The 1830 Carroll County, IN census shows a John Bartlett living alone age 20-30, and a note that says no legal residence. The individual above his name was a George Trap and the invidual below his name was Levy Cline.
In March of 1830 John was in Dearborn, IN where he married Catharine. Where is he in 1840? In 1845 he is living in Rush County, IN and sells some property located in Floyd Co, VA to Lydia Bartlett. Lydia is most likely his mother and was widowed and possibly living with them in Indiana in 1840. In 1850 John and Catharine are living in Rush County, IN in Union Township with Mary, William, Jesse, Kate, Margaret, and Eliza. In 1860 John is living in Henry County, IA with his family, wife, Jesse, Kate, and Margaret. Where are Mary and William? In 1870 his is living in Henry Co, IA in Center twp. In 1880 John is widowed and living with his son Jesse in Henry County, IA, Center Township.
In Deed Book G p. 310 in Floyd County, Lydia Bartlett is buying a small piece of land from John W. and Catherine Bartlett for $50. John W. and Catherine are living in Rush County, Indiania. This transaction was 29 January 1845.
Found 6-3-02 on the Library of Virginia Web Site:
GRANTEE Bartlett, Leroy DATE 2 August 1858. NOTE Location: Floyd County. NOTE Description: 67 acres on waters of South fork of Roanoke. NOTE Source: Land Office Grants No. 115, 1858-1859, p. 168 (Reel 181). NOTE Part of the index to the recorded copies of grants issued by the Virginia Land Office. The collection is housed in the Archives at the Library of Virginia. OTHER FORMAT Available on microfilm. Virginia State Land Office. Grants A-Z, 1-124, reels 42-190; Virginia State Land Office. Grants 125- , reels 369-.
Unofficial Confederate Roster Bartlett, Leroy. RANK : Private (most likely). COMPANY Company: H. REGIMENT : 4th Reserves - also 5th (Infantry). SOURCE : Vol. 7, p. 481 (reel 4). MICROFILM Available on microfilm. Confederate rosters, v. 1-20, reel 1-10.
Unofficial Confederate Roster Bartlett, Preston RANK : Private (most likely). COMPANY: H. BATTALION: 22nd. SOURCE : Vol. 14, p. 387 (reel 7). Same Company and Battalion as Joseph P. Bartlett.
Unofficial Confederate Roster Bartlett, Joseph P. Rank: Private (most likely). COMPANY: H. BATTALION : 22nd. SOURCE : Vol. 14, p. 387 (reel 7). MICROFILM Available on microfilm. Confederate rosters, v. 1-20, reel 1-10. Although the place of enlistment and residence is not listed, this individual was in Company H as was Leroy. Leroy had a son named Joseph P. who could have been named after his brother. The Confederate Roster Cards show many cards for Joseph P. He was also listed in Battalion H, 2nd Regiment. W.D.C. 19,1.
Joseph P. Bartlett (found on Ancestry.com Civil War Service Records) Company: H, Unit: 2nd Virginia Artillery, private, Notes: 22nd Battn. VA Inf. Confederate. There is a Civil War Pension record filed in Fluvanna Co, by widow Eliza Ann Bartlett. She was married to J.P. Bartlett in Co. H. 22nd Regiment. They were married in Fluvanna County in 1857. This J.P. Bartlett died from heart trouble on May 22 1900.
Birth between 1814-1819.
Mable's notes indicate that Leroy, Olive, & Jefferson Adolphus (maybe others) left VA in 1880 to get away from the Deconstruction. There were many raids on the farmers who already had little left. They went to Kansas and lived in Coffeyville for a while. Coffeyville is in Montgomery County, KS. Note: Olive appears on the 1880 Floyd Co, VA census enumerated on 6-10-1880. Did she go with Leroy then return home to VA? My notes: Jefferson & family may have left in 1880, but Leroy may have been in Kansas in 1875.
1875 Kansas State Census for Coffey County shows a L.G. Bartlett, male, age 54 born VA, To KS from: VA with a female initial A. age 52 born OH from IL. (est birth year 1823) There's an Angeline Bartelet on the 1880 Avon, KS census age 57 born in O, and listed as married. Her husband is not listed with her. She is most likely the woman listed with L.G. Bartlett five years earlier.
