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PRITCHARD Family History, Part II

Peleg PRITCHARD (~1823-1860s)

1A1.Peleg Pritchard was born about 1822 or 1823 in North Carolina.^{[Cen 1850]} He married the widow Mrs. Nancy (Ball) Armstrong on February 16, 1847, in Hancock County, Indiana. She was about five years his senior and had four children. They went on to have four more children together. Their blended family comprised:

--	William C. Armstrong	(1835-1836)	--	--
--	Lucinda Ann Armstrong	(1839-1840)	--	--
--	Adalom Armstrong	(1841-1842)	--	--
--	Lydia Ann Armstrong	(1843-1844)	--	--
1A11.	Melinda Pritchard	(1847)	--	--
1A12.	Rebecca Pritchard	(Dec 1849)	--	--
1A13.	Arminta Pritchard	(1852-1853)	--	--
1A14.	Alfred Pritchard	(1856-1857)	--	--
(1A15.)	Anna (Pritchard/Rinewalt)	(1860)	--	--
(1A16.)	Edward (Pritchard/Rinewalt)	(1867-1868)	--	--

Peleg and Nancy were married by John Hager on February 16, 1847, in Hancock County.^{[Mar 1847]}

The Pritchards and Armstrongs settled Fall Creek Township, Madison County, Indiana, by 1850. (Peleg's widowed mother and two younger sisters were also enumerated 19 households away in Fall Creek Township.) Their blended family consisted of Nancy's five children and their two daughters, Melinda and Rebecca. Peleg worked as a laborer.^{[Cen 1850]}

Peleg Pritchard likely died in the late 1850s after the birth of Alfred. He would have been in his mid-30s.

Nancy remarried to George Rinewalt, a likely widower and clock repairer from Pennsylvania, by 1860. They and Nancy's three youngest Pritchard children continued to living Fall Creek Township. George owned real estate valued at $600 and $250 of personal property.^{[Cen 1860]} George also had as many as six children, but only one has been located in the 1860 census living at an inn in Fall Creek Township.

George Rinewalt likely died in the late 1860s after the birth of Edward. He would have been around 64 years old.^{[Cen 1870]}

Nancy and her four youngest children, Rebecca, Arminta, Anna, and Edward, lived in Adams Township, Madison County, by 1870. They were served by Pendleton Post Office to the southwest in neighboring Fall Creek Township.^{[Cen 1870]}

Nancy later remarried to George W. Fisher, a native of Ohio and resident of Pendleton. He had as many as six children, but they were probably all grown by the time of his remarriage.

Nancy (Ball Armstrong Pritchard Rinewalt) Fisher is reported to have died in June 1892 and was buried at Grove Lawn Cemetery in Pendleton. She was 74 years old.

Sophia (PRITCHARD) FISHER³ (1825-1887)

1A2.Sophia Pritchard³ was reportedly born on July 12, 1825, in either North Carolina or Indiana. She married King David Fisher² and had at least nine children, probably 12, born in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, and Nebraska:

1A2A.	John Jackson Fisher3	6 Jan 1843	8 May 1906	(63)
1A2B.	Mary C. Fisher	29 Mar 1845	Bef. 1871	(<26)
1A2C.	Isaac Fisher	10 May 1847	(Jun 1867)	(20)
1A2D.	Sylvester Fisher•	12 Nov 1849	11 Jan 1889	(39)
1A2E.	Sarah M. Fisher	12 Nov 1849	15 Dec 1883	(34)
1A2F.	Ellen C. Fisher•	2 Jun 1852	12 Jan 1899	(46)
1A2G.	David W. Fisher	(1854-1855)	Bef. 1871	(<17)
1A2H.	Frederick P. Fisher	22 Jan 1857	Bef. 1871	--
1A2I.	Theodore William Fisher•	20 Jun 1859	22 Nov 1925	(66)
1A2J.	Samuel M. Fisher•	5 Aug 1861	(1885-1897)	(24-36)
1A2K.	Ira H. Fisher•	1 Apr 1863	3 Nov 1938	(75)
1A2L.	Robert A. Fisher	9 Dec 1865	--	--

Sophia and King are said to have met near Louisville, Kentucky. They were wed in 1840 or 1841 and began their family in Illinois in 1843 with the birth of their first son, John Jackson. By 1846, the family moved to Indiana where the next four children were born.

