Miscellaneous Information
- You
can
access a 1895 map for Missouri at: MAP
- In
case
you ever get to
Sullivan or Linn counties and want to find a cemetery, they are listed SULLIVAN
CEM or LINN
CEM
with locations!
- Of course, Sullivan
Co.'s
website is SULLIVAN
and Linn Co's website is LINN.
- Other interesting
things
including maps of the surrounding area around Browning, MO (including Reger)
can be found at my Browning
webpage or the new Where is Reger webpage.
- The early life of Joel
DeWitt was located in West Virginia in what is now called Jackson
County.
In addition, the neigboring county across the Ohio River is Meigs
County
where the Buffington clan lived. The Meigs County Genealogy
website
is found here: MEIGS
- Jackson
County
History, in: County Commissioners'
Association of West VirginiaWest Virginia County Histories
(scroll
down to Jackson Co.)
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Rachel
Mairs
DeWitt
photos
PICTURE:
This is copied
from a photograph made late 1908 or early 1909,
probably in Milan,
Sullivan County, Mo.
The original
was framed
by the Chicago department store, Marshall Field,
probably in the 1920s
or early 1930s.
CREDIT:
From
Karl Seitz who
is Margaret Josephine DeWitt McCullough's great-great-grandson!
(Don DeWitt, is
Rachel Mairs DeWitt's' great-great
grandson.)
Commentary
from
Don DeWitt:
I believe this photo was taken of the ladies sitting
on the front porch of
Rachel Mairs DeWitt's home near Reger, Sullivan Co.,
MO. You can see
a drawing and a painting of the house above at: DEWITT HOME.
In addition, you can see another photo taken against the side of the
house
at AGAINST THE
WALL. (Note:
Use
your BACK button to return here.)
Karl's
Seitz
Geneology
is found at: SEITZ.
His Ahnentafel Geneology chart is HERE.
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Clockwise
starting with baby, this five-generation picture includes
Ruth
Susan SEITZ
(infant)
(1908-1973)
Ruth Seitz was born
24 June 1908 in Milan, Mo., where her father, Enoch Beery Seitz Jr. was
superintendent of schools. Her mother was Hazeldean Bolt. She graduated
from Radcliffe College in
Cambridge,
Mass., June 1929. Ruth married Harlen Ware in June 1935. She died 24
May
1973 in Carmel, Calif. Another photo of Ruth in a big group of
ladies.
Hazeldean
BOLT Seitz
(seated left)
(1886-1979)
Hazeldean Bolt was
born 9 Nov. 1886 in Montgomery County, Iowa. She was the daughter of
Isaac and Elfie Maud Bolt. She married first Enoch
Beery
Seitz Jr. 20 Aug. 1907 in Milan, Mo. She married second Nate Snyder in
the 1950s. She died June 1979 in San Antonio, Texas.
(Another photo in
1920s: SEITZ.)
Another photo of Hazeldean in a big group of
ladies.
Elfie
Maud McCULLOUGH Bolt
(standing left)
(1868-1961)
Elfie McCullough was
born 25 Nov 1868 in Sullivan County, Mo. She was the daughter of Warren and Margaret Josephine
McCullough. She married Isaac S. Bolt 14
Oct.
1885 in Milan, Mo. They were divorced at an unknown date before 1906.
She
died in Nov. 1961 in Los Angeles, Calif.
Margaret
Josephine DeWITT McCullough
(standing
right)
(1849-1937)
Josephine DeWitt was
born
8 July 1849 in Sullivan County, Mo. She is a daughter of Joel
and
Rachel DeWitt. She married Warren McCullough on 2 July 1865 in
Sullivan
County. She was active in the Women's Christian Temperance Union. She
died
30 April 1937 in Milan. Another photo of Josephine in a big group of
ladies.
Rachel
Ann MAIRS DeWitt
(seated right)
(1823-1912)
Rachel Ann Mairs
was born 7 May 1823 in Stuebenville, Jefferson County, Ohio. She
married Joel
DeWitt 1842 in Jackson County, (W.) Va. They moved to Missouri in
1845. She died 26 Feb. 1912 in Sullivan County, MO. Another
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OTHER
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TIDBITS:
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1840s
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Joel
DeWitt
1840 Census:
Jackson Co, VA
Joel would have been 24 in 1840.
There is no record in the 1840 census records for a Joel Dewitt in
Virginia.
