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Re: Sarah Margaret Toncray

Posted: 3 Mar 2002 11:48PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 20 Jan 2003 10:36PM GMT
Do you know of any information regarding Jeanette Walker Toncary: Russell Toncary or theie lineage? Thanks

Re: Sarah Margaret Toncray

James Toncray (View posts)
Posted: 14 May 2002 12:04PM GMT
Classification: Query
I can give you answers to your questions about Russell Toncray and Walker. I do not have the information at hand but if you will send me a message to toncrayjr@aol.com I will answer as soon as I can. I am living in our motor home and am on the road a good bit so I don't get on line every day.

Bacisally, Russell Toncary was born in Abingdon, VA. He moved to Rushville, IL in the early 1800 era. He died there in about 1840 leaving his wife and at least four children. His descendants live in Kansas right now. I can give more later. Jim Toncray.

Re: Toncray: Rushville, IL to Hannibal, MO to Northwest US

J McAfee (View posts)
Posted: 29 Jan 2003 8:57PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Toncray
"Family notes say that an Uncle served in the Civil War, but I can't find him on the Civil War website, is there someone I can write to, to ask them to check the rosters? His name was Addison Ovando Toncray, he was born in 1842 in Iowa, but he grew up in Hannibal, Mo. He fought for the Union Army, I am not sure from what state."
contact at this email:
Laurel Mains
laurel.ne@netzero.net
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reply:
John Toncray ran a saloon in Hannibal, Missouri near the old Virginia Hotel. Toncray is listed with other Hannibal men as early businessmen credited with helping the business community grow. [Marion County, MO History of 1884]

There was a J. Toncray living in Rushville, Schuyler Co, Illinois in 1835.


Mary Desire FISH #99 b.July 28,1819 d. June 10, 1902 m. Mar 29, 1840 John Goodson Toncray src:(13)
At some point John G.Toncray was in Hannibal, MO. src: ToncrayJR@aol.com
"99. Mary Desire7 Fish (Moses6, Moses5, Thomas4, Moses3, Samuel2, John1)
dau. of Moses and Deborah (Gates) Fish, born July 28, 1819 in New York
State; died June 10, 1902 at _______________ buried in Bellefontaine
Cemetary, St. Louis, MO.; married Mar. 29, 1840 at ______________
John Goodson Toncray, born Feb. 23, 1810 at Abingdon, Va.; died Aug.
14,1860 at Hannibal, Mo. and is buried there; son of John and Polly
(Knott) Toncray. Mr. Toncray was a widower; was married first July 29,
1834 - relatives consulted do not know first wife's name. Children
names of whom were given by Mrs. Toncray to her sister Mrs. Ann (Fish)
Ames on a visit to Mrs. Ames at Ipava, Fulton Co., Ill. sometime in
1886 or 1887." src:(13)

MORE TONCRAY INFO (from ToncrayJR@aol.com):

The father of John Goodson Toncray is John Toncray of Abingdon, VA and his mother is Polly or Mary Knott. John G.
Toncray was born in Abingdon, VA February 23, 1810.
Alexander C. Toncray was John Goodson's first son.
Alexander C. was born in Rushville, IL to John G. and Sally Campbell Toncray.
Sally died in October 1838 and was buried in Rushville. John G. Toncray
then went on and married Mary Desire Fish in 1840.

Capt. "Tonk" (who may be John M. below) is buried in Murray, OK.
The local historical society has a marker on the grave but the spelling is
wrong. Capt. Tonk's neighbor was Molly B. Damn. Seems Molly was a
young girl from Ireland who married a real rounder.
Her husband forced her into prostitution in New York and took all the money.
Finally Molly got fed up and took off on her own. She figured she might as
well get the money rather than her husband. So, she went to the gold fields
of Idaho and set up practice. Then the flu epidemic hit Murray and Molly was
one of those who took care of the sick and dying. Unfortunately she got he
flu herself and died at about 35 years of age. She si buried about eight
feet from Capt. Tonk.

