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Descendants of Joseph Bemis

2464. John W.⁷ Bemis (Jotham⁶, Israel⁵, Jonas⁴, Samuel³, John², Joseph¹)¹⁰⁷⁸³ was born 13 Feb 1838 in Pennsylvania ^10784,¹⁰⁷⁸⁵. He married (1) unk.1stwifeofJohnWBemis¹⁰⁷⁸⁵ Bef. 1868¹⁰⁷⁸⁵. She died Bef. Jun 1870¹⁰⁷⁸⁵. He married (2) unk. 2ndwifeofJohnWBemis¹⁰⁷⁸⁵ Bet. 1870 - 1884¹⁰⁷⁸⁵. She was born in Iowa ^10786,¹⁰⁷⁸⁷, and died Bef. Jun 1900 in prob. Nebraska ^10788,¹⁰⁷⁸⁹.

Notes for John W. Bemis:
[Received from Curtis Bemis Jr.]

1850 US Census, Greene Twp., Erie County, PA; p. 376, lines 4-10
Bemis, Joseph(Jotham), age 50,Farmer, b. Vermont
Martha, age 37, b. Conn.
John W., age 12, b. Penn.
George F., age 10, b. Penn.
Elisha I., age 7, b. Penn.
Helen M., age 4, b. Penn.
Harrison I., ,age 2, b. Penn.
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1870 US Census, Walnut Creek,Brown County,Kansas; p. 5, lines 30-34
---2 families, adjacent houses--
(House #30, Family #30)
Bemis, Jonathan (Jotham), age 76, Farmer, b. Vermont
Martha, age 55, Keeping House, b. Connecticut
(House #31, Family #31)
Bemis, J.W., age 29, Farmer, b. Pennsylvania
Finnie, (female), age 2, b. Kansas
Charles, age 9/12, b. Kansas
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1900 US Census, Salem,Richardson County,NE; Enum. Dist. 151, p. 8A, lines 27-29
Beamis (Bemis), John W., Head. b. Feb. 13, 1838, age 62, widowed, b. PA, fath. b. VT, moth. b. NY, Farmer
Harrison J., son, b. Aug. 22, 1886, age 13, single, b. NE, fath. b. PA, moth. b. IA, At School
Nellie M., dau., b. July 24, 1884, age 15, single, b. NE, fath. b. PA, moth. b. IA, At School
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More About John W. Bemis:
Census: Jun 1850, Greene Twp., Erie County, Pennsylvania ^10790,¹⁰⁷⁹¹
Census1: Jun 1870, Walnut Creek, Brown County, Kansas ^10792,¹⁰⁷⁹³
Census2: Jun 1900, Salem, Richardson County, Nebraska ^10794,¹⁰⁷⁹⁵
Occupation: Jun 1870, Farmer ^10796,¹⁰⁷⁹⁷

More About John Bemis and unk.1stwifeofJohnWBemis:
Marriage: Bef. 1868¹⁰⁷⁹⁷

More About John Bemis and unk. 2ndwifeofJohnWBemis:
Marriage: Bet. 1870 - 1884¹⁰⁷⁹⁷

Children of John Bemis and unk.1stwifeofJohnWBemis are:

+	4041	i.		Fannie M.⁸ Bemis, born Jan 1868 in Kansas; died Aft. Apr 1930 in prob. Richardson County, Nebraska.
+	4042	ii.		Charles S. Bemis, born Abt. 1869 in Kansas; died 30 Apr 1923 in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.

Children of John Bemis and unk. 2ndwifeofJohnWBemis are:

4043

Nellie M.⁸ Bemis¹⁰⁷⁹⁷, born 24 Jul 1884 in Nebraska ^10798,¹⁰⁷⁹⁹.

Notes for Nellie M. Bemis:
[Received from Curtis Bemis Jr.]

