Information from Kansas West card file (discarded): middle name: Newton 1850 - born May 26 in Camp Point, IL to Lewis Wesley and Sarah Ann Bottorff 1869 - married Maria Teresa (Faubion) (b.1853, d. December 15, 1932) 1872 - on trial, Southern Illinois Conference 1881 - South Kansas Conference; Rolling Green (Wichita District) 1884 - daughter's memoir (Ida), Southwest Kansas Journal (p.31) 1887 - superannuated 1893 - took part in the Cherokee Strip run 1894 - supernumerary 1896 or 1897 - Oklahoma Conference 1907 - transferred from Oklahoma Conference; supernumerary 1911 - superannuated 1923 - died January 6 near Solomon, KS; buried there; memoir, Southwest Kansas Journal (p.267) 1933 - wife's memoir, Southwest Kansas Journal (p.243) children: Oscar W., Rolla, Mrs. Myrta Lawless, Mrs. Bessie Webster, 3 died in infancy