Carrie Sophrona (Steves) Kinney (1862 - abt. 1948)

Born Jun 1862 in Wisconsin, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Francis Edwin Kinney — married 17 Jul 1882 in Dunn, Wisconsin, United States

Descendants

Died about 26 May 1948 at about age 85 in St Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States [uncertain]

Biography

1862 Carrie Sophronia Steves was born in June 1862 in Dunn County, Wisconsin, USA.^[1]

1870 When Carrie was about eight years old she lived in Dunn, Dunn County, Wisconsin, USA with her parents and siblings. Her father was a farmer from New York. The Steves household comprised:

• Henry Steves Male 46 New York
• Caroline Steves Female 49 New Hampshire
• Wm Steves Male 21 Illinois
• Edwin Steves Male 19 Illinois
• Ora Steves Female 18 New York
• Ella Steves Female 15 Illinois
• Henry Steves Male 12 Wisconsin
• Carrie Steves Female 8 Wisconsin
• Evelyne Steves Female 4 Wisconsin
• Anna Webster Female 17 Illinois^[1]

1880 The Steves family continued to farm in Dunn, Dunn County, Wisconsin in 1880. The household now comprised:

• Henry H Steves Self Male 56 New York
• Caroline Steves Wife Female 59 New Hampshire
• Harvey M Steves Son Male 22 Wisconsin
• Carrie Steves Daughter Female 18 Wisconsin
• Eva B Steves Daughter Female 14 Wisconsin

1882 Carrie married Francis E. Kinney on 17 Jul 1882 in Dunn County, Wisconsin, USA. Francis was the son of Francis and Sarah Kinney.^[2]

1897 A son was born 1 Feb 1897 in Rusk, Dunn County, Wisconsin, USA. This child seems not to have lived for he doesn't appear on the 1900 US census report.^[3]

1900 By 1900 Carrie and Francis had seven children and lived in Menominee, Dunn County, Wisconsin, USA. Francis worked as a laborer for the railroad. Their household comprised:

• Frances E Kenney Head Male 43 Ohio
• Carrie Kenney Wife Female 38 Wisconsin
• Roy Kenney Son Male 16 Wisconsin
• Bertha Kenney Daughter Female 14 Wisconsin
• Ada Kenney Daughter Female 11 Wisconsin
• Edward Kenney Son Male 8 Wisconsin
• Dora Kenney Daughter Female 5 Wisconsin^[4]

1905 The family lived in Dunn, Dunn County, Wisconsin in 1905 when the Wisconsin census was taken. The report shows that Carrie was the farmer in the family.^[5]

1910 The Kinney family moved again, this time to River Falls in Pierce County, Wisconsin where Francis and Ray did odd jobs to earn a living.

• Francis E Kinney Head Male 53 Ohio
• Carrie S Kinney Wife Female 48 Wisconsin
• Ray D Kinney Son Male 24 Wisconsin
• Bertha E Kinney Daughter Female 22 Wisconsin
• Addie M Kinney Daughter Female 20 Wisconsin
• Edward E Kinney Son Male 18 Wisconsin
• Clara (Dora) I Kinney Daughter Female 14 Wisconsin^[6]

1920 Carrie and Francis worked together as millers at a feed mill in the town where they lived—Red Cedar, Dunn County, Wisconsin, USA.^[7]

1930 With her husband Francis a patient at the Dunn County Asylum in Red Cedar, Wisconsin on 3 April 1930,^[8] Carrie was living in their home there. On 23 Apr 1930 when she was counted for the census, she was recorded as widowed and her sister Ella was living with her.^[9] Francis, however, did not die until 1934.^[10]

1948 Carrie Kinney died on 26 May 1948 in Ramsey County, Minnesota, USA.^[11]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN98-NG5 : 18 March 2020), Henry Steves, 1870.
2. ↑ "Wisconsin, County Marriages, 1836-1911," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29P-YKWK : 26 May 2020), Henry Steves in entry for Francis E. Kinney and Carrie Steves, 17 Jul 1882; citing Dunn, Wisconsin, United States, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison; FHL microfilm 1,266,965.
3. ↑ "Wisconsin Births and Christenings, 1826-1926", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XRJ7-654 : 30 January 2020), Carrie S. Steves in entry for Kinney, 1897.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMKX-PYG : accessed 1 June 2020), Carrie Kenney in household of Frances E Kenney, Menominee city Ward 1 & 3, Dunn, Wisconsin, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 87, sheet 24A, family 460, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,787.
5. ↑ "Wisconsin State Census, 1905," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMSB-644 : 4 April 2020), Carrie Kinney in household of Frances Kinney, Dunn, Dunn, Wisconsin; citing p. 50, line 92, State Historical Society, Madison; FHL microfilm 1,020,446.
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MP2K-HYJ : accessed 1 June 2020), Carrie S Kinney in household of Francis E Kinney, River Falls Ward 2, Pierce, Wisconsin, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 145, sheet 4A, family 8, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1732; FHL microfilm 1,375,745.
7. ↑ "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MF29-N8D : accessed 1 June 2020), Carrie Kenney in household of Francis E Kenney, Red Cedar, Dunn, Wisconsin, United States; citing ED 104, sheet 5B, line 94, family 107, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1985; FHL microfilm 1,821,985.
8. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X9QC-LYN : accessed 1 June 2020), Francis E Kinney, Red Cedar, Dunn, Wisconsin, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 23, sheet 1B, line 97, family , NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2571; FHL microfilm 2,342,305.
9. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X9QC-2BQ : accessed 1 June 2020), Carrie S Kinney, Red Cedar, Dunn, Wisconsin, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 22, sheet 10B, line 96, family 210, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2571; FHL microfilm 2,342,305.
10. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #161346586
11. ↑ "Minnesota Death Index, 1908-2002," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V47T-TQB : 4 December 2014), Carrie Kinney, 26 May 1948; from "Minnesota Death Index, 1908-2002," database, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2001); citing Ramsey, Minnesota, record 1067620, certificate number 025762, Minnesota Department of Health, Minneapolis.

See also:

• Ancestry Family Tree

Acknowledgments

• This profile was created through the import of Hooker Family Tree.ged on 30 March 2011.