Edmund Rathbun (1737-1801)

Mercy Hannah Carpenter (1739-1827)

Jonathan Newberry (1740-1798)

Elizabeth Knapp (Abt 1744-1796)

Gideon Rathbun (1766-1838)

Anna Newberry (1777-1866)

Edmund Rathbun (1800-1882)

 

Family Links Spouses/Children: 1. Mary Dye Gideon S. Rathbun+ Daniel Dye Rathbun+ George Marshall Rathbun+ Anna Jane Rathbun+ Isaac Riley Rathbun+ Edmund Rathbun 1 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Born: 29 Sep 1800, Delhi, Delaware, New York, United States 2 8 9 10 12 13 14 15 Marriage (1): Mary Dye in 1832 in Lexington, Richland, Ohio, United States 1 2 3 Died: 2 Jan 1882, Hendricks, Chautauqua, Kansas, United States at age 81 2 3 9 10 Buried: After 2 Jan 1882, Grafton, Chautauqua, Kansas, United States 9 10 16    Other names for Edmund were Edmund Rathbone,17 Edmond Rathburn 18 and Edward Rathburn.15   General Notes: Extracted from The Rathbun, Rathbone, Rathburn Family Historian, Volume 7, Number 1, January 1987, page 13. Edmund Rathbun, born Sept 28, 1800, at Delhi, Delaware County, New York, and moved with his parents to Belpre, Ohio. He married about 1832in Richland County, Ohio, Mary Dye, born January 31, 1813, daughter of Daniel and Jane (McIntyre) Dye. They moved in 1837 to Jay County, Indiana, where he purchased a 200-acre farm. After the Civil War, they moved to Missouri, first to Gentry County and then to Worth County,and in 1872 to Hendricks, Chautauqua County, Kansas. Edmund was described as a blacksmith in the 1880 census. He died at Hendricks on January 2, 1882, and Mary died there February 14, 1889. History of Chautauqua Co., Kansas, Volume 1, page 625. Published 1987by Chautauqua Co., Heritage Association. Article furnished by Hylas and Myrtle Rathbun. In 1870 a caravan of covered wagons descended on Chautauqua County, containing the Rathbun clan. The oldest members of this group were Edmund and Mary Dye Rathbun, the parents and grandparents of all those that came to Kansas at that time. Edmund Rathbun was born in Saratoga, New York. He moved with his father into Ohio near Marietta. He learned the blacksmith trade there and then moved to Richland County, Ohio. It was in Richland that he metand married Mary Dye when he was 32 years old. They later moved to Jay County, Indiana. After some years, they moved to Worth County, Missouri. It was from Missouri that the family moved to Kansas, homesteading in the Moore Prairie Community. Edmund and Mary Rathbun came to Kansas with their sons- Gideon and his wife Mary, Daniel and his wife Catherine, George Marshall and his wife Tamar Ann and their children, and Isaac and his wife. One daughter, Anna Jane, remained in Worth County, Missouri, where she married George Freeman. It is interesting that each family homesteaded in the area, and builthomes with native stone. Edmund Rathbun died in Chautauqua County on January 2, 1882, and his wife Mary died on February 14, 1889. They were both buried in the Moore Prairie Cemetery on land donated by their son Daniel.   Noted events in his life were: • Residence, 1840, , Jay, Indiana, United States. 19 • Residence: 280 Acre farm, 1840, , Jay, Indiana, United States. 3 20 • Occupation: Farming, 23 Aug 1850, Portland, Jay, Indiana, United States. 17 • Residence, 23 Aug 1850, Portland, Jay, Indiana, United States. 17 21 • Occupation: Farrmer, 3 Jul 1860, Portland, Jay, Indiana, United States. 18 • Residence, 3 Jul 1860, Portland, Jay, Indiana, United States. 18 • Occupation: Farmer, 26 Jul 1870, Union, Worth, Missouri, United States. 15 • Residence, 26 Jul 1870, Union, Worth, Missouri, United States. 15 • Residence, 1872, Hendricks, , Kansas, United States. 3 • Residence, 1 Mar 1875, Sedan, Howard, Kansas, United States. 22 • Occupation: Blacksmith, 1 Jun 1880, Hendricks, Chautauqua, Kansas, United States. 3 11 • Residence, 1 Jun 1880, Hendricks, Chautauqua, Kansas, United States. 11 Edmund married Mary Dye, daughter of Daniel Dye and Jane McIntyre, in 1832 in Lexington, Richland, Ohio, United States.1 2 3 (Mary Dye was born on 31 Jan 1813 in , Washington, Pennsylvania, United States,18 23 24 died on 14 Feb 1889 in Hendricks, Chautauqua, Kansas, United States 1 2 3 25 and was buried after 14 Feb 1889 in Grafton, Chautauqua, Kansas, United States 2 23 26.)

