Connecticut #665 John Partridge Bissell

Introductory note: this is one of a series of “continuations” of families listed in Edward P. Jones’ genealogy of the descendants of Captain John Bissell of Windsor, Connecticut. Building on Stiles’ History of Ancient Windsor, Jones traced a number of lines of Bissells no further than the late 1700s or early 1800s, and other researchers (including myself, as compiler of this series) have subsequently managed to bring those lines on down to the present. Some continuations have already been published, and this series will simply extract the data from those works and present it here. Others have been more loosely gathered and are being published here for the first time. In still other cases, published continuations are being more completely filled in or extended for this series. Someday, building on the foundation laid by Stiles and Jones, a new genealogy of the Connecticut Bissells will be published and submitted to appropriate libraries, and it is hoped that this series will play an important role in helping to bring that about....Roger Bissell, Orange, California, November, 1999.

As listed in Edward P. Jones’ Genealogy of the Descendants of Captain John Bissell of Windsor, Connecticut by 1639, John Partridge Bissell (1757-1811) appears as #665, son of Joseph Bissell, grandson of Benjamin Bissell #137, great-grandson of John Bissell #10, great-great-grandson of Lieut. Thomas Bissell #3, and great-great-great-grandson of Captain John Bissell #1. This line of descent may be more readily seen as follows:

Captain John #1àThomas #3àJohn #10àBenjamin #137àJoseph #303àJohn Partridge #665

John Partridge Bissell was born March 9, 1757 in Lebanon, Connecticut and died in March of 1811 at Coitsville, Ohio. He married June 30, 1790 to Temperance Stark, who was born October 25, 1767 and died April 8, 1852. They moved to Ohio in 1800 with his parents. He was a Civil Engineer. He laid out the Western Reserve in Ohio. He was also a Revolutionary War soldier.

In the Historical Collections of the Mahoning Valley, there is an essay on Coitsville Township of Mahoning Co., Ohio which was written on December 24, 1875 by John Schield. He points out the pivotal role John Partridge Bissell had in the settling of this community:

John Partridge Bissel came, in company with Asa Mariner and others, to assist in surveying and dividing this and some other townships into lots, preparatory to putting the land into market. Mr. Bissel was appointed a sub-agent to sell the land. He made a clearing, and built a house at the center of the township in 1799. The farm then opened is still in possession of his heirs, and is the home of his daughter, Mrs. Mary Kyle, to whom we are indebted for the above facts, stated in this communication. In 1800 Mr. Bissel brought his family from the town of Lebanon, Conn. After forty days' wearisome journeying through the wilderness they arrived at their new home in Coitsville. The first white family that settled in the township was Amos Loveland, a Revolutionary soldier. He came to the Reserve in 1798; spent the Summer in assisting Mr. Bissel in surveying.

Schield notes that John P. Bissell somehow managed to be installed before 1805 as the first acting Justice of the Peace for Coitsville Township, but his major involvement in town matters was in his capacity as land speculator:

In 1801 Coitsville began to settle up rapidly. Mr. Bissel was successful in disposing of numerous lots of land to farmers from Pennsylvania, who were seeking homes in what was then the far West. The titles to lands in Western Pennsylvania being very precarious and uncertain, many of the emigrants chose to pitch their tents on the Ohio side of the line, where the titles were considered unquestionable…The year 1811 brought hard times for many of the pioneers of Coitsville. Mr. Bissel died in that year. His financial affairs were found in a bad condition, which brought disaster to many of those who had purchased their lands from him. Some had paid for their lands, received their deeds, and were, consequently, safe. Others who had not got their lands paid for and received their titles were caught up. No matter how much they had paid, all fared alike and received a small percentage on the money which they had paid. The land had to be re-purchased or abandoned. It was supposed, had he [John P. Bissell] lived to settle up his own affairs, the result would have been different.

Freeman Ernest Morgan, Jr., a great-grandson of William Bissell’s daughter, Caroline Bissell Turner, wrote to me on January 29, 1986 and added the following perspective on William Partridge Bissell:

The Bissells were generally long lived. CAROLINE (BISSELL) TURNER was 92, but her father had died at 43 and his father, JOHN PARTRIDGE BISSELL at 54. He was wheeling & dealing in real estate and when he died suddenly intestate, he had sold many properties on which he still owed mortgages. The administrators could not collect on what was owed him because they could not give title unless they paid up the rest of the money which they did not have! It was the old story of being spread too thin without enough capital. He wound up more than $5,000 in the hole; a LOT of “green stuff” in THOSE days! The widow was given HER third, however, before the balance of the creditors were forced to settle for the cash remaining. When HANNAH (PARTRIDGE) BISSELL died in 1817, she left HER money to the children of her son, JOHN PARTRIDGE BISSELL, since THEY had been denied an estate from their father due to the unfortunate timing of his demise. She had many OTHER grandchildren but left it all to this one family.

An Ohio genealogist, Lida Flint Harshman, wrote my father Eldon K. Bissell on March 4, 1979, and informed us that the Trumbull County courthouse records list John’s minor children as: Jabez, William, John, Polly, Milly, Charlotte, and Mary. This list omits Anna, so it’s possible Edward P. Jones was mistaken about her not dying until 1826. The list also misnames Caroline as Mary (probably given as Cary), because Polly = Mary. Also, Milly is the nickname for Parmelia.

A. Elizabeth/Betsy Bissell, the oldest daughter of John Partridge Bissell and Temperance Stark, was born in 1791 in Lebanon, Connecticut and died about 1835 at the age of 44 in Mercer Co., Pennsylvania. She married about 1810 to William Byers (born August 23, 1790 in Virginia, died May 25, 1875), and they had nine children. After her death, he remarried on August 10, 1836 to Elizabeth “Melone” (Malone) b. Oct. 22, 1791. The children of William and Betsy (Bissell) Byers, as compiled from information from Marta Berg and Eric Reid, were (not necessarily in chronological order):

1. Andrew Byers

2. Sylvanus Byers

3. Lucinda Byers born May 24, 1813 in Virginia, died July 30, 1874.

4. Belinda Byers born about 1816 in Virginia, married John Steel (b. 1812, Pennsylvania, died before 1860). Appears with husband and first four children in 1850 census of French Creek, Mercer Co., Pennsylvania, appears as widow with William, John, and Emma in 1860 census of Pulaski, Lawrence Co., Pennsylvania, and appears alone as widow in 1880 household of Pulaski. They had:

a. Jane Steel born ca. 1840 in French Creek, Mercer Co., Pennsylvania.

b. William Steel born ca. 1842 in French Creek.

c. Mary Steel born ca. 1846 in French Creek.

d. John Steel born ca. 1848 in French Creek.

e. Emma Steel born ca. 1851 in French Creek.

5. Erastus Byers born 1821 in Pennsylvania.

6. Ambrose Byers born February 8, 1824 in Pennsylvania, died Feb. 27, 1887. (Our correspondent Marta Berg is descended from Ambrose’s son, Charles Sumner Byers.) He married Apr. 30, 1850 in Mercer Co., Pennsylvania to Mary McCracken (1828-1910). They had:

a. Charles Sumner Byers. He had:

i. Walter Ambrose Byers

(1) Virginia Elinor Byers married Lloyd Hauge

(a) Marian Hauge

(b) Marta Hauge married Carl Berg (d. 1969).

(i) Erik Berg had two children:

[1] Lauren Berg

[2] Katelyn Berg

(ii) Ellen Berg

(2) Walter Allen Byers married Eleanor ____.

ii. Carl Sumner Byers

(1) Jean Byers

b. John Franklin Byers

c. William McCracken Byers

d. Willis Byers

e. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Mary Byers born ca. 1858.

f. Lawrence Byers born ca. 1859.

g. Obid/Ovid Ambrose Byers born June 14, 1862, Mercer Co., Pennsylvania.

h. Alpheus Byers born ca. 1865.

i. Lottie Brunette Byers born ca. 1868.

j. Carrie Hannah Byers born ca. 1870.

k. Horace Greeley Byers born December 26, 1872, Pulaski Twp., Lawrence Co., Pennsylvania.

7. Alpheus/Alphonse Byers born March 9 1826 and died September 29, 1863. He fought in the Civil War and may have died in battle.

8. Orsenius/Oresemus Byers born about 1829. (Our correspondent Eric Reid is descended from Orsamus’s daughter Maude Byers Reichard.)

a. Maude Byers married Alonzo Reichard.

i. Claribel Reichard married Harold Allport.

(1) John Allport

(a) Nancy Allport married Vincent Weidenfeller.

(i) Eric Weidenfeller married ____ Reid and goes by her last name.

9. Caroline Byers born about 1833 died 1889. She appears as age 45 and living alone in a household in the 1880 census of New Bedford, Lawrence Co., Pennsylvania.

B. Anna Bissell, a daughter of John Partridge Bissell and Temperance Stark, was born in 1792 in Lebanon, Connecticut and died unmarried in 1826 in Coitsville, Ohio.

C. William Bissell, the oldest son of John Partridge Bissell and Temperance Stark, was born April 5, 1795 in Lebanon, Connecticut, and he died March 14, 1838 in Boone Twp., Porter Co., Indiana. In 1827 he was named the first Postmaster of Coitsville, Ohio. Based on William’s entry in the 1830 census and his being in his 30s when he married Sarah Corey, we think it is highly likely that he married twice, and that Sarah was his second wife.

William’s presumed first wife, whom he would have married about 1814, when he was just 21, is currently unknown, but it is our belief that she was born about1895 and died probably before mid-year 1820 in her early 20s. William does not appear as a head of household in the 1820 census, and we surmise that it is he who was living, along with a young son and daughter, in the 1820 Coitsville, Ohio household of James Crooks and Polly Thompson Corey Crooks.

Several years later, in 1824, Polly’s daughter, Sarah Corey, became William’s 2^nd wife. Sarah’s parents, Ebenezer Corey and Polly Thompson Corey, married in 1803 and were the first couple married in Coitsville Township. Sarah was born in 1807 in Coitsville, and she died in 1887 in Boone Twp., Porter Co., Indiana. Ebenezer died in 1811, and Polly married several years later to James Crooks, in whose 1820 household we believe that William was living with his two young, motherless children. (It is possible that William’s first wife was a Corey or a Thompson or a Crooks, though we have thus far found no details to support this possibility.)

William and Sarah and their young children, plus a teenage boy and girl, were living in the 1830 census of Mercer Co., Pennsylvania. Along with our knowledge that Sarah Corey was supposedly William’s first wife, this is the first clue that led us to connect Mary Ann Bissell Stevens and Pierce B. Bissell to William Bissell as children of a previously unknown first wife.

Some accounts claim that William and his family did not move to Indiana until around 1837, where he died the following year. However, there is some reason to believe that William had previously come west, especially since his eldest daughter Mary Ann married in Michigan in 1834. Also, William and Sarah sold their Mercer Co., Pennsylvania property in December of 1834, which jibes well with their son John’s biography, which claims that his family moved to Indiana when he was age 6, which would have been about 1835; and a Porter Co., Indiana history shows William as being there by 1836.

William’s widow, Sarah, was shown with several of the children in the 1850 census of Boone Twp., Porter Co., Indiana, then in the 1860 census of Bullskin, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania with her daughter Mary Brunot, then in the 1870 census of Saunders Co., Nebraska with her son Thompson Bissell, and finally in the 1880 census of Crown Point, Lake Co., Indiana with her daughter Caroline Turner.

The first two children listed below are (presumed to be) from William’s first marriage, and the remaining six are from his second marriage.

