VANDEVER, J. H.

VANDEVER, CARTER, FREDERICK

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Date: 3/3/2015 at 23:03:13

Cutler's History of Kansas.
Cutler. William G. A.T. Andreas Co. Chicago. 1883.

BIOGRAPHY ~ J. H. VANDEVER

J. H. VANDEVER, farmer, P. O. Newton [Kansas], owns forty acres here, all enclosed and under cultivation, with a good orchard of 110 apples and 50 peach trees, and fine frame dwelling, 20x24, two stories with kitchen, 16x18, one story barn, 18x42, with buggy shed, 12x32. He also owns a fine farm of 400 acres on Section 4, Highland Township, all enclosed with hedge, with cross fences of post and wire, 200 acres under cultivation, with bearing orchard of 100 apple and 100 peach trees and 20 acres of cultivated timber, and the rest in pasture with dwelling, 16x20, with well, 12x16, with cellar under the whole building, barn 34x40, with tool house, 12x16, three wells and windmill. He raised in 1882, 50 acres of Russian wheat which averaged 30 bushels per acre, and 50 acres Gold Drop which averaged 28 bushels per acre.

He was born in Carroll County, Ind., January 19, 1838. Was married July 21, 1858 to Miss Amanda A, Carter. Immigrated to Iowa in 1859, settled in Decatur County, lived there two years, then returned to Indiana and enlisted in 1862 in Company E, Eighty-seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served with his command in the western department, participated in a number of skirmishes and general engagements among others Perryville, Ky., Chattanooga and Chickamauga, after which he was promoted from Color bearer of the regiment to First Lieutenant of Company E. and was in the battle of Mission Ridge and all the engagements of the Atlanta campaign with Sherman on his march to the sea and north through the Carolinas and to Washington D. C. In the grand review, and was mustered out in June 1865. Returned to Indiana and lived there until coming to Kansas in 1872, first locating on his farm in Highland Township and improving it and bought and locating on present place of residence in 1879. Is engaged in stock-raising as well as farming, having at present fifty-five head of cattle.

They have nine children -- Mollie C., Effie, Myrtle, Edna, Johnnie, Willie, Freddie, Pearl and Carl. Effie and Johnnie died in July, 1872, were buried at Fletcher's Lake, Fulton Co., Ind., ages respectively ten and three. Mollie C. is now the wife of Mr. A. C. Frederick, resident of Riverside, Cal. Mr. Vandever is a member of the G. A. R.

Submission by Nettie Mae Lucas, May 18, 2005