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William Addie Waggoner1,2,3

#9028, (1861 - 1926)
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  • Father: Jesse M. Waggoner
  • Mother: Harriet Adeline Foster

Key Events:

  • William Addie Waggoner was born on 7 Apr 1861 in Martinsburg, Pike Co., Illinois.4,5,6
  • William married first Martha B. Kessinger, daughter of Ransom A. Kessinger and Sarah J. Peacock, on 21 Nov 1886 in Pike Co., Illinois, with W. D. Hanks, justice of the peace, officating.7,8,9
  • William married second Nettie Kessinger, daughter of Catherine Christinna Kessinger, who was the older sister of his first wife, on 20 Nov 1909 in Pittsfield, Pike Co., Illinois, with S. P. Rupert, Justice of the Peace, officiating.10,11
  • William married third Mary Emma Brogart, daughter of Moses Brogart and Melvina Buchanan, and widow of his first wife's older brother on 18 Jan 1911 in Bowling Green, Missouri, with R. L. Motley, judge of probate court, officiating.12,13,14
  • William died on 13 Dec 1926 in Pearl Twp., Pike Co., Illinois, at age 65.15,16,17
  • He was buried on 15 Dec 1926 in Old Miller Cemetery, Pearl, Pike Co., Illinois, next to his first wife.3,18
William also appears in our Family History Section where there is much more information about him.

Children with Martha B. Kessinger:

  • Obird W. Waggoner
  • Ocie Waggoner

Citations

  1. Jesse Wagoner household, 1870 U.S. Census, Pike Co., Illinois, shows name as Ady Wagoner.
  2. Jesse M. Waggonner household, 1880 U.S. Census, Pike Co., Illinois, shows name as William A. Waggonner.
  3. William A. and Martha B. Waggoner gravestone, Old Miller Cemetery.
  4. "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947," FamilySearch.org, record for Wm. A. Waggoner, citing FHL #1613463 and ref ID 48046, shows date, town, and state.
  5. William Waggoner and Jeanette Cobb, Marriage License, shows town, county, state, and that he would be 47 at his next birthday.
  6. Jesse Wagoner household, 1870 U.S. Census, Pike Co., Illinois, shows age 9 and state.
  7. Marriage Record, Pike Co., Illinois, 3:149, no. 1097, marriage of William A. Waggoner and Miss Mattie Kessinger, shows date and officiant.
  8. William Wagner household, 1900 U.S. Census, Pike Co., Illinois, shows married 13 years.
  9. William A. and Martha B. Waggoner gravestone, Old Miller Cemetery, shows them on the same stone.
  10. William Waggoner and Jeanette Cobb, Marriage License, shows date, town, county, state, officiant, and that this was his second and her third marriage.
  11. William A. Waggoner household, 1910 U.S. Census, Pike Co., Illinois, shows married one year, and second marriage for each; she seems to have been ignoring her marriage to Robert Cobb, and acknowledging only her first marriage, to Brown.
  12. William E. Wagner and Mary E. Kessinger, marriage license, shows date, town, county, and officiant.
  13. Addie Waggoner household, 1920 U.S. Census, Pike Co., Illinois, shows married.
  14. "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947," FamilySearch.org, record for Wm. A. Waggoner, citing FHL #1613463 and ref ID 48046, shows his wife as Emma Waggoner.
  15. "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947," FamilySearch.org, record for Wm. A. Waggoner, citing FHL #1613463 and ref ID 48046, shows date, town, county, and state.
  16. Illinois State Archives, Database of Death Certificates, online, record for Wm A. Waggoner, citing cert. no. 0750296, shows date, county, and township.
  17. William A. and Martha B. Waggoner gravestone, Old Miller Cemetery, shows year.
  18. "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947," FamilySearch.org, record for Wm. A. Waggoner, citing FHL #1613463 and ref ID 48046, shows date.

