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 1804 1854 James Piles 50 50 James PILES, was born in Ohio in 1804 and died in that state at the age of fifty.  28 Aug 1831 13 Dec 1896 Mary Ann Piles 65 65 22 Jan 1827 13 Dec 1899 John Brownfield Flanagan 72 72 Sources: Obituary
John Flanagan was born in Summitt Co. Ohio Jan 22nd 1827. His early life was spent on a farm and he obtained his education in the common school. On the 20th of March 1851 He was united in marriage with Miss Mary Ann Piles, in Guernsey Co. Ohio. where they lived for about one year, then removed to Montgomery Co.
Indiana where they lived for about 3 years. They settled in Pottawattamie Co. Ia in Nov 1856, and came to Mills Co. six miles north of Malvern in March 1863 where they bought a farm and lived until the spring of 1887. They then removed to Malvern, where they united with the Presbyterian Church. To them were born 11 children, of which 4 are buried in the Liberty Church cemetery.
 18 May 1842 5 Feb 1931 Thomas Brownfield McCoy 88 88 Sources: Will of Thomas B. McCoy Ellsworth County Courthouse.  1880 Census and Obituary
When a young man of 18 years, Thomas crossed the plains from Omaha, Neb to Central City,Co with a wagon train.  He remained in Central City two years working in a gold mine. Returning to the state of his birth he again joined an emigrant train bound for Oregon.  From Oregon he went down the coast to Calif. where he secured employment as a stage driver. Again returning to Iowa he was united im marriage to Sarah Margaret lanangan. Four years later with his wife
and son he came to Kansas in a covered wagon and on June 1878 the same year they located on a farm in Garfield township. Here the family labored through all the hardships of the early days and this continued to be Mr McCoys home until his death. All through the years he was active about the farm until Aug when he suffered an accident, breaking an arm and a leg, from which he never fully recovered.
Mr. McCoy was a typical westerner in appearance, speech, and character. His was a broad, friendly, hospitable attitude toward all with whom he came in contact that prevailed in the pioneer days among the people of the new west.


PIONEER OF NEW WEST

Crossed the Plains by Ox Team When He Was Eighteen Years Old.

Life's journey came to an end for another pioneer of Ellsworth County, the last of the early settlers in his part of the county, with the death of Thomas Brownfield McCoy, at his home in Garfield Township, this county, Thursday morning, February 5, 1931.

Mr. McCoy was a typical westerner in appearance, speech and character.  His was that broad friendly hospitable attitude toward all with whom he came in contact that prevailed in the pioneer days among the people of the new West.

Born at Le Claire, Scott County Iowa, May 18, 1842, in the days when Iowa was still a territory, and a part of the great unknown West.  He became, at an early age, imbued with a desire to see, explore, and know more of what was beyond, towards the setting sun.

He was only 18 when he crossed the plains by ox team from Omaha to Central City, Colo.  He worked in a gold mine there for two years, and then returned to Iowa.  The wanderlust in his blood caused him to join an immigrant train for Oregon in the spring of 1863.  He drifted down the coast of California, where he fround employment for a number of years as a stage driver, a calling dangerous and hazardous in those early days, yet one that appealed to him, because of his love for the great out-of-doors.

Returning to Iowa in 1873, he was united in marriage, March 7, that year, to Sarah Margaret Flanagan at Glenwood, Iowa.

Four years later, with his wife and son, he again took up his march west, this time coming to Kansas.  They came in a covered wagon, and in June, 1878, located on the farm that proved to be the home up to the time of Mr. McCoy's death.

He and his good wife went through all the trials, hardships and privations incident to the pioneer life of fifty and sixty years ago.  They worked hare, reared a large family and felt that Providence was good to them in giving them what they had.

Last August Mr. McCoy fell, breaking an arm and a leg.  At his age this proved serious.  He had improved slowly, and was able at times to get about the house with the aid of crutches.

Lately, however, he began to fail.  Death came peacefully Thursday morning.


Eleven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. McCoy.  Six of them survive their father.  Besides the widow the surviving children are Fred McCoy of Craigmount, Idaho; Harry McCoy of Burlington, Colorado; Mrs. George Thayer, of Lincoln; Mrs. C. J. McDonough, of Shelby, Montana; and Ralph McCoy and Mrs. Ralph Gregory of Ellsworth.

