Wroe
surname and burials
Fayette County Iowa
Samuel Austin Wroe (1810-1884) , Civil War camp doctor in Washington D.C., came to the Lima/Albany area to farm after the War.
His dau. Rebecca Jane Wroe (1843-1944) had married Civil War soldier John Kuhens (1838-1908).
Rebecca worked as a nurse in the same camp hospital area as her father while John served.
John and Rebecca (Wroe) Kuhens also came to Fayette Co, IA, and farmed two miles east of Lima.
The strain and deprivation of the Civil War had worn out the 'health' of the everyone. 
One can speculate that Samuel filled in as a local doctor but apparently just wanted to farm the rest of his life.
Rebecca would become known as 'Grandma Kuhens' while living widowed, on south Main St in Fayette and boarding many UIU college students.


 


 

Contains webpage links to various Fayette Co. surnames and history projects.
Iowaz Index Page
 The photo hosting site contains material regarding history, maps, genealogy of Fayette, Co, Iowa
Iowaz Photo Hosting Site
Use Microsoft Research Maps for a topo and aerial view of farms, villages, along with Google Earth.
 http://msrmaps.com/default.aspx

Last uploaded:  Dec 17, 2010; Mar 06, 2011

Wroe
Basic descendent tree of the major surname line in Fayette Co, Iowa.
I have to re-create trees from online, census, burial info so there will be speculations/best guesses.
Trees can be added too or corrected should anyone want to copy/paste/email info.

Descendants of Absalom Roe Wroe  (Tree form)

