in Denver!! A 16 July 2009 email from The Hinsdale County (Colorado) Historical Society states they never heard of him, only a non-relative, John Simpson Hough (1833PA-1919CO), a fifth generation American. Frank Hough is found noted in area from 1881 but NOT on any Federal nor State census we have seen. 3)- Benjamin (wife's 1914 obituary has middle intial "F"(Franklin?)) is believed born ca 1825 in Derby, Derbyshire, England (noted on Federal census, born New Jersey in 1870 and New York in 1880), married an Irish girl named Jane M Connell (1829IRE-1914MO) in Ontario, Canada, her father, John Connell (1797ENG-1887CAN), is well documented in Augusta township, Grenville county, Ontario, Canada (west), from Schull, Cork, Ireland: "Cork was one of the worst affected areas in the Great Famine of 1845-47, losing 200,000 persons (one-quarter of the total population) between 1841 and 1851. Of these, 150,000 died and 50,000 emigrated." www.schull.ie/ www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fianna/county/cork.html where he and all childen except Mary Ann, were born, migrating in late 1844 or early 1845. Ireland being part of England until the 1800 "Act of Union". Jane had five children, documented by United States census as; Ann E born in Canada ca 1846, others born in Illinois, John ca 1851, Walter C, (1857IL-1877CO), Franklin B (1859IL-1890TX) and Ellen J born ca 1865, reportedly died young. Both Charles and Benji are documented having children born early (1851 & 1852) in Illinois, during the national boom of the 1850s. They may have first moved to Carroll county, as did the Hoffs, then following Rock creek south into Whiteside county's Clyde then Mount Pleasant townships in Rock River Valley. Benji becoming a successful "miller', no doubt operating/owning mills. Brother Charles joining early and working for awhile. The Hough's Mill, built in 1858, second on Rock creek by and bought from William P Hiddelson in 1871, then sold to Jacob Geyer in 1875. Brother Charles is next found in Preston, township, Jasper county, Missouri on United States Nineth Census, (1870). Brother Frank reportedly to Colorado, developing, according to Hough Family History, its "oldest mine". Historically Colorado's Gold rush started 1859 with discovery of gold just northwest of today's junction of U.S. highway 285 and Interstate 25, near Denver with a second rush for silver following U S Congress' action to buy silver in 1878 lasting till repealed in 1893.     Frank Hough, NOT found on a U S Federal census nor 1885 State census, but otherwise documented most everywhere within the mining areas of Colorado's high country in or near Hinsdale or Ouray counties (Hinsdale once thought to be a location for the state capitol at "Capitol City"- - -now least populated county in Colorado), on western slope from the Continental Divide, where silver & gold were discovered about 1874, www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cohinsda/     Frank's listed in Lake City from 1881 to 1911 (a possible superintendent; J D Fisher, 1910 offices at 830 Equitable Building in Denver) at "Rose's Cabin" in 1883, where we found Daniel Rice Boon Flora¹ (1838IN-1908CO) a few years ago, in "Capitol City" in 1884, where the Wolney Pulaski Flora's¹ (1824IN-1909KS) were (Flora's to Colorado Territory in 1875, from Montgomery county, Kansas), Elleanor Flora¹ (1839IN-1904CO) appointed postmistress on 14 May 1881 (a son-in-law was an early pioneer and postmaster at Independence, Montgomery county, Kansas), her husband, "V P" (his neice, 1st born white child in Montgomery county, Kansas, selected, "American Mother of 1937", d/o John Andrew Flora¹), street superintendent, moving from Lake City, both now "Ghost Towns" http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/co/cohinsdale.html . A local search is currently (17 May 2009) being conducted which hopefully will provide insight into Frank's family and life as did such four years ago, of some thirty newspaper articles on 1875 pioneers, the Flora¹ brothers and Borie families by Grant Houston of the Silver World via, county's ex-sheriff, ex-administrator, Ray Blum. An addendum to this booklet will be printed when that information is recieved. ¹ Flora's are grand, aunt and uncles of Edwin's wife Edith's sister-in-law, Frances Elizabeth (Flora) Boggess.

A FRANK HOUGH MINE LOCATION

Marker locating site of mine abandoned 1900 near the Alpine Loop Backcountry Byway, on the Western Slope from Continental Divide. Picture; ca 1978 by Jane L Hough renting a jeep in Silverton, exploring the ghost towns and old mines finding this marker after crossing through the 12,800 foot Engineer's pass, HOWEVER having NO idea that nearly one-hundred years earlier, this was most likely her g,g, grandfather's brother Frank Hough's mine.

A FRANK HOUGH MINE

FRANK HOUGH MINE           Shut Down 1900             Produced LEAD, ZINC,         GOLD and SILVER Picture; Jane L Hough

A "Frank Hough mine" was on east slope of Engineer Mountain, of Colorado's Western Slope, said to have the area's richest ore content of cooper, some silver and a little gold. The nearest towns are Lake City, county seat of Hinsdale county, in a valley with elevation at 8,700 feet, created 1875, once with over 5,000 people (2000 census 375, entire county only 790), with its clap board 1877 built courthouse still in use as such, where September 1877 Susan B Anthony on two consecutive nights to capacity crowds of miners pleaded for womans right to vote, also the Hough Building seen below and a boarding house once operated by "Mrs E H Flora" (Eleanor) plus other structures. County has Colorado's second largest natural lake and five mountains above fourteen thousand feet and Ouray, county seat of Ouray county (1st county created under statehood), created 2 October 1876 where Eleanor's sister Mary, Mrs Daniel R B Flora (1851IN-1936CO) family lived, blessed with sulfur-free hot springs, in a valley at elevation 7,700 feet, known as "Switzerland of America", with several mountain peaks jetting more than a mile higher, stretching for the sky, ie; Uncomphgre, 14.309 feet, Redcloud to 14,034 feet, town, a little north and west of 12,800 foot Engineer's Pass. Many other passes around 11,000 feet. Silverton, located further south of Ouray in San Juan county.       ENGINEER CITY (ghost town):    ______________________________ "This was a mining camp located along the county line between Ouray and Hinsdale counties on the east side of Engineer Mountain.  Most of the camp was in [Uncompahgre] Ouray but a portion spilled over into Hinsdale.  It was established in 1881 around the Frank Hough Mine."   Uncompahgre (Ute Indian word for warm flowing water) county was 1st county created by state action in 1882, - - county renamed Ouray on 2 March 1883, http://sangres.com/places/westslope/ouray.htm

LAKE CITY

From GenWeb site

OURAY

View of valley and county seat from 2006 Vistors Guide

Interestingly found is; John S Hough, a fifth generation in the new country, with his, 3rd great,grandfather, Richard Hough (1660ENG-1705PA), to this country ending in Pennsylvania, after trip aboard ship "Endeavor" from home of Cheshire, England, 29 September 1683 ~ however, not known to be related to our Frank Hough, but an active, prominent citizen in Colorado. Born in Pennsylvania with wife Mary Powers of the Powers family, born Westport [Kansas City], Jackson county, Missouri, their young son Frank B Hough, was born ca 1875, in Colorado. They are found on United States 1880 census at Lake City, Hinsdale county, Colordao, see worldconnect database "jmac", to wit:

JOHN S HOUGH (1833PA-1919CO)

1914, Wearing jacket in Lake City, Hinsdale county, Colorado given him by Kit Carson. Picture; Edwin Sabin (Googlebooks)

