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My grandmother was Lena May Six, of Davenport, Scott county, Iowa.

The Six name is common in a number of countries. In England it is found overwhelmingly in Kent, in the southeast of the country. It is also found in the Netherlands, Denmark, and Germany, and in South Africa, India and Indonesia due to the colonial influence. Some common variations are Sicks, Sixt, Saxe, Sykes, Secht, and Seek.
*Note: The bulk of the research in this section was performed by my cousin, Richard Six. Everything I have done has been built upon his work.

It is generally thought that the Six/Sixt Family of America derived from a German Family, surnamed Sixt, that came to America during the great Palatine Emigration of 1709 to 1710. The Palatine is an area in western Germany along the Rhine river.

My G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-Grandfather. The proposed progenitor of the family was born in 1625 in Germany. He married in about 1647 and was a church elder in the village of Ehr, in the Rheinland-Pflaz. Another source claims he was from Marienfels, in Hesse, like his son below - from "History of the Mohawk Palatines Relating to the Christman Family." The family appears to have been Lutherans. He died in Germany in 1695 at the age of 70. He had one child of importance to our story,
(18) Johann Philip Sixt (1656)

My G-G-G-G-G-G-G-Grandfather. Of Marienfels, Germany, southeast of Ehr, near Koblenz. When he was 24 years old, or in about 1680, he married Anna Elizabeth Gertraud [Gertrud] in Marienfels, Hesse-Nassau, Germany. Ann was born sometime after 1656 in Marienfels. A Johann Philip Sixt was noted, with wife Anna Gertraud, as living both in Ehr and Huntzel, in the parish of Marienfels. He was "possibly" a son of Hans Bernhardt Sixt, church-elder at Ehr.

Marienfels, Germany Marienfels is a municipality in the district of Rhein-Lahn, in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany. In the 17th century this area was comprised of electoral states of the Holy Roman Empire. That is, their rulers, dukes, princes, and landgraves, each had a vote in who became the next Empereor. It included Alsace, Lorraine, Wurtemburg, Baden, Mainz and Treves and ran from Cologne to Mannheim.

Johann left Germany in the early 18th century as part of the great Palantine emigration.

The first German emigrants began arriving in England in May 1709. Some of these emigrants eventually returned home. Others went to other parts of England and Ireland, and some settled in North Carolina and the West Indies. Of the 13,000 Germans who reached London in 1709, about 3000, including the Philip Sixt family, continued on to the New York colony. Most of the Palatines for New York began boarding ships in December 1709, but these did not leave England until April 1710.

Johann Philip Sixt and family arrived in the New York colony on 16 June 1710 aboard the JAMES & ELIZABETH. They were amongst the 3rd set of arrivals in America. They were Lutherans, and he a husbandman and vinedresser. From the London Lists:

"1710, Sixth List
Ship: JAMES & ELIZABETH
Captain: Henry Gravener
From: London
Arrival: 16 June 1710
This reconstructed passenger list is based on the first part (60 names) of the 4 July 1710 subsistence list along with any who appear to have been part of their households. Johann Christ Gerlach, a passenger listed below, was the listmaster on the ship James & Elizabeth which arrived 16 June 1710 indicating most of these passengers were probably on that ship.

. . .
Hunter Number 717
Johann Philipp Sex, 53
Anna Gertraud
Johann Henrich, 20
Anna Elisabetha, 16
Anna Magdalena, 13
(son), 5
(daughter), 1 1/2
Place of Origin: Marienfels, Hessen-Nassau
10+/Under 10: 3-0
Remarks: Sixt; listed on Hunter lists as Heinrich Sex. 3rd arrivals in London." - from "The Palantine Project"

Johann Philip died not long after arriving and was probably buried on Governor's Island. He was the head of the household on the London List of 16 June 1710, but by the time of the Hunter List of 4 July 1710 his son, Heinrich Sex, was listed as the family's head. The Hunter List had 3 persons over 10 years under the heading Heinrich Sex, Johann's eldest son. Heinrich again was listed as head of the household on 24 June 1712 with one person over 10 years of age.

The Palatine Emigration, continued In the winter of 1710 Governor Hunter purchased 12,300 acres of land from Robert Livingston and resettled 1400 of the Palatines on land that had been part of the baronial Livingston manor, as well as other sections along the Hudson river south of Albany. The villages they set up were generally referred to as East Camp, West Camp, Germantown and Saugerties. These settlements were in Columbia, Greene and Dutchess counties. Initially, life seemed to hold promise and the Palatines worked hard to fulfill their part of their contracts that guaranteed each family 40 acres of land. Under this contract their passage should have been paid by Britain and Queen Anne. The contract stated "that after seven years after they had forty acres a head given to them, they were to repay the Queen by Hemp, Mast Trees, Tar and Pitch, or anything else, so that it may be no damage to any man in his family." What they found was that they were now working under different expectations, with no time frame with which to complete their service, almost making them indentured servants. They claimed that they were deceived and bitterly complained to the Governor of New York. A number of them secretly decided that they would resettle to Schoharie to claim the rights that they felt were previously promised to them by Indian leaders.

The Sixt family lived on the Livingston Manor for about 2 years. They were, however, amongst the rebellious group that felt they had been cheated into a state of servitude by the government. In the winter of 1712 a group of 150 Germans, including presumably the Sixt family, moved to New Annsburg [Schmidsdorf], about 60 miles to the northwest. This trip took three weeks, the people pulling sleds loaded with their few goods through the deep snow.

After Johann Philip's death Anna married Johannes Christman. The Christmann and Sixt families were linked together twice in Kocherthal's records. Gertraut Christmann sponsored Heinrich Sixt in 1717 and Hans Christmann and Anna Gertraud were recorded living next to Heinrich Sixt at Neu-Ansberg circa 1716/17. Hans Christman was in the Hunter List.

Anna Sixt Christman was recorded as a member of church congregations at Germantown, Schoharie and Manheim, in New York. These towns are all in and around the Mohawk Valley. She probably died there, already around 65 in 1720. Schoharie is shown below in a period engraving.

According to Sandra Purcell, Johann and Anna's children were,
(19) Johann Heinrich Sixt (1689)
(19) Johann Gerhardt Sixt (1692), he was born on 28 February 1691/2 in Marienfels, not in the Hunter List
(19) Anna Elizabeth Sixt (1693/4)
(19) Anna Magdalena Sixt (1696)
(19) Son (1705)
(19) Daughter (1708)

My G-G-G-G-G-G-Grandfather. Also as Henrich, Hendrick or, Americanized, as John Henry. He was born on 4 September 1689 in the Parish of Marienfels, Hesse-Nassau, Germany (present day: Nastotten), the son of Johann Philip Six and Anna Gertraud.

"Hendrick Sixt was Anna Gertraud Christman's son [Ann's second husband was Johannes Christman]. Therefore Hendrick Sixt and the Christman boys, Hans Nicholas, Jacob, and Frederick, were all brothers of the same mother. That's why we always find them listed together on the ship, at Livingston Manor, and in Schoharie" - from "History of the Mohawk Palatines Relating to the Christman Family"

Heinrich emigrated to America in 1709/10 with his parents, arriving in the New York colony. According to family legend of the 19th century, he came to America when he was 'banished' from Germany on account of his tendency toward mutiny. This appears to relate to poaching, the infringement of the game laws with regard to hunting rabbits. However, the simpler story is that he came for the same reasons the rest of the Palatines did, to escape an intolerable situation in his native land.

The Hunter List of 4 July 1710 has Heinrich Sex [sic] leading a household with 3 persons over 10 years old. Henrich Secs (Sex) was also listed amongst those male Palantines over 21 years old living on Livingston Manor in the winter of 1710 and summer of 1711. Heinrich again was counted on the Hunter Lists as head of the household on 24 June 1712 with one person over 10 years of age.

On 3 August 1713 Johann Henrich Sixt of Hessen [Hesse], who was then 25, married Anna Christina Theis [Theiss, Theus] at the Nicolas Baasen [Bassau] Farm in Schoharie county, New York. Anna was born between 1692 and 1694 in Niederbachheim, Hesse-Darmstadt [today's Rhineland-Palatinate], Germany - from the New York City Lutheran Book. She had emigrated to New York with her parents, Johann Philip Theis (-1711) & Elizabetha Magdalena, in 1709/10.

A Hendrick Seix was naturalized as a citizen at Albany, New York on 11 October 1715 - Albany Common Council Minutes. "[O]f County of Hassan [Hessen]."

Heinrich Sech [sic] and Christina, with one child, were at Neu-Ansberg [New Annesbury or Hartsmannsdorf], in the Schoharie Valley of Upstate New York, circa 1716-17 - from the Simmendinger Register.

From The Kocherthal Records:
- 21 January 1716: Christina Elisabeth, born on 1 November 1715, child of Henrich and Christina Sixt: sponsors: Andreas Finchk, Christina Six, Elisabeth Sixt. These last two may have been her aunts.
- 6 June 1717: Gertraut, born 16 April 1717, child of Henrich and Christina Sixt; sponsors: Georg Seybold, Gertraut Christmann and Gertraut Hettmann.

Perhaps as a result of title issues with the land bought from the Indians in the Schoharie valley, Heinrich had moved to the Stone Arabia patent by 1733. In the map below Stone Arabia is in the top right corner, up the Mohawk river from Schenectady.

Stone Arabia A small town in the Mohawk valley of New York settled by German and Swiss emigrants, though today an Amish community. The Stone Arabia Patent was a grant of 12,700 acres south of Garoga creek made to 27 men on 9 October 1723. The grant was apparently made in return for military service in 1711 against the French in Canada. This would have been during Queen Anne's War. Each family received about 470 acres [or 50 acres per family and "they held the rest of the land in common for future distribution."]. A second allotment of the patent was made in 1733. An alternative history claims that when the Palantine's title to the Schoharie valley properties was challenged a period of rioting ensued which culminiated in running the Sheriff out of town on a rail. As a compensation, the Palatines were offered land in the Stone Arabia area. The origin of the town's odd name is unknown, but may be a corruption of the German Steine, pronounced "stoina" in the local Palatine dialect, meaning stones, and Riegel, but in the local dialect rasseln, literally a bolt as in a door-latching bolt, but locally applied to the rows of piled up fieldstones that served as boundaries between farmer's fields. The double "s" of rasseln is written, in German text, as a Greek beta. The assumption is that English speakers read this as "rabeln." Over the years the town was known variously as Ston Raby, Ston Rabi, Stein Raby, Steen Rabbi, Steen Arabia, and Stone Arabia.

"Hendrick Sixt bought Lot 98 Stone Arabia Patent in 1733." This was in the Second Division, or allotment, of the original patent, which was made in 1723.

"Deeds were given to all who shared in this allotment, a few of which are still in existence. Most of the new grantees were sons of the patentees, in several instances were men from Schoharie, and in some cases Dutchmen." - from Stone Arabia History.

Heinrich and Christina eventually joined the migration of Germans from the Mohawk valley down the Susquehanna River and up Swatara Creek to the Tulpehocken area, later Womelsdorf, in Pennsylvania. A Heindrick Six sold his land in the Stone Arabia in 1743 to Frederick Getman and Johannes Bearman, early settlers in Fulton County, New York.

"Frederick Getman (at that time written Kittman / Gettmann) and Johannes Bearman (Bierman) together bought, in 1743, from Hendrick Sic, lots 92, 94, 96 and; 98 of the Stone Arabia patent. Frederick Getman subsequently purchased Johannes Bearman's interest in the property." - from Getman Genealogy

Johann Heinrich moved down to the southeastern Pennsylvania / northeastern Maryland area, perhaps as part of the 15 Palatine families who resettled there from the Mohawk valley. See the Seek Family website. Court records of Frederick County, Maryland refer to Heinrich, over 60, in June 1755.

"If one were to divide the early German settlements between those lying to the north of present-day Lewiston and those found south of today's Bethel, the land of Henry Six would have been situated in the middle. Located in the vicinity of today's Powell Road southwest of Lewiston, just below Lehnich's land, Hendrick Sicks' "Piney Neck" had been surveyed on November 28, 1741 for Daniel Dulsany from whom Six was purchasing it on time. Its beginning point was "on the west side of a glade that falls into Jacob Neff's spring branch," known today as Muddy Run. The added notation on the certificate of survey that "on this land is a logg house, logs round, and a turnip patch" may indicate that someone other than Six had been there for some time previously. Philip Kuntz, Adam Stull and Jacob Staley had similar time purchase arrangements with Dulany, all dating from surveys in 1741. But Hendrick Sicks was the last to receive title. His patent was dated August 26, 1746.

Most probably Henry Six arrived in Maryland in 1745. He was the son of Johann Philipp Sixt from the area near Marienfels in the Taunus, northwest of Wiesbaden. Born in 1689, he had come to New York with his parents in the large German emigration of 1709-1710. There on August 3, 1713 he married Anna Christina Theis from Niederbachheim near Gemmerich in the principality of Darmstadt. She also had come with the 1710 migration. Henrich and Christina Six moved to New-Ansberg [Hartsmannsdorf] in the Schoharie Valley of upstate New York where most of their children were born. In 1744 Paster Peter Nicholas Sommer listed his Schoharie Lutheran . . ." - from "Pioneers of Old Monocacy: The Early Settlement of Frederick County, Maryland" by Grace Tracey

Over the years Johann Heinrich and his wife were members of church congregations in Germantown, Schoharie and Stone Arabia, New York, and Monocacy, Maryland.

Heinrich died in Frederick county, Maryland circa 1757 at the age of 68. Anna also died in Frederick county, at an unknown date. They had the following children. Note: the Johann in each of the boys' names was probably a baptismal or confirmation name, like Mary or Maria is for many Catholic girls.
(20) Catharina Sixt (1714)
(20) Christina Elisabetha Sixt (1715)
(20) Gertraud Sixt (1717)
(20) Anna Maria Sixt (1719)
(20) Elisabetha Sixt (1721)
(20) Johann "John" Six (1722)
(20) Johann Henrich Six Jr. (1723)
(20) Johann Philip Six (ca 1724)
(20) Johann "John" Conrad Six Sr. (1731)
(20) Johann Adam Six (ca 1735)
(20) Margaretha Six (ca 1738)

She was born in 1714 in New Ansberg, New York. In 1736, when Catharina was 22, she married Robert Davis [Dewis?]. Catharina died on 25 April 1776 in Frederick county at the age of 62. Her cause of death was listed as "frost and fever."

She was born on 1 November 1715 in Schmidsdorf, Schoharie county, New York.

From The Kocherthal Records:
- 21 January 1716: Christina Elisabeth, born on 1 November 1715, child of Henrich and Christina Sixt: sponsors: Andreas Finchk, Christina Six, Elisabeth Sixt. These last two may have been her aunts.

Christina had a daughter, Anna Maria, who married Johann Christian Dillabaugh. They lived in Stone Arabia, New York and, later, in Riverside, Ontario.

