Descendants Clement Corbin » Jesse Brite 'Bench' Corbin (1864-1949)

Persoonlijke gegevens Jesse Brite 'Bench' Corbin 

• Hij is geboren op 17 juni 1864 in Rock Island, Rock Island County, Illinois, USA.Bron 9
• Alternatief: Hij is geboren op 17 juni 1864 in Illyria, Fayette, Iowa, USA.Bronnen 3, 7, 8

  (northeastern part)

• Beroepen:
• tussen 1893 en 1910 Farmer; General Farm in Fayette, Iowa, USA.Bron 8
• in het jaar 1920 Salesman; Real Estate (own business).Bron 10
• voor 1910 He owned a bar in Iowa. Minnie would not work in the bar, it wasn't something she would do morally..
• na 1910 Real Estate Broker in Sterling, Logan, Colorado, USA.Bron 11
• tussen 1910 en 1938 He acquired land in Kelly (rural, AKA Kelly Corners), Logan County, Colorado. He opened a General Store, Kelly, Logan County, Colorado.Bronnen 11, 12
• Gepensioneerd in het jaar 1938, Sterling, Logan, Colorado, USA.Bronnen 11, 13
• Woonachtig:
• in het jaar 1870: Illyria, Fayette, Iowa, USA.Bron 2
• in het jaar 1880: Illyria, Fayette, Iowa, USA.Bron 4
• in het jaar 1885: Illyria, Fayette, Iowa, USA.Bron 3
• in het jaar 1900: Illyria, Fayette, Iowa, USA.Bron 1
• in het jaar 1910: Illyria, Fayette, Iowa, USA.
• in het jaar 1935: Sterling, Logan, Colorado, USA.Bron 5
• op 1 april 1940: Sterling, Logan, Colorado, USA.Bron 5
• Volkstelling in het jaar 1920, Sterling, Logan, Colorado, USA.Bron 10
• Volkstelling in het jaar 1930, Kelly, Logan, Colorado, Verenigde Staten.
• (Removed) in het jaar 1910 in Kelly, Logan, Colorado, Verenigde Staten: (rural; 17 miles SE of Sterling) Sterling, RFD, Colorado).Bronnen 13, 14
• (Medical (Facts Pg)) : Description in notes.Bron 7
• (Warranty Deed) in Iowa, Verenigde Staten: (He purchased land from his parents).
• (Land Records) na 1910: See article about Kelly where he donated land for Seventh Day Adventis.Bron 15
• (Release of Mortgage) op 3 april 1933: No. 298-125 from J. B. Corbin to R. B. Corbin.
• (Mortgage Deed) op 21 oktober 1937: No. 314-529 from J. B. Corbin to Joe Fennell.
• (Release of Deed of Trust) op 1 december 1928: Southwest Quarter of Section Twenty-four 924), Township Six (6), Ran.Bron 16
• (Directory) in het jaar 1917: Hoffhine's Sterling Colorado Directory, "Logan County Farmers" p. 14.
• (Source (I)) op 7 mei 1910: USA Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management (applicatio.Bron 17
• (Fact (I)) na 1939: Indian Grace was a woman who lived outside of town that he would visi.Bron 18
• (Administration Deed) op 21 oktober 1937: No. 316269 Roy E. Smith to J. B. Corbin.
• (Race) : White.Bron 5
• (ROYALTY) : 16th great grandson of John [3rd Baron Neville de Raby] de Neville.
• (Warranty Deed) op 9 december 1943: No. 31037, The South three-fourths (3/4ths) of the Southeast quarter o.Bron 19
• (Warranty Deed) op 20 mei 1946: No. 353-257 from J. B. Corbin to Merwin E. Ruth.
• (Warranty Deed) op 4 oktober 1947: No. 366-501 From J. B. Corbin to Bessie Everett.
• (Warranty Deed) op 9 december 1943: No. 342-352 from Minnie M. Corbin to J. B. Corbin.
• (Warranty Deed) op 28 februari 1925: No. 236-349 from J. B. Corbin to R. B. Corbin.
• (Removed) tussen 1930 en 1935: Moved from Kelly Community to Sterling, Colorado, USA.
• (ROYALTY) : 16th great grandson of Edward I.
• Hij is overleden op 12 februari 1949 in Sterling, Logan, Colorado, USA, hij was toen 84 jaar oud.Bronnen 7, 13, 20