1. Mary Ann Bissell born September 15, 1815 either in Mercer Co., Pennsylvania or Coitsville, Trumbull Co., Ohio (though one record says Erie, Pennsylvania), died March 4, 1887 in Joliet, Will Co., Illinois. (My sister, Julie Bissell Tupker, speculates that the "Erie, Pennsylvania" reference might instead indicate that she was baptized in the Erie Presbytery, which extended down to Mercer Co., Pennsylvania, and perhaps even to portions of Ohio directly across the border.) She married November 2, 1834 at Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., Michigan to Henry Kimball Stevens (b. ca. 1811 in CT or MA, d. June 17, 1903 in Joliet). They owned land in Porter Co., Indiana in the mid-1830s, then moved about 1837 to Aux Sables, LaSalle Co., Illinois, and finally before 1840 to Joliet, Will Co., Illinois, where they lived the rest of their lives. They had six children:

a. Eliza Stevens born October 12, 1835 at Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., Michigan, died January 15, 1913 at Pasadena, California. She married March 10, 1853 at Joliet, Will Co., Illinois to Oliver S. Chamberlin (b. ca. 1825 in Canada). They had:

i. Albert H. Chamberlin born February 10, 1854, died September 2, 1876 at Joliet, Will Co., Illinois.

ii. Frank Erwin Chamberlin born September 17, 1855 at Cook Co., Illinois, died after 1920 at Pasadena, Los Angeles Co., California. He married Virginia C. House (b. 1857 in Kentucky). They had:

(1) Albert F. Chamberlin born November 1893.

b. Unknown son born about 1838 (appeared in 1840 census), died before 1850 at Joliet, Will Co., Illinois.

c. Albert P. Stevens born April 29, 1841, died February 4 1921 at Joliet, Will Co., Illinois. He married October 19, 1868 at Bloomington, McLean Co., Illinois to Anna Mary Elizabeth Harris (born December 1852 in Ohio, died January 29, 1922 at Joliet). They had three children:

i. Blanche Marie Stevens born June 20, 1870, died June 26, 1926 at Joliet, Will Co., Illinois.

ii. Albert J. Stevens born August 24, 1885, died August 15, 1920 at Joliet, Will Co., Illinois. He married September, 1913 at Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois to Mable Sullivan (b. about 1894 in Illinois).

iii. Roland M. Stevens born February 6, 1891 at Joliet, Will Co., Illinois, died December 8, 1918 at Siberia, Russia.

d. Henry Turner Stevens born (according to the 1900 census) September 1845 at Joliet, Will Co., Illinois. Since we believe that his mother and his uncle Pierce Bissell were half-siblings of William Bissell’s six children starting with Caroline b. 1825, and since there was so much name sharing or echoing between the clans, it is natural to suspect that Henry was middle-named for his aunt Caroline’s married surname, since she was married less than a year earlier, on October 17, 1844, to David Turner of nearby Crown Point, Lake Co., Indiana. (For other examples of this naming practice, compare Henry’s sister Eliza b. 1835 to Pierce Bissell’s daughter Sarah Eliza b. 1848, Henry’s father Henry Kimball Stevens being used as the first and middle names for Pierce Bissell’s son Henry Kimball Bissell b. 1852 and Eliza’s husband Oliver S. Chamberlin being used as the name for one of Sarah Eliza’s children, Oliver Chamberlin Turner.)

Henry married November 20, 1878 at Joliet, Will Co., Illinois to Florence Cook Knapp. (It is possible that she is related to the Knapps next door to which Caroline Bissell Turner’s granddaughter, Nettie Neff, was living in the 1900 census of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A Joliet newspaper report from 1895 said that Henry’s wife was visiting relatives in Cedar Rapids. If Henry’s mother, Mary Ann Bissell Stevens, was the half-sister of Caroline Bissell Turner, these relatives certainly could have been Henry’s half-cousins. It’s also possible, and even more intriguing, that they were Florence’s cousins, living next door to Henry’s half-cousins. These possibilities are being explored.) Henry and Florence had four children:

i. Infant daughter born April 4, 1881 at Joliet, Will Co., Illinois.

ii. Henry Stevens born February 14, 1882 at Joliet, Will Co., Illinois, died July 1, 1900 at White Lake, Michigan.

iii. Vera S. Stevens born November 4, 1884 at Joliet, Will Co., Illinois. She married June 4, 1913 to Herbert Graves.

iv. Marion A. Stevens born January 10, 1889, died July 15, 1928 at Joliet, Will Co., Illinois. She married Horace Dupree.

e. Mary Addie Stevens born June 15, 1850 at Joliet, Will Co., Illinois, died February 25, 1934 at Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois. She married May 23, 1867 at Joliet, Will Co., Illinois to William Frasier (b. about 1840 in Canada, d. before 1880). The 1870 census showed them with a young daughter, Mary, who apparently died young. The 1880 census shows Mary Fraser in the household of her parents, along with an 8-year-old boy, Harry Fraser, but whose parents are given as being born in New York and Scotland. This suggests that the boy was adopted, since Mary listed right above him as his mother, was shown as being born in Illinois. She remarried on September 7, 1882 at Joliet to William O. Cheeseman (born November 1850 in New York, died September 5, 1930 at Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois). They lived in Chicago, where she died on February 25, 1934. The 1900 census showed her has having had 4 children, of which only one (Harry) was still living.

i. Mary A. Frazier born October 1869.
ii. Harry A. Frazier born May 1872.

f. Jerome P. Stevens born February 6, 1854, died September 14, 1926 at Joliet, Will Co., Illinois. He married November 4, 1891 at Mokena, Will Co., Illinois to Clara Belle Jones (born July 1864 in Illinois, died March 4, 1943 at Joliet). They had:

i. Mary C. Stevens born April 14, 1895 at Joliet, Will Co., Illinois. She married April 28, 1917 to John E. Staley.

ii. Arthur J. Stevens born April 13, 1899, died July 17, 1971 at Joliet, Will Co., Illinois. He married September 2, 1922 at Joliet to Marian N. Noble. They had:

(1) Virginia S. Stevens married ____ Hickey.

2. Pierce B. Bissell (the great-great-grandfather of this compiler) was born November 21, 1818 either in Mercer Co., Pennsylvania or Coitsville, Trumbull Co., Ohio or Michigan, died November 24, 1870 at Barstow, Rock Island Co., Illinois. He married July 11, 1841 at LeClaire, Scott Co., Iowa to Sarah Van Boskirk (b. July 22, 1822 in Mifflinburg, Union Co., Pennsylvania, d. April 7, 1910 at Woodward, Oklahoma). They had a large number of descendants from four of their six children:

a. Mary Ann Bissell born April 2, 1842 at Barstow, Rock Island Co., Illinois, died February 26, 1887 at Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa. She married March 19, 1861 at Barstow, Rock Island Co., Illinois to Isaac W. Williams (b. September 16, 1843 at Burlin, Maryland, d. Oct. 12, 1930 at Republic, Kansas).

b.  Lois Euphemia (“Lo”) Bissell born November 17, 1843 at Barstow, Rock Island Co., Illinois, died March 9, 1918 at Scandia, Republic Co., Kansas. She married March 8, 1866 at Barstow, Rock Island Co., Illinois to Erick Nelson (b. May 24, 1839 in Sweden, d. June 26, 1920 at Scandia, Republic Co., Kansas). They had seven children:
i. Jessie Nathalie Nelson born November 20, 1866 at Fairfax, Linn Co., Iowa, died June 19, 1923 at Scandia, Republic Co., Kansas. She married November 30, 1893 at Scandia, Republic Co., Kansas to Clarence L.Tebow (b. Oct. 9, 1867 at Elizabethtown, Hamilton Co., Ohio, d. Dec. 25, 1963 at Santa Rosa, Sonoma Co., California). They had six children:
                                                                  (1)      Arden Scott Tebow born November 29, 1894, died October 22, 1895 at Kackley, Republic Co., Kansas.
                                                                  (2)      Altha Ruth Tebow born December 23, 1895 at Kackley, Republic Co., Kansas, died February 5, 1964 at Calistoga, Napa Co., California. She married January 4, 1922 at Napa, Napa Co., California to George Jacob Enderlin (b. Dec. 17, 1891 at San Francisco, California, d. Apr. 2, 1979 at Yountville, Napa Co., California).
                      (3)      Lois Elizabeth Tebow born January 22, 1898 at Courtland, Republic Co., Kansas. She married February 12, 1922 at Scandia, Republic Co., Kansas to Jacob Perry Stinson (b. 1896, d. 1972).
                                                                  (4)      Archie Walter Tebow born December 23, 1899 at Courtland, Republic Co., Kansas. He married August 20, 1924 to Gertrude Irene Sothers (b. 1900, d. 1973).
                                                                  (5)     Eric Theodore Tebow born February 10, 1903 at Courtland, Republic Co., Kansas, died July 19, 1977 at Williamsburg, Virginia. He married first June 1, 1929 at Topeka, Kansas to Helen Louise Hough (b. 1901). He married second to Lodena Golden (b. 1908, d. 1964). He married third on December 3, 1968 to Dorothy Dickinson.
ii.   William Arthur Nelson born September 8, 1868, died December 12, 1868 at Fairfax, Linn Co., Iowa.
iii.   John Henry Nelson born October 12, 1869 at Monroetown, Johnson Co., Iowa, died November 29, 1935 at Okemah, Oklahoma. He married first on October 4, 1893 at Mankato, Kansas to Elizabeth C. White (b. 1875, d. 1900). He married second in 1902 in Courtland, Republic Co., Kansas to Celia Celga Brant (b. 1888, d. 1905). He married third before 1910 to Susan Pauline McGehee (b. 1877, d. 1949). He had one child with each of his first two wives and three children with his third wife:
     (1)        May Nelson born May 19, 1894, died in infancy.
                                                              (2)       John Eric Nelson born April 30, 1903 at Scandia, Republic Co., Kansas. He married March 11, 1929 at Tulsa, Oklahoma to Esther Ethel Malone. They had:
                                                               (3)       Lois Pauline Nelson born January 12, 1910 at Okemah, Oklahoma. She married November 17, 1940 at Okemah to Claude Byron Knight (born 1911).
                                                               (4)        Dorothy Kathleen Nelson born September 13, 1911 at Okemah, Oklahoma, died February 4, 1947 at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She married Leonard Burnett.
                                                               (5)        William Ralph Nelson born February 25, 1919 and died May 13, 1927 at Okemah, Oklahoma.
iv. Iva Josephine Nelson born July 20, 1876 at Scandia, Republic Co., Kansas, died August 15, 1937 at Randall, Kansas. She married December 25, 1908 at Scandia to Peter Ole Stevland (born 1873, died 1968). They had:
                                                               (1)       Boy Stevland died April 26, 1910.
                                                               (2)        Nelson Peter Stevland born July 3, 1911. He married November 23, 1935 at Glenwood Springs, Colorado to Dorothy Alice Brown (born 1912, died 1969).
                                                                (3)        Lois Marie Stevland born September 3, 1915 at Randall, Kansas. She married at Kackley, Kansas to Raymond Jacob Joerg (born 1913).

v. William Clyde Nelson born July 21, 1879, died May 24, 1880 at Scandia, Republic Co., Kansas.

vi.    Sarah Elizabeth Nelson born June 20, 1881 at Scandia, Republic Co., Kansas, died June 25, 1958 at Hastings, Nebraska. She married March 30, 1904 at Belleville, Kansas to Ralph Joseph Greuter (born 1883, died 1976). They had:
                                                               (1)        Ivan Norman Greuter born March 4, 1905. He married July 20, 1929 at Council Bluffs, Iowa to Evelyn May Kitts (born 1909).
                                                                (2)        June Crystel Greuter born June 30, 1907, died about 1926. She married in 1926 to August Tilger (born about 1904 in Nebraska).
vii. Burl Ray Nelson born May 19, 1885 at Scandia, Republic Co., Kansas, died December 1943 in Santa Ana, Orange Co., California. He married before 1920 to Pearl McClure (b. 1893 in Illinois), and they had:
                                                                (1)        Donald Herbert Nelson born May 22, 1919 at Hastings, Nebraska, died May 1986 at Santa Ana, Orange Co., California.

c. Richard Pierce (“Dick”) Bissell (this compiler’s great-grandfather) was born February 12, 1846 at Barstow, Rock Island Co., Illinois, died July 16, 1926 at Massena, Cass Co., Iowa. He married July 3, 1870 at Western, Johnson Co., Iowa to Frances Eliza (“Fanny”) Cloud (b. April 9, 1852 at Danforth, Johnson Co., Iowa, d. October 19, 1931 at Massena, Cass Co., Iowa.). They had ten children:

                                            i.    Guy Franklin Bissell born April 29, 1871 at Barstow, Rock Island Co., Illinois, died March 10, 1943 in Webster City, Iowa. He married March 3, 1897 at Cumberland, Iowa to Rosa Almeda McWherter (b. February 17, 1878 at Wiota, Cass Co., Iowa, d. December 12, 1957 at Waterloo, Iowa). They had:
                                                              (1)    Gladys Marie Bissell born April 10, 1898 at Grant City, Missouri, died March 20, 1960 at Webster City, Iowa. She married John Harold Beem (b. June 2, 1898 at Webster City, Iowa, d. July 15, 1957 at Orlando, Florida).
                                                              (2)    Floyd Richard Bissell born January 2, 1902 at Grant City, Missouri, died 1976. He married September 4, 1929 at Primghar, Iowa to Gladys Mae Freilinger (b. January 1, 1907 at Algona, Iowa). They had no children.
                                                             (3)    Pearle Ethel Bissell born May 12, 1904 at Grant City, Missouri. She married October 4, 1922 at Eldora, Iowa to Glen William Shafer (b. November 4, 1902 at Mattoon, Illinois).

