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Supplementary information on the Fortney Family of Boone Co., Mo. Obtained since May 1990 when Vol. I of ". . . Now Living on Boone County, Missouri" was sent to the printer. Virginia Easley DeMarce
with the assistance of:
Sallie Merrifield
Mildred Kemper
Jane Cooper
JOHN AND KIZZA (RICHARDS) FORTNEY
Letter from Mildred Kemper, 1399 S. Victoria Ave., Columbia, MO 65201, dated 10 April 1990:
I also was fortunate enough to get the very OLD CERTIFICATE from Anna before she died, it is copied word for word, just as it was written. In the middle of page one.
Certificate
John Fordney was born in the State of Virginia, Wythe County. In the Year of the Lord May the 17th 1794. His Father was Jonas Fordney, his mutter name was Christina. Kizza Fordney, was born in North Carolina, Pitt County, In the year of our Lord August 16th 1795, her Fathers name was Warrait, her mothers name was Nancy.
NOTE BY VIRGINIA DeMARCE: This certificate is in a very primitive Fraktur style. I wrote back to Mildred asking if she knew who had written this certificate, where it came from, and if I could get a xerox copy. There is one as the frontispiece of her book.
WARNING:
The ancestry of John Fortney of Boone Co., Mo., born 17 May 1794 in Virginia, has NOT been definitely determined. See the extensive discussion under his father, Jonas Fortney or Jonas Fordney. Every reader should note that this does not ify the more remote ancestry of John Fortney. It is presented in hopes of indicating research that has already been completed, so that future efforts by other family members do not have to retrace the same steps. The path of the research effort is not made smoother by the fact that the name was spoken and frequently spelled "Fortner", and often confused with the name "Faulkner" (also Falkner, Folkner, Forkner, Fotner, Fertner, etc.) in the records.
We first definitely find John Fortney of Boone Co., Mo., in Knox Co., Ky., in 1816, where he married. The record reads: Jno. Faulkner to Kizzy Richard, 15 August 1816, by Blaggrove Hopper. He appears on the 1820 census, living on the Staad in the Stinking Creek part of the county. A lot more work will need to be done in the Knox Co. deed records, etc.
Over the past ten years or so, and immense amount of work on the early families of Knox Co., Ky., has been done by the Knox County Genealogical Society, Inc., 2603 Aintree Way, Louisville, Kentucky, 40220. They publish a periodical callex County, Kentucky Kinfolk as a quarterly, and have transcribed in addition censuses, marriage records, military records, and published much early documentation for the county.
The first known ancestor of the Fortney family in Boone Co., Mo., was John Fortney, born 17 May 1794, in Virginia, and died 25 September 1862, in Boone Co., Mo. (tombstone record, Fortney Family Cemetery). Clues to the Fortney family background will be found in Appendix II-A.
The maiden name of John Fortney's wife was Kizza Richards. Fortney family tradition held that they were supposed to have met when two wagon trains met on a trail going west to Kentucky and each of them was in one of the trains. If so, tht about five years before they married, for both families seem to have come to the Stinking Creek area of Knox Co., Ky., about 1811. However, given their origins, it is very probable that the trails from Pitt Co., N.C. and southwestern Virginia did merge on the way.
Her tombstone record, in the Fortney Family Cemetery, Boone Co., Mo., states that Kizza Fortney was born in Pitt County, North Carolina, on 16 August 1795, and died in Boone Co., Mo., on 7 January 1883. Examination of the surviving recorditt Co., N.C., Knox Co., Ky., and Boone and Cole Cos., Mo., indicates that she was the daughter of __________ [possibly Warreat--see Appendix II-B] and Nancy (Haddock) Richards. Kizza's great-grandson Edward Everett Easley (who lived on the next farm up the road from Kizza until she died when he was 19) said that Kizza was part American Indian and smoked a pipe. This has not been verified.
The first definite appearance of John Fortney in the historical records comes with his marriage:
1816, August 15, Knox Co., Ky. John Fortney married to Kizza Richards by Blaggrove Hopper.