"John S. Hough came west with his father Silas in 1849 and started overland to California from Independence, Mo. Silas died of cholera before they reached the mts., and John S. returned east. A year or two later John S. went west again and got to Sante (sic) Fe and Albuquerque. He became a trader under Col. BOONE 1853-56. He went back to MO. after his marriage and lived in Kansas City for about four years where he was Clerk ofthe Court of Common Pleas. For two years [actually, 1865 & with taxable income in 1866 of $11,500] he was in dry goods business at Council Grove, Ks., but he was back in Mo. during the Civil War. He was a 2nd Lt., Co# 77th Regt, Mo. inf., from12/8/1862 until1864. In 1866 he moved to Los Animas and later he may have lived at Trinidad, Colo. In 1876 he was cashier of the bank of Los Animas and Treasurer of Prowers, Goodnight &Co., beef shippers to Chicago and New York. By 1880 he was in Lake City, where he owned mines and real estate. He built the Hough block and the First National Bank Building, founded a Firefighting Company, was county treasurer and mayor of Lake City. He was certified as representative to the 1875 Colorado Constitutional Convention and was nominated to be the first Governor of Colo. His in-laws, the Prowers, were also influntial in early Col. history, and Prowers Co., is named after them. John S. Hough was a personal friend of KIT CARSON and Carson gave Hough his hunting coat. Later, after Hough gave the coat to the state, the coat was used as the model for the scout statutes of Denver and Trinidad. John S. Hough did some writing of his experiences on the plains. His son, Frank B. Hough, also wrote about his father's experiences. Hough and Huff Families of the U.S. Vol VI-The West by Granville W.Hough pp. 86-87"     John didn't become governor following the United States centennial year of 1876 when Colorado became our 38th state under President U S Grant. He's noted owner of the "Frank Hough mine" on Engineer Mountain at head waters of Henson creek.    (Hough Family History notes; those with surname "Hough", are related.)     The Hough building (ca 1881) in Lake City, is now used as the local arts center. As of 12:29 PM, December 30, 2005, becoming property of and permanent home for The Lake City Arts Council! It had, for prior thirty years, been privately owned and was John Parker's "Black Crooke Theatre".

THE HOUGH BUILDING

ca 1881 Lake City, Hinsdale county, Colorado

Edwin's great,grandfather, Benjamin Hough, believed born ca 1825 in Derby, Derbyshire, England (where after 1900 Rollis-Royce cars and airplane engins were built), is found a "miller" on Eighth Census of the United States, (1860) in Whiteside county, Illinois (county where in 1911, Ronald Reagan was born), its western boundary the Mississippi river, married to Jane Hough, born August 1829 in Shull, Cork, Ireland whose 1914 obituary states; she came to Prescott, Ontario Canada from Ireland when twelve years old [1841], oldest of ten children, married Benjamin F Hough [middle intial "F" not found elsewhere] when in her early twenties, [1850s] moving to Illinois, and said she had five children. Jane M Connell's surname, according to Hough Family History, was Quinell, changed to Connell after arriving in Canada "1837 or 1838" (based upon brother Martin Connell's death certificate with birth 14 February 1844, where his parents were born, Shull, Cork, THUS, migratiion was late 1844 or early 1845). Father John Connell, died 28 October 1887, in Irsh settled, Augusta township, Grenville county, Ontario, Canada (west), near Prescott. Found are Canadian census for years 1851 (with eight children, missing Jane and one other) 1861, and 1871 plus several family members death record, with his on page 550, SCHEDULE C- DEATHS, of Grenville county, Division of Augusta, listing eight of her nine siblings, including her youngest, brother Martin Connell (1844IRE-1934CAN) and sister Mary Ann (Connell) Alder (1847CAN-1926CAN), both visited in 1878 by son Franklin Benjamin Hough, near Spencerville, Ontario, east of Bishops Mills where he had visted his uncle Willam Connell (1839IRE-1916CAN). These three survived Jane. Its also written he visited his ill grandfather, John Connell (1797ENG-1887CAN).    That 1860 U S census for Clyde township, Whiteside county, Illinois shows; Benji Hough, with real estate worth $1,600, age 35, wife Jane age 31, both born outside the U S, with Ann age 14, John age 9, Walter age 3, Frank age 1. It seems to fit Hough Family History and Jane's obituary except kids birth locations and for Ann Hough which, IF her daughter, would mean Jane's marriage was around age sixteen, NOT in her twenties. Benjamin is listed a "miller" in the U S census and discovered on Google was; "The original was destroyed by a flood along Rock Creek and the current mill building constructed in1858. On September 27, 1871 the mill complex was sold to Benjamin Hough and became known as Hough's Mill. Hough sold the mill to Jacob Geyer on January 6, 1875 and Geyer's son later owned the property." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvern_Roller_Mill

HOUGH's MILL

May 2007 Viewing upstream (northeasterly) of Rock creek, building 26½ X 38 feet, dam, 5 foot tall, 80 - 90 feet across creek, and a Pratt Truss bridge, ca 1890. Picture. By John Kelly whose great, grandfather, Martin Kelly settled here in 1855, lived just two miles to north, and no doubt had his grain ground here. http://genealogytrails.com/ill/whiteside/millhough.html

The township reportedly levied $300 tax in 1865 to build a bridge across Rock creek at Hough's Mill. This, where Benjamin Hough and family are located among its 2,553 citizens according to 1870 United States census for Mount Pleasant township, Whiteside county, Illinois, post office, county seat of Morrison, seven and half miles southeast of mill. Benji's real estate increased to $17,000, and found without John Hough (Hough Family History says died young as did oldest sister Ann E), additionally is Ellen J (Jane?) age 4 who could be "Nellie" mentioned in Family History that died young, included in household was an "engineer", John Reede, age 35. Initials added; Walter C (Clayton?), Frank R (Benjamin,?), Ann E (Elzabeth?), age 24 (now, shown born in Canada), totaling five children as is noted in her 1914 obituary, also listed in Eighth Census of The United States (1860) at Clyde township, Whiteside county is brother Charles & family of five kids, but 1870 U S census finds them in Preston township, Jasper county, Missouri listing Charles, Johanna as "Jeanna" Hough and six kids ("Joannie" on 1880 U S census for Lincoln township). He died 1883, age 71 and she 1891, at age 67, in (northeast corner of county) Dundenville, Lincoln township, Jasper county, Missouri, the Shankster families in Chariton county, Missouri and Hoff family are later found in Jasper county, Missouri, married into Hough family.    Benjamin, according to Hough Family History, left his family, "providing them with a nice settlement", never to be heard from again! My research leads me to believe this occurred 1875, upon selling of the Hough's Mill. Could it be, (?) that he and son Walter C joined brother Frank (Franklin?) seeking gold and silver in Colorado??? The timing was right!!! Its said, many died and/or were never reported. An un-married, 1825 english born, Benji Hough is found on 1880 U S census in St Louis with fifty year old, single Sarah Miller as housekeeper, and a Benji Hough is noted in Manitou Springs, Colorado in 1914 & 1920.

WALTER C HOUGH

Hough Family History reports; Walter C (Clayton?) died in Colorado, Decmeber 1877. His apparent companion, Mr Cooper wrote of his death. Brother Franklin Benjamin wrote to his mother from Bishops Mills, Canada, 21 December 1877, to comfort her with like letter from a Arthur McLean, dated 17th. Picture Jane L Hough

Puzzling yet is; Benji being listed born in New Jersey with kids in Illinois on the 1870 U S Federal census (Hough Family History has him born in England and kids in Canada) ~ ~ would he be hiding the fact he is an alien, or simply an error on census???? It appears the kids, except Ann E, were born in Illinois and Jane M Connell was married within first couple (not eight+) of years following arrival in Canada. ~ ~ Unknown is when, where, whom and if, Jane married second time, possibly a Frank someone (?) maybe in 1875/6/7 (?) and/or when and why she left Illinois!! ~ ~ "Illinois Marriages, 1760 - 1900" lists a Mrs Jennie M Hough married to a John H Casserley, January 13, 1880 at Cook county, BUT we find "Jennie" Hough with son "Benj F", June 1880 on census in Kansas City, Missouri(ah)(??). Hough Family History has post card from son Franklin when leaving Chicago by boat September 1877 and letters after arriving in Bishops Mills, Ontario Canada dated December 1877, January 1878. A February 1878 letter to Jane speaks of visiting uncle Martin, aunt Mary Ann (two youngest of Jane's siblings), inclosing letter from William, and visit his ailing grandfather John Connell,---- also of Sterlng, another Frank and her renting a brick house on Mulberry street which he had been through several times, this may well be in Illinois, two towships east from Mount Pleasant. Mother Jane, if remarried, appears would have occurred after 1875, ca 1876 (?). Its said she lost much of the settlement Benji provided, to a second husband. It appears Jane was an inept money handler based on her losing much of her ca 1875 settlement and a 1910 letter from brother William who seemingly was partially funding her life style in Canada before the return to Carthage. Hough Family History reports Benji's son, Franklin Benjamin Hough, graduated from college before ending in Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri, a city of some 60,000 people. The Tenth U S Census (12 June 1880), showing a "Jennie Hough" as "housekeeper", born Ireland both parents born in England, with son "Benj F", born Illinois (with father born New York?), a "bookkeeper" in home of William H V Raymond's family, at 1106 Nineth Street, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri (ah). (an outside chance, this is NOT Edwin's grandfather) This, and letters, seem to substantiate Hough Family History statement that she had lost most of the generous settlement given her by Benjamin before he left. Be that as it may be, Franklin meets Ellen "Nellie" Reed Martin, in 1881.