King David allegedly left home to follow the Gold Rush to California but apparently returned to relocate to Batavia, Des Moines Township, Jefferson County, Iowa by the time of the 1850 census, along with his sisters Catharine (Fisher) Garrison, Mary Ann (Fisher) Parsons, and their families. Here they resided through the 1860 census until 1862 when the family moved again, this time to Big Sandy, Hobbs Precinct, Jefferson County in the Nebraska Territory—the heart of Pawnee territory—and homesteaded in the center of Section 9, Township 2 North, Range 2 West. Son John homesteaded in the northeast part of the same section. The family was run off the homestead in the summer of 1867 by Indians, ironically the same year that Nebraska gained statehood. It was probably in this attack that King David's second eldest son Isaac was killed. The Fisher family retreated east and resettled temporarily in Tarkio, Atchison County, Missouri for two years.

On June 1, 1869, King mustered in as a founding member and First Corporal (then at the age of 50) of the Nebraska Cavalry Militia, First Regiment, Company A, at Fort Butler to defend against Indian raids such as the one that drove his family out in 1867. He mustered along with three privates: Sylvester, age 19 (his son); James, age 24 (likely his nephew); and William, age 17 (likely his nephew and James' brother).

In 1870 a company of regular Army was stationed to the north at Kiowa which relieved Company A. At that time many soldiers took up claims in central and southern Thayer County, which likely prompted King's move from Big Sandy to Hebron. King homesteaded on Section 9 of Township 2 North, Range 2 West.

King David Fisher died of "lung fever" (or perhaps typhoid) in a dug-out on July 12, 1871, in Hebron, Thayer County, Nebraska. King David, by request, was buried on the homestead on a hill facing north overlooking the Little Blue River and the Oregon Trail. The hill had been a lookout for marauding Indians and lay between two springs (one known as Avalon Springs and later renamed Corliss Springs). King chose his final resting place so that he would never be thirsty. King Fisher's sister and son noted that he had joked with settlers of the area that they would have to shoot someone to start a graveyard—and he was the first of the group to die in Hebron.

After King

After King's death, Sophia received her patent (#1371) for 160 acres on February 7, 1876, but later moved to Clear Creek, Sherman County, in central Nebraska, by the 1880 census along with her three youngest sons and the families of her two eldest sons, John and Sylvester. Sophia remained in Clear Creek into 1885^{[Cen 1885]} when her brother-in-law Samuel's wife died in August 1885 to the south in Republic County, Kansas. Sophia and Samuel married on December 22, 1885, in Loup City, Sherman County, and lived in Republic County. This marriage only lasted a year and a half before Sophia died.

Sophia (Pritchard) Fisher died on May 17, 1887, while in her 60s. She was buried in Republic County, probably on her husband's farm in White Rock.^[Grave]

Elizabeth (PRITCHARD) PRICE (1827-1904)

1A3.Elizabeth Pritchard was born on August 22, 1827, in Indiana, perhaps in New Garden Township, Wayne County, where her family had settled around 1828. She married John C. Merchant, twice widowed with as many as eleven children, in the late 1860s.^{[Cen 1870]} They had at least one daughter together before he died in 1873. Elizabeth remarried to Edward Price, also a widower, in 1877. Elizabeth had two children, both of whom lived through 1900, but only one has been found so far.^{[Cen 1900]}

1A31.