1816 Tax List, Knox Co., Ky., Microfilm Series V20, Reel 230, American Genealogical Lending Library, Bountiful, Utah: John Fortney, 1 white male, 1 horse.
1817 Tax List, Knox Co., Ky. John Fortney, 1 white male, 1 horse.
1819 Tax List, Knox Co., Ky. John Faulkner, 1 white male.
1820 Tax List, Knox Co., Ky. John Faulkner, 1 white male, 1 horse.
1820 U.S. Census, Knox Co., Ky. John Fortner, 1 male under 10, 1 male 18-26, 1 female under 10, 1 female 16-26.
1822 Tax List, Knox Co., Ky. John Fortney.
1823 Tax List, Knox Co., Ky. John Fortney, 50 acres, Knox Co., on Stinking Creek, first entered by M. Mills; Same, 50 acres on Stinking Creek, first entered by Woodson.
1824 and subsequently he does not appear on the Knox Co., Ky. Tax Lists.
1825 Lois Stanley, George F. Wilson, and Maryhelen Wilson, Missouri Taxpayers 1819-1826, Decorah, Iowa, Privately printed, 1979, "Boone County: Combined Land and Property 1821 and 1825." John Falkner.
1826, May 10. Patent Certificate No. 1647, Vol. 4, p. 168. To John Fortner of Boon County, Missouri, of lands offered for sale at the U.S. Land Office at Franklin, Missouri, E 1/2 of SE 1/4 of Section Six Twp 47 Range 12, containing Eighty Acres. (U.S. D.O.I., Bureau of Land Management, Alexandria, Va.).
[NOTE BY VED: The original document of Certificate No. 1647 is, as of 25 December 1988, located in the tin box, wash stand, front hall, Easley farm, Boone Co., Mo. It is signed by John Quincy Adams. On the rear, there is the following enment: "I assign the within patent to Warreot Richardz - May 22nd 1827. John Fortner (Seal) Test: John B. Gordon.]
1827, May 22, Boone Co., Mo. Deed from John Fortner and Keziah his wife to Werret/Warreat Richards, Book B, p. 250. Filed 3 July 1827. $97.00. East 1/2 of S.E. 1/4 of Section 6, Twp. 47, Range 12, District of land offered for sale at Franklin, Mo. 80 acres. Signed: John X Fortner his mark; Kizrah X Fortner her mark. Keziah released dower before Jesse L. Woods, J.P. Recorded 3 July 1827. Indexed as John Faulkner.
[1827-1830] Index of Purchasers United States Land Sales in Missouri 1818-1837. Ozarks Genealogical Society, Box 3494, Springfield, Mo. 65808, 1985. This is an index to the first three volumes of Abstracts of Missouri Land Sales, Missouri State Archives, done by the WPA. Volume 2 includes land sales at Franklin, Mo., 1827-30 and indicates that it includes: Fortner, John p. 12.
1829, April 2. Patent Certificate No. 2926, Vol. 6, p. 456. To John Fortner of Boon county, of lands offered for sale at Franklin, E 1/2 of NE 1/4 of Section Six Twp 47 Range 12, containing eighty acres, and thirty-seven hundredths of an acre. (U.S. D.O.I., Bureau of Land Management, Alexandria, Va.).
1830 U.S. Census, Boone Co., Mo. Columbia Twp, NARS Microfilm Series M19, Reel 73, p. 93: John Fertner: 1 m under 5, 1 m 5-10; 1 m 10-15; 1 m 30-40; 1 f under 5; 1 f 5-10; 1 f 10-15; a f 15-20; 1 f 30-40.
1830 Tax List, Boone Co., Mo.
1839. Thos. Jefferson Lowry, A Sketch of the University of the State of Missouri, Columbia, Mo., Herald Publishing House, p. 101, "Roll of Honor" of those who subscribed toward bringing the University of Columbia:Fortney, John, $25
Fortney, Kizzy, $ 5
1839 original subscriber to the University of Missouri. GSCM Reporter Quarterly, Vol, 8, No. 1, Spring 1989, p. 5.
