Sarah (Bacon) Barchus (1816 - 1898)

Born 17 Jun 1816 in Clark County, Ohio, USA [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Barchus Jr. — married 15 Jan 1835 (to 21 Jul 1848) in Union County, Ohio, USA

Wife of Reuben Daniels — married 19 Aug 1859 in Mahaska, Iowa, United States

Descendants

Died 12 Jan 1898 at age 81 in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, USA

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Biography

Sarah (Bacon) Barchus was involved in the westward expansion of the USA (Oregon Trail). See Trails and Wagon Trains.

Sarah Bacon was born in Ohio, in 1816, to David Bacon and Hannah Harris. When she was eighteen years old, she married Thomas Barchus, a Farmer, age 22. The ceremony was performed by D. Galland, a Justice of the Peace, on 15 Jan 1835, in Union County, Ohio, USA.

The 1856 Iowa State Census is evidence of the the relationship between Sarah Bacon and Samuel Bacon. The question 'how many years in the state' is answered in Sarah's column: one year. So in 1855 Sarah moved to Iowa, presumably from Ohio, about seven years after she was widowed.^[1]

In the home of Samuel Bacon, age 38, is Sarah Bacon Barchus age 40, and three of her four children. Her second eldest daughter, Hannah, was married by then. Samuel had a wife and five children, plus his wife's son from her first marriage, plus his sister and her three children - eleven people living together in his home. It was not just for a short visit. It is possible Samuel was a cousin of Sarah's, but most likely that he was her brother. ^[2]

How did Sarah get from her home in Concord, Ohio (near Columbus) to Lake Prairie in Iowa? In 1855, her children were: Julia, age 19, Hannah, age 17, Constant age 10 and Caroline age 7. Sarah herself was 38 years old. Were there wagon train companies going across Ohio, through Indiana, and Illinois into Iowa? What advantage would there be if she were able to convey herself and her children and their goods to Iowa in a covered wagon? It was a journey of over 600 miles.

Perhaps they took the railroad. The train arrived in the nearby city of Columbus, Ohio in 1846. By January of 1854, the railroad reach the east side of the Mississippi River, across from Iowa. None of the railroads which had raced each other to the river had been able to build a train trestle over the great Mississippi, but there were ferries across the river, and wagons to be hired on the other side for the rest of the trip to Lake Prarie. I believe that is how Sarah and her family traveled to her brother's place in Iowa -- by train, then ferry across the Mississippi River, then a hired wagon or a stage coach, or a combination of both, to get to Lake Prairie.

Once at home in Marion County, where Samuel Bacon lived, Sarah's daughter Hannah Barchus married Thomas Colson, son of John Colson, an early Iowa settler. Hannah and Thomas were young when they married in November 1855, in Mahaska County, Iowa. Thomas was twenty years old, and Hannah was seventeen. Sarah's eldest daughter Julia, age 21, and William Jefferson Campbell, age 23, were wed two years later on 25 Oct 1857, in Marion county, Iowa. Two years after that, Sarah, a widow for the past eleven years, married Rheuben Daniels, whose wife had passed away three years previous. They married on 19 August, 1859, in Mahaska County, Iowa.

But Sarah's family was not yet settled. Her daughter Hannah was widowed 14 March 1859. Hannah and Thomas had a toddler, John Dudley Colson, and another child on the way when he died. Hannah was delivered of a daughter, Sarah Elizabeth Colson, on 23 September, 1859, in Jasper County, Iowa. She wed Rheuben Daniels' son and namesake, Reuben Daniels, Jr. on 26 February 1860 in Mahaska County, Iowa. He was a thirty year old bachelor when he got married.

In the spring of 1864, this melded family of second marriages and renewed hopes, left Iowa for Oregon, on the Oregon Trail. They brought Julia, her husband William Jefferson, and their three little Campbells, Hannah Barchus, formerly Colson, now Daniels, and her young son and daughter, Constant Barchus, who was by then eighteen years old, and got his own wagon to drive, and Sarah's youngest, her daughter Caroline, who was sixteen years old. Also on the journey with them was Reuben Daniels, Sr. 's son Uriah, age 37 in 1864. He was married a couple of years earlier to Ferriseva Webber, but she did not survive the journey to Oregon, and he remained single the rest of his life.

Rheuben Daniels, Sr. had a daughter, Sarah Ann Danniels/Dannals, who married William Ridgeway in 1844, and by 1864 they had eleven children, all but one of whom came to Oregon with them.

