Tracy, Matilda
TRACY, COY, BENNETT, THURSTON
Posted By: Lynn Bowling (email)
Date: 10/11/2003 at 20:14:07
From "Portrait and Biographical Album" page 390, regarding Matilda Tracy: The 25th of September, 1859, witnessed the marriage of (Moses) with Miss Matilda Tracy, of Clinton County, Iowa. This lady is the daughter of William and Levina (Coy) Tracy, who were Eastern people, and spent their last years in Iowa and Kansas. This union resulted in the birth of ten children..." Matilda is buried in Riverside Cemetery in Waterville, KS.
(Any records at all of William and Lovina Tracy?)And re her husband, Moses Thurston Bennett taken from "Portrait and Biographical Album" page 390: "Our subject (Moses T. Bennett) received a fair education, and followed farming and teaching in the Green Mountain State until the removal of the family to Illinois. In 1849 we find him in Carroll County, IL, and he made his home there and in Clinton County, Iowa, until 1860. That year he came to this county (Marshall) and established himself on a tract of land embracing a portion of section 30 in Waterville Township, where he has since made his home.
Moses T. Bennett was the son of Otis and Nancy Bolton (Thurston) Bennett. The following from "Portrait and Biographical Album" page 390, regarding Otis Bennett: "A native of Lamoille County, Vermont, Otis Bennett, in 1835, leaving the New England Hills, sought the prairies of Illinois, but only sojourned in that State one year. Next, in 1836, he crossed the Mississippi into Iowa, took up a tract of land and formed many plans for the future. He was cut down in his prime, however, dying in Clinton County, about 1845."
Any further information about these folks would be so appreciated.
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