(Viriginia did not become West Virginia until 1863.)
The 1840 census lists only the head of the family with family members
listed in age groups. No names were provided.
If Joel was living with his parents, Thomad and Dewitt, then he might
be included in the 1840 census for Thomas.
- Thomas Dewitt (40-50) with wife (40-50), and
daughter (<5: Lucinda), and additional males
- 1 each: (30-40: ?) (20-30:
Joel?) (15-20: John?) (10-15: Culberson? or
Alexander?) and
- 2 each (5-10: Thomas Buffington and Jaddock?)
and (<5: Henry Sherman)
- A complete listing of the Jackson county census
in 1840 can be found at: LISTING
If
Joel was living with Dr. Thomas Mairs, his preceptor, perhaps he was
listed with the Mairs family?
(From his Obit: At the
age of twenty-two
[1838?] (he) began
the study of medicine, his preceptor being Dr. Joseph Mairs of Ripley,
Jackson Co. Va., about two years.)
I
checked the record for Joseph Mares in Jackson Co, and there are no
males listed in the 20-30 yr range.
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1850s
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Joel
and Rachel DeWitt
(They were
married in
1842.)
1850 Census: Sullivan
County, Mo: District 96 (10 Sep 1850)
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The
search mechanisms at
Ancestry.com can not find this, but you can find it if you know the
District (96) and the location (161) (image 25 as of 2006)... Finally
figured it out... ancestry.com has them listed as the Lewitt. I
have submitted alternate spellings on 2/13/06.
Joel Dewitt, Age 34
physician
Rachelann, Age 27
Mary M, Age 6
Joseph C, Age 4
Thos B, Age 2
Margaret J W, Age 1
Daison (Davidson)
Myers, Age 20 laborer. He was born in Tenn.
On
the next page,
Rebecca Milburn, Age 16 was listed also. She was born in Tenn.
Regarding Davidson Myers....
Pamela Gibson wrote to me in 11/2007 to ask about Davidson and related
the following story:
There is a story that Davidson's father, Henry Myers,
was a cobbler and had made a pair of shoes for Davidson's sister.
Davidson filled them with stones and threw them into the river which
landed him in serious trouble with his father. Davidson, afraid to
return home, ran off to stay with the Indians and - here's when I lose
my grip on the story - was somehow saved from further troubles by Dr.
DeWitt. Would your family history include more details of this story or
perhaps yet another explanation of why Davidson was living with your
family?
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Dr.
Joel DeWitt
10 Oct
1856 U.S. General Land Office Records
Joel purchased 40 acres near Milan MO
Section 40, Twp 62-N, Range 21-W, Meridian 5th PM, Sullivan Co.
Record available through ancestry.com
1
Sep 1856 U.S. General Land Office Records
Joel purchased 80 acres near Milan MO
Section 1, Twp 63-N, Range 15-W, Meridian 5th PM, Adair Co.
Record available through ancestry.com
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1860s
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Joel
and Rachel DeWitt
1860 Census: Milan:
Sullivan Co, Mo: (31 Sep 1860)
Joel Dewitt Age 44
Rachel Age 37
Magdaline Age 17
Joseph Age 15
Thomas B Age 13
Phebe J Age 11
William H. W. Age 7
Mark P Age 2
Minervia McNutt was working with them as a cook. She was 18 and
born in IL.
Joel is listed as owning 1 slave in 1860 who was black and age 20.
from: 1860 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules
Was Minervia McNutt the name of the slave?
Dr.
Joel DeWitt
25 Aug
1863 U.S. IRS Tax Records
Joel purchased paid $6.67 tax to the State of Missouri
Record available through ancestry.com
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1864:
Civil War Service: Major Joel DeWitt, Surgeon
This record was obtained from the Missouri
Soldiers
Database: War of 1812 - World War I
Joel DeWitt served in the
Union Army's Missouri
Militia's 66th Regiment, Companies F & S. (Field and Staff)
His ranks were Major and Surgeon.
He served under Col. Phillips.
He enrolled and entereded into active service on 8 Nov 1862 in Milan,
MO.
He served for 172 days and was relieved from duty on 30 Apr 1863.
He
was ordered into active service again on 20 Jul 1864, served 114 days
and relieved from duty on 14 Nov 1864.
Click on image to visit source.
Click on image to visit source.
