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Info taken from the book "The Conser Family" by Col.. John P . Horan 1981
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John and Mary Magdalane (Cronoble) Conser
by
James D. Bish
John Conser was born in on his parent's farm in West Buffalo Township, just north of
Mifflinburg, Union County, Pennsylvania on July 12, 1824, near where both sets of his
grandparent's, George and Barbara (Fridley) Conser and Christian and Maria (Bensinger)
Kaup lived. He was the fourth child born to his parent's, George Jr. and Maria Catharina
(Kaup) Conser. It seems that his parents, either lived on a farm with one of their parent s or
lived on a rented farm nearby one of their parents at this time, early in their marriage. I n
either case, John lived at that farm with his brothers, Jacob and William, and sister, Mar y for
the first two years of his life. John's next youngest sister, Elizabeth, was born during of
1826, while his parents were preparing to move to a rented farm between Potters Mill and
Earlysville, (now Tusseyville) in Potter Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania about
forty-miles west of where they then lived.
It appears that, John's paternal grandmother, Barbara (Fridley) Conser, must have died
about 1825. John's paternal grandfather, George Sr. Conser, a veteran of the Revolutionary
War having served in the Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Militia, was then 75 years of age.
Unable to care sufficiently for himself, George Sr. Conser left his farm and moved in wit h his
son, and John's uncle, Jacob Conser, whom lived in Miles Township, Centre County,
Pennsylvania, about 10 miles northeast of where John's new home was located. John's
parents probably moved to Centre County by April 1826 in time to prepare the farm ground
for planting. While living in Centre County, other children were born into the household.
Sarah was born in 1827, Amelia in 1828, George in 1830, and Susannah was born in 1831.
During this time, The George Conser Jr. family attended Emanuel's Church at Tusseyville and
all of the children born at their rented farm between Potters Mill and Tusseyville were
baptized at that church.
In 1826, John's uncle, Jacob Conser, decided to move farther west to Clarion County,
Pennsylvania. This resulted in George Conser Sr. making a move to live with his youngest
son and John's father, George Jr., who then lived close-by between Earlysville (now
Tusseyville) and Potters Mill, Centre County, Pennsylvania. From 1826 until his death in 18 28
George Conser Sr. lived with his son George Jr. on their Centre County, Pennsylvania farm.
George Sr. died on the farm near Tusseyville and was buried just a couple of miles west at
"The Loop" or "Emanuel's Reformed Lutheran Church Cemetery" at the north edge of
Tusseyville, Potters Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania. The grave is currently
unmarked although family tradition states that George Conser Sr. is buried there and it can
be proven that the George Conser Jr. family regularly attended that church at the time of
George Sr. death.
Only four years after the death of his father, and only months after the birth of his daugh ter,
Susannah, George Conser Jr. died suddenly on February 24, 1832, just two weeks before
his fortieth birthday, at his farm near Tusseyville. George Conser Jr. was buried next to h is
father at Emanuel's Cemetery. John Conser was only seven years of age at his father's
death. This sudden death stunned the family as John's mother, Maria "Catharina", then age
thirty-two, was now left alone with nine children between the ages of six months and
fourteen years.
Shortly after his George's death, Catharina Conser's eldest son, Jacob, then fourteen years
old, later petitioned the Centre County Court to have James Potter become a guardian for
him so that Jacob could learn the carpentry trade by becoming an apprentice to Mr. Potter.
James Potter was a very close neighbor to the Conser family as listed in the 1830 Census. I t
seems that the other Conser boys probably sought jobs also when they reached the age of
handling work. John Conser also learned the carpentry trade as a young adult and it is quit e
likely that he followed his brother, Jacob, as an apprentice to James Potter in learning
carpentry.
Meanwhile, John's mother, Maria Catharina, probably received some assistance from her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Christian Kaup, at that time. It is unknown exactly where she lived
between the time of her husband's death in 1832 to 1835 although it is thought that she
lived near Tusseyville or near her parents north of Mifflinburg, Pennsylvania. At this time
Catharina (Kaup) Conser became acquainted with a neighbor of her parents named George
Garrett. George and Catharina were married on May 12, 1835 in Mifflin County,
Pennsylvania, the county just to the south of Centre County. It seems that George and
Maria Catharina (Kaup) [Conser] Garrett probably lived most of their married life in Unio n or
possibly Centre County, Pennsylvania. George and Maria Catharina Garrett had four
children, Angeline, Benjamin, Catherine, and Christian Garrett, giving John four half-sibli ngs
between 1836 and 1842.
