Theophilus Sloan1

M, (circa 1841 - 14 August 1883)

Father*Ira Robert Sloan2,3 (c 1818 - )
Mother*Jane Kirk4 (c 1821 - 15 May 1857)
Theophilus Sloan|b. c 1841\nd. 14 Aug 1883|p2307.htm|Ira Robert Sloan|b. c 1818|p2411.htm|Jane Kirk|b. c 1821\nd. 15 May 1857|p2412.htm|John Sloan Sr.|b. 26 Dec 1792\nd. 24 Mar 1867|p2475.htm|Deborah Tubbs|b. 1796\nd. 12 Dec 1868|p2476.htm|William Kirk|b. 1780\nd. c 1830|p2451.htm|Elizabeth (?)||p2450.htm|

Charts Pedigree for Phoebe Alice Jones
Relationship 2nd great-grandfather of James Jay McKinney.
Last Edited 20 Mar 2000
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Note* Paul West on descendant of the Sloans:Our relatives at this time were devout persons. They mostly lived on farms with timber land and farming plots. Bud Williams lived on one side of the Chariton River and farmed on the opposite side. He forded the Chariton River each time he tilled his fields. Their food was plain, tasty and bountiful. Once when we visited Great Aunt Alice Burnam, she had prepared a beautiful five tiered cake. It was yellow, had fruit jelly between each layer and the icing was made of whipped egg whites, vanilla and sugar. The finished cake had been placed in an oven until the icing was slightly browned. Then my Aunt Alice stored the cake in a cabinet in the kitchen. After a nice dinner the cake was brought forth. Sad ! Sad! It was covered with little red ants. You know what we did? We just scrapped the little ants off and enjoyed one of the most delicious cakes I have ever eaten.
Several of our relatives had ice houses dug under the ground with a roof over them. In the winter time, ice from the Chariton River was cut into blocks and stored in the ice house. Sawdust was placed between the blocks to keep them from sticking to each other. The ice really kept very well. Each house had what was called a root cellar. It was dug down into the earth, lined with native stone and covered over with an earthen rounded up roof. Potatoes, onions, pumpkins, other vegetables and some of the most tasty canned fruits, jellies and pickle relishes that one has ever eaten were stored here. These root cellars were also used for refuge during violent storms. A favorite way of keeping butter, cream and milk cool was to place these items in a bucket, hang the bucket on a rope and lower it to the water level of a deep well. Stable foods such as sugar and salt were obtained by barter at a country store, like the one at Dodds. Eggs and cream were traded for these items. Dehydration or drying in the sun was used to preserve corn that had been cut off the cob, snap beans, sliced apples and peaches. A clean white cloth was spread out on the roof of a building just high enough to be out of the reach of the flies. The vegetables and fruits were spread out on the sheet, the sun did the rest. When properly dried, the end product was placed in a clean sugar or flour sack and hung from a rafter. I have seen red peppers and onions also hanging. Cabbage was shredded and placed in salt water and allowed to ferment. This became sauerkraut. Cucumbers were preserved in barrels of salt water and alum. Dill was sometimes added.
After the first freeze came butchering day. This was an exciting time, but a day of hard work. Hogs were fattened on corn. The neighboring men and women would gather to help. A large vat of water was brought to a boll. A pig was shot between the eyes with a .22 rifle, then the throat was cut and a knife plunged into the animals heart to bleed. The hog was dipped in and out of the boiling water. Men scraped the hair off the carcass. Next it was hung in a tree by its hind legs with the legs spraddled. It was gutted and leaf fat torn out. The hog was then cut into different parts such as hams, shoulders, sides and ribs. The women rendered the lard in large iron kettles placed over the fire. Head and liver cheese was made. Scrap meat was made into sausage and stuffed into casings. The casings were usually clean intestines. Another way of preserving sausage was to cook it, place it in jars and cover with lard. The hams and etc. were salted down. After a time of curing, they were taken to the smoke house. Every farmer had a smoke house. The meat was hung from the rafters and a smoky fire of hickory chips was lighted to smoke the meat. Meat preserved in this fashion would last several years.
Many families made wine out of wild grapes, elderberries, wild cherries and other fruits, sometimes even dandelion blossoms. Corn was distilled into whiskey.
Another method of preserving potatoes, pumpkins, apples, melons and cabbages was to dig a deep hole in the ground and line the hole with straw. Next the food was placed in the hole with a layer of straw over it followed by a sheet of tin and then a mound of dirt was used to completely cover the hole. Whenever you dug the food out, it was well preserved.