The Rev. Fred Blanding conducted the funeral services at the McCoy home Saturday afternoon, at two O'clock.  It was largely attended.  Burial was in the Ellsworth cemetery.

McCoy Homestead in Ellsworth, Kansas

The following statements were determined from the documents that are a part of the Bessie (McCoy) Gregory estate, the Will of Thomas B. McCoy Ellsworth County Courthouse and the 1880 Census and Obituary.

1. 1878 - Thomas B. McCoy and Sarah (Flanagan) McCoy settled on a farm in Garfield township, Dickinson County, Kansas.

2. 1888 -    Thomas B. McCoy and Sarah (Flanagan) McCoy:

     • 2 July - Obtained the first part, $45.00 mortgage from the Central Loan & Land Company, Emporia, Kansas for the purchase of 160 acres located in the Southwest quarter of section 17 of township 14 (South of range 7) Ellsworth County, Kansas.
     • 2 July - Obtained the second part $300.00 mortgage from the Central Loan & Land Company, Emporia, Kansas for the 160 acres described above.
     • 24 July - Recorded the above transaction with the Ellsworth County Register of Deeds.
     • 28 Aug - The Central Loan and Land Co. transferred the $300.00 mortgage to Samuel G. Beardsley Sr.

3.  1889 -    Thomas B. McCoy and Sarah (Flanagan) McCoy completed repayment of the $45.00 loan to the Central Loan and Land Company.

4.  1891 -    10 December Samuel Beardsley passed away and the $300.00 loan became a part of his estate.

5.  1893 -    3 June Thomas B. McCoy and Sarah (Flanagan) McCoy completed repayment of the $300.00 loan to the Samuel Beardsley estate.

6.  1920 -    25 September Ludvix Warta and Merj Warta sold the south half of lot 17 and all of lots 18 and 19 in block 39, Ellsworth County, Kansas to John Geddis, Sr.  NOTE:  Thomas B. McCoy and Sarah (Flanagan) McCoy owned 160 acres of the Southwest quarter of section (Lot) 17.

7.  1931 -    2 September John Geddis, Sr. paid $102.69 delinquent property taxes.

24 September John Geddis, Sr. sold the south half of lot 17 and all of lots 18 and 19 in block 39, Ellsworth County, Kansas to Sarah M. McCoy for $1.00.

