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- 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.
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