                                         ii.    William Arthur Bissell born August 18, 1872 at Barstow, Rock Island Co., Illinois, died September 17, 1943 at Woonsocket, South Dakota. He married July 3, 1894 at Atlantic, Cass Co., Iowa to Mary Etta Morgan (b. March 23, 1878 in Illinois, d. June 29, 1952 in Letcher, South Dakota). They had:
                                                             (1)    Beulah Gertrude Bissell born February 13, 1896 at Atlantic, Iowa, died November 23, 1985. She married February 18, 1914 at Letcher, South Dakota to George Louis Wilson (b. April 10, 1893 at Creston, Iowa, d. December 10, 1962 at Pomona, Iowa).
                                                              (2)    Retta Alice Bissell born February 24, 1898 at Massena, Cass Co., Iowa, died December 25, 1995 at Wessington Springs, Jerauld Co., South Dakota. She married December 19, 1917 at Letcher, South Dakota to Lloyd Edwards (b. January 4, 1895 at Cumberland, Cass Co., Iowa, d. 1971).
                                                               (3)    Velma Faye Bissell born August 19, 1902 at Allendale, Missouri, died August 13, 1998 at Ontario, San Bernardino Co., California. She married May 6, 1922 at Letcher, South Dakota to Theodore Paul Hudson (b. August 20, 1900 at Algona, Iowa, d. October 12, 1986 at Claremont, Los Angeles Co., California).
                    (4)    Myrtle Fern Bissell born April 13, 1907 at Allendale, Missouri. She married April 9, 1927 at Woonsocket, South Dakota to Amos Warren (b. June 14, 1900 in Kentucky).
                                                              (5)    Wilma Maude Bissell born January 27, 1909 at Allendale, Missouri, died December 25, 1989. She married October 9, 1927 at Fontanelle, Iowa to Wesley Everett Hockersmith (b. May 4, 1908 at Fontanelle, Iowa, d. April 26, 1956 at Greenfield, Iowa).
                                                              (6)    Leona Blanche Bissell born November 11, 1914 at Letcher, South Dakota, died June 13, 2000 at Betts, Davison Co,, South Dakota. She married September 2, 1933 at Letcher to Jesslock McGee (b. May 12, 1912, d. February 15, 1981).
                                                             (7)    William Dale Bissell born April 4, 1923 at Woonsocket, Sanborn Co., South Dakota, died March 31, 1991 at Woonsocket. He married April 9, 1947 to Delores Brown (b. September 22, 1926 at Woonsocket).

iii. Cora Bissell born June 5, 1874 at Anita, Cass Co., Iowa, died April 10, 1957 at Massena, Cass Co., Iowa. She married Ben Ambrose Porter (b. October 24, 1867 in Steuben Co., Indiana, d. August 9, 1949 at Massena). They had:

(1) Dolly Frances Porter born May 4, 1896 at Massena, Iowa, died July 1973 at Massena. She married January 25, 1922 at Atlantic, Cass Co., Iowa to Ira Alonzo Hood (b. February 13, 1896 at Des Moines, Iowa, d. December 30, 1924 at Massena, Iowa).

(2) Hugh Ambrose Porter born April 20, 1897 at Massena, Iowa. He married February 14, 1923 at Wiota, Iowa to Catherine Tibken (b. April 30, 1902 at Wiota, d. June 6, 1997 at Atlantic, Iowa).

(3) Ralph Ivan Porter born April 1, 1898 at Massena, Iowa, died November 1971 at Cumberland, Iowa. He married December 11, 1929 at Atlantic, Iowa to Marie F. Aldag (b. April 8, 1902 at Wiota, Iowa, d. July 7, 1990).

(4) Jetta Lenore Porter born June 27, 1903 at Massena, Iowa, died May 17, 1984. She married May 20, 1926 at Greenfield, Iowa to Lester Edward Tupker (b. March 31, 1905 at Cumberland, Iowa, d. November 1978 at Cumberland).

(5) Dallas Wayne Porter born January 12, 1907 at Massena, Iowa, died April 24, 1972 at Fontanelle, Iowa.

(6) Zura Lillian Porter born February 25, 1912 at Bridgewater, Iowa, died August 30, 1994 at Bridgewater. She married December 22, 1937 at Gravity, Iowa to Kenton Josiah Brown (b. December 24, 1911 at Bridgewater, d. December 9, 1986 at Bridgewater).

iv. Samuel Bissell born October 25, 1875 at Anita, Cass Co., Iowa, died May 24, 1955 at Murdo, South Dakota.

v. Harry Bissell born February 2, 1878 at Anita, Cass Co., Iowa, died December 2, 1934 at Kansas City, Kansas. He married May 22, 1901 at Allendale, Missouri to Nancy Mae Hatfield (b. January 16, 1879 in Lincoln Co., Kansas, d. March 1967 at Lansing, Leavenworth Co., Kansas). They had:

(1) Earl Elvis Hatfield born June 20, 1900 at Allendale, Missouri, died February 23, 1986 at Merriam, Johnson Co., Kansas. He married August 4, 1923 at Leavenworth, Kansas to Marie Burke (b. July 26, 1905, d. March 1981 at Edwardsville, Leavenworth Co., Kansas).

(2) Dorcie Maude Bissell born August 13, 1902 at Allendale, Missouri, died August 6, 1994 at Emporia, Lyon Co., Kansas. She married November 3, 1926 at Leavenworth, Kansas to Theodore Depoe (b. January 4, 1905 in Wyandotte Co., Kansas, d. September 8, 1979 at Emporia).

(3) Nellie Grace Bissell born July 16, 1904 at Massena, Iowa, died January 9, 1981 at Lansing, Leavenworth Co., Kansas. She married June 11, 1924 at Winterset, Iowa to Carl Eric Anderson (b. April 12, 1902 at Greenfield, Iowa, d. October 13, 1949 at Nevinville, Iowa).

(4) Albert Arthur Bissell born August 16, 1906 at Anita, Iowa, died October 1, 1976 at Shady Cove, Jackson Co., Oregon. He married April 6, 1929 at Kansas City, Kansas to Opal May Dramel (b. April 1, 1915).

(5) Callie Frances Bissell born August 22, 1908 at Anita, Iowa, died August 4, 1987. She married March 25, 1926 at Kansas City, Kansas to Perry Orpha Queen (b. April 30, 1905 at Nevinville, Iowa, d. March 11, 1964 at Grand Juntion, Mesa Co., Colorado).

(6) Ruby Pauline Bissell born January 7, 1911 at Massena, Iowa, died November 13, 1999 at Fristoe, Benton Co., Missouri. She married February 7, 1929 at Lansing, Kansas to Lewis Ransdell Stafford (b. December 8, 1907 at Badley, Kansas, d. January 26, 1988 at Fristoe, Missouri).

(7) Ronald Paul Bissell born February 25, 1913, died August 22, 1917 at Massena, Iowa.

(8) Varel Blaine Bissell born June 26, 1921 at Nevinville, Iowa, died September 23, 2005 at Kansas City, Missouri. He married September 16, 1942 at St. Joseph, Missouri to Margarette Wheeldon (b. June 13, 1917 at Post Oak, Missouri, d. November 15, 2003 at Kansas City).

                                        vi.    Richard Nathaniel Bissell (this compiler’s grandfather) born September 29, 1879 at Anita, Cass Co., Iowa, died July 3, 1935 at Massena, Cass Co., Iowa. He married Lena Eliza Rachel Almond (b. December 31, 1881 at Swisher, Johnson Co., Iowa, d. June 16, 1942 at Massena, Iowa). They had:
(1)      Mable Daphne Bissell born November 8, 1905 at Massena, Iowa, died June 25, 1978 at Murray, Clarke Co., Iowa. She married March 5, 1938 at Anita, Iowa to Wendell William Mathes (b. April 27, 1913 at Bridgewater, Adair Co., Iowa, d. March 17, 1995 at Hopeville, Clarke Co., Iowa).
(2)     Maurice Richard Bissell born September 4, 1907, died January 13, 1918 at Massena, Iowa.
(3)      Olin Cecil Bissell born August 1, 1909 at Massena, Iowa, died January 13, 1977 at Newton, Iowa. He married October 15, 1938 at Des Moines, Polk Co., Iowa to Fern Leone Warrior (b. May 6, 1910 at Kimball, South Dakota, d. February 1994 at Newton).
(4)      Clair Almond Bissell born April 25, 1912 at Massena, Iowa, died January 26, 1981 at Cumberland, Iowa. He married June 19, 1935 at Anita, Cass Co., Iowa to Edith Yvonne Westfall (b. December 18, 1914 at Massena, Iowa, d. February 17, 2005 at Atlantic, Iowa).
(5)      Royce Hubert Bissell born May 26, 1914 at Massena, Iowa, died July 26, 1988 at Greenfield, Adair Co., Iowa. He married March 25, 1932 at Cumberland, Iowa to Mildred Eva Holaday (b. April 27, 1912 at Massena, Iowa, d. February 17, 2005 at Fontanelle, Adair Co., Iowa).
(6)      Inez Maurine Bissell born December 15, 1921, died October 24, 1923 at Massena, Iowa.
(7)      Eldon Keith Bissell born October 31, 1925 at Massena, Iowa, died September 10, 1984 at Rochester, Minnesota. He married June 10, 1947 at Anita, Cass Co., Iowa to[LIVING]. They had:
(a)     Roger Eldon Bissell born June 27, 1948 at Massena, Iowa.
(b)     Julie Ann Bissell born April 21, 1952 at Greenfield, Adair Co., Iowa.

