James CROGHAN
1850 CENSUS,PERRY CO. OHIO. CROGHAN FAMILY HISTORY,BY FRANSINA CROGHAN POUDER. 1891 ATLAS,POTTAWATTAMIE CO. IOWA. 1860/70 CENSUS OF CEDAR CO. IOWA. STATED IN 1870 CENSUS THAT JAMES PARENTS WERE FORIEGN BORN. IT IS SAID THAT THERE WERE 11 CHILDREN IN THIS FAMILY BUT OTHERS WERE UNKNOWN TO ME. OLD CEM. OVERLOOKING CEDAR RIVER,WHITE MARBLE OBELISK ABOUT 5'TALL. INFO.FROM BILL CROGHAN ,YAKIMA,WASH. WAS A MEMBER OF CO. B.37TH VOL.REG. IOWA ENL. 15 DEC. 1862, MED.DIS. 17 DEC 1864.GALLIPOLIS OHIO. EYES BLUE HAIR,GREY,HT.5'10",OCC.COOPER CHECK 1830 CENTRE AND ALLEGHENY Marr. Rec.in cedar Co.Ohio, 6 Apr.1865, James croghan to Jane Coffey. This was probably a second marriage. Land Records; Ohio,Carroll Co. vol.8 page 609,quit clail;James Crochan and Catharine late Montz. Later in Perry,Salt Lick,Ohio 1850 census James and Catharine lived next door to Catharines sister Elizabeth and Samuel Brindley. Harrison Co Ohio Acct. of guardians;/FHL film0894187;p.161;both william and James bought items from estate of Charles Angel. Census; Union;Harrison;page 116/220;James is on the same page as William. Listed as between 20/30;1male 6-10;1 female 15/20;1female 10/15 Marriage rec.5 Oct 1828,in Tuscarawus Co. Ohio. a printed rec.(misread?) of James croghan to Cathrine Mauntry. Notes from Charles Croghan;He was a member of the Hardsbell Baptist Church but after coming to Iowa he united with the Christian Church. Charles said James had 14 children,but only lists 3. He also said he was a Republican. I think this is from a family poem that has a lot of errors in it.
Carroll Co. Ohio quit claim deed filed in vol. 8;pg.609,1844,gives James Crochan and Catharine, late Montz, dau and heir of Jacob Montz Jr. dcd. Also to Samuel Brindley and his wife, Elizabeth Montz. In the 1850 census, Perry Co. Saltlick Twsp.Ohio. Samuel Brindley and family are next door to James and family.
1860 CENSUS,CEDAR CO. IOWA. MARRIAGE LISCENSE. DEATH CERT. JOURNAL OF B.F. CROGHAN, LISTING NAMES AND DATES OF CHILDREN.BIRTH. BFCroghan in Elkhorn City,Douglas Co. Neb.1856 B.F. Croghan left his family in Kansas after 1775,and with a group of men went to Ca. They were hoping to find their fortune. I don't think any of them ever did,and I know B.F. didn't, He kept a journal of his journey through Ca. starting in Siskiyou Co. near Henley. He told of winters with little food, existing on coffee and dried apples. He spoke of finding mastadon bones at several of their mines. He describes his journey through area later known as Lassen Park and through areas now called ,Butte Meadows,Inskip,(Snow Mine) and Stirling City, and spent a winter in Lovelock. Earlier he had watched a large group of Monarch butterflies as they migrated south. One of the Monarchs spent the winter with him in a cabin that was snowed in for some time. He ended up at Jarbo Gap,Concow and Yankee Hill area where some of his desc. live today. His son Grant joined him there with his wife and son. Grants wife Almeda died at the birth of a child and B.F. helped him raise his children.B F 's grandaughter Bess said he put up the first telephone lines in yankeehill. He and his son also left in their journals stories about the Indian burnings they attended. He left this poem in his journal. Come aul ye rovering farmers..........A warning take by me never by a farm an go to California to pay for it... If you do your wife will run away with som other man an drag your children aul ore the land. I bought me a farm in Kansas ,for my wife and little wons and went to California to pay for it I work night and day to rais the money.......sent her two hundred a year but that was not enough for her So won day a farmer came rideing by, he being young and she in love she rent him the farm for won third....in place of that he takes it aul and runs away to Iowa where my little wons is scattered aul ore the land I have followed mining for seven long years and always com out behind com aul my jolly partners with me still we will go home to our friends and tell them of the hardships we have been through aul tho my llttle wons is scattered aul ore the land i work both in heat and cold and rain and snow to make the money so she could flirt with som other man so let her flirt i will stay in the land of gold if it is cold to make a hold to find the gold aul tho my little wons is scattered aul ore the land com aul young ladies fair and watch the roving farmer he will leave you in dispare to hunt the land of clover so you can take another man an rome aul over..if your children is left alone in dispair do not drag them aul ore the land now i will bring my verses to a close for the one i chose out of rochester she rose....to shelley she goes for a rose,me she does not know for i am in the land of gold with pick shovel and the hoe to pull out the ore whilst my little wons travel aul ore the land so now i am told that she is getting old she can not romp and rome with another man in my home as she did in my home with the farm aul turned with plenty and over while i dug after the gold in the oven for the one that was so slovin aul tho i am old aul most to mould...tho i have strength and ambishion to get the gold and take som won home that i may romp an rome.. in place of the won that left my home to find new clover if my little wons is scattered aul over in another year i think ill take her over... to look at the farm my wife run aul over for the man that was not the oner he being cunning and she being wise...they concluded to clime the skys and left old Frank to wipe his eyes now it is aul over...i hope she is happy.....so am i tho i must youse the axes as the farm did not pay the taxes....you see it was dry flax would not grow so imust youse the hoe to pay those taxes if my little wons is cast aul ore the land
TOMBSTONE IN OLD CEM. OVERLOOKING CEDAR RIVER.
