Emma Fannie (Hill) Stockmeyer (1857 - 1948)

Born 1857 in Greenwood, Kansas Territory, United States

Wife of George M Stockmeyer — married 9 Sep 1877 in Redfield, Bourbon, Kansas, United States

Died 4 Mar 1948 at about age 91 in Plains, Meade, Kansas, United States

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Biography

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Emma "Fannie" Hill, daughter of Daniel and Lucinda (Trout) Hill was born between 1857 and 1860. Her grave marker gives her date of birth as 1 Apr 1857^[1] and the 1860 US Census gives her age at the time the information was taken as 4 months.^[2] A brief family history published in 1985 in the centennial record of Plains, Kansas^[3] states that Emma was three quarter Cherokee and born near Neosho Falls, (now in Greenwood County), Kansas Territory.

Her parents were said to be among the earliest settlers in the Neosho Valley and were affected by the Border Wars. The earliest memories of "Mother Stockmeyer" concern the attempts to conscript her brothers and other neighbor boys and the efforts to hide the boys and horses from Confederate raiders.^[3]

Fannie married farmer George Stockmeyer on 9 Sep 1877 at Redfield, Bourbon County, Kansas.^[4] In 1880 the couple is living at Timber Hill in Bourbon County.^[5] The family lived on a farm near Mapleton, Kansas (except 1891-92 for 18 months in Texas) until May 1911 when they moved to Meade County and purchased a farm in the West Glendale community south of Plains, Kansas.^[3]

Following the death of her husband in 1924, Fannie moved into Plains and helped care for the motherless children of the Roy Cawhorn family. In her later years she lived with her dauther and her husband, Daisy and Jake Cook.^[3]

Children

• Hattie - b 1879 died at age 12
• Daisy - m Jake Cook
• Nellie - died age 9
• Ora H - b 10 Dec 1888 d 2 Aug 1964 in Aurora, Cayuga, New York.

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #11715360
2. ↑ US Census, Year: 1860; Census Place: Bourbon, Kansas Territory; Roll: M653_346; Page: 417; Family History Library Film: 803346
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} Knott, Joyce, ed., "Plains Kansas 100 Years - 1885-1895", Privately printed, Plains, Kansas, 1985, pp 277-78
4. ↑ Marriage Records. Kansas Marriages. Various Kansas County District Courts and Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas. Bourbon County, Kansas FHL 001434890
5. ↑ Year: 1880; Census Place: Timber Hill, Bourbon, Kansas; Roll: 374; Page: 346B; Enumeration District: 035