Carr’s Chapel Cemetery

Posted on April 22, 2013 by jmk

Courtesy of Nancy Benton, this document shows the rows in which certain members of the Brewer family are buried at Carr’s Chapel Cemetery in Dade county, Missouri.

In row 1 is Mary Johnson Fowler, wife of John Fowler (direct line), Catherine Hedden Brewer, wife of Daniel Levi Brewer (direct line), Alva Brewer, son of David Nathaniel Brewer and Delana Louise Fowler, David Nathaniel Brewer and Delana Louise Fowler Brewer (direct line).

In row 2, we have, Robert Lincoln Trent and his first wife, Dora Nancy Fowler Trent, daughter of John and Mary Jane Fowler, and an infant that would have been a child of Robert and an infant who perhaps died at the same time as Dora. Elmer Brewer was a son of David Nathaniel and Delana Brewer. Next to him are his daughters Ruby Ellen and Nora Edith who both died in 1918, perhaps victims of the great influenza epidemic. We see next to them Robert Walter Brewer and his wife, Edith, and their son Robert.

Daniel A. Brewer and Nancy Smith

Posted on February 21, 2013 by jmk

Daniel Brewer orig

Daniel Brewer adjusted

Daniel A. Brewer
Courtesy Nancy Benton

Daniel A. BREWER was born 31 Aug 1784 in KY and died 9 April 1881 in Coatesville, Hendricks, IN. Daniel married Nancy SMITH.

The family history on Daniel A. BREWER SR. (at least in our branch) had him born August 31 1784 in Germany or Holland, and that he’d moved to Putnam Co. Indiana. This account was based on a bio in Weik’ History of Putnam County, Indiana.

“Within the next two years (from 1826) the population was increased by the arrival of…Daniel BREWER…Among the old settlers who have died within the past thirty years were…and Daniel BREWER of Coatsville. The last named was born in Holland on August 31, 1782, and came to Kentucky when two years old. From that state he moved to Putnam County, where he lived until almost a hundred years old.”

Weik’s History of Putnam County, Indiana, B.F. Bower & Co. Publishers, pages
170-171

Well, don’t believe everything in print, for it seems that Daniel A. BREWER was the 2nd son and 2nd of 6 children born to John (Johannas) BREWER, who was born in New Jersey, and Jane VAN ARSDALE also born in New Jersey. John was about 23 and Jane about 27 when Daniel was born. The BREWER family had been in America for multiple generations.

Another peculiar bit of misinformation occurring in this generation is that in the family history Nancy SMITH was originally given as Nancy GARNETT (by Pansy BREWER NOYES) and Nancy GURNET by another relative. It was eventually found that she was Nancy SMITH, but with at least with some of her children she went by the maiden name of GARNETT or GURNET, which was a brick wall in research that no one could get past (well, no wonder). Some scandal or something had already been hinted at by relatives, Nancy reports, but what could it have been? It has been wondered if she was previously married to a GARNETT and, if there was a scandal, it had something to do with this–but she was married to Daniel BREWER under her maiden name of SMITH, and it seems if her using the name of GARNETT was because of something she preferred to not have known then this had something to do with her being a SMITH. Besides, it seems fairly peculiar that she would have presented herself for posterity as a GARNETT if a previous marriage was what she wanted to hide.

Nancy Benton writes:

The “cousin” who gave me the family sheet of Daniel which listed his mother as “Nancy Gurnet” said there was some scandal about her, but she didn’t know what it was. In some of mother’s writings I found mention of Nancy Garnett as wife of Daniel.

In corresponding with other researchers (including Steve Brewer and Debbie Schmidt) I found that Nancy Smith who md. Daniel Brewer in 1805 in Mercer County was mentioned as a daughter in George Smith’s probate records. George had been married previously and had five children before marrying Nancy’s mother and having six more.

Isom: “Marriage Bonds and Consents, Mercer Co., KY 1786-1820, p. 13–“Daniel Brewer and Nancy Smith; Consent of Mary Smith for her daughter, same date, witnessed by Narney Smock and Abraham Brewer.

His will (Missouri 1810) mentions his daughter Rebecca married to Samuel Bruer (Brewer) and Doras married to Alexander Varardsale (Vanarsdall). Mercer County marriage records give George Smith as father of these two women. The will
packet contains a letter from a DANIEL BREWER, son-in-law of George Smith, who was resident in Shelby County, Kentucky. In the will, George gives Nancy as yet unwed, and yet she had married in 1805.

The Court Record hasn’t been viewed but there was a case between Mary SMITH (Nancy’s mother) versus her father and his son George W. SMITH Jr. in 1801. By 1802 George Sr.’s name appears in Saint Louis, which is a while before his death.

As it is, Nancy SMITH, born 4 December 1785, was actually the daughter of George Washington SMITH Sr. and his second wife, Mary.

Supporting documentation is given that she is mentioned in her father’s probate records. And the Marriage Bonds and Consents Mercer county, KY 1786-1820, by Isom, p. 13, shows Consent of Mary Smith for her daughter, same date, witnessed by Narney Smock and Abraham Brewer.

These revelations were made during exchanges on the Rootsweb Brewer Mailing List 1999. Steve BREWER noted that Nancy’s marriage bond only has her mother Mary listed as giving consent, whereas one would normally find a father or guardian listed, but that Debbie SCHMIDT, another researcher, reported that George SMITH died before 1810 in the St. Louis Territory, Missouri.

Daniel A. BREWER Sr. and Nancy SMITH had 9 children.

Children:

1) John b. 1806 d. unknown m. Lucinda HANKINS on 27 Oct 1829 in Shelby Co. KY. (Vicki Deer writes at Genforum, Hankins forum, that Lucinda’s father was William HANKINS and her mother was Mary “Polly” HEDDEN. Mabry Benson wrote in that another child was Gilbert who married American ARMSTRONG, sister to William F. Armstrong, from Shelby Co. KY, moved to Hendricks Co. IN, next to Putnam, and married in 1846.

2) Mary b. 1808 m. Nathaniel STRAUGHN b. abt. 1810 KY

3) Jane b. 1810 m. David HUNTER b. abt. 1814 KY. (Jerusha SMITH, sister of Nancy SMITH, wife of Daniel, married a John HUNTER. Susannah HEDDEN, daughter of Abraham HEDDEN and Charity MUNSON, married Charles HUNTER abt. 1808. Anne HEDDEN, another daughter, married Carter HUNTER 1818 KY. M. Christiansen, wrote into Genforum May 14, 1999 that Henry HUNTER SR., of Shelby Co. KY, married to Ann (deed 17 May 1796) gave as children: Jemima m. Jonathan P. BRADY 23 May 1800, Shelby Co. KY; Polly m. Major WILLS, Oct. 1807, Shelby Co. KY, Henry Jr. m. Sally ECCLES 6 Jan 1807 in Merder, John m. Jerusha SMITH 1. Sep. 1804 in Mercer, died by 1818; Charles m. Susy HEDDEN 2 Jan 1818 in Shelby Co. KY; Carter m. Anne HEDDEN 15 February 1818 in Shelby. A Karen Perry wrote in response that Jemima HUNTER., b. 1783 TN or NC, first married Jonathon P. BRADY, then married Moses R. D. SMITH 28 May 1808 in Knox Co. TN. Karen Perry writes also that Henry HUNTER, b. 1749 in Rowan Co. NC, was a son of Charles HUNTER Sr. and Mary of Rowan Co. NC.)

4) George b. 1813

5) Charity b. 1815 m. Jesse VANCLEAVE b. abt. 1813 KY married January 11, 1839 Putnam Co. IN View Indiana marriage database. (William HEDDEN married Rachel VAN CLEAVE. Charity, sister of Daniel Levi BREWER, married a Jesse VAN CLEAVE.)

6) Jerusha b. 1818 m. Alexander HODGE April 4 1838 Putnam Co. IN.

7) Garret b. 1820 m. Maria LUNTSFORD b. abt. 1810 KY, married December 9 1841 Putnam Co. IN. View Indiana marriage database. (LUNSFORDS are in the 1850 and 1860 census near the BREWERS.)

8) Daniel Levi b. 1823 or 1827 m. Catherine HEDDEN b. 21 Feb 1822, KY, married March 30 1843 Putnam Co. IN

9)Nancy b. 1826 to 1827 m. James COOPER, 23 Dec. 1860 Putnam Co. IN.

After the death of Nancy, Daniel married Charity BRIDGES.

The burial place of Daniel is unknown. The Mt. Carmel Cemetery shows his wife, Nancy and Nathaniel STRAUGHAN and Mary Polly BREWER, his wife. Daniel isn’t shown. He is perhaps buried with Charity, who burial place also unknown.

Husband: Daniel A. ++ Brewer Sr.

Born: 1784 Aug 31 – , York, Pennsylvania (1)
Christened:
Died: 1881 Apr 9 – Coatesville, Hendricks, Indiana
Buried: – Mount Carmel Cemetery, Fillmore, Putnam, Indiana
Father: Johannes (John) + > Brewer (1761-1822) (1)
Mother: Jane + Van Arsdale (1757-1793) (2)
Marriage: 1805 Oct 5 Place: , Mercer, West Virginia
(3)

Other Spouse: Charity Bridges (Cir 1809-1896) Date: 1863

Events

1. Birth: 1784 Aug 31.
Daniel A. is given by the family genealogy as born in Kentucky, but the
history of Conewago and the migration to Kentucky of the old Dutch
settlers indicates that he was born instead in Conewago, York County,
Pennsylvania.

2. Migration: Cir 1786, , , Kentucky. (4)
Given by Weik’s History of Putnam County Indiana as having migrated with
his parents at the age of two to Kentucky. The initial migration from
Conewago occurred 1780, in which his Uncle Abraham had taken part, so
1786 seems a plausible date.

3. Marriage: Marriage Bond For Daniel Brewer and Nancy Smith, 1805 Oct 5.
(5)

Isom: “Marriage Bonds and Consents, Mercer Co., KY 1786-1820, p.
13–Daniel Brewer and Nancy Smith; Consent of Mary Smith for her daughter, same
date, witnessed by Narney Smock and Abraham Brewer.

Nancy is mentioned in George Smith’s will as being yet unmarried, which
means he appears not to have seen his family for five years.

4. Child’s Birth: John born., Cir 1806. John will marry Lucinda HANKINS,
October 27 1829 in Shelby Co., KY.

5. Child’s Birth: Mary is born, 1808. She will marry Nathaniel STRAUGHN,
October 11, 1830 in Shelby Co. KY.

6. Census: Pg. 239 1810 Shelbyville, Shelby, Kentucky, USA. (6)

BREWER Daniel, 1 male under 10 (John abt.
4), 1 male 26 to 44 (Daniel A.), 2 females under 10 (Mary and Jane), 1
female 16 to 25 (Nancy).

Daniel and Nancy are located between an Archibal CAMERON and a John
RIOUS.

