William & Elizabeth Ann Scott Brumfield family

At the December court in 1839 in Dewitt county Illinois, William was presented as an orphan by the Sheriff; James Vandeventer agreed to take him in.  At the March court in 1840, he was "a poor boy aged 11 (sic), son of Obadiah Brumfield...", and was bound out to George B. Leeman as an "indentured apprentice".

William served in the Civil War.

William and Elizabeth had 8 children:

• Mary Catherine (or Mary Keith) b. 26 Jul 1849 Pike co. Ill.  d. 1870 (before 20 June, possibly 26 Feb 1870) Daviess co. Mo.  m. 18 Jul 1869 Daviess co. Mo.  Richard Dowell  s/o John Joel & Sarah Huston Easton Dowell  b. 19 Jan 1847 Missouri  d. 10 Apr 1879  Daviess co. Missouri (Richard m/2. 20 Apr 1871  Malissa J Goodvin and had 4 children).  I have a scrawled note that says "2 children died young", with no source (they'd have to have been twins); I also have that Mary died aged 20 years, 7 months, 0 days (hence the death date of 26 Feb 1870), also with no source.  Perhaps she's listed in the 1870 Mortality Schedules for Daviess county.
• Sarah Elizabeth b. 8 May 1851 Pike co. Ill.  d. 17 Oct 1931 Jamesport twp., Daviess co. Mo.  m. 25 Jun 1871 Daviess co. Missouri  Zebulon Elijah "Eli" Hobbs d. 25 Jul 1889 Daviess County, Missouri.  9 children, only 3 still alive in 1900.
• John Andrew  b. 25 May 1853 Pike co. Ill.  d. 13 Jan 1892 Daviess co. Missouri  (cemetery transcription online is wrong, as his will was written 8 Jan 1892 and proved 5 Feb 1892) m. 2 Apr 1874 Dewitt co. Ill.  m. Frances Scott d/o William L. & Drucilla Cox Scott b. 1854/5 Dewitt co. Ill. d. 1892-1900, no children. There was another John Brumfield from Ray co. Mo. who lived in California (and married Maria Seward) - this is not him; that John Brumfield lived in Ray county Missouri before his marriage in 1882, while our John was in Dewitt county Illinois.  One source said of John, "Left home and was never heard from again". They lived in Dewitt county until at least 1889 before moving to Daviess county Missouri. John left everything to Frances in his will - written 5 days before he died - and nothing to his siblings, "in consideration of my poverty".
• Dinah Jane b. 3 or 30 Oct 1856 Daviess co. Mo.  d. 27 Mar 1938 Coffey, Daviess co. Mo.  m. 3 Jul 1873  Daviess co. Mo.  Isaac Lane Harrington  s/o Charley & Hanna Watkins Harrington  b. 27 Aug 1849 Mo.  d. 21 Sept 1929 Jamesport, Daviess co. Mo. - "Killed by Rock Island train #131".  9 children
• James Alexander  b. 11 Oct 1858 Daviess co. Mo.  d. 24/27 Apr 1906 Elsie, Hayes co. Nebraska, buried Elmers Church Cemetery;  m/1. 11 Nov 1885 Daviess co. Mo.  Ruth B. (or Ruth Isabelle) Scott  d/o Andrew Jackson & Mary Ann Brown Scott  b. 1870 Daviess co. Mo.  d. 1891 Daviess co. Mo., 5 children.  James m/2. 14 Jan 1894  Mary Evaline Brown d/o Alva Curtis & Nancy Rebecca Troxel Brown  b. 1873 Missouri  d. 17 Feb 1947 Turlock, Stanislaus co. California; 6 children
• William Daniel  (or William J.) b. 14 Jan 1861 Daviess co. Mo.  d. 28 (headstone) or 29 (death certificate) May 1935 Daviess co. Mo.  Never married. Lived with his older sister Sarah most of huis adult life.
• Prentiss G.  b. 13 Aug 1863 Daviess co. Mo.  d. 4 Jul 1864 Daviess co. Mo.
• Charles Worth Sherman b. 6 May 1865 Daviess co. Mo. (or Iowa)  d. 2 Aug 1941 Coffey, Daviess co. Missouri  m/1. 3 Oct 1892 Frances Scott Brumfield, d/o William L. & Drucilla Cox Scott  b. 1854/5 Dewitt co. Ill.  d. 1892-1900; m/2. 1 Aug 1900 Gibbs, Adair co. Mo.  Zella Myrtle Calef, d/o James F. & Virginia Parsons Calef b. July 1882 Mo.  d. 27 Jul 1949 Alameda, Alameda co. California (under the last name Thurston); one daughter, Goldie M. Brumfield Dupont.  Charles is listed in the 1900 census as a widow, living as a boarder with his cousin Elijah Scott and uncle William L. Scott in Knox co. Missouri.  One source says "Locally known as 'Sherm'".  Charles' father on his death certificate is called "Afton Brumfield".