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Mrs. Jane Gibson Wilson
Jane Gibson was born in 1810 to Daniel Gideon
Gibson. Jane's father, Private Gideon Gibson served three years in
the Revolutionary War, entering at age 15. He served under Captain
John Moor. Jane married Allen Wilson in 1829 and died in 1863.
She is buried at the Ottumwa Cemetery in Ottumwa, Iowa in the Wilson
family plot near the soldier's family lot. The Elizabeth Ross
Chapter dedicated a marker at her grave site on June 6, 1922.
Mrs. Elizabeth Bradley Stinson
Elizabeth Bradley was born May 11, 1780, in
Charlotte, North Carolina, to Francis Bradley.
Captain Francis Bradley was one of the leaders of the Patriots of
Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. He was instrumental in writing of
the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. The Torries, having
learned this lured him into the woods and then murdered him.
Elizabeth was married to Alexander Stinson on August 21, 1800. She
died February 15, 1856 and is buried in the West Grove Cemetery,
Davis County, Iowa. A marker was placed at her grave site in
1927 by the Elizabeth Ross Chapter.
Mrs. Mary
Spader Van Kirk
Mary Spader was born in New Jersey August 7,
1793, to Bergen Spader and Elizabeth Nyneorson. Her father,
Bergen Spader served as a Private in the Revolutionary War. Mary moved with her parents to Indiana and there she married John Van Kirk.
She cared for her aged father and an orphan niece, Elizabeth Lowry, a
sister’s daughter. When Elizabeth married James A. Stansberry of
Lexington, Indiana, they moved to Iowa and Mrs. Van Kirk came with
them. They settled on a farm near West Grove, Iowa in Davis County.
Here, Mrs. Van Kirk died May 9, 1857, and is buried in West Grove
Cemetery, Davis County, Iowa.
A marker was
placed at the grave site West Grove Cemetery May 1927 by
the Elizabeth Ross Chapter DAR of Ottumwa, Iowa.
Mrs. Phoebe
Moore Pollard
Phoebe Moore was born on June 26, 1799, to
William Moore and Sarah Grimit . Phoebe was the sixth child of
a family of eleven children. Her father, William Moore, served in
the Revolutionary War as a Private in the Virginia Continentals,
serving three years. He received land warrant #4016 for 100 acres
of land in Kentucky.
Phoebe was married in 1830 to Dudley Pollard.
His father, James Pollard, was also a Revolutionary soldier.
In 1855, Mr. and Mrs. Pollard moved to Iowa
with their family of three children and their families and settled
in Davis County four miles southwest of Bloomfield. Phoebe died
June 14, 1865 in Davis County, Iowa. Both Phoebe and her
husband are buried side by side in the Pollard Cemetery in Davis
County, Iowa. This cemetery may also be known as the West
Grove Cemetery.
Mrs. Pollard was the Great Grandmother of Mrs.
D.H. Criley, a past Regent of Elizabeth Ross Chapter DAR.
A marker was dedicated at her grave site on
November 11, 1927, by the Elizabeth Ross Chapter.
Mrs. Elizabeth Carberry Pike
Elizabeth Carberry was born in 1799 to Joseph
Carberry and Mary Elizabeth Carberry. She married James Brown
Pike in 1815. They had eight children.
Elizabeth was
not only the daughter of a Revolutionary soldier but that she and
her husband made a home for her husband’s Father, Col. Zebulon Pike,
a member of General Washington’s staff and a personal friend of
Lafayette. James Brown Pike was a brother of the great explorer,
General Zebulon Montgomery Pike who explored the Mississippi to its
headwaters in 1805. He was the first to erect the American Flag on
Iowa soil at Blackhawk Spring in what is now known as Crapo Park in
Burlington, Iowa. Zebulon M. Pike also explored the country west
from St. Louis and discovered Pike’s Peak in 1806.
Elizabeth
and her husband came to Iowa about 1847, settling in Wapello
County. Their family grew up in Wapello County. Son William M was
killed in a pioneering adventure. He has a daughter, 84 years of
age living in Oregon; George Washington, whose son Henry died while
serving in the Civil War and whose descendents are living in Ames,
Jefferson and other cities in Iowa; Montgomery who later went to
California. One daughter, Catherine died as a young woman. An oil
painting was produced by her lover and is in the possession of Rev.
Pike of Richland. Another daughter Isabelle married William Mann
whose only son became an officer in the regular army.
Elizabeth died in 1855 and is buried in the
Kirkville Cemetery, Kirkville, Iowa. The Elizabeth Ross
Chapter dedicated a DAR marker at her grave site on November 19,
1927.
Mrs. Elizabeth Babcock Smith
Elizabeth Babcock was born January 25, 1803, in Pennsylvania to
Nathaniel and Elizabeth Babcock. When she was quite young, her family
moved to Ohio. She married Noah Smith in 1827. In 1844, they moved
to Iowa, settling in Van Buren County. In 1848 they moved to Davis
County to the little village of Albany. Albany was located on the
main road from Des Moines to Keokuk and this is where they operated
a small hotel that kept overnight travelers. They also had a
general store and brought all their goods from Keokuk in huckster
wagons. They had four sons and two daughters. Elizabeth also
raised a distant relative and tragically, one of her daughters died
and left two small sons whom she raised. During the Gold Rush in
California, her husband and one son went to seek their fortunes
leaving Elizabeth to care for the rest of the family. On the way to
California the son died of mountain fever and was buried in the
plains by the side of the trail. Elizabeth died October 31, 1886,
and is buried at the Albany Cemetery in Davis County, Iowa. A marker
was placed at her grave site on June 2, 1928, by the Elizabeth Ross
Chapter DAR.
Mrs. Edith Wells Pumphrey
Edith (or Editha) Wells was born October 18,
1783, in Wellsburg, Virginia, to Henry Wells and Jemimia Coe/Cole.
Edith's father was a Sergeant in the Revolutionary War who served in
Col. Burgess Ball’s Company, the First Virginia Regulars commanded
by Richard Parker.
Edith married Joshua Pumphrey.
Edith Pumphrey and her
son Serene were among the first settlers in the Absecum, Iowa area.
They moved to Des Moines Township in 1846 and erected a two-room log
house. In 1849 Serene Pumphrey
operated a freight line from Keokuk to Fort Dodge and built two more
log houses at the village of Absecum. One of the houses replaced the
original log house which was destroyed by fire.
She died October 29, 1858, and is buried at the Gonterman Cemetery in Jefferson County, Iowa, near Batavia.
The Elizabeth Ross Chapter DAR dedicated a
marker at her grave site in 1936.
Mrs. Sarah Ann Osborne Fuller
Sarah Ann Osborne was born October 11, 1812, in Winslow, Maine, to
Ephraim Osborne, Jr. and Lydia Wyman. Lydia was Ephraim's third
wife. Ephraim Osborne, Jr. was elected constable of Winslow,
Maine in 1779 and served during the rest of the Revolutionary War.
He took time off to serve for a short time in Captain Thomas Cowdin’s Company of Colonel Samuel Denny’s Regiment.
Sarah married Samuel Bean Fuller on January 11, 1835. They came from
Maine to go into the dry goods business which they established in
Ottumwa, Iowa. Sarah died September 10, 1892 and is buried in the
Ottumwa Cemetery, Ottumwa, Iowa. Sarah’s body was taken to its
final resting place in a horse drawn carriage over unpaved streets.
A marker was placed at Sarah's grave site on June 18, 1937, by the
Elizabeth Ross Chapter DAR.
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