7. Child’s Birth: Jane born., Cir 1810. Jane will Mary David HUNTER Sept
17, 1835 in Putnam Co. IN.

8. Child’s Birth: George is born., Cir 1813.

9. Child’s Birth: Charity is born., 1815 Jan 28.

10. Child’s Birth: Jerusha is born., Cir 1818. She will marry Alexander
HODGE April 04, 1838 in Putnam County, Indiana.

11. Census: Possible for Daniel BREWER. Page 89. 1820 , Mercer, West
Virginia. (7)

BREWER John A. 3 males under 10, 1 male 10 to 16, 1 male 26 to 45, 1
female under 10, 2 females 16 to 18, 1 female 18 to 26, 1 female 45 and
up
BREWER Daniel 4 males under 10, 1 male 10 to 16, 1
male 16 to 18, 3 males 16 to 26, 1 male 45 and up, 1 female under 10, 1
female 10 to 16, 1 female 16 to 18, 1 female 18 to 26, 1 female to 45, 1
female over 45 (and slaves, but the column arrangements make it difficult
for me to tell what ages)
BREWER, Abraham: 1 male 10 to 16, 1 male 26 to 45, 1 female 45 and up
Other names of interest:
SMITH James 2 males under 10, 1 male 10 to 16, 1 male 26 to 45, 2 females
under 10, 1 male slave over 45, 1 male slave over 45
SMITH, James 1 male 16 to 26, 2 females under 10, 1 female 16 to 18
HAWKIN or HANKIN, Samuel 3 males under 10, 2 males 10 to 16, 1 male 26 to
45, 2 females under 10, 1 female 18 to 26, (these may not be right) 2
male slaves 14 to 26, 1 female slave to 14, 1 female slave 45 and up
HUNTER Joseph 1 male 45 and up, 2 females 10 to 16, 1 female 26 to 45
HUNTER Zachariah 1 male 10 to 16, 1 male 45 and up, 1 female 10 to 16, 1
female 26 to 45

12. Child’s Birth: Garrett is born., Cir 1821. He will marry Maria
LUNTSFORD, 9 Dec. 1841 in Putnam Co. IN.

13. Child’s Birth: Daniel Levi is born., 1823 Sep 25. DIRECT LINE He will marry Catharine HEDDEN, March 30, 1843, in Putnam Co. IN.

14. Land Patent: 20 May 1825?.

15. Child’s Birth: Nancy is born., Cir 1826. She will marry James COOPER,
Dec. 23, 1860 in Putnam Co., IN.

16. Census: 1830 , Shelby, Kentucky. (8)

Samuel HEDDEN 1 ” 2 3 1 1 1 – – – – – – / ” 2 1 ” ” ” 1 2 male slaves 10
to 24
Elizabeth RICKER ” ” 2 – – – – – – – – – – / ” 2 2 ” ” 1
Daniel BREWER ” 2 ” 1 ” ” 1 – – – – – – / 1 ” 2 1 1
” 1
Carter HUNTER ” 2 1 ” ” 1 – – – – – – – / 1 1 ” ” 1 (1 male slave 10 to
24)
Abram HEDDEN ” – – – – – – – – 1 – – – / ” ” ” ” ” ” 1 ” 1
William HEDDEN ” ” ” ” ” 1 – – – – – – – / 2 2 ” ” ” 1
James HEDDEN – 2 1 ” ” 1 – – – – – – – / 2 1 ” ” ” 1
Joseph SHADEN? ” ” 1 2 2 ” ” 1 – – – – – / ” 1 1 ” 1 ” ” 1 ( 2 male
slaves 10 and under, 1 male slave 24 to 35, 1 female slave 24 to 35, a
female slave 35 to 55)
Nancy TILLEY ” – – – – – – – – – – – – / ” ” 1 ” ” ” ” ” 1 (2 male slaves
10 and under, 1 male slave 24 to 35, 1 female slave 24 to 35, a female
slave 35 to 55)
John REDDICK ” ” ” 1 ” ” ” 1 – – – – – / ” ” 1 2 3 ” ” 1 (1 male slave 24
to 35, female slave 35 to 55, 1 female slave 55 to 100)
Henry TILLEY 1 2 1 ” ” ” ” 1 – – – – – / 1 1 1 3 1 ” 1 (1 male slave 24
to 35, female slave 35 to 55)

Daniel’s household thus shows 2 males 5 to 10 (Daniel Levi and Garret), 1
male 15 to 20 (George), 1 male 40 to 50 (Daniel A.), 1 female under 5
(Nancy), 2 females 10 to 15 (Jerusha and Charity), 1 female 15 to 20
(Jane), 1 female 20 to 30 (Mary), 1 female 40 to 50 (Nancy SMITH
BREWER).

Carter HUNTER, living next door, was married to Ann HEDDEN b. abt. 1802,
daughter of Abraham HEDDEN and Charity MUNSON. Another sister of hers,
Susannah, married a Charles HUNTER abt. 1818. Their brother, Gilbert
HEDDEN, was father of William, father of Catherine HEDDEN who will marry
Daniel Levi BREWER.

Jerusha SMITH, a sister of Nancy SMITH BREWER, married a John HUNTER.

Another sister of Ann HEDDEN HUNTER and Susannah HEDDEN HUNTER was yet
another Catherine (b. abt. 1784) who marries a Lazarous TILLEY. Their
daughter, Ann, b. 1812 in Shelby Co. KY, will marry a John HEDDEN, son of
Samuel, son of Abraham HEDDEN and Charity MUNSON. Another child of
Catherine HEDDEN TILLEY and Lazarous TILLEY is Abraham M. TILLEY who will
marry a Charity HEDDEN, daughter of Samuel, son of Abraham and Charity
HEDDEN. A number of TILLEYs and HEDDENS will also migrate from Shelby Co.
KY to Putnam Co. IN.

Lazarous TILLY b. 17 Jan 1787 in NC, wife of Catherine HEDDEN, was
perhaps a brother of a man named Joel TILLEY, b. 1765, who married a
Nancy Elizabeth HARRIS, both perhaps sons of Lazarus TILLY b. abt. 1744
in VA, died 1814 in Shelby Co. KY, who married an Elizabeth. The grandson
of Joel and Nancy Elizabeth HARRIS, Joel A. TILLEY, b. 1831, applied to the Guion Miller Commission in an attempt
to claim funds appropriated by Act of Congress approved June 30, 1906 in
favor of the Eastern Cherokees (Guion Miller Application No. 40846). Joel
A. Tilley said his grandmother Elizabeth Harris was a daughter of William
Harris who he said was thought to be 1/2 Cherokee Indian. The Guion
Miller Commission rejected his claim, but it is still interesting.

17. Census: Pg. 319 1840 , Johnson, Indiana. (9)

John DAWSON
Aaron WEBB
McQUINN
John McQUINN
Alexander WILSON
Robert HENRY
Daniel A. BREWER – – 1 – 2 – – – 1 – – – -/- – – –
1 – – – 1
Major TOWNSEND
Benj. TETRICK ?
Patrick BEARD
Moses FREEMAN

In the BREWER household there was 1 white male 10 to 15 (seems it would
be Daniel Levi though he was born 1823), 2 white males 20 to 30 (Garret
and George), 1 white male 60 to 70 (Daniel A.), 1 white female 20 to 30
(Jane or Charity or Jerusha), 1 white female 60 to 70 (Nancy).

18. Child’s Marriage: Daniel marries Catherine HEDDEN., 1843 Mar 30, , ,
Kentucky.

19. Census: 1850 Indiana, Putnam County, Marion Township. (10)

62/62 Daniel SMITH 53 farmer $1000 b. KY
Lavina 48
Abraham B. 15
John N. 16
Martha 15
James H. 12 b. IN
Sarah E. 9
Keith A. 6
63/63 Peter LUNSFORD 64 farmer $1000 b. KY
Sarah 63
Ramona 21 b. IN
Pauline 15
Mary STORM? 14
NOTE: Erni Lunsford writes into Genforum that the wife of Peter was Sarah
O’Neal.
64/64 Samuel SMITH 60 farmer $1500 b. VA
Betsey 51 b. KY
Samuel 18 b. IN
Martha 16
James 13
65/65 Edward SMITH 30 b. KY
Elizabeth b. IN
Mary M. 7 b. IN
Edward 5 b.
William H. 4
George N. 2
James S. 1
66/66 William HEDDEN 51 farmer $1500 b. KY
Mary 36
Elizabeth 28
Emily J. 25
Mary E. 1 b. IN
67/67 Bailey B…? 60 farmer $1000 b. KY
Ruth A. 56
Martha 28
Nancy 26
Pauline 22
Mary A. 18
David A. 15
Ruth A. 12
68/68 Daniel BREWER 65 farmer $900 b. KY
Nancy 63
Nancy A. 23?
69/69 Jarett BREWER 29 farmer
Maria 27
John A. 9 b. IN
Martha 5
Afford 2
70/70 James SMITH 50 farmer b. KY
Hannah 43
Amanda 23
William 21 b. IN
Aeneth 17 (f)
James E. 15
…
pg. 458
108/109 Daniel BREWER 26 $300 b. KY
Catherine 26
Sarah 6 b. IN
William 5
Nancy 3
James D. 1

NOTE: A “Paul” at the Smith Genforum board mentions another SMITH in the
Putnam Co. area who, having a son named Hadden, may be a possible link to
Nancy SMITH. “Jacob SMITH,using that name on the 1860, & 1870 census, was
called Isaac SMITH in the 1850 census. He m. Nancy WILSON in 1825, in
Washington Co IN. she was b. ~1807 in KY. They lived in Putnam Co. IN and
had children Minerva, Hadden (or Haddon), Margaret, and Elihu. I am
looking for Jacobs parents.” He also gives,at the Hadden forum, “Susannah
HADDEN/HADDON, m. James WILSON in 1805, in Franklin Co. KY. Later they
were in Putnam Co. IN. I am looking for the parents of this James WILSON,
or children of this pair.”

20. Wife’s Death: 1859 Nov 9, Fillmore, Putnam, Indiana.

21. Census: 1860 Indiana, Putnam County, Marion Township. (11)

100/100
Daniel BREWER Jr. 33 farmer land value 1800 or 1100
and illegible sum for personal value, b. KY
Catherine 33 b. KY
Sarah E. 16 b. IN
William C. 12
Nancy 12
James P. 11
David N. 9
Rachel 7
Martha 2

101/101
John BREWER 34 farmer 640 personal KY can’t read or write
Lucinda 32 KY can’t read or write
George S 17 farmer married within the year marked?
112/112
Daniel BREWER 76 farmer 2400? 2300? KY
Nancy A. 33? KY
103/103
Sally LUNTSFORD

22. Matrimony 2: Marries Charity BRIDGES., 1863.

23. Photo: Daniel Brewer and the Dunlavy Family, Cir 1877, , , Indiana.
(12)

24. Census: 1880 Coatesville, Hendricks, Indiana. (13) And the 1880
census for IN, Hendricks, Coatsville shows Charity in the household, page
639B

Daniel BREWER self male white 95 b. HOL retired farmer father b. unknown
and mother b. unknown
Charity BREWER wife female white 69 b. NJ father and mother b. NJ

25. Death: 1881 Apr 9 Coatesville, Hendricks, Indiana.

26. Cemetery: ? After 1881 Apr 9. Remains unknown.

27. Edit : 2003 Nov.

Wife: Nancy ++ Smith (14)

AKA: GARNETT OR GURNET
Born: 1785 Dec 4 (2)
Christened:
Died: 1859 Nov 9 – Fillmore, Putnam, Indiana
Buried: – Mount Carmel Cemetery, Fillmore, Putnam, Indiana
Father: George Washington + Smith Sr. (Abt 1740-Bef 1810) (15)
Mother: Mary + (1759-Bef 1810)

Events

1. Birth: 1785 Dec 4.

2. Parentage: (15)
Nancy is given as mentioned in George Smith’s probate records.

3. Marriage: 1806 Oct 5. (5)
I have two notes on the Marriage Bond for Nancy SMITH, daughter of George
W. SMITH, whose sister Jerusha married John HUNTER.