ELLEN REED MARTIN

A young "Nellie". Picture: Jane L Hough

Following their two year courtship, "Nellie" and Franklin were married 24 May 1883 in Kansas City having two sons Clayton Franklin, 18 August 1884 and Walter Martin, 5 November 1886. Their sons each lived but forty-six years. Noted in Hough Family History and a letter from Eva Adelle (Caten) Remington, is a trip to Canada when son Clayton was three, (1887), with mother Jane M (Connell) Hough and wife "Nellie" visting Hough and Connell relatives. Franklin's maternal grandfather, John Connell (1797ENG-1887CAN), died near Prescott, Ontario, 28 October 1887, burial noted at Sandy Hill cemetery, so this trip may have been for his funeral, visiting relatives as side trips.

SANDY HILL CEMETERY

Located in Augusta township, Grenville county, Ontario, Canada (west)

"Franklin B" and "Jennie Hough" appear in several issues of Kansas City HOYE'S city directory, he first in real estate business (confirmed by "Nellie's" history), then found is his mother, "Jennie Hough" at 128 Olive with son Franklin on HOYE'S 1888 Directory as; "Franklin B Hough & Company", 413 Journal Building, phone 1253, also 128 Olive, with his own securities company for years 1888 and 1889. "Nellie", Franklin and the two kids may NOT have left for Texas until 1889 (?) when mothers, "Jennie" Hough and "Jennie" Martin, are thought to head south, a hundred and fifty miles to Carthage. Further more, its unclear if "Nellie" took the young kids to Texas with her ill husband, they may have stayed with the two grandmothers (who were close friends), in Kansas City, or possibly to Carthage (?).

WALTER MARTIN HOUGH & His dog

ca 1887 His mother wrote that he had always loved his pets including a pony when delivering newspapers. Picture; Jane L Hough

WALTER MARTIN & CLAYTON FRANKLIN HOUGH

ca1890 Both boys died at age forty-six. Picture; Jane L Hough

Grandmother, Jane "Jennie" M (Connell) Hough, about sixty, according to her obituary may have removed to Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri ca 1889 where brother-in-law Charles Hough's (1812ENG-1883MO) family lived over twenty years, this about same time (maybe planned?) as her son's widowed mother-in-law, fifty-four year old "Jennie" (Reed) Martin moved from Kansas City, as did also, fifty-four year old widow, Sarah Elizabeth (Wood) Boggess (1835VA-1918MO), her younger sister, Henriette Jane Wood (1847VA-1928OK) and Sarah's three young sons, S C (1874WV-1946MN), Thomas Howard (1876WV-1938IA) & Hale Matthew (1879WV-1942MO) coming to Carthage from West Virginia to where their brother's had earlier come with families. "T K", Thomas Kennerly (1842VA-1918MO) since 1869, and George Brown Wood (1852VA-1941MO), since 1882, builder of town's telephone system, many school buildings, churchs and finer homes. http://community.webtv.net/billboggess2/GEORGEBROWNWOOD Jane "Jennie" M Hough remained a short time, returning to Canada, most likely following son Franklin's August 1890 burial in Carthage's Park cemetery but well before letter dated January 9, 1894 from baby sister (eighteen years younger), Mary Ann (Connell) Alder, in Prescott, Ontario, Canada persueding her to NOT return to Carthage, to come live among her own family members near Prescott and Bishops Mills area of Ontario. She remained in Canada for some eighteen or more years. Grandsons, Clayton & Walter are noted writing as of January 1895 and visiting her until about March 1906 when grown, she gave them rocks she gathered when in Colorado in 1897, "that they prized". according to the Hough Family History. For some unknown reason(s) she returns to Carthage ca 1912 at age of nearly eighty-four, living on Sixth street in 1914 when she died. She's survived by three youngest of her nine siblings, William, Martin and Mary Ann, in Canada, plus many local Hough family members including grand nephew, banker G Everett (later, president Central National Bank), son of George W Hough of 916 Cassil, who arranged her funeral and burial, also grandsons Clayton & Walter Hough and a great,grandson, Albert Edwin Hough. "Jennie's" pallbearers were; G Everett Hough, James Carter, Charles Carter, George Brown, J E Lang, and Dan Replogle, buried at Carthage's Park cemetery Lot 17, Block 12, with son Franklin Benjamin Hough and great,grandson Franklin W(Walter?) Hough buried seven years earlier, February 1907. Its unknown what happened to her eldest children, Ann E and John, when they died or whatever???? little "Nellie" (Ellen J) died a child in Illinois, Walter C 1877 in Colorado, Franklin B 1890 in Texas. Jane's nephew, a thresherman, George W Hough, born 1857 in Illinois, made quite a splash in Jasper county, Missouri when he and his mechanically inclined partner Rodney Palmer Hoff (1848IL-1923MO), reportedly: "...to thresh wheat during the season (June 1 to early winter) and operate a sawmill during the remainder of the year. "They introduced the first self-propelled steam engine into Jasper County [Missouri]. It was built by the J.I. Case Threshing Machine Co. of Racine, Wisc. and used to power a Case threshing machine or a large sawmill. Rodney appears to have been handy with machinery and must have left the financial end of the business to George Hough. While Rodney never seemed to have "two dimes to rub together" Mr. Hough, when threatened with a lawsuit, was able to distribute $60,000 between his six sons." (Source: worldconnect database :3172221 & great,grandson, johnhoff3@cox.net 14 June 2009)    Jane's daughter-in-law, Ellen "Nellie" Reed Martin (1860IL-1935MO), an offspring of Agrippa Simeon Martin's (1798NY-1879IL) son Simeon Hammond Martin (1833NY-1863IL), born Rome, Oneida county, New York 19 September 1833. Agrippa, reportedly born Oneida county in 1798, about time it was split from western Herkimer county, a party to the Presbyterian group under leadership of "Reverend Jno Waters, a graduate of Princeton" in New Jersey. Their group formed a committee in 1835, to find a site in Illinois suitable for farming, a town and college. This was no doubt influenced by the fact the Indians were being moved to what became Oklahoma and western Arkansas, and the national financial panic which was building and came about in 1837.     This committee, including leader George Washington Gale (1789NY-1862IL), went west selecting and purchasing 17 sections of land (10,770 acres) located on the ridge, "fifty miles east" of and between Mississippi and Illinois rivers, south of Henderson Grove, in Knox County, Illinois as their site, returning to New York.     The following year the group of some twenty, including Gale, arrived from Oneida County, New York, May 1836 at what they named, Log City, setting about platting a town, now Galesburg, and a college, now Knox College both created in 1837.

"The City of Galesburg is a unique town in that it was a planned city whose purpose was fostering religious education. Knox College was the main reason for its existence. The college was granted a charter by the Illinois State Legislature in 1837, but it was not until 1841 that it opened its doors to the first freshman class. Old Main was completed in 1857." www.usgennet.org/usa/il/state/counties.htm When approached for information, present day staff at Knox College were most helpful and furnished much of the material that is presented herein concerning the college and Martins early life.

"OLD MAIN"

"Knox College is a private, four-year, liberal arts college situated in Galesburg, Knox county, Illinois. Knox College was set up in 1837 as the Knox Manual Labor College. The founders of the college were George Washington Gale and Reverend Samuel Wright. Knox College featured among the Best 368 Schools by Princeton Review in 2008. Knox College offers graduate degrees, pre-professional and co-operative programs in fields of study including arts, humanities, sciences, social sciences, business and management."