 11 Nov 1859 Emma Flanagan   1851 Edwin Morse Isaac Morse and Sarah Hathoran were his parents. 24 Oct 1840 James Piles 9 Nov 1857 6 May 1946 John Grove Flanagan 88 88 FLANAGAN, JOHN G.
The subject of this sketch traces his lineage to an old Irish family, several members of which have become prominent in various lines of activity. John Flanagan, his grandfather, was born and reared in Ireland, where his eldest son, Peter, was born about 1819. About 1825 he came to America, where he died in middle life, leaving a widow and two sons and a daughter. He located in Maryland, where he engaged in freighting, driving six-horse teams employed in that service. His three children all married and have families and all came west. Peter, his oldest son, was born in Ireland, became a farmer in Nebraska and died there in 1896, aged about seventy-seven years. His daughter Catherine, known in the family as "Aunt Catherine," married James Davis, who became a farmer in Nebraska, where she died at an advanced age, leaving one daughter.
His younger son, John, father of John G. Flanagan, was born in Maryland, January, 1827, and died in December, 1898, and his wife, Mary A. Piles, was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, August 28, 1831, and married Mr. Flanagan in her native state, March 20, 1851. She was the daughter of James Piles, who married a Miss English, and lived one year afterward in Guernsey county, Ohio, and then moved to Montgomery county, Indiana, where they remained between three and four years. After a short stay in Pottawattamie county, Iowa, they removed in 1856 to Atchison county, Missouri, and there John G. Flanagan, the subject of this sketch, was born, November 9, 1857. Soon after that event they returned to Pottawattamie county, Iowa, where, in March, 1863, they bought and settled on four hundred acres of land, acquired at four dollars an acre, but they had to go in debt for most of it. There stood on their property a small frame house which is a part of the more pretentious residence standing there at this time. Mr. and Mrs. Flanagan reared their family there and lived there until the spring of 1887, when they moved to Malvern, where they lived retired from active life until they died, Mrs. Flanagan in December, 1896, and Mr. Flanagan just three years later. they were laid to rest in East Liberty cemetery. They had eleven children, concerning whom some information will be afforded in the following statements: Sarah, born April 16, 1852, married Thomas McCoy, and has ten children, she lives in Kansas. Charles T., has traveled extensively in the west since 1883 and is living in California, unmarried. Thomas B., was born in Indiana, January 18, 1856. John G. is the immediate subject of this sketch. Emma, born November 11, 1859, is the wife of Edwin Morse and lives in Nebraska. She has had four children, two of whom are dead. Amanda J., born in Mills county, Iowa, September 13, 1861 is the widow of John Nickerson and lives in Malvern, Iowa. Walter A., was born July 23, 1863, and died November 23, 1868. Wilmie was born April 23, 1865, and died April 16, 1866. Frank was born March 19, 1867, and when a young man went to California, where he was married in 1899. Edward Martin was born November 11, 1868, and died March 20, 1888. Lee Webster was born May 30, 1871, and died November 5, 1878.
John G. Flanagan received a common school education and was reared to farm life. He worked on his father's farm until the spring of 1883 and then went to central Kansas, where he was married, March 31, 1886, to Miss Blanche E. Crawford, born in Lorain county, Ohio, August 23, 1865, a daughter of John W. and Sarah J. (Robertson) Crawford. Mr. and Mrs. Crawford were natives of Ohio. They went to Kansas in 1881 and there Mr. Crawford died at the age of forty-four years, leaving a widow, three daughters and two sons. The eldest son, Bert Crawford, of Oklahoma, is married and has five children. Ida M., is the wife of W. B. Essick, of Ellsworth, Kansas; Maud A., Mrs. Flanagan's twin sister, married Edwin Walker, has four sons and lives in Kansas; Charles C., is living in Kansas, unmarried. Mrs. Crawford, mother of these children, is residing in Ellsworth, Kansas. Mrs. Flanagan removed with her parents to Kansas and at sixteen years of age she began teaching school in Ellsworth county, which profession she followed for six years. Mr. and Mrs. Flanagan have had three children: Roy A., the eldest, was born February 4, 1887, in Ellsworth, Kansas, and is now in school. Ella Maud, also in school, was born April 29, 1889, in Mills county, Iowa. Neva May was born March 7, 1895 and died February 5, 1897.
In December 1888, Mr. Flanagan returned from Kansas to his old home, accompanied by his family, and has since been farming on the Flanagan homestead, which he bought for ten thousand dollars. He has come to the front as a stock-farmer and raises and fattens beef cattle, which he sells to Omaha and Chicago, shipping about twelve car-loads per year; and he raises and sells also about two hundred fat swine each year. He raises some colts and keeps about twenty horses. He began handling sheep in 1900 by purchasing two hundred and fifty head. He does general farming, selling such of his products as are not required for his stock. He cuts about one hundred tons of hay each year and has about one hundred and twenty-five acres planted to corn, and in addition to his own large crop is usually obliged to buy more corn for feeding.
Politically Mr. Flanagan is a Democrat and he has served his fellow townsmen as justice of the peace two terms. He was elected assessor in 1898 and still holds that office, and wields considerable influence in the councils of his party. His judgment in business affairs is excellent and he is regarded as one of the foremost stockmen in his part of the state. Mr. and Mrs. Flanagan are both young appearing and are active socially. Their domestic life is a happy one and their geniality and generous hospitality have won them hosts of friends
 13 Apr 1865 16 Apr 1886 Wilma (Wilmie) Flanagan 21 21   19 Mar 1867 Frank Flanagan 13 Sep 1861 Amanda J. Flanagan 1861 John E. Nickerson John B. Nickerson and M. E. Edwards were his parents. UNKNOWN John Flanagan 1819 1896 Peter Flanagan 77 77 23 Aug 1865 24 Mar 1933 Ella Blanche Crawford 67 67 Blanche E. Crawford, born in Lorain county, Ohio, August 23, 1865, a daughter of John W. and Sarah J. (Robertson) Crawford. Mr. and Mrs. Crawford were natives of Ohio. They went to Kansas in 1881 and there Mr. Crawford died at the age of forty-four years, leaving a widow, three daughters and two sons. The eldest son, Bert Crawford, of Oklahoma, is married and has five children. Ida M., is the wife of W. B. Essick, of Ellsworth, Kansas; Maud A., Mrs. Flanagan's twin sister, married Edwin Walker, has four sons and lives in Kansas; Charles C., is living in Kansas, unmarried. Mrs. Crawford, mother of these children, is residing in Ellsworth, Kansas. Mrs. Flanagan removed with her parents to Kansas and at sixteen years of age she began teaching school in Ellsworth county, which profession she followed for six years. Mr. and Mrs. Flanagan have had three children: Roy A., the eldest, was born February 4, 1887, in Ellsworth, Kansas, and is now in school. Ella Maud, also in school, was born April 29, 1889, in Mills county, Iowa. Neva May was born March 7, 1895 and died February 5, 1897.
I  4 Feb 1887 Roy A. Flanagan Served in the US Army during World War I 29 Apr 1889 3 Aug 1943 Ella Maud Flanagan 54 54 7 Mar 1895 5 Feb 1897 Neva May Flanagan 1 1 24 Apr 1854 Charles T. Flanagan 18 Jan 1856 Thomas B. Flanagan 11 Nov 1868 20 Mar 1888 Edward Martin Flanagan 19 19 30 May 1871 5 Nov 1878 Lee Webster Flanagan 7 7 23 Jul 1863 23 Nov 1868 Walter A. Flanagan 5 5 Catherine Flanagan James Davis 11 Aug 1877 26 May 1971 Ida L. 93 93 12 Aug 1884 Elbert Jerome Nickerson NICKERSON, ELBERT JEROME: Clergyman; b Ewing, Neb Aug 12, 1884; s of John E Nickerson-Amanda Jane Flanagan; ed Malvern Ia HS 1903; Coe Coll, Cedar Rapids Ia, BA 1908; Omaha Theological Seminary 1913; grad work U of N & Luther Coll; Princeton Theological Seminary BST 1916; Olio Literary Soc; Calvin Club; m Adelaine Erickson July 27, 1937 Wahoo; 1908-11 tchr & coach, Earlham. Ia; 1913-15 pastor Presby Ch, St Joseph Mo; 1915-17 pastor First Presby Ch, Norfolk; 1919- pastor First Presby Ch, Wahoo; commd to gen assembly of Presby Ch at Grand Rapids Mich & Denver Colo, past moderator Omaha presbytery 1 year; past vice moderator of Neb synod 1 year; has traveled extensively in N Amer; during World War in YMCA work, in France near Verdun 1 year; Lions, past pres; hobby, athletics; has made comprehensive study of life of Henry Ward Beecher & plans to write biography; res Wahoo.
 1 May 1804 Elizabeth English 1 Apr 1806 Samuell English 13 Oct 1807 William English 16 Feb 1809 11 Jan 1890 Robert English 80 80 25 Oct 1811 Jane English 9 Apr 1813 20 Dec 1859 Richard English 46 46 Richard English and John English were twins. 9 Apr 1813 John English Richard English and John English were twins. 6 Feb 1814 19 Dec 1884 Thomas English 70 70 6 Feb 1817 24 May 1894 Ellen English 77 77 10 Jul 1818 John English 31 Jan 1821 20 Mar 1895 Issac English 74 74 2 Nov 1823 13 Jun 1843 Mary Ann English 19 19 15 Jan 1848 31 Oct 1934 Isaac Piles 86 86 3 Jan 1839 Maria E. Piles Mr. TAYLOR was married in Pottawattamie County in 1859, to Miss Maria E. PILES, who was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, in 1839. Her father, James PILES, was born in Ohio in 1804 and died in that state at the age of fifty. Her mother, Margaret (ENGLISH) PILES, was born in Pennsylvania in 1810 and died in this county at the age of forty seven. Mr. And Mrs. TAYLOR have had nine children, viz.: Mary E., wife of G. W. HAMILTON, and a resident of Washington Township; William M., Henry P., who married December 4, 1889, Ada M. COLE, a teacher in Pottawattamie County and is a resident also of Washington Township; Isaac, John, Martha Ellen (died in 1882), Alice M., Ira J. and Margaret J. 24 Feb 1831 James A. Taylor Taylor, James A.