It appears that by the mid-1850s Catharina second husband, George Garrett had passed
away leaving her a widow for a second time. At that time, she and many members of her
family decided to follow her children, Jacob, William, and Sarah westward, moving overland
to Knox County, Illinois. It seems that most of the family, at least the youngest children,
must have moved west to Illinois with the family at this time. Some of the family members
that moved to Illinois at that time were John's older sister, Mary. Mary earlier married a
neighbor boy from Tusseyville named John From and they remained in Tusseyville for a time
after marriage before moving to Illinois.
Staying behind in Pennsylvania was John's younger sister, Amelia. Amelia also married a boy
from Tusseyville named David M. Henney. They remained in Potters Mill, Pennsylvania after
marriage where David worked was a blacksmith. Also about this time, Elizabeth Conser
married Samuel? Keller, a close neighbor of John and Mary (Conser) From of Tusseyville and
they remained for a time in Pennsylvania. John's grandfather, Christian Kaup, also continue d
to live in Union County, Pennsylvania. There appears to be a lot of continued movement by
family members between the two localities of Knox County, Illinois and Centre County,
Pennsylvania. This was natural with many family members in both locations.
John Conser met his future wife, Mary Magdalene Cronoble, in Centre County, Pennsylvania
probably while living with his mother and step-father not a far distance from the Cronobles .
It appears that John worked as apprentice at that time, possibly to James Potter, in learni ng
the trade of cabinet making and carpentry. John and Mary probably were married north of
Spring Mills, Centre County, Pennsylvania at her parent's home where she was born on
November 9, 1826. Mary was raised near the homes of her grandparents, Jacob and
Catherine (Willemann) Cronoble and George and Phoebe (Gruber) Zubler. John and Mary
might have also been married in Portage County, Ohio, where her parents, the Jacob
Cronobles', moved during that time, or in Knox County, Illinois, where John and Mary
Magdalene Conser settled and made their home near the farmstead of John's brother
William Conser. John and Mary Magdalene (Cronoble) Conser were married on September 4,
1844. Mary was the descendant of longtime Pennsylvania German ancestors. She was also
the descendant of a Revolutionary War veteran as her Great Grandfather, Lawrence
Cronoble, served as a private in the Northampton County, Pennsylvania Militia.
The Conser and Garrett families moved west as did many other people in the nation as they
answered the call of western movement celebrated by the phrase of "Manifest Destiny" that
echoed throughout the country. John's bother, Jacob was first Conser member to actually
venture west to Knox County followed by brother, William and sister, Sarah Conser. Jacob
married Nancy Gunsales in Knox County, Illinois on February 28, 1839. William Conser
married Malinda Burnett and Sarah Conser married George Burnett later in Knox County,
Illinois.
John and Mary purchased an 80 acre farm next to a farm purchased by his brother William in
the Southeast Quarter of section 21 in Haw Creek Township. This farm was located about
two and one-half miles southeast of the village of Gilson and two miles north of the villag e
of Maquon, Illinois. Many of the children born to John and Mary refer to being born near on e
of those villages as the family lived almost between the two. John apparently worked
primarily as a carpenter in and around the Gilson and Maquon communities while also
maintaining his farm at the time. His primary occupation, as listed in the 1850 census at t he
time, was a carpenter, a trade that was in great demand in a growing frontier community.
After their marriage, children quickly began to arrive in the Conser household. Cornelius
Henry Conser was born on February 1, 1845, however sadly passed away only ten days
later. Similar sad news followed the birth of their second child, Amelia Elizabeth Conser , born
on January 6, 1846 and died only two months later on March 31st. Both infants were buried
in a cemetery nearby the Conser household. On January 8, 1847, Sarah Catherine Conser
was born at the farm, the first child of John and Marys' to survive to adulthood. Children
began to appear at very regular intervals for the next twenty-five years. William Bailey
Conser was born on March 31, 1849. The summer before the birth of William, John Conser's
brother, Jacob and his family, decided to move farther west in answering the call of Manife st
Destiny and traveled overland along the westward trail to Oregon Country. Jacob and his
family had lived near Maquon, Illinois very close to where John and his family lived. On Ma rch
17, 1851 Jacob Emery Conser, named to honor both, his uncle, Jacob Conser, whom recently
traveled overland to Oregon, and his maternal grandfather, Jacob Cronoble, was born at the
family farm home southeast of Gilson.
