George Washington BABCOCK

Birth:
11 Nov 1816
Chittenden, Vermont
Death:
22 Jul 1893
Fort Dodge, Dodge City, Kansas
Marriage:
15 Apr 1844
Warren, Illinois
Sources:
Internet IGI 2003
Notes:
                   NOTES:
   1.  George Washington Babcock's civil war records indicate that he was
    born  in Chittenden VT but little is known of him from his birth to his
    arrival  in Monmouth IL before 1840.  About 1840 he married Laura A. Wroth and
    they had four daughters between 1841 and 1849 when Laura died. In
    1851 in  Monmouth, he married a widow, DelilahTurner Spraig (Sprague), and she
    bore them 8 boys, five of which lived to adulthood.  In 1854, they
    moved  to Clark County IA and then to Page County IA (Amity).  He was a
    sawyer  and owned a lumber company in Amity and furnished the lumber for the
    building of Amity College.  In 1863 (age 47) enlisted for 3 years in
    the  Union Army as a private in the 8th Iowa Cavalry where he served for
    about  2 years.  Saw action in Alabama and Georgia before his eye was
    injured in  1864 in a non-battle injury.  August 1865 he was discharged and
    returned  to Page County.  After 1868, he left his family and eventually ended
    up in Jewell County KS where he lived with (or near) Mary Babcock Moody
    (daughter from his first marriage) and her husband, Charles Moody.
    Applied for a veterans pension in 1889 while living in Otego, Jewell
    County KS.  Died July 22, 1893 at Fort Dodge Veterans Home near Dodge
    City KS and is buried in the GAR cemetery at Fort Dodge.
    2. Have been unable to trace his lineage before his arrival in
    Monmouth IL.  There is no trace of a George Washington Babcock in
    Chittenden VT.  That could be because there was a fire in the
    mid-1930's  that destroyed a lot of birth records.
    3. It's assumed that George and Delilah were divorced because she
    later  married a William Sonnesberger in Colorado (prior to their moving to
    Wyoming).
Delilah Sarah TURNER
Birth:
16 Aug 1829
Patriot, Switzerland, Indiana
Death:
16 Aug 1890
Buffalo, Johnson, Wyoming
Burial:
Sheridan, Wyoming
Notes:
                      NOTES:
     1.  August 16, 1829, born to Joseph and Lois Turner in Patriot,
    Switzerland  County, Indiana.  In 1832, both parents died and she was raised by her
    grandparents.  On Augst 16, 1844 (age 15), she married a Daniel R.
    Spraig  (Sprague?).  She was widowed in 1849 at age 20.  They had no children.
    She studied medicine under Dr. Webster of Monmouth IL and became a
    physician.  On April, 15, 1851, she married George Washington
    Babcock in  Monmouth IL and they had 8 sons, 5 of whom lived to adulthood.  In
    1856,  they moved to Amity (now College Springs), Page County IA. About 1870,
    she separated from Babcock.  (It's assumed they divorced because she
    remarried in 1876.) In 1872 she and her five sons moved to the
    Colorado  frontier. On August 16, 1876, she married William A. Sonnesberger, a
    German immigrant, in Colorado.  In 1878, they moved to the Wyoming
    frontier and were the second family to move to the Big Horn area of
    WY.  In 1883, she moved to Sheridan WY and on August 16, 1890, she died in
    Sheridan WY and is buried there.  She was the first and only
    physician on  the Wyming frontier for many years and delivered many of the babies
    born  there.  In Sheridan, she owned the land now known as South Park
    Addition.  She was the first woman to vote in what was then Johnson
    County (now the areas of Johnson and Sheridan Counties). A photo of
    her  voting now hangs in the Buffalo WY museum. She was a member of the
    Christian Church for many years but joined the Methodist Episcopal
    Church  in Sheridan.  She was a prohibitionist and when she sold her land, she
    added a reversionary clause to the deed that if the lands should
    ever be  used for "houses of intemperance, or ill fame", the lands would
    revert to  her (or to her estate).  She was a good writer and orator.  She was
    born,  married twice and died on August 16th.
    2. Marriage to G.W. Babcock alos reported as <1853>, , Sealed 4 Nov 1999, LVEGA.
Children
Marriage
1
William Winfield BABCOCK
Birth:
4 Aug 1854
Monmouth, Warren, Illinois
Death:
20 Nov 1923
Buffalo, Johnson, Wyoming
May Belle SIMPSON 
Marr:
30 Sep 1878
Laramie, Albany, Wyoming 
2
James Ransome BABCOCK
Birth:
27 Jan 1855
College Springs, Page, Iowa
Death:
14 Sep 1937
Oregon City, Oregon
 
Marr:
 
3
Delos Dudley BABCOCK
Birth:
18 Nov 1858
College Springs, Page, Iowa
Death:
 
Marr:
 
4
Delivan BABCOCK
Birth:
5 Oct 1860
College Springs, Page, Iowa
Death:
 
Marr:
 
5
Elmer E. BABCOCK
Birth:
18 Nov 1861
College Springs, Page, Iowa
Death:
 
Marr:
 
Notes:
                       As a young man and for unknown reasons, changed his name to Charlie
    Edwards.
6
George Grant BABCOCK
Birth:
15 Feb 1864
College Springs, Page, Iowa
Death:
28 Aug 1868
College Springs, Page, Iowa
 
Marr:
 
7
Frank Lincoln BABCOCK
Birth:
21 May 1866
College Springs, Page, Iowa
Death:
12 Feb 1868
College Springs, Page, Iowa
 
Marr:
 
8
BABCOCK
Birth:
1868
College Springs, Page, Iowa
Death:
1868
College Springs, Page, Iowa
 
Marr:
 
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George Washington Babcock - Delilah Sarah Turner

George Washington Babcock was born at Chittenden, Vermont 11 Nov 1816. His parents were George Babcock and Mary Gravitt.

He married Delilah Sarah Turner 15 Apr 1844 at Warren, Illinois . Delilah Sarah Turner was born at Patriot, Switzerland, Indiana 16 Aug 1829 daughter of Josiah Turner and Lois Nichols .

They were the parents of 8 children:
William Winfield Babcock born 4 Aug 1854.
James Ransome Babcock born 27 Jan 1855.
Delos Dudley Babcock born 18 Nov 1858.
Delivan Babcock born 5 Oct 1860.
Elmer E. Babcock born 18 Nov 1861.
George Grant Babcock born 15 Feb 1864.
Frank Lincoln Babcock born 21 May 1866.
Babcock born 1868.

George Washington Babcock died 22 Jul 1893 at Fort Dodge, Dodge City, Kansas .

Delilah Sarah Turner died 16 Aug 1890 at Buffalo, Johnson, Wyoming .