FORTNEY, Jonas

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EARLY U.S. FORTNEY SETTLEMENT IN PENNSYLVANIA

Most of the early Fortney families of the United States lived in either Pennsylvania--Lancaster Co. (the part that later became Lebanon and Dauphin Counties)--, in Maryland (Frederick Co.), or in West Virginia (Monongalia and Preston Cos.). They were descended from a French Huguenot Fortineux/Fortinee family of Palatine immigrants from Otterberg, Germany, to Pennsylvania in the early 1700's. They were members of the French Reformed church in Otterberg. I have collected a great deal of data on this Fortinee family in all of its spellings. There is also a book available on this Pennsylvania Fortney line, which I have purchased: THE FORTINEUX - FORTINET FAMILY (FORTNEY, FORTNA, FORDNEY, FURTNEY) IN AMERICA. It can be ordered from Howard A. Fortney, Treasurer, Fortney-Fortna Genealogy Family, Inc., 860 Sunset Lane, Port Charlotte, FL 33952. Copies were shipped to subscribers in December 1989: cost is $45.00. In 1984 the major compiler was Mr. John E. Fortna of 759 N. Jefferson Avenue, Sarasota, FL 33577 (he died in 1987). The early material concerning this family is now (1999) also on a website.

For several years, I corresponded with Evajean Fortney McKnight, who is president of the association that has sponsored the research for this genealogy: address Route 2, Box 94, 2 Ponds Drive, Coolville, Ohio 45723. They have provided me with pages and pages and pages of information on Fortineux - Fortinee, and they believe that they may have connected John and Jonas Fortney of Knox Co., Ky., onto the main family tree. In fact, they accept the connection they have made, and will present the Fortney information that I have sent to them in the spot they have chosen. I, on the other hand, remain to be convinced that this connection is correct. I have seen no documentary evidence presented--only a coincidence of names and approximate dates. When I wrote Mr. John Fortna asking for references, provided none, but stated that he was convinced of his placement.

POSSIBLE JONAS FORTNEY ANCESTRY:

Because of the known connection to Wythe Co., VA, I believe that the following family complex in the Fortney book should be examined more closely, particularly in light of the two unidentified sons:

A.C.C Jean Jacob Fortineux/Fortiner/Fortine, b. 2 November 1720, Otterberg, confirmed there 1739; arrived at Philadelphia aboard the ship Snow Thane of Fife, 7 November 1741. Possibly the Jacob Fortinet, estate filed 1761, Lancaster Co., Pa., leaving three sons. m. by 1749, Julianna __________.

A.C.C.A Jacob Fordney, b. 29 September 1748, Lancaster, PA. m. Margaret Fordney. Two daughters.

A.C.C.B Margaret Fordney, bap. 11 March 1750, Washington Co., MD. m. Jost Weyand.

A.C.C.C Elizabeth Fordney, b. 7 March 1753. m. (1) Simon Householder; m. (2) John Lydey/Leedy. To Wythe Co., Va.

A.C.C.D Mary Fordney, b. 1755--d. young.

A.C.C.E Julianna Fordney, b. 15 September 1758--d. young.

A.C.C.F Unidentified Son Fordney.

A.C.C.G Unidentified Son Fordney.


EARLY FORTNEYS OF SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA

In April 1988, I made a study of Netti Schreiner-Yantis' then-new compilation of the 1787 Tax Lists for the State of Virginia--with supplementary lists in pamphlet form for some counties. This is three large volumes, the third being a comprehensive index.

I took a look in the index, and found: Jonas Fortney, Montgomery County. Schreiner-Yantis has also done three different pamphlets on Montgomery County, along with a two-color map of "Virginia in 1787" printed in black superimposed on the contemporary counties of Virginia, Kentucky, and West Virginia, printed in red.

Citation 1:
Netti Schreiner-Yantis and Florene Speakman Love, The Personal Property Tax Lists for the Year 1787 for Montgomery County, Virginia. Springfield, Virginia, Genealogical Books in Print, 1987. p. 438, Jonas Fortney on List "B" in the District of David McGavock, Esq., Commissioner. He is taxed for himself and one horse--no other white males over 16 in his household, and no slaves. Believe it or not, Christopher Horn is on List "C", same county! He's on p. 447, taxed for 4 horses and 3 cattle, but no other white males over 21 and no slaves. (List "B" didn't bother to count the cattle at all, for some reason.)

Citation 2:
Netti Schreiner-Yantis, Montgomery County, Virginia - Tax Lists - A, B. and C for the year 1788, Springfield, Va., Genealogical Books in Print, 1972. Note that this booklet has been out for some time. Please note also that neither Jonas Fortney nor Christopher Horn is listed.

