Information from Kansas West card file (discarded): 1844 - born October 6 near Canton, OH 1872 - married Margaret Ann (Stage) (b. April 10, 1849, d. July 22, 1903) on July 11 1879 - South Kansas Conference; Little River 1882 - Southwest Kansas Conference charter member; deacon: Walton 1883 - elder 1883-85 - Canton 1885 - son's memoir (Walter), Southwest Kansas Journal (p.37) 1886-88 - Chase 1889-90 - Sterling 1891-92 - Larned 1893 - supernumerary 1896 - effective; Lyons 1897 - daughter's memoir (Nellie), Southwest Kansas Journal (p.36) 1897-1900 - Great Bend 1901-02 - Halstead 1903 - supernumerary 1904 - wife's memoir, Southwest Kansas Journal (p.257) 1905-06 - effective; Bison 1907 - Conference evangelist 1910 - supernumerary 1912 - superannuated 1923 - died December 1 in Wichita, KS; buried at Marion, KS 1924 - memoir, Southwest Kansas Journal (p.376) children: 4, only survivor Mrs. Clara Maud Van Ness