1900 US Census, Salem,Richardson County,NE; Enum. Dist. 151, p. 8A, lines 27-29
Beamis (Bemis), John W., Head. b. Feb. 13, 1838, age 62, widowed, b. PA, fath. b. VT, moth. b. NY, Farmer
Harrison J., son, b. Aug. 22, 1886, age 13, single, b. NE, fath. b. PA, moth. b. IA, At School
Nellie M., dau., b. July 24, 1884, age 15, single, b. NE, fath. b. PA, moth. b. IA, At School

More About Nellie M. Bemis:
Census: Jun 1900, Salem, Richardson County, Nebraska ^10800,¹⁰⁸⁰¹

4044

ii.

Harrison J. Bemis¹⁰⁸⁰¹, born 22 Aug 1886 in Nebraska ^10802,¹⁰⁸⁰³.

Notes for Harrison J. Bemis:
[Received from Curtis Bemis Jr.]

1900 US Census, Salem,Richardson County,NE; Enum. Dist. 151, p. 8A, lines 27-29
Beamis (Bemis), John W., Head. b. Feb. 13, 1838, age 62, widowed, b. PA, fath. b. VT, moth. b. NY, Farmer
Harrison J., son, b. Aug. 22, 1886, age 13, single, b. NE, fath. b. PA, moth. b. IA, At School
Nellie M., dau., b. July 24, 1884, age 15, single, b. NE, fath. b. PA, moth. b. IA, At School
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More About Harrison J. Bemis:
Census: Jun 1900, Salem, Richardson County, Nebraska ^10804,¹⁰⁸⁰⁵

2465. George F.⁷ Bemis (Jotham⁶, Israel⁵, Jonas⁴, Samuel³, John², Joseph¹)¹⁰⁸⁰⁵ was born Abt. 1839 in Pennsylvania ^10806,¹⁰⁸⁰⁷, and died Unknown in Unknown¹⁰⁸⁰⁷. He married Mary A. Coil^10808,¹⁰⁸⁰⁹ Aft. 1864¹⁰⁸⁰⁹. She was born Abt. 1834 in Ohio ^10810,¹⁰⁸¹¹, and died 1873 in Brown County, Kansas ^10812,¹⁰⁸¹³.

Notes for George F. Bemis:
[Received from Curtis Bemis Jr.]

1850 US Census, Greene Twp., Erie County, PA; p. 376, lines 4-10
Bemis, Joseph(Jotham), age 50,Farmer, b. Vermont
Martha, age 37, b. Conn.
John W., age 12, b. Penn.
George F., age 10, b. Penn.
Elisha I., age 7, b. Penn.
Helen M., age 4, b. Penn.
Harrison I., ,age 2, b. Penn.
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1870 US Census, Walnut Creek, Brown County, KS; p. 38, lines 24-33
(House #253, Family #253)
Bemis, George, age 31, Farmer, b. PA
Mary A., age 36, Keeping House, b. OH
Emma N., age 2, b. KS
Wilkinson, Edmond, age 18, b. IN
Wilkinson, Sarah A., age 19, b. IN
Wilkinson, Mary M. age 12, b. IN
Wilkinson, Jesse F., age 8, b. KS
Wilkinson, George S., age 6, b. KS
Shir, Alfred, age 22, b. PA
Marshall, Melissa, age 25, b. PA
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Note-- a number of Bemis individuals were located in Walnut Creek, Brown County, Kansas in the 1870
Census. They include Jotham Bemis and associated family including son John W. and his family as they
continued their westward migration to Nebraska from Pennsylvania. I believe that son George F. is the
George with wife Mary A. and family, also located in Walnut Creek, Brown County, Kansas. Extended
families often migrated together. George and Mary are in House #253. Father Jotham with wife Martha
are in House #30, adjacent to eldest son John W. and family in House #31. Besides the 1850 Census, and the 1870 Census, George and family have not been located (1860, 1880 and later Census enumerations).

