• General Notes

  On board the OSCEOLA from Glasgow to NYC, April 16,
  1847, these names are together:
  James Bruster, 50, farmer
  Mary Bruster, 48
  Jane Bruster, 20
  Hugh Creelman,16
  Ann Creelman, 14
  M.J. Creelman, 6 mos
  
  BG:  This must be Hugh Creelman and Ann Brewster Creelman with their daughter Mary Jane.  Who are the other three on the Osceola in 1847?  It surely has to be the ones we have as Charles siblings, Mary and James, and maybe Jane is another but died?  The Creelman’s ages are nonsense so probably, ALL the ages are total nonsense.
  
  BB: Looking at genforum and an old note there by Kay (and a recent one by David).  Another researcher - Murphy - says Charles' sister, Jane, Married John  Mitchell and there is the following on Ancestry - a personal tree.  So you may be right that Jane was another sibling on the Osceola.
  
  Murphy:
  Jane Brewster
  Birth 18 NOV 1830
  Death 21 MAR 1906
  1849 8 Jul
  Age: 18
  Marriage to John Mitchell
  Philadelphia, PA
  John Mitchell 1823 – 1903
  Children:
  John J. Mitchell 1851 – 1942
  Martha Jane Mitchell 1857 – 1951
  Charles Brewster Mitchell 1859 – 1949
  Mary Ann Mitchell 1865 – 1948
  Margaret Hannah Mitchell 1872 – 1955
  
  1880 United States Federal Censusabout Jane Mitchell
  Name:    Jane Mitchell
  Age:    50
  Birth Year:    abt 1830
  Birthplace:    Ireland
  Home in 1880:    Washington, Lee, Iowa
  Race:    White
  Gender:    Female
  Relation to Head of House:    Wife
  Marital Status:    Married
  Spouse's Name:    John Mitchell
  Father's Birthplace:    Ireland
  Mother's Birthplace:    Ireland
  Neighbors:    View others on page  Occupation:Keeping House
  Cannot read/write:
  Blind:
  Deaf and dumb:
  Otherwise disabled:
  Idiotic or insane:    
  View image Household Members:    Name    Age
  John Mitchell
  57
  Jane Mitchell
  50
  Mattie J. Mitchell
  23
  Charles B. Mitchell
  20
  Mary A. Mitchell
  14
  Margret H. Mitchell
  10
  
  1900 United States Federal Census
  about Jane Mitchell
  Name:    Jane Mitchell
  Age:    72
  Birth Date:    Oct 1827
  Birthplace:    Ireland
  Home in 1900:    Madison, Lee, Iowa
  [Lee]
  Race:    White
  Gender:    Female
  Immigration Year:    1845
  Relation to Head of House:    Wife
  Marital Status:    Married
  Spouse's Name:    John Mitchell
  Marriage Year:    1849
  Years Married:    51
  Father's Birthplace:    Ireland
  Mother's Birthplace:    Ireland
  Mother: number of living children:    5
  Mother: How many children:    7
  Occupation:    View on Image Neighbors:    View others on page  Household Members:    Name    Age
  John Mitchell
  77
  Jane Mitchell
  72
  
  Is this them:
  1850 United States Federal Census about Jane Mitchell
  Name:    Jane Mitchell
  Age:    18
  Birth Year:    abt 1832
  Birthplace:    Ireland
  Home in 1850:    Southwark Ward 4, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  Gender:    Female
  Family Number:    781
  Household Members:    Name    Age
  John Mitchell
  25
  Jane Mitchell
  18
  
  1860 United States Federal Censusabout Jane Mitchell
  Name:    Jane Mitchell
  Age in 1860:    29
  Birth Year:    abt 1831
  Birthplace:    Ireland
  Home in 1860:    Washington, Lee, Iowa
  Gender:    Female
  Post Office:    Fort Madison
  Value of real estate:    View image Household Members:    Name    Age
  John Mitchell
  36
  Jane Mitchell
  29
  John Mitchell
  9
  Martha J Mitchell
  3
  Charles B Mitchell
  11/12
  Jacob Bunn
  10
  
  Mitchell, John, Jr., farmer, Section 10; P.O. Fort Madison; his father John M., Sr., was born in County Derry, Ireland, in 1794.  In 1816, married Miss Mattie Burr, born in the same county in 1795; they had six children, four of whom came to this country; the eldest, Margaret, born in 1818, married Nathaniel Humphreys, came to America in 1841, settled in Philadelphia, where she died in April, 1874; Hannah, born October, 1820, came over to Philadelphia in 1848, where she married Francis Snowden and still resides; John, was born in May, 1823, learned the trade of linen-weaver of his father; in 1844, came to America, remained thirteen months in New York City, weaving carpets; went to Philadelphia, where he married @@@@ Jane Brewster July 3, 1849; she was also a native of County Derry, Ireland; lost her parents when young, and, with a brother and two sisters, came to America in 1846; @@@@in 1851, they came to Van Buren Co., Iowa; a year after, Mr. Mitchell left his family with a brother-in-law, and went overland to California, with a company of twenty-six men, four women and six children, with thirteen wagons; they organized under the leadership of Capt. Stone, of Illinois, and left Council Bluffs May 17, 1852.  The cholera prevailed to an alarming extent all along their road until they passed the mountains, but owing to the good care of Dr. Murdock, of Fort Des Moines, they passed through safely; reached their destination Sept 13; Mr. M. remained four years engaged in mining with moderate success; returned via Panama, N.Y., and Philadelphia; reached home in May, 1856, and, a year after, settled at their present residence, the farm first settled by Cy. Ross, who brought the first rat to this township in a box of fruit-trees from Kentucky; the farm now consists of 150 acres, valued at $60 per acre, with brick residence which cost $3,500, and is well improved; they have five children - John, Jr., born July 3, 1851; Mattie J., March 25, 1857; Charles B., Aug 4, 1859; Mary A., Dec. 16, 1865; Maggie H., June 13, 1870; Mr. M.'s younger brother, Benjamin, was born in County Derry in 1825; came to America with his sister Hannah, and settled in Philadelphia as a laborer, then as a carpet-weaver; in 1854, went to California in 1865, married Jane Houston, and died in November, 1870.  Their mother died in 1828; father in 1845.
  Source:  History of Lee County, Iowa
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Details of Jane's family with John Mitchell