Jerusha Anna WICKHAM ⁵

  General Notes:

1875 KS CENSUS, Cloud Co, Summit Twp:
Warren Mann, 68, farmer, $145 personal property, b. NY, moved to KS from IA;
M. E. Mann, 40, female, b. VA, moved to KS from IA;
J. Mann, 18, female, b. IA;
W. Mann, 17, male, b. IA;
L. Mann, 10, female, b. IA;
E. Mann, 4/12, female, b. KS.
(Note: J. Mann is probably Jerusha Wickham. L. Mann is probably Jennie Louise Wickham. E. Mann is probably Ella Pfosia, daughter of Joseph Pfosia & Jerusha Wickham.)

CLOUD CO, KS MARRIAGE RECORDS:
Joseph White, 22, and Jerusha Mann, 23, were married Sep. 7, 1876 by J. M. Hagaman, JP. Both resided Cloud Co, KS.
(Note: Jerusha's step-father's name was Mann.)

CLOUD CO, KS MARRIAGE RECORDS:
Francis Conklin, 28, and Jerusha White, 22, were married Nov. 3, 1878 at Warren Mann's home by J. W. Cutshaw, JP. Both resided Cloud Co, KS.

1880 KS CENSUS, Cloud Co, Center Twp, (census taken June 16):
Frank "Conkling", 29, farmer, b. NY, parents b. NY;
wife Jerusha, 21, b. IA, parents b. IA;
step-dau. Ella White, 5, b. KS, father's birthplace unknown, mother b. IA;
step-son William White, 3, b. KS, father's birthplace unknown, mother b. IA;
son Albert "Conkling", 1/12, b. Apr., b. KS, father b. NY, mother b. IA.

NE, MARRIAGE RECORDS, 1855-1908:
Name: Jerusha Conklin [Jerusha Wickham]
Gender: Female
Race: White
Marriage Age: 33
Record Type: Marriage
Birth Date: abt 1856
Birth Place: Iowa
Father: Benjamin Wickham
Mother: Mahala E. Riddle
Residence: Cloud Co, Kansas
Marriage Date: 13 Nov 1889
Marriage Place: Hastings, Nebraska, USA
Marriage County Office: Adams
Spouse:John Tamman
Spouse's Gender: Male
Spouse's Race: White
Spouse's Marriage Age: 39
Spouse's Birth Date: abt 1850
Spouse's Birth Place: Germany
Spouse's Residence: Nuckolls Co, Nebraska
Spouse's Father: T. E. Tamman
Spouse's Mother: Aukke M. Tamman

Note: Jerusha must have died by April 6, 1900, the date that her husband John Tammen of Kenasaw, NE placed 5 of her children at Mother's Jewels Home, an orphanage in York Co, NE. (now Epsworth Village, which reportedly has records from the orphanage). The following Tammen children were placed in the orphanage: David LeRoy (probably David Roy Conklin), Ada, Ona (Anna Bennett), Lizzie and Katie. John Tammen, Jr. was not placed in the orphanage and stayed with his father.

NOTE: Jerusha's cousin Issac Wickham, son of Elias Wickham, was living in Adams Co. NE in 1880. Perhaps this is why she moved there. Ella Pfosia Mossburg, Jerusha's daughter, was living in Adams Co, NE in 1900.

Jerusha married Joseph PFOSIA about 1873 in probably Concordia, Cloud Co, KS. (Joseph PFOSIA was born about 1850 in French Canada ⁷ and died in perhaps KS.)

Jerusha next married Joseph P. WHITE on 7 Sep 1876 in Concordia, Cloud Co, KS.¹ (Joseph P. WHITE was born about 1854 in MO ² and died in perhaps KS.)

Jerusha next married Francis "Frank" Edward CONKLIN on 3 Nov 1878 in Concordia, Cloud Co, KS.² (Francis "Frank" Edward CONKLIN was born about 1851 in NY or VT or Canada ⁸ and died about 1900 in KS ⁹.)

Jerusha next married Johann Harms "John" TAMMEN on 13 Nov 1889 in Hastings, Adams Co, NE.^{3 4} (Johann Harms "John" TAMMEN was born on 13 Dec 1849 in Fahne, East Friesland, Germany,¹⁰ died on 24 Apr 1909 in Minonk, Woodford Co, IL ¹⁰ and was buried on 29 Apr 1909 in Baughmann's Cem., Panola Twp, Woodford Co, IL ¹¹.)