Over the next ten years, four more children were born into the John and Mary Conser family.
They included George Wesley, born November 14, 1852, Mary Alice, born May 23, 1855,
Melissa Emily, born March 15, 1858, and Kelista Ellen, born September 23, 1860. These were
the beginning of very turbulent times across the nation. Slavery and its expansion into the
territories were the passionate political and moral questions of the day. Among this tensio n,
a historic election for US Senator took place in the home state of the John Conser family i n
1858. Abraham Lincoln, a former Illinois Congressman and then Springfield, Illinois attorne y,
was trying to unseat the incumbent Illinois US Senator, nationally known Stephen Douglas.
A series of seven debates were scheduled before the 1858 election all across Illinois so th at
people across Illinois could hear both candidates answer questions concerning the future of
slavery and its expansion into the territories.
On October 7, 1858 Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas journeyed to Galesburg for their
fifth debate that year. Galesburg, with its population of five thousand, was the county sea t
of Knox County and was located only ten miles northeast of the John Conser farm. At that
time, Knox County overall strongly supported the Republican Party and it anti-slavery
stance. Two years earlier, in the 1856 presidential election, two-thirds of all votes fro m Knox
County went to the Republican Candidate, John Fremont. On that early afternoon in the Fall,
over twenty thousand people, four times the Galesburg population, sat and stood listening
to Lincoln and Douglas debate the future of Illinois and the nation. It was a chilly day,
cooled by a northwest wind that whipped the flags and banners on display. Heavy
downpours of rain the previous day and night left the air damp and the wind chill made the
day raw. Processions of buggies, wagons, hayracks, floats, and men on horses with
banners were everywhere. Farmers from the entire region let their chores go to see this
great political event.
It is not known for sure if John Conser attended this debate, but it is likely that he did . It
was thought that few farm homes were occupied within a twenty-five mile radius of
Galesburg during that date as all were in Galesburg for the festivities. John Conser and hi s
family lived less than half that distance. If he did attend, he saw Lincoln, described as , "the
lean, hard organization of muscles that sheathed the bony framework, the strongest man I
ever looked at" continuously blame Douglas for the strife in the country over the slave
issues. Douglas was described that day as clothed, "in a overcoat, with a broad-brimmed
white hat, smoking a cigar" as he continuously denied Lincoln's charges. The local Galesbur g
press announced Lincoln a great victor in the debate. Despite the great performances
during the debates, performances that captured national attention, Lincoln lost a close rac e
to the incumbent, Stephen Douglas.
The election of Stephen Douglas did little to move the nation away from crisis. America
gradually divided into anti-slavery and pro-slavery camps. Southern states feared a loss in
their ability to direct their own future and in 1859 threatened secession. As a result of h is
strong performance in the 1858 Illinois senatorial election, Lincoln was chosen as the
Republican candidate for President at the Republican Convention in Chicago in 1860. He
narrowly defeated four other candidates for president in 1860 resulting in secession by
South Carolina followed by other Southern States. America entered its most turbulent period
on history, the Civil War. Civil Waractually began in April 1861 resulting in a call for t roops
by President Lincoln to put down the rebellion by Southern States. At that time John Conser
was thirty-six years of age and the father of seven children between six-months and
fourteen years. As a result of both, his advanced age, recruits were generally not taken
over the age of thirty-five, and his large number of dependent minor children, John Conser
was not drafted and did not serve in the Civil War. His children also did not serve as they
were all too young. John's eldest son, William, was just twelve at the beginning of the war ,
making him too young to become involved in the greatest conflict that America was
engaged.
The Conser household continued to grow as Matilda Anna was born on February 21, 1862.
