My current task in my family history efforts is collecting as many census records as I can for each family in the tree. This helps me to map out where they lived throughout their lives, and what kinds of jobs they had, etc. As I've mapped out their homesites, I've researched some of the townships. I'm working on collecting the census records for Benjamin New, father of Samuel Franklin New. The following is a picture of his family. I'm guessing this picture was taken about 1895. From left to right, starting on the bottom we have Samuel, Robert, Frederick. Middle row, Nancy, Benjamin. Top (left to right) Ora, Anna, and Ethel.
Benjamin and Nancy had a son named Jacob. He was their firstborn, but died. He is listed on the 1875 Kansas Census as being 10 months old, born in Illinois. But he isn't listed on any census records after that. I've checked Find a Grave.com for a gravesite, but I don't see anything listed. It could very well be that such a young couple didn't have any money to provide a headstone at that point in their lives.
The census records I'm looking for (for Benjamin) include 1850, 1870, 1885 Kansas, 1890, and the 1905 Kansas. In 1905 he could possibly still be living in Oklahoma.
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