John Sylvanus Sunday (abt. 1859 - abt. 1921)

Born about 1859 in Centre, Pennsylvania, United States [uncertain]

Ancestors

Died about May 1921 at about age 62 in Adams, Nebraska, United States

Biography

John Sunday was a homesteader in Rooks County, Kansas. Join the Homesteaders Project.

John was born about 1859 in Centre County Pennsylvania, the fourth son and ninth child of Andrew and Mary (Fultz) Sunday.^[1]

Although John seems to have avoided the 1880 census, he was granted a Cash Sale Patent for 79 ½ acres in Rooks County, Kansas in October of 1890.^[2]

A single sentence in the Junction City Union informs us that he married Miss Lena Bronson on 11 August 1900 in Junction City, Kansas.^[3][4] And, indeed, the 1900 census shows he was boarding at the home of Teressa Willoughby in Junction City, where he was working as a carpenter.^[5]

John and Lena continued to live in Junction City, in a rented house, for the next five years,^[6] but something was amiss. In 1910, Lena was living in Denver, Colorado^[7] where she had been granted a divorce.^[8] John, on the other hand, was still in Junction City, though not for long.^[9] The 1915 state census shows he was renting a place in Plainville, Kansas, doing carpentry work.^[10]

Eventually, he decided to try his luck at carpentry in Nebraska, and was enumerated with his brother's family in Hastings in 1920.^[11]

A year later he had died, and rests in an apparently unmarked grave in Greenwood Cemetery, Hansen, Nebraska.^[12]

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZGS-RP3 : 29 May 2021), John Sunday in entry for Andrew Sunday, 1870.
2. ↑ John S Sunday (Rooks, Kansas) cash sale patent file, final certificate no. 5759 for 79.41 acres, 30 October 1890, Wakeeney, Kansas, Land Office, database and images, General Land Office Records (Certificate : accessed 5 Feb 2022); citing Records of the Bureau of Land Management, Record Group 49, National Archives, Washington, D.C.
3. ↑ The Junction City Union (Kansas) untitled article, 15 Aug 1900, p 1, col 4, digital images, Newspapers.com (Clipping : accessed 7 Feb 2022).
4. ↑ Kansas County Marriages, 1855-1911, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q293-J668 : 23 February 2021), John S Sunday and Lena Bronson, 11 Aug 1900; citing Marriage, Geary, Kansas, United States, district clerk, court clerk, county clerk and register offices from various counties; FHL microfilm 1,685,973.
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMT2-JFT : accessed 8 February 2022), John Sunday in household of Teressa Willoughby, Junction city Ward 1, 3, Geary, Kansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 48, sheet 23B, family 511, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,481.
6. ↑ "Kansas State Census, 1905", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP8V-2NV9 : 23 September 2019), John Sunday, 1905.
7. ↑ "U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995". Ancestry Sharing Link (free access), Ancestry Record 2469 #1135703232 (subscription required, accessed 7 February 2022), Denver, Colorado, Mrs Lena Sunday, 1910.
8. ↑ "Colorado Statewide Divorce Index, 1900-1939," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPTF-XTQW : 7 September 2019), John S Sunday in entry for Lena Sunday, 8 Mar 1910; citing Divorce, Denver, Colorado, United States, Colorado State Archives, Denver.
9. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M2CH-2Z5 : accessed 8 February 2022), John Sunday in household of Frank Patterson, Junction City Ward 3, Geary, Kansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 56, sheet 6B, family 160, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 440; FHL microfilm 1,374,453.
10. ↑ "Kansas State Census, 1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGTK-4LYQ : 13 October 2019), John Sunday, Plainville Township, Rooks, Kansas, United States; citing Plainville Township, Rooks, Kansas, United States, 18, 32, Kansas Historical Society, Topeka.
11. ↑ "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCVH-5KV : 2 February 2021), John Sunday in entry for Daniel Sunday, 1920.
12. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40969165/john-sylvanus-sunday : accessed 07 February 2022), memorial page for John Sylvanus Sunday (29 Sep 1859–May 1921), Find a Grave Memorial ID 40969165, citing Greenwood Cemetery, Hansen, Adams County, Nebraska, USA ; Maintained by Grave Gremlin (contributor 50905628) .