  d. 84 y 7 m 25 d

• Hij is begraven op 16 februari 1949 in Kelly, Logan, Colorado, Verenigde Staten.Bronnen 7, 21

  (Kelly Rural Cemetery (donated by Jesse Corbin)

• Een kind van Luther Colvin Corbin en Elizabeth Catherine 'Betsey' Felkey

Gezin van Jesse Brite 'Bench' Corbin

(1) Hij is getrouwd met Minnie Myrtle Mae Jordan.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 21 november 1893 te Wadena, Fayette, Iowa, USA, hij was toen 29 jaar oud.Bronnen 8, 9

Kind(eren):

1. DeForrest 'Clifton' Corbin  1912-1914
2. Loretta 'Marie' Corbin  1899-1991 
3. Henry Franklyn 'Frank' Corbin  1901-1914
4. Raymond Brite 'Bench' Corbin  1897-1968 
5. Bessie Lucille Corbin  1907-1995 
6. Arthur William 'Art' Corbin  1909-2002 
7. Rosetta Anne Corbin  1903-1995 
8. Arvilla Mae 'Villie' Corbin  1895-1965 
9. Harold Elwyn Corbin  1918-1980 
10. Ilo 'Lavon' Corbin  1915-2001 

Gebeurtenis (Children): Ten children with Jesse and raised three of his four children, one lit.

Gebeurtenis (Children) in het jaar 1910: Seven chidlren; seven living.Bron 22

(2) Hij is getrouwd met Tessa Grace 'Indian Grace' Banks.

Zij zijn getrouwd.

(3) Hij is getrouwd met Rosa B. 'Rosie' Dean.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 5 juli 1886 te West Union, Fayette, Iowa, USA, hij was toen 22 jaar oud.Bronnen 23, 24

Kind(eren):

1. Sylvia Corbin  1890-1895
2. John Martin Corbin  1886-1954 
3. Luther 'Clarence' Corbin  1887-1961
4. Persus 'Dean' Corbin  1889-1966

Notities over Jesse Brite 'Bench' Corbin

1891 Minnie Myrtle Mae Jordan, was hired to take care of Jesse's ailing wife and her four children. One severely crippled. When his wife died, Minnie stayed on to help with the children, but it was not appropriate to live with a man when she was not married to him. So they married.
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A little bit of history
"Immigrates to Colorado"
1860-1861 Ohio had the greatest number of immigrants to Colorado. Colorado was formed in1861. It was the 38th State in the Union on August 1, 1876. (The Red Book).

1870-1875 The population tripled. This decade brought grasshoppers and economic depression forcing many settlers to return to the east. Mining and agriculture remained the two important industries.
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Removed to Kelly (rural), Colorado (located 18 southeast of Sterling, Logan County, Colorado. Jesse CORBIN and his wife Minnie and children moved to Kelly, Logan County, Colorado about 1910 or 1911. He most likely a homesteader. By 1909, the Homestead Act, opened the way for an influx of homesteaders to take advantage of the offer of free land. Most came from Iowa or Eastern Nebraska. Under the homestead act, a quarter section (160 acres) was to be deeded to a settler after he had "proved up,"that is lived on it for two years. This meant building some kind of shelter for family and livestock. Often this had to be of the material at hand, blocks of prairie sod.

