James Templer (1795-1859)
The ninth of these children is James Templer who was born 7 February 1795 in Loudoun County, VA . After some research, we believe we have located this man. There were several persons named James Templer and our earlier research had focused on an older man in Ohio. Once the Templer family Bible was located, we realized we had been looking at the wrong one. We have now decided that this James Templer married Mary Auld on 12 March 1830 in Knox County, Ohio. Mary was born about 1798 in Virginia. Other researchers of this family, primarily one descendant named Otis Burgess Nesbit, believe she had been married before and this is not her maiden name, a position we agree with. Our research to date has not disclosed that surname. James Templer is known to have gone from Ohio to Andrew County, Missouri, where he obtained a Land Patent for 160 acres and where we find him in the census records for 1850. He is reported to have died in 1859 in Kansas after going there with his only known daughter. Mary (Auld) Templer is reported to have died 18 November 1857, in Kansas. We have yet to confirm where either is buried but believe that to be in Doniphan County, KS. Their only known child is:
I- Mary Templer was born 18 January 1831 in Mt. Vernon, Knox County, OH and died
30 August 1916 in Alameda County, CA. She married Samuel Franklin Nesbit on 6
November 1846 in Andrew County, MO. Samuel was born 9 June 1823 in Powell
County, KY and died 23 December 1895 in Washington County, KS. They had nine
known children:
A. Mary Melvina Nesbit was born 25 December 1847 in Andrew County, MO near
Fillmore and died 11 September 1928 in Richmond, Contra Costa County, CA. She
married Benjamin Franklin McCray about 1870. He was born 28 August 1843 in
Missouri and died 25 January 1937 in Oakland, Alameda County, CA. They had
eleven children:
1. Arthur Lee McCray (b. 8 January 1871, d. 26 May 1957) married to Delta B.
Snyder.
a. Bea Leadria "Audrey" McCray (b. abt. 1900, d. ?)
b. Maxzene McCray (b. abt. 1910, d. ?) married ______ McGregor.
2. Aaron Franklin McCray (b. September 1874, d. ?).
3. Elmer McCray (b. abt. 1876, d. ?)
4. Ruth McCray (b. 25 December 1878, d. 24 March 1962) married to Albert
R. Usher.
a. Angel Rose Usher (b. 4 June 1904, d. 12 November 1987) married
(1)Thorwald A. Rasmussen and (2) Hugo Olson. Angel and Thorwald Rasmussen had two children:
i. Margaret Angel Rasmussen
ii. Norman Leonard Rasmussen
5. Marie T. McCray (b. 16 September 1880, d. 5 March 1957) married to John
Bunyon Butler. They had three children:
a. Pauline Butler (b. abt.1900, d. ?) married to James Oscar Hultlman. They
had three children:
i Virginia Hultman
ii. Cleo Irene Hultman
iii. Sylvia Martha Hultman
b. Paul Butler (b. abt. 1903, d. ?)
c. Earl Butler (b. abt. 1909, d. ?)
6. Elsie McCray (b. abt. 1882, d. bef. 1910) married Louis T. Chambers. They
had two children:
a. Byron L. Chambers (b. 7 February 1902, d. 27 July 1967) married
Katherine E. Iverson. They had one child:
i. Barbara Lee Chambers
b. Margarite Chambers (b. abt. 1905, d. 23 September 1905)
7. Isabelle McCray (b. December 1883, d. 18 December 1936) married to
Maurice Aldwin Phillips.
a. Aldwin Leroy Phillips (b. 25 August 1906, d. 14 March 1982)
b. Wauline Dorothy Phillips (b. 26 December 1913, d. 5 January 1990)
married Arthur McLaughin
8. Charles Templer McCray (b. 10 May 1887, d. 13 December 1974) married to
Maude Anne Kennedy.
a. Leon McCray (b. 12 July 1914, d. 12 July 1914)
b. Charles Eugene McCray (b. 31 December 1916, d. 30 november 1995)
married (1) Mildred Evelyn Carson, (2) Orie Edna MacDonald.
c. Earl Kennedy McCray (b.3 December 1919, d. 1 January 1999) married
Margaret Nelda Sholin. They had three children:
i. Earl Kennedy McCray, Jr., married Nancy Lee Hayes
ii. Patricia Diana McCray
iii. Michael George McCray, married (1) Pamela Kay Horton and (2) Elizabeth Ann Burk.
9. Jay Byron McCray (b. 20 June 1888, d. January 1975) married Jennie L.
Pracht. They had two children:
a. Burns Franklin McCray (b. 8 January 1917, d. 10 December 1993) married
to Maxine ___
b. Audria Authein McCray (b. abt 1919) married Merl Cordray
10. Ethelyn Grace McCray (b. 31 October 1892, d. 15 June 1988) married to
John Johns.
a. John Jack Johns (b. 4 April 1918, d. 16 February 2003) married Beulah
Iversen. They had four children:
i. Sherrill Joan Johns
ii. Richard John Johns
iii. Rodney Michael Johns
iv. Steven Glen Johns
b. Mary Juanita Johns (b. 10 April 1920, d. 1 March 2007) married Otis
Erwin Wheeler. They had two children:
i. Terry James Wheeler
ii. Judith Diane Wheeler
11. Oscar McCray (b. abt. 1894, d. abt. 1895)
B. James W. Nesbit was born 11 February 1849 in Andrew County, MO near
Fillmore and died before 1850 in Missouri.