Mary E. Merchant

(1867-1868)

(> 1870)

(> 2)

After her father's and stepfather's deaths, Elizabeth and her younger sister Martha continued to live with their mother in Fall Creek Township, Madison County.^{[Cen 1850B]}

John was born in Indiana and married Cassandra Moxley in Boone County, Kentucky, on August 18, 1841. They had as many as seven children, four born in Kentucky and about three in Ohio.^{[Cen 1850A]} Cassandra (Moxley) Merchant died in the 1850s. John remarried to Melinda Johnson and had about four children all born in Indiana, presumably in Center Township, Hancock County.^{[Cen 1860]}

The blended Merchant family, comprised of Elizabeth, John, ten of his children from his two previous marriages, and their daughter Mary, all lived in Center Township.^{[Cen 1870]}

John C. Merchant died on August 8, 1873, at the age of 58. He was buried in Cooper Cemetery in Maxwell, on the north edge of Center Township.^[Grave]

Elizabeth married Edward Price, also a widower, on March 11, 1877, in Hancock County.^{[Mar 1877]} They continued to live in Center Township with Edward's son Albert and an adopted son John E. Jackson.^{[Cen 1880]} John was the son of Harrison & Martha Jackson of Vernon Township, about 12 miles north in Hancock County. His mother died in 1871 and his father in 1879.

Edward Price died on January 27, 1903, and was buried with his first wife, Sarah M. (Barnard) Price, in Mount Gilead (Reeves) Cemetery in Center Township.^[Grave] Interestingly, his late wife Sarah also has a headstone two miles away in Sugar Creek Cemetery, also in Center Township.^[Grave]

Elizabeth (Pritchard) Price died on January 30, 1904, Pendleton, Fall Creek Township, Madison County, Indiana. She was buried in Cooper Cemetery. Elizabeth was 76 years old.^[Grave]

Mary M. (PRITCHARD) TERPENING^Δ (1829-1912)

1A4.Maria M. Pritchard^Δ was born on October 20, 1829, a twin with Sarah, likely in New Garden Township, Wayne County, where her family had settled around 1828. She married Dorastus Hollister Terpening about 1851, probably in Wayne County. They had seven children, two of whom died young:^{[Cen 1900, 1910]}

1A41.	Theodore F. Terpening	24 May 1852	21 Mar 1909	(56)
1A42.	Sarah Minerva Terpening	26 Feb 1855	17 Mar 1917	(62)
1A43.	Samuel H. Terpening	(1857-1858)	(1860-1870)	(Childhood)
1A44.	Charlotta "Lottie" Terpening	22 Mar 1863	2 Jan 1947	(83)
1A45.	John William TerpeningΔ	22 Feb 1865	18 Sep 1932	(67)
1A46.	May Terpening	13 Nov 1867	4 Sep 1948	(80)
1A47.	Terpening daughter	1871	3 Sep 1874	(3)

Before she married, Mary lived with the John K. & Sarah Iliff family in Wayne Township, just south of New Garden Township.^{[Cen 1850B]} Dorastus and his younger brother Cornelius lived elsewhere in Wayne Township with the William J. & Rebecca Wheeler family.^{[Cen 1850A]}

After their marriage, the Terpenings first three children were born in Indiana, likely in Wayne County, and then they moved about 170 miles west to Broullitts Creek Township, Edgar County, Illinois, by 1860. There they lived next to Dorastus' elder brother Eli and his family.^{[Cen 1860]} The family lived there through 1865^{[Draft 1863]} before finally resettling about 30 miles north in Catlin Township, Vermilion County, where they lived next to Dorastus' brother Cornelius and his family.^{[Cen 1870]}

Mary M. (Pritchard) Terpening died on January 12, 1912, and was buried in Oakridge Cemetery in Catlin. She was 82 years old.^[Grave]

Dorastus Hollister Terpening died on March 26, 1915, three years after Mary, and was buried with her in Oakridge Cemetery. He was 86 years old.^[Grave]

