Family Group Sheet

HUSBAND
Samuel Henry BOLEJACK Jr-B5A2²⁷
BIRTH	2 October 1827	Stokes, North Carolina, United States^8,15,17,27
MIGRATION	1857	A family story says that Samuel and his family left Surry Co., NC., in 1857 and settled in Lafayette County near Lone Jack, MO. near where Samuel's father was living.; Johnson, Missouri, United States^6,19,20
CENSUS	9 August 1860	Sni-A-Bar Township, Lafayette, Missouri, United States¹⁷
MILITARY	11 September 1861	Beginning of Civil War in Missouri.; Lexington, Lafayette, Missouri, United States
MILITARY	20 August 1863	Their oldest son Dewitt was nine at the start of the Civil War and often told stories of the time. "The Union forces were stationed at Lexington [MO.] on the Missouri river and were engaged in the battle by the rebel leader, Price, who won for the south. The Lexington foray was followed by the Soon after the raid, pro-slavery forces lead by Parker began terrorizing the area. In one day they burned eleven houses. Because of bushwhackers and the fact that Amy had contracted malaria, the family decided to move from Missouri to Kansas, a free state. trell raids in Lone Jack were just six miles from the Bolejack farm.; Lone Jack, Jackson, Missouri, United States²⁸
MIGRATION	about October 1863	Because Samuel was anti-slavery, the family moved to Kansas in a covered wagon pulled by four oxen in the fall of 1863. The trip from Lone Jack, MO. to Blue Rapids, KS. took six days with their fourteen sheep and six head of cattle. There was only a trappers' post, owned by Tom Angelo, when they arrived.; Blue Rapids, Marshall, Kansas, United States^6,19,20,29
MILITARY	1863	Samuel was said to have been a member of the Fort Riley (KS) Indian Patrol between 1863-5, but no records exist in the National Archives. However, much of the service was informally organized, so he may have been a member of the patrol. Most of the Indians in the area were peaceful although a white hunting party was attacked on the Republican River, with only one survivor. The last Indian raids took place in Clyde in 1869 where a girl was carried off and her parents killed.; Marshall, Kansas, United States
MIGRATION	28 April 1867	W½ SW¼ S2 T5S R5E, Barnes, Washington, Kansas, United States
DEED	3 June 1867	Samuel applied for 80 acres of homestead land located on Coon Creek on 03 Jun 1867 (W½ SW¼ S2 T5S R5E). They had been living on this land since 28 Apr 1867. He paid fourteen dollars for the homestead land. He could not write so he made his mark. Several other people had already applied to homestead parts of this land so Samuel had to file a notice of contest against the other claimants on 03 Jun 1867, apparently since they were not living on the land (for five years in order to receive the land) with M. L. Bennett swearing were no longer living on the land. Samuel built a log house (which is no longer there) on this land that was 18 x 20 feet with one story with a shingle roof, board floors, 2 doors, and one window.; W½ SW¼ S2 T5S R5E, Washington, Kansas, United States³⁰
RESIDENCE	1 July 1867	The family officially settled on this land on 01 Jul 1867. Samuel cultivated 55 acres of this land and built a stable, a cattle corral, hog pens, and dug a well. Samuel built a log house (which is no longer there) on this land that was 18 x 20 feet with one story with a shingle roof, board floors, 2 doors, and one window. ; Washington, Kansas, United States
DEED	12 September 1868	Samuel bought ten acres of land from Josiah Griffeth in Washington Co., KS. (E¼ N¼ S12 T5S R5E) for $100.; Washington, Kansas, United States
