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W T Mawk Nov 1853 to George and Elizabeth Shipley
Barren County Kentucky Deeds:
Geo Mawk to Wm M Yeary
120 Acres on Swanegin Fork of Beaver Creek
For the sum of $400
March 29, 1865
Know all men by these presents that I George Mauk of the first part of and in consideration of four hundred dollars in hand paid have this day Bargained and Sold and conveyed unto William M Yeary of the Second part both of the county of Barren and State of Kentucky the following Boundary of Land. in Said County and State and on the South Swanegin Fork of Beaver Creek Beginning double poplar thence South 62 W 241 poles to a Stone in an old field thence South 19 E 60 poles to a dogwood thence South 30 E 20 poles to an ash white oak pointer. thence N 62 E 194 poles to a gum and poplar thence South 77 E 20 poles to a dogwood and Post oak thence N 49 E 45 poles to a Stake Suppose to be in Geo Mauks line thence to the Beginning Containing One hundred and twenty acres more or less to have and to hold unto the Said William M Yeary and his heirs forever and the party of the first part hereby warrants and defends the Said tract or parcel of Land to Said Yeary with covenants of general warranty-In Testimony whereof the Said Mauk and wife have set their hand and affixed their seal this 29th day of March 1865.
George Mauk (seal)
Elizabeth Mauk (seal)
State of Kentucky
Barren County
I R.B. Evans clerk of the county court for Said county certify that the foregoing deed from Geo Mauk and ELizabeth his wife to Wm M Yeary was on the ____day of _____ 1864 acknowledged before Thos Davis an acting deputy for me by Said Mauk & wife to be their act & deed. wherefore the same & this certificate have been recorded in my office. The proper Stamp being atttached to the original deed as ____ by an act of congress.
Given under my hand this 24th day of April 1865
R.B. Evans CBCC
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Geo Mauk lease to EW Kerr
January 21, 1865
This indenture made this 21st day of January 1865 between George Mauk and Elizabeth Mauk of the first part and Elizabeth W Kerr of the County of Jefferson and State of Kentucky of the Second part Wtnesseth that the parties of the first part hereby lease to the parties of the second part the following premisis to wit: A certain tract or parcel of land lying on Nichols branch of Fallen Timber Creek containing about 200 acres, being the tract on which the parties of the first part live. It is agreed that the party of the Second part shall commence alteration for the purposes of obtaining oil or other product within three years else this lease to be null and void.
For the space of Twenty five years and ___ to keep the tenants in quiet possession of the premisis during said Terms.
It is hereby agreed between said parties that the party of the Second part shall have the sole and exclusive right to bore, explore, mine and dig for oil, salt water, coal or other mineral and the exclusive right to use and benefit of all of said oil minerals etc that may be on or under Said land for the terms of years above specified and no other right or privilege is granted.
In consideration whereof the parties of the Second part bind themselves to give to the parties of the first part One tenth part of all the oil salt or other product obtained from said land to be delivered by the parties of the Second part to the parties of the first part in marketable condition upon the premasis in good and sufficient barrels which shall be furnished by the parties of the first part.
It is agreed that if the parties of the Second part fail to obtain oil or other products and shall abandon the premisis or upon the expiration of the terms for
(line missing in copy)
machinery they may have placed upon said land.
It is agreed that the parties of the Second part shall have the right of way to and from said premisis over any land or water course assgned or possesed by the parties of the first part and the right to make all roads _____ to get the product of said land to market in the cheapest and best manner.
It is further agreed that the parties of the Second part may at any time or times hereafter during the term hereby granted lease or ____ let all or any part of Said premisi or the whole or any part of Said term may be aquired or transfered to any person or persons whomsoever.
In Testamony whereof we have affixed our hands and seals the day and year above written .
George Mawk (signed)
Elizabeth Mauk (her mark)
Elizabeth Kerr
Witness
Saml Jordan
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All Mauk Family Land Records
Barren County Kentucky Probate Records
(Bill for services submitted to estate of Calum Homan Slayton by George Mauk)
March the 15, 1853
C H Slayton to Geo Mauk
cutting knife 015
to setting a pair of shoes and making two trowels 035
to sharpening 4 plows 015
to laying 2 hoes 035
to sharpening 2 plows 010
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to mending a sythe 010
to sharpening 3 plows 024
to making a pair of shoes 037
to sharpening 4 plows 032
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to making a pair of shoes and setting a pair 053
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to work don on a wagon 040
to pointing and sharpening 2 big plows 035
to fixing stretchers 020
to making a pair of shoes 037
to making a ??? 010
to ???? 015
to making a double tree March the 20th 1854 025
to sharpening a ? plow 010
to laying 2 plows 080
to sharpening 2 turning plows 020
to setting a pair of shoes 015
(page 2)
to sharpening 2 plows 016
to forging shoes and making one 020
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George Mauk and Eliza Sartain Headstone
, Asherville Cemetery, Mitchell County, Kansas, Photographs from the collection of Jennifer Mauk.
All Posted Mauk Family Death Records
World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
Name: Charley Lewis Mauk
City: Not Stated County: MitchellState: Kansas
Birthplace: Kansas Birth Date: 15 Jun 1897
Roll: 1643594 DraftBoard: 0
Name: George Earnest Mauk
City: Not Stated County: Mitchell State: Kansas
Birthplace: Kansas;United States of America Birth Date: 16 Jun 1895
Race: Caucasian (White) Roll: 1643594 DraftBoard: 0
Name: Henry Alfred Mauk
City: Not Stated County: Mitchell State: Kansas Birth Date: 16 Nov 1873
Race: White Roll: 1643594 DraftBoard: 0
Edna Weidenhaft papers(1900-1992)
. Daughter of Sarah Rachel Mauk and Solon Steere, wrote this account of the family history
Story told by Goldia Deweese Thomerson as told to her by Martha Richards Deweese, granddaughter of George and Elizabeth Shipley Mauk.
In 1862 the war later called the Civil War was just beginning. It hadn’t yet fully engulfed the region of South Central Kentucky, the County of Barren, near the Tennessee border.
The home of George Mauk was a busy one. He had moved his family, a little over twelve years before, to Barren County Kentucky, just northeast of the town of Slick Rock, from Hawkins County Tennessee, near the Virginia Border. George was a Blacksmith and was training sons, Benjamin at least, in the lucrative trade so necessary in any commnity. The household was a busy one, and full. George and his wife Elizabeth lived with their unmarried children: their eldest daughter Catherine, "Kate", widowed now and with her two daughters Martha, age twelve and Makinnia, age ten; George and Elizabeth's 22 year old daughter Martha, and sons George, 21, Benjamin, 20, Jessie, 16, Zachariah ,14, and William, 11. Two children had married and were no longer in the extended family home. Eldest son John had married Mildred Nichols and lived next door, and daughter Malinda also resided adjacent to the family of her parents with her husband William Yeary and her new family. George and Elizabeth’s son Lewis was gone by 1860, but no one knows now, to exactly where.
It is said, in later years, that George felt strongly about the rights enumerated by the Southern States, sentiments falling firmly with the Confederacy. Two sons at least, Benjamin and William, believed in the tenants espoused by the Northern States, and would leave to work for the Union cause. Benjamin used the trade learned from his father and was employed as a blacksmith for the Union Army. Benjamin and William would eventually change the spelling of their family name as a result of this split in family beliefs, calling themselves Mock. Whether this was yet a topic of hot contention within the family home in 1862 is not now known.
One evening in that year a company of Union solders came, and chose the Mauk home, by chance I suppose, from which to ask for an evening meal and a camping place. Elizabeth had long since fed her family, her daughters and granddaughters were busy scrubbing the large table, washing the pots and plates. Biscuits, it was decided, were all she had available to feed such a crew, and even then, the only water left in the home was the washing water, the water already soapy and full of scrubbing rags and dirty pots and plates. No one, so the story goes, could bring themselves to take the long walk to the somewhat distant spring to fetch fresh water, or perhaps George forbade the errand.
Elizabeth used what she had on hand, and prepared a meager feast for the soldiers, of biscuits made with flour and soda and soapy wash water. The soldiers were fed the meal, and slept the night then, their bellies full of flour and soapy water, grateful for the kindness. They were never told the ingredients of their meal.
George and Elizabeth’s grand daughter Martha, was only a girl of 12 on that night. More than half a century later, when she was a grown woman with grand daughters of her own, Martha would recount that evening, and the meal, with a chuckle. She told her grand daughter, Goldia, as she fed Goldia the fat, hot biscuits for which Martha was then locally known. It was biscuits like these, large and golden brown, served to the soldiers then, on that night in 1862, only Martha never again used that "secret ingredient" with which they prepared the biscuits for those soldiers. She decided she liked better to prepare her biscuits without the soapy water.
Notes for George Mauk and Eliza Sartain:
Barren Co KY Will Book 3, p. 386 (father of Alfred, grandfather of Eliza)
Joel Sartain Jr Date Written: 25 Oct 1853 Date Probated: November Term 1853
Wife: Sally Sartin
Sons: Alfred Sartin, Lewis Sartin, Joel Sartin
Daughters: Lucinda Sartin who married Stephen Glass, Elysabeth who md. Thomas N Clarke, Daughter: Caroline, widow of William Clarke, PollyAn who married William Word.
Slaves: Jesse and his wife Lucy, George, Lewis, Amanda, Louisa, Harriet, Reuben, Emely
Executor: Son Lewis Sartin and Stephen Glass (son-in-law); Witnesses: P W Grinstead, Philip A Shive, Henry Perkins
Notes/Narrative from Jennifer Mauk
When Eliza met George he was a widower. George's parents were Henry and Sarah Mauk of Tennesee. George and his first wife (doesn't give a name) had eleven children. Their names were 1) Jesse 2)Ben - his wife's name was Lucinda 3)Will - last heard of at Kit Carson, Colo. in 1936. 4)John 5)George 6)Louis - died at the age of 19. 7)Zach - a
preacher 8)Martha 9)Kate 10)Lucinda 11)Sarah - died while a small child.
On Sept.30, 1867 George Mauk married Eliza (Sartain) Bunch in Glasgow, Barron Co; Kentucky. They began the long trip westward by covered wagon. They were accompanied by Eliza's two young daughters from her previous marriage - Rissie age 8 and Melia age 5. They were also accompanied as far as Missouri by Eliza's father Alfred Sartain and stepmother America, Eliza's brothers and sisters. The Sartains stayed in Missouri.
George, Eliza, Rissie and Melia arrived in Asherville, Mitchell Co; Kansas on March 30, 1868 and took up homestead by the river. There was a small dugout already in place, not walled up with a dirt roof. They lived in that until George could get a log cabin built; a small one room cabin with a loft above it. Here four children were born. Sarah Rachel b.25 July 1871, Henry Alfred b.16 Nov 1873, Louis S. b.26 Oct 1875 and James Andrew 21 Oct
1876. Louis died when five days old. George died 13 July 1878. Both are buried at the Asherville Cemetary.
Times were very hard and Eliza found it hard to make a living for herself and her children. The Two older girls were married and in their own homes before George died. With only the most essential tools, George had
made the most necessary furniture. Including a chair for each: Eliza, Sarah and Henry. They were put together with wooden pegs and had seats of buffalo hide.
Eliza and the children gathered wild plums in the fall and she preserved them in sorghum in large earthen jars. Fish from the river and corn bread was their main food along with vegetables from the garden and wild greens. In the summer, the children would gather sheep sorrel which Eliza made into pie using sorghum for sweetening.
They had an old gray mare which she used for the heaviest work and she would clean her comb by combing the mare's tail. She made all of their clothing by hand. She had to knit all the stockings for the family. Whenever she went into Asherville she would knit as she walked along. She always walked to town because , she said " The mare had working in the field and needed to rest".
George died when his son James Andrew was a baby. After George died, Eliza married again when Sarah was about 9. She married a man named Bud Whetmore. Eliza died 8 Feb 1904 at age 65 from pneumonia.
Jesse was the only one of the first Mauk family to come to Kansas. He homesteaded the quarter section east of his father's. Their houses being about 1/4 mile apart. Jessie and his wife Susan and their four sons, Jerome, Perkins, Titus and Roscoe, lived there in a stone house for a number of years. After Jessie died and was buried in the Asherville cemetary,
Susan and the boys sold the farm and moved to Talmo, Kansas. When Susan died she was buried next to James.
Notes on Eliza Sartain: (source: Jennifer Mauk)
Elizabeth Frances Sartain was born 15 Oct 1838 Bowling Green, Warren Co, Kentucky. She was the daughter of Alfred b.1817 Lincoln Co, Kentucky and Rachel Witty b.1823 Barren County, Kentucky. (I also have more detailed
info on the Sartain Line). Eliza married Zachariah Harrison Bunch b. 1842 on 2 June 1858. A daughter Torissa was born 8 July 1859. Zachariah joined the Union Army, the 21st Kentucky Volunteers on 30 December 1861. He died
of Typhoid Fever in Confederate Prison at Camp Ward on 26 July 1862. (Camp Ward was near their home in Barron County where they were married.) Another daughter Parmelia Harrison was born to them on 30 March 1862. Her father
never saw her. How sad!
Terissa or "Rissy" married a man whose last name was Mitchell and they had five children: Zach, Onie, Henry, Martha and Rose. They moved to Idaho where Mitchell died. Rissie and the children returned to Asherville, Kansas
where she later married Abe Parrish. Abe was the father of Gove Parrish and cousin of Richard Parrish, her brother - in - law. Gove later worked as an Asherville mail carrier. Rissie and Parrish had three children: Benny, Herbert and Lenora. The Mitchell boys (above) lived at St. Joseph, Missouri and the Parrish children lived in Linn Co, Kansas in the 1930's.
