The Ancestors
Of
John Addison Biles
Special thanks to the following people for
compiling and sharing much of the information in this annex:
1. Bryan W.
Biles of Altus Oklahoma (see Para 4a.C.5.b.(4.(b.(1)(a)[1.,
below), whose 1969 book How Green Was Our Valley (published privately)
was the source for much of the information on this page. Especially to Mrs. Pansy Lu Verna (Biles) (Germain) Jordan,
who co-authored the William Biles section of his book (see Para 4a.C.2.c.(1.(a.(3)(a)[1.[b.,
below).
2. William L.
Ridge: Paragraph 4a.C.2.c.(1.(c.(3)(a)[5.[c.[3][a],
below.
3. Robert
Bruce Jones "Bruce": (more info)
Paragraph 4a.C.2.b.(1.(c.(3)(h)[1.[a.[1],
below, who spent years researching his family's history. Bruce also authored The History of Green Street Monthly Meeting
of Friends.
4. Charles
Morgan Biles: (more info)
Paragraph 4a.C.5.b.(9.(a.(6)(g)[3.[a.,
below.
Ancient
Biles Coat of Arms:
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William Biles, I (1644
- 1710) (more
info)
1. William’s parents: Alexander, Jr.
and Dorothy
(Strong) Biles
2. William’s birth: 18 September 1644 at Dorchester/Shillingstone, Dorset County, England.
William’s death: 10
March 1710;
interred 19 May 1710 in Falls Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania; will dated 5 January 1709; interred Solebury
Friends Burying Ground, Solebury Township, Bucks
County, Pennsylvania.
3. Other
biographical notes on William:
On 26 October 1660 matriculated
at Exeter College in Cornwall, England.
He received his BA degree in 1664 and an MA degree in 1667. Joined the Society of Friends (Quakers) in
1672 and was a leader of that group at Yorkshire, England. Religious prejudices in England (and
elsewhere) made life difficult for Quakers.
William Penn offered religious freedom in his colony along the Delaware
River basin in North America; Quakers were not welcome in other North American
colonies.
William, about age
34, (and his youngest brother, Charles,
about age 13, who was also a Quaker) immigrated to America from All Saints Parish, Dorchester, Dorset County,
England (via the port of Weymouth in Dorset Co.) with his wife, their five
children, and two indentured servants, a boy (Edward Hancock) and girl (Elizabeth
Petty), bound to him for 8 and 7 years, respectively. After their terms of service to William, each
servant was guaranteed to receive "the Governor's allowance" - 50
acres of land. Three more children were
born in America. On 4 April 1679 they arrived at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania aboard the
sailing ship "Elizabeth and Sarah" out of Weymouth, Dorset County,
England. Pemberton's List of Arrivals
described their arrival: "William Biles, of Dorchester, in the County of
Dorset, vile monger, and Johannah, his wife, arrived
in Delaware river, in the 'Elizabeth & Sarah' of Waymouth,
the 4th of the 4th Mo 1679."
Initially they took up residence
in Burlington Township, in western New Jersey.
Shortly thereafter (late 1679 or early 1680) they relocated further up
the Delaware River near Trenton Falls, Bucks County, Pennsylvania - a location
called Crewcorne (1st settlement of modern day
Morrisville Borough, Pennsylvania. They were the
earliest of their surname (spelled "Byles"
in England) to be recorded in the vicinity of Pennsylvania. Of interest, the ship's register of
passengers did not list a wife or other dependents of William’s brother,
Charles.
Stepping back in time for a moment, in 1664
Charles II granted to his brother, the Duke of York, the territory from New
York to New Jersey, and the Duke took action to secure his grant. Conflict with the Dutch followed, and it was
following this period that New Amsterdam and New Amstel
were renamed, respectively, New York and New Castle. In the fall of 1674 Sir Edmund Andros arrived
to head the government, as Governor, on behalf of the Duke of York.
The colonies along the Delaware River, as
elsewhere, grew in population quickly during the 1670s. Some 800 settlers arrived in New Jersey in
the year 1679 through William Penn’s agency alone and real estate for their
sustainment was quickly becoming an issue for the government. Some of the earlier, but many of the later
arrivals were attracted to the west side of the River, so in July 1679 Governor
Andros directed Philip Pocock, the surveyor for New
Castle, to lay out lands below the falls, on the west side of the Delaware,
“for several persons lately come out of England, destitute of land.” These persons appear to have applied directly
to the Governor for grants of land and received them without going through
established procedures, which involved consideration by the Court.
In accordance with regulations then in force,
the lands were laid out with a river frontage in proportion to the amount of
land purchased, and extending inland for quantity. Of these plats the nearest to the falls was a
tract of 478 acres, with an island “lying over against it,” granted to John
Wood. Adjoining it on the lower side was
a tract of 205 acres granted to Daniel Brindson, and
others in consecutive order down the river were tracts of 213 acres to John Acreman, 218 acres to Richard Ridgeway, 173 acres to William Biles, 121 acres to Joshua Boare,
177 acres to Richard Lucas, and 180 acres, with a small island, to Gilbert
Wheeler. All of these settlers were from
New Jersey.
About 1680, for the sum of 10 pounds, William
and Charles Biles purchased (without deed) from Native Americans in the area an
island across from Trenton Falls, New Jersey.
Deed for this island issued 19 Mar 1729 to William Biles, II for an
additional 7 pounds worth of Indian goods.
To this day that island is called Biles Island (about 300 acres; located
about 1 mile below the falls). William’s
son, William, II, built a brick home there (with bricks imported from England)
and opened it to other Quakers as a Monthly Meeting
place on 2 May 1683. They met there, in
his kitchen, and in other area homes, until 1690, when the Falls Meeting House
was built. The local Court was also held
there a few times. Subsequently the
Fairless Steel Company bought the island and built a factory there.
At the March Court in 1681 William Biles was
granted an additional tract of 150 acres, which was subsequently increased to
300, possibly by the purchase of Robert Hoskin’s
estate, the care of which had been entrusted to William Biles by Robert Hoskin’s heirs in England.
During this period William Biles was a prominent citizen and
distinguished preacher among the Friends - very well respected. He held numerous governmental posts, including
member of the Upland County Court and Delegate from the falls area to the
Provincial Council and Pennsylvania Assembly.
He was also one of the signers of “Penn’s Great Charter.”
William Biles' outspoken, principled nature
made friends, as well as enemies, some of the latter being quite influential,
such as William Penn and his various appointees and supporters. Then, as now, some people in the Colony, such
as William Biles, favored decentralized (bottom up), limited government, with
an emphasis on specified, individual rights, while others supported a more
centralized (top down) governance from a privileged ruling class. A 1704 letter
to William Penn from a supporter said: "That ridiculous old man, W. Biles,
frequently affirms they [Assembly members] will never grant one penny on any
account till they have all their privileges explained and confirmed."
Temperatures between the two groups in Pennsylvania reached a peak about
1705, when William Biles called for removal of the Lieutenant Governor, John
Evans, in a speech before the Assembly.
Though feelings were hurt, and the divide got deeper for a period of
time, it appears all parties remained civil, non-violent, and
"friends" (of a sort), as one would expect from devote Quakers, who
continued to share fundamental beliefs.
William Penn established his colony of
Pennsylvania in 1682 after working on it throughout the previous year. Since 1674 Penn had been one of the trustees of
Fenwick and Byllinge for disposition of their lands
in West New Jersey, and had been so active in promoting that area’s
colonization that some 1400 people had settled there.
William Biles was mentioned in
his mother’s will (in England) in 1692 as being “in Pensilvania
or Elsewhere.” Considering the proximity
of this William Biles and his family in Bucks County, Pennsylvania to the known
early Ancestors of John Addison Biles in Bucks County, it's
highly likely they are directly related, but
no proof has been found.
4a. William, I’s 1st marriage:
A. To
whom: Johanna
Hellard (also seen: Johanah)
1.
Johanna’s parents: Thomas, Jr. and Elizabeth (Money) Hellard,
who were married 11 May 1650 at Bishopsgate, London,
England.
2.
Johanna’s birth: about 1646 at Dorchester, Dorset County, England.
Johanna’s
death: 4 September 1687 in Falls Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, perhaps from
complications of the widespread disease and death that followed a severe flood
in May of 1687; interred Solebury Friends Burying
Ground, Solebury Township, Bucks County,
Pennsylvania.
B.
Marriage date & location: 6 May 1669 at Dorchester, Dorset County, England.
C. Children:
1. Elizabeth Biles:
Born 3 June 1670 (per Friends records held at
Devonshire House, London, England) at Dorchester, Dorset County, England;
baptized 14 June 1670 in All Saints', Dorchester, Dorset, England. Died 17 September 1767, age 97, in Buckingham
Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (also seen: d. 27 Sep 1739). Immigrated to North America with her parents
on aboard the sailing vessel "Elizabeth & Sarah," arriving on the
Delaware River 4 June 1679.
Elizabeth Biles married (1st), at her
father’s residence in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Stephen Beakes/Beaks
(b. 28 Feb 1664/68 at Blackwell, Somerset, England, baptized 28 Feb 1665 at
Bristol, Gloucester, England, d. 10 Jun 1700, age 31, in Bucks Co., PA), on 31
October 1688 (recorded at Middletown Monthly Meeting of Friends; permission to
marry recorded 1 Aug 1688 at the Falls Monthly Meeting of Friends), son of
William and Mary Beakes, who arrived in Bucks County,
Pennsylvania in 1682 from Blackwell, Somersetshire, England. Stephen was a member of the Pennsylvania
Assembly in 1697. Elizabeth and Stephen
had 5 children: (order uncertain)
a. James Beakes:
Born 5 June 1689 (per Falls Monthly Meeting of Friends records) in Falls
Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died before 5 May 1699.
Not mentioned in the will of William, I, dated
5 January 1709.
b. Mary Beakes: Born
9 September 1690 (per Falls Monthly Meeting of Friends records) at Solebury, Solebury Township,
Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died there September 1756.
Married James Hambleton (b. abt 1692 at Solebury, Bucks Co., PA, d. there 9 Jul 1750) in April 1713
at Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania and had children.
c. John Beakes: Born
about 1692 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Died about 1731.
d. Grace Beakes:
Born about 1695 in Falls Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died 19 August 1742 in Philadelphia County,
Pennsylvania; interred Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pennsylvania. Married Thomas
Howard (b. abt 1697 in Burlington Co., NJ, d. 25 Dec
1748 at Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA) and had children.
e. Elizabeth Beakes:
Born 15 March 1698 (per Falls Monthly Meeting of Friends records) in Falls Township,
Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Apparently
died before 5 January 1709, since not mentioned in the will of William, I.
Widow Elizabeth (Biles) Beakes
married (2nd) Matthew Hughes/Hewes
(b. abt 1670 at Newtown, Queens Borough, New York, d. 3 Sep 1766 in Buckingham
Twp, Bucks Co., PA), perhaps son of Uriah Hughes and grandson of Humphrey
Hughes of Cape Day, New Jersey (also seen: son of Humphrey, IV and Mary
(Groom?) Hughes), between 7 January and 3 June 1702 in Bucks
County, Pennsylvania. Mathew
Hughes moved to Bucks County, Pennsylvania from Long Island, New York about
1696. He was a man of distinction,
having represented his county for 15 consecutive years (1723 - 1738) in the
Pennsylvania Assembly. Elizabeth and
Mathew had 10 children, including:
f. Mathew Hughes, Jr.: (titles: Lt Col &
professor). Born 4 July 1703 in Buckingham Township, Bucks
County, Pennsylvania. Died 23
October 1755, age 52 (before his father) in Plumstead
Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Was a Lieutenant Colonel of the Bucks County Regiment from 1747 to 1748.
Matthew Hughes, Jr. married Elizabeth
Sarah Stevenson (b. 31 Jan 1711 in Middletown Twp, Bucks Co., PA, d. 17
Jan/Jul 1767 in Bucks Co., PA; interred Buckingham Friends Cem., Lahaska Twp,
Bucks Co., PA), daughter of Thomas, III (b. 1674) and Elizabeth Sarah
(Jennings) (Pennington) Stevenson (b. 8 Dec 1686; interred 12 Jun 1733 in the
Friends graveyard, Middleton, Bucks Co., PA), on 17/4 March 1733 (recorded at
the Middletown Monthly Meeting of Friends) in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and
had the following children: (order uncertain)
(1. Matthew Hughes, III: Born 3 January
1733/34 in Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died 27 January 1810 in Plumstead Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Married Jane Rogers and had at least one son.
(2. George Hughes: Born 17 October 1735 in
Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died about 1766. Married (?) in 1759 in Middletown Township,
Bucks County, Pennsylvania and had at least one son.
(3. Elizabeth Hughes: Born 21 January 1737/38
in Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died 4 November 1801 in Solebury Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Married Joshua Ely (b. 17 Mar 1733/16 Apr
1730 at Trenton, Hunterdon Co., NJ, d. 11 Mar 1805 in
Bucks Co., PA) on 22 November 1758 in Buckingham Township, Bucks County,
Pennsylvania and had children.
(4. Isaac Hughes: Born 15 April 1740 in
Middletown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died 23 April 1803 at
Hughesville, Loudoun County, Virginia.
Married Mary Warne (b. 25 Jul 1743 in Cranbury Twp, Middlesex Co., NJ,
d. after 23 Apr 1803 in Loudoun Co., VA; interred Leesburg Presbyterian Church
Cem., Leesburg, Loudoun Co., VA) about 1763 in Loudoun County, Virginia and
resided there. Isaac and Mary had
several children, including:
(a. Mary
Hughes: Born about 1778 in Loudon
County, Virginia. Died
about 1825 in Hopkins County, Kentucky.
Married Samuel Craig (b. abt 1776 in Loudoun Co., VA, d.
8 Sep 1842 in Hanson Twp, Hopkins Co., KY) on 13 October 1796 in Loudoun
County, Virginia and had several children.
This Craig family was also in Rowan County, North Carolina and in
Dorchester, England.
(5. Hannah Hughes: Born 7 May 1742 in Plumstead Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died 18 April 1791 in
Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Married (as his 2nd wife) Lieutenant Colonel
John Wilkinson, Jr. (b. abt 1711 in Wrightstown Twp, Bucks Co., PA (also seen:
b. Hunterdon, NJ), d. 31 May 1782 in Wrightstown Twp, Bucks Co., PA), son of
John Wilkinson, Sr. and grandson of Captain Samuel Wilkinson of Rhode Island,
on 5 February 1770 in Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. John Wilkinson, Jr. represented his county in
the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1761, 1762, 1781, and 1882. In 1763 he was appointed a member of the
committee to audit the accounts of Benjamin Franklin. He served as a Justice of the Court of Common
Pleas, which had jurisdiction over local affairs during preparations for the
Revolutionary War. He was also a member
of the Constitutional Convention that met 15 July 1776. John Wilkinson, Jr. had first married Mary
Lacey, daughter of John Lacey. He and
Hannah had the following children:
(a. Martha
Wilkinson: Born December 1770 in Wrightstown Township, Bucks County,
Pennsylvania. Died
April 1842. Married
(?) Bennett.
(b. Ann Lacey Wilkinson: Married General
Samuel Smith.
(c. Hannah
Wilkinson: Married Abner Reeder on 22 May 1796.
(d. Colonel Elisha
Wilkinson: Born about 1772 in Wrightstown Township, Bucks County,
Pennsylvania. Died 16 March 1846 at
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred Wrightstown Friends
Cemetery. Married (1st) Anna Dungan (b. abt 1770 in Northampton Twp, Bucks Co., PA, d. 31 May 1810 in Bucks Co., PA) on 11 April 1792 and had
several children. Married (2nd) Maria
Whiteman (b. abt 1773 in NJ, d. abt 1867 at Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA)
and had at least one son.
(6. Sarah Hughes: Born 3 October 1744 in Plumstead Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
(7. Humphrey Hughes: Born 9 March 1747 in Plumstead Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
(8. Mary Hughes: Born 26 September 1749 in Buckingham
Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Married Thomas Wood (b. abt 1745 in Bucks
Co., PA, d. abt 1817 at Plumsteadville, Plumstead Twp, Bucks Co., PA) on 12 November 1767 in
Pennsylvania and had children.
(9. Thomas A. Hughes: Born 10 January 1752
(also seen: b. 1 Oct 1751) in Plumstead Township,
Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died 18 July
1822 in Loudoun County, Virginia; interred Goose Creek Burying Ground, Lincoln,
Loudoun County, Virginia. Married Sarah Schooley (b. 31 Jan 1760 per Fairfax Monthly Meeting,
Loudoun Co., VA, d. 5 Dec 1845 at Waterford, Loudoun Co., VA; interred Franklin
Cem., Franklin Twp, Ripley Co., IN) about 13 January 1779, when recorded by the
Fairfax Monthly Meeting of Friends, Loudoun County, Virginia and had children.
(10. Constantine Hughes: Born 8 September
1754 in Plumstead Township, Bucks County,
Pennsylvania. Died about 1823; interred
Goose Creek Burying Ground, Lincoln, Loudoun County, Virginia. Married Elizabeth Moon Janney
(b. 15 Oct 1753 in Loudoun Co., VA, d. 29 Apr 1823 in Waterford Twp, Loudoun
Co., VA) about 10 January 1782, when recorded by the Goose Creek Monthly
Meeting of Friends, Loudon County, Virginia, and had children.
g. George Hughes: Born about 1710 in Bucks
County, Pennsylvania. Died
10 April 1795 in Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
h. Elias Hughes. Born about
1720 in Pennsylvania. Died about 1793 in Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Married, perhaps 3rd) Rebecca Wright (b. abt
1720) on 6 September 1746 at Christ Church, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County,
Pennsylvania and had children.
i. Uriah Hughes: Born about 1722 in Bucks
County, Pennsylvania. Died
before March 1784 in Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Married Jennett
Hartley (b. 1710 at Lahaska, Bucks Co., PA, d. 1784 in Solebury
Twp, Bucks Co., PA) in late 1731 or early 1732 (recorded at the 14 Jan 1732
Buckingham Monthly Meeting of Friends); apparently no children.
2. William Biles, II: (more info)
Born 12 January 1671 (per Friends records
held at Devonshire House, London, England) in Dorchester, Dorset County,
England; baptized there 12 January 1672.
Died 17 September 1739 in Falls Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania; his
will, dated 3 December 1737, was proved 27 September 1739. Immigrated to North America with his parents
on aboard the sailing vessel "Elizabeth & Sarah," arriving on the
Delaware River on 4 June 1679.
Married Sarah Langhorne (b. 17 Nov 1675 at
Strickland Ketel, Westmorland Co., England, d. abt
1730 in Bucks Co., PA), daughter of Reverend Thomas Langhorne
(b. abt 1633 in England, d. 6 Aug/Oct 1687? in Middletown Twp, Bucks Co., PA,
just two years after emigrating from England) and Grace (Whitehead) Langhorne,
shortly after 1 January 1695, when William asked the Falls Monthly Meeting of
Friends for permission to marry.
William, II and Sarah (Langhorne) Biles
settled near the falls in Falls Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania and grew
exceptionally prosperous and influential.
William was a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly from 1721 to 1724.
In 1726 William Biles, II built a large brick
residence next to the Delaware River about 3 miles south of Morrisville and
opposite Biles Island, which he also owned.
Inherited from his father "all the rest [of his estate, following
all other, by name bequeaths], residue of my lands in West Jersey, etc."
William, II and Sarah (Langhorne) Biles had 9
children:
a. Thomas Biles: Born 30/31 August 1696 in
Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died about 1743.
Married Elizabeth Lambert “Elizabeth” (more info)
(b. 14 Sep 1703 in Burlington Twp, Burlington Co., NJ, d. abt 1771 in NJ; will
dated 21 Aug 1764, proved 1771), daughter of Thomas and Margaret A. (Scott)
Lambert of Nottingham, Burlington County, New Jersey, on 5 February 1730
(permission granted 5 Dec 1729 at the Chesterfield (New Jersey) monthly meeting
of Friends).
Of interest, neither Thomas, nor his wife,
were mentioned in the Dec 1737 will of his father, William Biles, II, though
both apparently were still alive at the time, and their children (Thomas &
Margaret Biles) were mentioned in William's will.
Thomas and Elizabeth (Lambert) Biles had the
following children:
(1. Thomas Biles, Jr.: Born 5 February 1729
in Burlington County, New Jersey. Died afte 14 January 1754, when will was dated; proved 8
February 1754. Resided
in Salem County, New Jersey. Mentioned in the 12 Feb 1732 will of his grandfather, Thomas
Lambert. Inherited from Judge
Jeremiah Langhorne the 800 acre plantation called "Langhorne Park."
Thomas Biles, Jr. married, as her 1st
husband, Sarah Mullen (b. abt 1731 in NJ), daughter of John and Elizabeth
(Edwards) Mullen, about 1753 and had the following son:
(a. Thomas Langhorne
Biles: Born January 1754. Died about 17
January 1775 in New Jersey, when will was dated. Apparently did not marry or have children.
Sarah (Mullen) Biles married (2nd), as his
2nd wife, John Ely/Eley (b. abt 1735 in Trenton Twp,
Hunterdon Co., NJ, d. 20 Jul 1767 in Hunterton Co.,
NJ), son of William and Jemima (Hunt) Ely, by about 1757 and moved to England,
where they had the following children:
(b. Mary Ely: Born
about 1758 in England; baptized there 4 February 1758. Died about 1784 in England. Married Joseph Kyme
(b. 7 Jul 1755 in England, d. there 11 May 1810) on 26 August 1778 in England
and had children.
(c. Elizabeth Ely:
Born ; baptized 8 February 1755 in England.
(2. Margaret Biles: Born about 1738 in New
Jersey. Died between
28 April 1779 and 31 October 1781.
Mentioned in the 12 Feb 1732 will of her grandfather,
Thomas Lambert. Married (1st)
Daniel Byles from New York (no close relation to
Margaret), owner of Kingwood Iron Works in New Jersey and had the following
son:
(a. Major Thomas
Lambert Byles: Died 16 April 1780; killed in action
by the British in Paramus Borough, Bergen County, New Jersey while serving with
the 3rd Regiment. Married (?) and had
the following daughter:
(1) Sarah Byles.
Margaret (Biles) Byles
married (2nd), as his 1st wife, Robert Lettis Hooper,
II of Kinsbury before 3 July 1759. Robert Hooper was a Lieutenant in the 10th
Regiment, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.
Robert and Margaret had the following children:
(b. Robert Lettis Hooper, III.
(c. Thomas Hooper.
Robert Lettis Hooper,
II married (2nd) Mrs. Elizabeth Erskine on 31 January 1781. He was administrator of the estate of Major
Thomas Langhorne Biles.
b. Charles Biles: (more
info) Born 1697/99 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died 7 July 1759 at home in Southampton
Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania; will dated 7 February 1754 and proved 7
August 1759. Earlier
resided in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Charles Biles married Ann Mary Baker (per
will; also seen: Mary Ann) (b. 16 Sep/Oct 1704 in Falls Twp, Bucks Co., PA, d.
16 Feb 1760 in Bucks Co., PA), daughter of Samuel and Rachel (Warder) Baker, on
28 July 1728 in Burlington County, New Jersey.
Was condemned on 4 April 1729 by his Monthly Meeting
of Friends for “marriage out of unity.”
Charles and Ann Mary Biles were granted a
certificate to move their membership from the Falls Monthly Meeting to the
Buckingham Monthly Meeting on 2 April 1732.
Charles and Ann had the following children: (order uncertain)
(1. Samuel Biles: Born late 1732 or early
1733 in Covington Township, Goochland County, Virginia. Died before 1777 in Bucks
County, Pennsylvania. Eldest son;
thus named executor of his father’s 1754 will and over age 21 at that
time. Inherited from
his father "the old place," or 240 acres thereof in Southampton
Township, Burlington County, New Jersey.
On 5 January 1758 Samuel Biles received a certificate
from the Middletown Monthly Meeting of Friends to marry Martha Jones (b. abt
1731 at Philadelphia, PA, d. 24 May 1792 in Southampton Twp, Bucks Co., PA), daughter of John and Mary (Doughty) Jones of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, and that marriage took place 9 February 1758 at the Philadelphia
Meeting House. On 26 May 1758 Martha was
granted a certificate [of membership] in the Middletown Monthly Meeting. On 25 April 1760 Samuel and his wife, Martha,
were granted a certificate of membership in the Middletown Monthly
Meeting. Samuel went with the Tory Army
prior to the Revolutionary War and never returned.
(a. Mary/Martha Biles: Born about 1755 in
Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Married
Obadiah Willet/Willett (b. abt 1754 in Nassau Twp, Rensselaer Co., NY, d. 20
Mar 1847 at Southampton, Bucks Co., PA); recorded at the 2 March 1780
Middletown Monthly Meeting of Friends (see pg. 223), where "women friends
brought testimony against Mary Willett, late Mary Biles." Martha and Obadiah had the following children:
(1) Samuel Willet: Born about 1783 in
Southampton Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died after 1850 in Bucks
County, Pennsylvania.
(2) Sarah Willet: Born about 1785 in Lower
Southampton Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
(3) Charles Willet: Born about 1788 in Lower
Southampton Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
(4) Martha B. Willet: Born about 1789 in
Lower Southampton Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died after 1850 in Bucks
County, Pennsylvania.
(5) Deborah Willet: Born about 1790 in Lower
Southampton Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Married Augustus Mitchell
(b. abt 1790 in Bucks Co., PA) about 1815.
(6) Rebecca Willet: Born about 1793 in Lower
Southampton Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Married Samuel Duvall/Durell
(b. 4 May 1790 at Liverpool St. Nicholas, Liverpool Co., England) about 1820 in
Bucks County, Pennsylvania and had children.
(7) Julia Willet. (perhaps)
(8) Mary Willet: Born about 1800 in
Southampton Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Married Franklin Vansant (b. 19 Feb 1802 in
Bucks Co., PA, d. 20 Jul 1871; interred Boydton, Mecklenburg Co., VA) about 1825 in Bucks County,
Pennsylvania and had children.
(b. Sarah Biles: Born about 1759 in Falls
Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died there 9 January 1760.
(c. Charles Biles: Born about 1762/63 in New
London Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
Died 21 February 1852, age 89, in Southampton Township, Bucks County,
Pennsylvania. Married (1st) Rachel Leedom (b. 20 Feb 1763 in Middletown Twp, Bucks
Co., PA (also seen: b. Wrightstown, Wrightstown Twp, Bucks Co., PA), d. after
1821), daughter of John and Ruth (Strickland) Leedom
(also seen: dau of Richard and Sarah (Twining) Leedom), on 31 December 1783 in Southampton Township, Bucks
County, Pennsylvania and moved to Chester County, Pennsylvania, where he
purchased more than 300 acres of land from the Vandergrits
brothers, one mile east of New London, Pennsylvania. The deed was dated 17 April 1799. 170 acres of that property remained in his
family until 1932. Charles and Rachel
had the following children:
(1) William Bailey Biles: Born about 1783 at
New London, New London Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Died 8 May 1864 in Cecil County, Maryland;
interred Rosebank Cemetery, Calvert Township, Cecil
County, Maryland. Married Mercy Bye (b.
abt 1783 in Chester Co., PA, d. 22 Oct 1855 in Cecil
Co., PA) and had the following children:
(a)
Charles Ross Biles, I: Born April 1810 in Cecil County, Maryland. Died 24 June 1859; interred Calvert, Cecil
County, Maryland. Married Catherine R.
Oldham (b. abt 1813 in Cecil Co., MD, d. abt 1888)
about 1835 in Cecil County, Maryland and resided on a farm near Blue Ball, Maryland. Charles and Catherine had the following
children:
[1. Anna McCarer
Biles: Born 20 July 1836 in the Village of Blue Ball, Cecil County, Maryland. Died 24 January 1907 in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Married Francis James Darlington (b. 23 Apr
1840 in West Chester Twp, Chester Co., PA, d. 14 Nov 1897 in Chester Co., PA),
son of William (b. 19 Oct 1804, d. 6 Dec 1879) and Catherine (Paxson) Darlington (and grandson of Abraham and Susanna (?)
