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The John Family |
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Many thanks to G. Newborg and C.
Latendresse for their many contributions to this site
The John Family
William A. John
Mary A. Davis Photo
courtesy of C. Latendresse
Photo courtesy of C. Latendresse
William A. John
was born in Wales in about 1835.
Mary A. Davis was born
in Llansemle, Glamorgan, South Wales on 9 March 1839, the daughter of
John
Davis (1798 Wales-after 1850
Minersville, PA) and his second wife
Elinor or Ellen Williams (1795
Wales-bet.1865-1870 MO). The New York Passenger
Lists show that William John, age 19, arrived in New York from Liverpool,
England, on the ship Great Western
on 9 January 1854. Per the 1900 census Mary
immigrated to this country in 1847 and was naturalized in 1852.
There is a record of a Mary Davis, age 7, on the ship
Cambridge which originated in
Wales, arriving in the U.S. on 17 Sept 1847, and that may be the same
person. However, there is no
listing of Mary’s father John Davis or her mother Elinor or Ellen Davis on
the same ship. According to
family researcher G. Newborg, this family arrived in Philadelphia on 3 Aug
1847 after a voyage of 9 weeks from Liverpool.
The family is found in
the 1850 Minersville, Schuylkil Co., PA census as follows:
John Davis 52, Ellen 55, John 25, William 20, Ellen 14, Mary 11. By the end of her long
life of more than 80 years, Mary Davis John, a true pioneer wife, had
crossed the entire country from Pennsylvania to Ohio to Missouri to
Nebraska to Montana and finally to Washington state. The name appears in some
records as Johns.
William and Mary John had the following children:
i.
John Davis John b. 1860
Pennsylvania, d. aft 1930 Washington; m. Lydia Mae Jones (1865-1949); 8
children
ii.
Mary Ann John, b. 1863 Pennsylvania, d. 1948 Washington; m. (1)
Myers, 1 daughter; m. (2) Orvil Runyan, 2 daughters; (3) Freeman Wayman
White (1860-1950)
iii.
William A. John, Jr. , b. 7 Dec 1865 Pennsylvania; d. 20 Jan 1908
Washington
iv.
Elenor Jane John, b. 26 Mar 1868 Ohio; died 28 Jun 1899 Bozeman,
Gallatin, Montana; m. William Riley Welch (1867-1934) 2 children
v.
David Henry John b. 11
Feb 1871 Ohio, d. 28 Dec 1945 Yakima, Washington; m. Mary Elle Knowlton
(1876-1945) 2 children
vi.
Thomas Herbert John (b.
1887 Missouri) m. Effie A.Dempsey
vii.
Albert Alfred John (b. 20 May 1877
Missouri, d. 14 Jul 1967 Yakima, Washington ) m. Ella Lawrence
(1890-1940) 2 children
viii.
Angelie John (b. 1882 Missouri) The family is found in
the 1860 Cass Township, Schuykill County, Pennsylvania census as follows:
John, William, 25, miner, Wales
Mary, 21, Wales
John D., infant, PA
Davis, Ellen, 65, Wales
(Mary’s mother)
Davis, Thomas, 7, PA
(unknown relationship) The family is found in
the 1870 Trumbull County, Ohio, census, p. 191 as follows:
Johns, William A. 34 b. Wales, coaldigger
Mary 32, b. Wales
John D. 10 b. PA
Mary A. 7 b. PA
William 4 b. Ohio
Elenor 2 Ohio It appears from this
census that the family left Pennsylvania between 1863 and 1868 and moved
to Trumbull County, Ohio. By
1877 they had moved to Carroll County, Missouri. The family is found in
the 1880 Carroll County, Missouri census as follows:
John, William A. 45 b.
Wales, farmer
Mary W. 41 b. Wales
John B. 20 PA
Mary Ann 17 PA
William A. 14 PA
Ellen 12 OH
David 9 OH
Thomas 6 MO
Albert A. 3 MO In 1882 the youngest
child, a daughter, Angelie, was born in Missouri.
Sometime after that, at least by 1889, the family apparently moved
to Nebraska. According to the 1900
census, Mary was a widow in Montana; however, this is incorrect.
William had apparently gone ahead to Washington state.
