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Looking for parents and events that separated and orphaned James G., Effie Ellen, and Elmer C. Smith from their parents.
In the 1880 Census, Chautauqua County, Summit Township, Effie Ellen, age 9,"born KS" and James G. Smith, age 12,"born KS" are listed as living with Jere (Jeremiah) and Mary (Dunham) Ellexson. Their brother Elmer must have been placed with another family and connected with Effie after they were grown. Effie remembers having a sister too but nothing else.
Jere and Mary married in 1867 in Cherokee County Kansas and in the July 29, 1870 federal census, they lived near Weir City without children. They divorced in Cherokee County in 1873 and remarried in 1874 in Crawford County Kansas at her mother's.
Chautauqua County was established June 1, 1875 by dividing Howard and Elk Counties. Based on Civil War pension information given by Jere, his father, Ezekial R. lived with them until he died in 1875 and a deposition from a neighbor in Chautauqua County says he had lived near Jere since 1876.
I have a note from a relative that a James G. Smith was brought in from the fields, killed by an Indian raid, October 1, 1878, southwest of Oberlin, Decatur County, Kansas. How can I find out more on this family and if there were surviving children?
In the 1870 Census there is another possiblity, Crawford Township, Crawford County, Kansas, page 32, family 216: William Smith Jr, age 27, b. Kentucky; Ellen , age 26, b. Missouri; James, age 1, b. Kansas; Also living with, Catherine Roberts, age 50, b. Kentucky. Does anyone know what happened to this family?
On February 10, 1889, John Madison Fowler, age 42, and Effie Ellen Smith, age 21, marry in Chautauqua Springs, Kansas. James G. Smith for a time shipped lumber from Washington state to Kansas and seed grain from Kansas to Washington state. He eventually moved to California in the early 1900s and was not heard from again.
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