Posts Tagged ‘Oliver Whitney’

Well, today I got my packet of info on Joseph Golliday’s will. In the words of the people from the Nebraska State Historical Society ” the quality of the prints is regrettably very poor”. The originals were apparently quite faded when microfilmed and the film itself has not held up well. The actual original may be on file in Phelps County Clerk Office and I may eventually try to get copies from there. Anyway, the good news is there was enough readable to answer a number fo questions and as always create more.

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Family:Whitney, Oliver Perry (1849-1914) – WRG.

link to my page for O. P. Whitney on the Whitney research Group.

Yep, there’s a a few errors out there about our family. Some pretty understandable, some transcription erros and some just bad speculation. I’ll occasionally post a few on here to help me (and maybe you) keep track. Otherwise I find myself going back and cleaning up the same misinformation time after time. And, if anyone finds errors on mine on here….well LET ME KNOW! : )

So, I was looking at the Kansas Pioneers site and saw they have Oliver Perry whitney and Cordelia Moser and Samuel and Rebecca Moser all as pioneers in Burr Oak, Doniphan starting in 1874. Well, that’s probably not right. I know the info makes sense when you look at birth places and years of the childrens births, but my own research would place OP and Cordelia in Smith County, KS in 1875 as the earliest documented place in Kansas. Samuel Moser first shows on a census in Kansas in Burr Oak Doniphan in 1895 and Rebecca nevers appears in Kansas. Sam and Rebecca move to Nebraska from Iowa in 1873 and live there apparently until Rebecca’s death. Most documents I’ve found show OP and Cordelia coming from Iowa directly to Kansas then going to Nebraska around 1880 after Joe Galladay’s death. Anyway, there’s no documents I can find showing any of them in Doniphan COunty in 1874. The link to the Pioneers site is here http://skyways.lib.ks.us/kansas/genweb/pioneers/piolstwz.html

Okay, I’m stumped. : (

I’m still fairly sure that Oliver Perry Whitney’s mother Ruth is somehow connected to the Light Family in Clermont Ohio in 1850. But, I can’t prove a link. There’s a Peter and Hepsibeth (Whitney) Light living there. There’s a James and a David Whitney the right ages to be OP’s grandfather and uncle
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Much thanks to Phelps County Phelps Helps newsletters and the book “Happy as a Big Sunflower” about life in early Phelps County. This book has several other brief mentions about our family, like descriptions of Joe Galladay’s speaking style, Josephine Moser Steward’s husband’s card playing, and Jacob and Sam Moser too!!

Several families including the Galladay, Moser, Daggett, Sweezey and Miller’s went to Phelps County. Nebraska in about 1873. Sometime shortly after that, William “Crazy” Miller, who’d been the first sheriff, abducted one of Ruth and Joseph Galladay’s daughters ( possibly Cordelia/Phidelia) when she was 16. He kept her imprisoned for some time and she apparently had 1, perhaps 2, sons. She escaped to the Dale farm and was rescued by Emma Dale and her husband. According to the Phelps Helps Newsletter, she went then by train to rejoin her family who had moved away. In 1877, Miller was shot by a group of men including James Sweezey, Sam and Jacob Moser, John Daggett and Bob and Sam Dale in an incident on his land bordering the Moser farm. Miller was killed by Sweezey (who was sheriff after Miller)and Dale injured.
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Yep, we all have them…those family members who just…well…disappear.

I’m looking for Oliver Perry Whitney b. 1849/50 somewhere in 1870. It’d also be nice to find something in the 1850 census or to prove he was born after it.

But here’s a few dropped off the face of the earth people:

Lydia Moser b. 1838 after 1850
George W. Moser b. 1840 after 1860
Catherine Ann Moser b. 1845 after 1870

James/David Galladay b. 1867 after 1910
Christopher/William Galladay b. 1870 after 1910
Cordelia/Phidelia Galladay b. 1858 after 1870
Con/??? Galladay b. 1862 after 1870

Those are just a few….

Of course, they aren’ quite as difficult as those that just appear out of thin air….

Figured I’d take some time to summarize my information on Oliver Perry Whitney so far.

This is from my posting on the Whitney Research Group site:

Oliver Perry Whitney was born 29 Dec 1849, IL, and died 4 Nov 1914, Burr Oak, Doniphan Co., KS. He is buried in Cowger Cemetery, Doniphan Co., KS.

He married 1873, Rock Falls, Phelps Co., NE, Cordelia Moser, daughter of Samuel P. and Rebecca (Polly/Paulin?) Moser. She was born 18 Apr 1853, Greenville, Darke Co., OH, and died 19 Feb 1930, Burns, Laramie Co., WY.
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