Sarah W. (PRITCHARD) BOGGESS (1829-1913)

1A5.Sarah W. Pritchard was born on October 20, 1829, a twin with Mary, likely in New Garden Township, Wayne County, where her family had settled around 1828. She married Hamilton M. Boggess and had at four children^{[Cen 1900]}, one not known and perhaps died very young, before Hamilton died during the Civil War:

1A51.	William H. Boggess	(1852-1853)	Sep 1869	(17)
1A52.	Mary E. Boggess	24 Aug 1854	23 Jan 1938	(83)
1A53.	David A. Boggess	(Oct) 1859	(1880-1900)	(20-40)

After her father's and stepfather's deaths, Sarah and brother John lived with the John & Phebe Busby family in Fall Creek Townhip, Madison County, Indiana, and were enumerated 18 households from their widowed mother and younger sister.^{[Cen 1850]}

The Boggess family settled in Township 18 North, Range 12 West (Catlin Township) by 1855. The Illinois state census of 1855 enumerated his family as one male under the age of 10 (William), a female under the age of 10 (Mary E.), and an elder woman, age 50 to 60, perhaps Hamilton's mother. Hamiliton's likely brother Moses Boggess was enumerated nearby.^{[Cen 1855]}

In 1860, the Boggess family was enumerated six households after Hamilton's apparent younger brother Harvey and his family. Sarah's younger brother John lived with them and worked as a farm hand.^{[Cen 1860]}

Civil War

Sarah's brother John enlisted in the Union Army in September 1861. Eleven months later, Hamilton, about age 40, enlisted on August 11, 1862, with Company G of the 125th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment in Danville, Vermilion County. The regiment deployed to Covington, Kentucky, on the Ohio River, and joined the Army of the Ohio, which was combatting an invasion of Kentucky by General Braxton Bragg's Confederate Army of the Mississippi. The two armies clashed in the costly Battle of Perryville on October 8, after which Bragg withdrew to eastern Tennessee and the Army of the Ohio continued south to Nashville in November. It was in Nashville that Private Hamilton M. Boggess died of a fever on December 22, 1862. He was 40 years old.^{[Dth 1862]}

Sarah's brother John also died a year and a half later after being wounded at the Battle of Pickett's Mill.

Son William died of "congestion of the brain" (possibily referring to a hemorrhagic stroke) in September 1869. He was only 17 years old.^{[Dth 1869]}

Sarah did not remarry after her husband died and lived out the rest of her live in Catlin Township. In 1870, a farm laborer named Amon Black helped her family^{[Cen 1870]}; and she was noted near Hamilton's likely younger brother Charles T. Boggess and Sarah's daughter Mary E. (Boggess) Curtis in 1880.^{[Cen 1880]}

Sarah later lived with daughter Mary (Boggess) Curtis and her family in Catlin Township.^{[Cen 1900, 1910]} The census noted that only one of her five children—Mary—was still alive in 1900.^{[Cen 1900]}

Sarah (Pritchard) Boggess died on December 22, 1913, at the age of 84. She was buried at Oakridge Cemetery in Catlin.^[Grave]

Martha (PRITCHARD) JACKSON^Δ (1836-1883)

1A6.Martha Pritchard^Δ was born on March 23, 1836, in Indiana, perhaps in New Garden Township, Wayne County, where her family had settled around 1828 or in Madison County, where they moved by 1840. She married John Jackson, a native of Madison County. They had ten children, including three sets of fraternal twins! All were likely born in Green Township, Hancock County, about 7 miles south Madison County.

