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Family: Benjamin Franklin Bisbee / Rebecca Jane Grissom (F4140)

m. 1 Jan 1867

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  • Male
    Benjamin Franklin Bisbee

    Birth  22 Jun 1842  Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, Michigan, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  9 Jan 1923  Bucklin, Ford, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Burial    Bucklin Cemetery, Bucklin, Ford, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Marriage  1 Jan 1867  [1, 2, 3]  Mason City, Mason, Illinois, USA  [1, 2, 3] Find all individuals with events at this location
    Father  Isaac Bisbee | F836 Group Sheet 
    Mother  Amanda Fox | F836 Group Sheet 

    Female
    Rebecca Jane Grissom

    Birth  17 Aug 1843  Cicero, Hamilton, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  5 Feb 1919  Hutchinson, Reno, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Burial    Bucklin Cemetery, Bucklin, Ford, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
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    Female
    Carrie Amanda Bisbee

    Birth  23 Jan 1868  , Mason, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  15 Oct 1955   
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    Spouse  Charles Brial | F4377 
    Marriage  7 Apr 1891   

    Male
    Louis Wetzel Bisbee

    Birth  9 Feb 1869  , Mason, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  8 Sep 1872  , Logan, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
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    Male
    Benjamin Franklin Bisbee, Jr.

    Birth  24 Jan 1871  , Logan, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  1 Feb 1871   
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    Male
    Charles Edward Bisbee

    Birth  20 Feb 1872  , Logan, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  6 Jul 1873   
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    Female
    + Birdie Grace Bisbee

    Birth  20 Apr 1874  Smyrna Town, Chenango, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  9 Jul 1934  Bucklin, Ford, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Burial    Bucklin Cemetery, Bucklin, Ford, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Spouse  Isaac Newton Melia | F9529 
    Marriage  14 Aug 1897   

    Female
    Minnie Pearl Bisbee

    Birth  20 Apr 1874  , Champaign, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  24 Aug 1875  , , Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
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    Female
    + Leona Josephene Bisbee

    Birth  27 May 1876  , Champaign, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  9 Jul 1955  Ford, Ford, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Burial  1955  Bucklin Cemetery, Bucklin, Ford, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Spouse  Emerson Verne Melia | F4378 
    Marriage  1 Jan 1902  Meade, Meade, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location

    Female
    Myrtle Bisbee

    Birth  28 Oct 1880  , Champaign, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  28 Jul 1934   
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    Female
    Maude Bisbee

    Birth  28 Oct 1880  , Champaign, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  17 Aug 1948   
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    Male
    + William Isaac Bisbee

    Birth  22 Dec 1883  , Champaign, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  27 Mar 1955  Plains, Meade, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Burial    Bucklin, Ford, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Spouse  Zania Lorena Rebeccca Marrs | F4379 
    Marriage  25 Dec 1915   

  • Notes  Married:
    • The B. F. Bisbee family came to Meade County in 1887 from Champaign County, Ill. in a covered wagon with their six children and driving two white mules. They first settled on some land southwest of Plains where they lived in a dugout for a short time. They then moved southwest of Plains, where they filed on a quarter of land and proved their claims up. This land is still owned by members of the Bisbee family.

      When B. F. Bisbee built the first wood frame hs for his family, he hauled the lumber from Dodge City, taking four days with a lumber wagon. His children hunted buffalo chips to burn in the stove to heat their hs their first winters when they were cold and hungry. --Taken from "Plains Centennial" printed 1985.

  • Sources 
    1. [S1261] Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900, Online, B. Frank Bisbee & Rebecca J. Grissom, 01/01/1867, vol 3 , p 6, Mason County.

    2. [S1084] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, comp., International Genealogical Index (R), (Version 5.0 (Online: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 1999-2005), : FamilySearch (TM) Internet Genealogy Service, 50 East North Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150).

    3. [S2309] Viola Drake Bisbee, compiler, Geneology of The Bisbee Family (I) - Viola Drake Bisbee, (June 2000, Bisbee Family Connection, Decatur, MI), p. 102.