                                    vii.    Charles Steven Bissell born February 2, 1884 in Massena Twp., Cass Co., Iowa, died October 1970 at Massena, Iowa. He married December 28, 1910 at Atlantic, Iowa to Gertrude Augusta Gordon (b. October 21, 1893 at Stockton, Missouri, d. March 3, 1987 at Massena). They had:
                                                              (1)    Virgil Elmer Bissell born July 6, 1913 at Massena, Iowa, died June 17, 1995 at Atlantic, Iowa. He married May 20, 1936 at Maryville, Missouri to Maude Garside (b. July 16, 1918 at Massena, d. January 17, 1999 at Atlantic).
                                                             (2)    Marvin Arthur Bissell born February 20, 1916 at Massena, Cass Co., Iowa, died April 26, 1963 at Massena. He married May 17, 1940 at Massena to Ethel Jensen (b. March 20, 1916 at Massena).
                                                             (3)    Earl Leonard Bissell born November 28, 1925 at Massena, Cass Co., Iowa, died January 25, 1999 at Greenfield, Adair Co., Iowa. He married December 26, 1945 at Wiota, Cass Co., Iowa to Irene Carlson (b. February 22, 1928 at Anita, Cass Co., Iowa, d. August 30, 2001 at Greenfield).
                                                              (4)    LIVING
                                                              (5)    LIVING
                                                              (6)    LIVING
                                   viii.    Jessie Blanche Bissell born February 15, 1889 in Massena Twp., Cass Co., Iowa, died October 18, 1936 at Des Moines, Polk Co., Iowa. She married September 14, 1910 at Atlantic, Cass Co., Iowa to Herbert Emory Hines (b. October 9, 1877 at Guthrie Center, Iowa, d. June 15, 1972 at Fanslers, Guthrie Co., Iowa). They had:
                                                              (1)    John Willard Frennel Hines born May 18, 1912, died March 1993 at Lake Panorama, Guthrie Co., Iowa. He married September 28, 1941 at Maryville, Missouri to Bessie ____ (b. January 13, 1904, d. June 1971 at Lake Panorama).
                                                              (2)    Robert Dale Sherman Hines born October 23, 1971, died March 22, 1997 at Fenslers, Guthrie Center, Iowa. He married May 4, 1944 at Guthrie Center, Iowa to Phyllis Simmons (b. July 27, 1925 at Carbondale, Kansas, d. August 13, 2001 at Guthrie Center).
                                                              (3)    William Fred Johnson born March 14, 1922, died January 7, 1984. He married Lois Ione Silvers (b. November 8, 1928, died April 22, 1984).

ix. Minnie Ethel Bissell born September 11, 1892 in Massena Twp., Cass Co., Iowa, died February 7, 1978 at Bedford, Taylor Co., Iowa. She married September 14, 1910 at Atlantic, Iowa to Robert Edward Hatfield (b. August 26, 1881 at Allendale, Missouri, d. August 8, 1949 at Butler, Missouri). They had:

(1) Thomas Rex Hatfield born May 22, 1911 at Massena, Iowa, died March 2, 1963 at Bedford, Iowa. He married December 4, 1937 at Maryville, Missouri to Evelyn Alice Mitchell (b. August 4, 1912 at Bedford, d. August 1967 at Bedford).

(2) Walter Ross Hatfield born August 7, 1912 at Massena, Iowa, died January 26, 1988 at Rippey, Greene Co., Iowa. He married August 4, 1942 at Rolla, Missouri to Thelma Chapman (b. May 28, 1922 at Massena, d. April 14, 2003 at Jefferson, Greene Co., Iowa).

(3) LIVING

(4) LIVING

(5) Robert Dale Hatfield born August 6, 1921 at Massena, Iowa, died May 12, 1970 at Bedford, Iowa. He married November 24, 1948 in Kansas to Hazel Clarice Grubb (b. January 27, 1927 at Clearfield, Iowa).

(6) Roma Eilene Hatfield born August 28, 1923 at Massena, Iowa, died February 8, 2007 at Des Moines, Iowa. She married November 13, 1949 at Des Moines, Iowa to Lester DeLoss Colton (b. January 18, 1921 at Numa, Iowa, d. June 1, 1996 at Des Moines).

(7) Carol Ethel Hatfield born February 16, 1925 at Massena, Iowa, died October 29, 1991. She married June 7, 1947 at Bedford, Iowa to Fred Norman Humphrey (b. January 4, 1922 at Claremont, Missouri, d. February 23, 1994 at Berwyn, Prince George’s Co., Maryland).

(8) Phyllis June Hatfield born May 27, 1927 at Massena, Iowa, died June 26, 1999 at Omaha, Nebraska. She married December 9, 1949 at Omaha to Harry Archibald (b. March 26, 1920 at Omaha, d. October 5, 1995 at Omaha).

(9) LIVING

(10) LIVING

(11) Margaret Ann Hatfield born June 29, 1933 at Bedford, Iowa, died June 5, 1990 at Lincoln, Nebraska.

x. Maude Grace Bissell born August 18, 1895 in Massena Twp., Cass Co., Iowa, died February 19, 1980 at Mt. Ayr, Iowa.

d. Sarah Eliza (“Tade”) Bissell born October 2, 1848 at Barstow, Rock Island Co., Illinois, died August 4, 1915 at Woodward, Oklahoma. She married December 25, 1866 at Cedar Rapids, Linn Co., Iowa to Isaac Evans Turner (b. September 11, 1842 in Sussex Co., Delaware, d. April 20, 1917 at Woodward, Oklahoma). They had eight children:

i. Edgar John Turner born December 2, 1867 at Rock Island Co., Illinois, died November 21, 1926 at Higbee, Missouri. He married August 29, 1889 at Wiota, Cass Co., Iowa to Mable Julia Jameson.
(1) Helen Turner born May 29, 1890 at Anita, Cass Co., Iowa, died June 5, 1964 at Jacksonville, Florida. She married May 16, 1909 at St. Louis, Missouri to Edward Wellington Seibert.
(a) Mabel Ted Seibert born March 5, 1910 at Paris, Missouri, died October 16, 1989 at Goss, Monroe Co., Missouri. She married November 3, 1929 at Shelbyville, Missouri to Caskie Leon Painter (b. 1909).
(b)Edgar Howard Seibert born and died in 1912 at Paris, Missouri.
(c) Roberta Seibert (twin) born June 24, 1913 at Paris, Missouri, died October 18, 1968 at Ladonnia, Missouri. She married Jules Sussman, who died in 1966.
(d) Robert Turner Seibert (twin) born June 24, 1913 at Paris, Missouri, died November 22, 2000 at Little Rock, Pulaski Co., Arkansas. He married June 14, 1941 at Mexico, Missouri to Elizabeth May Walstrom.

(2)Howard Leroy Turner born February 8, 1892 at Cedar Rapids, Linn Co., Iowa, died December 1, 1958 at Denver, Colorado. He married August 14, 1913 at Chicago, Illinois to Jenny Stephens.

ii. Henry Theodore Turner born February 12, 1870 in Rock Island Co., Illinois, died December 1, 1958 at Denver, Colorado. He married March 1, 1910 at Caldwell, Idaho to Ida Catherine Exline (b. 1877, d. 1965). They had five children:
                                                                (1)       Theodore Adren Turner born October 4, 1912 at Lake View Oregon, died October 20, 1974 at Coos Bay, Oregon. He married in 1933 at Emmett, Idaho to Zina Ritzes.
                                                                (2)        Iler Evans Turner born May 24, 1915 at Woodward, Woodward Co., Oklahoma, died June 1984 at Vancouver, Clark Co., Washington. He married December 16, 1937 at Emmett, Idaho to Hazel Ruth Gilbert (b. 1921).
                                                               (3)        Mary Elizabeth Turner (twin) born May 27, 1918 and died June 4, 1918 at Emmett, Idaho.
                                                                (4)        Sarah Virginia Turner (twin) born May 27, 1918 at Emmett, Idaho and died October 19, 1918 either at Emmett or Lakeview, Oregon.
                                                               (5)        Mamie Jeannette Turner born February 4, 1921 at Emmett, Idaho, died May 3, 1999 in Idaho. She married in 1939 to Ronald Jenkins.

iii. Flora Isabelle Turner born February 3, 1872 in Cass Co., Iowa, died December 28, 1934 at Woodward, Woodward Co., Oklahoma. She married about 1893 in Cass Co., Iowa or Salinas, Kansas to Seldon Theodore Taylor (b. 1871, d. 1949). They had nine children:
(1) Israel Evan Taylor born August 31, 1894 at Anita, Cass Co., Iowa, died October 9, 1966 at Des Moines, Iowa. He married December 8, 1921 at Boone, Iowa to Grace May Parrish (b. 1901).

(2) Cecil McKinley Taylor born March 9, 1896 at Anita, Cass Co., Iowa, died March 15, 1932 at Woodward, Woodward Co., Oklahoma. He married October 21, 1919 at Woodward to Hazel Bernice Moore (b. 1899, d. 1936).

                                                               (3)   Samuel Harley Taylor born October 23, 1899, died April 9, 1900 at Boone, Iowa.
                                                                (4)        Mayme Lucille Taylor born January 10, 1901 at Boone, Iowa, died March16, 1973 at Shawnee, Kansas. She married December 1, 1929 at Ponca City, Oklahoma to Lloyd Cleophas Welch (b. 1901).
                     (5)     Edgar Ivan Taylor born July 20, 1904, died January 17, 1940 at Woodward, Woodward Co., Oklahoma. He married at Woodward to Hazel Leona Atkinson.

                                                               (6)       Neva Mae Taylor born December 31, 1906 at Woodward, Woodward Co., Oklahoma, died March 1986 at Meeker, Lincoln Co., Oklahoma. She married October 13, 1919 at Woodward to Lee Otis Morton (b. 1908, d. 1950).
                     (7)        Ralph Merle Taylor born January 30, 1910, died March 2, 1940 at Woodward, Woodward Co., Oklahoma.
                     (8)      Gladys Taylor
                     (9)        Ida Taylor
iv. Samuel Bissell Turner born July 29, 1875 and died July 12, 1877 in Cass County, Iowa.
v. Oliver Chamberlin Turner born September 5, 1878 at Anita, Cass Co., Iowa, died July 29, 1926 at Woodward, Woodward Co., Oklahoma. He married February 7, 1903 at Woodward to Linnie Mae Clark (b. 1879, d. 1976). They had:
                                                                 (1)     LIVING?
                                                                 (2)      LIVING?
                                                                 (3)      Edd Turner born March 1, 1908, died August 1984 at Woodward, Woodward Co., Oklahoma.
                                                                 (4)        Floyd Horace Turner born September 9, 1909 at Woodward, Woodward Co., Oklahoma, died March 28, 1988 at Canadian, Hemphill Co., Texas.
                                                                  (5)       LIVING?
                                                                 (6)        Earl Turner born March 11, 1913, died April 30, 1984 at Woodward, Woodward Co., Oklahoma. He married February 24, 1934 at Woodward to Lila Inez Guthrie (b. 1912). They had:
                                                                 (7)        Alvin Dewey Turner born March 4, 1918 at Woodward, Woodward Co., Oklahoma, died May 1980 at Rio Linda, Sacramento, California. He married June 2, 1941 at Buffalo, Oklahoma to Elma Pauline Baker (b. 1921).
                                                                  (8)  Johnnie Henry Turner born and died at Woodward, Woodward Co., Oklahoma (no dates provided).
                                                                  (9)   Walter Turner born and died at Woodward, Woodward Co., Oklahoma (no dates provided).
                                                               (10)     Infant boy Turner born and died at Woodward, Woodward Co., Oklahoma (no dates provided).
vi.    Richard Andrew Turner born January 30, 1883 at Anita, Cass Co., Iowa, died February 18, 1941 at Stillwater, Oklahoma. He married May 19, 1907 at Woodward, Woodward Co., Oklahoma to Grace Cummins (b. 1889). They had:
                                                                      (1) Merrill Alvin Turner born April 2, 1908 at Woodward, Woodward Co., Oklahoma. He married June 1, 1935 at Leesburg, Virginia to Anna May Lewis (b. 1914).
                                                                   (2)     Nadine Olive Turner born October 25, 1913 at Woodward, Woodward Co., Oklahoma, died January 29, 1997 at Amarillo, Randall Co., Texas. She married September 5, 1936 at Wichita, Kansas to Everett Roush Donaldson (b. 1913, d. 1976).
     vii. Sarah Lois Turner born January 20, 1888 at Anita, Cass Co., Iowa, died March 18, 1944 at Woodward, Woodward Co., Oklahoma. She married Chester Arthur LaMiller (b. 1883). They had:
                                                  (1)        LIVING?

