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about 1812 Jonas and his widowed mother and all of his brothers andone sister moved to Delaware County, Ohio. (Nancy Childress)
Children of Jonas and Mary were all born in Delaware, Del. Co.,Ohio.
Jonas died 6 Sep 1845, as written in the family bible. (stone says1849 - 54 years, one month, 2 days) .

1. 2. Anna MAIN   b. 12 Aug 1818, Delaware,Delaware Co.,Ohio.
2. 3. Malinda MAIN   b. 15 Jun 1820, Delaware,Delaware Co.,Ohio; d. 8 Jun 1899.
3. 4. Sabeers MAIN   b. 14 Sep 1822, Cardington,Morrow Co.,Ohio; d. 6 Nov 1891, Main City,Cass Co.,Missouri.
4. 5. Hugh MAIN   b. 8 Feb 1826, Delaware,Delaware Co.,Ohio; d. 23 Dec 1849.
5. 6. Thomas MAIN   b. 15 Mar 1827, Delaware,Delaware Co.,Ohio; d. 18 Mar 1854.
6. 7. Phoeba MAIN   b. 8 Nov 1829, Delaware,Delaware Co.,Ohio; d. 12 Jun 1847.
7. 8. William MAIN   b. 22 Apr 1832, Delaware,Delaware Co.,Ohio; d. 12 Nov 1919; bur. Cass Co.,Missouri.
8. 9. David C. MAIN   b. 9 Sep 1834, Delaware,Delaware Co.,Ohio; d. 21 Dec 1850.
9. 10. Son MAIN   b. Aft 1834, Delaware,Delaware Co.,Ohio; d. his youth.

1. 11. Minorva WILSON  
2. 12. Loretta WILSON  
3. 13. Jonas WILSON  

1. 14. Willis WORLINE  
2. 15. Dayton WORLINE  

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He was named after his grandfather but the spelling of his name waschanged. The name had been Sabiers, Sabbers, Sebbeus, Sabbius andSabeers. It is said that Sebeers first studied to become a doctor ofmedicine and then became a Primative Baptist Minister. This Main familyplus fifty other families moved to Missouri in March of 1876, going in animmigrant train with each family having a box car for their furniture andlive stock. Bess Welsenhunt, who was Oliver Main's daughter said thatthey came to Kansas City, then Lee Summit and then south on Hwy 71 about40 miles to Archie than west on Hwy A in Cass County to a place theynamed Main City, Everett Twp. in 1879 in the SE corner of Section 30 andthe NE corner of Section 31. A store and post office were established in1879 to 1906 and H.C. Main was the first postmaster. In 1983 there was apopulation of six and it was no longer on the map. The store/tavern hasburned down now. Sharon Cemetery is south one-half mile.
[Bob Main of Garberville, California sent some information on MainCity and HISTORY OF CASS COUNTY, page 166; Missouri Post Offices, Page34]
F. C. Moses lived in the first house built in the little village ofMain City, Cass Co., Missouri, Nov. 1879. H.C., F.C. and M.J. Mosesopened the first store on Christmas 1879 and April 1881 H.C. Main boughta fourth interest in the store and it became Moses, Main & Co. Thefollowing July H. C. and M. J. Moses sold to F. C. Moses and William Mainand the name changed to Main & Moses. Some of our Mains are buried at theAdam Howell Cemetery near Virginia, Missouri. Bess said her family livedhalf a mile from the grandfather's old place. She said all the childrenexcept Ellen came to Missouri. Ellen was married and remained in Ohio.Bess said that Linda and Mary were married but came with their families.My grandad, Perry, was six months old at that time.
Sabeers and Anna were given a Letter of Dismission from The RegularBaptist Church of Jesus Christ called Marlboro, Delaware Co., Ohio. Theletter was written by Joseph Main, clerk, 18 Mar 1876. The letter statesthat Elder Sabeers C. Main is an ordained Minister of the Gospel.