1 [5] WROE, Absalom Roe b: 1755 in Virginia d: 14 May 1834 in Washington.DC Note 1: 19 Nov 2010 Wroe last reviewed; Barry Zbornik, Hannibal MO, iowaz@hotmail.com Note 7: Bet. 06 Mar 1776 - 1778 Rev. War; discharged at Valley Forge. Note 8: 1778 James McCann in same Rev War Co; gf of Orapha & Eliz J. McCann. Note 11: 1792 In group building wharf on Potomac River to est. National Capital. Note 13: 1812 Grocery clerk, on Bank St & Happy Alley, Baltimore.MD. Note 16: 1820 Census; grocer, Wash.DC. Note 18: 1830 Census; Grocer, Wash.DC.
.. +CLARKE, Anne b: 1760 in Alexandria, VA d: 1805 in Alexandria, VA Father: Unknown CLARKE Mother: Roseanne UNKNOWN
2 WROE, Evertt b: 1780 in Alexandria, VA
... +DAVIS, Mary
2 [4] WROE, Samuel b: 11 Aug 1782 in Fairfax, VA d: Aft. 1860 in Washington.DC Burial: Rock Creek Cem, Washingon.DC Note 7: Bet. 1800 - 1830 Sea captain of Tulip Brig, Belona, Iola mary & others. Note 8: 1812 Listed in Fry's Baltimore Directory. Note 10: 1812 War of 1812, served with Captain George Styles, under name James Wroe. Note 11: Fellow mariners had to vouch 1812 service when Sam made land bounty claim. Note 12: Sep 1814 Present at Ft McHenry, likely when the Star Spangled Banner was sketched. Note 13: Slave owner thorugh 1860. Note 21: Bet. 1840 - 1860 Census; grocer, Ward 4, Wash.DC.
... +MATTHEWS, Isabell b: 1795 in Belfast, Antrim Co, Northern Irleand d: Abt. 1810 in Suspect at Sea on husb's ship. m: Abt. 1809 in VA
3 WROE, Samuel Austin b: Jan 1810 in At sea in New York area. d: 04 Mar 1884 in Lima area, Fay.Co.IA Burial: Lima Cem, sec 3, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA Note 4: Not raised by his father, who was at sea. Note 5: Attended Washington Medical College (became John Hopkins). Note 6: Attended med sch with Geo. Neff (became well-known PA abolitionist). Note 7: Friend & influenced by Geo. Neff, named son after. Note 8: Abt. 1839 Living in Westmoreland.Co.VA Note 10: 1850 Census; physician, Jackson.Twp, Greene.Co.PA Note 11: Bef. 1863 Practing medicine, Jollytown, Greene.Co.PA Note 13: Abt. 1864 Physician through the Civil War which made him, 'sick at heart.' Note 15: Bet. 1866 - 1867 Gave up medicine, moved to Fay.Co.IA farm in Westfield.Twp. Note 16: 1868 Plat; farming 40a, near middle of sec 19, Illyria.Twp, 1mSE of Lima, Fay.Co.IA. Note 17: Went back/forth with Illyria 40a & Westfield 65a farms with sons. Note 19: 1870 Census; farming, Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA. Note 21: 1879 Plat; farming 65a, in NE 1/4 of sec 10, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA Note 22: 1879 Plat; farm valley bottomland in Frog Hollow, 1+mi NxNE of Albany plat. Note 23: 1880 Census; listed Roe 65y/NY, farming (sec19), Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA Note 24: 1880 Census; farming son J.W.'s 40a, adj to Peter Bass. Note 27: Traveled between IA, MT, VA several times. Note 28: Possibly not buried at Lima, may have died in VA.
.... +MCCANN, Orpha Ann b: 04 Jun 1818 in Loudoun.Co.VA d: 03 Jun 1906 in Dau Rebecca's farm, E of Lima, Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA Burial: Lima Cem, sec 3, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA m: 01 Jan 1835 in Greene.Co.PA Father: David (suspect) MCCANN Mother: Rebecca KING Note 14: 1900 Census; with son John, Volga City, Sperry.Twp, Clayton.Co.IA. Note 21: Age at death; 87y11m2d.
. 4 WROE, Charles Alexander b: in Jollytown, Greene.Co.PA d: in PA
. 4 WROE, Flora Hegia
. 4 WROE, George Neff b: 25 Feb 1840 in PA d: 13 Nov 1916 in Lander, Fremont.Co.WY Note 9: Named after well known Dr. his father studied under.
. 4 WROE, John Wesley Wes b: Feb 1841 in Jollytown, Greene.Co.PA d: 07 Dec 1906 in Volga City, Sperry.Twp, Clayton.Co.IA Burial: Hillcrest Cem, Sperry.Twp, Clayton.Co.IA Note 8: 1879 Plat; farming 40a, near middle of sec 19, Illyria.Twp, 1mSE of Lima, Fay.Co.IA. Note 12: 1900 Census; farming, Volga City, Sperry.Twp, Clayton.Co.IA.
..... +GRAVES, Clarinda A. Rindy b: 10 Nov 1854 in Maquoketa, Jackson.Co.IA d: 24 Nov 1927 m: 1877 in Iowa Father: Charles Kimble GRAVES Mother: Mary WHALING
... 5 [1] WROE, Lester Lavern (adopted) b: 22 Jul 1885 in Souix.Co.IA
....... +SMOCK, Pearl M. b: Jul 1892 in Elk.Twp, Clayton.Co.IA d: Oct 1971 Father: David Izac Izaac SMOCK Mother: Isabelle Margaret KELSEY
.... 6 WROE, Vivian
... *2nd Wife of [1] WROE, Lester Lavern (adopted):
....... +OVERTON, Elizabeth B. b: 1886 m: 17 Oct 1905 in West Union, Fay.Co.IA Father: James OVERTON Mother: Viola CAMP
. 4 WROE, Rebecca Jane b: 09 May 1843 in Wheeling, PA d: 05 Apr 1944 in West Union, Fay.Co.IA Burial: West Union Cem (sp. Kuhen), Fay.Co.IA
..... +KUHENS, John b: 22 Feb 1838 in Ashton, Noble.Co.OH d: 26 Oct 1908 in West Union, Fay.Co.IA Burial: West Union Cem (sp. Kuhen), Fay.Co.IA m: 12 Feb 1862 in Wana, Monongalia.Co.WV Father: John KUHENS Mother: Margaret DEVORE Note 8: 1850 Census; 11y, with parents, farming, Enoch.Twp, Monroe.Co.OH Note 12: Bet. 1870 - 1900 Census; farming, Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA. Note 14: 1870 Census; farming, adj. to Gilson's, NW corner of Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA. Note 16: 1880 Census; farming adj to Eliza Holsworth, mid/west side of Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA.
... 5 KUHENS, George Leroy b: 22 Oct 1863 in West Virgina d: 16 Feb 1945 in Fayette, Fay.Co.IA
... 5 KUHENS, Virgina Belle b: 28 Mar 1866 in Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 01 May 1933
....... +SLOAN, William b: Aug 1865 in NE Iowa m: 30 Oct 1895 in NE Iowa
... 5 KUHENS, Margaret Florence b: 14 May 1868 in Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 18 Nov 1949
... 5 KUHENS, Mary A. b: 08 Mar 1870 in Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 31 Dec 1870 in Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA
... 5 KUHENS, Benjamin Franklin b: 18 May 1871 in Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 15 Dec 1968 in Fayette, Fay.Co.IA
....... +GAYNOR, Emma K. b: 1873 in Two River, Manitowac.Co.WI d: 08 May 1957 in Fay.Co.IA m: 25 Jun 1892 in Fayette, Fay.Co.IA Father: Thomas P. GAYNOR Mother: Mary Ellen WILSON
.... 6 KUHENS, Minnie Pearl b: 26 Feb 1893 in Fayette, Fay.Co.IA d: 08 Oct 1971 in Fayette, Fay.Co.IA
........ +EARLE, Earnest Walter b: 05 Aug 1888 in Albany, Westfield Twp, Fay.Co,IA d: 1952 in Waterloo, Black Co, IA Burial: Grandview Cem, Fayette, Iowa, sec F. m: 09 Nov 1910 in West Union, Fay.Co.IA Father: George Richard EARLE Mother: Mary Louisa NEFZGER Note 8: Lived in Albany, Fayette Co, IA.
.... 6 KUHENS, John F. b: 21 Jan 1897 in Fayette, Fay.Co.IA d: Dec 1964 in Iowa
.... 6 KUHENS, Thomas Benjamine b: 28 May 1901 in Fayette, Fay.Co.IA d: 29 Jan 1995 in Fayette, Fay.Co.IA
.... 6 KUHENS, Olreah L. b: 01 May 1906 in Fayette, Fay.Co.IA d: 13 Jun 1990 in Waterloo, Bk.Hawk.Co.IA
........ +PETERMAN, Floyd b: 02 Apr 1907 in Fayette, Fay.Co.IA d: 25 Dec 1991 in Waterloo, Bk.Hawk.Co.IA m: 1925 in Bk.Hawk.Co.IA
.... 6 KUHENS, Evelyn b: 1910 in Fayette, Fay.Co.IA
.... 6 KUHENS, Gladys b: 1912 in Fay.Co.IA
... 5 [2] KUHENS, Charles Delbert b: 05 Sep 1873 in Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 29 Oct 1958 in Fay.Co.IA Note 1: Called Del.
....... +DURFEY, Mabel Roselie b: 14 Jun 1880 in Lima, Westfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa. d: 21 Jan 1902 in Fay.Co.IA m: 30 Dec 1896 in Lima, Westfield Twp, Fayette Co, IA. Father: Follett Sanders DURFEY Mother: Harriet Almira WARD Note 1: Age at death, 21y7m7d.
.... 6 KUHENS, Olive Faye b: 14 Jul 1898 in Fay.Co.IA d: 21 Mar 1987
........ +KNUDTSON, Alftred b: 1894 in IA
..... 7 KNUDTSON, Marcia Marie
..... 7 KNUDTSON, Donna Lee
.... 6 KUHENS, Zella Leola b: 01 Apr 1900 in Fay.Co.IA d: 16 Dec 1986
........ +DUNCAN, Gerald
... *2nd Wife of [2] KUHENS, Charles Delbert:
....... +LEARN, Nettie Belle b: 08 Jun 1888 in Brainard area, P. Valley Twp, Fayette Co, IA. d: 02 Aug 1972 in Wadena, Illyria Twp, Fayette Co, IA. m: 27 Sep 1905 in West Union, Fayette Co, Iowa Father: Samuel LEARN Mother: Isabella Minerva WILTSE
.... 6 [3] KUHENS, Lyle Delbert b: 18 Mar 1914 in Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: Aug 1992 in Wadena, Fay.Co.IA Burial: St. Joseph Catholic Cem, Wadena, Fayette Co, IA. Note 3: Farmed, Wadena area, IA. Note 5: Wadena school; janitor 11yrs, bus driver 19yrs. Note 6: Member, Cath. Ch, Volga, Clayton Co, IA.
........ +KENNEDY, Rita d: Jun 1962 m: Jun 1935 in Wadean, Illyria Twp, Fayette co, IA.
..... 7 KUHENS, James Note 4: 1992 Living in Wabash, IN
..... 7 KUHENS, Eileen Note 3: 1992 Living in Altoona, IA.
......... +COSBY, Unknown
.... *2nd Wife of [3] KUHENS, Lyle Delbert:
........ +BOND, Alta m: Jun 1965 in Wadean, Illyria Twp, Fayette co, IA.
.... 6 KUHENS, Carl D. b: 22 Aug 1906 in Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: Apr 1972 in Wadena, Fay.Co.IA
.... 6 KUHENS, Paul Eugene b: 11 Mar 1908 in Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 11 Jan 1985 in Fay.Co.IA
.... 6 KUHENS, Dale Delbert b: 25 Jan 1910 in Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 04 Jan 1985 in Fay.Co.IA
........ +VOSHELL, Lavon Marion b: 13 Aug 1910 in Fairfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 23 Sep 1992 in Wadena, Fay.Co.IA m: 24 Jan 1929 in Independence, Buchanan.Co.IA Father: Ray VOSHELL Mother: Ella Arvilla CORBIN
... 5 KUHENS, Emery Laverne b: 25 Mar 1876 in Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 23 Jul 1971 in Sylvania, Lucas.Co.OH
... 5 KUHENS, Emma Zoe b: 04 May 1878 in Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 27 Jul 1967 in Fay.Co.IA
....... +CULBERTSON, Warren b: Abt. 1878
... 5 KUHENS, Agnes A. b: 09 Dec 1880 in Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 01 Jan 1881 in Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA
