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Ancestry chart segment

  Generation 5                Generation 6                    Generation 7          
 
                                             
                                              
                                                          +-- John Stoughton  
                                                          |   (1773-1833)      
                          +-- Barnard VanZant Stoughton --+                    
                          |            (1817-1887)        |                         
 John Elliott Stoughton --+                               +-- Catherine Covert
                          |                                   (1778->1850)
                          +-- Susan Harvey
                              (????-~1846)
 Sources: [8][9][10][11][12] 

Children

(Children with Mahala Unknown)
Eight children born; 3 alive in 1900.

Places of Residence

Sources

Ref. Num.	Description	Image of original
1	1840 United States Federal Census, Muddy Creek Twp, Butler Co, PA, page 23. Census is not dated. Family headed by Barnard Stoeton(sic): 2 males <5, 1 male 10-15, 1 male 20-30, 1 female 20-30. Note: the male and female in their 20's are the proper ages for Barnard Stoughton and his wife Susan. The two youngest males are likely to be their children, but the 10-15 year old seems too old to be a child of someone in their 20's. Family headed by Margaret Stoeton is two entries earlier; William Wimer is next entry.
2	1850 United States Federal Census, Piney Twp, Clarion Co, PA, page 24. Previous page dated 30 Sept. 1850. Lines 16-25: B.W. Stoughton, 33, shoemake; Susannah, 33; John, 14; Joseph, 12; Elliott, 10; Hannah, 8; Catharine, 6; Susannah, 4; Jane, 2; Elizabeth, 1/2. John, Joseph, Elliott and Hannah attended school.
3	1860 United States Federal Census, Wayne Twp, Armstrong Co, PA, page 15. Census dated 27 June 1860. Lines 35-38: J.E. Stoughton, 23, blacksmith, $200 personal property; Mahala, 19, hwork; Mary J., 3; Clara, 1. All b. PA. Next house is George Kline.
4	1870 United States Federal Census, Washington Twp., Butler Co. PA, page 15. Census dated 15 June 1870. Lines 1-3: John E. Stoughton age 33, blacksmith, $1000 real, $150 personal property; Mahala age 29, keeping house;Cassie age 11, in school; all born PA.
5	1880 United States Federal Census, District 47, Marion Twp., Butler Co. PA page 13. Census dated 17 June 1880. Lines 28-32: John E. Stoughton, age 43, blacksmith; Mahala, age 40, wife; Rerdetta, son, age 8, at home, attended school; Herbert, son, age 7, at home, attended school; Bernard, age 6 son, at home.All and all parents b. PA.
6	1890 United States Federal Census Veteran Schedules, Harmony Twp, Forest Co, PA, page 1. SD 10, ED 42. #28 John E. Stoughton, private, Company K, 14th PA Cav. Enlisted 9 Apr 1862, discharged 31 May 1865, served 2 years 8 months 22 days.
7	1900 United States Federal Census, District 48, Hickory Twp, Forest Co, PA, pages 6, 7. Census dated June 1900 (day not given). Lines 99-100 (page 6), line 1 (page 7): John E. Stoughton, head, 63, b. May 1837, married 43 years, blacksmith, unemployed for 12 month in last year; Mahala, wife, 59, b. Apr 1841, married 43 years, 8 children born, 3 living; Herbert, son, 27, b. Dec 1872, married 8 years, laborer, boat yard, unemployed 6 months in past year. All and all parents b. PA. All can read write and speak English. Herbert is listed as married, but no wife is listed.
8	Genealogical and personal history of western Pennsylvania, Vol. 3, Editor-in-chief: John W. Jordan. Author: Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), 1840-1921. Pages 1272-1274. From the Historic Pittsburgh Full Text Collection. Collection is searchable; policy re. use on websites is ambiguous; may prohibit reproduction of text. See web address below for full text http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=pitttext;cc=pitttext;q1=catherine%20covert;rgn=full%20text;idno=03aee8434m;didno=03aee8434m;view=image;seq=0247 Abstract: Catherine Covert was of Holland descent; her mother's maiden name was Van Zandt, a family that settled on Manhattan Island, NY. John Stoughton, of English descent, was a farmer and owned 350 acres of land in three farms. Children of John and Catherine Covert Stoughton were: William, Luke (in the war of 1812), Andrew, Jacob (died unmarried); John, (in the war of 1812), Barnard,a farmer, died in Kansas; Jane (married Thomas Boyle), Hannah (married John Patterson),Effie (married Robert Logan), Polly (died young).
