HESS & WILLIAMS FAMILY GENEALOGY


Abraham Hunt [Parents] was born in 1806 in Lambertville, New Jersey. He was christened on 21 Apr 1811 in Trenton, Hunterdon, New Jersey. He married Mahala Deaver on 1 Nov 1829 in Morgan Co., Ohio.

Mahala Deaver was born in 1810 in Maryland. She married Abraham Hunt on 1 Nov 1829 in Morgan Co., Ohio.

They had the following children:

  M i Nathaniel Hunt was born about 1830 in Ohio.
  F ii Nancy Hunt was born about 1832.
  F iii Ellen Hunt was born about 1835 in Ohio.
  M iv Eden Hunt was born about 1838 in Ohio.
  M v Levi Hunt was born about 1843 in Ohio.
  F vi Mary Elizabeth Hunt

John Wallace Olds was born on 24 Feb 1871 in La Plata, Macon, Missouri. He died on 4 Jan 1950 in Winfield, , Kansas. He married Grace Gary on 18 Oct 1899 in Winfield, , Kansas.

He was a pharmacist in Winfield.

Grace Gary [Parents] was born on 19 Aug 1875 in Peoria, , Iowa. She died on 14 Feb 1963 in Winfield, , Kansas. She married John Wallace Olds on 18 Oct 1899 in Winfield, , Kansas.

They had the following children:

  M i Gary Olds

Henry E. Kibbe was born on 31 Jul 1861. He died on 28 Feb 1947. He was buried in Union Cemetary, Winfield, Kansas. He married Leoti Gary.

Leoti Gary [Parents].Leoti married Henry E. Kibbe.


John Bell Lynn [Parents] was born on 26 Jan 1840 in Kingsport, Sullivan Co., Tennessee. He died on 14 Feb 1915 in Anniston, , Alabama. He was buried in Union Cemetary, Winfield, Kansas. He married Mary Stryker on 3 Sep 1889 in Springfield, , Illinois.

Other marriages:
French, Laura

In 1858 at the age of 18 he left Tennessee and located at Carrollton, Greene
county, Illinois where he engaged in farming. He returned to his native county
in Tennessee in 1860 until the Civil War broke out. Although a
southerner by birth, he was loyal to the North and served with the Union Army
in Co. C, 57th Regiment of Missouri Volunteers. He was captured by
Confederates in 1862. After the war we worked in mercantile stores in Keokuk,
Iowa, Springfield, Illinois, and came to Kansas in 1868, clerking in a store in
Kansas City for three years until he had saved $1,000 with which he started his
own business in Spring Hill, Kansas. He stayed until 1874, when he disposed of
his interests and moved to Winfield. He established a store at 8th & Main
although it was more than a block distant from any other store in the business
district. The business was conducted as a general store until 1888, when it
was changed to a department store. He was a former Mayor of Winfield and
represented the district in the Legislature in 1903-04.

Mary Stryker [Parents] was born on 24 Mar 1849 in White Hall, Greene Co., Illinois. She died on 29 Dec 1896. She married John Bell Lynn on 3 Sep 1889 in Springfield, , Illinois.


Charles Lynn [Parents] was born in 1815 in , Sullivan Co., Tennessee. He married Frances Gaines Everett in 1837.

He was born on the old homestead and followed agricultural pursuits in his
native county until he died at age fifty.

Frances Gaines Everett was born in , Hawkins Co., Tennessee. She married Charles Lynn in 1837.

She died at the age of forty-seven.

They had the following children:

  F i Fannie Lynn.

She married a Houston and lived in Nevada, Missouri
  M ii John Bell Lynn
  F iii Martha Lynn.

She married a Cloud.
  F iv Katie Lynn.

She married a Cushman and lived in Carthage, Missouri
  M v James Gaines Lynn was born in 1844 in Kingsport, Sullivan Co., Tennessee.
  F vi Mary Lynn.

She married a Logan and lived in Richhill, Missouri
  F vii Lyda Lynn.

She married a McLaughline and lived in Eldorado Springs, Missouri
  M viii Charles M. Lynn was born in 1848 in Kingsport, Sullivan Co., Tennessee.

George L. Jarvis was born on 2 Nov 1881. He died on 30 Jun 1965 in Winfield, , Kansas. He married Jessie Bell Lynn on 23 Oct 1907 in Winfield, , Kansas.

Jessie Bell Lynn [Parents] was born on 10 Apr 1884 in Winfield, , Kansas. She died on 12 Feb 1962 in Winfield, , Kansas. She married George L. Jarvis on 23 Oct 1907 in Winfield, , Kansas.

They had the following children:

  M i John E. Jarvis
  M ii Richard L. Jarvis
  F iii Nancy Jarvis

John Lynn was born in , , , Ireland. He married Neely.

Because of religious persecution he fled to America in 1797 and located in
Sullivan Co., Tennessee, where he followed mercantile pursuits all his life.
He had seven sons and three daughters.

Neely. married John Lynn.

They had the following children:

  M i Charles Lynn

Russel Hollis Stafford [Parents] was born on 4 Jun 1907. He died on 6 Jan 1955. He married Mary Etta Cummings in 1923.

Mary Etta Cummings


Thomas Harm Miller was born on 23 Jul 1862. He died on 9 May 1889. He married Tibitha Sartan on 25 Dec 1882 in Cedar Vale, , Kansas.

Tibitha Sartan was born on 23 Dec 1860. She died on 19 May 1901. She married Thomas Harm Miller on 25 Dec 1882 in Cedar Vale, , Kansas.

They had the following children:

  F i Nettie Miller

Madison Elmer Stafford [Parents]

Alma Will Mina Williams [Parents] was born on 19 Mar 1911 in Ponca City, , Oklahoma. She died on 10 Nov 2001 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She was buried on 13 Nov 2001 in IOOF Cemetary, Ponca City, Oklahoma. She married Madison Elmer Stafford on 4 Feb 1936.

They had the following children:

  F i Wilma Ann Stafford
  M ii Ronney Elmer Stafford
  M iii Jerry Cole Stafford
  M iv Leon Allen Stafford was born in 1942. He died Unk.

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