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Scott this is the History from Aunt Helen; I believe.  How accurate it is I am not sure:

Helen Kennedy was.  Grandma VidaÕs cousin.

This is The Jarman-Sawyer Family tree-(Grandma VidaÕs Grandma Jarman and before that Sawyer.

Wesley Best Jarman-Your Great Great Grandpa-Grandma VidaÕs Grandfather on her motherÕs side.  He was born June 17, 1862 in Macoupin county, Illinois, he father was Henry Jarman and his mother was Harriet (Adlaid) Grant.(Grandma wants to know if we are related to Ulysses S. Grant). They made their home on a farm in Litchfield, Illinois for a number of years before moving to Moline, Kansas and then on to Columbus, Kansas where they remained the rest of their lives. Twelve children were born of this marriage with two sons and six daughters living to maturity and three girls and one son dying in infancy. Wesley was a farmer his entire life, and shortly after he retired from farming and moved to Columbus, Kansas he was kicked by one of his favorite horses causing his death on December 3, 1921. He is buried in Columbus, Kansas.(Some tidbits from me:Grandma Stoughton(GrandmaÕs mom) loved her father dearly and for years she cried at Christmas for him.  She was closer to her father than her mother.  Her mother married two times after her father to which she was very upset about!! I saw Grandma Jarman when she was 92 years old and I was two years old in Kansas.  She was very stern!

EMMA SAWYER-JARMAN-Your Great Great Grandmother-Grandma VidaÕs grandmother on her motherÕs side.  She was born August 8, 1866 in Litchfield, Illinois, the eldest daughter of John Perry Sawyer. She was married to Wesley Best Jarman on Oct. 10, 1882 in St. Louis, Illinois. She was the mother of 12 of his childrn. Several years after WesleyÕs death she married a Mr. Bueller and after his death she married Mr. Best. Emma died in Columbus, Kansas July 1955 and is buried there.(my sister Debbie was born that year).  Grandma & Grandpa, Nancy, me and Ron went back to Kansas to visit and that is when I saw her and Mom was pregnant with Debbie.

Children of Wesley Best Jarman-Emma Sawyer Jarman

1. Bess-Children-Grace, Pauline, Mary, Maxine, Jack and Van.   Aunt Bess married Dave Juniper and died in columbus, Kansas.

2. Bertha Viola born Aug. 18, 1884 in Moline, kansas married to Frank Lee Kennedy Feb. 1st 1908 in Columbus, Kansas. Died April 29, 1974 in Long Beach, Calif. Buried there.(I met Aunt Bertha(Grandma StoughtonÕs sister)She used to visit Tucson once in a while and last time I saw her she took my cousin, Sue and I on a Long Beach harbor cruise. She was gracious, interesting and very smart!  She wore a blue suit that day and was very grand looking.  She was not sure where the harbor was but I found it at the age of 16 and we brought the boat back to harbor because we missed it!! It came back for us and we all had a good time.  Her children are Helen Louise Kennedy born May 31, 1911 in Joplin, Missour.(She is the one that typed this info for the family). She married Richard Eugene Bly Jan. 2, 1937. Children:Diana, Carole, Barbara and James.

3.  Eugene Jarman born? married to GraceHolstein Thompson died in Columbus, Kansas on? Adopted a boy named Louis.  I never knew him. 4.  Ethel-died at 2 months.




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5. Irene Jarman was born? died in columbus, Kansas.  (As far as I know, she never married, lived with her Mom for a long time and i saw her in Tucson also and she dressed very well. She was a career woman; I think.

6. Laura Belle Jarman; born? and married CP Horner and they both died in a boating accident in Idaho on Snake River. A storm was brewing and they were warned not to go but they were all very good swimmers so they took a risk!

7. Addie-died at 2 years old.  Grandma Stoughton talked to me about her and she thinks it was pneumonia.  She really was happy to have a baby sister.  Everyone treasured her.

8.  Faye-Grandma Stoughton(my favorite)-born July 21,1898 married William Henry Stoughton born Jan. 7th 1897.  Children:oldest, William H. Stoughton Jr(Bill)born 3/9/1920 died when I was about two years old(1951?)He had polio and reuhmatic fever.  I think he had conjuctive heart failure.  Then Grandma Vida; Emma Jean Stoughton born Sept 6, 1921-Marjorie Stoughton(Aunt Marjie) Jan 9, 1922.Betty Lou Stoughton born?James Willis Stoughton; Raymond Dale Stoughton born in May 7, 1928 and jack Lee Stoughton(Feb 27, ?)Uncle Jack.

9. Lena-died at two years old

10. Mildred Jarman was born? married Tom Jenny.  I visited her many times in Columbus, Kansas on her farm and in Tucson when she visited Grandma.

11. Ralph-died at two months

12.  James Howard Jarman born ? 1913 married to Aunt Nora.  (I knew them really well). Neat people!  Brian and Eric and I stayed with them in Ft. Scott, Kansas. We had a family reunion of the Stoughtons etc in Columbus, Kansas in 1982 or so and I took the boys and they put us up for a night.  Children; Joanna and Sharon.  I met Sharon also.

