Person:Oliver Conklin (2)

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Oliver Spencer Conklin
b.1815
d.Dec 1884 Keokuk, IA?
m. 1789
  1. Joseph Conklin - 1831
  2. Mary Conklin
  3. Susan Conklin
  4. Stephen Conklin1794 - 1850
  5. Joanna Conklin1798 - 1875
  6. Amos Conklin1804 - 1866
  7. Sarah Conklin1807 -
  8. Elias Dayton Conklin1810 -
  9. Martin Conklin1811 -
  10. Oliver Spencer Conklin1815 - 1884
m. 1 Apr 1850
  1. Jennie Conklin1853 -
  2. Sarah V. Conklin1855 - 1912
  3. Ida May Conklin1860 - 1898
  4. Dayton Conklin1863 - 1935
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Name Oliver Spencer Conklin
Gender Male
Birth? 1815
Marriage 1 Apr 1850 Wayne Co INto Sarah Anne McFallen
Death? Dec 1884 Keokuk, IA?
Burial? Keokuk, IA
Oliver Spencer Conklin son of Stephen and Anna (Crane) Conkling was born in 1815. In early records his name is most frequently seen as Spencer, but as an adult he also used Oliver or O.S. He is listed as O.S. Conklin in the 1856 City Directory of Keokuk, Iowa. On 1 April 1850 he married Sarah Anne McFallen in Wayne County, Indiana. That same year they moved to Keokuk (Lee County), Iowa where they appear in the 1850 census. At that time they lived in a rooming house or hotel and Oliver was a grocer. They lived in Keokuk from 1850-57. In 1857 they moved to St. Clair County, Illinois where they lived from 1857-1866.  The family then moved back to Keokuk where Oliver died in December, 1884. He is buried in Keokuk.
References
  1.   The History of Lee County, Iowa: containing a history of the county, its cities, town, &c., a biographical directory of citizens, war record of its volunteers in the late rebellion, portraits of early settlers and prominent men, history of the Northwest, history of Iowa, map of Lee County.. (Chicago [Illinois]: Western Historical, 1879)
    1879.