3. Bird Vowell
These are my [Steve Beckham] wife's g.g. grandparents. Bird Vowell and his son Tillman Vowell platted Coquille, Or. Bird and his wife later settled in Bandon, Or. They are buried in Coquille, OR.
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VOWEL, Bird; Putnam co., IN 10 Jul 1826 > Coos Co., OR 13 May 1871; m. Mary A.M. NOSLER [b. 2 Apr 1829] 23 Dec 1847. Source: Biographical abstract at www.rootsweb.com/~orcoos/biosuv.htm
A roster of their children follows:
1. Syotha A. Vowell, b. March, 1850, died in infancy
2. Tillman W. Vowell, b. 15 September 1851 married Alice ?
3. William T. C. Vowell, b. January, 1853, died in infancy
4. Mary/Mollie Jane Vowell, b. 8 December 1855 married William Jenkins
5. Julia C. Vowell, b. 5 January 1860 married James Hayes
6. Emily Etta Vowell, b. 7 October 1862-d. 1941, married Glen Burnett Cox
7. James M. Vowell, b. 5 January 1866, married Amanda Kitefrom Stephen Dow Beckham, Department of History, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR. 97219
24. Julia C. Vowell
HAYES, James S.; Washington 3 Sep 1856 > Oregon 1868 > Coos Co., OR 1874; m. Julia C. VOWELL [b. Nebraska 5 Jan 1860]. Source: Biographical Abstract at www.rootsweb.com/~orcoos/biosh.htm
HAYES, James S.; Washington 3 Sep 1856 > Oregon 1868 > Coos Co., OR 1874; m. Julia C. VOWELL [b. Nebraska 5 Jan 1860]. Source: Biographical Abstract at www.rootsweb.com/~orcoos/
Civil War, Iowa 40th Infantry, Co. D. Source: Past and Present of Jasper Co. 1912.
Living as a borarder with mother, Lettie Vowell in 1880 U.S. Census, Newton, Jasper Co., Iowa. Also a daughter, Susan, age 2 years. Listed as a telephone operator in 1910 U.S. Census, Valley Twp., Rice Co., Kansas.
Mrs. Louisianna Chapman Died
Mrs. George Chapman was Resident of Jasper County All of Her Life -- No Funeral Arrangements Made as YetMrs. George Chapman, 58 years old and a resident of Jasper county all of her life, passed away at her home southwest of this city last evening about 6:30 o'clock. She had been ill since last July with a complication of diseases and Sunday evening she suffered a stroke of apoplexy.
Louisianna Vowell Chapman was born on a farm west of Newton November 7, 1860 , and she had, without the exception of three years in Kansas, spent her entire life in this vicinity. She is survived by her husband and five children. They are John of Detroit, Jay, with the American Expeditionary, forces in France, Mrs. Hattie Skuzie, Mrs. Pearl Langren of this city and Albert of near Colfax. Two brothers, Carl of Canada and James of Kansas and one sister, Mrs. Alice Oliver of Kansas, also mourn her death. Mrs. Chapman was a member of the Free Methodist church, having placed her membership there when a girl.
No arrangements have been made for the funeral as yet. Burial will be in the Metz cemetery. ~ The Newton Daily News, October 15, 1918.
________Funeral Yesterday For Mrs. George Chapman
The funeral services for Mrs. George Chapman were held at the home Thursday at 2 o'clock in charge of Rev. B. N. Miller, of Des Moines.
Music was furnished by a quartet from Palo Alto neighborhood. The pallbearers were Forrest Patterson, Isaac Bennett, Hans Carstens, William Talbot, Oscar Stockton and Oren Larimer. Interment was at the Metz Cemetery. ~ The Newton Daily News, October 18, 1913.
GEORGE CHAPMAN DIES AT 87 YEARS
Long-Time Resident of Jasper County Dies After Week's IllnessGeorge W. Chapman, 87, long-time resident of Jasper county died this morning at his house, 410 East Fifth street North, following a week's illness.
Mr. Chapman had lived in Jasper county since he was 15 years old with the exception of a few years in Kansas.
Born in 1850
He was born at Marysville, O., Sept 9, 1850, the son of John and Mary Chapman. He was the sixth of a family of eight children.
He came with his parents to Iowa in a covered wagon when he was 15 years old and they located on a farm eight miles southwest of Newton in Mound Prairie township. He he grew to manhood.
On Dec. 24, 1878, he was united in marriage to Lucy Vowel, and to this union six children were born, the eldest dying in infancy. Mrs. Chapman preceded her husband in death Oct. 14, 1918.
Mr. Chapman later married Mrs. Mary Fales on Oct 27, 1919 and she survives.
Church Member
In 1890, Mr. Chapman was converted and united with the Free Methodist church. He remained a faithful worker and regular attendant of the church as long as his health permitted.
Besides his wife, he is survived by five children, John of Lincoln, Neb., James of Davenport, Mrs. Harriett Skuzie of Falls City, Ore., and Mrs. Pearl Longren and Albert of Newton; eight grandchildren, two great grandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. Mamie Galusha of Corcoran, Calif. ~ The Newton Daily News, February 25, 1938.