Darlington), on 9 November 1860 in Cecil County, Maryland and resided at West
Chester, Pennsylvania. Anna and Francis
had the following children:
[a. Lillian Victoria
Darlington: Born 24 August 1861 in West Chester Township, Chester County,
Pennsylvania. Died 29 June 1942 in
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia; interred Macon, Bibb County, Georgia. Married Henry Ittner
(b. 1855 in Germany, d. ; interred Riverside Cem.,
Macon, Bibb Co., GA) about 1882 and had children.
[b. Isabella
Darlington: Born 7 March 1863 in East Marlborough, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Died Henry Township, Hampton County, Georgia;
interred Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia.
Married Robert William Careron (b. abt 1860)
about 1884 and had children.
[c. William
Darlington: Born 30 August 1864 in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Died 15 August 1897; interred PA. Never married.
[d. Charles Ross
Darlington: Born 13 October 1865 in East Marlborough, Chester County,
Pennsylvania. Died 31 August 1950 in
Pennsylvania; interred Goshen Friends Cemetery, West Chester Township, Chester
County, Pennsylvania. Married Minerva
"Minnie" Barnard Hoopes/Hooper (b. 13 May
1871 at Westtown, Chester Co., PA, d. 24 Mar 1943 at
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA) on 27 April 1899 in Chester County,
Pennsylvania and had a daughter.
[e. Frances Brooks
Darlington: Born 17/27 February 1870 in Westtown Township, Chester County,
Pennsylvania. Died 23 January 1928 in
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia; interred Macon, Bibb County, Georgia. Married Robert Earl Storrs (b. 3 Dec 1875 in
Tolland, Tolland Co., England, d. 13 Apr 1911 in GA; interred with Frances) on
10 August 1905 in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
[f. Ethel
Darlington: Born 15 March 1873 in Westtown Township, Chester County,
Pennsylvania.
[g. Lionel Chester
Darlington: Born 17 December 1875 in Westtown Township, Chester County,
Pennsylvania. Died 28 November 1941 in
Los Angeles County, California; interred West Chester Township, Chester County,
Pennsylvania.
[h. Eli Darlington:
Born about 1877 in Westtown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
[i.
Robert L. Darlington: Born about 1878 in Westtown Township, Chester County,
Pennsylvania.
[j. Jacob
Darlington: Born about 1879 in Westtown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
[k. Annie E.
Darlington: Born about 1880 in Westtown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
[2. Louisa B. Biles: Born 13 September 1837
in Blueball Township, Cecil County, Maryland. Died about 1901.
Resided in Rising Sun Township, Cecil County, Maryland. Married John Pierce Wilson (b. abt 1836 in
New Castle Co., DE, d. abt 1913) on 15 October 1860 in
Cecil County, Maryland and had children.
[3. George Leedom
Biles: Born 1843 near Blue Ball Township, Cecil County, Maryland. Died August 1844; interred Calvert, Cecil
County, Maryland.
[4. George Washington Biles, II: Born about
1852 near Blue Ball Township, Cecil County, Maryland. Died 1934; interred Fair Hill Township, Cecil
County, Maryland. Married Ann Louise Quein (b. 22 Nov 1856 in Providence Twp, Cecil Co., MD, d.
9 Jan 1946 in Winter Park Twp, Orange Co., FL; interred wit George) about 1872
in Cecil County, Maryland and had the following children:
[a. Charles Ross
Biles, III: Born about 1876 in Fair Hill Township, Cecil County, Maryland. Died there 12 April 1914. Married Maude Ames Feldmeyer
(b. Jul 1882 at Annapolis, Anne Arundel Co., MD, d.
there 27 Sep 1953) and had the following son:
[1] George Edward Biles: Born 15 September
1909 in Cecil County, Maryland. Died 23
November 1971 in Elkton Township, Cecil County, Maryland; interred Fair Hill,
Cecil County, Maryland. Married Edith
Beatrice Holland (b. 29 Jul 1910 at Annapolis, Anne Arundel Co., MD, d. 1 Apr 1992 in Elkton Twp, Cecil Co., MD) about 1929 and
had children.
[b. Emily Quein Biles: Born 6 November 1877 in Fair Hill Township,
Cecil County, Maryland. Died 4 May 1965;
interred Bala Cynwyd,
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Married
Clement Jones Craft (b. 17 Nov 1872 at Norristown, Montgomery Co., PA, d. 22
Jul 1943 at Oxford, Chester Co., PA; interred with Emily) on 17 February 1897
in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
[c. Helen Biles: Born about 1883 in (perhaps
Chester Co.) Pennsylvania.
[d. Ernest Biles: Born 15 October 1886 at
Lewisville, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
Died 1968; interred Fair Hill, Cecil County, Maryland. Married Elizabeth Miller (b. 24 Jul 1891 at
Mechanic Valley, Cecil Co., MD, d. 21 Nov 1989 at
Christiana, Lancaster Co., PA; interred Sharpes Cem.,
Fair Hill, Cecil Co., MD) and had children.
[5. Charles Ross Biles, II: Born 29 March
1849 near Blue Ball Township, Cecil County, Maryland. Died 30 March 1919; interred Rising Sun
Township, Cecil County, Maryland.
Married Anna "Annie" Taylor (b. 16 Feb 1852, perhaps in Cecil
Co., MD, d. 25 Feb 1929) about 1873 in Cecil County,
Maryland and had the following children.
[a. Margaret McBride
Biles: Born about 1872 in Maryland. Died
17 January 1908; interred Calvert Twp, Cecil County, Maryland. Married Harvey M./Hollan
Mackey (b. 11 Sep 1868 at Fair Hill, Cecil Co., MD, d. 6 Mar 1938 in Cecil Co.,
MD; interred with Margaret) on 12 November 1896 in Maryland and had the
following son:
[1] Charles Robert Mackey (also seen: Robert
Charles): Born 23 June 1901 in Maryland.
Died 13 August 1961 at Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware; interred
Roseband Cemetery, Maryland. Married Helen A. Wise (b. 3 Aug 1896 at
Bellefonte, Centre Co., PA, d. 26 Feb 1981 at Elkton, Cecil Co., MD; interred
Calvert, Cecil Co., MD) and resided at Elkton, Maryland. Charles and Helen had the following son:
[a] Robert Holland
Mackey: Born 2 December 1931 at Elkton, Cecil County, Maryland. Died 2 January 2018 in Newtown Square
Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania; interred Calvert, Cecil County,
Maryland. Resided in
West Chester, Pennsylvania.
[b. Katherine Oldham
Biles: Born 30 June 1876 in Blueball Township, Cecil
County, Maryland. Died 13 June 1929;
interred Calvert, Cecil County, Maryland.
Married Jesse I./T. Cameron (b. 1871, d. 1941)
on 13 March 1907 in Willow Grove Township, Worcester County, Maryland and had
the following son:
[1] Ross Biles Cameron: Born about 1901 in
Maryland. Married Phyllis Reid (b. abt
1905 in MD, d. 23 Oct 2003 in NJ) and resided at Interlaken, New Jersey. Ross and Phyllis had the following children:
[a] Ross Biles
Cameron, Jr.: Born 26 March 1941 in Asbury Park Township, Monmouth County, New
Jersey. Died 14
February 2015 in Bel Air Township, Harford County,
Maryland.
[b] Reid Cameron: Resided at Interlaken, New
Jersey.
[c. Blanche Louise
Biles: Born 12 December 1882 near Blue Ball Township, Cecil County,
Maryland. Died 1 January 1945 in
Freehold Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey; interred Rising Sun Township,
Cecil County, Maryland. Married Clifford
H. Roberson (b. abt 1880, d. 1 Apr 1951; interred with Blanche). No children.
[d. Anna M. Biles:
Born 10 June 1886 near Blue Ball Township, Cecil County, Maryland. Died 26 June 1886 in Calvert Township, Cecil
County, Maryland.
[e. George Clifford
Biles: Born 12 January 1890 near Blue Ball Township, Cecil County, Maryland. Died 25 January 1891; interred Rising Sun
Township, Cecil County, Maryland.
[f. Taylor Ross
Biles: Born 9 August 1896 near Blue Ball Township, Cecil County, Maryland. Died 7 April 1954; interred Rising Sun
Township, Cecil County, Maryland. About
1904 was Postmaster of Rising Sun, Maryland.
Married Clara Roberson (b. 27 Aug 1896 in MD, d. 1 Jan 1986) (sister of
Clifford, Para. [c., above, and Thomas B. Roberson, who m.
Ann Kirk, Para. [6.[e., below) and had the
following daughter:
[1] Ruth Roberson Biles: Born 1922 in
Maryland. Married Dr. Earl Edward
Walker, M.D. and resided near Wilmington, Delaware. Ruth and Earl had the following children:
[a] Patricia Walker.
[b] Cheryl Walker.
[c] Barbara Walker.
[6. Victoria Paxson
Biles: Born 4 November 1839 near Blue Ball Township, Cecil County,
Maryland. Died 18 January 1921; interred
Calvert, Cecil County, Maryland. Married
Samuel Mason Kirk (b. abt 1827 near Blue Ball, MD, d.
Jul 1909) on 11 January 1872 in Blue Ball Township and resided near Blue Ball,
Maryland. Victoria and Samuel had the
following children:
[a. Sidney Mason
Kirk: Born 14 November 1872 near Blue Ball Township, Cecil County,
Maryland. Died 13 May
1894.
[b. Rebecca Ann
Kirk: Born about 1874 near Blue Ball, Cecil County, Maryland. Died 26 November 1880.
[c. Louise Biles Kirk: Born 28 June 1876 in
Elkton Township, Cecil County, Maryland. Died 10 November 1962; interred Sharp's
Cemetery, Fair Hill, Cecil County, Maryland.
Married Caleb Coddington Brokaw (b. 2 Jun 1873
in Raritan Twp, Somerset Co., NJ, d. 21 Jun 1922 in Childs Twp, Cecil Co., MD;
interred with Louise) on 9 April 1908 in Cecil County, Maryland and had
children.
[d. George Paxson Kirk: Born 21 March 1880 in Cecil County, Maryland. Died 13 October 1958; interred Rising Sun,
Cecil County, Maryland. Married Ann/Anna Belle Stewart (b. 21 Mar
1886 in Cecil Co., MD, d. there 8 Jul 1981).
[e. Ann Langtry
Kirk: Born 27 October 1881 near Blue Ball, Cecil County, Maryland. Died 28 November 1967. Married Thomas B. Roberson (b. abt 1880, d.
Dec 1954; interred Rising Sun Twp, Cecil Co., MD), brother of Clara Roberson,
who married Taylor Ross Biles, paragraph [5.[d.,
above, and had the following daughter:
[1] Daughter: Resided in Arlington County,
Virginia (just across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C.
(b) Anna Eliza
Biles: Born about 1811 in Kimberton Township, Chester
County, Pennsylvania. Died 17 August
1875 in Chester County, Pennsylvania; interred New London Presbyterian Church,
New London, New London Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Married John Davis Wherry
(b. 17 Apr 1807 in Chester Co., PA, d. there 23 Jun
1881; interred with Anna) on 6 March 1832 in Cecil County, Maryland and had
children.
(c) John Leedom Biles:
Born 8 May 1812 in Pennsylvania.
(d) George
Washington Biles, I: Born 8 May 1812 in Pennsylvania.
(e) Sarah Ann Biles:
14 July 1819 in Pennsylvania. Married
Josiah Franklin Kirk (b. 6 Nov 1816 in Chester Co., PA, d. Calvert, Cecil Co.,
MD) on 13 May 1841 and had children.
(f) William Bailey Biles, Jr.: Born 18
February 1826 in Pennsylvania. Died 20
Apr 1901 in Blue Ball Township, Cecil County, Maryland; interred Calvert, Cecil
County, Maryland. Married Ann Eliza
Gregg (b. 18 Aug 1838 in Chester Co., PA, d. 28 Jun 1915 in Blue Ball Twp,
Cecil Co., MD; interred with William) and had children.
(2) John Biles: Born about 1784 at New
London, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
Died there 2/3/23 September 1864; interred Broad Creek Quaker Cemetery
near Dublin, Harford County, Maryland.
Married Mary Elizabeth Fana/Farra (b. 25 Dec 1784/1781 in Chester Co., PA, d. 23 Mar
1861 at New London, Chester Co., PA; interred with John), daughter of Oliver Fana/Farra and granddaughter of
John Farra, about 1817 and had the following
children:
(a) Charles “Belchfire
Charlie” Biles: Born 22 October 1819 at New London, Chester County,
Pennsylvania. Died 23 July 1893/92 in
Red Lion Borough, York County, Pennsylvania; interred Broad Creek Friends
Burying Ground, Harford County, Maryland.
Married (1st) Elizabeth Cook Jackson (b. 31 Mar 1822 at Unionville, East
Marlborough Twp, Chester Co., PA, d. 11 Mar 1860 at Mill Green, Harford Co.,
MD), daughter of Joshua and Sarah (Cook) Jackson (b. 31 Mar 1822 in Unionville,
PA, d. 11 Mar 1860 at Millgreen, MD), on 20 February
1840 in Pennsylvania and had the following 9 children:
[1. Jesse Kersey Biles: Born 21 July 1841/42
in Harford County, Maryland. Died 21 May
1933 in Burns Township, Marion County, Kansas; interred Pleasant Hill Cemetery,
Richardson County, Nebraska. Married
(1st) Victoria/Victorine Louise Miles (b. 12 Aug 1851
at Marion, Marion Co., KS, d. 29 July 1896), daughter
of Stephen B. Miles, on 22/17 October 1868 in Harford County, Maryland and had
the following children:
[a. William Edward
Biles: Born 6 February 1870 at Marion, Marion County, Kansas. Died 21 August 1871 in Nebraska; interred Iliff Cemetery, Richardson County, Nebraska.
[b. Warren Cooper
Biles: Born 30 March 1871 at Marion, Marion County, Kansas. Died 21 August 1871, age 4
months.
[c. Mina Katherine
Biles: Born 24 February 1872 in Salem Township, Richardson County,
Nebraska. Died 10 September 1953 in
Keene Township, Johnson County, Texas; interred Fort Worth, Tarrant County,
Texas. Married (1st)
Whittington. Married (2nd) Joseph
Irvin Funk (b. 9 Feb 1868 in LaHarpe Twp, Hancock
Co., IL, d. 28 Jan 1950 in Mansfield Twp, Tarrant Co., TX; interred with Mina)
on 28 October 1891 and had children.
Jesse Kersey Biles married (2nd) Emily Ethel
Miller (b. 4 Feb 1880 in Burns Twp, Marion Co., KS, d. 8 Dec 1954 at Des
Moines, Polk Co., IA), daughter of William (b. 13 Oct 1833 at Waldeek, Province, Germany, d. 21 Jul 1922 at Bern, KS) and
Margaret (Spack) Miller, on 7 April 1899 and had the
following daughter:
[d. Pansy Luverna
Biles “Verna”: Born 14 June 1900 in Burns Township, Marion County, Kansas. Died 8 July
1993; interred Bern Cemetery, Nemaha County, Kansas. Married (1st) Everett Earl Germain (b. 10 Aug 1890 in NE, d. 25 Jul 1935/45 at
Lincoln, Lancaster Co., NE; interred with Pansy), son of Omar Abel and Nellie
Madge (Harvey) Germain, on 22 June 1920. Note:
Pansy researched and co-authored the portion of Bryan W. Biles’ book How Green Was Our Valley that resulted in most of the
information displayed on this page.
Pansy and Everett had the following children:
[1] June Elizabeth Germain:
(photos) Born
2/21 August 1921 at Burns, Marion County, Kansas. Died 29 March 2004 in
Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Attended the 1977 Biles Reunion in Bradford County,
Pennsylvania. Married Thomas Lincoln Felber, son of
Harry A. and Sadie (?) Felber, on 21 June 1963
and resided at Shaker Heights (suburb of Cleveland), Cuyahoga County, Ohio.
[2] Willard Warren Germain:
Born 23/25 May 1925 at Burns, Marion County, Kansas. Died 2 August 1965. Married Majorie
F. Cooper on 8 December 1963.
[3] Son: Died at birth 12 September 1931.
[4] Robert Earl Germain:
Born 13 July 1932 at Bern, Kansas. Married Leaona M. Janedae
on 8 December 1955.
Pansy Luverna
(Biles) Germain married (2nd) William Dewey Jordon
(b. 5 May/Mar 1898 at Wellington, KS, d. 1967; interred Hutchinson, Reno Co.,
KS), son of George and Rosetta (Plank) Jordan, on 1 December 1950 and resided
at 315 W. Sherman Street, Hutchinson, Kansas.
[2. John Bailey Biles: Born 15 December 1842
in Harford County, Maryland. Died 23
September 1909; interred Emery United Methodist Cemetery, near Street, Harford
County, Maryland. Married Ellen Jane
Pyle (b. 22 Jul 1853 in MD, d. 4 Nov 1936 in MD; interred with John) on 29
March/2 April 1879 in Harford County, Maryland and had the following children:
[a. Ida Belle Biles:
Born 6 January 1880 in Harford County, Maryland. Died 6 February 1961. Married Wilbur Augustus
Harvey (b. 1884, d. 1944) on 18 July 1905; no children.
[b. Mary Bertha
Biles: Born 22 March 1892. Died 11 March 1949.
Married Frank Kilgore Ramsey (b. 23/24 Dec 1891 in Delta Co., PA, d. Jun
1974 in Street Twp, Harford Co., MD) on 24 Dec 1919; no children.
[3. Mary Emma Biles: Born 10 November 1844 in
Harford County, Maryland. Died 20 January 1848.
[4. Sarah Louise Biles: Born 27 September
1846 in Pennsylvania. Died 9/10 February
1933 in Harford County, Maryland.
Married Charles Allen (b. 13 Nov 1845 in MD, d. 12 Jun 1911 in Cardiff
Twp, Harford Co., MD; interred Emory United Methodist Church Cem., Street,
Harford Co., MD) and had the following children:
[a. Florence Marion Allen: Born 18 January
1868 in Maryland. Died
15 July 1958. Married William
Willis Burkins (b. Jul 1868 in MD, d. 2 Oct 1914 in
Harford Co., MD) about 1890 and had the following children:
[1] Ellis Stanley Burkins:
Born 15 January 1892 in Harford County, Maryland. Died 30 May 1940; interred Red Lion Cemetery,
York County, Pennsylvania. Married Edna P. Kernan (b. 1891) on 26
January 1911 in York County, Pennsylvania.
[2] Etta Marie Burkins:
Born about 1897 in Harford County, Maryland.
Married (?) Triplett and resided at Pylesville, Maryland.
[b. Howard Nelson
Allen: Born 8 July 1870 in Maryland.
Died 29 October 1956; interred Emory United Methodist Church Cemetery,
Street, Harford County, Maryland.
Married Margaretta S. Jarvis (b. 1873 in PA, d. ; interred with Howard) about 1891 in Maryland and had the
following children: (order uncertain)
[1] Minnie V. Allen: Born 10 November 1892 in
Street Township, Harford County, Maryland.
[2] Lillian Estella Allen: Born 2 August 1895
in Street Township, Harford County, Maryland.
Died 15 September 1987 in Red Lion Township, York County, Pennsylvania;
interred Red Lion Cemetery, Windsor Township, York County, Pennsylvania. Married Quay McKinley Minnich
(b. 13 May 1896 at Red Lion, PA, d. 11 May 1992 in
Rest Haven Nursing Center, Spring Garden Twp, York Co., PA) on 9 September 1915
at Red Lion, York County, Pennsylvania and had children.
[3] Bertha L. Allen: Born 24 March 1896 in
Harford County, Maryland. Died 18
February 1940 in Chanceford Township, York County,
Pennsylvania; interred New Bridgeville, York County, Pennsylvania. Married Ivan Charles Frye (b. 17 Apr 1893 in
York Co., PA, d. there 29 May 1964).
[4] Mary Beatrice Allen: Born January 1898 in
Harford County, Maryland.
[5] Howard Allen: Born February 1900 in
Harford County, Maryland.
[6] Clarence W. Allen: Born about 1901 in
Maryland.
[7] Ethel J. Allen: Born 14 October 1902 in
Harford County, Maryland. Died 11 July
1993 in Pennsylvania; interred Conestoga Memorial Park, Lancaster Township,
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Married
Robert Jerome Mowery (b. 4 March 1900 in PA, d. Mar 1973 in PA; interred with
Ethel).
[c. William Heywood
Allen “Doc”: Born 14 December 1871 in Maryland.
Died 3 September 1953 at Dallas, Dallas County, Texas. Married Mary Thomas (b. 12 Nov 1873 at
Scranton, Lackawanna Co., PA) on 22 November 1899 at Marysville, Lewis and
Clark County, Montana and had the following children:
[1] Sherwood Thomas Allen: Born 6 April 1901
at Marysville, Lewis and Clark County, Montana.
Died 16 November 1996 in Mexico; interred San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico. Married May A. Steadman (b. 1909 in Yonkers,
Westchester Co., NY, d. 1983 in Mexico; interred with Sherwood) on 29 April
1934 in Florida.
[2] Corinne Allen: Born 11 November 1903 at
Palouse, Whitman County, Washington. Died 3 June 1991 in Travis County, Texas. Married Robert DeWitt Scruggs (b. Apr 1892 at
Summerville, Chattooga Co., GA, d. Sep 1982 at Llano, Llano Co., TX; interred
Burnet, Burnet Co., TX).
[3] Theodore Hugh Allen: Born 1905 in
Canada. Married Alice Hatton Cobb (b. 10
Mar 1909 at Monroe, Ouachita Co., LA, d. 13 May 1970;
interred Riverview Cem., Monroe, Ouachita Co., LA) on 27 November 1933 and had
children.
[4] Helen Gwendolyn Allen "Troy":
Born 31 December 1909 in California. Died 10 July 1990 at Lubbock, Lubbock County, Texas. Married Robert Ivan Lockard
(b. 18 Sep 1905 in Norton Co., KS, d. 1 Feb 1974 at
Lubbock, Lubbock Co., TX; interred City of Lubbock Cem., Lubbock, TX) on 21
December 1940 at Midland, Midland County, Texas and had at least one son.
[d. Mary Corrine
Allen: Born 17 November 1877 in Maryland.
Died 1965 in Harford County, Maryland; interred Highland Presbyterian
Church Cemetery, Street, Harford County, Maryland. Married Charles Davenport Davis (b. 9 Mar
1876 in Harford Co., MD, d. 1945 in Harford Co., MD; interred with Mary) on 31
January 1900 in Maryland and had the following children:
[1] Charles Roland Davis: Born about 1903 in
Harford County, Maryland. Died there
1980; interred Highland Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Street, Harford County,
Maryland. Married Bertha Marie
Scarborough (b. 2 Sep 1904 in Harford Co., MD, d.
1965; interred with Charles) and had at least one daughter.
[2] Edna E. Davis: Born about 1903 in
Maryland.
[e. Winfield Arthur
Allen: Born 28/25 February 1883 in Harford County, Maryland. Died 11 April 1959 at Mabton, Yakima County, Washington. Moved to Washington State. Married Edith Vesta
Scarborough (b. 11 Jan 1883 in Street, Harford Co., MD, d.
19 Mar 1979 at Prosser, Benton Co., WA) on 29 November 1905 in Washington, D.C.
and had children.
[5. Margaretta
Elizabeth Biles: Born 11 March 1849 in Pennsylvania. Died 30 January 1927 at
York, York County, Pennsylvania.
Married Chandlee Harvey Rhea/Rea (b. 25 Jan
1851 at Little Britain, Lancaster Co., PA, d. 20 Jun 1876; interred Little
Britain Presbyterian Cem., Peach Bottom, Lancaster Co., PA) on 24 September
1868 in Harford County, Maryland and had the following children:
[a. Samuel Orlando
Rhea: Born 7 August 1869 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Died there 5/3 December 1873/72; interred
Little Britain Presbyterian Cemetery, Peach Bottom, Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania.
[b. Charles Allen
Rhea: Born 20 July 1870/72 at Willow Grove, Montgomery County,
Pennsylvania. Died 26
January 1941 in York County, Pennsylvania. Married (1st) Adeline D. Martin, MD (b. 1872)
on 15 August 1894 and had a daughter, who married William Weaver. Married (2nd) Bessie Warner Bailey (b. 25 Feb
1880 in Bloomfield Co., NJ, d. 23 May 1945 in New Haven Co., CT), daughter of
Charles Howell and Harriet Matilda (Adams) Bailey, and had children.
[6. Susannah Jackson Biles: Born 14 March
1851 in Harford County, Maryland. Died 6 June 1941. Never married.
[7. Phoebe Ann Biles: Born 8 June 1853 in
Harford County, Maryland. Died there 5
December 1886; interred Emory United Methodist Church Cemetery, Street, Harford
County, Maryland. Married, as his 1st
wife, John James Kinsey (b. 1854, d. 1926/28) on 26/11 October 1876 in Harford
County, Maryland and had the following children:
[a. Mae Elizabeth
Kinsey: Born 27 February 1878.
[b. James Melvin
Kinsey: Born 5 September 1879. Married Ursula (?) (b. abt 1887 in
MD).
[c. Charles Edgar
Kinsey: Born 17 October 1884/83 in Baltimore County, Maryland. Died 16 June 1970 in Oregon; interred
Roseburg National Cemetery, Roseburg, Douglas County, Oregon. Married, perhaps 3rd, as
her (perhaps) 2nd husband, Lucille Elizabeth Brooker
(b. 11 Mar 1888 at Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa, d. 27 Jan 1970 in
Island Co., WA) on 16 April 1910 at Seattle, King County, Washington.
Charles Edgar Kinsey also married Mary Jane
Willis (b. 1897, d. 1966), and Nellie Rose Woodmansee
(b. 1885, d. 1975). Lucille (Brooker) Kinsey also married Joseph M. Dalton and James
Edward Jones (b. 1893, d. 1976).
[d. Freddy Leroy Kinsey: Born 5 December
1886. Married Fanny
Berry (b. abt 1900 in VA).
John James Kinsey also married Nellie Kennedy
(b. 1860, d. 1896) and Laura Jestina Schaible "Tiney" (b.
1881, d. 1963).
[8. Charles Edwin/Edward Biles: Born 28 July
1855 in Harford County, Maryland. Died
14 February 1922 at Red Lion, York County, Pennsylvania; interred there in Red
Lion Cemetery. Married Cassandra Wallick (b. 24 Mar 1864 at Red Lion, York Co., PA, d. there 9 Jul 1933; interred with Charles) on 7 October
1900/01 in York County, Pennsylvania and had the following children:
[a. Son: Born and died 1900 in York County,
Pennsylvania.
[b. Stewart Edwin
Biles: Born 23 October 1901. Died 1902.
[9. William Job Biles: Born 19 October 1857
at Mill Green, Harford County, Maryland.
Died 20 September 1942 in Graham County, Kansas. Married Amanda Elizabeth Iley
(b. 22 Apr 1869 in Highland Twp, Harford Co., MD, d. 19 Oct 1948 in Graham Co.,
KS) on 6/8 November 1888 at Mill Green, Harford County, Maryland and had the
following children:
[a. Gertrude Mae
Biles: Born 18 March 1890 at Narka, Republic County,
Kansas. Married Joseph Coats Towson (b.
1888, d. 1962) on 12 February 1908 at Bel Air,
Harford County, Maryland and had the following children:
[1] Alice Mary Towson: Born 10 September 1911
at Hill City, Graham County, Kansas. Died 6 June 2008 at Okemos, Ingham County,
Michigan; interred there. Married Lester
Irwin/Irving Crossette (b. 25 Feb 1912 at Lansing,
Ingham Co., MI, d. 2 Feb 1998 at Venice, Sarasota Co.,
FL) on 4 August 1946 at Lansing, New Hope Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
and had the following daughter:
[a] Sandra Lynn Crossette: Born 24 February 1948 at Grand Rapids, Michigan.