Agrippa with his family (parents & children) left Oneida county, New York with families named; Allen, Bruce, Ferris, Frost, May, Olmstead, Prentice, Sanderson and Simmons in the spring of 1837, following a path to Log City, Knox County, Illinois which later became the Michigan Central Railroad route. They came by horse drawn covered wagons taking six weeks for the journey to join with George Washington Gale and group who arrived in May 1836. http://books.google.com/books?id=ro4UAAAAYAAJ.. (page 554)     Gale, his followers and his early successors were pretty grim people. They were against slavery, sin, and intoxicating beverages. The original land deeds said that manufacture or sale of intoxicating beverages would cause the land to revert to the College.           Later Historic Highlights:     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Fifth of seven Lincoln - Douglas debates held at Galesburg 7 (11?) October 1858 the year before "Jennie" (Belinda Jane Reed) married Agrippa's son, Simeon Hammond Martin, 30 August 1859. Carl Sandburg born 6 January 1878 whose father worked for the C,B & O RR about same time Agrippa Martin, did. George Washington Gale Farris, jr grandson of a first settler, invented the Farris Wheel for Chicago's 1892 Columbian World's Fair. Ronald Reagan [1911IL-1989CA] moved to Galesburg with his family at the age of five [1916]. They lived in an apartment at 1260 N. Kellogg Street and later moved across the street to 1219 N Kellogg. He attended the Silas Willard Elementary School. Nancy (Davis) Reagan's stepfather, Dr. Loyal Davis, a well-known Chicago neurosurgeon, was born in Galesburg. Dr. Davis married Nancy's mother in 1929 adopting Nancy who spent many vacations from school at her grandparent's Walnut Avenue residence in Galesburg.         HONOR ROLL of FIRST SETTLERS      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~     Created in 1937 was a list of those arriving in 1836, 1837 and shortly thereafter, prepared during the centennial year of town and school, from records by Earnest Elmo Calkins, including;         "Agrippa Simeon Martin -1879         "Lovisa (Kirkland²) Martin         "From Tully, N Y; married (1) Lovisa Kirkland²; (2) Abigail Prentice.         "Children: Hannah Wright (Pond), Charles Finney." (Its unclear why younger son Simeon Hammond Martin was not included, born 1833, land owner 1850, Class of 1855, married 1859, died1863) Agrippa and family were also early members of Galesburg's First Church of Christ, as was Lucinda Reed and Abigail Prentice; see http://books.google.com/books?id=tKzRAAAAMAAJ... ²Hough Family History has her name as Bushnell (?) with a grandson named Horace Bushnell Martin, also, it notes a daughter named Abigail Martin, born 1812 married a Mr Prentiss which can NOT be documented as reported. HOWEVER: Our research shows that Agrippa married on 1 January 1818, a Louisa Kirkland Bushnell (1791CT-1860IL) born Hanover, New London, Connecticut parents being; Janson Bushnell (1763CT-1847OH) and Hannah Kirkland (1765CT-AFT1810NY) www.archive.org/stream/.../historicalsketch00bish_djvu.txt (page 59) and that widow Abigail (Skinner) Prentice (1813NY-1886IL) was Agrippa's second wife as of 5 May 1862. In 1870 census they are living next to Peter Bushnell (blacksmith) and family, he and wife from Sweden.    Hannah Wright Martin (1818NY-1903IL) married Francis Xavier Pond (1819NY-1905IL) in 1841 and found in her father's, Agrippa, household for 1850 U S census, and with brother Simeon for 1860 U S census.     Charles Finney Martin (1827NY-1864TN), named for Reverend Charles Finney who wrote a book against Freemasonary, was in the first commencement ever held for what now is Knox College in its Class of 1846, and became a member of its faculty for several years. He then was in Class of 1853 and graduated from Union Theological Seminary. Mr Charles F. Martin was ordained to the work of the ministry on 25th of June, 1854, in the Church of the Puritans, New York, of which he was a member. He became married and they journeyed as missionaries to Copts in Egypt sailing from New York 12th of October 1854 under the American Missionary Association returning in 1858, both with broken health due to the heat thus on 17th of September 1859 they, regretfully, resigned. [Records show a Charles F Martin, born ca 1828, of Caskill, NY enlisting in Company B, New York 5th Heavy Artillery serving 14 AUG 1862 to 17 September 1862 (?)] He next became pastor of the Congregational Church in Peru, La Salle, County, Illinois, until 1863, when appointed District Secretary of American Tract Society of Boston at Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee where he passed away 7 February 1864 at the young age of thirty-seven years and one day old. Source: Records of the American Missionary Assciation, forwarded by E M Horton, to Knox College.     Simeon Hammond Martin (1833NY-1863IL) had, as afore mentioned, purchased eighty acres of farmland in 1850 from the Bartlett's, the groups cabinet and coffin maker, graduated Knox College Class of 1855 and settled in farming then married Belinda Jane Reed, "Jennie B Reed, 30 August 1859, License # 00003452", in Knox county, Illinois, by Rev Elwood Bucher, first a farmer then a cashier/teller at Reed's Bank in Galesburg, having two children before his untimely, tragic, drowning death of 4 August 1863.

SIMEON HAMMOND MARTIN

(1833NY-1863IL) Picture; Reese/Clark/Martin/Hisaw Family Tree

BELINDA JANE REED

"Jennie" R Martin. Picture: Jane L Hough

"Jennie", thirteenth child of father Asa Reed's fourteen known children, seventh of her mother Lucinda Birby (father's 2nd wife), born 13 October 1835 in Claremont, Sullivan county, New Hampshire, died eighty-four years, two months and eight days later in Texas, lost her mother at age ten, father reportedly moving to his crippled brother's home down in Hillsbourough county, New Hampsire, she's found as "Jane B Reed", fifteen years old, being raised in household of Eliada B. and Eliza D. Stevens on 1850 U S census for Claremont, Sullivan County, New Hampshire with 23 year old brother Sylvester Reed (1827NH-1913KS) and others. (Seems highly doubtful she went to Illinois in the 1840s as Hough Family History has it)     The Reed family of cozy New England area, had two reasons for migrating to illinois in the 1830s. One, the national financial panic of 1837, the other, that Indians were being herded out of state to what became Oklahoma and western Arkansas, and migrate they did.    "Jennie's " written notes (at best, confusing), passed to Edwin then g.g.granddaughter Jane, has her siblings moving to Illinois (but why mixing with a bunch from Oneida county, New York??), starting with oldest half-brothers, twenty-six year old Asa D and twenty-two year old Horatio Reed in 1837 or ealier, when she was but two years old. Somewhat like opening a jar of olives, after the first couple, others follow rapidly. The brothers opened a merchandising business in Farmington, Fulton county, soon thereafter, starting first Illinois slaughter house, location below Canton on the Illinois river. Land purchase records reveal Asa buying a lot of farmland starting about 1840 and the two bought a lot of land jointly, starting 1847. Both Asa and Horatio were married in Illinois, Asa, "Addie" to sister of P P Chapman, Clarinda E Chapman in Hancock county on 5th October 1837 then Horatio on 9 June 1840 to Caroline Hand in McDonough county. Asa was a charter member of Farmington's Congregation church in 1849, reportedly built several brick buildings on Fort street east of Main known as "The Reed Block", www.thepeplows.com/data/lord/236vernon.txt . Also Asa reportedly built a few elegant brick homes. was a director of the Peoria and Oquawka Railroad (P & O) in 1851 and on and on, later a banker in Galesberg.