Parmelia or "Melia" b. 30 march 1862, married Richard Parrish and they had two daughters: Cora Estella b. 12 Oct 1878 and Lucy b. 25 Feb 1881. They owned and lived in a little house in Simpson, Kansas (about 10 miles from Asherville) Richard died while the girls were small and Melia took in sewing. Later she married a man named Stout. In 1887 Melia died and both she and Richard are buried in the Asherville Cemetary. The girls lived part of the time with their Grandma Mauk (Eliza) and part of the time with their aunt Sarah "Sadie" Steere. Cora married Louis Steere, stepson of Aunt Sadie
in the spring of 1900 and they had one daughter named Vira. Vira married Trafton Thomas and were the parents of six children: Pauline, Doris, Lois, June, Louis and Vonne. Lucy married Claude Bundy and had three children: Earl, Ed and Lucille.
End of notes for George Mauk and Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
W T Mawk Nov 1853 to George and Elizabeth Shipley
Barren County Kentucky Deeds:
Geo Mawk to Wm M Yeary
120 Acres on Swanegin Fork of Beaver Creek
For the sum of $400
March 29, 1865
Know all men by these presents that I George Mauk of the first part of and in consideration of four hundred dollars in hand paid have this day Bargained and Sold and conveyed unto William M Yeary of the Second part both of the county of Barren and State of Kentucky the following Boundary of Land. in Said County and State and on the South Swanegin Fork of Beaver Creek Beginning double poplar thence South 62 W 241 poles to a Stone in an old field thence South 19 E 60 poles to a dogwood thence South 30 E 20 poles to an ash white oak pointer. thence N 62 E 194 poles to a gum and poplar thence South 77 E 20 poles to a dogwood and Post oak thence N 49 E 45 poles to a Stake Suppose to be in Geo Mauks line thence to the Beginning Containing One hundred and twenty acres more or less to have and to hold unto the Said William M Yeary and his heirs forever and the party of the first part hereby warrants and defends the Said tract or parcel of Land to Said Yeary with covenants of general warranty-In Testimony whereof the Said Mauk and wife have set their hand and affixed their seal this 29th day of March 1865.
George Mauk (seal)
Elizabeth Mauk (seal)
State of Kentucky
Barren County
I R.B. Evans clerk of the county court for Said county certify that the foregoing deed from Geo Mauk and ELizabeth his wife to Wm M Yeary was on the ____day of _____ 1864 acknowledged before Thos Davis an acting deputy for me by Said Mauk & wife to be their act & deed. wherefore the same & this certificate have been recorded in my office. The proper Stamp being atttached to the original deed as ____ by an act of congress.
Given under my hand this 24th day of April 1865
R.B. Evans CBCC
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Geo Mauk lease to EW Kerr
January 21, 1865
This indenture made this 21st day of January 1865 between George Mauk and Elizabeth Mauk of the first part and Elizabeth W Kerr of the County of Jefferson and State of Kentucky of the Second part Wtnesseth that the parties of the first part hereby lease to the parties of the second part the following premisis to wit: A certain tract or parcel of land lying on Nichols branch of Fallen Timber Creek containing about 200 acres, being the tract on which the parties of the first part live. It is agreed that the party of the Second part shall commence alteration for the purposes of obtaining oil or other product within three years else this lease to be null and void.
For the space of Twenty five years and ___ to keep the tenants in quiet possession of the premisis during said Terms.
It is hereby agreed between said parties that the party of the Second part shall have the sole and exclusive right to bore, explore, mine and dig for oil, salt water, coal or other mineral and the exclusive right to use and benefit of all of said oil minerals etc that may be on or under Said land for the terms of years above specified and no other right or privilege is granted.
In consideration whereof the parties of the Second part bind themselves to give to the parties of the first part One tenth part of all the oil salt or other product obtained from said land to be delivered by the parties of the Second part to the parties of the first part in marketable condition upon the premasis in good and sufficient barrels which shall be furnished by the parties of the first part.
It is agreed that if the parties of the Second part fail to obtain oil or other products and shall abandon the premisis or upon the expiration of the terms for
(line missing in copy)
machinery they may have placed upon said land.
It is agreed that the parties of the Second part shall have the right of way to and from said premisis over any land or water course assgned or possesed by the parties of the first part and the right to make all roads _____ to get the product of said land to market in the cheapest and best manner.
It is further agreed that the parties of the Second part may at any time or times hereafter during the term hereby granted lease or ____ let all or any part of Said premisi or the whole or any part of Said term may be aquired or transfered to any person or persons whomsoever.
In Testamony whereof we have affixed our hands and seals the day and year above written .
George Mawk (signed)
Elizabeth Mauk (her mark)
Elizabeth Kerr
Witness
Saml Jordan
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All Mauk Family Land Records
Barren County Kentucky Probate Records
(Bill for services submitted to estate of Calum Homan Slayton by George Mauk)
March the 15, 1853
C H Slayton to Geo Mauk
cutting knife 015
to setting a pair of shoes and making two trowels 035
to sharpening 4 plows 015
to laying 2 hoes 035
to sharpening 2 plows 010
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to mending a sythe 010
to sharpening 3 plows 024
to making a pair of shoes 037
to sharpening 4 plows 032
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to making a pair of shoes and setting a pair 053
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to work don on a wagon 040
to pointing and sharpening 2 big plows 035
to fixing stretchers 020
to making a pair of shoes 037
to making a ??? 010
to ???? 015
to making a double tree March the 20th 1854 025
to sharpening a ? plow 010
to laying 2 plows 080
to sharpening 2 turning plows 020
to setting a pair of shoes 015
(page 2)
to sharpening 2 plows 016
to forging shoes and making one 020
Image Page #1
Image Page #2
George Mauk and Eliza Sartain Headstone
, Asherville Cemetery, Mitchell County, Kansas, Photographs from the collection of Jennifer Mauk.
All Posted Mauk Family Death Records
World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
Name: Charley Lewis Mauk
City: Not Stated County: MitchellState: Kansas
Birthplace: Kansas Birth Date: 15 Jun 1897
Roll: 1643594 DraftBoard: 0
Name: George Earnest Mauk
City: Not Stated County: Mitchell State: Kansas
Birthplace: Kansas;United States of America Birth Date: 16 Jun 1895
Race: Caucasian (White) Roll: 1643594 DraftBoard: 0
Name: Henry Alfred Mauk
City: Not Stated County: Mitchell State: Kansas Birth Date: 16 Nov 1873
Race: White Roll: 1643594 DraftBoard: 0
Edna Weidenhaft papers(1900-1992)
. Daughter of Sarah Rachel Mauk and Solon Steere, wrote this account of the family history
Story told by Goldia Deweese Thomerson as told to her by Martha Richards Deweese, granddaughter of George and Elizabeth Shipley Mauk.
In 1862 the war later called the Civil War was just beginning. It hadn’t yet fully engulfed the region of South Central Kentucky, the County of Barren, near the Tennessee border.
The home of George Mauk was a busy one. He had moved his family, a little over twelve years before, to Barren County Kentucky, just northeast of the town of Slick Rock, from Hawkins County Tennessee, near the Virginia Border. George was a Blacksmith and was training sons, Benjamin at least, in the lucrative trade so necessary in any commnity. The household was a busy one, and full. George and his wife Elizabeth lived with their unmarried children: their eldest daughter Catherine, "Kate", widowed now and with her two daughters Martha, age twelve and Makinnia, age ten; George and Elizabeth's 22 year old daughter Martha, and sons George, 21, Benjamin, 20, Jessie, 16, Zachariah ,14, and William, 11. Two children had married and were no longer in the extended family home. Eldest son John had married Mildred Nichols and lived next door, and daughter Malinda also resided adjacent to the family of her parents with her husband William Yeary and her new family. George and Elizabeth’s son Lewis was gone by 1860, but no one knows now, to exactly where.
It is said, in later years, that George felt strongly about the rights enumerated by the Southern States, sentiments falling firmly with the Confederacy. Two sons at least, Benjamin and William, believed in the tenants espoused by the Northern States, and would leave to work for the Union cause. Benjamin used the trade learned from his father and was employed as a blacksmith for the Union Army. Benjamin and William would eventually change the spelling of their family name as a result of this split in family beliefs, calling themselves Mock. Whether this was yet a topic of hot contention within the family home in 1862 is not now known.
One evening in that year a company of Union solders came, and chose the Mauk home, by chance I suppose, from which to ask for an evening meal and a camping place. Elizabeth had long since fed her family, her daughters and granddaughters were busy scrubbing the large table, washing the pots and plates. Biscuits, it was decided, were all she had available to feed such a crew, and even then, the only water left in the home was the washing water, the water already soapy and full of scrubbing rags and dirty pots and plates. No one, so the story goes, could bring themselves to take the long walk to the somewhat distant spring to fetch fresh water, or perhaps George forbade the errand.
Elizabeth used what she had on hand, and prepared a meager feast for the soldiers, of biscuits made with flour and soda and soapy wash water. The soldiers were fed the meal, and slept the night then, their bellies full of flour and soapy water, grateful for the kindness. They were never told the ingredients of their meal.
George and Elizabeth’s grand daughter Martha, was only a girl of 12 on that night. More than half a century later, when she was a grown woman with grand daughters of her own, Martha would recount that evening, and the meal, with a chuckle. She told her grand daughter, Goldia, as she fed Goldia the fat, hot biscuits for which Martha was then locally known. It was biscuits like these, large and golden brown, served to the soldiers then, on that night in 1862, only Martha never again used that "secret ingredient" with which they prepared the biscuits for those soldiers. She decided she liked better to prepare her biscuits without the soapy water.
Notes for George Mauk and Eliza Sartain:
Barren Co KY Will Book 3, p. 386 (father of Alfred, grandfather of Eliza)
Joel Sartain Jr Date Written: 25 Oct 1853 Date Probated: November Term 1853
Wife: Sally Sartin
Sons: Alfred Sartin, Lewis Sartin, Joel Sartin
Daughters: Lucinda Sartin who married Stephen Glass, Elysabeth who md. Thomas N Clarke, Daughter: Caroline, widow of William Clarke, PollyAn who married William Word.
Slaves: Jesse and his wife Lucy, George, Lewis, Amanda, Louisa, Harriet, Reuben, Emely
Executor: Son Lewis Sartin and Stephen Glass (son-in-law); Witnesses: P W Grinstead, Philip A Shive, Henry Perkins
Notes/Narrative from Jennifer Mauk
When Eliza met George he was a widower. George's parents were Henry and Sarah Mauk of Tennesee. George and his first wife (doesn't give a name) had eleven children. Their names were 1) Jesse 2)Ben - his wife's name was Lucinda 3)Will - last heard of at Kit Carson, Colo. in 1936. 4)John 5)George 6)Louis - died at the age of 19. 7)Zach - a
preacher 8)Martha 9)Kate 10)Lucinda 11)Sarah - died while a small child.
On Sept.30, 1867 George Mauk married Eliza (Sartain) Bunch in Glasgow, Barron Co; Kentucky. They began the long trip westward by covered wagon. They were accompanied by Eliza's two young daughters from her previous marriage - Rissie age 8 and Melia age 5. They were also accompanied as far as Missouri by Eliza's father Alfred Sartain and stepmother America, Eliza's brothers and sisters. The Sartains stayed in Missouri.
George, Eliza, Rissie and Melia arrived in Asherville, Mitchell Co; Kansas on March 30, 1868 and took up homestead by the river. There was a small dugout already in place, not walled up with a dirt roof. They lived in that until George could get a log cabin built; a small one room cabin with a loft above it. Here four children were born. Sarah Rachel b.25 July 1871, Henry Alfred b.16 Nov 1873, Louis S. b.26 Oct 1875 and James Andrew 21 Oct
1876. Louis died when five days old. George died 13 July 1878. Both are buried at the Asherville Cemetary.
Times were very hard and Eliza found it hard to make a living for herself and her children. The Two older girls were married and in their own homes before George died. With only the most essential tools, George had
made the most necessary furniture. Including a chair for each: Eliza, Sarah and Henry. They were put together with wooden pegs and had seats of buffalo hide.
Eliza and the children gathered wild plums in the fall and she preserved them in sorghum in large earthen jars. Fish from the river and corn bread was their main food along with vegetables from the garden and wild greens. In the summer, the children would gather sheep sorrel which Eliza made into pie using sorghum for sweetening.
They had an old gray mare which she used for the heaviest work and she would clean her comb by combing the mare's tail. She made all of their clothing by hand. She had to knit all the stockings for the family. Whenever she went into Asherville she would knit as she walked along. She always walked to town because , she said " The mare had working in the field and needed to rest".
George died when his son James Andrew was a baby. After George died, Eliza married again when Sarah was about 9. She married a man named Bud Whetmore. Eliza died 8 Feb 1904 at age 65 from pneumonia.
Jesse was the only one of the first Mauk family to come to Kansas. He homesteaded the quarter section east of his father's. Their houses being about 1/4 mile apart. Jessie and his wife Susan and their four sons, Jerome, Perkins, Titus and Roscoe, lived there in a stone house for a number of years. After Jessie died and was buried in the Asherville cemetary,
Susan and the boys sold the farm and moved to Talmo, Kansas. When Susan died she was buried next to James.