Also serving in the same regiment were
Joel's son, Joseph C.
DeWitt (Private, Company E, 10 Jun 1864, 30
days), (ref)
and Joel's brother, Thomas
B. DeWitt (Private, Company E, 9 Aug 1862,
90 days) (ref)
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Dr.
Joel DeWitt
1 May
1864 U.S. IRS Tax Records
Joel purchased paid $10 tax to the State of Missouri
Record available through ancestry.com
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Joel
and Rachel DeWitt
1870 Census:
Sullivan
County, Mo: Polk Township: Post Office: Milan (14 Jun 1870)
In 1870 Dr. Joel DeWitt lived with
his wife Rachel A, and sons Webster D, Mark P., and daughter
Elnora.
Also living with them was niece Sela Thomas, and two
servant/housekeepers with child.
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1880s
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Joel
and
Rachel DeWitt
Webster and Lura DeWitt
1880 Census: Sullivan
County,
Mo: bowman Township: (23 Jun 1880)
In 1880 Dr. Joel DeWitt
lived with
his wife Rachel A, and son Mark P., and daughter Elnora.
Also living with them was servants Effie Lewis and
Robert Henry, and farm hands
Schmid Milhoan, John Baker, Albert Watson.
Living next door was son William Henry Webster DeWitt
with wife Lura, and son Clarence and daughter Clara.
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1900s
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Webster
and
Lura DeWitt
Rachel
DeWitt
Mark
Pinkney (Pink M) and Bertha DeWitt
1900
Census:
Sullivan
County, Mo: Bowman Township: (8 Jun 1900)
Webster Dewitt
and wife Lura V, with
children. Next door was mother Rachel Mairs DeWitt.
Then brother Mark Pinkney DeWitt (listed as Pink M. Dewitt) with wife
Bertha, daughter Eula (Ula) and son Joel S. (Jowell).
Note that Maggie McCullough was working as a servant. I do not
know who her parents are, but she is probably some sort of cousin
since Webster and Mark's sister Margaret J. married Warren McCullough,
and brother Joseph married Elizabeth McCullough.
I
do
not know who Maggie McCullough is. She was born in Jan 1879 in
Mo, of parents born in IL and MO.
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Clarence
J
and Alta DeWitt
Webster
and
Lura DeWitt
Rachel
DeWitt
1910
Census:
Sullivan
County, Mo: Bowman Township: (28 Apr 1910)
Clarence J DeWitt
(31) and wife Alta (3?) with
children Arthur (4), David (2) and John (<1). Clarence was a son of
Webster DeWitt.
Webster Dewitt (56) and wife Lura (52), with
children Vern (26) and Jennie (18) and hired hand Martin Miller (27)
Next door was mother Rachel Mairs DeWitt (86). She
lived only 2 more years.
A photo taken about this time can be seen at About 1910. (Use your back
button to
return here.)
I do not know who was living with Rachel. The first name is Mary
(56) and the last name looks like Blackman.
I can not discern what her relation was... it may be servant.
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Grave Markers
for Joel DeWitt and his wife Rachel Ann Mairs DeWitt in Henry Cemetery,
near Reger,
Sullivan County, MO.
Photo by Kevin Casey
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Photo by Kevin Casey
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Photo by Kevin Casey
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Photos from FindAGrave.com: Joel
and Rachel
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A complete
listing of all of the DeWitts in Henry Cemetery can be found at: HENRY.
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CHILDREN OF JOEL AND RACHEL
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Joseph
C.
DeWitt (See his website)
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1870
Census: Milan City, Duncan Township,
Sullivan Co, MO: (29 Jul 1870)
Joseph C. DeWitt (age
25) and wife
Elizabeth (McCullough) (age 25),
with son John W(allace) (age 1)
1880 Census: Polk Township,
Sullivan Co, MO: (14 Jun 1880)
Joseph Culbertson
DeWitt (age 35) and wife
Elizabeth (McCullough) (age 35), with
son
John W(allace) (age 11),
daughter S????a M (age 8), daughter Martha (age 6), daughter
Blanche (age 4), and son Joel C (age 1), and
niece Ellen
Dewitt (age 17).