1840, January 10, Boone Co., Mo. Land Patent no. 12474, NW 1/4 of NE 1/4 of Sec. 6, Twp. 47, Range 12. 40 acres. (U.S. D.O.I., Bureau of Land Management, Alexandria, Va., states 40 acres and 18/100 of an acre, to John Fortner of Boon County Missouri, district of lands offered for sale at Fayette.)
1840 U.S. Census, Boone Co., Mo., NARS Microfilm Series M704, Reel 0220, p. 102: John Fortney, one male under 5; one male 10-15; one male 15-20; one male 20- 30; one male 40-50; one female 5-10; one female 10-15; one female 15-20; one female 40-50.
1840, July 2, Boone Co., Mo., Deed Book K, p. 207-208. John Weir and Mary Weir his wife to John Faulkner, all of county of Boone and state of Missouri. $320. S.W. quarter of N.E. quarter of Section 6 Township 47 Range 12 containing 40 acres more or less. Wit. Shadrack Alvis. John "X" Weir (Seal). Acknowledged 2 July 1840. Recorded 17 September 1840.
1849, June 9, June 21, Boone Co., Mo. John J. Cotton's adm. and widow to deed John Fortney, Book S, p. 157, 165.
LDS Microfilm Reel 0909108, Deeds, Boone Co., Mo. Book S, pp. 157-158. Mary Cotton, widow of John J. Cotton, deceased, of Boone Co., Mo., in consideration of $5 . . . unto John Fortney of the same place, all my right title interest and claim in and to the West half of the North West fractional quarter of section 5 Twp. 47 Range 12 . . . dower . . . Mary "X" Cotton (Seal). 29 May 1849. Acknowledged same day. Recorded 2 June 1849.
pp. 165-166. On 9 June 1846, John J. Cotton made executed and delivered unto John Fortney his title bond whereby he agreed and bound himself his heirs and assigns to make a warranty deed of conveyance for the West half of the North West frnal quarter of Section 5 Twp. 47 Range 12 in Boone Co., Mo. Consideration $336. Cotton died intestate without having executed the deed. William C. Robnett as Admr. makes the deed, 14 May 1849. Acknowledged 12 May 1849 [sic]. Recorded 9 June 1849.
1850 March 15 Columbia Statesman, p. 2, col. 3: John and Wary Fortner among those Columbians leaving for California to take part in the Gold Rush.
John Fortner. To California during the Gold Rush (Switzler 1882, 362).
1850 U.S. Census, Boone Co., Mo.: Microfilm Series M432, Reel 392, District No. 8, p. 439 enumerated 11 October 1850 by Wm T. Hickman, Family #1546: John Fortney, age 55, male, farmer, $500 property, born in Virginia; Kizzy, 54, female, b. North Carolina; Andrew J., 20, male, born Mo.; Lucinda, 17, F, b. Mo.; John H., 12, M, b. Mo.
NARA M-432, Roll 392, 1850 U.S. Census, Boone Co., MO, Dist. No. 8, p. 439, #1546/1546.
1853, June 14/June 15, Boone Co., Mo. John Fortney to deed Marion L. Salmon. Book V, p. 320. LDS Microfilm 908111, Deeds, Boone Co., Mo., Book V, pp. 320-321. 14 June 1853. From John Fortney and Kiza Fortney his wife to Marian S. Salmon. $50. The South West of the North West quarter of Section No. 1 Twp No 46 Range No 13 containing Forty and sixty four hundredths acres (40 64 1/4 / 100) more or less John his X mark Fortney Kiza her X mark Fortney Acknowledged and dower released 15 June 1853 Recorded 15 June 1853
1860, April 24/May 14, Boone Co., Mo. John Fortney to deed John H. Fortney. Book 30, p. 247.
1860 U.S. Census, Boone Co., Mo.
The slave schedules of the 1860 census, Boone Co., Mo., Series M653, Reel 661, indicate for Cedar Township that John Fortney owned two slaves, one male aged 34 and one male aged 15.