Family members, seemingly, would visit the brothers, then stay in the area.     Half-sister Mary Reed (1819NH-1844IL) moved west from New Hampshire, married in Fulton county, 1842 to Phineas W Tainter and dies in Jacksonville, Morgan county, 1844.     Half-brother Albert (1817NH-1880IL), wife Margaret Ann and kids fresh from Massachusetts, were on the 1850 U S census in Farmington, Fulton county, he as a "merchant", later in Galesburg.     Sister Lydia Reed (1822NH-1872IL) died in Ontario, Knox county.     "Jennie" wrote, she lived with twenty-four year older Asa, his wife Clarinda and family in Fulton county before her marriage, where, in the fall, with his wife, would clean pigs feet, writing they were very nice to her.     Sister Clarinda F Reed "Clara" (1829NH-1862WI) married Orange H Cook (1826OH-1881WI) www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wisauk2/greenfield1880.htm in Knox county, Illinois in 1857, he, her dead sister Lucinda's (1832NH-1856WI) husband moving to his home in Greenfield, Sauk County, Wisconsin, where, reportedly, their mother had many cousins, raising sister's kids as well as having some of her own.   Confusing however, is the fact; there are many other Reed families with same names, within this area of Illinois.     "Jennie" is found on Eighth United States Census (1860) of Galesburg, Knox county, Illinois, as "Jenny Martin", with husband she married 1859 in Knox county, their three month old daughter Ellen and husband's sister, Hannah W (Martin) Pond with her husband "T K" (Francis Xavier). Her half-brothers Asa and Albert Reed and families were then in Galesburg, successful business men.     Older brother, whom she was with in 1850, and who's said to have documented her husband's tragic death, Sylvester Reed, also lived in Galesburg and Knoxville first married Emily Hand in Fulton county 1855, when she died he married Sarah Adelaide Simmons, 1873 in Knox county, removing to Frankfort City, Marshall county, Kansas to live and die but is buried 1913 in Galesburg.     Charles Reed (1839VT-1902CA), youngest of the Reed children, graduating in Class of 1867 at Knox College, married Sarah Augusta Goold in Cook county, in 1868, west to Topeka, Kansas before the great Chicago fire then north to Minneapolis, Minnesota. When he died in 1902, Augusta moved back to Chicago. travelled and was listed in the 1930 census.

CHARLES REED

ca1876 Picture; Jane L Hough

AUGUSTA & CHARLES REED

ca1900 Having no children, Augusta gave her six volumes of Shakespeare to niece "Nellie" which went to Edwin, now in Jane's ownership. Picture Jane L Hough

The New-England born Reed family were, for some unknown reason, drawn to area around Galesburg, Illinois and mixing with those from Oneida county, New York, such as "Jennie", Belinda Jane Reed?     "Jennie" lost her husband, a Union army paymaster clerk, aboard the sabotaged steamer "Ruth" www.civilwarstlouis.com/boatburners/steamerruth.htm 4 August 1863 when it burnt in the Mississippi river downstream of Cairo, Illinois on way with a $2.6 million payroll to Vicksburg for General U S Grant's men who had won the much delayed, bloody and important, battle at Vicksburg, Mississippi, with control of both New Orleans and Memphis, now giving the Union army control of most of the Mississippi river's navigation. Major Josiah Tilden (1830VT-1905IL), a friend who was with Simeon when the incident occurred, survived, as did some 130 others, returned a booklet to "Jennie" which her husband always carried and told her of that terrible night, which she wrote about in a letter found among the Hough Family History papers. (Maj Tilden arrived in Galesburg 1851, was a merchant until before 1870 move to farm in McDonald twp , Jasper county, MO, returning before 1900, buried in Hope cemetery) "Jennie's" father-in-law, Agrippa Simeon Martin, lost his wife sixty-nine year old Louise Kirkland (Bushnell) in September 1860 who reportedly bore him thirteen children (from family of twelve children), only afore mentioned three known, however the following may have been their kids found listed as early church members; Stephen D, Pheba, Catharine, Elizabeth, Emily Amanda, and a Lucy who may have married into the Martin family. Agrippa on 5 May 1862 married widow Abigail Prentice with her brood of kids, and he was appointed executor of son's estate. They are found on U S 1870 census in Galesburg with her daughter, Alice, "dressmaker" son Junius "postal RR worker" and neighboring Swedish family named Bushnell. The Bushnell name seems to play an important roll in the Martin family. a)- Family said that was surname name of Agrippa's first wife, Kirkland listed on early church list, found was Louisa Kirkland Bushnell (1791CT-1860IL). b)- "Jennie's" son-in-law, Franklin B Hough mentions a Mr Bushnell on September 1877 post card when leaving Chicago. c) Son of Simeon and "Jennie's" named Horace Bushnell Martin, whose namesake was paternal grandmother's younger brother, Reverend Horace Bushnell (1802CT-1883OH) and more famous, cousin Reverend Horace Bushnell (1802CT-1878CT).

"Jennie" and offsprings are listed in Ontario township, Illinois (?) for the Nineth U S census (1870) where her sister Lydia Reed died in 1872, then moving back to Galesburg for the Tenth U S census (1880).     Seventeen years after loss of Simeon, year following father-in-law, Agrippa S Martin, passing away at age eighty-one and with son Horace Bushnell Martin's (1862IL-1926TX) (born 27 January 1862 in Galesburg), graduation in 1880 from Knox College, "Jennie", for unknown reason(s), removes family from home on Tompkins street in Galesburg, Knox county, Illinois with its 38,000 population, to Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri with its 60,000 people. Daughter Ellen "Nellie" Reed Martin (1860IL-1935MO) (born 3 April 1860 in Galesburg), joining them after her 1881 graduation, meeting Franklin Benjamin Hough. "Nellie", following her 24 May 1883 marriage to Franklin Hough in Kansas City, met 5'-9" tall, 300 pound, blond haired, blue eyed, ex-Yale football player, twenty-thee year old artist, Frederic Remington (1861NY-1909NY) who was brought home spring of 1884 for lunch by twenty-five year old hubby, Franklin. It seems Remington, employed at the Kansas City Star newspaper, had been swindled out of all his funds and was about to take fatal action against the party when Franklin Hough talked him out of it and took him home for lunch. They became close friends. He went east and got married 1 October 1884, with invitation to the Hough's, bringing his bride, 'Missie", Eva Adelle Caten back to Kansas City where she stayed a short time before returning east. Frederic then moved his stuff and himself into "Nellie" and Franklin's home for awhile before going to the southwestern part of our country, pursuing his love of art. He kept in touch with the Houghs then visited them on a trip back east, when so broke, Franklin provided funds for the trip. While living with them he did several pieces of work, watercolors, oil, etc, including a watercolor, about 9 by 11 inches of "Nellie's" horse Dick. "Nellie" and Franklin's invitation to the wedding remains in the Hough Family files as did the five pieces of art he gave her for over one hundred and ten years, kept at Kansas City's Nelson-Atkins Museum, till after 1996 when the three watercolors were restored, all sold but the watercolor of "Nellie's" horse, "Old Dick", remaining at the museum (see below). Franklin also received letters from Eva A (Caten) Remington, one after trip to Canada for his grandfather's, John Connell, funeral of 28 October 1887. Then reportedly "Nellie" took ill husband Franklin to 301 Laurel Hill, San Antonio, Texas 1888/9 for his health (possibly (?) leaving the young boys, Clayton Franklin born 1884 and Walter Martin born 1886 with their grandmothers), where he died August 1890, at age of thirty-one years four months and two days.    Following or about same time "Nellie" and Franklin B Hough's move to Texas, "Jennie", for unknown reason(s), and son Horace, maybe with "Nellie's" sons, moved to Carthage, Jasper County, Missouri, possibly joining with Jane "Jennie" M (Connell) Hough ca 1889, to where Jane's brother-in-law's, Charles Hough, family lived for over twenty years, - - - then Horace

HORACE BUSHNELL MARTIN

1917 Picture; Horace B Martin's descendants.

married Irene Cunningham (1868MO-1944TX) in 1891 in Carthage. Hough Family History has them living in Kansas City, Missouri for awhile. They removed to Dallas, Dallas county, Texas in 1896, having four known children, one, an infant female, Lucy who died New Year's Day 1895, buried in Carthage's Park cemetery, joined later; 1920 by great,aunt, Amanda "Dixie" Hood (1853TN-1920MO) eight year invalid younger sister of Lucy (Hood) Cunningham, where she lived and died, had lived earlier with brother Thomas Clay Hood in Iowa, and reportedly in Colorado Springs, 1921 by infant Lucy's namesake and grandmother, Lucy (Hood) Cunningham, in 1932 by Ann Amanda Dent (1835MO-1932MO), widow of Colonel John Dent whose sister was wife of President U S Grant, uncle Thomas ,1944 and aunt May Franks, 1949, and eighty-five year later, 1980, cousin Helen Franks and uncle Allen Cunningham. Irene also had three known boys, with whom, winter 1917/8 she spent three months with mother in Carthage; Edgar Horace (1892MO-1966TX), Robert Cunningham (1903TX-1973CO) who maintained a lifetime relationship with Edwin A Hough, & (Sgt) Charles A (1909TX-I944INDIA) killed during WW II in plane crash in India, also two granddaughters (Robert's kids), one, Emily Louise (1933TX-2001TX) the other, Lucy still living January 22, 2009. Irene and family are interned in Grove Hill cemetery, Dallas, Texas.