I am going to insert a true story that happened when our family was visiting Bud and Mae Williams. One morning at daybreak, Bud took off into the forest with his hunting rifle. In the meantime, Aunt Mae went out into the garden and picked several ripe tomatoes. She then made biscuit dumplings, boiled these in an iron pot doughwith the tomatoes and salt. Bud soon returned with four squirrels. These were dressed and fried until crisp in bacon grease. This made a very tasty breakfast--probably one of the best that I have ever eaten.
After breakfast, we left Buds to visit other relatives. Dad was driving a Model T Ford. We started up a steep hill and the motor quit so, we backed down to the bottom of the hill, Dad cranked up the car and it started right off. In those days, gasoline flowed by gravity from the gas tank to the engine. Needless to say we had to back up that hill! That particular Ford had two levers on the steering wheel, one for the spark and one for the gas. The choke wire was in front of the car near the crank. If you didn’t watch that old Ford, it would back fire. The crank would fly backwards and break an arm if you weren’ t careful. Other controls on the car was a hand brake and three peddles to operate it; high, low and neutral. I would say that the automobile industry has come a long way since that old Ford!
One time Bud and Jeff Jones drove a team of horses hitched to a wagon from Macon County to our farm north of Wakenda, Missouri. It took two days to make the trip. They came to vislt and to buy a load of apples from a neighbor. We gave them a black and white slick haired hunting dog called Jack. When they left for their seventy mile journey back home, they tied a rope around Jack’s neck and tied him to the rear axel of the wagon. Jack pulled back on the rope with all his might, but he had to follow all the way to Macon County. He was then released. What do you know?! Several days later, Jack came tearing down our country lane barking and wagging his tail. He was that happy to be home!, Principal=Nancy Eunice Morris5 
Birth*circa 1841 OH, Probably Meigs Co. OH based on 1850 Census. 1850 Census gives age as 9. 1880 Census said born in OH age 38.1,6 
Census1850 Bedford, Chester Township, Meigs Co., OH, Name: Theophales. Age 9. Born in Ohio. Shown with Ira Slone.6 
Marriage*21 September 1861 Portsmith, Scioto Co., OH, Early Court Records of Scioto Co. Ohio: Marriage "21 Sept. [1861] Theophilus SLOAN (18) & Eunice MORRIS Consent of his father, Ira SLOAN. Ages verified by T.S. Morris.", Principal=Nancy Eunice Morris7,8 
Residence*23 August 1864 Scioto Co., OH9 
Residence*circa 1870 Macon Co., MO, "People were constantly moving westward and, as land was so expeneive in Illinois, they [Eliphel "Flit" (nee Sloan) and Matthew Grimshaw] decided to move on to Missouri where government and railroad land was cheap and plentiful. Some unimproved timber land sold for $1.25 per acre. Thev moved in a covered wagon piled high with their possessions. Severel families of their relatives and friends from Ohio were in the wagon train when they crossed the Mississippi River into Missouri. Among those making the trip in 1870 and a few years later (besides the M. J. Grimshaw family), were his brothers Wes and Ben and their families, his sister, and husband (Nancy and Joe Stritmatter) and two of his wife's sisters and their husbands, (Eunice snd Theopholus Sloan and Emily and Jeff Field.) They planned to go to Meadville, Missouri, where some of his mother's folks (the Ricketts) were already located. However, one of the wagons broke down on what was then known as the Humphery Hill, just a mile east of the present Grimshaw home. While waiting to fix the wagon some of tha men scouted around looking at the country, They decided to locate here rather than go on. The Grimahsw family decided to settle on the Chariton River near Peggy Ford. The other families of the party located on the hills bordering the river. Strong ties existed between these families who had travelled many miles together to establish homes in a new place. They were glad to locate together. Some stayed and became established members of the community. A few soon went back east and others pushed on to the far west after a few years." Read A.W. Grimshaw History for description of land and life in this community including flooding., Principal=Nancy Eunice Morris10 
Census*18 June 1880 Valley Township, Macon Co., MO, Name: Theophilus. Age 38. Farmer Could read and write [based on other entries I believe it means cannot read and write]. Born in Ohio. Parents born in Ohio. Shown with Unice-wife, Mary-daughter, Sarah J-daughter, Alice-daughter, Emma-daughter, Wilbur-son, Ettie M.-daughter, Josie-daughter. Four families are shown next to each other in census (Hugh Dunsieth with Ira Sloan father in law, Freeman Sloan, Allen Sloan, and Theophilus Sloan).1 
Death*14 August 1883 MO, Paul West has date as 17 Oct 1883.5,4,11 
Burial*after 17 October 1883 northwest corner, Old Chariton Cemetery, Macon Co., MO, Per Paul West, as of 1989 there was no marker on the graves, just flags (flowers). Later per Enola Ziebola, a tombstone was erected.5 