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George ChapmanFuneral services for George Chapman, 87, were conducted from the Free Methodist church Sunday at 2 p.m. by the pastor, Rev. W. J. Trimble, assisted by Rev. J. S. Booton.
Music furnished by Mrs. Nelson Martz and Mrs. W. L. Anderson included two songs, "Rock of Ages" and "Going Down the Valley."
Interment was in the Sugar Grove cemetery, with the following serving as pall bearers: Milo Snodgrass, Milburn Chevalier, William Johnson, William Klopping, J. L. Arends and Giles DeHamer.
Mrs. Leta Chevalier, Mrs. J. S. Booton and Bessie Norton were in charge of flowers.
Those attending the rites from away were Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Chapman of Lincoln, Neb., Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Chapman of Davenport, Mrs. Frank Clymer, John Clymer, Mr. and Mrs. William Clymer, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Marshall and Mrs. Berry Tabor of Colfax, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Faildey of Prairie City, Mrs. Doyle Kinart of Monroe, Mr. and Mrs. Emory Fales of Sully and Mrs. Melvin Fales of Reasnor.
Mr. Chapman, pioneer resident of Jasper county, died Friday morning at his home, 410 East Fifth street South.
Surviving relatives include his wife, Mrs. Mary Chapman; five children by a former marriage, John of Lincoln, Neb., James of Davenport, Mrs. Harriett Skuzie of Falls City, Ore., and Mrs. Pearl Longren and Albert of Newton; eight grandchildren, two great grandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. Mamie Galusha of Corcoran, Calif. ~ Jasper County Record, March 17, 1938, page 8, column 4.
19. James C. Vowel
Norwich Man Dies After Slashing Wrist
Jim Vowel, 84, of Norwich was found dead Saturday night by his daughter, Mrs. Lottie Parson, after he had slashed his writs with a pocket knife.
Vowel, who made his home with Mrs. Parsons, was found sitting on the porch step in a pool of blood. According to Sheriff Jim Ingrim, he apparently never moved after cutting his wrist. Dr. C.W. Longnecker, coroner, said death resulted from a self-inflicted knife wound.
Vowel attempted to take his life last May, Ingram said, by turning on gas in the house.
He came to Roseburg, Ore., in May, 1952. His wife preceded him in death.
Funeral arrangements will be announced by Wulf mortuary at Bell Plain. ~ Kingman Journal, Kingman Co., Kansas, Thursday, November 18, 1952.
George W. Bartlett
JUDGE GEORGE W. BARTLETT. The real richness of life consists not so much in material accumulations as in experience. Most of the early settlers of Western Kansas have had their intimate associations with life "that is real and earnest," but few of them have gone further afield in this respect than Judge George W. Bartlett, formerly probate judge of Scott County, and now successfully engaged in the real estate business in Scott City.
Judge Bartlett is a native of Iowa, having been born in Appanoose County October 25, 1863. He grew up on a farm and had only a common school education. His father, James J. Bartlett, was born in Virginia in 1827, and in 1886 moved to Kansas, locating in Harper County, where he lived on a farm until his death in 1895. For several years before coming to Kansas he was a resident of Sullivan County, Missouri, and while there was a greenback candidate for office. James J. Bartlett married Martha Coleman, an orphan girl. She was born in Illinois and died in 1893. Her children were: Jesse H., of Chanute, Kansas; Marilla, who died in 1889 as Mrs. Galbreath; Sarah, wife of Edward Cummings of Denver; Almeda, who died in Wichita, Kansas, wife of Sanford Page; Judge George W.; Willard, of Anthony, Kansas; Laura, wife of Thomas Marts, of Wichita; Asa, of Ekalaka, Montana; Charles, who died in Harper County, Kansas; and Persis, wife of James Vowell, of Norwood, Kansas.
Judge Bartlett came to his majority without inheriting wealth or without having achieved any definite success in the world. He started out about that time to make his own way in the world and arrived in Scott County, Kansas, in September, 1885, with only his bare hands to support him. He became one of the pioneer well diggers. His usual method of handling such a contract was to work at 60 cents a foot in dirt and $1 in rock. He put in about eighteen months digging wells in different parts of the county and had something to show for his labor besides having made a living at the same time.
In 1886 he entered the homestead the southeast quarter of section 17, township 18, range 31. He began his efforts as a permanent settler with about $200 cash. He was still unmarried and he put up a shelter sufficient to house himself only. It was a dugout, and he remained in that crude dwelling for about a year and a half. This dugout was constructed by digging into the ground about five feet and building up on the outside with sod. The house was covered with shiplap and sod. He proved up by the "mortgage" route, but in October, 1887, abandoned the place.
During these two or three years spent in Kansas he did not make a fortune. He faced the same discouraging conditions that confronted other settlers, but beside the necessity of earning something he was also impelled by a spirit of adventure to leave Kansas for a time altogether. Going out to the Pacific coast, he rambled around from place to place and finally at Portland, Oregon, secured employment on a boat running up the Willamette River. He put in about two years as a river boatman. He was first employed as a deck hand on the Latona, and in three months was made first officer. Such rapid promotion rarely comes to a beginner. This boat made two round trips daily to Oregon City, a distance of twelve miles. He also was second mate on the R. R. Thompson between Portland and Astoria on the Columbia River, and for a time was on the N. S. Bentley up the Willamette to Corvallis.
