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DEATH OF MEMBER PIONEER FAMILY
Fred Sixbury, son of Channcey Sixbury, Civil War Veteran, and Grandson of Joseph Sixbury, One of Our First Settlers, died in Iowa. Fred Sixbury, who was born in Sycamore in 1877, the fifth of a family of ten children, was not well known here, as he left when he was five years of age, but his family, who were prominently identified with the history of this county in its formative period were prominent here for two generations. The death of Fred Sixbury, which occurred at his home at Story, Boone county, Iowa, on Jan. 24 last, recalls some of the early history of this community. Fred Sixbury died at his home at Elma, Iowa , on Jan. 24 last, survived by three children: Dr. Carl Sixbury of Lamoni, Iowa; Harold Sixbury of Davenport, Iowa, and Miss Carmalette Sixbury of Elma, Iowa. He is also survived by four sisters and three brothers. His father, Chauncey Sixbury, a large, robust hearty man, a veteran of the Civil war, for many years conducted a farm northeast of Sycamore in the Charter Grove neighborhood, and everybody hereabout was acquainted with him. He moved with his large family to Boone county, Iowa, in 1882, and here remained until his death. Chauncey Sixbury's father, the grandfather of Fred Sixbury, was Joseph Sixbury, a native of Amsterdam, N.Y., who married Malinda Ellwood, whose six brothers were prominent in the earily history of this county and for many years later. Mr and Mrs. Joseph Sixbury resided for many years with Mrs. Sixbury's brother Chauncey Ellwood, for some time mayor and widely known, for whom her son was named. They occupied the Ellwood homestead on the south limits of Sycamore now owned by Mrs. J. B. Nesbitt, to which was attached considerable land which is now subdivided, one of the streets being named Chauncey street.
Joseph Sixbury and his wife; Malinda Ellwood-Sixbury came to Dekalb county in 1837, the third year of the settlement of the county, when it was a wilderness. Although bands of Indians had been driven out some three years before, there remained many scattered families who made their temporary hemes in the various groves, who were among the many disagreeable features with which settlers were obliged to contend. From the surrounding groves the Indians made incursions into the settlements to beg food and other favors. In relating some of the habits of the aborigines Mrs. Joseph Sixbury said that they would appear at the cabin doors of settlers and cast their blankets inside. If the occupants allowed the blankets to remain, the Indians considered it an invitation to come in and take their repose; but if the blankets were taken up and placed outside, the visitors accepted the act as a refusal to allow them to tarry, and picking up their blankets they passed on. Soon after the arrival here of the Sixburys the Indians were all removed by the government to the vicinity of Council Bluffs. Uncle Joe Sixbury and his wife were devout Methodists
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The True Republican, obituary of Fred Sixbury
The True Republican, obituary of Fred Sixbury
Source: http://idnc.library.illinois.edu/cgi-bin/illinois?a=d&d=STR19300219.2.43&srpos=1&e=-------en-20-STR-1--txt-txIN-sixbury------- |
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John Reff and family, 1865 census, Cape Vincent, Jefferson County, New York
John Reff and family, 1865 census, Cape Vincent, Jefferson County, New York
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Fred Sixbury and family, Peoples Township, Boone County, Iowa, 1900
Fred Sixbury and family, Peoples Township, Boone County, Iowa, 1900
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Fred Sixbury and family, Peoples Township, Boone County, Iowa, 1900
Fred Sixbury and family, Peoples Township, Boone County, Iowa, 1900
Source: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9K3-FF6 |
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Fred Sixbury, WWI Draft Registration Card, Sep. 12, 1918
Fred Sixbury, WWI Draft Registration Card, Sep. 12, 1918
Source: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZ28-B8J |
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DEATH OF MEMBER PIONEER FAMILY
Fred Sixbury, son of Channcey Sixbury, Civil War Veteran, and Grandson of Joseph Sixbury, One of Our First Settlers, died in Iowa. Fred Sixbury, who was born in Sycamore in 1877, the fifth of a family of ten children, was not well known here, as he left when he was five years of age, but his family, who were prominently identified with the history of this county in its formative period were prominent here for two generations. The death of Fred Sixbury, which occurred at his home at Story, Boone county, Iowa, on Jan. 24 last, recalls some of the early history of this community. Fred Sixbury died at his home at Elma, Iowa , on Jan. 24 last, survived by three children: Dr. Carl Sixbury of Lamoni, Iowa; Harold Sixbury of Davenport, Iowa, and Miss Carmalette Sixbury of Elma, Iowa. He is also survived by four sisters and three brothers. His father, Chauncey Sixbury, a large, robust hearty man, a veteran of the Civil war, for many years conducted a farm northeast of Sycamore in the Charter Grove neighborhood, and everybody hereabout was acquainted with him. He moved with his large family to Boone county, Iowa, in 1882, and here remained until his death. Chauncey Sixbury's father, the grandfather of Fred Sixbury, was Joseph Sixbury, a native of Amsterdam, N.Y., who married Malinda Ellwood, whose six brothers were prominent in the earily history of this county and for many years later. Mr and Mrs. Joseph Sixbury resided for many years with Mrs. Sixbury's brother Chauncey Ellwood, for some time mayor and widely known, for whom her son was named. They occupied the Ellwood homestead on the south limits of Sycamore now owned by Mrs. J. B. Nesbitt, to which was attached considerable land which is now subdivided, one of the streets being named Chauncey street.