The census record is as follows:
1900 Bozeman, Gallatin Co., MT,
Ancestry.com image 55:
Mary John widow 61, Mar 1839, 8 children, 7 living, WAL WAL WAL; son
Willie 34, Dec 1865 OH; son David 29, Feb 1871 OH; dau Angelie 18,
Feb 1882 MO. Date of
immigration 1847, date of naturalization 1852.
(In the 1910 census Mary has 8 children, 8 living, so one or the
other is a mistake.) By the
time the John families arrived in the late 1890s, Bozeman was a thriving
town with all the amenities, but this was just 30 years after the first
settlers arrived and just 10 years after the Northern Pacific railroad
opened across the state.
Bozeman was described on its website as a beautiful valley surrounded by
mountains where snow may be seen the year around.
Those of us who love Yellowstone National Park in the summertime
can only imagine what it would be like to live there through the winter. Ever heading westward,
possibly hoping for a milder climate, the families moved to Yakima,
Washington, in the early 1900s. William A. John died in
Yakima, Washington on 1 August 1904 and is buried in the Tahoma Cemetery. In 1910 Mary, age 71,
was living with her youngest son Albert.
1910 Wapato pct, Yakima, WA census, Ancestry.com image 11:
Al John 31 married 4 years MO MO MO, mother Mary 71 widow 8
children, 8 living, WALES. By 1920 Mary, at age 80,
was still living with her youngest son Albert.
The 1920 Yakima County, Washington, census shows this family as
follows:
John, Albert A. 42 b.
MO, parents b. Wales
Ella 30
Albert L. 6
Shotie (sp?) 3 daughter
Mary, 80, b. Wales (Albert's mother) Mary John died 26 Mar
1922 in Yakima County, Washington, and is buried in the Tahoma Cemetery
beside her husband.
Additional information on the children of
William and Mary Davis John:
John Davis John,
the oldest son, born 1860 in Pennsylvania,
married his wife Lydia Mae Jones (b. 1865 Wales) in 1883 in Missouri where
their first child was born, but by 1889 they were in Nebraska where they
had three more children. By
1896 they were in Montana where they remained through at least 1903.
Photo
courtesy of C. Latendresse
The family is found in
the 1900 Bozeman, Gallatin Co., MT census:
John D. John 40, Apr 1860 PA PA PA, married 17 years; wife Lydia
33, Sep 1866 WAL WAL WAL, 7 children, 6 living; Nellie 13, Jan 1887 MO;
David 10, Jul 1889 NE; Herbert 8, Oct 1891 NE; Lorena 5, Aug 1894 NE;
Ethel 3, Aug 1896 MT; Loretta 8 mos., Sep 1899 MT.
Based on the dates of birth of the
children, the family probably moved to Montana about 1892-1894.
By 1906 they had moved to Yakima, Washington. 1910 Yakima, WA census,
p. 36B: John D. John 50 PA
WAL WAL married 26 years; wife Lydia M. 44 WAL WAL WAL, 9 children, 8
living; son David W. 20 NE, son Herbert B. 18 NE, dau Ann L. 15 NE, dau
Lydia E. 12 MT, dau Mable L. 10 MT, dau Florence W. 7 MT, son John G. 4
WA. 1920 West Ahtanum,
Yakima, WA, Ancestry.com image 2:
John D. John 61 PA, Lydia 53, dau Florence 16, son John 13. 1930 West Ahtanum,
Yakima, WA, Ancestry.com
image 2: John D. John 69,
married at 23; Lydia 64, married at 17; son John G. 24. John D. John was not
found in the Washington Death Index.
His wife Lydia died in Yakima, WA in 1949, per the
Washington death index.
Mary Ann John,
born 29 Jun 1863 in Pennsylvania, married her first husband ___ Myers in
about 1885 in Missouri. They
had one daughter Myerl (sp?) born in 1886 in Missouri.
Mr. Myers may have died or they were divorced.
In about 1892 Mary
married Orvil Runyan (b. 1855 in Ohio).
Their two daughters, Edith and Grace, were born in Nebraska, and by
1900 they were in Washington state: 1900
Spring Valley, Stevens,
Washington census:
Orvil Runyan 45, Mary 36, Edith A. 5, Grace 2, Myerl Myers 13 (Mary’s
daughter by her first marriage) The marriage ended
either by divorce or Orvil’s death, and on 8 September 1904 in Yakima,
Washington, Mary married her third husband Freeman Wayman White.