More About George F. Bemis:
Census: Jun 1850, Greene Twp., Erie County, Pennsylvania ^10814,¹⁰⁸¹⁵
Census1: Jun 1870, Walnut Creek, Brown County, Kansas ^10816,¹⁰⁸¹⁷

Notes for Mary A. Coil:
[Received from Curtis Bemis Jr.]

1870 US Census, Walnut Creek, Brown County, KS; p. 38, lines 24-33
(House #253, Family #253)
Bemis, George, age 31, Farmer, b. PA
Mary A., age 36, Keeping House, b. OH
Emma N., age 2, b. KS
Wilkinson, Edmond, age 18, b. IN
Wilkinson, Sarah A., age 19, b. IN
Wilkinson, Mary M. age 12, b. IN
Wilkinson, Jesse F., age 8, b. KS
Wilkinson, George S., age 6, b. KS
Shir, Alfred, age 22, b. PA
Marshall, Melissa, age 25, b. PA
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Obit--Eagle County, Colorado - Obituary Page
http://www.rootsweb.com/~coeagle/w-obits.html
WILKINSON, George S. - George S. WILKINSON, Forty-Nine Years a Resident of Eagle County Called By Death.
No death has been taken with greater sorrow and regret in this community than of George S. WILKINSON, who passed away at a Glenwood Springs hospital Wednesday afternoon, July 3, 1929.

Almost the first settler in the Brush creek valley, Geo. WILKINSON through forty-nine years of the ups and downs incident to the growth of a new country, had made for himself a place in the hearts of his neighbors that was most enviable. Enemies he hay have made, but no man or woman could or would say ought against the honest manhood of George WILKINSON. A neighbor beyond compare, always willing to do good where the doing was called for, unassuming, taking his own good deeds as matters of fact ad of no moment, he had left behind scores of beneficiaries who will always regret his passing.

The old, old story of a youth leaving his parental roof tree and starting out in life for himself, armed with nothing but his determined spirit, native ability, and what little education he had been able to snatch from a few brief terms of attendance at one of our early day country schools, and seeking his fortune in the wilderness of our vast unsettled domain, braving the dangers and enduring the hardships of an overland journey in the wake of a setting sun into the wilderness, then bravely entering upon the work of clearing that for his purposes, and while drawing out its venom, extorting benefit from the vanquished enemy, making its mischievous torrents drudge for him, its wild beasts useful for food or dress, or labor, its stubborn forces and rocks into habitation, and then from a small beginning building up a comfortable estate and bringing the unproved and hitherto unoccupied landscape into attractiveness and fruitfulness as a comfortable home, is repeated and well illustrated in the memoir of George Summer WILKINSON, who started to make his own living at the age of nine years, and had ever since done so.

He was born near Hiawatha, Brown county, Kan., on August 24 1863, the son of Balsaam and Mary COIL WILKINSON, natives of Indiana, who were among the early settlers of eastern Kansas where they farmed and raised stock to the end of their lives, the father dying there in 1864, and the mother in 1873.

George left home in 1877, when he was but fourteen years old, and came to Colorado, finding employment for that summer on the ranch of William BROWN at Florissant, Teller county. His journey to this state was made overland with horses and wagons through Ellsworth, Kan., to Colorado Springs then through Ute Pass to Breckinridge, where the teams and wagons were disposed of. The trip lasted twenty-seven days, but the train encountered no hostile Indians and the jaunt was uneventful. In the summer of 1878 Mr. WILKINSON worked for wages in the placer mines, and in the fall moved to park county. Afterwards he spent three months in the employ of the Borden Brothers who conducted a feed stable on the road between Weston and Leadville, his duty being to sell feed.

He next returned to Park county and devoted the summer of 1880 to logging and sawmilling, where he became acquainted with John LOVE, a stockman of Park county, and another young man, Webb FROST. In the fall he and FROST engaged with John LOVE, who had been scouting the western slope for a location for his livestock business and selected the Brush creek valley, to drive the latter's herd of cattle across the range to Brush creek and care for them that winter. The two young men arrived at their destination in November in the midst of a big snow storm. They took shelter in a cabin on the original LOVE holdings in the valley, and turned the cattle loose to shift for themselves. As a commentary on the changed conditions in 49 years, it is well to note that, while they never saw the cattle again until the next spring, when they gathered them from the Brush creek along the Eagle river, scattered from the mouth of Brush creek to Dotsero, with the loss of only one head which and been drowned in the river.

