Gates ORR
Surname(s): ORR, PEARCE, BEST, MADDING, KING, HUTCHINSON, BERRY, CONLEY, ELLIOTT
Submitted by: Della M. (ORR) SHAFER
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HUSBAND: Gates
ORR
date and place of birth: 10 Feb 1827
Hanover, Licking Co., OH
date and place of marriage: 21 Feb
1849 Mahoning Co., OH
other marriages: Mary Jane
BEST
military service:
date and place of death: 10 Dec 1905
Sumner Co., KS
father: Russell
ORR
mother: Eleanor
WINANS
notes: Gates and his first wife,
Lorinda, moved with his widowed mother and siblings to Wayne Co., IL about
1853 where Lorinda died in 1863. He married Mary Jane
BEST in 1864 in Wayne Co., IL. In the
fall of 1878, after a few years in Wisconsin, Gates and Mary Jane moved to
Sumner Co., KS and bought the farm on which the
ORR family lived for the next 120
years, bringing three of the children from his first marriage - Lorinda
Estella "Stella", Joseph Hyram and Olive Ruth, and the first three born to
him by Mary Jane - Mary Best, Fred Calvin and Frank Gates. Also with the
family was May D. ORR, believed to be
the illegitimate daughter of Estella, who was raised as a daughter of Gates
and Mary Jane. George Russell ORR was
born to Gates and Mary Jane in 1880.
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WIFE: Lorinda B.
PEARCE
date and place of birth: 3 Aug 1827
Trumbull Co., OH
date and place of marriage: 21 Feb
1849 Mahoning Co., OH
other marriages:
date and place of death: 23 Apr 1863
Wayne Co., IL
father: Joseph Lawrence
PEARCE, Jr.
mother: Ruth
NEWCOMB
notes: Scotch ancestry. Was a cousin
of James Franklin PEARCE, who married
Eleanor ORR, sister of Gates.
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CHILD 1: Rodney Lester
ORR
date and place of birth: 2 Jul 1850 MI
married: Susan MADDING
date and place of marriage: Richland Co., WI
other marriages:
date and place of death: 1927 Richland Co., WI
notes: Daughter: Blanch. Rodney and Susan also raised a Spanish boy
who married Blanch.
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CHILD 2: Ella Celia
ORR
date and place of birth: 2 Jul 1850 MI
married:
date and place of marriage:
other marriages:
date and place of death: 9 Apr 1873 Richland Co., WI
notes: Did not marry. Occupation, according to the 1870 census,
school teacher.
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CHILD 3: Augusta Roseltha
ORR
date and place of birth: 9 Apr 1853 Mahoning Co., OH
married: Henry Lewis KING
date and place of marriage: 29 Mar 1873 Woodstock, Richland Co., WI
other marriages:
date and place of death: 23 Dec 1941 Henrietta Twp., Richland Co., WI
notes:
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CHILD 4: Lorinda Cansada Estella
"Stella" ORR
date and place of birth: 3 Nov 1856 Mt. Erie, Wayne Co., IL
married: Lucius Homer HUTCHINSON
date and place of marriage: 4 Jul 1882 Sumner Co., KS
other marriages:
date and place of death: 4 Jun 1941 KS
notes: Stella is believed to be the mother of May (Mayme)
ORR, born in Richland Co., WI, who
was raised as a daughter of Gates ORR
with his second family. From an old newspaper clipping, date and paper
unknown: "Mrs. Estella C. Hutchinson,
for forty-five years a resident of this locality, died at her home here
early Tuesday morning, on the forty-ninth anniversary of the death of her
husband Lucius Hutchinson. Her age
was 85 years, seven months and one day. Mrs.
Hutchinson ~had been ill for some time. The family has been well
known over this and the Milan community since an early day here. A daughter,
Flossie, died in 1918. Surviving are a son, L. H. ~Hutchinson
of Conway Springs, a daughter, Mrs. Anna
Emmons of Los Angeles, Calif., who has been here for the past two
weeks, a son, Ernest in Alaska; five grandchildren, Fredda and Veva
Hutchinson of Denver, Homer
Hutchinson, Conway Springs and Lois
and Homer Hutchinson, who make their
home with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
Pringle at Milan; three brothers, Fred C.
Orr, Conway Springs, Frank
Orr, Wichita, George R.
Orr, Los Angeles, two sisters, Mrs.
Augusta King in Wisconsin and Mrs.
May Southwick, Milan."
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CHILD 5: Joseph Hyram
ORR
date and place of birth: 6 Feb 1859 Mt. Erie, Wayne Co., IL
married: Samantha Luella "Manta"
CONLEY
date and place of marriage: 6 Feb 1890 Harper, Harper Co., KS
other marriages: Susan BERRY
(1st wife, married in WI)
date and place of death: 1919 Wellington, Sumner Co., KS
notes: No children by first wife. He was listed in 1919 as an inmate
of the Sumner County Infirmary (Poor Farm) in Wellington, KS with a disease
listed as "Ulcer." Probably buried in the Spring Hill Cemetery near the
ORR farm, because there is a "J. H.
ORR" listed as owner of a plot on an
old map, but there is no stone for him.
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CHILD 6: Phrania Anna
ORR
date and place of birth: 28 May 1905 St. Joseph, Buchanan Co., MO
married: Dr. Frederich Chesley
ELLIOTT
date and place of marriage: 28 Apr 1928 Kansas City, MO
other marriages:
date and place of death:
notes: No children. A Social Security Death Index record (SS#
456-23-1001 issued in Texas) for Ann ELLIOTT,
born 28 May 1905 and died 11 Nov 1994, last residence Kerrville, Kerr Co.,
TX 78028, may be for Phrania Anna.