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The Jacob and Sarah Warehime History
Written By LES WAREHIME
The information contained in this document was obtained from Federal Census records, as maintained in Washington, D.C.,
from 1820 forward. I have visited the National Archives as well as the Capitol's of the states and the court houses in the counties
through which the Warehime’s migrated from Pennsylvania. However, without the help of my father, Frank Warehime, who
remembered many family stories and had listened when his father spoke of his uncles and aunts being in Colorado, Montana and
Canada, this would have been a much harder task. We stopped in Great Falls, Montana and called a Frank Warehime to see if
he was any relation. Frank and Philomena (Phil) invited us to come to their home and it all fell into place. His grandfather,
Frank, and my great-grandfather, David, were brothers. There are many family stories not mentioned here and other areas in
need of research but hopefully this will be a beginning for many of you who are interested.
The history of the Warehime family has been traced back to the 1820's when Jacob Warehime was born in Ohio. He
related that his father, whose name is unknown, was born in Pennsylvania. Jacob's father would have been born about 1800,
which could be quite possible based on the fact that the Warehime name appears on several Pennsylvania records by this time.
The records contain various spellings of the name which may give rise to the question of family origin and kinship.
There is little doubt as to the German origin of Jacob's ancestors. His name has appeared spelled Warehime, Wareheim,
Wareheimer and Wareham in various official records as well as the spelling of other Warehime's. The spelling most frequently
seen is the English version "Wareham".
The wide use of this version, in America, is due to the fact that those first called upon to offer an English spelling of the
name were generally the English immigration authorities. During this period, immigration to America was done almost
exclusively from England. Consequently, the German's migrated first to a British sea port. The immigration personnel were
allowed to use their own discretion in the spelling of the names as well as the use of the immigrants surnames.
These names were used to compile the ships passenger lists, manifests and other official documents. When an
immigrant arrived in an American port, such as Baltimore or Philadelphia, their records and official entry were handled by
personnel that were British born or of British descent. Immigration authorities in American ports were also given the same
independence as their English counterparts in the spelling of the immigrants names.
A second source that would later confuse the spelling of surnames was the census pollsters who had little regard for
accuracy. Their only concern was to get an accurate head count. The earliest date found of any of the spellings would be about
1785.
A hybrid Pennsylvania German culture developed between 1750 and 1840. It was primarily the work of the more
numerous urban and rural German immigrants who were members of the Reformed and Lutheran Churches.
In the 18th century, they created a heartland stretching across portions of present day North Hampton, Leigh,
Montgomery, Berks, Schuylkill, Lancaster, York, Lebanon and Dauphin counties. The cities of Germantown and Lancaster were
referred to as having a hybrid German population because many of them saw no reason to cling to their German identity. They
Anglicized their names, joined the Church of England and married into English families.
By 1790, the first German Mennonites had settled as far west as what is now Somerset County Pennsylvania. They were
soon followed by immigrants from Germany as well as Pennsylvania Germans from the East side of the state. From here it was a
natural step to move into the new territory of Ohio, which was established in July of 1788. It was that same year that Ohio's first
settlements were established at Marietta and Cincinnati.
It is assumed that between (1790 - 1810) Jacob Warehime's father was born in Pennsylvania. In about 1820, he moved
to Ohio, probably Guernsey or Belmont County on the states eastern side. However, according to Jacob’s obituary he was born in
December of 1827 in Cincinnati, Hamilton County Ohio on the states western side. The first official record we have found of
Jacob is his marriage to Sarah Sutton, which took place September 2, 1845 in Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County Indiana.
The 1850 census show that Jacob’s family consisted of his wife, Sarah Sutton, Andrew 7, Sarah 3, George 2, and
Lucinda 6 months. They were living in Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County Indiana. Their four children were also listed as being
born in Indiana.
Andrew’s military record indicates that he was born on August 10, 1844 in Dearborn County Indiana. His birth date
would then place Jacob and Sarah in Dearborn County Indiana in 1844, six years prior to being listed in the1850 census.