Rheuben Daniels, Sr. had another daughter, Sciota Samantha Daniels, who married, in Jasper County, Iowa, in 1858, Abraham Ridgway, a son of William Ridgeway's from his first marriage. Of course they also came on the Oregon Trail with their children.

Reuben Daniels, Jr., had a business partner, James Bennett, who married Reuben's sister, Mahala Daniels, in Jasper County, Iowa in February of 1855. They also joined the wagon train with their five children.

Sarah (Bacon) Barchus Daniels had a sister Hannah, who joined the wagon train with her husband and son, and her daughter from a previous marriage also joined them, with her husband and daughter.

A doctor from Jasper County, and the Limens family, who had many children with them, and a few others, who may or may not have been related in some way, formed the rest of the wagon train as we understand it. Altogether, they may have had at least fourteen wagons, plus riders on horseback, plus their flocks, dogs and extra oxen, and milk cows. They occasionally joined in with larger trains of a hundred or more wagons, and when it appeared safe, fell back to travel together.

That is how, 1864, Sarah, in company with her new husband Reuben Daniels, Sr., and his and her grown children, made the Overland Journey on the Oregon Trail from Elk Creek, Jasper county, Iowa, to the Willamette Valley, Oregon.

Wagon Train Details

"Wagon Trains", large groups of covered wagons that travelled together for safety and protection, were a common way for pioneers to travel as they migrated west. These are the known details of the wagon train this person travelled on:

For more information on wagon trains you can also check out the Trails and Wagon Trains sub-project

Sarah (Bacon) Barchus Dannals (or Daniels), passed away in Clackamas, Oregon, in 1898.

The large monument toDANNALS in the Multnomah Park Pioneer Cemetery, for "R Dannals and his wife Hannah", is for Reuben Dannals the younger and his wife Hannah (Barchus) Colson Dannals. Hannah's mother, Sarah (Bacon) Barchus Daniels is also buried at Multnomah Park Pioneer Cemetery, under a modest plaque that reads "MOTHER", and "Sarah Dannals 1816 - 1899" ^[3] I have not found where Reuban Dannals the elder, 1801 - 1883, was interred.

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Sources

1. ↑ Iowa, State Census Collection, 1836-1925
2. ↑ Iowa, State Census Collection, 1836-1925
3. ↑ Multnomah Park Pioneer Cemetery

• Year: 1850; Census Place: Concord, Delaware, Ohio; Roll: 675; Page: 261b, citing Sarah Barcus, a widow with four children

• Ancestry.com. Iowa, State Census Collection, 1836-1925, [database on-line]. (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007). Original data: Microfilm of Iowa State Censuses, 1856, 1885, 1895, 1905, 1915, 1925 as well various special censuses from 1836-1897 obtained from the State Historical Society of Iowa via Heritage Quest.

• "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934," database, FamilySearch, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XJCW-14J : 3 November 2017), Reuben Daniels and Sarah Barkers, 19 Aug 1859, Mahaska, Iowa, United States; citing reference vol 3 p 49, county courthouses, Iowa; FHL microfilm 985,381.

• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M82K-RXM : 18 February 2021), Sarah Daniels in entry for Reuben Daniels, 1860; two of her four children are now absent -- first Hannah was married, now Julia is married, to William Jefferson Campbell ("WJ") on 25 Oct 1857

• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MF8B-JLN : 29 May 2021), Sarah Daniels in entry for Reuben Daniels, 1870. NOTE: In the previous census, Sarah was living in Iowa. Now she and her family are living in Peoria, Linn County, Oregon. To get here, they had to travel the Oregon Trail - 2,170 miles of dust and danger.

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNCV-KTS : 14 January 2022), Sarah Daniels in household of Rheuben Daniels, Milwaukie, Clackamas, Oregon, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm .

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46750593/sarah-dannals: accessed 21 November 2022), memorial page for Sarah Bacon Dannals (17 Jun 1816–12 Jan 1898), Find a Grave Memorial ID 46750593, citing Multnomah Park Cemetery, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA; Maintained by Invenio Sepulchrum (contributor 47222156) . Multnomah Park Pioneer Cemetery, S. E. 82nd and Holgate Blvd, Portland, Oregon, 97206. Sarah Bacon is buried under the name of her second husband, Dannals, in Lot 5-1, Block A#5. (personal visit in 1992).

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