Class of 1885

Carthage's Central School Source: www.jaspercountyschools.org

IRENE CUNNINGHAM

ca 1890 Picture; Irene (Cunningham) Martin's descendants.

MRS HORACE B MARTIN

1940 Irene (Cunningham) Martin Picture: Irene (Cunningham) Martin's descendants

Irene Cunningham, born in August 1868, graduated high school with thirteen others in 1885, later from Drury College in Springfield, Missouri, first of three known daughters born of Lon (1845VA-1911MO) and Lucy (Hood) Cunningham (1844TN-1921MO), divorced ca 1876 from father, Leonidas P Cunningham, an attorney (obituary said married five times) known are four daughters, one son plus an adopted daughter, arrived in Carthage July/August 1866, responsible for first railroad in Jasper county, later becoming "Frisco's", to Joplin 1877, a most prominent Jasper county citizen till death in 1911. Mother, Lucy Hood, arrived ca 1854 at North Fork township, 1860, Coon Creek post office (now Jasper, NOT Sarcoxie as many write where cousin Norris Clark Hood (1843TN-1887MO) lived), living and entertaining her last fifty-two years at 310 west Third street, adding a porch in 1904, possibly home father, Norris Clark Hood (1811SC-1870MO) built upon 1865/6 return to burnt-out and destroyed Carthage from Bourbon county, Kansas with Jasper county records intact.

JASPER COUNTY COURTHOUSE (1849-1862)

Norris Clark Hood's log home west across Main street until destroyed during the war, after Civil War the temporary courthouse was constructed were Hood's home was, later site of Center Building, owned by James Luke, (Luke J Boggess' namesake) housing a nice theater in the 1950s. In 1865/6 Hood built his new frame home three blocks west on Third at Maple, possibly where daughter Lucy lived her last fifty-two years. Picture; page 51, JASPER COUNTY, The First Two Hundred Years, by Marvin L VanGilder

LUCY L HOOD

A young Lucy Hood. Picture; Irene (Cunningham) Martin's descendants.

Lucy, at age 16, 4 July 1861 had proudly waved her U S Flag painted red, white, and blue, petticoat, from atop the stile, on west side of Carthage's courthouse square to Colonel Sigel's arriving Union Troops (recorded as a painting by Andy Thomas), in defiance of, older, "Belle Star" (1848MO-1889OK) and others who supported the Confederates in this town of some 500 citizens with deeply divided emotions which destroyed Carthage before war ended. This, the day preceding one of Civil War's earliest battles, Battle of Carthage, with Wilson's Creek Battle the following month. Colonel Franz Sigel (1824GER-1902NY) sought out Lucy's father, ex-sheriff, Norris C Hood for local information, then lost both battles to the Confederates, Carthage, to Governor Claiborne Jackson and Wilson's Creek, to former Missouri governor, Gen Sterling Price, in August.

LEONIDAS P CUNNINGHAM

ca 1876 A most prominent Jasper county citizen. Picture; Irene (Cunningham) Martin's descendant

CUNNINGHAM FAMILY

1909 (two years before Lon's death) From left; Father Lon Cunningham (with his children of Lucy Hood), Helen (Byrd Cunningham) Kinney, Edgar Martin, Irene (Cunningham) Martin, Horace B Martin holding son Charles, May (Cunningham) Franks, Tom Franks, in front Bob Martin. Picture; Martin family page on Ancestry.com

LUCY (HOOD) CUNNINGHAM

Mrs Leonidas P Cunningham strollng in Carthage, Missouri(ah). Picture; Irene (Cunningham) Martin's descendants.

Mother "Jennie" R Martin's home was at 1535 South Garrison Avenue, Carthage, Jasper County, Missouri(ah) in 1891 which that September she deeded to her 1890 widowed daughter "Nellie"

ELLEN REED (MARTIN) HOUGH

"Nellie" Picture; Jane L Hough

who removed to Carthage where her mother lived after loss of husband, Franklin B Hough, in Texas. They raised her two sons, Clayton and Walter seemingly in the eight hundred block south Main (nearer work and school), while "Nellie" was employed as a stenographer, since 1896 with law firm of McReynolds & Haliburton. After sons finished Carthage's "Central School" (high school), widow "Nellie" married widower Joseph F Boyd (1859IN-1934MO) in 1904,

JOSEPH & "NELLIE" BOYD

ca 1920 Pictures; Jane L Hough

afterwards spending time at Saint Louis' World Fair. Officiating the marriage was Reverend William Sims Knight, D D (1837OH-1905MO), who has returned from serving Lindenwood College in Saint Charles, Missouri, now again president of Carthage Collegiate Institute which was started 1886, under his watchful eye at church on Grant street, now with stately $36,000, multi-story brick building in 1400 block of south Main street, built by George Brown Wood. Knight, a former minister of Presbyterian church in 700 block of Grant street, died at his desk, reading school's morning mail in 1905. Boyd came to Jasper county from Wayne county, Indiana, becoming successful in western Jasper county mining areas since ca 1887 then he and wife to Carthage from Joplin about 1901, to manage his many business and residential properties, as well as being active in civic affairs.     Mother "Jennie" R Martin was in his household at 1535 south Garrison avenue in 1910 U S census then visiting son Horace Bushnell Martin in Dallas, Texas when she died the 21st day of March in 1919 according to Texas Death Records. Her body was returned to Carthage for burial at Park cemetery. Lot 81, Block 34. Cemetery records show death 23 March 1919, which is incorrect. Her tombstone reveals only year of birth and year of death. Grandson, Walter Martin Hough, Edwin's father, joined her in 1932 with dissatisfaction of his second wife "Marie" and cemetery records reveal other grandson she helped raise, Clayton Franklin Hough's body was moved here December 1932 from Lot 17, Block 12, where buried 1930 with his father, Franklin Benjamin Hough and other grandmother, Jane "Jennie" M (Connell) Hough.

BELINDA JANE (REED) MARTIN

An older "Jennie". Picture; Reese/Clark/Martin/Hisaw Family Tree

"Nellie's" sons, Clayton & Walter, each ended with one child, providing her a granddaughter, Phyllis and grandson, Edwin, whom she helped cloth and educate. Her sons both died at age forty-six, buried in Lot 81, Block 34. Park cemetery, Carthage, Missouri with her mother, "Jennie" (Reed) Martin. Also noted is, "Nellie" and Joseph spent a lot of time in Corpus Christi, Texas for health reasons.    Clayton was the fullback of his high school's football team then worked in Carthage's Central National Bank with Sidney Knight (1883ENG-1960MO) and Hale M Boggess (1879WV-1942MO) (president, 1925-1933), spent time in Texas before he married Evelyn DuFranc in 1915 at Carthage, moving to Denver, Colorado, having a daughter, Phyllis Evelyn Hough-Bucknams (1917CO-1985CAN). Clayton lost his wife while living in Colorado in 1928, two years later, thirteen year old Phyllis lost her father while he was a patient in a hospital at Wichita Falls, Texas. Clayton's body was brought to Carthage and buried in Park cemetery Lot 17, Block 12, moved to Lot 81 Block 34 December 1932. Phyllis' maternal parents, the Bucknams of Eagle River, Vilas county, Wisconsin adopted Phyllis whom Edwin maintained a life long relationship with. Phyllis married Edward "Ted" C Hodges day before Christmas 1945. living in Leamington, Ontario, Canada while he worked at Ford Motors. They gave a nice gift to Edwin's daughter, Jane, when she married and when her son, Gianmarco, was born in New York City.