Capt. Toncray or Capt. Tonk as he was written up in the local Idaho
papers and the Washington Post was the second son of John Goodson. He was
born in Fort Madison, IA on February 22, 1842. He died in Murray, ID on
February 3, 1906. He was married but according to the article from the
Kellogg, ID evening News of December 16, 1937, his wife and baby died in
Helena, MT., date unknown.

Capt. Tonk's older half brother was Alexander C. Toncray who was the son of
Sally Campbell and John Goodson Toncray. Sally died in October 1838 and I
think it was probably child birth as she and her infant son were buried
together in the Campbell family cemetery, Rushville, Schuyler County, IL. In
Mark Twain's Own Autobiography; introduction by Michael J. Kiskis, from the
University of Wisconsin Press, page 193 there is a letter written by Capt.
Tonk's brother. Quoted here.

"You no doubt are at a loss to know who I am. I will tell you. In my younger
days I was a resident of Hannibal, Mo., and you and I were schoolmates
attending Mr. Dawson's school along with Sam and Will Bowen and Andy Fuqua
and others whose names I have forgotten. I was then about the smallest boy
in school, for my age, and they called me little Aleck for short."

On page 190 Twain says:
[Dictated, March 8, 1906] For thirty years I have received an average of a
dozen letters a year from strangers who remember me, or whose fathers
remember me as a boy and young man. But these letters are almost always
disappointing. I have not known their fathers I have not heard of the names
mention; the reminiscences to which they call attention have no part of my
experience; all of which means that these strangers have been mistaking me
for somebody else. But at last I have the refreshment, this morning, of a
letter from a man who deals in names that were familiar to me in my boyhood.
The writer encloses a newspaper clipping which has been wandering through the
press for four or five weeks, and he wants to know if Capt. Tonkray, lately
deceased, was (as stated in the clipping) the original of Huckleberry Finn.

I have replied that "Huckleberry Finn" was Frank F. As this inquirer
evidently knew the Hannibal of the forties, he will easily recall Frank.
Frank's father was at one time the Town Drunkard, an exceedingly well-defined
and unofficial office of those days. He succeeded "General" Gaines, and for
a time he was the sole and only incumbent of the office; but afterward Jimmy
Finn proved competency and disputed the place with him, so we had two town
drunkards at one time-and it made as much trouble in that village as
Christendom experienced in the fourteenth century when there were two Popes
at the same time.

Since John Goodson died in 1860 both Alexander C. Toncray and Addison O.
Toncray would have been able to complete school in Hannibal. Alexander would
have been 23 by then and Addison would have been 18 when John G. died.

I may be jumping to conclusions but I am fairly certain that Little Aleck has
to be Alexander C. Toncray, as he is the son of John G. and Sally Campbell
and Addison is the son of John G. and Mary Desire Fish. So, when the writer
of the letter identifies himself as Little Aleck I can only draw one
conclusion, this is Alexander C. Toncray.



