I am posting this asking for assistance with my family tree Research. There seems to be many families including mine linked back to the Troxell family.
Bourm, Borum, Rolls, Roles, Rowles, Beers, O'Shell, Gates, Holdsworth.
With the number of "Johns" and "Catherine's" I have seen many conflicting trees, papers, and records for the Troxell family itself.
This is in regards to Catherine Troxell (I think she is the tenth Catherine in the Troxell family) born 1810. Her parents were John Jr. Troxell and Mary Matthews, in Pennsylvania. she seems to have been married 3 times and 8 children from 2 husbands. I believe they are from White Township, Cambria County, PA.
John Jr. Troxell Parents where:
John Sr. Troxell (1749-1777) from Bucks, PA
Elizabeth Groff (1746-1825) from Montgomery, Ohio
John Sr. Troxell Parents where:
Michael Troxell (1721-1772) came from Wolfersheim, Germany to Philadelphia, PA
Anna Margaret Saeger (1721-1770) Came from Reichenbach, Germany to Philidelphia, PA.
Catherine Troxell Spouse':
Thomas Rolls Rowles Roles
Mr. Barum
Thomas Fitzpatrick
I have found lots of information on the children's families, but working back to get records or data on this Catherine Troxell and her husbands hasn't been as successful.
*note: just about everyone in Catherine's family seems to have spelling issues. You will see siblings spelling their own surnames differently.
Specific Questions:
1) Catherine's first husband is Thomas Rolls Roles Rowles and where is he from and who are his parents? There are several Thomas Rolls running around Pennsylvania at this time.
The surname has been spelled as Rolls, Roles, Rowles, Rolles.
2) Was Thomas and Catherine's marriage ended by his death or divorce? I have not seen any marriage records or divorce, death records.
3) Catherine's second husband:Who is Mr Boram? Where did he come from and are there any records of their marriage? Who are his parents? This is the person I am related to. Our family written genealogy record says his name was Richard Borum. but I have not found any records of this person in Pennsylvania. There is a Barum family in Pennsylvania at this time (1800 -1840). Note: his son with Catherine is also named Richard Borum.
The surname has been spelled as: Borum, Bourm, Barum, Boram, Borham, Boarm.
4) How and why did Mr. Boram die? Catherine is listed as "widowed" in 1850.
5) Her child Perry Boram only shows up in the 1850 census, and I cannot find him elsewhere, after the 1850 census. What happened to him? I assume he died as an infant. Have not located the grave.
6) What prompted her and her sons to head west? In 1854 was what was called "The Grand Excursion" which was opening of the west via the Mississippi to LeClaire, Scott county Iowa. The settled there at this time. I know she was receiving payments from her fathers will. Her father died 1849 and mother died 1850, sometime between 1850 and 1854 she headed west with the children Soon after her father John Jr. Troxell died and left her some money and her mother died.
7) Where is Catherine buried? Her last known residence was in the 1885 Kansas state census as Catherine Fitzpatrick. She married Thomas Fitzpatrick in Rock Island, Illinois in 1856. Thomas Fitzpatrick died before 1885, as Catherine is listed as "Widowed".
There are a ton of Catherine Fitzpatrick's and Catherine Troxell buried in the US...its hard to locate the correct grave, and would it be with Thomas Fitzpatrick, she buried in Kansas or Iowa, or Pennsylvania?
Below is all the data I have collected so far on Catherine and her children. There are many families connected here, and I hope we can find some answers that I am sure many others have asked before me.
Thank you
Catherine Troxell
Born about 1810 in Pennsylvania
Children:
Elizabeth Rolls b.1828 d.1905
Margaret Rolls b.1834
John Rolls b.1835 d.1922
Fyanna Rolls b.1835 d.1910
Hannah Jane Rolls b. 1838
Richard Andrew Borum b.1846 d.1928
Lafayette D Borum b.1847 d.1920
Perry Boram b.1849
1840 census White Township Cambria County, Pennsylvania.
"Catherine Boles" head of household with 7 household:
Male under 5: 1
Female under 5: 1
Female 5 to 9: 2
Female 10 to 14: 1
Female 20 to 29: 1
Female 40 to 49: 1
The US Federal 1850 census
White Township, Cambria County, Pennsylvania.
Catherine Boram 40
Richard Boram 5
Perry Boram 1
Margaret Roles 16
Hanah Roles 12
Mary Troxel 68
Iowa State Census 1854
LeClaire, Scott County Iowa
Catherine Borum
Illinois Marriages 1851 to 1900
Catharine Boram marries Thomas Fitzpatrick
Jan 25, 1856 Rock Island, Illinois.