His land consisted of a General Store, with notions the other side that Minnie was run by his wife, Minnie. Connected to the store was a post office that Harley Bloomfield, Marie's first husband ran before they were married. I suppose he was the postmaster. Also Above the store, was a lodge called "Woodman Lodge" where there was also a Dance Hall and a pool hall below and a barber shop. When Arthur was older, he was the barber. He lived in an apartment in back adjoining the barber shop. Before him. someone else ran it.

Jesse did not want to be separated from his family, so he would go back to Iowa, from time to time, and convince other family members to move to Kelly, Logan County, Colorado too. Of some of those who moved to Colorado were his brothers, sisters and cousins. His brother Jim CORBIN, his sister Cindy and her husband Charles Reynolds, Vern Lockard, his cousin and his wife Ilo (Patterson) Lockard. The Fennell's also followed him to Kelly. Joe Fennel is the Son-in-law that married his oldest daughter, Arvilla (CORBIN) Fennell.

There was a big ball diamond where all the teams came from the villages around. They played the Kelly team. Minnie sold ice cream cones at the games. The reason the games were held in Kelly was that there was lots of space for a parking lot for all the cars.
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Judy Marie Tripp Notes: "Jesse ran a thrashing machine in Colorado.

Description as follows: "(Thrashing-Machine.-Thrashing and cleaning machine. Thrashing and separating machine. Thrashing and winnowing machine). All the above terms are applied to the same class of implement. The operation of simply thrashing is rarely resorted to, since the additional parts necessary to perform the winnowing add but very little to the cost, while increasing vastly the utility of the machine. The term cleaning, as applied to thrashing machines, is synonymous with the term winnowing. The term separating; however, is applied to such processes as separate the grain from the straw, and all such other purifying and assorting as cannot be performed by the simplest process of winnowing. Hence processes which separate the grain into divisions of equal gravity are separating processes, while those intended simply to remove matter foreign to the grain itself are termed cleaning processes. The first and simplest processes of cleaning and separating only are performed in the thrashing machine-the further cleaning, polishing, and separating processes being done by the miller."

Jesse Bright CORBIN was 52 when his daughter Ilo Lavon CORBIN, my mother, was born. She was the next to the youngest child of fourteen children sired. The youngest child was Harold CORBIN when Jesse was about 55 years old.
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Newspaper Article dated 1916
SHARING MADE NEIGHBORS CLOSE AT KELLY" T30
"Two stores were built, the first by the Vanscoy family. It also served as a post office with mail being brought in from LeRoy once a week. The mail delivery was the occasion for everyone to gather at the store for conversation. A gasoline pump was added when the customers came in cars."

Post office with mail being brought from LeRoy once a week. The mail delivery was the occasion for everyone to gather at the store.

The other store was built by the CORBIN family and had living quarters at the back of the store. The CORBIN later had equipment for testing cream which they would buy along with eggs to exchange for groceries. A gasoline pump was added when the customers came in cars. Both the Vanscoy's and CORBIN's were generous in extending credit and Keep some from going hungry. Much of this was probably never repaid. (According to Lavon), they would avoid going into the store after that and purchased their goods in Sterling. So by being good to them in a time of need, they ended up losing their future business.

In the town is the family cemetery called the Kelly Cemetery. It was suppose to be called Clifford Cemetery, since his son Clifford was the first to be buried there. Many family members are buried there. (see backup mortuary documents). Buried in the Kelly Cemetery is Clarence Luther CORBIN, Clifton CORBIN, Dean CORBIN, Frank CORBIN, Jesse Brite CORBIN, Lois CORBIN, Minnie M. CORBIN, Raymond B. CORBIN, Arvilla CORBIN Fennell, Joseph Fennell, Mary A. Jennings, Lockard Infants, Charles J. Reynolds, Lucinda E. CORBIN Reynolds, and other citizens of the community.

