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• Hij is geboren op 31 maart 1850 in De Kalb, St. Lawrence Co., NY.
• Beroep: in Farmer.
• Volkstelling op 20 juli 1850, De Kalb, St. Lawrence Co., NY.
• Volkstelling op 19 juni 1860, De Kalb, St. Lawrence Co., NY.
• Volkstelling op 22 juni 1900, Limestone Twp., Jewell Co., KS.
• Hij is overleden op 16 januari 1905 in Mankato, Jewell Co., KS, hij was toen 54 jaar oud.
• Hij is begraven in Mt Hope Cemetery on Hwy 36 west of Mankato, Jewell Co. Kansas.
• Een kind van Noah Parkhurst en Eliza Ann Belding

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History of Woodward County, Oklahoma

Aretus William Parkhurst Family

After the death of her husband, Aretus William Parkhurst, Jan. 15., 1904 [sic], Mrs. Clara Chenoweth Parkhurst moved from Jewel [sic] County, Kansas, to Oklahoma, where families of relatives and friends were forming the little Jewel Community. She bought the relinquishment to 160 acres, five miles south and five miles west of Woodward. Taking Elsie Lillian and William Aretus on the train, she left Edwin LeRoy and George A. to come in the immigrant car loaded with household goods, incubator, cream separator, plow, cultivator, mower, wagon, buggy and six horses. They arrived in Woodward, February 1, 1906, fed the horses at Rice's Feed Yard and ate breakfast at the Pulley House.

Relatives and friends hauled their possessions to the house Clara's brothers had built. To one room on the claim they added another its size, and built a room as long as both for kitchen-living room.

Water was a first necessity. Harry Rogers drilled a well 102 feet deep, 18 inches in diameter, and lined it with boards. Galvanized casing was put in later. This well has pumped water continuously for 68 years. Cottonwood shoots were planted for shade around the house and driveway. A pasture was fenced and five cows bought. Fields were broken for planting, kaffir for feed and broomcorn for a cash crop. As George looked at the tall virgin grass he knew it would make hay, so he cut and stacked 20 tons which he fed and hauled to Woodward during the next winter for $5.00 a ton. Hay bought the windmill.

Edwin, now 21, was out doing for himself, so Clara with George in his teens, Elsie, 12, and Bill, 10, worked together to build a home on the prairie.

Two cows proved to be breachy, so George fattened and butchered them, peddling the meat for five cents a pound. Even at this price he was able to buy two more cows. Every bull calf was replaced with a heifer. In six more years their herd numbered 45. Cream and eggs bought most of the groceries.

Clara Parkhurst's Christian faith was the strength of her life. She helped others keep Sunday School going at Little Jewel School House and invited preachers to speak there. Peter Parker, pastor of the Methodist Church at Woodword sometimes held afternoon services. He spoke in praise of Southwestern, the Methodist College at Winfield, Kansas, and George determined to attend college there. The minister who was most often preaching at Little Jewel was George A. Cummins. His family and those of the Githens, Chenoweth and Parkhurst found mutual interests and later the marriage of George Parkhurst and Genevieve Cummins welded these families together.

Mr. Cummins sent his children to Winfield, Kansas, for schooling and Mrs. Parkhurst took her family there. Southwestern was influential in all their lives.

Edwin LeRoy Parkhurst married Birdie Richardson. Their one child is Irene Margaret (Van Winkle). Later he married Lavina Moser and they made their home in Wyoming. Their children are Edwin LeRoy Parkhurst, Jr., Ray Vaugh Parkhurst and Mary Aurelia-Jacques. Edwin, born Dec. 6, 1883, died Dec. 24, 1956. Lavina lives in Lander, Wyoming.

George Abraham Parkhurst with his wife, Genevieve Cummins, served as a minister in the Methodist Church for 50 years. His 12 years as District Superintendent were spent in Northwest Oklahoma. This included the years of drought and the Dust Bowl. He says with pride that not one of the 56 Methodist Churches under his supervision closed its doors during these trying times. Their children are George Elnath Parkhurst, M. D., and Winifred Genevieve (Cook). Woodward is the George Parkhurst home.

Elsie Lilliam Parkhurst met Virgil M. Hayes in college. After his graduation, they were married and spent 40 years in the ministry of the Methodist Church. Their children are Clara Esther (Peterson), Grant Aretus Hayes, Charles Wesley Hayes and Grace Evelyn (Van Winkle). Virgil died Nov. 7, 1965. Elsie lives in La Mesa, Calif.

With her older children gone from home, Mrs. Parkhurst and Bill moved back to their farm home near Woodward. Here Bill married Charlotte Hill. They lived on the farm for some years before moving to Woodward. Bill died Feb. 6, 1972. Charlotte lives in Bethany, Okla., near her children who are: Joseph A. Parkhurst and Mildred Charlotte (Humble).

Clara Parkhurst spent the latter part of her life in Woodward. Born Sept. 22, 1864, she passed away Mar. 29, 1955, in her 91st year, leaving a hallowed memory in the hearts of her children.

Notes of Terrill Hayes, April 26, 2001:

Page 100, 1900 Census, Limestone Township, Jewell Co., Kansas, dwelling 352, family 355:

Parkhurst, Aretus W, Head, W, M, Mar 1850, 50, M, 17, , , NY, VT, NY, Farmer, yes, yes, yes, R

Clara R, Wife, W, F, Sept 1861, 38, M, 17, 4, 4, Iowa, Ohio, Indiana, yes, yes, yes

Edwin L, Son, W, M, Jan, 1883, 17, , , , KS, NY, IA

George A, Son, W, M, Dec 1887, 12, , , , KS, NY, IA

Elsie, Daughter, W, F, July 1893, 6, S, , 0, 0, KS, NY, IA

Aretus W, Son, W, M, Dec 1896, 3, S, , , KS, NY, IA

Walker, Frank, Servant

Research of Terrill Hayes, Mankato Public Library, Mankato, Jewell Co., KS, October 2001:

Jewell County Monitor, Mankato, Kansas

Died

Aretus W Parkhurst was born in St. Lawrence Co., New York, March 31, 1850.

He came to Kansas in June 1874 and located southeast of Mankato.

On December 27, 1882 he was married to Miss Clara Cheneworth [sic].

Mr. Parkhurst died Monday January 16, after a lingering illness of about three years.

He has been a loving husband and a kind father. He leaves a wife, one daughter and three sons to mourn his loss. The sorrowing relatives have the sympathy of all who know them in this hour of affliction.

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I was told [but don't recall who told me], that great grandfather Aretus Parkhurst starved to death and suffered greatly during his illness. The opening from his stomach to his small intestine grew shut. In those days there was little that could be done. It was very hard on his family. Sometime after that, Clara Chenoweth Parkhurst moved her family to Woodward, Woodward Co., Oklahoma to be near her family. -- Terrill Hayes

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