... 5 KUHENS, Ethel Ethelpella Poala b: 28 Dec 1881 in Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 01 Oct 1939 in Fay.Co.IA
....... +COUSINS, Elmer b: 04 Mar 1876 in Fay.Co.IA d: 01 Jan 1946 in Fay.Co.IA m: 02 Apr 1902 in Lima, Fay.Co.IA
... 5 KUHENS, Creatia Pearl b: 04 Aug 1884 in Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: Jan 1973 in Mason City, Cerro Gordo Co, IA
....... +WENRICH, Ernest J. b: 23 Feb 1877 in Fay.Co.IA d: 11 Jul 1959 in Mason City, Cerro Gordo Co, IA
. 4 WROE, William Jerome b: 16 Jan 1846 in Jollytown, Greene.Co.PA d: 04 Oct 1934 in Fairmont, Monroe.Co.WV
..... +POGUE, Hester Ann m: in Jollytown, Green.Co.PA Father: John T. POUGE Mother: Elizabeth TAYLOR
. 4 WROE, Isabell Elizabeth b: 10 Oct 1848 in Jollytown, Greene.Co.PA d: 17 Oct 1850 in Jollytown, Greene.Co.PA Burial: Old Mt. Taylor Cem, hilltop off Hero Rd, 1m W of Jollytown, Gilmore.Twp, Greene.Co.PA Note 11: Age at death; 2y7d.
. 4 WROE, Mary Ann b: Aft. 1850 in Jollytown, Greene.Co.PA Note 11: 1906 Living at Hundred, PA.
. 4 WROE, Joseph Ellsworth b: May 1851 in Jollytown, Greene.Co.PA d: 1905 in Iowa City, Wright.Co.IA Note 8: 1878 Hist; farming, sec 10, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA. Note 9: 1880 Census; has taken over father's farm, sec 10, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA. Note 12: 1900 Census; farming, Auburn.Twp, Fay.co.IA
..... +HILL, Sarah Rosetta b: 1852 in NY d: Aft. 1920 Note 8: 1920 Census; with son Wm. Robert, adj Marvin Mill in Fayette, IA.
... 5 WROE, Vern
... 5 WROE, William
... 5 WROE, Florence Eleanor b: 1875 in Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA
....... +BURNA, Unknown
... 5 WROE, Charles A. b: 1877 in Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA
... 5 WROE, Katherine Kate L. b: 1881 in Fay.Co.IA
....... +CONWAY, Unknown
... 5 WROE, Lester L. b: 1883 in Fay.Co.IA
....... +HASS, Glen
... 5 WROE, Myrtle Lavina Roe b: 01 Mar 1894 in Lima area, Fay.co.IA d: 31 Mar 1943 in Farm hm. near Oran. Fay.Co.IA Burial: Oak Ridge Cem, Auburn, Auburn.Twp, Fay.Co.IA Note 8: 1925 Census; listes parents Isaac Chapman & Jane Bailey? Note 11: Obit; 11ch, 3 die infancy. Note 21: Age at death; 49y1m; service at Bellis Funeral Hm. in Fayette.IA.
....... +MCELREE, Robert William b: 22 Oct 1889 in Waucoma, Fay.Co.IA d: 07 Feb 1962 in Lebanon, Cooper.Co.MO Burial: Oak Ridge Cem, Auburn, Auburn.Twp, Fay.Co.IA m: 06 Mar 1912 in Waucoma, Fay.Co.IA Father: Samuel MCELREE Mother: Fannie Dixon DICKSON Note 5: Bet. 1912 - 1918 Living, Waucoma, Fay.Co.IA Note 7: Abt. 1919 On farm near Fayette, Fay.Co.IA Note 16: 1920 Census; day laborer, adj Joe Marvin's Mill, N of Fayette bridge, Fay.Co.IA.
.... 6 MCELREE, Infant One b: in Fay.Co.IA d: in Infancy, Fay.Co.IA
.... 6 MCELREE, Infant Two b: in Fay.Co.IA d: in Infancy, Fay.Co.IA
.... 6 MCELREE, LeRoy b: 14 Feb 1913 in Waucoma, Eden.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: Aug 1974 in Iowa? Burial: Grandview Cem, sec F, Fayette, Fay.Co.IA. Note 8: 1943 Living in Waterloo, Iowa.
........ +ROSE, Unknown b: 1920 in IA Burial: Grandview Cem, sec F, Fayette, Fay.Co.IA.
.... 6 MCELREE, John W. b: 26 Nov 1917 in Waucoma Cem, Eden.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 27 Mar 2000 in Wylie, TX
.... 6 MCELREE, Florence E. b: 1919 in Fayette area farm, Fay.Co.IA Note 8: 1943 Living in Fayette, Iowa.
........ +EARL, Elvelyn
.... 6 MCELREE, Robert William b: 19 Jul 1920 in Fayette, Fay.Co.IA d: 02 Mar 2010 in Oelwein, Fay.Co.IA Burial: Grandview Cem, sec F, Fayette, Fay.Co.IA. Note 9: 1943 In Army, Nashville.TN. Note 11: Obit; drove truck for Chandlers & A.J. Steel of Oelwein.
........ +TATRO, Elizabeth Jean b: 05 Jul 1924 in Fayette, Fay.Co.IA d: 24 Jun 1990 Burial: Grandview Cem, sec F, Fayette, Fay.Co.IA. m: 09 Mar 1946 in Oelwein, Fay..Co.IA
..... 7 MCELREE, Dixie
......... +KLEIMAN, John
..... 7 MCELREE, Rebecca Becky
.... 6 MCELREE, Lillian b: Aft. 1920 in Fay.Co.IA Note 8: 1943 Living in Sacramento.CA.
........ +REDFORD, Unknown
.... 6 MCELREE, Mildred b: Aft. 1920 in Fay.Co.IA
.... 6 MCELREE, Harry Melvin b: 31 Aug 1924 in Oran area, Fay.Co.IA d: 15 Nov 1968 in Oelwein, Fay.Co.IA Burial: Woodlawn Cem, Oelwein, Fay.Co.IA. Note 9: US Navy CB, WWII.
........ +OLTROGGE, Frances b: 1924 in Fay.Co.IA Burial: Woodlawn Cem, Oelwein, Fay.Co.IA. Father: Alfred OLTROGGE Mother: Clara REINHARDT
.... 6 MCELREE, Mary R. b: 13 Nov 1926 in Oran area, Fay.Co.IA
........ +MILKS, Lyle K. b: 05 Nov 1921 in Glasgow, MT d: 12 Nov 1993 in Waukegan, Lake.Co.IL Burial: Floral Hills Cem, Hazelton, Buchanan.Co.IA m: 01 Jul 1944 in Waterloo, IA Father: Vern L. MILKS Mother: Edan BARDLEY
.... 6 MCELREE, Glen John b: 17 Mar 1929 in Oran area, Fay.Co.IA d: 08 Oct 1986 in Cedar Rapids, Linn.Co.IA
........ +EPPERSON, Eleanor M. b: 1932 in Iowa Burial: Grandview Cem, sec H, Fayette, Fay.Co.IA.
..... 7 MCELREE, Peggy A. b: 1957 in Iowa d: 1957 in Iowa Burial: Grandview Cem, sec H, Fayette, Fay.Co.IA.
. 4 WROE, James Leroy b: 10 May 1859 in Jollytown, Greene.Co.PA d: 03 Dec 1937 in Manley, Rock.Co.MN Note 9: 1880 Census; farming, Frog Hollow area, N. of Albany, Fay.Co.IA. Note 12: Moved often; Frog Hollow> SD> MT> WV> WI> SD> finally MN.
..... +BURNS, Harriet Hattie Eunice b: 18 Sep 1863 in Chenoa, McLean.Co.IL d: 28 Aug 1944 in Spring Valley, Clark.Co.SD m: 06 Jan 1881 in Albany or Lima, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA Father: Levi Lewis Walter BURNS Mother: Harriett Marie WAITE Note 9: 1906 Living at Valley Springs, SD.
... 5 WROE, Lawrence Austin b: 11 Feb 1882 in Sec 10 farm, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 05 Jan 1952 in Rock.Co.MN Note 6: 1896 Started school, 8y old, 3 diff sch's, 16 when quit. Note 7: Liked school, poetry, dances, social, sliding, margic lantern shoes, ball games. Note 9: Abt. 1897 Started working away from home as farm hand, age 13. Note 17: Note; said, log house (likely sec 19, Illyria.Twp) nothing left but cottonwood trees.
....... +CLARK, Laura Belle b: 1885 in Barron.Co.WI d: 13 Feb 1949 in Rock.Co.MN Father: John CLARK Mother: Pheobe Jane WEDEMAN
... 5 WROE, George Wesley b: 11 Aug 1883 in Sec 10 farm, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: Abt. Jul 1884 in Sec 10 farm, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA Burial: Suspect Lima Cem, sec 3, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA, bz/Dec2010. Note 11: Cause of death; 'summer complaint' or infant cholera. Note 12: Family records; lived about a year.
... 5 WROE, Elmer Eli b: 14 Sep 1884 in Sec 10 farm, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 28 Jul 1968 in Wisc
....... +GRAY, Ethel Milven b: 17 Feb 1909
... 5 WROE, Levi Walter b: 22 Jan 1887 in Sec 10 farm, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 21 Jun 1955 in Cass.Co.MN
....... +SHAFER, Josephine b: 19 Jun 1894 in MN d: 29 Aug 1991 Father: Unkown SHAFER
... 5 WROE, Mary Matilda Tillie b: 22 Jun 1889 in Sec 10 farm, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 22 May 1972 in Rice Lake Co. WI
....... +CLARK, Andrew Webb b: 15 Jan 1882 in Clayton.Co.IA d: 07 Mar 1970 in WI m: 27 Mar 1912 in Warroad, Roseau.Co.MN Father: John CLARK Mother: Pheobe Jane WEDEMAN
.... 6 CLARK, Lila Ruth d: 13 Feb 1928
... 5 WROE, Clarence Leroy b: 14 Nov 1891 in Sec 10 farm, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: Dec 1891 in Sec 10 farm, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA Burial: Suspect Lima Cem, sec 3, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA, bz/Dec2010. Note 11: Family records; lived a couple of weeks.
... 5 WROE, Orpha Nellie b: 27 Dec 1893 in Sec 10 farm, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 22 Sep 1991
....... +SHAFER, Aaron Nelson Father: Unkown SHAFER
... 5 WROE, Lilliam Lillie May b: 22 Sep 1896 in Sec 10, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: Mar 1964 Note 4: Birth? census gives Uniontown, Fayette.Co.PA but likely IA (Torey/2010).
....... +UNMARRIED
... 5 WROE, Carl Arthur b: 04 Feb 1899 in Sec 10, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: Jan 1985 in Fairmont, Marion.Co.WV Note 4: Birth? census gives Uniontown, Fayette.Co.PA but likely IA (Torey/2010).
... 5 WROE, Alva Harvey b: 16 Apr 1906 in Rock Co, MN d: Jun 1964 in Fairmont, Marion.Co.WV
*2nd Wife of [4] WROE, Samuel:
... +BOWERS, Maria Elizabeth b: 1799 in Maryland d: 17 Oct 1865 in Washington.DC Burial: Rock Creek Cem, Washingon.DC m: 05 Oct 1815 in Baltimore.MD
3 WROE, Ann Margaret b: 18 Jan 1826 in Baltimore.Co.MD d: Jan 1826 in Baltimore.Co.MD
3 WROE, Mary Frances b: 27 May 1828 in Baltimore.Co.MD d: Jun 1828 in Baltimore.Co.MD
3 WROE, Geroge Francis b: 27 Nov 1830 in Baltimore.Co.MD d: Jul 1831 in Baltimore.Co.MD
3 WROE, Charles P. b: 19 Jul 1832 in Baltimore.Co.MD d: Bef. 1910 in Washington.DC
3 WROE, William Martin b: 24 Dec 1834 in Washington.DC d: May 1835 in Washington.DC
3 WROE, Anna Virginai b: 04 Dec 1836 in Washington.DC d: May 1838 in Washington.DC
3 WROE, Marion J. b: Jan 1840 in Washington.DC d: Aft. 1860
2 WROE, Elizabeth b: 1783 in Virginia
... +ALEXANDER, Amos
2 WROE, Richard Absalom b: 1786 in Fairfax, VA d: 17 Mar 1876 in Washington.DC Burial: Rock Creek Cem, Washingon.DC
... +SNAVELY, Elizabeth b: 21 Feb 1790 in PA d: 16 Feb 1878 in Washington.DC Burial: Rock Creek Cem, Washingon.DC
3 WROE, John Absalom b: Abt. 1818 in Washington.DC d: 1874
.... +BARR, Martha Jane
3 WROE, Everett
.... +DUVALL, Margaret E.
3 WROE, Samuel Clive Greogry
3 WROE, William A. b: 1827 d: 1908
.... +DODSON, Margaret Virginia b: 1827 d: 1908
3 WROE, Georgiana E. d: 1882
.... +WILLET, John W.
*2nd Wife of [5] WROE, Absalom Roe:
.. +PARKER, Mary Polly
 