Harley Bloomfield, Loretta "Marie" CORBIN's husband ran the post office before they were married. (I suppose he would be the Postmaster). Also, connected to the store was a Dance Hall on the second story, called Woodman Lodge, with a pool hall below and a barber shop. When Arthur CORBIN was older, he was the barber. Before that someone else ran it. Arthur lived in an apartment in the back adjoining the barber shop.

There was a big ball diamond behind the store, where all the teams came from the villages all around. They played the Kelly team. Minnie sold ice cream cones at the games. The reason the games were held in Kelly was that there was lots of space for a parking lot for the cars.

Jesse had sacks full of silver. He carried a lots of money in his pockets, of which a lot of it was silver, so his pockets were very heavy and would bulge and weigh him down because he had so much silver in them. He said you should always dress as if you had money, and walk with pride, even if you were poor."
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He was also a Real Estate Broker, sold real estate in town. He had an office in Sterling, Logan County, Colorado, He also sold land. His usual occupation was farming. However, he didn't do the actual farming. He would lease out the land for shares of the crops. He owned several houses in Sterling (per Gary Everett)

His usual occupation was farming. According to Lavon, his daughter, he did not actually do the farming. He had shares with farmers who worked the land.

His land estimated $100,000.00 in those days, according to his youngest daughter, LaVon. She said he had thousands of acres of land. (not verified). He later owned 12 houses in Sterling, Logan County, Colorado. He was a real estate salesman in Sterling.

They purchased a home at 323 Douglas Street in 1937. They both lived there until his wife left him. He remained in the house with his daughter Bessie and her children, and his crippled son Clarence, until his death 12 years later February 12, 1949.

Jesse and Minnie retired in Sterling, Colorado in 1939. Retirement didn't last long, before Lavon and her daughter, moved in with them. Joan Marlene Hamilton, their granddaughter (this author), lived with Minnie and Jesse from age 8 months to age three. She slept between Grandma and Grandpa, I suppose it was nice and warm sleeping between the two of them.
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1947 Jesse lived with Bessie and her children and his son Clarence, who was born with a disability, at the 323 Douglas Street home, which was his home.

One winter night, around 1947, he went to his tavern to hang out with the boys and got lost on the way home, only a block from his house, he fell asleep in the snow. He was frozen. The next morning a neighbors dog kept barking. The woman went out to see what he was barking about and there she saw a hand coming out of a mound of snow. His fingers were fused together and he had frost bite. The doctors said that if he had not had on woolen underwear he would have died. His daughter, Bessie, had just bought them and made him wear them that evening. He was never the same after that; his memory was not as good as it was prior to the incident in the snow.
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Grandpa's Favorite Sayings (remembered by his grandson, Gary Everett)
"I'm just as God-Damned good a man as there's wrapped up in that much hide."

When he would disagree with someone, he'd say:
"Not on my tin-type!" (tin-types were old fashioned photography pictures).

When Grandpa talked about someone he didn't like very much, he would often say:
"One of these day's I'm going to lick him on a dime and give him 9 cents change."

Grandpa claimed that wasn't afraid of the devil himself.

Lavon CORBIN, his youngest daughter, said that this is what her dad would always say:
"If a man's word is no good, he is no good"

He died February 12, 1949, at 12:30 P.M. He stayed in the hospital only one hour before his death. He was buried February 16, 1949 in the Corbin Cemetery, Kelly, Colorado. He was 84 years 7 months and 25 days. Minnie was 72 when he died.
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Excerpt from a article sent to Joan Marlene Hamilton by Marie (Everett) Ehmcke, first cousin, found in the library in Sterling, Colorado, This article was written by Bessie (CORBIN) Everett.

"Jess Brite CORBIN and Minnie M. CORBIN came from Wadena, Iowa in 1910 with their family and children. They built a large two story house using the down stairs floor for a grocery store. The family living quarters were in the back of the grocery store. A hallway divided the store from the large kitchen. Two bedrooms were built on the north side of the house. One part of the grocery store was used as the Office. In an adjoining room Minnie tested cream and hauled it to Sterling every week. The tip made by a team of horses and a wagon at a distance of 18 miles. Groceries were bought a Rid___Baker wholesale house. As it was such a long trip to Sterling it was necessary to spend the night. It cost 75 cents to board the horses. Going home a cow trail was followed there being no fences for miles you would just cut across the prairie.

