Edmund Rathbun
(1800-1882)
Mary Dye
(1813-1889)
David Benjamin Van Garringer
(1807-1863)
Tamara Jane Adams
(1804-1855)
George Marshall Rathbun
(1836-1923)
Tamar Ann Garinger
(1838-1905)

Marshall Riley Rathbun
(1861-1917)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Mary Elizabeth Kline

Marshall Riley Rathbun 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

  • Born: 15 Nov 1861, , Jay, Indiana, United States 1 3 5 11 12 14 15
  • Marriage (1): Mary Elizabeth Kline on 21 Apr 1895 in Alden, Rice, Kansas, United States 1 2 3
  • Died: 7 Feb 1917, Alden, Rice, Kansas, United States at age 55 1 4 14 15
  • Buried: After 7 Feb 1917, Alden, Rice, Kansas, United States 14 15

   Cause of his death was Blood Poisoning.16

  General Notes:

Chautauqua Co., Kansas, Volume 1, page 628. Published 1987 by Chautauqua Co., Heritage Association. Article furnished by Hylas and Myrtle Rathbun.

Marshall Riley Rathbun was the oldest son of George Marshall and Tamar Ann (Garringer) Rathbun. Riley was born in Jay County, Indiana, November 15, 1861. He traveled with his family via a caravan of coveredwagons in which the several Rathbun families moved from Indiana to Missouri, and on to the Moore Prairie area of Chautauqua County, Kansas. At the age of 19 Riley was hauling freight from Independence to Sedan. He later worked on the railroad in Ottawa, Kansas.

On one visit to Rice County, Kansas, Riley met and later married MaryElizabeth "Libby" Kline, who was the fourth of six children in the John W. and Mary Ann (Hile) Kline family. They had migrated from Pennsylvania to Michigan and on to Kansas. Libby was born March 29, 1869, near Three Rivers, Michigan. Riley and Libby were married April 21, 1895.

Riley took his bride to Ottawa, Kansas where they established their home. It was there their first child was born on March 5, 1896, and they named him Orva Edmund. Edmund is a family name handed down throughseveral generations. Their second child, a girl born July 13, 1897, was named Mamie Dell. Two years later, while visiting at the farm house of Grandfather Kline in Rice County, a second son, Elmer Albert, was born on August 13, 1899.

Riley moved his family to Newton, Kansas, where two more children, Ersa Grace, born February 5, 1901, and Roy Irvan, born October 24, 1902,were born. With an increasingly large family Roy decided to move them to the country, so he left the railroad work and became a farmer and dairyman. On a farm near Sterling, in Rice County, Kansas, their sixth child was born June 5, 1906. She was a rather frail, little girl and they named her Bernice Ruth.

Some years later the owner of the farm, where the family lived, persuaded Riley to move his ro his ranch near Hutchinson as foreman. Libbybecame manager of the workmen's boarding house. After several years Riley was injured while discarding some old equipment and developed blood poisioning. He died within the week on February 7, 1917. Riley'sbrothers and other relatives of Sedan came for his funeral and helpedLibbie with arrangements and plans for the future. They though the family sould move to Sedan where the boys would have better opportunities for work. Therefore Libby and her children moved to Sedan and fromthen on considered Sedan their "home town". Libby died December 19, 1944, and was buried beside Riley in the Kline section of the Alden, Kansas, Cemetery.

Article furnished by Hylas and Myrtle Rathbun.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Residence, 26 Jul 1870, Union, Worth, Missouri, United States. 17

• Residence, 1 Mar 1875, Sedan, Howard, Kansas, United States. 18

• Employment: Work on farm, 1 Jun 1880, Hendricks, Chautauqua, Kansas, United States. 12

• Residence, 1 Jun 1880, Hendricks, Chautauqua, Kansas, United States. 12

• Occupation: Farmer, 1 Mar 1885, Sedan, Chautauqua, Kansas, United States. 13

• Residence, 1 Mar 1885, Sedan, Chautauqua, Kansas, United States. 19

• Residence, Abt 1895, Ottawa, Franklin, Kansas, United States. 1

• Occupation: Farmer, 9 Jun 1900, Raymond, Rice, Kansas, United States. 3

• Residence, 9 Jun 1900, Raymond, Rice, Kansas, United States. 3

• Occupation: Railroad Worker, Bef 1902. 1

• Residence, Abt 1902, , Rice, Kansas, United States. 1

• Occupation: Farmer And Dairyman, After 1902. 1

• Residence: Ranch Near, After 1906, Hutchinson, Reno, Kansas, United States. 1

• Residence, 19 Apr 1910, Valley, Rice, Kansas, United States. 20

• Residence, Feb 1915, , Reno, Kansas, United States. 21


Marshall married Mary Elizabeth Kline on 21 Apr 1895 in Alden, Rice, Kansas, United States.1 2 3 (Mary Elizabeth Kline was born on 29 Mar 1869 in Three Rivers, St. Joseph, Michigan, United States,1 3 15 died on 19 Dec 1944 in Sedan, Chautauqua, Kansas, United States 1 15 22 and was buried after 19 Dec 1944 in Alden, Rice, Kansas, United States 2 15.)