With Lucinda having been born in Indiana in 1850 and Zacharia being born in Iowa in 1852, would indicate that
Jacob and Sarah moved to Iowa between 1850 and 1852. When Jacob Warehime’s family moved to Iowa, they settled in
Keokuk, Jackson Township, Lee County Iowa where Jacob helped grade the cities first streets.
The 1860 census records show that Jacob Warehime’s family was living in Jefferson Township, Lee County Iowa, which
is north of Keokuk. It listed four additional sons: Zacharia, James-1853, Frank-1855 and James-1858. The census listed
Zacharia and James as being born in Indiana but later records would indicate that they were born in Iowa.
While George, Jacob and Sarah's son, is shown in 1850 census, he is missing from the 1860 census. Since no other
records have been found, it is assumed that he died, either in Indiana or Iowa, between the two census years.
On December 31, 1861, Andrew enlisted in Company E of the 15th Iowa Infantry at Keokuk, Iowa. He listed his
occupation as a farmer and his residence as Fort Madison, Iowa. He had brown eyes, auburn hair, and he was 5' 6" tall. Fort
Madison is located in Jefferson Township and with his occupation being listed as a farmer it is assumed this was a mailing
address. He was discharged on July 24, 1865 after serving nearly four years. He originally joined the Union Army but was
captured by the confederates on February 29, 1864 while on a foraging mission in Canton, Mississippi. He was then imprisoned
at the infamous prison in Andersonville, Georgia. While he was imprisoned there, he enlisted in the 10th Tennessee Confederate
States Infantry and on December 28, 1864 was captured again at Egypt Station, Mississippi. This time he would be confined in
the Union Prison in Alton, Illinois. Then in 1867, he re-enlisted in the regular Army and would spend the next five year's in the
Dakota's and Nebraska. During this time the rest of the family remained in Iowa.
The 1870 census showed Jacob and Sarah's children, Andrew and Sarah Jane, were no longer living at home. Sarah
Jane had married James Wyman in 1862 and Andrew was still away in the Army. The census also show the addition of three
more children: Daniel David-1860, Mary-1865 and Samuel-1869 (all born in Iowa). It has been assumed that all 3 were born
in Lee County, Iowa however the 1870 census shows them living in Poweshiek County, Iowa (located north west of Lee County).
Between the 1870 and 1880 census, the Warehime family would undergo several changes.
Apparently sometime between 1870 and 1877 Jacob and Sarah divorced, although no divorce records have been found.
A second marriage license, states that Jacob and Mrs. S. H. Smith (Henrietta) were married in the M. E. Church by Minister
L. C. Carroll on January 11, 1878 in Davis County, Iowa. It may be here or in the adjoining county of Van Buren where Sarah
and Jacob divorced. We have not been able to find those records as of yet.
Records show that Jacob was operating a saw mill in February of 1876 at Independent in Van Buren County. It was
located about one mile east of the Van Buren, Davis County line. He listed his address as Hickory Post Office, which was two
and one half miles to the west of the mill.
In March of 1877, Jacob’s son, Frank, also marries in Davis County. Frank and Luella B. Smith, the daughter of
Jacob’s new wife Henrietta, are married there.
In the 1880 census, Sarah Warehime is now listed as Sarah Bowen, the head of household, living in Rocton Precinct,
Furnas County, Nebraska. Furnas County borders Kansas on the south and Rocton precinct is south of the town of Wilsonville,
Nebraska. No records have been located listing the name of Sarah's new husband or of another marriage. The census records
listing her as head of household suggest that her second husband may have died or they have divorced.
Living with Sarah, was her daughter-Mary, son-Samuel and Andrew's oldest son-Elliot (Sarah & Jacob's grandson).
Also living in the same precinct was her daughter Sarah Wyman and her family, which included four daughters and one son.
Lucinda and her husband, Nathan Fawcett, lived in the adjoining precinct of Wilsonville with their daughter and three sons.
The rest of the Jacob and Sarah's children were now living in Kansas, some near Jacob and Henrietta in Jewell County.
It is not known what happened to Andrew’s first wife, the mother of his son Elliot, but the 1880 census shows Elliot
living with his grandmother (Sarah Bowen). This could indicate that his mother had died prior to this time.