Marriage Bonds and Consents Mercer county, KY 1786-1820 by Isom, p
13–Consent of Mary Smith for he daughter, same date, witnessed by Narney
Smock and Abraham Brewer.

Also

Marriage Bond–Jonathan Brady as Surety, Consent of Mary Smith for her
daughter, witnessed by Henry Hunter and Nancy Smith. Source: Nancy
Benton.

The Henry HUNTER mentioned is possibly the father of some HUNTERS who
married into the SMITH family. Charles HUNTER, son of Henry, married
Susannah HEDDEN, sister of Catherine HEDDEN’s grandfather, Gilbert
(Catherine married Daniel Levi BREWER, son of Daniel A. and Nancy Smith
BREWER).

A sister of Susannah and Gilbert, Anne, married Carter HUNTER 1818 in Kentucky.

Jerusha SMITH, another daughter of G. W. SMITH, married John HUNTER, a son of Henry HUNTER.

Jane BREWER, daughter of Nancy SMITH and Daniel A. BREWER, married David HUNTER.

Nancy is mentioned in George Smith’s will as being yet unmarried, which
means he appears not to have seen his family for five years.

4. Child’s Birth: John born., Cir 1807. John will marry Lucinda HANKINS,
October 27 1829 in Shelby Co., KY.

5. Child’s Birth: Mary is born, 1808. She will marry Nathaniel STRAUGHN,
October 11, 1830 in Shelby Co. KY.

6. Census: Pg. 239 1810 Shelbyville, Shelby, Kentucky, USA. (6)

BREWER Daniel, 1 male under 10 (John abt.
4), 1 male 26 to 44 (Daniel A.), 2 females under 10 (Mary and Jane), 1
female 16 to 25 (Nancy).

Daniel and Nancy are located between an Archibal CAMERON and a John
RIOUS.

7. Child’s Birth: Jane born., Cir 1810. Jane will Mary David HUNTER Sept
17, 1835 in Putnam Co. IN.

8. Child’s Birth: George is born., Cir 1813.

9. Child’s Birth: Charity is born., 1815 Jan 28.

10. Child’s Birth: Jerusha is born., Cir 1818. She will marry Alexander
HODGE April 04, 1838 in Putnam County, Indiana.

11. Census: Possible for Daniel BREWER. Page 89. 1820 , Mercer, West
Virginia. (7)

BREWER John A. 3 males under 10, 1 male 10 to 16, 1 male 26 to 45, 1
female under 10, 2 females 16 to 18, 1 female 18 to 26, 1 female 45 and
up
BREWER Daniel 4 males under 10, 1 male 10 to 16, 1
male 16 to 18, 3 males 16 to 26, 1 male 45 and up, 1 female under 10, 1
female 10 to 16, 1 female 16 to 18, 1 female 18 to 26, 1 female to 45, 1
female over 45 (and slaves, but the column arrangements make it difficult
for me to tell what ages)
BREWER, Abraham: 1 male 10 to 16, 1 male 26 to 45, 1 female 45 and up
Other names of interest:
SMITH James 2 males under 10, 1 male 10 to 16, 1 male 26 to 45, 2 females
under 10, 1 male slave over 45, 1 male slave over 45
SMITH, James 1 male 16 to 26, 2 females under 10, 1 female 16 to 18
HAWKIN or HANKIN, Samuel 3 males under 10, 2 males 10 to 16, 1 male 26 to
45, 2 females under 10, 1 female 18 to 26, (these may not be right) 2
male slaves 14 to 26, 1 female slave to 14, 1 female slave 45 and up
HUNTER Joseph 1 male 45 and up, 2 females 10 to 16, 1 female 26 to 45
HUNTER Zachariah 1 male 10 to 16, 1 male 45 and up, 1 female 10 to 16, 1
female 26 to 45

12. Child’s Birth: Garrett is born., Cir 1821. He will marry Maria
LUNTSFORD, 9 Dec. 1841 in Putnam Co. IN.

13. Child’s Birth: Daniel Levi is born., 1823 Sep 25. DIRECT LINE He will marry Catharine HEDDEN, March
30, 1843, in Putnam Co. IN.

14. Child’s Birth: Nancy is born., Cir 1826. She will marry James COOPER,
Dec. 23, 1860 in Putnam Co., IN.

15. Census: 1830 , Shelby, Kentucky. (8)

Samuel HEDDEN 1 ” 2 3 1 1 1 – – – – – – / ” 2 1 ” ” ” 1 2 male slaves 10
to 24
Elizabeth RICKER ” ” 2 – – – – – – – – – – / ” 2 2 ” ” 1
Daniel BREWER ” 2 ” 1 ” ” 1 – – – – – – / 1 ” 2 1 1
” 1
Carter HUNTER ” 2 1 ” ” 1 – – – – – – – / 1 1 ” ” 1 (1 male slave 10 to
24)
Abram HEDDEN ” – – – – – – – – 1 – – – / ” ” ” ” ” ” 1 ” 1
William HEDDEN ” ” ” ” ” 1 – – – – – – – / 2 2 ” ” ” 1
James HEDDEN – 2 1 ” ” 1 – – – – – – – / 2 1 ” ” ” 1
Joseph SHADEN? ” ” 1 2 2 ” ” 1 – – – – – / ” 1 1 ” 1 ” ” 1 ( 2 male
slaves 10 and under, 1 male slave 24 to 35, 1 female slave 24 to 35, a
female slave 35 to 55)
Nancy TILLEY ” – – – – – – – – – – – – / ” ” 1 ” ” ” ” ” 1 (2 male slaves
10 and under, 1 male slave 24 to 35, 1 female slave 24 to 35, a female
slave 35 to 55)
John REDDICK ” ” ” 1 ” ” ” 1 – – – – – / ” ” 1 2 3 ” ” 1 (1 male slave 24
to 35, female slave 35 to 55, 1 female slave 55 to 100)
Henry TILLEY 1 2 1 ” ” ” ” 1 – – – – – / 1 1 1 3 1 ” 1 (1 male slave 24
to 35, female slave 35 to 55)

Daniel’s household thus shows 2 males 5 to 10 (Daniel Levi and Garret), 1
male 15 to 20 (George), 1 male 40 to 50 (Daniel A.), 1 female under 5
(Nancy), 2 females 10 to 15 (Jerusha and Charity), 1 female 15 to 20
(Jane), 1 female 20 to 30 (Mary), 1 female 40 to 50 (Nancy SMITH
BREWER).

Jerusha SMITH, a sister of Nancy SMITH BREWER, married a John HUNTER.

16. Census: Pg. 319 1840 , Johnson, Indiana. (9)

John DAWSON
Aaron WEBB
McQUINN
John McQUINN
Alexander WILSON
Robert HENRY
Daniel A. BREWER – – 1 – 2 – – – 1 – – – -/- – – –
1 – – – 1
Major TOWNSEND
Benj. TETRICK ?
Patrick BEARD
Moses FREEMAN

17. Child’s Marriage: Daniel marries Catherine HEDDEN., 1843 Mar 30, , ,
Kentucky.

18. Census: 1850 Indiana, Putnam County, Marion Township. (10)

62/62 Daniel SMITH 53 farmer $1000 b. KY
Lavina 48
Abraham B. 15
John N. 16
Martha 15
James H. 12 b. IN
Sarah E. 9
Keith A. 6
63/63 Peter LUNSFORD 64 farmer $1000 b. KY
Sarah 63
Ramona 21 b. IN
Pauline 15
Mary STORM? 14
NOTE: Erni Lunsford writes into Genforum that the wife of Peter was Sarah
O’Neal.
64/64 Samuel SMITH 60 farmer $1500 b. VA
Betsey 51 b. KY
Samuel 18 b. IN
Martha 16
James 13
65/65 Edward SMITH 30 b. KY
Elizabeth b. IN
Mary M. 7 b. IN
Edward 5 b.
William H. 4
George N. 2
James S. 1
66/66 William HEDDEN 51 farmer $1500 b. KY
Mary 36
Elizabeth 28
Emily J. 25
Mary E. 1 b. IN
67/67 Bailey B…? 60 farmer $1000 b. KY
Ruth A. 56
Martha 28
Nancy 26
Pauline 22
Mary A. 18
David A. 15
Ruth A. 12
68/68 Daniel BREWER 65 farmer $900 b. KY
Nancy 63
Nancy A. 23?
69/69 Jarett BREWER 29 farmer
Maria 27
John A. 9 b. IN
Martha 5
Afford 2
70/70 James SMITH 50 farmer b. KY
Hannah 43
Amanda 23
William 21 b. IN
Aeneth 17 (f)
James E. 15
…
pg. 458
108/109 Daniel BREWER 26 $300 b. KY
Catherine 26
Sarah 6 b. IN
William 5
Nancy 3
James D. 1

19. Death: 1859 Nov 9 Fillmore, Putnam, Indiana.

20. Cemetery: Mt. Carmel Plat Marker showing Nancy Brewer, wife of
Daniel. (16)

21. Edit : 2003 Nov.

Children

1 M John > Brewer (17)
Born: 1807 (18)
Christened:
Died: Unknown
Buried:
Spouse: Lucinda > Hankins Or Hawkins ( – ) (1)
Marr. Date: 1829 Oct 27 – , Shelby, Kentucky
Spouse:
Marr. Date:

Events

1. Edit : 2003 Nov.

2 F Mary “Polly” Brewer (18)
Born: Sept 1808 (19)
Christened:
Died: 1883 Mar 25 – , Putnam, Indiana
Buried: – Harwick Cemetery (near Clinton Falls), Putnam, Indiana (19)
Spouse: Nathaniel Sanford Straughan (1810-1898) (2)
Marr. Date: 1830 Oct 11 – , Shelby, Kentucky (1)
Spouse:
Marr. Date:

Events

1. Census: 1840 Madison, Putnam, Indiana. (20)
1840 IN PUTNAM MADISON
William EVANS
James CONNELLY
David HUNTER 3 – – – 1 / – – – – 1
NOTE: David married Jane BREWER, aunt of Daniel Levi BREWER who married
Catherine HEDDEN.
William HEDDEN – – – – – – – 1 / – – 2 2 – – 1
NOTE: WIlliam 40 to 50, 2 females ages 10 to 15 and 2 females 15 to 20,
with Rachel as 40 to 50
Henry SHEILDS
Samuel CEICIL
Isaac HOPE
Andrew C. EVANS
Nancy BIRD
Alfred LUNSFORD
Nathaniel STRAUGHN – 1 – 1 1 1 / 1 1 1 1 – 1 – 1
NOTE: Mary Polly BREWER married Nathaniel STRAUGHN. She was an aunt of
Daniel Levi BREWER.