JAMES A. TAYLOR, one of the best known pioneers of the county, and a resident of Washington Township, has been a resident of this county for 40 years. He was born in Montgomery County, Indiana, February 24, 1831, a son of Pleasant TAYLOR, a native of Tennessee and an old pioneer of this county. His father, Burzil TAYLOR, was a soldier in the War of 1812. Pleasant TAYLOR was married in Montgomery County, Indiana, to Jane ALLISON, a daughter of James ALLISON, who was born in Pennsylvania. They had five children, viz.: James A., our subject; Mary E. GORDON of Oklahoma; Thomas and Pleasant, deceased; and William H. of Silver Creek Township, Pottawattamie County. They lived in Indiana until about 1840, when they moved to Missouri, then to Illinois, and in 1843 they came to Iowa and lived in Wapello County until 1850; then they came to Pottawattamie County and bought a Mormon claim in Silver Creek Township, being the first Gentile in the vicinity. Some years later, he sold out and came to Washington Township and bought the place where he now lives. His wife died in June 1868. Several years after her death, he married Sidney WEBB, with whom he still lives.
James A. TAYLOR, our subject, was about 20 years old when he came to this county. His education was obtained in the log schoolhouses of that period. In 1858, he took charge of a saw and grist mill on Silver Creek for two years. He subsequently purchased 120 acres of land and at once commenced its improvement. He now has a well improved farm of 400 acres, one of the best in Washington Township. In 1886 he erected a good house, which cost $1,500. It is built in modern style and is well furnished throughout. A grove of 55 acres and orchard nearby makes his home an attractive one. Both general farming and stock raising are carried on here. Mr. TAYLOR was married in Pottawattamie County in 1859, to Miss Maria E. PILES, who was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, in 1839. Her father, James PILES, was born in Ohio in 1804 and died in that state at the age of fifty. Her mother, Margaret (ENGLISH) PILES, was born in Pennsylvania in 1810 and died in this county at the age of forty seven. Mr. And Mrs. TAYLOR have had nine children, viz.: Mary E., wife of G. W. HAMILTON, and a resident of Washington Township; William M., Henry P., who married December 4, 1889, Ada M. COLE, a teacher in Pottawattamie County and is a resident also of Washington Township; Isaac, John, Martha Ellen (died in 1882), Alice M., Ira J. and Margaret J.

