Jacob and Ann: Their Children

Since January 2013, I’ve been studying the book, Professional Genealogy, edited by Elizabeth Shown Mills, with a group of nine people plus three others: a mentor, a group coordinator, and an administrator. I’m truly grateful to have had the privilege of learning professional genealogy with these wonderful people: Jill, Rorey, Lise, Lilly, Lynn, Ami, Barry, and Angela G., plus Craig, Teresa, and Angela Mc. The group is appropriately called ProGen Study Group.  Our final assignment has been to write a history of one couple and list their children, two generations. Then we critique each other’s work and revise.

It just so happened that when this assignment came around, I was blogging on Anna Harman and Jacob Waggoner, so despite the daunting number of Jacob’s children, plus not wanting to be researching two families at the same time, I chose Jacob and Ann for my assignment. My previous three blogs have been part of that assignment. The final part is to create a genealogical summary complete with sources for every fact. This is what you see today—the first half anyway—Anna’s children. (The small raised numbers beside the names designate generation numbers, not footnotes. Generation A is the immigrant, Adam Waggoner, but since he is not the subject of the study, he gets a letter instead of a number. Jacob, as the subject of the study, is generation 4 in America). The Roman numerals designate birth order.) This summary does not include children born to the unions of Jacob’s children and their spouses, but just to let you know, I’ve added the number of children they produced. You might notice that of all 20 of Jacob’s children, Grandma Mary’s father Eli produced the greatest number of children at nine. Occasionally, I have inserted a comment that won't be in my final version of my assignment; neither will the photos.

Genealogical Summary

of

Jacob A. Waggoner of Southwestern Virginia,

His Two Wives and Twenty Children

1    Jacob⁴ A. Waggoner (Elias^C, George^B, Adam^A) was born 16 September 1826[1] in Tazewell County, Virginia;[2] he died 1 October 1901,[3] in Washington County, Virginia.[4] Jacob first married, 6 July 1853,[5] Anna F. Harman, daughter of Henry J. Harman and Famy (Brown) Harman.[6] Anna was born 15 February 1834,[7] probably Smyth County as that’s where her parents lived at the time, but I have no verifying info on her place of birth, and died 9 March 1871, in Bland County.[8] Jacob second married, 19 December 1871, Frances Josephine “Fannie” Kirby in Bland County,[9] daughter of Stephen Kirby and Margaret Ann (Doak) Kirby,[10] born 12 July 1849 and died 14 February 1929.[11]

Known Children of Jacob A. Waggoner and Anna F. Harman

2       i.  ELIAS HENRY⁵ WAGGONER (nicknamed Charley) was born 4 October 1853, Bland                    County, Virginia, and died 16 March 1926, Liberty, Missouri. He married, 18                             December 1881, Louise Jane Burge of Bland County. In 1882 they moved to Pierce

   County, Nebraska, where they lived until 1910 when they moved to Liberty,

   Missouri, where three of his brothers lived. They had four known children.[12]

Elias and Jane Waggoner and 3 of their children, Myrtle, Ida, and Kelly.

Elias "Charley" and Jane Waggoner, Myrtle, Kelly, and Ida. A son George died at age 18.

  3      ii  ELI PIERCE⁵ WAGGONER was born 25 October 1854, Smyth County, Virginia,[13] and                 died 16 February 1925, Audrain County, Missouri.[14] He first married, 21 July 1881,                 Betty O. Colley.[15] They had no known children. Eli second married, 2 September                          1885, Rachel Havens.[16] They had nine known children.

Eli and Rachel Waggoner family: Mary, Emery, Alice, Ida, Gordon, Jacob, Amanda, and Leo.

 

   4   iii   GEORGE W.⁵ WAGGONER was born 27 January 1857 Bland County, Virginia, and died

              5 April 1939, Clay County, Missouri.[17] He married Willie Wisler, 24 April 1901, Clay

              County, Missouri.[18] She was born 20 October 1881 in Missouri to Isaac and Dosie               Wisler.[19] She died 1 April 1939.[20] They had one known daughter who died in infancy.

  George came to Clay County, Missouri, in 1882 with a small suitcase and $50.00. He  

  worked for $18.00 a month for eighteen years until he was able to purchase 40 acres of land.

  Later he purchased an additional 100 acres. He managed his farm well and became a  

  “successful farmer and stockman of Gallatin township,” raising hogs, sheep, and cattle.[21] 

  George and Willie died as a result of injuries sustained in an auto accident. (Somewhere, I   

  have copies of newspaper articles about the accident, but I can't find them at the moment! 

  Grrr!)