MILITARY	about 1870	While Samuel Bolejack and son Dewitt were on a trip to Manhattan by ox team to the mill, riders reported to Amy that Indians were coming. She loaded her children into the neighbors wagons and they all headed for the stockade in Marysville. Along the route, the travelers were told that the Indians had turned, so they could all return home.; Washington, Kansas, United States
DEED	13 January 1870	Samuel bought 30 acres of land in Washington Co., KS. (W½ NW¼ S11 T5S R5E) for $200 from Albert Laird. Later Samuel M. Bolejack (B5A2B) and his son Lloyd lived in a house on the piece of land.; Washington, Kansas, United States³⁰
CENSUS	19 July 1870	Lincoln Township, Washington, Kansas, United States¹⁸
CENSUS	28 July 1870	agricultural census; Lincoln Township, Washington, Kansas, United States
DEED	18 April 1872	Samuel Bolejack, G B Brown (?) and Josiah Griffith (board members) purchase 31 acres NE corner of SE 1/4 Section ?? Range 5 East for 1 dollar from George W Townsend for School District 6.; Washington, Kansas, United States³¹
MISC	1873	The family's main trips were to Marysville about every three months to replenish their supplies. With the oxen, the trip took a day to get there and a day to get back. According to Dewitt, "Marysville was the western terminal for the railroad in those days and consisted of three general merchandise stores and two grocery stores, a blacksmith shop and a stockade for protection against the Indians." They made one trip to Manhattan for supplies, but Marysville soon developed into a reliable supply post. They also went once to Otoe village, north of Marysville, to have corn ground into meal.; Marysville, Marshall, Kansas, United States
MISC	1873	Samuel and Henry Alley went fishing in 1873 at the Blue Rapids dam and gigged a fish which they mounted on a gig pole. When the men, both six foot tall, lifted the pole, the fish still dragged the ground by as much as a foot.; Washington, Kansas, United States
DEED	1 August 1873	Samuel received his patent on his original homesteaded eighty acres (W½ SW¼ S2 T5S R5E) six miles southeast of Barnes, KS. on 01 Aug 1873 (Bk 31, p 631). When he applied, he signed his name so he had learned to write his name since his application. ; Washington, Kansas, United States
CENSUS	1880	Lincoln Township, Washington, Kansas, United States
MEMBER	17 May 1887	Samuel was a member of the Trustees for the Douglas Mound Cemetery when the board purchased one acre of land in Section 34, Twp. 4 South, Range 5 East for the new cemetery in Washington Co., KS. on 17 May 1887 from A. and Lydia Douglas. Many of the Bolejack family were buried in this cemetery.; Washington, Kansas, United States
DEATH	3 January 1896	Washington, Kansas, United States^8,15
BURIAL	January 1896	Mound Cemetery, Barnes, Washington, Kansas, United States⁸
REF #		B5A2;
MARRIAGE	between 1850 and 1852	Amy may have still been back in Surry Co., NC. (An Amy appears in the 1850 Surry Co., NC. census with her parents Robert and Sally). Amy and Nancy (Whitaker) Bolejack (B5A1/W/) seem to be sisters. Samuel met Amy before the family left North Carolina and he later returned to marry her. No marriage records have been found in North Carolina. However, a letter that this Samuel Henry's father wrote in 1853 refers to "Samuel Henry" in North Carolina, so he seems to have returned there to marry. ; ^6,17,19,20
FATHER	Samuel Henry BOLEJACK Sr-B5A
MOTHER	Milly DOSS-B5A/W/

