• "Descendants of Adam Boots (1733-1803)" [LDS film #1036425] by Clyde S. Boots, p. 605;

• "Jack MacDonald’s Odell/Odle Family" website Item #649: born ‘27 Mar 1811’;

• "Grant County History" [1886] ‘Biographical Sketches’ (pp. 845-6): b. 27 Mar 1813; 9 children [b. 1833—1852], of which 1 infant death;

• Obituary: "died at home of daughter; buried in Marion, IN";

• "Descendants of Hans Adam Stieffel" by Sherrin Winn Rooney [2001]: born ‘27 Mar 1811’ & different birthdates for 7 children;

• Barbara Carpenter notes (handwritten comments on a Martin Boots Descendants Report by L. Ellingham, 2000 A.D.): ‘24 Mar 1811 - 1882?; married "16" Apr 1831’;

• 1850 Grant Co., IN census (p. 261A; ll. 27-36): age 36;

• 1860 Grant Co., IN census (Pleasant township) p. 164: age 47;

• According to the 1850 census, Sarah's birthplace is Ohio and her birth year would be abt. 1814

• 1880 Grant Co., IN census (Pleasant township) [E.D. 170; Sh. 6; ll. 41-42]: age 67;

• Delaware Co., IN Marriages: Book C1 30

• Burial: Marion, IN¹

• Census: 1850, Grant Co., IN Census Roll 147, Page 261

• Occupation: Housewife

• Religion: ?Methodist Episcopal¹

(source: John Krall -< jakrall at aol dot com >)

• Nelson CONNOR [CONNER], an old and highly respected citizen of Pleasant Township, who came to Grant County before its organization, was born in Marlborough County, S. C., March 14, 1811.

  His father, Lewis CONNOR [CONNER], also a native of South Carolina, was born of Irish and English extraction September 15, 1781. He married Margaret McCLAREN, a native of Glasgow, Scotland, born October 22, 1786, and who came with her parents to this country when eight years old. The parents came to Wayne County [Indiana] in about 1819, where they engaged in farming for a number of years, then removed to Grant County, where they lived until their death. The father died in Pleasant Township July 5, 1869, and the mother in Franklin Township, October 14, 1835.

  Of the following children: Warren, Lewis, John T., Trustom H., James, Nancy, Mary, Catherine, and Nelson, born to them, Warren, Trustom H., James, Catherine, and Nelson are still living. Nelson CONNOR [CONNER] was reared in the midst of pioneer struggles, his chances were not equal to those of the present day, but he grew up gifted with an hereditary force of character, and a native intelligence well displayed throughout his early and later manhood. August 1829, he came to Grant County and settled upon a fourty-acre tract of land which he had entered in Franklin Township. About 1835 he exchanged this place for another in the same township, upon which he lived until 1837. He then moved to Marion, which at this time was a village of perhaps less than a dozen houses, he having some years previous to this, with George Broderick, built out of poles the first business house in Marion, in which John B. Chapman opened up a store. Having located in the village he engaged in the grocery business, which he followed about two years, and then took charge of a mill owned by his father-in-law [Martin BOOTS], which he operated some two or three years. He then engaged in farming for a time until he again moved to the town of Marion and engaged in the carding business for four years, at the expiration of which time he moved above the town and built a grist-mill near the present site of the McFeeley Mill. Here he lived for five years, when he exchanged this property for a farm three miles east of Marion. After farming and milling in different localities in the county for a number of years he purchased, in the fall of 1885, his present home, which is located on Section 16, Pleasant Township.

  Sarah BOOTS, a native of Ross County, Ohio, born of Dutch and English extraction March 27, 1813, became his wife April 15, 1831. Her parents were Martin and Mary (ODEL) BOOTS, the former a native of Virginia, born in 1779 [1777], and the latter a native of Maryland [other sources say Hampshire county, Virginia], born in 1789, their respective deaths occurring in Grant County, September 1842, and April 1830.

  To Mr. and Mrs. CONNOR [CONNER] have been born nine children: Lewis S., born March 19, 1833; Isaiah, born August 4, 1835; Martin B.[oots], born October 31, 1837; Mary J., born March 27, 1840; Nancy, born December 22, 1842, died December 3, 1846; Amanda, born February 28, 1845; Asenath, born December 29, 1849; Lucinda A., born December 27, 1852, and one dying in infancy.

  Isaiah, the second son, is a lawyer of considerable ability, and at present is judge of the Forty-second Judicial District of Indiana, composed of Fulton and Marshall Counties.

  Mr. and Mrs. CONNOR have been married over fifty-five years, and at their fiftieth anniversary a large number of their friends united in a golden tribute to them as a mark of the esteem in which they are held by those who know them. Mr. CONNOR has always advocated the cause of the Democratic party, having cast his first ballot for Andrew Jackson in 1832.

  From: History of Grant County, Brant and Fuller, 1886, pages 845-846.

  [All comments in square brackets, [ ], added by JAK. Nelson CONNOR is also known at Nelson CONNER, see Federal Census records 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880, as well as The Marion Democrat, Friday, April 15, 1881: "Nelson CONNER, Sen., and Sallie, his wife, of Pleasant Township, concluded to celebrate the golden wedding, or fiftieth anniversary of the marriage of their parents. Accordingly, the children and grandchildren, of whom there are now thirty-four now living, together with brother, sister, cousins, and other relatives, swelling the number to more than fifty, were notified, and were promptly on hand at the time appointed. . . ." Records of Grant county, Indiana, show Nelson

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(source: Lewis Ellingham - )

• "Descendants of Adam Boots (1733-1803)" [LDS film #1036425] by Clyde S. Boots, p. 605;

• "Grant County History" [1886] ‘Biographical Sketches’ (pp. 845-6) spells surname ‘Connor’ and or ‘Conner’ are interchangeable in various records: 9 children [b. 1833—1852], of which 1 inf. death;

• Death date from Clyde Boots family group chart & local obituary;

• 1850 Grant Co., IN census (p. 261A; ll. 27-36): age 38;

• 1860 Grant Co., IN census (Pleasant township) p. 164: age 49;

• 1880 Grant Co., IN census (Pleasant township) [E.D. 170; Sh. 6; ll. 41-42]: age 69; farmer; father born in South Carolina, mother born in Scotland;

• Judi Stucky e-mail to L. Ellingham [5-XI-2000]: "Descendants of Lewis Conner": ‘Wm. Nelson Conner born 14 Mar 1811, Marlborough Co., SC; died 14 Mar 1889, at Jalapa, IN (Grant Co.)’;

• Delaware Co., IN Marriages: Book C1 30;

• Cindy Hyman to L. Ellingham [e-mail 1-IX-2002]: ‘Nelson’ is name used to identify this ancestor

• Burial: IOOF Cem., Marion, IN¹

• Occupation: farmer, miller¹

• Marriage: Apr 15, 1831, Grant Co., IN

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