2. Census: Pg. 458 1850 Indiana, Putnam County, Marion Township. (10)

pg. 458
103/109 Daniel BREWER 26 $300 b. KY
Catherine 26
Sarah 6 b. IN
William 5
Nancy 3
James D. 1
104/ Nathaniel STRAGN 40 farmer $1000 b. KY
Mary 42
John W. 18 b. IN
Nancy 16
Margaret A. 12
Mary C. 5

3. Photo: Daniel Brewer and the Dunlavy Family, Cir 1877, , , Indiana.
(12)

4. Photo: Nat Straughan and Polly. (21)

5. Edit : 2003 Nov.

3 F Jane > Brewer (18)
Born: 1810
Christened:
Died: Unknown
Buried:
Spouse: David > Hunter (Abt 1814- ) (2)
Marr. Date: 1835 Sep 17 – , Putnam, Indiana
Spouse:
Marr. Date:

Events

1. Census: 1840 Madison, Putnam, Indiana. (20)

4 M George Brewer (18)
Born: 1813
Christened:
Died: Unknown
Buried:
Spouse:
Marr. Date:

Events

1. Census: Pg. 319 1840 , Johnson, Indiana. (9)

5 F Charity > Brewer (18)
Born: 1815
Christened:
Died: Unknown
Buried:
Spouse: Jesse > Van Cleave (Van Cleef) (Abt 1813- )
Marr. Date: 1838 Jan 11 – , Putnam, Indiana
Spouse:
Marr. Date:

6 M Jerusha Brewer (18)
Born: 1818
Christened:
Died: Unknown
Buried:
Spouse: Alexander Hodge (1811- ) (2)
Marr. Date: 1838 Apr 4 – Putnam Co., IN
Spouse:
Marr. Date:

Events

1. Census: 1880.

Jerusha HODGE Self W Female W 62 KY
Keeping House — KY
Russel HODGE Son S Male W 29 IN Farmer KY KY
Maggie OAKLY GDau S Female W 15 IN At Home IN IN

Source Information:
Census Place Franklin, Hendricks, Indiana
Family History Library Film 1254283
NA Film Number T9-0283
Page Number 647B

7 M Garret Brewer (18)
Born: 1820-1821 (2)
Christened:
Died: Unknown
Buried:
Spouse: Maria Luntsford (Abt 1810- ) (22)
Marr. Date: 1841 Dec 9 – , Putnam, Indiana
Spouse:
Marr. Date:

Events

1. Census: Pg. 319 1840 , Johnson, Indiana. (9)

2. Census: 1850 Indiana, Putnam County, Marion Township. (10)

68/68
Daniel BREWER 65 farmer $900 b. KY
Nancy 63
Nancy A. 23?
69/69 Jarett BREWER 29 farmer
Maria 27
John A. 9 b. IN
Martha 5
Afford 2
70/70 James SMITH 50 farmer b. KY
Hannah 43
Amanda 23
William 21 b. IN
Aeneth 17 (f)

3. Census: 1880 IN, Owen Co., Jennings.

Garret BREWER Self M Male
W 59 KY Farmer KY KY
Ann M. BREWER Wife M Female W 58 IN Keeping House ENG
KY
Daniel BREWER Son S Male W 25 IN KY IN
Charles L. BREWER GSon S Male W 7 IN IN IN

Source Information:
Census Place Jennings, Owen, Indiana
Family History Library Film 1254302
NA Film Number T9-0302
Page Number 245A

8 M Daniel Levi + Brewer (1)
Born: 1823 Sep 25 – , Mercer, West Virginia
Christened:
Died: 1868 Apr 20 – Osage Mission, Neosho, Kansas (1)
Buried:
Spouse: Catherine (Catharine) + Hedden (1822-1903)
Marr. Date: 1843 Mar 30 – , , Kentucky
Spouse:
Marr. Date:

Events

1. Birth: 1823 Sep 25 , Mercer, West Virginia.

2. Photo: Daniel Levi Brewer. (23)

Courtesy of Nancy Benton.

3. Census: pg. 319 1840 , Jefferson, Indiana. (9)
In household of father, Daniel A. BREWER.

4. Marriage: Married to Catherine HEDDEN., 1843 Mar 30, , , Indiana. (24)

5. Photo: Daniel Levi Brewer and Catherine Hedden, c. 1840s?. (25)

6. Child’s Birth: Sarah Elizabeth is born., 1843 Dec 22.

7. Child’s Birth: William H. is born., 1846 Nov 18.

8. Child’s Birth: Nancy is born., 1847 Nov 22.

9. Child’s Birth: James Daniel is born., 1849 Apr 13.

10. Census: 1850 Indiana, Putnam County, Marion Township. (10)

62/62 Daniel SMITH 53 farmer $1000 b. KY
Lavina 48
Abraham B. 15
John N. 16
Martha 15
James H. 12 b. IN
Sarah E. 9
Keith A. 6
63/63 Peter LUNSFORD 64 farmer $1000 b. KY
Sarah 63
Ramona 21 b. IN
Pauline 15
Mary STORM? 14
64/64 Samuel SMITH 60 farmer $1500 b. VA
Betsey 51 b. KY
Samuel 18 b. IN
Martha 16
James 13
65/65 Edward SMITH 30 b. KY
Elizabeth b. IN
Mary M. 7 b. IN
Edward 5 b.
William H. 4
George N. 2
James S. 1
66/66 William HEDDEN 51 farmer $1500 b. KY
Mary 36
Elizabeth 28
Emily J. 25
Mary E. 1 b. IN
67/67 Bailey B…? 60 farmer $1000 b. KY
Ruth A. 56
Martha 28
Nancy 26
Pauline 22
Mary A. 18
David A. 15
Ruth A. 12
68/68 Daniel BREWER 65 farmer $900 b. KY
Nancy 63
Nancy A. 23?
69/69 Jarett BREWER 29 farmer
Maria 27
John A. 9 b. IN
Martha 5
Afford 2
70/70 James SMITH 50 farmer b. KY
Hannah 43
Amanda 23
William 21 b. IN
Aeneth 17 (f)
James E. 15
…
pg. 458
103/109 Daniel BREWER 26 $300 b. KY
Catherine 26
Sarah 6 b. IN
William 5
Nancy 3
James D. 1
104/ Nathaniel STRAGN 40 farmer $1000 b. KY
Mary 42
John W. 18 b. IN
Nancy 16
Margaret A. 12
Mary C. 5

11. Child’s Birth: David Nathaniel is born., 1850 Oct 31. DIRECT
LINE

12. Child’s Birth: Rachel Jane is born., 1852 Oct 6.

13. Child’s Birth: Unknown child is born., 1854 Oct 3.

14. Child’s Death: Unknown child dies., 1854 Oct 3.

15. Child’s Birth: Matilda is born., 1856 Jan 31.

16. Child’s Birth: Unknown child is born., 1858 Jan 13.

17. Child’s Death: Unknown child dies., 1858 Jan 13.

18. Census: 1860 , Putnam, Indiana. (11)

100/100
Daniel BREWER Jr. 33 farmer land value 1800 or 1100 and illegible sum for
personal value, b. KY
Catherine 33 b. KY
Sarah E. 16 b. IN
William C. 12
Nancy 12
James P. 11
David N. 9
Rachel 7
Martha 2
101/101 John BREWER 34 farmer 640 personal KY
Lucinda 32 KY can’t read or write
George S 17 farmer
112/112 Daniel BREWER 76 farmer 2400? 2300? KY
Nancy A. 33? KY
103/103
Sally LUNTSFORD

19. Child’s Marriage: James Daniel marries Maude OULMAN, 1864 Sep 17.

20. Child’s Marriage: Rachel Jane marries Atwell HENDERSON., 1866 Aug 29.

21. Child’s Marriage: Sarah Elizabeth marries Elizas WHITE., 1867.

22. Migration: 1867, , Neosho, Kansas. (26) “At some point both families
moved to Illinois where on August 21, 1866, Atwill Henderson and Rachel
Jane Brewer were married. Shortly there after In 1867 by means of covered
wagon and walking the Henderson’s and some Brewers, grandmas and all,
moved to Missouri for a time then on to Neosho County, Kansas near
Erie.”
SOURCE: Ed Henderson

William G. Cutler’s “History of the State of Kansas” relates the
following on Osage Mission:

Previous to the organization of a town company or the laying out of a town site two buildings had been erected here, one by L. P. Foster & Co., a log one, in which a store was opened and managed by the “Morgan boys,” and a framebuilding erected by S. A. Williams, of Fort Scott, in which his son, Augustus D. Williams, kept a store. The movements were made in 1866, in anticipation of the starting of a town. A Town Company was organized consisting of George A. Crawford, S. A. Williams, C. W. Blair, Benjamin McDonald and John Nandier, a town site laid out and called Osage Mission., in December, 1867. By the side of it and to the west another town site was laid out and called Catholic Mission. On this town site a small store was opened by S. J. Gilmore, in a log building known then and still remembered as “Castle Thunder;” this store was opened in 1865. On Osage Mission townsite the Town Company erected a building on the corner of County and Market streets into which A. D. Williams moved his stock of goods in 1867, in which he kept the postoffice, with C. H. Howard as deputy. About the same time L. P. Foster & Co., erected a two story frame building across the street and a little north of the present site of the Southern Hotel. Joseph Roycroft built a log saloon near where now stands the City Bank; Middaugh and Dohnan came down from Topeka, and built a store where L. Steadman’s store now stands, in 1867; James Roycroft erected a boarding house, the first in town, on the southeast corner of County and Market Streets, and during the summer John Nandier built the first hotel, the Neosho House, a large two story frame, long known as the finest hotel building in Southern Kansas. Not long after this Nathaniel Tucker started a store near “Castle Thunder,” in the building now occupied as a dwelling by Daniel Zehner, and about the same time, perhaps a short time previously, Dr. J. B. Lamb started a store also in Catholic Mission. Marston & Ulmer, from Iowa, opened a furniture store in 1868. J. M. Boyle, from Fort Scott, opened a hardware store just north of L. P. Foster & Co.’s store, and on the southwest corner of County and Main streets, Ryan & Roycroft started a general store about the same time.

The first lawyer in the town was C. F. Hutchings, in 1867, the first physician, Dr. A. F. Neely, about the same time, and the first Protestant minister was Rev. A. Hitchcock. The first birth was that of a son to Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Noble, 1868. From the first the growth of the town was vigorous and rapid. In August, 1868, it contained eight dry goods stores, three drug stores, one hardware store, two boot and shoe stores, four blacksmith shops, and numerous other business establishments, and a population of nearly nine hundred. From this time until the building of the railroad the growth of the town was steady. It was the center of three lines of stages; one to Fort Scott, one to Humboldt and the other to Chetopa. When these stages arrived all was life and animation. Each stage was a Concord coach drawn by four fine large horses, and the driver’s voice and importance, and the crack of his whip served to raise the excitement to the highest pitch, and is still vividly remembered. A more complete history of the town will be seen in the sketches of its individual industries and institutions…

…The first school in Osage Mission was the Mission School, begun by Father Schoenmakers in 1847. This, however, was an institution devoted to the education of Indians and in the interests of the Catholic Church.

