Re: Musgrave connections
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Re: Musgrave connections
Loren Musgrave 10/13/09
John Markley Musgrave - John Markley Musgrave was born in Oneida County, N.Y. April 6, 1800, the son of John and Jane Wallace Musgrave.The family migrated to Wooster, OH when John Markley was a child and both parents are buried in the Wooster, OH. area.Of the four boys and three girls in the family, John Markley was the only one to come to Illinois.
John Markley Musgrave married Lydia Battenfield, the only child of Joseph and Mary Winbeigler Battenfield on Nov. 19, 1822 at Jeromesville, OH. To this union five children were born before Lydia died Dec. 17, 1835 at Jeromesville, OH where she is buried.The children, Joseph Battenfield, Mary Jane, John Wallace, Robert Wallace, and William lived with their grandparents, Battenfields until John Markley married Martha Hutchinson March 26, 1837, and with his two eldest children and a small child by his second wife started to Illinois in 1838.Joseph returned to Ohio to accompany Joseph and Lydia Battenfield and the other Musgrave children to Illinois.
The Battenfields left Jeromesville, OH in the spring of 1840 and journeyed to Columbus with a team of horses and wagon, getting on the National Highway there and traveling into Tere Hauete, IN. thence to Shakerstown, Russelville, and Lawrenceville, arriving at 5:00 p.m. June 1, 1840.When crossing the Wabash river at Russlesville on Babbs Ferry, Mrs. Battenfield refused to stay in the wagon, John M. Musgrave had met the family at the last camping place south of Shakertown.
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Sarah Lee 5/30/14