viii. Eleanor Lola Turner born June 6, 1890 at Wiota, Cass Co., Iowa, died July 1, 1963 at Emmett, Idaho. She married February 16, 1908 at Woodward, Woodward Co., Oklahoma to Samuel Mitchell (b. 1884, d. 1973). They had:

                                                (1)     LIVING?
                                                                   (2)      LIVING?
                                                                  (3)       Eleanor Blanche Mitchell born August 6, 1913 at Woodward, Woodward Co., Oklahoma, died December 27, 2001 at Emmett, Gem Co., Idaho. She married June 1, 1932 at Woodward to William Perry Odell (b. 1904).
                                                                 (4)        Robert Mitchell born November 20, 1916, died June 29, 1933 at Woodward, Woodward Co., Oklahoma.
                                                                 (5) Mary Ellen Mitchell born July 6, 1922 at Woodward, Woodward Co., Oklahoma, died February 25, 2001 in Idaho. She married September 2, 1945 at Emmett, Idaho to Edward Clinton Maw (b. 1917).

e. Elizabeth Janette Bissell born June 12, 1850, died March 2, 1852 at Joliet, Will Co., Illinois.

f. Henry Kimball Bissell born April 15, 1852 at Joliet, Will Co., Illinois, died March 23, 1937 at Massena, Cass Co., Iowa. He married June 3, 1874 at Anita, Cass Co., Iowa to Nancy Jane Skinner (b. February 26, 1854 at Carbon Cliffs, Rock Island Co., Illinois, d. March 2, 1939 at Massena, Cass Co., Iowa). They had seven children:

i. Luella B. Bissell born July 19, 1874 at Anita, Cass Co., Iowa, died September 16, 1963 at Greenfield, Adair Co., Iowa. She married January 30, 1895 to Richard Edwards (b. 1866, d. 1936). They had four children:

(1)Hazel Edwards born March 6, 1899, died December 26, 1970 in Massena, Cass Co., Iowa. She married January 12, 1921 to Harold Mills.

(2) Roy Edwards born September 7, 1902, died May 4, 1976. He married October 2, 1920 to Ella McDermott.
(3) Ruth Edwards born January 11, 1906, died June 24, 2003 at Massena, Cass Co., Iowa. She married November 23, 1927 to Glen Maas.
(4) Mary Edwards born July 22, 1914, died April 27, 1999 at Bridgewater, Adair Co., Iowa. She married June 20, 1954 to Lester Stormer.

ii. Alva Bissell born June 8, 1876 at Anita, Cass Co., Iowa, died July 28, 1943. He married January 9, 1895 at Woodward, Oklahoma to Pearl May Morgan (b. 1877, d. 1944). They had seven children:
(1) Esther May Bissell born October 17, 1895 at Corning, Iowa. She married January 4, 1915 at Greenfield, Iowa to William J. Casteel (b. 1891, d. 1967).
(2) Claude Henry Bissell born April 2, 1897 at Mutual, Woodward, Co., Oklahoma, died July 10, 1979 at Red Oak, Montgomery Co., Iowa. He married May 27, 1915 to Lois Elizabeth Murry (b. 1897, d. 1925).
(3) Edna Maude Bissell born April 29, 1899 at Mutual, Woodward Co., Oklahoma, died March 12, 1978 at Clearfield, Iowa. She married January 9, 1920 to Raymond Verne Scott (b. 1899, d. 1973).
(4) Ansel Morgan Bissell born April 9, 1902 at Mutual, Woodward Co., Oklahoma, died August 1, 1975 at Corning, Iowa. He married January 9, 1923 to Jennie Wylie.
(5) Huber Otto Bissell born May 6, 1904 at Mutual, Woodward Co., Oklahoma, died April 20, 1965 at Corbett, Oregon. He married November 1921 to Leona Nellie Casteel (b. 1905, d. 1985).

(6)   Alma Bissell born November 12, 1906 at Mutual, Woodward Co., Oklahoma, died June 6, 2001 at Kent, Taylor Co., Iowa. She married January 9, 1924 to George Schrader (b. 1905, d. 1989).
(7) Florence Bissell born July 6, 1911 at Mutual, Woodward Co., Oklahoma, died November 3, 2008 at Brooks, Adams Co., Iowa. She married August 18, 1929 to Merlin Weetman James (b. 1908, d. 1983).
(8)      Ivan Leroy Bissell born March 13, 1913 at Mutual, Woodward Co., Oklahoma, died October 7, 1988 at Creston, Iowa. He married April 8, 1939 to Margaret Elizabeth Cullen (b. 1913). They had three children:
(9)     Raymond Virgil Bissell born September 4, 1914 at Mutual, Woodward Co., Oklahoma, died September 18, 1999 at Creston, Union Co., Iowa. He married June 1, 1935 to Theda Genevieve Thompson (b. 1918).
(10) Iada Jane Bissell born February 4, 1918 at Massena, Cass Co., Iowa. She married Rex McKee (b. 1914, d. 1986).
(11) Cleda Pearl Bissell born August 23, 1921 at Massena, Cass Co., Iowa, died November 30, 2004 at Brooks, Adams Co., Iowa. She married October 1, 1939 at Massena, Cass Co., Iowa to Claude Herman Paul (b. 1916).

iii.   Frank Bissell born January 12, 1878 at Anita, Cass Co., Iowa, died June 23, 1970 at Grinnell, Iowa. He married June 19, 1899 to Edna Estelle Furst (b. 1881, d. 1959). They had four daughters:
       (1)   Cecil Ruth Bissell born November 20, 1899, died July 1900.
                       (2)   Velma Lillian Bissell born July 10, 1904. She married June 10, 1927 to A. Robert Nelson.
                       (3)   Vada Mae Bissell born October 29, 1906. She married February 1, 1924 to Floyd Parsons. They had:
                                                                    (4)   Martha Marie Bissell born October 26, 1909, died November 27, 1978. She married November 28, 1929 to Ross E. Hinton (b. 1908, d. 1967). They had:
iv. Henry Bissell born October 5 1880 at Anita, Cass Co., Iowa, died May 26, 1968 at Atlantic, Cass Co., Iowa. He married December 18, 1907 to Ree Chaney Shaver (b. 1889, d. 1972). They had three daughters:
                                                                      (1)   Beulah Marie Bissell born June 9, 1908, died January 27, 1997 at Ames, Story Co., Iowa. She married June 3, 1933 to Wendell Wescoat.
                       (2)    Thelma Ethel Bissell born February 3, 1910. She married May 18, 1942 to Lyman Arthur Sherlock.
                       (3)   Lola Eileen Bissell born December 10, 1915 at Massena, Cass Co., Iowa, died April 17, 1978. She married May 1, 1941 to James E. McLaren (b. 1912).
v. Sarah Betsie Bissell born August 17, 1883 at Anita, Cass Co., Iowa, died April 21, 1975. She married March 1903 to John Pearson (b. 1877, d. 1957). They had a son:
                                                                           (1)    Burl Pearson born 1904, died June 22, 1922.
vi.    Claude Bissell born February 12, 1891, died May 4, 1891 at Anita, Cass Co., Iowa.
vii. Maude Bissell born February 12, 1891, died August 19, 1891 at Anita, Cass Co., Iowa.

3. Caroline Bissell born July 27, 1825 at Coitsville, Trumbull Co., Ohio, died January 8, 1917 at Hammond, Indiana. She lived with her cousin John P. Bissell in Pittsburg, while attending finishing school in the 1840s. She married October 17, 1844 in Porter Co., Indiana to Judge David Turner (b. December 17, 1816 in Trumbull Co., Ohio, d. February 14, 1890 at Crown Point, Lake Co., Indiana).

Here is the census data we currently have on this family:

1860 census: Crown Point, Lake Co., Indiana – David Turner 42 OH, Caroline 34 OH, John B. 14 IN, Sarah J. 12 IN, Emma 7 IN, Anna M. IN, Mary A. 3 IN, Alex M. 7/12 IN.

1880 census: Crown Point, Lake Co., Indiana – David Turner 64 OH (IRE, IRE), Caroline 54 OH (CT, OH), Murry A. 20 IN (OH, OH), Austria 16 IN (OH, OH), Sarah mother 72 OH (PA, NJ).

1880 census: Cedar Rapids, Linn Co., Iowa – John B. Turner 34 IN (OH, PA), Mary 33 OH (OH, NY), Nettie C. 7 IA (IN, OH), Alice E. 3 IA (IN, OH).

1900 census: Crown Point, Lake Co., Indiana – Caroline Turner 74 July 1825, widow, 10 children, 7 living, OH (PA, OH), Anna Morgan 45 May 1855, widow, 6 children, 4 living, IN (OH, PA—both should be OH), Mary Holm 43 April 1857, widow, 3 children, 1 living, IN (OH, PA—both should be OH), Allie (Alice?) Holm 19 July 1880, MO (OH, IN), Freeman B. Morgan 12 June 1887, IN (IL, IN).

1900 census: 3^rd ward, Hammond, Lake Co., Indiana – Alexander Turner (indexed as “Turns”) 40 Dec 1859, IN (OH, OH), Lillian 29 July 1870, 2 children, 1 living, IN (OH, IN), Margaret daughter 3 Oct 1896 IN (IN, IN), Clara Short servant, Caroline Montieth (niece) 24 Apr 1876 MI (MI, MI).

1900 census: 1^st ward, Cedar Rapids, Linn Co., Iowa – John E. Turner 55 IA (erroneous birthplace and middle initial), Mary Oct. 1846 53 m. 30 years, 4 children/4 living, Alice Jan. 1879 23, Laura Sep. 1880 19, David Feb. 1882 18.

1900 census: same location – Fred B. Neff Jan. 1870 IA (OH, IA), Nettie July 1872 IA (IN, OH), Howard E. Jan. 1896 IA (IA, IA).

1910 census: 2^nd ward, Cedar Rapids, Linn Co., Iowa – John B. Turner 64, Mary B. 63, 4 children/4 living, Laura 29.

1910 census: same location – David Turner 27, Hildegarde 25, John B. 1-7/12, Anna Beurle (mother in law) 62.

1920 census: 2^nd ward, Cedar Rapids Linn Co., Iowa – John B. Turner 74 IN (IN, IN), Nettie Neff daughter 47 IA (IN, OH), Laura Turner daughter 38 IA (IN, OH), Howard E. Neff grandson IA (IA, IA).

1920 census: same location – David Turner 37, Hildegarde 36, John 10, Virginia 7, Anna Beurle (mother in law) 72.

David and Caroline had ten children:

a. John Bissell Turner born September 19, 1845 at Crown Point, Lake Co., Indiana, died October 16, 1936 at Cedar Rapids, Linn Co., Iowa. He married August 30, 1870 to Mary Boynton (b. Oct. 26, 1846 in Ohio, d. Feb. 6, 1911). John and his son David were in the mortuary business and made several innovations in the field, including the use of microphones during funeral services. They founded a microphone factory in Cedar Rapids. They were also patrons of the arts, in particular supporting painter Grant Woods, one of whose paintings was entitled “John B. Turner, Pioneer.” They had:

i. Nettie Caroline Turner born July 5, 1872 at Cedar Rapids, Linn Co., Iowa. She married October 3, 1893 to Fred B. Neff (born January 26, 1870 in Iowa, died February 24, 1943). They had two sons:

(1) Howard Edgar Neff born January 1, 1896 at Cedar Rapids, Linn Co., Iowa, died June 19, 1937. He married in 1921 to Irene Orr (born September 21, 1897).