Citation 3:
Netti Schreiner-Yantis, Montgomery County, Virginia - Circa 1790. A Comprehensive Study - Including the 1789 Tax Lists, Abstracts of over 800 Land Surveys and Data Concerning Migratio_, Springfield, Virginia, Genealogical Books in Print, 1972. Apparently this has also been out for quite a while, but I had never seen it before. In this book, both Jonas Fortney and Christopher Horn are listed again in Montgomery County. MOREOVER, she includes a magnificent additional map just of Montgomery Co., showing the limits of each tax district. MOREOVER, as the huge county of 1787 was being dismembered into smaller counties as the population increased, she compared the Montgomery Co. tax lists for l789 with the Wythe Co. tax lists for 1793. Guess what--Jonas was in the part of Montgomery Co. that turned into Wythe, which narrowed down where he might be.
Then, I read carefully through the section entitled "Locating the Residences of Taxpayers - List B." It seems that the man who took the tax list for Montgomery Co. described where he was, day by day. So:
p. 92. On March 31, 1790 (Both sides Reed Creek, Cedar Run): George Armbrester, Henry Armbrister, Michael Cook, John Corbin, John Cypers, Abram Davis, John Davis Sr., John Davis, Jacob Davis, John Etter, James Findley, Sr., Capt. James Fi, John Helms, Henry Helvey, Jr., Henry Helvey, Sr., John Houndshell, John Hutsell, Jacob Kettering, Michael Kettering, Daniel Kiesler, Abram Lidia, John Lidia, John Lindermood, George Louman, John McNutt, Daniel Miller, Simon Neuman, Wm. Phipps, Philip Phry, Henry Shredler, John Shreder, Charles Simmerman, Frederick Sluss, George Spangler, Samuel Thompson, Anthony Tonkry, Daniel Wiseley.
On April 1, 1790, our busy little tax commissioner headed down "both sides Reed Creek, middle to western end" and called upon: Nicholas Cloyn, Jacob Cregar, Daniel Etter, JONAS FORTNEY, Charles Fullen, John Fullen, Samuel Fullen, Duncan Gu, Peter Kitts, Peter Moirs, Philip Nipp, Jacob Plesley, Jacob Pruner, John Pruner, Jacob Reyboss, Sr., Christian Soomer, Henry Umbarger, Big Henry Umbarger, George Wyrick, Henry Wyrick, Wm. Wyrick, Godfrey Young.
On April 2, 1790, with no location specified, the tax commissioner called upon Laurance Hutcheson, Jonthan Rowland, Thomas Vanderlip.
p. 28. The militia captain Ingles reported to the tax collector that Christopher Horn had moved away in late 1787 and was not attending muster.
Now I took all of this and all the maps. From 1787-1793, Jonas Fortney [Sr.] was living on the banks of Reed Creek somewhere in about a fifteen-mile stretch between what is now the western border of Wythe County and somewhere around Fort Cll. So for further clues to Jonas Fortney, Montgomery and Wythe will be the counties we have to search now.
Where they were was just a little off the "Great Wagon Road" that came down from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, through the Shenandoah Valley, and curved through these counties before heading down into North Carolina. The road that would eventuaake people west into Knox Co., Ky., branched off it not too far away, going down into Tennessee and then north through the Cumberland Gap. Until I started studying these colonial maps, I had not realized that Barbourville in Knox Co., Ky., where the Fortneys lived, was near the location of the famous "Walker's Cabin."
Additional searching has also narrowed down the time period in which Jonas Fortney appeared in Montgomery/Wythe Cos., Va. In the 1770s and 1780s, there was a man in Montgomery Co., Va., named Lewis Fortner/Portner/Faulkner/Fourtner/Fotner. on various records. Jonas Fortney, however, is neither on the l773 list of tithables nor on the 1782 tax list, so for the time being one should probably assume that he came into Montgomery Co. some time between 1782 and 1787. There was a great deal of population mobility in the area at that date.

According to James L. Douthat, Malita Murphy, and Roberta D. Hatcher, Wythe County, Virginia Will Books 1-2 1790-1822, Signal Mountain, TN, James L. Douthat, 2504 Kell Rd. 37377, 1984, on p. 6:
Wythe Co., Va., Will Book 1, p. 72. Will of Susanna Helvey. January 27, 1794. Sons Henry, Jacob, John Carver (?). Daughters: Peggy Bragginick, Molly Davis, Susanna Hops, Christiana Helvey and Catharine Helvey. Mentioned: Elizabeth Dand land located near John McNutts. Witnesses Jonas Fortney, Kettenvent, Martin Woolford. Proven March 11, 1794.

Malita Warden Murphy and James L. Douthat, Wythe County, VA Tax List 1793-1800, Signal Mountain, TN., Mountain Press, 2504 Kell Road 37377, 1985, lists the following:
p. 12. Cortney, Micheal; 1793, 1796, 1797, 1798.
p. 19. Folkner, Daniel; 1800.
p. 20. Fortney, Aaron; 1798, 1799, 1800.
Fortner, William; 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796.
Fortney, Jonas; 1793, 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798, 1799.
Unfortunately, these lists have been alphabetized and not all information was extracted, so it will be necessary to order the microfilms to extract all possible information about Jonas as he was living in this area.

