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1876 - 1951 (75 years)
Generation: 1
1. | Sarah Lillian (Lillie) YOUNGER was born on 2 Feb 1876 (daughter of Richard YOUNGER and Nancy Ann STRAUGHAN); died on 13 Apr 1951; was buried in Stamford, NE. Notes:
She left Henry Clay Deats when Effie was quite young. According to Dad (Rex Lewis) she said he was abusive, Uncle Jack remembers being told that Henry Clay was an alcoholic.
After the girls were grown she was a traveling saleswoman, selling silk scarves. E.A. Schafer was also a traveling salesman,they met since they had the same territory. They bought a car together and traveled together after that. After Henry
Clay died, Lillian and E. A. married, but it seems that Lillian still used the name Mrs Deats. Except with her grandchildren, to them she insisted on being called Mama Deats since she, like her daughter Effie didn't want to be called
"grandma".
According to Mom (Ina Wolfe Lewis), Mama Deats was so predjuced that she wouldn't even walk past a black person's house. She would go out of her way to walk down another street.
When Lillian died, E.A. Schafer had her buried in the plot with her parents.
This cemetery is one mile north of Hwy 89 in Stamford, Nebraska in Harlan County. Just turn north on Main Street in Stamford. There are no signs for at the cemetery.
Sarah married Henry Clay DEATS on 14 Jan 1897 in Deatsville, KY, and was divorced about 1902. Henry (son of Richard William DEATS and Mary Ann SHAWLER) was born on 25 Apr 1855 in Rail Road Junction, Kentucky; died on 25 Sep 1932 in Lincoln, NE; was buried in Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln, NE, Lot 1084, space #3. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- Living
- Effie Lillian DEATS was born on 8 Dec 1899 in Deatsville, KY; died on 3 May 1978 in Martinez, CA; was buried in Parkview Memorial, Detroit, Michigan.
Family/Spouse: Elmer Adam Schafer. Elmer was born on 31 Jul 1887 in Martel, Nebraska; died on 17 Dec 1954 in Oxford, Nebraska. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Notes:
EA and Lillian both were traveling sales people. EA sold mens straw hats, ties and cookware. Lillian sold womens gloves, lace cuffs and collars. They traveled by train, but then they purchased a car and traveled together for many years. EA was divorced and Lillian was separated. After her husband died, they supposedly got married but I don't have any documents to prove that.
EA filed for divirce from his wife, Ruby, citing extreme cruelty and asking for custody of 3 children Dec 7, 1926.
It must not have been granted. Ruby later filed for divorce citing abandonment. On June 13, 1934. She was given custody of one minor child and $5 per week child support.
My mother and father (Ina and Rex Lewis) say that EA was a very kind, sweet man. He must have been a glutton for punishment though, because Lillian was also a VERY difficult woman.
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Generation: 2
2. | Richard YOUNGER was born on 26 Jan 1846 in Bullett Co., KY, (Rolling Fork Valley) (son of Jr. Henry YOUNGER and Mary DEATS); died on 14 Jun 1925 in Holdridge, NE; was buried in Stamford Cemetery plot 258; Stamford, NE. Notes:
According to Dona Wilson Johnson, Sally, Richard's stepmother who raised him, left him the family farm when she died in 1900. In 1904, he sold the farm and moved the family to Nebraska. Stella remembered that when Richard moved the family ,he sold all of her grandmother's beautiful Haviland China among other things. Stella always refered to the farm as her grandmother's plantation. She said they had slaves who stayed with them even after they were freed in 1865.
Richard married Nancy Ann STRAUGHAN on 16 Feb 1871. Nancy (daughter of Moses STRAUGHAN and Catharine Elizabeth WISEHART) was born on 2 Aug 1852 in Jefferson Co., KY; died on 10 Sep 1937 in Martinez, CA; was buried in Stamford Cemetery plot 258; Stamford, NE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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3. | Nancy Ann STRAUGHAN was born on 2 Aug 1852 in Jefferson Co., KY (daughter of Moses STRAUGHAN and Catharine Elizabeth WISEHART); died on 10 Sep 1937 in Martinez, CA; was buried in Stamford Cemetery plot 258; Stamford, NE. Notes:
She lived with her daughter Ora (Younger) Johnson in Martinez, CA after her husband Richard died.
Dona Wilson Johnson remembers her grandmother Stella pronouncing Nancy's maiden name as "Strong". I remember their marriage record from Kentucky actually had her name recorded as "Strong".