Some time between 1878 and 1880, Jacob and Henrietta moved from Iowa to Jewell County Kansas, probably Odessa
Township. Jewell County's Odessa township is about five miles south of the town of Esbon.
According to testimony given in July of 1887, by Jacob, in making final proof on his homestead. he says, "the property
has been occupied by us since October of 1880". Supporting witness testified that he and Henrietta were living in Odessa
township during 1879 prior to moving to their claim. The final proof papers reveal that they made extensive improvements on
their claim. Jacob states that, "we have built a 14' x 18' sod house with a 10' x 12' addition valued at fifty dollars. Other
improvements are a rock stable with a corral worth twenty five dollars, a 23 foot deep well has been dug and valued at thirty
dollars, plus twenty acres we broke out and put into cultivation. Our home is furnished with a table, stove, bed, lounge, seven
chairs and a stand, all of the necessities of a home." Note: We have visited in this area and have located the old farm. It is in a
pretty rolling area. There is apparently nothing left of the old home, only a clump of cedar trees where a house might have been.
John (Jacob & Sarah’s son), who had been living with Jacob and Henrietta, moved out in 1881 when he took Sarah
Jackson as his wife. They were married in Mankato, the county seat of Jewell County Kansas on September 5th of that year. An
1884 atlas of Odessa Township reveals that Jacob, Frank and James are all listed as carpenters with a mailing address of Ionia,
Kansas, a nearby town.
In 1884, Jacob’s son (James) along with his wife (Mary Elizabeth) are now also living in Odessa Township. They
bought land adjoining to Jacob and Henrietta's farm. Also living near Jacob and Henrietta in Odessa Township were Frank
and his wife Luella.
In the 1880 census, Jacob’s son (Zacharia) and his wife (Christann) were living in Ellsworth, Kansas. Zacharia's
brother, David, was living with them. By 1885, when the Kansas state census was done, Jacob and his wife Henrietta, Frank
and his wife Luella and their children, Arthur and Henrietta, were the only members of the Warehime family left in Kansas.
It is not known exactly when, but sometime around 1879, Zacharia and his brother James moved their families to
Furnas County Nebraska. Their move to Nebraska was probably about the same time as that of their brother, John, who was
homesteading in Furnas County Nebraska in 1883.
In 1881, Mary (the youngest daughter of Jacob and Sarah) married Ander Nightengale while living in Furnas County
Nebraska. On April 22, 1882, they became the parents of their first and only child, Omer, who was born there.
David met Annie Moore in Downs, Kansas, where her family had located during the 1870's. On January 11, 1883 they
were married at Butts Store in Jewell County Kansas. Their first child, Jesse, was born there later that year. By 1885, David
also moved to Furnas County Nebraska where Zacharia, John and Mary were. His second child, Minnie, was born there in
1885.
Frank (like most of the Warehime’s) would leave Kansas in late 1885. He moved to Lincoln County Washington and
took a homestead near the town of Hesseltine. He was joined there in 1888 by his brother John. The following year their father
(Jacob) and his wife (Henrietta) also moved to Washington. Jacob and Henrietta settled 18 miles northwest of Wilbur,
Washington.
John and his family later moved to Cascade, Montana. His brother, Frank, moved to Canada. Frank homesteaded in
the Mosside District near Barrhead, Alberta, Canada in 1910. Note: We have visited the original log house that Frank built on
his homestead when we traveled to Barrhead for the Warehime Reunion in 1988.
In 1888, Andrew married Elizabeth Sears in Beaver City, Nebraska. This would be the second marriage for both of
them. They had three daughters: Alice-born in 1889, Cora-born in 1891 and Bertha-born in 1893. They were all born in
Nebraska. It is assumed these girls were born at Cambridge, in northwest Furnas County, as this information came from the
1892 Civil War Veterans census. It listed Andrew living there at that time.
In 1895, he was living in Wilsonville, Nebraska. It was there, during that year, that he made an application for a
military pension. It was supported by his brothers, James and Zacharia, also of Wilsonville, Nebraska.