Netti Schreiner-Yantis, 1800 Tax Lists and Abstracts of Deeds [1796 - 1800] of Wythe County, Virginia, Springfield, Virginia, 1971, also shows that Jonas Fortney was apparently out of Wythe County by 1800. Aron Fortner (p. 2) was on the "List A" part of the county. A Daniel Folkner was in the "List B" section (p. 7).

Schreiner-Yantis "1800 Wythe Co." shows nothing on Jonas Fortney, but it does show that some Wythe Co. people moved into Wilkes and Guilford Cos. in North Carolina. The AIS Search for Fortney to 1819 shows some Fortner/Fortney families in Wilkes Co., North Carolina, in this period and therefore might be worth pursuing. A Henry Fortner was in Stokes/Surry Co. in 1790.

LDS Microfilm Reel 034,243 (Genealogical Society of Utah) contains the Wythe Co., Va., Order Books 1790, 1795-1805. The 1790 book contains no mention of Fortney: they are missing from September 1790 until June 1795.
p. 11. The last June court, 1795. Fortney vs. Gullian contd.
p. 13. Fortney vs. Gullian. Adam Kearhart [polly phipps, crossed out] and Henry Wyrick proved 2 days each and polly phipps one day for Deft.
p. 30. Nov. court 1795. Fortney vs. Gullion. Debt. Contd.
p. 80. 15 April 1796. Fortney vs. Gullion. Debt. Contd at Defts costs.
p. 100. Fortney vs Gullion a Commission is granted the Deft. to take the deposition of John Gordon Dabe nc esse
p. 104. 16 June 1796. Fortney vs. Gullion. Office Judgment set aside payment pleaded and issue and a Jury to wit, George Wampler, Lewis Wolford, Franklin Bridgeman, John Fisher, John Davies, Abraham Lady, Daniel Pierce, John Allison, Johffith, Peter Bishop, John Tutewiler and Isaac Shepperd, being sworn to try the issue Joined returned their verdict in these words "We the Jury find by the Court that the Plt. take nothing by his Bill but for his false Clamour be in mercy and that the Deft. go hence without day and recover vs. the Plt. his Costs by him about his defense in this behalf expended.
p. 105. Fortney vs. Gullion for reasons appearing to the Court, It is Ordered that the plt pay the Costs of this trial and that a new one be had at the next quarterly term.
p. 108. Gullion ads Fortney Henry Wyrick proved two days attendance.
p. 143. 15 Sept. 1796. Fortney vs Gullion etc. Dismd each party to pay an equal share of the Costs.
p. 15. Oct. Court 1796. Gullion ads Fortney. Henry Wyrick proved 2 days at the last Sept. court as a witness.
[Have read through the end of 1797 without further mention.]

Later census indexes of Wythe Co., Va., for the period 1800-1850 indicate other Fortner/Fortney men living in the county and vicinity. So far, I have no clue if or how they might have been related to Jonas Fortney, Sr. They include: Nathaniel Fortner 1810 (p. 831 Wth); Henry Fortner 1810 (p. 708 Wtn); Aaron Fortner 1820 (p. 247A Taz); Nathaniel Fortner 1820 (p. 207A Wtn); Thomas Fortner 1820 (p. 212 Wyt); Joseph Fortne 1830 (p. 327 Wyth); Thomas Fortner 1830 (p. 327 Wyth).

The neighbors of Jonas Fortney in Wythe Co., Va., are interesting in two perspectives. One is from the tradition of the Knox Co., Ky., family to the effect that Jonas Fortney, Sr., was a "royalist." In Mary B. Kegley and F. B. Kegley, Early Adventurers On the Western Waters. Volume I. The New River of Virginia in Pioneer Days 1745-1800, Orange, VA., Green Publishers, Inc., [n.d.], Chapter XI is entitled "Disaffection and Devotion" of which the first section, beginning on p. 137, is entitled, "Disaffection on the New River."
This chapter indicates that Jacob Kettering, John Etter, Duncan Gullion, Nicholas Wyrick, Philip Meyer, Peter Kettering, Michael Kettering, Henry Wyrick, Daniel Etter, John Cook, Bernard Gullion, and other men bearing the same names as thoo would be, a few years later, the neighbors of Jonas Fortney were arrested and prosecuted as Tories during the course of the American Revolution.
The second interesting perspective on these neighbors is that some of them, the Kettering (Kettenring) and Wyrick (Weyerich) families, are documented as having been Pennsylvania Germans from the Lancaster [1785 Dauphin, 1813 Lebanon] settt who moved to Wythe Co., Va. See Annette K. Burgert, Eighteenth Century Emigrants. Volume II. The Western Palatinate, cited below for the Fortney family itself. Other suspiciously familiar names appear in her book, given Pennsylvania/Lancaster locations.

