Person:Celestia Vorhis (2)

1870 Davis Co., IA, census, p.156B, Salt Creek Twp., P.O. Bloomfield, Aug. 24, 1870, F.W. Eichellberger: 143/143, GEORGE LANMAN, 30 M W, rents farm, $1200 real, $200 personal, OH; Celesta J., 25 F W, keeping house, IA; Lercester [Gloucester?], 5 M W, IA; Sarah, 3 F W, IA; Manchester, 1 M W, IA.

1875 March 14, Troy, Iowa. Samantha "Mattie" Vorhis Crumrine wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I have the good company of tow Sisters when at home [Martha Melvina and Celestia Jane] / one is Married / she and her family went to kansas last faul ayear / was eaten out by the grasshoppers in the sumer and had to move back home / I cant tell if they will stay in the house with us all summer or not / he is trying to rent a farm to tend this Summer"

1877 Oct. 22, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I had a letter from Martha Melvina last week. . . . Wm Reese had gone to Missouri to move a family there near Celeste Janes."

1880 Phillips Co., KS, census, p.90A, Freedom Twp., June 10, 1880, Benjamin E. Morton: 104/106, G.W. LANMAN, W M 39, head, farmer, IN IN IN; Celestial, W F 35, wife, keeping house, IL OH OH; David G., W M 15, son, works on farm, IA IN IL; Sarah E., W F 13, dau, at school, IA IN IL; Elias M., W M 11, son, works on farm, IA IN IL; John W., W M 9, son, at school, IA IN IL; William W., W M 5, son, at school, IA IN IL; Emra S., W M 3, son, at home, IA IN IL; Mary N., W F blank, 9/12, dau, at home, IA IN IL.

1890 Dec. 25, Troy, Iowa. Ada Tharp wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I will tell you where Gradma's children live. . . . Celista Jane lives about 7 miles North of here."

1891 Jan. 29, Troy, Iowa. Ada Tharp wrote her cousin Jane Love: "Aunt is piecing Aunt Janes oldest boy a quilt. it is called the drooping lilly. . . . We had a pleasant time at Grandmas dinner / they was'nt anybody here only relations. Aunt Cemantha gave her apron. Aunt Cemanthas man gave her a nice flanel skirt. Aunt Jane apron. Aunt Melisa [Melvina?] apron. Mary Shield apron / Garrett Tharp ahnkerchief. Tilda & Cindarilla Tharp a pair of shoes. all of the children and Soninlaws was here. except Uncle Glocester Vorhis. and Aunt Hannah E. Ernst / she lives in Missouri."

1891 March 24, Troy, Iowa. Ada Tharp wrote her cousin Jane Love: "Aunt will send you a quilt patter by the next time I write / She has pieced three quilts like it. One for my Sister and one for my cousin Aunt Janes boy. And one for her self. It is called the drooping Lilly / it makes a very pretty quilt."

1891 Oct. 18, Troy, Iowa. Ada Tharp wrote her cousin Jane Love: "We want to make our kraut this week. Aunt Jane Lanman and her oldest daughter was over last week and got some."

1892 April 16, Troy, Iowa. Ada Tharp wrote her cousin Jane Love: "Aunt Jane and her children came over yesterday and will start home this morning. They are all well. They are eating breakfast while I am writing." Correspondence from the family letters and papers of Jane Love and her cousin, Lillice Jones Harper, courtesy John, Danny, and Dave Harper in 2001 and 2004, transcribed by Brenda Boyer

1900 census, George W. Lanman not yet indexed by Ancestry.com

1910 Davis Co., IA, census, p.108A, Salt Creek Twp., April 26, 1910, Keith Carroll: 119/120, GEORGE W. LANMAN, head, M W 70, md. 45 yrs., IN IN IN, farmer, general farm, works on own account; Sylestia J., wife, F W 66, mother of 10 children, 10 living, IL OH OH; Lilly, dau, F W 24, single, IA IN IL.

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1. ↑ Grave Stone Records of Davis County, Iowa. (Graves Registration W.P.A. Project)
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   Geo. W. Lanman, b. 1840, d. 1919, Bethlehem Cemetery, Salt Creek, lot 24; wife, Celesta Jane, b. 1844, d. 1919