[I can not figure out whose daughter Ellen is
but she
may be using a middle name which
I have not seen anywhere.... She would
have been born about 1863 and her father was born in
Va while her mother was born in MO.]---- She COULD be Luella
Eddyth "Ella" Dewitt (born 1864) who is the daughter
of Thomas
Buffington
DeWitt (born in VA) and Elizabeth McCullough (born in
MO) who is Joseph
Culbertson's father's
(Joel DeWitt) brother. so Thomas
would be Joseph's uncle.. so she would be a great niece.?? whew!]
[Regardin S????a M.... in 1910, a Eunice DeWitt was
living with her sister Mae Hamilton (with husband W. D. Hamilton) in
Kirksville, Adair Co, MO. That would suggest that Mae's maiden
name was Dewitt. When I followed Mae Hamilton in the
following years, she showed up as Mae Dewitt Hamilton in 1920
living in Kirksville again, but widowed.
Mae D Witt Hamilton also sailed to Europe on the Leviathan arriving in
NYC, NY from Cherbourg, France on 5 Sep 1927!
She was living in Kirksville again in 1930.
So... perhaps S????a M is Laura Mae DeWitt who has
born on Aug 12 1872 according to her listing on the Leviathan.
1905 Census: Ness
City, Ness Co, KS: (1 Mar 1905)
Joseph Culbertson
DeWitt (60) and wife
Elizabeth (McCullough) (60), with daughters
Martha (30), Eunice
(22) and son Ernest (18).
1910 Census: Antioch
City, 8th-Twp, Contra Costa, California: (30 Apr 1910)
Joseph Culbertson
DeWitt and wife
Elizabeth (McCullough) , with daughter
Eunice
and son Ernest.
(It is not clear who the second DeWitt family is. Is it Dr. J. Wallace
DeWitt? He was born in WV in 1871.
However, Dr. J. Wallace is mentioned in Thomas Bryon DeWitt's obituary
and is
listed as a nephew... see above)
Actually... J. Wallace Dewitt, may be John W. Dewitt, son of
Joseph. That would make sense. He would also
be a nephew of
Thomas Bryon DeWitt.
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1920 Census: Precinct
8, Oakland, Alameda Co., California: (8 Jan 1920)
Joseph
C DeWitt and wife Elizabeth, with son
Ernest M. 
Margaret
Josephine DeWitt and Warren McCullough (See their website.)
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Warren McCullough
(from Seitz
genealogy) |
Margaret Josephine DeWitt
McCullough
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He
was born 30 Jan. 1839 in Boonville, Cooper County, Mo. He died 13 May
1906 in Sullivan County, Mo., and is buried Oakwood or Milan Cemetery
in Sullivan County.
His parents are John and Elizabeth (Bell) McCullough.
(For more information on them: JOHN.)
See
Elizabeth in 1880 below.
In the Civil War, he was a member of the 66th Regiment Missouri
Militia, serving as first lieutenant (commissioned 30 Aug. 1862) of
Company I and afterward as captain of Company B. At least one source
says he was present but not a participant in the battle of Shiloh, at
which his father was taken prisoner, but I suspect this may have been
his brother Webster.
In 1876, Warren was one of three men who formed private bank at Milan,
which did business until 1884 when it became First National Bank. He
was involved in various businesses, most notably owner of hardware
store. A Republican, he was elected Sullivan County sheriff in 1864 and
re-elected 1866, serving a total of four years. He later served
one-year terms as alderman from Milan's Second Ward in 1882, 1884 and
1886 and as city clerk in 1887.
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She was
born 8 July 1849 in Sullivan County, Mo., and died 30 April 1937 in
Quincy, Ill., while visiting her daughter, Annie Winters. She is buried
in Oakwood or Milan Cemetery. Her parents are Joel and Rachael Ann
(Mairs) DeWitt. She was known as Josephine or Josie her entire life.
Josephine married Warren McCullough on 2 July 1865, in Milan and they
had nine children. In 1887, she served as head of committee on
scientific instructions in the schools for the Women's Christian
Temperance Union, an organization in which she was long active.
Josephine and Warren also frequently took in and raised children other
than their own.
Other photos: photo
1 and photo
2
Another photo of Margaret in a
big group of ladies.
