OSBURN

My Grandparents

Stephen Douglas Osburn (ll) and Purthena Ann Smalley's Wedding picture

My Great Grandparents Stephen Osburn (l) and Charlotte Shintaffer

MY GRANDPARENTS STEPHEN, PURTHENA and FAMILY
My grandparents died long before I was born. I felt as if I knew them because my dad Harvey Lee Osburn was such a great story teller. I am going to try and remember some of what he told me because it happened so long ago.

His dad Stephen, was a very quiet man, and didn't have much to say. When he died, my dad was a small boy of about 13. One day, after suffering Brights disease, for some time, he laid down under a tree and passed away. My dad Harvey was alone with him and could never quite get over what he saw. He told me how it bothered him for years. Stephen was in his mid-sixties when he died and I think he was worn out from farming and raising 13 children. Purthena on the other hand was more outgoing.

My dad told me how Stephen and Purthena met on a wagon train from Iowa to Kansas. Purthena was about 15 and Stephen was over twenty, when they fell in love. They married at her mother Mary Elizabeth (Langston) Smalleys house in America City, Kansas. Purthena was 17 by this time and Stephen was 23. Later One of their little baby girls, Addie, died shortly after she was born in 1880, but they did have 12 children that lived. When Purthena was a very small child, Abraham Lincoln was campaigning for his presidency in the small town where they lived. Somehow, she was able to sit on his lap. She couldn't have been more than four or five but she never forgot it.

One story my dad told me and it is kind of funny and kind of sad. A young gentleman came to court Purthena one evening and everything was going nicely until two dogs started fooling around and It upset her so much that after he left, she got a shotgun and shot both dogs!

My dad always talked about his two red headed sisters, Corrie and Sadie. He told me how beautiful Corrie was. Unfortunately, she died in childbirth as a result of a horseback ride she took with my dad. He always felt so sad about it because she was just 32.

I'm going to run out of room, but wanted to relate one more story. This is about Charlotte Shintaffer. The James brothers were in the vicinity of the Osburn farm. They would hang around and Charlotte did not like them. She told her sons to tell Jesse James and his brother to stay away from the farm and they were not to come around anymore!

Pictures Left to Right
Grandfather, Grandmother, Father (James) Harvey Osburn Age abt.19 and abt. 6Mo.

Cora, at age 32, going on a ride with (James) Harvey Lee

Carolyn's Grandmother Nannie Osburn

Taken abt. 1909

The Direct Line Ancestors of Nancy (Osburn) Jones

View the 5 Generation Osburn Ancestor Chart

Generation 6
Jeremiah OSBORN (Sr.) (born 1729, died ?) married abt. 1762 to Mary NEWMAN (born abt. 1733, died ?) and had 7 children.

Generation 5
Jonathan OSBURN (born 1766, died July 01 1834) married 1785 to Margaret (Mary?) CLAYPOOL and had 9 children.

Generation 4
Stephen OSBURN (born May 14 1801, died 1880 ) married December 25 1828 to Charlotte SHINTAFFER and had 12 children.

Generation 3
Stephen Douglas OSBURN (ll) (born October 10 1851, died August 04 1914) married 1874 to Purthena Ann SMALLEY and had 13 children.

Generation 2
(James) Harvey Lee OSBURN (born April 20 1901, died April 30 1970) married 1923 to Ephamania (Mayme) _______ and had 3 children.

Generation 1
Nancy Ann OSBURN (born 1936, Living) married 1956 to William R. JONES and has 3 children.

Transcribed Bible Pages...Click on (#) below
(1) Jeremiah Osborn Bible Record taken from bible held by Samuel Osborn of
North Carolina. E.H. Mayes Collection.
(2) Caleb Osburn's Holy Bible Record taken from bible held by David Clark.
(3) Stephen Osburn (l) Holy Bible Record held by Nancy (Osburn) Jones.

Stephen Osburn (l) Bible Page Images...Click on (#) page groups below
(1) Pages 1 and 2. (2) Pages 3 and 4. (3) Pages 5 and 6. (4) Pages 7 and 8. (5) Page 9.