Her body was cremated in Berkeley according to her death certificate. Funeral Director, Brunscher & Connolly, Martinez, CA
Children:
- Mary Elizabeth (Lizzie) YOUNGER was born on 16 Feb 1872.
- Kitty Ann (Kate) YOUNGER was born on 16 Oct 1873.
- 1. Sarah Lillian (Lillie) YOUNGER was born on 2 Feb 1876; died on 13 Apr 1951; was buried in Stamford, NE.
- Jamima May (May) YOUNGER was born on 6 Aug 1878.
- Nancy Lee (Lee) YOUNGER was born on 24 Aug 1879.
- John Coleman YOUNGER was born on 23 Sep 1881; died in 1915; was buried in Stamford, NE.
- Stella Cleveland YOUNGER was born on 12 Sep 1883; died on 19 Nov 1974 in Ft. Collings, Colorado; was buried in Highland Cemetery,Wellington, CO; grave 7,lot 10, block 23,.
- Stanford Straughn YOUNGER was born on 24 Apr 1886; died on 22 Dec 1961 in Vallejo, CA.
- Ora YOUNGER was born on 7 May 1889; died on 30 May 1947 in Lovelock, NV; was buried in Berkeley, CA.
- Richard Ewel (Dick) YOUNGER was born on 27 Apr 1892; died in Oct 1952 in Los Angeles, CA.
- Harry Clive YOUNGER was born on 7 Sep 1894 in Nelson county, KY; died on 3 Oct 1981 in Pasadena Mausoleum, Pasadena, CA.
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Generation: 3
6. | Moses STRAUGHAN was born in in Indiana (1900 Nelson Co. Census, Nancy's father) (son of John STRAUGHAN and Obedience SCOTT); died on 15 Feb 1861 in near Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Notes:
Lillian's notes mention the two children of Moses and Sarah, John William and Mary. However , later in her notes she says " Moses had a Millie Straughan who married a Hill Betsy married a Cash."
When Moses first wife, Sarah King, died he left Indiana and went to Kentucky to marry her cousin, Elizabeth Wisehart. The two children stayed in Indiana and were raised by their maternal grandparents.
Moses married Catharine Elizabeth WISEHART in 1846. Catharine (daughter of Jacob WISEHART and Sarah KURTZ) was born about 1826 in near Bardslawn (?), Nelson County, KY; died on 4 Jul 1890. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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7. | Catharine Elizabeth WISEHART was born about 1826 in near Bardslawn (?), Nelson County, KY (daughter of Jacob WISEHART and Sarah KURTZ); died on 4 Jul 1890. Notes:
She and her daughter, Nancy Ann, were both married at 18 years of age.
After Moses died she and Nancy Ann went back to live with her mother, Sarah Wisehart in Honeytown.
Nancy Ann's birth record gives her maiden name as Catharine.
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Generation: 4
10. | John DEATS was born about 1784 in Crooked Creek, KY (son of Michael (Teets) DEATS and Catherine); died before 13 Oct 1821 in Deatsville, Nelson Co., KY. Notes:
Estate Settlement of John Deats, Bullitt County, KY, 1823
September 1823 Bullitt County Will Book A p. 509 We the Commissioners
appointed by the September County Court for the County of Bullitt after being
first sworn proscaded to Settle with Ann DEATS administratrix of John DEATS
dec’d and report the following Settlement to Court and allow the widow the
following accounts:
For 3 days travelling expenses $10.00
Debts discharged as appeared by vouchers $64.91 1/4
for clothing and feeding Mahaly until she was able to provide for herself
$15.00
for clothing and feeding Mary until her labour was worth the same $15.00
for clothing and feeding Nancy, 2 years $35.00
for clothing and feeding William 2 years $40.00
for clothing and feeding Benjamin DEATS 2 years $50.00
September 1823
Signed
John PURCILL
William WATERS
Isaac PRICE
Recorded Bullitt County KY Court October 1823
John married Anna SHAIN on 6 Apr 1808 in Bullett Co., KY. Anna was born about 1788 in KY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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12. | John STRAUGHAN was born on 16 Mar 1785 in Virginia (son of John STRAUGHAN and WILSON). Notes:
According to Garry Bryant, Jojn served in the War of 1812.
The family moved to Putnam county, Indiana in the mid 1830's.
Garry Bryant's research gave his mother's name as Mary Saunders. However, Lillian Younger Deats thought her maden name was WIllson.
John married Obedience SCOTT in 1808. Obedience was born in 1790 in Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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