Lemuel Van Zandt1

(1843 - 1885)
FatherWinant Van Zandt1 (c 1801 - 1875)
MotherMary Magdalen Wyckoff1 (1797 - 1844)
Extended Family

Children of Lemuel Van Zandt and Pauline E Rightmire
  • Fred L Van Zandt9 (circa 1874 - )
  • Frank E Van Zandt9 (circa 1876 - )

Children of Lemuel Van Zandt and Mary Ella Cilley
  • Lemuel Van Zandt10 (1881 - )
  • Mary Rosetta Van Zandt4 (1883 - )

Life Events

BirthLemuel Van Zandt was born on 9 Aug 1843 in Ohio.2,1
 
(with Parents) 1850 CensusLemuel Van Zant appeared on the 1850 Federal Census of Dundee Township, Monroe County, Michigan, with his parents. He was 7 years old, attended school, and was born in Ohio.2
(Other) 1860 CensusHe appeared on the 1860 Federal Census of Dundee Township, Monroe County, Michigan, in the household of Ralph Voorhees Suydam and his wife Catharine. [Catharine was Lemuel's sister]. He was 17, a Farm Laborer, and born in Ohio.3
MilitaryLemuel Van Zandt served in the 48th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company B.4 
Note.
Lemuel van Zandt, as a federal soldier in the Civil War, was confined in Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia, for many months. His relatives thought him dead. At the first opportunity he wrote his name and place of confinement on a piece of brown wrapping paper with a lead pencil and threw it out of the window to a prisoner who was being exchanged, asking him to deliver it to his family in Ohio, which was done by the man to Lemuel's niece at Oakley, Ohio, Mary Ann Johnson. This man did not know Lemuel [Ardell Bowman].5
 
MarriageHe married Vilma (-?-).6
 
1870 CensusLemuel and Vilma Vanzant appeared on the 1870 Federal Census of Summerfield Township, Monroe County, Michigan, enumerated 2 Aug 1870. Lemuel was 26, a Laborer with real estate of $1000 and personal estate of $200, and was born in Ohio. Vilma was 26, Keeping House, and born in Michigan.6 
MarriageLemuel Van Zandt married Pauline E Rightmire.7
 
(Widowed) DeathPauline's death from consumption on 29 Aug 1877 left Lemuel a widower.7 
MarriageHe married Mary Ella Cilley on 2 May 1880 in Dundee, Monroe County, Michigan.
Details from register: Lemuel Vanzant, residence Petersburg, 36, birthplace Darke County Ohio, Butcher;
Mary Ella Sheldon, formerly Mary Ella Cilley, residence Petersburg, 29, birthplace Petersburg;
They were married by minister W Geirge and the witnesses were A Susan & Edward Cilley.8 
1880 CensusLemeul and Mary E VanZandt appeared on the 1880 Federal Census of Petersburg, Summerfield Township, Monroe County, Michigan, enumerated 28 Jun 1880. Lemuel was 36, a Huckster, born in Ohio, parents born in New Jersey. Mary was 28, Keeping House, and born in Michigan. They were married within the previous year. With them were sons Fred L (6) and Frank E (4) as well as Lemuel's stepson Ellsworth Shelden and mother in law Mary J Rightmire.9 
OccupationLemuel Van Zandt was a a farmer, according to his son's birth registration on 17 Sep 1881.10 
DeathLemuel died on 21 Feb 1885 in Deshler, Henry County, Ohio.4
 
BurialHe was buried in Old Petersburg Cemetery, Petersburg, Monroe County, Michigan. Transcribed cemetery record: VANZANDT, Lemuel, b. no date, d. no date, Company B48th Battalion Ohio Veteran Infantry.11 
Note.In May 1891, Lemuel's widow Mary applied for their children Lemuel and Mary Rosetta to be educated at the Ohio Soldiers & Sailors Orphans Home in Xenia, Ohio.4 
Last Edited9 Aug 2009

Citations

  1. [S1766] Charles Arthur Hoppin, The Washington ancestry, and records of the McClain, Johnson, and forty other colonial American families (Greenfield, Ohio: E.L. McClain, 1932), digital copy viewed on Heritage Quest, citing Johnson-Wyckoff family Bible.
  2. [S857] 1850 Federal Census for United States, Michigan, Monroe County, Dundee, Roll M432 358, Page 283. Digital image viewed at Ancestry.com.
  3. [S1740] 1860 Federal Census for United States, Michigan, Monroe County, Dundee, Roll M653 554, Page 23. Digital image viewed at Ancestry.com.
  4. [S1877] Ohio Soldiers & Sailors Orphans Home, database online at Greene County, Ohio, Library. http://www.greenelibrary.info/Collections-and-Resources/
  5. [S1766] Charles Arthur Hoppin, The Washington ancestry, and records of the McClain, Johnson, and forty other colonial American families (Greenfield, Ohio: E.L. McClain, 1932), digital copy viewed on Heritage Quest.
  6. [S1739] 1870 Federal Census for United States, Michigan, Monroe County, Summerfield, Roll M593 691, Page 495. Digital image viewed at Ancestry.com.
  7. [S1577] Death Records of Michigan, 1867-1897. viewed at Family Search Historic Records & Images Online, Pauline E Vanzant, recorded in 1878, #138.
  8. [S1540] Marriage Records of Michigan, 1868-1925. viewed at Family Search Historic Records & Images Online, Lemuel Vanzandt & Mary Ella Sheldon/Cilley, 1880, #140.
  9. [S938] 1880 Federal Census for United States, Michigan, Monroe, Petersburg, Roll T9 596, ED 187, Page 596A. Digital image viewed at Ancestry.com.
  10. [S1574] Birth Records of Michigan, 1867-1902. viewed at Family Search Historic Records & Images Online, Lemuel Van Zandt, recorded in 1882, #364.
  11. [S893] Website Interment.net [an online database of indexed cemeteries] (http://www.interment.net).