Adams, Lela C., "Patrick County Land Tax, 1791-1799," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 24, no. 2, May 1986, pp. 19-33.
p. 27 Forkner, John 1791 50 Wm. Forkner
Forkner, Jonas 1791 050 Wm. Forkner
Falkner, Henry 1795-99 078 W. Falkner
Falkner, John 1792-1799 050 Wm. Falkner
Falkner, William 1791-1793 078
1794 078 To Henry Falkner

NOTE BY VED:
See possibly: Jo White Linn, "Lists of Taxables in Rowan County, 1768," The North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal, Vol. IX, No. 4, November 1983, pp. 194-216.
p. 197: Hallows [Surry County]
Wm. Forckner 1 taxable

Mary B. Kegley, Early Adventurers on the Western Waters. Volume III, Part 1: The New River of Virginia in Pioneer Days 1745-1805. Marceline, MO: Walsworth Publishing Co., for Kegley Books, P.O. Box 134, Wytheville, VA 24382 , [1995].
pp. 68-69. Wythe County Entry Book 1. p. 2, July 28, 1790. Jesse Evans, assignee of Robert Adams, assignee of Samuel McCraw on treasury warrant, 1790, enters [no acres stated] on Cedar Run, branch of Reed Creek, beginning at Stophel [Chrher] Simmerman's, John Davis', and John McNut's corner and going towards George Kegley's, Daniel Etter's and Edward Murphey's to Peter Binkley's and to Charles Simmerman's and George Armbrister's and to McNutt's for quantity. Marginal note states May 30,1793, 265 acres of this entry surveyed for Susanna Helvey, Henry Helvey, and Jacob Helvey; May 30, 1793, 88 acres surveyed for John McNutt; March 10, 1796, 50 acres surveyed for Daniel Etter; balance withdrawn at different times.
p. 69. Wythe County Entry Book 1. September 1, 1790, JONAS FORTNEY, 25 acres on treasury warrant, 1790, assigned to him by Robert Adams, assigneee of Sam'l McCraw, adjoining Daniel Wysley [Wiseley], James Finley, and William Phipps.
p. 69. Wythe County Entry Book 1. p. 5, September 6, 1790, JAMES FINLEY, enters 7 acres on treasury warrant, 1790, assigned by Robert Adams, assigneee of Sam'l McCraw, adjoining William Phipps and Finley's old patent line on the south andnclude head of "Cole Pitt" Hollow.
p. 99. July 20, 1793, JAMES FORTNEY, assignee of Robert Adams, assignee of Zacheriah Stanley, treasury warrant, 100 acres on Middle Fork of Holston, adjoining Joseph Adkins, John Snabley [Snaveley] "to sun set" [west] and Thomas Crow to "sse" [east].
p. 134. [p. 344] October 4, 1793. JONAS FORTNEY, 40 acres, 1793, on part of a treasury warrant, 1781, on Middle Fork of Holston, adjoining Joseph Adkins.

Information received 20 May 1995 from Bryan T. Winter, 145 Meriam Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903:
Wythe Co., VA Survey Book 1, p. 344, #34241. Survey map (irregular isoceles triangle in shape, wider at the top, with an uneven line at the top): "Surveyed for Jonas Fortney 40 acres of land, by virtue of an entry made the 11th July 1793rt of a Treasury Warrant No. 10690 issued 29th Dec. 1781 Lying in Wyth County on the Middle fork of Hotstick River & bounded as followeth, viz, Beginning at 3 white Oaks Corner to the land of John Sneably & Joseph Adkins & with a line of the latter S 70 W 222 poles to a Corner of the land of Thomas Crow & with his line N. 53 1/2 E 205 poles to a hiccory Crows Corner S. 24 # 16 to a double hicctory S. 22 E 30 to a red oak & White Oak on a ridge & s. 80 E 28 poles to the Beginning. Robert Adams, S. Wt. Oct. 4th 1793."
"The 40ac lot in Wythe Co. VA owned by Jonas Fortney was sold in 1821 by Jonas Fortney Sr of Wythe Co, VA. If he was living there in 1821 where is he. I have not consulted the tax lists for Wythe Co, VA as the LDS has not microfilmed them

Jonas — Christina. Christina was born Bef 1775; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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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.

John married RICHARDS, Kizza 15 Aug 1816, Knox County, Kentucky. Kizza (daughter of RICHARDS, Warreat and HADDOCK, Nancy) was born 16 Aug 1795, Pitt County, North Carolina; died 7 Jan 1883, Boone County, Missouri; was buried , Cedar Township, Boone County, Missouri. [Group Sheet]

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For more extensive data, see Vol. I, Now Living in Boone County, Missouri.

1839 original subscriber to the University of Missouri. GSCM Reporter Quarterly, Vol, 8, No. 1, Spring 1989, p. 5.

NARA M-432, Roll 392, 1850 U.S. Census, Boone Co., MO, Dist. No. 8, p. 439, #1535/1535: Martin Fortney, 31, m, Farmer, Kentucky; Catharine, 26, f, Missouri; Sarah F, 7, f, MO; Margaret A, 5, f, MO; Minerva J, 3, f, MO; James H, 1, m, MO.

NARA M-653, Roll 608, 1860 U.S. Census, Boone Co., MO, Cedar Township, p. 711, #547/529: Martin Fortner, 47, m, farmer, --/$100, KY; Sarah F, 17, f, MO; Margaret A, 15, f, MO; Manerva J, 13, f, MO; Kizziah C, 11, f, MO; Francis M, 9, m, MO.