C. Rachael Frances Nesbit was born 17 May 1851 in Andrew County, MO near
Fillmore and died 21 November 1925 in Doniphan County, KS. She married John
Young 11 March 1869. John was born 23 November 1845 in Glasgow, Scotland
and died 9 April 1930 in Doniphan County, KS. They had nine children:
1. Zula Jessie Young (b. 31 January 1870, d. 1959)
2. Leon Decatur Young (b. 2 December 1872, d. 1947) married (1) Dorothy
Spriesterbaugh and (2) Mary Bowers Archibald. No children.
3. Rozetta Young (b. 20 August 1876, d. aft. 1930) married Erwin E. Swinney.
c. Dorothy Jessie Swinney (b. 4 September 1899, d. 24 July 1990)
b. Robert L. Swinney (b. 12 April 1901, d.April 1983) married Corrine
Brignardollo
c. John Young Swinney (b. 26 March 1906, d. ?)
d. Gordon Woodrow Swinney (b. abt 1917)
4. John Franklin Young (b. 30 January 1878, d.8 December 1968) married (1)
Virgie Saunders and (2) Almetta Theodosia Crone. No known children from
either marriage.
5. Grace Pearl Young (b. 22 November 1883, d. May 1981) married Roscoe H.
King.
a. Russell Franklin King (b. 24 August 1903, d. June 1971) married Judy ___
b. Donna Dorothy King (b. 9 May 1905, d. 21 February 2002) married C. E.
Goforth
c. Ward Wayne King (b. 22 March 1907, d. 23 September 1992) married
Flossie Dorrell
d. Esther Bell King (b. 24 March 1913, d. 2 January 1918)
e. Harold Roscoe King (b. 18 November 1919, d. 1944) in World War II
6. Lavinia Young (b. 4 September 1886, d. 8 September 1962) married
to Charles Blaine Branson.
a. Rachel Marian Branson (b. 23 September 1910, d. 21 October 2000)
married Carson Carroll Gilbert
b. Bernece E. Branson (b. abt. 1915) married (1) Howard S. Robertson and
(2) Gene W. Vancil
7. Louis Irvin Young (b. 6 September 1888, d. 1918) married Rena Emily
Sherman.
8. Lester Simeon Young (b. 10 April 1891, d. 11 May 1893)
9. George O. Young (b. 12 July 1893, d. April 1970) married Louise ______.
a. John H. Young (b. 23 October 1916, d. 17 April 1996) married Lileen
McGee
b. George O. Young (b. abt. 1918)
c. Nancy Ann Young (b. abt. 1920)
D. Nancy Elizabeth "Nannie" Nesbit was born 17 February 1853 in Andrew County,
MO and died 28 July 1940 in Los Angeles County, CA.
E. John Nesbit was born about 1855 in Missouri and died before 1860 in ?
F. Millie Downing Nesbit was born 17 November 1857 in Doniphan County, KS and
died before 1860 in ?
G. Samuel Anthony Nesbit was born 5 April 1860 in Doniphan County, KS near
Severance and died 6 March 1948 in Paradise, Butte County, CA. He married
Nellie Painter 17 October 1894. She was born 14 June 1868 in Afton, Union
County, IA and died 12 November 1945 in Paradise, Butte County, CA. They had
three children:
1. Paul Templar Nesbit (b. 13 October 1896, d. 4 February 1954) married
Freda Lucille Jahant.
a. Kathryn Lucille Nesbit (b. abt. 1925) married Alvin Cecil Inman. They had
four children:
i. Steven George Inman
ii. James Anthony Inman
iii. Boyce Templar Inman
iv. Jonathan J. Inman
b. Paul Templar Nesbit (b. abt. 1927) married Rose Marie Garver. They had
three children:
i. Glen Alan Nesbit
ii. David Paul Nesbit
iii. Laura Rose Nesbit
2. Mark Clement Nesbit (b. 22 October 1901, d. 17 April 1966) married
(1) Berdina Rogers and (2) Mae Crosby Gambetta.
3. Mary Caroline Nesbit (b. 5 August 1908, d. 6 April 1990) married Thomas
Stephen Hafey.
H. Edward Templar Nesbit was born 19 October 1865 in Doniphan County, KS and
died 27 February 1952 in Pasadena, Los Angeles County, CA. He married Effie
Alice Miller 19 February 1891. Effie was born 25 November 1863 in McDonough
County, IL and died 11 June 1951 in Los Angeles County, CA. They had two
children:
1. Mildred Alice Nesbit (b. 15 September 1893, d. 25 September 1993)
married Lon A. Bobo.
2. Reed Miller Nesbit (b. 8 December 1898, d. 30 August 1979) married
Mabel O. Wilkins.
a. Nancy Alice Nesbit (b. abt. 1933) married (1) Julian Ray Youmans and (2) Robert Crummey. Nancy and Julian Youmans had one child:
i. Reed N. Youmans
b. Mary Templar Nesbit (b. abt. 1935)
c. Mable Ann Nesbit (b. abt. 1939)
I. Otis Burgess Nesbit was born 31 January 1871 in Doniphan County, KS and died
18 March 1952 in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, MI. He married Alice A.
Vincent 22 June 1897. Alice was born 22 June 1872 in Lake County, IN and died
29 March 1951 in Lake County, IN. They had two children:
1. Allegra Mary Nesbit (b. 2 June 1900, d. March 1986)
2. Beatrice Templar Nesbit (b. 6 December 1903, d. 15 January 1990) married
Alexander Victor Oppenheim.
a. Judith Oppenheim married Nwobidike Nwandodi
Otis Burgess Nesbit was an early researcher of this family line and wrote several newsletters which he called "Nesbitology" that contained details that has allowed us to further his research. We do hope that we can make additional contact with descendants of this line to continue that effort.
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