George Washington Rosendale
M, #21431, b. 16 May 1828, d. 25 March 1909
Biography
George Washington Rosendale was born on 16 May 1828 in Willerby, Kirk Ella Parish, Yorkshire, England. He died on 25 March 1909 at age 80 in Fargo, Ellis County, Oklahoma. He was buried in Fargo Cemetery, Ellis County, Oklahoma.
Keith Rosendale related the story that George fell while repairing a windmill on his farm near the present Fargo Oklahoma Cemetery and was injured. He was taken to the Orien Webster Rosendale homestead near Keenan, Oklahoma. While there he was visited by two of his brothers, "Doc" Charles Rosendale and A.O. Rosendale from Wood County Ohio. George died without returning to his place near Fargo.
George Washington [Rosindale] Rosendale was a native of Yorkshire, England, born May 16, 1828, at Willerby in Kirk Ella Parish, the second child and eldest son of William [Rosindale] Rosendale and Jane Brown. George immigrated to the United States, along with his parents, in 1840 and settled down on the frontier in Grafton Township, Lorain County, Ohio. Since the family means were limited, the farm small, and the family large, as the eldest male child, George started out on his own at about twelve years of age, hiring out to work on neighboring farms.
When his father and uncle bought primitive land in Wood County in 1854, and removed the family to the new farms, George seems to have moved with the rest of the family. George, like his ancestors, was a farmer. On July 4, 1859, in Findley, Ohio, George Washington Rosendale married Elizabeth Locy, the daughter of Peter Locy and his wife, Jane Anderson. Peter Locy was born Abt. 1793 in Pennsylvania. He was a farmer and a hotel owner and manager. His wife, Jane Anderson, was born in 1801 in Maryland. The seventh of at least twelve children, Elizabeth, or "Betsy" as she was called, was born June 11, 1841 in Bloomdale, Perry Township, Wood County, Ohio.
To the union of George Rosendale and Elizabeth Locey, eight children were born.
Following their marriage, George and Elizabeth lived at Webster in Darke County, Ohio. In 1867, they moved to Hillsdale, Michigan as did some of the Locy men with their families. George and Elizabeth farmed there until the early 1870's, at which time they moved back to Wood County, Ohio and settled near Risingsun in Perry Township. It appears that at least two of Elizabeth Locey's brothers may have lived with George and Elizabeth for a period in mid-1870's. One census report shows a Hiram L. "Rosendale" and an John "Rosendale" in the household of George Rosendale along with several of the known Rosendale children. Neither of these "Rosendale" children fit into the sequence of the known birth children of George and Elizabeth. The note on the census report indicates that the children are those "of George Rosendale now living and his of Peter Locey."
It was at Risingsun, Perry Township, Wood County, Ohio, that Elizabeth died on January 8, 1874, due to complications with the birth of their eighth child, Thomas Brown Rosendale. With the loss of his wife, "Betsy", George determined to move further west, made arrangements to temporarily leave some of the girls and younger children with family members in Ohio, and set out for Kansas.
On the trail to Kansas, a thief stole a horse from the family. As the group continued west, two older boys from the wagon train took out on foot to track down the horse thief. Many days later, the boys caught up with the wagon train along the trail--returning with the horse and the story that they had "caught up to the horse thief, retrieved the horse, and left the horse thief "sleeping" in a lovely spot near a stream by a waterfall."
On July 18, 1875, George married Sarah Jane Ladd in Missouri, daughter of Jonathan Ladd and Unknown008. Sarah had a nine-year-old daughter, Emma Elizabeth, by a previous marriage. By 1878, the family had settled on a farm in Elk County, Kansas, near the town of Longton. They farmed the rich bottomland and made the area home for the next quarter of a century.
George and other men in the Rosendale family made at least two of the runs into the Oklahoma territory for homestead claims. On the first of the runs, their stake near Enid was jumped when they returned for the women and children. So they made another run into Oklahoma just after the turn of the century. The new claims were for land south and west of the new community of Doris [later renamed Keenan] in the southwest corner of Woodward County and west of Fargo in Ellis County. George's homestead was located southwest of the cemetery in Fargo, Oklahoma. According to Keith Christian Rosendale, it was on this farm that George was injured when he fell off of the windmill platform while working on the weather vein and blades. Injured, he was taken to his son's farm near Keenan. While recuperating, his brothers, Dr. Charles Rose Rosendale and Albert Ozias Rosendale came out from Ohio by train to visit him.