Notes on Eliza Sartain: (source: Jennifer Mauk)
Elizabeth Frances Sartain was born 15 Oct 1838 Bowling Green, Warren Co, Kentucky. She was the daughter of Alfred b.1817 Lincoln Co, Kentucky and Rachel Witty b.1823 Barren County, Kentucky. (I also have more detailed
info on the Sartain Line). Eliza married Zachariah Harrison Bunch b. 1842 on 2 June 1858. A daughter Torissa was born 8 July 1859. Zachariah joined the Union Army, the 21st Kentucky Volunteers on 30 December 1861. He died
of Typhoid Fever in Confederate Prison at Camp Ward on 26 July 1862. (Camp Ward was near their home in Barron County where they were married.) Another daughter Parmelia Harrison was born to them on 30 March 1862. Her father
never saw her. How sad!
Terissa or "Rissy" married a man whose last name was Mitchell and they had five children: Zach, Onie, Henry, Martha and Rose. They moved to Idaho where Mitchell died. Rissie and the children returned to Asherville, Kansas
where she later married Abe Parrish. Abe was the father of Gove Parrish and cousin of Richard Parrish, her brother - in - law. Gove later worked as an Asherville mail carrier. Rissie and Parrish had three children: Benny, Herbert and Lenora. The Mitchell boys (above) lived at St. Joseph, Missouri and the Parrish children lived in Linn Co, Kansas in the 1930's.
Parmelia or "Melia" b. 30 march 1862, married Richard Parrish and they had two daughters: Cora Estella b. 12 Oct 1878 and Lucy b. 25 Feb 1881. They owned and lived in a little house in Simpson, Kansas (about 10 miles from Asherville) Richard died while the girls were small and Melia took in sewing. Later she married a man named Stout. In 1887 Melia died and both she and Richard are buried in the Asherville Cemetary. The girls lived part of the time with their Grandma Mauk (Eliza) and part of the time with their aunt Sarah "Sadie" Steere. Cora married Louis Steere, stepson of Aunt Sadie
in the spring of 1900 and they had one daughter named Vira. Vira married Trafton Thomas and were the parents of six children: Pauline, Doris, Lois, June, Louis and Vonne. Lucy married Claude Bundy and had three children: Earl, Ed and Lucille.
End of notes for George Mauk and Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
Geo Mawk to Wm M Yeary
120 Acres on Swanegin Fork of Beaver Creek
For the sum of $400
March 29, 1865
Know all men by these presents that I George Mauk of the first part of and in consideration of four hundred dollars in hand paid have this day Bargained and Sold and conveyed unto William M Yeary of the Second part both of the county of Barren and State of Kentucky the following Boundary of Land. in Said County and State and on the South Swanegin Fork of Beaver Creek Beginning double poplar thence South 62 W 241 poles to a Stone in an old field thence South 19 E 60 poles to a dogwood thence South 30 E 20 poles to an ash white oak pointer. thence N 62 E 194 poles to a gum and poplar thence South 77 E 20 poles to a dogwood and Post oak thence N 49 E 45 poles to a Stake Suppose to be in Geo Mauks line thence to the Beginning Containing One hundred and twenty acres more or less to have and to hold unto the Said William M Yeary and his heirs forever and the party of the first part hereby warrants and defends the Said tract or parcel of Land to Said Yeary with covenants of general warranty-In Testimony whereof the Said Mauk and wife have set their hand and affixed their seal this 29th day of March 1865.
George Mauk (seal)
Elizabeth Mauk (seal)
State of Kentucky
Barren County
I R.B. Evans clerk of the county court for Said county certify that the foregoing deed from Geo Mauk and ELizabeth his wife to Wm M Yeary was on the ____day of _____ 1864 acknowledged before Thos Davis an acting deputy for me by Said Mauk & wife to be their act & deed. wherefore the same & this certificate have been recorded in my office. The proper Stamp being atttached to the original deed as ____ by an act of congress.
Given under my hand this 24th day of April 1865
R.B. Evans CBCC
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Geo Mauk lease to EW Kerr
January 21, 1865
This indenture made this 21st day of January 1865 between George Mauk and Elizabeth Mauk of the first part and Elizabeth W Kerr of the County of Jefferson and State of Kentucky of the Second part Wtnesseth that the parties of the first part hereby lease to the parties of the second part the following premisis to wit: A certain tract or parcel of land lying on Nichols branch of Fallen Timber Creek containing about 200 acres, being the tract on which the parties of the first part live. It is agreed that the party of the Second part shall commence alteration for the purposes of obtaining oil or other product within three years else this lease to be null and void.
For the space of Twenty five years and ___ to keep the tenants in quiet possession of the premisis during said Terms.
It is hereby agreed between said parties that the party of the Second part shall have the sole and exclusive right to bore, explore, mine and dig for oil, salt water, coal or other mineral and the exclusive right to use and benefit of all of said oil minerals etc that may be on or under Said land for the terms of years above specified and no other right or privilege is granted.
In consideration whereof the parties of the Second part bind themselves to give to the parties of the first part One tenth part of all the oil salt or other product obtained from said land to be delivered by the parties of the Second part to the parties of the first part in marketable condition upon the premasis in good and sufficient barrels which shall be furnished by the parties of the first part.
It is agreed that if the parties of the Second part fail to obtain oil or other products and shall abandon the premisis or upon the expiration of the terms for
(line missing in copy)
machinery they may have placed upon said land.
It is agreed that the parties of the Second part shall have the right of way to and from said premisis over any land or water course assgned or possesed by the parties of the first part and the right to make all roads _____ to get the product of said land to market in the cheapest and best manner.
It is further agreed that the parties of the Second part may at any time or times hereafter during the term hereby granted lease or ____ let all or any part of Said premisi or the whole or any part of Said term may be aquired or transfered to any person or persons whomsoever.
In Testamony whereof we have affixed our hands and seals the day and year above written .
George Mawk (signed)
Elizabeth Mauk (her mark)
Elizabeth Kerr
Witness
Saml Jordan
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All Mauk Family Land Records
Barren County Kentucky Probate Records
(Bill for services submitted to estate of Calum Homan Slayton by George Mauk)
March the 15, 1853
C H Slayton to Geo Mauk
cutting knife 015
to setting a pair of shoes and making two trowels 035
to sharpening 4 plows 015
to laying 2 hoes 035
to sharpening 2 plows 010
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to mending a sythe 010
to sharpening 3 plows 024
to making a pair of shoes 037
to sharpening 4 plows 032
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to making a pair of shoes and setting a pair 053
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to work don on a wagon 040
to pointing and sharpening 2 big plows 035
to fixing stretchers 020
to making a pair of shoes 037
to making a ??? 010
to ???? 015
to making a double tree March the 20th 1854 025
to sharpening a ? plow 010
to laying 2 plows 080
to sharpening 2 turning plows 020
to setting a pair of shoes 015
(page 2)
to sharpening 2 plows 016
to forging shoes and making one 020
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George Mauk and Eliza Sartain Headstone
, Asherville Cemetery, Mitchell County, Kansas, Photographs from the collection of Jennifer Mauk.
All Posted Mauk Family Death Records
World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
Name: Charley Lewis Mauk
City: Not Stated County: MitchellState: Kansas
Birthplace: Kansas Birth Date: 15 Jun 1897
Roll: 1643594 DraftBoard: 0
Name: George Earnest Mauk
City: Not Stated County: Mitchell State: Kansas
Birthplace: Kansas;United States of America Birth Date: 16 Jun 1895
Race: Caucasian (White) Roll: 1643594 DraftBoard: 0
Name: Henry Alfred Mauk
City: Not Stated County: Mitchell State: Kansas Birth Date: 16 Nov 1873
Race: White Roll: 1643594 DraftBoard: 0
Edna Weidenhaft papers(1900-1992)
. Daughter of Sarah Rachel Mauk and Solon Steere, wrote this account of the family history
Story told by Goldia Deweese Thomerson as told to her by Martha Richards Deweese, granddaughter of George and Elizabeth Shipley Mauk.
In 1862 the war later called the Civil War was just beginning. It hadn’t yet fully engulfed the region of South Central Kentucky, the County of Barren, near the Tennessee border.
The home of George Mauk was a busy one. He had moved his family, a little over twelve years before, to Barren County Kentucky, just northeast of the town of Slick Rock, from Hawkins County Tennessee, near the Virginia Border. George was a Blacksmith and was training sons, Benjamin at least, in the lucrative trade so necessary in any commnity. The household was a busy one, and full. George and his wife Elizabeth lived with their unmarried children: their eldest daughter Catherine, "Kate", widowed now and with her two daughters Martha, age twelve and Makinnia, age ten; George and Elizabeth's 22 year old daughter Martha, and sons George, 21, Benjamin, 20, Jessie, 16, Zachariah ,14, and William, 11. Two children had married and were no longer in the extended family home. Eldest son John had married Mildred Nichols and lived next door, and daughter Malinda also resided adjacent to the family of her parents with her husband William Yeary and her new family. George and Elizabeth’s son Lewis was gone by 1860, but no one knows now, to exactly where.
It is said, in later years, that George felt strongly about the rights enumerated by the Southern States, sentiments falling firmly with the Confederacy. Two sons at least, Benjamin and William, believed in the tenants espoused by the Northern States, and would leave to work for the Union cause. Benjamin used the trade learned from his father and was employed as a blacksmith for the Union Army. Benjamin and William would eventually change the spelling of their family name as a result of this split in family beliefs, calling themselves Mock. Whether this was yet a topic of hot contention within the family home in 1862 is not now known.
One evening in that year a company of Union solders came, and chose the Mauk home, by chance I suppose, from which to ask for an evening meal and a camping place. Elizabeth had long since fed her family, her daughters and granddaughters were busy scrubbing the large table, washing the pots and plates. Biscuits, it was decided, were all she had available to feed such a crew, and even then, the only water left in the home was the washing water, the water already soapy and full of scrubbing rags and dirty pots and plates. No one, so the story goes, could bring themselves to take the long walk to the somewhat distant spring to fetch fresh water, or perhaps George forbade the errand.
Elizabeth used what she had on hand, and prepared a meager feast for the soldiers, of biscuits made with flour and soda and soapy wash water. The soldiers were fed the meal, and slept the night then, their bellies full of flour and soapy water, grateful for the kindness. They were never told the ingredients of their meal.
George and Elizabeth’s grand daughter Martha, was only a girl of 12 on that night. More than half a century later, when she was a grown woman with grand daughters of her own, Martha would recount that evening, and the meal, with a chuckle. She told her grand daughter, Goldia, as she fed Goldia the fat, hot biscuits for which Martha was then locally known. It was biscuits like these, large and golden brown, served to the soldiers then, on that night in 1862, only Martha never again used that "secret ingredient" with which they prepared the biscuits for those soldiers. She decided she liked better to prepare her biscuits without the soapy water.
Notes for George Mauk and Eliza Sartain:
Barren Co KY Will Book 3, p. 386 (father of Alfred, grandfather of Eliza)
Joel Sartain Jr Date Written: 25 Oct 1853 Date Probated: November Term 1853
Wife: Sally Sartin
Sons: Alfred Sartin, Lewis Sartin, Joel Sartin
Daughters: Lucinda Sartin who married Stephen Glass, Elysabeth who md. Thomas N Clarke, Daughter: Caroline, widow of William Clarke, PollyAn who married William Word.
Slaves: Jesse and his wife Lucy, George, Lewis, Amanda, Louisa, Harriet, Reuben, Emely
Executor: Son Lewis Sartin and Stephen Glass (son-in-law); Witnesses: P W Grinstead, Philip A Shive, Henry Perkins
Notes/Narrative from Jennifer Mauk
When Eliza met George he was a widower. George's parents were Henry and Sarah Mauk of Tennesee. George and his first wife (doesn't give a name) had eleven children. Their names were 1) Jesse 2)Ben - his wife's name was Lucinda 3)Will - last heard of at Kit Carson, Colo. in 1936. 4)John 5)George 6)Louis - died at the age of 19. 7)Zach - a
preacher 8)Martha 9)Kate 10)Lucinda 11)Sarah - died while a small child.
On Sept.30, 1867 George Mauk married Eliza (Sartain) Bunch in Glasgow, Barron Co; Kentucky. They began the long trip westward by covered wagon. They were accompanied by Eliza's two young daughters from her previous marriage - Rissie age 8 and Melia age 5. They were also accompanied as far as Missouri by Eliza's father Alfred Sartain and stepmother America, Eliza's brothers and sisters. The Sartains stayed in Missouri.
George, Eliza, Rissie and Melia arrived in Asherville, Mitchell Co; Kansas on March 30, 1868 and took up homestead by the river. There was a small dugout already in place, not walled up with a dirt roof. They lived in that until George could get a log cabin built; a small one room cabin with a loft above it. Here four children were born. Sarah Rachel b.25 July 1871, Henry Alfred b.16 Nov 1873, Louis S. b.26 Oct 1875 and James Andrew 21 Oct
1876. Louis died when five days old. George died 13 July 1878. Both are buried at the Asherville Cemetary.
Times were very hard and Eliza found it hard to make a living for herself and her children. The Two older girls were married and in their own homes before George died. With only the most essential tools, George had
made the most necessary furniture. Including a chair for each: Eliza, Sarah and Henry. They were put together with wooden pegs and had seats of buffalo hide.
Eliza and the children gathered wild plums in the fall and she preserved them in sorghum in large earthen jars. Fish from the river and corn bread was their main food along with vegetables from the garden and wild greens. In the summer, the children would gather sheep sorrel which Eliza made into pie using sorghum for sweetening.
They had an old gray mare which she used for the heaviest work and she would clean her comb by combing the mare's tail. She made all of their clothing by hand. She had to knit all the stockings for the family. Whenever she went into Asherville she would knit as she walked along. She always walked to town because , she said " The mare had working in the field and needed to rest".
George died when his son James Andrew was a baby. After George died, Eliza married again when Sarah was about 9. She married a man named Bud Whetmore. Eliza died 8 Feb 1904 at age 65 from pneumonia.