Joseph Sixbury and his wife; Malinda Ellwood-Sixbury came to Dekalb county in 1837, the third year of the settlement of the county, when it was a wilderness. Although bands of Indians had been driven out some three years before, there remained many scattered families who made their temporary hemes in the various groves, who were among the many disagreeable features with which settlers were obliged to contend. From the surrounding groves the Indians made incursions into the settlements to beg food and other favors. In relating some of the habits of the aborigines Mrs. Joseph Sixbury said that they would appear at the cabin doors of settlers and cast their blankets inside. If the occupants allowed the blankets to remain, the Indians considered it an invitation to come in and take their repose; but if the blankets were taken up and placed outside, the visitors accepted the act as a refusal to allow them to tarry, and picking up their blankets they passed on. Soon after the arrival here of the Sixburys the Indians were all removed by the government to the vicinity of Council Bluffs. Uncle Joe Sixbury and his wife were devout Methodists '97 of the kind that was called shouting Methodists, and no one could be mistaken as to what were their religious convictions. Joseph Sixbury was a steward and class-leader in church, was assessor of the township for many years and was elected county treasurer for two successive terms. His grandson, Fred Sixbury, who died a few days ago, is survived by children and grandchildren, the latter of the fourth generation of Sixburys descendants of Joseph Sixbury who came here from Montgomery county, N.Y.
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Fred Sixbury and family, North Hero Township, Redwood County, Minnesota, 1910
Fred Sixbury and family, North Hero Township, Redwood County, Minnesota, 1910
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Fred Sixbury, WWI Draft Registration Card, Sep. 12, 1918
Fred Sixbury, WWI Draft Registration Card, Sep. 12, 1918
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The True Republican, obituary of Fred Sixbury
The True Republican, obituary of Fred Sixbury
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Christopher Reff, John Reff
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Chauncey Sixbury, 1880 Census, Sycamore, DeKalb County, Illinois
Chauncey Sixbury, 1880 Census, Sycamore, DeKalb County, Illinois
Source: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXJZ-QH5 |
- [S1526] 1885 Census - Boone County, Iowa, Iowa, Boone, (Digital images. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. \i FamilySearch\i0 . http://familysearch.org : 2014), Peoples Township, p. 323, dwelling 140, family 145, line 1, Chaney Sixbury; (http://familysearch.org : accessed Jan 8, 2017); citing citing p. 25, 1885, State Historical Society, Des Moines; FHL microfilm 1,021,444 (Reliability: 3), 8 Jan 2017.
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Chauncey Sixbury, 1870 Census, Sycamore, DeKalb County, Illinois
Chauncey Sixbury, 1870 Census, Sycamore, DeKalb County, Illinois
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Chauncey Sixbury & family, Boone County, Iowa, 1885
Chauncey Sixbury & family, Boone County, Iowa, 1885
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- [S1524] 1900 Census - Boone County, Iowa, Iowa, Boone, (http://familysearch.org: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), T623, roll GS Film Number 1240418, Peoples Township, enumeration district (ED) 3, sheet 3A, dwelling 51, family 51, Fred Sixbury, accessed Jan 14, 2017 (Reliability: 3), 14 Jan 2017.
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Birth record of Leonard Adams
Birth record of Leonard Adams, Penwater, Oceana County, Michigan, 28 Aug 1877
Image source: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-11600-84353-57?cc=1459684 |
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Carl E. Sixbury and family, Hot Springs, Fall River County, South Dakota, 1940
Carl E. Sixbury and family, Hot Springs, Fall River County, South Dakota, 1940
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Fred Sixbury and family, Peoples Township, Boone County, Iowa, 1900
Fred Sixbury and family, Peoples Township, Boone County, Iowa, 1900
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- [S1545] 1910 Census - Redwood County, Minnesota, Minnesota, Redwood, (http://familysearch.org: National Archives and Records Administration, 2016), T624, roll GS Film Number 1374726, North Hero Township, enumeration district (ED) 118, sheet 5A, p. 84, dwelling 79, family 79, Fred Sixbury, accessed Jan 15, 2017 (Reliability: 3), 15 Jan 2017.
