Emma (Kiddoo) Vance (1844 - 1918)

Born 8 Oct 1844 in Lawrence, Pennsylvania, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Gershom Vance — married 30 Jun 1863 in Mercer, Mercer, Illinois, United States

Descendants

Died 18 Aug 1918 at age 73 in Newton, Jasper, Iowa, United States

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Biography

Here is the web of marriages that I think I follow:

• Richard Kiddoo (b. 1816) married Elizabeth (Eliza) Vanatta (1821-1907).
• Richard's little brother William Kiddoo (b. 1830) married Catherine D Vance (1834-1912) who was Eliza's niece through her sister Rachael.
• Catherine's brother (Eliza's nephew) Gershom Vance (1836-1923) married Emma Kiddoo (Richard and William's neice) (1844-1918) on June 30, 1863. Emma is the daughter of James(1813-1890) and Margaret (Steel) Kiddoo (1818-1863). James being Richard and William's oldest brother.

"She was the fourth child born in a family of eleven, six of whom besides Mrs. Vance survive, their names as follows: John, Howard and Martha, all living in Kansas; Richard, in St. Paul; Amos, living in Arkansas; and Harvey."

"On June 30, 1863, [Gershom Vance] was united in marriage with Emma Kiddoo, daughter of James and Margaret (Steel) Kiddoo, both natives of Pennsylvania, the mother being born near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on October 8, 1844. She was the fourth child born in a family of eleven, six of whom besides Mrs. Vance survive, their names as follows: John, Howard and Martha, all living in Kansas; Richard, in St. Paul; Amos, living in Arkansas; and Harvey.

The Kiddoo family came west and located in Mercer County, Illinois, in the year 1848, and in 1864 they removed to Jasper County, Iowa, settling near Baxter. Here, in the same year, the mother died, at the age of forty-four. In 1867 the father went to Johnson County, Missouri, and became the owner of a large tract of land. He also owned a flour mill at Warrensburg in Johnson County, dying there in 1889, at the age of seventy-four.

After his marriage [Gershom] brought his wife to Jasper County, and purchased forty acres of land, where the Parsons creamery is located, paying nine hundred dollars for the tract. A short time later he sold this land to an advantage and purchased eighty acres in Independence Township, for eighteen hundred dollars, ten days later selling the same for twenty-one hundred dollars. For several years he speculated in land, buying and selling farms. He has been the owner of many nice farms in different Townships in Jasper County. At the present time he is living on a farm of sixty-five acres in Palo Alto Township, close to Newton. He was formerly a heavy stock raiser.

To Mr. and Mrs. Vance have been born nine children: James, born April 4, 1864, living on a farm in Palo Alto Township; Margaret Eliza, born July 9, 1865, married Elsworth Ashley, lives in Palo Alto Township; Olive K., born March 26, 1868, married T. E. Deacon, now deceased, lived in Union County, Iowa; Arminta, born March 26, 1870, died at the age of eight; William, born October 18, 1872, died at the age of six; Florence Bell, born in July 1874, died at the age of four; all three little ones died in one week of diphtheria; Eva, born July 31, 1880, married E. M. Herron, lives in Newton Township; Harvey Earl, born in October 1883, lives in Kellogg Township; Paul Raymond, born September 7, 1885, now employed as special agent in the census department, at Washington, D. C. He is a graduate of the Newton high school, also of Monmouth College, and of Yale.

[They] are members of the United Presbyterian Church at Newton."

Sources

• See newspaper bio under Gershom.
• From "Past and Present of Jasper County Iowa, Gen. James B. Weaver, Editor-In-Chief, B.F. Bowden & Company, Indianapolis, IN, 1912, p. 916. (There are often some inacuracies in these local histories, so please verify)

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