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The material on Sarah Frances Fortney, Manerva Jane Fortney, and Kizziah Clementine Fortney was submitted by: Mrs. Sallie Merrifield, Rt. 4, Box 6C, Richmond, MO 64085. One set of data came July 1990 and the other in December 1990.
Vol. I, Chapter II, p. 202, footnote 1. According to Mildred Kemper, Delila String was buried in the Fortney family cemetery.
Letter from Mrs. Sallie Merrifield, dated 10 July 1990:
I can give you some information on Sarah Frances, Manerva Jane and Kizziah Clementine Fortney as the relatives kept in touch as they moved on to Carroll, Ray and Jackson Counties of Missouri. I have working on the Merrill, Fortney and Merrifield family lines since 1970. . . . I'm enclosing 4 pictures also. I hope some of the information will be a help to you. I would like to keep in touch and if you want more on the extended family I will send it to you. . . . Thank you for caring about the past.
Columbia Missouri Herald, 13 February 1891, p. 5, col. 3:
ASHLAND. Anderson Meryfield and wife, formerly citizens of this county, now residing at Hardin, in Ray county, for the past week were her looking after some lands that they own south of Ashland and to visit relatives of his wife. She is ae of Whery Fortney, John Fortney and Mrs. James Boswell. They speak very favorably of their country praising it as the best to be found in Missouri with business brisk and a regular demand for all kinds of mechanics and laborers.
Family Group Sheet (photograph attached) data from:
1850 Carroll County Ky. census
1870 Ray County, Mo. Census
Boone County, Mo. Historical Society
Ella Dean Merrifield Kimbrough, Hardin, Mo.
Sallie Merrifield writes:
Anson Merrifield was born in Gallatin County, Kentucky near Louisville, Kentucky, February 3 1840. He moved with the family to Woodville, Missouri a town of 100 population located in Macon County near Macon, Missouri in 1854. The familyd to Ashland, Boone County, Missouri near Columbia in 1859. He married Sarah Frances Fortney of Ashland on May 22 or 27, 1862. Boone County marriage records give the date May 27, 1862 and Anson's name as Hanson. Her parents were Martin Fortney and Catherine String Fortney. The 1860 Census of Boone County, Missouri Cedar Township page 711 lists Martin Fortney as 47 years old and a farmer, born in Kentucky 1794 [sic!]. His wife Catherine had died March 29, 1860. The following children were listed: Sarah Frances 17 (1843) born in Missouri, Margaret A. 15 (1845) Manerva Jane 13 (1847) Kizziah Clementine 11 (1849) and Francis M. 8 (1852) all born in Missouri. Other Fortney facts are given under the Fortney Family section.
You may notice that in some instances ages will vary a year according to when the census was taken from the 1st. of May to the 30th. of June.
Anson Merrifield and family came to Hardin, Ray County Missouri October 11, 1869. Anson was a blacksmith, wagon-maker, saw mill operator and farmer. He was the Hardin city marshall at one time and the president of the Hardin school boarm 1889 to 1892. He was a member of the Hardin Methodist Church and the Hardin Masonic Lodge. The family lived in town 7 years then moved to a farm 3/4 of a mile west of Hardin. They lived there 32 years. This farm was later owned by Earl Gibson, L.Z. Williams and now by Cecil King (1975). This farm is located on Highway 10 west of Hardin on the south side of the road. The old house was a one story log house and in later years was enlarged and rebuilt and now stands a large two-story frame house. Eleven children were born to Anson and Sarah Frances. Two died in infancy, and the others were Maggie John Harvey, Nannie McBaine, William Anson, Mollie Mae, Linnie Neal, Ella Dean, Ammie Lena and Katie Frances.
Anson Merrifield b. February 3, 1840 - d December 25, 1920
Sarah Frances Fortney Merrifield b January 10, 1843-d January 25, 1907
Both are buried in the Hardin Cemetery, Hardin, Missouri.
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Davis Uriah I | Born 1707
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