[2] Ernest Leroy Towson: Born 20 August 1913
at Hill City, Graham County, Kansas. Died 30 August 1971 at Sealy, Austin County,
Texas; interred there. Married (1st)
Pauline Candis Post (b. 27 Oct 1916 at Logan,
Phillips Co., KS, d. 8 Jun 1982 at Scottsbluff, Scottsbluff Co., NE) about 1935
in Kansas; subsequently divorced; no children.
Ernest Leroy Towson married (2nd) Ivadel Fern Williams (b. 1917, d. 24 Jan 1985 in Bosque
Co., TX; interred with Ernest), who had the following daughter before her
marriage to Ernest:
[a] Sharon (?)
Towson: Adopted by Ernest Leroy Towson.
[3] Charles Delmar Towson: Born 19 December
1915. Married (1st) Betty Hart on 2
April 1938 and had the following son:
[a] Frank Edward
Towson:
Charles and Betty (Hart) Towson were
subsequently divorced. Charles married
(2nd) Arlene Van Camp (subsequently divorced) and had the following children:
[b] Robert Lee Towson: Born 1944.
[c] Joseph Sheldon Towson: Born 1946.
[d] Charles Dennis Towson: Born 1950.
[4] Delmarie
Towson: Born 1916 in Kansas.
[b. Edith Elizabeth
Biles: Born 6 November 1891 at Narka, Kansas (also
seen: perhaps b. Hill City, Graham Co., KS).
Died 4 September 1951 at Edmond, Norton County, Kansas; interred Hill
City Cemetery, Hill City, Kansas.
Married Ira Boyd (b. 18 Jul 1887 at Hill City, Graham Co., KS, d. there 21 Nov 1918; interred with Edith) on 25 December
1909 at Hill City, Graham County, Kansas and had the following children:
[1] Ethel Mary Boyd: Born 11 December 1910 at
Hill City, Kansas. Died 26 November 1972
at Denver, Arapahoe County, Colorado; interred Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens,
Littleton, Arapahoe County, Colorado (b. 16 Jul 1904 at Beaver City, Furnas
Co., NE, d. 23 Jul 1986 at Littleton, Arapahoe Co.,
CO. Married (1st) Charles Dutton and had
the following children:
[a] Arlene May
Dutton: Born 1932 in Kansas. Died 12 September 2011 at Littleton, Jefferson County, Colorado. Married Harold Dean Waufle/Wauffle (b. 7 Aug 1928 at Norton, Norton Co., KS, d. there
28 Nov 1983).
[b] Leonard Robert Dutton: Born 2 December
1933 in Kansas. Married Rose Ann Dekat (b. 3 Jun 1934 in Pottawatomie Twp, Pottawatomie Co.,
KS) on 26 November 1955 at Flush, Pottawatomie County, Kansas and had children.
[c] Edith Alice Dutton: Born 21 January 1935
at Lenora, Norton County, Kansas. Died 28 January 2002 at
Palisade, Mesa County, Colorado. Married (?) Kramer, who was killed before the following
daughter was born:
{1. Daughter.
[d] Judith Ann Dutton: Born 20 November 1946
at Norton, Norton County, Kansas. Died 20 July 1998.
[2] Ivan William Boyd: Born 2 July 1913 at
Hill City, Graham County, Kansas. Died there 23 October 1993; interred there in
Hill City Cemetery. Married Mary LaVeta/Louveta Wallace (b. 2 Aug
1918 at Hill City, Graham Co., KS, d. 24 Jan 2013 at San Rafael, Marin Co., CA;
interred with Ivan) and perhaps had the following children:
[a] Barbara Boyd.
[b] Beverly Boyd.
[c] Cheryl Renee Boyd: Born 3 February 1956
at Logan, Phillips County, Kansas. Died 9 September 2007.
[c. Lida Lillian Biles: Born 24 July 1895 at Haddam, Washington
County, Kansas. Died 9 February 1977 at
Bentonville, Benton County, Arkansas; interred Gentry, Benton County, Arkansas. Married James Robert Bever
(b. 25 Oct 1874 at Rushville, Rush Co., IN, d. 15 Sep 1949 in Benton Co., AR,
from complications of being gored by a bull) on 12 December 1913? and had the following children:
[1] Kathryn Mae Bever:
Born 22 May 1915 at Gentry, Benton County, Arkansas. Died 1984 at Siloam
Springs, Benton County, Arkansas.
Married, perhaps as his 2nd wife, Thomas Gordon Foresee (b. 20 Dec 1904
at Lead Hill, Boone Co., AR, d. 6 Nov 1984 at Eufaula, Mcintosh
Co., OK; interred there in Greenwood Cem.) on 27 June 1937 in Benton County,
Arkansas. Thomas Foresee also married Ora Flossie Crosswhite (b. 26 Aug
1906 at Lead Hill, Boone Co., AR, d. 17 Nov 1979 at
Harrison, Boone Co., AR; interred Milum Cem., Lead
Hill, Boone Co., AR).
[2] James Robert Bever,
Jr.: Born 29 December 1916 at Gentry, Benton County, Arkansas. Died 6 March 1998 at Fayetteville, Washington
County, Arkansas; interred Gentry, Benton County, Arkansas. Married Lucille Matilda Cleaver (b. 13 Feb
1912 at Rudy, Crawford, AR, d. 23 Apr 2000 at Gentry,
Benton Co., AR) on 29 May 1937 in Benton County, Arkansas and had at least one
daughter, who married Robert Imel (b. 1930, d. 1999).
[3] Dorothy Jeanne Bever:
Born 14 September 1918 at Gentry, Benton County, Arkansas. Died 12 April 2006 at Springdale, Benton
County, Arkansas; interred there.
Married Don Hughes Wolfenbarger (b. 15 Aug
1917 in Benton Co., AR, d. 19 Nov 1970 at Detroit, Wayne Co., MI) on 31
December 1943 at Alabama City (now Gadsden), Etowah County, Alabama and had children.
[4] Helen Bever:
Born 9 January 1920 at Gentry, Benton County, Arkansas.
[d. Anna Evelyn
Biles: Born 24 February 1899 in Haddam Township, Washington County,
Kansas. Died 9 October
1974 at Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California. Married Ralph Chester Griffith (b. 1 Aug 1891
at Densmore, Norton Co., KS, d. 14 Feb 1949 in an
automobile accident at Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., CA; interred Glendale, Los
Angeles Co., CA) on 14 August 1918 and had the following children:
[1] Leland Harold Griffith: Born 9 September
1921 at Densmore, Norton County, Kansas. Died 28 March 1970 in Los Angeles County,
California; interred Glensdale, Los Angeles County,
California. Was married and divorced
more than once, including to Betty Atherton Rowe (b. 14 Feb 1926 in
Westmoreland Co., VA, d. there 30 Oct 2015; interred Kinsale,
Westmoreland Co., VA) on 21 August 1948 in Washington D.C. and had at least one
daughter. Betty (Rowe) Griffith also
married Wiley Reece Morris (b. 1892, d. 1965) and Gordon Ashton Horner (b.
1908, d. 1994).
[2] Carol Leone/Larene
Griffith: Born 13 May 1923 in Kansas.
Married Raymond "Ray" Meyers (b. abt 1916) on 20 September
1947 in Los Angeles County, California and had the following children:
[a] Nancy Meyers.
[b] Gary Meyers.
Charles “Belchfire
Charlie” Biles married (perhaps 2nd) Maria Kelly (b. abt 1823, perhaps in Red
Lion Borough, York Co., PA); no children.
He married (perhaps 3rd) Georgianna Chalk (b.
abt 1823, perhaps in Red Lion Borough, York Co., PA) on 17 March 1886 in
Harford County, Maryland; no children.
(3) Rachel Biles: Born 29 July 1788 at Buck
Hill Falls, Monroe County, Pennsylvania.
Died 21 March 1858 in Harford County, Maryland; interred Friends Burial
Ground, Deer Creek, Harford County, Maryland. Married Isaac Moore (b. 26 Dec 1785 per New Garden
Monthly Meeting records, Chester, PA, d. 10 Jan 1867; interred Deer Creek
Friends Burying Ground, Darlington, Harford Co., MD) on 20 October/12 December
1808 at the New Garden Monthly Meeting, Chester County, Pennsylvania and had
the following children:
(a) Leedom Biles
Moore: Born 4 February 1817 in London Grove Township, Chester County,
Pennsylvania. Died 19 March 1890 in
Bureau County, Illinois; interred there.
Employed as a farmer. Married Mary Ann Jackson (b. 21 Nov 1820 in
New Castle Co., DE, d. 13 Jul 1852 at Mill Green,
Harford Co., MD) on 20 February 1840 in Chester County, Pennsylvania and had
the following children:
[1. Rachel L. Moore: Born 15 March 1841 at
White Clay Creek Hundred, Newcastle County, Delaware.
[2. Anna Mary Moore: Born 9 August 1842 at
White Clay Creek Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware. Died 5 April 1922 at Petersburg, Springfield
Township, Mahoning County, Ohio; interred Columbiana
Cemetery, Columbiana, Columbiana County, Ohio.
Married James T. Mather (b. 29 Apr 1843 at Leetonia, Columbiana Co., OH,
d. 28 Feb 1924 in Springfield Twp, Mahoning Co., OH; interred with Anna) on 26
September 1867 in Goshen Township, Mahoning County, Ohio and had children.
[3. Sarah J. Moore: Born 11 March 1844 in
White Clay Creek Hundred, Newcastle County, Delaware. Died 4 February 1881. Married Samuel Lange (b.
abt 1840, perhaps in White Clay Creek Hundred, Newcastle Co., DE) on 10
September 1879.
[4. Adelaide Cook Moore: Born August/6 March
1850 at White Clay Creek Hundred, Newcastle County, Delaware. Married George Washington Armstrong (b. 21
Jun 1845 in Columbiana Co., OH, d. 26 Dec 1926 at Regent, Hettinger Co., ND;
interred there) and had children.
(b) David Moore: Born 6 March 1819 at London
Grove, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Died about 1820.
(c) Mary Ann Moore: Born 3 March 1821 at
London Grove, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
(d) Martha W. Moore: Born 25 July 1825 at New
Garden, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Died 1886 in Harford County, Maryland. Married John Robinson (b. abt 1820 at Mill
Green, Harford Co., MD) in 1856 and had children.
(e) Charles B. Moore: Born 4 April 1830 in
New Castle County, Pennsylvania. Died 1895. Married Frances
Anna Michener (b. 12 Aug 1826 in Londonderry Twp, Chester Co., PA) on 13 May
1863 and had children.
Charles Biles (Para. (a., above) married (2nd) Sarah Walmsley (b. abt 1765 in PA) and had the following
children:
(4) Sarah Biles: Born about 1791 in
Pennsylvania. Died 5 January 1885 in
Franklin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania; interred New Garden Friends
burying ground, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
Married John Farra (b. 4 Oct 1791, perhaps at Marple, Chester Co., PA, d. 4 Apr 1862 in Franklin Twp,
Chester Co., PA) about 22 June 1820, per New Garden Monthly Meeting of Friends
records, and had the following children:
(a) Elizabeth Farra:
Born about 1821, per New Garden Monthly Meeting of Friends records. Died 12 November 1851; interred West Grove,
Chester County, Pennsylvania.
(b) Mary Jane Farra:
Born 16 October 1822 in Pennsylvania. Died ; interred 21 January 1910 at West Grove, Chester
County, Pennsylvania.
(c) Sarah Jane Farra:
Born 1824 in Pennsylvania. Died 19 May
1895 in Chester County, Pennsylvania; interred West Grove, Chester County,
Pennsylvania.
(d) Charles Biles Farra:
Born about 1826 in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Died 27 July 1883 at New
London, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
Married Sarah Elizabeth Willard (b. 1841, d. 1906) on 2 February 1865 in
Franklin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania and had children.
(e) Oliver Farra:
Born about 1830, perhaps at Middletown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Died 4 October 1898. Married Sarah W. (?) about 1850 and had
children.
(f) John Farra:
Born 27 October 1831 at Middletown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Died 4 September 1906 at Kemblesville,
Chester County, Pennsylvania; interred West Grove, Chester County,
Pennsylvania.
(5) Langhorne Biles, III: Born about 1793 in
Pennsylvania. Died age 16 from
complications of pneumonia.
(6) Elizabeth “Betsey” Biles: Born about 1800
in Pennsylvania. Died
about 1833. Married Joseph Farra (b. 9 May 1794 in PA, d. 7 Dec 1860 in Monroe Twp,
Juanita Co., PA; interred there) and had the following children:
(a) Sarah Ann Farra:
Born 9 March 1822 at New London, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Died 11 June 1907 at
Oxford, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
Married David Conoly/Conley (b. abt 1814 in
MD, d. abt 1871/75; interred Calvert, Cecil Co., MD) and had children.
(b) Grace Farra:
Born about 1823 in Pennsylvania. Died about 1909. Married John Conely/Conley (b. abt 1819).
(c) Mahlon C. Farra: Born December 1825 in Pennsylvania. Died 2 March 1901 in
Juanita County, Pennsylvania.
Married Margaret Jane Mcguire (b. abt 1823,
perhaps in PA, d. 19 Oct 1876) after 1850 and had children.
(d) Phoebe Ann Farra:
Born 30 March 1829 in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Died there 24 June 1852; interred there. Married (1st) (?) Phaough. Married (2nd) Lewis G. Jefferis
(b. 8 Aug 1830 in Londonderry Twp, Chester Co., PA, d.
14 Mar 1900 at Coatesville, Chester Co., PA) on 9 September 1851 in Chester
County, Pennsylvania and had at least one daughter.
(e) Jesse Farra:
Born about 1833, perhaps in Pennsylvania.
Married Lucy Brooks (b. abt 1835 in PA) about 1855.
(7) Samuel Biles: Born about 1804 in
Pennsylvania. Died
1889 in Pennsylvania. Married
Anne Closson (b. abt 1798) of New Hope, Bucks County,
Pennsylvania and had the following children:
(a) A. J. Biles: Born about 1831 in
Pennsylvania.
(b) Sarah Farra Biles: Born 16 June 1832 in Franklin Township,
Chester County, Pennsylvania. Married
Davis Spencer (b. 29 Aug 1831 at London Grove, Chester Co., PA, d. 1916;
interred West Grove, Chester Co., PA) in 1856 in Chester County, Pennsylvania
and had the following children: (order uncertain)
[1. Edmond Biles Spencer: Born 27 February
1857 at West Grove, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Died 13 August 1951 in Chester County,
Pennsylvania; interred Union Hill Cemetery, Kennett Square, Chester County,
Pennsylvania. Married Ella Rebecca Sharpless (b. 19 Sep 1858 per Centre Monthly Meeting of
Friends records, Chester Co., PA, d. 31 Dec 1942 in Norwood Twp, Delaware Co.,
PA; interred with Edmond) on 22 February 1883 and had children.
[2. Lauretta
Spencer: Born 31 January 1860 at Cecil, Emmet County, Michigan. Died 12 June 1950 at Rising Sun, Cecil
County, Maryland; interred Brookview Cemetery, Rising
Sun, Cecil County, Maryland. Married George Coates Reynolds (b. 10 Jul
1846 at Rising Sun, Cecil Co., MD, d. there 14 Jul 1930; interred with Lauretta) on 2 December 1886 and had children.
[3. Luella Spencer: Born 15 August 1860 at
West Grove, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
Died 20 March 1945.
[4. Lindley Spencer: Born about 1862 at West
Grove, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Died 1869.
[5. Samuel T. Spencer: Born about 1863 at
West Grove, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
[6. Evan Spencer: Born 20 October 1865 in
Franklin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Died 20 February 1932 in London Grove
Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania; interred there. Married Ella Frances Pyle (b. 25 Jun 1867 in
Chester Co., PA, d. 1936) about 25 February 1897 (per New Garden Monthly
Meeting of Friends records) and had children.
[7. Emmor Spencer:
Born 18 April 1954.
[8. Charles Henry Spencer: Born 25 June 1870
at West Grove, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
Died there 16 June 1961. Married Mary Caldwell Walker (b. 16 Oct 1879
at Highland, Highland Twp, Chester Co., PA, d. 4 Sep 1952) on 18 November 1902
at West Grove, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
(c) John P. Biles: Born 16 April 1834 per
records of the New Garden Monthly meeting of Friends, Chester, Pennsylvania. Died 1913; interred New West Grove Friends
Cemetery, West Grove, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Married Phebe
Spencer (b. abt 1835 at New London, Chester Co. PA, d. 25 Jan 1912; interred
with John) on 4 March 1863 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and had the following
children:
[1. Samuel Spencer Biles: Born 2 August 1864
at New Garden, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
[2. Spencer Samuel Biles: Born March 1866 in
Pennsylvania. Married Sarah E. Dean (b.
23 Aug 1866 in MD, d. 1 Jan 1949; interred North East Twp, Cecil Co., MD) on 22
March 1897 and had the following son:
[a. Gifford Dean
Biles: Born 15 October 1899 at Avondale, Cheste
County, Pennsylvania. Died 24 July 1962
in North East Township, Cecil County, Maryland; interred there in North East
United Methodist Cemetery. Married Eleanora May Lilley (b. Jul 1892 in North East Twp, Cecil
Co., MD, d. 11 Jan 1967 at Havre de Grace, Harford Co., MD; interred Saint Mary
Annes Episcopal Church Cem., North East, Cecil Co.,
MD) and had at least the following son:
[1] Gifford Biles: Born about 1930 in
Maryland.
[3. Emma Jane Biles: Born about 1866 at New
Garden, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
Died 16 December 1937; interred New London Presbyterian Church Cemetery,
New London, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
Married Warren E. Pennock (b. abt 1863 in
Franklin Twp, Chester Co., PA, d. 29 Jan 1898 in Franklin Twp, Chester Co., PA;
interred with Emma) on 17 March 1897 in Chester County, Pennsylvania and had
the following daughter:
[a. Clara Lydia Pennock: Born 22 January 1898 in Chester County,
Pennsylvania. Died 3 February 1973 at
Norfolk, Virginia; interred Holy Cross Cemetery, Mays Landing, Atlantic County,
New Jersey. Married Carolus
Johannes Meskers (b. 19 Feb 1890 at Warmond, South Holland, Netherlands, d. 29 Sep 1969 at
Somers Point, Atlantic Co., NJ; interred with Clara) on 11 November 1920 at
West Grove, Chester County, Pennsylvania and had children.
[4. Lydia Ann Biles: Born 7 May 1868 at New
Garden, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
Died 14 October 1944 at Avondale, Chester County, Pennsylvania; interred
New West Grove Cemetery, London Grove Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
[5. Jesse Jones Biles: Born about 1873 at New
Garden, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Died about 1874.
[6. Harvey H. Biles: Born about 1875 at New
Garden, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Died about 1877.
(e) Parmelia/Pamela
Biles: Born about 1834 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Never married.
(f) Amos T. Biles: Born 10 July 1836 in
Pennsylvania. Died 14 December 1910;
interred New London Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Married Rebecca Kennedy (b. 18 Nov 1837 in
PA, d. 27 Aug 1890 at New London, New London Twp, Chester Co., PA; interred
there in New London Presbyterian Church Cem.) and had the following son:
[1. Wilmer K. Biles: Born 18
August 1873 in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
Died there 10 October 1958; interred New London Township, Chester
County, Pennsylvania. Married Flora D.
Morgan (b. 17 Mar 1877 at Downingtown, Chester Co., PA, d.
18 Feb 1952 at West Chester, Chester Co., PA; interred New London Presbyterian
Church Cem., New London, New London Twp, Chester Co., PA). No children.
(g) Charles C. Biles: Born about 1841 in
Pennsylvania. Never
married.
(h) Annie M. Biles:
Born about 1849 in Pennsylvania. Never married.
Charles Biles (Para. (a., above) married (3rd)
Margaret Conard; no children. He married (4th) Grace Pawl; no children.
(d.
Langhorne Biles, II: Born about 1766 in Falls Township, Bucks County,
Pennsylvania. Died 11 May 1818 in
Southampton Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania; interred in
Pennsylvania. Married, as her 2nd
husband, Sarah (Hicks) Staats (b. May 1766 in PA, d.
2 Jun 1850 at Pleasantville/Southampton, Bucks Co., PA), who married (1st) John Staats.
Langhorne and Sarah had the following children:
(1) Charles W. Biles: (photos) (more info)
Born about 1800 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Died 28 November 1866 at Philadelphia, Philadelphia County,
Pennsylvania; interred William Penn Cemetery, Somerton, Philadelphia County,
Pennsylvania. Married Susannah/Susanna
J. Scott (photos) (b. 23 Sep
1808 in PA, d. 24 Apr 1886 at Feasterville, Bucks Co., PA; interred with
Charles), on 2 April 1829 in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, with Reverend J.P.
Evans officiating, and had the following children:
(a) Alfred R. Biles: (photos) Born 15 June
1832 in Southampton Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died 4 October 1905 (abt age 73) at Hatboro,
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; interred William Penn Cemetery, Somerton,
Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Employed as a farmer until 1880. Subsequently employed as a
day laborer until 1900. Employed as a sexton (maintained church property) until 1905. Married Lillian Rebecca Carter (photos) (b. 24
Oct 1871 in Bucks Co., PA, d. 28 Feb 1958 at Temple University Hospital,
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA), daughter of James and Mary E. (States)
Carter, about 1893 in Pennsylvania (Alfred abt age 61; Rebecca abt age 22).
1880 US Census: Lillian Biles resided in
Middletown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
1900 US Census: Alfred Biles was heading a
household in Southampton Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
1910 US Census: Lillian Biles resided at Hulmeville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
1920 US Census: Lillian Biles resided in
Middletown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
1930 US Census: Lillian Biles resided in
Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.
Alfred R. and Lillian Rebecca (Carter) Biles
had the following children:
[1. Charles Leon Biles: (photos) Born 18
July 1894 in Bensalem Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died 16 December 1917 in Hulmeville,
Bucks County, Pennsylvania; interred William Penn Cemetery, Somerton,
Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Perhaps never married.
[2. Jennie Alfreda
Biles: (photos) Born 24 November 1898 in
Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died 12
October 1925 at Mount Pocono, Monroe County, Pennsylvania; interred William
Penn Cemetery, Somerton, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Perhaps never married.
(b) Maria Louisa Biles: (photos) Born about
1836 in Southampton Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died there 23 November 1859; interred with
her parents and sister, Mary Jane, in William Penn Cemetery, Somerton, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Never married.
(c) Augustus/Augustine
S. Biles: (photos) Born 29/27 September
1839 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died
28 October 1891 in Wenonah Borough, Gloucester County, New Jersey; interred
Bethel Methodist Church Cemetery, Hurffville,
Gloucester County. Was a veteran of the
American Civil War.
Employed as a farmer. Married Mary Hurff
(photos) (b. 7 May 1845 at Hurffville, d. 3 Apr 1932 in N.J.; interred with
Augustine), daughter of Thomas W. Hurff, on 21 May
1868/67 in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania with Reverend Mordica
C. Stokes officiating. Augustine and
Mary had the following son:
[1. Wilber "Willie" Biles: (photos)
Born 26 February 1869, perhaps at Hurffville,
Gloucester County, New Jersey. Died 27
March 1869 in New Jersey; interred with his parents in Bethel Methodist Church
Cemetery, Hurffville, Gloucester
County, New Jersey.
(d) Phineas Knight
Biles: Born 19 December 1841 in Southampton Township, Bucks County,
Pennsylvania (per gravestone; note: Bryon Biles had: b. 29 Dec 1843). Died 15 February 1914 in Dover Township,
Kingfisher County, Oklahoma; interred there in Dover Cemetery. Married Martha Good Cloud (b. 19 Dec 1843 in
Upper Oxford Twp, Chester Co., PA, d. 8 Feb 1918) on
19 December 1867 in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania and had the following
children:
[1. Charles Henry Biles: Born 1 January 1869
in Pennsylvania. Died 10 October 1923
(per gravestone; note, Bryan Biles had: d. 1928); interred Dover Cemetery,
Kingfisher County, Oklahoma. Married Drucilla "Drucey" Rauh (b. 10 Dec 1884 in Savannah Twp, Andrew Co., MO, d. 26
Aug 1935 in Bovina Twp, Parmer Co., TX; interred Centerview
Cem., Tipton Twp, Tillman Co., OK) on 29 February 1904; no children.
[2. Lydia C. Biles: Born 23 February 1871 at
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Died 22 January 1949 at Boise, Ada County, Idaho; interred there in Morris Hill
Cemetery. Married William Henry Allen
(b. 20 Apr 1865 in Milton Twp, Northumberland Co., PA, d. 26 May 1936 at Boise,
Ada Co., ID; interred with Lydia) on 1 January 1893
at Industry, Clay County, Kansas and had the following children:
[a. Rosa Belle
Allen: Born 29 December 1893 at Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado. Died 9 March 1992 at Homedale, Owyhee County,
Idaho; interred Greenleaf Cemetery, Greenleaf, Canyon County, Idaho. Married Robert Kerr Patterson (b. 5 Oct 1894
at Yates City, Knox Co., IL, d. 28 Oct 1965 at Boise, Ada Co., ID; interred Morris Hill Cem., Boise, Ada Co., ID) on 15 February 1948 in Ada
County, Idaho.
[b. Mattie Mae
Allen: Born 9 September 1895 in Industry Township, Clay County, Kansas. Died 23 March 1973 at Seattle, King County,
Washington; interred there. Married
Daniel Stephens (b. 15 Jan 1878 in St. John Twp, Oneida Co., ID, d. 6 Jun 1960 at Fort Steilacoom, Pierce Co., WA) in 1917 in
Ada County, Idaho and had children.
[c. Susie Geneva
Allen: Born 28 September 1897 in Industry Township, Clay County, Kansas. Died 4 December 1939 in Nampa Township,
Canyon County, Idaho; interred Boise, Ada County,
Idaho. Married Samuel Walter Manning (b.
14 Aug 1877 in Hamilton Co., IL, d. 3 Apr 1944 at LaGrande,
Union Co., OR; interred there) on 11 June 1921 at Boise, Ada
County, Idaho and had children.
[d. Lydia Velma Allen: Born 18 April 1899 at
Minneapolis, Ottawa County, Kansas. Died
4 November 1977 at Homedale, Owyhee County, Idaho; interred Greenleaf Cemetery,
Greenleaf, Canyon County, Idaho. Married
Carl William Harris (b. 29 Sep 1889 at Independence, Montgomery Co., KS, d. 17
Sep 1982 at Nampa, Canyon Co., ID; interred with Lydia) on 24 December 1921 at
Boise, Ada County, Idaho and had children.
[e. Mamie Etta/Ella
Allen: Born 5 July 1900 in Kansas. Died
13 October 1990 in Multnomah County, Oregon; interred Portland, Multnomah
County, Oregon. Married Earl Peltz (b. 18 Aug 1899 at Chicago, Cook Co., IL, d. 14 Sep
1960 at Portland, Multnomah Co., OR; interred with Mamie) on 23 January 1937 at
Vancouver, Clark County, Washington.
[f. Mary Zelda
Allen: Born 10 June 1903 at Dover, Kingfisher County, Oklahom. Died 14 April 1980 at Portland, Multnomah
County, Oregon; interred Lincoln Memorial Park, Portland, Multnomah County,
Oregon. Married Stingley
Elmer Snyder (b. 30 Mar 1900 in WV, d. 1985; interred with Mary) on 1 January
1925 at Boise, Ada County, Idaho and had children.
[g. Henry Wilbur
Allen: Born 14 December 1904 at Dover, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma. Died 15 February 1985 at Boise, Ada County, Idaho; interred there. Married Ferne
Lincoln Witt (b. 29 Aug 1914 in WY, d. 3 Dec 1964 at Boise, Ada
Co., ID; interred there) on 23 July 1954 in Ada
County, Idaho.
[h. Oliver Harold
Allen: Born about 1907.