George and Willie (Wisler) Wagner

 5   iv   MAUDE ALICE⁵ WAGGONER born 16 August 1859, Bland County, Virginia,[22] and died               after 1930.[23] She married James Marion Hubble in 1882 in Virginia.[24] They had five               known children.

 

6      v   HEZEKIAH HIRAM⁵ WAGGONER born 27 January 1861, Bland County, Virginia, and                  died 1 August 1957, Clay County, Missouri.[25] He married Lottie Mae Hayes, 17

November 1903 in Missouri. H.H. owned 40 acres that shared a border with his brother   George’s land. They had one known child, a daughter.

Hezekiah H. Waggoner, taken in Abingdon, VA, c. 1880

HH Wagner, at age 96, with daughter Evelyn and family, May 1957.

HH and Ottie Wagner, their home in Clay County, Missouri.

HH and Lottie Wagner, their farm in Clay County, Missouri.

7       vi  ARDELIA IBBIE⁵ WAGGONER born June 1864, Bland County, Virginia,[26] and died

  1956, Bland County. Ibbie married Fisher G. Gearing, 6 December 1882 in Bland

  County. They had three known children. [27]

8      vii  AMANDA V.⁵ WAGGONER born February 1866,[28] Bland County, and died after

  1940.[29] She married Piper W. Neff in 1900, after June 7, in Roanoke, Virginia.[30]

   They had no known children.

 9    viii  WILLIS GRANT⁵ WAGGONER born 12 January 1869, Bland County, and died 17

   February 1956, Liberty, Clay County, Missouri.[31] According to a granddaughter, Willis

   married Ottie Buchanan, 5 October 1898, in Virginia, and then left for Missouri without

   her. After 10 years, he finally brought Ottie to Missouri.[32] They had four known

   children, all sons.

Ottie and Willis Wagner on the occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary.

10  ix   WILLIAM STEWART⁵ WAGGONER born 8 March 1871, Bland County,[33] and died 24

              September 1871, in Bland County.[34]

One more note: I'm struck by how much these brothers resemble each other: narrow chins, high cheek bones, deep set eyes, much like their mother, tempered by the good looks of their father.

© 2014, Z. T. Noble.

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[1] Kelly’s Chapel Cemetery (Washington County, Virginia); Jacob Wagner marker, photographed 20 August 2008 by the researcher.

[2] Thomas C. Hatcher and Nancy Nash, The Adam Waggoner Family of Tazewell and Montgomery Counties  Virginia, 1750-1996 (no place: no publisher, 1996), 32.

[3] Kelly’s Chapel Cemetery (Washington Co., Va.); Jacob Wagner marker.

[4] Hatcher and Nash, The Adam Waggoner Family, 32.

[5] Harman, Harman Genealogy, 162.

[6] Ibid., 159, 162.

[7] Ibid., 162. Also, Virginia Deaths and Burials Index, 1853-1917, database Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com : accessed 12 May 2014), Anna Waggoner.

[8] Virginia Deaths and Burials Index, 1853-1917, Anna Waggoner.

[9] Bland Co., Va., Marriage Records, Book 1:8, Jacob Waggoner and Fanie J. Kirby. Also, Hatcher and Nash, The Adam Waggoner Family, p. 34.

[10] Hatcher and Nash, The Adam Waggoner Family, p. 34.

[11] Kelly’s Chapel Cemetery; Fannie J. Wagner marker.

[12] “Former Pierce Resident Dies in Missouri,” Pierce County Call, Pierce, Nebraska, May 23, 1935, p. 1.

[13] Smyth County, Virginia, Register of Births, Book 1: 71, entry for Eli P. Wagner; County Clerk’s Office, Marion.

[14] Missouri State Board of Health, death certificate no. 3554, Eli P. Waggoner (1925); Bureau of Vital Statistics, Jefferson City.

[15] Smyth County Register of Marriages, Book 1: 59, Eli P. Wagoner and Betty O. Colly, 1881; County Clerk’s Office, Marion.

[16] Jacquie Mitchell, Eli Waggoner—Rachel Havens Family Group Sheet, private collection, supplied by Mitchell, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE] Bothell, Washington, 2000. This sheet offers no list of sources used, no documentation. A search of Smyth County marriage books has not resulted in a record for this marriage. Surrounding counties need to be searched. This marriage date also appears in obituaries of Eli and Rachel.

[17] Findagrave.com, digital images (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 22 May 2014), photograph, gravestone for George W. Wagner (1857-1939), Mount Olivet Christian Church Cemetery, Clay County, Missouri.

