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William Addie Waggoner1,2,3

ID# 9028, (1861 - 1926)
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Parents:

  • Father: Jesse M. Waggoner
  • Mother: Harriet Adeline Foster

Key Events:

  • Born: on 7 Apr 1861 in Martinsburg, Pike Co., Illinois.4,5,6
  • Married First: Martha B. Kessinger on 21 Nov 1886 in Pike Co., Illinois.7,8,9
  • Married Second: Nettie Kessinger on 20 Nov 1909 in Pittsfield, Pike Co., Illinois.10,11
  • Married Third: Mary Emma Brogart on 18 Jan 1911 in Bowling Green, Missouri.12,13,14
  • Died: on 13 Dec 1926 in Pearl Twp., Pike Co., Illinois.15,16,17
  • Buried: on 15 Dec 1926 in Old Miller Cemetery, Pearl, Pike Co., Illinois.3,18
William also appears in our Family History Section where there is much more information about him.

Children with Martha B. Kessinger:

  • Obird W. Waggoner
  • Ocie Waggoner

Citations

  1. Jesse Wagoner household, 1870 U.S. Census, Pike Co., Illinois, shows name as Ady Wagoner.
  2. Jesse M. Waggonner household, 1880 U.S. Census, Pike Co., Illinois, shows name as William A. Waggonner.
  3. William A. and Martha B. Waggoner gravestone, Old Miller Cemetery.
  4. "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947," FamilySearch.org, record for Wm. A. Waggoner, citing FHL #1613463 and ref ID 48046, shows date, town, and state.
  5. William Waggoner and Jeanette Cobb, Marriage License, shows town, county, state, and that he would be 47 at his next birthday.
  6. Jesse Wagoner household, 1870 U.S. Census, Pike Co., Illinois, shows age 9 and state.
  7. Marriage Record, Pike Co., Illinois, 3:149, no. 1097, marriage of William A. Waggoner and Miss Mattie Kessinger, shows date and officiant.
  8. William Wagner household, 1900 U.S. Census, Pike Co., Illinois, shows married 13 years.
  9. William A. and Martha B. Waggoner gravestone, Old Miller Cemetery, shows them on the same stone.
  10. William Waggoner and Jeanette Cobb, Marriage License, shows date, town, county, state, officiant, and that this was his second and her third marriage.
  11. William A. Waggoner household, 1910 U.S. Census, Pike Co., Illinois, shows married one year, and second marriage for each; she seems to have been ignoring her marriage to Robert Cobb, and acknowledging only her first marriage, to Brown.
  12. William E. Wagner and Mary E. Kessinger, marriage license, shows date, town, county, and officiant.
  13. Addie Waggoner household, 1920 U.S. Census, Pike Co., Illinois, shows married.
  14. "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947," FamilySearch.org, record for Wm. A. Waggoner, citing FHL #1613463 and ref ID 48046, shows his wife as Emma Waggoner.
  15. "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947," FamilySearch.org, record for Wm. A. Waggoner, citing FHL #1613463 and ref ID 48046, shows date, town, county, and state.
  16. Illinois State Archives, Database of Death Certificates, online, record for Wm A. Waggoner, citing cert. no. 0750296, shows date, county, and township.
  17. William A. and Martha B. Waggoner gravestone, Old Miller Cemetery, shows year.
  18. "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947," FamilySearch.org, record for Wm. A. Waggoner, citing FHL #1613463 and ref ID 48046, shows date.

Jeanette P. Kessinger1,2,3

ID# 9030, (1875 - 1943)
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Parents:

Key Events:

  • Born: on 26 Jul 1875 in Pearl, Illinois.4,5,6
  • Married First: Mr. Brown.2,7,8
  • Married Second: Robert Cobb Jr. on 7 Sep 1901 in Lawton, Comanche Co., Oklahoma Territory.9,10
  • Married Third: William Addie Waggoner on 20 Nov 1909 in Pittsfield, Pike Co., Illinois.11,12
  • Married Fourth: Mr. Hutchens.13,14
  • Died: on 14 Nov 1943 in Kampsville, Calhoun Co., Illinois.15
  • Buried: on 17 Nov 1943 in Hess (Old Pearl) Cemetery, Pearl Twp., Pike Co., Illinois.16,17
Jeanette also appears in our Family History Section where there is much more information about her.

Child with Mr. Brown:

  • Verna Yuma Brown

Citations

  1. Ransom Kessinger household, 1880 U.S. Census, Pike Co., Illinois, shows name as Jeanette Kessinger.
  2. Robert Cobb Jr. and Nettie P. Brown, Marriage Record, shows her name as Miss Nettie Brown.
  3. William Waggoner and Jeanette Cobb, Marriage License, shows name as Mrs. Jeanette Cobb, maiden name Jeanette Brown, and father's surname as Locke.
  4. Robert Cobb Jr. and Nettie P. Brown, Marriage Record, shows age 34 at marriage 7 Sep 1901, town, as Pearl, and state.
  5. Mrs. Nettie Hutchens, Mrs. Nettie, Coroner's Certificate of Death, shows date, town, as Belleview, and state.
  6. Comanche County OKGenWeb Page, online, "1901 Comanche County Groom Index," shows age 24 when married 7 Sep 1901, town, as Pearl, and state.
  7. William Waggoner and Jeanette Cobb, Marriage License, shows "maiden name, if a widow" as Jeanette Brown (apparently actually her name before her prior marriage), and that this was her third marriage.
  8. William A. Waggoner household, 1910 U.S. Census, Pike Co., Illinois, shows Nettie as in her second marriage, and Verna as his stepdaughter, with surname Brown.
  9. Robert Cobb Jr. and Nettie P. Brown, Marriage Record, shows date, town, county, territory and officiant.
  10. Cobb, Robert Jr. v. Cobb, Nettie P., Wichita District Court, District Clerk, petition, shows they were married "on or about " 11 Sep 1901, county, and state, as Oklahoma, but Oklahoma did not become state until 1907.
  11. William Waggoner and Jeanette Cobb, Marriage License, shows date, town, county, state, officiant, and that this was his second and her third marriage.
  12. William A. Waggoner household, 1910 U.S. Census, Pike Co., Illinois, shows married one year, and second marriage for each; she seems to have been ignoring her marriage to Robert Cobb, and acknowledging only her first marriage, to Brown.
  13. "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947," FamilySearch.org, record for Nettie Hutchens, citing FHL #1983539 and ref no. DTH 46314.
  14. Mabel Hayes household, 1930 U.S. Census, Los Angeles Co., California, shows with surname Hutchens, and widowed.
  15. Mrs. Nettie Hutchens, Mrs. Nettie, Coroner's Certificate of Death.
  16. Mrs. Nettie Hutchens, Mrs. Nettie, Coroner's Certificate of Death, shows date, cemetery, town, county, and state.
  17. Genealogy Trails, online, Illinois, Pike Co., "Hess (Old Pearl) Cemetery." shows name with no dates. In email "Re: Your submission on Hess Cemetery on Genealogy Trails" 10 Mar 2011, the contributor, Rosemary Reeves states the record is from Pike Co. Historical Society cemetery books printed in 1976, which reads "Cobb, Nettie (d. Kate Kessinger) No Date."

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