Mr. WILKINSON soon afterward took up his homestead, now the James E. ULIMANN home, which he afterward sold to R. P. WOOD, and later bought the land where his present fine ranch home is located.

He had been a cow man all his life to the end, and until this summer rode the range with the youngest and best riders and gave his fine herd of well bred range cattle his careful and personal attention. He loved cows and the range life. Wherever cow men met in Western Colorado, George WILKINSON was known, and his calm sure advice sought on all matters respecting the range. He has been president of the Eagle Valley Stockgrowers association for the past seven years, was a member of the Western Slope Cattle Growers, and the Colorado Stockgrowers associations.

On May 9 1889, he was married to Miss Minnie McKENZIE, a native of New York state. To this union were born two children, Clarence Edmund and Edna Lillian. The son passed on several years ago, while the widow and daughter, now Mrs. Moulton CHAMBERS, and a half brother, Henry BEMIS are the only surviving relatives of close kin.

Funeral services were held Friday afternoon from the home of the daughter, Mrs. CHAMBERS, in Eagle, Revere d Mr. YOUNG, pastor of the Glenwood Springs Presbyterian church delivered a short but eloquent eulogy to the deceased, while, the burial services were in charge of the local Masonic lodge, of which Mr. WILKINSON had long been a member. The body was followed to the cemetery by great concourse of friends from all parts of the county, where it was sorrowfully laid to rest beside that of his beloved son.[5 July 1929, Eagle Valley Enterprise, p1]
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More About Mary A. Coil:
Census: Jun 1870, Walnut Creek, Brown County, Kansas ^10818,¹⁰⁸¹⁹

More About George Bemis and Mary Coil:
Marriage: Aft. 1864¹⁰⁸¹⁹

Children of George Bemis and Mary Coil are:

4045

Emma N.⁸ Bemis¹⁰⁸¹⁹, born Abt. 1868 in Kansas ^10820,¹⁰⁸²¹.

Notes for Emma N. Bemis:
[Received from Curtis Bemis Jr.]

1870 US Census, Walnut Creek, Brown County, KS; p. 38, lines 24-33
(House #253, Family #253)
Bemis, George, age 31, Farmer, b. PA
Mary A., age 36, Keeping House, b. OH
Emma N., age 2, b. KS
Wilkinson, Edmond, age 18, b. IN
Wilkinson, Sarah A., age 19, b. IN
Wilkinson, Mary M. age 12, b. IN
Wilkinson, Jesse F., age 8, b. KS
Wilkinson, George S., age 6, b. KS
Shir, Alfred, age 22, b. PA
Marshall, Melissa, age 25, b. PA
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1880 US Census, Census Place:Walnut, Brown, Kansas
Source: FHL Film 1254374 National Archives Film T9-0374 Page 399D
Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace
James SPRAGUE Self M M W 26 IL
Occ: Farmer Fa: OH Mo: IL
Mary SPRAGUE Wife F M W 22 IN
Occ: Keeping House Fa: OH Mo: OH
Ema BEMMIS SisterL F S W 12 KS
Occ: At School Fa: PA Mo: OH
Henry BEMMIS BroL M S W 10 KS
Occ: At School Fa: PA Mo: OH
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More About Emma N. Bemis:
Census: Jun 1870, Walnut Creek, Brown County, Kansas ^10822,¹⁰⁸²³
Census1: Jun 1880, Walnut (Creek), Brown County, Kansas ^10824,¹⁰⁸²⁵

4046

ii.

Henry Jotham Bemis, born 1873 in Kansas; died Aft. Apr 1930 in prob. Osborne County, Kansas.

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