Matilda Standley Rodgers

STANDLEY, RODGERS, AUSMUS

Posted By: Kevin (email)
Date: 9/14/2007 at 16:46:14

I am looking for proof of birth for Matilda STANDLEY born Mar 16, 1852 Wapello County Iowa. Her parents were William Standley and Matilda Ausmus.

"Dr. William Standley's ancestors came from Standleyville, Scotland. His parents moved to the vicinity of present day Jacksonville, Illinois when he was three years old. He eventually married a neighbor girl, Matilda Ausmus, and they lived in northwestern Morgan County near Joy Prairie. In 1850, they and their five small children moved to WAPELLO County, Iowa, near OTTUMWA. The family stayed there for two years. When William was 34 years old, he decided to go to the Oregon Territory for the rumored gold rush. His wife, Matilda, insisted that he take her and the children back to her family in Illinois first. When their baby, Matilda, was three weeks old they started back to Illinois in a covered wagon. In letters home, William mentioned Alexander Goodpasture, husband of Elizabeth Moss; Elizabeth's sister Delilah, wife of Daniel White; Paul and Johnathan Brattain; his own brothers John and Henry, and other family members who were all in the Camas Valley area. After several years in the Siskiyou Mountain area of the Oregon Territory, William returned to Illinois and remained there with his family for about eleven years. He began to practice medicine in about 1863. In 1865, the family moved to Gentry County, Missouri, to a farm south and east of Berlin. William and Matilda were the parents of fifteen children. The seventh child, Matilda, lived to be 110 years old and had 153 living descendants. She lived at Selden, Kansas. Dr. Standley had an extensive practice; from Maysville to Bethany, and from Albany to Gallatin. He practiced medicine for 42 years."