From a freshwater sailor he attempted the role of a real "salt." He shipped on the four-master sailing vessel for Melbourne, Australia. To the ship officer he represented himself as a sailor, though he realized that his river experience gave him little claim to that title. The boat was nearly four months making the voyage across the Pacific Ocean. Many of those stories which have been told about the raw landsman suffering the brutalities and outrage of an old time sea captain were repeated in Mr. Bartlett's maiden voyage. He knew absolutely nothing about the work "aloft" on a ship, and when ordered "aloft" by the officer in passing over the bar out of the Columbia he made a clear breast of his incompetence by replying that he did not know what to do up there. The officer then grabbed a "marlin stick" and pounded him over the heels so that he went up the rope ladder with agility that surprised himself. From that time on continued abuse was dealt out to the novice. After he had learned the duties of a deck hand he was put to work every time any other regular hand was sick or could not serve. He was beaten and abused in every conceivable fashion and was fed on sea bread and water nearly all the way across. The vessel's cargo was redwood, and the only stop during the entire voyage was made at Auckland, New Zealand.
On reaching Melbourne Mr. Bartlett's first act was to buy a six-shooter. For several days he lay in wait for the captain from whom he had suffered such outrage and abuse on the voyage. He has always considered himself fortunate in not meeting the captain. After being in the city four days he took a passenger vessel back to San Francisco. When he shipped as a sailor on the lumber vessel his wages were fixed at thirty-five dollars a month for the round trip, but as he left the vessel at Melbourne he forfeited all right to his pay.
On reaching San Francisco Mr. Bartlett soon made his way home to Harper County, Kansas. His fever "to go to sea" had been thoroughly quenched by the one voyage, and no aspiration for marine achievement and experience has ever revived. For several months Mr. Bartlett worked in the freight office of the Union Pacific Railway Company at Denver, Colorado, checking freight, and then for a time was employed by the Globe Smelters in that city.
He left Denver to return to Scott County, his varied experience while away having convinced him that there was no better place to lay the foundation of a permanent career. He started as a farmer. He had left a timber claim on going to the coast, and he farmed that along with other lands, and had considerable success for four or five years. In 1897 Judge Bartlett came to Scott City, taking charge of the "skim plant" of the town, subsequently was pump man for the Missouri Pacific Railway, and from that entered the real estate business with W. C. King. His association with Mr. King gave him profitable employment and a business experience which he still utilizes. After two or three years in real estate work he was elected probate judge of Scott County.
Judge Bartlett was brought up in a democratic atmosphere. His father was a stanch greenbacker and later a populist. When Judge Bartlett first voted he wrote in the names of the greenback candidates for state offices in Kansas. His campaign for probate judge was made on an independent ticket. He succeeded Judge Daugherty and served two terms. The office of probate judge then largely concerned itself with the settlement of estates, proving up of claims, and the duties of marrying people. While in office Judge Bartlett performed the marriage ceremony for about fifty three couples. His many friends have always enjoyed one of the incidents connected with his first marriage ceremony. The groom had notified the Judge that he would appear at a certain time, and the couple arrived to find the new judge preparing his own ceremony. He had not yet thoroughly rehearsed it, and he therefore had to make an extemporaneous effort. Asking the young man to hold up his hand, he began the service with the following question: "You do solemnly swear that you take this woman to he your lawful and wedded wife, etc." At that point the judge remembered it was not necessary for the groom to hold up his hand, but when he began propounding a similar question to the bride she too raised her hand, believing that the judge in his embarrassment had forgotten something.
The duties of probate judge were never performed with more conscientious care of the real essentials than during the administration of Judge Bartlett. From probate judge he became a local merchant, being associated with Mr. Cretcher as Cretcher & Bartlett, hardware dealers. After three years Judge Bartlett resumed the real estate business in 1916. He has done his share towards the upbuilding of Scott City, has erected the brick building where the Rexall store is located, and has also built and owns three residences. At the present time he is serving as a member of the city council. He is a past consul of the Scott City Camp of Modern Woodmen of America and was a delegate to the Head Camp at Indianapolis. He and his wife are both members of the Christian Church.
In Scott County November 21, 1896, Judge Bartlett married Miss Lena D. Hull, daughter of Arthur D. and Louise (Pearson) Hull. Her father came to Kansas from Iowa, and is one of the substantial homesteaders and farmers of Scott County. Mrs. Bartlett was born in February, 1878, and the other children of her parents are: Albert, Roy, Spencer, Arthur, Laura and Walter. Her sister Laura is the wife of Ralph Stahla. Judge and Mrs. Bartlett have no children.
Pages 2491-2492.
Transcribed from A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, written and compiled by William E. Connelley, Secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka. [Revised ed.] Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1919, c1918. 5 v. (xlviii, 2530 p., [155] leaves of plates): ill., maps (some fold.), ports.; 27 cm.