Elliott Harvey Stoughton

NOT A DIRECT ANCESTOR Elliott Harvey Stoughton is not in my direct ancestry. He is 2 steps removed in the following ways: Nephew of Andrew Stoughton Grandson of John Stoughton and Catherine Covert

	Date	Location	Notes	Sources
Birth	1840-2	PA
Marriage	>Jul 1870, <1873		to Melissa J. (unknown), b. ~1850
Death
Burial

Ancestry chart segment

 Generation 5                  Generation 6                    Generation 7
 
                                                           +-- John Stoughton
                                                           |   (1773-1833)      
                           +-- Barnard VanZant Stoughton --+              
                           |   (1817-1887)                 |                    
Elliott Harvey Stoughton --+                               +-- Catherine Covert
(~1841-????)               |                                   (1778->1850)
                           +-- Susan Harvey
                               (1817-1847)

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Children

(children with Melissa J. (unknown))

Name	Gender	Date of Birth	Birthplace	Spouse	Notes	Sources
Louella Stoughton	F	27 Jan 1872	PA
William Stoughton	M	~1874	PA
Sarah Blanche Stoughton	F	15 Dec 1876	Scotch Hill, Clarion Co., PA

Places of Residence

Location	Dates	Notes	Sources
Piney Twp., Clarion Co., PA	1850
Tionesta Twp., Venango Co., PA	1860
WA	<1866
MO	1866-67
Kingsley Twp., Forest Co., PA	1870
Barnett Twp., Forest Co., PA	1880

Sources

Ref. Num.	Description	Image of original
1	1850 United States Federal Census, Piney Twp, Clarion Co, PA, page 24. Previous page dated 30 Sept. 1850. Lines 16-25: B.W. Stoughton, 33, shoemake; Susannah, 33; John, 14; Joseph, 12; Elliott, 10; Hannah, 8; Catharine, 6; Susannah, 4; Jane, 2; Elizabeth, 1/2. John, Joseph, Elliott and Hannah attended school.
2	1860 United States Federal Census, Tionesta Twp, Venango Co, PA, page 13. Census dated 15 Aug 1860. Lines 6-14:D.V. Stoten, 42, farmer, $500 real, $150 personal property; Susan, 46; Joseph, 21, farmer; E.H., 18, farmer; Hannah, 18, house keeping; Catherine, 16, house keeping; June, 12; Elizabeth, 10; Ida, 7. All b. PA. Note: discrepancy in the name of Barnard V. ( as D.V.)Stoughton is likely a notational error by the census taker.
3	1870 United States Federal Census, Kingsley Twp, Forest Co, PA, page 14. Census dated 12 July 1870. Lines 19-27: Jacob Peas, 38, engineer, $300 personal property; Agnes, 28, keeping house; Jane, 12, attendend school; Mary, 8, attended school; Catharine, 6, attended school; Sarah, 5; Elliott Stoten, 28, works on sawmill; John Guilion, 21, works on sawmill. All b. PA.
4	1880 United States Federal Census, Barnett Twp., Forest Co. PA, pg. 7/ancestry.com pg. 4. Census date June 1880, day date not legible. Lines 27-43: 'Stoughton, E. H. white male age 39, married, manager saw mill; Melissa J., wife, age 30, white female, married Lewella, daughter, age 8, in school William, age 6, son, in school Sarah, age 4, daughter Kellerman, Clemant, white male age 25, single,work on sawmill Verner, William C., white male age 21, single, work on sawmill.
5	Memories by Jennie Stoughton Osborn, Copyright 1935 by Jennie Stoughton Osborn, Medicine Lodge, Kansas. Pg. 1 "Father had married Susan Harvey, but she had died, leaving six children John, Joseph, Elliott, Hannah, Catharine, and Susan Blanche..." Pg. 2 "My mother was living on her farm near Matildaville, Pennsylvania when she met my father, Barnard VanZant Stoughton, who was working at his trade, the shoe business, in Kalensburg, Armstrong, Co., Pa." Pg. 12 "While we younger children were growing up, two of our brothers and two of our sisters were married. One brother, Elliot, went to Washington State..." Pg. 16 "At Odin, IL, we waited again several hours for a train going west to St. Louis. When we arrived at the Mississippi again, ... we were driven to the Gault House, where we expected to meet father. Brother Elliot was coming from Washington, and he, also, was to meet us there. ... When he came and found us there and Elliot, too, he saw the necessity of moving out of the city." [NB: this takes place in autumn/winter of 1866 - RBW 16 Aug 2012] Pg. 17 "Brother Elliot took the real old-fashioned Missouri chills followed by penumonia." [NB This took place in spring 1867. I can't find any mention of Elliot marrying and he isn't mentioned after his sickness on pg. 17 - RBW 16 Aug 2012]	See full text

Source Notes

• A previous version of this page used extensive data from an undocumented webpage which eventually disappeared. We have re-written this page to remove data that was only available from this unsubstantiated source. The middle name "Harvey" falls into this category, but changing a page name in this wiki is a pain so for the time being I have left the page title the same. However, to the best of our knowledge at this time, the middle initial H is all we can stand behind.

