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- Marriage License: consent from her mother Abigail Patton and her brother (Joseph) Henry Patton.
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Letter from Jeanne Shafer Bedwell:
The letter and information about the Patton Family Bible from Mary Jane Lewis Riner Ziby was compiled by a Kansas researcher in 1944. The original letter along with the bible data is in the Patton file in the Tippecanoe County Historical Society in Tippecanoe County, Indiana. The Patton genealogy information from this file was printed in the Ohio Genealogy Magazine in 1962 and is all over the Internet. I mention this in case researchers are interested in the original documents.
The James Lewis family, James and Lydia Patton Lewis and their seven children, moved from Tippecanoe County, Indiana to Iroquois County, Illinois in 1853. I think they settled near Milford. James died in 1855. Three of their sons, Thomas, Calvin, and William, joined Company M of the 9th Regiment of the Illinois Cavalry and served from 1861-1864. After the Civil War, around 1870, Thomas and Calvin Lewis pioneered in Burr Oak, Kansas. The youngest daughter, Mary Jane Lewis, married William Riner, son of Daniel and Mary Riner of Onarga. Later Calvin Lewis married Belle Hunt Frye, daughter of Mary Riner Clayton and granddaughter of Daniel and Mary Riner. The children of the Patton family were born in Butler County, Ohio and the children of James and Lydia Patton Lewis were born in Tippecanoe County, Indiana. Most of the surviving children of the Daniel Riner and James Lewis families settled in Burr Oak, Kansas in the 1870s-1880s.
Charlie Lewis is the son of Calvin and Belle Hunt Lewis.
Dan Lewis is the son of Calvin and Belle Hunt Lewis
Elleen Lewis Tegley is the daughter of Charlie Lewis
Thomas Lewis is the son of James and Lydia Patton Lewis and the brother of Calvin Lewis.
Diana Skeels Harper lived in Onarga and is buried there.
Robert Richland Skeels married Susannah Riner in Onarga. They later settled in Burr Oak, Kansas. Their children were Daniel Henry Skeels and Mary Skeels Grubbs.
John W.Grubbs had a large farm near Onarga from the 1850's on. Several of his children settled in Burr Oak, Kansas after 1870. I recently received the family picture album and am slowly scanning the pictures from the 1880's-1900. This album was the property of Susannah Riner Skeels and later her daughter Mary Skeels Grubbs, who married Harvey J. Grubbs, son of John W. Grubbs.
Calvin and Belle Hunt Lewis were my great-grandparents. My great-aunt, Mattie Lewis Grubbs, pasted many of the oldest obits on pieces of cardboard, including the one of Daniel Riner from 1885. She sent them to my mother back in the 1970's and I found them in my mother's papers. It took me several years to figure out who all of these people were. Most of their photos are in the album above or in the 1965 History of the Burr Oak Methodist Church.
" Onarga was very dear to the Burr Oak folks and visited and mentioned with much fondness."
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1844 - 1916 (72 years)
