Kinsey, Daughter (b. , d. ?)

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Note: ELWOOD GAY found at Ancestry Plus.
SSN 379-01-7754 Residence: 49017 Battle Creek, Calhoun, MI
Born 8 Oct 1904 Last Benefit:
Died Nov 1967 Issued: MI (Before 1951)

Death: NOV 1967 Battle Creek, Calhoun Co., MI

Source: (Birth)
Title: Interview of Martha June Chambers- 1997
Media: Book

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Death: 21 FEB 1965 Kalamazoo MI

Source: (Birth)
Title: Interview of Martha June Chambers- 1997
Media: Book

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Occupation: Place: Registered Nurse

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Note: Hess, June View Image Online
Age: 6 Year: 1930
Birthplace: Michigan Roll: T626_979
Race: White Page: 8A
State: Michigan ED: 8
County: Cass Image: 0899
Township: La Grange
Relationship: Daughter

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Note: Hess, Dorothy M
Age: 5.12 Year: 1930
Birthplace: Roll: T626_979
Race: Page: 8A
State: Michigan ED: 8
County: Cass Image: 0899
Township: La Grange
Relationship: Daughter

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Note: DONALD LITHERLAND
SSN 308-14-6897 Residence: 46617 South Bend, St Joseph, IN
Born 22 Nov 1920 Last Benefit:
Died Nov 1981 Issued: IN (Before 1951)

Death: NOV 1981

Source: (Name)
Title: Jonathan Yeck's Certificate of Death For The State of IL, Dist. 6044, #16

Source: (Birth)
Title: 1850 Census For Monroe Tw'p., Logan Co. OH, Roll 704, Page 3, Copy held by Benjamin Kinsey.
Media: Census

Source: (Birth)
Title: 1860 Census For Monroe Tw'p., Logan Co. OH, Roll 1000, Copy held by Benjamin Kinsey.
Media: Census

Source: (Birth)
Title: 1880 Census For West Liberty Township, Logan Co. OH, Roll 1041, Copy held by Benjamin Kinsey

Page: E. D. 117, Sheet 17, Line 5

Source: (Birth)
Title: 1840 Census For Freedom Tw'p., Adam Co., PA, Page 268
Media: Book

Source: (Birth)
Title: Personal Bible of Allie Belle Yeck, Daughter of Jonathon Yeck, Held by Owen Lyons Jr.

Source: (Birth)
Title: I.G.I. Records

Page: Batch #8720921, Source Call #1396386

Source: (Birth)
Title: 1870 Census for Liberty Tw'p., Logan Co., OH, Roll 1234

Page: Page 118, Line 11

Source: (Death)
Title: Record of Deaths, Probate Court, Logan Co., OH, Page 334, #226, Copy Held by Benjamin Kinsey

Source: (Burial)
Title: Genealogy in Logan Co., OH, Liberty Tw'p., Fairview Cemetery Inscriptions

Occupation: Date: BET 1825 AND 1885
Place: Shoemaker

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Note: IGI records show no Joseph Yeck as being born in Switzerland, but there is a Franz Josef Jeck being born on 10/04/1804 in Zeiningen, Aargau.

From Joseph forward, all descendants are listed with the surname of Yeck.

The following histories were written by three different grandchildren of Joseph from three different children's lines.
The following history of Joseph Yeck was written by Blanche Yeck Wright, a daughter of Jonathan and grand daughter of Joseph.