Records of the Reformed Dutch Church of Stone Arabia : in the town of Palatine, Montgomery County, N.Y. In Vol. 1 Pp. 10 it lists for Feb 1, 1751 Andreas Finck and Catharina Lauchsin having a child named Andreas. Sponsored by Georg Capernoll and Elizabetha Lauxin ( The "in" or "sin" on the end of a woman's name is the feminine ending often added to the surnames of females.) I think this wipes out the notion that Andreas married a Six. Gravestone Inscriptions (Vol. 3, pp 118) Hier lieget und Ruhet der Hoffnung nach in Got Catharina Finck Ehe Frau von Andreas Finck, Gestorben den 31 mertz 1790 Alt Geworben 70 Iahr, und 21 tag. Translation. Here lies and reposes, with hope in God hereafter, Catharina Finck, wife of Andreas Finck. Died March 31, 1790, having become 70 years and 21 days old. ( Calculated Birth Date: 3/9/1720 ) Hier Liget und Ruhet der Hoffnung nach in Gott Andreas Finck Gestorben den 22tn August 1766 Alt geworden 64 Iahr 11 Monat und 20 Tag. Translation. Here lies and reposes, with hope in God hereafter, Andreas Finck, Died August 22, 1766, having become 64 years 11 months and 20 days old. ( Calculated Birth Date: 9/2/1701 ) If you use 1786 Andreas as is carved on the actual Gravestone, he would have been born on 9/2/1721 ?? I Think that makes her too old for him. George D Six Hurricane, WV (Still trying to tie the VA Sixes to the Athens, Ohio Sixes)

She was born on 16 April 1717 in West Camp, Ulster county, New York (present day: Saugerties, New York). Gertraut was baptized in West Camp, Ulster Co, New York in the West Camp Lutheran Church on 6 June 1717.

From The Kocherthal Records:
- 6 June 1717: Gertraut, born 16 April 1717, child of Henrich and Christina Sixt; sponsors: Georg Seybold, Gertraut Christmann and Gertraut Hettmann.

She was born in about 1719 near Dillenbach CH [church?], Stone Arabia, New York. I doubt this location since the Stone Arabia patent was not awarded until 1723 and her younger sister, Elisabetha, was born in Schoharie. She married Johann Christian Dillabaugh [Dillenbach?]. They were members of church congregations in Stone Arabia, New York, and Riverside, Ontario.

She was born in about 1721 in Schoharie, New York. She married Nicholas Baker. Is this a confusion with Christina Elisabetha, above? She may have died in 1797.

Below is new information from the Frederick County, Maryland Archives Marriage Book, Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1700's, abstracted By: Barbara Muller.

GrLst GrFst GrMid BrLst BrFst BrMid Lmm Ldd LYr Mmm Mdd MYr

. . .
Jesron Gerog Michael Sechssin Elisabetha Feb 5 1745

. . .
Sechss Johann Henrich Greintschin Anna Elizabeth 1749 July 6 1749

My G-G-G-G-G-Grandfather. Also as Johannes Sechs. Note that much of the material that follows for Johannes and his son John were derived from the work of Jimmie/jecjar@jecjar.com (I don't know his real name). I recently got the following email,

My name is Jimmie Richards and I am the one you named in your Six family narrative which I came across on Ancestry.com yesterday. My mother was Mary Jewell Cheek whose father was Walter Alvis Cheek and mother was Laura Matilda Six, whos' father was John F. Six whos' father was (22) Issac Six (c1797).

In 1746 John's father, "Henry Sex," cited as a church warden, signed a reformed church constitution for the local Lutheran church in Frederick county. His two eldest sons, Heinrich Jr. and Johann Sechs, also signed. - from "Pioneers of Old Monocacy: Early Settlers of Frederick County, Maryland."

Johannes Sechs, noted to be a son of Henrich Six, married Catherine Barbara Reisner on 8 October 1749 in the Frederick Town Evangelical Lutheran church - from "Pioneers of Old Monocacy: The Early Settlement of Frederick County, Maryland" by Grace Tracey. She was born on 13 November 1734, the daughter of Michael Reisner. Michael, born circa 1701, had come to America in the DRAGON and settled in Frederick county, Maryland.

". . . in 1755 [Michael] Reisner] was charged by John Six, a weaver, and John Ogle for a debt of 40 pounds, but was discharged by the Court." - from "Pioneers of Old Monocacy: Early Settlers of Frederick County, Maryland." Was this a relative of John's wife?

Barbara Reisner apparently died, because, second, Johannes married Maria Barbara Bowman [Bauman] in about 1759 in Frederick county, Maryland. She was born circa 1740 in Conewego, York county, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Jacob Bowman and Elizabeth Ungert. In 1778 she received a settlement from Jacob Bowman's estate - from the "Shenandoah County Will Book." Johannes and Barbara living on Tumbling Run and, later, on Stoney Creek, Shenandoah county, Virginia. Barbara was listed on the Reverend Carl Lange s 1767 list of Reformed communicants in Strasburg, as Maria Barbara Sax [sic].

Johannes died in about 1772 [or 1773] in Frederick county, Maryland [or Shenandoah county, Virginia]. His widow subsequently married Christian Funkhouser, a Mennonite of Stony Creek, Shennandoah county, Virginia, who raised the Six children. Note that Barbara's parents had lived adjacent to Christian's father, Jacob Funkhouser, on Tumbling Run, in what was then Orange county, Virginia.

Christian Funkhouser was a member of Alexander Machir's 1775 militia in the Strasburg region, in the Shenandoah valley.

Christian died in 1793. Barbara died in the Spring of 1801.

The 1797 will of Barbara Bowman Six Funkhouser was probated on 8 June 1801 in Shenandoah county, Virginia:

2 July 1797. "In the Name of God Amen

I Barbara Funkhauser, Window of Christian Funkhauser deceased being at present in perfect health and sound memory Thanks be unto God Almighty for the same taking into mind and the Mortality of Mankind make this to be my last Will and Testament that is to say first and formeost I recommend my soul into the hands of God Almighty who gave it to me as for my body it is my Will and desire that the same be buried in a decent Christian Like Manner at the direction of my Executors. Concerning such worldly affairs as I shall leave behind me it is my will and desire that the same be disposed unto my dear beloved children in the following manner and form(viz)

Item I give and bequeath unto my youngest daughter Barbara Funkhauser over and above her equal share one complete Bed & Bedstead with furniture and the Sum of ten shillings which she may either lay out for Pewter or Iron Potts agreable to her mind over and above her equal share with the rest of my other children.

Item I give and bequeat all such Effects what I shall live behind after my decease when all just Debts and what I have bequeted unto my five other named children is paid out or the same unto my Six Children (viz) my three Sons John Six Issac Six and David Funkhauser and my three Daughtes Barbara Funkhauser Elizabeth Six wife of Adam Poke and Catherine Six wife of William Stoner to be divided among my said Six Children in equal shares. I say I give and bequeath unto my aforesaid Six Children in equal shares. I say I give and bequeath unto my aforesaid Six Children their Heirs Coheirs and assigns fore as all what is said above by me.

And lastly I hereby Constitute and appoint my son Isaac Six and My Son in law Adam Poke Executors to see this my Last Will and testament exeduted in its true form and meaning stating this and no other to be my last Will and testament. In witness where of I have hereunto set my hand and seal done on the Twenty Second day of July 1797

Signed, sealed & delivered her
Published and pronounced Barbara X Funkhauser
by the Testarix as her Last mark
will and Testament in presence of us

George Keller
B. Funkhauser
John Conn
" - from Shenandoah county, Virginia Abstracts of Wills by Amy Gilreath, pg 72, Will Book E

Johannes' children with Catherine Barbara Reisner were,
(21) Christina Six (1754) 2 Sep 1754

His children with Barbara Bowman were,
(21) John Six (c1760)
(21) Elizabeth Six (1767) in Shenandoah, Virginia, she married Adam Poke [Polk] on 22 April 1783 in Shenandoah county, Virginia
(21) Catherine Six (1767) she was born on 2 March 1767 in Shenandoah county, Virginia, she married William Stoner on 6 June 1791, she died in 1843 in Shenandoah county, Virginia.
(21) Isaac Six (1769) in Shenandoah, Virginia, he married Elizabeth Dellinger on 22 December 1795

My G-G-G-G-Grandfather. He was born in about 1760 in Frederick county, Maryland, the son of Barbara Bowman [Bauman].

According to tradition, at the age of sixteen he took his stepfather's place in the Colonial Army during the Revolutionary War. His stepfather was Christian Funkhouser, his father Johannes Six having died in 1772 or 1773. John was supposedly at the seige of Yorktown and present at the surrender of Cornwallis. He was also noted to be one of the prison guards at Yorktown. The American order-of-battle at Yorktown included a Virginia battalion of the Continental Army in Van Steuben's 3rd Division, and three brigades of Virginia militia under General Thomas Mitchell. The Marquis de Lafayette was also noted to have a force of 900 men, including a "substantial number of Virgnia militia" with which he shadowed Cornwallis in the movements that ended at Yorktown.

A John Six was included on a list of Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application files for Virginia and in "All Virginia Soldiers of 1776." However, note that John's cousin, John Conrad Six, was also a soldier of the period. The latter settled in Posey county, Indiana while our John made his last settlement in Scott county, Illinois.

Soon after the war John went to Pennsylvania to work at his trade of joiner [carpenter] and there married Mary Ann Duvall on 18 January 1787. The marriage occured in Washington county, Virginia. Washington county is on the border with North Carolina, in southwest Virginia. Mary was born in about 1760 in Pennsylvania. Her surname is also spelled DeVault or DeWald [Duvall = DeVault = DeWald]. She was the daughter of Johannes Michael Devault and Maria Barbara Schmidt. "John's son, Abraham, appears to have been born in Virginia in about 1783, which indicates John may have been previously married." Johannes Devault was born on 22 August 1716 in Germany, the son of Abraham "Theobald" Devault and Anna Catherina.

There was a John Six in the 1790 census of Frederick county, Maryland, but I don't believe this was our man. In his household were one man over 16, 3 boys under 16 and 4 women. That's too large a family for our John. Unfortunately, the 1790 census for Virginia where he probably lived does not survive.

Not long after their marriage John and Mary moved to Tennessee. They were, in fact, one of the pioneer families in Hawkins county. In a 19th century history John is referred to as a typical frontiersman and hunter, and pioneer of Tennessee, Kentucky and Illinois. From Six Family:

"The family pioneered to Hawkins Co, TN, where it appears most of their children were born. Very little is known of their time in Tennessee except that a John Six was a signer of a 1799 petition from "the citizens of Hawkins County that lived on the northwest side of Clinch Mountain."

John Six was bondsman for the marriage of David DeVault [Mary's brother?] and Susanna Guest on 19 March 1800 in Grainger county, Tennessee. John and his family appear to have lived in the Clinch Mountain area of Hawkins county, Tennessee.

Grainger & Hawkins County, Tennessee Grainger county is located in northeastern Tenessee. The first settlement there began in 1785 along the valley south of Clinch mountain. Hawkins county is just north of Grainger county, lying along the border with Virginia. Both of these counties were within the boundaries claimed by the State of Franklin. This was a new state, illegally established by frontier settlers in 1785.

In 1800 the family moved west, first to Montgomery county and then on to Ohio county, Kentucky. In an 1800 Tax List for Montgomery county, Kentucky as John Six.

From Six Family:

"John and his family must have migrated to Kentucky about 1800 or so to Logan, Butler, and Ohio counties. They settled in Ohio County where the remaining unwed children married. John kept in advance of the settlements, where it was necessary to be constantly on guard against Indian attacks, hunting in the fall. He found a market for his hams on the Ohio River. Very little is known of the family's time in Kentucky, except marriage dates of the children. "

"Jan. 25, 1803 John Six and Mary his wife of Montgomery Co. Ky. of one part and John Whitecraft of county aforesaid... Certain tract lying on Flat Creek being part of George Ballas preemption containing 153 3/4 Acres beginning at Beech tree standing on a hill side on North side of Mank's (Monk's?) Branch and on west side of Flat Creek. Corner to George Ballas survey. Running thence east 151 poles to white oak...."

"John Six of Montgomery county, Kentucky of one part and John Whitecraft and William Lunsdale of county aforesaid. for 5 schillings... part of George Ballas preemption including Farm, Mill, and Dwelling House where JOHN Six lives...to survivor of them and heirs of such survivor.

Witnesses [including]:
David Six [his son?]"

In the 1810 census of Montgomery county, Kentucky as John Six. In his household were 1 boy under 10, Billy, 1 who was 10 to 15 years old, David, 2 who were 16-25, Daniel and Isaac, and one man over 45, John. John's elder sons would have been on their own by this time. There was also one girl under 5, Nancy or Catherine, and a woman over 45, Mary. I can't explain why both Nancy and Catherine didn't show up. Perhaps one of them was boarding with a relative.

On 10 April 1812 John Six was the bondsman for the marriage of his daughter, Elizabeth, and William Parker in Ohio county, Kentucky.

In the 1820 census of Ohio county, Kentucky as John Six. There was one boy, under ten, another 16 to 25, and 1 over 45. Of the women, one was 10 to 15, another 16 to 25, and one over 45. There were six other people in the household, "not taxed," conceivably slaves, but not "free white persons."

John was mentioned in an article titled "On the large wandering Tygers or Jaguars of the United States" by C.S. Rainesque.

"Before that another had been shot on the 6th of June, 1820, by Mr. John Six, on Green River, 10 miles south-east of Hartford, in Ohio county. The skin was brought to Frankfort and an account given to the papers. This animal appeared to be a true Mexican Jaguar. The body is 5 feet long and the tail 2 feet. It weighted 150 pounds before skinning. The back and sides were yellow with black spots curiously arranged in several rows, a row on the back much larger and extending over half of the tail which was rather slender, with very long hair at the end. Chin, belly, and feet white, ears small round black outside, white inside. Whiskers stiff 6 inches long, black with the end white." - from "Atlantic Journal and Friend of Knowledge" of 1833

The family started their move to Illinois in about 1823, John's sons David and John Jr. leading the way. They arrived in Springfield, but were all in Morgan county, Illinois prior to 1830. In the 1830 census of Morgan county, Illinois as John Six. In his household were one man 20 to 30 years old, ?, one man 60 to 70, John, and a woman of the same age, Mary. The young man in the household could have been a grandson recruited to help John around the farm, or a hired hand.

Confusingly, John's youngest daughter, Catherine, is shown as born in Illinois in 1802. This obviously requires more research. Margarethe died on 3 September 1825, perhaps in Switzerland county, Indiana. This is in extreme southeastern Indiana, across the Ohio river from north central Kentucky. If so, then she died during the journey from Montgomery county, in eastern Kentucky, to Ohio county, in western Kentucky. From Six Family:

"Sons John and David were the pioneers to Illinois in the Spring of 1823, arriving near Springfield in June. They made the trip with pack horses and brought their small families with them. John, Mary Ann, and most of the children and their families, followed in a couple of years in covered wagons. The entire party was very poor, having only their outfits and willing hands, ready to engage in whatever offered itself. John and most of the family eventually arrived in Morgan County (now Scott), a few miles northwest of Winchester, Il, near Oxville and Exeter. They were farmers and land records reflect that they lived in a tight little group, each family with their own land in 1831 or so, ranging from 60 to 160 acres. Later, John and Mary moved west across the Illinois River to "South Prairie" In Pike County, just west of Perry, Illinois - a ferry was in place in those days at Naples. Elizabeth and Jacob and their families moved to Independence Co, AR, where they raised their families. David raised his family on a farm near Mt. Sterling, about 14 miles north of Perry wehre his parents had retired. Son John "Jack" and his family are somewhat of a mystery, living in Brown County just south of Mt. Sterling, Adams County, Missouri, and Missouri Township back in Brown Coutny, where he died in 1854. Apparently most of his family died prior to 1892, cause unknown."