NARA M-593, Roll 760, 1870 U.S. Census, Boone Co., MO, Missouri Township, p. 145, #310/382; Fortney, Martin, 54, m, W, Carpenter, [property valuation omitted], Kentucky; Lizzie, 29, f, W, Keeps house, Missouri; Margaret, 26, f, w, MO; Francis, 17, f, W, MO; Ridelle, Wm, 11, m, W, MO.

NARA T-9, Reel 676, 1880 U.S. Census, Boone Co., MO, Cedar Township, p. 41, #209/217: fortney, Martin, W, m, 62, Farmer, KY/VA/NC; Mary E., W, f, 46, wife, Keeping house, MO/NJ/KY; Henry L., W, m, 4, son, MO/KY/MO; Nancy, W, f, 1, daughter, MO/KY/MO; Peak, William, W, m, 10, step son, MO/KY/MO; G. Amon, w, m, 9, step son, MO/KY/MO; Harvey, W, m, 7, step son, MO/KY/MO; Henshaw, Lonze, w, m, 30, Farmer, IN/IN/IN/ Mattie D., W, f, 22, wife, Keeping house, MO/KY/KY; Allen E., W, m, 2, son, MO/IN/MO; clark, Fernando E., W, m, 19, servant, PA/PA/PA; Young, Edwin, B, m, 19, servant, MO/MO/MO.

Columbia Missouri Herald, 24 March 1881, p. 3, col. 5:
ASHLAND ITEMS.
A two year old child of Martin Fortner's living near Ashland, fell in the well last Tuesday morning and was only discovered in time to be rescued alive. It had been in the water some twenty minutes when found. After considerable rubbing aministering of stimulants it was brought to life, and at this time is quite well.

Martin married Catherine Abt 1842. Catherine was born 23 Oct 1823, Missouri; died 29 Mar 1860, Boone County, Missouri; was buried , Cedar Township, Boone County, Missouri. [Group Sheet]

Martin married RIDDLE, Elizabeth Mrs. 24 Mar 1863, Boone County, Missouri. Elizabeth was born Abt 1841, Missouri; died Between 1870 and 1875. [Group Sheet]

Martin married MCGAUKEY, Mary Ann Apr 1875. Mary was born Abt 1834, Missouri; died 14 Apr 1900, Canadian County, Oklahoma Or Boone County, Missouri. [Group Sheet]

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Except for my own family lines, this data base contains less than 1/2 of the data that we plan to enter. Sometimes a specific set of data has been only partly entered. We have added the marriages from the main set of registers from 1872 through 1880 from the index; as in the case of Bartels' abstracts from the "Colored" register 1865-1882, we have not yet compared all to the microfilm.

The 1870 census is now complete: pages 1-63r for Cedar Township, pp. 65-120 for Columbia and Columbia Township, pp. 122-157r for Missouri Township, and pp. 158-193r for "Township Forty-nine" and pp. 194-235 for "Township Fifty." These do not correspond to any of the geographical townships: families recorded in Township Forty-nine in 1870 had appeared in 1860 in Missouri Township, Columbia Township, Rocky Fork Township, and Perche Township. It appears to include a band of territory across the county, north of Columbia, in no discernable pattern. The great majority of the families in Township Fifty were residents of either Perche or Rocky Fork Township. Township Fifty-one, pp. 236-266, contained primarily families otherwise identified as residing in Perche, Bourbon, and Centralia Townships. The enumerator gave the post office address for 49, 50, and 51 as Sturgeon.

Bourbon Township was created between 1850 and 1860 from the northern tier of Perche and Rocky Fork Townships, and in 1860 included what is now Centralia Township.

This update contains the 1880 census for Bourbon Township (which in total is pp. 1-29r and Cedar Township (pp. 30-91r), with a beginning for Columbia Township (pp. 92-95r of pp. 92-163r). Still to come are Centralia Township (pp. 164-178r), Missouri Township (pp. 179-216), Perche Township (pp. 217-242), and Rocky Fork Township (pp. 243-267r).

A prior update completed the systematic entering of the Evans and Thompson Tombstone Records (1934)(standardizing the citation form). Each subsequent update adds data from some other published cemeteries, in no predictable order. Evans and Thompson only abstracted the tombstones for adults born prior to 1860, so there is still much more to be done. Consult the Boone County USGenWeb site for a much more complete listing of the county's cemeteries.

The probate abstracts from Evans and Thompson, through 1869, were previously entered. We have added 1870, 1871, and 1872 from the abstracts done by the DAR in the early 1970's. We also now have the very limited birth and death record from late 1883 through 1886 as abstracted by the DAR.

For my own family lines, most documentation is to be found in the two volumes I published in 1990: Now Living in Boone County, Missouri. Volume I: The Family and Connections of Edward Everett Easley. Volume II: The Family and Connections of Martha Catherine Cheavens. These also have photographs, photocopies of the Family Bibles, etc. Contact me by e-mail for further information, please.