Jesse was the only one of the first Mauk family to come to Kansas. He homesteaded the quarter section east of his father's. Their houses being about 1/4 mile apart. Jessie and his wife Susan and their four sons, Jerome, Perkins, Titus and Roscoe, lived there in a stone house for a number of years. After Jessie died and was buried in the Asherville cemetary,
Susan and the boys sold the farm and moved to Talmo, Kansas. When Susan died she was buried next to James.
Notes on Eliza Sartain: (source: Jennifer Mauk)
Elizabeth Frances Sartain was born 15 Oct 1838 Bowling Green, Warren Co, Kentucky. She was the daughter of Alfred b.1817 Lincoln Co, Kentucky and Rachel Witty b.1823 Barren County, Kentucky. (I also have more detailed
info on the Sartain Line). Eliza married Zachariah Harrison Bunch b. 1842 on 2 June 1858. A daughter Torissa was born 8 July 1859. Zachariah joined the Union Army, the 21st Kentucky Volunteers on 30 December 1861. He died
of Typhoid Fever in Confederate Prison at Camp Ward on 26 July 1862. (Camp Ward was near their home in Barron County where they were married.) Another daughter Parmelia Harrison was born to them on 30 March 1862. Her father
never saw her. How sad!
Terissa or "Rissy" married a man whose last name was Mitchell and they had five children: Zach, Onie, Henry, Martha and Rose. They moved to Idaho where Mitchell died. Rissie and the children returned to Asherville, Kansas
where she later married Abe Parrish. Abe was the father of Gove Parrish and cousin of Richard Parrish, her brother - in - law. Gove later worked as an Asherville mail carrier. Rissie and Parrish had three children: Benny, Herbert and Lenora. The Mitchell boys (above) lived at St. Joseph, Missouri and the Parrish children lived in Linn Co, Kansas in the 1930's.
Parmelia or "Melia" b. 30 march 1862, married Richard Parrish and they had two daughters: Cora Estella b. 12 Oct 1878 and Lucy b. 25 Feb 1881. They owned and lived in a little house in Simpson, Kansas (about 10 miles from Asherville) Richard died while the girls were small and Melia took in sewing. Later she married a man named Stout. In 1887 Melia died and both she and Richard are buried in the Asherville Cemetary. The girls lived part of the time with their Grandma Mauk (Eliza) and part of the time with their aunt Sarah "Sadie" Steere. Cora married Louis Steere, stepson of Aunt Sadie
in the spring of 1900 and they had one daughter named Vira. Vira married Trafton Thomas and were the parents of six children: Pauline, Doris, Lois, June, Louis and Vonne. Lucy married Claude Bundy and had three children: Earl, Ed and Lucille.
End of notes for George Mauk and Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
January 21, 1865
This indenture made this 21st day of January 1865 between George Mauk and Elizabeth Mauk of the first part and Elizabeth W Kerr of the County of Jefferson and State of Kentucky of the Second part Wtnesseth that the parties of the first part hereby lease to the parties of the second part the following premisis to wit: A certain tract or parcel of land lying on Nichols branch of Fallen Timber Creek containing about 200 acres, being the tract on which the parties of the first part live. It is agreed that the party of the Second part shall commence alteration for the purposes of obtaining oil or other product within three years else this lease to be null and void.
For the space of Twenty five years and ___ to keep the tenants in quiet possession of the premisis during said Terms.
It is hereby agreed between said parties that the party of the Second part shall have the sole and exclusive right to bore, explore, mine and dig for oil, salt water, coal or other mineral and the exclusive right to use and benefit of all of said oil minerals etc that may be on or under Said land for the terms of years above specified and no other right or privilege is granted.
In consideration whereof the parties of the Second part bind themselves to give to the parties of the first part One tenth part of all the oil salt or other product obtained from said land to be delivered by the parties of the Second part to the parties of the first part in marketable condition upon the premasis in good and sufficient barrels which shall be furnished by the parties of the first part.
It is agreed that if the parties of the Second part fail to obtain oil or other products and shall abandon the premisis or upon the expiration of the terms for
(line missing in copy)
machinery they may have placed upon said land.
It is agreed that the parties of the Second part shall have the right of way to and from said premisis over any land or water course assgned or possesed by the parties of the first part and the right to make all roads _____ to get the product of said land to market in the cheapest and best manner.
It is further agreed that the parties of the Second part may at any time or times hereafter during the term hereby granted lease or ____ let all or any part of Said premisi or the whole or any part of Said term may be aquired or transfered to any person or persons whomsoever.
In Testamony whereof we have affixed our hands and seals the day and year above written .
George Mawk (signed)
Elizabeth Mauk (her mark)
Elizabeth Kerr
Witness
Saml Jordan
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All Mauk Family Land Records
Barren County Kentucky Probate Records
(Bill for services submitted to estate of Calum Homan Slayton by George Mauk)
March the 15, 1853
C H Slayton to Geo Mauk
cutting knife 015
to setting a pair of shoes and making two trowels 035
to sharpening 4 plows 015
to laying 2 hoes 035
to sharpening 2 plows 010
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to mending a sythe 010
to sharpening 3 plows 024
to making a pair of shoes 037
to sharpening 4 plows 032
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to making a pair of shoes and setting a pair 053
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to work don on a wagon 040
to pointing and sharpening 2 big plows 035
to fixing stretchers 020
to making a pair of shoes 037
to making a ??? 010
to ???? 015
to making a double tree March the 20th 1854 025
to sharpening a ? plow 010
to laying 2 plows 080
to sharpening 2 turning plows 020
to setting a pair of shoes 015
(page 2)
to sharpening 2 plows 016
to forging shoes and making one 020
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George Mauk and Eliza Sartain Headstone
, Asherville Cemetery, Mitchell County, Kansas, Photographs from the collection of Jennifer Mauk.
(Bill for services submitted to estate of Calum Homan Slayton by George Mauk)
March the 15, 1853
C H Slayton to Geo Mauk
cutting knife 015
to setting a pair of shoes and making two trowels 035
to sharpening 4 plows 015
to laying 2 hoes 035
to sharpening 2 plows 010
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to mending a sythe 010
to sharpening 3 plows 024
to making a pair of shoes 037
to sharpening 4 plows 032
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to making a pair of shoes and setting a pair 053
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to work don on a wagon 040
to pointing and sharpening 2 big plows 035
to fixing stretchers 020
to making a pair of shoes 037
to making a ??? 010
to ???? 015
to making a double tree March the 20th 1854 025
to sharpening a ? plow 010
to laying 2 plows 080
to sharpening 2 turning plows 020
to setting a pair of shoes 015
(page 2)
to sharpening 2 plows 016
to forging shoes and making one 020
Image Page #1
Image Page #2
George Mauk and Eliza Sartain Headstone
, Asherville Cemetery, Mitchell County, Kansas, Photographs from the collection of Jennifer Mauk.
George Mauk and Eliza Sartain Headstone
, Asherville Cemetery, Mitchell County, Kansas, Photographs from the collection of Jennifer Mauk.
All Posted Mauk Family Death Records
World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
Name: Charley Lewis Mauk
City: Not Stated County: MitchellState: Kansas
Birthplace: Kansas Birth Date: 15 Jun 1897
Roll: 1643594 DraftBoard: 0
Name: George Earnest Mauk
City: Not Stated County: Mitchell State: Kansas
Birthplace: Kansas;United States of America Birth Date: 16 Jun 1895
Race: Caucasian (White) Roll: 1643594 DraftBoard: 0
Name: Henry Alfred Mauk
City: Not Stated County: Mitchell State: Kansas Birth Date: 16 Nov 1873
Race: White Roll: 1643594 DraftBoard: 0
Edna Weidenhaft papers(1900-1992)
. Daughter of Sarah Rachel Mauk and Solon Steere, wrote this account of the family history
Story told by Goldia Deweese Thomerson as told to her by Martha Richards Deweese, granddaughter of George and Elizabeth Shipley Mauk.
In 1862 the war later called the Civil War was just beginning. It hadn’t yet fully engulfed the region of South Central Kentucky, the County of Barren, near the Tennessee border.
The home of George Mauk was a busy one. He had moved his family, a little over twelve years before, to Barren County Kentucky, just northeast of the town of Slick Rock, from Hawkins County Tennessee, near the Virginia Border. George was a Blacksmith and was training sons, Benjamin at least, in the lucrative trade so necessary in any commnity. The household was a busy one, and full. George and his wife Elizabeth lived with their unmarried children: their eldest daughter Catherine, "Kate", widowed now and with her two daughters Martha, age twelve and Makinnia, age ten; George and Elizabeth's 22 year old daughter Martha, and sons George, 21, Benjamin, 20, Jessie, 16, Zachariah ,14, and William, 11. Two children had married and were no longer in the extended family home. Eldest son John had married Mildred Nichols and lived next door, and daughter Malinda also resided adjacent to the family of her parents with her husband William Yeary and her new family. George and Elizabeth’s son Lewis was gone by 1860, but no one knows now, to exactly where.
It is said, in later years, that George felt strongly about the rights enumerated by the Southern States, sentiments falling firmly with the Confederacy. Two sons at least, Benjamin and William, believed in the tenants espoused by the Northern States, and would leave to work for the Union cause. Benjamin used the trade learned from his father and was employed as a blacksmith for the Union Army. Benjamin and William would eventually change the spelling of their family name as a result of this split in family beliefs, calling themselves Mock. Whether this was yet a topic of hot contention within the family home in 1862 is not now known.
One evening in that year a company of Union solders came, and chose the Mauk home, by chance I suppose, from which to ask for an evening meal and a camping place. Elizabeth had long since fed her family, her daughters and granddaughters were busy scrubbing the large table, washing the pots and plates. Biscuits, it was decided, were all she had available to feed such a crew, and even then, the only water left in the home was the washing water, the water already soapy and full of scrubbing rags and dirty pots and plates. No one, so the story goes, could bring themselves to take the long walk to the somewhat distant spring to fetch fresh water, or perhaps George forbade the errand.
Elizabeth used what she had on hand, and prepared a meager feast for the soldiers, of biscuits made with flour and soda and soapy wash water. The soldiers were fed the meal, and slept the night then, their bellies full of flour and soapy water, grateful for the kindness. They were never told the ingredients of their meal.
George and Elizabeth’s grand daughter Martha, was only a girl of 12 on that night. More than half a century later, when she was a grown woman with grand daughters of her own, Martha would recount that evening, and the meal, with a chuckle. She told her grand daughter, Goldia, as she fed Goldia the fat, hot biscuits for which Martha was then locally known. It was biscuits like these, large and golden brown, served to the soldiers then, on that night in 1862, only Martha never again used that "secret ingredient" with which they prepared the biscuits for those soldiers. She decided she liked better to prepare her biscuits without the soapy water.
Notes for George Mauk and Eliza Sartain:
Barren Co KY Will Book 3, p. 386 (father of Alfred, grandfather of Eliza)
Joel Sartain Jr Date Written: 25 Oct 1853 Date Probated: November Term 1853
Wife: Sally Sartin
Sons: Alfred Sartin, Lewis Sartin, Joel Sartin
Daughters: Lucinda Sartin who married Stephen Glass, Elysabeth who md. Thomas N Clarke, Daughter: Caroline, widow of William Clarke, PollyAn who married William Word.
Slaves: Jesse and his wife Lucy, George, Lewis, Amanda, Louisa, Harriet, Reuben, Emely
Executor: Son Lewis Sartin and Stephen Glass (son-in-law); Witnesses: P W Grinstead, Philip A Shive, Henry Perkins
Notes/Narrative from Jennifer Mauk
When Eliza met George he was a widower. George's parents were Henry and Sarah Mauk of Tennesee. George and his first wife (doesn't give a name) had eleven children. Their names were 1) Jesse 2)Ben - his wife's name was Lucinda 3)Will - last heard of at Kit Carson, Colo. in 1936. 4)John 5)George 6)Louis - died at the age of 19. 7)Zach - a
preacher 8)Martha 9)Kate 10)Lucinda 11)Sarah - died while a small child.
On Sept.30, 1867 George Mauk married Eliza (Sartain) Bunch in Glasgow, Barron Co; Kentucky. They began the long trip westward by covered wagon. They were accompanied by Eliza's two young daughters from her previous marriage - Rissie age 8 and Melia age 5. They were also accompanied as far as Missouri by Eliza's father Alfred Sartain and stepmother America, Eliza's brothers and sisters. The Sartains stayed in Missouri.
George, Eliza, Rissie and Melia arrived in Asherville, Mitchell Co; Kansas on March 30, 1868 and took up homestead by the river. There was a small dugout already in place, not walled up with a dirt roof. They lived in that until George could get a log cabin built; a small one room cabin with a loft above it. Here four children were born. Sarah Rachel b.25 July 1871, Henry Alfred b.16 Nov 1873, Louis S. b.26 Oct 1875 and James Andrew 21 Oct
1876. Louis died when five days old. George died 13 July 1878. Both are buried at the Asherville Cemetary.
Times were very hard and Eliza found it hard to make a living for herself and her children. The Two older girls were married and in their own homes before George died. With only the most essential tools, George had
made the most necessary furniture. Including a chair for each: Eliza, Sarah and Henry. They were put together with wooden pegs and had seats of buffalo hide.
Eliza and the children gathered wild plums in the fall and she preserved them in sorghum in large earthen jars. Fish from the river and corn bread was their main food along with vegetables from the garden and wild greens. In the summer, the children would gather sheep sorrel which Eliza made into pie using sorghum for sweetening.
They had an old gray mare which she used for the heaviest work and she would clean her comb by combing the mare's tail. She made all of their clothing by hand. She had to knit all the stockings for the family. Whenever she went into Asherville she would knit as she walked along. She always walked to town because , she said " The mare had working in the field and needed to rest".