Counties of Illinois Pike county is located in west central Illinois, along the Mississippi river. Named for Zebulon Pike, it was formed on 31 January 1821. It originally encompassed all of the state north of the Illinois River. It was part of the Military Tract, that land set aside for veterans of the War of 1812. The Tract included all of the present counties of Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Fulton, Hancock, Henderson, Knox, McDonough, Mercer, Peoria, Pike, Schuyler, Stark, and Warren. Brown county is just north of Pike county, inland from the river. Cass county is due east of Brown county, and Schuyler county is north of Brown county. Morgan county is located in western Illinois, but does not currently adjoin the Mississippi river. The first settlers arrived in the county around 1818, but the county was not formally organized until 1823. Scott county was originally part of Morgan county, due east of Pike county. Kane county is in north eastern Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.

John Six of Brown county was among the 100 men who then resided in the Illinois territory, now comprising Brown county, but then a portion of Schuyler county, that responded to the first call for troops during the Black Hawk War on 26 May 1831. These included R. N. Curry, S. P. O'Neal, Green McHatton, Daniel Kendrick, Matthew Alexander and John Six, who enlisted in a company at Rushville, Schuyler county, commanded by Captain Hart Fellows. This may be John Jr.

From the Database of Illinois Black Hawk War Veterans:

NAME RANK COMPANY PLACE OF ENROLLMENT REGIMENT BRIGADE
Six, John, Pvt, H Fellows, Rushville, 1, Duncan

". . . we were ordered to wait until the brigade came, when we (Captain Fellows Co.) were made part of the "Fourth regiment, Illinois volunteers," fifteen hundred strong. We marched in four columns, the baggage train keeping the road, and two regiments on either side. Ours being the extreme left. To most of the men this going to war was a time of rare frolic and nonsense . . . we thought it royal fun.
. . . our scouts had captured and brought in two Indians who pretended to be Potwatamies, but who were in reality sent out by Black Hawk as spies, to ascertain the strength of the army approaching him.
. . . The following morning, as we marched up toward [Black Hawk's] village, Gen. Gaines left Fort Armstrong and came down towards the same point with his artillery, and opened fire, not on the village but on the hiding places of the Indians round about. This plan succeeded admirably, and the Indians took to their canoes and left . . . After destroying the corn fields we burned the village and then camped three miles above, where the city of Rock Island now stands . . . [Black Hawk] then came in, and after several days were spent in parleying, he agreed that the Indians should not come on the east side of the Mississippi river, more than two at a time, unless they were permitted by the Indian agent. This ended our first campaign in the Black Hawk war, having been in the service about thirty days." - from "Recollections of My Life" by Chauncey Hobart

John's wife, Mary, died in about 1833, in Illinois. According to probate records, John died on 4 November 1845 in Mt. Sterling township, Brown county, Illinois, possibly a hunting accident on his son's, David's, farm. He was 84 years old. I have another record which mentions that John Six (Saxe) is buried in Brown county, Illinois. This should be the South cemetary, in Versailles. It claims he was at the surrender of Cornwallis [Battle of Yorktown].

"John Six (Saxe) - enlisted in the Virginia troops when only sixteen years of age, taking the place of his stepfather. He was present at the surrender of Cornwallis. He removed to Pennsylvania, then to Tennessee, and from there to Kentucky, coming to Scott county, Illinois, in 1825. He lived for fifteen years in Pike county, but died at the home of his son in 1848 in Versaille township, Brown county. He was pensioned." - from "Illinois Revolutionary War Veteran Burials" of 1917

"John Six died at the age of about 84 on Novemeber 4, 1845, at the home of his son David in Brown Cunty. Mary's death date, as her birth date, is unknown. Through her name appeared in John's Will of 1840, there is no evidence of her presence when the will was probated in 1846 in Pike County. Neither John nor Mary's graves have been physically located and their burials are not recorded in the cemetary publications of Brown or Pike counties. We have some reason to believe that John's grave was identified by a wooden marker in Versailles South Cemetary and has since disappeared. One would think that Mary would be buried beside him. DAR lists his as buried in Versailles Township, Brown Co. Ill. The cause of death is speculated of possibly a hunting accident on David's farm." - from Revolutionary War Soldiers Buried in the western Region of Illinois, also in Six Family.

His children were,
(22) Abraham Six (c1783)
(22) Elizabeth Six (c1784)
(22) Jacob Six (c1786)
(22) John "Jack" Six (c1787-90)
(22) Daniel Six (1795)
(22) Isaac Six (c1797)
(22) Mary Ann "Polly" Six (c1798)
(22) David Six (c1800)
(22) William "Billy" Six (1801)
(22) Catherine Six (1802)
(22) Nancy Six (1804)

He was born in about 1783 in Virginia, or before John's marriage to Mary Ann Devault. He married Susannah Sutton on 26 July 1806 in Logan county, Kentucky. Susan was born in about 1790 in Kentucky. On 11 September 1811 he was the bondsman for a wedding in Ohio county, Kentucky.

"Very little is known about Abraham, except that he owned about 234 acres of land in Secs 11 and 14, T14N R13W, about six miles NW of Winchester. Two houses still occupied in Sec 11 and 14 which may have been owned by Abraham, and are now owned by George Hoots and Wayne Kilver. He apparently moved his parents from their farm south of Exeter across the Illinois River to a location just west of Perry in Pike County sometime prior to 1840, where John's Will was prepared in 1840. A claim by Abraham appeared in the probate documents of 1846 for the costs of moving his parents to Pike County. He died on 01 June 1849 in Winchesther, Scott county, Illinois."

She was born in about 1784 in Hawkins county, Tennessee. She married William Parker on 10 April 1812 in Ohio county, Kentucky. She died in Arkansas, sometime prior to her father writing his will in 1840, leaving a large family.

He was born in about 1786 in Virginia. He married Margaret "Peggy" Parker on 15 January 1810 in Ohio county, Kentucky. Her father was Joseph Parker and he made an oath that Peggy was 21 years of age, dated 12 February 1810. Jacob moved to Arkansas and died at an advanced age, leaving a large family. He died in 1854 in Green Briar township, Independence county, Arkansas.

"Marilyn Neereimer [a descendent] believes Jacob was born in Hawkins Co. TN between 1782-1787. AR 1850 reflects ca 1786 in VA. I believe it's likely he was born after his parents were married ca 1787 in VA. Jacob and Margaret moved from Ohio Co., KY to Morgan Co., Il, with the rest of the John Six clan in the 1820's - 6 children, 1 male and 5 females, appeared in the IL 1830 census. They purchased and settled on 80 acres 1/2 mile south of Oxville in 1831, but moved by 1833 to Independence Co, AR, about the time Will Parker family moved to the same county."

Their children were:
(23) Marquis Six (c1810)
(23) Peline Six (c1812)
(23) Mary Six (1813)
(23) Nancy Six (1815)
(23) Catherine Six (1819)
(23) William R. Six (1824)
(23) James Wesley Six (1833)

Marquis D.L. Six married (1) Sarah?, (2) Eliza Ann Hughes 1858 Ind Co AR (3) Mary Ellen Dodge 1870 Ind Co AR, (4) Nellie Birdsong 1875 Ind Co AR. He had five daughters, Mary, Cordelia, Cornelia, Alice and Eliza.

She married Oliver B. Goodridge in 1835 in Independence county, Arkansas.

She was born about 1813 in Kentucky.

She was born about 1815 in Kentucky. She married Willis Young in 1840 in Independenc county, Arkansas.

She was born about 1819 in Kentucky. She married Willis McClenden in 1841 in Arkansas.

He was born in 1824. His first wife is unknown, but he married (2) Lavada Crawford and (3) Nancy Carter, both of Independence County. His children were Emeline Six, who married Franklin Dodd; John Hiram Six; William B. Six; James Six; Nancy Caroline Six b 1848, d 1915 OK, who married William Henry Dodd.

He was born in 1833 in Kentucky and died in 1912. His children were William, Lizza, Mary, Harland, Edward Walden (born in 1882 in Arkansas, married Stella Stroud in Indiana county, Arkansas), Rosa B. (born in 1883 in Arkansas, married John Johnson in 1905 in Indiana county, Arkansas).

There may be also another brother, William W. Six, who was born in 1836 in Arkansas. This is confusing because of the existence of another brother, William R. Six.

He was born between 1787 and 1790 in Hawkins county, Tennessee. He died between 1854 and 1857 in Missouri township, Brown county, Illinois. He married Jane Harsh [Harsher] on 4 April 1812 in Ohio county, Kentucky.

The 1840 Federal census for Adams county, Illinois, which only listed heads of households, has a John Six. Adams county is in the vicinity of Brown county, where John Six, Revolutionary War veteran, is buried.

There is a well preserved, pre-Civil War mill in Dillard, Missouri on Huzzah and Indian Creeks. On 31 July 1843 a John Six bought a half interest in the mill from Elijah Allison. On 21 December 1843 Six became the sole owner when his wife, Harriet Rated, relinquished her share of the mill to him. In court documents this was referred to as the Sicks Mill. On 3 May 1847 John Six and his second wife, Cerildia [Sirilda] Tinker Six, sold the mill to Joseph Turnbough. Considering that many of the family moved into Missouri, this may be 'our' John.

Confusingly, since I didn't record the source of the information above and now cannot find it on the web, the Dillard Mill State Historic Site claims the earliest mill built there, Wisdom's Mill, was not constructed until the 1850's. However, per the Elijah Allison Family website, Elijah was in the vicinity circa 1844.

He and all of his family were all buried as of 1892, he dying in 1857, aged sixty-seven, in Ohio county, Kentucky."

He was born in about 1795 in Hawkins county, Tennessee. He married Rhoda Hampton on 15 January 1821 in Butler county, Kentucky - from "Marriage records, Butler Co, KY." She was born in about 1798 in Kentucky, the daughter of Thomas Hampton and Susannah Arrington. Daniel died on 15 October 1857 in Wincester, Scott county, Illinois, aged about sixty-seven, "leaving eight or nine children to mourn his death." - from "Probate Daniel Six, Scott Co, 16 Nov 1857." He was buried in the Madden cemetary in Scott county, Illinois. Rhoda died in about 1875 in Scott county, Illinois.

Daniel and Rhoda's children were,
(23) Calvin H. Six (c1820)
(23) Adeline Six (c1823)
(23) William L. Six (1852)
(23) Mary Ann Six (c1827)
(23) Stephen L. Six
(23) Talitha Six (1831)
(23) Lucy Angeline Six (1836)
(23) Lucinda Jane Six (1837)
(23) Otho B. Six (1841)

He was born between 1820 and 1825 in Kentucky. He married Persina Hadlock on 20 March 1840 in Scott county, Illinois by Absolom Peak, JP. She was born on 7 December 1815 in Jay, Orleans county, Vermont. He died before 1849 in Pike county, Illinois. Calvin received 50 cents for acting as clerk at John Six's estate sale in 1846. He must have died prior to August 1849 because Persina married John Daggett on 24 August 24, 1849.

The children of Calvin Six and Persina Hadlock were:
(24) William M.8 Six (1842), born Jan 26, 1842 in IL; died Apr 15, 1919 in Orange Co, CA.
(24) Nathan Six (1843), born Abt. 1843 in IL
(24) Amanda Six (1844), born Abt. 1844 in IL. She married John E. ENYAST Jan 05, 1865 in Scott Co, IL.
(24) Dorson Six (1846), born Abt. 1846 in IL. Dorson served during the Civil War in Co F, 2d Cavalry Regiment, the same unit as his brother Daniel C. Six. At the time of enlistment he was a resident of Willow Branch, IL.
(24) Daniel Calvin Six (1847), born Apr 06, 1847 in Pike Co, IL; died Jan 19, 1924 in Laplata, Macon Co, MO.

She was born about 1823 in Kentucky. She married Nelson J. Moss, a farmer, on 24 February 1842 in Scott county, Illinois.

He was born on 23 January 1825 in Kentucky. He died on 1 January 1852 in Scott county, Illinois. He served in the Civil War.

She was born in about 1827 in Kentucky. She married Dawson Carey, a farmer, on 2 October 1845 in Scott county, Illinois. He was born in about 1823 in Ohio.

He witnessed the signing of his Uncle William's will. Not in some listings for the family. He was born on 26 November 1828 in Morgan county, Illinois. He married (1) Artemissia Campbell on 5 February 1852 in Scott county, Illinois; (2) Ann Sutton on 8 October 1857 in Scott county; (3) Mary Frances Taylor on 21 April 1861 in Winchester, Scott county. She was born on 4 April 1836 in Morgan county, Illinois, the youngest daughter of James Taylor and Mary Six, see below under the John Conrad Six Family. Mary died on 4 February 1887 in Scott county. Stephen died on 26 December 1906 in Scott county, Illinois.

The children of Stephen Six and Artemissia Campbell were,
(24) Manuel Six (1854), born Nov 19, 1854 in Scott Co, IL; died Mar 04, 1941 in Exeter, Scott Co, IL.
(24) William Six (1854), born Dec 1854 [huh?] in Scott Co, IL; died 1922 in Pike Co, IL.

The children of Stephen Six and Mary Taylor were,
(24) Kate Six
(24) Mary Jane Six (1862), born Abt. 1862 in Scott Co, IL; died Bef. 1920. She married Walton Pollock Dec 11, 1889 in Scott Co, IL; born Abt. 1864 in KY. (24) Elmira Six (1869), born Apr 1869 in Scott Co, IL; died in -.
(24) Edward Lee Six (1870), born Nov 09, 1870 in Exeter, Scott Co, IL; died Apr 09, 1944 in Exeter, Scott Co, IL.
(24) Rollie Six (1873), born Feb 18, 1873 in Scott Co, IL; died Mar 05, 1894 in Scott Co, IL.
(24) Lafayette Six (1875), born Feb 26, 1875 in Scott Co, IL; died Jul 25, 1965 in IL.

She was born on 6 February 1831 in Morgan county, Illinois. She married William Crisp on 14 May 1848. He was born on 25 June 1822 in Wilson county, Texas, the son of Charles Crisp and Marina Andrews. William died on 29 December 1904 in Scott county. Talitha died on 13 October 1915 in Scott county, Illinois. Her obituary:

"Talitha Six, daughter of Daniel and Rhoda Six, was born in Morgan (now Scott) County, IL Feb. 6, 1831; died Oct. 13, 1915, aged 84 years eight months and seven days.

