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Oka J. Bisbee

Male 1869 - 1871  (1 year)

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  • Name Oka J. Bisbee  [1]
    Birth Dec 1869  [2] 
    Gender Male
    Census 29 Jul 1870  Wayne Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Death 13 Jun 1871  , Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    • Place is tentative.
    Burial Wattsburg Cemetery, Wattsburg, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    • Gravestone inscription: "OKA J. / Son of / E. & LINDA BISBEE / Died / June 13, 1871" -- read by Wm. F. Bisbee, 1998.
    Person ID I2470  Bisbee
    Last Modified 28 Jun 2009

    Father Ephraim Bisbee,   b. 20 Nov 1841, Lebanon Town, Madison, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Feb 1890, Wattsburg, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 48 years)
    Mother Celinda J. Thompson,   b. 28 Aug 1839, , , New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Jan 1912, Wattsburg, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years)
    Marriage 19 Feb 1869  Wattsburg, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 4, 5] 
    • Celinda was not from the local area. She was raised at Crown Point, New York, and at the time of her marriage to Ephraim, her family was still living there. According to Ephraim's Civil War record, they were married near Wattsburg. It is not known why Celinda was in the Wattsburg area.

      Ephraim and Celinda were married by Bryan S. Hill, Minister of the Gospel and the ceremony was witnessed by A. E. Reynolds (Addison Reynolds) and Ruth A. Reynolds.
    Family ID F59  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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    Link to Google MapsCensus - 29 Jul 1870 - Wayne Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 13 Jun 1871 - , Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Wattsburg Cemetery, Wattsburg, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S2309] Viola Drake Bisbee, compiler, Geneology of The Bisbee Family (I) - Viola Drake Bisbee, (June 2000, Bisbee Family Connection, Decatur, MI), p. 58.

    2. [S2082] Bisbee, Ephraim (I53): 1870 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2003): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication M593, roll 1341; enumerated page 18, master page 533(B), line 7, dwelling 136, family 133; image downloaded 11/4/2008.), 1870-Wayne.18.jpg.

    3. [S1803] Bisbee, Oka J: Grave Marker, (Wattsburg Cemetery, Erie County, Pennsylvania).

    4. [S1239] Civil War Pension File, Ephraim Bisbee (Private, Co F, 111 Pa Volunteer Infantry ) , WC-293-240.
      Celinda J. Bisbee, the former Celinda J. Thompson, provides statements that she was married on 19 Feb 1869, near Wattsburg, Pennsylvania, by Minister of the Gospel, Bryan S. Hill, and that neither she nor Ephraim had been previously married. She cannot provide documented proof of her marriage, because Rev. Hill has died and, according to Hill's wife, he did not keep records. Ruth A. Reynolds, Charles A. Bisbee, Curtis C. Bisbee and others testify that they were present at her marriage and confirm the date, place and by whom.

    5. [S1225] Margaret Jane Dunnihoo, Two Brothers in the Pennsylvania Triangle, (Erie, Pennsylvania: self published, 1974.), p. 13.