Jarman-Grant

Henry Jarman was born (possible in North Carolina) and maried Harriet Adlaid Grant and they lived in Macoupin county, Illinois on a farm.

Children of Henry Jarman and Harriet Grant Jarman

1.  Wesley born June 17, 1862 Macoupin county, Ill. Married Emma Sawyer Oct 19, 1882 in St. Louis, Ill. 12 children 2.  Lystra 3.George 4. Ira 5.Bell Jarman-Grant 6. Ida jarman-Groover 7.Jane Jarman-Sexton lived in Parsons, Kansas




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John Perry Sawyer-Sarah jane Sawyer-Sawyer(cousins marry, I believe) was born in Stanton, Macoupin county, Ill. Sept 3, 1842. His father was BHSawyer and his mother was Ann Scroggin. He enlisted as a private in Company 1-59th Regt illinois Vol. Infantry, August 16, 1861 and was honorable discharged Feb. 18, 1863. he married Sarah Jane Sawyer Oct 1, 1863 in Macoupin county, Ill. To this union ten children were born, six living to maturity and four dying in infancy. They moved to Moline, Kansas in 1884 where most of the children completed their education. His wife, Sarah jane, died in June 17, 1898 when a shotgun accidentally was discharged. he moved shortly after that to Stuttgart, Arkansas and on May 1, 1900 he married Mrs. Fannie Gibson. He died and is buried there on may 20, 1913.

Sarah jane Sawyer-Sawyer was born Nov. 28, 1846 in Stanton, Ill. Her father was Amos Sawyer and her mother was Delacy--Sawyer. She married John Perry Sawyer Oct. 1, 1863 and had ten of his children. Six living to maturity. her family was from the south and when the Civil War broke out several of her brothers joined the Union Army and several the Confederate Army. Her father was in sympathy with the south, so never spoke to the two older boys who joined the Union Army. they were both killed. When the Gold Rush to PikeÕs Peak was held. Her father Amos Sawyer furnished five wagons and each wagon had 5 span of mules the best he could buy.  He just about went broke on this adventure.  He had been a prosperous farmer and this story was told to Elsie Sawyer when she was a little girl, by a neighbor, Uncle Dick Sturgess in Moline, who used to live near her grandparents, but she couldnÕt remember where. Sarah Jane and john moved their family to Moline, Kansas in 1884. She dies June 17, 1898 when a shotgun was accidentally discharged.

Children of John Perry Sawyer and Sarah jane Sawyer-Sawyer

1. Emma Sawyer was born 8/8/1866 in Litchfield, Ill Married to Wesley Best Jarman 10/10/1882. Eight living children. Four died in infancy. Died in columbus, Kansas. 1955. 2nd marriage-Mr. Best 3rd marriage-Mr. Bueler

2. Elias born? Married? Children-Maud died in Oregon.

3. Laura was born?  Married to Lou Collier died in Moline; Children:Bruce

4. Anna was born 9/26/1875 in Staunton, Ill. Died March 26, 1967 in Sedan Kansas. Married to frank Dollinger. No children.

5.  Ben born?  Married to Katie Kanabe. Kenneth only son.Married second time to? Died?

6.  Elsie Louise born Sept 23, 1888 in Moline, Kansas






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BH Sawyer was born?  Probably in the south. John Perry Sawyer is the only child we have any record of his marriage to Ann Scroggin.

Ann Scroggin was bron? Her mother was Mary Tatum. Ann was one of the five Scroggin children and then her mother married a Mr. Thurston after Scroggin died and she had one more child by Thurston. The Thurston cild was about the same age as John Perry Sawyer. (This informaton was in a letter written to Aunt Anna by Emma Jarman many year ago).


Now this is the couple that I think the story about their both smoking their pipes out on the porch was told. Anyway we have the cutest picture of a pioneer famr couple that is John Perry Sawyers father and mother.

Children of B.H. Sawyer and Ann Scroggin Sawyer

1. John Perry Sawyer was born in Staunton, Ill(Macoupin county) 9/3/1842. Married Sarah Jane Sawyer. Died May 20, 1913.

Amos Sawyer-was born? He married Delacy-----Sawyer on ? in?. They moved their family to Staunton, Ill on? where Delacy gave birth to ten of his children. Dying in childbirth when Sarah Jane was ten years old-about 1856. he wa married again and his second wife had ten children. He ws a properous farmer. During the Gold Rush to PikeÕs Peak he furnished five wagons with five spans of horses or mules to race to the top.  He almost went broke of that venture.

Delacy---Sawyer was born?She married Amos Sawyer on ? and they moved to Staunton, Ill. where they raised a large family. She was the mother of his ten children and died in childbirth with the tenth sometime in 1856.

Children of Amos Sawyer and Delacy family

1.Sarah Jane Sawyer born Nov. 28, 1866 in Staunton, Ill. Married John Perry Sawyer Oc. 1, 1863 and had 10 children. She died June 17, 1898. Buried in Moline, Kansas.

Dear Scott,

This letter does repeat itself.  This is the original one from Aunt Helen Kennedy; I believe. When there are parentheis with comments, those are mine!!

I am always glad to give away my knowledge of the family as I hear it or read it!!

I hope this is something of what you were wanting.

Love Aunt Patty 
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