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William Jasper OLIPHANT

Male 1825 - 1877  (52 years)


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  • Name William Jasper OLIPHANT  [1, 2] 
    Birth 1825  [1, 2] 
    Gender Male 
    Reference Number 330 
    Death 1877  Leavenworth, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Cause: shot by his son-in-law 
    Person ID I330  scruggshovis
    Last Modified 21 Sep 2020 

    Family Matilda Thayer EILER,   b. Abt 1832, Clay County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Sep 1881, Atchison, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 49 years) 
    Children 
     1. Mary Frances OLIPHANT,   b. 14 Dec 1853, Platte City, Platte, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Sep 1924, Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 70 years)  [natural]
    Family ID F106  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Sep 2020 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsDeath - Cause: shot by his son-in-law - 1877 - Leavenworth, Kansas, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • CENSUS 1860: on familysearch.org. Wm J., 35, b. in Inifs/Mpls (??), occupation: farmer, living with wife and 4 children. location: Walnut, Atchison, Kansas.

      CENSUS 1870: on familysearch.org. W.J. 40, b. in Tennessee, occupation: farmer, living with wife Matilda T. 34 and 6 children. location: Walnut, Atchison, Kansas

      CENSUS (Kansas) 1875: on ancestry.com. W.J.45, b in Tennessee, living with wife M.T.39 and 6 children. location: not mentioned on census form. (Children: WmE17, Jacob14, Bednah9, JH7, Luela(?)4, Gertrude1)

      BURIAL 1877: the obituary of Robert W. Scruggs notes the following: "On last Sunday night, about 12 o'clock, a sudden alarm was given at the police headquarters in this city, that two well known citizens of Walnut township, in Atchison county, about one and a half miles north of the county line of Leavenworth county, had been murdered by a young man named Robert Scruggs, son of Simeon Scruggs, who lives near Oak Mills, on the Missouri Pacific road, about thirteen miles north from here. Word was left with the police to look out for the murderer and apprehend him if seen..." (From the newspaper "The Leavenworth Weekly Times", dated August 23, 1877)

  • Sources 
    1. [S35] 1860 US Federal Census, Location: Walnut, Atchison, Kansas Territory; Roll: M653_346; Page: 324; Image: 324; Family History Library Film: 803346. Found on Ancestry.com.
      NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls.

    2. [S7] 1870 US Federal Census, Location: Walnut, Atchison, Kansas; Roll: M593_428; Page: 359A; Image: 724; Family History Library Film: 545927. Found on familysearch.org.

    3. [S32] Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Found on findagrave.com and ancestry.com.
      Kansas, Find a grave, 1854-2012.


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