The next accounting of Andrew is by his obituary in which it is revealed that he had been a resident of Colorado
Springs, Colorado since 1896 before coming to Sterling, Comanche County, Oklahoma in March of 1910. It is at Sterling that
he died on March 27, 1910. He is buried in the Mountain View Cemetery just north of Sterling.
Sarah Wyman and James were listed in the 1885 Rocton Precinct, Furnas County Nebraska census along with their
families. In the 1900 census she is not listed, only James Morander and his younger children are listed.
Since Sarah and James both sold land that year in Furnas County Nebraska, she could have moved to Colorado. By the
1910 census, she and her husband (James) and two children are living in Elbert County Colorado. By 1920, the census lists her
as a 75 year old boarder with Charles Davis in Denver, Colorado.
Family stories say that Sarah Jane went to the gold fields and was never heard from again. There may be some
connection between this story and the fact that sometime between 1893 and 1900 her brothers, Andrew and David, were known
to be in Colorado Springs, Colorado an area of gold mining at the time.
Records place her son, William, in Colorado from 1900 to 1915. From 1918 to 1922, William was in Cherokee
County, Oklahoma. On a 1928 land record, he gave his wife, Hannah, a quit claim deed for land in Shawnee County Kansas.
He stated he was a resident of Los Angeles, California.
In 1890, Zacharia was listed in the school census of Furnas County Nebraska along with his children: Clara, Rachel,
George, Mina and Charles.
Henrietta died on Aug 27, 1902. Jacob died (while living with his son Frank) on November 26, 1907 in Tacoma,
Washington. They are both buried at Wilbur, Washington.
In 1890, David sold his homestead to his sister Lucinda and her husband Nathan Fawcett. David did this in
preparation for his move to Purcell, Indian Territory Oklahoma. Accompanying David and Annie were their children: Jessie,
Minnie and Jim. Mary Nightengale and her son, Omer, also made the trip. Since Ander did not accompany them, it is
presumed that they were divorced by then. Also making the move was Sarah Bowen (David & Mary's mother). She was
accompanied by her youngest son (Samuel) and her grandson (Elliot). This left only Zacharia, Lucinda and James still
residing in Furnas County Nebraska.
Soon after their arrival in Purcell, Oklahoma, David and Annie's third son, Albert (Bert), was born. The following
spring, on May 22, 1891, twenty-two year old Samuel died as the result of being kicked in the head by a steer while working at
the Purcell stockyards. He was buried in the Hillside Cemetery at Purcell, Oklahoma.
On November 19, 1892, Sarah Bowen, 69 years old, died and was buried beside her son, Samuel, in Purcell,
Oklahoma. The Lexington paper, in reporting her death, listed her as a resident of Lexington. It could be that she was living
with either David or Mary. They were both living a short distance northeast of Lexington at the time.
David and Mary were living on homesteads they had secured on the Pottawatomie reservation when the government
conducted it's second land run in Oklahoma on September 22, 1891. They were very fortunate to secure the land since the
records show that 20,000 people contested for the reservations of 7,000 quarter sections. All 7,000 sections were occupied in one
afternoon. It was here on September 20, 1892 that David and Annie's fourth son, Dewey, was born.
That same year Mary's second child, Clola Leon Huggins, was born, possibly on their homestead in the Pottawatomie
reservation. The name of Mary's second husband is not known. A clue to his identity may lie in the fact that a J.D. Huggins
homesteaded the adjoining section. As of now it is not known, if indeed, it is him or perhaps some relative but it has been
assumed that there is a connection.
David sold his homestead in Section 20, Township 8 N in Range 3 E in Pottawatomie County on January 15, 1894. On
October 24, 1894, Mary received a deed on her claim in the same section. This is the last record of her until the1900 census, in
which she is listed as living in the Cherokee Nation (near Wann) and married to William Beesor. It is not clear when, but
David evidently returned to Furnas County, Nebraska because the 1894 school records indicate that his children were attending
school there that year.