Jeanette P. Kessinger1,2,3

#9030, (1875 - 1943)
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Key Events:

  • Jeanette P. Kessinger was born on 26 Jul 1875 in Pearl, Illinois.4,5,6
  • Nettie may have married Mr. Brown, father of her daughter Verna, before she married Robert Cobb, but the record is conflicting. In her application for her marriage to Cobb she used the surname Brown, but the honorific Miss, while in the application for her marriage to Waggoner she said her maiden surname was Brown, and that this would be her third marriage.2,7,8
  • Nettie married next Robert Cobb Jr., son of Maj. Robert H. Cobb and Sarah Virginia Walker, on 7 Sep 1901 in Lawton, Comanche Co., Oklahoma Territory, with probate judge Warren H. Brown officiating.9,10
  • Nettie married next William Addie Waggoner, son of Jesse M. Waggoner and Harriet Adeline Foster and widower of her mother's older sister, on 20 Nov 1909 in Pittsfield, Pike Co., Illinois, with S. P. Rupert, Justice of the Peace, officiating.11,12
  • Nettie apparently married next a Mr. Hutchens. No record of the marriage, nor of him, has been found. In 1930 she was shown with surname Hutchens, as widowed, and she continued to use that surname thereafter.13,14
  • Jeanette died on 14 Nov 1943 in Kampsville, Calhoun Co., Illinois, at age 68.15
  • She was buried on 17 Nov 1943 in Hess (Old Pearl) Cemetery, Pearl Twp., Pike Co., Illinois, sharing a headstone with her mother.16,17
Jeanette also appears in our Family History Section where there is much more information about her.

Child with Mr. Brown:

  • Verna Yuma Brown

Citations

  1. Ransom Kessinger household, 1880 U.S. Census, Pike Co., Illinois, shows name as Jeanette Kessinger.
  2. Robert Cobb Jr. and Nettie P. Brown, Marriage Record, shows her name as Miss Nettie Brown.
  3. William Waggoner and Jeanette Cobb, Marriage License, shows name as Mrs. Jeanette Cobb, maiden name Jeanette Brown, and father's surname as Locke.
  4. Robert Cobb Jr. and Nettie P. Brown, Marriage Record, shows age 34 at marriage 7 Sep 1901, town, as Pearl, and state.
  5. Mrs. Nettie Hutchens, Mrs. Nettie, Coroner's Certificate of Death, shows date, town, as Belleview, and state.
  6. Comanche County OKGenWeb Page, online, "1901 Comanche County Groom Index," shows age 24 when married 7 Sep 1901, town, as Pearl, and state.
  7. William Waggoner and Jeanette Cobb, Marriage License, shows "maiden name, if a widow" as Jeanette Brown (apparently actually her name before her prior marriage), and that this was her third marriage.
  8. William A. Waggoner household, 1910 U.S. Census, Pike Co., Illinois, shows Nettie as in her second marriage, and Verna as his stepdaughter, with surname Brown.
  9. Robert Cobb Jr. and Nettie P. Brown, Marriage Record, shows date, town, county, territory and officiant.
  10. Cobb, Robert Jr. v. Cobb, Nettie P., Wichita District Court, District Clerk, petition, shows they were married "on or about " 11 Sep 1901, county, and state, as Oklahoma, but Oklahoma did not become state until 1907.
  11. William Waggoner and Jeanette Cobb, Marriage License, shows date, town, county, state, officiant, and that this was his second and her third marriage.
  12. William A. Waggoner household, 1910 U.S. Census, Pike Co., Illinois, shows married one year, and second marriage for each; she seems to have been ignoring her marriage to Robert Cobb, and acknowledging only her first marriage, to Brown.
  13. "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947," FamilySearch.org, record for Nettie Hutchens, citing FHL #1983539 and ref no. DTH 46314.
  14. Mabel Hayes household, 1930 U.S. Census, Los Angeles Co., California, shows with surname Hutchens, and widowed.
  15. Mrs. Nettie Hutchens, Mrs. Nettie, Coroner's Certificate of Death.
  16. Mrs. Nettie Hutchens, Mrs. Nettie, Coroner's Certificate of Death, shows date, cemetery, town, county, and state.
  17. Genealogy Trails, online, Illinois, Pike Co., "Hess (Old Pearl) Cemetery." shows name with no dates. In email "Re: Your submission on Hess Cemetery on Genealogy Trails" 10 Mar 2011, the contributor, Rosemary Reeves states the record is from Pike Co. Historical Society cemetery books printed in 1976, which reads "Cobb, Nettie (d. Kate Kessinger) No Date."

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