1. 16. Reuben MAIN   b. 30 Mar 1849, Cardington,Morrow Co.,Ohio; d. 22 Aug 1896; bur. Lone Elm Cemetery,on Hwy. 20 near the Verdigris River and Collinsville,Oklahoma.
2. 17. Mary MAIN   b. 8 Nov 1850, Cardington,Morrow Co.,Ohio; d. Mar 1920.
3. 18. Melinda MAIN   b. 30 Jul 1852, Cardington,Morrow Co.,Ohio.
4. 19. Ella MAIN   b. 13 Jan 1855, Westfield,Morrow Co.,Ohio; d. 1934, Morrow Co.,Ohio.
5. 20. Hugh MAIN   b. 17 Dec 1856, Cardington,Morrow Co.,Ohio; d. 23 Sep 1857; bur. Marlboro Cemetery.
6. 21. Lucinda MAIN   b. 19 Jul 1858, Cardington,Morrow Co.,Ohio; d. Nevada,Missouri.
7. 22. Rosa MAIN   b. 1 Feb 1861, Delaware,Delaware Co.,Ohio.
8. 23. Grant MAIN   b. 10 Jul 1863, Delaware,Delaware Co.,Ohio; d. 18 Mar 1934, LaCygne,Linn Co.,Kansas.
9. 24. Olive MAIN   b. 28 Sep 1865, Delaware,Delaware Co.,Ohio; d. 15 Feb 1957, Mountainair,New Mexico.
10. 25. William MAIN   b. 10 Aug 1868, Westfield,Ohio; d. 26 Mar 1890; bur. Adam Howell Cemetery.
11. 26. James MAIN   b. 10 Aug 1868, Westfield,Ohio; d. 19 Dec 1946, Kincaid,Anderson Co.,Kansas.
12. 27. Albert MAIN   b. 1 Feb 1871, Cardington,Morrow Co.,Ohio; d. 1955.
13. 28. Perry MAIN   b. 9 Oct 1875, Cardington,Morrow Co.,Ohio; d. 6 Jun 1974, University Heights Hospital,Alburquerque,New Mexico of a broken hip,respitority failure and prostate cancer; bur. Lanagan,Montana.

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DAR #341223 - Esther Elizabeth Edge

1. 29. Lucretia MAIN   b. 25 Feb 1853, Delaware Co.,Ohio; d. 15 Sep 1930, Topeka,Kansas.
2. 30. Esther MAIN   b. Abt 1855.

1. 31. Lewis F. MAIN   b. 25 Jun 1856, Dodge City,Ford Co.,Kansas; d. Mar 1946.
2. 32. Wesley MAIN   b. 26 Feb 1858, Dodge City,Ford Co.,Kansas; d. 14 Sep 1899.
3. 33. Lois Ida MAIN   b. 24 Aug 1859, Dodge City,Ford Co.,Kansas.
4. 34. Orin Lincoln MAIN   b. 26 Oct 1863, Dodge City,Ford Co.,Kansas; d. 18 Dec 1865.
5. 35. Amanda Eva MAIN   b. 14 Oct 1865, Dodge City,Ford Co.,Kansas; d. 6 Aug 1881.
6. 36. Clara Etta MAIN   b. Abt 1875, Dodge City,Ford Co.,Kansas; d. 21 Dec 1878.
7. 37. Clinton Lee MAIN   b. 28 Aug 1878, Dodge City,Ford Co.,Kansas; d. 1 Sep 1943.

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Reuben was in 174th Regt. of OVI from 2 Aug 1884 - 28 Jun 1865,discharged at Charlotte, North Carolina. Military records listed him as5'2", fair complexion, hazel eyes and dark hair. In 1888 he moved hisfamily to central Kansas. After two winters they moved to Butler,Montana, then in the fall of 1891 to the Osage Nation near Pawhuska.After several years they moved down the river near Eli, in Rogers Co.north of Hwy. 20, west of the Verdigris River.