George died when his son James Andrew was a baby. After George died, Eliza married again when Sarah was about 9. She married a man named Bud Whetmore. Eliza died 8 Feb 1904 at age 65 from pneumonia.
Jesse was the only one of the first Mauk family to come to Kansas. He homesteaded the quarter section east of his father's. Their houses being about 1/4 mile apart. Jessie and his wife Susan and their four sons, Jerome, Perkins, Titus and Roscoe, lived there in a stone house for a number of years. After Jessie died and was buried in the Asherville cemetary,
Susan and the boys sold the farm and moved to Talmo, Kansas. When Susan died she was buried next to James.
Notes on Eliza Sartain: (source: Jennifer Mauk)
Elizabeth Frances Sartain was born 15 Oct 1838 Bowling Green, Warren Co, Kentucky. She was the daughter of Alfred b.1817 Lincoln Co, Kentucky and Rachel Witty b.1823 Barren County, Kentucky. (I also have more detailed
info on the Sartain Line). Eliza married Zachariah Harrison Bunch b. 1842 on 2 June 1858. A daughter Torissa was born 8 July 1859. Zachariah joined the Union Army, the 21st Kentucky Volunteers on 30 December 1861. He died
of Typhoid Fever in Confederate Prison at Camp Ward on 26 July 1862. (Camp Ward was near their home in Barron County where they were married.) Another daughter Parmelia Harrison was born to them on 30 March 1862. Her father
never saw her. How sad!
Terissa or "Rissy" married a man whose last name was Mitchell and they had five children: Zach, Onie, Henry, Martha and Rose. They moved to Idaho where Mitchell died. Rissie and the children returned to Asherville, Kansas
where she later married Abe Parrish. Abe was the father of Gove Parrish and cousin of Richard Parrish, her brother - in - law. Gove later worked as an Asherville mail carrier. Rissie and Parrish had three children: Benny, Herbert and Lenora. The Mitchell boys (above) lived at St. Joseph, Missouri and the Parrish children lived in Linn Co, Kansas in the 1930's.
Parmelia or "Melia" b. 30 march 1862, married Richard Parrish and they had two daughters: Cora Estella b. 12 Oct 1878 and Lucy b. 25 Feb 1881. They owned and lived in a little house in Simpson, Kansas (about 10 miles from Asherville) Richard died while the girls were small and Melia took in sewing. Later she married a man named Stout. In 1887 Melia died and both she and Richard are buried in the Asherville Cemetary. The girls lived part of the time with their Grandma Mauk (Eliza) and part of the time with their aunt Sarah "Sadie" Steere. Cora married Louis Steere, stepson of Aunt Sadie
in the spring of 1900 and they had one daughter named Vira. Vira married Trafton Thomas and were the parents of six children: Pauline, Doris, Lois, June, Louis and Vonne. Lucy married Claude Bundy and had three children: Earl, Ed and Lucille.
End of notes for George Mauk and Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
Name: Charley Lewis Mauk
City: Not Stated County: MitchellState: Kansas
Birthplace: Kansas Birth Date: 15 Jun 1897
Roll: 1643594 DraftBoard: 0
Name: George Earnest Mauk
City: Not Stated County: Mitchell State: Kansas
Birthplace: Kansas;United States of America Birth Date: 16 Jun 1895
Race: Caucasian (White) Roll: 1643594 DraftBoard: 0
Name: Henry Alfred Mauk
City: Not Stated County: Mitchell State: Kansas Birth Date: 16 Nov 1873
Race: White Roll: 1643594 DraftBoard: 0
Edna Weidenhaft papers(1900-1992)
. Daughter of Sarah Rachel Mauk and Solon Steere, wrote this account of the family history
Story told by Goldia Deweese Thomerson as told to her by Martha Richards Deweese, granddaughter of George and Elizabeth Shipley Mauk.
In 1862 the war later called the Civil War was just beginning. It hadn’t yet fully engulfed the region of South Central Kentucky, the County of Barren, near the Tennessee border.
The home of George Mauk was a busy one. He had moved his family, a little over twelve years before, to Barren County Kentucky, just northeast of the town of Slick Rock, from Hawkins County Tennessee, near the Virginia Border. George was a Blacksmith and was training sons, Benjamin at least, in the lucrative trade so necessary in any commnity. The household was a busy one, and full. George and his wife Elizabeth lived with their unmarried children: their eldest daughter Catherine, "Kate", widowed now and with her two daughters Martha, age twelve and Makinnia, age ten; George and Elizabeth's 22 year old daughter Martha, and sons George, 21, Benjamin, 20, Jessie, 16, Zachariah ,14, and William, 11. Two children had married and were no longer in the extended family home. Eldest son John had married Mildred Nichols and lived next door, and daughter Malinda also resided adjacent to the family of her parents with her husband William Yeary and her new family. George and Elizabeth’s son Lewis was gone by 1860, but no one knows now, to exactly where.
It is said, in later years, that George felt strongly about the rights enumerated by the Southern States, sentiments falling firmly with the Confederacy. Two sons at least, Benjamin and William, believed in the tenants espoused by the Northern States, and would leave to work for the Union cause. Benjamin used the trade learned from his father and was employed as a blacksmith for the Union Army. Benjamin and William would eventually change the spelling of their family name as a result of this split in family beliefs, calling themselves Mock. Whether this was yet a topic of hot contention within the family home in 1862 is not now known.
One evening in that year a company of Union solders came, and chose the Mauk home, by chance I suppose, from which to ask for an evening meal and a camping place. Elizabeth had long since fed her family, her daughters and granddaughters were busy scrubbing the large table, washing the pots and plates. Biscuits, it was decided, were all she had available to feed such a crew, and even then, the only water left in the home was the washing water, the water already soapy and full of scrubbing rags and dirty pots and plates. No one, so the story goes, could bring themselves to take the long walk to the somewhat distant spring to fetch fresh water, or perhaps George forbade the errand.
Elizabeth used what she had on hand, and prepared a meager feast for the soldiers, of biscuits made with flour and soda and soapy wash water. The soldiers were fed the meal, and slept the night then, their bellies full of flour and soapy water, grateful for the kindness. They were never told the ingredients of their meal.
George and Elizabeth’s grand daughter Martha, was only a girl of 12 on that night. More than half a century later, when she was a grown woman with grand daughters of her own, Martha would recount that evening, and the meal, with a chuckle. She told her grand daughter, Goldia, as she fed Goldia the fat, hot biscuits for which Martha was then locally known. It was biscuits like these, large and golden brown, served to the soldiers then, on that night in 1862, only Martha never again used that "secret ingredient" with which they prepared the biscuits for those soldiers. She decided she liked better to prepare her biscuits without the soapy water.
Notes for George Mauk and Eliza Sartain:
Barren Co KY Will Book 3, p. 386 (father of Alfred, grandfather of Eliza)
Joel Sartain Jr Date Written: 25 Oct 1853 Date Probated: November Term 1853
Wife: Sally Sartin
Sons: Alfred Sartin, Lewis Sartin, Joel Sartin
Daughters: Lucinda Sartin who married Stephen Glass, Elysabeth who md. Thomas N Clarke, Daughter: Caroline, widow of William Clarke, PollyAn who married William Word.
Slaves: Jesse and his wife Lucy, George, Lewis, Amanda, Louisa, Harriet, Reuben, Emely
Executor: Son Lewis Sartin and Stephen Glass (son-in-law); Witnesses: P W Grinstead, Philip A Shive, Henry Perkins
Notes/Narrative from Jennifer Mauk
When Eliza met George he was a widower. George's parents were Henry and Sarah Mauk of Tennesee. George and his first wife (doesn't give a name) had eleven children. Their names were 1) Jesse 2)Ben - his wife's name was Lucinda 3)Will - last heard of at Kit Carson, Colo. in 1936. 4)John 5)George 6)Louis - died at the age of 19. 7)Zach - a
preacher 8)Martha 9)Kate 10)Lucinda 11)Sarah - died while a small child.
On Sept.30, 1867 George Mauk married Eliza (Sartain) Bunch in Glasgow, Barron Co; Kentucky. They began the long trip westward by covered wagon. They were accompanied by Eliza's two young daughters from her previous marriage - Rissie age 8 and Melia age 5. They were also accompanied as far as Missouri by Eliza's father Alfred Sartain and stepmother America, Eliza's brothers and sisters. The Sartains stayed in Missouri.
George, Eliza, Rissie and Melia arrived in Asherville, Mitchell Co; Kansas on March 30, 1868 and took up homestead by the river. There was a small dugout already in place, not walled up with a dirt roof. They lived in that until George could get a log cabin built; a small one room cabin with a loft above it. Here four children were born. Sarah Rachel b.25 July 1871, Henry Alfred b.16 Nov 1873, Louis S. b.26 Oct 1875 and James Andrew 21 Oct
1876. Louis died when five days old. George died 13 July 1878. Both are buried at the Asherville Cemetary.
Times were very hard and Eliza found it hard to make a living for herself and her children. The Two older girls were married and in their own homes before George died. With only the most essential tools, George had
made the most necessary furniture. Including a chair for each: Eliza, Sarah and Henry. They were put together with wooden pegs and had seats of buffalo hide.
Eliza and the children gathered wild plums in the fall and she preserved them in sorghum in large earthen jars. Fish from the river and corn bread was their main food along with vegetables from the garden and wild greens. In the summer, the children would gather sheep sorrel which Eliza made into pie using sorghum for sweetening.
They had an old gray mare which she used for the heaviest work and she would clean her comb by combing the mare's tail. She made all of their clothing by hand. She had to knit all the stockings for the family. Whenever she went into Asherville she would knit as she walked along. She always walked to town because , she said " The mare had working in the field and needed to rest".
George died when his son James Andrew was a baby. After George died, Eliza married again when Sarah was about 9. She married a man named Bud Whetmore. Eliza died 8 Feb 1904 at age 65 from pneumonia.
Jesse was the only one of the first Mauk family to come to Kansas. He homesteaded the quarter section east of his father's. Their houses being about 1/4 mile apart. Jessie and his wife Susan and their four sons, Jerome, Perkins, Titus and Roscoe, lived there in a stone house for a number of years. After Jessie died and was buried in the Asherville cemetary,
Susan and the boys sold the farm and moved to Talmo, Kansas. When Susan died she was buried next to James.
Notes on Eliza Sartain: (source: Jennifer Mauk)
Elizabeth Frances Sartain was born 15 Oct 1838 Bowling Green, Warren Co, Kentucky. She was the daughter of Alfred b.1817 Lincoln Co, Kentucky and Rachel Witty b.1823 Barren County, Kentucky. (I also have more detailed
info on the Sartain Line). Eliza married Zachariah Harrison Bunch b. 1842 on 2 June 1858. A daughter Torissa was born 8 July 1859. Zachariah joined the Union Army, the 21st Kentucky Volunteers on 30 December 1861. He died
of Typhoid Fever in Confederate Prison at Camp Ward on 26 July 1862. (Camp Ward was near their home in Barron County where they were married.) Another daughter Parmelia Harrison was born to them on 30 March 1862. Her father
never saw her. How sad!
Terissa or "Rissy" married a man whose last name was Mitchell and they had five children: Zach, Onie, Henry, Martha and Rose. They moved to Idaho where Mitchell died. Rissie and the children returned to Asherville, Kansas
where she later married Abe Parrish. Abe was the father of Gove Parrish and cousin of Richard Parrish, her brother - in - law. Gove later worked as an Asherville mail carrier. Rissie and Parrish had three children: Benny, Herbert and Lenora. The Mitchell boys (above) lived at St. Joseph, Missouri and the Parrish children lived in Linn Co, Kansas in the 1930's.
Parmelia or "Melia" b. 30 march 1862, married Richard Parrish and they had two daughters: Cora Estella b. 12 Oct 1878 and Lucy b. 25 Feb 1881. They owned and lived in a little house in Simpson, Kansas (about 10 miles from Asherville) Richard died while the girls were small and Melia took in sewing. Later she married a man named Stout. In 1887 Melia died and both she and Richard are buried in the Asherville Cemetary. The girls lived part of the time with their Grandma Mauk (Eliza) and part of the time with their aunt Sarah "Sadie" Steere. Cora married Louis Steere, stepson of Aunt Sadie
in the spring of 1900 and they had one daughter named Vira. Vira married Trafton Thomas and were the parents of six children: Pauline, Doris, Lois, June, Louis and Vonne. Lucy married Claude Bundy and had three children: Earl, Ed and Lucille.
End of notes for George Mauk and Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
Edna Weidenhaft papers(1900-1992)
. Daughter of Sarah Rachel Mauk and Solon Steere, wrote this account of the family history
Story told by Goldia Deweese Thomerson as told to her by Martha Richards Deweese, granddaughter of George and Elizabeth Shipley Mauk.
In 1862 the war later called the Civil War was just beginning. It hadn’t yet fully engulfed the region of South Central Kentucky, the County of Barren, near the Tennessee border.
The home of George Mauk was a busy one. He had moved his family, a little over twelve years before, to Barren County Kentucky, just northeast of the town of Slick Rock, from Hawkins County Tennessee, near the Virginia Border. George was a Blacksmith and was training sons, Benjamin at least, in the lucrative trade so necessary in any commnity. The household was a busy one, and full. George and his wife Elizabeth lived with their unmarried children: their eldest daughter Catherine, "Kate", widowed now and with her two daughters Martha, age twelve and Makinnia, age ten; George and Elizabeth's 22 year old daughter Martha, and sons George, 21, Benjamin, 20, Jessie, 16, Zachariah ,14, and William, 11. Two children had married and were no longer in the extended family home. Eldest son John had married Mildred Nichols and lived next door, and daughter Malinda also resided adjacent to the family of her parents with her husband William Yeary and her new family. George and Elizabeth’s son Lewis was gone by 1860, but no one knows now, to exactly where.