PHYLLIS HOUGH & TED HODGES

ca 1950 Picture; Jane L Hough

WALTER MARTIN HOUGH

Picture; Jane L Hough

Walter Martin Hough married Adele A Sigler (1887MO-1918MO) at Carthage, friday, 25 August 1905. Her father, James Albert Sigler (1858OH-1944MO), an eight year veteran, Jasper County Recorder, first to serve in new $100,000 courthouse when completed 1895

JASPER COUNTY COURTHOUSE

Built 1894/5 with Carthage stone at cost of $100,000.

Hough Family History reported they moved to Dallas, Texas where his mother's only brother, Horace Bushnell Martin and family lived. He's said to have worked for the Saint Louis and San Francisco Railroad company (Frisco) whose 1st Vice President & General Manager in St Louis was Carl Raymond Gray (1867AR-1939DC) who lived in Carthage from 1890 to 1898 with young son, later Major-General C R Gray, Jr., in charge of military railroads in Europe and Africa during WW II. Infant son Franklin W Hough was born and shortly after died on Saturday, the 23rd of February 1907 in Dallas, Texas of pneumonia, buried the 26th in Park cemetery, Lot 17, Block 12, Carthage, Missouri where his paternal grandfather Franklin Benjamin Hough was buried 1890 and in 1914 his paternal great,grandmother, Jane M (Connell) Hough. Walter and Adele did not get along well, so she spent a lot of time up in Carthage. Missouri Birth Registration #143 listing birth of "Albert Edwin Hough" has father Walter in Beaumont, Jefferson county, Texas (with St Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railroad, mostly owned by B F Yoakum, Chairman of "Frisco"), when Adele was at Carthage birthing their second son, friday, 23 October 1908, with a birth certificate, filed some thirty years later, 11 January 1939 by his maternal grandmother, Ellen Josephine Sigler Robertson, giving his name as; "Edwin Albert Hough".

ADELE & SON EDWIN

ca 1909 Picture: Jane L Hough

Both of Edwin's parents were also the second known children born of their parents.     Adele separated from Walter, left Houston, Harris county, Texas, returning to Carthage ca 1916, with son Edwin, staying with sister Estelle, at least for awhile. Walter had been transferred to Houston from Beaumont by St Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railroad when in 1917 he signed for the Draft of WW I stating he was divorced and had one child. Shortly thereafter he married Blanche M "Marie" Chiswell in New Orleans, born 2 February 1885, nine months following the 8 May 1884 birth of Harry S Truman, in Lamar, Barton county, Missouri, a month before his parents moved to Harrisonville, Cass county, Missouri, she the daughter of attorney and newspaer owner, Lee & wife Belle Chiswell, http://files.usgwarchives.org/mo/barton/bios/c2400007.txt . Walter now employed with Mississippi-Warrior Barge line in New Orleans, then with 1918 United States Congressionally created, Federal Barge Lines, created for World War I. There are letters to and from Walter and new wife "Marie" to varies family members within Hough Family History papers.

BLANCHE M CHISWELL

"Marie" Hough Family History has "Marie" married to a socially prominent New Orleans business man, J Floyd Hodge and leaving her estate to a retarded son, including what she had left of inherited estate of Walter Hough. Picture; Jane L Hough

Adele raised Edwin until she met and married a second husband in February then, less than two weeks, died in the Yates Hotel at Joplin March 1918. His maternal grandmother, Ella Josephine (Mills) Sigler (1866NE-1959MO) may have attempted to care for him but due to ill health and Adele's tragic death, younger sister Estelle (Sigler) Meyer (1889MO-1955MO) and her second husband, took over, when he had little, to no good clothing, according to a stern letter she sent his father in 1919.     Edwin is in Estelle's home on Carthage's Mound street in U S census in 1920, as are her youngest sister, Helen Margaret (1901MO-1989CA) and father James Albert Sigler.

EDWIN ALBERT HOUGH

ca 1916 Picture; Jane L Hough

While growing up, Edwin became a very interesting story teller, as were reportedly both; his paternal grandfather Franklin and father Walter afore him.     Edwin then graduated as valedictorian of his 1926 Carthage High School class with letters having him attending the University of Missouri(ah) in 1927 and 1928 when Edith Boggess was also there until death of her mother, Kate (Knight) Boggess (1876ENG-1928MO), 1 April 1928. "Nellie" wrote Edwin:       "I went to the Boggess home

"WETZAL's FOLLY" BUILT 1876

1205 South Main street, Carthage, Missouri(ah) S C Boggess' (1874WV-1946MN) home which "Nellie" in letter to Edwin of 10 September 1927 told of movng into their "new home" [from 524 Sycamore street where they returned following four years (1921-1925) in Kansas City], until 1937 when S C re-married and moved to 1104 Jersey street. Picture; Jane L Hough

after the mother [Kate] passed on and saw Edith and Mr Boggess and S C, didn't see Luke Boggess. It was certainly a tragedy http://files.usgwarchives.org/mo/jasper/obits/b/boggess5ob.txt . Miss Edith spoke of seeing you a few days ago." ["Nellie" and S C, worked at McReynolds & Haliburton Law firm at the same time]     Edwin is listed on 1930 U S census in New Orleans with father and step-mother then graduated with honors, 1 August 1930 receiving two bachelor degrees, journalism and in arts and sciences, a member of Phi Kappa Psi, president of Sigma Del Chi, president of Q E R H , senior honorary society, executive chairman of the Memorial Union campaign and editor of University of Missouri(ah) yearbook, the Savitar. He spent month of August in Colorado Springs and Estes Park before taking his position (depth of depression years) in New York City with a national firm dealing in financial advertising, earning $35 per week, buying his first Brooks Bros suit for $50.

EDWIN ALBERT HOUGH

ca 1930 Newspaper article announcing his appointment to work for firm in New York City. Picture; Carthage Evening Press

Winter of 1931/2; In August of 1931 Edwin took a leave of absence to join two journalist friends on a trip to Canada, venturing into the country seventy-five miles northeast of Waterways, Alberta, Canada in the wild country of Clearwater Valley until spring. He had written "Stell [Estelle] and Bill" in December 1931;       "Since we have no dog team ... - - ... there will be sufficient room in the carry-all of his toboggan to accommodate our bed rolls and grub box. It will be an exciting trip, not alone for the spectacular vistas of the river and valley under snow and ice but also for the very fact that it will be our first long distance journey by dog team."     It being more than a fifty mile journey to Waterways for Christmas and New Years, where Waterways Hotel has set up for them a Christmas dinner. Edwin had earlier ventured into the wilds of Canada from Minnesota by auto, July 1931, and documented leaving October 1931 at Bobb, Montana.    Edwin's father passes away 31 January 1932 in New Orleans, with funeral in Carthage, burial, to the displeasure of his second wife "Marie", next to his maternal grandmother, "Jennie" Martin at Park cemetery, Lot 81, Block 34, Edwin is unable to attend while with two others, seventy-five miles northeast of Waterways, Alberta, Canada in the wild country of Clearwater Valley, however he did cut short his wilderness adventure and rushed back to Carthage arriving after the burial.