23. Death: 1868 Apr 20.
There is some uncertainty as to place of Daniel Levi Brewer’s death. In
a family sheet Nancy Benton was given, Daniel was given as dying in
Filmore IN. “Why, if he had moved to IL and then to KS? Did he go back
for some reason and die there and Catherine and the kids stayed in KS?
Also, the story mother told about him being killed when the oxen ran
off–did she possibly have the grandfathers mixed up? According to the
story in the McClean County, IL, history, that is how Robert Johnson,
grandfather of Delana died. It seems strange that both of them would have
died the same way.”
Source: Nancy Benton, Email 11 May 2003

24. Alt. Death place: Fillmore, Putnam, Indiana.

25. Edit : 2003 Nov.

9 F Nancy Brewer (18)
Born: 1826-1827 (2)
Christened:
Died: Unknown
Buried:
Spouse: James Cooper ( – )
Marr. Date: 1860 Dec 23 – Putnam Co., IN (2)
Spouse:
Marr. Date:

Events

1. Marriage:

Sources

1. Nancy Benton genealogy database drawn from various sources, some unnoted.
Grace Noyes Pinkerton b. 1892, did much recording during the mid 1900s,
Nancy Benton assisting and later augmenting. Pansy Noyes Bryant
contributed greatly, mother of Nancy Benton, Noyes-Brewer Genealogy with
Associated Families (2003 Word document).
2. Nancy Benton.
3. Isom, Marriage Bonds and Consents, Mercer Co., KY 1786-1820.
4. Weik, Jesse Willian, 1857 -, Weik’s History of Putnam County, Indiana
(Indianapolis : B. F. Bowen & Co., 1910).
5. Marriage Bond for Daniel Brewer and Nancy Smith, 5 Oct 1805, Kentucky
(Digital copy courtesy of Nancy Benton, 2003).
6. Kentucky, Shelby County, 1810 U.S. Federal Census Population Schedule
(Images at Ancestry.com).
7. Kentucky, Mercer County, 1820 U.S. Federal Census Population Schedule
(Images at Ancestry.com).
8. Kentucky, Shelby County, 1830 U.S. Federal Census Population Schedule.
9. Indiana, Johnson Co, 1840 U.S. Federal Census Population Schedule.
10. Indiana, Putnam CO, 1850 U.S. Federal Census Population Schedule (Images at
Ancestry.com).
11. Indiana, Putnam Co, 1910 U. S. Census Population Schedule.
12. Unknown photographer, Daniel Brewer and the Dunlavy Family, c. 1877
(Digital image courtesy of John Houk, possessor of the original image in
2003.)
13. Indiana, Hendricks County, 1880 U.S. Federal Census Population Schedule
(Images at Ancestry.com).
14. Nancy Benton. …. Rootsweb mailing list.
15. Debbie Schmidt, Debbie Schmidt’s Genealogy Data on the Smiths and Brewers.
16. Mt. Carmel Plat Marker (Digital copy courtesy of Nancy Benton, 2003).
17. Rootsweb mailing list. …. Nancy Benton genealogy database drawn from
various sources, some unnoted. Grace Noyes Pinkerton b. 1892, did much
recording during the mid 1900s, Nancy Benton assisting and later
augmenting. Pansy Noyes Bryant contributed greatly, mother of Nancy
Benton, Noyes-Brewer Genealogy with Associated Families (2003 Word
document).
18. Rootsweb mailing list.
19. John Houk, John Houk on Edwin Wesley Dunlavy’s Straughan Record. (Email
2003 from John Houk to jk).
20. Indiana, Putnam Co, 1840 U.S. Federal Census Population Schedule (Images at
Ancestry.com).
21. Photo of Nathaniel Straughan and Polly Brewer.
22. Mitchell family record.
23. Unknown photographer, Daniel Levi Brewer in bowtie (Digital copy courtesy
of Nancy Benton, possessor of the original in 2003.)
24. Marriage license of Mrs. Catherine Brewer and John Foster, 22 Dec 1869.
25. Unknown photographer, Daniel Levi Brewer and Catherine Hedden (Digital copy
courtesy of Nancy Benton 2003).
26. Henderson, Ed, Henderson Pioneers, Henderson Reunion 2002, “The Henderson
Pioneers to Kansas” (27 Aug 2002).

Catherine Hedden Brewer

Posted on April 1, 2011 by jmk

Catherine Hedden Brewer, original

Courtesy of Nancy Benton

Catherine Hedden Brewer, restored

This is Catherine Hedden born Feb 21 1822 in Shelby County, Kentucky, who married first Daniel Levi Brewer (our ancestor) and then John Foster. She died May 23, 1903 in Greenfield, Dade, Missouri.

I’m having difficulty ascertaining when the photo might have been taken. In the early 1890s? If it was in the early 1890s, she would have been in her 70s and still living in Neosho County, Kansas, her second husband not dying until 1895. It reminds me a great deal of another photo I have, one that was a tinotype, of an unrelated individual who was born in 1822 and died in 1895 in Mississippi.

This photo of Catherine Hedden is from the 1880s.

Catherine Hedden Brewer and Rachel Jane Brewer Henderson

Posted on March 31, 2011 by jmk

Courtesy of Ed Henderson

Catherine Brewer and Rachel Henderson

Feeble attempt at retouching

This photo of Catherine Hedden Brewer with daughter Rachel Jane Brewer Henderson was supplied by Everett Henderson Jr. and is believed to have been taken in the 1880s. Rachel Jane Brewer, bo. 1852 Oct 6 in Terra Haute, Vigo, Indiana, married Atwell Henderson August 29 1866 in Moultrie County, Illinois. About 1872 they migrated to Chautauqua County, Kansas from Neosho County. Catherine Hedden lived with her second husband, John Foster in Neosho until his death in 1895, so this photo could either have been taken in Neosho County or Chautauqua County.

A late 1880s, early 1890s hairstyle may have had Rachel Jane’s hair curled up and over in the front, similar to this photo of Bettie Brewer Noyes from 1891. Because I couldn’t do much myself restoring this photo, I never really completed trying to work on this photo and so never tried working on the hair.

Marriage License of Catherine Hedden Brewer and John Foster

Posted on March 22, 2011 by jmk

Catherine Hedden married first Daniel Levi Brewer on March 30 1843 in Kentucky. He died April 20 1868 in Osage Mission, Neosho, Kansas. On Dec 26 1869, in Neosho county, Kansas, she married 2nd John W. Foster. He had been previously married to Hannah Oury who had died 1868 Jan 31 in Neosho county, Kansas. Following their marriage, the children in the household, in 1870 were Alexander, Mary, Edward, Catherine and Jennie, all children of Foster, who had been born between 1849 and 1860. With the exception of the youngster Brewer daughter, the Brewer children were out of the household before the death of their father. The youngest, Matilda, was only 13 years and 19 days old when she married, on Feb 19 1869, to Russell Henderson who was ten years her elder. A number of the Brewers tended to marry far younger than I’ve observed in other families. Matilda’s sister, Rachel, was 13 and 10 months when she married Atwell Henderson, brother of Russell. Delana Fowler was only 14 when she married David Nathaniel Brewer, who was 5 years her elder.

Edward Foster married Minnie Catherine White, who was the daughter of his step-sister Sarah Elizabeth Brewer and Elias White. She was 15 when they married and he was about 17 years older than she.

Daniel Levi Brewer and Catherine Hedden

Posted on March 21, 2011 by jmk

Original courtesy Nancy Benton

Daniel and Catherine Brewer reconstruction

Daniel Levi BREWER was born 25 September 1823 in Mercer Co. KY, the 8th of 9 children, and the last of 4 sons born to Daniel A. BREWER Sr. of KY and Nancy SMITH. Nancy was 28 and Daniel Sr. was 29 when Daniel Levi was born.

Daniel married Catherine HEDDEN on 30 March 1843 in KY. Catherine was a daughter of William HEDDEN and Rachel VAN CLEAVE . She was about 21 and he about 22. Their first child, Sarah Elizabeth, was born within the first year, on December 22, 1843. They would have apparently 9 children altogether, born between 1843 and 1858.

There is purportedly a Kentucky marriage document for Daniel BREWER and Catherine HEDDEN. Nancy Benton, to whom a good bit of family information was passed along, mentions it as a supporting document, and the first 4 children are given as born in KY in the family history. However, Daniel A. BREWER appears in the 1840 Johnson County IN census. A Daniel BREWER is in the 1850 Putnam County IN census, and then in the 1860 Putnam Co. IN census, Daniel BREWER gives all his children as having been born in Indiana.

The family history reports the family went to Osage Mission (St. Paul) Kansas, shortly after the Civil War. A yoke of oxen ran off with him and he was killed. This is also reportedly how Robert Harrington JOHNSON, grandfather of Delana FOWLER, wife of Daniel’s son David Nathaniel, died. I have wondered, as well as has Nancy Benton, if the death of Robert Harrington JOHNSON became somehow mixed up with Daniel Levi. No family history however was had on Delana’s grandparents, the genealogy originally ending with her mother, Mary Jane JOHNSON.

There is also confusion on where Daniel Levi died. He has also been given as dying in Fillmore Indiana.

Osage Mission was on land that wasn’t ceded over until 1865, and the ceding not proclaimed until 1867, but in anticipation of this a number of settlers had already moved in. 88 people resided there in 1860 and over 10,000 by 1870.

Following are the children of Daniel and Catherine:

Sarah Elizabeth, b. 22 Dec. 1843, d. 22 Oct. 1881 at about 38. She married twice. Her first marriage was 1867 to Elias WHITE, b. 1809 or 1791, d. 1873. They had three children: Perry Morgan WHITE, 21 April 1869 – Feb 1944; Minnie Catherine WHITE, 12 Jan 1872 – 1937; Minta WHITE, 12 Jan 1872 – 24 Jan 1872. Sarah Elizabeth married (2) George W. FLING on 1 Jan 1874.
William H., b. 18 Nov. 1845.
Nancy, b. 11 Nov. 1847.
James Daniel, b. 13 April 1849, KY to 18 July 1916, Niotaze, KS. He married, on 16 Sept. 1867, at Catholic Mission, Neosho, Kansas, Amanda ULHMAN (also given as Maude Mary OULMAN). He married (2), on 26 April 1887, Sedan KS, Anna Dora LIAFE.Notes for James Daniel Brewer:

Served in Union Army during Civil War. Worked for the Santa Fe Railroad as a
carpenter and helped build the first depot at Kansas City, Kansas, as well as the one at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He met a girl named “A Maude Mary An Oulman” living in Missouri. She was an orphan living with relatives. The family did not want her to marry James so she was placed in a Catholic convent somewhere in Missouri. She was unhappy there, and James stole her away and they went to Kansas City to be married.

They later moved to Niotaze, Kansas and purchased 80 acres. They also had a general store there. He took a partner who ran the store while he continued to do carpenter work for the railroad. Built the depots at Sedan and Caney, Kansas. His partner absconded with $10,000 leaving James holding the bag of debts.

In 1884 he married Anna Dora who was 19 years younger than he. They moved into OK Territory and he built depots at Shawnee and Meeker, OK. When the land was opened for settlement he drove a buggy with his son, Daniel, and a friend, Charlie Brown, into Lincoln County and homesteaded.

Doc: Book written by Norma L. Roberts 1976; 1870 Census, Neosho, KS; SOURCE: Nancy Benton

The 1880 Chautauqua Sedan Township census shows James D. BREWER as 31 b. IN, parents b. KY, his wife, Amanda is 28 b. IN, her father from Hesse Cassel and mother from KY. Children are all born in KS: Elizabeth 11, Daniel 8, Edward 4, Atwill 1.
David Nathaniel, b. 31 Oct. 1850 in IN, married Delana FOWLER. My family’s direct line.
Rachel Jane, b. 6 Oct. 1852 in IN, d. 26 Sept. 1927 at Niotaze, Chautauqua Co. KS and is buried in Niotaze. She married, 289 August 1866, Atwill (Atwell) HENDERSON b. 28 August 1844 at Beaufort Co. NC.
Brewer b. 3 Oct. 1854, Terre Haute, Vigo, IN, died 3 Oct. 1854, Terre Haute, Vigo, IN.
Matilda C., b. 31 Jan. 1856, Terre Haute, Vigo, IN., died 14 July 1873 at Niotaze, Chautauqua Co. KS and was buried at Mt. Vernon Cemetery “3-4 miles north of the original home place” (Ed HENDERSON). She married, 19 Feb. 1869 at Neosho Co. KS, Russell HENDERSON, b. 26 May 1846, Beaufort Co., or Wake Co. NC. He died 8 May 1921 at Niotaze and is buried at the Fairview Cemetery in Niotaze. Russell married (2) Harriet RECARD b. IN; he married (3) Jennie. See Rachel for more information on the HENDERSON family. Matilda’s family had the oral history that she was Cherokee but I’ve not found anything to confirm this.
Brewer, b. 13 Jan 1858, Terre Haute, Vigo, IN, and died 13 Jan 1858 at same.