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Death certificate for Lennis H. Adams
Death certificate for Lennis H. Adams, Roper Hospital, Charleston, South Carolina, 3 Feb 1941
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Fred Sixbury and family, North Hero Township, Redwood County, Minnesota, 1910
Fred Sixbury and family, North Hero Township, Redwood County, Minnesota, 1910
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- [S1544] Minnesota Creameries, Cheese Factories and Canning Factories, Joel G. Winkjer, (St. Paul, Minnesota: State Dairy and Food Department, August 1, 1914.), 47. (Reliability: 3), 15 Jan 2017.
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John Reff and family, 1865 census, Cape Vincent, Jefferson County, New York
John Reff and family, 1865 census, Cape Vincent, Jefferson County, New York
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Fred Sixbury, WWI Draft Registration Card, Sep. 12, 1918
Fred Sixbury, WWI Draft Registration Card, Sep. 12, 1918
Source: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZ28-B8J |
- [S1540] 1920 Census - Howard County, Iowa, Iowa, Howard, (http://familysearch.org: National Archives and Records Administration, 2014), T625, roll 494, Elma, enumeration district (ED) 126, sheet 3B, dwelling 72, family 73, Fred Sixbury, accessed Jan 14, 2017 (Reliability: 3), 14 Jan 2017.
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Cape Vincent Eagle, July 22, 1909
Cape Vincent Eagle, July 22, 1909
Obituary for Joseph Reff
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Fred Sixbury and family, Peoples Township, Boone County, Iowa, 1900
Fred Sixbury and family, Peoples Township, Boone County, Iowa, 1900
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Fred Sixbury and 3 children, Elma, Howard County, Iowa, 1920
Fred Sixbury and 3 children, Elma, Howard County, Iowa, 1920
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- [S1522] The True Republican, Illinois. Sycamore., "Death of Member Pioneer Family," February 19, 1930, p. 4, col. 3,4; digital images, \i Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections\i0 (Reliability: 3), 7 Jan 2017.
DEATH OF MEMBER PIONEER FAMILY
Fred Sixbury, son of Channcey Sixbury, Civil War Veteran, and Grandson of Joseph Sixbury, One of Our First Settlers, died in Iowa. Fred Sixbury, who was born in Sycamore in 1877, the fifth of a family of ten children, was not well known here, as he left when he was five years of age, but his family, who were prominently identified with the history of this county in its formative period were prominent here for two generations. The death of Fred Sixbury, which occurred at his home at Story, Boone county, Iowa, on Jan. 24 last, recalls some of the early history of this community. Fred Sixbury died at his home at Elma, Iowa , on Jan. 24 last, survived by three children: Dr. Carl Sixbury of Lamoni, Iowa; Harold Sixbury of Davenport, Iowa, and Miss Carmalette Sixbury of Elma, Iowa. He is also survived by four sisters and three brothers. His father, Chauncey Sixbury, a large, robust hearty man, a veteran of the Civil war, for many years conducted a farm northeast of Sycamore in the Charter Grove neighborhood, and everybody hereabout was acquainted with him. He moved with his large family to Boone county, Iowa, in 1882, and here remained until his death. Chauncey Sixbury's father, the grandfather of Fred Sixbury, was Joseph Sixbury, a native of Amsterdam, N.Y., who married Malinda Ellwood, whose six brothers were prominent in the earily history of this county and for many years later. Mr and Mrs. Joseph Sixbury resided for many years with Mrs. Sixbury's brother Chauncey Ellwood, for some time mayor and widely known, for whom her son was named. They occupied the Ellwood homestead on the south limits of Sycamore now owned by Mrs. J. B. Nesbitt, to which was attached considerable land which is now subdivided, one of the streets being named Chauncey street.
Joseph Sixbury and his wife; Malinda Ellwood-Sixbury came to Dekalb county in 1837, the third year of the settlement of the county, when it was a wilderness. Although bands of Indians had been driven out some three years before, there remained many scattered families who made their temporary hemes in the various groves, who were among the many disagreeable features with which settlers were obliged to contend. From the surrounding groves the Indians made incursions into the settlements to beg food and other favors. In relating some of the habits of the aborigines Mrs. Joseph Sixbury said that they would appear at the cabin doors of settlers and cast their blankets inside. If the occupants allowed the blankets to remain, the Indians considered it an invitation to come in and take their repose; but if the blankets were taken up and placed outside, the visitors accepted the act as a refusal to allow them to tarry, and picking up their blankets they passed on. Soon after the arrival here of the Sixburys the Indians were all removed by the government to the vicinity of Council Bluffs. Uncle Joe Sixbury and his wife were devout Methodists '97 of the kind that was called shouting Methodists, and no one could be mistaken as to what were their religious convictions. Joseph Sixbury was a steward and class-leader in church, was assessor of the township for many years and was elected county treasurer for two successive terms. His grandson, Fred Sixbury, who died a few days ago, is survived by children and grandchildren, the latter of the fourth generation of Sixburys descendants of Joseph Sixbury who came here from Montgomery county, N.Y.