There is an A. Bartlett on the Agriculture Schedule but I'm not sure if the year was 1875 or 1880. The copy came from the Coffey County Historical Society and the page number looks like an 8.
He may have died about 1884. Notes written by Mabel Bartlett on the back of the photo of Jefferson Bartlett near his sod house said Jefferson made the run with 2 of his sons, John and Ruben. She has the words "deceased about 1884" right underneath, but she sratched out the name Leroy Bartlett just above it. Does the deceased date pertain to Leroy? Ruben died around 1957. Swain Owen died in 1883, but was only a year old so unlikely that he made the trip with his father. Mabel also shows the date Sept 16, 1893 which is the date of the Cherokee Land Run. On the back of a photo of JW Bartlett taken in 1899 Caldwell, KS she states that Jefferson's father, Leroy Bartlett, made the run with them.
Olive appears on the 1900 Floyd, Locust Grove, VA census and shows as widowed. She showed divorced on June 10, 1880 so I think Leroy died between 1880-1900.
Frederick County, formed in 1743 from Orange County, was home to George Washington for ten years. The apple industry was for many years the main economic base, but industry now dominates. At the TOP OF VIRGINIA, Frederick County is the gateway to the great Valley of the Shenandoah. (info found on Frederick VA USGenweb site.)
Floyd County was formed Jan 15, 1831, before that it was Montgomery. The county seat was originally Jacksonville in 1834. In 1858 the name was changed to Floyd after governor James Floyd.
A law was passed in 1853 requiring counties and independent clerks to issue marriage licenses and keep marriage registers. Before a license was issued, the parties to be married had to provide full names, ages, places of birth and residence, proposed marriage date and place, marital status (widowed/single), parent's names, groom's occupation, and minister's name.
Civil War 1860-1865
The word Frederick was in parenthesis next to Le Roy's place of birth - Copper Hill, Floyd, VA. Mable noted his place of death as Bessler, KS. I looked for Bessler, Kansas on maps without any luck. There is a Butler Kansas. 29 Jan 1861--Kansas was admitted into the Union as the 34th state. Topeka became the state Capitol.
The 51st Virginia Infantry Regiment was organized at Wytheville, Virginia in August of 1861. It was composed of eleven companies from southwestern Virginia. The men of the 51st were from Wythe, Grayson, Wise, Patrick, Nelson, Bland, Tazewell, Amherst, and Floyd Counties. The vast majority of these men were farmers. http://community-2.webtv.net/CSA51stVaInf/51stVirginia/
The Mortality Schedule for 1860 Floyd County showed the death of Joseph P and right below him was a James J. Bartlett age 8. James died in Sept of same disease Quinsey. His birth year would have been 1852.
Coffee County KS was founded in 1859 the county seat is Burlington. In 1903 the town of Aliceville, founded in 1882, was heavily damaged by a tornado. St Johns Lutheran church is located in Aliceville.
Mabel Haack had a picture of a confederate soldier that she thought was Leroy's brother. Notes written by an unknown family member refer to the soldier in a light uniform (Confederate) as Mother McMahan's Uncle. Lillian Bartlett (Jefferson's daughter) married a McMahan. The same note said it was Grandpa Bartlett's youngest brother killed in the Civil War and his name was either John or Robert. If this was her grandpa's youngest brother he would be a great uncle. Leroy's brother John W. could have been in the Civil War and that could be his picture, however, he lived a long life and died after 1880.
There was a picture below the soldier of Olive King Bartlett and the author referred to her as Grandmother Bartlett. One could come to the conclusion that Grandpa Bartlett would be her husband, Leroy, and his youngest brother was the soldier.
The wedding of Pocahontas, the favored daughter of the Algonquian chief Powhatan, to tobacco entrepreneur John Rolfe brought peace and prosperity to the Jamestown area.
On 3-23-2002 some long awaited information relating to what tribe Olive had belonged to came from from Kelly H. in the form of an email. Kelly's grandmother, a descendant of Lydia Octavo Elizabeth Bartlett Reed Argabright, spoke with Lydia's granddaughter and she was certain that Olive was Powhatan. In fact, her mother had given them Powhatan names in honor of their heritage.
The email received 3-23-2002 as follows: "Hi Barbara!
