Margaret (Hart) Langdo (1832 - 1928)

Died 18 Sep 1928 at age 96 in Wyoming

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Biography

Margaret (Marguerite) was Yancton and a Nemaha allottee. Margaret and Henri had 3 children before 1860 who were also Nemaha allottees. They would have nine more children but as they were not Nemaha allottees I will not be listing them.

Half-breed is a derogatory term but is how the Nemaha Reservation was named when established by the Treaty of Prairie du Chien of 1830. A tract was set aside for "the mixed-ancestry descendants of French-Canadian trappers and women of the Oto, Iowa, and Omaha, as well as the Yankton and Santee Sioux tribes." See Wikipedia's entry [1] for more information.

In the 1856 census the Langdo family was living with the Valandre family, also found in the Nemaha Reservation allotments. Jacob Pauly lived nearby, who was married to Mary Tinker. Mary Tinker's brother, George Tinker, married, first, Maria "Lucretia" La Chapelle, an Osage and French Canadian, in 1838 at Highland, Doniphan, Kansas where he was a blacksmith and gunsmith at the Sac and Fox Mission. The Tinker family went on to have a number of Osage descendants whose families sometimes are found married to Nemaha allottees.

In the 1860 census the Langdo family is found beside that of Stephen Story and Elizabeth "Betsy" Cedar Story, who was an Ioway woman on the Nemaha allotments.

1856 census for Madison, Fremont County, Iowa.
(1) Valandre, Joseph 53 m 4 Canada farmer
Valandre, Sarah 30 f IND. Ter.
Valandre, William m IA.
Langdear, Morris m 7 Canada
Langdear, Margaret 21 f Canada
Langdear, Mary 5 f Canada
Langdear, Adaline 2 f Canada
Langdear, Morris 3? m Canada
(2) Clarmore, Lewis 40 m 3
Cassidy, George 31 m 2 Ireland doctor
(3) Cowles, Chauncey 40 m 7 NY. farmer
Cowles, Maria 34 f 7 OH.
Cowles, Adelia 13 f OH.
Cowles, Henry 11 m OH.
Cowles, Charles 9 m IA.
Cowles, Andrew 2 m IA.
(4) Cowles, Giles 28 m 4 OH. farmer
Cowles, Lydia 36 f OH.
Cowles, Julia 7 f OH.
Cowles, Perry 4 m IA.
Cowles, Ann 1 f IA.
(5) Cowles, Urich 29 m 6 PA. farmer
Cowles, Mary 27 f PA.
Cowles, Emaline 8 f PA.
(6) Pauly, Jacob 41 m 7 Germany blacksmith
Pauly, Mary 33 f OH.
Pauly, Olivia 8 m MO.
Pauly, Louisa 3 f
Pauly, Amanda 1 f

1856-57 Nemaha Half-Breed Allotments, allottee #61, 21 yoa, Yancton

1860 Nemaha Half-Breed Allotments:
Langdo, Adele
Langdo, Margaret
Langdo, Mary
Langdo, Maurice
(No tribal affiliations were listed)

1860 Census for St. Stephen, Richardson, Nebraska
(267/256) Morris LONGDEAU 40 farmer $00 $500 b. Canada
Margaret H. 34 $1600 b. NE
Mary 10 $1000
Idell 8 $1200
Morris 6 $1000
Margaret 4 $1000
268/258 Stephen Story's family

Sources

• 1. 1856-57 Nemaha Half-Breed Allotments. Record Ref: National Archives, Record Group No.75, Treaties/Omaha Ind/Otoes, Entry 402, List of Allotted Mixed-Bloods Nemaha Half-Breed Reservation, handwritten 10 pages. Transcribed by Susan Suttle-White.
• 2. 1856 Census, Madison, Fremont, Iowa
• 3. 1860 Allotees on the Nemaha Half-Breed. Adapted for the web by Lance Foster from "The Otoes and Missourias" by Berlin Basil Chapman, Pages 381-384, Appendix A. Times Journal Publishing Company(Oklahoma), 1965.
• 4. 1860 Census for St. Stephen, Richardson, Nebraska
• 5. Birth and death dates from Ancestry.com