Since David and Mary, along with all of their children, had
left Pottawatomie by 1894, this left only their 20 year old
nephew (Elliot) still living there. By the following year, he too left the area, along with his bride Jennie Devine. Both Elliot
and Jennie listed their place of residence as McGee, Indian Territory when they got married in Ponotoc County on June 12,
1895.
Sometime during 1895, David and Annie moved from Furnas County Nebraska to Colorado. Their last child, Eunice,
was born there in September of 1895. This may be the time when Andrew moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado since he was
listed as living there during the 1900 census. This could also be the time that Andrew and David's sister, Sarah Wyman and
her family, made the trip to Colorado but this is only speculation.
David and Annie were found in the 1898 Arkansas City, Kansas directory and then in the Osage Reservation in
Oklahoma Territory in the 1900 census. They were probably living on the South Fork River in the Osage because records show
that David had leased land there from Augustine Donavin while Herman Strangfeld (Lucinda's son-in-law) leased land from
Mr. Donavin on Doga Creek. It was probably here that Jessie, David and Annie's oldest child, was killed when he was kicked
by a horse in September of 1901. Jessie was buried at Uncas, across the river in Longwood Township. His grave was later
moved to Ponca City as a result of the Kaw Lake construction. Although David lived on the Osage reservation, he received mail
out of Longwood.
Zacharia married Christann Showman on May 20, 1878 in Ellsworth County, Kansas. He filed for homestead at the
Bloomington, Nebraska land office, on Aug 2, 1894 on the NW quarter of section twenty four in Township one north of Range
twenty five west of the sixth principal meridian in Nebraska. Listed in land and court records in Furnas County, Nebraska on
Mar. 23, 1892. He was also listed again in 1888 in a lawsuit with David Warehime and W. B. Bass being sued by J. W.
Tomblin. Another bit of interest in the case was that the Constable was David and Zacharia's brother-in-law N. E. Fawcett.
Zacharia and his family were listed in the 1880 and the 1900 Ellsworth County census. In 1885, they were in Sherman
Precinct, Furnas County Nebraska. Zacharia also appeared as a witness to the marriage of his niece (Minnie), the daughter of
David and Annie, in 1906 in Sterling, Oklahoma. The next record of Zacharia, that has been found, is dated August 1, 1913
when he died in Topeka, Kansas. He is buried in Wilson, Kansas.
Sometime during the 1890's Lucinda located in Longwood area, the exact time or location is not known. However, it
has been related by Mabel Benton, granddaughter of Lucinda Warehime Fawcett, that at one time Lucinda operated a
boarding house in Arkansas City, Kansas. Several pieces of evidence substantiate the story. Her husband Nathan Emmett
Fawcett died in Arkansas City and is buried there. Another, is that Lucinda and Carl Matney were married in Ponca City,
Oklahoma on October 12, 1898. Oklahoma is only a short distance south of Arkansas City. The marriage was witnessed by J.D.
Huggins, possibly the second husband of her sister Mary. In 1895, Carl Matney was listed as a resident of Arkansas City.
After their marriage, the 1900 census had them listed as residents of Ponca City, Oklahoma. Another bit of evidence to connect
Lucinda to Arkansas City, Kansas is the fact that her daughter, Martha Fawcett, married Herman Strangfeld there in 1898.
Another connection with the Fawcett family and this area is that Fred Fawcett (Lucinda's son) married Hattie J.
Helton on March 19, 1900. They both listed their place of residence as Longwood Township. The big bend of the Arkansas
River lies in Longwood Township of Kay County as well as the town of Kaw City. After the run of 1893 opened up the Cherokee
Strip to settlement, the town of Longwood was established on the north bank of the Arkansas River (approximately 1/2 mile west
of the present Kaw City). The business's of Longwood were moved and the town merged with that of Kaw City when it was
established in 1905.
Hattie Helton's parents had secured a homestead in Longwood Township, northwest of the town of Longwood, and she
was living there when she and Fred Fawcett were married. Perhaps it was on the Helton homestead that Fred was living. In
1901, David was receiving mail in Longwood. It was there that his notification was sent saying that his name had been drawn
for land in the Comanche reservation. Hattie's brother, Dewey, has shown me a dugout that he says was built and occupied by
David Warehime's family.