It is said, in later years, that George felt strongly about the rights enumerated by the Southern States, sentiments falling firmly with the Confederacy. Two sons at least, Benjamin and William, believed in the tenants espoused by the Northern States, and would leave to work for the Union cause. Benjamin used the trade learned from his father and was employed as a blacksmith for the Union Army. Benjamin and William would eventually change the spelling of their family name as a result of this split in family beliefs, calling themselves Mock. Whether this was yet a topic of hot contention within the family home in 1862 is not now known.
One evening in that year a company of Union solders came, and chose the Mauk home, by chance I suppose, from which to ask for an evening meal and a camping place. Elizabeth had long since fed her family, her daughters and granddaughters were busy scrubbing the large table, washing the pots and plates. Biscuits, it was decided, were all she had available to feed such a crew, and even then, the only water left in the home was the washing water, the water already soapy and full of scrubbing rags and dirty pots and plates. No one, so the story goes, could bring themselves to take the long walk to the somewhat distant spring to fetch fresh water, or perhaps George forbade the errand.
Elizabeth used what she had on hand, and prepared a meager feast for the soldiers, of biscuits made with flour and soda and soapy wash water. The soldiers were fed the meal, and slept the night then, their bellies full of flour and soapy water, grateful for the kindness. They were never told the ingredients of their meal.
George and Elizabeth’s grand daughter Martha, was only a girl of 12 on that night. More than half a century later, when she was a grown woman with grand daughters of her own, Martha would recount that evening, and the meal, with a chuckle. She told her grand daughter, Goldia, as she fed Goldia the fat, hot biscuits for which Martha was then locally known. It was biscuits like these, large and golden brown, served to the soldiers then, on that night in 1862, only Martha never again used that "secret ingredient" with which they prepared the biscuits for those soldiers. She decided she liked better to prepare her biscuits without the soapy water.
Notes for George Mauk and Eliza Sartain:
Barren Co KY Will Book 3, p. 386 (father of Alfred, grandfather of Eliza)
Joel Sartain Jr Date Written: 25 Oct 1853 Date Probated: November Term 1853
Wife: Sally Sartin
Sons: Alfred Sartin, Lewis Sartin, Joel Sartin
Daughters: Lucinda Sartin who married Stephen Glass, Elysabeth who md. Thomas N Clarke, Daughter: Caroline, widow of William Clarke, PollyAn who married William Word.
Slaves: Jesse and his wife Lucy, George, Lewis, Amanda, Louisa, Harriet, Reuben, Emely
Executor: Son Lewis Sartin and Stephen Glass (son-in-law); Witnesses: P W Grinstead, Philip A Shive, Henry Perkins
Notes/Narrative from Jennifer Mauk
When Eliza met George he was a widower. George's parents were Henry and Sarah Mauk of Tennesee. George and his first wife (doesn't give a name) had eleven children. Their names were 1) Jesse 2)Ben - his wife's name was Lucinda 3)Will - last heard of at Kit Carson, Colo. in 1936. 4)John 5)George 6)Louis - died at the age of 19. 7)Zach - a
preacher 8)Martha 9)Kate 10)Lucinda 11)Sarah - died while a small child.
On Sept.30, 1867 George Mauk married Eliza (Sartain) Bunch in Glasgow, Barron Co; Kentucky. They began the long trip westward by covered wagon. They were accompanied by Eliza's two young daughters from her previous marriage - Rissie age 8 and Melia age 5. They were also accompanied as far as Missouri by Eliza's father Alfred Sartain and stepmother America, Eliza's brothers and sisters. The Sartains stayed in Missouri.
George, Eliza, Rissie and Melia arrived in Asherville, Mitchell Co; Kansas on March 30, 1868 and took up homestead by the river. There was a small dugout already in place, not walled up with a dirt roof. They lived in that until George could get a log cabin built; a small one room cabin with a loft above it. Here four children were born. Sarah Rachel b.25 July 1871, Henry Alfred b.16 Nov 1873, Louis S. b.26 Oct 1875 and James Andrew 21 Oct
1876. Louis died when five days old. George died 13 July 1878. Both are buried at the Asherville Cemetary.
Times were very hard and Eliza found it hard to make a living for herself and her children. The Two older girls were married and in their own homes before George died. With only the most essential tools, George had
made the most necessary furniture. Including a chair for each: Eliza, Sarah and Henry. They were put together with wooden pegs and had seats of buffalo hide.
Eliza and the children gathered wild plums in the fall and she preserved them in sorghum in large earthen jars. Fish from the river and corn bread was their main food along with vegetables from the garden and wild greens. In the summer, the children would gather sheep sorrel which Eliza made into pie using sorghum for sweetening.
They had an old gray mare which she used for the heaviest work and she would clean her comb by combing the mare's tail. She made all of their clothing by hand. She had to knit all the stockings for the family. Whenever she went into Asherville she would knit as she walked along. She always walked to town because , she said " The mare had working in the field and needed to rest".
George died when his son James Andrew was a baby. After George died, Eliza married again when Sarah was about 9. She married a man named Bud Whetmore. Eliza died 8 Feb 1904 at age 65 from pneumonia.
Jesse was the only one of the first Mauk family to come to Kansas. He homesteaded the quarter section east of his father's. Their houses being about 1/4 mile apart. Jessie and his wife Susan and their four sons, Jerome, Perkins, Titus and Roscoe, lived there in a stone house for a number of years. After Jessie died and was buried in the Asherville cemetary,
Susan and the boys sold the farm and moved to Talmo, Kansas. When Susan died she was buried next to James.
Notes on Eliza Sartain: (source: Jennifer Mauk)
Elizabeth Frances Sartain was born 15 Oct 1838 Bowling Green, Warren Co, Kentucky. She was the daughter of Alfred b.1817 Lincoln Co, Kentucky and Rachel Witty b.1823 Barren County, Kentucky. (I also have more detailed
info on the Sartain Line). Eliza married Zachariah Harrison Bunch b. 1842 on 2 June 1858. A daughter Torissa was born 8 July 1859. Zachariah joined the Union Army, the 21st Kentucky Volunteers on 30 December 1861. He died
of Typhoid Fever in Confederate Prison at Camp Ward on 26 July 1862. (Camp Ward was near their home in Barron County where they were married.) Another daughter Parmelia Harrison was born to them on 30 March 1862. Her father
never saw her. How sad!
Terissa or "Rissy" married a man whose last name was Mitchell and they had five children: Zach, Onie, Henry, Martha and Rose. They moved to Idaho where Mitchell died. Rissie and the children returned to Asherville, Kansas
where she later married Abe Parrish. Abe was the father of Gove Parrish and cousin of Richard Parrish, her brother - in - law. Gove later worked as an Asherville mail carrier. Rissie and Parrish had three children: Benny, Herbert and Lenora. The Mitchell boys (above) lived at St. Joseph, Missouri and the Parrish children lived in Linn Co, Kansas in the 1930's.
Parmelia or "Melia" b. 30 march 1862, married Richard Parrish and they had two daughters: Cora Estella b. 12 Oct 1878 and Lucy b. 25 Feb 1881. They owned and lived in a little house in Simpson, Kansas (about 10 miles from Asherville) Richard died while the girls were small and Melia took in sewing. Later she married a man named Stout. In 1887 Melia died and both she and Richard are buried in the Asherville Cemetary. The girls lived part of the time with their Grandma Mauk (Eliza) and part of the time with their aunt Sarah "Sadie" Steere. Cora married Louis Steere, stepson of Aunt Sadie
in the spring of 1900 and they had one daughter named Vira. Vira married Trafton Thomas and were the parents of six children: Pauline, Doris, Lois, June, Louis and Vonne. Lucy married Claude Bundy and had three children: Earl, Ed and Lucille.
End of notes for George Mauk and Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
Story told by Goldia Deweese Thomerson as told to her by Martha Richards Deweese, granddaughter of George and Elizabeth Shipley Mauk.
In 1862 the war later called the Civil War was just beginning. It hadn’t yet fully engulfed the region of South Central Kentucky, the County of Barren, near the Tennessee border.
The home of George Mauk was a busy one. He had moved his family, a little over twelve years before, to Barren County Kentucky, just northeast of the town of Slick Rock, from Hawkins County Tennessee, near the Virginia Border. George was a Blacksmith and was training sons, Benjamin at least, in the lucrative trade so necessary in any commnity. The household was a busy one, and full. George and his wife Elizabeth lived with their unmarried children: their eldest daughter Catherine, "Kate", widowed now and with her two daughters Martha, age twelve and Makinnia, age ten; George and Elizabeth's 22 year old daughter Martha, and sons George, 21, Benjamin, 20, Jessie, 16, Zachariah ,14, and William, 11. Two children had married and were no longer in the extended family home. Eldest son John had married Mildred Nichols and lived next door, and daughter Malinda also resided adjacent to the family of her parents with her husband William Yeary and her new family. George and Elizabeth’s son Lewis was gone by 1860, but no one knows now, to exactly where.
It is said, in later years, that George felt strongly about the rights enumerated by the Southern States, sentiments falling firmly with the Confederacy. Two sons at least, Benjamin and William, believed in the tenants espoused by the Northern States, and would leave to work for the Union cause. Benjamin used the trade learned from his father and was employed as a blacksmith for the Union Army. Benjamin and William would eventually change the spelling of their family name as a result of this split in family beliefs, calling themselves Mock. Whether this was yet a topic of hot contention within the family home in 1862 is not now known.
One evening in that year a company of Union solders came, and chose the Mauk home, by chance I suppose, from which to ask for an evening meal and a camping place. Elizabeth had long since fed her family, her daughters and granddaughters were busy scrubbing the large table, washing the pots and plates. Biscuits, it was decided, were all she had available to feed such a crew, and even then, the only water left in the home was the washing water, the water already soapy and full of scrubbing rags and dirty pots and plates. No one, so the story goes, could bring themselves to take the long walk to the somewhat distant spring to fetch fresh water, or perhaps George forbade the errand.
Elizabeth used what she had on hand, and prepared a meager feast for the soldiers, of biscuits made with flour and soda and soapy wash water. The soldiers were fed the meal, and slept the night then, their bellies full of flour and soapy water, grateful for the kindness. They were never told the ingredients of their meal.
George and Elizabeth’s grand daughter Martha, was only a girl of 12 on that night. More than half a century later, when she was a grown woman with grand daughters of her own, Martha would recount that evening, and the meal, with a chuckle. She told her grand daughter, Goldia, as she fed Goldia the fat, hot biscuits for which Martha was then locally known. It was biscuits like these, large and golden brown, served to the soldiers then, on that night in 1862, only Martha never again used that "secret ingredient" with which they prepared the biscuits for those soldiers. She decided she liked better to prepare her biscuits without the soapy water.
Notes for George Mauk and Eliza Sartain:
Barren Co KY Will Book 3, p. 386 (father of Alfred, grandfather of Eliza)
Joel Sartain Jr Date Written: 25 Oct 1853 Date Probated: November Term 1853
Wife: Sally Sartin
Sons: Alfred Sartin, Lewis Sartin, Joel Sartin
Daughters: Lucinda Sartin who married Stephen Glass, Elysabeth who md. Thomas N Clarke, Daughter: Caroline, widow of William Clarke, PollyAn who married William Word.
Slaves: Jesse and his wife Lucy, George, Lewis, Amanda, Louisa, Harriet, Reuben, Emely
Executor: Son Lewis Sartin and Stephen Glass (son-in-law); Witnesses: P W Grinstead, Philip A Shive, Henry Perkins
Notes/Narrative from Jennifer Mauk
When Eliza met George he was a widower. George's parents were Henry and Sarah Mauk of Tennesee. George and his first wife (doesn't give a name) had eleven children. Their names were 1) Jesse 2)Ben - his wife's name was Lucinda 3)Will - last heard of at Kit Carson, Colo. in 1936. 4)John 5)George 6)Louis - died at the age of 19. 7)Zach - a
preacher 8)Martha 9)Kate 10)Lucinda 11)Sarah - died while a small child.
On Sept.30, 1867 George Mauk married Eliza (Sartain) Bunch in Glasgow, Barron Co; Kentucky. They began the long trip westward by covered wagon. They were accompanied by Eliza's two young daughters from her previous marriage - Rissie age 8 and Melia age 5. They were also accompanied as far as Missouri by Eliza's father Alfred Sartain and stepmother America, Eliza's brothers and sisters. The Sartains stayed in Missouri.
George, Eliza, Rissie and Melia arrived in Asherville, Mitchell Co; Kansas on March 30, 1868 and took up homestead by the river. There was a small dugout already in place, not walled up with a dirt roof. They lived in that until George could get a log cabin built; a small one room cabin with a loft above it. Here four children were born. Sarah Rachel b.25 July 1871, Henry Alfred b.16 Nov 1873, Louis S. b.26 Oct 1875 and James Andrew 21 Oct
1876. Louis died when five days old. George died 13 July 1878. Both are buried at the Asherville Cemetary.
Times were very hard and Eliza found it hard to make a living for herself and her children. The Two older girls were married and in their own homes before George died. With only the most essential tools, George had
made the most necessary furniture. Including a chair for each: Eliza, Sarah and Henry. They were put together with wooden pegs and had seats of buffalo hide.
Eliza and the children gathered wild plums in the fall and she preserved them in sorghum in large earthen jars. Fish from the river and corn bread was their main food along with vegetables from the garden and wild greens. In the summer, the children would gather sheep sorrel which Eliza made into pie using sorghum for sweetening.