The children went to school in a sod house about 1/4 of a mile from the house. Carrie Myers taught school the last year in the sod school. When the new school was built Hazel Kendrick taught school and was a wonderful teacher a was Carrie Myers.

When Jess CORBIN acquired land to build on, he bought it from a Mr. Kelley and that is how the community got its name.

Minnie was a very ambitious and energetic woman even though at the age of six she was crippled by an accident and had to wear a built up shoe all of the rest of her life. It didn't seem to slow her down, she was always on the go. The children would help with the chores. It was Bessie's job to carry water from the neighbors in two 8 quart pails. She was only six and was small but might for such a young fir. It took 10 to 12 trips a day to get the necessary amount of water for the family's needs. Minnie always had a huge garden raising potatoes and all other vegetables. There were also cherry trees, gooseberry bushes as well as beautiful yellow roses that climbed the fence. She raised 2 to 3 hundred chickens and would sell the eggs in the grocery store. Sometimes she would take them to Sterling when she took the cream.

Three more children were born to Jess and Minne CORBIN at Kelly, Clifton, Lavon, and Harold. The family were a real asset to the community as Jess would give credit to the farmers when they needed groceries. He never refused anyone and would carry their account in his book from one harvest to the next. He was the Mayor of that small town of Kelly and everyone loved him as he was a just man. Jesse also donated land for a Seventh Day Adventist Church and a Cemetery. The Cemetery was supposed to be named the Clifton Cemetery since Clifton at the age of 13 months died of Pneumonia was the first one buried there. Six months later Frank aged 13 died.

Later Jess had a Real Estate office in Sterling. He went there every day except Sunday and he left Bessie in charge of the filling station and grocery store. She waited on the customers from the time that she was 14 years old until her marriage at 21.

Each year Jess would buy all the red pearl potatoes from the farmers and ship them by the car load to Council Bluffs, Iowa and Ottawa, Iowa. While on his trips he would also get some real estate business in.

Jesse and Minnie retired in 1938. They bought a house at 323 Douglas St. in Sterling for $650.00.The house must be 90 years old, a small comfortable home filled with a lot of happy memories. Bessie their daughter lives there now. Jess lived to be 85 years old and Minnie 76. Bessie CORBIN married Cecil R. Hetrick and he worked at the Glen Ellen dairy in Merino. Their fist son Elwyn was born there and he owns a barber shop in Golden. Delores was born a year and a half later.

"I (Bessie) later married again and had four more children. Marie Ehmcke, Harold who spent 20 years in the Air Force, Gary, owner of Gary's Barber Shop on Main St., and Marvin a Director of Welfare Department lives in Burlington, Colorado."
End of Article
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Re: Mayor of Kelly, Colorado
Author: Robert Rice Date: 4 Nov 2002 1:59 PM GMT

"I am afraid the Kelly was never big enough to have a mayor. It did have a store, pool hall and hotel at one time. By the time I came along they were all gone in 1940 and it looked like any farming community. I do know that there are CORBIN's buried at the Kelly Cemetery. According to the Sterling Centennial Logan County Family History book, Jessie was the owner of the store at Kelly so as that was the focal point of the community he might have been considered the mayor."

"There are no Ever's in the history book. I did re-read the CORBIN article and it was written by Bessie and she did say that Jess was the Mayor of Kelly. Probably since he was the Postmaster, he was also considered to be the Mayor. Probably, the only way to get an information on Sunset Gardens, is to write to them. The Sterling paper my have an obituary also. It seems to me I knew an Ever's girl in the early 50's but can't remember her name."
Bob

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