Toney: Jesse and descendants part 3

TONEY

Posted By: Earle & Pat (email)
Date: 11/3/2001 at 22:15:07

Subject: Toney: Jesse and descendants part 3
Date: Monday, May 21, 2001 10:40 AM

TONEY: Jesse TONEY and down a few generations part 3

The 17th Ia. continued to fight, marching and burning with Sherman through
the Carolinas. They occupied Raleigh on 4/14 and marched on to Washington,
D.C., for a Grand Victory Marching Parade on 5/24/65.

Bill got out ahead of the crowd, just 6 days after General Lee surrendered
at Appomattox. On his way home at dark, he fell into a well his boys had dug
in his absence. He crawled out. Years later, his daughter-in-law, Martha was
to describe him as "a drinking, fighting old reprobate", but he had a fine
sense of humor and she liked him. It was General Grant who put a simple
epitaph on the Civil War. "It is probably well we had the war when we did.
We are better off now than we would have been without it." I

Ery Ann died in the arms of her daughter-in-law, Martha Bucey Toney, on
9/20/1900. She remembered her as a little saint. She was buried at Terre
Haute. William Ray married Mary Chivington in 1902 and he died of liver
trouble on 12/4/1903. His funeral was conducted at home by Elder Joseph
Smith, son of the founder of the Morman Church. William Ray is buried next
to Ery Ann. He left an estate of $600. Included was a note for $200 marked
"Doubtful. Of Collection" on son, T.W.S. Toney. It was repaid.

Tarleton Washington Santaford Toney married Martha Ann Bucey in 1873 at
Eagleville, Mo. The marriage was stormy. It was a large family on a small
farm. Daughter, America, never had an opportunity to attend school as she
had to stay home and help her mother with her little brothers and sisters.
Mother Martha is reported to have had a domineering personality. Father
Sant. was apparently not overly ambitious, but his children fondly
remembered him. He could do a good Irish jig. Martha was granted a divorce
and she moved to Montana. Several years later, they were reconciled and
remarried. This didn't last long, either. Sant. came to Baldwin, Ks., to be
with daughter, America. I remember him when I was a 4th grader and I held
him in awe. one morning he went out and split a cord of wood for America. He
had been slow about it, being 83 and almost blind, but he had fortified
himself with his usual breakfast; two raw eggs sucked from the shell. I
remember we buried him on a cold Thanksgiving day at Holden, Mo., Fairview
Cemetery in 1936. A simple stone "TWS TONEY" marks the grave. Martha died in
Dec., 1939. Their children:

Ellen Ida, born 1876 died 1876 Terre Haute Cemetery

America (Millie), born 2/16/1877 married Charles Christenson 9/12/1894 died
11/4/1967

William Andrew, born 6/9/1880 died abt 1961

John Earl, born 10/1982 married Hattie Lee Ford 10/7/1903 died 9/1970

Charles Albert, born 9/19/1884

Ada Errian, born 7/4/1887 married Jim Bond

Martin Elija, born 12/15/1890 died 5/4/1970

Warren, born 8/18/1892 died 1960

Arthur, born 6/1895

Minnie Ester, born 6/29/1898 married Servik

Hemon, born 1900 Buried Terre Haute Cemetery

Florence Christina, born 10/1902 married Stromberg

America Toney married Charles Christenson in 1894. She was a stern mother
and the best grandmother a guy ever had. In about 1920 America divorced
Charles, and sons, Clifford and Everett eventually moved with her to
Lawrence, Ks., where the boys engaged in the produce business. In about 1933
she moved to a house with no plumbing in Baldwin, Ks. She farmed a small
plot and did dressmaking for the town. She demonstrated a sense of charity
for others problems. From 1934 to 1936 she tended George and Herbert Taylor
so daughter Bessie could work in Clifford's Ice Cream Parlor. For a time she
made welcome an itinerate Mormon Missionary, working for the Lord with a
battered guitar. On occasion she took care of her grandsons, Fred and James,
so mother Margaret could work. Her father spent his last days with her.
Through it all, she managed with an iron will.
To wit:

(1) James had a habit of beating on "little Freddy". America locked James in
a dark closet. "Get him, rats!" she yelled. James grew up to be a fine
lawyer gentleman and, except for An occasional rat fit, it didn't bother him
a bit.
(2) Grandson, Wesley owned a foundered 3/4 mare that he staked out for
Grandmother to take care of. She sold the horse to a neighbor and put ten
dollars in her pocket. The mare had a nice colt shortly after.
(3) In 1935 she cut her front yard with a pair of sewing scissors: a stand
foot-high bluegrass. She made do with what she had!
(4) She had a sign, "Eggs For Sail" in her front yard. It didn't attract
much of a crowd due to the fact that some in the town couldn't read anyway.

We were in the middle of a depression but she had always been so poor and
busy, she didn't seem to know the difference.

In the 1940's she moved back to Holden, Mo., where she constructed a little
farm out of used lumber. I recall her shingling her barn when she was about
75. She raised a garden, lap dogs, birds, flowers, hogs, cows, chickens and
was self-sufficient until her arthritis bent her over double. She spent her
last years with daughter Bessie, making rugs and clothes for her
grandchildren.

America died 11/5/67, aged 90 years. Her last words to her daughter were to
express her gladness for living. She is buried at Holden Fairview Cemetery
in Missouri.

ELK

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