William Tell's Line


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William Tell Niceschwander I think met his wife to be in Kansas even though they had lived in neighboring counties in Ohio. I think this because the 1880 census finds his dad in Kansas with the girls but Wm Tell is in Putnam Co., Ohio. I have copies of three letters sent to William from his dad asking him to come to Kansas. The first telling how great Kansas is and the last telling that John is sick and not sure he will live long if William doesn't hurry and get out there. The same census finds Ruth Cook at home with her parents also in Kansas. Ruth and William do marry in Cloud Co., Kansas six years later.
Ruth and William had ten children.
Children	Spouses	Children	Spouses
Royal Tell	Never married	Esther Lillian	Roy Edmond Mount
Violet Gladys	Edward Charles Sharp	Dora Anna	Glen Williams
Victor Hugo	Violet Phoebe Ward	Joseph Felix	Elenore Marie Flowers
Goldie Sybil	died in childhood	Daisy Margaret	Henry Simon Heskett
Carrie Louise	Charles Elmer Foster	Phillip Austin	Never married
Dora's grave has so far not been found. She and her husband both died in 1918 in the Great Influenza Epidemic. They married January 20, 1916 in Burlington, Colorado. Some of the others lived in Denver Colorado and Red Cloud Nebraska as well as various parts of Kansas.

William, Ruth, Gladys, Royal, and Victor	Joan, Daisy, and Henry Heskett	Violet Gladys, Bill and Eugene
Joseph Feliz Niceschwander	Violet Gladys and Royal Tell Niceschwander	Victor Hugo and Dora