[3. Susanna Biles: Born 22 October 1873 at
Minneapolis, Ottawa County, Kansas. Died
26 February 1966 in Humboldt Township, Allen County, Kansas; interred
there. Married Reverend Hans Steenbock (b. 8 Nov 1871 at Henstedt,
Prussia, German, d. 4 Nov 1938; interred with Susanna) on 9 March 1898 at
Minneapolis, Ottawa County, Kansas and had the following children:
[a. Albright Wesley Steenbock: Born 10 July 1899 at Osborn, Osborne County,
Kansas. Died about
1982 in Yavapai County, Arizona.
Married Ada Margaret Wohler (b. 28 Jul 1897 in
Riley Co., KS) in 1925 and had at least one son.
[b. Esther Alma Steenbock: Born 19 August 1901 at Alida,
Geary County, Kansas. Died 23 October
2004 at Humboldt, Allen County, Kansas. Married Edward Alexander Pickarts
(b. 24 Nov 1884 at Humboldt, Allen Co., KS, d. there 26 Mar 1973) and had
children.
[c. Waldo Samuel Steenbock: Born 3 January 1904 in Oklahoma. Died 2 February 1993 in San
Diego County, California. Married Isabel Berna Lee Bauldry (b. 4 mar 1911 at Cochrane, Nipissing Co., Ontario,
Canada, d. 2007) on 19 November 1938 in Cook County, Illinois.
[d. Ruth Marie Steenbock: Born 2 December 1905 in Kansas. Died 13 February 2005 at Kansas City, Jackson
County, Missouri; interred South Point Cemetery, Orrick Township, Ray County,
Missouri. Married James Ingalls Colley
(b. 1 Jun 1899 in MO, d. 22 Feb 1979 in MO; interred with Ruth) about 1941.
[4. Josiah Osborne Biles: Born 4 December
1876 in Kansas. Died
19 November 1949. Married
Florence Owens (b. abt 1880) on 3 September 1908 and had the following
children:
[a. Eulalie Biles:
Born about 1910.
[b. Dorothy Biles: Born about 1912.
[c. Lois Biles: Born about 1915.
[5. Glaphery Biles:
(female) Born 2 April 1879 in Kansas. Died 28 November 1955.
Married Albert W. Knapp (b. 19 Jun 1882 in Plymouth Co., IA, d. 1 Dec 1973
at Le Mars, Plymouth Co., IA; interred Memorial Park Cem., Sioux City, Woodbury
Co., IA) on 10 March 1909 at Kingfisher, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma; no
children.
[6. George Parker Biles: Born 30 August 1881
in Kansas. Died 1957; interred Banner
Cemetery, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma.
Married Ethel Claire Bunce (b. Jan 1886 in MO,
d. 1967; interred with George) on 15 January 1909 and had the following
daughter:
[a. Leta Biles: Born 25 February 1919. Died 23 December 2000; interred Banner
Cemetery, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma.
Married Cecil “Pete” F. Todd (b. 17 May 1915, d. 2 Mar 1988; interred
with Leta) on 4 May 1946.
[7. James Robert Biles: Born 11 June 1884 in
Kansas. Died 22 January 1945; interred
Dover Cemetery, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma.
Married Lulu/Lula A. Mauk (b. 27 Dec 1887 in
Pratt Co., KS, d. 1964 at Dover, Kingfisher Co., OK; interred with James) on 29
July 1906 in Kingfisher County, Oklahoma and had the following children:
[a. Clarence Biles: Born about 1908 in
Oklahoma.
[b. James Robert
Biles, Jr.: Born 24 June 1917 at Falls City, Richardson County, Nebraska. Died 26 July 1993 at Huntsville, Madison
County, Alabama.
Married Patsy L. (?) (b. 1917
in IN).
[c. Grace Lenore
Biles: (Adopted) Born 21 January 1926 at Falls City, Richardson County,
Nebraska. Died 28 July
1999 at Olathe, Johnson County, Kansas.
Married Donald Leroy Tramm (b. 3 May 1923 in
Walnut Twp, Pottawattamie Co., IA, d. 28 Nov 2003 at
Olathe, Johnson Co., KS; interred Gardner Cem., Gardner, Johnson Co., KS) and
had children.
(e) Mary Jane Biles: (photos) Born about
1844 in Southampton Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died 26 April 1932 in the Somerton region of
Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred with her parents and sister, Maria,
in William Penn Cemetery, Somerton, Philadelphia
County, Pennsylvania. Never
married.
(f) Edward Joyce Morris/Maurice Biles: (photos)
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Born 2 July 1846 in Bucks
County, Pennsylvania. Died 20 October 1913 in the City of
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred there in William Penn
Cemetery. Married Anna Rebecca Shallcross
(photos) (b. 10
Sep 1856 in the City of Philadelphia, PA, d. 13 Oct 1929/32 at Norristown,
Montgomery Co., PA; interred with Edward), daughter of George McCully and Rebecca (Cripps) Shallcross,
about 1880 in Pennsylvania and had the following children:
[1. Helen Rebecca Biles: (photos) Born 1 May
1881 in Pennsylvania. Died 3 March 1952;
interred William Penn Cemetery, Somerton, Philadelphia County,
Pennsylvania. Married William
Stoker (b. 31 Dec 1880 in Bucks Co., PA, d. there Jan 1968; interred
William Penn Cem.), son of Charles B. (b. 8 Jun 1856 in Bucks Co., PA, d. 28
Nov 1911 at Newtown, Bucks Co.) and Eliza (Dominic) Stoker (b. Feb 1855 in PA,
d, abt 1887 in Bucks Co., PA), on 1 October 1900 in Pennsylvania. William was employed as a farmer. Helen and William had the following children:
[a. Elva Alberta
Stoker: Twin. Born 22
November 1903 in the City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Died there 26 December 1904; interred William
Penn Cemetery, Somerton, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.
[b. Elmer Charles
Stoker: Twin. Born 22
November 1903 in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Died 22 July 1991. Married Hannah Alberta Fluck
(b. 15 Jan 1912) on 10 June 1936 and had the following children:
[1] Francis Elmer Stoker: Born 1942.
[2] Kenneth Robert Stoker: Born 1946.
[c. Wilberta E. Stoker: Born about 1909 in Pennsylvania. Died about 1928; interred William Penn
Cemetery, Somerton, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.
[2. Ida Cripps Biles: (photos)
Born 24 October 1882 in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Died 9 February 1942; interred William Penn
Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Married Albert M. Griffith (b. abt 1884 in
Philadelphia Co., PA, d. abt 1958) on 23 June 1903 in
Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania and had the following children:
[a. Charles Stanley
Griffith: Born 31 July 1904 in the City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County,
Pennsylvania. Married
Virginia R. Peters (b. abt 1908 in PA) on 29 May 1929 in Bucks County,
Pennsylvania.
[b. Albert Griffith,
Jr.: Born 13 July 1907 in Pennsylvania.
Died May 1981 in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania; interred Middletown
Cemetery, Middletown, Dauphin County. Married
Dorothy M. Gernet (b. abt 1916 in PA) and had
children.
[3. Lillian “Lillie” Frederick Biles: (photos) Born 7
February 1884 in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Died 9/10 February 1923/20 from complications
of influenza at Bensalem, Bucks County, Pennsylvania; interred William Penn
Cemetery, Somerton, Philadelphia County.
Before marriage Lillian was employed as a domestic servant in Southampton
Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Married Linford Ridge
(photos)
(b. 23 Mar 1871 in Lanhorne Twp, Bucks Co., PA, d.
there 9 Feb 1962; interred William Penn Cem.), son of Isaiah and Rebecca
Cummings (Kenderdine) Ridge, on 14 December 1905 in
the Frankford section of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Linford was
employed as a farmer. Linford and Lillian had the following children:
[a. Harold “Smokey”/“Perk” Wesley/Westley Ridge: (photos) Born 29 September
1906 at Trevose, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (also
seen: b. Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA).
Died 17 January 1969 at work in the City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pennsylvania; interred Resurrection Cemetery, Bensalem Township, Bucks
County, Pennsylvania. Employed
by the US Postal Service, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Resided from 1906 to 1931
at Trevose, Bucks County. Resided 1931 to 1969 in
Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.
Harold married Catherine Marie Lineman (b. 25
Jun 1911 in Philadelphia Co., PA, d. there 2 Feb 1994; interred with Harold),
daughter of William A. (b. abt 1887 in PA) and Catherine (?) Lineman (b. abt
1888 in PA), on 24 September 1931 in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania and had
the following children:
[1] Catherine Delores Ridge: Born 1932 in
Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.
[2] John Harold Ridge: Born 1943 in
Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.
[b. Edward Stanley
Ridge: (photos) Born 24 October 1908
at Trevose, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died 21 December 1991/92 in Langhorne
Township/Feasterville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania; interred Sunset Memorial
Park, Feasterville, Bucks County. Resided his entire life at Trevose. Was employed 45 years as a
machinist for the Butterworth Corporation, Bethayres,
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; retired 1973. Was a longtime and distinguished member of
the National Rifle Association (NRA). Had a lifetime interest in firearms, and was
an excellent marksman; received more than 1,000 medals, trophies, and awards
for marksmanship and was a Certified NRA Instructor. In that capacity was recognized by the US
Army for distinguished service.
Edward married Caroline Doris Nortenheim (b. 16 May 1909 in PA, d. 9 Jul 1984 in
Langhorne Twp, Bucks Co., PA, interred with Edward), daughter of William S. (b.
10 Jan 1878 in PA, d. 11 Jan 1963) and Grace (Hammond) Nortenheim
(b. 15 Oct 1878 in PA, d. 31 Oct 1959; interred Zions
Evangelical Lutheran Cem., Old Zionsville, Lehigh Co., PA), on 16 March 1929 in
Bucks County, Pennsylvania and had the following children:
[1] Marion Lois Ridge: Born 29 March 1930 in Trevose Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died 21 July 2011 in Waverly, Pike County,
Ohio; interred Bremen Township, Fairfield County, Ohio. Married, as his 2nd wife,
James L. McVeigh (b. 9 Apr 1924 in Bremen Twp, Fairfield Co., OH, d. 9 Mar 2014
in Waverly Twp, Pike Co., OH) on 7 February 1970. James had married (1st) Eva Cotto (b. 17 Sep 1925 at Ponce, Puerto Rico, d. 10 Jan 1969 at Bremen, Fairfield Co., OH).
[2] Lawrence Edward Ridge: Born 6 July 1932
in Abington Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Died 13 August 2001 at
Newport Beach, Orange County, California. Married, as her 2nd husband, Dawna (Wiscombe) Payne (b. 11 Nov
1930 at Provo, Utah Co., UT, d. 2 Mar 2016 in Costa Mesa Twp, Orange Co., CA;
interred Spanish Fork, Utah Co., UT) on 5 September 1967. Dawna had married
(1st) Douglas Afton Payne (b. 3 Jan 1930 at Provo, Utah Co., UT, d. 16 Aug 1979
at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., UT; interred Holladay Twp, Salt Lake Co., UT)
on 26 August 1949 at Provo, Utah County, Utah.
[3] Arthur George Ridge: Born 1938 in
Pennsylvania.
[c. Wilmer
Shallcross Ridge: (photos) Born 5
March 1911 in the Somerton section of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Died 6 December 1989 at Levittown, Bucks
County, Pennsylvania; interred Sunset Memorial Park, Feasterville, Bucks
County, Pennsylvania. Served
in the US Army during World War II.
Employed as an automotive mechanic. Resided 1911 to 1989 at Trevose, Bucks County.
Wilmer married Pearl Arline
Lownie (photos) (b. 28 Dec
1919/20 in Philadelphia Co., PA, d. 15 Oct 1978 at Huntington Valley,
Montgomery Co., PA (also seen: d. Telford, Bucks Co., PA); interred with
Wilmer), daughter of William Reed and Mary Amanda (Forepaugh)
Lownie, on 25 September 1942 at Croydon, Bristol
Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania and had the following children:
[1] William “Bill” Linford
Ridge: Born 1943 at Abington, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Has done a lot of work
documenting his family’s history, some of which is on display in this annex.
[2] Linda Arline Ridge:
Born 1946 at Abington, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
[d. Anna Lorraine
Ridge: (photos) Born 24
October 1913 at Trevose, Bucks County,
Pennsylvania. Died 4/6 November 2004 at
Doylestown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Graduated 1931 from Bensalem Township High School, Cornwells
Heights, Bensalem Township, Bucks County. Resided her entire life at Trevose, Bensalem Township, Bucks
County.
Anna Ridge married Roscoe Albert Herritt (b. 6 Feb 1912 in New York City, NY, d. 18 Sep 2001
in Bristol Twp, Bucks Co., PA; interred with Anna), son of Benjamin Elwood (b.
2 Mar 1867 in Shamokin, Northumberland Co., PA, d. 27 Feb 1944 in PA; interred
William Penn Cem., Somerton, Philadelphia, PA) and Elizabeth H. (Paterman) Herritt (b. 28 Sep 1875
in Philadelphia, PA, d. 8 Sep 1955 in the Roxborough
section of Philadelphia, PA; interred with Benjamin), on 14 February 1932 at
Chestertown, Kent County, Maryland.
Roscoe and Mary were self employed from 1935 to 1975 managing and
operating Herritt Rubbish Removal Service. Anna and Roscoe had the following children:
[1] Lillian Elizabeth Herritt:
Born 1933 in Pennsylvania.
[2] Mary Jane Herritt:
Born 1935 in Pennsylvania.
[3] Anna Lorraine Herritt:
Born 3 February 1937 in Abington Township, Montgomery County,
Pennsylvania. Died 6
September 2009 at Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
[4] Roscoe Albert Herritt,
Jr.: Born 7 July 1938 in Abington Township, Montgomery County,
Pennsylvania. Died 1
November 2003 at Willow Grove, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
[5] Robert Linford Herritt: Born 1939 in Pennsylvania.
[e. Mary Jane Ridge:
(photos) Born
13 June 1916 at Trevose, Bensalem Township, Bucks
County, Pennsylvania. Died 19/17
September 1999 at Langhorne, Bucks County, Pennsylvania; interred Sunset
Memorial Park, Feasterville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Graduated 1935 from Bensalem Township High
School, Cornwells Heights, Bensalem Township, Bucks County. Resided
her entire life at Trevose, Bensalem Township, Bucks County.
Mary Ridge married (1st) John Maurice Paulus, Jr. “Maurice” (b. 23 Oct 1917 in PA, d. there 13
Dec 1958; interred with Mary), son of John Maurice Paulus,
on 10 December 1938 in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania and had the following
children:
[1] James Robert Paulus:
Born 1941 in Pennsylvania.
[2] Nancy Jane Paulus:
Born 1944 in Pennsylvania.
Mary Jane (Ridge) Paulus
married (2nd) James Clarkson (b. 22 Jan 1909, d. 25 Sep 1999 in Doylestown
Borough, Bucks Co., PA) on 18 November 1978 in Penndel Borough, Bucks County,
Pennsylvania.
[f. George “Jiggs”
Biles Ridge: (photos) Born 7 February 1920
at Trevose, Bensalem Township, Bucks
County, Pennsylvania. Died 30 April 2009
in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred Sunset Memorial Park,
Feasterville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Graduated 1938 from Bensalem Township High School, Cornwells
Heights, Bucks County.
During World War II served with distinction in the US Army in the
European Theater of Operations, mostly in Italy. Following the War resided in Bensalem Township,
where he partnered with his brother, Wilmer, from 1945 to 1995, as
co-proprietor of Ridge Auto Service.
George Ridge married Helen Mushler Mende (b. 18 Mar 1919 in
Bensalem Twp, PA (also seen: b. Philadelphia Co., PA)), daughter of William F.
(b. 1895, d. 1963 in PA) and Eva (Yeagle) Mende (b. 1896 in PA, d. 1963 in PA), on 8 March 1944 at
Mechanicsville, Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Helen graduated 1937 from Bensalem Township
High School, Cornwells Heights, Bucks
County. George and Helen had the
following children:
[1] Judith Eileen Ridge: Born 1945 in
Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.
[2] Doris Elaine Ridge: Born 1954 in
Pennsylvania.
[4. Margaret Shallcross
Biles: (photos) Born
14 April 1886 in Pennsylvania. Died 26
December 1957; interred William Penn Cemetery, Somerton, Philadelphia County,
Pennsylvania. Employed
as a book keeper for a stock & bond company in Philadelphia. Married (perhaps 2nd) Milton Moses Depue
(b. 11 Jan 1885 in the City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA, d. 1959;
interred with Margaret). Wilbur was
employed as a truck driver until 1930 for the American Forklift Company in
Philadelphia. Margaret and Wilbur
resided on Byberry Road, Somerton, Philadelphia
County and had the following children:
[a. Elma A. Depue: Born 6 May 1909 in Philadelphia County,
Pennsylvania. Died there 1 August 1987;
interred William Penn Cemetery, Somerton, Philadelphia County,
Pennsylvania. Never
Married.
[b. Wilbur M. Depue: Born 22 June 1914 in Philadelphia County,
Pennsylvania. Died
there 29 November 1998. Interred William Penn Cemetery, Somerton, Philadelphia County,
Pennsylvania. Never
married.
[5. Horace Shallcross
Biles: (photos) Born 5 July 1890
in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.
Died 5 July 1946 in Pennsylvania; interred William Penn Cemetery,
Somerton, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.
Married Helen Francis/L. Warburton (photos) (b. 27
Mar 1898, d. 6 Dec 1971; interred with Horace) on 14 April 1920 and had the
following daughter:
[a. Jeanne Frances
Biles: (photos) Born 13
February 1921 in the City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; baptized
there 13 June 1926. Died 18 April 1976
in Pennsylvania; interred William Penn Cemetery, Somerton, Philadelphia County,
Pennsylvania. Married Frederick Stowell Green (b. 30 Aug 1920 at Philadelphia, PA, d. there
24 Oct 1920; interred with Jeanne) on 6 June 1942 and had the following
children:
[1] Janice Elaine Green: Born 1946.
[2] Stephen Frederick Green: Born 1950.
[6. George Shallcross
Biles: (photos) Born 22 August
1896 at Feasterville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died 9 April 1979 in Los Angeles County,
California; interred there in Forest Lawn Memorial Park. Married (1st) Louise Weissinger
(b. 30 Jul 1895 in the City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA, d. 15 Nov
1953 at Ogden, Weber Co., UT), daughter of Frederick (b. 30 Jul 1852 in
Bavaria) and Hilda (Linder) (Schaffer) Weissinger (b.
4 Mar 1853 in Prussia) on 22 June 1915 at Patterson, Passaic County, New Jersey
and resided in California. George and
Louise had the following children:
[a. Viola Louise Biles: Born 6 March 1916 in
the City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Died there 24 February
1925.
[b. Elva Helen
Biles: Born 6 May 1918 in the City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County,
Pennsylvania. Died 31 December 2008 in
Berks County, Pennsylvania; interred Saint Johns
Cemetery, Hamburg Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. Married Woodrow W. Werley
(b. 17 Oct 1916 in Hamburg Twp, Berks Co., PA, d. there Nov 1983; interred with
Elva) on 28 November 1940 and had at least one daughter.
[c. Charlotte Ada Biles: Born 7 June 1922. Died May 1991; interred Saint Johns Cemetery, Hamburg Township, Berks County,
Pennsylvania. Married George Alfred Raubenhold (b. 1 Sep 1921 in PA, d. 3 Jun 2005 at Reading,
Berks Co., PA; interred with Charlotte) on 10 July 1942
and had children.
[d. Irvine George Biles: Born 30 December
1925 in Siles Township, Bucks County,
Pennsylvania. Died 3 February 1988 at
Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin; interred Arlington Park Cemetery,
Greenfield Township, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. Married Joyce L. Henke on 31 August 1951 and had the following children:
[1] Beth A. Biles: Born 1954.
[2] Brian I. Biles: Born 1956.
[e.
George Shallcross Biles, Jr.: Born 1935. Married Anna Mae (?) in 1960.
George Shallcross
Biles, Sr. married (2nd) Lillian Mathilda (Halvorsen) Hatch (b. 22 Aug 1899 in WI, d. 28 Aug 1995 in
Los Angeles Co., CA; interred with George) on 19 June 1954.
(2) Augustin
“Austin” M. Biles: (photos) Born 2 March 1807 in
Pennsylvania. Died Saturday, 26 October
1889, age 82, in the Somerton section of Philadelphia County (residence of
attending physician and undertaker), Pennsylvania; interred same day in William
Penn Cemetery. Employed
as a farmer.
1850 US Census: Augustin
Biles, age 43 (b. PA) and employed as a farmer, was heading a household in
Southampton Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The household also included his wife, Martha
Biles, age 36 (b. PA); son, Joseph R. Biles, age 11 (b. PA); son, Samuel L.
Biles, age 9 (b. PA); daughter, Adelaide Biles, age 7 (b. PA); son, Thomas H.
Biles, age 5 (b. PA); son, William G. Giles, age 3 (b. PA); daughter, Mary W.
Biles, age 1 (b. PA); and Thomas M. Terry, age 22 (b. PA) and employed as a
farmer. Of interest, the household
headed by James Terry, age 62 (b. PA) and not employed, was enumerated directly
before Augustin on the same census page, and that
household also included his wife, Rebecca Terry, age 62 (b. PA). And the households headed by Ralph Terry, age
56 (b. PA), and John Terry, age 28 (b. PA) preceded James Terry on the same
census page.
1860 US Census: Austin Biles, age 53 (b. PA)
and employed as a farmer, resided in the household headed by Rebecca Terry, age
72 (b. PA) and widowed, Southampton Township (Oakford
Post Office), Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
The household also included Austin's wife, Martha Biles, age 47 (b. PA)
and employed as a farmer; son, Adin Biles, age 24 (b.
PA) and employed as a farmer; daughter, Adelaice
Biles, age 17 (b. PA) and employed as a dressmaker; son, Thomas Biles, age 15
(b. PA); son, William Biles, age 13 (b. PA); daughter, Mary Biles, age 11 (b.
PA); son, Edwin Biles, age 9 (b. PA); and son, Charles Biles, age 7 (b. PA).
1870 US Census: Austin M. Biles, age 63 (b.
PA) and employed as a farmer, was heading a farming household in Southampton
Township (Oakford Post Office), Bucks County,
Pennsylvania. His personal property was
valued at $1,500. The household also
included his wife, Martha Biles, age 57 (b. PA); daughter, Mary Biles, age 19
(b. PA); son, Edward Biles, age 18 (b. PA); and Rebecca Terry, age 83 (b. PA),
whose real estate was valued at $5,000.
1880 US Census: Augustine Biles, age 73 (b.
PA; parents b. PA) and employed as a farmer, was heading a household in the 1st
District of Bridgewater Township, Somerset County, New Jersey. The household also included his wife, Martha
Biles, age 67 (b. PA; parents b. PA); daughter, Mary W. Biles, age 30 (b. PA;
parents b. PA) and single; son, Edwin M. Biles, age 28 (b. PA; parents b. PA),
married, and employed working on the farm; daughter-in-law, Mary N. Biles, age
26 (b. NYS; parents b. NYS) and married; and granddaughter, Clara M. Biles, age
7 months (b. Sep 1879 in PA; father b. PA; mother b. NYS).
Austin Biles married Martha Kiple (perhaps maiden name Terry) (b. abt 1813/14 in PA) on
17 April 1834 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and had the following children:
(a) Joseph R. Biles:
Born about 1839 in Pennsylvania (per 1850 US Census).
(b) Adin W. Biles:
(photos)
Born July 1836 in Southampton Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Killed in action on 3 July 1863 during the
Civil War Battle of Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania; interred 20 July
1863 in William Penn Cemetery, Somerton, Philadelphia
County, Pennsylvania. Was a Private in
Company I of the 71st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment; enlisted 6 June
1861.
(c) Samuel L. Biles: Born about 1841 in
Pennsylvania. Died 23 November 1873;
interred William Penn Cemetery, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Married Mary Ellen/Ella
Webster (b. abt 1843 in PA) on 27 December 1866 in Philadelphia County,
Pennsylvania.
(d) Adelaide/Adelaice R. Biles: Born 1 January 1844 in Bucks County,
Pennsylvania. Died 20 December 1915 in Barre Township, Washington County, Vermont; interred
there. Married Willoughby E. Corliss (b.
27 May 1837 in Corinth Twp, Orange Co., VT, d. 22 Mar 1914 in Brooklyn, Kings
Co., NY; interred with Adelaide) on 29 March 1862 in Philadelphia County,
Pennsylvania and had children.
(e) Thomas H. Biles: Born about 1845 in Pennsylvania. No census record found after 1860. Perhaps the Thomas H. Biles for whom a
pension was granted 30 June 1880 for service in a Pennsylvania infantry unit.
(f) William T. Biles: Born about 1847 in
Pennsylvania (per several census records; also seen: b. Mar 1847 in NJ). Died 25 April 1812 in Highland Park,
Middlesex County, New Jersey; interred New Somerville Cemetery, Somerville,
Somerset County, New Jersey. Married Catharine
Ann Tunison (b. 20 Jul 1857 in Somerset Twp, Somerset
Co., NJ, Bapt there 22 May 1858, d. 1948; interred
with William) on 9 July 1874 in Somerset County, New Jersey and had children.
(g) Mary W. Biles: Born about 1849/50/51 in
Pennsylvania. Was
single in 1880.
(h) Edwin/Edward M.
Biles: Born August 1851 in Pennsylvania.
Moved to New Jersey by 4 October 1831, when a child was born in
Bridgewater Township, Somerset County, New Jersey. Married Evora Mary Kennerson (b. Jan 1851 in NYS; parents b. NYS) about 1879
and had children.
(i) Charles Biles:
Born about 1853 in Pennsylvania. No
record found after 1860, when Charles was age 7.
e. Doughty Biles: (perhaps) Note: his
mother's maiden name was Mary Doughty.
f. Samuel Biles: (perhaps)
(2. William Biles: (more
info) Born about 1732-35. Died 1773. Mentioned in his father’s will in 1754, when
he was not yet age 21. Married Hannah
Kirkbride (Para 3.7.(2.(c. of gen 4 of the Kirkbride
Annex) (b. 9 Oct/Dec 1743 in Falls Twp, Bucks Co., PA, d. 1794) on
21/26 June 1766 in the Southampton Reformed Church (also seen: m. Churchville
Presbyterian Church), Southampton, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Note: do not confuse this Hannah Kirkbride
with the Hannah Kirkbride who married William's uncle, Langhorne Biles, I,
paragraph f., below). William and Hannah
(Kirkbride) Biles had the following children:
(a. William Biles, Jr.: Married Rebecca Cornell.
(b. Grace Biles:
Born 1776 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Died 1848.
Married Samuel Carey Betts (b. 1776 in Bucks Co., PA, d. 2 Feb 1843;
interred western burial ground (also seen: d. 1861)), son of Zachariah Betts of
Bucks County, Pennsylvania on 18 October 1798 at the Makefield
Monthly Meeting of Friends in Bucks County and had the following children:
(1) Ann Betts.
(2) William Carey Betts: Died 27 June 1844;
interred Fairhill.
Married Ruth Anna Wayne (d. 18 Jun 1862; interred Fairhill),
daughter of William and Rebecca (Potts) Wayne, and had the following children:
(a) Sarah W. Betts: Born 19 August 1834.
(b) Rebecca P. Betts: Born 12 April 1836.
(c) Ruthanna Betts:
Born 10 August 1840.
(d) Mary Betts: Born 15 October 1842.
(3) Richard Betts.
(4) Sarah Harvey Betts: Married Thomas
Ellwood Chapman and had the following children:
(a) Samuel B. Chapman: Born 30 May 1837.
(b) Josiah Chapman: Born 22 May 1839.
(c) Dellwyn Parrish
Chapman: Born 5 October 1842. Died 18 December 1843.
(c. Deacon Thomas
Kirkbride Biles, MD: Born in Pennsylvania.