She was married to William Crisp May 14, 1848, and was the mother of five children, four daughters and one son; three daughters, Mrs. Mary Priest, Mrs. Jane Bunch and Mrs. El la Sisson preceding her in death. She is survived by one son, Charles Crisp, of Oxville, one daughter, Mrs. Harriet Patterson of Oxville, one sister, Mrs. Jane Smith, living in Texas, and one brother, Otho Six, living in Oklahoma; 15 grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

Deceased was a member of Plum Creek Baptist church, having united with this church over a quarter of a century ago. As long as her health permitted she was always in attendance at her church. She was a consistent Christian woman, always ready to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, minister to the sick and those in distress. Night after night, after doing her homework, she has spent attending the sick or dying neighbors. No tramp or wayfaring person was turned away from her door unfed. She lived to see a great change in Scott County. She lived her whole life within two miles of the place of her birth and it was interesting to hear her relate incidents of her early life, having helped in the harvest fields when the wheat was cut with a sickle, riding horse back through the woods, fording and her horse swimming the swollen streams, spinning flax on the little tread wheels, grind corn meal on hand mills, etc.

Funeral services were held at her church, Plum Creek, Sunday morning, Oct. 17, 1915, conducted by Rev. Geo. W. Murray assisted by Rev. Giles Reader. A very large audience was in attendance paying respects to a good Christian woman.

The pall bearers were five grandsons, Ed Priest of Springfield, Ill.; Wm. Patterson, Kansas City; Frank and Bryan Patterson, Oxville, and Lafe Six, a nephew, of Bluffs, Ill . The flowers, which were very beautiful, were in charge of four granddaughters, Mrs. Bell Becker of Springfield, Illinois; Myrtle, Mary and Gladys Patterson of Oxville. The Knights of Pythias of Winchester contributed a very beautiful wreath. Interment was in the Crisp cemetery." - Winchester Times, Oct 1915

"Another ___ landmark was removed from our midst, and taken to the great realm beyond the skies.

William Crisp, son of Charles and Marina Crisp, was born June 25, 1822, in Wilson county, in the state of Tennessee, about eighteen miles from Nashville, came to Scott County then Morgan, Illinois, when he was seven years of age, and settled with his parents on a farm two miles south of Exeter in the year 1829. Here he resided until 1858, when he moved to the farm where his late residence is now situated, at which place he died, Dec. 29, 1904, at 9:50 o'clock a .m.

On May 14, 1848, he was married to Talitha Six, who survives him, daughter of Daniel and Rhoda Six, both now deceased. There were born to Mr. and Mrs. Crisp five children: one son, Charles Crisp, who is well and favorably known throughout Scott county in business and official circles, and four daughters, two of whom are living, viz: Harriet Patters on and Ella Sisson, and two dead, viz: Mary Priest, who die d Feb. 24, 1886, and Jane Bunch who died Jan. 25, 1895.

William Crisp was one of a family of eleven children, all of whom are now dead except one sister, Mrs. Permelia Hart, of Creal Springs, Ill. At the time of his death all of his children now living were present at his bedside.

Mr. Crisp united with the Primitive Baptist church in the year 1850, and was baptized by Rev. John Record, and has ever remained true to his first convictions, unwavering, faithful and a true servant and follower of his Lord and Master.

On Friday before his departure on the following Tuesday, he called all his children about him, and being perfectly rational, he told them of his coming dissolutions and gave them directions in detail as to how he wanted his funeral conducted and how he wanted his business affairs settled , and especially did he express his firm hope in the Lord and the reward awaiting him.

He was a farmer, and having cleared away the forests about his home with his own hands, he knew what toil meant. He possessed considerable means, was a good neighbor, a good husband and father and a warm friend of the poor. He was charitable indeed, and gave liberally to the needy, and to help build and maintain churches of all denominations.

His hospitality was only bounded by his possessions, and to all neighbors and friends, he and his good wife always kept open door. He never had a lawsuit of any kind; he was temperate and regular in his habits, and did not use tobacco in any form. In politics Mr. Crisp was a democrat of the staunch, unwavering type. He cast his first vote for James K. Polk, for President, and voted at each presidential election thereafter for the democratic nominee.

His funeral was conducted from his late residence at one o'clock p.m., on December 30, 1904, by Rev. H. S. Peak and Rev. A. W. Murray, officiating, and his remains were laid to rest by the side of his deceased mother in the family cemetery, witnessed by a vast concourse of sympathizing relatives and friends. He leaves a wife, three children and several grand children and a few great grand children and a great host of relatives and friends to mourn his departure.

A Christian father now has gone,
From toil and care to rest,
He's gone up there,
His crown to wear." - Unknown newspaper, probably the Winchester Times, Dec. 1904

She was born on 26 March 1836 in Morgan county, Illinois. She married Benjamin Franklin Morris on 21 July 1853 in Scott county, Illinois. He was born on 20 March 1831 in Illinois. She died on 8 January 1888 in Illlinois. He died on 30 May 1897 in Illinois.

Lucinda Jane Six was the daughter of Daniel Six. She was born April 26, 1837 in Morgan county, Illinois. She married John Vinson Smith on 27 January 1859 in Scott county, Illinois. He ws born on 11 December 1837 in Morgan county, Illinois, the son of Jeremiah Smith and Arena Crisp.

John and Lucinda had six children, most of them born in Illinois.

"John and Lucinda Jane Smith left Naples, Scott Co, IL in the late 1880's. They stopped for some time in Orphan's Home, Dallas County, TX, where their son's Charley and Dan had come years before, while still in their teens. While in Dallas County, their daughter, Alice, met and married Tom Kemp. The elder Smith's moved on to Pottsville, Hamilton County, with two younger children, Mary and Jack, in 1891. They bought property from J. W. Bowers. By February of 1892, they had ordered from Dallas, and received at the Hico Station, a cultivator and miscellaneous equipment weighing a total of 300 pounds and costing a total of 25 cents freight.

Alice and George moved from Dallas County to Pottsville, Hamilton County, in 1891, also.

Charley and Fannie and Dan and Oceola moved to Hamilton and bought land by 1903. In 1899 Jack bought land, and thus, the whole family were now landowners in Hamilton County.

John Smith died in 1911, and Charley and Fannie worked his place as well as their own. By the time Lucinda Jane died in 1918, she had two grandchildren in Pottsville and had watched ten growing up there on the farm. All of these grandchildren eventually left the area except the youngest son, Earl. Earl left only long enough to go to the University of Texas, and Daniel Baker. He then took Clara Wilson as his bride, and he was still running the homestead when Charley died in 1944.

By the time of his death, Charley had 34 grandchildren, with four of his children living in the Hamilton area and four had gone back to Orphan's Home area, by then Dallas.

All of Charley and Fannie's daughters were given names that ended in the letter "A": Ada, Della, Lola, and Ida.

Ada married John Featherston, and they moved to the Gulf Coast area. Della married Dewitt Fuller, and they remained in Pottsville, and their daughter, Viola, married J. R. Hayes, and they are still residents of Hamilton. Lena married married Fred Trimble and moved to Dallas, as did Ida who married Cecil Burns. Ida was the youngest child and has always been known as "sister".

All of the boys had nicknames which began with letter "B ", Bill, Ben, Bood, and Bud. Bill followed Charley in farming, but moved to the San Angelo area with his wife, Alice. Ben (Charley Lee) married Maggie Burnettie Richerson of Hamilton and moved to Dallas and later Houston. Bood (George) went to Dallas and married Mary and lived there until his death. Bud was the youngest (Earl) and he lived on the old homestead, farming and later raising turkeys in the early 1970's. He and Clara moved into town, where Clara still resides (as of March, 2006). Robert Glenn Smith and Nona Smith Poor, Children of Chalres Lee Smith.

My grandmother, Annie Belle Smith is their second child and she married my grandfather, George Foster Kemp. My great grandmother, Lucinda Jane Six Smith died in 1918 and is buried in the Pottsville Cemetery, Hamilton County, Potsville, Texas. I was at that cemetery yesterday and took a picture of her marker. I have other sources that validate my history but I think the strongest case I can make for this being the correct genealogy is that Lucinda Jane was my great grandmother." - Beth and Terry Covey

He was born on 18 February 1841 in Scott county, Illinois. He died after 7 April 1930 in Richardsville, McIntosh county, Oklahoma.

He was born in about 1797 in Tennessee. He married Rhoda Mitchell on 11 April 1822 in Ohio county, Kentucky. Isaac was a farmer in Scott county, Illinois. He died on 02 July 1863 in Winchester, Scott county, Illinois.

She was born in about 1798 in North Carolina [?], or in 1792 in Tennessee. Under the name of "Polly" she married James Taylor on 25 July 1815 in Ohio county, Kentucky. This may be the James Taylor who was born circa 1774 in Virginia. If so, he's the father, by a previous marriage, of Simon Henry Taylor, who was born in Hampshire county, Virginia on 6 April 1799. See below for a possible marriage between Simon Henry and Nancy Six, Polly's younger sister.

Polly and James had a "medium sized" family. They are listed in the 1850 census for Scott county. James died on 8 September 1851 in Scott county, Illinois. Polly died on 22 January 1862 in Winchester, Scott county, Illinois.

David was born in about 1799 in Hawkins county, Tennessee. He married Elizabeth Cox on 23 December 1819 in Ohio county, Kentucky. He was William Six's bondsman for his marriage. He died on 02 December 1857 in Missouri township, Brown county, Illinois. With his brother, John, he was a pioneer of the Six family in Illinois, arriving in the spring of 1823, landing near Springfield in June. They made the journey with pack horses and bringing their families with them. David had two children at the time while John had just one. This family is among the earliest of the settlers of the area and the Six Prairie, sometimes called Six's Prairie, near Mount Sterling in Brown county is named after them. In a year or two they came to the western part of Morgan county and their parents and brothers followed to Illinois a couple of years afterward, making the journey with covered wagons. The entire party was very poor, having nothing but their outfits and their willing hands, ready to engage in whatever offered itself.

David lived on a farm of 140 acres, near Mount Sterling, in Brown county, where he died in 1857, aged fifty-nine years, leaving eleven living children and one deceased daughter of five years.

"David and brother Jack were the pioneers to IL, arriving in Sangamon County the spring of 1823. he brought his family on horseback, he and Elizabeth carrying their children in their arms. His possessions consistetd of his little family, two horses and 25 cents. They movevd to Greene Co, Morgan Co, and in 1829 on to Brown Co. David settled his family first in Sec 20, Mt Sterling Twp, near brother Jack, but latter settled permanently in Sec 22. He was a prosperous farmer and served as County Commissioner and election judge for many years. He was a hatter by trade when he came to IL."

A farmer of Mount Sterling. He had a family of two daughters and two sons.

The wife of a Mr. Green of California. They had a large family.

She died in Missouri, aged forty-eight, leaving nine children she had born to her husband, George Scott.

A farmer living two miles east of Mount Sterling. He married his first cousin, Elizabeth Six, the daugther of William Six. They had seven children.

He was one of the most successful surgeons and physicians of Versailles, Indiana. He was born in Morgan county, now Scott, Illinois, in 1828. The following material is from a Biographical Index of Cass, Schuyler and Brown counties, in Illinois, of 1892.

"ALEXANDER D. SIX, M.D., one of the successful surgeons and physicians of Versailles, was born in Morgan county, now Scott, in 1828. His father, David Six, was born in Tennessee, in 1799, and his father, John Six, was a native of the Shenandoah valley, Virginia, and his grandfather, the great-great-grandfather of the Doctor, was banished from Germany on account of his tendency toward mutiny, and settled in this country, where he founded the family of Six on American soil. The offence for which he was exiled from his native land was a small one, it being the infringement of the game laws with regard to hunting rabbits. His grandson, John, took a very active part in the Revolutionary war, and though a youth was one of the prison guards at Yorktown. His wife was Mary Duvall, of Pennsylvania, and they were married in the State where he was following his trade of carpenter and joiner. After marriage they removed to Tennessee, where their seven sons were born. This gentleman was a typical frontiersman and hunter, and was a pioneer of Tennessee, Kentucky and Illinois. The father of our subject, David, and his brother, John, were the pioneers of that family to Illinois, coming in the spring of 1823, landing near Springfield in June, making the journey with pack horses and bringing their families with the, David having two children, while his brother had but one. In a year or two they came to the western part of Morgan county, and their parents and brothers followed to Illinois a couple of years afterward, making the journey with covered wagons. The entire party was very poor, having nothing but their outfits and their willing hands, ready to engage in whatever offered itself. John Six had a family as follows: Abraham Six, died in Scott county, aged sixty-seven, leaving three sons and two daughters; Daniel, died in the same county, about the same age, leaving eight or nine children to mourn his death; John, the next, and his family are all buried, he dying in 1857, aged sixty-seven; Jacob, moved to Arkansas and died at an advanced age, leaving a large family; David, father of subject; Isaac, farmer of Scott county, where he died about the same age as his other brothers; William died at the same age; Mary, wife of James Taylor, of Scott county, a farmer, and they had a medium family; Elizabeth, wife of William Parker, died in Arkansas, leaving a large family; Catherine is still living with her daughter, in Missouri, aged ninety years, and is in fair health of mind and body; she had five children; Nancy, wife of Simon Taylor, died when about seventy, leaving twelve or thirteen children. These children were all farmers, or the wives of farmers, and they all crossed the plains to Illinois. The father and mother of the subject lived on a farm of 140 acres, near Mount Sterling, where the father died, aged fifty-nine years, leaving eleven children and one deceased daughter of five years. The name of the children were: Nancy, wife of a Mr. Green, of California, has a large family; Martha, died in Missouri, aged forty-eight, leaving the nine children she had born to her husband, George Scott; Daniel, a farmer of Mount Sterling, has a family of two daughters and the same number of sons; Abraham, a farmer two miles east of Mount Sterling, has seven children: Alexander D., subject; Mary, died aged forty-eight, in California, near Los Angeles, being the wife of Irving Carter, by whom she had six children; Isabella died when five years old; William died near Mount Sterling on the homestead, aged fifty-four, leaving a wife and two daughters; Elizabeth, now Mrs. William Bowen, of Knox county, Missouri, has six daughters; Cynthia, widow of W. A. Sieles, lives on her farm in Missouri with her seven children Oliver P. and James K. are both bachelors on the home farm. This family is among the earliest of the settlers, and the Six prairie in Mount Sterling is named after them.

The Doctor was reared to farm life and received his primary education in the log schoolhouses, with the puncheon floors and slag seats, without backs. The school that he attended, principally, was held in Mount Sterling. He left the subscription school at eighteen and went for a year to the Mount Sterling Academy when he was twenty-two. After this he taught school for four years, reading medicine all this time. He finished his medical course in Rush Medical College, graduating in the class of 1859, beginning his practice at Mount Pleasant. He went to Colorado in 1860 and two years later made an exploring trip through Idaho and Montana. He spent two years in Colorado and four years in Montana, and was one of the nineteen who discovered the gold mines in the last named State, at Big Hole, not long before the discovery of the Bannock mines. He was interested in these and other mines during the four years he spent in this State, but returned home, across the plains, by stage, a journey of 2,200 miles, an easier journey than the trip out, which was made with ox teams.