9	"Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas", by Richard Turnbull, pg. 461. (contributed by Jim Voltz) "Jennie Stoughton was born 12-23-1848. Her parents were Barnard Stoughton and Susan Myer. The Stoughton family moved to southwest Missouri in 1867. The family moved to Barber County in August 1878. She published her memoirs for her grandchildren. " This source also gives a history & lineage of the Turnbull family. See websource http://www.kansasheritage.org/medicine/chosen/bch_turnbull2.html
10	Jeanne Bortmes Eichelberger, correspondence, 2006, including 27-page manuscript, "Information on the Stoughton Line". At ancestry.com she found the following (contributor to ancestry.com not specified by Eichelberger): 1) Barnard Stoughton b. 1817 in Butler Co. PA, married Susannah unknown (born 1817 Clarion Co. PA). Their children: John Elliott Stoughton 1837; Joseph Stoughton 1838; Hannah Stoughton 1842; Catherine Stoughton 1844; Susannah Stoughton 1846; Jane Stoughton 1848; Elizabeth Stoughton 1849. 2) Bernard Stoughton, son of John and Catherine Covert Stoughton, born 1817 in Center township, Butler Co., Pa, died 3-16-1889 in Barker Co., Kansas, married ca 1835/6 to Susannah Myer, born ca 1810/11 in Pennsylvania, died 1-3-1888 in Barker Co., Kansas. Note: per census 1850, sons John & Elliott are two different individuals.
11	Memories by Jennie Stoughton Osborn, Copyright 1935, Medicine Lodge, Kansas. Pg. 2 "My mother was living on her farm near Matildaville, Pennsylvania when she met my father, Barnard VanZant Stoughton, who was working at his trade, the shoe business, in Kalensburg, Armstrong, Co., Pa. When I was about a year old they moved out to my mother's farm and there my two younger sisters were born. They then gathered the rest of the children into the home where those mischievous boys kept things stirring." Pg. 3 "My mother, Susan Myer, had been the wife of John Hagan who died when they had been married twelve years, leaving her with one little boy, John Edward Hagan. Father had married Susan Harvey, but she died leaving six children: John, Joseph, Elliott, Hannah, Catharine, and Susan Blanche, the baby whom the mother gave to her sister, a Mrs. Dustin, who took her to Illinois... When we left mother's farm, we moved to Clarion County on a farm owned by one of mother's brothers and lived there one year; but father could not farm and do much at his trade too. So we moved into a little burg named Bellville. It was a crossroad town of a few houses, ...Sligo Furnace was (2 miles) south, Madison Furnace five miles west, Polk Furnace four miles north, and Curlville three miles East."	See full text
12	James Voltz correspondence 2008, ongoing: jlv100@psu.edu
13	US Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865 Name: John E. Stoughton Side: Union Regiment State/Origin: Pennsylvania Regiment Name: 14 Pennsylvania Cav. Regiment Name Expanded: 14th Regiment, Pennsylvania Cavalry (159th Volunteers) COMPANY: K Rank In: Farrier Rank In Expanded: Farrier Rank Out: Private Rank Out Expanded: Private Film Number: M554 roll 119

Source notes

• By the 1860 census (see Barnard V. Stoughton), John E. Stoughton was no longer living in the household of his parents. He probably married about 1859, at age 23, as Cassie was born in that year. The 13-year break before another child is born would seem to indicate that Mahala J. was a 2nd wife. We have no evidence yet of a first wife. It is possible that Cassie J. Stoughton was a niece or other relation; or that John and Mahala waited 13 years after the first child was born to have more children. These options seem less likely. If Cassie were a niece, it still leaves unexplained why the couple waited so long to have their children.
• John Elliott Stoughton apparently used his blacksmithing skills as a farrier in the Civil War. His absence for soldiering explains the gap in the birth years of his children.

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