1860 US Census
LeClaire, Scott County, Iowa
Thomas Fitspatrick 45
Catharine Fitzpatrick 46
Richard Borum 15
Lafayette Borum 13
1885 Iowa State Census
January 1885
Widowed
Richland, Jasper, Iowa
Catherine Fitzpatrick 72
Abigail Faylor 72
1885 Kansas State Census
March 1st 1885
Walnut, Phillips County, Kansas
Widowed
Richard Bourm 38
AE Bourm 37
Perry Bourm 17
CA Bourm 15
MA Bourm 13
Catherine Bourm 12
Mary Bourm 10
Milton Bourm 8
R Bourm 6
Lizzie Bourm 4
Albert Bourm 2
C Fitzpatrick 67
The Children of Catherine Troxell
Elizabeth Rolls Roles Rowles
b.7 MAY 1828 Pennsylvania Clearfield Goshen d.19 OCT 1905 Pennsylvania Clearfield Clearfield.
Mother: Catherine Troxell
Father: Thomas Rolls Rowles Roles.
Married: George Henry O'Shell and maybe William Miller?
1860 Pennsylvania Cambria White twnshp.
1870 Pennsylvania Huntingdon Warriors Mark.
1880 Pennsylvania Cambria Reade.
Margaret Rolls Roles Rowles
d.15 SEPT 1833 Pennsylvania d.7 JAN 1914 Pennsylvania Thomastown
Mother: Catherine Troxell
Father: Thomas Rolls Roles Rowles
Married: William Gates
1850 Pennsylvania Cambria White twnshp.
1852 Married William Gates.
1880 Pennsylvania Blair Snyder.
1900 Pennsylvania Blair Snyder.
Fyanna Rolls Roles Rowles
b.1835 Pennsylvania Somerset d.10 MAY 1910 Pennsylvania Cambria Reade.
Mother: Catherine Troxell
Father: Thomas Rolls Roles Rowles
Married: Benjamin F Beers
1857 married Benjamin F Beers or 1861
1880 Pennsylvania Cambria White twnshp.
1900 Pennsylvania Cambria Reade.
1910 Pennsylvania Clearfield Beaver Valley.
1910 Pennsylvania Cambria Reade.
John Rolls
b.1 JAN 1835 Pennsylvania Cambria d.21 JUN 1922 Iowa Wright Iowa City.
Mother: Catherine Troxell
Father: Thomas Rolls Roles Rowles
Married: Mary Steinman
1862 military us civil war enlisted Scott county Iowa. Co. B 2nd Iowa inf.
1865 marriage.
1885 Iowa Jasper.
1900 Iowa Jasper Lynn Grove.
1910 "
1915 Iowa Jasper Lynnville
1922 Iowa Wright Iowa City
*note: His Civil War Pension Papers give his siblings and their married names who were living in the 1850-1860 period: Margaret (Rolls) Gates; Elizabeth (Rolls) Miller, Hannah (Rolls) Holdsworth; Fiana (Rolls) Beers, Dick Borham (half-brother); LaFayette Borham (half-brother).
Hannah Jane Rolls
b.MAR 1838 Pennsylvania d.1923 Iowa, Jasper, Kellogg
Mother: Catherine Troxell
Father: Thomas Rolls Roles Rowles
Married: William Holdsworth
1850 Pennsylvania Cambria White twnshp.
1856 Iowa Scott LeClaire.
1860 Iowa Scot LeClaire.
1870 Pennsylvania Woodward Clearfield.
1878 Marriage to William Holdsworth.
1900 Iowa Jasper Kellogg.
1905 Iowa Jasper Kellogg.
1915 Iowa Jasper Kellogg.
Richard Andrew Borum
b.1846 Pennsylvania d.
Mother: Catherine Troxell
Father: Mr. Boram Borum Bourm Borham Boarm.
Married: Ann Elizabeth VanDuzer
1850 Pennsylvania Cambria White twnshp.
1856 Iowa Scott LeClaire.
1860 Iowa Scott LeClaire.
1867 Marriage to Ann Elizabeth Vanduzer.
1870 Iowa Scott Lincoln.
1880 Iowa Jasper Richland.
1885 Iowa Jasper Richland.
1900 Nebraska Harlan.
1910 Colorado Morgan Fort Morgan.
1913 Colorado Morgan Coronos.
1920 Colorado Adena.
1928 Colorado Morgan Fort Morgan.
*Note: to this day Richards family uses the "BORUM" spelling of surname.