Died 1821 in Lower Makefield
Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Employed as a physician. Of interest, an old, handwritten family
record said: "He used steelyard scales to weigh his medicines." Married Clarissa
"Claire"/"Clara" DeNormandie
(b. 5 Dec 1761 at Philadelphia, PA, Bapt. there 28 Dec 1761 in Christ Church
with Rev. Robert Jenney officiating) and resided in lower Makefield
Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Thomas and Clara had the following children:
(1) Mary Biles: Born about 1790 in Bucks
County, Pennsylvania. Married
Dilworth Buckman, son of William and Hannah (?)
Buckman of
Lower Makefield Township, Bucks County, on 23 December
1810 at Trenton, New Jersey, with William Potts officiating.
(2) Thomas J. Biles: Born 1793. Died 1848.
(3) Charles Biles: Born 1 November 1795 in
Lower Makefield Township, Bucks County,
Pennsylvania. Died 6
May 1865 in Middletown, Bucks County. (also
seen: d. 15 March 1865 & 15 May 1886).
In 1850 was employed as a farmer at Middletown, Bucks County.
Married Susanna Paxson/Paxon/Paxton (b. 22 Nov 1799 in Falls Twp, Bucks
Co., d. there 6 Feb 1875, age 76) on 13/30 October 1823 at the Paxson residence, with Justice of the Peace Isaac Hicks
officiating. Charles and Susanna had the
following children:
(a) James Biles: (photos) Twin. Born 20 November 1827 in Pennsylvania (also
seen: b. 16 May 1825; could be date for Charles, above). Died 1 June 1913. Apparently never married.
(b) Edward E. Biles/Byles:
Twin. Born 20 November
1827 in Pennsylvania. Died 22 February 1893.
In 1880 was age 54, single, employed as a farmer, and heading his own
household in Baltimore County, Maryland.
(c) Lieutenant Alfred Biles: (photos)
(more info)
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Born about 1828/29. Died
26 July 1863 at Warrenton, Virginia; killed in action 26 July 1863 by elements
of the 43rd Virginia Cavalry, which was commanded by legendary Colonel John
Singleton Mosby, "the Gray Ghost."
Mosby's Rangers were notorious for their stealth and cunning. Alfred served in the Union Army during the US
Civil War - 2nd Regiment, Pennsylvania Cavalry (59th Volunteers), which was
organized at Philadelphia and Harrisburg between September 1861 and April 1862.
Before the War, Alfred was employed as an
architect, with office at 154 South 4th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, one
block from Independence Hall. He
designed the Church of Saint Alban in the Roxborough
neighborhood of northwest Philadelphia, and in 1861 was among the 19 signers of
the application for a Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Institute of
Architects. Never
married.
(d) Anthony DeNormandie
Byles/Biles: (photos) Born 22 January
1830 in Pennsylvania. Died
4 March/April 1898. In 1880 was
age 50, a retired broker, and headed a household in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Married Frances/Francis
"Fanny"/"Fannie" Molony (photos) (b. 9 Aug 1836 in
PA; parents b. PA; d. 7 Mar 190?) and had the
following children:
[1. Estella Byles:
(photos) Born April 1872
in Pennsylvania. Married Horace G.
Mitchell (photos) (b. 23 Aug 1869 at
Philadelphia, PA), son of Love and Anna "Annie" (Cavasdale)
Mitchell of Philadelphia, before 1900 and in 1900, 1920, and 1930 they resided
at Langhorne, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Estella and Horace had the following son:
[a. Howard Mitchell:
(photos)
Born January 1897 in Pennsylvania.
[2. Ethel Byles:
Born January 1875 in Pennsylvania.
In 1900 Fanny, age 63, was heading a
household in Langhorne and Langhorne Manor Boroughs, Bucks County,
Pennsylvania, and her daughters resided with her.
(e) Sarah P. Biles: (photos)
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Born 12/23 February 1832 in
Pennsylvania. Died 17
January 1916. Apparently
never married.
(f) Harriet E. Biles: (photos) Born 16 August
1834. Died 16 February
1918. Resided
near Baltimore, Maryland. Apparently never married.
(g) Anna Biles: Born about 1837 in
Pennsylvania. Died
1859. Married C.
Taylor Knight, son of Absalom/Absolom and Elizabeth
(?) Knight; no children.
(h) Elizabeth "Lizzie" Paxson Biles: (photos) (more info)
Born 28 April 1839 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died 3 May 1932, age 93, at Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania (also seen: d. Apr 1932 in Bucks Co., PA). Unmarried in 1859. Married Joseph
Field Brown/Browne (b. 20 Jun 1836 at Prospect Hill/Emilie, York Co.,
PA, d. 28 Jun/30 Jul 1913 in Bucks Co., PA) on 19 December 1860 in Bucks
County. Joseph was employed as a
milk dealer in Philadelphia. He was a
descendant of Colonel Thomas Cresap (b. 1702 in England), a pioneer settler of
colonial Maryland and a commander during 'Cresap's
War'. Elizabeth and Joseph had
the following daughter:
[1. Laura Cresap
Brown: (photos) Born 31
March 1862 in Bristol Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (also seen: b. 31
Mar 1862 at Bordentown, Burlington Co., NJ).
Died 18 June 1906, age 44 years, 2 months, 18 days, at Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania; interred Langhorne, PA on 21 June. Married Dr. Edward White Jones, MD (b. 12 Aug
1862 at Morrisville, PA, d. 26/27 Jan 1923 in Bucks Co., PA) of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania on 14/8 October 1885 and resided there. Edward graduated 1890 from Hahnemann Medical
College, Philadelphia and practiced medicine in Philadelphia. Laura and Edward had the following son:
[a. Dr. Clifford Buckman Jones (MD): (photos)
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Born 11 November 1886 at
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Died there 4/1 May 1969. Raised as a Quaker; member of the Greene
Street Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends. Graduated 1908 from the
University of Pennsylvania Medical School. Employed as a physician -
general practitioner. Resided at 6601 Emlen Street,
Philadelphia for many years.
Married (1st) Elizabeth "Bessie" Harrison
Ferguson (photos) (b.
9 Apr 1889 at Philadelphia, PA, d. there 6 Oct 1918 from complications of
influenza - a victim of the flu pandemic of that year), on 7 December
1910. Clifford and Elizabeth had the
following children:
[1] Robert Bruce Jones "Bruce": (photos)
(more info) Born
1912 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Died . Raised as a Quaker. Attended the Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia. Author of: "The History of Green Street
Monthly Meeting of Friends." Also documented his family's
history in great depth. Married Jeanne Edith Tousaw. Resided last in a
retirement community in Gwynedd Township, Montgomery
County, Pennsylvania.
[2] Dorothy Anne Jones: (photos)
Born 16 May 1916 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Died 2008.
Raised as a Quaker. Attended the Germantown
Friends School in Philadelphia.
Graduated 1938 from Wheaton College, Norton Township, Massachusetts; BA
degree majoring in art history, with minor in French. After graduation traveled by steam ship to
France, hoping to lead American student tours there, but increasing tensions
just prior to World War II forced her to return to the United States. Subsequently employed as
curator for the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts.
Married S. Sidney Newhouse (photos)
(b. 1915, d. 2011) and had the following children:
[a] Nancy Anne Newhouse:
Born 1945 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Married Thomas Davis Trimmer in 1968 and had the following children:
{1. Thomas Davis Trimmer, Jr.: Born 1970).
{2. Michelle Trimmer: Born 1972.
[b] Philip Edward Newhouse: Born 1948 in
Indiana. Married Cynthia
"Cindy" Gietzen in 1976 and had the
following children:
{1. Juliana Newhouse: Born 1979.
{2. Andrew Newhouse: Born 1980.
{3. Meredith Newhouse: Born 1984.
[c] David "Dave" Russell Newhouse:
(photos) Born 1953 in
Indiana. Married (1st) (?) and had the
following daughter:
{1. Megan Kathleen Newhouse: (photos) Born
1983 in Michigan. Married George Alexis Kounnas of Pretoria, South Africa in 2010 and had the
following daughter:
{a. Eleni "Ella" Kathleen Kounnas:
Born 2014 in New Jersey.
David and (?) Newhouse were
subsequently divorced. David married
(2nd) (?).
Clifford Buckman
Jones married (2nd) Alice McKinley (b. abt 1897) in 1919 and had the following
children:
[3] Edward White Jones, II: (photos) Born about
1921. Died .
[4] Philip Edward Jones: Born about
1922. Died .
(i) Clarissa
"Clara" DeNormandie Biles: (photos) Born 22
January 1842 in Pennsylvania. Died
Wednesday, 28 September 1927, age 86, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from
complications of arterial sclerosis and chronic myocarditis. Employed as a school
teacher. Never
married. Resided
in the farming household headed by her brother, James, and with her sisters,
Sarah and Harriette (all apparently never married) at
Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania until at least 1910. In 1920 was boarding in the household headed
by Jesse M. John at Newtown.
(4) William Henry Biles: Born about 1798 in
Pennsylvania. Employed
as a farmer. Married Sarah LaRue (b. abt 1804/02), daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Vandegrift) LaRue of Falls
Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on 7/5 April 1825 in Newtown Township,
Bucks County, with Justice of the Peace Isaac Hicks officiating. In 1850 resided in Southampton
Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
In 1860 resided in District 6 (near Leonardtown), St. Marys County, Maryland. In 1870 resided in
Baltimore County, Maryland (near Little Gunpowder). William and Sarah had the following children:
(a) Thomas Jefferson
Biles/Byles: Born May 1826 in Bucks County,
Pennsylvania. In 1850 resided with his
parents there and was employed as a school teacher. Moved to Delaware City, New Castle County,
Delaware, where he met Martha Jane Nicle/Nickel (b.
abt 1835 in DE), daughter of John and Lydia (?) Nickle
of Red Lion Hundred, New Castle County, on 24 November 1853 at Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, with Reverend D. W. Bartine
officiating. In 1870 resided at Media,
Delaware County, Pennsylvania and was employed in a clothing store. In 1880 was employed as a commercial
agent/salesman.
(b) Caroline LaRue Biles: Born 11 November 1836 in Pennsylvania. Died 9 April 1915 in Brazil Township, Clay
County, Indiana.
In 1860 resided with her parents in District 6, St. Marys
County, Maryland and was employed as a seamstress.
Perhaps the Caroline Biles who married Silas Demarcus M. Coffey (b. 23 Feb 1839 in IN,
d. 6 Mar 1904 in Manatee Twp, Manatee Co., FL) on 1 November 1864 in Clay
County, Indiana (see Henry Biles page) and had the following
children:
[1. Ida L. Coffee: Born 1867. Died 1954. Married William E. Sanders (b. 1863, d. 1949) on 10 October 1889 in Clay County, Indiana. By one account, William Sanders also married Mary Scribner (b. 1830 at Thomaston, Lincoln Co., ME), but if her age is correct, it doesn't appear likely.
[2. Emma Josephine Coffey: Born 2 July 1871 in Clay County, Indiana. Died 11 April 1916 at Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana. Married, as his 2nd wife, Dr. Renos Harlan Richards (b. 8 Sep 1866 at Patricksburg, Owen Co., IN, d. there 9 Sep 1945) on 29 June 1898. Renos Richards had married (1st) Blanche Meek Bladen (b. abt 1872 in Owen Co., IN, d. 26 Nov 1895 at Spencer, Owen Co., IN). Renos and Emma J. (Coffey) Richards had the following daughter:
[a. Dorothy Caroline Richards: Born 10 February 1905 at Patricksburg, Owen County, Indiana. Died 12 January 1986 at Manhasset, Nassau County, New York. Married (1st) John Mitchell Currie (b. 16 May 1899 at Franklinville, Cattaraugus Co., NY, d. 3 Jun 1991 at Santa Fe, Santa Fe Co., NM) on 4 August 1927 at Waynesville, Haywood County, North Dakota and had the following daughter:
[1] Mary Carolyn Currie: Born 1930 in New York. Died ; interred Franklinville, Cattaraugus County, New York. Married James Arthur Reichert (b. 1932) on 26 August 1953 in Loraine County, Ohio.
Dorothy (Richards) Currie married (2nd) Robert Bowen Birge (b. 5 Dec 1914 at Izmir, Turkey, d. 31 Oct 2010 at Coventry, Tolland Co., CT).
Dr. Renos Richards married (3rd) Frances Chloe Chambers (b. 24 Feb 1885 in Spencer Co., IN, d. 25 Jan 1963 in Owen Co., IN).
[3. Nettie E. Coffey: Born December 1873 in Indiana. Died March 1960 at Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana.
[4. Robert Wallace Coffey: Born 27 November 1878 in Brazil Township, Clay County, Indiana. Died 27 November 1957 at Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana. Married, perhaps 3rd, Alice Louise Wright (b. 1887, d. 1961) on 17 August 1907 in Clay County, Indiana. Robert Coffey had married (perhaps 1st) Audrey Hallie Steuerwald (b. 25 Aug 1910 in Clay Co., IN, d. 4 Jul 2001 in Brazil Twp, Clay Co., IN), and he married (perhaps 2nd) Mary Elizabeth Jellison (b. 1 Dec 1890 in IN, d. 15 Sep 1930 at Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN).
(c) Maria/Mariah L. Biles: Born about 1839/40
in Pennsylvania. In 1860 resided with
her parents in District 6, St. Marys County, Maryland
and was employed as a seamstress
(d) William Henry Biles, Jr.: Born about
1841/42 in Pennsylvania. Died 1884. In 1860
resided with his parents in District 6, St. Marys
County, Maryland and was employed as a farm had. Married Julietta
H. Chapman (b. abt 1831), daughter of John and Lavine
(?) Chapman, on 25 June 1868.
(5) James "J.D." DeNormandie Biles: Born about 1799/1800 in Lower Makefield Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died after 1875, perhaps at
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In
1850 was employed as a farmer and resided in Southampton Township, Bucks
County, Pennsylvania. In 1860 was
employed as a milkman and resided at Ward 4, Wilmington, New
Castle County, Delaware. In 1870 was age
70 and resided in Ward 20 of Philadelphia.
James married Elizabeth C. Dunlap/Dunlop (b.
abt 1805 in PA) in 1826 (perhaps 6 Sep) at the Dutch Reformed Church, Churchville,
Bucks County and resided there initially.
Subsequently moved to Wilmington, Delaware and
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. James and Elizabeth had the following
children:
(a) Martin Harris
Biles: Born 17 February 1827 in Southampton Township, Bucks County,
Pennsylvania. Died
after 1910. In 1850 resided with
his parents and was employed as a blacksmith.
Married Deborah Ann/H. Temple (b. 15 Feb 1833), daughter of Andrew and
Charity (Christopher) Temple, and had the following children:
[1. Anna Mary Biles: Born 1 June 1852. Died 23 April 1872.
[2. Sarah Ellenah
Biles: Born 5 January 1854. Died 3 June 1920.
[3. Rachel Ann Biles: Born 28 February
1857. Died 1931.
[4. Elizabeth Ida Biles: Born 5 September
1860.
[5. Andrew Temple Biles: Born 15 March
1862. Died 14 March
1841.
[6. James Harris Biles: Born 4 June
1855. Died 15 May
1857.
[7. Samuel G. Biles: Born 11 September
1864. Died 10 January
1866.
(b) John DeNormandie Biles: Born about 1829 in Southampton Township,
Bucks County, Pennsylvania. In 1850
resided with his parents and was employed as a wheelwright.
(c) Jacob K. Biles: Born about 1831 in
Southampton Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died 22 May 1911 at Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania; interred Delaware. Veteran of the US Civil War; served in the 1st Regiment of Delaware
Infantry, Companies H, E, and F.
In 1850 resided with his parents and was employed as a farmer. In 1860 resided with his parents at
Wilmington, Delaware and was employed as a carpenter. In 1870 was employed as a farmer at Fair
Hill, Cecil County, Maryland. In 1880
was employed as a farmer at Blackbird, New Castle County, Delaware. In 1910 Jacob resided with his daughter, Mary
E. Biles at Prospect Park, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
Jacob married Anna "Annie"/"Fannie"
Robinson (b. abt 1835/36 in MD, d. before 1910) on 26 September 1859 at Cecil,
Maryland. Of interest, Anna had a
sister, Sarah (b. abt 1840), who married (?) Hudson, and a
brother, George H. Robinson (b. abt 1845). Jacob and Anna had the following children:
[1. Charles O. Biles: Born about 1860/61 in
Delaware.
[2. Louisa M. Biles: Born about 1863/64 in
Delaware.
[3. William H. Biles: Born about 1866/67 in
Delaware. Perhaps died
between 1905 and 1910. Perhaps
married Mary E. (b. abt 1873) and had the following children:
[a. Ethel R. Biles:
Born about 1890.
[b. Lula C. Biles:
Born about 1895.
[c. Robert K. Biles: Born about 1900.
[d. Frank O. Biles: Born about 1906.
[4. John P. H. Biles: Born about 1874/76 in
Maryland.
(d) Charles Biles: Born about 1834 in
Southampton Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died about 29 January 1868; interred Glenwood
Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In
1850 resided with his parents and was employed as a farmer. In 1860 resided with his parents at
Wilmington, Delaware.
(e) Matilda Biles: Born March 1837 in
Southampton Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Married (1st) William E. Krewson (d. 14 May 1872) on 8 February 1855. Married (2nd) John Carter.
(also seen: m. James Spencer)
(f) Samuel Biles: Born about 1840 in
Southampton Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. In 1860 resided with his parents at
Wilmington, Delaware and was employed as a clerk.
(g) Elizabeth C. Biles: Born about 1842/43 (perhaps
22 Jan 1842) in Southampton Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. In 1860 was single and resided with her
parents at Wilmington, Delaware, where she was employed as a seamstress. Married William G. Thompson
(b. 1841 in DE).
(h) Clara D. Biles: Born
April 1846 in Southampton Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died 28 September 1927. In 1860 was single and resided with her
parents at Wilmington, Delaware, where she was employed as a seamstress. Married (1st) William C.
Rodgers. Married
(2nd) Theodore M. Robinson.
(6) Grace Biles. (perhaps)
(7) Hannah (also seen: Sarah) Biles: Born
1806 at Bristol, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Appears to have died before 1865. Married Silas Phillips (b. abt 1796 in PA, d.
19 Dec 1865 at Bristol), and in 1850 resided at Bristol, Bucks County,
Pennsylvania. Silas was employed as a
coach maker. Hannah and Silas had the
following daughter:
(a) Louisa Phillips: Born 1827. Married (1st) Sun. Wright (b. abt 1808), who
was employed as a blacksmith in 1860, before 1851 and had the following
children:
[1. Silas/Cyrus Phillips Wright: Born about
1851/52 in Pennsylvania. In 1870 was an
apprentice confectioner residing in the household headed by Charles A. Ahlee, age 52 and employed as a confectioner. Subsequently employed as a
baker.
[2. Hannah Louisa Wright "Louisa":
Born about 1854 in Pennsylvania. In 1870
was employed as a domestic servant in the household headed by Israel S.
Tomlinson, age 37, who was employed as a coal agent at Bristol, Bucks County,
Pennsylvania.
[3. Alfred Wright: Born about 1856.
[4. Mary Wright: Born about 1859.
Louisa (Phillips) Wright married (2nd) John
H. Craven (b. abt 1821 in PA) after 1855.
Silas and Hannah (Biles) Phillips also raised
the following children; relation to them still unknown.
(b) Thomas B. Phillips: Born about 1841 in
Pennsylvania. Resided
with Silas and Hannah Phillips in 1850 and 1860.
(c) Mark Phillips: Born about 1845. Resided with Silas and
Hannah Phillips in 1850 and 1860.
(d. Sarah Biles: Married (1st) Thomas Harvey
(b. 1741 in Chester Co., PA) and moved to southwest, Pennsylvania. Sarah and Thomas had the following children:
(1) Joseph Harvey.
(2) Harriet Elizabeth Harvey: Married John
Wister of Germantown, Pennsylvania.
(3) George Harvey: Born 4 April 1769. Married (1st) (?). Married (2nd) Mrs. Mary
Cravens. George and one of his
wives had the following son:
(a) Robert Harvey: Born 1800. Married Ruth (?) and moved to Virginia (now Managolia Co., WV) before 1830.
Sarah (Biles) Harvey married (2nd) Isaac
Pennington and had the following children:
(4) William Pennington: Born 8 April
1781. Died 20 March
1797.
(5) Ann Pennington: Born 1784. Died 18 October 1806.
(3. Langhorne Biles, II: Mentioned in his
father’s 1754 will, when he was not yet age 21.
(4. Mary Biles: Mentioned in her father’s
1754 will, when she was still single. Married Richard Betts.
(5. Johannah
“Hannah” Biles: Mentioned in her father’s 1754 will, when she was single.
(6. Grace Langhorne Biles: Born 19 April
1764. Died 11 March
1813 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Mentioned in her father’s 1754 will, when she was not
married. On 3 May 1759 received a
certificate of membership in the Middletown [PA] Monthly Meeting [of Quakers],
with duration through 31 August 1759. Married Hezekiah Williams, son of George Williams of Philadelphia
County, Pennsylvania, at the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting [of Quakers] on 19
April 1764.
c. Grace Biles: Born about 1698 in Falls
Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Perhaps died in or before 1737; was not named in her father's will,
dated 3 December 1737.
Grace Biles married as his 1st wife, John Beatts/Bates (b. abt 1696 in Falls Twp, Bucks Co., PA)
about 1718 in Falls Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania and had the following
children:
(1. William Bates: Born about 1719 in New
Jersey.
(2. Jeremiah Bates: Born about 1721 in New
Jersey.
(3. John Bates: Born about 1723 in New
Jersey. Married (?) and had the
following daughter:
(a. Sarah Bates.
(4. Sarah Bates: Born about 1725 in New
Jersey. Died May - July 1760 in Bensalem
Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania; will dated 1760
in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
(5. Hannah Bates: Born about 1727 in New
Jersey. Married Samuel
Yardley (b. abt 1722 in NJ) about 1747 in New Jersey.
d. William Biles, III: (more info)
Born about 1698 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Died there about 1775; will dated 11 April 1770
and proved 11 February 1775. Along with
his 2 sons, Thomas & William, on 2 August 1756 was
disowned by the Falls Monthly Meeting of Friends for his “military association”
(having joined the military).
In his father's will William Biles, III was
bequeathed Biles Island, as well as his home plantation in Falls Township,
after his mother's death.
William Biles, III married (1st) Ann
Stevenson (b. 6 Feb 1704 at Middletown, Bucks Co., PA, d. 8 May 1734 in
Bucks Co., PA), daughter of Thomas, III and Sarah (Jennings)(Pennington)
Stevenson (and sister of Elizabeth Sarah (Stevenson) Hughes, who married Mathew
Hughes, Jr., see Para 4a.C.1.f., above), on 1 May
1725 at the Falls Meeting of Friends, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Of interest, Ann's half-brother, Isaac
Pennington, married William's sister, Ann Biles (Para c., below).
William and Ann (Stevenson)(Pennington)
Biles had the following children:
(1. William Biles IV: (more info)
Born roughly 1735-39. Died 1802; will dated 20 June 1802 and proved 7 January 1803. Along with his father and brother, on 2
August 1756 was disowned by the Falls Monthly Meeting of Friends for his
“military association” (having joined the military). In his father's will William Biles, IV was
bequeathed Biles Island and his father's plantation located there. Married Sarah Mott.
Note:
This William Biles appears to have been confused by Bryan Biles (see ref. top
of this page) with this William's 1st cousin, William Biles, son of Charles
(Para. d., below), who, it appears, was the William Biles who married Hannah
Kirkbride.
(2. Thomas Biles: Died October 1774; will dated 1 October 1774; proved 19 October 1774. Married Abigail (?). Along with his father and brother, on 2
August 1756 was disowned by the Falls Monthly Meeting of Friends for his
“military association” (having joined the military). His father's will suggests
Thomas had no heirs, and his will describes Abigail as his sole legatee.
(3. Ann Biles: Died before 1802. Before marriage resided in Falls Township,
Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Married Asher Mott
(d. 1783), son of William (b. 9 Nov 1699) and Margaret (Hartshorne) Mott (b. 3
Sep 1704, d. 1745) (who was the dau of William
Hartshorne and grandson of Gersham and Phebe (Scudder) Mott) of Amwell
Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, on 10/2 May 1769 at St. Mary’s Church,
Burlington, New Jersey. On 7 June 1769
Ann (Biles) Mott was disowned by her Monthly Meeting [of Quakers] for her
“marriage out of unity.” Of related
interest, Asher’s sister married William Biles on 1 October 1789. In 1778 Asher’s house on Biles Island was
destroyed by fire.
(4. Susannah Biles: Mentioned in her
brother's will. Died 7
September 1806. Married Thomas
Thorn/Thorne (b. 21 Jul 1733 at Crosswiche, NJ, d.
there 25/15 Feb 1801) at Fallington, Bucks County,
Pennsylvania. Subsequently
resided in Burlington County, New Jersey.
(a. Joseph Thorne:
Born 12 February 1761. Died 28 September 1822.
Married (1st) Ann Beck. Married (2nd) Ann Pancoast.
(b. Benjamin Thorne:
Born 5 January 1763. Died
13 June 1846.
(c. Ann Thorne: Born
4 May 1764. Married
John Taylor.
(d. William Biles Thorne: Born 26 March
1766. Died 17 November
1796.
(e. George Biles Thorne: Born 29 August 1767.
(f. Langhorne
Thorne: Born 8 March 1769.
(g. Sarah (or Samuel) Thorne: Born 9 October
1772. Died 2 January
1774.
(h. Enoch Thorne:
Born 6 January 1775. Died
12 February 1826.
(i.
Thomas Thorne: Born 17 February 1782. Died 2 August 1846.
William Biles, III married (2nd) Jane (?) (d. 1777).
e. Elizabeth Biles: Born 1710/about 1699 in
Falls Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Died 1784/about 1806.
Elizabeth Biles resided in Bucks County,
Pennsylvania when she married Abel Janney of
Maidenhead, New Jersey, in (perhaps Jun) 1740 (license issued 5 Jun 1740 in
NJ). They moved to Virginia in
1746. Abel and Elizabeth (Biles) Janney had at least the following daughter:
(1. Betty Janney.
f. Langhorne Biles, I: (more info)
Born about 1701 in Falls Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died there 5 March 1769. On 4 March 1748 was dismissed from the Falls
Monthly Meeting of Friends for “disunity” (having joined a military
association). Was co-executor of his
brother, Charles Biles' will, in which he was referred to as "Friends
Langhorne Biles."
Langhorne Biles married Hannah Kirkbride (gen
1 of the Kirkbride Annex) (b. 23 Nov 1726 in
Bucks Co., PA, d. before 1 Oct 1803), daughter of
Joseph, Jr. and Mary Sarah (Fletcher) Kirkbride (m. 1724 at Abington), in 1749
(also seen: m. 3 Mar 1756 in Bucks Co., PA).
Note: do not confuse this Hannah Kirkbride with the Hannah Kirkbride who
married Langhorne's nephew, William Biles (son of Charles), paragraph b.(2., above). Because
Langhorne was no longer a Quaker, Hannah (Kirkbride) Biles was disowned by her
Monthly Meeting for her “marriage contrary to discipline” (married outside the
community of Quakers).
Langhorne and Hannah (Kirkbride) Biles had the
following children: (order given in abstract of Langhorne's will)
(1. Sarah Biles: Mentioned in her father's
will.
(2. Jenipher/Tonipher Biles: Mentioned in her father's will.
(3. Mary "Molly" Elizabeth Biles:
Born about 1758 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Died 1861.
Mentioned in her father's will. Married Captain Joseph Borden, III (b. 23 Jun
1755 at Bordentown, Burlington Co., NJ, d. there
before 16 Oct 1788), 3rd child of Joseph, II and Elizabeth (Rogers) Borden, on
26 November 1778 at Bordentown, Burlington County, New Jersey and had the
following daughter:
(a. Elizabeth
Borden: Born 13 November 1779 at Philadelphia, Philadelphia County,
Pennsylvania; baptized there 17 March 1781.
Married Azariah Hunt of Hopewell, New Jersey
on 8 March 1806 at Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey and had the following
son:
(1) Philemon Hunt: Born 13 February 1807.
(2) Joseph Borden Hunt: Born 28 March 1809.