The Doctor bought his present farm of 400 acres about 1873, of J. P. Hambaugh for $9,000, with no buildings but the old log cabin. He built his farm house in 1875 and his barns in 1880 and 1889, one being 36 by 40 and the other 36 by 48. His farm is a grain and stock one, he raising wheat, corn and hay, feeding his stock at home. At times he has as many as forty-two head of horses, which he raises from colts. He has built a warehouse on his own land, at Perry Spring Station, where they ship a great deal of grain and stock.

This gentleman was married, in Lee township, to Elizabeth Osborn, still living. They have three living children, but have buried one daughter, Jessie, aged nine years. She was a lovely child and her untimely death cast a gloom over the entire household. The living children are: Charles, aged twenty-four; Fred H., twenty-two; and Mattie, the pet of the household, aged eight. The sons are both regular farmers and are now conducting the stock farm. Both have received a good business education, and are still single, residing at home. The little daughter is a sweet child and fills, to some extent, the aching void left by her departed sister.

The Doctor still practices, but only pursued his profession exclusively for about two years. H was of a great deal of use in the mines, where his professional skill was often called into play, at one time being blown up from a premature discharge of a blast of powder; the Doctor was injured, and it was some time before he recovered, having narrowly escaped death. This gentleman is a member of no secret society or creed, and believes in Democracy, but is hardly within party lines. He and his family are highly respected. "

He was born about 1868.

He was born about 1870.

The pet of the household, she was born about 1884.

She died at the age of forty-eight in California, near Los Angeles, being the wife of Irving Carter, by whom she had six children.

She died at the age of five.

Died near Mount Sterling on the homestead, aged fifty-four, leaving a wife and two daughters.

Elizabeth, now Mrs. William Bowen, of Knox county, Missouri, has six daughters.

Cynthia, widow of W. A. Sieles, lives on her farm in Missouri with her seven children.

Bachelor on the home farm.

Bachelor on the home farm.

My G-G-G-Grandfather. The youngest son of John Six, he was born on 8 September 1801 in Ohio county, Kentucky. Some researchers make William the son of John Conrad Six Jr., but that man never lived in Kentucky.

William Six married Jane Crabtree on 26 December 1821 in Ohio county, Kentucky. Benjamin Burden officiated and William's brother, David, was the bondsman.

"Six, William and Crabtree, Jane, Dec. 26, 1821. Benj. Burden . . . David Six" - from "Marriage Records, 1799-1840, Ohio county, Kentucky"

A few years later the couple migrated along with the rest of their extended family to Illinois. Their daughter, Mary, was born in Kentucky in about 1827 while their son, Presely, was born in Illinois in 1829.

In the 1830 census of Morgan county, Illinois as Wm Six. In the household were two boys under 5, James and Presley, one man 20 to 30 years old, William, two girls under 5, Elizabeth and Mary, one who was 5 to 10 years old, Mahala, and a woman who was 20 to 30 years old, Jane.

Billy was a farmer in Morgan county, now Scott county, about six miles northwest of Winchester and three miles southeast of Oxville near Plum Creek, on land he purchased in 1833. This was where most of his children were born and raised among their grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. Grandparents John and Mary Six and Uncle Jacob and Aunt Peggy Six lived only a couple miles away until they moved to Pike County; Uncle Isaac and Aunt Rhoda Six, Uncle Abraham and Aunt Susan Six, Uncle Daniel and Aunt Rhoda Six, Uncle William and Aunt Elizabeth (Six) Parker, and Uncle James and Aunt Polly (Six) Taylor, and their families, lived within a mile of them.

In the 1840 census of Winchester, Scott county, Illinois as Wm Six. Unfortunately I can't see the page to determine how many were in his family.

In the 1850 census of Scott county, Illinois as William Six, a 58 [?] year old farmer, of Kentucky. Living with him were his wife, Jane, 45, of Kentucky, and his children, Presely, 21, of Illinois, Mary, 23, of Kentucky, Wesley, 18, Martha, 17, Zanilda, 10 [?], William, 8, Cyrus, 5, and Logan, 2, the latter all of Illinois. William's brother Daniel lived near-by.

In the 1860 census of Township 14, Scott county, Illinois as William Six, a 65 year old farmer, of Kentucky. Living with him were his wife, Jane, 58, of Tennessee, and children, William, 17, Cyrus, 14, Logan, 12, and Martha, 25, all of Illinois. Also living with him were Elizabeth Meadow, 21, and Laura A. Meadow, 3/12, both of Illinois.

Apparently William was on his death bed on 27 April 1866 when he executed his Last Will and Testament. Brother Daniel's sons Stephen L. and 'Other' Six, witnessed the signing of the will. Grandpa "Billy," as he was called, passed away the following day, on 28 April 1866, at his home and was laid to rest on his land on high ground overlooking Plum Creek and present-day US 36/I-72. This land was later owned and occuppied by son Josiah B. Six and his family. It is currently owned by Bob Smith, past Sheriff of Scott County.

William died on 28 April 1866 in Scott county, Illinois. He left his land to his wife Jane for her life, thereafter to his three youngest sons William Paine, Josiah Benjamin, and Logan W. Six. By 1866 the children were married and living elsewhere in Morgan, Brown, and Pike counties.

In the 1870 census of township 14, Scott county, Illinois as Jane Six, 65. She was living with her son, Logan, a 21 year old farm laborer, and his wife, Alpha, 18.

Jane passed away on 13 September 1871 in Scott county, Illinois, and was buried next to William. There is no evidence of other graves at their gravesite. William's headstone was found six inches beneath the surface and in two pieces in September 1996. Jane's headstone was intact; both are readable. The inscription on William's headstone is:

"A husband kind, a father dear, A faithful friend is buried here."

William and Jane had twelve children:
(23) Mahala Ann "Hala" Six (1823)
(23) James R. Six (1824)
(23) Elizabeth "Betty" Six (1826)
(23) Mary E. "Poppy" Six (1827), of Kentucky
(23) Presley Crabtree Six (1829), of Illinois
(23) Wesley H. Six (1832)
(23) Martha B. Six (1833/5)
(23) Virgil Six (1833)
(23) Isabella Zarilda Ann "Rilda" Six (1840)
(23) William Paine Six (1843)
(23) Josiah Benjamin "Cy" Six (1844)
(23) Logan W. Six (1849)

She was born about 1823 in Ohio county, Kentucky. She married George N. Brown on 20 November 1839 in Scott county, Illinois. They moved to Kentucky between 1855 and 1859. She died after 1860 in Kentucky.

My G-G-Grandfather. He was born on 7 September 1824 in Ohio county, Kentucky. James Six, commonly referred to as Jim, was the oldest son of William Six and Jane Crabtree. When just an infant his parents, aunts and uncles and their families, and grandparents, came to Morgan, now Scott, county, Illinois. James was raised and schooled in the Oxville/Exeter area where his father was a farmer.

James married his first wife, Lucinda E. Miller, in Scott county, Illinois in 1841 [or 1844] when only 18. She was born on 10 September [February] 1827 in Illinois.

In the 1850 census Township 3, Pike county, Illinois as James Six, a 25 year old farmer, of Kentucky. Living with him were his wife, Lucinda, 22, of Illinois, and children, James W., 5, Elizabeth, 2, and Cynthia A., 6/12. Pike county is about 35 miles northwest of Oxville, in Scott county.

Lucinda died shortly after that on 20 April 1853 in Morrellville, Brown county, Illinois, cause unknown. Their children were James W., Mary Elizabeth, Cynthia Ann, and Francis Marion.

James then married Sarah Jane Woods on 3 January 1854 in Scott county. She was born on 15 September 1833 per her tombstone, in Illinois - though per the 1870 census this should be 1837/8, that is she was just 16 when she married. Sarah appears to have been orphaned before 1850. In the 1850 census of Scott county, Illinois as Sarah J. Wood, 12, of Illinois. She was living with Claiborne and Sarah Gwinn. Also residing there were her siblings, John Wood, 15, Martha E. Wood, 11, and Archie E. Wood, 8, as well as some Gwinn children.

Seven children were born of James and Sarah Jane and raised on a farm just south of Morrellville in Perry township, Pike county, commonly referred to as "South Prairie."

In the 1860 census of . . .

In the 1870 census of Perry township, Pike county, Illinois as James Six, a 45 year old farmer, of Kentucky. Living with him were his wife, Jane, 33, of Illinois, and children, Marion, 18, John, 15, William, 13, Thomas, 11, George, 9, Martha J., 7, Laura, 5, and Ira, 1. Also living in the house were his mother-in-law, Sarah Wood, 70, of Kentucky, and Hecock Presley, 14, of Illinois.

Sarah died on 12 August 1875, apparently due to Huntington's disease. The disease has appeared in many descendants in every generation since, yet it has not appeared in descendants of James' first and third wives. Their children were Thomas A., William H., John P., George Washington, Martha Belle, Laura Jane and James Ira.

James then married his third wife, Adaline Scholl. She was born on 18 July 1852 in Griggsville, Illinois. They had one child, Rosa Lee.

James married a fourth time to Rhoda Scholl Tucker, the widow of Lewis Allen Tucker, in Brown County on 19 January 1877. Apparently she was Adaline's older sister. She was born on 5 December 1847 in Illinois. She died on 24 February 1912 in Perry, Brown county, Illinois. One daughter came to that marriage, Lilly Maude.

In the 1880 census of of Perry township, Pike county, Illinois as James Six, of Kentucky. Living with him were his wife, Rhoda, and children, George, Martha I., Laura J., James I., and Lillie M.

In the 1900 census of Elkhorn township, Brown county, Illinois as James Six, a 76 year old farmer, of Kentucky. Living with him was his wife, Rhoda, 52, of Illinois. To the right is a photo of James R. Six, Rosie Six, and Rhoda Scholl Six.

In the 1910 census of of Elkhorn township, Brown county, Illinois as James R. Six, 85. His occupation was shown as "Own/Interest." Living with him was his wife, Rhoda, 62.

James died on 29 March 1911 in Elkhorn township, Brown county, Illinois of prostrate cancer. According to his obituary of 1 April 1911 in the Mt. Sterling Democrat Message:

"He was one of the few pioneer residents of this county and one of the best known men in the southwest part of Brown County, where he had lived almost since boyhood. He was a famous rifle shot and hunter and during his younger days perhaps killed more wolves, deer and other big game than any other man of that period. He retained his physical activity to a degree far beyond most men of his age, and in looks and movement seemed more like a man of 60 than well past 80 years old."

"Grandpa Jim owned about 160 acres in northern Pike county just south of Morrellville, where all of the children were raised and schooled. They were farmers and probably of the Methodist Episcopal faith and members of the White Oak Methodist Church in Morrellville. It was there that his son, George Washington Six, courted Lucy Orr prior to their marriage in 1881.

The Orrs were prosperous farmers and lived within a mile of the James Six family. James was also a successful farmer in the Morrellville area and a few years prior to his death in 1911 transferred his land to his children, retaining a life interest for himself and Rhoda. "He died March 29, 1911 at his home, one mile northeast of Morrellville, following a surgical operation for removal of the prostate gland. He was thought to be improving after the operation, but pneumonia developed, causing his death."

The house in which he and Rhoda lived and he underwent surgery and died is still occupied and in good repair in 1996. James Six is buried next to his second wife, Sarah Jane, and near Lucinda, Rhoda, and one son, John P. Six, in the Morrellville (formally known as White Oak) Cemetery in southwestern Brown county. Son George, his wife Lucy, and grandson George Loren Six, of Selma, Iowa, were among those attending the funeral. (Written by Richard E. Six, gt grandson, Lee's Summit, Missouri)." - from Richard Six.

Rhoda Six died on 23 February 1912. James, his second wife, Sarah Jane, and fourth wife, Rhoda, were buried in the Morrellville cemetery in Brown county, Illinois.

Children with Lucinda E. Miller were:
(24) James W. Six (1845)
(24) Mary Elizabeth Six (1848), she married a Stevenson
(24) Cynthia Ann Six (1850), she married a Cory
(24) Francis Marion Six (1852)

Children with Sarah Jane Wood,
(24) William H. Six (1856)
(24) John P. Six (1857)
(24) Thomas A. Six (1859)
(24) George Washington Six (1861)
(24) Martha J. Belle Six (1864)
(24) Laura Jane Six (1867), she married J. Wesley Orr
(24) Rosa Lee Six (1869)
(24) James Ira Six (1870)
(24) Lilly Maude Six (1878)

He was born in about 1845.

In the 1850 census Township 3, Pike county, Illinois as James W. Six, 5, living with his parents. Pike county is about 35 miles northwest of Oxville, in Scott county.

He served in the Civil War, enlisting as a Private in Company G, 7th Illinois Mounted Infantry on 16 February 1865 at Mt Sterling, Illinois. He died on 23 March 1865 in Decamp Hospital, Davids Island, New York of injuries received. He is buried at the Cypress Hills National cemetary in Brooklyn. I suspect that James W. actually died of a disease picked up in camp. He probably never married.

She was born on 1 February 1848 in Brown county, Illinois.

In the 1850 census Township 3, Pike county, Illinois as Elizabeth Six, 2. Pike county is about 35 miles northwest of Oxville, in Scott county.

She married George Levi Stevenson on 18 January 1866. He was born on 23 January 1846 in Fairmount township, Pike county, Illionois and died on 27 August 1905 in Brown county. Mary died on 3 April 1911 in South Prairie, Illinois.

She was born on 7 February 1850 in Illinois. In the 1850 census Township 3, Pike county, Illinois as Cynthia A. Six, 6/12. Pike county is about 35 miles northwest of Oxville, in Scott county.

He was born on 26 July 1852 in Illinois and married Sarah J. Franklin on 25 February 1874. He died on 26 November 1921 in Pea Ridge township, Brown county, Illinois. They had four children, Laura Frances, Clara Belle, James Allen, and Nellie Mae.

He was born on 15 December 1856 in Pike county, Illinois. He first married Virginia Six, a second cousin, in about 1878. They had two children, Pansy and Gladys. He later married Nan Jane Brin [Brim] on 13 March 1889. They had three children, Nora E., Herbert C., and James Ira [named after his uncle?]. He died on 30 December 1923 in St Joseph, Buchanan county, Missouri.

He was born on 15 November 1857 in Illinois. He died on 5 January 1907 in Illinois. He was buried in the Morrellville cemetery, Brown county, Illinois.

He was born about 1859 in Illinois. He married Louella Carpenter. They may have had one child, Charles. Thomas died on 26 January 1946 in the Jacksonville State hospital for the Insane, Morgan county, Illinois, where he had resided since 1916. Family legend says he shot his brother, William, and was sent to the asylum as a result. He had been a barber.

My G-Grandfather. He was born on 12 January 1861 in Pike county, Illinois, the sixth son of James R. Six, and 4th son by his marriage to Sarah Jane Wood(s). In the 1870 census of Perry township, Pike county, Illinois as George Six, 9. He was living with his parents, James, a 45 year old farmer, of Kentucky, and Jane, 33, of Illinois. He was raised in the Morrellville, Brown county, Illinois area where he attended school and became a farmer. The last school he attended is still standing directly across the road from the Morrellville Cemetery.

In the 1880 census of Perry township, Pike county, Illinois as George Six. He was living at home with his father, James, and stepmother, Rhoda.