They had an old gray mare which she used for the heaviest work and she would clean her comb by combing the mare's tail. She made all of their clothing by hand. She had to knit all the stockings for the family. Whenever she went into Asherville she would knit as she walked along. She always walked to town because , she said " The mare had working in the field and needed to rest".
George died when his son James Andrew was a baby. After George died, Eliza married again when Sarah was about 9. She married a man named Bud Whetmore. Eliza died 8 Feb 1904 at age 65 from pneumonia.
Jesse was the only one of the first Mauk family to come to Kansas. He homesteaded the quarter section east of his father's. Their houses being about 1/4 mile apart. Jessie and his wife Susan and their four sons, Jerome, Perkins, Titus and Roscoe, lived there in a stone house for a number of years. After Jessie died and was buried in the Asherville cemetary,
Susan and the boys sold the farm and moved to Talmo, Kansas. When Susan died she was buried next to James.
Notes on Eliza Sartain: (source: Jennifer Mauk)
Elizabeth Frances Sartain was born 15 Oct 1838 Bowling Green, Warren Co, Kentucky. She was the daughter of Alfred b.1817 Lincoln Co, Kentucky and Rachel Witty b.1823 Barren County, Kentucky. (I also have more detailed
info on the Sartain Line). Eliza married Zachariah Harrison Bunch b. 1842 on 2 June 1858. A daughter Torissa was born 8 July 1859. Zachariah joined the Union Army, the 21st Kentucky Volunteers on 30 December 1861. He died
of Typhoid Fever in Confederate Prison at Camp Ward on 26 July 1862. (Camp Ward was near their home in Barron County where they were married.) Another daughter Parmelia Harrison was born to them on 30 March 1862. Her father
never saw her. How sad!
Terissa or "Rissy" married a man whose last name was Mitchell and they had five children: Zach, Onie, Henry, Martha and Rose. They moved to Idaho where Mitchell died. Rissie and the children returned to Asherville, Kansas
where she later married Abe Parrish. Abe was the father of Gove Parrish and cousin of Richard Parrish, her brother - in - law. Gove later worked as an Asherville mail carrier. Rissie and Parrish had three children: Benny, Herbert and Lenora. The Mitchell boys (above) lived at St. Joseph, Missouri and the Parrish children lived in Linn Co, Kansas in the 1930's.
Parmelia or "Melia" b. 30 march 1862, married Richard Parrish and they had two daughters: Cora Estella b. 12 Oct 1878 and Lucy b. 25 Feb 1881. They owned and lived in a little house in Simpson, Kansas (about 10 miles from Asherville) Richard died while the girls were small and Melia took in sewing. Later she married a man named Stout. In 1887 Melia died and both she and Richard are buried in the Asherville Cemetary. The girls lived part of the time with their Grandma Mauk (Eliza) and part of the time with their aunt Sarah "Sadie" Steere. Cora married Louis Steere, stepson of Aunt Sadie
in the spring of 1900 and they had one daughter named Vira. Vira married Trafton Thomas and were the parents of six children: Pauline, Doris, Lois, June, Louis and Vonne. Lucy married Claude Bundy and had three children: Earl, Ed and Lucille.
End of notes for George Mauk and Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
The home of George Mauk was a busy one. He had moved his family, a little over twelve years before, to Barren County Kentucky, just northeast of the town of Slick Rock, from Hawkins County Tennessee, near the Virginia Border. George was a Blacksmith and was training sons, Benjamin at least, in the lucrative trade so necessary in any commnity. The household was a busy one, and full. George and his wife Elizabeth lived with their unmarried children: their eldest daughter Catherine, "Kate", widowed now and with her two daughters Martha, age twelve and Makinnia, age ten; George and Elizabeth's 22 year old daughter Martha, and sons George, 21, Benjamin, 20, Jessie, 16, Zachariah ,14, and William, 11. Two children had married and were no longer in the extended family home. Eldest son John had married Mildred Nichols and lived next door, and daughter Malinda also resided adjacent to the family of her parents with her husband William Yeary and her new family. George and Elizabeth’s son Lewis was gone by 1860, but no one knows now, to exactly where.
It is said, in later years, that George felt strongly about the rights enumerated by the Southern States, sentiments falling firmly with the Confederacy. Two sons at least, Benjamin and William, believed in the tenants espoused by the Northern States, and would leave to work for the Union cause. Benjamin used the trade learned from his father and was employed as a blacksmith for the Union Army. Benjamin and William would eventually change the spelling of their family name as a result of this split in family beliefs, calling themselves Mock. Whether this was yet a topic of hot contention within the family home in 1862 is not now known.
One evening in that year a company of Union solders came, and chose the Mauk home, by chance I suppose, from which to ask for an evening meal and a camping place. Elizabeth had long since fed her family, her daughters and granddaughters were busy scrubbing the large table, washing the pots and plates. Biscuits, it was decided, were all she had available to feed such a crew, and even then, the only water left in the home was the washing water, the water already soapy and full of scrubbing rags and dirty pots and plates. No one, so the story goes, could bring themselves to take the long walk to the somewhat distant spring to fetch fresh water, or perhaps George forbade the errand.
Elizabeth used what she had on hand, and prepared a meager feast for the soldiers, of biscuits made with flour and soda and soapy wash water. The soldiers were fed the meal, and slept the night then, their bellies full of flour and soapy water, grateful for the kindness. They were never told the ingredients of their meal.
George and Elizabeth’s grand daughter Martha, was only a girl of 12 on that night. More than half a century later, when she was a grown woman with grand daughters of her own, Martha would recount that evening, and the meal, with a chuckle. She told her grand daughter, Goldia, as she fed Goldia the fat, hot biscuits for which Martha was then locally known. It was biscuits like these, large and golden brown, served to the soldiers then, on that night in 1862, only Martha never again used that "secret ingredient" with which they prepared the biscuits for those soldiers. She decided she liked better to prepare her biscuits without the soapy water.
Notes for George Mauk and Eliza Sartain:
Barren Co KY Will Book 3, p. 386 (father of Alfred, grandfather of Eliza)
Joel Sartain Jr Date Written: 25 Oct 1853 Date Probated: November Term 1853
Wife: Sally Sartin
Sons: Alfred Sartin, Lewis Sartin, Joel Sartin
Daughters: Lucinda Sartin who married Stephen Glass, Elysabeth who md. Thomas N Clarke, Daughter: Caroline, widow of William Clarke, PollyAn who married William Word.
Slaves: Jesse and his wife Lucy, George, Lewis, Amanda, Louisa, Harriet, Reuben, Emely
Executor: Son Lewis Sartin and Stephen Glass (son-in-law); Witnesses: P W Grinstead, Philip A Shive, Henry Perkins
Notes/Narrative from Jennifer Mauk
When Eliza met George he was a widower. George's parents were Henry and Sarah Mauk of Tennesee. George and his first wife (doesn't give a name) had eleven children. Their names were 1) Jesse 2)Ben - his wife's name was Lucinda 3)Will - last heard of at Kit Carson, Colo. in 1936. 4)John 5)George 6)Louis - died at the age of 19. 7)Zach - a
preacher 8)Martha 9)Kate 10)Lucinda 11)Sarah - died while a small child.
On Sept.30, 1867 George Mauk married Eliza (Sartain) Bunch in Glasgow, Barron Co; Kentucky. They began the long trip westward by covered wagon. They were accompanied by Eliza's two young daughters from her previous marriage - Rissie age 8 and Melia age 5. They were also accompanied as far as Missouri by Eliza's father Alfred Sartain and stepmother America, Eliza's brothers and sisters. The Sartains stayed in Missouri.
George, Eliza, Rissie and Melia arrived in Asherville, Mitchell Co; Kansas on March 30, 1868 and took up homestead by the river. There was a small dugout already in place, not walled up with a dirt roof. They lived in that until George could get a log cabin built; a small one room cabin with a loft above it. Here four children were born. Sarah Rachel b.25 July 1871, Henry Alfred b.16 Nov 1873, Louis S. b.26 Oct 1875 and James Andrew 21 Oct
1876. Louis died when five days old. George died 13 July 1878. Both are buried at the Asherville Cemetary.
Times were very hard and Eliza found it hard to make a living for herself and her children. The Two older girls were married and in their own homes before George died. With only the most essential tools, George had
made the most necessary furniture. Including a chair for each: Eliza, Sarah and Henry. They were put together with wooden pegs and had seats of buffalo hide.
Eliza and the children gathered wild plums in the fall and she preserved them in sorghum in large earthen jars. Fish from the river and corn bread was their main food along with vegetables from the garden and wild greens. In the summer, the children would gather sheep sorrel which Eliza made into pie using sorghum for sweetening.
They had an old gray mare which she used for the heaviest work and she would clean her comb by combing the mare's tail. She made all of their clothing by hand. She had to knit all the stockings for the family. Whenever she went into Asherville she would knit as she walked along. She always walked to town because , she said " The mare had working in the field and needed to rest".
George died when his son James Andrew was a baby. After George died, Eliza married again when Sarah was about 9. She married a man named Bud Whetmore. Eliza died 8 Feb 1904 at age 65 from pneumonia.
Jesse was the only one of the first Mauk family to come to Kansas. He homesteaded the quarter section east of his father's. Their houses being about 1/4 mile apart. Jessie and his wife Susan and their four sons, Jerome, Perkins, Titus and Roscoe, lived there in a stone house for a number of years. After Jessie died and was buried in the Asherville cemetary,
Susan and the boys sold the farm and moved to Talmo, Kansas. When Susan died she was buried next to James.
Notes on Eliza Sartain: (source: Jennifer Mauk)
Elizabeth Frances Sartain was born 15 Oct 1838 Bowling Green, Warren Co, Kentucky. She was the daughter of Alfred b.1817 Lincoln Co, Kentucky and Rachel Witty b.1823 Barren County, Kentucky. (I also have more detailed
info on the Sartain Line). Eliza married Zachariah Harrison Bunch b. 1842 on 2 June 1858. A daughter Torissa was born 8 July 1859. Zachariah joined the Union Army, the 21st Kentucky Volunteers on 30 December 1861. He died
of Typhoid Fever in Confederate Prison at Camp Ward on 26 July 1862. (Camp Ward was near their home in Barron County where they were married.) Another daughter Parmelia Harrison was born to them on 30 March 1862. Her father
never saw her. How sad!
Terissa or "Rissy" married a man whose last name was Mitchell and they had five children: Zach, Onie, Henry, Martha and Rose. They moved to Idaho where Mitchell died. Rissie and the children returned to Asherville, Kansas
where she later married Abe Parrish. Abe was the father of Gove Parrish and cousin of Richard Parrish, her brother - in - law. Gove later worked as an Asherville mail carrier. Rissie and Parrish had three children: Benny, Herbert and Lenora. The Mitchell boys (above) lived at St. Joseph, Missouri and the Parrish children lived in Linn Co, Kansas in the 1930's.
Parmelia or "Melia" b. 30 march 1862, married Richard Parrish and they had two daughters: Cora Estella b. 12 Oct 1878 and Lucy b. 25 Feb 1881. They owned and lived in a little house in Simpson, Kansas (about 10 miles from Asherville) Richard died while the girls were small and Melia took in sewing. Later she married a man named Stout. In 1887 Melia died and both she and Richard are buried in the Asherville Cemetary. The girls lived part of the time with their Grandma Mauk (Eliza) and part of the time with their aunt Sarah "Sadie" Steere. Cora married Louis Steere, stepson of Aunt Sadie
in the spring of 1900 and they had one daughter named Vira. Vira married Trafton Thomas and were the parents of six children: Pauline, Doris, Lois, June, Louis and Vonne. Lucy married Claude Bundy and had three children: Earl, Ed and Lucille.
End of notes for George Mauk and Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
Notes for George Mauk and Eliza Sartain:
Barren Co KY Will Book 3, p. 386 (father of Alfred, grandfather of Eliza)
Joel Sartain Jr Date Written: 25 Oct 1853 Date Probated: November Term 1853
Wife: Sally Sartin
Sons: Alfred Sartin, Lewis Sartin, Joel Sartin
Daughters: Lucinda Sartin who married Stephen Glass, Elysabeth who md. Thomas N Clarke, Daughter: Caroline, widow of William Clarke, PollyAn who married William Word.
Slaves: Jesse and his wife Lucy, George, Lewis, Amanda, Louisa, Harriet, Reuben, Emely
Executor: Son Lewis Sartin and Stephen Glass (son-in-law); Witnesses: P W Grinstead, Philip A Shive, Henry Perkins
Notes/Narrative from Jennifer Mauk
When Eliza met George he was a widower. George's parents were Henry and Sarah Mauk of Tennesee. George and his first wife (doesn't give a name) had eleven children. Their names were 1) Jesse 2)Ben - his wife's name was Lucinda 3)Will - last heard of at Kit Carson, Colo. in 1936. 4)John 5)George 6)Louis - died at the age of 19. 7)Zach - a
preacher 8)Martha 9)Kate 10)Lucinda 11)Sarah - died while a small child.
On Sept.30, 1867 George Mauk married Eliza (Sartain) Bunch in Glasgow, Barron Co; Kentucky. They began the long trip westward by covered wagon. They were accompanied by Eliza's two young daughters from her previous marriage - Rissie age 8 and Melia age 5. They were also accompanied as far as Missouri by Eliza's father Alfred Sartain and stepmother America, Eliza's brothers and sisters. The Sartains stayed in Missouri.