Joseph Yeck was born in Switzerland Oct.4-1804, came to America with his parents & family 1816, landing at Baltimore, Maryland. Was lost at sea for three months. They had paid their voyage when they started, but taking so long to come, they owed some on voyage, And as he "Joe" was the oldest, being 12 years old at the time, was sold on auction block to pay voyage. A Mr. Barney, a merchant in Baltimore, a Protestant, bought him, and as his family were all Catholic, his father, in 18 months,
bought him back and bound him over to a Catholic shoe maker to learn the trade as "Jerr" shoe maker (one that goes from house to house making shoes for the family), which trade he followed until death in May 17 , 1885 in Ohio. North of Baltimore he made shoes for the family of Mr. Booher, and in 1825 was married to Barbara Ann Booher. She died Oct. 24, 1852. When he became 21 at midnight on Sat., he walked out on his own, and carried all his possessions in a red handkerchief. The 18 months
was under Protestant influence planted the Protestant faith in him, that as a young man, he joined the Dunkards,and lived in that faith the rest of his life.
Jonathan Yeck being his fourth child, born Sept. 13 - 1831 in the vicinity of Baltimore, Md.-later moving with his father's family, when he (Jonathan) was 18, to Bellefountane, Ohio - he walking the entire distance of 500 miles. 0n Oct. 13 - 1853 he married Amanda Mopps. She died Nov.27-1862, leaving two children, Lewis William Yeck and Allie Bell Yeck. He married Susannah Smith Apr. 15-1863. To this union
ten children was born
Viola Amanda Yeck - born Feb. 2- 1864
Mattie Lucinda " Oct. 13-1865
Edward Ames Yeck - Dec. 9-1867
Miles Oscar Yeck May 12- 1870
Calvin Kingsley Yeck - died in infancy 1872
Chas Conklin Yeck - Apr. 19 -1874
Samuel Emmett Yeck Mar. 3 -1876
Joseph Gideon Yeck Nov. 30 -1878
Alida Blanche " Aug. 30 -1881
Logan Guy Yeck Jan 27 -1884

Jonathan Yeck & family, wife Susannah, four children, Lewis & Allie, b:. first marriage: & Viola & Hattie , by second marriage, came to Ill. in Oct. 1866. Locating north west of Woburn, where the other 8
children were born, & where he died, Dec. 27 -1924 - the age of 93 yrs.- 3 mo. and 14 days.
His wife Susannah died July 20-1903.
Copy held by Benjamin Kinsey.

THE HISTORY OF JOSEPH JECH
Joseph Jech, (the name was changed to Yeck because people in America did not know how to pronounce Jech, it was pronounced Check). He was born in Switzerland in 1804, sometime in March, but just in what part of Switzerland, no one knows. He was the son of John Baptist Jech. His mother’s name (don’t know). When he was 14 years old in the year 1818, he emigrated with his parents to America. (Another history says that he stowed away on a ship and was discovered at sea. That he was sold as an indentured
servant to pay for his passage over here.) This history continued. They came down the river Rhine on
a flatboat to the North Sea where they embarked on the ship Grosse Meer Flatern (Great Ocean Wave) for Baltimore Maryland. When they arrived in America their passage was not paid for and two of the children had to be sold to pay for the voyage. Joseph Jech and his sister Anastasia were sold or more strictly speaking they were hired out for several years.
Joseph Yeck hired to a Mr. John Barney. Mr. Barney was a man of wealth and distinction and would have done well by Joseph if his father would have allowed him to stay there. Joseph’s parents were devout Catholics and they were afraid that he would be lost to the church. Joseph was bought from Mr. Barney and apprenticed to a henpecked old German shoemaker named Mr. Conrad. Joseph hated Mrs. Conrad. (She probably henpecked him also). After serving his apprenticeship, Conrad said to him “Now
go to the priest and have your sins forgiven and go out a free man. Joseph went to the priest but the priest told him , I can’t forgive your sins now. Joseph said to the priest, You go to hell and I will go some where else. Probably Joseph did not have any money and therefore no forgiveness.
Joseph was married to Miss Barbara Bucher about 1826. Her folks were Dunkards and he and his wife were baptized at the same time. (He left the Catholics). They lived in Adams and Franklin Counties of
Pennsylvania until 1849 when they moved to Logan County Ohio. Barbara, Josephs first wife died in 1852. Soon after that Joseph married a Mrs. Grimes. His marriage with Mrs. Grimes did not last long. He was soon divorced from her. For awhile he remained single, but after a time he married Rebecca Burgess. For a while he and his wife lived on a small piece of land in the country. Then they moved to
West Liberty Ohio leaving his son Joseph Jr. on the farm. One night Joseph Yeck got angry with his wife. When he got mad he got crazy. He called her a vile name and moved out to the farm on the wheel barrow through the night. When Joseph Jr. got up the next morning there stood the wheel barrow with the shoemaker tools and his father was in the wood shed asleep. Joseph Jr. made the old man go back home and behave himself. He did feed him breakfast,
but history does not say if he made the old man wheel the barrow back or weather he took him back in a wagon and team. Joseph Yeck died May 17 1885. He and his wife had 10 children, but the oldest died before the youngest was born.
The children named in order of their birth were Gideon, Manasseh, Ephraim, (my grand father), Jonathan,
Catherine, Harriet, Joseph Jr., Samuel, David and Rebecca. Catherine was the mother of Frank Newkirk. David lived in Kansas with her after her husband died. David never married. Catherine Newkirk died May 19 1912. Buried Michigan Valley Kansas.
Mrs. Harriet Kline died August 22, 1920. Her children all used to live in Michigan.
Joseph Jr. died Dec 28 1924. His children were all of West Liberty Ohio.
Mrs. Rebecca B. Jones died May 4 1920. Her children were at Bellefontaine Ohio.
Manasseh Yeck died Sept 4 1905. His children were all in Texas.
Ephraim Yeck died March 31 1888. His children were A. C. Yeck Cassopolis Michigan, Mollie Griffy Lathrop MO, Harriet Wampler Warrensburg MO and John Floyd Yeck Centerview MO.
Jonathan Yeck died Dec 27 1924. His children were in IL, Ohio, Ark, Colo.
This history was written by a grand child of Joseph from Ephraim's line. Copy held by Benjamin Kinsey.