(3) Mary Borden Hunt: Born 15 November 1810.
(4) John Price Hunt: Born
27 November 1812.
(5) Margaret Hunt: Born 22 October 1814 at Lamberton.
(6) Robert Wilson Hunt: Born 24 March 1817 at
Lamberton.
(7) Langhorne Biles Hunt: Born at Spring Hill
Farm on 28 January 1819.
(b. Mary Borden:
Born 1781.
(4. Rebecca "Becky" Biles: Born about
1755 in Pennsylvania. Died 2 April 1815,
age 60; will proved 4 August 1815. Mentioned in her father's
will.
(5. Charlotte Biles: Mentioned in her
father's will.
(6. Nancy Biles: Mentioned in her father's
will.
(7. Ann Biles: (perhaps) Not
mentioned in her father's will. Married John Carlisle.
g. Ann Biles: Born 4 February 1702/03) in
Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died there
February 1748; interred there.
Ann Biles married Isaac Pennington (b. 22
Sep/Nov 1700 in Philadelphia Co., PA, d. 4 Jul 1742 in Bucks Co., PA; interred
5 May 1742), son of Edward and Sarah (Jennings) Pennington (so, Isaac was the
half-brother of Ann Biles' sister-in-law, Ann (Stevenson) Biles), on 5 December
1725 and had the following son:
(1. Edward Pennington: Born 4 October 1726 in
Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died 1796. Was jailed for his faith.
Married Sarah Shoemaker (b. 1725, d. 1800), daughter of Benjamin (b.
1704, d. 1767) and Sarah (Coates) Shoemaker (b. 1705, d. 1738), and had the
following children (documented in the Falls Monthly Meeting records):
(a. Isaac
Pennington: Born 30 October 1756 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Died 28 April 1803 near
Bordentown. Was
jailed for his faith. Married
Sarah (Biles) Harvey (b. 1754, d. 6 Jan 1807), widow of Thomas Harvey, and had
the following children:
(1) William Pennington: Born 8 April
1781. Died 20 March
1797.
(2) Nancy Ann Pennington: Born 1784. Died 28 October 1806.
(b. Anne Pennington:
Born 28 Apr 1760. Died
15 August 1791. Married Robert
Smock and had the following daughter:
(1) Sarah Pennington Smock.
(c. Sarah Pennington
31: Born 22/3 August 1762. Died 31 March 1765.
(d. Mary Pennington:
Born 28 November 1763. Died 15 July 1764.
(e. Benjamin
Pennington: Born 16 April 1765. Died 19 August 1792.
(f. Edward
Pennington: Born 1766. Died 16 March 1834.
Married Helena Lawrence Holmes (d. 28 Jan 1852), daughter of James and
Helena (Lawrence) Holmes, and had the following children:
(1) John Pennington: Born 1799. Died 1867. Married Lucetta
Davis (b. 1797, d. 1881).
(2) William Le Conte Pennington: Born 18
April 1803 at
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Died 16 August 1863. Married Anne Harding.
(3) Henry Pennington: Born 1807. Died 1858.
(4) Edward Pennington, Jr.: Born 6 December
1800. Died 6 January
1868. Married
Elizabeth Ann Lewis.
(5) Lawrence Pennington: Born 25 October
1805. Died 5 August
1870.
(6) George Pennington: Born 17 July
1809. Died 10 November
1809.
(g. Sarah Pennington
#2: Born 3 August 1767. Died 9 August 1767.
(h. John Pennington,
MD: Born 29 September 1768. Died 30 September 1793.
(2. Mary Pennington: Born 5 April 1732. Died 1801.
(3. Sarah Pennington: Born 1734.
(4. Thomas Pennington: Born 1 February
1738. Died 1740.
h. Sarah Biles: Born 1705/1710 in Falls Township,
Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died January 1781. Married, as his 1st wife, to Lawrence Growden/Growdon on 6 Mar 1741 at her Monthly Meeting of Friends. Lawrence married (2nd) (?).
i. Hannah Biles: Born 1708/18 February 1706 in
Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died 1784. Married
Thomas Janney, son of Abel Janney,
on 4 April 1735 at the Falls Monthly Meeting (of Friends) and had the following
children:
(1. Amos Janney:
Married Mary Yardley, daughter of Thomas and Ann (Biles) Yardley, in 1727.
(2. Charles Janney.
(3. Thomas Janney:
3. George Biles, I:
Born 4 September 1673 (per Friends records
held at Devonshire House, London, England in Dorchester, Dorset County,
England). Died ;
interred 27 February 1708/9. Immigrated
to North America with his parents on aboard the sailing vessel "Elizabeth
& Sarah," arriving on the Delaware River on 4 June 1679. In 1702 the local Court convened at his
residence.
George Biles married, as her (1st) husband,
Martha Blackshaw (b. abt 1681, d. 9 Jan 1720), daughter
of Randall and Alice (Burgess) Blackshaw, on/about 3
September 1697 and had the following children: (note: total of 6 by one
account)
a. Joseph Biles: Born 20 August 1698. Died 22 August 1698.
b. Johannah/Joanna
Biles: Born 2 November 1699. Died 1743/9
January 1742. Married,
as his 1st wife, Evan Morgan (b. 1700, d. 1748), son of David Morgan, in 1730. On 28 Mar 1725 was “disowned [by the
Philadelphia, PA Monthly Meeting of Quakers] for marriage contrary to
discipline.” Johannah
and David had the following children:
(1. John Morgan: Married Mary Hopkins.
(2. Hannah Morgan: Born 4 April 1737. Died 17 March 1821; interred with Samuel in
Granary Burial Ground, Park Street Church, Boston Common, Boston,
Massachusetts. Married Dr. Samuel Stillman (b. 27 Feb 1736/7, d. 12 Mar 1807) on 23 May 1759
and had the following children:
(a. Elizabeth Stillman: Born 16 June 1760.
(b. Samuel Stillman #1: Born 17 December 1761.
(c. Hannah Stillman: Born 20 July 1763.
(d. Mary Stillman: Twin. Born 20 July 1766. Died 8 November 1800.
Married Nathaniel Balch on 17 December 1789.
(e. Harriett Stillman: Twin. Born 20 July 1766.
(f. Benjamin M. Stillman: Born 13 February 1765? Married Mary Balch on 17
December 1789.
(g. Deborah Stillman: Born 15 June 1770 at Boston, Massachusetts. Died 9 September 1829 at
Jamaica Plains, Massachusetts.
Married Thomas Gray (b. 16 Mar 1772 at Boston, MA, d. 1 Jun 1847 at
Jamaica Plains, MA), son of William and Elizabeth (Hall) Gray, on 22 May 1793
and had the following children:
(1) George Harrison Gray: Born 10 May 1795 in
Jamaica Plains, Massachusetts. Died 7 November 1868 at Arlington, Massachusetts. Married Ann Wakefield on 9
May 1844.
(2) Hannah Stillman
Gray: Born 8 September 1796 at Jamaica Plains, Massachusetts. Died 2 March 1798?
(3) Ann Greenough
Gray: Born 5 January 1800 at Jamaica Plains, Massachusetts. Died there 18 August 1873. Married Reverend George
Whitney on 15 December 1829.
(4) Thomas Gray: Born 4 February 1803 at Jamaica
Plains, Massachusetts. Died 6 March 1849 at Boston, Massachusetts. Married Mar Turrell Fales.
(h. Samuel Stillman #2: Born 18 August 1781.
(i.
John Stillman: Born 25 August 1772. Died 5 December 1805.
(j. Jerusher Stillman: Born 12 May
1774.
(k. George Stillman: Born 10 April 1776.
(l. Thomas Stillman #1: Born 17 December 1777.
(m. Ann Stillman: Born 31 May 1779.
(n. Thomas Stillman #2: Born 2 December 1782.
(3. Martha Morgan: Married (?) Austin.
(4. Evan Morgan, Jr.
(5. Enez Morgan.
(6. Benjamin Morgan.
(7. Thomas Morgan.
(8. George Morgan: Born 1743. Died 1810. Married Mary Boynton.
(9. Daniel Morgan: Of
Cowpens.
Martha (Blackshaw)
c. Jonathan Biles: Born about 1700. Died 29 January 1775/74. Employed as a carpenter in Philadelphia
County, Pennsylvania.
Jonathan Biles married Ann Abbott (b. 14 Sep
1698, d. 10/11 Aug 1767, age 69), daughter of John (b. 1660 at Fransfield, Nottinghamshire, England, d. 16 Oct 1739 in
America) and Anne (Mauleverer) Abbott, on 3 October
1723. On 24 February 1724 Ann was
“received on certificate from the Chesterfield Monthly Meeting [of Quakers] in
New Jersey.” In 1769 Jonathan was
dismissed from his Monthly Meeting for his “marriage out of unity.” Jonathan and Ann (Abbott) Biles perhaps had
the following children:
(1. Johanna/Joanna/Joan Biles: Born about
1725. Married (1st) (?) Smith on 28 July
1744, contrary to her Quaker discipline (on 28 Jul 1744 the Philadelphia
Monthly Meeting [of Quakers] reported this as a “marriage out of discipline.”). Following her 1st husband’s death, Johanna
married (2nd) Edward Morris, son of Cadwallader
Morris of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, on 11 October 1753 at the
Philadelphia Monthly Meeting.
(2. George Biles, III #1: Died
; interred 2 February 1731.
(3. Ann Biles: Died 18 November 1742.
(4. George Biles, III #2: Died
; interred 17 December 1736.
(5. John Biles: Born 1738 or before. Of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. Married
Ruth Hall, daughter of John Hall of Philadelphia, on 13 June 1758 at the
Philadelphia Monthly Meeting [of Quakers]. On 7 February 1759 Ruth Biles was disowned by
her Monthly Meeting for “disunity.” John
and Ruth had the following children:
(a. Elizabeth Biles: On 8 October 1777 was
received on certificate from the Northern District of Philadelphia Monthly
Meeting [of Quakers]. On 1 May 1782
Elizabeth and her sister, Sarah, were granted a certificate of membership in
the New York Monthly Meeting.
(b. Sarah Biles: Born about 1766. Died 7 May 1843, age 77. On 8 October 1777 was received on certificate
from the Northern District of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting [of Quakers]. On 1 May 1782 Sarah and her sister,
Elizabeth, were granted a certificate of membership in the New York Monthly
Meeting. On 1 May 1782 Elizabeth and
her sister, Sarah, were granted a certificate of membership in the New York
Monthly Meeting of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Married Thomas Hartshorne, Jr. (d. 18 Feb
1810, age 54), son of Thomas and Mary (Smith) Hartshorne, on 24 October 1786 at
the Dutch Church of New York and had at least the following children:
(1) Elizabeth Hartshorne: Born about
1787. Died 18 February
1819, age 32.
(2) Thomas Hartshorne, III: Born about
1788. Died 19 October
1809, age 21.
(3) William Hartshorne: Born about 1791. Died 18 February 1821, age
30.
(4) Margaret Hartshorne: Born about
1802. Died 2 January
1858, age 56.
(5) Robert Hall Hartshorne: Born about
1806. Died 26 January
1859, age 53.
(6) John Biles Hartshorne: Married Hannah T.
Borden (b. 9 Nov 1801), daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Lloyd) Borden, and had
the following son:
(a) Thomas Hartshorne: Died October 1840, age
9.
d. Susannah Biles: Born 1693/1708. Married, as his 2nd wife, Evan Morgan (b.
1700, d. 1748), who married (1st) her older sister, Johanna. On 30 February 1725 Susannah Morgan was
“disowned for marriage out of unity.”
e. George Biles, II: Died intestate (no will) as a
young man; his brother, Jonathan Biles inherited his assets. Never married.
f. Phoebe/Phebe
Biles: Married mariner John Plaskett of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania on 11 October 1773.
Subsequently, the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Monthly Meeting (MM) [of
Quakers] reported a marriage “out of unity” for Phebe,
and on 26 August 1733 the Philadelphia MM “disowned” Phebe
for “marriage out of unity.”
g. Sarah Biles.
Following the death of George Biles, Martha (Blackshaw) Biles married (2nd) Joseph Waite (d. 1720), son
of John Waite of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, on 11 December 1713 at the
Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of Friends.
4. Johannah/Joanah Biles:
Born 1 March 1675 (per Friends records held
at Devonshire House, London, England; also seen: b. 31 Mar 1674) in Dorchester,
Dorset County, England. Immigrated to
North America with her parents on aboard the sailing vessel "Elizabeth
& Sarah," arriving on the Delaware River on 4 June 1679. Married Samuel Beakes/Beaks of Bates, son of Mary (?) Beakes, on or about 4 July 1695 and had the following
children:
a. Samuel Beakes:
Not mentioned in the will of William, I, so perhaps died before January 1709.
b. Johanna Beakes.
c. John Beakes: Not
mentioned in the will of William, I, so perhaps died before January 1709.
d. Mary Beakes: Not
mentioned in the will of William, I, so perhaps died before January 1709.
e. Grace Beakes: Not
mentioned in the will of William, I, so perhaps died before January 1709.
f. Rebeckah Beakes.
5. John Biles:
Born 31 March 1678 (per Friends records held
at Devonshire House, London, England) in Dorchester, Dorset County,
England. Died 1726,
perhaps in England. Immigrated to
North America with his parents on aboard the sailing vessel "Elizabeth
& Sarah," arriving on the Delaware River on 4 June 1679. Subsequently resided in New
Jersey.
Note: perhaps ancestor of the Biles family of
Bradford County, Pennsylvania. This John
Biles appears to be too old to be the father of Henry Biles (who resided in NJ
before moving west), generation 6 of the Ancestors of John Addison Biles of
Bradford County. However, no record
found of this John Biles having a son, John who survived to adulthood.
Note: also perhaps the ancestor of Thomas Biles
of Rowan County, North Carolina.
John Biles married Mary Lambert (b. 2 Apr 1681),
daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Hootan)
Lambert at the Lambert residence in 1707; the 2 April 1706 Chesterfield
Monthly Meeting of Friends granted permission for this union, and the 2
February 1707 meeting at Chesterfield recorded the marriage.
John and Mary (Lambert) Biles (perhaps) had the following children:
a. Samuel Biles: Born 26 February 1708. Died ; will dated 30
March 1740 did not mention a wife or children.
Resided at Nottingham, Burlington County, New Jersey.
b. Thomas Biles: (more info) (perhaps) The "Grand Sir
Tommy" discussed on page 191 of Bryan Biles' book, which is referenced at
the top of this page and says: "By
tradition, it is accepted that Thomas Biles of Rowan County, North Carolina was
a descendant of William or Charles Biles who came to America from All Saints
Parish, Dorchester, Dorset County, England…."
Also the "NC Thomas Biles"
discussed by Charles Morgan Biles, Para (9.(a.(7)(g)[3.[a., below, who
concludes, by process of elimination: "…if
NC Thomas [Biles] is a descendant of either immigrant William [Biles] or
immigrant Charles [Biles], then the only ancestry road open for NC Thomas is a
lineage from immigrant William Biles through his son John."
Per Friends records, Thomas Biles, son of
John and Elizabeth, was born 12 May 1710 (3rd month, 12, 1710 per old style
dating used in Friends records) in West New Jersey. Died 1784 in North Carolina; will dated 18 September 1871 in Rowan County, North
Carolina. Employed as
a wheel wright (craftsman who builds or repairs
wooden wheels). Granted a certificate to marry his 1st cousin Elizabeth Lambert (d.
1796; will dated 11 Aug 1792), daughter of Thomas Lambert, Jr. and
granddaughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Hootan)
Lambert, on 7 November 1729 at the Chesterfield Monthly Meeting of Friends. Following a disagreement with his Quaker
associates, this Thomas and Elizabeth moved to Rowan County, North Carolina via
the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, probably departing by 1761. Thomas and Elizabeth had the following
children:
(1. Joseph T. Biles: Born about 1744 in New
Jersey. Died in Rowan
County, North Carolina.
1790 US Census: Joseph was heading a
household in Rowan County, North Carolina.
The household also included 1 male over age 16, 1 male under age 16, and
8 females.
1800 US Census: Joseph was heading a
household in Rowan County, North Carolina.
The household also included 1 male age 10 to 16, 2 females under age 10,
1 female age 10 to 16, 1 older female, and 4 slaves.
Married Ann Johnson on 16 November 1769
(license issued 14 Nov 1769).
(2. Charles Stephen? Biles: Born 22 September
1747 in New Jersey or Pennsylvania.
1790 US Census: Charles was heading a
household in Rowan County, North Carolina.
The household also included 3 males under age 16 and 1 female.
Married (?) and perhaps had 5 sons and
several daughters, including: (order uncertain)
(a. Charles Biles, Jr.
(b. John Stephen
Jerome Biles "Stephen": Born about 1782 at Salisbury, North
Carolina. Died before
28 February 1846 in Giles County, Tennessee.
(c. Isaac Biles.
(d. Thomas Biles.
(e. Alexander
"Sandy" Biles.
(3. Daniel Samuel Biles: Born 9 April 1749 in
New Jersey or Pennsylvania. Died 5 February 1835 in Salisbury Township, Rowan County, North
Carolina. Veteran
of the American Revolutionary War; Rowan County Militia.
Daniel Biles married Jean Conger (b. 30 Dec
1755 in Rowan Co., NC, d. 1829 in Wilson Co., TN), daughter of John and Mary
(Ross) Conger, on 30 December 1775 in Rowan Township, Bladen County, North
Carolina and had the following children:
(a. Jonathan Biles: Born 26/21 January 1780
in Rowan County, North Carolina. Died
1/10 July 1861 in Warren County, Tennessee; interred there in Mount Zion
Cemetery. Moved to
Wilson County, Tennessee about 1804, then in 1807 to Warren County, Tennessee. Married Mary "Polly" Abigail
Barnett (b. 29 May 1788 in NC, d. 22 Aug 1828 at McMinnville, Warren Co., TN;
interred with Jonathan), daughter of Robert L. and Hannah (Herron) Barnett, and
had the following children:
(1) Thomas Biles: Born about 1808, perhaps at
McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee.
Died about 1908; interred Mount Zion Cemetery, Warren County,
Tennessee. Married
Elizabeth Jones (b. abt 1810, perhaps in Warren Co., TN) about 1830 in Warren
County, Tennessee.
(2) Robert Barnett Biles: (more info)
Born 22 April 1810 in Warren County, Tennessee.
Died 1873 in Tennessee; interred Riverside Cemetery, Depot Bottom,
McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee.
Robert B. Biles married Nancy Ramsey (b. 19
Sep 1816 at Warren, Fayette Co., TN, d. 18 Jul 1889; interred Riverside Cem.,
Warren Co., TN), daughter of William and Elizabeth (Stroud) Ramsey, and had the
following children:
(a) Thomas B. Biles: (more info)
(b) Mary Elizabeth
Biles:
(c) James C. Biles: (more info)
(d) William Biles: (more
info)
(e) John B. Biles: (more info)
(f) Hallie C. Biles:
(g) Frances Jane Biles "Fanny":
(h) Robert P. Biles: (more info)
(i) Joseph Ramsey
Biles: (more info)
(3) Jane Biles: Born about 1811 in Warren
County, Tennessee. Died
about 1911. Married Wyatt Layne
(b. 16 Jul 1803 in TN, d. 18 Sep 1877 in Coffee Co., TN) and had children.
(4) Elizabeth Biles: Born about 1812 in
Warren County, Tennessee. Died about 1912.
Married Stephen Jones (b. abt 1812, perhaps at McMinnville, Warren Co.,
TN) about 1823 in Warren County, Tennessee and had children.
(5) Joseph Crawford Biles: Born 3 June 1812
at McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee. Died there 21 September
1844. Married Elizabeth Jones (b.
abt 1811, perhaps at McMinnville, Warren Co., TN) and had children.
(6) Mary Biles: Born about 1814 in Warren
County, Tennessee. Died
about 1914. Married
Moses Meyers (b. abt 1814, perhaps at McMinnville, Warren Co., TN) about 1835
in Warren County, Tennessee.
(7) Elizabeth Jane Biles: Born 17 May 1818 in
Tennessee. Died 24 November 1909 in
Warren County, Tennessee; interred there in Grange Hall Cemetery. Married Zachariah B. Jones (b. 12 Apr 1812 in
TN, d. 1878 in Warren Co., TN; interred with Elizabeth) and had children.
(8) Martha Y. Biles: Born 26 December 1819 in
Tennessee. Died 6 July 1883 at
McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee; interred Mount Zion Cemetery, Warren
County, Tennessee. Married John G. Brown
(b. 3 Feb 1815 in Warren Co., TN, d. 4 Sep 1884; interred with Martha), son of
Thomas and Sarah (Greer) Brown, on 3 March 1842 and had children.
(9) Nancy Caroline Biles: Born 27 March 1824
in Warren County, Tennessee. Died 26
July 1897; interred Mount Zion Cemetery, Mount Zion, Warren County,
Tennessee. Married Joseph William Brown
(b. 22 Aug 1817 in VA, d. 6 Sep 1901 at Viola, Warren Co., TN; interred with
Nancy) about 1840 and had children.
(b. Joseph Biles: Born 1784 in North
Carolina. Married Fareby Meadows (b. 1791).
(c. Thomas Biles: Born 1775-80 in Rowan
County, North Carolina. Married Jane Davis/Daves on 18 February
1800.
(d. James Biles: Born about 1782 in Rowan
County, North Carolina. Married Isabella Margaret Barnett (b. 6 May 1792, d. 9 Oct 1848) in
1808.
(e. Euphemy Biles.
(f. Charles Biles: Perhaps married Catherine Lemley on 15 February 1816.
(g. William Biles: Perhaps married Julietta Pitchey on 27 August 1816.
(h. Daniel Ross
Biles: Born 1792. Died
1874. Married
Elizabeth Cozart on 22 March 1823. Moved to Spalding, Georgia.
(i.
Phebe Biles: Died relatively young. Married Moses L. Brown (b.
16 Feb 1808, d. 5 Oct 1887) on 14 October 1830.
(j. Jane Biles: Married Alexander Boyd on 2
November 1820 and resided at Concord, North Carolina.
(4. Thomas T. Biles: Born 1752 in New Jersey
(per his military pension application). Died 31 December 1844 in Stanly County, North Carolina. Veteran of the American Revolutionary
War. Married Tabitha Marbury (b. abt 1765) on 8 March 1783 in Rowan County,
North Carolina.
(a. Isaac Biles: Born 28 March 1784 in Rowan
County, North Carolina. Died 25 June 1856 in Stanly County, North Carolina. Married Martha "Patsy" Moss (b. 3
May 1798, d. 25 Oct 1862) on 29 January 1810 and resided at Cedar Hill, North
Carolina.
(b. Alexander
"Sandy" Biles: Born 26 March 1787 in Rowan County (later Stanly Co.),
North Carolina. Died 15 Aril 1880. Married Dovey/Dovie Taylor about 1810 and had the following son:
(1) William Alexander Biles: Born 31 March
1835 in Stanly County, North Carolina. Died 11 February 1918 in Lincoln County, Oklahoma. Veteran of the American
Civil War on the Confederate side.
Married Mary Catherine Strother (b. 1 Dec
1838, d. abt 1917), daughter of John and Eliza Ann (?) Strother
of Stafford County, Virginia on 20 June 1863 at Front Royal, Virginia and had
the following son:
(a) George Hudson Thomas Biles "G. H.
Biles": Born 23 December 1866, perhaps in either Taney County or Stone
County Missouri. Died
17 August 1944 at Cushing, Payne County, Oklahoma. Moved to Oklahoma in 1889. Married Dorah Belle
Pruitt (b. 17 Dec 1872, d. 30 Jan 1955 at Cushing), daughter of Andrew Jackson
and Elizabeth Jane (Cameron) Pruitt, on 26 August 1888 in Farsyth,
Taney County, Missouri and had 12 children, including the following son:
[1. Bryan Wilson Biles: Born 27 January
1916. Married Mary Marie Huston (b. 15
Jan 1914), daughter of Homer Howard and Eva Naomi (Brown) Huston. Had an interest in his family's history;
author of The Biles Family - How Green Was Our Valley; privately
published and copyrighted in 1969.
(c. Sarah H. Biles:
Mentioned in her father's will. Married John M. Rogers.
(d. Daniel Biles: Born 21 August 1792. Died about 1870. Married (1st) Elizabeth
Parker (b. abt 1794, d. abt 1862) on 16 May 1814.
(e. William D.
Biles: Died before his father. Married
(?) and had children, who resided in a western state.
(f. Francis Biles: Died before his father.
(g. Dosey/Docia Biles: Born about 1799. Died 1875. Married David Crowell (b. 14 Feb 1798, d. 13
Feb 1868), son of George and Jemima (Sherrin) Crowell
of Mecklenbert, North Carolina, in 1821.
(h. Thomas Biles: Born 14 June 1800. Died 7 February 1882. Man for whom Bilesville
(now New London), Stanly County, North Carolina was names. Married Elizabeth Sides (b.
4 Mar 1804, d. 19 Mar 1882).
(i. Lucinda Biles:
Born about 1810. Died
1883. Married
Allen Crowell (b. 1801, d. 1882).
(5. Deborah Biles: Born about 1754 in Rowan
County, North Carolina. Will dated 5
July 1804 in Rowan County, North Carolina.
Never married.
(6. Jonathan Biles: Born 1755-60 in Rowan
County, North Carolina. Died before 1804.
Apparently never married; resided on his parents' estate.
1790 US Census: Jonathan was heading a
household in Rowan County North Carolina.
The household included 3 males over age 16 and 5 females.
1800 US Census: Jonathan was heading a
household in Rowan County, North Carolina.
The household included 2 males between 26 and 45 years old, 1 male under
age 10, 2 females between 26 and 45 years old, and 2 slaves.
(7. Elizabeth "Dovey"/"Dosey"/"Dorey"
Biles: Mentioned in her father's will. Married James Slone on 5 May 1804 in Rowan County, North Carolina.
(8. Ann "Tabby" Biles: Born
1760-70. Perhaps never
married.
(9. John Biles: Born between 1766 and 1774 in
Rowan County, North Carolina. Died 28
October 1822 in Rutherford County, Tennessee; interred there. Married (1st) Margaret
Whitaker (d. shortly after marriage) on 2 July 1790 in Rowan County. Married (2nd) Elizabeth
"Betsy/Betsay" Smith on 12 March 1792 at
Rowan, Bladen County, North Carolina.
John and Elizabeth probably had at least the following children: (order
uncertain)
(a. Obediah Biles: (more info) Born about
1793/94 in Rowan County, North Carolina; his father's will described him as
"eldest son" (note: the 1850 US Census suggests b. abt 1798 in
VA). Died 2 September
1850 in Rutherford County, Tennessee.
1830 US Census: Obediah
Biles was heading a household in Rutherford County, Tennessee. The household included 1 male under age 5; 1
male age 5 to 10; 1 male age 10 to 15; 1 male age 30 to 40; 1 female age 5 to
10; 1 female age l0 to 15; and 1 female age 20 to 30.
1850 US Census: Obadiah Biles,
age 52 [quite legible] (b. VA) and employed as a carpenter, was heading a
household in the Gambill District of Rutherford
County, Tennessee. His real estate was
valued at $480. The household also
included his wife, Martha Biles, age 48 (b. VA); Rebecca Jarrah,
age 23 (b. TN); and unnamed male Jarrah child, age 3
(b. TN). He owned 3 slaves: 1 black
female age 50; 1 black male age 35; and 1 mulatto (1st gen child of black &
white) male age 5.
Obadiah Biles married (perhaps 1st) Sarah
"Sally"/"Sary" Espey (b. abt 1800 in Davidson Co., TN, d. 24 Dec 1838 per
family record), daughter of James Thomas and Mary Catherine (Overall) Espey, on 28 May 1816 (license issued 21 May 1816) in
Rutherford County, Tennessee and perhaps had the following children:
(1) Lavicy Biles:
(perhaps, per one source; if so, must be from a prior marriage by Obediah; surname recorded when married: 'Boles')
Born 16 August 1813 in
Jasper County, Missouri. Died 30 May 1860 in Texas. Married William Pryor Hunter Strein (b. Oct 1810 in White Co., TN, d.
