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| Frances Susan (Boswell) Garnes |
This is the third in a series of posts about descendants of Peachy Gilmer and Caroline (McDaniel) Boswell, who arrived in Wayne County to settle on Wildcat Creek just north of Corydon during 1854. Their seven children were Chloe (Boswell) Prentiss/Brown (my great-grandmother), Jane Anna (Boswell) Ratcliffe, Frances Susan (Boswell) Garnes, William Reed Boswell, Ellis Greene Boswell, America Elizabeth (Boswell) Cox and Thomas W. Boswell.
Three generations of the Boswell family had arrived in Village Township, Van Buren County, by 1850 from Mason County, (West) Virginia --- Matriarch Mary (widow of Thomas B.); all of her children save one (Jane) --- Susan (Boswell) Marshall, Peachy Gilmer Boswell, William M. Boswell, Creed M. Boswell, Thomas L. Boswell, Mary (Boswell) Brown, John Boswell and Elizabeth (Boswell) Calbreath; and various grandchildren. Three of the children settled in Appanoose County and adopted the spelling "Bozwell" for their surname; the balance moved on to Wayne County and stuck with "Boswell."
NARRATIVE: FRANCES SUSAN (BOSWELL) GARNES
By Frank D. Myers
Frances Susan Boswell, third child of Peachy Gilmer and Caroline (McDaniel) Boswell, was born 5 October 1838 near Point Pleasant, Mason County, (West) Virginia. (1)
In 1850, according to information contained in the obituary of her sister, Chloe, Peachy and Caroline moved their family from (West) Virginia to Van Buren County, Iowa, where they were enumerated as residents of Village Township in the 1850 census, taken 22 October. (2) Frances would have been 11 or 12 at the time of the move. Her age as recorded by the census-taker was 12.
In 1854, she accompanied her parents, brothers and sisters west to Wayne County, Iowa, where they settled on a farm on Wildcat Creek, just north of Corydon. Peachy purchased 120 acries of land in Section 7 of Corydon Township from William and Emily Miles on the 7th of January, 1856, but his first purchase, government land, was made during the fall of 1853. (3)
On the 19th day of April, 1861, Frances Susan was married to Robert Clark Sydebothm Garnes, a son of Joseph Edward and Mary (Clark) Garnes, in Wayne County by W. W. Thomas, a justice of the peace. (4) Robert, according to information contained in a declaration for Civil War pension, was born 11 September 1836 in Clark County, Ohio. (5) He came to Corydon Township, Wayne County, with his parents in the fall of 1856. (6)
While living in Wayne County, Frances and Robert Garnes became the parents of four children whose names and dates of birth are substantiated by information contained in Robert's declaration for pension. The children were: Hattie Olivia Garnes, 21 June 1861; Joseph Clark Garnes, 22 February 1863; Robert Sumner Garnes, 27 May 1866; and Mary A. Garnes, 3 May 1878.
According to the pension file, Robert enlisted as a private in Company E, 34th Iowa Volunteer Infantry, on the 15th of August, 1862, and was discharged a corporal on the 15th of August, 1865, at Houston, Texas.
Robert and Frances continued to live in Corydon Township, Wayne County, until April of 1887, when they moved to Leoti, the county seat of Wichita County in far western Kansas. Robert was 50 at the time and Frances, 49. The Garnes family is enumerated in the 1870 and 1880 census reports of Wayne County. The date of their move to Kansas is contained in the previously cited pension file.
Of the four children, Hattie and Joseph, both of whom were married with families of their own, remained in Wayne County when their parents moved to Kansas. Robert and Mary accompanied them.
Robert died 29 September 1915, at Leoti, age 79, where he is buried. Frances died on the 24th day of July 1918, also age 79, also at Leoti, leaving three surviving children, Hattie, Robert and Mary. (7)
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| Leoti Cemetery, Leoti, Kansas/Find A Grave |
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(1) Kansas Standard Certificate of Death No. 102 65, Frances S. Garnes born Oct. 5, 1838, Mason County, West Va., to P.G. Boswell, born West Va., and Caroline McDaniel, b. West Va.
(2) 1850 Census, Village Township, Van Buren County, Iowa, Vol. 34, Page 317, Iowa Department of History and Archives, Des Moines.
(3) Wayne County, Iowa, Deed Book 15, Page 163.
(4) Wayne County, Iowa, Marriage Record 1 (unpaginated), Marriage No. 288.
(5) General Services Administration, Washington, D.C., Pension File No. WC1-802-039.
(6) "Biographical & Historical Record of Wayne and Appanoose Counties, Iowa." Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co., 1886, Page 254.
(7) Dates from pension file and death certificate.
