Lydia [1818] [Merrill] and "Wright" Southmayd [1816]

Parents of Nancy Jane Southmayd in Wilmington, Essex County New York. Wright was originally named Eliphaz - this note from Don Bump, historian of the Southmayd line. Southmayd.net website.
 
Nancy Jane Southmayd
There were 5 younger brothers, Horace [died -pre 1850], Sidney M.[1848], Sollom R. [1851], Edam H. [1857] and Lucius Leroy [1860-1941]. This group had moved to Memphis (Scotland County) Missouri by 1862 where Nancy Jane taught school - this note from aunt Marge [Dean] Rockwell. Sidney married Martha Ann Hill here in November 1871. The youngest, Lucius, lived with Nancy Jane and later Lare Dean.
In Memphis MO with families for the 1880 census-
Scotland County marriage records has Lucius wed to "Lizzie" Dooley, March 1881. Elizabeth came from Indiana and was 2 years older than Lucius. I found this 1886 photo of Southmayd family living west of Broken Bow with 2 children. I figure this is Elizabeth 28 and Lucius 26, boy Martin 2 and girl Zetta 4. You can tell this is a federal homestead claim because the sod house had a wood door and glass windows. As typical of the Solomon Butcher [1856 - 1927] photographs, family is dressed in Sunday best displaying prized possessions - antlers and wagon. "L. L. Southmayd" is on the 1890 Gazateer list for Broken Bow farmers. Lucius later moved on California, living near San Diego (1900), then Modesto (1920) and finally Oakland (1930) living with Zetta and grand-daughter Elaine Betts. Martin married and in 1920 was in Ogden UT. Wife Astrid and son John. His 1918 draft registration is Solon Martin Southmayd, blue eye medium build, bookeeper and cashier for the Ogden Standard newspaper. He died 1969 in Paradise, California.
 
Library of Congress, Nebraska State Historical Society, Digital ID: nbhips 12000 photo by Solomon D. Butcher
 
By 1900 the only Southmayd family remaining in Memphis was Sollom [or Solon] where he stayed through 1930, they had 2 more children, names uncertain. Mattie and Sidney had travelled to Mead County, South Dakota and son Orville went on to Deadwood SD.

Sarah [Lanham] and Lare Dean [1821 - 1893]

Sarah Lanham [1820-] was the first to marry Lare, 1844 in Barbour County (West) Virginia, then left immediatly to Des Moines County Iowa where they appear in the 1850 census along with the 3 oldest children and in the 1856 Iowa state enumeration. Lare's parents Mary and Daniel Dean, and his brother Silas with his family also moved and stayed at Des Moines County. Sarah had 5 children, all born in Iowa-
 
By the 1870 census, Lare is moved to Memphis MO but living arrangements are very confused -
There are a number of fractionated families with unrelated school age children in Scotland County at this time, some may have been orphans of the Civil War.
 
It is a mystery as to how and why Lare left Iowa but it seems at least 3 of his children went with him, it may have been precipitated by the death of his dad in 1866 and possibly Sarah as well. Albert followed him to Memphis MO where he married Sarah Frances Noble [1855-1907] in 1874 and worked as Teamster at Memphis for 1880 census, perhaps a skill he learned from Lare. Their children were -
Albert's youngest sister went by Maggie in the 1880 census and lived in the household of farmer William K Eliff (along with a number of other non-related people) as a domestic servant, also in Memphis MO. The other siblings did not show in the 1880 census, presumably because they had married and formed new households either in Iowa or Missouri.
 
An older brother of Lare, Silas seems to have followed the same path first to Iowa and then Memphis MO where he died in 1874. Another oddity is that Lare and troup moved out of Iowa about the same time as O. B. and the Fosters moved into New London, just on the border of Des Moines County.

Nancy Jane [Southmayd] and Lare Dean

Nancy [1842-1923] married Lare in 1872 in Memphis. Children included in the 1880 census were Lottie E. [1871] Frank Lee [1874 -1949] Ida May [1877] and Alice Myrtle [1880]. Later George Leo Dean, [1882-1965] also at Memphis MO. Lare and Nancy then trekked 5 weeks by covered wagon in 1883 with their kids along with Lucius Southmayd family to the brand new town of Broken Bow, Nebraska. They filed a quarter section homestead in Custer Center which they proved up the next 5 years before returning to Broken Bow where he worked hauling freight from Kearney NE. The B&MR moved as many as 200 freight loads a month by wagon while extending the rail line from Kearney to Broken Bow. Engine 120 pictured below as it pulled the first train into Broken Bow in 1886. The inter-city freighting business dropped off quickly after that.
Library of Congress, Nebraska State Historical Society, Digital ID: nbhips 12652 photo by Solomon D. Butcher
 
After Lare died, Nancy kept the household together with daughters Lottie and Alice working as dressmakers and Leo as a barber. She spent her retirement with Lottie and her husband Rade Skinner.
Lare Dean Second Family Portrait.
Back row, George Leo, Lottie, Frank Lee,
Front row, Alice Myrtle, Nancy Jane and Ida May c1910
Here is an older but wiser [George] Leo with sisters Lottie on left and Myrtle on right, from 1951

Susanna A. [1876-1944] and Frank Leroy Dean

Susie was born in Iowa and parents came from Ireland. Frank and Leo endured a sibling rivalry and hard feelings. Children Included
Mabel was so much disliked by my dad that everyone was amazed that the love of his life should turn out to be a Mabel [Feyerherm]
Mabel from the 1927 HS yearbook, she was the nemesis of my dad Ozro throughout his school days.

Ida May [Dean] and Frank M. Pickrell [1877-1952]

Husband was a railroad man, and lived in Lincoln NE in 1930-1940, with son and daughter. In 1900 he worked with the Union Pacific near Grand Island NE. By 1910 Frank was married to Ida and was a streetcar motorman in Wichita KS.
1880 Census for Washington twp, Hamilton County Indiana.
David Pickrell 34 head
Hannah E. [Whithem *] 27 wife
Thomas A. 11
Silas E. 10
Eva 9
Emma 7
Frank 3
* Mother maiden name from California death index for Frank, 1952 in Placer County.

Lottie E. [Dean] and Eldorade Skinner [1858-]

The Missouri marriage records has a Nancy "Southmayde" marrying "Lear" Dean in December 1872 in Scotland County (Memphis). Family tradition is that Lottie Dean also used the maiden name Graham, so this marriage record could be accurate, for she was born 19 months earlier on April 4, 1871. Irregardless, she grew up as a member of Lare's large extended family. Lottie married Rade in 1899 children -
In 1920 Nancy age 77 was living in the Skinner residence. Lottie rented an apartment in Lincoln for NU students Wayne Skinner plus Ozro and Marge Dean. Lottie later retired and moved to Lincoln, living near Marge.
Wayne Skinner was a standout player at Broken Bow High School - 1927

Alice Myrtle [Dean] Fricke

She followed the carnival and eventually settled down in Houston TX.

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