FAMILY HISTORY Great Grandfather - Joseph Yeck

Great grandfather Joseph Yeck was born somewhere in Switzerland on the 4th , of
October in 1804 to John and Katherine Yeck, who were German speaking Swiss.
When the boy Joseph was about 14 years of age, John and Katherine brought their
family to America and settled in Maryland or Pennsylvania-there are conflicting stories about this in the family.
Because the family was unable to pay for the passage to America, and the father had to stay home and support the family, Joseph was apprenticed to a shoemaker, The boy learned his trade well, and was a shoemaker the rest of his life.
When he was 21 and free, it is said that the shoemaker told him to go to the priest for a blessing, but Joseph denounced the Catholic Church, and later joined the Dunkerds. Some of the family said it was the Quakers that he joined.
Joseph Yeck married Barbara Boochor in 1825, and to this union six Sons and three
daughters were born. There may have been others born later. Menassa, Ephrim,and my grandfather Jonathan were born in Maryland, and Katherine, Harriet, Joseph, Samuel, David and Rebecca were born in Penn.
When Jonathan was about 11/2 years old, his parents moved the family to Adams County,
Pennsylvania near Gettysburg, and about five years later moved to White Plains. In April 1849 Joseph and Katherine Yeck moved their family to Logan County, Ohio.
This history of Joseph Yeck was written by a gr. grandchild in Rebecca's line. Copy held by Benjamin Kinsey.

Tax Assessment Listing for Francis JECK, LDS film #1449211, Copy Held by Benjamin Kinsey
Name: JECK, Francis
Year/Date: 1825/26
Location: Manheim Twp, York Co. PA
Occupation: shoemaker
Livestock: 1cow, value $10
Occupancy: 1, value $75
Total Assessment $85
Tax $15?

