Davis Uriah I | Born 1707

FORTNEY, Wary

Male 1825 - 1893  (67 years)


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  • Name FORTNEY, Wary  [1
    Born 28 Jun 1825  Kentucky Or Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Died 15 Mar 1893  Boone County, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Buried Cedar Township, Boone County, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I17139  Uriah Davis I - Genealogy
    Last Modified 21 Jun 2018 

    Father FORTNEY, John,   b. 17 May 1794, Wythe County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Sep 1862, Boone County, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 68 years) 
    Mother RICHARDS, Kizza,   b. 16 Aug 1795, Pitt County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Jan 1883, Boone County, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 87 years) 
    Married 15 Aug 1816  Knox County, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Notes 
    • [merrifield.FTW]

      The marriage record in Knox Co., Ky., Book A, reads: "John Faulkney to Kizzy Richards was Marryed August 15th 1816 by Blaggrove Hopper."
    Family ID F4932  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • 1 NAME Wary /Fortny/
      2 SOUR S005956
      3 DATA
      4 TEXT Date of Import: 27 Mar 2006


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      For extensive data, see Virginia Easley DeMarce, Now Living in Boone County, Missouri, Vol. I (1990).

      NOTE: Laura (Pace) Crane has a photograph of Wary and Roxanne (Berry) Fortney.

      NOTE: For 1860 census, Ellsberry indexed as Mary Fortner.

      To California during the Gold Rush (Switzler 1882, 362).

      NARA M-653, Roll 608, 1860 U.S. Census, Boone Co., MO, Cedar Township, p. 711, #549/530: Wary Fortner, 35, m, farmer, $800/--, MO; Roxan, 25, f, MO; Martha C, 2, f, MO.

      NARA M-593, Roll 760, 1870 U.S. Census, Boone Co., MO, Cedar Township, p. 15, #227/236: Fortney, Wary, 45, m, W, Farmer, $7000/--, Missouri; Roxan, 32, f, W, Keeps house, MO; Wary, 14, m, W, S., MO; Virginia, 7, f, W, MO; Lucinda, 5, f, W, MO; Roxan, 2, f, W, MO; Blythe, Harriet, 14, f, W, MO.

      NARA T-9, Reel 676, 1880 U.S. Census, Boone Co., MO, Cedar Township, p. 74r, [no household numbers in this section]: Fortney, Wary, W, m, 54, Farmer, MO/VA/NC; Roxian, W, f, 43, Wife, Keeping house, Mo/KY/KY; William, W, m, 20, son, At Home, MO/MO/MO; Virginia, W, f, 17, Daughter, AT Home, MO/MO/MO; Lucinda, W, f, 14, Daughter, At Home, MO/MO/MO; Roxilee, W, f, 12, Daughter, at Home, MO/MO/MO; John D., W, m, 8, son, Mo/MO/MO; James, W, m, 6, Son, MO/MO/MO; Wade, Alex, B, m, 25, Servant, MO/MO/MO; Manda, B, f, 19, Servant, MO/MO/MO.

      Columbia Missouri Herald, 4 February 1892, p. 1, col. 1: Tax Assessments. Wary Fortney among the 13 heaviest taxpayers of Cedar Twp.

      Stubbs, June. Parkers Funeral Home Records, 1892-1960. (State Historical Society of Missouri F508.3 B644s): Fortney, Wary d. 16 Mar 1893 age 70 yrs.

      Laura Crane, "Wary Fortney/Roxann Berry Bible Records," GSCM Reporter, vol. 19, no. 5, September/October 2000, pp. 126-127.

  • Sources 
    1. [S557] merrifield.FTW.
      Date of Import: 27 Mar 2006