Descendants of Absalom Roe Wroe (Report form)
　
 

Descendants of Absalom Roe Wroe
　
Generation No. 1
1. ABSALOM ROE1 WROE was born 1755 in Virginia, and died 14 May 1834 in Washington.DC. He married (1) ANNE CLARKE, daughter of UNKNOWN CLARKE and ROSEANNE UNKNOWN. She was born 1760 in Alexandria, VA, and died 1805 in Alexandria, VA. He married (2) MARY POLLY PARKER.
Notes for ABSALOM ROE WROE:
A general note on the Wroes: the family very likely goes back to William Wroe, b. 1670 in Lancashire, England, d. bef 1730 in Westmoreland VA, m. Judith Browne and descends either through his son Originall or his son William, as there is much circumstantial evidence to connect Alsalom to this group. However, the family had the very confusing habit of giving all their sons the same sets of names and then each son also using this set of names. As a consequence, Virginia in the 1700s was soon overrun by several sets of William, Samuel, John, Richard and Benjamin Wroes with a good smattering of Absaloms, Originalls, and Everetts thrown in. To make matters worse, several also married into the same families (Chancellors, Lynes, etc.) and then, to make things even worse than that, they started marrying each other. No one has yet been able to untangle this group, due to the repeated use of names and intermarrying. It is very likely Absalom had a brother named William, who served in the Revolutionary War with him in the same company, and this may be William, son of Originall, son of William b 1670, but evidence is only circumstantial. So how Absalom connects to the original William is not yet confirmed. Torrie
 