FROM TOMBSTONE,4 PEOPLE ON 1 STONE,JAMES,CAROLINE,ELIZABETH CATHERINE
FOUGHT IN CIVIL WAR,NEVER MARRIED AND DIED SOON AFTER WAR. Co.G,35th Vol. Inf. Reg. of Iowa Cedar Co. Iowa, 1860.Iowa twp,pg.143;age 16; Working on farm of Abigail Anderson.
PENSION APP. LISTED ALL CHILDREN AND BIRTH DATES INFO. FROM SINA CROGHAN WHO WROTE A SHORT FAM. HISTORY ALSO MARRIAGE REC. JOSHUA WAS A CIVIL WAR VEtERAN AND APP.FOR AND GOT A PENSION.MARCHED TO THE SEA WITH GEN. SHERMAN. WAS PRESENT FOR THE GRAND REVIEW IN WASHINGTON. 1880 census,"Wright,Pottawattamie,Iowa. og, 132A,includes children down to Colbert. NOTES FROM CHARLES CROGHAN; Joshua M. was reared in Cedar Co. Iowa on a farm and learned the harness makers trade at Wilton Junction,Muscatine Co. After the Civil War he returned to Cedar Co. where he resided for six years. He then removed to Clinton Co. remaining three years, then returning to Cedar co. Five years later, in 1879 he came to Pottawattamie Co. In 1880 he purchased forty acres of wild land which he has since improved and brought under a high state of cultivation. He has a comfortable home, a good barn, modern wind pump, a grove and orchard of four acres, and other substantial improvements. Everything, about the Croghan farm shows thrift and enterprise.At present he is improving 240 acres of land and is feeding twenty-eighty head of cattle and a large number of hogs. Joshua is living with his dau. Sina in 1930 census age 75,widowed .
DEATH CERT. LETTER FROM A GRANDSON OF "KI" LEROY O. CROGHAN,1208 9TH AVE,COUNCIL BLUFFS IOWA, HE MARRIED ELIZABETH PRUETT,A SISTER OF REBECCA WIFE OF B.F.CROGHAN. HE HAd 3 CHILDREN ACC. TO LEROY, MARY(PRUETT),WILLIAM 0. AND DAVID WHOSE FAMILY LIVED AT VALENTINE NEB. ALSO BABE AND SELONA. HIS SON WILLIAM OSCAR MARRIED MAUDIE DINSMORE DAUGHTER OF DIANTHA CROGHAN DINSMORE WHO WAS THE DAU. OF REBECCA AND BENJAMIN CROGHAN Came to Cedar Co. Iowa at age 4 or 5 in a covered wagon. farmed in Nebraska for 20 yrs. Owned 9,000\11,000 acres. Had a sawmill So. of Missouri Valley Iowa. Lost drivers Lisc. at 100 yrs of age. An article in Lewis paper says"Mr. Croghan says he has been everywhere.. Father of seven children, two sons are still living; David of Bassett,Neb. and William,79 who lives with the fatherl It is William who takes care of the house and cooks the meals,keeps the lawn neatly mowed and raises the beautiful flowers which are the delight of the father. Mr Croghan is a small,wiry,courteous man and is a member of the Lewis Methodist church." This was written when he was 100 yrs old. At age 99 they showed him in a pict. with his spring flock of little chicks. He died at age 102 of cerebral thrombosis and senility (death cert) Nickname was Ki vol.83. ed 140 sheet 8 line 41,Woodbury,Co.,Rock twsp. 1900 Iowa census. listed with 3 children Hezekiah,David and Mary
1870 CENSUS SHOWS REBECCA CROGAN,AGE 15, LIVING WITH CASEBEER FAMILY, TIPTON SUGARCREEK TWSP. CEDAR CO. IOWA ,71-74. 1900 soundex vol25.rd 127 sh.10,line 31, Taylor twsp.Epworth town,Dubuque Iowa.
FROM TOMBSTONE,4 PEOPLE ON 1 STONE,JAMES,CAROLINE,ELIZABETH CATHERINE
He married Catharine Montz 5 Oct 1828 at Tuscarawas, Ohio . Catharine Montz was born at Pa or Maryland Abt 1812 daughter of Jacob Montz and Catherine Hubbs .
They were the parents of 9
children:
Benjamin Franklin Croghan
born 10 Jun 1830.
Elizabeth Croghan
born Abt 1838.
Catherine M Croghan
born Abt 1842.
Davis Croghan
born Abt 1844.
Joshua Montzon Croghan
born 12 Apr 1847.
Adeline Croghan
born Abt 1847.
Hezekiah Springer Croghan
born 15 Apr 1850.
Rebecca Diantha Croghan
born Aug 1854.
Blocked
James Croghan died 16 Sep 1870 at Rochester, Cedar, Iowa .
Catharine Montz died 14 Dec 1854 at Rochester, Cedar, Iowa .