WIFE
Amy WHITAKER-B5A2/W/
BIRTH	15 February 1828	Surry, North Carolina, United States^8,15,17
ILLNESS	1862	malaria; ²⁰
DEATH	18 December 1902	Washington, Kansas, United States^8,15
BURIAL	December 1902	Mound Cemetery, Barnes, Washington, Kansas, United States^8,15
REF #		B5A2/W/;
FATHER	Robert WHITAKER
MOTHER	Unknown UNKNOWN


CHILDREN
1.	Dewitt Jerome "D J" BOLEJACK-B5A2A^17,18,19,20 MALE
	BIRTH	18 June 1852	Surry, North Carolina, United States^{4,6,8,17,18,20}
	RESIDENCE	1862	Waterville and Barnes Kansas did not yet exist. The nearest provision point and grist mill were in Marysville, a trip taken by ox team. There was only one trapper's home in the area at the time.; Marshall, Kansas, United States²⁰
	MISC	1865	He helped shuck corn for Hans Alley in 1865 on the site of what later became Waterville.; Waterville, Marshall, Kansas, United States
	EDUCATION		His parents hosted the roving preachers who came and stayed in the homes of local settlers. School was held in the same manner, with both school and teacher moving from home to home. Settlers paid what they could toward the teacher's salary. Because of the work load, only two or three months of school were included in each term, which came after the fall harvest and before the spring work began. The first school in the area was Jordan which D. J. attended when he was free from work at home.; Jordon School, Washington, Kansas, United States
	MIGRATION	1867	In 1867 he helped break sod on the Bolejack homestead. He remained with his parents and farmed until he married in 1886.; homestead on Coon Creek, six miles southeast of Barnes, Washington, Kansas, United States⁶
	MISC	1875	When the railroad arrived in 1875, the town seemed to spring up overnight.; Washington, Kansas, United States
	DEED	23 December 1882	Dewitt bought forty acres (W½ NW¼ S15 T5S R5E) six miles south of Barnes in Washington Co., KS. for $40 on 23 Dec 1882 from his brother Samuel (B5A2B). ; Washington, Kansas, United States
	DEED	23 December 1882	Dewitt bought land (W½ NW¼ S15 T5S R5E) from his brother Samuel (B5A2B) for $40 on 23 Dec 1882. ; W½ NW¼ S15 T5S R5E, Lincoln Township, Washington, Kansas, United States
	MIGRATION	1886	They moved to the farm they had purchased 6 miles south of Barnes.; Washington, Kansas, United States⁶
	MISC	1888	They had built a one room home which was destroyed in 1888 by a tornado.; Washington, Kansas, United States
	DEED		Washington, Kansas, United States
	MISC		One year, the wheat crop was so poor that it did not quite fill a barrel, but it was put in the granary with the remark that the next year they could "grow our seed for the next year."; Washington, Kansas, United States
	CENSUS	1 March 1895	Lincoln Township, Washington, Kansas, United States⁴
	DEED	19 March 1897	Dewitt bought forty acres of land in Washington Co., KS. (SW¼ NW¼ S10 T5S R5E) for $567.50 on 19 Mar 1897.; Washington, Kansas, United States
	RESIDENCE	1906	He owned 160 acres in sections 2 & 11.; Lincoln Township, Washington, Kansas, United States²¹
	RELIGION	about 1912	Barnes Methodist Church ; Barnes, Washington, Kansas, United States
	RETIREMENT	1922	They retired from farming and moved to Barnes, Kansas in 1922.; Barnes, Washington, Kansas, United States
	RESIDENCE	14 October 1943	After his wife Elizabeth's death, Dewitt lived with his daughters.;
	MISC	2 July 1947	Letter from Albert M. Cole, U.S. Congressman, congratulating DJ Bolejack on his 95 birthday.; Waterville, Marshall, Kansas, United States²²
	ILLNESS	October 1950	Dewitt was bedfast for the last sixteen months of his life and lived on a rotating basis with his daughters.; ⁶
	MISC	1952	26 grandchildren (2 deceased) and 30 great grandchildren;
	DEATH	8 February 1952	at the home of his daughter Ida (Bolejack) Mann (B5A2A1) age 99 y, 7 m, 21 d; Waterville, Marshall, Kansas, United States^6,8,15
	BURIAL	10 February 1952	Mound Cemetery, Barnes, Washington, Kansas, United States^6,8,15
	REF #		B5A2A;
	PHOTO		^11,23
	MARRIAGE	19 January 1886	Elizabeth Rosetta Cordelia "Lib" DAVIS-B5A2A/W/; by Henry Chapman, Justice of the Peace; Blue Rapids, Marshall, Kansas, United States^5,6,8,24

2.	Samuel M BOLEJACK-B5A2B^17,18,19 MALE
	BIRTH	12 March 1854	Surry, North Carolina, United States^{17,18,19,32,33,34}
	RESIDENCE	1878	homesteaded 80 acres of land (W½ SW¼ S10 T5S R5E) 6 1/2 miles southeast of Barnes; Washington, Kansas, United States
	DEED	5 June 1880	Samuel bought forty acres (W½ NW¼ S15 T5S R5E) for $100. ; Washington, Kansas, United States
	CENSUS	10 June 1880	Lincoln Township, Washington, Kansas, United States³⁵
	DEED	23 December 1882	Samuel sold this same land to his brother Dewitt (B5A2A) for $40 on 23 Dec 1882. ; Washington, Kansas, United States
	DEED	13 August 1883	He received title to the homesteaded land, which he later sold to his brother Dewitt Bolejack.; Washington, Kansas, United States
	CENSUS	1 March 1885	Lincoln Township, Washington, Kansas, United States³²
	CENSUS	1 March 1895	Lincoln Township, Washington, Kansas, United States³³
	CENSUS	7 June 1900	Lincoln Township, Washington, Kansas, United States³⁴
	MISC	1942	10 grandchildren, four great grandchildren;
	DEATH	14 January 1942	87 y 10 m 2 d; Washington, Kansas, United States¹⁹
	BURIAL	16 January 1942	No stone. The family purchased a stone but have never put it up. ; Mound Cemetery, Barnes, Washington, Kansas, United States¹⁹
	REF #		B5A2B;
	RELIGION		Methodist;
	MARRIAGE	14 March 1877	Elizabeth "Lizzie" BARKER-B5A2B/W/; Washington, Kansas, United States^19,32,33,34