More About ABSALOM ROE WROE:
Note 1: 19 Nov 2010, Wroe last reviewed; Barry Zbornik, Hannibal MO, iowaz@hotmail.com
Note 7: Bet. 06 Mar 1776 - 1778, Rev. War; discharged at Valley Forge.
Note 8: 1778, James McCann in same Rev War Co; gf of Orapha & Eliz J. McCann.
Note 11: 1792, In group building wharf on Potomac River to est. National Capital.
Note 13: 1812, Grocery clerk, on Bank St & Happy Alley, Baltimore.MD.
Note 16: 1820, Census; grocer, Wash.DC.
Note 18: 1830, Census; Grocer, Wash.DC.
Children of ABSALOM WROE and ANNE CLARKE are:
i. EVERTT2 WROE, b. 1780, Alexandria, VA; m. MARY DAVIS.
2. ii. SAMUEL WROE, b. 11 Aug 1782, Fairfax, VA; d. Aft. 1860, Washington.DC.
iii. ELIZABETH WROE, b. 1783, Virginia; m. AMOS ALEXANDER.
3. iv. RICHARD ABSALOM WROE, b. 1786, Fairfax, VA; d. 17 Mar 1876, Washington.DC.
　
Generation No. 2
2. SAMUEL2 WROE (ABSALOM ROE1) was born 11 Aug 1782 in Fairfax, VA, and died Aft. 1860 in Washington.DC. He married (1) ISABELL MATTHEWS Abt. 1809 in VA. She was born 1795 in Belfast, Antrim Co, Northern Irleand, and died Abt. 1810 in Suspect at Sea on husb's ship.. He married (2) MARIA ELIZABETH BOWERS 05 Oct 1815 in Baltimore.MD. She was born 1799 in Maryland, and died 17 Oct 1865 in Washington.DC.
More About SAMUEL WROE:
Burial: Rock Creek Cem, Washingon.DC
Note 7: Bet. 1800 - 1830, Sea captain of Tulip Brig, Belona, Iola mary & others.
Note 8: 1812, Listed in Fry's Baltimore Directory.
Note 10: 1812, War of 1812, served with Captain George Styles, under name James Wroe.
Note 11: Fellow mariners had to vouch 1812 service when Sam made land bounty claim.
Note 12: Sep 1814, Present at Ft McHenry, likely when the Star Spangled Banner was sketched.
Note 13: Slave owner thorugh 1860.
Note 21: Bet. 1840 - 1860, Census; grocer, Ward 4, Wash.DC.
More About MARIA ELIZABETH BOWERS:
Burial: Rock Creek Cem, Washingon.DC
Child of SAMUEL WROE and ISABELL MATTHEWS is:
4. i. SAMUEL AUSTIN3 WROE, b. Jan 1810, At sea in New York area.; d. 04 Mar 1884, Lima area, Fay.Co.IA.
Children of SAMUEL WROE and MARIA BOWERS are:
ii. ANN MARGARET3 WROE, b. 18 Jan 1826, Baltimore.Co.MD; d. Jan 1826, Baltimore.Co.MD.
iii. MARY FRANCES WROE, b. 27 May 1828, Baltimore.Co.MD; d. Jun 1828, Baltimore.Co.MD.
iv. GEROGE FRANCIS WROE, b. 27 Nov 1830, Baltimore.Co.MD; d. Jul 1831, Baltimore.Co.MD.
v. CHARLES P. WROE, b. 19 Jul 1832, Baltimore.Co.MD; d. Bef. 1910, Washington.DC.
vi. WILLIAM MARTIN WROE, b. 24 Dec 1834, Washington.DC; d. May 1835, Washington.DC.
vii. ANNA VIRGINAI WROE, b. 04 Dec 1836, Washington.DC; d. May 1838, Washington.DC.
viii. MARION J. WROE, b. Jan 1840, Washington.DC; d. Aft. 1860.
　
3. RICHARD ABSALOM2 WROE (ABSALOM ROE1) was born 1786 in Fairfax, VA, and died 17 Mar 1876 in Washington.DC. He married ELIZABETH SNAVELY. She was born 21 Feb 1790 in PA, and died 16 Feb 1878 in Washington.DC.
More About RICHARD ABSALOM WROE:
Burial: Rock Creek Cem, Washingon.DC
More About ELIZABETH SNAVELY:
Burial: Rock Creek Cem, Washingon.DC
Children of RICHARD WROE and ELIZABETH SNAVELY are:
i. JOHN ABSALOM3 WROE, b. Abt. 1818, Washington.DC; d. 1874; m. MARTHA JANE BARR.
ii. EVERETT WROE, m. MARGARET E. DUVALL.
iii. SAMUEL CLIVE GREOGRY WROE.
iv. WILLIAM A. WROE, b. 1827; d. 1908; m. MARGARET VIRGINIA DODSON; b. 1827; d. 1908.
v. GEORGIANA E. WROE, d. 1882; m. JOHN W. WILLET.
　
Generation No. 3
4. SAMUEL AUSTIN3 WROE (SAMUEL2, ABSALOM ROE1) was born Jan 1810 in At sea in New York area., and died 04 Mar 1884 in Lima area, Fay.Co.IA. He married ORPHA ANN MCCANN 01 Jan 1835 in Greene.Co.PA, daughter of DAVID MCCANN and REBECCA KING. She was born 04 Jun 1818 in Loudoun.Co.VA, and died 03 Jun 1906 in Dau Rebecca's farm, E of Lima, Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA.
Notes for SAMUEL AUSTIN WROE:
Information supplied by Torrie, Nov 2010/bz.
*there has been speculation that Samuel Austin and his father Captain Samuel Wroe had a poor or distant relationship exacerbated by the Civil War, as Samuel Austin was on the Union side and his father kept his slaves to the very end. Some of this is fuelled by the possibility that Samuel was not raised by his father and no record has been found that he lived with his father and second wife, Maria. However, I’ve found no evidence to support any of this. Despite Capt. Samuel hanging onto his slaves, he was a very old man by the time of the Civil War, so may simply have been set in his ways. His other son, Charles P. P. Wroe, who was raised in the home and was half-brother to Samuel Austin also served on the Union side. There is also evidence Samuel Austin went to be with his father in Washington during the war. The elder Samuel also left his son Samuel land in Washington, DC which the family owned until well into the 1900s.
*most likely on 1840 census in Westmoreland, VA
* in Jackson, Greene Co. PA in 1850 census
* not located in 1860. One family report is that he is returns to Washington, DC in 1860, possibly to be with his father, who lives there and who dies in 1861. Another reports that he spent the Civil War as a doctor and treated soldiers on the front line. There is no record of him as enlisted. Wherever he is, the general consensus is that he is separated from his family at this time. Daughter Rebecca serves as a nurse on the front lines. She is young – 20 to 25 – and her husband musters from Wheeling, WV. However, she also reports herself that she was with her mother and recalls her mother cooking meals for the Union soldiers, who passed through their property.
* moved to Fayette County in 1866 or 1867
* Samuel has a close connection with Westmoreland, VA that is not fully understood. This is most likely a connection with the branch of the Wroes descending from William Wroe, which we have now lost the information on. Two of Samuel’s children were born there and he appears to have been living there in 1830, possibly earlier. We do not know who raised Samuel, while his father was at sea and his mother deceased. He may have been with relatives in Westmoreland, as he frequently returned there even from Iowa. The connection continued through the generatuions, as his son (my great-great grandfather) James Leroy Wroe also went back and forth between Iowa, Montana and Westmoreland (by this point in West Virginia) on at least four occasions. Sorting this out is not helped by the fact that there was at least one, if not two, other Samuel Wroes also living in Westmoreland. One – Samuel C. Wroe - was the grandson of Richard Wroe (Samuel Austin’s uncle). There also appears to be someone named just plain Samuel Wroe, although this may be my Samuel Austin.
* the two children born in Westmoreland succumbed to a diphtheria epidemic in 1840/1841. Apparently the other children also had it, as did Samuel Austin, but they all survived.
* it is possible Samuel Austin’s body is not in the Lima Cemetery. He may actually be buried in Westmoreland, VA or Washington, DC.
　
More About SAMUEL AUSTIN WROE:
Burial: Lima Cem, sec 3, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA
Note 4: Not raised by his father, who was at sea.
Note 5: Attended Washington Medical College (became John Hopkins).
Note 6: Attended med sch with Geo. Neff (became well-known PA abolitionist).
Note 7: Friend & influenced by Geo. Neff, named son after.
Note 8: Abt. 1839, Living in Westmoreland.Co.VA
Note 10: 1850, Census; physician, Jackson.Twp, Greene.Co.PA
Note 11: Bef. 1863, Practing medicine, Jollytown, Greene.Co.PA
Note 13: Abt. 1864, Physician through the Civil War which made him, 'sick at heart.'
Note 15: Bet. 1866 - 1867, Gave up medicine, moved to Fay.Co.IA farm in Westfield.Twp.
Note 16: 1868, Plat; farming 40a, near middle of sec 19, Illyria.Twp, 1mSE of Lima, Fay.Co.IA.
Note 17: Went back/forth with Illyria 40a & Westfield 65a farms with sons.
Note 19: 1870, Census; farming, Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA.
Note 21: 1879, Plat; farming 65a, in NE 1/4 of sec 10, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA
Note 22: 1879, Plat; farm valley bottomland in Frog Hollow, 1+mi NxNE of Albany plat.
Note 23: 1880, Census; listed Roe 65y/NY, farming (sec19), Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA
Note 24: 1880, Census; farming son J.W.'s 40a, adj to Peter Bass.
Note 27: Traveled between IA, MT, VA several times.
Note 28: Possibly not buried at Lima, may have died in VA.
More About ORPHA ANN MCCANN:
Burial: Lima Cem, sec 3, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA
Note 14: 1900, Census; with son John, Volga City, Sperry.Twp, Clayton.Co.IA.
Note 21: Age at death; 87y11m2d.
Children of SAMUEL WROE and ORPHA MCCANN are:
i. CHARLES ALEXANDER4 WROE, b. Jollytown, Greene.Co.PA; d. PA.
ii. FLORA HEGIA WROE.
iii. GEORGE NEFF WROE, b. 25 Feb 1840, PA; d. 13 Nov 1916, Lander, Fremont.Co.WY.
More About GEORGE NEFF WROE:
Note 9: Named after well known Dr. his father studied under.
5. iv. JOHN WESLEY WES WROE, b. Feb 1841, Jollytown, Greene.Co.PA; d. 07 Dec 1906, Volga City, Sperry.Twp, Clayton.Co.IA.
6. v. REBECCA JANE WROE, b. 09 May 1843, Wheeling, PA; d. 05 Apr 1944, West Union, Fay.Co.IA.
vi. WILLIAM JEROME WROE, b. 16 Jan 1846, Jollytown, Greene.Co.PA; d. 04 Oct 1934, Fairmont, Monroe.Co.WV; m. HESTER ANN POGUE, Jollytown, Green.Co.PA.
vii. ISABELL ELIZABETH WROE, b. 10 Oct 1848, Jollytown, Greene.Co.PA; d. 17 Oct 1850, Jollytown, Greene.Co.PA.
More About ISABELL ELIZABETH WROE:
Burial: Old Mt. Taylor Cem, hilltop off Hero Rd, 1m W of Jollytown, Gilmore.Twp, Greene.Co.PA
Note 11: Age at death; 2y7d.
viii. MARY ANN WROE, b. Aft. 1850, Jollytown, Greene.Co.PA.
More About MARY ANN WROE:
Note 11: 1906, Living at Hundred, PA.
7. ix. JOSEPH ELLSWORTH WROE, b. May 1851, Jollytown, Greene.Co.PA; d. 1905, Iowa City, Wright.Co.IA.
8. x. JAMES LEROY WROE, b. 10 May 1859, Jollytown, Greene.Co.PA; d. 03 Dec 1937, Manley, Rock.Co.MN.
　
Generation No. 4
5. JOHN WESLEY WES4 WROE (SAMUEL AUSTIN3, SAMUEL2, ABSALOM ROE1) was born Feb 1841 in Jollytown, Greene.Co.PA, and died 07 Dec 1906 in Volga City, Sperry.Twp, Clayton.Co.IA. He married CLARINDA A. RINDY GRAVES 1877 in Iowa, daughter of CHARLES GRAVES and MARY WHALING. She was born 10 Nov 1854 in Maquoketa, Jackson.Co.IA, and died 24 Nov 1927.
More About JOHN WESLEY WES WROE:
Burial: Hillcrest Cem, Sperry.Twp, Clayton.Co.IA
Note 8: 1879, Plat; farming 40a, near middle of sec 19, Illyria.Twp, 1mSE of Lima, Fay.Co.IA.
Note 12: 1900, Census; farming, Volga City, Sperry.Twp, Clayton.Co.IA.
Child of JOHN WROE and CLARINDA GRAVES is:
9. i. LESTER LAVERN (ADOPTED)5 WROE, b. 22 Jul 1885, Souix.Co.IA.
　
6. REBECCA JANE4 WROE (SAMUEL AUSTIN3, SAMUEL2, ABSALOM ROE1) was born 09 May 1843 in Wheeling, PA, and died 05 Apr 1944 in West Union, Fay.Co.IA. She married JOHN KUHENS 12 Feb 1862 in Wana, Monongalia.Co.WV, son of JOHN KUHENS and MARGARET DEVORE. He was born 22 Feb 1838 in Ashton, Noble.Co.OH, and died 26 Oct 1908 in West Union, Fay.Co.IA.
More About REBECCA JANE WROE:
Burial: West Union Cem (sp. Kuhen), Fay.Co.IA
More About JOHN KUHENS:
Burial: West Union Cem (sp. Kuhen), Fay.Co.IA
Note 8: 1850, Census; 11y, with parents, farming, Enoch.Twp, Monroe.Co.OH
Note 12: Bet. 1870 - 1900, Census; farming, Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA.
Note 14: 1870, Census; farming, adj. to Gilson's, NW corner of Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA.
Note 16: 1880, Census; farming adj to Eliza Holsworth, mid/west side of Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA.
Children of REBECCA WROE and JOHN KUHENS are:
i. GEORGE LEROY5 KUHENS, b. 22 Oct 1863, West Virgina; d. 16 Feb 1945, Fayette, Fay.Co.IA.
ii. VIRGINA BELLE KUHENS, b. 28 Mar 1866, Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA; d. 01 May 1933; m. WILLIAM SLOAN, 30 Oct 1895, NE Iowa; b. Aug 1865, NE Iowa.
iii. MARGARET FLORENCE KUHENS, b. 14 May 1868, Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA; d. 18 Nov 1949.
iv. MARY A. KUHENS, b. 08 Mar 1870, Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA; d. 31 Dec 1870, Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA.
10. v. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KUHENS, b. 18 May 1871, Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA; d. 15 Dec 1968, Fayette, Fay.Co.IA.
11. vi. CHARLES DELBERT KUHENS, b. 05 Sep 1873, Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA; d. 29 Oct 1958, Fay.Co.IA.
vii. EMERY LAVERNE KUHENS, b. 25 Mar 1876, Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA; d. 23 Jul 1971, Sylvania, Lucas.Co.OH.
viii. EMMA ZOE KUHENS, b. 04 May 1878, Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA; d. 27 Jul 1967, Fay.Co.IA; m. WARREN CULBERTSON; b. Abt. 1878.
ix. AGNES A. KUHENS, b. 09 Dec 1880, Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA; d. 01 Jan 1881, Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA.
x. ETHEL ETHELPELLA POALA KUHENS, b. 28 Dec 1881, Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA; d. 01 Oct 1939, Fay.Co.IA; m. ELMER COUSINS, 02 Apr 1902, Lima, Fay.Co.IA; b. 04 Mar 1876, Fay.Co.IA; d. 01 Jan 1946, Fay.Co.IA.
xi. CREATIA PEARL KUHENS, b. 04 Aug 1884, Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA; d. Jan 1973, Mason City, Cerro Gordo Co, IA; m. ERNEST J. WENRICH; b. 23 Feb 1877, Fay.Co.IA; d. 11 Jul 1959, Mason City, Cerro Gordo Co, IA.
　
7. JOSEPH ELLSWORTH4 WROE (SAMUEL AUSTIN3, SAMUEL2, ABSALOM ROE1) was born May 1851 in Jollytown, Greene.Co.PA, and died 1905 in Iowa City, Wright.Co.IA. He married SARAH ROSETTA HILL. She was born 1852 in NY, and died Aft. 1920.