He married Lucy Orr on 20 June 1881 in Palmyra, Marion county, Missouri. It appears that George and Lucy Orr eloped. Palmyra is just over the state line about 50 miles west of Mt. Sterling, Illinois. According to family tradition, the Orr family wasn't overjoyed with the marriage - after all, they were a quite prominent family in Brown and Pike counties, and pretty young Lucy "was" only 16 years old and George 20. Lucy was born on 18 September 1864 in Brown county, Illinois.

George and Lucy lived for a short period in or near Biggsville, Henderson county, Illinois. Their first child George Loren was born in Biggsville in 1883. Henderson county is north of Pike county, but still on the Mississippi river. Ralph was born the following year.

They moved to Kearney, Nebraska in 1887, where their first daughter, Lucy Pearl Six was born and died, cause unknown. They then moved to Missouri and lived there briefly, but were back in Illinois by 1890 when Jessie was born there. Lena followed in 1894. At right is George and Lucy Six, with Jessie, Ralph, Loren and Lena (the baby), circa 1895.

George traveled to the Klondike in Alaska during the "Gold Rush" of 1896 to 1899, which would explain the picture of him taken in San Francisco in 1898. According to family tradition he returned to Iowa "empty-handed" after being robbed during his return trip to the Midwest [that would be my story too].

Sometime soon after George's misadventures in Alaska the family moved to Jefferson county, Iowa. In the 1900 census of Locust Grove township, Jefferson county, Iowa as George W. Six, a 39 year old farmer. Living with him were his wife, Lucy, 36, and children Loren G., 17, Ralph, 15, both farm laborers, Jessie, 9, and Lena, 5.

The following photograph is probably dated 1908-9, little Earl Six being 6 or 7 years old, and Lena 15.

1st Row: George Washington Six, Earl Valentine Six, George Loren Six, Lucy Orr Six
2nd Row: Ralph Orr Six, Jessie Bernice Six, Lena May Six

In the 1910 census of Chequest township, Van Buren county, Iowa as George W. Six, a 49 year old farmer. Living with him were his wife, Lucy, 45, and children, Lena May, 15, and Earl V., 8.

The family apparently lived near Selma, Van Buren county, Iowa in 1911, when George's father, James R. Six, passed away. A newspaper article from the Mt. Sterling, Illinois Democrat-Message lists them as visiting from Selma, Iowa. They were Methodists and George helped build the Methodist Church in Milton, which was still being used in 1995.

George and Lucy had a farm near Troy, Davis county, Iowa. Their house, shown in the photo to the left, greenhouse and cannery were destroyed by fire.

In the 1915 state census of Selma, Davis county, Iowa as George W. Six, a farmer, who earned $360 in the previous year.

In the 1920 censu of Union township, Davis county, Iowa as George W. Six, a 58 year old farmer. Living with him were his wife, Lucy, 54, and children, Lena M., 24, of Illinois, and Earl V., 17, of Iowa.

In the 1925 state census of Van Buren county as George W. Six, 64. Living with him were his wife, Lucy, 60.

At right and below is George Washington Six, Lucy Orr Six, and their daughter, Lena Six, probably circa 1920.

In later years, they lived in Milton, Van Buren county, Iowa, close to their daughter Lena Hissem and her family. It was there that they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.

In the 1930 census of Chequest township, Van Buren county, Iowa as George W. Six, a 69 year old farmer, of Illinois. His parents were from the same state. Living with him was his wife, Lucy H., 66, of Illinois. Her father and mother were from Ohio and Missouri, respectively. George was probably working one of the farms of his son-iin-law, Leo Hissem, the husband of Lena.

George died of a prostate condition on 2 March 1938 in Ottumwa, Wapello county, Iowa. His obituary:

"George W. Six, son of Jane and James Six, died at the Ottumwa hospital, March 2, 1938, at 10 a.m. At the time of his death he was 77 years, 1 month and 18 days old. He was born at Perry, Illinois, January 12, 1861.

On June 20, 1881, at Mt. Sterling, Illinois, he was united in marriage to Miss Lucy Orr. To this union six children were born. Loren of Fairfield, Iowa; Ralph of Kansas City, Mo.; Pearl, deceased; Jessie deceased; Lena Hissem of Milton; and Earl of Davenport, Iowa. On June 20, 1931, their children and friends helped them to celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary. Death ended a union that had lasted for nearly fifty-seven years.

The deceased lived on a farm until 1921 when he became a resident of Troy. In 1924 he moved to Milton where he resided until his death.

In his early manhood Mr. Six joined the Methodist church and was a faithful attendant until failing health necessitated his remaining at home. He enjoyed reading his Bible and listening to the sermons delivered over the radio. During his last illness he told his wife many times that he was ready to meet his Lord.

Besides his wife and children who mourn his passing, he leaves one brother and one sister at Mt. Sterling, Illinois, Ira Six and Mrs. Frank Hofsess; nineteen grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. One granddaughter, Evelyn Six, preceded him in death in 1932. While this union of so many years is broken the hope of a lasting union is cherished by the one who tarries a while longer with her children and with her grandchildren." - from obituary, unknown newspaper

Lucy was injured in an automobile accident in Shenandoah, Iowa in about 1940 and died in Milton in 1941 while living with her daughter, Lena Six Hissem. Both are buried in the Evergreen Cemetery, Fairfield, Jefferson county, Iowa, beside their daughter Jessie, who died in 1908. Lucy's "casket bearers were four of her grandsons, Roy Six, Harold Six, John Six, George Six, Garrell Hissem and Darrell Hissem." George and Lucy were buried in the Evergreen cemetery in Fairfield, Jefferson county, Iowa.

Their children were,
(25) George Loren Six (1883)
(25) Ralph Orr Six (1884)
(25) Lucy Pearl Six (1887)
(25) Jesse Bernice Six (1890)
(25) Lena May Six (1894)
(25) Earl Valentine Six (1902)

He was born on 26 March 1883 in Biggsville, Henderson county, Illinois. He married Mary Elva Stark on 7 March 1905 in Iowa. He died on 7 September 1960 in Fairfield, Jefferson county, Iowa.

He was born on 28 December 1884 in Illinois. He married Margie Lee Black on 1 September 1915 in Iowa. Ralph and Margie moved to Kansas City, Missouri. He died on 6 May 1958 in Kansas City, Missouri.

She was born on 22 October 1887 in Nebraska. She died young, on 25 November 1888 in Kearney, Kearney county, Nebraska.

She was born on 8 June 1890 in Illinois. She died on 12 September 1908 in Iowa. She took her own life while in training to be a nurse.

My Grandmother. She was born on 2 November 1894 in Illinois. In the 1900 census of Locust Grove, Jefferson county, Iowa as Lena Six, 5. In the 1910 census of Chequest county, Van Buren county, Iowa as Lena May Six, 15, of Illinois, the daughter of George W. and Lucy Six. Her little brother, Earl, 8, was also living at home. Near neighbors included Z.O. Haney and Dudley Nicklin, the son-in-law of Abner Hissem. George and Verna Hissem were on the previous page of the census.l

Lena lived in Selma, Iowa.

In the 1915 state census of of Marion, Davis county, Iowa as Lena M. Six, 20. She was a Presbyterian - I didn't know that.

In the 1920 census of Union township, Davis county, Iowa as Lena M. Six, 24. She was living with George W. and Lucy Six, and her brother, Earl, 17.

She married Leo Worth Hissem of Milton, Iowa. Lena was a very strong person and suffered a lot of tragedy during her lifetime. She lost her husband Leo early and lost two sons to cancer. In later years she moved from Milton, Iowa to Davenport, Iowa where she was a matron mother to a cottage full of young boys at the Annie Wittenmyer Orphanage in Davenport. She later returned to live with a friend in Milton, but passed away on 28 April 1976, while living with her son Darrell and his family in Tempe, Arizona. She is buried in the Sunnyside cemetary, in Milton, Iowa, next to her husband, Leo.

See her children at Leo Worth Hissem.

He was born on 14 February 1902 in Locust Grove, Jefferson county, Iowa. He married Gladys Victoria Hansen on 8 August 1920 at Bloomfield, Davis county, Iowa. She was born on 18 April 1801 in Augusta, Iowa.

The favorite brother of my grandmother, Lena. When in Iowa we spent a good deal of time with Uncle Earl and the very sweet Aunt Gladys. Their son was Richard Earl Six, now of Lee's Summit, Missouri. Uncle Earl died on 6 September 1984 in Keoauqua, Iowa. Gladys followed him on 15 July 1986. They are buried in the Sunnyside cemetary in Milton, Iowa.

From my cousin Richard:

"Earl was the youngest of six children, raised on a farm north of Troy, IA. He received his education at Troy, leaving school upon completion of the 8th grade to work on the farm. After marriage to Gladys Six at 18 he was a farm laborer, and worked for Kroger Grocery Stores for a period in Illinois, where his mother's family, the Orr family, lived and were prominent in the Brown and Pike Co, IL communities in farming, politics, real estate, ministry and law . He even spent a period as a motorcycle policemen in Macomb, IL during the late 1920s before moving mother and Evelyn to the Quad-city area where they lived in Bettendorf, IA . It was there that Richard was born. These were the deep depression years and it was apparently then that he was introduced to the area foundries and entered that field. Some time in 1931, Earl moved the family back to southern Iowa to the Bloomfield/West Grove area where he worked for Ebb Dickson on the farm, just west of West Grove, as a farm laborer. Richard entered kindergarten at the little school in West Grove, IA. We were poor as church mice in those years! A treat was saltine crackers from Grandma Hansen's cookie jar (now in Richard's possession), or bread and butter with sugar on it!

Earl, Gladys, Richard and little Evelyn were apparently living in Bloomfield, IA when Evelyn died after being struck by a truck on a gloomy winter day in January 1932. The accident occurred on the northeast corner of the square ( as I recall) in Bloomfield, as Evelyn was going home from school during a storm.

In 1936, Earl moved what was left of his small family back to the quad-city area to live in Davenport at 714 Pershi ng Street. He returned to the foundries in Bettendorf and worked for the Bettendorf Company, which later became Ordnance Steel about the time WW II was declared by President Roosevelt, and later J. I. Case, a farm implement company . Like other foundries, Ordnance Steel was involved in war production and wages increased substantially during that period. Many women started working in the plants while the men were off to war in the Pacific and Europe.

It was during this period, in about 1942, that Earl was able to buy their first house at 532 W. 15th Street in Davenport. The writer recalls that the purchase price was $4 ,200! He and Gladys were so proud of the old two-story house. It was situated on a large lot with a double garage where Earl spent hours tinkering with his pride and joy, a 1941 black Chevrolet sedan, and later with the motorcycle he purchased to commute to work. It was a comfortable house in excellent condition. They rented out the upstairs, except for Richard's room, to Charlie and Senda Hammel, who later purchased a resort and moved to Arkansas. Charlie was a carpenter by trade and they were wonderful tenants. It was during that time that Paul was born March 4, 1943. Like Richard, he was destined to be raised without siblings.

Earl became a foreman at Ordnance Steel and after Ordnance Steel sold to J. I. Case he worked for several foundries in the Riverside and Bettendorf area, even one across the Mississippi River in Illinois, Rock Island or Moline.

He enjoyed being a handyman, auto mechanics, and automobiles. He was a very temperate man except for his Key, Copenhagen and Skoal snuff - never known to drink alcoholic beverages. He was very much a "home body" and wasn't much to socialize except for church and with family and relatives . He disliked attending company social gatherings where there was "drinking and carrying on" and avoided them when he could. Earl endured a great deal of pain in his life with chronic arthritis from the age of 45 or so. By 1946 or 1947 he sold the house on 15th Street and purchased a beautiful ranch-style home at 2802 Davenport Avenue in NE Davenport. It was a corner 3 bedroom house with a double garage, pretty hedges, well-constructed on steel beams with a huge basement. It had a large living room w/fireplace, south sunroom, large kitchen, dining room, and one bathroom. There was also a shower in the basement. His arthritis was so bad by 1949 that it was difficult for him to continue in the foundries. By then Richard was in the US Army Air Force in Europe during the Berlin Airlift and he had to sell his beautiful home and purchase a cheaper and smaller one a couple of blocks south at 2621 Davenport Avenue. It was then that Richard obtained a Hardship Discharge from the service to return to Davenport and help support the family. Richard went to work at the Davenport Post Office working for a US Mail contractor and managed to get his father a job driving for the same contractor between Davenport and Clinton, IA. He enjoyed that and personally maintained the truck he drove and kept it at home. He held that job until he and Gladys went to work as house parents at the Annie Whitmyer State Orphanage Home in Davenport in about 1960.

Earl and Gladys retired from the Annie Whitmyer Home in about 1966 or 1967 and returned to southern Iowa where they had married back 1920. They purchased an old two-story house, previously owned by Earl's sister, Lena Six Hissem, and later by a doctor. Earl did a great deal to the old house and had a nice garage and workshop built, where he could continue with his mechanical hobbies. He and Gladys always had a nice garden and did some traveling to visit cousins in Sheridan Co, NE, also to the Smoky Mountains, Washington, D.C. and Richard's family in Durant, OK; San Antonio, T X; Kileen, TX; Tempe, AZ; and again to Durant, OK in 1980 . He developed leukemia following retirement which necessitated many blood transfusions, and his arthritis continued to limit his ability to even work around the property, but he didn't give up trying until he broke his hip while starting his new Snapper lawnmower in about 1983. He underwent a hip replacement, but was never active thereafter. The leukemia appeared to be in remission before his death in 1984 and was not mentioned on his death certificate. He enjoyed his snuff until he finally gave it up after entering the nursing home and could no longer pursue the habit racefully. On his son Richard's last visit in 1984 to the Good Samaritan Nursing Center in Keosauqua, IA, he was bedfast, unable to see much, hear or walk, which left very little for him to look forward to other than perhaps eating . His mind was still sharp to the end.

Despite his short temper, impatience, and dominating character in younger years, he was a very responsible, active, caring, and loving father and husband and placed his family above all. He was a rather short, 5' 8", and very powerful man until later years. He was essentially a Democrat , but voted for the candidate of his choosing. He was not fond of fishing and hunting, though he did some of both when on the farm in early years. He was pretty much a workaholic, always busy doing something around the house or garage, a man of very strong will and determination to a fault. He was our Dad and we loved him very much. (Richard E. Six, Lee's Summit, MO, August 13, 1999)

"MILTON -- Earl V. Six, 82, of 306 W. Oak in Milton died Sept. 6, 1984, at the Van Buren County Good Samaritan Center.

He was born Feb. 14, 1902, near Fairfield to George and Lucy Orr Six. He married Gladys Hansen. He was a retired machinist and foundry worker.

He is survived by his wife; two sons, Paul and Richard of Kansas City, Mo.; and seven grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

The service will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at the United Methodist Church in Milton, the Rev. Charles Butler officiating. Burial will be at Sunnyside Cemetery in Milton. The casket will be closed at the beginning of the service.

