Our American Family - Person Sheet
Our American Family - Person Sheet
NameMinerva Caroline BANDY 59
Birth Date1843-4559,78
Birth PlaceTennessee
Memo1843-45
Death Date14 Aug 1915 Age: 72
Death PlaceYale, Payne County, Oklahoma
Spouses
Birth Date1848
Birth PlaceArkansas
Death Date13 Feb 189077 Age: 42
Death PlaceStandish, Carroll County, Missouri
OccupationCW Union Soldier, MO 44th Regiment Co. F Infantry,
FatherMorgan RYAN , 44 (1817-1895)
MotherSusan Jane PATTON , 45 (1821-1883)
Family ID346
Marr Date12 May 186779
Marr PlaceClintonville, Cedar County, Missouri
ChildrenSarah Vietta (1868-1950)
 Matilda Carolyn (1869-1915)
 Charles Jerome (1871-1931)
 George S. M. (1875-~1955)
 Robert Francis (1877-)
 Dora B. (1879-)
Notes for Minerva Caroline BANDY
2. I have a different spelling for Minerva that Manerva, where did this come from?
Good question. When I started it was Minerva/Menerva/Manerva and I've found her as Menarca and even Miranda - and last name transcribed as Bandy/Baily/Brady. You know how it goes. Final record that I have - from the widow's pension files, after she died - lists her as Manerva C. I have found census records, 1850/1860, for a Manerva Bandy living with a Jackson family first in Anderson County, TN, then moving in 1854 to Cedar County, MO (Manerva with them both census records and age consistent with b. c. 1838-1839, although I have yet to confirm that she is "my" Manerva, or find a connection with the Jackson family or any other Bandys for that matter). All census records I have found her in indicate she could not read/write (nor could her husband John M. Ryan) -- and in the widow's pension declaration, she signed with "her mark" (x). May never know but the Manerva spelling has proved fairly consistent.79
Notes for John Morgan (Spouse 1)
1880 Carol Cors?

Was in Civil War. Joined in Carroll Co. MO when Wiley J. Ryan joined.59

listed in 1880 Census59

3. I have the marriage of John and Minerva at Polk Co, MO (not Clintonville).
Widow's pension declaration 1890 lists her married to John M. Ryan on May 12, 1867 by Rev. J. Evans at Clintonville, Cedar Co., MO. I have not found the actual marriage record, it is possible that it was destroyed in the war I guess. Family history was that Charley Ryan was born in "Virgil City/Polk County, Missouri." It gets confusing. What I did find was that John M. Ryan's sister (closest sibling in age) had a child in 1866 in Clintonville, Cedar County, MO (her 2nd husband, the first husband died in the war); then her next child by the 3rd husband was born in 1870 in Polk Co., MO; then in 1880 that family is in Rea, Carroll, Missouri. Her movements coincide with my trailing of John and Manerva, from their marriage in Cintonville 1866, to the Humansville area of Polk County in the 1870 census, to Rea, Carroll, MO in 1880. . . . Also have come across postings from the Carroll family (Manerva's 2nd oldest daughter, Matilda Caroline Ryan Carroll) - they have some really helpful family history posted online but there appears to be some guesswork/inconsistency as well, and I couldn't determine their sources.79
Research notes for John Morgan (Spouse 1)
birthdate also listed as 1847
Notes for John Morgan & Minerva Caroline (Family)
other researchers have marriage date as May 16, 1867 Polk Co, MO59
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