More About JOSEPH ELLSWORTH WROE:
Note 8: 1878, Hist; farming, sec 10, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA.
Note 9: 1880, Census; has taken over father's farm, sec 10, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA.
Note 12: 1900, Census; farming, Auburn.Twp, Fay.co.IA
More About SARAH ROSETTA HILL:
Note 8: 1920, Census; with son Wm. Robert, adj Marvin Mill in Fayette, IA.
Children of JOSEPH WROE and SARAH HILL are:
i. VERN5 WROE.
ii. WILLIAM WROE.
iii. FLORENCE ELEANOR WROE, b. 1875, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA; m. UNKNOWN BURNA.
iv. CHARLES A. WROE, b. 1877, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA.
v. KATHERINE KATE L. WROE, b. 1881, Fay.Co.IA; m. UNKNOWN CONWAY.
vi. LESTER L. WROE, b. 1883, Fay.Co.IA; m. GLEN HASS.
12. vii. MYRTLE LAVINA ROE WROE, b. 01 Mar 1894, Lima area, Fay.co.IA; d. 31 Mar 1943, Farm hm. near Oran. Fay.Co.IA.
　
8. JAMES LEROY4 WROE (SAMUEL AUSTIN3, SAMUEL2, ABSALOM ROE1) was born 10 May 1859 in Jollytown, Greene.Co.PA, and died 03 Dec 1937 in Manley, Rock.Co.MN. He married HARRIET HATTIE EUNICE BURNS 06 Jan 1881 in Albany or Lima, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA, daughter of LEVI BURNS and HARRIETT WAITE. She was born 18 Sep 1863 in Chenoa, McLean.Co.IL, and died 28 Aug 1944 in Spring Valley, Clark.Co.SD.
More About JAMES LEROY WROE:
Note 9: 1880, Census; farming, Frog Hollow area, N. of Albany, Fay.Co.IA.
Note 12: Moved often; Frog Hollow> SD> MT> WV> WI> SD> finally MN.
More About HARRIET HATTIE EUNICE BURNS:
Note 9: 1906, Living at Valley Springs, SD.
Children of JAMES WROE and HARRIET BURNS are:
i. LAWRENCE AUSTIN5 WROE, b. 11 Feb 1882, Sec 10 farm, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA; d. 05 Jan 1952, Rock.Co.MN; m. LAURA BELLE CLARK; b. 1885, Barron.Co.WI; d. 13 Feb 1949, Rock.Co.MN.
More About LAWRENCE AUSTIN WROE:
Note 6: 1896, Started school, 8y old, 3 diff sch's, 16 when quit.
Note 7: Liked school, poetry, dances, social, sliding, margic lantern shoes, ball games.
Note 9: Abt. 1897, Started working away from home as farm hand, age 13.
Note 17: Note; said, log house (likely sec 19, Illyria.Twp) nothing left but cottonwood trees.
ii. GEORGE WESLEY WROE, b. 11 Aug 1883, Sec 10 farm, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA; d. Abt. Jul 1884, Sec 10 farm, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA.
More About GEORGE WESLEY WROE:
Burial: Suspect Lima Cem, sec 3, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA, bz/Dec2010.
Note 11: Cause of death; 'summer complaint' or infant cholera.
Note 12: Family records; lived about a year.
iii. ELMER ELI WROE, b. 14 Sep 1884, Sec 10 farm, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA; d. 28 Jul 1968, Wisc; m. ETHEL MILVEN GRAY; b. 17 Feb 1909.
iv. LEVI WALTER WROE, b. 22 Jan 1887, Sec 10 farm, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA; d. 21 Jun 1955, Cass.Co.MN; m. JOSEPHINE SHAFER; b. 19 Jun 1894, MN; d. 29 Aug 1991.
13. v. MARY MATILDA TILLIE WROE, b. 22 Jun 1889, Sec 10 farm, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA; d. 22 May 1972, Rice Lake Co. WI.
vi. CLARENCE LEROY WROE, b. 14 Nov 1891, Sec 10 farm, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA; d. Dec 1891, Sec 10 farm, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA.
More About CLARENCE LEROY WROE:
Burial: Suspect Lima Cem, sec 3, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA, bz/Dec2010.
Note 11: Family records; lived a couple of weeks.
vii. ORPHA NELLIE WROE, b. 27 Dec 1893, Sec 10 farm, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA; d. 22 Sep 1991; m. AARON NELSON SHAFER.
viii. LILLIAM LILLIE MAY WROE, b. 22 Sep 1896, Sec 10, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA; d. Mar 1964; m. UNMARRIED.
More About LILLIAM LILLIE MAY WROE:
Note 4: Birth? census gives Uniontown, Fayette.Co.PA but likely IA (Torey/2010).
ix. CARL ARTHUR WROE, b. 04 Feb 1899, Sec 10, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA; d. Jan 1985, Fairmont, Marion.Co.WV.
More About CARL ARTHUR WROE:
Note 4: Birth? census gives Uniontown, Fayette.Co.PA but likely IA (Torey/2010).
x. ALVA HARVEY WROE, b. 16 Apr 1906, Rock Co, MN; d. Jun 1964, Fairmont, Marion.Co.WV.
　
Generation No. 5
9. LESTER LAVERN (ADOPTED)5 WROE (JOHN WESLEY WES4, SAMUEL AUSTIN3, SAMUEL2, ABSALOM ROE1) was born 22 Jul 1885 in Souix.Co.IA. He married (1) PEARL M. SMOCK, daughter of DAVID SMOCK and ISABELLE KELSEY. She was born Jul 1892 in Elk.Twp, Clayton.Co.IA, and died Oct 1971. He married (2) ELIZABETH B. OVERTON 17 Oct 1905 in West Union, Fay.Co.IA, daughter of JAMES OVERTON and VIOLA CAMP. She was born 1886.
Child of LESTER WROE and PEARL SMOCK is:
i. VIVIAN6 WROE.
　
10. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN5 KUHENS (REBECCA JANE4 WROE, SAMUEL AUSTIN3, SAMUEL2, ABSALOM ROE1) was born 18 May 1871 in Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA, and died 15 Dec 1968 in Fayette, Fay.Co.IA. He married EMMA K. GAYNOR 25 Jun 1892 in Fayette, Fay.Co.IA, daughter of THOMAS GAYNOR and MARY WILSON. She was born 1873 in Two River, Manitowac.Co.WI, and died 08 May 1957 in Fay.Co.IA.
Children of BENJAMIN KUHENS and EMMA GAYNOR are:
i. MINNIE PEARL6 KUHENS, b. 26 Feb 1893, Fayette, Fay.Co.IA; d. 08 Oct 1971, Fayette, Fay.Co.IA; m. EARNEST WALTER EARLE, 09 Nov 1910, West Union, Fay.Co.IA; b. 05 Aug 1888, Albany, Westfield Twp, Fay.Co,IA; d. 1952, Waterloo, Black Co, IA.
More About EARNEST WALTER EARLE:
Burial: Grandview Cem, Fayette, Iowa, sec F.
Note 8: Lived in Albany, Fayette Co, IA.
ii. JOHN F. KUHENS, b. 21 Jan 1897, Fayette, Fay.Co.IA; d. Dec 1964, Iowa.
iii. THOMAS BENJAMINE KUHENS, b. 28 May 1901, Fayette, Fay.Co.IA; d. 29 Jan 1995, Fayette, Fay.Co.IA.
iv. OLREAH L. KUHENS, b. 01 May 1906, Fayette, Fay.Co.IA; d. 13 Jun 1990, Waterloo, Bk.Hawk.Co.IA; m. FLOYD PETERMAN, 1925, Bk.Hawk.Co.IA; b. 02 Apr 1907, Fayette, Fay.Co.IA; d. 25 Dec 1991, Waterloo, Bk.Hawk.Co.IA.
v. EVELYN KUHENS, b. 1910, Fayette, Fay.Co.IA.
vi. GLADYS KUHENS, b. 1912, Fay.Co.IA.
　
11. CHARLES DELBERT5 KUHENS (REBECCA JANE4 WROE, SAMUEL AUSTIN3, SAMUEL2, ABSALOM ROE1) was born 05 Sep 1873 in Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA, and died 29 Oct 1958 in Fay.Co.IA. He married (1) MABEL ROSELIE DURFEY 30 Dec 1896 in Lima, Westfield Twp, Fayette Co, IA., daughter of FOLLETT DURFEY and HARRIET WARD. She was born 14 Jun 1880 in Lima, Westfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa., and died 21 Jan 1902 in Fay.Co.IA. He married (2) NETTIE BELLE LEARN 27 Sep 1905 in West Union, Fayette Co, Iowa, daughter of SAMUEL LEARN and ISABELLA WILTSE. She was born 08 Jun 1888 in Brainard area, P. Valley Twp, Fayette Co, IA., and died 02 Aug 1972 in Wadena, Illyria Twp, Fayette Co, IA..
More About CHARLES DELBERT KUHENS:
Note 1: Called Del.
More About MABEL ROSELIE DURFEY:
Note 1: Age at death, 21y7m7d.
Children of CHARLES KUHENS and MABEL DURFEY are:
14. i. OLIVE FAYE6 KUHENS, b. 14 Jul 1898, Fay.Co.IA; d. 21 Mar 1987.
ii. ZELLA LEOLA KUHENS, b. 01 Apr 1900, Fay.Co.IA; d. 16 Dec 1986; m. GERALD DUNCAN.
Children of CHARLES KUHENS and NETTIE LEARN are:
15. iii. LYLE DELBERT6 KUHENS, b. 18 Mar 1914, Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA; d. Aug 1992, Wadena, Fay.Co.IA.
iv. CARL D. KUHENS, b. 22 Aug 1906, Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA; d. Apr 1972, Wadena, Fay.Co.IA.
v. PAUL EUGENE KUHENS, b. 11 Mar 1908, Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA; d. 11 Jan 1985, Fay.Co.IA.
vi. DALE DELBERT KUHENS, b. 25 Jan 1910, Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA; d. 04 Jan 1985, Fay.Co.IA; m. LAVON MARION VOSHELL, 24 Jan 1929, Independence, Buchanan.Co.IA; b. 13 Aug 1910, Fairfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA; d. 23 Sep 1992, Wadena, Fay.Co.IA.
　
12. MYRTLE LAVINA ROE5 WROE (JOSEPH ELLSWORTH4, SAMUEL AUSTIN3, SAMUEL2, ABSALOM ROE1) was born 01 Mar 1894 in Lima area, Fay.co.IA, and died 31 Mar 1943 in Farm hm. near Oran. Fay.Co.IA. She married ROBERT WILLIAM MCELREE 06 Mar 1912 in Waucoma, Fay.Co.IA, son of SAMUEL MCELREE and FANNIE DICKSON. He was born 22 Oct 1889 in Waucoma, Fay.Co.IA, and died 07 Feb 1962 in Lebanon, Cooper.Co.MO.
More About MYRTLE LAVINA ROE WROE:
Burial: Oak Ridge Cem, Auburn, Auburn.Twp, Fay.Co.IA
Note 8: 1925, Census; listes parents Isaac Chapman & Jane Bailey?
Note 11: Obit; 11ch, 3 die infancy.
Note 21: Age at death; 49y1m; service at Bellis Funeral Hm. in Fayette.IA.
More About ROBERT WILLIAM MCELREE:
Burial: Oak Ridge Cem, Auburn, Auburn.Twp, Fay.Co.IA
Note 5: Abt. 1924, Moved to farm near Oran, Fay.Co.IA
Note 5: Bet. 1912 - 1918, Living, Waucoma, Fay.Co.IA
Note 7: Abt. 1919, On farm near Fayette, Fay.Co.IA
Note 16: 1920, Census; day laborer, adj Joe Marvin's Mill, N of Fayette bridge, Fay.Co.IA.
Children of MYRTLE WROE and ROBERT MCELREE are:
i. INFANT ONE6 MCELREE, b. Fay.Co.IA; d. Infancy, Fay.Co.IA.
ii. INFANT TWO MCELREE, b. Fay.Co.IA; d. Infancy, Fay.Co.IA.
iii. LEROY MCELREE, b. 14 Feb 1913, Waucoma, Eden.Twp, Fay.Co.IA; d. Aug 1974, Iowa?; m. UNKNOWN ROSE; b. 1920, IA.
More About LEROY MCELREE:
Burial: Grandview Cem, sec F, Fayette, Fay.Co.IA.
Note 8: 1943, Living in Waterloo, Iowa.
More About UNKNOWN ROSE:
Burial: Grandview Cem, sec F, Fayette, Fay.Co.IA.
iv. JOHN W. MCELREE, b. 26 Nov 1917, Waucoma Cem, Eden.Twp, Fay.Co.IA; d. 27 Mar 2000, Wylie, TX.
v. FLORENCE E. MCELREE, b. 1919, Fayette area farm, Fay.Co.IA; m. ELVELYN EARL.
More About FLORENCE E. MCELREE:
Note 8: 1943, Living in Fayette, Iowa.
16. vi. ROBERT WILLIAM MCELREE, b. 19 Jul 1920, Fayette, Fay.Co.IA; d. 02 Mar 2010, Oelwein, Fay.Co.IA.
vii. LILLIAN MCELREE, b. Aft. 1920, Fay.Co.IA; m. UNKNOWN REDFORD.
More About LILLIAN MCELREE:
Note 8: 1943, Living in Sacramento.CA.
viii. MILDRED MCELREE, b. Aft. 1920, Fay.Co.IA.
ix. HARRY MELVIN MCELREE, b. 31 Aug 1924, Oran area, Fay.Co.IA; d. 15 Nov 1968, Oelwein, Fay.Co.IA; m. FRANCES OLTROGGE; b. 1924, Fay.Co.IA.
More About HARRY MELVIN MCELREE:
Burial: Woodlawn Cem, Oelwein, Fay.Co.IA.
Note 9: US Navy CB, WWII.
More About FRANCES OLTROGGE:
Burial: Woodlawn Cem, Oelwein, Fay.Co.IA.
x. MARY R. MCELREE, b. 13 Nov 1926, Oran area, Fay.Co.IA; m. LYLE K. MILKS, 01 Jul 1944, Waterloo, IA; b. 05 Nov 1921, Glasgow, MT; d. 12 Nov 1993, Waukegan, Lake.Co.IL.
More About LYLE K. MILKS:
Burial: Floral Hills Cem, Hazelton, Buchanan.Co.IA
17. xi. GLEN JOHN MCELREE, b. 17 Mar 1929, Oran area, Fay.Co.IA; d. 08 Oct 1986, Cedar Rapids, Linn.Co.IA.
　
13. MARY MATILDA TILLIE5 WROE (JAMES LEROY4, SAMUEL AUSTIN3, SAMUEL2, ABSALOM ROE1) was born 22 Jun 1889 in Sec 10 farm, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA, and died 22 May 1972 in Rice Lake Co. WI. She married ANDREW WEBB CLARK 27 Mar 1912 in Warroad, Roseau.Co.MN, son of JOHN CLARK and PHEOBE WEDEMAN. He was born 15 Jan 1882 in Clayton.Co.IA, and died 07 Mar 1970 in WI.
Child of MARY WROE and ANDREW CLARK is:
i. LILA RUTH6 CLARK, d. 13 Feb 1928.
　
Generation No. 6
14. OLIVE FAYE6 KUHENS (CHARLES DELBERT5, REBECCA JANE4 WROE, SAMUEL AUSTIN3, SAMUEL2, ABSALOM ROE1) was born 14 Jul 1898 in Fay.Co.IA, and died 21 Mar 1987. She married ALFTRED KNUDTSON. He was born 1894 in IA.
Children of OLIVE KUHENS and ALFTRED KNUDTSON are:
i. MARCIA MARIE7 KNUDTSON.
ii. DONNA LEE KNUDTSON.
　
15. LYLE DELBERT6 KUHENS (CHARLES DELBERT5, REBECCA JANE4 WROE, SAMUEL AUSTIN3, SAMUEL2, ABSALOM ROE1) was born 18 Mar 1914 in Illyria.Twp, Fay.Co.IA, and died Aug 1992 in Wadena, Fay.Co.IA. He married (1) RITA KENNEDY Jun 1935 in Wadean, Illyria Twp, Fayette co, IA.. She died Jun 1962. He married (2) ALTA BOND Jun 1965 in Wadean, Illyria Twp, Fayette co, IA..
More About LYLE DELBERT KUHENS:
Burial: St. Joseph Catholic Cem, Wadena, Fayette Co, IA.
Note 3: Farmed, Wadena area, IA.
Note 5: Wadena school; janitor 11yrs, bus driver 19yrs.
Note 6: Member, Cath. Ch, Volga, Clayton Co, IA.
Children of LYLE KUHENS and RITA KENNEDY are:
i. JAMES7 KUHENS.
More About JAMES KUHENS:
Note 4: 1992, Living in Wabash, IN
ii. EILEEN KUHENS, m. UNKNOWN COSBY.
More About EILEEN KUHENS:
Note 3: 1992, Living in Altoona, IA.
　
16. ROBERT WILLIAM6 MCELREE (MYRTLE LAVINA ROE5 WROE, JOSEPH ELLSWORTH4, SAMUEL AUSTIN3, SAMUEL2, ABSALOM ROE1) was born 19 Jul 1920 in Fayette, Fay.Co.IA, and died 02 Mar 2010 in Oelwein, Fay.Co.IA. He married ELIZABETH JEAN TATRO 09 Mar 1946 in Oelwein, Fay..Co.IA. She was born 05 Jul 1924 in Fayette, Fay.Co.IA, and died 24 Jun 1990.
More About ROBERT WILLIAM MCELREE:
Burial: Grandview Cem, sec F, Fayette, Fay.Co.IA.
Note 9: 1943, In Army, Nashville.TN.
Note 11: Obit; drove truck for Chandlers & A.J. Steel of Oelwein.
More About ELIZABETH JEAN TATRO:
Burial: Grandview Cem, sec F, Fayette, Fay.Co.IA.
Children of ROBERT MCELREE and ELIZABETH TATRO are:
i. DIXIE7 MCELREE, m. JOHN KLEIMAN.
ii. REBECCA BECKY MCELREE.
　
17. GLEN JOHN6 MCELREE (MYRTLE LAVINA ROE5 WROE, JOSEPH ELLSWORTH4, SAMUEL AUSTIN3, SAMUEL2, ABSALOM ROE1) was born 17 Mar 1929 in Oran area, Fay.Co.IA, and died 08 Oct 1986 in Cedar Rapids, Linn.Co.IA. He married ELEANOR M. EPPERSON. She was born 1932 in Iowa.
More About ELEANOR M. EPPERSON:
Burial: Grandview Cem, sec H, Fayette, Fay.Co.IA.
Child of GLEN MCELREE and ELEANOR EPPERSON is:
i. PEGGY A.7 MCELREE, b. 1957, Iowa; d. 1957, Iowa.
More About PEGGY A. MCELREE:
Burial: Grandview Cem, sec H, Fayette, Fay.Co.IA.