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Ashland Bugle, 25 June 1914, p. 1, col. 2:
Mrs. Wm. Reyburn, west of Deer Park, has lived 91 years on the same farm.

Ashland Bugle, 4 February 1915, p. 1, col. 2:
Mrs. Nancy Reyburn, 92 years old, died recently at her home west of Deer Park. Deceased came to Boone county with her parents, Mr. and John [sic] Fortney in 1814 [sic] and the parents entered the land where the Reyburn farm is located, sae Columbia Daily Times. W. W. Reyburn is the only surviving member of the family.

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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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NOTE: Margaret Jane Fortney was called "Jane".

Columbia Missouri Herald, 30 March 1893:
DIED. RAYBURN.--In Schell City, Missouri, March 19, 1893, suddenly, Mrs. J. W. Rayburn, aged 66 years. She was a sister of Wary Fortney, of Columbia, whose death which occurred two days previously was noted in the last issue of the HERALD.

Letter printed in: Annie Mildred (Rader) Kemper, Fortney Families and Ancestors, Columbia, Mo., privately printed, 1988.

Letter from Jane in Shell City to my Grandparents, John Hamilton & Samira Ann (Jones) Fortney. I will copy this letter exactly as she wrote it.
Shell City March 30/ 1889
Dear Brother and Sister
I this quite morning I will endever to rite you a few lines to let you hear from me I am well at preasant hoping this few lines may find you all well the family is all well well Brother I have not waited quite as long as you did beng well we have had a protrocted meeting have just closed But will start again the Second Sunday in April our preacher got sick it is Brother Isabell that had the care of the church at Bonefam thare was seven additions to the church all of them heds of famleys But too well Brother our garden is planted out that is apart of it our lettuce is up they will plant corn next week Barry will get thrue braking in one more day after to day we have had lots of rain this sprind grass is looking well Ann we have 11 young chickens and some more hens set well brother I will tell you my Son Joe and his family is in Calafania at the red bluffe in one of the county of the pacific ocean I never new he was goin until I got a card from his wife that they was thare had landed that eavening Annie father was the cause of them goin he had bin out thar last fall and liked that contrey and wanted to make that contrey his home and he lived with Joe and Annie and he told Joe he would pay all thair way thare if he would go it was like thunder to me when I got the card and I got a letter from Ed and his wife and they was down on the Kansas line waiting for the presadent proclamation so he could go in the okleynahomy to take him up a home they said it was a site to look at the grate numbers of people waiting for the to be spoke I do not know whare Wary is he started to go to hall on the rail road and I have not hird from him since that was about two months ago oh they have chattered fare from me when parants is raising children they give so much truble when they are trampping your toes we think they are truble a ful nuff but when they get to be men and comence scattering all over this Broad world and some that you never expect to see in this world agane that is truble
But the all seeing eye of god is thare if they was all good christane I would have hopes of seeing them again But god chan change them whare they are and that is my prayer to god is for them to be christian Joe is a church member and so is his wife write brother to me tell me all about the kind I hird green Easley had joined the camolite church well thare has been quite a change with our relation since I last ween you god help the good work hope it will role on untill god will call us home I hope to be permited to see you all once more give my love to your children and to sister Nancey and hir family tell hir to rite she told Clay that I was due her a letter I no that I rote hir a letter since I got one from hir Well I will close rite soon and often from your sister
J J. Reyburn
PS give my love to Brother Wary and family how is his health at this time M J R

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NOTE: Andrew Jackson Fortney was called "Jack."

NARA M-653, Roll 608, 1860 U.S. Census, Boone Co., MO, Columbia Township, p. 818, #1317/1269: Andrew J. Fortney, 30, m, farmer, $600/$200, MO; Jemima, 26, f, KY; Nannie F, 2, f, KY.

NARA M-593, Roll 760, 1870 U.S. Census, Boone Co., MO, Cedar Township, p. 15, #228/237: Fortney, Andrew, 40, m, W, farmer, $400/--, MO; Jemima, 35, f, W, Keeps house, Kentucky; Nancy, 12, f, W, Missouri; John, 6, m, W, MO.

NARA T-9, Reel 676, 1880 U.S. Census, Boone Co., MO, Cedar Township, p. 71, [no household numbers in this section]: Fortner, A J, W, m, 50, Farmer, MO/VA/NC; Mima, W, f, 48, Wife, Keeping house, KY/KY/KY; John W., W, m, 18, Son, MO/MO/KY; Goodin, Martin, W, m, 28, Servant, KY/KY/KY.

1900 U.S. Census, Cedar Township, Boone Co., MO, #56/59: Fortney, Andrew J., father, W, m, b. Jan. 1832, 68, MO/NC/NC, in household of son John W. Fortney.

