Person Sheet

Name James Woodward WARNER 57,58 Death Date 31 Jan 1883 Death Place His 140 acre farm, faribault County, Blue Earth, MN Death Memo He was cutting a tree down near the old spring hole in Coon Creek and it fell on him. Mrs. Cady Stanton (they lived where Earnst and Amelia Ziegler do) heard his cries for help and insisted Cady go down to the woods to see what the trouble was. Seth Warner, ended up coming down form his farm southeast of James place to take care of his father who lived alone. He soon died from the injury. Burial Place Riverside Cemetary, Blue Earth, MN Burial Memo Buried in an unmarked grave where Samuel, Mary R., Emil Alfred Stier and Donna May Stier are now all buried. All on the same lot. Residence Date 1830-186359 Residence Place New York, Indiana, Michigan, Colorado Residence Memo Was to have lived at or near Kit O' Four Corners, in Cattaraugus County, New York before going to Indiana. In Indiana he lived in La Porte county between the town of La Porte, Indiana and Three Oaks, Michigan in Berrien County Michigan. Went prospecting for gold in Colorado. Worked with another man for a while, didn't have any luck and the other man quit. James kept on until one morning when it got to the mine a big boulder blocked the entry Residence Date 18 Apr 1863 Residence Place Blue Earth Twnshp, Faribault Co., Blue Earth, MN Residence Memo Jame W.Warner bought for $600.00 a 160 acre tract according to a government survey. He purchased it from Daniel L. Harrington (brother of John Bowen's and Sarah B. McDaniel's mother) He purchased the north 1/2 NE1/4 of section 33 and the south 1/2 of the SE 1/4 of section 28 of town 102 range 27. Father Aaron WARNER Mother Harriet WARNER
Spouses
1 Cordelia SHEDD60,61 Death Date 2 Sep 1889 Death Place Farm Home outside town of Blue Earth. Father Sylvester SHEDD Mother Sally BLACK
Children Samuel (1866-1933) John Alsworth (1860-1922) James Harvey (1842-1916) George Willard (-1915) Martha Jane (1845-1920) Sylvester (1847-1910) Caroline Janett (1850-1937) Seth W. (1855-1912) Rose (1857-1933) Asher (1863-1937)
Notes for James Woodward WARNER
Search Terms: WARNER (827), W (13841), JAMES (21845) Database: Minnesota Census, 1835-90 Combined Matches: 2 Year Surname Given Name (s) State PageTownship or Other Info Record Type Database ID# 1870 WARNER JAMES W. Faribault County MN 1229 Blue Earth Federal Population Schedule MN 1870 Federal Census Index MNS7a5618219 1880 WARNER JAMES W. Faribault County MN 108 Blue Earth Township Federal Population Schedule MN 1880 Federal Census Index MN21566633 Search Terms: WARNER (637), JAMES (46636), W (18357) Database: Indiana Census, 1790-1890 Combined Matches: 2 Year Surname Given Name (s) County State Page Township or Other Info Record Type Database ID# 1840 WARNER JAMES W. La Porte County IN 129 No Township Listed Federal Population Schedule IN 1840 Federal Census Index INS4a2713124 1860 WARNER JAMES W. La Porte County IN 263 Galena Township. Federal Population Schedule IN 1860 Federal Census Index IN23212835
Research
1254619 Film/fiche search results 1880 federal population census  United States. Census Office. 10th census, 1880 Minnesota, 1880 federal census : soundex and population schedules  United States. Bureau of the Census. 10th census, 1880 2 titles matching the film number. James W. WARNER Household     Male       Other Information:     Birth Year <1816>      Birthplace NY      Age 64      Occupation Farmer      Marital Status M <Married>      Race W <White>      Head of Household James W. WARNER     Relation Self      Father's Birthplace NY      Mother's Birthplace NY      Source Information:     Census Place Blue Earth City, Faribault, Minnesota      Family History Library Film 1254619     NA Film Number T9-0619     Page Number 108C
Notes for Cordelia (Spouse 1)
CORDELIA RETURNS TO MINNESOTA After James Woodward Warner's death in January of 1883, Cordelia, Samuel and Caroline Janett returned to Minnesota from Indiana. John A. Warner bought off the heirs to James W. Warner's part of the land. Mary R. Nauman worked for Cordelia. John Alsworth Warner also hired Caroline Janett to help with the work. Cordelia Shedd Warner wasn't very well. Don't know if she was very tall but she was real fleshy. She passed away September 2, 1889