Together, they raised the girls and lived out their long lives in
Washington state. 1910 Pierce,
WA census: Freeman
White 50, wife Mary 46 (2nd marriage for both, 6 years; Mary had 3
children, 3 living) stepdau
Edith Runyan 15, stepdau Grace Runyan 12 1920 Okanogan, Okanogan,
WA Census: Freeman
White 59, Mary 55 1930 White Bluffs,
Benton, WA census: Freeman W.
White 70,, Mary A. 66 According to the Washington Death Index, Mary John White died 16 Jun 1948 in Yakima, Washington, at the age of about 85. According to the
Washington Death Index, Freeman White died 18 Jul 1950 in Yakima,
Washington, age 90.
William A. John, Jr.
was born 7 December 1865 in Pennsylvania
and died 20 Jan 1908 in Washington.
Photo courtesy of C. Latendresse
Elenor Jane John,
born 26 Mar 1868 in Ohio, died 28 Jun 1899 in Bozeman, Gallatin, Montana.
She married William Riley Welch (b. 1867 Michigan, d. 26 Oct 1934
Los Angeles, CA) on 16 Oct 1889 in Hemingford,
Box Butte, Nebraska.
Elenor and William had two children, Everett, b. 1890 and Mary
Pearl, b. 1893, both in Nebraska.
Elenor died 28 Jun 1899 in
Bozeman, Gallatin, Montana. Photo courtesy of C. Latendresse
Photo courtesy of C. Latendresse
In the 1900 Bozeman,
Gallatin, Montana census, Elenor’s children Everett , 10, and Pearl Welch,
7, were living with their
grandmother Mary John.
David Henry John, born 11 Feb
1871 in Ohio, died 28 Dec
1945 in Yakima, Washington.
He married in about 1914 Mary
Elle Knowlton (b. 1876 in Iowa, d. 2 Oct 1945 Yakima, WA.)
Mary’s first marriage was to Alonzo Kistler, with whom she had 5
children. 1920 Yakima, WA census,
p. 14B: David John 47, b. OH,
parents b. Wales; Mary E. 45, b. Iowa; stepson Alfred Kistler 18 CO;
stepdaughter Ruth Kistler 17 CO; stepson Kenneth Kistler 15; dau Margaret
5, son Raymond 2. 1930 E. Wapato, Yakima
Co., WA census, Ancestry.com image 4:
Dave H. Johns 59, married first at 35 OH WAL WAL; wife Mary E. 52,
married first at 23 IA IN IL; son Raymond 12,
son Alfred 28 [Alfred
is Mary's son by first marriage] Mary died 2 Oct 1945 in
Yakima, Washington, per the Washington Death Index. David died 28 Dec 1945
in Yakima, Washington, per
the Washington Death Index.
Thomas Herbert John
(see 2nd generation)
Albert Alfred John
was born 20 May 1877 in Missouri, and died
14 Jul 1967 in Yakima,
Washington. He married on 29
Mar 1911 Ella Lawrence (b. 1890 in Missouri, died 2 Aug 1940 Washington).
They had two sons. 1920 Yakima WA census:
Albert A. John 42, b. MO, parents b. Wales; wife Ella 30, b MO, son
Albert L. 6,b WA, dtr Shotie (sp?) 3, b. WA,
mother Mary 80, b. Wales. 1930 Yakima WA census,
p. 9A: Albert John 53, first
md at 27, MO WAL WAL, mgr. transfer company; Ella 40, first md at 22, MO
MO MO, Albert L. son 16 WA,
Chester H. 13 son, WA; Emma Lawrence, mother-in-law, widow, 63, MO TN IL,
nurse, private home. Albert’s wife Ella died
2 August 1940 in King County, WA.
Albert died 14 July 1967 in Yakima, WA per the Washington Death
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Thomas Herbert John
Effie Adeline Dempsey Photos thanks to M. Jaap
Thomas Herbert John was born about 1875 in Carroll County, Missouri, the sixth of eight children of William A. and Mary W. John. In some records the name is Johns. Effie Adeline Dempsey was born about 14 July 1876 in Benton County, Iowa, the fifth of eleven children of John Wesley Dempsey (1838-1920) and Mary Jane Parcel (1848-1929). (see DEMPSEY) Effie appears in the 1880 Benton Co., Iowa census with her parents and six siblings, listed as Adeline, age 4. That is most likely her middle name, but she was known as Effie by all who remember her. Thomas and Effie were married 15 Jan 1896 in Antelope County, Nebraska, where they were living at the time of their first child's birth in 1897. They had the following children: i. Albert John b. 1897 Nebraska, m. Edna 1926 ii. Jessie L. John, b. 1901 Nebraska, d. 1968 Washington iii. David H. John, b. 1903 Nebraska, 1976 Washington iv.