================================================================================
Husband: Daniel Levi + Brewer
================================================================================
Born: 1823 Sep 25 – , Mercer, West Virginia
Christened:
Died: 1868 Apr 20 – Osage Mission, Neosho, Kansas
Buried:
Father: Daniel A. ++ Brewer Sr. (1784-1881)
Mother: Nancy ++ Smith (1785-1859)
Marriage: 1843 Mar 30 Place: , , Kentucky
——————————————————————————–
Events
——————————————————————————–

1. Birth: 1823 Sep 25 , Mercer, West Virginia.

2. Photo: Daniel Levi Brewer.
Courtesy of Nancy Benton.

3. Census: pg. 319 1840 , Jefferson, Indiana.
In household of father, Daniel A. BREWER.

4. Marriage license: Married to Catherine HEDDEN., 1843 Mar 30, , , Indiana.

5. Photo: Daniel Levi Brewer and Catherine Hedden, c. 1840s?.

6. Child’s Birth: Sarah Elizabeth is born., 1843 Dec 22.

7. Child’s Birth: William H. is born., 1846 Nov 18.

8. Child’s Birth: Nancy is born., 1847 Nov 22.

9. Child’s Birth: James Daniel is born., 1849 Apr 13.

10. Census: 1850 Indiana, Putnam County, Marion Township.
62/62 Daniel SMITH 53 farmer $1000 b. KY
Lavina 48
Abraham B. 15
John N. 16
Martha 15
James H. 12 b. IN
Sarah E. 9
Keith A. 6
63/63 Peter LUNSFORD 64 farmer $1000 b. KY
Sarah 63
Ramona 21 b. IN
Pauline 15
Mary STORM? 14
64/64 Samuel SMITH 60 farmer $1500 b. VA
Betsey 51 b. KY
Samuel 18 b. IN
Martha 16
James 13
65/65 Edward SMITH 30 b. KY
Elizabeth b. IN
Mary M. 7 b. IN
Edward 5 b.
William H. 4
George N. 2
James S. 1
66/66 William HEDDEN 51 farmer $1500 b. KY
Mary 36
Elizabeth 28
Emily J. 25
Mary E. 1 b. IN
67/67 Bailey B…? 60 farmer $1000 b. KY
Ruth A. 56
Martha 28
Nancy 26
Pauline 22
Mary A. 18
David A. 15
Ruth A. 12
68/68 Daniel BREWER 65 farmer $900 b. KY
Nancy 63
Nancy A. 23?
69/69 Jarett BREWER 29 farmer
Maria 27
John A. 9 b. IN
Martha 5
Afford 2
70/70 James SMITH 50 farmer b. KY
Hannah 43
Amanda 23
William 21 b. IN
Aeneth 17 (f)
James E. 15
…
pg. 458
103/109 Daniel BREWER 26 $300 b. KY
Catherine 26
Sarah 6 b. IN
William 5
Nancy 3
James D. 1
104/ Nathaniel STRAGN 40 farmer $1000 b. KY
Mary 42
John W. 18 b. IN
Nancy 16
Margaret A. 12
Mary C. 5

11. Child’s Birth: David Nathaniel is born., 1850 Oct 31. DIRECT
LINE

12. Child’s Birth: Rachel Jane is born., 1852 Oct 6.

13. Child’s Birth: Unknown child is born., 1854 Oct 3.

14. Child’s Death: Unknown child dies., 1854 Oct 3.

15. Child’s Birth: Matilda is born., 1856 Jan 31.

16. Child’s Birth: Unknown child is born., 1858 Jan 13.

17. Child’s Death: Unknown child dies., 1858 Jan 13.

18. Census: 1860 , Putnam, Indiana.

100/100
Daniel BREWER Jr. 33 farmer land value 1800 or 1100 and illegible sum for
personal value, b. KY
Catherine 33 b. KY
Sarah E. 16 b. IN
William C. 12
Nancy 12
James P. 11
David N. 9
Rachel 7
Martha 2
101/101 John BREWER 34 farmer 640 personal KY
Lucinda 32 KY can’t read or write
George S 17 farmer
112/112 Daniel BREWER 76 farmer 2400? 2300? KY
Nancy A. 33? KY
103/103
Sally LUNTSFORD

19. Child’s Marriage: James Daniel marries Maude OULMAN, 1864 Sep 17.

20. Child’s Marriage: Rachel Jane marries Atwell HENDERSON., 1866 Aug 29.

21. Child’s Marriage: Sarah Elizabeth marries Elizas WHITE., 1867.

22. Migration: 1867, , Neosho, Kansas.

“At some point both families moved to Illinois where on August 21, 1866, Atwill Henderson and Rachel Jane Brewer were married. Shortly there after In 1867 by means of covered wagon and walking the Henderson’s and some Brewers, grandmas and all, moved to Missouri for a time then on to Neosho County, Kansas near Erie.”
SOURCE: Ed Henderson

William G. Cutler’s “History of the State of Kansas” relates the
following on Osage Mission:

Previous to the organization of a town company or the laying out of a town site two buildings had been erected here, one by L. P. Foster & Co., a log one, in which a store was opened and managed by the “Morgan boys,” and a framebuilding erected by S. A. Williams, of Fort Scott, in which his son, Augustus D. Williams, kept a store. The movements were made in 1866, in anticipation of the starting of a town. A Town Company was organized consisting of George A. Crawford, S. A. Williams, C. W. Blair, Benjamin McDonald and John Nandier, a town site laid out and called Osage Mission., in December, 1867. By the side of it and to the west another town site was laid out and called Catholic Mission. On this town site a small store was opened by S. J. Gilmore, in a log building known then and still remembered as “Castle Thunder;” this store was opened in 1865. On Osage Mission townsite the Town Company erected a building on the corner of County and Market streets into which A. D. Williams moved his stock of goods in 1867, in which he kept the postoffice, with C. H. Howard as deputy. About the same time L. P. Foster & Co., erected a two story frame building across the street and a little north of the present site of the Southern Hotel. Joseph Roycroft built a log saloon near where now stands the City Bank; Middaugh and Dohnan came down from Topeka, and built a store where L. Steadman’s store now stands, in 1867; James Roycroft erected a boarding house, the first in town, on the southeast corner of County and Market Streets, and during the summer John Nandier built the first hotel, the Neosho House, a large two story frame, long known as the finest hotel building in Southern Kansas. Not long after this Nathaniel Tucker started a store near “Castle Thunder,” in the building now occupied as a dwelling by Daniel Zehner, and about the same time, perhaps a short time previously, Dr. J. B. Lamb started a store also in Catholic Mission. Marston & Ulmer, from Iowa, opened a furniture store in 1868. J. M. Boyle, from Fort Scott, opened a hardware store just north of L. P. Foster & Co.’s store, and on the southwest corner of County and Main streets, Ryan & Roycroft started a general store about the same time.

The first lawyer in the town was C. F. Hutchings, in 1867, the first physician, Dr. A. F. Neely, about the same time, and the first Protestant minister was Rev. A. Hitchcock. The first birth was that of a son to Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Noble, 1868. From the first the growth of the town was vigorous and rapid. In August, 1868, it contained eight dry goods stores, three drug stores, one hardware store, two boot and shoe stores, four blacksmith shops, and numerous other business establishments, and a population of nearly nine hundred. From this time until the building of the railroad the growth of the town was steady. It was the center of three lines of stages; one to Fort Scott, one to Humboldt and the other to Chetopa. When these stages arrived all was life and animation. Each stage was a Concord coach drawn by four fine large horses, and the driver’s voice and importance, and the crack of his whip served to raise the excitement to the highest pitch, and is still vividly remembered. A more complete history of the town will be seen in the sketches of its individual industries and institutions…

…The first school in Osage Mission was the Mission School, begun by Father Schoenmakers in 1847. This, however, was an institution devoted to the education of Indians and in the interests of the Catholic Church.

23. Death: 1868 Apr 20.
There is some uncertainty as to place of Daniel Levi Brewer’s death. In a family sheet Nancy Benton was given, Daniel was given as dying in Filmore IN.

“Why, if he had moved to IL and then to KS? Did he go back for some reason and die there and Catherine and the kids stayed in KS? Also, the story mother told about him being killed when the oxen ran off–did she possibly have the grandfathers mixed up? According to the story in the McClean County, IL, history, that is how Robert Johnson, grandfather of Delana died. It seems strange that both of them would have died the same way.”
Source: Nancy Benton, Email 11 May 2003

24. Alt. Death place: Fillmore, Putnam, Indiana.

================================================================================
Wife: Catherine (Catharine) + Hedden
================================================================================
AKA: Catherine Brewer, Catherine Foster
Born: 1822 Feb 21 – , Shelby, Kentucky
Christened:
Died: 1903 May 25 – Greenfield, Dade, Missouri
Buried: – Carr’s Chapel Cemetery, Greenfield, Dade, Missouri
Father: William + > Hedden (Cir 1800-Cir 1861)
Mother: Rachel + > Van Cleave (1799-After 1840)
——————————————————————————–
Other Spouse: John W. Foster (1820-1895) Date: 1869 Dec 26 – , Neosho, Kansas
——————————————————————————–
Events
——————————————————————————–

1. Birth: 1822 Feb 21. 1850 census gives as 25 b. KY
1870 census gives as 45 b. IN
1880 census gives as 56 b. KY

2. Education: . 1870 census gives as unable to write.

3. Census: 1830 , Shelby, Kentucky.
Samuel HEDDEN 1 – 2 3 1 1 1 / – 2 1 – – – 1
Elizabeth RICKER
Daniel BREWER – 2 – 1 – – 1 / 1 – 2 1 1 – 1
Carter HUNTER – 2 1 – – 1 / 1 1 – – 1 (married Ann HEDDEN 1818)
Abram HEDDEN – – – – – – – – – 1 / – – – – – – 1 – 1
William HEDDEN – – – – – 1 / 2 2 – – – 1
James HEDDEN – 2 1 – – 1 2 1 – – – 1 / 2 1 – – – 1
Joseph HEDDEN – – 1 2 2 — 1/ – 1 1 – 1 – – 1
Nancy TILLEY
John REDDICK
Henry TILLEY
Charles WARE
James WARE

4. Mother’s Death: Cir 1840.
Catherine’s mother, Rachel, dies at about the age of 40.

5. Father remarries: Between 1840 and 1849.
William HEDDEN marries a second time to Mary SMYTHE.

6. Census: 1840 Madison, Putnam, Indiana.
William EVANS
James CONNELLY
David HUNTER 3 – – – 1 / – – – – 1
NOTE: David married Jane BREWER, aunt of Daniel Levi BREWER who married
Catherine HEDDEN.
William HEDDEN – – – – – – – 1 / – – 2 2 – – 1
NOTE: WIlliam 40 to 50, 2 females ages 10 to 15 and 2 females 15 to 20,
with Rachel as 40 to 50
Henry SHEILDS
Samuel CEICIL
Isaac HOPE
Andrew C. EVANS
Nancy BIRD
Alfred LUNSFORD
Nathaniel STRAUGHN – 1 – 1 1 1 / 1 1 1 1 – 1 – 1
NOTE: Mary Polly BREWER married Nathaniel STRAUGHN. She was an aunt of Daniel Levi BREWER.