1A6A.	Franklin Pierce Jackson	27 Nov 1853	4 Mar 1923	(69)
1A6B.	Sarah Ellen Jackson	8 Jun 1855	18 Aug 1880	(25)
1A6C.	Levi A. Jackson	21 Sep 1857	25 May 1944	(86)
1A6D.	Elizabeth "Betty" A. JacksonΔ	21 Sep 1857	5 Feb 1933	(75)
1A6E.	George Wiley Jackson	27 Apr 1861	29 Apr 1944	(83)
1A6F.	Millie A. Jackson	27 Apr 1861	23 Sep 1893	(32)
1A6G.	Mary Etta Jackson	26 Mar 1864	7 Jan 1902	(37)
1A6H.	John W. Jackson	21 Aug 1867	24 Feb 1939	(71)
1A6I.	Martha G. Jackson	21 Aug 1867	(1870-1880)	(Childhood)
1A6J.	Walter Alfred Jackson	8 Aug 1873	18 Sep 1946	(73)

After her father's and stepfather's deaths, Martha and elder sister Elizabeth continued to live with their mother in Fall Creek Township, Madison County.^{[Cen 1850]}

Martha and John married and settled in Green Township, Hancock County. Martha's mother lived with them in 1870.^{[Cen 1870]} She died on February 21, 1872, at the age of 73.

Son Franklin started his own family next-door by 1879.^{[Cen 1880]}

Martha (Pritchard) Jackson died on February 9, 1883, at the age of 46. She was buried in Cook Cemetery, Green Township, Hancock County.^[Grave]

John remarried to Mrs. Irene (Garriott) Hays, the widow of Stokely Hays, on December 13, 1884, in Hancock County. They continued to live in Green Township next to John's sons Levi and Walter.^{[Cen 1900]}

John Jackson died on October 18, 1902, reportedly in Warrington, Brown Township, Hancock County. He was 72 years old. John was buried in Cook Cemetery.^[Grave]

Irene (Garriott Hays) Jackson died on November 17, 1911, in Brown Township, at the age of 72. She was buried with her first husband in Hays Cemetery, Brown Township.^[Grave]

John PRITCHARD (~1838-1864)

1A7.John Pritchard was born on in 1837 or 1838, likely in New Garden Township, Wayne County, where his family had settled around 1828, or Madison County, where they moved next. He died in the Civil War at the age of 26 and did not marry.

After his father's and stepfather's deaths, John and sister Sarah lived with the John & Phebe Busby family in Fall Creek Townhip, Madison County, Indiana, and were enumerated 18 households from their widowed mother and younger sister.^{[Cen 1850]} John continued to live with sister Sarah after she married and worked on the family farm.^{[Cen 1860]}

John enlisted on September 1, 1861, in Catlin, and was assigned to Company E of the 35th Illinois Infantry Regiment. He was 23 years old and was described as 6' 3" tall, dark hair, blue eyes, and with light skin.^[Veteran] He mustered in with the regiment in Rolla, Missouri, and served with the Army of Southwest Missouri in Brigadier General Curtis' Campaign in Missouri and Arkansas and in his victory over the Confederates at the Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, March 7 and 8, 1862.

The regiment, as well as the regiment with which brother-in-law Private Hamilton M. Boggess served, joined the Army of the Ohio, which was combatting an invasion of Kentucky by General Braxton Bragg's Confederate Army of the Mississippi. The two armies clashed in the costly Battle of Perryville on October 8, after which his brother-in-law died of a fever in Nashville.

The regiment then was reassigned to the Army of the Cumberland in Tennessee and helped dislodge General Bragg from Chattanooga in early September 1863; however, General Bragg sought to retake Chattanooga, broke through the Union line in the Battle of Chickamauga (September 18-20), and laid an unsuccessful 8-week seige of Chattanooga.

After breaking the seige of Chattanooga, General Sherman launched the Atlanta Campaign but was stalled in a costly defeat at New Hope Church, Georgia, (May 25, 1864) and again failed to dislodge the Confederates in the Battle of Pickett's Mill (May 27, 1864). In the latter the Union lost 1,600 men, including Private John Pritchard, who was wounded in action and died nine weeks later on August 2. He was buried in Nashville National Cemetery.^[Veteran] His headstone reads "John Prichard."^[Grave]