 

 

Wroe burials
 in Fayette Co, Iowa

Surname First, Middle Maiden Spouse or Parents Birth Death/Burial Cemetery City/Twp Notes

 


Colored rows = info/data updated; white rows = not updated, needing data. 

Wroe Orpha Ann McCann Wroe Dr Samuel Austin 1810/AtSea-1884/LimaArea Jun 4, 1818 Jun 3, 1906 Lima Cem Lima Dau of Unknown McCann & Rebecca King or Boer/Bohur.  Sec 3.  Ch; Geo Neff, John Wesley, Rebecca Jane, Wm. Jerome, Isabell, Mary Ann Joseph Ellsworth, James Leroy, 
Wroe Samuel Austin (Dr) Wroe McCann Orpha Ann 1818/VA-1906/Clayton.Col.IA Jan 1810 Mar 4, 1884 Lima Cem Lima Sec 3. Civil War doctor, had enough, moved to farming in Illyria.Twp. Son of sea captain Samuel Wroe 1782/VA-?/? & Unknown Matthews ?/Ireland-1810/AtSea. Ch; Geo Neff, John Wesley, Rebecca Jane, Wm. Jerome, Isabell, Mary Ann Joseph Ellsworth, James Leroy, 

 

Kuhen John Kuhens Wroe Rebecca Jane 1843/PA-1944/Fayette.IA Feb 22, 1838 26 Oct 1908 West Union West Union Son of John Kuhens 1800/PA-?/WF & Margaret DeVore 1805/OH-?/?.  CO N 6th West V. Vols (Kuhnes) 1861-May1864. Ch; Geo Leroy, Virginai Belle, Margaret Florence, Mary A, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Delbert, Embery Laverne, Emma Zoe, Ethel, Creatia Pearl.
Kuhen Rebecca J Wroe Kuhens John 1838/OH-1908/WestUnion.IA May 9, 1843 Apr 5, 1944 West Union West Union Civil War nurse, Wash D.C. hosp. same as father Samuel, while husb in war. Dau of Civil War Dr. Samuel Austin Wroe  1810/AtSea-1884/AlbanyArea & Orpha Civil War nurse, Wash D.C. hosp. same as father Samuel, while husb in war.  Ch; Geo Leroy, Virginai Belle, Margaret Florence, Mary A, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Delbert, Embery Laverne, Emma Zoe, Ethel, Creatia Pearl.

 

 

 

Notes on the Wroe line in Fayette.Co.Iowa:

...This Wroe/Roe family is suspected to back to William Wroe, b. 1670 in Lancashire, England, d. bef 1730 in Westmoreland VA, m. Judith Browne and descends either through his son Originall Wroe or his son William Wroe, as there is circumstantial evidence to connect Alsalom Wroe to this group.
...However, the family had the confusing habit of giving all their sons the same sets of names and then each son also using this set of names. As a consequence, Virginia in the 1700s was soon overrun by several sets of William, Samuel, John, Richard and Benjamin Wroes with a good smattering of Absaloms, Originalls, and Everetts thrown in.
...To make matters worse, several also married into the same families (Chancellors, Lynes, etc.) and then, to make things even worse than that, they started marrying each other.
...No one has yet been able to untangle this group, due to the repeated use of names and intermarrying.
...It is very likely Absalom had a brother named William, who served in the Revolutionary War with him in the same company, and this may be William, son of Originall, son of William b 1670, but evidence is only circumstantial.

Three Generations leading to Fayette County, Iowa:

1. Absalom Wore1755
...Absalom was born about 1755 in Virginia and died on May 14, 1834 in Washington, D.C. 
...How Absalom connects to the original William is not yet confirmed.
...Absalom Wroe married first Anne Clarke O'Daniel,  was the widow of John O'Daniel.  Little is known about Anne except she died about 1805 in Alexandria.VA, and was listed in the will of 1784 of her mother Roseanne Clark
...Absalom married second Mary Unknown.
...Absalom used both the Roe and Wroe spelling.
...Absalom Wroe served in the Revolutionary War in Capt. Henry Fauntleroy's Company, 5th Battalion Virginia Forces.  He enlisted, from Lancaster.Co.VA, as a Private, March 6, 1776 for a period of 2 years. William Wroe, believed to be a cousin of Absalom, stated in his pension application that he served with Absalom Wroe in Capt. Burgess Ball's Co., Col. Josiah Parker's 5th Virginia Regiment for a period of 2 years and was discharged at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania in 1778. At time of pension application, William Wroe was a resident of Northumberland.Co.PA.
...The first land transaction of Absalom Wroe is in Alexandria, Fairfax.Co.VA, in 1785.
...About June 4, 1792, Absolem Wroe and Patrick McMahan of Virginia received a contract for 250# in Maryland currency  from the Federal Commissioners in Washington city, for the erection of a wharf on a land point opposite a lumber yard near the mouth of Goose (Tiber) Creek in preparation for building  the National Capitol on the Potomac River.
...In 1805, Absalom Wroe conveyed to his sons Richard and Everitt, certain household furnishings, clothing and tools, which likely was after the death of  his first wife, Anne Clarke Wroe.
...By 1810, the Wroe sons were grocers in Baltimore, Maryland, and would serve in the War of 1812.
...By 1820, Absalom Wroe returned to Washington, D.C. and was a grocer for about 12yrs, on the east side of 7th Street, between G & H, North St's.
...Absalom died in 1834, in Washington, D.C.

2. SAMUEL WROE, son of Absalom
 ...Was born 1782/VA, d. after 1860 in Washington D.C.
 ...Married. ‘Miss Matthews’, County Antrim, Northern Ireland B:? D: abt 1810
...Samuel Wroe1782 was a sea captain between 1800 and 1830, captained Tulip Brig, schooner Belona, schooner Iola Mary, among others (we have his family bible and personal effects/official documents with these ships named, but he clearly sailed whatever was going.) Tulip Brig was first ship sunk during the war of 1812, although Samuel was not captaining it at the time. However, he was a first-hand witness to the bombardment of Fort McHenry
...He is listed in Baltimore MD, in Fry’s Baltimore Directory
...His wife, whose first name may have been Isabelle, sailed with him. Samuel Austin Wroe was born during one of the sailings and thus "on ocean" and Samuel’s wife appears to have died on this voyage or another near the same time, most likely at sea.
... ‘Miss Matthews’ is reputedly from Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is possible, however, she is part of an extended family of Matthews who had already immigrated from Antrim and were living in Shenandoah County, VA literally next door to the extended Wroe family. Credence is given to the possibility she is directly from Northern Ireland in that she is always shown as ‘Miss Matthews’ in later records and this was how marriage records were given in Northern Ireland at the time – name of husband and ‘Miss’ whomever.
...Second marriage to Maria Bowers 5 Oct 1815 in Baltimore, MD
...1840 census, Washington DC, occupation, grocer.
...1850 census, Washington Ward 4, Washington DC, occupation, grocer
...1860 census, Washington Ward 4, Washington DC
...Slave owner right through 1860

3. SAMUEL AUSTIN WROE
...Born 1810, at Sea on his father's ship; died 1884, assumed on his farm in Frog Hollow, 2mi north of Albany, Westfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa.
...There is a 'thought' that Samuel Austin Wroe may not be the son of Samuel1782 Wroe, as Samuel A. never shows up on any of Capt. Samuel's papers, but rather may be the son of one of Absalom Wroe's brothers.  However that is not the best guess to date as Samuel Austin lists his place of birth on all the censuses as 'on ocean' which makes sense if his father is a sea captain but doesn't make much sense if his father is a farmer. Also because of Samuel A. son, James Leroy's hand written genealogy. where he talks confidently of 'my grandfather' the sea captain.  Parts of James Leroy's written genealogy may be a bit iffy, but it seems unlikely he would be mistaken about who his grandfather was.
 ...Samuel Austin Wroe married  ORPHA ANN MCCANN 1 Jan 1837 in Greene County, PA
...Samuel Austin Wroe trained as a physician under well-known professor of medicine, George Neff. Named his eldest son after this doctor.
...He continued to work as a physician through the Civil War, which made him ‘sick at heart’ and he gave up medicine and moved out to Iowa to start over as a farmer.
...There has been speculation that Samuel Austin and his father Captain Samuel Wroe had a poor or distant relationship exacerbated by the Civil War, as Samuel Austin was on the Union side and his father kept his slaves to the very end. Some of this is fuelled by the possibility that Samuel was not raised by his father and no record has been found that he lived with his father and second wife, Maria. However, I’ve found no evidence to support any of this. Despite Capt. Samuel hanging onto his slaves, he was a very old man by the time of the Civil War, so may simply have been set in his ways. His other son, Charles P. P. Wroe, who was raised in the home and was half-brother to Samuel Austin also served on the Union side. There is also evidence Samuel Austin went to be with his father in Washington during the war. The elder Samuel also left his son Samuel land in Washington, DC which the family owned until well into the 1900s.
...Most likely on the 1840 census in Westmoreland, VA
...In Jackson, Greene Co. PA in 1850 census
...Not located in 1860. One family report is that he is returns to Washington, DC in 1860, possibly to be with his father, who lives there and who dies in 1861. Another reports that he spent the Civil War as a doctor and treated soldiers on the front line. There is no record of him as enlisted. Wherever he is, the general consensus is that he is separated from his family at this time. Daughter Rebecca serves as a nurse on the front lines. She is young – 20 to 25 – and her husband musters from Wheeling, WV. However, she also reports herself that she was with her mother and recalls her mother cooking meals for the Union soldiers, who passed through their property.
...Moved to Fayette Co, Iowa, in 1866 or 1867
...Samuel has a close connection with Westmoreland, VA that is not fully understood. This is most likely a connection with the branch of the Wroes descending from William Wroe, which we have now lost the information on. Two of Samuel’s children were born there and he appears to have been living there in 1830, possibly earlier. We do not know who raised Samuel, while his father was at sea and his mother deceased. He may have been with relatives in Westmoreland, as he frequently returned there even from Iowa. The connection continued through the generatuions, as his son (my great-great grandfather) James Leroy Wroe also went back and forth between Iowa, Montana and Westmoreland (by this point in West Virginia) on at least four occasions. Sorting this out is not helped by the fact that there was at least one, if not two, other Samuel Wroes also living in Westmoreland. One – Samuel C. Wroe - was the grandson of Richard Wroe (Samuel Austin’s uncle). There also appears to be someone named just plain Samuel Wroe, although this may be my Samuel Austin.
...The two children born in Westmoreland succumbed to a diphtheria epidemic in 1840/1841. Apparently the other children also had it, as did Samuel Austin, but they all survived.
...It is possible Samuel Austin’s body is not in the Lima Cemetery. He may actually be buried in Westmoreland, VA or Washington, DC.
...Other information about Samuel Austin is slowly coming to light.  It is likely he attended the Washington Medical College in Baltimore and most likely this is where he met Prof. George Neff, under which he later trained in medicine. Samuel Austin's first cousin, John Absalom Wroe, b 1817, attended the same medical school.  This was the only real medical school going at that point in time and in that part of the world. It is likely Samuel A's being there influenced his cousin John Absalom Wroe's choice only a few years later.  This school eventually morphed into John Hopkins.