(2) John Turner Neff born January 19, 1909, died July 1909 at Cedar Rapids, Linn Co., Iowa.

ii. Alice Ethel Turner born January 14, 1877 at Cedar Rapids, Linn Co., Iowa, died February 27, 1955. It is not presently known where she was living in the 1900 census. She married August 26, 1903 at Cedar Rapids, Linn Co., Iowa to John Breton Brunot (her first cousin once removed, son of great-aunt Mary Bissell Brunot). She and John had three children:

                                                                                        (1)        John Breton Brunot Jr. born November 9, 1904 at Greensburg, Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania. He married September 30, 1930 to Laura Louise Canfield (born November 21, 1906, died March 5, 1956). They had:
                                                                                                                    (a)      Mary Canfield Brunot married Victor E. Sandberg.
                                                                                       (2)        Mary Alice Brunot born October 14, 1906 at Greensburg, Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania.
                                                                                    (3)        William Turner Brunot born April 21, 1908 at Greensburg, Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania. He married August 21, 1934 to Catherine Patricia Kennedy (born April 15, 1910). They had:
(a)   William Kennedy Brunot married Rosemary Diane Dunford.
(b)   James Turner Brunot
(c)    Ellen Kennedy Brunot
(d)   John Breton Brunot III

iii. Laura Turner born September 8, 1880, died May 2, 1955 at Cedar Rapids, Linn Co., Iowa. She apparently never married.

iv. David Turner born February 27, 1882 at Cedar Rapids, Linn Co., Iowa, died 1954. He married about 1907 to Hildegarde Eleanor Beurle (born August 9, 1884, died 1962). They had two children:

(1) John Beurle Turner aka “John B. Turner II”, born February 24, 1909 at Cedar Rapids, Linn Co., Iowa, died March 1983 at Cedar Rapids. He married Harriet “Happy” Young (born January 13, 1912). They continued the family tradition of being patrons of the arts, donating a number of Grant Woods’ paintings to the Cedar Rapids Art Museum. They had:

(a) Peter McArthur Turner born March 31, 1940 at Cedar Rapids, Linn Co., Iowa, died August 24, 1997 at Littleton, Colorado. He married Wendy Plumb.

(2) Virginia Turner born September 5, 1912 at Cedar Rapids, Linn Co., Iowa, died October 1978 at Cedar Rapids. She married September 4, 1935 to Ronald Perry Evans.

b. Sarah Jane Turner born September 5, 1847 at Crown Point, Lake Co., Indiana, died July 18, 1937 at Port Huron, St. Clair Co., Michigan. She married in 1875 to Rev. Thomas W. Montieth (b. 1843, d. 1911). She was a member of the D.A.R. They had six children, four of whom were still living in 1910:

i. Caroline V. Montieth born April 1876 at Port Huron, St. Clair Co., Michigan. She was a member of the D.A.R. She was listed as “Clara V.” in her parents’ 1880 household. She was living in the household of her uncle Alexander Murray Turner in the 1900 census, but was back in her parents’ household in the 1910 census. She was living unmarried in her mother’s household in 1920.

ii. Wilson Thomas Montieth born March 15, 1879, died August 11, 1883 at Port Huron, St. Clair Co., Michigan. He was listed as “William F.” in his parents’ 1880 household.

iii. David T. Montieth born about 1883, died April 11, 1923, at Port Huron, St. Clair Co., Michigan. He was living unmarried in his mother’s 1920 household.

iv. Wilson H. Montieth born February 18, 1885 at Port Huron, St. Clair Co., Michigan.

v. John Murray Montieth born about 1887, died 1891 at Port Huron, St. Clair Co., Michigan.

vi. Percy Loba Montieth born about 1891 at Port Huron, St. Clair Co., Michigan, died 1941 at Detroit, Wayne Co., Michigan.

c. Mary Amelia Turner born May 10, 1850, died March, 1853 at Crown Point, Lake Co., Indiana.

d. Emma Turner born October 10, 1852 at Crown Point, Lake Co., Indiana, died January 25, 1924. She married October 20, 1875 to Irving Cass Emery (b. June 26, 1851, d. November 18, 1912). She was a member of the D.A.R. They had 6 children, of whom 4 were still living as of the 1910 census, including:

i. James T. Emery born about 1879 at Cedar Rapids, Linn Co., Iowa.

ii. David T. Emery born August 18, 1881 in Cedar Rapids, Linn Co., Iowa. He married about 1908 to Carrie ____ (b. ca. 1880 in Indiana). They had:

(1) Margaret Emery born about 1909 in Hammond, Lake Co., Indiana.

(2) Marian Emery born about 1911 in Hammond, Lake Co., Indiana.

(3) James P. Emery born about 1913 in Hammond, Lake Co., Indiana.

(4) John David Emery born about 1919 in Hammond, Lake Co., Indiana.

iii. Irving Cass Emery Jr. born about 1885 at Cedar Rapids, Linn Co., Iowa. (Still at home in 1910.)

iv. John B. Emery born October 1891 at Cedar Rapids, Linn Co., Iowa. (Still at home in 1910.)

e. Anna Maria Turner born May 27, 1855 at Crown Point, Lake Co., Indiana, died September 13, 1943 at Morgan Park, Cook Co., Illinois. She married August 5, 1877 at Crown Point, Lake Co., Indiana to Rev. Freeman Eldon Morgan (b. February 9, 1850, d. April 4, 1891). They had six children:

i. Ruth Edna Morgan born August 23, 1878 at Elgin, Kane Co., Illinois, died August 26, 1956 at Washington, D.C.

ii. Margaret Morgan, born at Kurnool, Burma India January 1, 1881, died about 1977 in Colorado. She married Augustus D. Forbush. Member of D.A.R.

iii. Murray Turner Morgan born January 25, 1883 in Kurnool, Burma India, died July 29, 1971 at Kelly Lake, Wisconsin.

iv. Harriet (“Hattie”) Morgan born November 21, 1884 in Kurnool, Burma India, died November 21, 1893 at Crown Point, Lake Co., Indiana.

v. Freeman Ernest Morgan born June 9, 1887 at Crown Point, Lake Co., Indiana, died December 16, 1956 at Washington, D.C. He married March 8, 1911 at St. Joseph, Berrien Co., Michigan to Mary Stewart Mitchell (b. June 6, 1886 at Clinton, Henry Co., Missouri, d. June 25, 1980 at Washington, D.C.). They had four children:

(1) Helen Louise Morgan born May 2, 1912. She married June 11, 1939 to Marshall Douglas Brown (b. ca. 1912), and they divorced about 1850.

(2) Freeman Ernest Morgan Jr. born June 16, 1913 at Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois, died Fbruary 19, 1998 at Aspen Hill, Montgomery Co., Maryland. He married October 16, 1939 at Calumet, Houghton Co., Michigan to Ruth Geraldine Peterson (b. June 8, 1916 at Calumet, Houghton Co., Michigan).

(3) Marjorie Caroline Morgan born December 9, 1919 at Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois, died July 16, 1989 in Maryland. She married March 26, 1966 to Thomas Burton (b. ca. 1891, d. Dec. 24, 1975).

(4) Ruth Ann Morgan born June 10, 1924 at Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois, died March 18, 1989 in Georges Co., Maryland. She married Joseph Priestly Spalding (b. Mar. 26, 1915 in MD, d. Mar. 9, 1985 at Ocean City,Worcester Co., MD).

vi. Edward Silliman Morgan born December 21, 1889 and died August 4, 1890 at Crown Point, Lake Co., Indiana.

f. Mary A. Turner born April 28, 1857 at Crown Point, Lake Co., Indiana, died February 20, 1930. She married June 20, 1878 to Rev. Charles A. Holm (b. May 31, 1853, OH, d. July 4, 1885). They had three children, only one of whom was still alive in 1900:

i. Alice T. Holm born July 1880 at Moberly, Randolph Co., Missouri.

g. Alexander Murray Turner born October 3, 1859 at Crown Point, Lake Co., Indiana, died April 11, 1938. (He is sometimes referred to as Murray A. Turner.) He was a banker in Hammond, Indiana and co-author in 1896 (with his second cousin, John Partridge Bissell of Pittsburg, who is probably the John Bissell b. ca. 1849, son of William Semple Bissell) of The Bissell-Turner Genealogy, from which a good deal of this family’s vital statistics was taken. He married first on December 31, 1890 to Lillian Elizabeth Blackstone (b. July 1870, d. Nov. 21, 1900 at Hammond, Indiana); they had two children, one of whom died before the 1900 census, the other being the daughter listed first below. He married second about 1909 to Rose McClellan Latta Brunot (b. ca. 1880 in Pennsylvania, d. ca. 1913 at Hammond, Indiana), the widow of his first cousin, James Thompson Brunot. According to the 1910 census, James and Rose had two children, though this hardly seems possible, since they married Sept. 4, 1901, and he died Aug. 14, 1902; their one known child was James Turner Brunot (b. July 24, 1902 in Pennsylvania, d. Oct. 1984 at Bridgeport, Connecticut), who appeared with Alexander’s family in the 1910 census. By 1920, James was listed as Alexander’s “adopted son.” Alexander’s three natural children were:

i. Margaret Caroline Turner born October 24, 1896 at Hammond, Lake Co., Indiana.

ii. John Latta Turner born September 9, 1910 at Hammond, Lake Co., Indiana.

iii. Rose Latta Turner born January 12, 1912 at Hammond, Lake Co., Indiana.

h. Susan Turner born November 23, 1862, died January 22, 1863 at Crown Point, Lake Co., Indiana.

i. Austria Caroline Turner born June 3, 1865 at Crown Point, Lake Co., Indiana, died July 11, 1940. She married December 23, 1886 to Charles Ross (b. Apr. 16, 1861, d. Feb. 22, 1936). They had:

i. Helen Leslie Ross born July 29, 1888, died June 29, 1917.

ii. Caroline Bissell Ross

iii. Donald Walter Ross

iv. Margaret Susan Ross

v. Austria Mary Ross

vi. Ethel Vida Ross born April 4, 1899, died May 8, 1968. She married October 5, 1921 to Wilber H. Waterman (born December 29, 1894, died June 21, 1947). They had:

(1) Jean Ross Waterman about 1922. She married Samuel Felten.

(2) Helen Virginia Waterman born September 29, 1923, died October 15, 2005 at Kokomo, Howard Co., Indiana. She married David Welcher (born December 27, 1918).

(3) Nancy Marian Waterman born April 14, 1925. She married Alexander DeRidder Collette.

vii. Marion Turner Ross born March 29, 1905, died September 16, 1924.

j. Maggie Turner born November 3, 1867, died January 10, 1879 at Crown Point, Lake Co., Indiana.

4. (Ebenezer?) Thompson Bissell born October 19, 1827 at Coitsville, Trumbull Co., Ohio, died December 13, 1894 at Elyria, Garfield Co., Nebraska. He married January 15, 1852 at Hebron, Porter Co., Indiana to Sarah J. Brecourt (born October, 1827 in Ohio, died after 1900 in Washington). Some interesting historical information is available about Thompson Bissell. A history of Butler Co., Nebraska says:

The soil of Nebraska, for three hundred miles west of the Missouri river, is now proved to be equal to that of Iowa. Yet nothing was further than this admitted fact from the opinions of the pioneers in that region. Of these explorers, Major Long, of the United States army, came earliest, in 1820, and he described the basin of the Platte river as lying in the American Desert, and when he found "buffalo wallows" numerous, wrote; "What should ever prompt buffalo to seek the inhospitable deserts of the Platte is not, perhaps, easy to conjecture." If he had been himself a buffalo, he would have known more about grazing grounds. But his opinion was that of gold hunters and freighters who, onward from 1849, ascended the Platte either overland to California or the Colorado mountains. But how could these shrewd men, and after years of observation, mistake the nature of a soil? The best answer is that given by Thompson Bissell, long a freighter to the mountains, and afterward one of the earliest and most successful farmers on a branch of the Platte: "We freighters," says he, "all considered the land west of the Missouri bluffs good for nothing. We so thought it because the grass was both stunted and scanty, and it seemed to us that the ground where grass would not grow must be worthless. But after a while we noticed that prairie fires burned the very roots of the grass, and that whenever a field escaped those fall burnings, the grass directly became thicker there, and that wherever the soil chanced to be broken up, the grass increased in height from six inches to as many feet. Further, when rain falls on a burnt field it immediately runs off, and the winds drink up the moisture in a few days. If the same rain falls on an unburnt field, the grass dams up the water, compelling it to soak into the ground instead of running off, and thereby a large quantity of moisture is stored for future use. The result is a much larger vegetation, the soil grows yearly richer, and droughts are mitigated."