17 Nov 1862 in Jasper Co., MO) on 21 October 1841 in Gasconade County, Missouri
and had the following children:
(a) Elizabeth Strein:
Born about 1827 in KY. Married Isaac L.
Hamby (b. 25 May 1819 in NC, d. 5 Nov 1875 at Carthage, Jasper Co., MO) on 24
June 1841 and had children.
(b) James Lafayette Strein: Born 11 September 1842 in Boone County, Missouri. Died 19 June 1915 at
Butler, Bates County, Missouri.
Married Sarah Jane Berry (b. 19 Aug 1851, perhaps in Boone Co., MO, d. 6
Sep 1926 in Bates Co., MO) on 3 November 1878 and had children.
(c) Lydia Strain: Born about 1856 in
Missouri. Died 27 July 1933 at Kansas
City, Jackson County, Missouri. Married Charles L. Moore (b. abt 1850 in KY,
d. 30 Nov 1932 at Kansas City, Jackson Co., MO) on 6 April 1875 in Bates
County, Missouri and had children.
(2) Male child: Born about 1818 in Rutherford
County, Tennessee.
(3) John Jackson Biles: Born about 1819 in
Rutherford County, Tennessee. Died 29
December 1862 at Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi; interred Philadelphia
National Cemetery, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.
1850 US Census: John J. Biles, age 31 (b. TN)
and employed as a farmer, was heading a household in Canaan Township, Gasconade
County, Missouri. The household also
included his wife, Cintha Biles, age 24 (b. MO);
daughter, Tomson Biles, age 5 (b. MO); son, James
Biles, age 2 (b. MO); son, Thomas Biles, age 3 months (b. MO); Rebecca Biles,
age 21 (b. MO); Elizabeth Biles, age 1 (b. MO); James Biles, age 3 months (b.
MO); Cintha Hollinsworth,
age 23 (b. IN); and William J. Biles, age 23 (b. TN) and employed as a farmer,
whose real estate was valued at $300.
1860 US Census: John Biles, age 41 (b. TN)
and employed as a farmer, was heading a household in Canaan Township
(Owensville Post Office), Gasconade County, Missouri. His real estate was valued at $500, and his
personal property was valued at $200.
The household also included his wife, Mary Ann Biles, age 35 (b. MO);
daughter, Louise Biles, age 16 (b. MO) and employed as a domestic servant; son,
Henry Biles, age 12 (b. MO); son, Thomas Biles, age 11 (b. MO); another Thomas
Biles, age 10 (b. MO); daughter, Elizabeth Biles, age 9 (b. MO); son, John O.
Biles, age 8 (b. MO); son, T. Cleveland Biles, age 7 (b. MO); and daughter,
Martha Biles, age 3 (b. MO). Of
interest, the household headed by his brother, William Biles, age 33 (b. TN)
and employed as a farmer, was enumerated directly before him on the same census
page.
John J. Biles married Cynthia Ann Douglass
(b. 14 Oct 1826 in MO, d. 1 Apr 1856 in Gasconade Co., MO) and had children.
(4) Daughter: Born about 1820 in Gasconade County,
Missouri.
(5) Mariah Louisa Biles: Born about 1824 in
Rutherford County, Tennessee. Died between 1880 and 1900 in Maries County, Missouri. Married Bartlett Coulter (b. abt 1820 in NC,
d. before 1852 in Gasconade Co., MO) on 22 February 1838 in Rutherford County,
Tennessee and had children.
(6) Robert Biles: Born 11 July 1825 in
Rutherford County, Tennessee. Died 21
April 1857 in Missouri; interred Richardson Cemetery, Owensville, Gasconade
County, Missouri.
Robert Biles married, as her 1st husband,
Malinda Almedia Walton (b. 3 Oct 1830 at Owensville,
Gasconade Co., MO, d. 23 Mar 1915 at Kansas City, Jackson Co., MO), daughter of
William L. and Elizabeth S. (Douglass) Walton, on 26 November 1846 in Gasconade
County, Missouri and had the following children:
(a) Charles Augustus
Biles: Born 13 December 1845 at Cleavesville, Clay
Township, Gasconade County, Missouri.
Died 22 February 1919 at Owensville, Canaan Township, Gasconade
County, Missouri; interred Cleavesville Cemetery.
(b) James William
Biles: Born 16 April 1853 in Gasconade County, Missouri. Died 21 July 1912 in St.
Clair County, Missouri.
(c) Robert Logan
Biles: Born 13 March 1856 in Canaan Township, Gasconade County, Missouri. Died 22 June 1911 at St. Joseph, Buchanan
County, Missouri; interred Mt. Washington Cemetery, Independence Township,
Jackson County, Missouri. Married Martha
Marguerite Matthews, daughter of Thomas Claiborne and Elizabeth (Baker)
Matthews, on 5 December 1872 in Canaan Township, Gasconade County, Missouri and
had children.
Malinda Almedia
(Walton) Biles married (2nd) Lindsey J. Greenstreet
(b. abt 1831 in MO, d. 27 Jul 1882 in Cedar Co., MO).
(7) William Jefferson Biles: Born 8 February
1826/27 in Rutherford County, Tennessee.
Died 11 June 1912 in Enumclaw Township, King County,
Washington.
1850 US Census: William J. Biles, age 23 (b.
TN) and employed as a farmer, resided in the household headed by his brother,
John J. Biles, age 31 (b. TN) and employed as a farmer in Canaan Township,
Gasconade County, Missouri. William's
real estate was valued at $300.
1860 US Census: William Biles, age 33 (b. TN)
and employed as a farmer, was heading a household in Canaan Township
(Owensville Post Office), Gasconade County, Missouri. His real estate was valued at $1,500, and his
personal property was valued at $600.
The household also included his wife, Rebecca Biles, age 30 (b. MO);
daughter, Elizabeth Biles, age 12 (b. MO); daughter, Lilly Biles, age 9 (b.
MO); son, Robert Biles, age 7 (b. MO); son, William Biles, age 5 (b. MO);
daughter, Mary Biles, age 4 (b. MO); son, Obediah
Biles, age 2 (b. MO); and son, Edmond Biles, age 3 months (b. MO). Of interest, the household headed by his
brother, John Biles, age 41 (b. TN) and employed as a farmer, was enumerated
directly after him on the same census page.
1870 US Census: Wm J. Biles, age 43 (b. TN)
and employed as a farmer, was heading a household in Canaan Township (Canaan
& Owensville Post Office), Gasconade County, Missouri. His real estate was valued at $4,000, and his
personal property was valued at $1,300.
The household also included his wife, Rebecca Biles, age 40 (b. MO);
daughter, Anna Biles, age 20 (b. MO); son, Robert Biles, age 17 (b. MO); son,
William Biles, age 16 (b. MO); daughter, Mary Biles, age 13 (b. MO); son,
Archibald Biles, age 13 (b. MO); son, Edmond Biles, age 10 (b. MO); daughter,
Nancy Biles, age 8 (b. MO); daughter, Stoneywell
Biles, age 6 (b. MO); daughter, Sarah Biles, age 5 (b. MO); daughter, Lucretia Biles, age 3 (b. MO); and son, Henry Biles, age 1
(b. MO).
1880 US Census: No record found.
1900 US Census: William J. Biles, age 73 (b.
Feb 1827 in TN; father b. NC; mother b. TN) and employed as a laborer, was
heading a household in Enumclaw Township/Precinct, King County,
Washington. The household also included
his wife of 52 years, Rebecka Biles, age 70 (b. Sep
1829 in MO; father b. VA; mother b. NC), who had had 15 children, 6 of whom
were still alive.
William J. Biles married Rebecca Jane Walton
(b. 27 Apr 1828 in Gasconade Co., MO, d. 4 May 1908 at Enumclaw, King Co., WA),
daughter of John and Elizabeth S. (Douglass) Walton, on 16 May 1848 in Canaan
Township, Gasconade County, Missouri and had the following children:
(a) Elizabeth Biles: Born about 1848 in
Gasconade County, Missouri.
(b) James Biles: Born June 1850 in Gasconade
County, Missouri. Died
before 1860.
(c) Lillie Anna Byles
"Anna": Born about 1850 in Missouri.
Died 24 November 1873 in Gasconade County, Missouri; interred Little
Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas. Married
George Mathison Richardson (b. 27 Feb 1843 in
Gasconade Co., MO, d. there 24 Nov 1873; interred with
Lillie) on 16 August 1869 in Gasconade County, Missouri and had children.
(d) Robert W. Biles: Born about 1853 in
Gasconade County, Missouri. Died before 1892 in Bell County, Texas. Married Miss Barbara Ann Willischeck
(b. 11 May 1856 in Gasconade Co., MO, d. 18 Apr 1914 in Victoria Twp, Victoria
Co., TX) on 11 June 1873 in Gasconade County, Missouri
and had children.
(e) William Biles: Born about 1854 in
Gasconade County, Missouri.
(f) Mary Lou Biles:
Twin. Born 9 November
1857 in Gasconade County, Missouri.
Died 17 February 1923 at Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico;
interred there in Fairview Memorial Park Cemetery. Married Thomas Jefferson Moore (b. 5 Aug 1858
in Woodland Twp, Randolph Co., AL, d. 2 Aug 1931 at Joplin, Jasper Co., MO;
interred with Mary) about 1879 in Bell County, Texas and had children.
(g) Archibald Obadiah Biles "Obediah": Twin.
Born 9 November 1857 in Gasconade County, Missouri.
(h) Edmond John Biles "John E.":
Born 16 May 1860 in Gasconade County, Missouri.
Died 10 June 1929 in Enumclaw Township, King County, Washington;
interred there.
1900 US Census: John G. Biles, age 40 (b. May
1860 in MO; father b. TN; mother b. MO) and employed as a farmer, was heading a
household in Enumclaw Township, King County, Washington. The household also included his wife of 14
years, Anna E. Biles, age 35 (b. Oct 1864 in TX; parents b. AL), who had had 4
children, 3 of whom were still alive; son, Grover B. Biles, age 8 (b. Mar 1892
in WA); son, George N. Biles, age 5 (b. Mar 1895 in WA); and daughter, Bula M. Biles, age 2 (b. May 1898 in WA).
Edmond Biles married Anna Elizabeth Taylor (b.
4 Oct 1865 in Henderson Co., TX, d. 18 Apr 1957 at Seattle, King Co., WA;
interred with Edmond) on 12 August 1886 in Henderson County, Texas and had the
following children:
[1. Grover B. Biles (also seen: Grover
Cleveland): Born 15 March 1892 in Washington State. Died April 1972 in King
County, Washington.
[2. George Norman Biles: Born Mar 1895 in
Washington State. Died 3 April 1933 in
Monroe Township, Snohomish County, Washington; interred there in Odd Fellows
Cemetery. Married Daphena Lee McGahey (b. 20 Mar
1898 in TX, d. 25 Jun 1990 in San Diego Co., CA) on 28 April 1920.
[3. Beulah May Biles: Born 16 May 1898 in
Enumclaw Township, King County, Washington.
Died 10 February 1972. Married Henry Franklin Sprouse (b. 6 Dec 1887 in AR, d. 17 Jan 1933 in Enumclaw
Twp, King Co., WA).
(i) Nancy Biles:
Born about 1862 in Gasconade County, Missouri.
(j) Elizabeth Stoneywell/Honeywell Biles: Born about 1863 in Gasconade
County, Missouri. Died 1937; interred
Enumclaw Township, King County, Washington.
Married John Forler (b. abt 1864 in Normanby Township, Grey Co., Ontario, Canada, d. abt 1938
in Enumclaw Twp, King Co., WA; interred there) on 24 December 1899 in King
County, Washington and had children.
(k) Sarah "Sallie" Mae Biles: Born
about 1865 in Canaan Township, Gasconade County, Missouri. Died 13 January 1890 in
Bell County, Texas. Married
Jasper Walter Knight (b. 1 Apr 1858 in Coosa Co., AL, d. 24 Jun 1943 in Karnes
Co., TX; interred Runge City Cem., Runge, Karnes Co., TX) on 14 November 1883 in Bell County,
Texas and had children.
(l) Lucretia Biles:
Born about 1867 in Gasconade County, Missouri.
(m) Henry Lee Byles:
Born 7 May 1868 in Missouri. Died 23 February 1930 in Pettus Township,
Bee County, Texas. Married Emily Lewgenia Dyess (b. 18 Aug 1873 in
Henderson Co., TX, d. 20 Jun 1953 at Beeville, Bee
Co., TX) on 13 December 1890 in Ellis County, Texas and had children.
(g) Charles Morgan Biles "C.M."/"Charley": Born September 1873 (also
seen: b. 11 Dec 1873) in Bourbois Twp, Gasconade Co.,
MO (note: death certificate and more recent census record says b. TX). Died 4 January 1931, age 57 years and 24
days, from complications of an intestinal obstruction due to strangulation, at
Owen Taylor Hospital, Auburn Township, King County, Washington (informant: his
nephew, Grover Biles). Employed last as proprietor of a confectionary.
1880 US Census: No record found.
1900 US Census: No record found.
1910 US Census: Chas M. Biles, age 36 (b. MO;
parents b. TN) and employed as a laborer in a mill, was heading a household in
Enumclaw Precinct, King County, Washington.
He had been married once. The
household also included his wife of 7 years, Mabel C. Biles, age 27 (b. IA;
father b. IA; mother b. PA), who had been married once and had had 3 children,
all still alive; daughter, Edna H. Biles, age 6 (b. WA); daughter, Evaline Biles, age 4 (b. WA); and son, Floyd Biles, age 1
year and 11 months (b. WA).
1918 WWI Draft Registration: Charles
"Charley" Morgan Biles, age 45 (b. 11 Dec 1872) and employed as a
confectionary, resided with his wife, Mable Ann Biles, in Enumclaw Township,
King County, Washington.
1920 US Census: Charles M. Biles, age 47 (b.
MO; father b. TN; mother b. MO) and employed as manager of a pool room, was
heading a household on Franklin Street in the City of Enumclaw, King County,
Washington. The household also included
his wife, Mabel C. Biles, age 37 (b. IA; father b. PA; mother b. NE); daughter,
Edna H. Biles, age 15 (b. WA); daughter, Evelyn Biles, age 13 (b. WA); and son,
Floyd Biles, age 11 (b. WA).
1930 US Census: Charles Biles, age 57 (b. TX;
father b. PA; mother b. England) and employed as proprietor of a pool hall, was
heading a household at 402 North Date Street in the City of Toppenish, Yakima
County, Washington. He married 1st at
age 29, and his residence was valued at $2,500.
The household also included his wife, Mabel Biles, age 47 (b. IA; father
b. PA; mother b. IA), who married 1st at
age 19; daughter, Evelyn Biles, age 24 (b. WA), single, and employed as a
public school teacher; son, Floyd Biles, age 22 (b. WA), single, and not
employed; and boarder, Hortense Stoughton, age 26 (b.
MO; parents b. MO), single, and employed as a public school teacher.
1940 US Census: Mabel C. Biles, age 57 (b.
IA) and widowed, with no record of employment, was heading a household at 409
Fifteenth Avenue in the City of Yakima, Yakima County, Washington. She had completed 8th grade, and her residence
was valued at $3,000. On 1 April 1935
she resided in the same house.
1950 US Census: Mabel C. Biles, age 67 (b.
IA) and widowed, with no record of employment, was heading a household in the
City of Yakima, Yakima County, Washington.
Charles Biles married Mabel C. Getz (b. 8 Sep
1882 in Osage Twp, Mitchell Co., IA, d. 9 Feb 1968 in Clackamas Co., OR),
daughter of Henry and Etta (Miniger) Getz, on 22 June
1903 at Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington and had the following children:
[1. Edna Mae/H. Biles [very clearly H. in
1910 & 1920]: Born about 1902 in Enumclaw Township, King County, Washington
State. Died 1989 at
Yakima, Yakima County, Washington.
At age 24, while a resident of Toppenish, Washington, married Kenneth
Albert Weller (b. 7 Jan 1905 at Zillah, Yakima Co., WA, d. 21 Dec 1977 at
Yakima, Yakima Co., WA; interred there in Terrace Heights Memorial Park), age
23 and a resident of Yakima, Washington, son of Fred and Susie (Ryan) Weller,
on 2 June 1928 (license issued same day) in Yakima County, Washington, with his
mother (Mrs. C. M. Biles) and sister, Evelyn Biles, both of Toppenish,
witnessing the ceremony.
[2. Evaline/Evelyn
Barbara Biles: Born 2 January 1904 in Washington State. Died about 1974. Married Archie Byron Crowley (b. 25 Jan 1901
in Enumclaw Twp, King Co., WA, d. Oct 1988) in 1931
and had children.
[3. Floyd Biles: Born 23 April 1908 in
Enumclaw Township, King County, Washington.
Died 2 September 1964 at Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington; interred
Calvary Cemetery, Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington.
1940 US Census: Floyd Biles, age 32 (b. WA)
and employed as a bookkeeper for the Pacific Power and Light Company, was
heading a household at 621 South 11th Avenue in the City of Yakima, Yakima
County, Washington. He had completed 4 years
of college, and his residence was valued at $2,500. The household also included his wife, Rose R.
Biles, age 24 (b. ND), who had completed 3 years of high school; and son,
Charles M. Biles, age 4 months (b. WA).
On 1 April 1935 they resided in the same city.
1950 US Census: Floyd Biles, age 41 (b. WA)
and employed as a salesman and bookkeeper for a retail electrical appliance
shop, was heading a household in Tacoma Township, Pierce County,
Washington. The household also included
his wife, Rose R. Biles, age 34 (b. ND); son, Charles M. Biles, age 10 (b. WA);
son, Gary M. Biles, age 9 (b. WA); daughter, Sandra Jean Biles, age 7 (b. WA);
son, Douglas J. Biles, age 5 (b. WA); and son, Jack Biles, age 2 (b. WA).
At age 31, while employed as a bookkeeper at
Yakima, Washington, Floyd Biles married Miss Rose Ragina
Rambousek (a.k.a. Rose Clark before marriage) (b. 29
Sep 1915 at New Hradec, Dunn Co., ND (also seen: b. Dickinson, Stark Co., ND
per marriage license application), d. 18 Jan 2012 at Tacoma, Pierce Co., WA;
interred with Floyd), age 23 and also a resident of Yakima, Washington, on 1
July 1939 (license applied for 19 Jun 1939; amended 20 Jun 1939 to change from
Rose Clark (which she had been using) to Rose Rambousek
(her legal name); issued 22/23 Jun 1939; recorded 1 Aug 1939) in Kittitas
County, Washington and had at least the following children:
[a. Charles Morgan
Biles "Charlie": (more info)
Born 1939 at Yakima, Yakima County, Washington.
Has an interest in his family's
history. Authored the papers "Biles Island" in 2010, "Obediah
Biles and Sally Espey" in 2019, and "North Carolina Thomas and Elizabeth
Biles: A Genealogical Roadblock" in 2023. His research can be found at http://www.ancestry.com/.
[b. Gary M. Biles
(also seen: Gary Joseph): Born 17 December 1940 in Washington. Died 18 July 2011 in Pierce
County, Washington.
[c. Sandra Jean
Biles: Born about 1943 in Washington.
[d. Douglas J. Biles: Born about 1945 in
Washington.
[e. Jack Biles: Born about 1948 in
Washington.
(8) Rebecca Biles: Born about 1829 in
Missouri. By one account died there by
1840. Perhaps the Rebecca Biles, age 21,
who resided in the household headed by John J. Biles, age 31, in 1850 in Canaan
Township, Gasconade County, Missouri. It
appears from that record that Rebecca had a daughter, Elizabeth Biles, age 1, and a son, James Biles, age 3 months.
(9) Maria L. Biles: Born about 1832, perhaps
at Safe, Maries County, Missouri.
(10) Daughter: Born between 1835 and 1840,
perhaps in Gasconade County, Missouri.
(11) Daughter: Born between 1835 and 1840,
perhaps in Gasconade County, Missouri.
Obediah Biles married (perhaps 2nd), as her 3rd
husband, Martha (?)(Marable) Keeble
(b. abt 1802 in TN) on 7 November 1847 (license issued 5 Nov 1847) in
Rutherford County, Tennessee. Martha had
married (1st) Travis Marable (b. between 1795 &
1804, d. 1825 in Rutherford Co., TN) about 1815 and had children. She married (2nd) Robert Reed Keeble (b. abt 1798, d. between 1830 & 1840) on 11 June
1828 in Rutherford County, Tennessee and had children.
(b. Smith R. Biles,
MD: Born about 1795 in North Carolina; described in his father's will as
"second son." Died 1865 in Texas.
1850 US Census: Smith Biles, age 55 (b. NC)
and employed as a physician, was heading a household in the 10th District of
Henry County, Tennessee. His real estate
was valued at $1,600. The household also
included his wife, Catherine Biles, age 47 (b. MD); daughter, Lucy F. Biles,
age 11 (b. TN); son, John S. Biles, age 7 (b. TN); son-in-law, Reuben B. Nance,
age 33 (b. TN) and employed as a farmer, who owned no real estate; daughter,
Mary E. Nance, age 22 (b. TN); grandson, Smith B. Nance, age 4 (b. TN);
grandson, Stephen H. Nance, age 1 (b. TN); and Sarah E. Butler, age 16 (b. TN).
1860 US Census: (pg 35) Smith Biles, age 64
(b. NC) and employed as a farmer, was heading a household in Leon Division
(Leona Post Office), Leon County, Texas.
His real estate was valued at $3,875, and his personal property was
valued at $8,650. The household also
included his wife, Catharine Smith, age 58 (b. MD); and son, Jno [John] S. Smith, age 17 (b. TN) and a student.
Smith Biles married Catherine Wade (b. abt
1802 in Montgomery Co., MD), daughter of James and Ann (Magruder)
Wade, and had children.
(c. Willis "Willie" Biles: Born
about 1799, perhaps in Rowan County, North Carolina.
(d. Lucinda "Lucy" Biles: Born
about 1801 in Rowan County, North Carolina.
Died before 1825 in Rutherford County, Tennessee.
(e. Herbert Biles, MD: Born about 1802 in
North Carolina. Died
between 1860 and 1870. Married
Martha Anne Rutledge (b. 20 Oct 1804 in VA, d. after 1870) on 22 March 1825 and
had children.
(f. Mary "Polly"
Biles.
(g. William
Jefferson Biles: Born about 1805, perhaps in Rowan County, North Carolina.
(h. Cinthia Biles: Born about 1807, perhaps in Rowan County,
North Carolina.
(i. Sophia Biles:
Born about 1809, perhaps in Rowan County, North Carolina. Married Smith Butler (b.
abt 1808 in Rowan Co., NC, d. abt 1840 in Henry Co., TN) in March 1832 in Henry
County, Tennessee.
(j. James Henderson
Biles, MD: Born 16 December 1821 in Tennessee.
Died 2 December 1885 at Pittsburg, Camp County, Texas; interred there.
1850 US Census: J. H. Biles, age 28 (b. TN)
and employed as a physician, was heading a household in Humphreys County,
Tennessee. The household also included
his wife, Fesonia Biles, age 32 (b. TN); daughter,
Elizabeth Biles, age 8 (b. TN); son, Smith Biles, age 6 (b. TN); and son,
Bellfield Biles, age 4 (b. TN).
1860 US Census: J. H. Biles, age 38 (b. TN)
and employed as a physician, was heading a household in Leon Division (Leona
Post Office), Leon County, Texas. His
real estate was valued at $3,000, and his personal property was valued at
$11,000. The household also included his
wife, F. E. Biles, age 44 (b. TN); son, Smith W. Biles, age 16 (b. TN); son, F.
B. Biles, age 14 (b. TN); overseer, T. R. Johnston, age 26 (b. MS).
James Biles married Fessonia
Elizabeth Watson (b. 26 Dec 1817 in TN, d. 18 Jun 1893 in Camp Co., TX;
interred with James) on 16 January 1840 in Rutherford County, Tennessee and had
children.
c. Ruth Biles: Born 13 March 1712 in Exeter
Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
d. John Biles: Born 14 August 1715 in Bristol
Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died 9 September 1716 in Falls Township, Bucks County,
Pennsylvania.
e. Lambert Biles (also seen: Benjamin Biles):
Born 10 August 1717 in Bristol Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
6. Rebeckah
Elizabeth Biles:
Born 27 December 1680 (per records of the Middletown
Monthly Meeting of Friends; Burlington Monthly records say b. 27 Jan 1680) in
Bucks County, Pennsylvania (also entered in records of the Burlington Monthly
Meeting of Friends). Died
January 1728 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Rebeckah Biles married Joseph Janney
(b. 26 Jan 1675 in Pownall Fee, Cheshire, England;
baptized there 26 March 1676; arrived America 29 Jul 1683, d. abt 1729 in Bucks
Co., PA), son of Thomas and Margery (Heath) Janney,
per the 18 August 1703 Falls Monthly Meeting of Friends and had the following
six children, five of whom moved to Loudoun County, Virginia.
a. Martha Janney:
Born about 1704 in Makefield Township, Bucks County,
Pennsylvania. Died after 1796 in Loudoun
County, Virginia; interred there.
Married Nicholas Parker (b. abt 1700 in Makefield
Twp, Bucks Co., PA, d. abt 1755 in Fairfax Co., VA) on 7 November 1732 in
Monmouth County, New Jersey and had children.
b. Ann Janney: Born
about 1706 in Falls Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Married Isaac Abraham Emmans
(b. abt 1699 at Gravesend, Kings Co., NY, d. abt 1782)
on 26 July 1739 and had at least one son:
(1. Abraham Isaac Emmons: Born about 1720 at
Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Died there 16 May 1793.
Married Margrietje Thiesson
(b. abt 1722 at Freehold, Monmouth Co., NJ, d. there abt 1808) and had children
c. Abel Janney: Born
about 1708/12 in Falls Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died 14 November 1774 in
Loudon County, Virginia. Married
Sarah Baker (b. 9 Oct 1712 in Bristol Twp, Bucks Co., PA, d. 1774/78 in VA),
daughter of Samuel and Rachel (Warder) Baker, on 2 August 1733 at Buck, Drumore Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and had
the following children:
(1. Samuel Janney:
Born about 1737 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Died 1785 in Loudon County, Virginia.
(2. John Janney:
Born about 1739 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Died about 1802 in Loudoun County, Virginia.
(3. Joseph Janney:
Born about 1740 in Makefield Township, Bucks County,
Pennsylvania. Died 7
October 1793 in Fairfax County, Virginia. Married Hannah Jones (b. abt 1742) on 28
September 1764 at Abington, Montgomery Township, Philadelphia
County, Pennsylvania and had children.
(4. Rebekah Janney: Born about 1740 in Falls Township, Bucks County,
Pennsylvania. Died about
1810 in Leesburg Township, Loudoun County, Virginia.
(5. Abel Janney,
Jr.: Born about 1743 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died about 1798 in Loudoun
County, Virginia. Married Mary Janney (b. 15 Jun 1744 in Loudoun Co., VA, d. before 1798
in PA), daughter of Amos and Mary (Yardley) Janney,
on 3 April 1771 per Fairfax Monthly Meeting records, Loudoun County, Virginia
and had children.
(6. Rachel Janney:
Born about 1743 in Loudoun County, Virginia.
Died 27 March 1812 in Hopewell Township, Loudoun County,
Virginia. Married Lewis Neill,
Jr. (b. 12 Jun 1747 in Winchester Twp, Frederick Co., VA, d. 16 Nov 1841 in
Hopewell Twp, Pittsylvania Co., VA), son of Lewis and Lydia (Hollingworth) Neill, on 5 May/15 June 1774 in Loudoun
County, Virginia and had the following children:
(a. Abel Neill: Born
about 1775 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Died young.
(b. Joseph Neill:
Born about 1775 per Fairfax Monthly Meeting records, Frederick County,
Virginia. Died young.