NARA M-653, Roll 608, 1860 U.S. Census, Boone Co., MO, Cedar Township, p. 711, enumerated 6 July 1860, family #546/528: John Fortner, 66, male, farmer, b. Va., $2000 real estate, no personal property mentioned, born Va.; Kizziah, 65, F, b. N. Carolina; Lucinda, 28, F, b. Mo.; John, 22, M, b. Mo.
His obituary in the Missouri Statesman, 17 October 1862, reads:
Departed this life on the 25th ult. Mr. John Fortney, Sr. in the 70th year of his age.--He was one of the pioneers of Mo., and had lived in Boone County for about 40 years. He had long been a member of the old Baptist Church, and leaves a, children, and many friends to grieve for him. He calmly met death, and left the world full of hope.
Evans and Thompson, Wills and Administrations of Boone Co., MO, p. 78:
FOURTNEY, JOHN - No. 1877 - Will. Kizza Fourtney, Admr. Gr. Oct. 20, 1862. F.S. May 7, 1866. Kizza Fourtney wid.; s. Martin Fourtney, Weary Fourtney, John H. Fourtney. Wit. Sept. 23, 1862, Joseph Waters and Ephrim Beazley and Richard Lowrey.
The probate record of John Fortney's estate is No. 1877 in the Boone Co., Mo., Probate Court. There was a will. Kizza Fortney, the widow, was named administratrix, granted 20 October 1862. The final settlement was 7 May 1866.
The will of John Fortney read as follows:
Boone County, Mo. this 23 day of September 1862.
I, John Fortney of the County of Boone and State of Mo. of . . . and sound Mind do in words and figures following to Wit
Item first. I will and bequeath unto my wife Kizza Fortney the following property.
To Wit the west half of the north west fractional quarter of section five in township forty seven and range twelve. Situated in the County of Boone and State of Mo. Also the East half of the North East quarter of section six in townshipy seven of range twelve West in the district of lands offered for sale at Franklin Mo. Containing Eighty acres and thirty seven hundredths of an acre.
Also the negro man James also the household and kitchen furniture also the stock of every description also all my farming Implements of every description also the present crop now on hand.
I also will to my son Martin Fortney the north half of the southwest quarter of section twenty six in township forty six of range 12 in the district of lands formerly subject to sale at Fayette now Boonville Mo. containing eighty acres. Ale southwest quarter of the north West quarter and the west half of the south east quarter of section twenty six in township forty six of range twelve in the district of lands formerly subject to sale at Fayatt now Boonville, Mo. containing one hundred and twenty acres. all the above tract of land except sixty acres whitch has been sold. It is my will that those tracts of land be taken care of by Exitors of this will for the benefit of my son Martin Fortney children. I also own one fourth of the steem saw mill nere . . . steem mill it is also my will for my wife Kizzy Fortney to dispose of all the property in this my last will as she thinks best except lands to my son Martin Fortney Children.
Lastly I do hereby constitute and appoint my wife Kizza Fortney my sons Weary Fortner and John H. Fortney the Executors of this my last will and testament.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this day and year first above written.
Joseph Waters his
Ephraim Beazley John X Fortney
Richard Lawrey mark
An inventory of the estate of John Fortney was made 11 November 1862. The contents are listed here to indicate the possessions of a pioneer farm:
Notes due from various persons for a total sum of $648.67.
One slave, Jim.
1/4 steam saw mill. 1 broad axe.
1/2 threshing machine. 1 looking glass.
14 head cattle. 12 chairs.
1 brown mule. 1 square table.
1 grey mare. 1 . . . .
1 bay colt. 1 . . . .
1 brown mare. 1 pr steelyards.
2 old steers. 1 seive.
2 calves. 2 augurs.
1/4 of yoke of oxen.
1 cross cut saw.
1 hand saw.
1 wheat fan.
10 acres of corn in field.
1 harrow.
1 two-horse waggon.
10 fat hogs.
1 scythe and cradle.
1 carriage and harness.
1 lot of guning and diamond plows.
2 shovels.
1/4 of cart wheels.
1 grind stone.
1 seive.
2 hoes.
1 bryes scythe.
1869 September 3 Columbia Statesman, p. 2, col. 8: John Fortney, deceased, stockholder in Boone County Agricultural and Mechanical Association.
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