7. Photo: Daniel Levi Brewer and Catherine Hedden, c. 1840s?.

8. Matrimony 1: Marriage to Daniel Levi BREWER., 1843 Mar 30, , ,
Indiana.

9. Child’s Birth: Sarah Elizabeth is born., 1843 Dec 22.

10. Child’s Birth: William H. is born., 1846 Nov 18.

11. Child’s Birth: Nancy is born., 1847 Nov 22.

12. Child’s Birth: James Daniel is born., 1849 Apr 13.

13. Census: 1850 Indiana, Putnam County, Marion Township.
pg. 458
103/109 Daniel BREWER 26 $300 b. KY
Catherine 26
Sarah 6 b. IN
William 5
Nancy 3
James D. 1
104/ Nathaniel STRAGN 40 farmer $1000 b. KY
Mary 42
John W. 18 b. IN
Nancy 16
Margaret A. 12
Mary C. 5

14. Child’s Birth: David Nathaniel is born., 1850 Oct 31.

15. Child’s Birth: Rachel Jane is born., 1852 Oct 6.

16. Child’s Birth: Unknown child is born., 1854 Oct 3.

17. Child’s Death: Unknown child dies., 1854 Oct 3.

18. Child’s Birth: Matilda is born., 1856 Jan 31.

19. Child’s Birth: Unknown child is born., 1858 Jan 13.

20. Child’s Death: Unknown child dies., 1858 Jan 13.

21. Census: 1860 , Putnam, Indiana.

22. Father’s Death: Abt 1861.
Catherine’s father, William, dies at about the age of 61 in IN, Putnam Co.

23. Child’s Marriage: James Daniel marries Maude OULMAN, 1864 Sep 17.

24. Child’s Marriage: Rachel Jane marries Atwell HENDERSON., 1866 Aug 29.

25. Child’s Marriage: Sarah Elizabeth marries Elias WHITE., 1867.

26. Migration: 1867, , Neosho, Kansas.

“At some point both families moved
to Illinois where on August 21, 1866, Atwill Henderson and Rachel Jane
Brewer were married. Shortly thereafter In 1867 by means of covered wagon
and walking the Henderson’s and some Brewers, grandmas and all, moved to
Missouri for a time then on to Neosho County, Kansas near Erie.”
SOURCE: Ed Henderson

27. Husband’s death: 1868 Apr 20. Daniel BREWER was 44. He and Catherine had been married 25 years.

28. Child’s Marriage: Matilda marries Russell HENDERSON, 1869 Feb 19.

29. Child’s Marriage: David Nethaniel marries Delana FOWLER., 1869 Mar 1.
DIRECT LINE

30. Matrimony 2: 1869 Dec 26, , Neosho, Kansas. Married to John FOSTER. He was 49; she, 47.

31. Census: 1870 Centerville, Neosho, Kansas. None of Catherine’s children were in the household, all having married.

1870 KS NEOSHO CENTERVILLE
(73 of 266 at anc.com)
135/135 FOSTER John 53 farmer $1000 b. IN can’t read or write
Catherine 45 b. IN can’t write
Elizabeth 22 domestic servant b. IL can’t read or write
Alexander 21 farm laborer
Mary 16 domestic servant can’t write
Edward 15 at home can’t read or write
Catherine 13
Jennie 9
136/136 KNAPP Thomas J. and Nancy and family

32. Child’s Death: Matilda dies., 1873 Jul 14.

33. Child’s Marriage: Sarah Elizabeth marries George FLING., 1874 Jan 1.

34. Census: 1880 Centerville, Neosho, Kansas.
1880 KS NEOSHO CENTERVILLE
John W. FOSTER 63 b. IN farmer father b. Ireland mother b. MA
Catherine 56 b. KY parents b. KY
Edward 25 b. IL farm hand father b. IN mother b. KY
Elizabeth HADDEN sister in law 57 b. KY parents b. KY

35. Photo: 1880’s.
Everett Henderson Jr. posseses a copy of the original photo of Catherine (HEDDEN) BREWER, seated, with Rachel Jane (BREWER) HENDERSON.

36. Child’s Marriage: James Daniel marries Anna Dora LIAFE, 1884 Apr 16.

37. Husband’s death: 1895 Aug 28, Centerville, Neosho, Kansas. Catherine and John FOSTER had been married 25 years at the time of his death.

38. Census: 1900 Place Yet To Be Located..

39. Photo: Catherine Hedden Brewer as elderly woman.
Digital copy courtesy of Nancy Benton.

40. Death: 1903 May 25 Greenfield, Dade, Missouri.
Catherine died at the age of 81.

41. Cemetery: Carr’s Chapel Cemetery, Greenfield, Dade, Missouri After 1903 May 25. The only stone in Carr’s Cemetery near Greenfield is for Catherine, wife of Daniel Brewer. The stone reads, “Catherine, wiife of Daniel Brewer.” David Nathaniel and Delana Brewer are also buried there. SOURCE: Nancy Benton 14 May 2003

================================================================================
Children
================================================================================
1 F Sarah Elizabeth Brewer
Born: 1843 Dec 22 – , , Kentucky
Christened:
Died: 1881 Oct 22
Buried:
Spouse: Elias White (1809-1873)
Marr. Date: 1867
Spouse: George W. Fling ( – )
Marr. Date: 1874 Jan 1
Spouse:
Marr. Date:
——————————————————————————–
2 M William H. Brewer
Born: 1845 Nov 18 – , , Kentucky
Christened:
Died: Unknown
Buried:
Spouse:
Marr. Date:
——————————————————————————–
3 F Nancy Brewer
Born: 1847 Nov 11 – , , Kentucky
Christened:
Died: Unknown
Buried:
Spouse:
Marr. Date:
——————————————————————————–
4 M James Daniel * Brewer
Born: 1849 Apr 13 – , Putnam, Indiana
Christened:
Died: 1916 Jul 18 – Niotaze, Chautauqua, Kansas
Buried:
Spouse: Maude Mary * Uhlman (1852- )
Marr. Date: 16 Sept 1867 – Catholic Mission, Neosho, Kansas
Spouse: Anna Dora Liafe (1868- )
Marr. Date: 1887 Apr 26 – Sedan, Chautauqua, Kansas
Spouse:
Marr. Date:
——————————————————————————–
5 M David Nathaniel + Brewer
Born: 1850 Oct 31 – Pleasant, Steuben, Indiana
Christened:
Died: 1921 Aug 29 – Greenfield, Dade, Missouri
Buried: – Carr’s Chapel Cemetery, Greenfield, Dade, Missouri
Spouse: Delana L. Jane+ Fowler (1854-1939)
Marr. Date: 1869 Mar 1 – Osage Mission, Neosho, Kansas
Spouse:
Marr. Date:
——————————————————————————–
6 F Rachel Jane > Brewer
Born: 1852 Oct 6 – Terra Haute, Vigo, Indiana
Christened:
Died: 1927 Sep 26 – Niotaze, Chautauqua, Kansas
Buried: – Fairview Cemetery, Niotaze, Chautauqua, Kansas
Spouse: Atwell > Henderson (1844-1898)
Marr. Date: 1866 Aug 29 – , Moultrie, Illinois
Spouse:
Marr. Date:
——————————————————————————–
7 U Infant Brewer
Born: 1854 Oct 3 – Terra Haute, Vigo, Indiana
Christened:
Died: 1854 Oct 3 – Terra Haute, Vigo, Indiana
Buried:
Spouse:
Marr. Date:
——————————————————————————–
8 F Matilda C. > Brewer
Born: 1856 Jan 31 – Terra Haute, Vigo, Indiana
Christened:
Died: 1873 Jul 14 – Monett, Chautauqua, Kansas
Buried: – Monett Cemetery, Monett, Chautauqua, Kansas
Spouse: Russell > Henderson (1846-1921)
Marr. Date: 1869 Feb 19 – , Neosho, Kansas
Spouse:
Marr. Date:
——————————————————————————–
9 U Infant Brewer
Born: 1858 Jan 13 – Terra Haute, Vigo, Indiana
Christened:
Died: 1858 Jan 13 – Terra Haute, Vigo, Indiana
Buried:
Spouse:
Marr. Date:
——————————————————————————–

================================================================================
Research Notes: Husband –
================================================================================

Catherine (Hedden) TILLEY, sister of Gilbert Hedden (Catherine Hedden BREWER’s grandfather) died 1861 in Putnam Co. IN and sister Susannah also died in Putnam Co. IN in 1885. Sister Mary died in Hendricks Co IN in 1885, and Ann died in Hendricks Co. IN in 1833.

Another sibling, Samuel, married Ruth GRIFFIN, and they had a son John who married Ann TILLEY. Their son, John was born 12 June 1846 in Putnam County IN. This Ann TILLEY appears to have been the daughter of Catherine (Hedden TILLEY and Lazarus TILLEY.

So there was a migration of the HEDDEN family in general, and associated families, to INDIANA.

Married in Kentucky. Lived in Indiana at one time. Moved to Bloomington, ILL. Came to Osage Mission (St. Paul) Kansas shortly after the Civil War. A yoke of oxen ran off with him and he was killed. Of German descent. (Pansy Bryant, granddaughter)

Doc:
Copies Putnam Co. Marriage record–Daniel Brewer & Charity Bridges
Kentucky Marriage Record–Daniel Brewer & Catharine Hedden
1850 census, Putnam Co., IN
1860 census, Putnam Co., IN
SOURCE: Nancy Benton
================================================================================
General Notes: Wife –
================================================================================

Catherine was born 21 Feb 1822 in Kentucky. She married Daniel Levi Brewer at about the age of 21, 30 March 1843, in Kentucky. They had 9 children between 1843 and 1858. They were on the 1850 and 1860 Putnam Co. census and relocated to Neosho Co., KS sometime before Daniel Levi Brewer died in 1868. After Daniel’s death, Catherine married John FOSTER in Neosho Co. KS in 1869. She died 25 May 1903 in Greenfield Missouri at the age of about 81.

Catherine’s mother was Rachel VAN CLEAVE. The VAN CLEAVE name appears repeatedly in these families. Charity, a sister of Daniel Levi BREWER, married Jesse VAN CLEAVE. James HEDDEN, Catherine’s grandfather’s brother, married Katherine VAN CLEAVE.

David Nathaniel Brewer and Delana Louise Fowler

Posted on July 31, 2010 by jmk

Delana and David Nathaniel touched up

Delana and David Nathaniel orig

I don’t recollect seeing very often early images clearly showing a woman as pregnant. The photo , courtesy of Nancy Benton, would have likely been taken in Barton County, Missouri.

