McAninch in the Byram–Irons Genealogy Book |
Genealogy of Byram–Irons Families, 1610-1982, Genivie Irons Frazer, Enid, Oklahoma [Notes 1, 2] |
2-2, Thomas Jefferson Irons: [Section 2, Irons Family, (person) 2-2 (son of Thomas Irons)] |
“Born 16 April 1833 in Hendricks Co., Ind. His first wife was Susan Holland, married ca. 1856. |
Had two daughters. One son died in infancy.” [Note 2] [pg. 48] |
“When his first wife died, he returned to Indiana and his sister, Minerva Burgess, kept Cora and |
Belle (his daughters). In 1864, Thomas married Mary Catherine McAninch. They were married |
by Rev. S. Bowen, Methodist Minister in Hendricks Co., Ind., on July 3, 1864. Mary Catherine |
was the daughter of Joseph McAninch and Elizabeth Jane Quiett.” [Note 3] [pg. 48] |
Born: |
18 April 1833 in Hendricks Co., Ind. |
[date of birth, 16 or 18 (?), Note 2] [pg. 55] |
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Parents: |
Thomas Irons and Sarah Franks |
[Thomas, b.Tenn.; Sarah, b.Kentucky; pg. 48] |
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Married: |
(1) Susan Holland, ca. 1855 – 1856 |
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[first marriage, 1855-1856, Note 2] |
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(2) Mary Catherine McAninch, 3 July 1864 |
[age 18; b. Hendricks County, Ind.] |
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Died: |
6 July 1906 at their home west of Carmen, Okla. |
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[Alfalfa County, OK] |
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Buried in Pleasant Valley Cemetery, west of Dacoma, Okla. |
[Woods County, OK] |
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Settled: |
After his first marriage they moved to Gentry Co., Mo., and acquired land near |
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Stanberry, Mo. One of the early deeds, a government deed, was dated in 1859, and |
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refers to the farm as “swamp land”. … |
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Thomas’s first wife died and Thomas and his children returned to Indiana. In 1864, |
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his father died on Mar. 3; his mother died on June 6; his brother John, died on Aug. 5; |
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and his sister, Mary Ellen (Mrs. Oscar Hull) died Oct. 29. All four are buried in the |
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Irons Cemetery east of Belleville.” |
[Irons Cemetery, Hendricks County, Note 4] |
Thomas J. and Mary C. (McAninch) Irons had twelve children: Minerva Ellen, Nancy Jane, Susan |
Margaret, Mary Malinda, Charles Burgess, Joseph Edward, Katie E., Oliver Franklin, John Sherman, |
James Garfield [father of Genivie], Thomas Blane, and Benjamin Harrison Irons. [pg. 55-56, 71] |
Old photograph, family portrait, entitled “Thomas Jefferson Irons (b. 18 April 1833; d. 6 July 1906) |
and Mary Catherine McAninch (Irons) (b. 15 April 1846; d. 27 Feb. 1924)” [circa 1890’s(?), pg. 57] |
James Garfield Irons, born 16 July 1881, Barton County, Kansas, married Myrtle Mae Byram, |
20 Oct. 1903, at Alva, Oklahoma, and had four children. Their youngest child, Genivie Erma Irons, |
born 29 Nov. 1911, at Flower Bluff, Texas, was the compiler of this book [she died in 1990’s][pg.71] |
Source Notes: |
[1] Genealogy of Byram–Irons Families, 1610-1982, by Genivie Irons Frazer, 4419 Wheatland Dr., |
Enid, Oklahoma 73701; published by the author, September 1982; 147 pages, with Index; at LDS |
Family History Library, Salt Lake City, 929.273 B996f; Los Angeles Public Library, 929.2 B996. |
[2] In her text, Genevie is very conscientious about proof, and identifies assumptions and conjectures, |
but, there are minor internal inconsistencies [Thomas J. Irons DOB, and date of his first marriage]. |
[3] Joseph McAninch, b. 2 Apr. 1821, Casey Co., KY, son of Samuel and (Mary) Polly (Skidmore) |
McAninch; married Elizabeth Jane Quiett, 21 May 1845, near Paris, Edgar County, Illinois. |
It is not known if Genivie had more McAninch information, but there is nothing more in her book. |
[4] Irons-Miles Cemetery, Plainfield P.L., http://www.plainfield.lib.in.us, Indiana Room, Cemetery. |
McAninch Family History NL, VIII-2 April 2000 Copyright Frank McAninch page 2000-14 |