On March 25, 1909, George died without being able to return to his own home. He was buried in the Fargo Cemetery, within sight of the windmill on his farm. Sarah died at Goddard, Kansas, June 7, 1909 while visiting her eldest daughter's family. She was returned to Fargo for burial beside her husband of 34 years, George.
COPY OF OBITUARY NOTICE PUBLISHED MARCH 1909
GEO. W. ROSENDALE DEAD
Former Wood County Resident
Passes Away at Fargo,
Oklahoma, at Ripe Old
Age of Eighty Years
From a copy of the Fargo, (Okla.) Reporter, handed us by Mrs. Alice Rosendale of this village, we copy a part of an obituary of George W. Rosendale, who died in that city March 25th.
"Died-an his home in Fargo, March 25, 1909, aged 80 years, 10 months and 7 days, George W. Rosendale. He was a native of Yorkshire, England, born there May 16, 1828. He came to America with his parents when 16 years old. Their first home was in Graftontown, Lorain county, Ohio, then a frontier section and in 1854 they moved to Wood county and bought one of the heavily timbered sections. He had the usual privileges of frontier life, plenty of hard work and few advantages. He was a man of robust physique and with his brothers made rapid progress in clearing up the forest and thickets.
"In 1859 he was married to Elizabeth Locey and to this union eight children were born, 7 of whom are living. In 1874 the wife and mother was called home by death.
"On July 2, 1874 Mr. Rosendale was united in marriage to Sarah J. Ladd of Longton, Kans., with whom he lived happy and contented the remainder of his life. To this union, two children were born.
"He is survived by two brothers, Dr. C. R. Rosendale of West Milgrove, O., and A. O. Rosendale of Bloomdale, O., wife and nine children, several grandchildren and great-grandchildren."
COPY OF OBITUARY NOTICE PUBLISHED JUNE 1909
OBITUARY
Death has again entered the Rosendale home and called away the spirit of Mrs. Sarah J. Rosendale, wife of Geo. W. Rosendale, who died a few weeks ago. She had gone to Goddard, Kansas, on a visit with relatives and friends and while there took sick and died.
Sarah J. Ladd was born in Cass county Indiana, May 31, 1838 and died at Goddard, Kans., June 7, 1909, aged 71 years and 7 days. She was married to Geo. W. Rosendale on July 2, 1874 at Lawton, Ks. and to this union three children were born. This family has been residents of this vicinity for the past few years and has a host of friends who deeply mourn the loss of a kind neighbor and friend who has passed away so soon after the death of her husband. She leaves three children, six stepchildren, several grand and great grandchildren, three brothers and one sister to mourn her loss.
The remains were shipped to Fargo [Oklahoma] and were laid to rest in Fairmount cemetery on Tuesday June 9th, at 2 p.m. Rev. Ellis conducting the services at the M.E. church.
We miss thee from our home dear mother
We miss the from thy place
A shadow on our home is cast'.
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Charles Arthur Dibble
M, #21447, b. 15 February 1836, d. 9 December 1923
Parents
Biography
Charles Arthur Dibble was born on 15 February 1836 in Corinth, Saratoga County, New York.
1 He and
Catherine B. Morton were married on 13 June 1860 in Memphis, Scotland County, Missouri. He died on 9 December 1923 at age 87 in Portland, Multinomah County, Oregon.
1 He was buried at Greenwood Hill Cemetery in Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon.
He was an engineer working for the railroad in Scotland, Jefferson Co., MO, at the time of the 1860 Census. He was married to Catherine, 18. born in IL. A Thomas Dibble, 52, wife Frances, and five children were living next door -- his parents?
He was a watchman at a grain elevator in the 1900 Census.
He fought in the Northern Army for three years during the Civil War.
The family was living in Jefferson, Scotland Co., MO, in 1860. In 1870, they were living in Keosauqua, Van Buren Co., IA.
The family was living in Eldon, Wapello Co., IA, at the time of the 1880 Census. Charles worked for the railroad. In the 1900 and 1910 Censuses, he and his wife were living in Portland, OR.
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Citations
- [S908] Michael Mainwold, e-mail, 1 July 2008