*Note: Richard Andrew Borum was of said served in the civil war but i have found no records.
Lafayette D Bourm Borum Boarm Borham
b.1847 Pennsylvania d.1920 Kansas
Mother: Catherine Troxell
Father: Mr. Boram Borum Borham Bourn
Married: Margaret Anne Delay
1850 Pennsylvania Cambria White twnshp.
1860 Iowa, Scott, LeClaire.
1880 Iowa, jasper, Richland.
1905 Kansas, Jackson, Adrian twnshp.
*Note: to this day Lafayette's family uses the "BOURM" spelling of surname.
Perry Borum
b.1849 Pennsylvania d.?
Mother: Catherine Troxell
Father: Mr. Boram
1850 Penn Cambria White twnshp
Catherine Troxell Fathers Last Will & Testament:
Last Will and Testament of John Troxel, late of White Township,Cambria County, deceased.
Filed and Submitted to Probate July 2, 1849
Registered in Will Book page 3440 on the 2 day of July A.D. 1849
I, John Troxel, of White Township, Cambria County, in the state of Pennsylvania do make and publish this my last will and testament, hereby evoking and making void, all former wills by me at anytime heretofore made.
And first, I direct that my body be decently interred and that my funeral be conducted in a manner corresponding with my situation in life, and that all my funeral expenses and all my debts be paid out of my personal property by my wife Mary. And I further direct that my two sons Perry and Lafayette by possefsed (possessed)of my land, the place on which I now reside on the following conditions: 1st that they give my wife annually, two thirds of all the produce that they the said Perry and Lafayette shall raise or cause to be raised on said land during the lifetime of my said wife, together with two or more shoatz, or hogs, annually every spring for her own use and also the house that I and my wife now occupy, to be occupied by her exclusively during her lifetime together with a garden, or such part of a garden as she shall at any time need, also my sorrel mare (called Fox) if living, together with my horsegears, bridle, etc. I direct shall be owned and held in posession by my wife, together with all the cattle belonging to me at the time of my decease, I direct also that she, my said wife, shall have the use of two stables or apartments under the barn, for the mare, cattle, etc. during her lifetime.
2nd Two years after the decease of my said wife, my said sons, Perry and Lafayette shall pay or cause to be paid unto my other children, the sum of six hundred and ten dollars, as their share of my real estate bequeathed unto them, the same to be paid in sixteen annual payments in manner following.
The first payment, forty six dollars($46.00), shall be paid to my daughter Elizabeth, two years after the decease of my wife Mary. The second payment forty six dollars ($46.00) shall be paid to my son Abraham J. one year after the first payment shall have become due. The third annual payment shall be twenty five dollars ($25.00) to be paid to my daughter Catharine. The fourth annual payment shall be twenty five dollars ($25.00) to be paid to my son John. The fifth annual payment shall be forty six dollars ($46.00) to be paid to my son George. The sixth annual payment shall be forty six dollars ($46.00) to be paid to my daughter Mary. The seventh annual payment shall be forty six dollars ($46.00) to be paid to my daughter Hannah. The eighth annual payment shall be twenty five dollars ($25.00) to be paid to my daughter Margaret. The ninth annual payment shall be twenty five dollars (25.00) and also to my said daughter Margaret to be paid. The tenth annual payment shall be forty six dollars ($46.00) to be paid to my daughter Hannah. The eleventh annual payment shall be forty six ($46.00) to be made to my daughter Mary. The twelvth annual payment shall be for forty six dollars, to be made to my son George ($46.00) The thirteenth annual payment shall be twenty five dollars ($25.00) to be paid to my son John. The fourteenth annual payment shall be twenty five ($25.00) to be paid to my daughter Catharine. The fifteenth annual payment shall be forty six dollars to be made to my son Abraham J. ($46.00). The sixteenth annual payment shall be forty six dollars ($46.00) to be paid to my daughter Elizabeth. From the time in which the first payment becomes due, according to my directions herein,(above specified) I direct that each and every payment be made in the order above described,and to the persons above named, without defalcation. That just one year shall intervene between each and every payment, made by said Perry and Lafayette.