Pennsylvania Census, 1772-1890
YECK, JOSEPH
State: PA Year: 1840
County: Adams County Record Type: Federal Population Schedule
Township: Freedom Township Page: 136
Database: PA 1840 Federal Census Index

Yeck, Joseph
State: Ohio Year: 1850
County: Logan Roll:
Township: Monroe Twp Page: 3

YECK, JOSEPH
State: OH Year: 1860
County: Logan County Record Type: Federal Population Schedule
Township: Liberty Township Page: 161
Database: OH 1860 Federal Census Index

On 1/04/1866, Joseph purchased 1 acre of land in Liberty Township, Logan Co., OH from John Kelly for $20. Vol. 44, Page 351, LDS film #0545384. Copy of deed held by Benjamin Kinsey.

On 3/20/1870, Joseph purchased land from J. M. Kelly, Vol. 49, Page 103.

On 6/20/1870, Joseph purchased land from S. Fusur?, Vol. 49, Page 140.

In the 1870 census for Liberty Tw'p., Joseph is listed as a boot & shoe maker from Switzerland. There is a William Burgess listed with him as being in an insane asylum. It is not known whose child, William is at this time, 11/13/2000.

On 4/05/1875, Joseph purchased land from S. Secrist, Vol., 53, Page 212.

Household: 1880 census
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
Joseph YECK Self M <Married> Male W <White> 75 SWITZERLAND Shoemaker SWITZERLAND SWITZERLAND
Rebecca YECK Wife M <Married> Female W <White> 63 OH Keeping House VA VA
Source Information:
Census Place Liberty, Logan, Ohio
Family History Library Film 1255041
NA Film Number T9-1041
Page Number 114A

On 11/25/1882, Joseph sold land to Joseph Yeck Jr., Vol. 64, Page 493.

The above entries were found in the Logan Co., OH, Deed Index, M-Z, 1810- 1890, Pages 568 & 569. Copies held by Benjamin Kinsey.

The following pieces of information, plus the three family histories, plus the 1870 & 1880 censuses, seem to confirm that Joseph Yeck, while in Switzerland, was Franz Josef Jeck.

Allie Belle Yeck Lyon's bible says that Joseph was born on 10/04/1804 in Switzerland. He came to the U.S., landing in Baltimore in 1810 or 1816. He married Barbara Boocher in 1825. On May 17 1885, he died. Allie is Joseph's grand daughter.

In his affidavit for the estate of David Yeck, on 8/06/1935, Miles Oscar Yeck, a grand son says that Joseph was a shoemaker. He also appears to state that Joseph was born in Switzerland approx. 130 (1804/05) years ago and came to the U. S. at age 14 (1818).

The record of deaths for Logan Co. OH, page 334, entry 226, show the following:
Joseph Yeck, D: May 17, 1885, Liberty Tw'p., Logan Co, OH, age at death 80y, 7 mo., 13 days, shoemaker born in Switzerland, died from old age. His age at death would make his birth date 10/04/1804. This record was viewed and copied by Benjamin Kinsey on 10/06/2000.

Grave marker viewed on 10/06/2000 and pictures were taken by Benjamin Kinsey.

Possible choices
Barney, John H.
State: Maryland Year: 1820
County: Baltimore City (Independe Roll: M33_42
Township: Baltimore, Ward 4 Page: 178
Image: 97
Barney, John
State: Maryland Year: 1820
County: Baltimore City (Independe Roll: M33_42
Township: Baltimore, Ward 11 Page: 440
Image: 225

Death: 17 MAY 1885 Liberty Tw'p., Logan Co., OH

Burial: Fairview Cemetery, A.K.A., West Liberty Cemetery, Liberty Tw'p., Logan Co. OH

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Source: (Name)
Title: 1910 Census for Cassopolis, Cass Co., MI, Roll 640

Page: Page 107, Line 30

Source: (Name)
Title: 1930 Census for Cassopolis, Cass Co., MI, Roll 979, E. D. 7, page 14B, Copy held by Benjamin Kinsey

Page: Line 1

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Source: (Birth)
Title: Interview of Martha June Chambers- 1997
Media: Book

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