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Rev. William Toy Bartle was born in Mullica
Hill, Gloucester, New Jersey, southeast of Philadelphia. His boyhood and
youth, till was about seventeen years of age, were spent in Philadelphia
area. He pursued an academic course of study at Cincinnati, Ohio, and for
one year was Missionary Teacher among the Choctaw Indians. He was a graduate
of Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois (#1 on the map below),
class of 1849, and taught the first public or common school of Greene County,
Illinois, at Carrollton, in 1851.
William married Mary Helen Wilcox in 1851. (Also listed as being married
in Knox County, Illinois, or Greene County). She was the daughter of Henry
Wilcox. Turning his attention to the gospel ministry, William was ordained
by the Alton Presbytery, October, 1852. While in Carrollton, Green, Illinois,
Helen had a daughter, Blanche, in May 1852. Helen passed away one year
later in June 1853.
In 1854, William remarried Elizabeth Granger Sanburn. Their first son,
James Sanborne Bartle, was born 22 February
1855 in Knoxville, Knox, Illinois. Their second son, William
Howard Bartle, was born 15 Jan 1856, also in Knoxville.
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| Henry Hart Bartle,
date unknown |
Their third son, Henry Hart Bartle was
born in Chicago, Illinois, on August 27, 1858. Three years later, Jane
"Jennie" Myrtle Bartle was born on 14 June 1861 back in
Knoxville, Illinois. By July of 1862, the family was located in Decatur,
Michigan, where the family lived some five years.
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Great-grandmother
Helen Lindsay Bartle,
circa 1895. |
Our great-grandmother Helen Lindsay Bartle
was born 6 Jul 1862. She married Thadeus
Merrill Phelps (born October 4, 1856) of Wataga, Illinois. Wataga
is about just northeast of Galesburg, where her father began his ministerial
training. [The Phelps
Family in America gives his name as "Thomas." However,
my grandfather, Harold Bartle Phelps, crossed this out and wrote in "Thaddeus."
However, Thadeus' printed wedding announcement gives the spelling of "Thadeus"
with a single "d", as does his death certificate.]
The marriage records in Decatur show Rev. Bartle performed many marriages
while Pastor there. The third daughter, Mary
Elizabeth Bartle, was born there on 28 Feb 1865. While in Michigan,
Rev. Bartle was also for one year County Superintendent of Common schools.
Their last son, George Jennings Bartle,
was born on 23 Jul 1868 in Clinton, Lenawee, Michigan.
In May, 1869, he purchased 120 acres on section 17, Douglas Township,
Iowa and began improvements in June 1871. However, the family lived for
a time 90 miles east in Plattsmouth, Nebraska. While in Plattsmouth, Henry
learned the trade of blacksmithing. In the spring of 1875, William began
erecting a dwelling and in 1876 moved his family on his land, continuing
in the ministry also. Rev. Bartle pastored the Creston, Iowa Cromwell
Congregational Church in 1876.
In 1892, after 38 years of marriage, Elizabeth Granger Sanburn Bartle
passed away. Reverend Bartle, now 70 years old, remained in Creston for
a few more years until he followed his son Henry to California. The pastor
died in 1913 and was buried next to his wife in the Maple Hill Cemetery
in Cromwell, Iowa, just outside Creston.
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| Rev. William Toy Bartle moved his family
repeatedly across the midwest between 1855 and 1876, in the order
shown by the numbers in the map. They finally settling in Creston,
Iowa, where Rev. Butler purchased a farm and built a house. |
The sons all worked for the railroads at various times. James Sanburn
was a general freight agent for the Burlington Railroad with headquarters
at Saint Joseph, Missouri for a number of years. In 1895 he become eastern
agent of the Santa Fe Railroad in New York. In 1912 he was then transferred
homeward to Chicago. James was an assistant general freight agent for
the Santa Fe Railroad under Mr. F. B. Houghton at his death in 1917.
In Creston, Henry Hart met his wife, Kate Scudder. She had moved with
her father Marvin Scudder from Galesburg, Illinois, where Henry's father
had studied for the ministry. Before Henry and Kate were married, they
both moved out to the prairies of Nebraska, where she taught a year previous
to their marriage. Rev. William was a trustee of Tabor college in Iowa,
and hoped his sons would study there. Henry and Kate however moved to
Kansas City, where he went into the offices of the freight department
of the Burlington railroad, two of his brothers being railroad men at
the time.
In 1900, Henry and Kate moved to Mentone, California, near Redlands,
on account of the poor health of their daughter, Helen S. Bartle. Their
first daughter, Elizabeth, died there in 1901. In 1911, the family relocated
30 miles west to Claremont. In his obituary, the Courier stated,
"It seemed impossible at the time for him to go into the city where
he was to have been engaged in railroad work, so once again he turned
to the trade of his young manhood, and in it he continued, doing less
and less of manual work and depending more and more on the selling of
implements and garden tools." So Henry took up blacksmithing again,
turning out tools and implements which he sold, establishing a successful
business. In 1915, Kate passed away. Helen continued to live with her
father until his death, so her infirmity followed her all her life.
In 1886, Jane "Jennie" Myrick Bartle married Mifford W. Kiddoo.
A "Wm. Kiddoo" had served as a Deacon in the Cromwell Congregational
Church, and it is likely that the two are related. The family remained
in Creston until Jennie's death.
Mary Elizabeth Bartle married Thomas C. Shaw and had two daughters.
William was employed as the commercial agent for the New York Central
Railroad in Saint Joseph, Missouri in 1917.
George, the youngest son, was educated at Cromwell High School in Creston
and graduated in 1886. The following two years were spent as a circuit
teacher in the rural schools in Union county. He moved to Saint Joseph,
Missouri in 1888 where he worked for the Steele and Walker Wholesale Grocery
until 1896. On June 20, 1893 he married Elizabeth Haver Munch at Saint
Joseph. Elizabeth was a daughter of David and Margaret (Failor) Munch
of Allen county, Ohio. After their marriage George and Elizabeth remained
in Saint Joseph where for two years he was employed as a clerk in the
C.D. Drug Co. In 1898 he was employed for one year at the Chicago-Burlington
& Quincy Railroad and one year for Swift & Company Meat Packers.
In 1900 George and Elizabeth moved to Creston, Iowa where he established
the Bartle Packet Store, a small general store, he also managed three
farms, a total of 305 acres in Union and Adams counties. In 1925 he became
the president and Director of the First National Bank of Prescott, Iowa
and remained President until his death. From 1933-39 he was elected Union
County Supervisor where he served as Chairman of the board. He was also
a member of the board of trustees of the Greater Community Hospital where
he served as chairman of the board. He was also a member of the Rotary,
Crestmoor Golf Club, First Congregational Church and a Republican.
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