3rd. And I further direct and require, that the sum due to me from my son, Abraham J. Troxel, for fifty acres of land sold to him by me in the year A.D. 1828, be paid by him, the said Abraham J. to my wife Mary, as soon as he can pay the sum conviently for her exclusive use and benefit. The said tract of land is the same on which my son Abraham now resides. It was sold by me to him at $2.00 per acre, or for one hundred dollars, fifty dollars of which he has already paid to me, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged. These conditions fulfilled, the said Abraham shall be owner of the same. 4th All the conditions herein required of my two sons Perry and Lafayette, being fulfilled by them, they shall be the owners of the remaining hundred acres on which I now reside, fifty acres of which, on the south side, and on which the barn and other principal buildings are erected, to be owned by said Perry, the remaining fifty acres being on the north side of the same, to be owned by my son Lafayette. Provided nevertheless that should the said Perry and Lafayette refuse to comply with the above named conditions, and none of my other sons be willing to enter into the same, I would then direct that my said land should be sold at public Auction, and that the proceeds of the sale of the same should be distributed among my children as follows, to wit. Elizabeth, Abraham J., George, Mary and Hannah, shall receive ninety two dollars each, or in proportion. And Catharine, John and Margaret shall receive each fifty dollars, or in that proportion, according to the proceeds of the said sale of said land. And the said Perry and Lafayette shall in that case receive each ninety two Dollars or the proportion of the same. Should any lofs (loss) occur in consquence of a defect in the title of said land, I direct that each of my children, shall bear an equal proportion of said lofs (loss): but the land shall in no case be sold until after the decease of my said wife.
And I further direct that all my personal property of descriptions, whatsoever, after my funeral expenses, debts and liabilities shall have been paid out of said personal property (that the balance if any there be), shall acrue to my Mary and be her property exclusively, and all the grain that she shall receive as her thirds, or share of the crops raised on said land, shall be threshed out and divided to her by the bushel. And I further direct, that after the decease of my said wife, after her funeral and other expenses shall be defrayed, to the balance of said personal property then remaining shall be ? and equally distributed among all my children.
And I do hereby ordain and make my wife Mary Troxel and my two sons Perry Troxel and Lafayette Troxel executors to this my last will and testament. In witnefs (witness)thereof I, John Troxel, the Testator, have to this Will written on one sheet of paper, set my hand and seal this seventh day of March in the year of Our Lord A.D. one thousand eight hundred and forty nine.
John Troxel
His mark
Signed, sealed and delivered,
in the presence of us.
John Scott
?ram mathew
William Kittel Register
Fyanna Rolls Beers Last Will & Testament:
Notes for Fiahana Rowles:
LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT: I, Fyanna Beers of Reade Township, Cambria County of Pennsylvania, being of sound mind, memoryhand understanding, do make and publish this my last will and testament, hereby revoking and making void all former wills by me at any time heretofore made. And first, I direct that my funeral be conducted in a manner corresponding with my estate and situation in life and that all my just debts and funeral expense be fully paid and satisfied as soon as conveniently may be after my decease. As to such estate as it hath pleased God to intrust me with, I dispose of the same as follows, viz: It is my will and desire that all my property, real and personal, shall go to and be used by my beloved husband during his natural life and at the death of my husband, Benjamin Beers, I hereby bequeath and give to my son, Alex J. Beers all my property both real and personal. It is also my will that my son, Alex S Beers shall stay in the house and have a home with my husband, Benj Beers, during the life time of my husband. And I hereby nominate, constitute and appoint - H. Beers Executor of this my last will and testament. In Witness whereof, I , Fyanna Beers, the Testatrix, have to this, my will, written on one sheet of paper, set my hand and seal this first day of April, A.D., One Thousand, Nine Hundred and Ten. signed Fyanna Beers. Signed, sealed, published and declared by the above-named Fyanna Beers as and for her last will and testament, in the presence of us, who have hereunto subscribed our names at her request as witnesses thereto, in the presence of the said testatrix, and of each other. S. H. Beers, Fallentimber, Pa; C. J. Troxell, Glasgow, Pa.
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LETTER OF ADMINISTRATION: State Of Pennsylvania; ss: County Of Cambria: Before me , Sherman Tibbott, Register of the Probate of Wills and granting Letters of Administration in and for said County, personally came C. J. Troxell who, being duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say that Fyanna Beers, late of Reade Township, in said County, died on or about the 10th day of May, 1910, at about 6 o'clock, A.M. Sworn and subscribed this 2nd day of Sept A.D. 1912. C J Troxell. Sherman Tibbott, Register. (Note: Will of Fyanna (Rowles) Beers: #9455, filed Sep 2nd, 1910).
Burial: Beaver Valley Cemetery, Flinton, White Twp., Cambria Co., Pa