Family

Nancy Eunice Morris
Marriage*21 September 1861 Portsmith, Scioto Co., OH, Early Court Records of Scioto Co. Ohio: Marriage "21 Sept. [1861] Theophilus SLOAN (18) & Eunice MORRIS Consent of his father, Ira SLOAN. Ages verified by T.S. Morris.", Principal=Nancy Eunice Morris7,8 
Children

Citations

  1. [S118] 1880 US Federal Census: Valley Township, Macon Co., MO: Supv Dist No.5 Enum.Dist. 137? Page No. 11 Line 29.
  2. [S118] 1880 US Federal Census: Valley Township, Macon Co., MO: Supv Dist No.5 Enum.Dist. 137? Page No. 11 Line 29 of Theoppilus Sloan.
  3. [S61] Book: Early Court Records of Scioto Co. Ohio xerox provided by Phyllis Zachow.
  4. [S89] Patricia R. Cauthorn, online unknown url, unknown author (unknown location), downloaded February 2000.
  5. [S40] Paul Woodrow West, Morris-Sloan-Mathis Family History (n.p.: unpublished, July 16, 1989).
  6. [S119] 1850 US Federal Census: Bedford, Chester Township, Meigs Co. OH pg 089 0656 as transcription via e-mail from Phyllis Zachow to Jim McKinney on 27 Feb 2000.
  7. [S39] Naomi H. (nee Cavender) Grimshaw, We Remember Arthur W. Grimshaw (n.p.: Unpublished, Circa 1962.), Grimshaw only has them married, but no other information.. Hereinafter cited as We Remember Arthur W. Grimshaw.
  8. [S61] Book: Early Court Records of Scioto County, Ohio, abstracted by Caryn R. Shoemaker, C.G.R.S., dated Feb. 1979, from the Scioto County courthouse in Portsmouth, Ohio: xerox provided by Phyllis Zachow.
  9. [S70] E-mail: SELECTED ABSTRACTS FROM COMMON PLEAS AND CHANCERY -- SCIOTO COUNTY, OHIO (1810 - 1875) by Caryn R. Shoemaker, C.G.R.S., Rt. 2, Box 561, Minford, Ohio, July 1985 transbribed via e-mail from Phyllis Zachow to Jim McKinney on 15 Mar 2000.
  10. [S39] Naomi H. (nee Cavender) Grimshaw, We Remember Arthur W. Grimshaw (n.p.: Unpublished, Circa 1962.). Hereinafter cited as We Remember Arthur W. Grimshaw.
  11. [S70] E-mail: E-mail dated 27 Feb 2000 from Phyllis Zachow to Jim McKinney.