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_FIELD: TX-AUTHOR
Text: Marion J. "Jim" Laughlin and Julia Laughlin
_FIELD: DT-PUBLICATION_DATE
Date: 1992
_FIELD: TX-TITLE
Text: Descendants of John Laughlin and Tabitha Trimble
_FIELD: TX-PUBLISHER
Text: self-published
_FIELD: TX-REFERENCE
Text: Filtingberger 15
_FIELD: RP-REPOSITORY
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[S1444] Laughlin/Trimble Book page Filtingberger 15
Before 1870 Henry & Susanna Filtingberger were settlers on land known as the Black Bob Indian Reservation in Aubry Township, Johnson County Kansas. Indian Land Documents at the Kansas State Library in Topeka, Kansas. The Senate Executive Document, 2nd Session, 29th Congress, 1886/7, Vol. II says:
Description and valuation of Black Bob Shawnee as appearing the year 1886 gives, not only the location of the property - section, township, range, acreage and value of land per acre - but the name of original Indian owner of the land and the present owner if it has changed hands.
Example: N E S W quarters, allotment 154, section 19, twp. 14, range 20. 40 acres at $16.00 per acre value: improvements made by J. Feltenberger. Original owner: Wya-wath-kah-hah.
In 1870 census of Aubry Twp. Johnson Co. Ks.
Feltenberger, Henry • age 55 • born Ohio
Susanna • age 48 • born Ohio
John • age 23 • born Ohio
Manuel • age 20 • born Ohio
Rachel • age 17 • born Ohio
Elizabeth • age 14 • born Ohio
Caroline • age 11 • born Missouri
Frederick • age 8 • born Missouri
1875 Kansas State Census: Henry age 62, Susan age 56
Of the older children, Mary had married in Gallia Co. Ohio before migrating to Missouri/Kansas, John Beck son of Jacob Beck & Christina Feltenberger. Jacob was living on his own and married Francis Miller. Benjamine married Margaret Boyd and Almira was working in the household of Tabitha Silvers
Henry & Susanna lived here in Aubry Township, their children married and established homes not far away. We have not found when they died or are buried. Henry died before 1880 as Susanna is listed on the census aged 59 a widow. Three sons, John, Manuel, and Frederick are still at home but all were married in the next few years.
There is no 1890 census. Susan is not on the 1885 Kansas Territorial/Agricultural Census. We can only estimate the year of their death and assume they are buried in one of two nearby cemeteries.
The Aubry Cemetery of Stillwell, Ks. had a Civil War beginning. During the war when the notorious Quantrill, the Jayhawkers of Kansas, and the Bushwhackers of Missouri were fighting back and forth across the state line, a brief skirmish between Quantrill's raiders and Union sympathizers resulted in the burial of three Confederate supporters underneath 3 cedar trees on William H. Brady's property. This was the first burial in what later became Aubry Cemetery. In later years descendants of Wm. Brady sold or deeded land for the beautiful cemetery of the present. James Feltenberger b 1856 d 1929, his wife Rosa Lee b 1870 d 1905 are buried here.
In Oxford Township southwest of Stanley and near the farm of Henry & Susanna is the Pleasant Valley Cemetery where many of their descendants are buried.
The 1880 census of Aubry Twp. on page 13, line 12, Enum. Dist. 93:
Family #106
Feltenberger, Susan • age 59 • born Ohio parents b Penn.
John • age 34 • born Ohio
Manuel • age 26 • born Ohio
Frederick • age 18 • born Missouri
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