Rose Violet John (1907-1993) m. Floyd Henry Whiteside v. Anna John, b. 1914 Washington, d. 1997 Washington The family lived in Nebraska until after Rose's birth in 1907. Thomas’ widowed mother Mary and several of his brothers had been living in Montana, but all of them moved to Yakima, Washington, before 1910. Thomas appears in the 1910 census as follows: 1910 Wapato, Yakima, WA census, ED 293, sheet 28B: Tom Johns 35 single MO MO MO boarder. Possibly he had just arrived in Washington and was boarding at a farm where he worked. In 1910 Effie’s parents were still living in Antelope County, Nebraska, but Effie and her children were not living with them. In 1914 Thomas and Effie’s youngest child Anna was born in Wapato, Yakima County, Washington, where they had a dairy farm. G. Newborg provided the following article from Wapato
History & Heritage: The John Family by Edna John: "The John brothers came to this
area from Tildon, Nebraska... Thomas came in 1905 and helped [his
brother] John build a 2-story house at Tahoma Cemetery. Later Thomas bought 20 acres
south of Wapato and started a dairy, and rented an adjoining 80 acres to
raise hay and grain for feed.
The dairy herd increased to 100 cows. Tom's oldest son Albert joined
the business and it became T. John and Son Dairy. They bought their first milk
truck from Renting Motor Co.
In 1925 there was no electricity on their ranch. The cows were milked, milk
bottled, and separator cranked by hand.
Cattle feed was ground and water pumped by gasoline powered
motors. Bottles were hand
washed and sterilized in steam from a coal stoked steam boiler. Extra grain and milk were fed to
pigs sold to Degenhart Meat Market.
Children of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas John are: Albert, who married
Edna Taylor, farmed and were in business in Wapato where she now lives;
Jess and David, also farmed; and Rose John Whiteside and Anna John
Markham, who attended Wapato schools." The family appears in the 1920 Yakima County, Washington census, East Wapato precinct, as follows: Johns, Thomas H. 45 farmer, b.. MO, both parents b. Wales Effie A., 23 [should be 43?] b. Iowa, father b. IN, mother b. IA Albert 23 b. NE Jessie L. 19 b. NE Rosie V. 12 b. NE David H. 17 b. NE Anna A. 6 b. WA On 20 February 1928, Thomas John died. In 1926 Rose married Floyd Whiteside. The 1930 Yakima Co., WA census, p. 1B, shows Effie Johns, 51, a widow, born in Iowa and both parents born in Iowa, living with her son David H. 28 and daughter Anna 15. Next door to them is her son Jesse L. Johns, 30, his wife Anna, and daughters Betty L. 3 and Elsa M. 2. On page 2B is her son Albert Johns 34, his wife Edna 24, and their daughter Hazel B. 3. Effie A. John died February 10, 1958, in Yakima, Washington, at the age of 81 years, 6 months, 26 days. She was buried in Tahoma Cemetery in Yakima, Washington. (This information from her funeral book.)
No death record has been found for Thomas and Effie’s two oldest sons, Albert and John. Thomas and Effie’s son Jessie died in Toppenish on 04 Nov 1968. His residence was Yakima. Washington Death Index Certificate No. 027480. Thomas and Effie’s son David died in Yakima in Jan 1976 per the SSDI. When Rose died in 1993, only her younger sister Anna Markham was listed as a surviving sibling. Thomas and Effie’s youngest daughter Anna John Markham died 4 Dec 1997, in Yakima, WA, per the SSDI. There is a photograph of Effie with her three sons and daughter Rose, and a photograph of Thomas and Effie with Rose. Another photograph shows Effie, Rose, and Effie's mother, Mary Jane Parcel Dempsey. For further information, see the Yakima Co., WA website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wayakima/ also, the Antelope County, Nebraska website: |
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