Sources

1 Ruth Marlow, Marshall Riley Rathbun (Name: Chautauqua Co., Kansas, Volume 1, page 628. Published 1987 by Chautauqua Co., Heritage Association;), Article furnished by Hylas and Myrtle Rathbun. Source Medium: Book

2 "Find a Grave," database, Find A Grave (www.findagrave.com : accessed 18 Feb 2013), Mary E. Rathbun.

3 1900 U.S. census, Rice, Kansas, population schedule, Raymond, enumeration district (ED) 229, sheet 3, p. 3A, dwelling 42, family 43, Marshall R. Rathbun family; digital images, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : accessed 13 Jan 2014); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T623, roll 497.

4 Ruth Marlow and Bob Rathbun, Orva Rathbun. Source Medium: Magazine

5 1870 U.S. census, Worth, Missouri, population schedule, Union, p. 2, dwelling 11, family 11, Michael R. Rathburn; digital images, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : accessed 26 Jan 2011); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M593, roll 826.

6 Ersa Wells, Leona Hope Jackson Rathbun, Genealogical Record for Ersa Grace Rathbun. Source Medium: Other

7 Newspaper Obituary notice for Orva Rathbun (Name: Undated and un-named newspaper clipping;). Source Medium: Newspaper
Source Quality: Original

8 PhinneysPlace Geneological Data - Page 105, Tamar Ann Garringer - Internet Record. Source Medium: Internet
Source Quality: Internet Record

9 PhinneysPlace Geneological Data - Page 106, Internet Record for George Marshall Rathbun (2). Source Medium: Internet
Source Quality: Internet Record

10 Newspaper Obituary for Tamar Rathbun. Source Medium: Newspaper
Source Quality: Original

11 Frank H. Rathbun, Editor and Publisher, The Rathbun-Rathbone-Rathburn Family Historian (Name: Published quarterly by the Rathbun Family Association;), Volume 15, Number 1, Page 18, Spring 1995. Source Medium: Magazine

12 1880 U.S. census, Chautauqua, Kansas, population schedule, Hendricks township, enumeration district (ED) 70, p. 333, dwelling 6, family 6, Marshall R. Rathbun; digital images (accessed 28 July 2008); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T9, roll T9_375.

13 Kansas State Census, Chautauqua, Kansas, population schedule, Sedan, p. 7, dwelling 1, family 6, line 25, M. R. Rathbun; digital images, Ancestry(Ancestry.com : accessed 26 February 2009); citing The Generations Network, Inc.

14 "Find a Grave," database, Find A Grave (www.findagrave.com : accessed 18 Feb 2013), Marshall Riley Rathbun.

15 Tomb stone, Burial: Alden Valley Cemetery, Alden, Rice County, Kansas.

16 Ruth Marlow, Marshall Riley Rathbun (Name: Chautauqua Co., Kansas, Volume 1, page 628. Published 1987 by Chautauqua Co., Heritage Association;). Source Medium: Book

17 1870 U.S. census, Worth, Missouri, population schedule, Union, p. 2, dwelling 11, family 22, Rathburn Family; digital images, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : accessed 13 Jan 2014); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M593, roll 826.

18 1875 Kansas State Census, Howard, Kansas, population schedule, Sedan, p. 2, dwelling 5, family 10, line 24, M. R. Rathbun; digital images, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 Oct 2009); citing Ancestry.com.

19 Kansas State Census, Chautauqua, Kansas, population schedule, Sedah, p. 7, dwelling 1, family 6, line 25, M. R. Rathbun; digital images, Ancestry(Ancestry.com : accessed 26 February 2009); citing The Generations Network, Inc.

20 1910 U.S. census, Rice, Kansas, population schedule, Valley, enumeration district (ED) 178, sheet 3, p. 3B, dwelling 70, family 73, Marshall R. Rathbun Family; digital images, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : accessed 14 Jan 2014); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T624, roll 454.

21 Kansas State Census: 1915, Reno, Kansas, population schedule, Reno County, p. 10, dwelling 69, family 71, line 22, M. R. Rathbun; digital images, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : accessed 24 Jan 2010); citing Ancestry.com.

22 Chautauqua County Kansas Genealogy - Death Index No. 2 (Name: Deaths In Chautauqua County, Recorded By Various City and CountyClerks;). Source Medium: Electronic

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