Columbia Missouri Herald, 14 June 1907, p. 5, col. 4:
OLD CITIZEN DIED SATURDAY
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A. J. Fortney Died of Old Age at His
Old Home Nine Miles South of
Columbia
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A.J. Fortney, aged 77 years, died at the home of his son nine miles south of Columbia Saturday night, June 8, at 10 o'clock. This death was not very sudden as his health had been gradually giving away on account of old age. Mr. Fortney wan in this county and lived here all his life. His wife died several years ago. He leaves one son, J.W. Fortney, with whom he made his home in recent years. J.H. Fortney, of this county, is his brother. He leaves two sisters, Mrs. Nancy Rayburn and Mrs. Lucinda Barnes, both of Boone county.
He was buried Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Fortney grave yard near his old home. No funeral was preached.

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From: Annie Mildred (Rader) Kemper, Fortney Families and Ancestors, Columbia, Mo., privately printed, 1988.

p. 18. In another letter in Jan 15 1888 to John & Ann Fortney, Jane [Margaret Jane (Fortney) Reyburn] says: I was very sorrowfull to hear of Eli Barnes goin derange I always thought Both of them loved money too well that one day they would go derange over that one thing.

Barnes, Mrs. Lou, res. Columbia. Old Settlers' Association of Boone County, August 10, 1897, Missouri Statesman Supplement, August 10, 1897, Vol. LIV No. 31.

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He was called "John Ham" Fortney.

John Hamilton Fortney, (son of John Fortney) born 27 July 1837, died 1 Jan. 1921, married 25 Dec. 1863 to Samira Ann Jones (dau. of Harrison Berding & (Ellen) McGuire (Berry) Jones. Ellen was dau. of Wm. Templeton & Rhoda (Crews) Berry. Ann (as she was called) born 19 July 1846, died 23 June 1921. John H. had been an invalid for two years after a stroke rendered him helpless, Ann died shortly after, worn out after the long illness of her husband. Both are buried in the Fortney Cemetery, not far from where they spent most of their married life. They lived on a farm at the end of Bearfield road, on the west side. They moved into Columbia shortly after John's stroke and lived in a brick house on the south side of Broadway just East of the old Central Dairy Bldg., about a half block E. of Hitt Street. After their death their son, John Harrison Fortney was administrator, they had a sale and sold the farm & household items.

NARA M-593, Roll 760, 1870 U.S. Census, Boone Co., MO, Cedar Township, p. 15, #229/238: Fortney, John, 32, m, W, Farmer, $500/--, Missouri; Anna, 24, f, W, Keeps house, MO; Ella, 5, f, W, MO; Molly, 3, f, W, MO; Alice, 2, f, W, MO; #229/239: Fortney, Kizzia, 76, f, W, N Carolina.

NARA T-9, Reel 676, 1880 U.S. Census, Boone Co., MO, Cedar Township, p. 74r, [no household numbers in this section]: Fortney, John, W, m, 42, Farmer, MO/VA/NC; Ann, W, f, 33, Wife, Keeping house, MO/KY/KY/ Ella, W, f, 15, Daughter, At Home, MO/MO/MO; Mollie, W, f, 13, Daughter, At Home, MO/MO/MO; alice, W, f, 11, Daughter, At Home, MO/MO/MO; John, W, m, 8, son, MO/MO/MO; Fannie, W, f, 6, Daughter, MO/MO/MO; Sallie, W, f, 4, Daughter, MO/MO/MO; Henderson, W, m, 1, Son, MO/MO/MO.

Res. Columbia. Old Settlers' Association of Boone County, August 10, 1897, Missouri Statesman Supplement, August 10, 1897, Vol. LIV No. 31.

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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.

Sarah married MERRIFIELD, Anson 27 May 1862, Boone County, Missouri. Anson (son of MERRIFIELD, Hedgeman and MERRILL, Joanne) was born 3 Feb 1840, Gallatin County, Kentucky; died 25 Dec 1920, Jackson County, Missouri. [Group Sheet]

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Data on her descendants, from Opal (Burnham) Nichols, provided 06/06/2001 by Ruth Payne, 7405 W. 74th St., Overland Park, KS 66204.

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Kizziah G./C./K. Clem/Clementine Fortney, b. c. 1849, Mo.

Burial New Salem Baptist Church, Boone Co., Mo.: James R. Sapp, b. 1840--d. 1906. Clementine Sapp, wife of James R, b. 1851--d. 1924.

Data on her descendants, from Opal (Burnham) Nichols, provided 06/06/2001 by Ruth Payne, 7405 W. 74th St., Overland Park, KS 66204.

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NARA T-9, Reel 676, 1880 U.S. Census, Boone Co., MO, Cedar Township, p. 53r, #16/16: fortney, F. Marion, W, m, 26, Farmer, MO/MO/MO; Marg. E., W, f, 22, Wife, Keeping house, MO/MO/MO.

Columbia Missouri Herald, 16 February 1900, p. 7, col. 4:
LOCAL IN BRIEF. From the Ashland Bugle: F.M. Fortney sold to Riley Nichols his big spotted mule for $90. Also to James Guitar his mules known as "the rabbits" for $80.

1903. Ashland Bugle, 2 August 1928, p. 8, col. 1:
25 Years Ago. F. M. Fortney & Co. gave a barbecue in the Whitley Madden pasture, near the Christian school house.

