Some Descendants of Elizabeth Slocum (Jeremy, Apelles, Simon, Simon) and Archimedes Burr Wynkoop of Lake county, Illinois

  1. Niles Wynkoop was born about 1842 in Illinois. [C1850] He died between 1910 and 1920. He married Tamar Ellen Unknown [C1870] about 1867. [C1900] She was born in Nov 1845 in Illinois. [C1900]
    Niles was a private in Company B of the 96 Illinois Infantry in the Civil War. [USCWS] "Cousin Niles Wynkoop ... was in Sherman's army that marched through Georgia." [LEDB]
    In 1850 Niles was living in Wauconda, Lake, Illinois with his uncle Thomas F. Slocum. [C1860] In 1870 Niles and his family were living in Wauconda and Niles had real estate worth $800 and a personal estate of $400. [C1870] In 1880 Niles was living with his wife, two sons and widowed mother in Wauconda, where he was a day laboror. [C1880] In 1900 Niles was living in McHenry county, Illinois with his wife and younger son. He was a carpenter and had been unemployed for three months. [C1900] In 1910 Niles and Ellen were living in Woodstock, McHenry, Illinois. Ellen had had two children and one was living. [C1910] In 1920 Ellen was widowed and living with her son Fred. [C1920]
    1. Frank Wynkoop was born in 1868 in Illinois. [C1870] He died before 1910.
      He may be the Frank Wynkoop, born in Nov 1867 in Illinois, whose parents were born in Illinois who was a clerk in Chicago, Cook, Illinois in 1900. [C1900]
    2. Frederick Wynkoop was born in Nov 1875 in Illinois. [C1880] He married Lenora Unknown. [C1910] She was born about 1878 in Illinois. [C1910] The census suggests that Fred and Lenora had no children.
      In 1910 Fred and Leonora were living in Woodstock, McHenry, Illinois in 1910. [C1910] In 1920 Fred and Leonora were living in Woodstock. [C1920]
      Frederick was a toolmaker. [C1910]
  2. Adelaide Wynkoop was born about 1844 in Illinois. [C1850]

References

  Letter from Erasmus Darwin Barnes, son of Asahel Richardson Barnes and Mary Whitcomb Slocum, to his niece Stella Cramer Aikens.
C1850 Bureau of the Census, Seventh Census of the United States, 1850, Washington, DC, National Archives and Records Administration, 1850.
C1860 Bureau of the Census, Eighth Census of the United States, 1860, Washington, DC, National Archives and Records Administration, 1860.
C1870 Bureau of the Census, Ninth Census of the United States, 1870, Washington, D.C., National Archives and Records Administration, 1870.
C1880 Bureau of the Census, Tenth Census of the United States, 1880, Washington, DC, National Archives and Records Administration, 1880.
C1900 Bureau of the Census, Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900, Washington, DC, National Archives and Records Administration, 1900.
C1910 Bureau of the Census,Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910, Washington, DC, National Archives and Records Administration, 1910.
C1920 Bureau of the Census. Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920, Washington, DC, National Archives and Records Administration, 1920.
USCWS National Park Service, U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865, on-line database, Provo, UT, Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.

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