Visitation will be 7-8 p.m. today at Priester Funeral Chapel in Milton. A memorial has been established." (Obituary, Bloomfield newspaper, Bloomfield, Davis Co, IA)"

Richard was born on 19 August 1930 at Bettendorf, Scott County, Iowa. He died on 22 June 2004 at Lees Summit Hospital, Lees Summit, Jackson County, Missouri, at age 73. His obituary

"He spent his career in the Air Force and Army, serving during the occupation of Germany and Berlin Airlift, and the Korean and Vietnam wars. He retired a Major in 1970, at Ft. Hood, Texas. During his service he was a high speed Morse code operator, air policeman, armored infantry soldier, legal clerk, legal advisor, paratrooper, jumpmaster, ski trooper, commander and logistician.

Following retirement from the Army, the family settled in Tempe, Ariz., where he was a food brokerage salesman and account manager. Later he moved to Durant, Okla., where he worked as a real estate broker, and then on to Blue Springs and Lee's Summit where he finally retired.

The highlight of his retirement has been his research on the descendants of his sixth great-grandfather, Johann Philip, of Marienfels, Germany. He organized the first known Six family reunion in 1997 in Winchester, Ill., for all descendants of his third great-grandparents, John and Mary Ann Six, and was the first Illinois Six Family Historian.

Richard was preceded in death by his father, Earl; mother, Gladys; sister, Evelyn; and daughter, Marjorie Six. Survivors include his wife, Nyline (Schwerdtfeger) Six; children, Cathleen Libeer, Joan Purdy, John Six and Kimberly Tatom; 14 grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren."

"Mattie" was born on 2 February 1864 in White Oak Springs, Brown county, Illinois. She married Fred Cory. She died on 11 may 1894.

She was born on 17 September 1866 in Pike county, Illinois.

She was born on 1 August 1869 in Illinois, the daughter of Adaline Scholl.

He was born on 20 June 1870, per his death certificate, in Near Perry, Pike county, Illinois. In the 1870 census with his parents, aged 1, or born in 1869. The 1900 census shows that he was born in June 1869. He married Loretta Jane Johnson on 28 March 1894 in Pittsfield, Illinois. He died on 28 May 1939 in Pike county. Loretta died in 1961. They had seven children, Alice May, Marshall Lee, Hazel Marie, Anna Laura, Alta Maude, Leslie Roy, and Glen Edward.

She was born on 4 January 1878, the daughter of Rhoda Scholl. She died in October 1978 in Pittsfield, Pike county, Illinois.

She was born on 13 November 1826 in Kentucky. She married Abraham Six on 5 March 1854 in Mt Sterling. They were first cousins. He was born on 24 June 1826 in Greene county, Illinois, the son of David Six and Elizabeth Cox, above. She died on 20 December 1896 in Illinois. Abraham died on 15 June 1898. Their children were Charles C., Edgar, Millie, William R., Eliza, and Frank Lyde.

She was born in 1827 in Kentucky. She married Benjamin Franklin Hecox on 25 December 1854. She died in 1911 in Illinois.

He was born on 23 April 1829 in Near Oxville, Morgan county, Illinois. He married Mary Jane Curry on 26 July 1857 in the Little York Methodist Church, Waverly, Morgan county, Illinois. Presley and Mary lived in Morgan County all of their married lives and raised their family near Waverly on a farm purchased from his "Gold Rush" earnings in California 1854-1857. He died on 6 June 1902 in Franklin, Illinois. Their children were Isabel Jane, Virginia, Laura Ann, Alice Louella, Daniel William, Thomas Jefferson, Blanche, Frederick Boyd, Florence, Edwin Lawrence, Daisy Deane, and Myrtle.

He was born about 1832 in Morgan county, Illinois. He married Catherine Groves on 16 March 1851 in Mt Sterling, Brown county, Illinois. He died on 8 October 1860 in Brown county, Illinois. The cause of his early death is unknown. Their children were Mary Jane, Sarah E., Mahala F., and M. Josephine.

She was born about 1833 in Morgan county, Illinois. She married Luther R. Peak on 28 December 1851. In the 1860 census of Township 14, Scott county, Illinois as Martha Six, 25, of Illinois, living at homd with her folks. Second she married K. Malone sometime after 1870.

He was born in December 1833 in Illinois. Possibly Martha's twin. He married Sarah J. Withers on 22 August 1867 at Mt Sterling in Brown county, Illinois. In about 1885 he moved to Texas. Their children were Charles, Horace G., Carrie, Mariona/Minerva J., Virgil N., Grover Cleveland, and Orval G.

She was born about 1840 in Scott county, Illinois. She married Isaac M. Smith on 19 January 1860 in Scott county, Illinois.

He was born in 24 March 1843 in Oxville, Scott county, Illinois.

In the 1860 census of Township 14, Scott county, Illinois as William Six, 17, living at home with his parents.

He married Margaret Selina Bourland [sister of his brother's wife?] on 7 February 1866 [possibly a dual wedding] in Morgan county, Illinois. Their children were Alpha Jane, Ida Margaret and William Henry.

Second, he married Hannah Gibson Carlisle in 1891. They apparently had no children, though he raised her two children from a previous marriage. He died on 9 September 1926 in Franklin, Illinois.

"Cyrus" was born on 12 November 1844 in Near Oxville, Scott county, Illinois.

In the 1860 census of Township 14, Scott county, Illinois as Cyrus Six, 14, of Illinois, living at home with his parents.

He married Eliza Lydia Adams on 13 August 1868. Their children were Alma J., Maude Ella, Augustus, Delletta E., Maude Ella, Joseph, and William Alvie. "Liddie" died in May 1875.

Second he married Sophiah Emma Crews in 7 June 1881. Their children were Grover Cleveland, Charles Lewis, George Washington, Cecil Lilly, Henry Clinton, and Fred. Cy died on 7 January 1921 in Scott county, Illinois.

He was born about 1848/9 in Near Oxville, Scott county, Illinois.

In the 1860 census of Township 14, Scott county, Illinois as Logan Six, 12, of Illinois, living at home with his folks.

He married Aloha [Alpha] Bourland in about 1866 [16 September 1868]. See William Paine Six' wedding, above. He died in 1875/6 in Scott or Morgan county, Illinois. Their children were Charles, Minnie, William Miles, and Lillie W., William's twin.

She was born on 06 September 1802 in Kentucky. She married Thomas Lindsey on 22 March 1821. in Ohio county, Kentucky. They were married by Benjamin Burden and Daniel Six, Catherine's brother, was the bondsman. She was still living with her daughter, in Missouri, aged ninety years, and in fair health of mind and body in 1892. She died on 04 January 1892 in Main city, Cass county, Missouri .

"After Thomas' death in 1849, Kate and the children remained in Pike Co, IL until after they had married. In about 1868 she apparently acccompanied Elizabeth and Nancy and their families to MO and ended up living with Nancy and her family in Bates County near the KS border. She was granted a pension by the government based upon Thomas's War of 1812 service."

She was born in June 1804 in Tennessee. She married Simon Henry Taylor on 8 November 1821 in Ohio county, Kentucky. Was he the brother of Mary's husband, James Taylor? They were married by the Reverend Thomas Taylor, possibly Simon's uncle, see below. The bondsman was Isaac Six, Nancy's brother.

Simon may be Simon Henry Taylor, who was born on 6 April 1799 in Hampshire county, Virginia. While of the same line as the Simon Taylor treated below, he is of slightly different derivation. He may have been the son of the James Taylor who later married Polly Six, Nancy's elder sister, making Polly Nancy's sister and step-mother-in-law. Simon Henry died on 22 February 1855 in Perry township, Pike county, Illinois. James Taylor, born circa 1774, was the son of Simon Taylor, who was born on 11 March 1727 in Richmond county, Virginia. This Simon married Anna Maria Hite. They emigrated to Pike county, Illinois in 1825 according to a Pike county history of 1880. In the 1850 & 1870 census of Perry, Pike county, Illinois as Simon H. and Nancy Taylor. Their children were James, Mary, John, Nicholas, Catherine, Vibrilla, Berdilla, Marilda, Nancy Jane, Josiah, Galen, Isabella and Sutphin Simon.

Nancy died on 17 October 1876 in Pike county, Illinois, "when about the age of seventy, leaving twelve or thirteen children. These children were all farmers, or the wives of farmers, and had all crossed the plains to Illinois." - See Biographical Review of Cass, Schuyler and Brown Counties, Illinois - 1892, for this and other information about the Six Family in Illinois. In the 1880 census of Buckhorn township, Brown county, Illinois, a Simon Taylor, an 81 year old farmer, is still living.

"Immigrated to Pike Co, IL 1825 per 1880 Pike County History, p. 510."

Called Henry, he was born in 1723 in Schenectady county [Harmanns Dorf Albany, later Schoharie county], New York. By 1746 he was living in Frederick county, Maryland. On 6 July 1749, when he was 29 years old, he married Anna Elizabetha Greintsch [Seib/Sipes?] in Frederick county in the Monocacy Lutheran Church. The citation below also shows the marriage of Johann's sister, Elisabetha.

"Jesron, Gerog Michael . . . Sechssin, Elisabetha . . . Feb 5 1745
. . .
Sechss, Johann Henrich . . . Greintschin, Anna Elizabeth . . . July 6 1749" - from the Frederick County, Maryland Archives Marriage Book, Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1700's, abstracted by Barbara Muller

He was born in about 1724 in Schoharie, New York. By 1749/50 he was living in Frederick county, Maryland.

Also as Sycks, Sykes, and Sickes. His given name was probably orginally Johann Conrad. A Henrich Conrad was in the Hunter List, so perhaps John was given the middle name in honor of this fellow emigre. John was born in about 1731 in Schoharie, New York. He was a weaver. Others claim he was born in 1721 and was a fur-trader on the Susquehanna river in 1746, though this is based on documents widely believed to be a hoax.

John Conrad Sycks [John Six] married Margarethe Catherine Bonnett on 8 [10?] October 1749 in Monocacy, Frederick county, Maryland. She was the daughter of Jean Jacques [Jacob] Bonnett and Anna Marie Desreaux. See "John Waggoner, 1751-1842, Margaret (Bonnett) Waggoner" by Crystal V. Wagoner. See also "Pioneers of Old Monocacy: The Early Settlers of Frederick County, Maryland" by Grace Tracey.

At some point John Conrad and his family moved south, through Maryland, into the Shenandoah valley of Virginia and were living there in 1757, where their first child, Henry, was born on 12 February 1757 - from "John Waggoner, 1751-1842, Margaret (Bonnett) Waggoner" by Crystal V. Wagoner.

Ever restless, John later removed, perhaps as early as 1763, to Dunkard's Creek in far south western Pennyslvania. The earliest routes to that area were from Virginia, and for a time it was considered part of the Virginia colony [at least by the Virginians who colonized it]. Only later did Forbes road open a route from eastern Pennsylvania.

From the Horn Papers: "John came to Big Whiteley Creek and lived at Syckes Corners [I haven't been able to locate this place] from 1763 to 1771. Fort Dillinger was built on the site of Greensboro by Augustine Dillinger in 1763. Augustine Dillinger and Conrad Syckes were partners in hunting and trapping along the Monongahela River from Gist Point (Point Marion) to the mouth of Eckerlin Creek (Big Whiteley) from 1760 to 1763. Then they each tomahawked a homestead on the north side of the creek at the site which later became Garard's Fort. These two partners disagreed over the ownership of a spring and in 1764 Augustine Dillinger moved to a site which he called Fort Dillinger"

The following is from the Horn Papers as reproduced in the family genealogy "The Six Family."

"An agreement made by Conrad Sycks and one Parson John Corbley on April 10, 1770, the said Conrad Sycks did trade his tomahawked rights to his 274 acres of land on the North Shore of Whiteley Creek - with all his rights - his good will and peace of life to the said John Corbley for the sum of 36 pounds and six live goats. All his own free property from Staunton, Colony of Virginia.

The said parties ask confirmation of this agreement by the Camp Cat Fish Corte. The Corte made each state under oath their agreement and on payment of 10 shillings made Ord that this first land title made by Order of this Corte be set in the Cort records - payment being made this 4th day of June 1772.

The same is set down in Book III. (The Horn Papers) Complaint being made by two settlers - Conrad Sycks and Jeremiah Glasgow - two loyal Virginia homesteaders that one Elizabeth Bozarth, known as Experience Bozarth, the French Commissioners widow, did destroy by fire the bridge built across the aforesaid creek because the French in Quebec have conspired to drive out all the English homesteaders from these frontier borders.

The Corte signed the complaint and set the 4th day of June 1772 for the trial of Sycks and Glasgow against Elizabeth Bozarth for racehatred and destruction of property on Virginia soil, in Northwest Augusta County, Colony of Virginia ( The Horn Papers.)

Conrad Syckes of German-English descent was born in Chester County in 1721. He was a fur trader on the Susquehanna River in 1746. John Syckes, son of Conrad Sykes, was born at Hagerstown, Maryland in 1751. He came to Big Whiteley Creek and lived at Syckes Corners from 1763 to 1771. He served in the Virginia Militia in Colonel Cresaps rifle company in 1775. His brothers, James and William, were in field service in 1776-77. The sons and daughters of these Syckes families lived in Greene County for many years. So many of the descendants of John Syckes migrated to Illinois in 1818. (Horn Papers, p170, 704)

Fort Dillinger was built on the site of Greenboro by Augustine Dillinger in 1763. Augustine Dillinger and Conrad Syckes were partners in hunting and trapping along the Monongahela River from Gist Point (Point Marion) to the mouth of Eckerlin Creek (Big Whiteley) from 1760 to 1763. Then they each tomahawked a homestead on the north side of the creek at the site which later became Garard's Fort. These two partners disagreed over the ownership of a spring and in 1764 Augustine Dillinger moved to a site which he called Fort Dillinger. (The Horn Papers)

Henry and Christina, farmers, bought 100 acres of the tract Cat Tail Branch (northeast of later Emmitsburg) from George Smith in 1755 (Deed E-811) and sold it to George Garry in 1761. Conrad Sycks named as settlers recorded at Camp Fish Cort in 1772. (Horn Papers, p. 79)

Some time during 1764, a party of hardy pioneers left Berks County Pennsylvania to seek out new homes on the frontiers of Virginia and Western Pennsylvania and for a time found the freedom they sought on Dunkard Creek, in what is now Green County, Pennsylvania. The party consisted of the families of John Bonnett, John Wetzel, the Eberlys, Waggoners, Rozencranz and Zanes, most of them intermarried to some extent. With them was John Conrad Sykes who had married Catherine Bonnet, a daughter of John Bonnett. Other children of John Bonnett were Mary, wife of Captain John Wetzel; Susannah, wife of Hezekian Stewart; Lewis Bonnett, who married Elizabeth Waggoner; John and Samuel Bonnett. Most of this party soon moved on to settle near the Ohio River at Wheeling, but John Conrad and Catherine Bonnett Sykes and some of the Waggoners stayed on Dunkard Creek, where in July 1778, he and his son, John Sykes, Jr. were soldiers in the Frontier Ranger Company under Captain John Wetzel. (Pennsylvania Archives series VI, Vol 2, p321 )"

During the Revolutionary War John served as a private in Captain John Wetzel's Company of Virginia Rangers.