Mr. TAYLOR is a Democrat in politics. He has served the public as Township Trustee and as a member of the School Board. He, Henry and John are associated with the Masonic Order, Coral Lodge, No. 430 at Carson. He and his wife, Henry and wife, John and Alice are members of the Order of Eastern Star. Mr. TAYLOR is a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. As a fireside companion, Mr. TAYLOR is jovial and cordial. He is well informed on all general topics and is a good story-teller. He is regarded as one of the popular and worthy citizens of Pottawattamie County.

 Mary E. Taylor William M. Taylor Henry P. Taylor Isaac Taylor John Taylor D. 1882 Martha Ellen Taylor Alice M. Taylor Ira J. Taylor Margaret J. Taylor D. 2 Dec 1898 Sarah Jane Piles 9 Jun 1833 William Hall Piles 13 Sep 1835 21 May 1920 Richard English Piles 84 84 9 Jul 1837 Nathaniel Piles 13 Mar 1842 7 Jul 1877 John Piles 35 35 18 Dec 1843 Susanna Amanda Piles 25 Aug 1845 James Franklin Piles 15 Oct 1849 15 Jun 1852 Osker Jerome Piles 2 2 Amelia Lane 15 Feb 1852 9 Oct 1933 Sarah Margaret Flanagan 81 81 John W. Crawford Sarah J. Robertson Go To:Bessie McCoy-Ralph Gregory Created using GenoPro® Click for details.