CARTHAGE EVENING PRESS

News story of ca 1932 concerning Edwin, with notation, June 7 honored guests will be; Carl R Gray, president Union Pacific Railroad and Mrs Gray (Harriette A Flora, 1st white child born Montgomery county, Kansas, selected, Ameican Mother of 1937). Source; Jane L Hough

19 April 1933 finds Edwin in Kansas City involved with an aviation journal, "Aircraft Age". His letters say; he has been up, flying to St Joe, St Louis also over Carthage and may take up flying himself during the summer.     His twice widowed paternal grandmother, "Nellie" passes away 8 June 1935, about a year following second husband Joseph, with Mrs James Luke (Miriam L Chappell, 1884NY-1959MO), first reader at First Church of Christ Scientist in charge at funeral and pallbeares being; G Everett Hough, S C Boggess, Wesley Haliburton, J D Carter, H D Hoge, and Bryon Ash (a neighbor & partner of James Luke (1854ENG-1925MO) who brought Kate (Knight) Boggess, Edith;s mother, to America from England, raising her till married to S C Boggess March of 1898).     Edwin inherited her five Frederic Remington (1861NY-1909NY) www.spanamwar.com/remington.htm pieces of art, to wit; "Catlle Rustlers", "Gracious Senorita", "Prairie on Fire", "Sentinels at Guard" and "Old Dick"

"OLD DICK" by Frederic Remington

ca 1885 Nellie's horse, one of five pieces of work given "Nellie" Hough by Frederic Remington. Picture; Jane L Hough

work done by Frederic while he lived, between 1883 and 1888, with Edwin's grandparents, Franklin and "Nellie" Hough in Kansas City sometimes using Franklin as a model. Nelson Art Gallery of Kansas City, (now Nelson-Atkins muesum), maintained these fine pieces of art for Edwin, who in turn featured them on special occasions, separately or as a group with other Remington paintings, for public viewing. (A private viewing arranged for Bill Boggess' interested friends, spring of 1981, explaining the darker colors used were during his earliest years)     Edwin also inherited the buildings in THE BARTLETT BLOCK (built 1888), between 4th and 5th east side of Main street, Carthage, Missouri, bought in 1901 from Mrs Helen T Bartlett by Joseph F Boyd and first wife for $11,000. Much later, Edwin sold it to the local Historicial Society, who then re-painted and used it.

THE BARLETT BLOCK

View of ca 1896, following new courthouse construction. East side of Main street between Courthouse Square (4th street) and 5th street. Painting by Andy Thomas from page 179; Jasper County, The First Two Hundred Years, by Marvin L VanGilder.

THE BARTLETT BLOCK

May 1996 View some 100 years after Andy Thomas' painting. Picture: Jane L Hough

EDITH BOGGESS

ca 1928 College picture Picture; Jane L Hough

Edwin marries Edith Boggess while she's in Manitou Springs, Colorado, 24 August 1935. Honeymooning by visiting relatives and enjoying a motor car, sight-seeing, tour of Colorado & New Mexico, then to her new home at 1045 south Garrison avenue in Carthage, Missouri, house next to partner of uncle James Luke, who brought her mother, his neice, Kate Knight, from England.

EDWIN ALBERT HOUGH

Picture: Carthage Evening Press, Vol 111 No 87, with obituary.

From Edwin's "Washington Post" 1995 obituary; "In 1939, he moved to Washington and worked for the Farm Security Administration as a specialist in price controls. He served in the Navy [at Rod & Gun Club, Everglades City, Collier County, Fla., when the fishermen, such as "Uncle" Charley Boggess (1878FL-1970FL) & son, used their vessels to seek out German submarines in Gulf of Mexico, so say he in 1980s while lunching there] in the Pacific during the final months of World War II. "After the war, he worked in Korea and Japan as a civilian economist with U S military forces. "He returned to Washington in 1952 to work for the Office of Price Stabilization; in 1954, he joined the agency that later became AID and was posted in Manila. He came back to Washington in1956 as desk officer for Cambodia and served in that capacity for years. "In retirement, he traveled extensively." His loving wife and companion of nearly sixty years obituary; "Edith Boggess, was a [1932] graduate of Springfield Teachers College in Missouri. She taught school in Carthage and at an American school in the Philippines, where she accompanied her husband to an agency for International Development assignment. They also lived in Korea and Japan. She was a resident of Chevy Chase, and had lived in the Washington area off and on since 1938. A Girl Scout leader: a volunteer with the Common Cause; and member of River Road Unitarian Church; the P.E.O. philanthropic organization; the Foreign Service Wives Association; and the Chevy Chase Women's Club." Not mentioned in her obituary was: She attended Franklin and Mark Twain grade schools in Carthage, then while parents lived in Kansas City (1921 to 1925) the Bigelow's School for Girls (Jean Harlow (1911MO-1937CA) attended in 1925), back to Carthage High School two years finishing high school at Sullins school in Bristol, Virginia. Edith Boggess was also, fourth born, second to adulthood, to Samuel Cleveland Boggess (1874WV-1946MN) and Kate Knight (1876ENG-1928MO) in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri, 15 August 1906. She helped bury her grandmother, Sarah Elizabeth (Wood) Boggess, in Point Pleasant cemetery, Harrision county, West Virginia where her husband , parents and five of ten siblings were buried, northerly across Wizzardism run, in Carpenter Hollow, next easterly, to school Sarah and older brother once taught. Cemetery, first established in 1835 as Mount Morris Methodist Espiscopal church, moved for railroad construction about 1855 to present location, renamed Point Pleasant, now with 127 known buried. Edith returning with daughter Jane in 1948. We found it Easter week-end 2003, overgrown with illegal livestock roaming freely and learned the Methodist church abandoned it in 1964. We set about finding other descendents of the interned, and with help of neighbor Bertha Webb, partially restored Point Pleasant cemetery in 2004 & 2005. http://community.webtv.net/billboggess3/MAKENPOINTPLEASANT Edith lost her mother and sister-in-law within fourteen hours while at the University of Missouri. April 1928. Edith returned home to become the women of the house for her father and younger brother S C, jr (1911MO-1994FL), plus her older brother Luke (1899MO-1974MO) and his two young sons, L Jack Boggess (1924NE-2001OR) and William (Bill) Samuel Boggess, born 1927, upon their return to Carthage from home in Waldo area of Kansas City, until he remarried in 1932.

Eddie and Ed's last home was at; 3301 Rolling Road, in Chevy Chase, Montgomery County, Maryland. Daughter Jane Ellen, an architect, born 1936, who in turn had one son, Gianmarco Leoncavallo, born 1974, arranged and oversaw their cremains buried in Lot 174, Block 32 of Park cemetery, Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri(ah) at 11:00 am, 13 May 1996.

3301 Rolling Road

Drawing by Jane L Hough, AIA.

PARK CEMETERY ~~ CARTHAGE, MISSOURI

Picture: Jane L Hough

Many of the Houghs, Boggesses and related family members are found resting in Carthage's beautifully maintained Park cemetery (created 1879, once saved from financial ruin by Edith's father), among some 15,000 others, once abutting on its north, the original, ~ ~ "Old Mother Road, Route 66" ~ ~ also known as Oak street!

Compiled jointly by Jane L Hough and William (Bill) Samuel Boggess, year 2009. Picture; Jane L Hough, Thanksgiving, 2008 at Shell Point Village, Florida.

An earnest effort was made to provide most accurate and factual information from transcribed Hough Family History, consisting of memories from Edwin's great grandmother "Jennie", Belinda Jane (Reed) Martin (1835NH-1919TX), her daughter, Edwin's paternal grandmother, "Nellie", Ellen Reed (Martin) Hough-Boyd (1860IL-1935MO), plus family letters and photographs, passed to Edwin, then his daughter, Jane Leoncavallo Hough who is sorting, transcribing, copying and sharing it. Augmenting this detailed Hough Family History, is a genealogical review for information on the internet such as birth, marriage and death listings as well as United States and state census and other 'bits and pieces' of information, documented or not, found which relate. Also contacting others for information and documentations, such as; Carthage's Park cemetery, Carthage Public library for obituaries and news stories, Knox College in Knox county, Illinois, plus history and google books. There no doubt are still errors for some information was simply not found. Family members are listed on "tree" http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com database "califia1", with many obituares and biographies http://usgwarchives.org "Missouri" & "Maryland"

Found during research are some who are of above average interest; ex-sheriff Norris C Hood, the man who salvaged then returned Jasper county Missouri offical records during the Civil War, his daughter Lucy, who defiantly waved her petticoat painted U S Flag to the Union Troops, in-spite of "Bell Star's" anti-Union stance, on 4th of July 1861 later to marry, then divorce, Leonidas P Cunningham, the man who brought railroads and other development to Jasper county, also Frank Hough, the man who developed the earliest gold mine in Colorado, and early Presbyterian, anti-slave settlers of Galesburg, Illinois, a town on the underground railroad for escaping slaves, Edwin Hough, himself, a veteran Naval Officer of WW II, and on and on.

TOMBSTONE

Sheriff Norris Clark Hood's tombstone (1811SC-1870MO)