George, Eliza, Rissie and Melia arrived in Asherville, Mitchell Co; Kansas on March 30, 1868 and took up homestead by the river. There was a small dugout already in place, not walled up with a dirt roof. They lived in that until George could get a log cabin built; a small one room cabin with a loft above it. Here four children were born. Sarah Rachel b.25 July 1871, Henry Alfred b.16 Nov 1873, Louis S. b.26 Oct 1875 and James Andrew 21 Oct
1876. Louis died when five days old. George died 13 July 1878. Both are buried at the Asherville Cemetary.
Times were very hard and Eliza found it hard to make a living for herself and her children. The Two older girls were married and in their own homes before George died. With only the most essential tools, George had
made the most necessary furniture. Including a chair for each: Eliza, Sarah and Henry. They were put together with wooden pegs and had seats of buffalo hide.
Eliza and the children gathered wild plums in the fall and she preserved them in sorghum in large earthen jars. Fish from the river and corn bread was their main food along with vegetables from the garden and wild greens. In the summer, the children would gather sheep sorrel which Eliza made into pie using sorghum for sweetening.
They had an old gray mare which she used for the heaviest work and she would clean her comb by combing the mare's tail. She made all of their clothing by hand. She had to knit all the stockings for the family. Whenever she went into Asherville she would knit as she walked along. She always walked to town because , she said " The mare had working in the field and needed to rest".
George died when his son James Andrew was a baby. After George died, Eliza married again when Sarah was about 9. She married a man named Bud Whetmore. Eliza died 8 Feb 1904 at age 65 from pneumonia.
Jesse was the only one of the first Mauk family to come to Kansas. He homesteaded the quarter section east of his father's. Their houses being about 1/4 mile apart. Jessie and his wife Susan and their four sons, Jerome, Perkins, Titus and Roscoe, lived there in a stone house for a number of years. After Jessie died and was buried in the Asherville cemetary,
Susan and the boys sold the farm and moved to Talmo, Kansas. When Susan died she was buried next to James.
Notes on Eliza Sartain: (source: Jennifer Mauk)
Elizabeth Frances Sartain was born 15 Oct 1838 Bowling Green, Warren Co, Kentucky. She was the daughter of Alfred b.1817 Lincoln Co, Kentucky and Rachel Witty b.1823 Barren County, Kentucky. (I also have more detailed
info on the Sartain Line). Eliza married Zachariah Harrison Bunch b. 1842 on 2 June 1858. A daughter Torissa was born 8 July 1859. Zachariah joined the Union Army, the 21st Kentucky Volunteers on 30 December 1861. He died
of Typhoid Fever in Confederate Prison at Camp Ward on 26 July 1862. (Camp Ward was near their home in Barron County where they were married.) Another daughter Parmelia Harrison was born to them on 30 March 1862. Her father
never saw her. How sad!
Terissa or "Rissy" married a man whose last name was Mitchell and they had five children: Zach, Onie, Henry, Martha and Rose. They moved to Idaho where Mitchell died. Rissie and the children returned to Asherville, Kansas
where she later married Abe Parrish. Abe was the father of Gove Parrish and cousin of Richard Parrish, her brother - in - law. Gove later worked as an Asherville mail carrier. Rissie and Parrish had three children: Benny, Herbert and Lenora. The Mitchell boys (above) lived at St. Joseph, Missouri and the Parrish children lived in Linn Co, Kansas in the 1930's.
Parmelia or "Melia" b. 30 march 1862, married Richard Parrish and they had two daughters: Cora Estella b. 12 Oct 1878 and Lucy b. 25 Feb 1881. They owned and lived in a little house in Simpson, Kansas (about 10 miles from Asherville) Richard died while the girls were small and Melia took in sewing. Later she married a man named Stout. In 1887 Melia died and both she and Richard are buried in the Asherville Cemetary. The girls lived part of the time with their Grandma Mauk (Eliza) and part of the time with their aunt Sarah "Sadie" Steere. Cora married Louis Steere, stepson of Aunt Sadie
in the spring of 1900 and they had one daughter named Vira. Vira married Trafton Thomas and were the parents of six children: Pauline, Doris, Lois, June, Louis and Vonne. Lucy married Claude Bundy and had three children: Earl, Ed and Lucille.
End of notes for George Mauk and Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
Notes/Narrative from Jennifer Mauk
When Eliza met George he was a widower. George's parents were Henry and Sarah Mauk of Tennesee. George and his first wife (doesn't give a name) had eleven children. Their names were 1) Jesse 2)Ben - his wife's name was Lucinda 3)Will - last heard of at Kit Carson, Colo. in 1936. 4)John 5)George 6)Louis - died at the age of 19. 7)Zach - a
preacher 8)Martha 9)Kate 10)Lucinda 11)Sarah - died while a small child.
On Sept.30, 1867 George Mauk married Eliza (Sartain) Bunch in Glasgow, Barron Co; Kentucky. They began the long trip westward by covered wagon. They were accompanied by Eliza's two young daughters from her previous marriage - Rissie age 8 and Melia age 5. They were also accompanied as far as Missouri by Eliza's father Alfred Sartain and stepmother America, Eliza's brothers and sisters. The Sartains stayed in Missouri.
George, Eliza, Rissie and Melia arrived in Asherville, Mitchell Co; Kansas on March 30, 1868 and took up homestead by the river. There was a small dugout already in place, not walled up with a dirt roof. They lived in that until George could get a log cabin built; a small one room cabin with a loft above it. Here four children were born. Sarah Rachel b.25 July 1871, Henry Alfred b.16 Nov 1873, Louis S. b.26 Oct 1875 and James Andrew 21 Oct
1876. Louis died when five days old. George died 13 July 1878. Both are buried at the Asherville Cemetary.
Times were very hard and Eliza found it hard to make a living for herself and her children. The Two older girls were married and in their own homes before George died. With only the most essential tools, George had
made the most necessary furniture. Including a chair for each: Eliza, Sarah and Henry. They were put together with wooden pegs and had seats of buffalo hide.
Eliza and the children gathered wild plums in the fall and she preserved them in sorghum in large earthen jars. Fish from the river and corn bread was their main food along with vegetables from the garden and wild greens. In the summer, the children would gather sheep sorrel which Eliza made into pie using sorghum for sweetening.
They had an old gray mare which she used for the heaviest work and she would clean her comb by combing the mare's tail. She made all of their clothing by hand. She had to knit all the stockings for the family. Whenever she went into Asherville she would knit as she walked along. She always walked to town because , she said " The mare had working in the field and needed to rest".
George died when his son James Andrew was a baby. After George died, Eliza married again when Sarah was about 9. She married a man named Bud Whetmore. Eliza died 8 Feb 1904 at age 65 from pneumonia.
Jesse was the only one of the first Mauk family to come to Kansas. He homesteaded the quarter section east of his father's. Their houses being about 1/4 mile apart. Jessie and his wife Susan and their four sons, Jerome, Perkins, Titus and Roscoe, lived there in a stone house for a number of years. After Jessie died and was buried in the Asherville cemetary,
Susan and the boys sold the farm and moved to Talmo, Kansas. When Susan died she was buried next to James.
Notes on Eliza Sartain: (source: Jennifer Mauk)
Elizabeth Frances Sartain was born 15 Oct 1838 Bowling Green, Warren Co, Kentucky. She was the daughter of Alfred b.1817 Lincoln Co, Kentucky and Rachel Witty b.1823 Barren County, Kentucky. (I also have more detailed
info on the Sartain Line). Eliza married Zachariah Harrison Bunch b. 1842 on 2 June 1858. A daughter Torissa was born 8 July 1859. Zachariah joined the Union Army, the 21st Kentucky Volunteers on 30 December 1861. He died
of Typhoid Fever in Confederate Prison at Camp Ward on 26 July 1862. (Camp Ward was near their home in Barron County where they were married.) Another daughter Parmelia Harrison was born to them on 30 March 1862. Her father
never saw her. How sad!
Terissa or "Rissy" married a man whose last name was Mitchell and they had five children: Zach, Onie, Henry, Martha and Rose. They moved to Idaho where Mitchell died. Rissie and the children returned to Asherville, Kansas
where she later married Abe Parrish. Abe was the father of Gove Parrish and cousin of Richard Parrish, her brother - in - law. Gove later worked as an Asherville mail carrier. Rissie and Parrish had three children: Benny, Herbert and Lenora. The Mitchell boys (above) lived at St. Joseph, Missouri and the Parrish children lived in Linn Co, Kansas in the 1930's.
Parmelia or "Melia" b. 30 march 1862, married Richard Parrish and they had two daughters: Cora Estella b. 12 Oct 1878 and Lucy b. 25 Feb 1881. They owned and lived in a little house in Simpson, Kansas (about 10 miles from Asherville) Richard died while the girls were small and Melia took in sewing. Later she married a man named Stout. In 1887 Melia died and both she and Richard are buried in the Asherville Cemetary. The girls lived part of the time with their Grandma Mauk (Eliza) and part of the time with their aunt Sarah "Sadie" Steere. Cora married Louis Steere, stepson of Aunt Sadie
in the spring of 1900 and they had one daughter named Vira. Vira married Trafton Thomas and were the parents of six children: Pauline, Doris, Lois, June, Louis and Vonne. Lucy married Claude Bundy and had three children: Earl, Ed and Lucille.
End of notes for George Mauk and Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
On Sept.30, 1867 George Mauk married Eliza (Sartain) Bunch in Glasgow, Barron Co; Kentucky. They began the long trip westward by covered wagon. They were accompanied by Eliza's two young daughters from her previous marriage - Rissie age 8 and Melia age 5. They were also accompanied as far as Missouri by Eliza's father Alfred Sartain and stepmother America, Eliza's brothers and sisters. The Sartains stayed in Missouri.
George, Eliza, Rissie and Melia arrived in Asherville, Mitchell Co; Kansas on March 30, 1868 and took up homestead by the river. There was a small dugout already in place, not walled up with a dirt roof. They lived in that until George could get a log cabin built; a small one room cabin with a loft above it. Here four children were born. Sarah Rachel b.25 July 1871, Henry Alfred b.16 Nov 1873, Louis S. b.26 Oct 1875 and James Andrew 21 Oct 1876. Louis died when five days old. George died 13 July 1878. Both are buried at the Asherville Cemetary.
Times were very hard and Eliza found it hard to make a living for herself and her children. The Two older girls were married and in their own homes before George died. With only the most essential tools, George had made the most necessary furniture. Including a chair for each: Eliza, Sarah and Henry. They were put together with wooden pegs and had seats of buffalo hide.
Eliza and the children gathered wild plums in the fall and she preserved them in sorghum in large earthen jars. Fish from the river and corn bread was their main food along with vegetables from the garden and wild greens. In the summer, the children would gather sheep sorrel which Eliza made into pie using sorghum for sweetening.
They had an old gray mare which she used for the heaviest work and she would clean her comb by combing the mare's tail. She made all of their clothing by hand. She had to knit all the stockings for the family. Whenever she went into Asherville she would knit as she walked along. She always walked to town because , she said " The mare had working in the field and needed to rest".
George died when his son James Andrew was a baby. After George died, Eliza married again when Sarah was about 9. She married a man named Bud Whetmore. Eliza died 8 Feb 1904 at age 65 from pneumonia.
Jesse was the only one of the first Mauk family to come to Kansas. He homesteaded the quarter section east of his father's. Their houses being about 1/4 mile apart. Jessie and his wife Susan and their four sons, Jerome, Perkins, Titus and Roscoe, lived there in a stone house for a number of years. After Jessie died and was buried in the Asherville cemetary,
Susan and the boys sold the farm and moved to Talmo, Kansas. When Susan died she was buried next to James.
Notes on Eliza Sartain: (source: Jennifer Mauk)
Elizabeth Frances Sartain was born 15 Oct 1838 Bowling Green, Warren Co, Kentucky. She was the daughter of Alfred b.1817 Lincoln Co, Kentucky and Rachel Witty b.1823 Barren County, Kentucky. (I also have more detailed info on the Sartain Line). Eliza married Zachariah Harrison Bunch b. 1842 on 2 June 1858. A daughter Torissa was born 8 July 1859. Zachariah joined the Union Army, the 21st Kentucky Volunteers on 30 December 1861. He died of Typhoid Fever in Confederate Prison at Camp Ward on 26 July 1862. (Camp Ward was near their home in Barron County where they were married.) Another daughter Parmelia Harrison was born to them on 30 March 1862. Her father never saw her. How sad!
Terissa or "Rissy" married a man whose last name was Mitchell and they had five children: Zach, Onie, Henry, Martha and Rose. They moved to Idaho where Mitchell died. Rissie and the children returned to Asherville, Kansas where she later married Abe Parrish. Abe was the father of Gove Parrish and cousin of Richard Parrish, her brother - in - law. Gove later worked as an Asherville mail carrier. Rissie and Parrish had three children: Benny, Herbert and Lenora. The Mitchell boys (above) lived at St. Joseph, Missouri and the Parrish children lived in Linn Co, Kansas in the 1930's.
Parmelia or "Melia" b. 30 march 1862, married Richard Parrish and they had two daughters: Cora Estella b. 12 Oct 1878 and Lucy b. 25 Feb 1881. They owned and lived in a little house in Simpson, Kansas (about 10 miles from Asherville) Richard died while the girls were small and Melia took in sewing. Later she married a man named Stout. In 1887 Melia died and both she and Richard are buried in the Asherville Cemetary. The girls lived part of the time with their Grandma Mauk (Eliza) and part of the time with their aunt Sarah "Sadie" Steere. Cora married Louis Steere, stepson of Aunt Sadie in the spring of 1900 and they had one daughter named Vira. Vira married Trafton Thomas and were the parents of six children: Pauline, Doris, Lois, June, Louis and Vonne. Lucy married Claude Bundy and had three children: Earl, Ed and Lucille.