1. 38. Thomas Jefferson MAIN   b. 25 Jan 1869; d. 22 Aug 1954.
2. 39. Jennie May MAIN   b. 24 Dec 1870.

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1920 Soundex #182813 ED 17, Sh 12 Li 6. In this census Anna Main andCraig Greenstreet, a grandson 21 years old, born in Montana were livingwith them. Anna was 89 at the time. 1880 Michigan Soundex, 1990 MontanaSoundex and 1920 Montana soundex #1826813 and #1245618.

1. 40. Bertha CURREN   b. May 1874, Michigan.
2. 41. Edith CURREN   b. Sep 1877, Michigan.

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He was a Camalite minister (now Church of Christ. They lived at LinnCreek, and Everett, Cass Co., Montana.
1900 Montana soundex #1245762 ED 29, Sh 9, Li 99, Christian Co.,Linn Twp. and 1880 #287747, 1880 Montana soundex Ed 80, Sh 10, Li 44.

1. 42. Hosea L. SNOW   b. 1873, Michigan.
2. 43. Blanche SNOW   b. Abt 1875, Michigan.
3. 44. Ella SNOW   b. Jul 1882, Montana.

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The 1900 Ohio Census film #1241309 shows Samantha, a widow, livingwith Hosea and Ella in Morrow Co., Ohio. In the same census, Hal B.living next door with wife Emma and daughters Nova and Vada. 1910 Censusfilm #1371789 Ohio has Hosea and Ella alone in Morrow Co. Hosea was abreeder of Percheron Draft Horses. They lived at Cardington, Ohio.

1. 45. Hal B. JENKINS   b. 16 Dec 1874, Cardington,Morrow Co.,Ohio.
2. 46. Nonda JENKINS   b. 16 Sep 1876, Cardington,Morrow Co.,Ohio; d. 10 Oct 1881, Morrow Co.,Ohio of diptheria; bur. Marlborough Cemetery,Morrow Co.,Ohio.
3. 47. Clive JENKINS   b. 26 Jan 1878, Cardington,Morrow Co.,Ohio; d. 15 Oct 1881, Morrow Co.,Ohio of diptheria; bur. Marlborough Cemetery,Morrow Co.,Ohio.
4. 48. Ray JENKINS   b. 20 Sep 1880, Cardington,Morrow Co.,Ohio; d. 1934, Morrow Co.,Ohio; bur. Marlborough Cemetery,Morrow Co.,Ohio.
5. 49. Nona JENKINS   b. 18 Nov 1883, Cardington,Morrow Co.,Ohio; d. 1973.

1. 50. Myron BURRELL  
2. 51. Beatrice BURRELL  

1. 52. Archie MAIN   b. Abt 1890, LaCygne,Linn Co.,Kansas.
2. 53. Melva Jessie MAIN   b. 3 Jul 1892, LaCygne,Linn Co.,Kansas; d. 25 Feb 1976.
3. 54. Roy Williams MAIN   b. 20 Feb 1895, LaCygne,Linn Co.,Kansas; d. 30 Dec 1977.
4. 55. Anna MAIN  
5. 56. Glen George MAIN   b. 22 Mar 1904, LaCygne,Linn Co.,Kansas; d. 8 Nov 1975.

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Simon owned and farmed 560 acres with 240 acres under cultivation.At 77 Olive was driving a 1929 model automobile up and down the mountainslooking after crops. She was active in 1947 but had given up farming andlived in Timpas, Colorado. She was a Primitive Baptist.

1. 57. Beers Bill HARBAUGH   b. 16 Nov 1886, Mountainair,New Mexico; d. 19 Sep 1965.
2. 58. Guy Ralph HARBAUGH   b. 19 Oct 1891, Mountainair,New Mexico; d. 26 Aug 1975.
3. 59. Bessie Marie HARBAUGH  
4. 60. John Douglas HARBAUGH   b. 24 Jan 1904, Mountainair,New Mexico; d. 15 Apr 1918, Mountainair,New Mexico.