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Christopher Reff, John Reff
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The True Republican, obituary of Fred Sixbury
The True Republican, obituary of Fred Sixbury
Source: http://idnc.library.illinois.edu/cgi-bin/illinois?a=d&d=STR19300219.2.43&srpos=1&e=-------en-20-STR-1--txt-txIN-sixbury------- |
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Christopher Reff, John Reff
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Fred Sixbury and family, North Hero Township, Redwood County, Minnesota, 1910
Fred Sixbury and family, North Hero Township, Redwood County, Minnesota, 1910
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- [S1513] Portrait and Biographical Album, DeKalb County, Illinois, Chapman Brothers, (Chicago, Illinois: Chapman Brothers, 1885.), 301, 302. (Reliability: 3), 31 Dec 2016.
Joseph Sixbury, deceased, farmer, was a native of Amsterdam, Montgomery Co., N.Y., born Nov. 17, 1810. Malinda (Ellwood) Sixbury, his widow, is a native of Minden, Montgomery Co., N.Y., born March 2, 1815. Joseph Sixbury and Malinda Ellwood were united in marriage in their native county Jan. 15, 1834, and in July, 1837, removed to Sycamore, De Kalb Co., Ill., where they continued to reside. The fruits of their union were two children, Chauncey E. and Mary Eliza. The former was born in Sycamore, May 30, 1838; the latter, May 28, 1845. Chauncey E. Sixbury was married to Jennie Ainley, also of Sycamore, April n, 1866, and now resides in Boone Co., Iowa. Mary E. Sixbury was united in marriage to James H. Schuyler, a resident of Sycamore, May 9, 1866, and settled in Nunica, Mich. Two children were born to them, and are
named Colfax Schuyler and James C. Schuyler. Colfax was born in Nunica, Mich., Feb. 23, 1868. James
C. was born in the same town, March i, 1874. Mary E. Schuyler died in Nunica, Feb. 17, 1876. Her remains
were brought to Sycamore and repose in Elmwood Cemetery. The two children thus early left motherless have since continued under the watchful and affectionate oversight and care of their grandmother, Malinda (Ellwood) Sixbury. Joseph Sixbury departed this life Dec. 28, 1879. It has already been remarked that Joseph Sixbury and his wife came to De Kalb County as early as July, 1837, the pioneer days of this section. Those who removed here from the midst of the older civilization of the East, were obliged to encounter more or less in the way of deprivation so far as the comforts of life were concerned, both socially and otherwise; and Mr. and Mrs. Sixbury were called upon to bear their share of the privations and trials of pioneer life. Outside of the discomforts tha" naturally and inevitably beset the white people, were the disagreeable, not to say dangerous, proclivities of the Indians, who at that period occupied in part this particular section. The surrounding groves were their rendezvous, from which they made frequent incursions into the settlements to beg for food and other favors. Although not particularly hostile, they sometimes were troublesome. In relating to the writer some of the ways of the aborigines, Mrs. Sixbury said sometimes they would appear at the cabin door of the settlers and cast their blankets inside. If the occupants of the cabin allowed the blankets to remain, the Indians considered it an invitation to come in and take their repose, but if the blankets were taken up and placed outside, the Indians accepted the act as a refusal to allow them to tarry, and, picking them up, passed along. Soon after the period indicated, the Indians were removed by the Government to Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Joseph Sixbury, besides taking an active part in helping to improve the Western wilderness, to which he had removed previous to the Government land sale, was public-spirited as well, and was one of the
few men who assisted in the location of the county seat of De Kalb County at Sycamore. His land
patent covered a portion of the site of what is now the beautiful and thriving city of Sycamore. Himself
and wife were devoted members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in the upbuilding of which in
those primitive days they both bore an important part. Each abounded in works of benevolence and
chanty. Those were the days in which the grand and rugged eloquence of Father Cartwright and other
able and eloquent pioneer Methodist preachers were heard in the cabins of the settlers and in the groves
and forests. It almost seems strange, but those early comers often speak of the days of old, and associate
with them some of the pleasantest and most enjoyable episodes of their lives. Their necessary dependence
one upon another made closer and stronger the bond of friendship and sympathy between them, and though few in numbers and deprived of much that happily surrounds them in these later days, they yet were happy and contented. All honor to the courageous and hardy pioneer of the West. Mr. Sixbury was a Steward and Class-leader in his Church up to the time of his death. He also occupied positions of responsibility and trust in the civil affairs of the town and county, having been chosen assessor of his town many years, and was also elected to the important office of County Treasurer two successive terms.
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Chauncey Elwood Sixbury
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