Charles Albert Pettibone (1818 - 1894)

Born 24 Dec 1818 in Genesee, New York, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Caroline (Henninger) Pettibone — married 1851 in Frankfort, Will Co., Ill.

Descendants

Died 2 Dec 1894 at age 75 in North English, Iowa Co., Iowa

Biography

Buried in Clothier Cemetery, Iowa Co., Iowa.

In 1846, Charles Albert Pettibone (called “Albert”), aged twenty-eight, moved from Chautauqua, New York, to Will County, Illinois, with his children, his parents and his brothers and sisters. Shortly thereafter, the family moved to Orland, Cook County, Illinois, thirty-five miles west of Chicago.

Albert was a farmer. He was thirty-three years old in 1851 when he married Caroline Henninger, the daughter of another farmer in Orland, and after their marriage they, too, lived on a farm near that town. Their first six children were born at Orland. At some time before 1864 they were living in Cass County, Michigan, where their youngest daughter was born that year. Their last move as a family was to a farm in Fillmore Township, Iowa County, Iowa. There they lived on a farm adjacent, or very nearly so, to the farm of Albert's youngest brother, Franklin. Their last child, named William Chester, was born there in 1870. Albert's wife, Caroline (Henniger) Pettibone, died in 1875. [Obituary of Albert Pettibone, North English Record, North English, Iowa, December 1894.]

Several years after the death of his first wife, Albert married a second time, to Catherine Ash. Albert and his new wife wanted to start anew; and his children accepted the idea. He gave the deed to the family farm to his oldest daughter, Helen Amanda, and in exchange she agreed to take good care of her three youngest siblings, aged about seventeen, eleven, and seven [Letters of Administration, Estate of Albeit Pettibone, Keokuk County, State of Iowa, ,22 July 1888]. The 1880 U.S. Census shows Helen's brother Charles, six years younger than she, as head of the family in 1880. Charles did stay on the farm, and he delayed his own marriage until the youngest sibling was in his teens, an act totally consistent with his later family history as he proved to be an exceptionally responsible and caring person all his life [see J47475 Charles Albert Pettibone]. [Pettibone Family Record of Lona (Pettibone) Brandner, Petaluma CA, July 1988.]

Albert and Catherine (Ash) Pettibone moved to Keokuk, Iowa, where a daughter, Neva (or Della) was born to them on 13 February 1879. They may have moved to Alva, Oklahoma, some time later, and Albert in 1894 may have died there, but he was buried in Clothier Cemetery, northeast of North English, Iowa, in a grave beside his first wife, Caroline (Henninger) Pettibone [ibid.]

Sources

• Tom Bredehoft, Pettibone Registry, page 260, 409-10, see K. Pontius.^[1]
• Information developed from Find A Grave memorial no. 26625824^[2]

1. ↑ Entered by Tom Bredehoft, Jan 2, 2013
2. ↑ Entered by Tom Bredehoft, 13/3/2013