Alonzo Benjamin Cohee (1857 - 1931)

Born 16 Oct 1857 in Butler Co., Ohio, USA

Ancestors

Husband of Theresa A (Chapman) Cohee — married 25 Aug 1878 in Mapleton, Monona, Iowa, USA

Descendants

Died 21 Nov 1931 at age 74 in Spencer, Boyd, Nebraska, USA

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Biography

Alonzo Cohee was born in Oct 1857 in Butler Co., Ohio. He was the son of Amasa Cohee and Rebecca Young.

1860 census -- Milford Twnp., Butler Co., Ohio, USA

A Cohee, age 30, male, , farmer, $19550 real estate, $800 personal property, born Ohio; RE Cohee, age 25, female, , born Ohio; Willard R Cohee, age 5, male, , born Ohio, attended school; EB Cohee, age 3, male, , born Ohio; SL Cohee, age 1, male, , born Ohio^[1][2]

1870 census -- Milford Twnp., Butler Co., Ohio, USA

Amasa Cobez, age 40, male, , farmer, $5700 real estate, $800 personal property, born Ohio; Willard Cobez, age 14, male, , works on farm, attended school, born Ohio; Alonzo Cobez, age 12, male, , attending school, attended school, born Ohio; Eugene Cobez, age 11, male, , attending school, attended school, born Ohio; Robert Cobez, age 9, male, , attended school, born Ohio; Thaddeus Cobez, age 5, male, , attended school, born Ohio^[3]

He married Theresa Chapman 25 Aug 1878 in Mapleton, Monona Co., Iowa.^[4]

1880 census -- Cooper Twnp., Monona Co., Iowa, USA

Alonzo Cohee, white, male, age 21, married, farmer, born Ohio, father born Ohio, mother born Ohio; Theresa W Cohee, white, female, age 20, wife, married, keeping house, born Illinois, father born England, mother born Pennsylvania; Eugine Cohee, white, male, age 10/12, son, single, born Iowa, father born Ohio, mother born Illinois; Wilard Cohee, white, male, age 25, brother, single, born Ohio, father born Ohio, mother born Ohio^[5]

According to the 1880 Non-Population Census:

Alonzo rented farm land for shares of production - 80 acres of tilled farmland and 5 acres of forest/woodlands; $1600 value of farm and buildings, $50 value of farm machinery, $600 value of livestock; paid $14 in farm labor in 1870; $600 value of farm products sold in 1879; 35 acres of grasslands mown in 1879; 70 acres of hay harvested; 6 horses

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MCLS-1T3 : 12 December 2017), E B Cohee in entry for A Cohee, 1860.
2. ↑ 1860 US Census, Milford Township, Butler County, Ohio - Page 108
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M6K8-377 : 12 April 2016), Alonzo Cobey in household of Amasa Cobey, Ohio, United States; citing p. 17, family 126, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,676.
4. ↑ "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XJ8G-N7C : 27 September 2017), A.B. Cohee and Theresa Chapman, 25 Aug 1878, Mapleton, Monona, Iowa, United States; citing reference p 41, county courthouses, Iowa; FHL microfilm 1,436,149.
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MDL7-37F : 7 September 2017), Alonzo Cohu, Cooper, Monona, Iowa, United States; citing enumeration district ED 149, sheet 11B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0357; FHL microfilm 1,254,357.