(c. Rebecca Neill: Born
about 1777 in Winchester Township, Frederick County, Virginia. Died December 1860 in Brucetown,
Frederick County, Virginia. Married William J. Jolliffe
(b. 21 Sep 1776 in Frederick Co., VA, d. 30 Jun 1846 in Swathmore
Twp, Frederick Co., VA; interred Hopewell Friends Burying Grounds) on 12
September 1799 per Hopewell Monthly Meeting of Friends records, Frederick
County, Virginia and had children.
(d. Lydia Neill: Born about 1779 in Loudoun
County, Virginia. Died 27 February 1840
in Waterford Township, Loudoun County, Virginia; interred Fairfax Friends
Cemetery, Loudoun County, Virginia.
Married John Everett Williams (b. 1771, d. 1840) on 10 May 1804 in
Frederick County, Virginia and had children.
(e. Ann Neill: Born
24 October 1781 per Fairfax Monthly Meeting of Friends records, Loudoun County,
Virginia. Died 15 May 1847 in Frederick
County, Virginia; interred Hopewell Monthly Meeting Cemetery, Frederick County,
Virginia. Married Mahlon
Schofield (b. 2 Oct 1769 at Gunpowder, Baltimore Co., MD, d. 28 May 1854 per
Hopewell Monthly Meeting records, Fredrick Co., VA) on 5 March 1807 per
Hopewell Monthly Meeting records and had children.
(f. Sarah Neill:
Born about 1783 in Loudoun County, Virginia.
Died 9 October 1805 in Frederick County, Virginia. Married William Hunt Brown (b. 10 Apr 1779 in
Frederick Co., VA, d. 2 Jun 1865 in Alexandria Co.,
VA) on 7 December 1801 and had children.
(g. Mary Neill: Born
about 1787 in Frederick County, Virginia.
Died at age 80 while visiting Swathmore,
Virginia. Never
married.
(7. Sarah Janney:
Born 19 October 1743 in Loudoun County, Virginia. Married Joseph Hutton (b. 1730 at New Garden,
Chester Co., PA, d. 14 Mar to 19 Apr 1813 in Smithfield Twp, Jefferson Co., OH) on 20 May 1761 per Fairfax Monthly Meeting records,
Loudoun County, Virginia and had children.
(8. Mary Janney:
Born about 1745 in Loudoun County, Virginia.
Died there 1 January 1800. Married William Baker (b. abt 1736 in VA, d.
29 Apr 1778 in Loudon Co., VA) on 17 April 1765 in Loudoun County, Virginia and
had children.
(9. Ruth Janney:
Born about 1749 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Died May 1834 in Loudoun County, Virginia. Married her 1st cousin, Jonas Janney (b. abt 1747 in Fairfax Twp, Loudoun Co., VA, d. 26
May 1834 in Loudoun Co., VA; interred Goose Creek Monthly Meeting Cem., Loudoun
Co., VA), son of Ruth's uncle and aunt, Jacob and Hannah (Ingledue)
Janney, about 1774 and had children.
(10. Amos Janney:
Born 3 March 1752 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died 3 February 1815 at
Lovettsville, Loudoun County, Virginia.
Married Grace Chalfont (b. abt 1758 in Loudoun Co., VA, d. abt 1819) about 1777 and had children.
d. William Biles Janney:
Born Oct 1709 in Falls Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died 12 September 1791 in
Loudoun County, Virginia. Married
Elizabeth Moon (b. 16 Oct 1719 in Falls Twp, Bucks Co., PA, d. 8 Dec 1796 in
Loudoun Co., VA) on 26 September 1739 in Falls Township, Bucks County,
Pennsylvania and had children.
e. Mary Janney: Born
about 1710 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Died 1732 in Pennsylvania.
f. Jacob Janney:
Died 3 September 1786. Married Hannah Ingledue (b. 9 May 1725 at Philadelphia, PA, d. 23 Feb 1818
at Lincoln, Loudon Co., VA), daughter of Blackstone Ingledue
of Philadelphia, on 20 March 1742 and had the following children:
(1. Rebecca Janney:
Born 1742 in Loudon County, Virginia per records of the Goose Creek Monthly
Meeting of Friends. Died
28 February 1824 in Loudoun County, Virginia. Married (1st) Thomas Craig, Jr. (b. 15 Jan
1734 at Kennett Square, Chester Co., PA, d. 29 Mar 1800 at Waterford, Loudoun
Co., VA; interred Lincoln, Loudoun Co., VA) on 7 October 1762 in Loudoun
County, Virginia and had children. Married (2nd) Jacob McKay on 28 June 1802.
(2. Blackstone Janney:
Born 7 September 1745 in Fairfax Township, Loudoun County, Virginia. Died about 1817 in Loudoun
County, Virginia. Married Mary
Nichols (b. 17 Jan 1746 in New Castle Co., DE) on 22 March/13 April 1769 in
Kennett Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania and had children.
(3. Jonas Janney:
Born about 1747 in Fairfax Township, Loudoun County, Virginia. Died 26 May 1834 in Loudoun
County, Virginia. Married his 1st
cousin, Ruth Janney (b. abt 1749 in Bucks Co., PA, d.
May 1834 in Loudoun Co., VA), daughter of Abel and Sarah (Baker) Janney, in 1774 and had children.
(4. Joseph Janney:
Born 30 November 1749 in Loudoun County, Virginia. Died 6 July 1829 at
Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia.
Married Mary A. Holmes (b. 28 Aug 1757 in Loudoun Co., VA, d. 4 Jul 1823 in Loudoun Co., VA) on 4 June 1778 at Goose
Creek, Loudoun County, Virginia and had children.
(5. Phebe Janney: Born about 1750 in Fairfax Township, Loudoun
County, Virginia. Died
after 1839. Married
R. Bennet (b. perhaps 1746 in Greene Co., PA) on 27
January 1770.
(6. Jacob Janney,
Jr.: Born about 1751 in Fairfax Township, Loudoun County, Virginia. Died before 1784/74 at
Goose Creek, Loudoun County, Virginia.
Married Sarah Harris (b. 11 Nov 1762 in Hanover Co., VA, d. about 1814
at Waterford, Loudoun Co., VA) on 14 October 1780 and had children.
(7. Israel Janney:
Born 28 May 1752 in Fairfax Township, Loudoun County, Virginia. Died there 18 August 1823. Married (1st) Pleasant Hague (b. abt 1755 in
Loudoun Co., VA, d. there 4 Mar 1779) on 5 May 1773 per Fairfax Monthly Meeting
of Friends records, Loudoun County, Virginia and had children. Married (2nd) Ann Plummer
on 17 August 1790.
(8. Acquilla Janney: Born 16 October 1758 per Fairfax Monthly Meeting of
Friends records in Loudoun County, Virginia.
Died 16 January 1805 in Jefferson County, Virginia; interred Goose Creek
Friends Burying Ground, Loudoun County, Virginia. Married Ruth McPherson (b. 27 Nov 1761 at New
Garden, New Garden Twp, Chester Co., PA) on 12 May 1785 and had children.
(9. Elisha Janney:
Born 12 May 1761 in Loudoun County, Virginia.
Died 18/16 July 1827 in Hillsboro Township, Loudoun County, Virginia;
interred Fairfax Friends Burying Ground, Waterford, Loudoun County, Virginia. Married (1st) Albinah
Gregg (b. 28 Feb 1766 in Kennett Twp, Chester Co., PA, d.
2 Sep 1787 in Hillsboro Twp, Loudoun Co., VA) on 19 April 1786 and had a
daughter. Married
(2nd) Mary Gibson on 4 March 1795.
(10. Abel Janney:
Born about 1763 in Fairfax Township, Loudoun County, Virginia. Died there about 1764.
(11. Hannah Janney:
Born 19 November 1765 in Lincoln Township, Loudoun County, Virginia. Died 30 May 1787 in Loudoun
County, Virginia; interred 31 May 1787 per Goose Creek Monthly Meeting of
Friends records, Loudoun County, Virginia. Married Robert Whitacre
(b. 30 Sep 1758 in Warren Co., NJ, d. 18 Sep 1828;
interred Old Friends Burying Ground, Rochester Twp, Warren Co., OH) on 28
August/2 September 1786 in Loudoun County, Virginia.
(12. Thomas Janney:
Born about 1768 in Virginia. Died about 1847 in Illinois.
Married N. N. White about 1793 in Virginia.
g. Sarah Biles Janney:
Born about 1723 in Falls Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died 29 June 1791 in Loudoun County, Virginia
(also seen: d. after 1797). Married John
Hough, Jr. (b. 3 Jan 1719/20 in Bucks Co., PA, d. 21 Apr 1797 in Waterford Twp,
Loudoun Co., VA; interred there), eldest son of John (d. 18 Sep 1693) and
Elizabeth (Taylor) Hough (m. 1718/19, daughter of Phillip and Julianna Taylor), in 1742 and had children. They settled in Loudon County, Virginia,
where John Hough, Jr. owned 4,000 acres of land.
h. Amos Janney:
Born 1725 in Falls Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died 3 August 1786 in
Loudoun County, Virginia. Married
(?) and had at least one son:
(1. Mahlon Janney: Born 13 April 1781 in Loudoun County,
Virginia. Died there
20 January 1845. Married Rachel
White (b. 30 Jan 1783 in Loudoun Co., VA, d. there 28 Feb 1833) and had
children.
7. Mary Biles:
Born 1 January 1682 (per
records of the Middletown Monthly Meeting of Friends) in Falls Township, Bucks
County, Pennsylvania. Married (?)
Bobbins/Robbins (b. abt 1678 in Falls Twp, Bucks Co., PA) on 10 December 1706
in Falls Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania and had at least the following
son:
a. William Robbins: Born about 1704 (not
consistent with parents' marriage date) in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
8. Ann Biles:
Born 14 April 1685 (per
records of the Middletown Monthly Meeting of Friends held on 13 Jun 1685) in
Falls Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died
11 August 1767 at Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred Makefield, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Ann Biles married Thomas Yardley (b. 1682 at Rushton Spencer, Stafford Co., England, d. Apr 1767), son
of Thomas and Jane Eardley/Yardley of England (also
seen: son of William Yardley of Congleton, England),
about February 1706 in Falls Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Thomas had immigrated to America about 1704
from Rushton Spencer, Stafford County, England. He purchased land from Thomas Lambert.
At the 3 October 1707 Middletown Monthly
Meeting of Friends, to which she belonged, Ann was reported to be married
"contrary to discipline" [in other words, she married a
non-Quaker]. Ann and Thomas had the
following children:
a. Mary Yardley: Born 8 April/4 October 1707
in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died 1747/67 per Fairfax Monthly Meeting of Friends records,
Loudoun County, Virginia. Married
Amos Janney (b. 15 Jan 1701 in Bucks Co., PA, d. 1747
in Fairfax Co., VA; interred there in Fairfax City Cem), son of Abel Janney (b. 29 Oct 1671 at Mobberly,
Cheshire) on 8 December 1728 (also seen: m. Feb 1728) in Bucks County,
Pennsylvania and had children.
b. Jane Yardley: Born 20 November/January 1708
in Falls Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Died 25 January 1772 in Loudoun County, Virginia. Married Francis B. Hague, Jr. (b. 11 Feb 1701
in Falls Township, Bucks Co., PA, d. 27 May 1780 in Loudoun Co., VA), son of
Francis Hague, on 2 May 1729 in Falls Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania and
had children.
c. Rebecca Yardley: Born 27 January/September
1710 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
d. Sarah Yardley: Born 20 July 1720 (also
seen: b. 30 Sep 1712 in Makefield Twp, Bucks Co.,
PA). Died 3 June 1751
in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Married Benjamin Conkey/Canby (b. 18 Jul 1704
in Bristol Twp, Bucks Co., PA, d. 11 Oct 1748 at Lahaska, Buckingham Twp, Bucks
Co., PA; interred there in the Buckingham Friends Burying Ground) on 6
September 1734 in Falls Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania and had children.
e. Joyce Yardley: Born March/3 December 1714
in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Married
Nathan Baker, Jr. (b. abt 1711 in Cecil Co., MD, d.
abt 1755 in MD) on 12 January 1736 at Saint Annes
Episcopal Church, Cecil County, Maryland and had at least one son.
f. William Yardley: Born 4 February 1715 (also
seen: b. 24 Mar 1716 in Falls Twp, Bucks Co., PA). Died 3 August 1774; interred Falls Township,
Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Married Ann
Budd (b. abt 1719 in NJ, d. abt 1753) on 20 April 1748 and had children.
g. Hannah Yardley: Born 13 November 1717 (also
seen: b. 13 Jan 1718-19) in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Married Benjamin Mifflin (b. 12 Jun 1718 at
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA, d. 27 May 1785) in
1738 per Philadephia Monthly Meeting of Friends
records and had children.
h. Thomas Yardley: Born 1 November 1721/1
January 1720 in Falls Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died 12 March 1803; interred Bucks County,
Pennsylvania. Married
Mary Field (b. 21 Feb 1730, baptized 9 Oct 1720) about 1741 in Pennsylvania.
i. Samuel Yardley #1: Born 16 June 1723 (old style
date) in Falls Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died there 12 October 1726
(old style date).
j. Samuel Yardley #2: Born 13 September 1729 (old style
date) in Falls Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died there in 1759. Married Jane Logan (b. abt 1742 at Northern
Liberties, Philadelphia Co., PA, d. 1800) on 28 November 1754 at Christ Church,
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.
9. Alexander Biles: Born about 1686 in Falls
Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Died about 1760. Not
mentioned in his father's will, dated 5 January 1709.
4b. William, I's 2nd
marriage:
A. To Whom: widow Jane (Bond) Atkinson
1. Jane's parents: (?) Bond
2. Jane's birth: about 1657 in Yorkshire
(perhaps West Riding), England
Jane's death: 1709 in Bristol Township, Bucks
County, Pennsylvania; interred there 21 December 1709 (10th month, 21, 1709
using old
style dating employed in Friends records).
3. Jane's 1st marriage: 1678 to Thomas O.
Atkinson (d. 1687 from complications of the widespread disease that
followed a severe flood in May of 1687), who, like William Biles, was a leader
in the Society of Friends in Yorkshire, England before immigrating to New
Jersey in 1682. Of interest, at the same
time as her husband, Jane Atkinson was also near death with disease, but she
recovered. Thomas and Jane (Bond) Atkinson
had 3 children, including:
a. Samuel Atkinson: Born about 1685. Resided with William and Jane until age 26,
when he moved to Burlington County, New Jersey to marry Ruth (Stacy) Beakes, widow of William Beakes
and daughter of Mahlon and Rebecca (Ely) Stacy.
B. Marriage date & location: 11 December
1688 at the William Biles residence (marriage recorded by Middletown Monthly
Meeting of Friends; permission granted there 7 Sep 1688).
C. Children: None.
D. Biographical notes:
1. Jane had a long standing and deeply felt
desire to visit England, but William did not share that feeling. Over her husband's objection, Jane asked the
December 1699 General Meeting of Ministers of Friends for a ruling on the
dispute. William argued his case, but
"not being satisfied with the opposition of her husband," the
ministers granted her permission to go.
William accompanied her to England and Ireland, returning to
Pennsylvania in late 1702.
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Other, still
unidentified Biles names:
1.
(?) Biles: Born in
Virginia. Perhaps died
about 1842.
1840 US Census: Of possible interest, a J. J. M. Biles [Jessie Jerome Mason] was heading a
household in Giles County, Tennessee.
The household included 1 male age 20 to 30; and 1 female age 20 to 30.
[Jessie (b. 1818 in AL, d. 1894 in TN), son of John Stephen Jerome Biles and
Martha Ellis Walker, married Frances A. Simpson (b. 1815 in NC, d. 1876 in TN),
daughter of William Roger and Margaret (Williamson) Simpson, about 1838 and had
a son, Stephen Jerome Biles (b. 1840), and daughter, Mary Biles (b. 1843)]
1840 US Census: Of possible interest, a Dan'l R. Biles was heading a household in Giles County,
Tennessee. The household included 1 male
under age 5; 1 male age 10 to 15; 1 male age 20 to 30; 1 male age 30 to 40; 1
female under age 5; and 1 female age 20 to 30.
1850 US Census: Francis Biles (female), age
33 (TN) and, was heading a household in Giles County, Tennessee. The household also included her daughter,
Sarah Biles, age 14 (b. TN); daughter, Adaline Biles,
age 12 (b. TN); son, Richard Biles, age 10 (b. TN); and daughter, Lydia Biles,
age 8 (b. TN).
(?) Biles married Frances (?) (b. abt 1817 in TN) and had the following children:
a. Sarah Biles: Born about 1836 in Tennessee.
b. Adaline Biles:
Born about 1838 in Tennessee.
c. Richard Stanley Biles: Born September 1840
at Dyer, Gibson County, Tennessee. Died after 1910 in Gibson County, Tennessee.
1870 US Census: Richard S. Biles, age 29 (b.
TN) and employed as a farmer, was heading a household at Trenton, Gibson
County, Tennessee. His personal property
was valued at $900. The household also
included his son, Willie Biles, age 1 (b. TN); mother-in-law, Sarah Kimbrow, age 43 (b. TN), whose real estate was valued at
$4,300 and personal property was valued at $800; brother-in-law, Thomas Kimbrow, age 17 (b. TN) and employed as a farm hand;
brother-in-law, John Kimbrow, age 15 (b. TN) and
employed as a farm hand; sister-in-law, Georgia Kimbrow,
age 13 (b. TN) and employed as a farm hand; cook, Howard Franky,
age 45 (b. TN); and farm hand, Ella Franky, age 16
(b. TN).
1880 US Census: Richard S. Biles, age 39 (b.
TN, parents b. VA), widowed, and employed as a farmer, was heading a household
at Dyer Station, Gibson County, Tennessee.
The household also included his son, William A. Biles, age 11 (b. TN; parents b. TN).
1900 US Census: Richard S. Biles, age 59 (b.
Sep 1840 in TN; father b. VA; mother b. TN) and employed as a farmer, was
heading a household in Gibson County, Tennessee. The household also included his wife of 15
years, Kizzy D. Biles, age 46 (b. Oct 1853 in TN;
parents b. TN), who had had 4 children, all still alive; daughter, Birdie
Biles, age 14 (b. Oct 1885 in TN); and son, Richard Biles, age 12 (b. May 1888
in TN) and employed as a farm laborer.
1910 US Census: Richard S. Biles, age 69 (b.
TN; father b. VA; mother b. TN) and employed as a farmer, was heading a
household in Gibson County, Tennessee.
He had been married twice. The
household also included his wife of 25 years, Kizzie
D. Biles, age 56 (b. TN; parents b. TN), who had been married twice and had had
4 children, all still alive; son, Richard Biles, Jr., age 21 (b. TN; parents b.
TN) and employed as a farmer, who had been married once; and daughter-in-law,
Luna B. Biles, age 20 (b. TN; parents b. TN), who had been married once and had
had no children.
Richard S. Biles married (1st) Mary A. Kimbro (b. abt 1842 in Gibson Co., TN, d.
there on or shortly after 4 Feb 1869, perhaps from complications of child
birth), daughter of Alexander and Sarah E. (Ewell) Kimbro, on 1 July 1866 (license issued 3 Jun 1866) in
Gibson County, Tennessee and had the following son:
(1. William Alexander Biles: Born 4 February
1869 in Trenton County, Tennessee. Died
28 June 1939, age 69 years, 11 months, and 24 days, at Bunkie, Avoyelles
Parish, Louisiana; interred Pythian Cemetery.
1900 US Census: W. A. Biles, age 31 (b. Feb
1869 in TN; parents b. TN) and employed as a housler?, was heading a household in Ward 6 of Iberia Parish,
Louisiana. The household also included
his wife of 6 years, Sally Biles, age 25 (b. Apr 1875 in TN; parents b. TN),
who had had 3 children, all still alive; daughter, Mallia
Biles, age 4 (b. Mar 1896 in LA); son, Palmer Biles, age 2 (b. Sep 1897 in LA);
and daughter, Minnie Biles, age 1 (b. Jan 1899 in LA).
1910 US Census: William A. Biles, age 41 (b.
TN; father b. VA; mother b. TN) and employed as a farmer, was heading a
household in Ward 12 of St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. The household also included his wife of 16
years, Sally Biles, age 36 (b. TN; parents b. TN), who had had 6 children, all
still alive; daughter, Mary Biles, age 14 (b. LA); son, Palmer Biles, age 12
(b. LA); daughter, Minnie Biles, age 11 (b. LA); daughter, Sarah Biles, age 7
(b. LA); son, Andrew Biles, age 3 (b. LA); and son, Louis Biles, age 1 (b. LA).
1920 US Census: W. A. Byles,
age 51 (b. TN; parents b. TN) and employed as manager of a plantation, was
heading a household in Ward 4 of Red River Parish, Louisiana. The household also included his wife, Sallie Byles, age 48 (b. TN; parents b. TN); daughter, Sarah Byles, age 16 (b. LA) and single; and son, Louis Byles, age 11 (b. LA).
1930 US Census: William A. Biles, age 61 (b.
TN; parents b. TN) and employed as a farmer, was heading a household in Ward
Ten of Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. He
married 1st at age 25. The household
also included his wife, Sally Biles, age 58 (b. TN; parents b. TN), who married
1st at age 22; daughter, Sarah Nicolson, age 26 (b. LA) and married, who
married 1st at age 18; son, Palmer Biles, age 32 (b. LA), single, and employed
as a mechanic in a garage; and granddaughter, Sarah A. Nicholson, age 6 (b. LA;
parents b. LA).
1940 US Census: Sally Biles, age 67 (b. TN)
and widowed, resided in the household headed by her son, Andrew L. Biles, age
33 (b. LA) at Bunkie, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana.
1950 US Census: Sally P. Biles, age 79 (b.
TN) and widowed, resided in the household headed by her son, Andrew R. Biles,
age 43, at Bunkie, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana.
William A. Biles married Sally A. Palmer (b.
10 Apr 1875/72 at Trenton, Gibson Co., TN, d. 27 Dec
1953), daughter of William Robert and Lucy W. (Jenkins) Palmer, on 15 August
1894 (license issued 14 Aug 1894) in Gibson County, Tennessee and had the
following children:
(a. Mallia/Mary
Biles: Born March 1896 in Louisiana.
(b. William Palmer
Biles "Palmer": Born 10 September 1897 in Iberia Parish,
Louisiana. Died 4 March 1961 at Bunkie,
Avoyelles County, Louisiana; interred there.
Married Elise Milburn (b. abt 1906 in LA, d. 19 Jul 1977; interred with
William.
(c. Romer Biles:
Born 1898 in Louisiana. Perhaps died young.
(d. Minnie Biles: Born January 1899 in
Louisiana.
(e. Sarah Ewell Biles: Born 3 September 1903 in New Iberia, Iberia
Parish, Louisiana. Died
2 October 1986 at Lafayette, Lafayette County, Louisiana. Married Harry Ford Nicolson (b. 24 Oct 1896
at Summer Grove, Caddo Parish, LA, d. 26 May 1957) on 15 June 1921 at
Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana and had the
following children:
(1) Sarah Ann Nicolson: Born 8 October 1923
in Louisiana. Died 15 February 2017 at
Austin, Travis County, Texas. Married Emile Lee Reed, II (b. 1919, d. 2015)
about 1940 and had at least one child.
(2) Harry Ford Nicholson, Jr.: Born about
1932.
(f. Andrew R. Biles:
Born 3 April 1907 in Beggs Parish, Louisiana. Died 23 May 1978, age 71, from complications
of renal failure, at Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas; interred Pythian Cemetery, Bunkie, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. Employed as a judge.
1940 UA Census: Andrew L. Biles, age 33 (b.
LA) and employed as manager of a cleaning shop, was heading a household at
Bunkie, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. He
had completed 4 years of high school, and his residence was valued at $3,500. The household also included his wife, Elday Biles, age 28 (b. LA), who had completed 4 years of
college; son, Andrew Biles, age 2 (b. LA); son, William Biles, age 5 months (b.
LA); and mother, Sally Biles, age 67 (b. TN) and widowed. On 1 April 1935 Andrew and his mother resided
in the same township, and Elday resided at
Cottonport, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana.
1950 US Census: Andrew R. Biles, age 43 (b.
LA) and employed as , was heading a household in
. The household also included his wife, Elday J. Biles, age 38 (b. LA); son, Andrew R. Biles, Jr.,
age 12 (b. LA); son, William Biles, age 10 (b. LA); daughter, Sarah C. Biles,
age 8 (b. LA); daughter, Mary R. Biles, age 6 (b. LA); and mother, Sally P.
Biles, age 79 (b. TN) and widowed.
Andrew R. Biles married Elday
J. (?) and had the following children:
(1) Andrew R. Biles, Jr., MD: Born about 1938
at Bunkie, Louisiana. US Army Veteran;
in 1965 was stationed at Honolulu, Hawaii; in 1968 was stationed at Berlin,
Germany.
(2) Sarah C. Biles: Born about 1942 in
Louisiana.
(3) Mary R. Biles: Born about 1944 in
Louisiana.
(g. Louis Biles: Born about 1909 in
Louisiana.
Richard Stanley Biles married (2nd), as her
2nd husband, Keziah "Kizzie"
Drusila (Davidson) Lewis (b. 18 Oct 1853 in Morgan
Co., TN, d. 16 Jan 1922 at Dyer, Gibson Co., TN), daughter of John Lewis, on 6
August 1884 at Gibson, Gibson County, Tennessee. Kizzy had married
(1st) Joesiah Davidson (b. 13 Aug 1851 in Gibson Co.,
TN, d. 1 Aug 1881 at Duck Hill, Currie Twp, Gibson
Co., TN) and had 2 children. Richard S.
and Kizzy (Lewis)(?) Biles
had the following children:
(2. Birdie Beatrice Biles: Born 25/26 October
1886 at Dyer, Gibson County, Tennessee. Died 1966 in Madison County, Tennessee. Married Benjamin Hill Welch (b. 28 Jul 1884
in Lumpkin Co., GA, d. 1951 in Madison Co., TN) on 11 January 1907 in Gibson
County, Tennessee and had children.
(3. Richard Stanley Biles, Jr.: Born 7 May
1888 in Gibson County, Tennessee.
1917 WWI Draft Registration: Richard Stanley
Biles, age 29 (b. 7 May 1888 in Gibson Co., TN) and self-employed as a farmer,
resided with his wife and 2 children at Dyer, Gibson County, Tennessee.
1920 US Census: Richard S. Biles, age 30 (b.
TN; parents b. TN) and employed as a farmer, was heading a household on Kuby? Mill Road in Gibson County, Tennessee. The household also included his wife, Luna B.
Biles, age 29 (b. TN; parents b. TN); son, Richard C. Biles, age 7 (b. TN); and
daughter, Meda D. Biles, age 4 years and zero
months. Of interest, the household
headed by John F. Biles, age 53, was enumerated directly after him on the same
census page.
Richard S. Biles, Jr. married Luna Belle
Cooper (b. 19 Sep 1890 at Big Sandy, Benton Co., TN, d. 1968 in Gibson Co., TN)
on 21 October 1909 (license issued 18 Oct 1909), daughter of John F. and Meda (?) Cooper, in Gibson County, Tennessee and had
children.
d. Lydia Biles: Born about 1842 in Tennessee.
Some References:
1. History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
2. "William Biles" by Miles White,
Jr. of Baltimore, Maryland, published 1902 in increments in The Pennsylvania
Magazine of History and Biography:
Volume
26, No. 1 (1902), pp. 58-70
Volume
26, No. 2 (1902), pp. 192-206
Volume
26, No. 3 (1902), pp. 348-359
3. "Jeremiah
Langhorne" by William J. Buck, published in The Pennsylvania
Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 7, No. 1 (1883), pp. 67-87.
4. "A
Partial List of the Familes Who Resided in Bucks
County, Pennsylvania, Prior to 1687, with the Date of Their Arrival,"
published in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol 9, No. 2 (Jul 1885), pp. 225-226.
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