The history of Butler Co., Nebraska also says:

On the portion of the old Government road between Deer Creek and the county line west, and dispersed along the foot of the bluffs, were several ranches: McCabe's on Deer Creek, established 1859; Thompson Bissell’s, on Elm Creek, established 1860 and Simpson's, afterward Grant's, also established in 1859. Thompson Bissell removed to Saunders County in 1865…In 1859, Thompson Bissell, William Bissell, William Earl, J. W. Seeley, Moses Shinn and Messrs. Simpson, Beardsley, McCabe, David R. Gardner, David Reed made settlements in the county. Thompson Bissell, D. R. Gardner, David Reed, Simpson and McCabe established ranches as previously stated, the others locating in the vicinity of Savannah and Linwood. Thompson Bissell remained in the county until 1865, when he settled near Wahoo, in Saunders County, at the point known as Bissell's Grove, where he still resides. [Another source says that Thompson Bissell settled upon Section 34, Wahoo Precinct, in July, 1864.]

In chapter 18 of Saunders County, Past and Present, L. W. Gilchrist contributed an extensive entry about Thompson Bissell:

Thompson Bissell was an 1865 settler in Saunders County and was elected a county commissioner in 1866. In the gold excitement of Pike's Peak he ran a road house on the overland trail on Platte River and did a thriving business in trading sound cattle to the emigrants for footsore animals which traveled up the Platte, destined for the gold fields of Colorado and California. In 1865 the Indian war on the plains made residence on the frontier very dangerous. The Sioux Indians were on the warpath; they were the most numerous Indians on the frontier, possibly excepting the Comanches of Texas. During this Indian trouble Mr. Bissell settled on Wahoo Creek about two miles south of where Ithaca now stands and commenced ranching and dealing in cattle. He brought with him quite a number of oxen yokes which he had received in trade from the emigrants. In 1865 William H. Dech and his father, Uncle Billy, settled near where Ithaca now stands. From 1865 until 1869 settlers did not come very fast to the prairies of Saunders County, but in the latter year there came quite a number who located in the valley west and northwest of Bissell's place. No more liberal or generous settler ever cut his fodder in this county than Thompson Bissell. His house, his table, barn and corn crib were open to any settler who traveled by his door and no one ever passed within sight without receiving a cordial invitation to stop. No one was ever charged a cent for lodging, meals or horse-feed and the writer of these lines has seen at least a dozen up-country settlers eating at his free table at one time. No man helped the early settlers as he did. He would sell any homesteader a yoke of oxen, take his note and ask no security. He launched himself heavily into the Texas cattle business, bringing as high as 4,000 Texas steers to the county at one time. His heavy cattle risks finally broke him. He espoused the greenback craze and for a time was a prominent advocate of the 16 to 1 policy that brought financial downfall to many, him among the number. He closed out his ranch and moved to Valley County, where he died and was buried a few years since.
In 1869 there was a good bit of claim jumping. Men took out claims in 1868 and went back home to spend the winter, intending to return in the spring. John M. Booth located a claim on Cottonwood about five miles northwest of Wahoo. Two men jumped the claim. Thompson Bissell, Moses Stocking (another 1865'er) and about twenty-five other settlers went out to the jumped claim. One of the men came to the door with a gun and Moses Stocking walked up to him, grabbed the gun, and twisted it out of his hands. There were two jumpers in the house and these were loaded on a wagon, taken to Ashland, tickets bought for them and they were placed on the B. & M. and forwarded into Iowa. They were admonished not to return, which advice they adhered to, and this ended claim jumping in Saunders County.

Here is the census data we currently have for this family:

1860 census: Plattsmouth, Butler Co., Nebraska – Thompson “Bessel” 30 Illinois (Pennsylvania), Sarah 30 Illinois (Ohio), Columbia 6 Illinois (in Indiana), Jane 4 Illinois (Indiana), G. (? William Brecourt Bissell was born March 1858 in Illinois) 3 Illinois, J. (? Mary Elizabeth Bissell was born November 1859 in Indiana) 10/12 Nebraska.

1870 census: Ithaca, Saunders Co., Nebraska – Thompson Bissell 44 Pennsylvania (should be 42), Sarah 44 (should be 42) Ohio, Hume (Columbia) 16 Indiana (should be 17), Jane 14 Indiana (should be 15), William 11 Indiana (supposedly b. in Illinois), Mary 9 Indiana (supposedly b. Nov. 1859), Annie 7 Nebraska, Charles 5 Nebraska, Frederick 3 Nebraska, Sarah 63 New Jersey (William’s widow).

1880 census: Wahoo, Saunders Co., Nebraska – Thompson Bissell 51 OH (NY, NY), Sarah 51 OH (OH, OH), Mary 20 IN (OH, OH), Anna 17 NE (OH, OH, Chas. 15 NE (OH, OH), Fred 13 NE (OH, OH), Ettie 9 NE (OH, OH).

1900 census: Gate Precinct, Thurston Co., Washington – Charles Bissell 35 NE, Fannie 30 WI, Ollie 9 NE, Earl 8 NE, Cora 6 NE, Ada 5 NE, Clark 2 WA.

Same location: Etta Sculy b. Sep. 1870, 29, widowed, mother of 1/1, NE OH, OH), Anett (male) b. Jan. 1897, 3, OR, Sarah Birrell b. Oct. 1827, 72, widowed, mother of 11/5, OH (OH, OH), Fred Birrell b. Aug. 1866, NE (OH, OH).

1910 census: Centralia, Lewis Co., Washington – Fanny J. Bissell 39, married 23 years, mother of 15, 8 living, Wendell Earl 18 NB, Ada M. 14 NB, George C. 12 WA, Roy J. 9 WA, Iva 7 WA, Vera L. 6 WA.

Same location: – Florence Bissell, Charles Bissell (Fred not in household).

1910 census: Lakeside Twp., San Diego Co., California – Mason Birchard, Etta, Kenneth B. Sculy 13.

1920 census: Centralia, Lewis Co., Washington – Wendell W. Bissell 28 NE (NE, NE), Myrna 25 MN (MN, MO), Antene 4 WA (NE, MN), Arlene 10/12 WA (NE, MN)

Same location: Fanny J. Claughton 48 (widow) WI (NY, NY), George C. Bissell 21 WA (NE, NY), Vera L. Bissell 15 WA (NE, NY).

1920 census: Cosmopolis, Grays Harbor Co., Washington – J. Fred Bisell 53 NE, Florence 46 IL, Marie Richards (daughter, widow) 24 IL (NE, IL).

1920 census: Seattle, King Co., Washington – Charles A. Bissell 54 MI ? (NY, NY), Flora 43 Illinois (KY, Illinois). (This may be Thompson’s son.)

Thompson and Sarah had eleven children, only five of whom were still living according to the 1900 census (though our records show six still alive at that date):

a. Columbia Humes Bissell born June 20, 1853 at Valparaiso, Porter Co., Indiana, died May 21, 1914 at Florence, Arizona. He married June 1, 1873 in Saunders Co., Nebraska to Sarah J. Harndon, who died before 1900. He was living in Graham Co., Arizona in the 1900 census. Columbia and Sarah had a daughter:

i. Ina T. Bissell born September 25, 1875 in Saunders Co., Nebraska. She married January 11, 1896 at Albany, Wyoming to Robert Russell Gearhart (d. before 1920). They had five children:

(1) Helen F. Gearhart b. ca. 1897 in Wyoming. She married before 1920 John L. Green (b. ca. 1896 in Colorado).

(2) Merle E. Gearhart (daughter) b. ca. 1899 in Wyoming. She married before 1918 William Schultz (b. ca. 1893 in Michigan). They had:

(a) Evelyn R. Schultz b. ca. 1918 in Wyoming.

(3) George B. Gearhart b. ca. 1902 in Wyoming.

(4) Sylvia R. Gearhart b. ca. 1904 in Wyoming.

(5) Alice M. Gearhart b. ca. 1911 in Wyoming.

b. Margaret Jane Bissell born May 23, 1855 at Valparaiso, Porter Co., Indiana, died December 24, 1894 at Valley Co., Nebraska. She married October 4, 1877 at Saunders Co., Nebraska to Robert Burns Kipling (b. March 16, 1844). They had:

i. Edwin Kipling born August 15, 1878 at Ord, Valley Co., Nebraska, died 1949 at Melfort, Saskatchewan, Canada. He married Hattie York. They had:

(1) Earl Everett Kipling born 1903.

ii. James Kipling born 1880.

iii. Emma Kipling born February 13, 1881. She married Edward Hansen.

iv. Archie Kipling born 1882.

v. Robert Thompson Kipling born February 29, 1883. He married Rosa May Heitz (born 1887). They had:

(1) Albert Kipling married November 6, 1940 at Melfort, Saskatchewan, Canada to Mary Hazel Smith (born August 13, 1922 at Pathlow, Saskatchewan, Canada).

vi. Frank Kipling born April 1, 1885 at Saunders Co., Nebraska, died March 20, 1952 at Melfort, Saskatchewan, Canada. He married March 15, 1906 at Garfield Co., Nebraska to Geneva Mae Ledger. They had:

(1) Archie Virgil Kipling born 1907 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. He married Dora Stasius, and they had at least four children including:

(a) Gary Kipling

(2) Lloyd Ernest Kipling born 1909 in Nebraska, died 1923 in Melfort, Saskatchewan, Canada.

(3) Elmer Robert Kipling born December 20, 1912 at Melfort, Saskatchewan, Canada. He married February 1940 to Ann Gale Holowaty (born August 21, 1921 at Wakaw, Saskatchewan, Canada. They had at least four children.

(4) Clarence Emmitt Kipling born October 6, 1914 at Melfort, Saskatchewan, Canada. He married January 6, 1937 at Melfort to Ethel June Irene Smith (born September 1, 1915 at Pathlow, Saskatchewan, Canada. They had at least four children.

(5) James Clifford Kipling married Evelyn Bildstein. They had at least two children.

