HISTORY AND GENEALOGY OF JOSEPH LUTES FAMILY

Joseph Lutes was born 14 Sep. 1803 and married Sarah Steel 8 Jan 1828. She was born 18 Mar. 1803. Joseph died 16 Aug 1880 and Sarah died 6 Nov 1897. Both are burried in the Lutes Cemetery Platte County MO. Their children are listed below.

JOSEPH LUTES FAMILY
NAMEBORNDIEDSPOUSEBORN DIED
George A. 8 Mar 182929 Mar 1829none nonenone
Joseph P.7 Jun 18301914Alice M. Estes??
Alfred Burton28 Feb 18328 Feb 1919 (2)Catherine Bailey??
Elizabeth Falby9 Mar 18344 Jun 1936 Wade Hampton Kimsey??
Catharine C.3 Feb 1836? Elisha McComas??
Elias Pinkney25 Dec 183727 Dec 1914 Sophia E. Mayo??
Daniel Graham3 May 184029 Apr 1914 Nancy J. McDaniel??
Nancy J. 30 Mar 18429 Jan 1880 Albert G. Swaney??
Sarah F. 27 Feb 184518 Mar 1925 W.M. Herderson??

This letter was written by Lida Elizabeth Kimsey Rule. Her father was Clay Smith Kimsey, and her grandmother was Elizabeth Falby Lutes before the marriage to Wade Hampton Kimsey.

LUTES FAMILY HISTORY

My great-great-grandmother was Frances Taylor until she married George Steele. She was English. Their daughter, Sarah was born March 18, 1803, in Lincoln County North Carolina and was married there to Joseph Lutes (of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry). Both families were Methodists, But Joseph always had "Quaker leanings" (in the words of my Grandmother). While courting Sarah, Joseph lived a distance of about one hundred miles away.

Her family owned slaves and was their custom, when a child married they were given a slave as a present. However, when Sarah and Joseph discussed the matter they decided they would not own any slaves-- so they chose a pig instead. The couple's children were all born in Rabun County, GA.

Elizabeth Falby Lutes born March 9, 1834, married Wade Hampton Kimsey in 1858.

Joseph Lutes Jr. went via the Oregon Trail to the Northwest in the early 1850's. He first was a prospector but settled in what is now the state of Washington on the Columbia River, near the town of Skamokawa. He specialized in fruit and vegetable gardening until his death. (We have heard much said about his very large, luscious strawberries).

Katherine (always called Kate) married Elisha McComas.

Nancy (Nan) married Albert Swaney.

Sarah (Sade) married Wil Henderson and moved to Jarbal, KS.

Burton Married a Jones; then a Bailey.

Pinkney married Suranna (Ranny ) Herndon.

Graham married Nancy Jane McDaniel.

He became a fine doctor and practice within a radius of many miles. Many remember him fondly as "Uncle Gray".

The family became so homesick for Joseph, the eldest; and controversy over slavery was becoming so great that the family, accompanied by some friends and neighbors, set out in the fall of 1855 to make the journey to the West to join the son. Bailey was the name of one family.

The wagons were drawn by oxen. Some of the scouts rode horses. Also the carry-alls in which Great-grandmother and the other women rode, were drawn by horses. Pinkney related that he walked the entire trip to Platte City. He was the hunter for the group.In the month of November they stopped in Platte City, Mo. to spend the winter. Uncle Philip Lutes and Aunt Pollina lived there. He was a cabinet maker and has made many pieces of furniture mostly walnut and cherry that still are useful pieces in homes of some of the descendants today.

Before spring word came from Joseph in Washington that he feared for heir lives if they came the rest of the way because of rumors of Indian attacks on the wagon trains out on the plains. Then too he realized that Great-grandmother was not strong and might not be able to endure the journey. So than in the Spring, Great-grandfather Lute bought a farm NW of where the little village of Hoover now is. The Badke family now owns the "old home place".

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