1 Internet Record for Mary Dye, http://www.familysearch.org/Search/af/individual_recorc.asp?recid=18591472 dated 28 may 1999. Source Medium: Electronic

2 Nell Westlake, Letter from Nell Westlake Dated 29 August 1983 to Earl and Hope Rathbun. Source Medium: Letter

3 Frank H. Rathbun, Editor and Publisher, The Rathbun-Rathbone-Rathburn Family Historian (Name: Published quarterly by the Rathbun Family Association;), Volume 7, Number 1, Page 13, January 1987. Source Medium: Magazine

4 Mrs. Sadie Mastin, Genealogical Record for Isaac Riley Rathbun (Name: 1956;). Source Medium: Other

5 Missouri State Certificate of Death for Anna Jane Freeman (Name: Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Certificate of Death;). Source Medium: Official Document
Source Quality: Certified copy of Original

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

7 PhinneysPlace Geneological Data - Page 698, Daniel Dye Rathbun - Internet Record. Source Medium: Internet
Source Quality: Internet Record

8 Frank H. Rathbun, Editor and Publisher, The Rathbun-Rathbone-Rathburn Family Historian (Name: Published quarterly by the Rathbun Family Association;), Volume 3, Number 2, Page 29, April 1983. Source Medium: Magazine

9 "Find a Grave," database, Find A Grave (www.findagrave.com : accessed 30 May 2012), Edmund Rathbun.

10 Tomb stone, Burial: Moore Prairie Cemetery, Chautauqua County, Kansas.

11 1880 U.S. census, Chautauqua, Kansas, population schedule, Hendricks Township, enumeration district (ED) 70, p. 333, dwelling 9, family 9, Edmund Rathbun; digital images (accessed 6 Jan 2014); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T9, roll 375.

12 Frank H. Rathbun, Editor and Publisher, The Rathbun-Rathbone-Rathburn Family Historian (Name: Published quarterly by the Rathbun Family Association;), Volume Seven, Number One, January 1987, Page 13. Source Medium: Magazine

13 Transcribed from Mr. G. Herman Guy's Cemeteries in Chautauqua County,Kansas, Moore Prairie Cemetery, Chautauqua County, Kansas (Name: Chautauqua County Kansas Genealogy - Moore Prairie County;). Source Medium: Internet

The Moore Prairie Cemetery is located in S22 - T34 - R10 of HendricksTownship. Go west of Sedan on the highway to Cedar Vale, about 4 or5 miles you'll see a sign directing you to Elgin, turn left (to the south) on that road about 2 miles, then right 1/2 mile, all on country roads.

14 1860 U.S. census, Jay, Indiana, population schedule, Pike, p. 47, dwelling 332, family 332, Edmund Rathburn; digital images, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : accessed 9 Oct 2009); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M653, roll 269.

15 1870 U.S. census, Worth, Missouri, population schedule, Union, p. 2, dwelling 11, family 11, Edward Rathburn; digital images, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : accessed 1 Jan 2014); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M593, roll 826.

16 Transcribed from Mr. G. Herman Guy's Cemeteries in Chautauqua County,Kansas, Moore Prairie Cemetery, Chautauqua County, Kansas (Name: Chautauqua County Kansas Genealogy - Moore Prairie County;), Born: 29 Sep 1800 - Death: 2 Jan 1882. Source Medium: Internet

The Moore Prairie Cemetery is located in S22 - T34 - R10 of HendricksTownship. Go west of Sedan on the highway to Cedar Vale, about 4 or5 miles you'll see a sign directing you to Elgin, turn left (to the south) on that road about 2 miles, then right 1/2 mile, all on country roads.

17 1850 U.S. census, Jay, Indiana, population schedule, Pike, p. 295, dwelling 113, family 113, Edmund Rathbone; digital images, The Generations Network (ancestry.com : accessed 1 Jan 2014); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M432, roll 153.

18 1860 U.S. census, Jay, Indiana, population schedule, Pike, p. 47, dwelling 332, family 332, Edmund Rathburn; digital images, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : accessed 1 Jan 2014); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M653, roll 269.

19 1840 U.S. census, Jay, Indiana, p. 10, Edmund Rathbun; digital images, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : accessed 1 Feb 2011); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M704, roll 81.

20 Edmund Rathbun; "United States, Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Rcords.," database and images, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : accessed 11 May 2015).

21 PhinneysPlace Geneological Data - Page 106, Internet Record for George Marshall Rathbun (2), 1850 United States Federal Census. Source Medium: Internet
Source Quality: Internet Record

22 1875 Kansas State Census, Howard, Kansas, population schedule, Sedan, p. 2, dwelling 16, family 2, line 32, E. Rathbun; digital images, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : accessed 9 Feb 2010); citing Ancestry.com.

23 Tomb stone, Burial: Moore Prairie Cemetery, Grafton, Chautauqua County, Kansas.

24 1870 U.S. census, Worth, Missouri, population schedule, Union, p. 2, dwelling 11, family 11, Mary Rathburn; digital images, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : accessed 1 Jan 2014); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M593, roll 826.

25 Tomb stone, Photograph of tomb stone for Mary Rathbun. Born: Jan 31, 1813 Died: Feb 14, 1889.

26 Transcribed from Mr. G. Herman Guy's Cemeteries in Chautauqua County,Kansas, Moore Prairie Cemetery, Chautauqua County, Kansas (Name: Chautauqua County Kansas Genealogy - Moore Prairie County;), Born: 31 Jan 1813 - Death: 14 Feb 1889. Source Medium: Internet

The Moore Prairie Cemetery is located in S22 - T34 - R10 of HendricksTownship. Go west of Sedan on the highway to Cedar Vale, about 4 or5 miles you'll see a sign directing you to Elgin, turn left (to the south) on that road about 2 miles, then right 1/2 mile, all on country roads.