3.	Joseph M BOLEJACK-B5AC^17,18 MALE
	BIRTH	13 June 1856	North Carolina, United States^8,17,18,36
	CENSUS	1 March 1905	Pearl M Livergood - age 8 born Kansas; Lincoln Township, Washington, Kansas, United States³⁷
	RESIDENCE	1906	He owned 40 acres in section 15.; Lincoln Township, Washington, Kansas, United States³⁸
	DEATH	19 December 1929	Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, United States^8,15,36
	BURIAL	21 December 1929	Mound Cemetery, Barnes, Washington, Kansas, United States^8,15,36
	REF #		B5AC;
	PHOTO		²³
	MARRIAGE	17 March 1902	Lottie Lou LIVERGOOD-B5A2C/W/; Washington, Kansas, United States^36,37

4.	Sarah Jane BOLEJACK-B5A2D & B5A1D/W/^17,18 FEMALE
	BIRTH	19 May 1859	Lafayette, Missouri, United States^{17,18,39,40,41}
	CENSUS	1880	Jackson Township, Johnson, Missouri, United States
	CENSUS	1880	Horse Pasture, Henry, Virginia, United States
	DEATH	20 November 1911	Johnson, Missouri, United States⁴⁰
	BURIAL		Bluff Springs Cemetery, Kingsville, Johnson, Missouri, United States⁴⁰
	REF #		B5A2D & B5A1D/W/;
	MARRIAGE	about 1879	William Rufus BOLEJACK-B5A1D & B5A2D/H/; Missouri, United States^40,41

5.	William P Rufus BOLEJACK-B5A2E^18,19,29 MALE
	BIRTH	22 December 1861	based on age at death of age 85 y 2 m 20 d;
	BIRTH	25 December 1861	Chapel Hill, Johnson, Missouri, United States^8,18,29,42
	CENSUS	1900	Lincoln Township, Washington, Kansas, United States
	RELIGION		Church of Christ; Barnes, Washington, Kansas, United States
	RESIDENCE		lived 37 years on their home farm on Coon Creek and then moved to Barnes, KS; Washington, Kansas, United States
	MISC	1947	11 grandchildren, 14 great grandchildren;
	DEATH	14 March 1947	85 y 2 m 20 d; Douglass, Butler, Kansas, United States^8,15,29,42
	BURIAL	17 March 1947	Mound Cemetery, Barnes, Washington, Kansas, United States^8,15,42
	DEED		William's estate included four tracts of land in Washington Co., KS. (1. NW corner SE¼ SW¼ S2 T5S R5E with 13 acres. 2. NW¼ NE¼ S10 T5S R5E 3. NE¼ NW¼ S10 T5S R5E 4. NW¼ NW¼ S23 T5S R5E) ; Washington, Kansas, United States
	REF #		B5A2E;
	PHOTO		^23,43
	MARRIAGE	26 January 1890	Minnie Mae MARTENUS-B5A2E/W/; Barnes, Washington, Kansas, United States^8,29,42

6.	Loueasy Caroline BOLEJACK-B5A2F¹⁸ FEMALE
	BIRTH	2 May 1865	based on 23 y, 8 m, 2 d; Kansas, United States^18,44
	DEATH	4 January 1889	23 y, 8 m, 2 d; Kansas, United States^8,15,44
	BURIAL	January 1889	Mound Cemetery, Barnes, Washington, Kansas, United States^15,44
	REF #		B5A2F;
	MARRIAGE	23 February	John W DAVISON-B5A2F/H/ & B5A2H/H/; ⁴⁴

7.	Emma BOLEJACK-B5A2H FEMALE
	BIRTH	23 February 1871	Lincoln Township, Washington, Kansas, United States⁴⁴
	MISC		Unproven child _________ Davison (B5A2H5) was born 29 Jun 1889 in __________ Co., __. S/he died 15 Jul 1899 in __________ Co., __ and was buried in __________ Co., __. Born well after Louesy died but before John & Emma were married.;
	DEATH	26 June 1901	30 y, 4 m, 3d; Atchison, Kansas, United States⁴⁴
	BURIAL	June 1901	Effingham Cemetery, Effingham, Atchison, Kansas, United States⁴⁴
	REF #		B5A2H;
	MARRIAGE	2 March 1890	John W DAVISON-B5A2F/H/ & B5A2H/H/; John was the widower of Emma's sister Loueasy Caroline Bolejack (B5A2F); ⁴⁴

8.	Hatty Margret BOLEJACK-B5A2G FEMALE
	BIRTH	29 February 1872	Kansas, United States^8,15,45
	DEATH	15 September 1875	Kansas, United States^8,15,45
	BURIAL	September 1875	Mound Cemetery, Barnes, Washington, Kansas, United States^8,15,45
	REF #		B5A2G;