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1. HATTIE OLIVIA GARNES, eldest child of Robert and Frances, was born 21 June 1861 in Corydon Township, Wayne County; was married there on 25 September 1878 to Benjamin Franklin Tracy (7 July 1856-10 April 1903); and died 21 January 1951 at Brandsville, Howell County, Missouri. Ben and Hattie are buried in the Corydon Cemetery. The Tracys were living in Lucas County, near Chariton, when Ben died; Hattie spent the final years of her life with a daughter in Brandsville, Missouri. Their children:
a. Rosa Floy Tracy was born 5 June 1880 in Wayne County; married William Henry Eckels (12 June 1880-25 July 1937) 13 May 1916 in Des Moines; and died 12 April 1975 in Lakewood, Jefferson County, Colorado. Husband and wife are buried in Glendale Cemetery, Des Moines. Issue: William Henry Eckles, Robert Earl Eckles and Ivan Eugene Eckles.
b. Carrie Amethyst Tracy was born 1 August 1882 in Wayne County; married George Washington Wahl (27 February 1881-19 August 1935) 3 July 1904 in Corydon; and died in Des Moines on 15 March 1949. Carrie and George are buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Des Moines. Issue: Helen Marie Tracy, Edith Mabel (Brady), Floy Irene (Davis), Eva Blanche (Carton) and Ruth Aveline (Berry).
c. Katie Florence Tracy, born 13 October 1884 in Wayne County, married Harlan Ray Chapman (3 April 1888-22 June 1958) 29 September 1909 in Wayne County, and died 25 May 1970 at Chariton, Lucas County, Iowa. Ray and Katie are buried in the Corydon Cemetery. One child, Robert Glenn Chapman, born 23 June 1911, married Pansie Alice Snider 16 June 1940, died 24 February 1975 in Lucas County, buried Pryor, Oklahoma.
d. Eva Genevieve Tracy, born 15 November 1886, Wayne County; Married Earl L. Smith (5 November 1882-14 February 1935) at Liberal, Seward County, Kansas, 5 February 1916; and Jesse E. Ulrich 16 May 1975 at Unionville, Putnam County, Missouri; died 13 April 1976 at Unionville; buried Unionville Cemetery.
e. Benjamin Harrison "Harry" Tracy, born 21 January 1889, Wayne County; married Elizabeth May Gibbs (19 May 1897-1942) 18 January 1919 in Des Moines, Polk County; died 18 July 1943 in Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa; Harry and Elizabeth are buried in the Corydon Cemetery. Issue: Evelyn May and Lois Jean.
f. Susan Blanche Tracy, born 9 February 1893 in Wayne County; married Orville L. Warren (20 December 1893-26 August 1993) 24 December 1914 in Wayne County; died 10 December 1967 at Seymour, Wayne County; buried Powersville Cemetery, Putnam County, Missouri: Issue: Kermit Leroy, Olivia Evelyn (Robb), Orville Lyle, Leta Florence (Wyatt), Jerome Tracy, Margaret Nadine (Sowder), Christine Norma Jean (Roberts), Don Vernon, Harold Eugene, Mildred Marie (Meganigle) and Garold Lee.
2. JOSEPH CLARK GARNES, second child of Frances Susan (Boswell) and Robert C. Garnes, was born 22 February 1863 in Wayne County and married Emma Belle Walker, daughter of Sanders and Mary (Rush) Walker, 30 June 1889 at Leon, Decatur County. A teacher by profession, Joseph died of tuberculosis in Wayne County on 10 May 1894 and was buried in the Corydon Cemetery. Emma (1868-1939) moved to Colorado soon after the turn of the 20th century and married as her second husband Frank W. Wasburn on 20 July 1903 in Colorado Springs, El Paso County. Joseph and Emma had two children:
a. T. DeWitt Garnes, born 23 February 1891 in Wayne County, died of drowning while wading in the Arkansas River in Peublo, Colorado, on 10 June 1904. His remains were returned to Corydon for burial beside his father.
b. Ruth Frances Garnes, born 7 February 1892 in Wayne County, married John McLaughlin, died during June of 1967 in New Mexico and was buried beside her parents and brother in the Corydon Cemetery.
3. ROBERT SUMNER GARNES, third child of Frances Susan (Boswell) and Robert C. Garnes, was born 27 May 1866 in Wayne County; accompanied his parents to Wichita County, Kansas, in 1887; and married there Emma Sanderson (4 July 1882-22 May 1966) on 6 February 1919. He died at Leoti, Kansas, on 31 December 1956. He and Emma are buried in the Leoti Cemetery. One child:
a. Ruth Evelyn Garnes, born 1 January 1921 at Leoti; married Otto Joseph Betlack (9 September 1906-20 November 1985) 2 December 1939 at Leoti; and died 21 February 2010 at Leoti. Buried Leoti Cemetery. Issue: Carol (Lindsley) and Jess.
4. MARY A. GARNES, youngest child of Frances Susan (Boswell) and Robert C. Garnes, was born 3 May 1878 in Wayne County and was 9 when her parents moved west to Leoti, Wichita County, Kansas. She married Ray Millman (26 March 1875-1 January 1958), a Liberal, Kansas, newspaperman, on 10 October 1900 at Leoti and died at the age of 106 on May 18, 1984, in Liberal. Mary and Ray are buried in the Liberal Cemetery. Two children:
a. Ray Victor Millman, born 12 February 1906 at Liberal, married Margaret Shull, died 16 April 1963 at Liberal. One daughter, Roberta.
b. Robert Paul Millman, born 18 January 1908 at Liberal, died 2 January 1922 at Liberal, buried in the Liberal Cemetery.
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