I have made a new contact - or my Grandma has! She finally found the California relatives and talked to Lori on the phone last night. My Grandma was trying to get a hold of Lori's mother, Cynthia Ann, but reached her daughter instead. She gave us some info on the living people and a few things for me to research, but the BIG news she gave us is she says that she is certain that we are descendants of POWATON Indians. She said Cammie (who was always proud of her ancestry) gave her daughter (Lucille) a Powaton name. Then Lucille also gave her daughter (Cynthia Ann) a Powaton name. I have Lori's email address and will start corresponding with her. She was very excited to know that they still had living relatives. I will find out any information that she has on the whole Indian thing.
Cynthia Ann lives in the house that Lucille lived in most of her life. Hopefully that means there are lots of "relics" that will help the cause. Just wanted to update you. Talk to you soon."
Mabel's notes state that Wilson died at the Battle of Peach Tree Creek which was 1864.
Leota Belmear's journal mentions an Uncle Willie was killed on Jan 7. I think the year was 1913 or 1914. There are several William Belmears that this could also refer to.Found 6-10-02 http://54th.va.inf.8m.com/company.html More info on the 54th Virgina Infantry. "Company B Captain Jackson Godbey's Company from Floyd County enlisted on September 16, 1861 for one year. Godbey was successful in recruiting 88 men to join his unit, and enrolled them in the Confederate Army at Floyd Court House. Two extant rosters for this company at the National Archives were supplemented by six other muster rolls turned in to the Virginia State Library and Archives after the end of the war. These rosters cover nearly the entire war, the last being dated February 28, 1865. On this last roster, 23 men were counted present for duty. Company B lost 11 men at Missionary Ridge, either killed or captured. Captain Jackson Godbey was dropped when the regiment was reorganized on May 13, 1862. Godby was succeeded by Armistead O. Dobyns, who served until he resigned on January 30, 1863 for ill health, and was succeeded by James Madison Boyd who served to the end of the war. Although Dobyns resigned for ill health, he later served as captain of Company G. 21 st Virginia Cavalry. William H. Bartlett also served as regimental Color Bearer for an unknown period of time."
1875 Kansas State Census for Coffey County shows a L.G. Bartlett, male, age 54 born VA, To KS from: VA with a female initial A. age 52 born OH from IL. (est birth year 1823) There's an Angeline Bartelet on the 1880 Avon, KS census age 57 born in O, and listed as married. Her husband is not listed with her. She is most likely the woman listed with L.G. Bartlett five years earlier.
There is an A. Bartlett on the Agriculture Schedule but I'm not sure if the year was 1875 or 1880. The copy came from the Coffey County Historical Society and the page number looks like an 8.
Daniel's middle name is Powell, after his mother, according to writings left behind by a descendant of his daughter, Ellen Jane Edwards. Received this information January 2002 by JJ.
The book History of Grant County Families 1893-1980 has a story submitted by Edna Mott. She mentions that her father, Jefferson, took his family to Coffeyville, Kansas in 1884 to a farm owned by his uncle Daniel Bartlett. Jefferson continued to help his uncle until the opening of the Cherokee Strip on Sept 16, 1893. Actually Daniel was on the 1880 Coffey County census for Avon township. Coffeyville is located in Montgomery county so there is some confusion here. Which brings up another question - did Leroy Bartlett die in Coffey County or Coffeyville (Montgomery) Kansas? The Montgomery County Historical Society could not find a death record for Leroy Bartlett, neither could the Coffey Kansas Museum.
In 1880 he and Mahala are living in Avon towship in Coffey, County Kansas and listed as family #55. His son John and wife Emma are listed as family #54, and his daughter Columbia Craig is listed as family #57 and married within the census year. There is an Angeline Bartelet age 57, listed as family 38. This seems like too much of a coincidence to not be related. I believe she was living with Leroy Bartlett, but he was apparently off somewhere on the day of the census.
Mary died several days after the 1860 Polk Co, MO census had been taken.
35. Sarah BARTLETT
Found in the King family book CH1 pg 1
The 1880 Floyd Co, VA census for Locust Grove shows her as age 72, widowed, and living with her daughter, Nancy, and son-in-law.
86. Eliza KING
The 1880 Floyd Co, VA census for Locust Grove twp shows Eliza Vest (sister-in-law), age 52, married, and a border with George R. Bartlett. Eliza's mother was also living with George and family.
According to the King family book they had no children.