3. ORPHA ANN MCCANN (wife of SAMUEL AUSTIN WROE)
 ...Born 4 Jun 1818 in Loudoun County, VA, d: 3 Jun 1906
...1850 census in Jackson, Greene Co., PA
...Grandfather is James McCann, b: 1759, Cork, Ireland d: 4 Mar 1839, Senecaville, Guernsey, OH, married to Jane Quail b: 1755 in 1779 in Perry Co, PA. Served with Absalom Wroe in Revolutionary War.
...Father is unknown, but has two brothers, Thomas b: 1791 and William b: 1788.
...According to genealogy written by James Leroy Wroe (son) Orpha’s mother was named Rebecca and surname was either King or Boer/Bohur
...One major problem with tracing this line is that the entire family was illiterate for several generations and very poor, so left no paper trail other than James McCann’s application for a Revolutionary War pension.
...Orpha Ann was illiterate but she had compensated for this by committing the entire Bible to memory and it was this feat which impressed Samuel Austin’s well-educated family, who had previously been against the marriage.
...Orpha had two known sisters, Mary Ann McCann b: 1821 in Greene Co. PA. She married George DeBolt, b: 1816. She died after 1900 in Hundred, WV. The other sister was Elizabeth ‘Eliza’ J. McCann, b: 12 March 1828 in Masontown, Fayette Co, PA, d: 10 Dec 1907, Fayette, Fayette Co. IA. She married Joseph Houlsworth, b: 1825 Greene Co, PA, d: 18 Dec 1877 in Fayette, Fayette, IA. I have the genealogies for this family as well, if you don’t have it.
...She may also have had two brothers: Alexander McCann: 1819-1855 and John McCann, 1820-1850, and a sister, Margaret, 1810-1860, although my evidence indicates Margaret is most likely a cousin.
...The Houlsworths and the Wroes appear to have arrived in Fayette County together in 1866 or 1867.
...While sister Mary Ann who married to George DeBolt, stayed back in Pennsylvania, George’s first cousin Jacob DeBolt and his wife also named Mary Ann came west as well and settled in Scott Twp, Fayette County.


Dr's Charles Parker, Dixon Alexander, Aaron Brown, Samuel Wroe and numerous Civil War
surgeons mustered out completely exhausted and overwhelmed from treating battle casualties
and disease, but came 'home' with unlimited medical experience.  Some continued  to practice medicine
in Fayette Co, with others just wanting to farm the remainder of their days.

Whitman's Drum Taps and Washington's Civil War Hospitals  http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/hospital/whitman.htm  linked from Penn. in the Civil War, Hospitals and Medicine http://www.pa-roots.com/pacw/hospitals/hospitals.html 
...Before the war began, Washington was a relatively rural town with limited medical accommodations. There were no military hospitals and very few medical facilities.  By the end of the Civil War there were approximately fifty hospitals marking the Washington landscape. Hospital beginnings were in the tents of  the soldiers regiments.  Following the early defeats of the Union Army of the Potomac in 1861 and 1862, Washington became a vast hospital complex with more than 20,000 wounded troops.  Soldiers were often kept in the field hospitals indefinitely and when sent on to Washington,  their conditions were so bad that surviving the trip was usually impossible.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Whitman's Drum Taps and Washington's Civil War Hospitals  http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/hospital/whitman.htm  linked from Penn. in the Civil War, Hospitals and Medicine http://www.pa-roots.com/pacw/hospitals/hospitals.html 
...Before the war began, Washington was a relatively rural town with limited medical accommodations. There were no military hospitals and very few medical facilities.  By the end of the Civil War there were approximately fifty hospitals marking the Washington landscape. Hospital beginnings were in the tents of  the soldiers regiments.  Following the early defeats of the Union Army of the Potomac in 1861 and 1862, Washington became a vast hospital complex with more than 20,000 wounded troops.  Soldiers were often kept in the field hospitals indefinitely and when sent on to Washington,  their conditions were so bad that surviving the trip was usually impossible.


Civil War burial boxes, Palmyra, MO, massacre.

 

Fayette Woman Dies at Age 100 (compiled, Iowa papers)
...Mrs. Roberta J. nee Wroe Kuhens, Army Nurse During the Civil War, died at her home in Fayette Wed, Apr 5, 1944.  She was born May 9, 1843, near Wheeling.PA, daughter of Dr. Samuel Austin Wroe and Orpha Ann McCann,  her father was born at sea, his father having been an Irish sea captain. 
...Her father moved the family to Washington, D.C. at the outbreak of the Civil War, in 1861.  Rebecca Wroe married civil war soldier John Kuhnes in 1861.  She worked as an army nurse in the hospital where her father Samuel was stationed until her husband was mustered out of the service in Jun 1864.  They decided to come west.
...The couple started for Iowa Sept 1864 by way of the Ohio and Mississippi River because her health had been broken from the strain of nursing and she was unable to make the trip by land.  During a stop over in St. Louis they became acquainted with General Grant.   They settled on a farm of 200a near Lima where they remained until John Kuhnes' health failed at which time the couple moved into West Union where he died in 1908.   Roberta moved into a home on Main St in Fayette village so her children could attend Upper Iowa University.    Sons George and Delbert continued to farm in the Lima area.  From about 1920, many UIU students roomed in her home.
...They were parents of nine children. Surviving are four sons and three daughters: George and Delbert of West Union; Ben of Lima; Vern of Akron.OH; Mrs. Warren S. Culberson and Mrs. Dan F. Hall of Fayette;  Mrs. Pearl Winrick Wenrich of Mason City.  Two daughters preceded her; Mrs. Ethel (Elmer) Cousins and Mrs. William Sloan.  She raised to grandchildren now married, Mars. Zella Duncan of Des Moines and Mrs. Olive Knutson of Wadena.  She was the oldest resident in Fayette County at the time of her death. 


Note:  the naming on this pic is likely in error but is being processed by torrie & bz, so will be updated at a later date.

. 4 WROE, James Leroy b: 19 May 1859 in Jollytown, Greene.Co.PA d: 03 Dec 1937 in Manley, Rock.Co.MN Note 9: 1880 Census; farming, Frog Hollow area, N. of Albany, Fay.Co.IA.
..... +BURNS, Harriet Hattie Eunice b: 18 Sep 1863 in Bloomington, McLean.Co.IL d: 28 Aug 1944 in Spring Valley, Clark.Co.SD m: 06 Jan 1881 in Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA Father: Levi Lewis Walter BURNS Mother: Harriett Marie WAITE Note 9: 1906 Living at Valley Springs, SD.
... 5 WROE, Lawrence Austin b: 11 Feb 1882 in Lima area, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 05 Jan 1952 in Rock.Co.MN
....... +CLARK, Laura Belle b: 1885 in Barron.Co.WI d: 13 Feb 1949 in Rock.Co.MN Father: John CLARK Mother: Pheobe Jane WEDEMAN
... 5 WROE, Elmer Eli b: 14 Sep 1884 in Sec 10 farm, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 28 Jul 1968 in Wisc
....... +GRAY, Ethel G. b: 17 Feb 1909


... 5 WROE, Levi Walter b: 22 Jan 1887 in Sec 10 farm, Westfield.Twp, Fay.Co.IA d: 21 Jun 1955 in Cass.Co.MN
....... +SHAFER, Josephine b: 19 Jun 1894 in MN d: 29 Aug 1991
 

 

Do not trust as totally valid any tree/report data.  Often World Connect or Ancestry trees/data were utilized as a foundation upon which to add material gleamed from obits, articles, histories, biographies, stories, burials, censuses and other data collected.  My primary interest is generally the pioneer history and includes linking village and neighborhood surnames together for several of the early generations.  Family connections, locations and other data may have to be speculated in order to continue a complex series of inter-related projects.  My web pages are primarily personal study projects for note keeping, but can also jump start others.  I have a huge number of projects started and rarely return to edit/update material unless interest is rekindled.  Any web pages online are usually linked off the 'Index Page.'  Numerous projects are not put on web pages but are in draft form or in the form of photo albums on the 'Photo Hosting Site.'   I may have material for research use in storage, plus will/can upload other people's material if appropriate.

 

 

Iowaz Index Page
Iowaz Photo Hosting Site


iowaz@swbell.net or iowaz@hotmail.com

Any reproduction of this site or it's contents requires express written consent.

Barry Zbornik
Hannibal, MO 


 

Click for Hannibal, Missouri Forecast  Click for Fayette, Iowa Forecast