[18] Clay County, Missouri, Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002, database Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com : accessed 9 June 2014),  entry for George W. Wagner and Willie Wisler, 24 April 1901.

[19] 1900 U. S. census, Galiton, Clay County, Missouri, population schedule, enumeration district (ED) 18, p. 50 (stamped), sheet 1-A, dwelling 5, family 5, Isaac Whistler family, digital image Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 8 June 2014); NARA microfilm publication T623, roll 849.

[20] Find A Grave, database and images (http://findagrave.com : accessed 8 June 2014), photograph, memorial page for Willie (Wisler) Wagner (1881 - 1939), Find A Grave Memorial no. 39116963, created by “Deb,” citing Mount Olivet Christian Church Cemetery, Smithville, Clay County, Missouri; photograph contributed by “Deb.” 

[21] W. H. Woodson, History of Clay County, Missouri (Topeka, KS: Historical Publishing Company, 1920), 504; digital image, The Library of Congress (https://archive.org/details/

historyofclaycou00wood : accessed 10 June 2014).

[22] 1900 U. S. census, Smyth County, Virginia, population schedule, Olympia Precinct, p. 142 (stamped), enumeration district [ED] 86, sheet 7-A, dwelling 117, family 117, Maud A. Hubble; digital image Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 22 May 2014); NARA microfilm publication T623, roll 1728.

[23] 1930 U. S. census, Smyth County, Virginia, population schedule, Olympia precinct, p. 201 (stamped), enumeration district [ED] 87-11, sheet 4-A, dwelling 51, family 58, Alice M.  Hubble; digital image Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 24 May 2014); NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 2461. Maude Alice was alive for this census in 1930. I haven't been able to find her in the 1940 census, so I don't know how long she lived after 1930.

[24] 1900 U. S. census, Olympia, Smyth County, Virginia, population schedule, enumeration district (ED) 86, p. 142 (stamped), sheet 7-A, dwelling 117, family 117, James Hubble family; digital image Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 8 June 2014); NARA microfilm publication T623, roll 1728.

[25] Findagrave.com, memorial for Hezekiah Hiram Wagner (1857-1939), Fairview Cemetery, Liberty, Clay County, Missouri.

[26] 1900 U. S. census, Sedden, Bland County, Virginia, population schedule, enumeration district [ED] 3, p. 93 (stamped), sheet 2-A, dwelling 24, family 24,  Tobie Gegring [Ibbie Gearing]; digital image Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 22 May 2014); NARA microfilm publication T623, roll 1701.

[27] Hatcher and Nash, The Adam Waggoner Family, 33.

[28] 1900 U. S. census, Roanoke County, Virginia, population schedule, Salem, enumeration district [ED] 77, p. 209 (stamped), sheet 8-B, dwelling 129, family 129, Amanda Wagoner, digital image Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 22 May 2014); NARA microfilm publication T623, roll 1725.

[29] 1940 U. S. census, Roanoke County, Virginia, population schedule, Salem, ED no. 81-20, p. 423 (stamped), sheet 3-A, house no. 45, Amanda Naff, digital image Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 24 May 2014); NARA microfilm publication T627, roll 4289. Death date is unknown, but Amanda was living when the 1940 census was taken.

[30] 1910 U. S. census, Salem, Roanoke County, Virginia, population schedule, enumeration disctict (ED) no. 77, sheet 8-B, dwelling 129, family 129, Eugene Abbott household, Amanda Wagoner, digital image Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 8 June 2014); NARA microfilm publication T623, roll 1725. Also, 1930 U. S. census, Roanoke County, population schedule, Salem precinct, enumeration district [ED] 9, sheet 15-B, dwelling 326, family 326, Piper W. Naff household; digital image Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 8 June 2014); NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 2457. The 1900 census taken on June 7 records Amanda as single, but the 1930 census says she was married at age 33. From her birth year, age at marriage, and marital status in 1900 one can infer that she married in 1900, after 7 June.

[31] Find A Grave, database and images (http://findagrave.com : accessed 8 June 2014), memorial page for Willis Grant Wagner (1869 - 1956), Find A Grave Memorial no. 41608296, created by “Deb,” citing Mount Olivet Christian Church Cemetery, Smithville, Clay County, Missouri; photographs contributed by “Deb” and “ztnoble.” 

[32]  lgrilli138 to ztnoble, private message, 4 October 2013, “Re: Venice and Garland Waggoner Photos,” Messages, Ancestry.com.

[33] Bland County, Virginia Births: 1861-96, p. 22, William Waggoner, 8 March 1871; database Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com : accessed 24 May 2014).

[34] Virginia Deaths and Burials Index, 1853-1917, Wm J Waggoner.