On July 4, 1901, President McKinley signed a proclamation to open to settlement the Kiowa, Comanche, Apache and
the Wichita Caddo lands. The plan adopted the lottery system. Under this system, registration began at El Reno and Lawton on
July 10, 1901 and continued until July 26, 1901. Then a drawing was held at El Reno on July 29, 1901 for the land parcels.
Each applicant was given a certificate giving him the right to go onto the reservations to look over the land prior to the drawing.
Beginning on August 6, 1901 names were drawn, then posted and the applicants were notified by mail that their name had been
drawn and could make their selection in the order that their name had been drawn. Nearly 170,000 people registered for 13,000
parcels of land. David's name was the 3,071 name to be drawn for land in the Comanche Reservation. He selected the NE/4 of
Section 34, Township 4 N, Range 9 W. It was here that David and Annie's children , Minnie 16, James 12, Bert 11, Dewey 9
& Eunice 5 grew to adulthood.
About 1904, James and Mollie along with their family moved to a farm just east of David. It was a homestead that
some one had relinquished. Their son, Jake, and his wife, Grace, were in this area also when several of their children were
born.
During the first part of March of 1910, Andrew Warehime, brother of David and James, arrived in Sterling,
Oklahoma from Colorado. He had been sent to Oklahoma for health reasons. On March 27, 1910 he died at the home of his
brother, James, and is buried in the Mountain View Cemetery north of Sterling, Oklahoma. Andrew's wife, Elizabeth, and three
daughter's, Alice, Cora & Bertha and a son, Elliot survived him. At the time of his father’s death, Elliot was living in Tuttle
Township in Grady County, Oklahoma with his wife, Jennie, and daughters: Josephine, Fannie, Clara, Bertha & Christine.
By 1910, only Eunice (the youngest child of David and Annie's) still remained at home. Across the road at Jim and
Mollie's home, their youngest son, Bryan, was their only child still living at home. Jake and Grace had moved to Montana in
about 1916. Around the same time Jim and Mollie’s sons were on the move. Ellis moved to Colorado and Byrd moved to
Minnesota.
After only two years on his farm in Comanche County, David moved his family back to the Osage. This time he located
on Rock Creek, north of Pawhuska, on land that he bought in March of 1911 from a Mr. Museller. He remained there until
November of 1913 at which time he sold his farm to Jim Tayrien. The David Warehime family included his wife Annie; sons
James, Bert and Dewey; and a daughter, Eunice. They were next found in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
The 1913/1914 Bartlesville city directory shows them residing at 1401 Keeler and they all had the occupation of
Huckster. The family is then missing from the directory until 1918 at which time Dewey and his wife Hazel, are listed as living
at 1313 Armstrong, occupation a teamster. Listed as living at 411 West Eleventh Street were James, Bert & Annie, widow of
David D. Warehime. According to Bartlesville directories of 1908/1912, David’s sister (Mary Edstrohm) and her carpenter
husband (John) lived at 724 Choctaw. By now her son, Omer, had married Jenny Johnson and her daughter, Clola Leon, had
married Bert Rogers in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
David Daniel Warehime died January 18, 1917 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma of pneumonia which was aggravated by a
gunshot wound to the lung he received in a gun fight in Wichita, Kansas. The gun fight was with some men who had stolen
horses and David tracked them down in Wichita where the gun fight ensued in his attempt to capture them. The newspaper
identifies his survivors as his wife Annie, three sisters Mary, Lucinda and Sarah, and three brothers Frank, John and Jim.
David’s brother, Jim lived in Lawton, Oklahoma until his death on October 12, 1924 and is buried in Lawton. Frank,
David’s oldest brother is buried in Barrhead, Alberta, Canada where he died in 1942. John died July 28, 1929 in Eugene,
Oregon but is buried in Cascade, Montana. As for David's sisters, Mary died August 15, 1923 at Eureka, Kansas and is buried
in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Lucinda died in the 1930's and is buried near Middleburg, Oklahoma. As for Sarah, we have yet to
find information on her death and burial but she is probably buried in Colorado.