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1870 Census: Milan
City,
Pleasant Hill Township, Sullivan Co,
MO: (6 Jul 1870)
Warren McCullough
(age 31) and wife Margaret J. (age
20), with daughter Elfie (age 1)
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1880
Census:
Duncan Township,
Sullivan
Co, MO: (2 Jun 1880)
Warren McCullough
(age 40) and wife Josephine (age
30), with daughter Elfie (age 11), Annie (age 9),
Bertha (age 7) and son Gird (age2)
and nephew Joseph Hubbard (soon to be husband of
Alda Gertrude Thomas
(dau of Mary
Magdalene
DeWitt Thomas who is Josephine's older sister.))
Note that Alda lives next door at the home of her mother Margaret
Thomas! Looks like a romance to me!
Alda and Joseph were married sometime in 1880 but apparently after June
2nd!
1880 Census: Duncan Township, Sullivan Co,
MO: (2 Jun 1880)
Elizabeth
McCullough (age
70) and son Sharon (age 36).
Elizabeth is Elizabeth Bell who married John McCullough.
They are Warren McCullough's parents.
More info on John and Elizabeth: JOHN
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1900 Census: Polk Township,
Sullivan Co, MO: (18 Jun 1900)
Warren
McCullough
(age 40) and wife Margaret J.(osephine) (born July 1849) and daughter
Bertha (age 26, born Nov 1873), and son ? (splotch) (born Aug 1880)
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Also from the Seitz
geneology website:
Benjamin
Mairs
was born c.1782, probably in the Ulster part of Ireland. He died after
1830, possibly in Jefferson County, OH.
Best guess is that he and his
wife, Rachel Kennedy, came to this country about 1815.
Naturalized
Sep. 24, 1822, in Jefferson
County, OH. Benjamin and Rachel had three
or four children. (one of which is Joseph seen below.) (Also see my
website
for Benjamin
Mairs.)
Joseph
Mairs
was born 3 June 1799 in County Derry, Ireland (Ulster), a son of
Benjamin
Mairs and Rachel Kennedy. He died 13 July 1870,
in Sullivan County, MO.
Joseph came to United States as young man with parents. He, his parents
and siblings were naturalized as citizens
of United States on 24 Sept.
1822 in Jefferson County, OH. One questionable source says he taught
school several terms in Pennsylvania;
was supposedly proficient in
mathematics
and penmanship and was once offered $3,500 per year salary to teach in
Philadelphia, which he
declined. He did study medicine and began
practice
in Jackson County, (W.)Va., where he moved before 1830 from Jefferson
County, OH.
He abandoned medical practice about 1860, perhaps earlier as he
is
called farmer in 1850 census, and moved to Sullivan County,
MO., in
1865,
where he farmed until death (died while working in hay field). He
married Margaret
Bell 18 July 18, 1822, in Jefferson County, OH.
They had nine
children.
Margaret Bell was born c.1801, possibly in Ohio, and died in 1852 in
Jackson
County (W.)Va.
(Also see my website for Dr.
Joseph Mairs.)
Mairs Cemetery
According
to
the Sullivan
County
Cemeteries there is a Mairs Cemetery:
Located
on what used to be Noel Bennett's farm in the mid-1950's; about 1/2
mile
East of Browning.
Mairs Creek
We
even have a stream
named after our Mairs ancestors just south of Browning, MO. You can see
the map here: Mairs
Creek.
Back in West Virginia
Louisa
Mairs,
wife
of Thomas Mairs, was born 2 Jan 1822 and died 12 July1862. Next
to
her grave in the Sandyville Cemetery,
was Ruth Arnold, daughter of
Benjamin
and Susannah Arnold . This note was taken
(from
John A. House's "Some Early City, Village
and County Burying Grounds"
found
in the library in Ripley, WV.) See below
Other
MAIRS
BELL ROBINSON My G-G-G Grandfather, Dr. Joseph Mairs (born 1799 in
Derry
Co, Ireland) married Margaret Bell
(born in Scotland) in Jefferson Co.,
Ohio (date unknown). Joseph died on 7/15/1870 and Margaret died on
9/11/1851.
They had a son,
Thomas Mairs, born 1/14/1825 in Jefferson Co. He
married
Katherine Robinson and they had a daughter, Alice Myrtle Mairs, born
10/5/1856
in Sullivan Co., MO. Alice was my G Grandmother. I have no other
information
about the Mairs family in Jefferson Co.
between the years (approx.)
1800
to 1870. Also, I have no information about Margaret Bell or Katherine
Robinson
and would like
to know more about them. Thanks to anyone who can
help! http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohjeffer/query027.htm
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