Columbus Jethro Rardin (1830 - 1919)

Born 27 Oct 1830 in Washington, Ohio, USA

Ancestors

Husband of Lucy (Bartlett) Rardin — married 19 May 1859 in Johnson, Missouri, USA

Descendants

Died 11 Nov 1919 at age 89 in Milltown, Hutchinson, South Dakota, USA

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Biography

Columbus Jethro Rardin.

Born 27 OCT 1832. Washington, Ohio, USA.

Died 11 NOV 1919. Milltown, Hutchinson, South Dakota, USA.

Buried Milltown, Hutchinson, South Dakota, USA.

Military Service: 08 OCT 1862. ^[1]

Residence 1910 Milltown, Hutchinson, South Dakota, USA. ^[2]

1900 Hutchinson, South Dakota, USA. ^[3]

Marriage Husband Columbus Jethro Rardin. Wife Lucy Bartlett. Child: Mary Bell Rardin. Child: Lucy Julia Rardin. Child: Moses Jay Rardin. Child: Calista Effie Rardin. Child: Armstrong Owen Rardin. Marriage 19 MAY 1859. ^[4]

Notes

Jethro was born near Wolf Creek in Washington County, Ohio. His days to manhood were spent on Laurel Run. At age 22 he left Ohio for Mahaska County, Iowa, later traveling through Kansas and Missouri. In April 1859 Jethro set out for the gold fields. He was very ill at Pikes Peak. After recovering, he returned to Missouri, where he joined his wife, who was on the way to Iowa. In August 1862 Jethro enlisted in Company C, 33rd Iowa Infantry. On reaching St. Louis with his regiment, he was assigned to hospital duty. Seven months later his wife joined him and they served together in the Hickory Street Hospital until the hospital closed and they were discharged. They returned to Iowa and set out for Dakota Territory in 1865, locating first at Vermillion, then at Yankton, then at Milltown in 1881. In 1884 Jethro joined the United Brethren Church and was ordained in 1892. He was a Democrat until about 1896, when he became a party prohibitionist. From "The Rardin Family History" (1981) by Robert W. Rardin: "My grandmother (Lucy) Julia Rardin was more inclined to tell stories about her father, (Columbus) Jethro Rardin, (William Wesley's older half-brother). The family had lived in Yankton, Dakota Territory at the time Wild Bill Hickock's killer, Jack McCall, was tried there. He was to be executed in a humane manner by hanging with a cotton rope, specially made to be softer on the neck. It seems that Jethro's 'Broadway saloon' was the center of the town's activity in those days about 1876. The U.S. Marshall brought the rope from the river boat to the saloon and asked if anyone could tie a hangman's knot. Jethro did and the marshall cut off the knot and noose and gave it to Jethro. There was still plenty of rope left to hang Jack McCall. father's name was Wesley Ellis Rardin, 1908-1981. He gave the old handman's knot to the 'Friends of the Middle Border' museum at Dakota Wesleyan U. in Mitchell, S.D. in the later 1950s. The museum burned a year later.

"Jethro later 'got religion' and gave up the saloon business, fiddlin (the Devil lived in a fiddle), and horse racing. That was about 1881, when he moved the family to a farm near Milltown, S.D. My grandmother was born there the following year when her father Jethro was 50 years old. I recall my father taking us kids to see the old sandstone and frame house about 1948. It had been deserted then for a couple of years.

"After Grandmother Julia died in 1964, my aunt (Lucy Rardin Mundy) sent me a copy of some family history. In an effort to verify the historical accuracy of some of the items, I discovered some discrepancies. It seems that dates are not always remembered precisely and sometimes facts are omitted. I remember my grandmother (Lucy) Julia telling me of her father Jethro owing the Broadway Saloon, but I have not seen any place where she wrote it down. Julia was a member of the WCTU for many years and was perhaps not inclined to mention her father's bar business on paper."

Sources

1. ↑ 1890 Veterans Schedules Special Schedules of the Eleventh Census (1890) Enumerating Union Veterans and Widows of Union Veterans of the Civil War; Year: 1890; Census Place: District 228, Hutchinson, South Dakota; Roll: 94; Page: 3; Enumeration District: 228. http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1890veterans&h=848353&indiv=try
2. ↑ United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MPXC-3MK : accessed 2 November 2021), Jethro Rardin, Milltown, Hutchinson, South Dakota, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 241, sheet 3B, family 53, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1482; FHL microfilm 1,375,495.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMRW-DLJ : accessed 2 November 2021), C J Rardin, T.99-R.59 & T.100-R.59, Hutchinson, South Dakota, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 193, sheet 7A, family 108, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,550
4. ↑ "Missouri Marriages, 1750-1920", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V28V-L43 : 18 January 2020), Jethro Rasdin, 1859.

• Find A Grave: Memorial #66295044
• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX3D-4GH : 21 December 2020), Columbus J Rairdin in household of Moses Rairdin, Roxbury Township, Washington, Ohio, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• South Dakota Death Index, 1905-1955, Record for C J Rardin. https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=8659&h=350043&indiv=try.