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I'm interested in finding information about Henrey Hathaway or Henry Hathaway, father of John Henry Hathaway (also known as J.H. Hathaway and Jack Hathaway, 1831-1914), father of John William Hathaway (1877-1969), my great-grandfather.
Oral family history says Jack's parents were born in or came from Ireland. We have conflicting reports about where Jack was born:
Oral history says he immigrated from Ireland as a young boy. In the 1900 Stafford County Census, John William Hathaway claims his father (Jack) was born in Scotland. On a "Homestead Proof--Testimony of Claimant" document, Jack claims he was born in Delaware. In the 1900 Missouri Census, Jack claims he was born in Delaware (and that his parents were born in Ireland). Jack's death certificate from Oklahoma, 1914, states he was born in Iowa.
One story states that Jack and his family sailed to the USA from Ireland but didn't have the "proper paperwork" to get off the ship at New York, so they sailed on up to Canada and disembarked there.
"Hathaways in America" (1980 edition) says Jack was born in Canada in 1845. We are wondering if this might not be interpreted to mean he arrived in Canada in 1845. He would have been 13 or 14 at that time.
Jack might have had two brothers named Henry Hathaway and Jimmie Hathaway, last heard from in Maryland, and possibly a sister, name unknown.
John Henry Hathaway died Oct. 6, 1914 in Fort Supply, Woodward County, Oklahoma and is buried at Rock Church Cemetery (Harper Co., OK) on land he acquired in the land rush and later donated to a church.
I'm also interested in information about The Smiths of Cowley County, Kansas, who came from Rising Sun, Indiana. Walter Phillip (1858-1932) and Belle May Hastings Smith (1860-1931) were my mother's paternal grandparents.
Another branch of my family I'm researching is my maternal grandmother's mother, Rena Howard Bryan (or Arena Howard Bryan) (1881-1935). Her parents were William Hardy "Jim" Howard and Nancy Jane Gully. William Hardy's father came from VA and mother from GA, but that's all we know.
Yet another ancestor I would like to know more about is Benjamin Franklin Stauffer. We know little except he was married to Amanda Beulah Winn, daughter of Judge John W. Winn. Benjamin and Amanda had five children: John Wesley Stauffer (Jan. 22, 1869-April 30, 1892), Rose E. Stauffer Le Dreux (lived in White Pines Co., NV in 1910), Laura Stauffer Straw (Fremont, IN), Weldon Stauffer (Ottawa, KS) and Emmett Stauffer. Benjamin Franklin Stauffer homesteaded in Stafford County in late 1800s and was living in White Pines Co., NV in 1910, with daughter Rose.
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