During the war, the family attended to the vital needs of the Union including the growing o f
farm crops, which was declared an essential occupation during the war. John probably
continued to help out neighbors with both farming and carpentry needs during this time. His
eldest boys, William and Jacob, also probably provided, not only needed labor for the farm,
but also probably helped out neighbors as there was a severe labor shortage created by
the labor needs of the war. It was an anxious time. The family undoubtedly witnessed many
neighbors go to war and some never returned. They surely paid close attention to the war
and the decisions of Abraham Lincoln, the President from their home state. It must have
been a great relief for the family, especially since William Conser recently turned sixteen ,
when the war ended in the late spring of 1865. It must have been as equally sad for the
Conser family in hearing about the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln on April 14,
1865.
After the war, life in Illinois began to become more normal as men returned from their
military units. Four more children were born to John and Mary after the war. Showing their
approval for the Union war effort and its leading officer, General Ulysses S. Grant, John a nd
Mary named their next born son, Ulysses Grant, born on November 23, 1865, in honor of
General Grant. Elias Sherman Conser, Sherman probably named to honor Union General
William T. Sherman, was born on September 19, 1867. Arthur Martin Conser was born on
May 7, 1870 and Edith Elma Conser January 9, 1873. John and Mary's oldest children were
also growing up. Sarah Catherine turned twenty in 1867 and married a neighbor, Hiram
Craig, also from Haw Creek Township. After losing a child in childbirth, Sarah lost her ow n life
in 1868, probably from a childbirth-related complication. She was probably buried nearby th e
family farm, where her younger siblings were earlier buried. It was also at this time that
John and Mary sold their farm of eighty acres in Section 21 for a larger farm of 160 acre s just
a mile to the northeast in Section 22 of Haw Creek Township.
William Bailey Conser turned twenty in 1869 and Jacob Emery Conser turned twenty in
1871. It became evident to William and Jacob Conser that there was not the opportunity in
Knox County that there would be farther west. Like their parents a generation before, they
decided to seek opportunity in the west. During 1871, both William and Jacob Conser,
journeyed out to York County, Nebraska with the sole purpose of finding a homestead on
which to claim. They both secured homesteads a mile apart from each other in Henderson
Township and built homes on which to prove upon their claims. Evidently, William and Jacob
sent back raving accounts of the countryside and the opportunities in Nebraska. The
positive accounts by their sons and the idea of securing land for their other children
prompted John and Mary Conser and family to consider moving near where their son's
William and Jacob homesteaded.
In the summer of 1875 the John Conser family decided to leave the Knox County area, their
home for thirty years and moved overland to York County, Nebraska, following their two
sons. The Conser family was joined by John's sister and brother-in-law, John and Mary
(Conser) From and their two daughters in addition to John's younger Garrett half-brothers,
Benjamin and Christian. The family traveled from Knox County overland in a covered wagon,
with some of their livestock and family possessions to Nebraska. In York County, John
Conser purchased 160 acres in section 14, Township Nine North, and Range Four West,
(Henderson Township) near Lushton, (Lushton was not yet a village then) Nebraska from
Maxwell Riggs for $1600 on June 23, 1875. This farm was located very close to where both,
William and Jacob Conser, earlier homesteaded. Tragedy soon followed the move as baby
sister, Edith became ill in the fall of 1875 and died that year on October 13th. She was
buried in a nearby cemetery next to the farmstead. Not totally being satisfied with the Yor k
County area, John Conser searched farther West in hopes to locate a free homestead of his
own. He found a homestead about 150 miles west in Furnas County, Nebraska.
As a result, in the Spring of 1876 the family was on the move again, this time to a barren
homestead in section 15 of New Era Precinct (township), Furnas County, Nebraska, about
six miles North of Oxford, Nebraska. John came to Furnas County, Nebraska with his
half-brother, Ben Garrett. John, being a carpenter, built a house with the aid of his
half-brother on the east side of the creek that became known as Rankin Creek, which was
then quite a stream. It was the first frame house built in the Oxford area. John Conser and
Ben Garrett hauled the lumber all the way on wagons from Kearney in order to build it. The
house was quite different from the usual sod house or dugout constructed by the settlers
during that time. Although, the lower story was dug into the bank, the remainder of the
building was frame. The upper floor was a little above the ground. On the east side there
was a porch with steps down to the ground. The large room on the north end of the house,
with the porch on the east was where the New Era Precinct elections were held for years.