(6) Maria Viola Kipling died 1987 at Porcupine Plain, Saskatchewan, Canada. She married Cecil Hill, and they had at least four children.

vii. Jessie Kipling born May 13, 1888.

viii. Minnie Kipling born August 3, 1892.

c. Fortunnatez Abbott Bissell born December 20, 1856 and died April 26, 1857 at Valparaiso, Porter Co., Indiana.

d. William Brecourt Bissell born March 3, 1858 at Rock Island Co., Illinois, died April 24, 1877 at Saunders Co., Nebraska.

e. Mary Elizabeth Bissell born November 6, 1859 at Valparaiso, Porter Co., Indiana, died May 25, 1932 at Baker, Oregon. She married November 5, 1883 at Wahoo, Nebraska to William Duby (born Aug. 1860 in Missouri, died April 21, 1931). They had:

i. Myrtle Duby born March 1886 at Saunders Co., Nebraska, died 1945 at Baker City, Baker Co., Oregon. She married first December 29, 1908 at Baker City, Oregon to William Chester Wilbourn (born 1879, died 1920) and second between 1920 and 1930 at Baker City, Oregon to John L. Cass (born 1892, died 1965). She had no children with either husband.

f. James Edgar Bissell born and died October 4, 1861 at Hall Co., Nebraska Territory.

g. Anna Gertrude Bissell born October 19, 1863 at Hall Co., Nebraska Territory, died February 27, 1946 at Baker, Baker Co., Oregon. She married November 28, 1881 at Lincoln, Nebraska to Hick Matthews. The 1900 census says they were married 19 years, so he must have died in the spring of 1900. They had:

i. Archie Matthews born November 1881 at Baker, Baker Co., Oregon.

ii. Walter Matthews born August 1891 at Baker, Baker Co., Oregon.

h. Charles Thompson(?) A.(?) Bissell born May 5, 1865 at Wahoo, Saunders Co., Nebraska, died November 6, 1934 at Centralia, Washington. He married July 19, 1886 at Ord, Valley Co., Nebraska to Frances (“Fanny”) J. Clark (b. ca. 1870 in Wisconsin). They divorced in 1909, shortly after the last child was born, and she remarried after 1910 to ____ Claughton, who died before 1920. Charles was living in his widowed sister-in-law, Florence Bissell’s household in the 1910 census. Charles and Fanny had 15 children, of whom only 8 were still alive by the 1910 census:

i. Child died young.
ii. Child died young.
iii. Child died young.

iv. Ollie Bissell (daughter) born September 1890 in Nebraska.

v. Wendell Earl Bissell born November 1891 in Nebraska. He married about 1915 to Myrna ____ (b. ca. 1895 in Minnesota, d. after 1920 in Washington). They had:

(1) Ardene Bissell (female) born about 1916 in Washington.

(2) Arlene Bissell born 1919 in Oregon.

(3) William Bissell born March 12, 1921 in Washington, died March 1971 in Washington.

(4) Charles Bissell born about 1924.

(5) George L. Bissell born August 21, 1926 in Washington. He married Ella J. ____ (b. ca. 1926).

vi. Cora Bissell born March 1894 in Nebraska.

vii. Ada M. Bissell born May 1895 in Nebraska.

viii. George Clark Bissell born February 1898 in Washington. He married about 1924 at Tacoma, Pierce Co., Washington to Vena Madeline Oppelt.

ix. Roy J. Bissell born December 6, 1900 in Washington, died June 1976 at Mason Co., Washington.

x. Iva Bissell born 1903 in Washington.

xi. Vera L. Bissell born 1905 in Washington.

i. Fred James Bissell born August 29, 1866 at Wahoo, Saunders Co., Nebraska. He and his mother were living in his sister Etta Sculy’s household in 1900, and he married March 9, 1902 at Gate, Washington to Ellie Florence (Carrall) Hutchings (widow, born ca. 1874 in Illinois). She had a daughter Marie from her first marriage. They apparently had no children together.

j. Ida May Bissell born May 5, died June 9 1868 at Wahoo, Saunders Co., Nebraska.

k. Etta Grace Bissell born September 9, 1870 at Wahoo, Saunders Co., Nebraska, died August 1959 at Portland, Oregon. She married October 23, 1895 at Ellensburg, Washington to George W. Sculy, who died before 1900. She remarried March 9, 1902 at Gate, Washington to Mason Birchard (died at San Diego, California, Nov. 25, 1934, age 64). Etta and George had:

i. Kenneth B. Sculy born January 1897 in Oregon.

5. John Bissell born December 16, 1829 at New Bedford, Lawrence Co., Pennsylvania, died September 15, 1903 at Phillipsburg, Kansas.

In a section of Phillipsburg—Phillips County Centennial 1872-1972 entitled “Early Residents of County,” we read that:

JOHN BISSELL, Registrar, U.S. Land Office, first came to Phillips County in February 1872, locating on a farm near Phillipsburg where he yet resides. [From this, we can infer that this section of the book consists of biographical sketches written no later than 1903, but apparently prior to 1888, when he moved into town. See next sketch below.] He has followed farming and stock raising since. He is well known in Phillips county as one of its substantial. He took registers position in the U.S. Land Office April 9, 1883.
He was born in Mercer county, Pennsylvania Dec. 16, 1829. Moved with his parents to Valparaiso, Ind., where he was raised on a farm making Indiana his home. Went to California in 1852 and engaged in mining and various pursuits until 1854.
Was married in 1856 to Miss Rebecca Cornell of Boone Grove, Ind. They have five children, Edgar, married and farming near Phillipsburg; Maria, married to W. R. Cannon, a merchant at Norton, Kansas, Emma, Pheba and Mary.
Mr. Bissell is a member of order I.O.O.F. of Phillipsburg. He represented Phillips county in Kansas Legislature sessions of 1874, 1876, 1879 and 1883.

The Phillipsburg Dispatch ran a feature on November 2, 1893 entitled “Our Businessmen (1893),” and it contained further information on John Bissell:

JOHN BISSELL the present proprietor and building of the Hotel Bissell was born at New Bedford, Pa. January 1830. When 6 years of age he moved with his parents to Porter County, Indiana where he lived until the spring of 1872 when he came to Phillips county. Arriving here, he settled upon a homestead two miles west of this city, which he brought under a high state of cultivation and which he still owns. He was three times elected to represent Phillips county in the Legislature where he served the interests of the people who sent him. In 1882, he was appointed Register of the U.S. Land office at Kirwin this county, which position he filled for four years. In 1888, he moved to Phillipsburg and built the large three story brick hotel, a very good picture of which can be found in this paper and now personally conducts the same.

From material contributed by his granddaughter, Sarah Helen Roberts, to the Bicentennial Biography Book (1976), we get this further perspective:

John Bissell, his brother William and a nephew left Boone Grove, Porter Co., IND., in the fall of 1871 and wintered in Iowa with relatives. The following spring they started for Kansas, but William became ill and stayed with a brother [Thompson Bissell] in Nebraska for several months. The others came on in wagons, driving some livestock.
John started as a farmer—he planted evergreens on his farm on Bissell Creek, raised cattle and sheep and his own food supplies. The first home was a cave in the side of a bank on Bissell Creek with a soddy for the front. When the railroad went through his grove in Phillipsburg he moved a large part of it to land he owned at Kirwin, watered and cultivated it. This grove was the largest in that part of the state until the drought of 1930s. Wood had to be hauled from Hastings, Nebraska to build the houses in both Phillipsburg and Kirwin. At least one load was lost to the flooding Republican River.
John Bissell helped organize the community. The first school district and the “fort,” which was never used except for a few Indian scares, was on his property. It was unorganized except that there was a chairman and W. H. Boughton was supposed to have charge of the military activities.
He supported brother William in his buildings around the city of Phillipsburg as a result of which he lost most of his money in the panic of 1893-7. He was in politics—served in the legislature 1874, 1876, 1879, 1883—and was probate judge when he died in 1903. He was Registrar at the Federal Land Office in Kirwin in 1883-1886, held local offices, such as trustee of Kirwin twp., enumerator. He threw his influence to Phillipsburg in the county seat fight and made permanent enemies of some of the Kirwin supporters.

John married March 11, 1856 at Boone Grove, Porter Co., Indiana to Rebecca Cornell (b. November 23, 1829 at Crawford Co., Ohio, d. October 10, 1909 at Columbus, Nebraska).

Here is the census data we have to date for this family:

1860 census: Valparaiso, Porter Co., Indiana – John Bissell 30 Pennsylvania, Rebecca 30 Ohio, Edgar 3 Indiana.

1870 census: Valparaiso, Porter Co., Indiana – John Bissell 41 Pennsylvania, Rebecca 40 Ohio, Edgar 13 Indiana, Mariah 9 Indiana, Emma 6 Indiana, Phoebe 3 Indiana, Mary 11/12 Indiana.

1880 census: Phillipsburg, Phillips Co., Kansas – John Bissell 50 PA (NJ, OH), Rebecca 50 OH (PA, VA), Emma 16 IN (PA, OH), Phoebe 13 IN (PA, OH), Mary 10 IN (PA, OH).

1880 census: Prairie View, Phillips Co., Kansas – Edgar Bissell 23 IN, Lou 18 IN.

1900 census: Kirwin Twp., Phillips Co., Kansas – John Bissell Dec. 1829 PA (CT, PA), Rebecca Nov. 1829 OH (PA, VA), Emma June 1864 IN (PA, OH).

1900 census: Phillipsburg, Phillips Co., Kansas – “Ewald” (Edgar) Bissell Feb. 1857 IN (PA, OH), Louella Apr. 1862 IN (OH, IN), Maude June 1881 KS (IN, IN), Willis May 1883, Vinnie Feb. 1885, Helen Jan. 1887, Mary May 1888, John Jan. 1898, Fredrick Dec. 1899.

1920 census: Gunnison Co., Colorado – Edgar Bissell 62 IN (PA, IN), Luetta 57 IN (OH, IN).

John and Rebecca had seven children:

a. Edgar Bissell born February 26, 1857 at Boone Grove, Porter Co., Indiana, died December 29, 1927 at Gunnison, Colorado. He married July 20, 1880 at Phillipsburg, Phillips Co., Kansas to Louetta Murray (born April 1862 in Indiana). They were living in Gunnison, Colorado in the 1910 census. They had seven children:

i. Maude Bissell born June 1881 in Phillipsburg, Phillips Co., Kansas.

ii. Willis B. Bissell born May 1883 in Phillipsburg, Phillips Co., Kansas.

iii. Vinnie Eleanor Bissell born February 1885 in Phillipsburg, Phillips Co., Kansas, died February 16, 1947 in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. She married February 13, 1907 to Andrew Morgan Powell.

iv. Helen Bissell (twin) born January 1887 in Phillipsburg, Phillips Co., Kansas.

v. Mary C. Bissell (twin) born January 1887 in Phillipsburg, Phillips Co., Kansas.

vi. John M. Bissell born January 1898 in Phillipsburg, Phillips Co., Kansas.

vii. Frederick W. Bissell born January 1900 in Phillipsburg, Phillips Co., Kansas. He was in the 1920 census of Cicero, Cook Co., Illinois.

b. unnamed son born and died July 8, 1858 at Boone Grove, Porter Co., Indiana.

c. Maria Bissell born November 8, 1860 at Boone Grove, Porter Co., Indiana, died April 24, 1938 at Los Angeles, California. She was a member of the D.A.R. She married September 15, 1879 at Phillipsburg, Kansas to Walter P. Cannon (born April 1845 in Maryland). They had two sons:

i. Walter B. Cannon born September 1880 at McPherson, McPherson Co., Kansas.

ii. John A. Cannon born December 1883 at McPherson, McPherson Co., Kansas.

d. Willis Bissell born March 2, died April 16, 1863 at Boone Grove, Porter Co., Indiana.

e. Emma Bissell born June 2, 1864 at Boone Grove, Porter Co., Indiana, died October 2, 1940 at Kirwin, Kansas.

f. Phebe Bissell born December 1, 1866 at Boone Grove, Porter Co., Indiana, died April 25, 1935 at Manhattan, Kansas. She married February 27, 1901 at Phillipsburg, Phillips Co., Kansas to William Robert Roberts, who died before the 1910 census. In the 1900 census, she was listed as the landlady and owner of the hotel, and he was the manager. They had four children:

i. Hellen S. Roberts born about 1903 at Phillipsburg, Phillips Co., Kansas.

ii. Mary Ellen Roberts born about 1905 at Phillipsburg, Phillips Co., Kansas.

iii. John B. Roberts born about 1906 at Phillipsburg, Phillips Co., Kansas.

iv. William Robert Roberts born about 1908 at Phillipsburg, Phillips Co., Kansas.

g. Mary Bissell born August 20, 1869 at Boone Grove, Porter Co., Indiana, died August 16, 1942 at Kirwin, Kansas. She married February 10, 1893 at Phillipsburg, Phillips Co., Kansas to Irving H. Rogers (b. Aug. 1867 in Iowa). As of the 1900 census, they had no children.