1. 61. Clarence Leroy MAIN   b. 22 Sep 1895; d. 10 Aug 1977; bur. Crown Hill Cemetery,Denver,Colorado.

1. 62. Helen Katherine MAIN  
2. 63. Wilma Earline MAIN  
3. 64. Ruth Alberta MAIN  
4. 65. Ralph Eugene MAIN  

1. 66. Simon MAIN   b. 11 Mar 1898, Kincaid,Anderson Co.,Kansas; d. 2 Mar 1947.
2. 67. Grace MAIN  
3. 68. Ada MAIN   b. 7 Dec 1901, Kincaid,Anderson Co.,Kansas; d. Nov 1982.
4. 69. Leona MAIN  
5. 70. Albert MAIN   b. 3 Feb 1910, Kincaid,Anderson Co.,Kansas; d. 7 Oct 1948, Kincaid,Anderson Co.,Kansas,unmarried.

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Grandad lived with his daughter Temperance in Phoenix until she diedin 1968. He moved to Alburquerque, New Mexico and lived with his grandsonRichard Porter. In 1974, prior to his death, Perry lived in a nursinghome in Alburquerque, NM.
Grampa was a jack-of-all-trades. He was a farmer, trapper, miner,horse trainer, and other things. In his seventies he was still plowinghis fields on his Missouri farm. He outlived his three wives and his onlychild.
After grandma Ethel died he moved to Lanagan, Missouri and lived ina cabin close to Glenn and Temperance. Later he married ElizabethBennett, a widow with a daughter, Josephine Bennett and a granddaughterEmma Jane Wallace. Emma Jane's mother had died and her grandmother wasraising her. After the death of Elizabeth, grampa married her sisterMinnie who was a widow.
My grandma, Ethel Marin (Hewitt) Main was 46 when she died. Whengrandpa met her she was a cook in a hotel. Grandpa said he saw her fromacross the street and said he knew then he would marry her.

1. 71. Temperance Estelle MAIN   b. 14 Sep 1905; d. 26 May 1968, Phoenix,Arizona.

1. 72. daughter MARTIN   d. 1 Feb 1870.

1. 73. Esther Elizabeth CHANEY   b. 30 Sep 1887, Miller Homestead,Brown Co.,Kansas.

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Here is a brief history of the Lewis Main family written by JosieMain Grubaugh. Lewis was Stafford County Register of Deeds for severalyears. He later owned and operated a farm one mile north of Stafforduntil 1915 when the family moved to Dodge City, where he resided untilhis death early in 1946. Mrs. Main died a few years later.

1. 74. Ida C. MAIN   b. 1888, Kansas; d. Jul 1927, Mayo Clinic,Rochester,Minnesota of brain cancer,unmarried.
2. 75. Amy L. MAIN   b. 4 Dec 1890, Kansas; d. 25 Apr 1965, Dodge City,Ford Co.,Kansas,unmarried.
3. 76. Claud E. MAIN   b. Abt 1896, Kansas; d. Aft 1965, Bay City,California.
4. 77. Glenn H. MAIN  

1. 78. Maude BLACK  
2. 79. Arta BLACK  
3. 80. Wesley BLACK  
4. 81. Lois BLACK  
5. 82. Carrie BLACK  
6. 83. Elsie BLACK  

1. 84. Josie Evelyn MAIN  
2. 85. Floyd Lee MAIN  
3. 86. William Delbert MAIN  
4. 87. Kenneth Wesley MAIN  
5. 88. Rosalee Della MAIN  

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Ida worked in a bank in Stafford a number of years before moving toDodge City in 1915 where she worked in an office or bank until her healthfailed. She died at the May Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota of braincancer.

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Amy taught grade school in Stafford Co., Kansas. After moving toDodge City she served two terms as County Treasurer of Ford County. Shealso worked several years in the Probate Judges office. She died ofcancer.

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Claude worked a number of years with a little theater group. Hemarried twice but had no children. He sand his last wife Esther wereliving in Bay City, California at the time of his death some time after1965.