This house was so unique in construction that long after the deaths of John and Mary
Conser, many people in the area felt that it should be preserved as a memento of the early
days in Furnas County. Those efforts fell through and by the 1960s the house slowly fell in to
disrepair.
At that time, schoolhouses were either sod or dugouts and none were as centrally located
in the precinct as the Conser house. It was rods east of the center of the precinct and a m ile
north of center. The elections then differed from the present day. You could cut your elect ion
ticket out of a newspaper and take it with you to vote, if you wished. At that time, it was
customary in New Era Precinct to have a barrel of apples at the polls on election day. Thos e
running for precinct offices and board members and any others whom wished, could chip in
to pay for the apples. Somebody would then go to Oxford and bring the apples back to the
Conser household. Apples were a treat in those days and when the barrel arrived all were
supposed to help themselves and people did. Later on, there was a bridge built across
Rankin Creek just over half a mile to the south of the Conser house along the section line.
The principle selling point in getting the bridge built was that it shortened the distanc e in
which voters in the southwest part of the precinct had to travel in reaching the voting pla ce
which was the John Conser home.
Undoubtedly the whole growing family helped with the many chores needed in the
development of a homestead and farm. Over those next years, John and Mary's younger
children attended nearby Pleasant Hill School District #13, where John Conser also served
as a board member for a time. It was at school that many of the Conser children became
acquainted with their future spouses. As the children grew to adulthood, most of John and
Mary's children left home and got married. William Bailey Conser married Sarah L. From and
they lived at William's homestead for awhile before moving to other farms in Nebraska and
Colorado. Jacob Emery Conser married Elisabeth Thomas and had two children. However
only their child, Clarence survived childhood. Jacob's wife, Elisabeth died unexpectedly in
1889 and Jacob remarried, this time to Mary Ann Cox, whom he had five more children with,
with three surviving to adulthood. Jacob lived most of his remaining life in the Lushton an d
Hampton, Nebraska area.
Mary Alice Conser married Charles Hinman and they lived at Oxford and McCook for a
number of years before moving with their children to Council Bluffs, Iowa. Melissa Emily an d
Kelista Ellen married brothers. Melissa married Robert Watson in 1884 and had three
children. They lived on farms in the Oxford and Loomis, Nebraska area for a number of years
before moving to Snohomish County, Washington. Kelista married William Watson in 1882
and they farmed in the Oxford area all of their life while also raising three children. Mat ilda
married David Thomas, the brother of Jacob's first wife, Elisabeth. The Thomas's farmed in
the Oxford area before moving into Oxford where the operated a store for a few years. They
later moved to Coachella, in Riverside County, California. Ulysses Grant and Elias Sherman
also married sisters. Ulysses married Grace Rankin and Elias married her sister Belle. Both
Ulysses and Elias homesteaded north of Imperial, Nebraska for a number of years before
moving to the Nashville, Tennessee area. George Wesley remained in the Oxford area and
never married. Arthur Martin, John and Mary's youngest surviving child, remained living wit h
his parents in the Oxford area and kept care of them in their elderly age, even after Arthu r's
marriage to Katie C. Smith in 1903.
In 1889, John and Mary decided to sell their homestead, as both were getting along in age,
John was then 65 and Mary was 63. They moved to the village of Oxford and as a result,
Arthur began to attend high school there. Arthur graduated from Oxford High School in the
spring of 1891, making him the only child of John and Mary's to do so.
John Conser passed away at their home in Oxford at 3:00 AM on December 4th of that year
at the age of 67 years, 4 months, and 22 days. He was buried in Oxford's Cemetery. Arthur
then took care of his mother, Mary Magdalene (Cronoble) Conser, after the death of his
father. After Arthur married Katie Smith in 1903, his mother eventually moved in with them
at Edison, Nebraska. It was there that she spent the last years of her life. Mary Magdalene
(Cronoble) Conser passed away at Arthur's home at 11:07 AM on December 1, 1910. At her
death she was 84 years and 22 days old. She was buried alongside her husband in Oxford's
cemetery.
SOURCES
1. John Horan, The Conser Family, (Punxatawney, Pennsylvania, 1966).
2. John is one of the male children of George Conser between 5 and 10 years of age on the 18 30 U.S. Manuscript Census for Potters Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania.