Research

From Jennie Stoughton Osborn's memoirs [5], we know that Elliot went to WA (pg. 12). Although he meets back up with Jennie in Missouri (pg. 16), it is not clear if this was a visit and he returns to WA or not. If he does return to WA, there are some documents relating to an Elliot H. Stoughton in Lewis Co., WA some time later:

Ref. Num.	Description	Image of original
R1	Marriage Certificate indicating that Elliot H. Stoughton, born in Butler Co., PA, on 22 Oct 1842, residing at (illegible), sawyer by occupation, was married before and divorced in Clarion Co., PA, on 28 Sep 1887. Rosalie C. Coleman, born in Forest Co., PA, on 1 Jul 1848, residing in Forest Co., PA, seamstress by occupation, was married before and divorced in Jefferson Co., PA, on 25 Feb 1889. They were married in Tylersburg, PA on 6 May 1889.
R2	1892 Washington State Census showing E. H. Stoughton, 49 year old male, married to R. C. Stoughton, 43 year old female. He is a farmer. They were both born in PA. Image courtesy of A. Fix.
R3	Chehalis Bee Newspaper Clipping regarding an earthquake. "Earthquake Monday Morning. Many persons in Chehalis, Centralia, and other points about here felt a distinct earthquake shock about 5 o'clock. A card from E. H. Stoughton of Fulton in the western part of the county says the shock was felt there at 4:30 first followed by a slight shock fifteen minutes later." Chehalis Bee, 1 Mar 1895, page 2, column 3. This information was used as source data for the Cascadia Historic Earthquake Catalog, 1793-1929, provided by The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, for individual event report #275.	N/A
R4	BLM Land Patent Record issued on 27 Dec 1898 showing Elliott H. Stoughton and Roselie C. Stoughton owning 167.15 acres in Lewis County, WA. BLM document serial # WAVAA 067217. As of 15 Aug 2012, the BLM does not have an electronic version of this document available. See online reference: [1] Image courtesy of A. Fix.

If this is our Elliot, then by 1889 he is married to Roselie California Stoughton and by 1892 they are living in WA. Additional records are available for her:

Ref. Num.	Description	Image of original
R5	Marriage certificate for John Strange Stansbury and Roselie California Stoughton dated 31 May 1901 in Lewis Co., WA. Their wedding license was issued on 27 May 1901.
R6	Marriage notice in the Chehalis Bee-Nugget dated Friday, 17 Aug 1923, indicating that a marriage license was granted in Lewis Co., WA, for William Justice of Riffe and Roselie C. Stansbury of Nesika.
R7	Obituary for Mrs. Rosalie Justice in the Chehalis Bee-Nugget, dated Friday 10 May 1929. Rosalie Justice, who had moved to Riffe 40 years earlier, died on Sunday, 5 May 1929, following a paralytic stroke she suffered on 30 Apr 1929. She was 81 and born in PA. Her husband and a large family of step-children survived her. Burial at Riffe cemetery.
R8	Gravestone for Rosalee Justice, 1848-1929, at Doss Cemetery, Mossyrock, Lewis Co., WA. From findagrave.com, regarding Riffe Cemetery: "The original location of Riffe Cemetery is now under the Riffe Lake reservoir created when the Mossyrock Dam was constructed. Before the dam was completed in 1968, the majority of the graves were relocated to Doss Cemetery in Mossyrock. Others were relocated to cemeteries in lewis and surrounding counties. Although the original cemetery records were destroyed in a fire around 1900, some records can be found at the Chehalis Timberland Library and Lewis County Historical Museum."

So, from this, it appears that Roselie/Rosalie/Rosalee California Coleman married Elliot H. Stoughton in 1889 and they moved to WA within the year, but by 1901 she had married her next husband.

• The timing on travel to and from Washington for Elliott is somewhat unknown. If all of the above sources are relevant, then he was in PA for the 1860, 1870, and 1880 census, but was in WA for some time leading up to 1866, when he met with his father and sister in St. Louis and stayed there until at least spring of 1867. He married Rosalie in 1889 in PA, which is approximately the same year she moved to WA according to the obituary, so presumably he moved there with her at that time.