Ashland Bugle, 8 May 1913, p. 1, col. 4:
F. M. Fortney, Friday, May 16, will sell at public sale a pair of mules, 17 hogs, 4 sheep, farm wagon, mower, plows and a lot of household goods. Sale begins at 10 a.m.

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Death notice, Columbia Statesman, 7 October 1859, p. 2, col. 4.
Alice A. Fortney, age 3 years, recorded 1860 census mortality schedule, Boone Co., MO.

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Death notice, Columbia Statesman, 28 October 1859, p. 2, col. 6.
Lucinda E. Fortney, d. 1860, age 2 y. Recorded 1860 census mortality schedule, Boone Co., Mo.

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John H. Fortney, d. 1860, age 2 mo. Recorded 1860 census mortality schedule, Boone Co., Mo. He is not definitely recorded as a child of Martin and Catharine Fortney, but this is a logical placement for an otherwise unidentified child.

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Stubbs, June. Parkers Funeral Home Records, 1892-1960. (State Historical Society of Missouri, F508.3 B644s) Fortney, Henry -- Infant of 25 July 1901.

Ashland Bugle, 3 March 1910, p. 4, col. 3: Henry Fortney traded his 375 acre farm north of Rock Bridge for Clay Again for the latter's 160 acre prairie farm northeast of Columbia paying a difference in cash.

Ashland Bugle, 14 September 1933, p. 1, col. 4:
HENRY FORTNEY, 55, DIES
AT HOME IN TULSA, OKLA
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Native of this Section Passed
Away Sept. 3 - Survied by Wid-
ow, 2 Daughters and 4 Sons - a
Sister and Brother Life Here.
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Henry Fortney, 55, native of this section, passed away at his home in Tulsa, Okla., Sept. 3, 1933. Funeral services, conducted by Rev. Roy, were held Sept. 6 from the Full Gospel Tabernacle, burial folloiwng in Rose Hill cemetery. Survivie the widow, three daughters, Mary Dudley, Phoenix City, Ala.; Alma Nolan, Yazoo City, Miss.; and Helen, of Tulsa. Four sons, George, Clay, Ed and Frank, all of Tulsa; two sisters, Mrs. G. W. Jones, Tulsa, and Mrs. Margaret Martin, Ashland, Mo.; three brothers, W. A. Peak and I. B. Peak, Oklahoma City, and D.A. Peak of Ashland. Mrs. Jones, sister of the deceased, ill and in bed since last December, went to the funeral in an ambulance. Mr. Fortney's daughters from Alabama and Mississippi, all four sons, and his brother, Will Peak, of Oklahoma City, were there.

Subj: fortney research
Date: 98-06-16 11:58:11 EDT
From: dfortney@webzone.net (Denise and Dawn Fortney)
Reply-to: dfortney@webzone.net
To: veasleyd@aol.com

Hello! My name is Denise Fortney Allen and I am researching The Fortney
family from Boone Co. also. My great grandfather was Henry Lawrence
Fortney born on 11-8-1884 who resided in Columbia, died in 1-1974. I do
not know for sure if he was born there and I know his father went by the
name of Mort Fortney. Henry married Sally Ethel Martin.

I know there were a few Fortneys in Boone County and I was hoping you could
shed some light on Henry and his father for me. My e-mail is
dfortney@webzone.net Thank you in advance for your help.

Denise

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1900. Ashland Bugle, 9 October 1930, p. 8, col. 1:
30 Years Ago. Announcement made of the marriage at Yukon, Okla., of Nannie Fortney and Gillum Jones.

Ashland Bugle, 26 August 1926, p. 5, col. 1:
Mr. and Mrs G W Jones (formerly Nannie Fortney) and daughters Dorothy and Bulah, of Tulsa, Okla., toured in last Saturday to visit Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Griffin and other relatives.

Ashland Bugle, 9 November 1933, p. 1, col. 1:
8 WEEKS SEPARATE DEATH
OF BROTHER AND SISTER
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Mrs. Geo. W. Jones, who was
Nannie Leathy Fortney, Died
October 25, Her Brother Henry
Fortney, Sept. 3, at their Homes
in Tulsa, Okla.
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News of the death on Wednesday, Oct. 25, at her home in Tulsa, Okla., of Mrs. Nannie L. Jones, 55, who was Nannie Leathy Fortney, formerly of this vicinity, was learned here Tuesday. Funeral services, conducted gy the Reverend Hathoway, weld at 2:30 p.m. at the Methodist church in West Tulsa. Burial was made in Memorial Park. Surviving are her husband, George W. Jones, four daughters, Mrs. Edith Allen, Seminole, Okla., Mrs. Edna Durbin, Collinsville, and Dorothy and Beulah at home, and one son, Kenneth Jones, of Tulsa.
Mrs. Jones has been in failing health for some time. When her brother, Henry Fortney, also a native and former resident of this section, died Sept. 3 last, she was transported to his funeral in an ambulance, being unable to sit up. Eights afterward, she followed him in death.