3. 1850 U.S. Census, Township 10N, 3E, Knox County, Illinois, p.340 shows John, wife Magdale na, and children Sarah, age 3, and William, age 1.
4. 1855 Tax List of Knox County, Illinois by Knox County Genealogical Society (1980) p. 50.
5. Map of Knox County, Illinois shows John Conser owning land in section 21, Haw Creek Towns hip, T10N, R3E, in Knox County, Illinois. This map is located at Land Ownership Map Group, La nd Ownership Map #120, Knox County, Illinois, 1861, This is located in the Library of Congres s Map and Geography Room, Landownership Map # 120
6. 1870 U.S. Census, Haw Creek Township, Knox County, Illinois, p.215 shows John, wife Magdal ena and 10 children.
7. Estate Record of Christian Kaup proves location of Christian and Mary Kaup residence in We st Buffalo Township, Union County, Pennsylvania and also proves John Conser's maternal Grandp arent's Kaup as well as parents, George Conser and Catharina Kaup located in Christian Kaup f ile #1851, Register and Recorder of Union County, Pennsylvania, Lewisb
8. In 1875 the John Conser family moved overland to York County, Nebraska, following two o f their children, William and Jacob Conser who came out about 1871. John Conser purchased 16 0 acres in section 14, Township Nine North, and Range Four West, (Henderson Township) near Lu shton, (Lushton was not yet a village then) Nebraska from Maxwell Riggs for $1600 on June 23 , 1875. This is proved by:
record located in Deed Record Book 5, Page #57, York County Register of Deeds Office, York, N ebraska.
9. In 1876, John Conser and family sold his holdings in York County, Nebraska and traveled f arther west to Furnas County, Nebraska. There he took a homestead claim. John and his wife re mained in this area until there deaths. Information about this part of family can be found in : Homestead Patent in Deed Book 12, Page 258, and the selling of this land by John and Magdal ena, just before John's death is in Deed Book 18, Page 3, Furnas, Nebraska County Clerks Offi ce, Beaver City, NE.
10. 1880 U.S. Manuscript Census, New Era Precinct, Furnas County, Nebraska, page 666 shows J ohn Conser Family.
11. Oxford, Nebraska Standard Newspaper, October 8, 1959 and republished in Oxford, Nebrask a Standard Newspaper, August 28, 1980 has a good story on the John Conser Family .
12. Cowan, Laura and Luke, Helen, Four Score and Seven Years, (Oxford, Nebraska, 1968) pp.74 -75, 101-102.
13. Special 1885 U.S. Census for Nebraska shows John Conser family In New Era Township, Furna s County, Nebraska. Daughters Matilda Thomas, Ellen Watson, and son Wesley Conser are also l isted on the same Census page.
14. Death Certificate of Mary Magdalena Conser, wife of John, states that she died on Decembe r 1, 1910, in Edison Village (location of residence of one of her children near Oxford], Furn as County, Nebraska and it also proves her parents, Jacob and Elizabeth (Zubler) Cranoble an d her birth in Pennsylvania. This record, Death Registration #9341 is at the Bureau of Vita l Statistics, Nebraska Department of Health, Lincoln, Nebraska.
15. The compiler of this information, James D. Bish, GreatGreatGrandson of John Conser, als o has a photo of John and Magdalane (Cronoble) Conser.
16. Conser Family history materials handed down from Arthur Martin Conser, Jacob Emery Conse r (both sons of John Conser), and Leroy Newton Conser (grandson of John Conser).
17. Conser Family materials located in Henricic/Conser/Horan File at Lancaster County Histor ical Society, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
18. Birth and death year dates are on tombstone located in Oxford, Nebraska Cemetery, just e ast of town of Oxford, Nebraska in NW1/4 of Section 6, T3N, R20W in Harlan County, Nebraska , on the Harlan and Furnas County line. John and Mary Conser are buried next to John's siste r Mary, who was married to John From.[2485774[1].GED]
John and Mary Magdalane (Cronoble) Conser
by
James D. Bish
John Conser was born in on his parent's farm in West Buffalo Township, just north of
Mifflinburg, Union County, Pennsylvania on July 12, 1824, near where both sets of his
grand