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Mary M. “Polly” (Gassaway) Porter |
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Jerome Gassaway is listed on page 18 of the June 4, 1890 Oklahoma Territorial Census residing in Logan County.
Jerome Gassaway and his son Moses Gassaway and Whitfield Gassaway are listed in Smith’s First Directory of Oklahoma Territory, page S259, in about August 1890.
Moses Gassaway is listed on page 1153 of the 1890 Oklahoma Territorial Census residing in Payne County. |
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Charlie and Polly Circa 1930s |
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Nancy died October 28, 1909. Jerome, age 78 and widowed, appears in the May 20, 1910 US Federal Census in Ripley, Oklahoma, living with his daughter Mary and her husband Charley Porter. |
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The June 28, 1900 Census in Glencoe Township, Payne County, Oklahoma records the following: |
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Charles Henry Porter married Mary M. Gassaway. She was born February 1861 in Missouri, and died November 1942. Charles Henry died January 12, 1947, in Yale, Oklahoma. Both are buried in Perkins, Oklahoma. They did not have any children. |
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Mary’s father was Jerome B. Gassaway, born about 1832 in Tennessee. Her mother was Nancy, born 25 December 1831 in Indiana, died 28 October 1909 and buried in Perkins, Oklahoma. |
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The March 1, 1875 Kansas State Census at Bolton Township, Cowley, Kansas (served by the Arkansas City Post Office) records the following: |
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The June 18, 1880 Kansas State Census at Bolton Township, Cowley, Kansas records the following: |
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The August 7, 1865 Kansas State Census at Americus Township, Lyon County, Kansas (just a few miles north of Emporia) records the following: |
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The July 25, 1860 US Federal Census at Centerville Township, Linn County, Kansas (70 miles SSW of Kansas City) records the following: |
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The October 28, 1850 US Federal Census at Tom Township, Benton County, Missouri, records the following: |
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The June 11, 1900 US Federal Census at Clayton Township, Payne County, Oklahoma (across the river west from Ripley) records the following: |
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The March 1, 1885 Kansas State Census at Arkansas City, Cowley, Kansas records the following: |
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The April 21, 1910 US Federal Census in Clayton, Payne County, Oklahoma records the following: |
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The February 12, 1920 US Federal Census in Bolton Township, Cowley County, Kansas, shows Jerome, now age 88 and widowed, living with his son William H. Gassaway and William’s wife Lillie, back on the family farm. William and Lillie are still on the farm in the 1930 Federal Census. |
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Moses Gassaway died 25 June 1919, and is buried at Fairlawn Cemetery, Stillwater, Section 13, Row 84, Lot 1. |
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The June 2, 1900 Census in Perkins Township, Payne County, Oklahoma records the following: |
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Maude was born |
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Nancy, wife of J. B. Gassaway |
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Perkins Cemetery, Perkins, Oklahoma |
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The January 6, 1920 Census in Ward 3, Guthrie, Logan County, Oklahoma records the following:
Charles H Porter, 67, born Illinois, father from Ohio, mother from United States, occupation: merchant. Mary M Porter, 70, born Kansas, father from Tennessee, mother from Ohio. Jerome B Gassaway, father, 88, widowed, born Tennessee, father from Pennsylvania, mother from Kentucky. |