David Nathaniel Brewer arrived in Barton County, Missouri before the establishment of Liberal in the early 1880s. Nancy Benton writes of David and Delana:

David was born in Putnam County, Indiana. He married Delana Fowler in Neosho, Kansas in 1869. They moved to Liberal, MO, in 1872 where they were active in the Methodist Church. His daughter, Bettie, is supposed to have been the first child baptized in the church. In 1895 they moved to Dade Co., MO. In 1902 he purchased an acreage south of Greenfield, MO, which he sold to his son Alva in 1906. In June, 1906 he purchased Lots 18, 19 and 20 in Block 1 in Pilgrim. His will divided his land between his children Mary Catherine Spurling, Jessie Jones, Walter Brewer, Elizabeth Jane Noyes, Lewis Brewer, John David Brewer, and Daniel Brewer. His son Walter was administrator and turned in a sale bill totaling $341.33.

Delana was born in Bloomington, ILL. At the age of 9 she moved with her parents to Osage Mission, Kansas, where she met and married David in 1869. After David died, she lived with her children. I remember her as a very tiny old lady.

David BREWER was born to Daniel Levi BREWER (of Mercer Co. KY) and Catherine HEDDEN (also of KY) on Oct 31 1850 in Putnam Co. IN . He died the 29th of August 1921 in Greenfield, Dade Co. MO.

David was the 5th of apparently 9 children, and the 4th son. Daniel was about 27 and Catherine about 28 when he was born.

When he was young, the family moved to Bloomington, Mclean Co. IL, where David’s future wife, Delana FOWLER, was born, 12 Sept. 1854, to John B. FOWLER and Mary Jane JOHNSON .

Shortly after the Civil War, the families moved to Osage Mission (St. Paul) Kansas, where David’s father, Daniel Levi Brewer, died 1868 April 20.

Delana FOWLER and David BREWER were married in Neosho, Kansas, 1 March 1869.

Their children:

John David Brewer b. 1869 Dec 10 at the Osage Mission, Neosho, Kansas, died 1943 Feb 26 in Joplin, Jasper, Missouri, married in 1889 to Eva Hall, b. 1879 Aug in Missouri. They had 12 children.
Mary Catherine Brewer b. 1872 Jan 10 in St. Paul, Kansas, died 1957 December 12 at Liberal, Missouri and was buried in the Englevale Cemetery in Englevale, Kansas. She married 1st George Spurling, then before 1939 a Rhodes (unknown), then Robert Lincoln Trent who was born 1878 April 5 in Galesburg, Kansas and died 1958 Feb 10 in Liberal, Missouri. (Thanks to Barbara Krogh for this information on Mary Catherine and Robert Trent. Her information is drawn from their death certificates and had differed from mine and so I’ve updated the information here. She also has Robert buried at Forest Chapel Cemetery as opposed to Carr’s Chapel Cemetery, which was the information I’d had.) Carr’s Chapel Cemetery in Greenfield, Dade, Missouri. His sister Rose married Daniel Brewer.
Daniel Brewer b. 1874 Jan 13 in Barton County, Missouri, died 1939 Jan 1 at Greenfield, Dade, Missouri, was buried at Carr’s Chapel Cemetery in Greenfield, Dade, Missouri. He married Rose E. Trent b. 1878 in Kansas, died 1948 and was buried at Carr’s Chapel Cemetery at Greenfield, Dade, Missouri.
James William Brewer was born 1876 Jan 5 and died 1876 Aug 25.
Elizabeth Jane “Bettie” Brewer was born 1877 July 22 in Barton County, Missouri. She died 1963 July 9 and was buried at the Liberal Cemetery in Liberal, Missouri. She married Ray Noyes. This family is written of elsewhere in this blog.
Lewis Brewer was born 1880 May 19 in Barton County, Missouri and died 1932 May 19 in Greenfield, Dade, Missouri. 1902 July 4 at Everton, Dade, Missouri he married Pearl Eva Jones b. 1885 May 5 at Everton, Dade, Missouri, died 1966 May 10.
Lois Brewer was born 1880 May 19 at Barton County, Missouri and died 1881 January at Barton County, Missouri.
Elmer Brewer was born 1883 Dec 25 and died 1919 May 1 at Greenfield Dade, Missouri. He is buried at Carr’s Chapel Cemetery, Greenfield, Dade, Missouri. He married Rosa Bell Jones, born 1885 July 25, died 1939 May 13. She was the daughter of Jim Jones and Lucy Coble.
Alva Brewer was born 1885 Aug 10 at Barton County, Missouri and died 1909 May 24. He was buried at Carr’s Chapel Cemetery in Greenfield, Dade, Missouri.
Jessie Brewer was born 1888 Jan 10 at Barton County, Missouri and died in June 22, 1981 at Yakima City, Yakima County, Washington. She married about 1905 in Everton, Dade, Missouri to Levy Jones who was born 1883 December 28 and died 1952 December 28 in Yakima City. Both are buried at Tahoma Cemetery in Yakima. They had 3 children. (1) Herman C. Jones b. 1906 September 22, died 1977 March 9 in Yakima. (2) Herbert Leo Jones b. 1910 October 28, died 1989 March 7 at Yakima, married 1947 August 27 at Selah to Edna Lambeth who was born 1919 March 1. She died 2006 October 10 and was buried at West Hills Memorial Park in Yakima. They had no children of their own. (3) Burton Jones b. abt. 1917, died 1975 Nov 6 in Yakima. (Thanks to Barbara Krogh for this information on the family of Jessie and Levy.)
Robert Walter Brewer was born 1890 Nov 15 and died 1969 in Joplin, Jasper, Missouri. He is buried at Carr’s Chapel Cemetery, Greenfield, Dade, Missouri. He married Edith S. Gilmore who was born about 1894 in Missouri.

Alva’s death was an accidental drowning in a swollen creek.

Ed Henderson notes,

These are a couple of letters from Rachel Jane Henderson to her niece, Mrs. Elmer (Mary Elizabeth Brewer) Porcupile, after the tragic death of her son, Nova Windom Henderson who died May 2, 1909 and a letter about the death of one of her brother Dave Brewer’s son’s (Alva). From “Six Generations of Brewers” by; Norma L. Roberts, 1976. Transcribed January 13, 2001 by Ed Henderson.

“May the 30, 09 Dear Neice
I will drop you a few lines this moring oh it is so lonsome to be hear by my self oh how I miss my poore boy he was all way in the house with me it seams as if every thing is gon. my hops ar all blasted this world is a sad world for me windom sayd de had not lived rightr but if he had lisened to his mother he would of been all right he spok of people joying church. as bad sick as he was & I told him if he wanted to joyn church it was all righ he culd he sayd he felt as if he was all right & was ready to go but he hated to leave me. oh you know my heart was breaking to hear him talk so for all I knew he culd not live if he did not mend soon.”

Alva died on May 24 1909. Following is the letter concerning his death.

“Dear Neice
I got a letter from Dave & they had the sad neuse of Alvaus death last monda him & walter drove in the crick & dide not know it was up & thair! bugie turned over & threw the boys out & alva thoug his team was not going to get out so he started to help the hourse out & steped offf in a dep whole & dround & they never found him untill the next day noon oh how sad it was for me to read that letter it broat every thing so frech to my minde oh how quick the poore boy was taking a way alva was such a good boy it is sade.”

Jessie and her husband, Levy JONES, are given as having resided in Yakima, Washington. Photos exist of Bettie Brewer NOYES visiting her sister, Jessie, there in Washington in later years. It would appear that Jessie and Levy didn’t move to Washington until after 1930 as they are still in the Dade Co., Missouri census in 1930. She was known to be living in Selah, Yakima Co., Washington at the time of her mother’s death, as evidenced in her mother’s obituary. She is not mentioned in the obituary of Bettie Brewer NOYES and so had perhaps deceased by then.

Jessie’s sibling, Lewis, married Pearl JONES.

Nancy notes on Walter,

Walter and his family lived near Oscaloosa, Missouri, when I was growing up. They moved to Joplin sometime during the 1940’s. Walter was a some-time preacher.

THE CENSUS INFO

I have yet to locate the family in the 1870 census.

The 1880 census shows the family in Central, Barton, Missouri.

Year: 1880; Census Place: Central, Barton, Missouri; Roll: T9_673; Family History Film: 1254673; Page: 389B; Enumeration District: 258; Image: 0115.
Supervisor’s Dist 6
Enumeration 258
4 June
Rubel H. Carpenter (?)
JAMES William
9 8/10 BREWER David wm 30 Mail Carrier Indiana f-Indiana m-Indiana
10 Delany wf 25 Wife keeping house Illinois F-NC? M-(illegible)
11 John wm 10 Son at school Missouri father b. IN mother b. IL
12 Mary wf 8 Daughter at school Missouri father b. IN mother b. IL
13 Daniel wm 6 Son at school Missouri father b. IN mother b. IL
14 Elizabeth wf 2 Daughter Missouri father b. IN mother b. IL
15 Lewis wm 1/12 Son Missouri father b. IN mother b. IL
16 Lois wm 1/12 Daughter Missouri father b. IN mother b. IL

Delana’s father died 1883 in Greenfield.

I have yet to locate the family in the 1900 census.

In 1902, David purchased acreage south of Greenfield, Missouri, which he sold to his son, Alva, in 1906. Nancy Benton furnishes the paper which I’ll post in another blog.

Dela’s mother died 1902 in Greenfield. David’s mother died in 1903 in Greenfield.

Nancy Benton writes that in 1906, David purchased, at Pilgrim, Dade, Missouri, Lots 18, 19 and 20 in Block 1.

I’ve a letter dated 1907 July 25 that David wrote to Jim Brewer, that was sent in care of Rachel Jane Henderson, their sister, who was living in Chautauqua County. I’ll post this in another blog.

Their place in the 1910 census is yet to be found.

In 1920 they were in Polk, Dade, Missouri.

Roll: T625_916 Page: 8B ED: 76 Image: 0780
169/170 BREWER David N. Own 65 b. IN parents b. IN Farmer on General Farm
Delana 65 b. IL father b. NC mother b. IL

The 1930 census finds Delana in North, Dade, Missouri living with son, Daniel.

Year: 1930; Census Place: North, Dade, Missouri; Roll: T626_1185; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 9; Image: 0134.
Page 3A
65/67 BREWER Schuyler rent 33 married at 18 b. MO father b. MO mother b. KS
Gladys 31 married at 16 b. MO father b. MO mother b. Illinois
Odilla 15 b. MO
Pansy 13 b. MO
Schuyler Jr. 11 b. MO
66/68 BREWER Dan rent 55 married at 21 b. MO father b. IN mother b. IL
Rose 53 married at (illegible) b. KS fathr b. TN mother b. KS
Elana (mother) 75 married at 15 b. IL parents b. IL

I will publish in other blogs additional photos, obituaries and a newspaper article on Delana.

Evermore Genealogy

With special emphasis on the Irish McKenna/McKenney family of Guernsey, Harrison, Monroe Counties of Ohio, most of the known members of the family moving west in the mid 1800s, and the Kearns family of Mobile, Alabama who immigrated from Ireland during one of the great potato famines.

Tag Archives: catherine hedden brewer

Carr’s Chapel Cemetery

Daniel A. Brewer and Nancy Smith

Catherine Hedden Brewer

Catherine Hedden Brewer and Rachel Jane Brewer Henderson

Marriage License of Catherine Hedden Brewer and John Foster

Daniel Levi Brewer and Catherine Hedden

David Nathaniel Brewer and Delana Louise Fowler