"Pay Abstract of Capt. John Whitsell's [Wetzel's] company of Rangers, Monogahala County under command of Col. Daniel McFarland. Ranging in Monogahala and Ohio Counties from the 22nd day of April to the 25th July 1778 both days included:
John Whitzell, captain
William Crawford, Lieutenant
. . .
John Six
Lewis Bonnell [Bonnnett]" - from "Frontier Defense on the the Upper Ohio, 1777-1778" by Reuben Gold Thwaites

The sons and daughters of the Syckes families lived in Greene County for many years. Some of the descendants of John Syckes migrated to Illinois in 1818 - the Horn Papers, p170, 704.

John Conrad died on 20 May 1783 in Dunkard Creek, Greene county, Pennsylvania at the age of 52. His coffin was purchased on 20 May 1783. He had been found in the woods, leaning against a tree, dead. John Conrad Sykes estate was probated in Washington County, Pennsylvania, February 178?, with his son Henry Sykes, Administrator (O.C. Docket I, p26) (Ten Mile Country) Washington Co, Pa, Orphans Court, p.247:

"Know all men by these presents, that we, Henry Sicks, William Minor & Leonard Garrison, all of the county of Washington are held & firmly bound unto James Marshal, Esquire, Register for the Probate of Wills and granting Letters of Administration in & for the county of Washington, in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the sum of five hundred pounds, to be paid to the said James Marshal, his successors, Administrators or Assigns: To the which payment well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves jointly and severally for and in the whole our Heirs, Executors and Administrators, firmly by these presents, sealed with our seals. Dated the 30th day of September of the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty Three.

The Condition of this obligation is such that if the above bounden Henry Sicks, Administrator of all land singular the Goods, Chattles and Credits of Conrad Sicks, deceased do make or cause to be made, a true and perfect inventory of all and singular the Goods, Chattles and Credits of the said Deceased, which have or shall come to the Hands, Possession or Knowledge of him the said Henry Sicks, for into the Hands and Possession of any other person or persons for him and the same so made do exhibit or cause to be exhibited, into the Registers office, in the County of Washington, at or before the thirtieth day of October, next ensuing; and the same Goods, Chattles and Credits of the said Deceased, at the time of his death, which at any time after shall come to the Hands or Possession of the said Henry Sicks, or into the Hands and Possession of any other person or persons for him do well and truly administer according to Law.

And further do make or cause to be made, a true and just Account of his Administration, at or before the 30th day of September 1784.

And all the rest and Residue of the said Goods, Chattles and Credits which shall be found remaining upon the said Administrat or Account (same being first examined and allowed of by the Orphans Court of the County of Washington) shall deliver and pay unto such person or persons respectively as the said Orphans Court by their Decree of Sentence, pursuant to the true intent and Meaning of the federal laws now in force in this Commonwealth shall limit and appoint.

And if it shall hereafter appear, that the last Will and Testament was made by the said Deceased, and the Executor or Executors therein named do exhibit the same into the "Register's Office" making request to have it allowed and approved accordingly, and if then the above abounded Henry Sicks being thereunto requiree, do render and deliver the said Letters of Administration (Approbation of such Testament being first had and made to the said Register's Office) then this obligation to be void and of none effect, or else to remain in full force and virtue.

Sealed and Delivered Henry Six (seal) in the presence of W. Minor (seal)" - from "The SIX Family"

John and Margarethe had 12 children,
(21) Henry Six (1757)
(21) John Conrad Six Jr. (1758)
(21) Jacob Six (1760)
(21) Christina Six (1764)
(21) Phillip Six (1765)
(21) Lewis Six (1766)
(21) Elizabeth Six
(21) Catherine Six
(21) Adam Six
(21) Mary Six (1772)
(21) Margaret Six (1776)
(21) Barbara Ellen Six (1778)

Also called Henry Sykes. He was born on 2 December [12 February?] 1757 in the Shenandoah valley of Virginia. On 25 December 1785, when he was 28 years old, he married Barbara Selsor, in Greene county, Pennsylvania. According to a descendent, Harry Selsor, she was the daughter of John Lewis and Barbara Selsor. There was a Selsor fort in the Dunkard Creek area. See Sycks Family for more about Henry and the capture of his sister, Christina, below. Henry died in Mapleton, Green county, Pennsylvania on 16 February 1842 at the age of 84. Their children were John, Drusilla, David, Daniel, and Rachel.

He was born on 18 August 1758 in the Shenandoah valley of Virginia. He would have accompanied his father to Greene county, in western Pennsylvania. Some other researchers claim his birth was as late as 1764, which would place it in the Dunkard Creek area. His trade was as a carpenter and joiner. As a young man he took an active part in the Revolutionary War, probably as a part of the Virginia militia, like his father. However, his duties appear to have swept him far away from his father's home in western Pennsylvania.

John married Mary Davis. The following was written by descendents of John Conrad Six Jr., but gives him a different wife:

"Another son [of John Conrad Six and Margarita Bonnet], John, married Mary Allender. John and Mary lived in Fleming county, KY until 1826 when they moved to Posey township, Ruch county, IN. The Christian Church of Arlington was formed in their living room. John and Mary had seven children. Their son George married Mariam Hasket. Together they had five children. We dedicate this to the memory of their son and our grandfather Philip Six." - from "Shelby County, Indiana History & Families."

The following appears to be another John Six: From the Virginia State land records office: Hand written record reads John Six, 100 Acres, Wood [county, in present day West Virginia, just down the Ohio river from Tyler county]. "There is granted by the said Commonwealth, unto John Six, a certain Tract or Parcel of Land, Containing One hundred acres, by survey bearing date the 22nd day of December 1809, situated in the County of Wood, on the head drains of a run that passes through Elijah Cunningham's medow, a branch of Hughes's river, including a Cabin built by Benjamin Starr; and bounded as followeth, to wit: Beginning at two poplars, and rinning East, one hundred poles to a stake; north one hundred poles to a stake,~north." Hughes River is located in the northern part of Virginia, in what is now Rappahannoch County, extending to Culpepper and Madison counties.

From the 1840 Census of Pensioners of Revolutionary or Military Service: John Six, age 80, Head of the Household, living in the town of New Harmony, in Posey county, Indiana. Per the Posey county History Preservation Society, based on information obtained from "Roster of Soldiers and Patriots of the American Revolution Buried in Indiana, Volume II" published by the Indiana Daughters of the American Revolution in 1966, John Six, a Revolutionary War soldier, is buried in Posey county, Indiana. John Six was born 18 August 1758. He died in 1826 and is buried in the Maple Hill Cemetery. His wife died 1825. Daughter married John Grant. However, the U.S. Pensioners Record for 1833-1849, lists John Six, Private, of Indiana, as "Died 22 June 1842." This may, of course, be the wrong man.

John and Mary had seven children,
George Six,, he married Mariam Hasket

He was born circa 1760 in Frederick county, Virginia. He married Mary Ann [Duval?] in about 1793. They moved to Bath county, Kentucky and had five children - from "Shelby County, Indiana History & Families." He died before 1820 in Bath county, Kentucky.

She was born in 1764 in Frederick county, Virginia. She was the daughter of John Conrad Six and Margaret Bonnett.

On 1 April 1781, while in her father's home on Dunkard creek, Greene township, Greene county, Pennsylvania, 17 year old Christena was captured by Indians, probably Wyandat's, and taken to their camp at what is now Detroit where she remained their prisoner for many years. See An Indian Capture for more of her story.

She eventually won her freedom and married John Charles Munger in 1788. He had also been a captive of the Indians. John had been captured by the British and Indians from Ruddells Station in Kentucky on 20 June 1780, along with his father, mother, brother and sister, and was then taken to the Detroit Indian Camps. Christina and John may have been given their freedom as part of the Treaty of Paris, which ended the American Revolution.

They lived near Detroit and, eventually, Upper Canada. John was killed in the Battle of Fallen Timber on the Miami river on 20 August 1794.

After her husband died Christena lived with her brother-in-law, William, for a time, but then returned to her father's house in 1789, her father having died previously, in 1783. Her brothers included Lewis, who brought her home from Canada, and Henry, the administrator named in Conrad's will. On 20 September, 1798 Christina assigned her interest in a tract of land to her brother, Henry. She signed the document along with her sister, Mary, and her husband Jonathan Garrison, and her sister Barbary (Barbara), and her husband, Robert Knotts. Christena then signed a receipt for the "moveables" in Conrad's estate on 3 January 1800 and another receipt for "error" on 16 September 1809, leaving her "Mark" on these documents.

In 1810, "Teeny" Six was living in Dunkard Township and by 1820 appeared to be living with her brother, Lewis, and his family. She later lived alternately with her two daughters, Margaret in Wood county, and Elizabeth in Tyler county, West Virginia. She died in 1844 while living with Margaret.

He was born in about 1765 in Pennsylvania - Shirley Sowell says this was more likely 1761 in the Shenandoah Valley, Frederick county, Virginia. He married Charlotte Selsor in 1791. She wsa born on 25 September 1777. She was not the sister of Henry Six's wife, Barbara Selsor, above, but her niece. Her parents, according to descendent Harry Selsor, were George Selsor and Rachel Newman. George was the eldest son of John Lewis Selsor, above, and brother to Barbara.

Phillip and Charlotte moved to Mississippi where they founded Selsertown, near Natchez. I got this information from another relative, but Gary W. Webster writes,

"I noticed you gave Philip Six and Charlotte Selser Six credit for founding Selsertown, actually it was already a small community of sorts named Elliottsville and George Selser Sr. built the inn you mentioned and made it the stop on the famous Natchez Trace. It was then renamed Selsertown. He died there, headstone was supposedly sighted in the 1940's but not seen since. Philip Six and George Selser both served together in the Revolutionary War and came down the River entering Mississippi Territory at Natchez, MS durring the Spanish rule in the 1790's. Philip settled on the Homitichitta River building a ferry crossing near present day Rosetta, MS in Amite County. There is where his first cousin Lewis Wetzel died. I actually particapated in the re-excavation of his grave in the 1990's with a Lewis Wetzel researcher Robert Hand. We were able to locate a very old man who had helped remove Wetzels bones in 1943 with C. B. Allman for return to West Virginia and he lead us to it. (we found one of the glass beads from his belt that he wore).

The other thing both Shirley and I carry John Conrad Six Jr. b 18 Aug 1758 as having married Mary Duvault or Duvall and the family as moving to Illionis. Do you have any proofs for Mary Duvall's marrage which might clear this up for us."

"Just a note about Selsertown, MS. George Selser (father of Charlotte Selser Six) bought a large chunk of land around Natchez District, Mississippi Territory, on 4 July 1794. Natchez was still a Spanish territory at that time. George built the required Inn and Selsertown became the second stop on the Natchez Trace. Originally the area was called Ellicottville after the surveyor, Andrew Ellicott. George and his wife, Rachel, sold off numerous lots and a little town sprang up. There's nothing left now. Philip Six and Charlotte must have come down on the Mississippi with her familly, but settled in Wilkinson County, MS, along the Homochitta River. This is where Philip and Charlotte were living when Philip's cousin, Lewis Wetzel, died. Later they moved though Claiborne Co. MS, Warren Co., MS, and settled in Hinds County, MS about 1828."

Charlotte died on 26 February 1846 in Cayuga, Hinds county, Mississippi. Philip died on 16 May 1858 in Cayuga, Hinds county, Mississippi.

Phillip and Charlotte's children were
(22) John Six (1792)
(22) David Six (1794), he married Mary (Polly) Havard on 26 February 1819, he died 17 January 1829 in Wilkinson, Mississippi
(22) Asahel Six (1796), he married Sarah Brock (1814) of Alababma on 22 November 1838. She died on 27 September 1864 in Warren, Mississippi, he died in 1867 in Mississippi
(22) Rachel Six (1801), she married Ackrell Crumpler (1803) of Virginia on 18 January 1827. He died on 9 October 1888, she died on 23 January 1888 in Atlanta, Columbia county, Arkansas
(22) Emela Six (1808), she married Robert W. Bowers on 29 November 1830
(22) Margaret Six (1810), she first married John Calvert on 13 November 1823. He died in 1835 in Claiborne, Mississippi. Second she married Moses A. Brock on 13 February 1838. He was born on 8 September 1808 in South Carolina. He died between 4 August 1870 and 1 June 1880 in Hinds, Mississippi. She died on 16 March 1860 in Hinds, Mississippi
(22) Lohama Six (1820), she married Francis M. (Frank) Brock (1822) of Alabama on 23 December 1840. He died after January 1890, she died on 23 February 1887 in Cayuga, Hinds county, Mississippi
(22) Agnes Six (1822)* she married Samuel Heard on 23 December 1840. He was born on 22 June 1819 in North Carolina. He died on 22 September 1864 in Cayuga Community, Utica, Hinds county, Mississippi, she died on 26 July 1892 in Cayuga Community, Utica, Hinds county, Mississippi
(22) Philip Six Jr, he married Jane E. Lord on 31 July 1848

*Shirley Sowell, who wrote the above and provided much other valuable information, is descended through John Conrad Six, Philip Six, Agnes Six Heard, Laura Heard LaHatte, Nell LaHatte Webster, to Shirley Webster Sowell.

He was born on 28 November 1766 in Virginia. He married Catherine Lemley Frakes in 1810. Their children were Elizabeth Six, who was born in 1811 and died in 1854, and who married John Wildman. Mary Six, who married John Wildman. Sarah Six, who was born in 1815 and died in 1898, who married William Mc Clure. Lewis died on 30 April 1859.

She married Nicholas Baker.

She married Asa Davis.

He was born circa 1770 and married Elizabeth Isabell Hall.

She was born circa 1772 and married Jonathan Garrison.

She was born in 1776. She married Jacob Garrison [the brother of Mary's husband, above?]. She died on 22 April 1818.

Known as "Barbary," she was born in 1778 [1769?] in Pennsylvania [?] and married Robert Knotts. He was the son of Absolom Knotts and Sarah Blackshire. He was born in Kent county, Delaware in 1778 and died in Preston county, Virginia in 1858.

He was born in about 1735 in Schoharie, New York. He married Catherina. He died in 1806 in Wythe county, in western Virgina.

She was born in about 1738 in Schoharie, New York.

She was born on 25 January 1693/4 in Marienfels. Circa 1723, when Anna Elizabetha was 30 years old, she married Johann Michael Meiser in West Camp, Ulster county, New York in the West Camp Lutheran Church. He was born circa 1703 in Germany, the son of Johann Jurg Meiser. They moved to the Tulpehocken area of Pennsylvania in about 1723. Johann Michael died in Millbach, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania in March 1745 when he was 42 years old. Anna also died in Pennsylvania, sometime after 1743.

According to researcher Kathy Lewin of Carmichael, California, all Meisers in America are descendents of Anna and Johan. Their youngest son, Johann Adam Meiser, was taken prisoner by the Indians in a raid and held captive for a year and a half - from "Annals of Buffalo Valley." Johann Adam and his older brother, Johann Henry, moved west and settled in Annapolis, Ohio.

She was born on 23 September 1696 in Marienfels. While she was listed in the London List, she was not included in the Hunter List taken just a month later so, like her father, she may have died as a result of the privations of the voyage over.

Steve Hissem
San Diego, California