.........10 Addison Ovando Toncray #109 b. Feb 22,1842 Fort Madison, IA d. Feb 3, 1906 src:(13)
Photo exists (orig. in Wallace Museum of Mining, Wallace) taken in 1905 at Murry Idaho just before his
death. Had a half brother, Alexander C. Toncray.
src: ToncrayJR@aol.com
.........10 Sarah D. Toncray #110 src:(13)
.........10 Irene D. Toncray #111 src:(13)
.........10 John M. Toncray #112 src:(13)
.........10 Mary Virginia Toncray #113 b. May 12, 1848 Hannibal, MO d.Oct 21,1909 m. May 16,1869 William Perkins Mains src:(13)
..........11 Mabel Sophronia Mains #134 b.July 18,1871 m. Walter Bell Caldwell src:(13)
...........12 Marguerite Louisa CALDWELL #163 b.Jan 6,1902 src:(13)
...........12 Charles Leslie CALDWELL #164 b.Aug 6, 1903 m.Sue Dahringer src:(13)
............13 Marylou CALDWELL no # b.July 24, 1926 src:(13)
..........11 Mary Adalena MAINS #135 b.Nov 12,1873 src:(13)
..........11 George Clarence MAINS #136 b.Dec 1,1875 m(1)Blanche Levedy. They had a child who
died as an infant. They divorced. He m(2) Agnes Lambert. Got divorced. m.(3) Mrs. Adele (Maurer) Reynolds.
They had the following children. src:(13)
...........12 Virginia Lou MAINS #165 b.May 13, 1923 src:(13)
...........12 John Donald MAINS #166 b.Jan 16,1929 src:(13)
...........12 Robert Thomas MAINS #167 b.Apr 22, 1930 src:(13)
..........11 Oliver Perkins Mains #137 b.Apr 1,1878 m(1) Anna Inez Lowry (no children).
m(2) Emma M. Winburn with whom he adopted the following: src:(13)
...........12 Winifred Baker MAINS (adopted) no # m. at 16 src:(13)
............13 girl? ? no # b.1939 src:(13)
..........11 Willie Alberta MAINS #138 b.Mar 26,1880 m.Francis Thomas May src:(13)
...........12 John Toncray MAY #168 b.July 16,1914 src:(13)
..........11 Louelva Lombard MAINS #139 b.Jan 8,1882 m. 3 times. No children src:(13)
..........11 Charles Leslie Mains #140 b.Dec 25,1887 m(1)Josephine Cook src:(13)
...........12 Annie May MAINS #169 b. Jan 8,1906 d. in infancy src:(13)
...........12 Mildre Virginia MAINS #170 b.Aug 8,1907 src:(13)
..........(11) Charles m(3) Ruth Silar
...........12 William Oliver MAINS #164 b.Dec 7,1913 m. Lois Evelyn Wheeler src:(13)
.........10 Charles Thomas Toncray #114 d.Apr. 15, 1934 m. Marie Hewitt src:(13)
..........11 Emma Toncray #141 src:(13)
..........11 John Toncray #142 src:(13)
..........11 Edna Toncray #143 src:(13)
..........11 Frank Toncray #144 src:(13)
..........11 William Toncray #145 src:(13)
..........11 Charles Toncray #146 src:(13)
..........11 Garnett Toncray #140 src:(13)
.........10 John G., Jr. Toncray #115 src:(13)

source page:
http://www.dallas.net/~mcmanus/fishlast.htm
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Laurel replys:

"Thanks for the info. I was trying to get the records (or at least the company info) for Addison Toncray, but still can't find his name on the Civil War Web-site, I wonder how it is possible to do that. If you want to figure out out how I am related to Addison, I am a daughter of Wm O. Mains ( on that chart)."
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Laurel adds:
"I think Capt Tonk must be Addison Toncray, as the birth dates are the sames, but I had that he died in Murray, Colorado, I guess I could look into another Murray. I found him on the 1880 census, in Red Bluff, Montana; I wonder if hat was after his wife died?"
Laurel Mains
laurel.ne@netzero.net
contact Laurel Mains directly at her email address above
or reply at Marion Co, Missouri GenWeb site below:

http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p...
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Eisfelder

John Albertini (View posts)
Posted: 3 Jan 2004 3:32AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Albertini Eisfelder Jung Maurer
My GG grandmother was born Louise Augusta Eisfelder (though she was called Minnie or Minna) and was from Hanover Germany (Clausthal)! She was born c.1847 and came to NYC c.1865 with her husband Carl Albertini.

Do you have any more info on your Eisfelder ancesters?

John

Re: Col. Tanqyary

Mark Toncray (View posts)
Posted: 2 Aug 2004 7:14PM GMT
Classification: Query
our origional family spelling is thought to be TONQUEREAUX
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