Notes for James Woodward & Cordelia (Family)
The north 1/2 NE 1/4 of Section 33 (containing 80 acres) is where the log house was located that the Warners moved into when they first came from Indiana. The above 80 acres was later deeded to James Harvey Warner (father of Alice Warner Scholes, husband August Scholes) by James Woodard Warner and wife, Cordelia Shedd Warner. WARNERS ARRIVE FROM INDIANA In the summer of 1864 the family was brought to Minnesota. James Harvey Warner (oldest son) was all ready in Minnesota. Cordelia Shedd Warner was ill with erysipelas and the family waited for six weeks for her to get well enough to come too, but she didn't so they came without here. James Woodward Warner and his older sons George, Sylvester and Seth went ahead and had horse teams with covered wagons waiting on the Minnesota side of the Mississippi river opposite LaCrosse, Wisconsin. Martha Jane, Caroline Janett, Rose, John A. (Age 4) and Asher (just over 1 year old) came by train from Indiana to LaCrosse, Wisconsin. There they boarded a ferry boat to cross the Mississippi to where the men, teams of horses and covered wagons were waiting. 4 year old John A. was so tickled (coming across the river) that when he caught sight of his dad and brothers on the other side, he took off is hat and waved it in the air hooting and hollaring. Rose (age 7) his older sister was ashamed of his actions and tried to make him stop. The family arrived with their horses and wagons at the spring hole (deep place in Coon Creek) in Cora & Lucy's pasture on August 8, 1864. James Harvey Warner happened to be down there for a pail of water. We don't know how long it was before Cordelia Shedd Warner was able to come to Minnesota to join the family. WARNER FARM LAND PURCHASED On August 19, 1864, James W. Warner bought from Edward Dexter of Essex County Massachusetts the following tract of land: West half of the southwest quarter of Section 28, township 102 range 27. This 80 acre plot was purchased for $400.00. On September 27, 1864, James W. Warner bought from John Ragh (by John Beidle his attorney inf fact) the following tract of land: The east half of the southwest quarter of section 28, township 102, north of range 27 west. This 80 acre plot was purchased for $280.00. The two plots just described became the 80 acres on the west side of north and south of the road belonging to Samuel Warner. The other 80 acres lies to the south and were eventually owned by Cora and Lucy Warner. The Warner family is of English and Welsh heratage.
Misc. Notes
Don't know just how soon after James W. Warner came to Minnesota that they built the new house located in the same yard as Cora and Lucy's house but slightly further to the west. They lived in a log house where the Harrington's did at first. The rail road wasn't built through here then. They went up to St. Paul with teams and hauled back lumber for the new house. It appears that James W. Warner and the older boys hewed logs for the sills of the new house from trees cut in the woods here. BLIZZARD January 7, 1873 was the start of a fierce blizzard. Here, on the forenoon of January 7, 1873 Seth Warner and John A. Warner had taken Vest (Sylvester) Shedd (A first cousin of their's) over to Delavan, Minnesota to take the train back to Michigan or Indiana. Was so warm that the snow balled up on the horses feet. They got home just as the storm broke. Washing was on the line and some of it blew away before it could be gotten in. George Warner just got up from the woods with a load of green poles for firewood. James W. Warner was in Blue Earth serving on the jury and had to stay in town til the blizzard was over. It lasted several days. 70 persons in the state lost their lives in the storm. GRASSHOPPERS Starting in June of 1873 and on through 1874, grass hoppers were bad. During 1874 the grass hopper damage was bad in parts of Verona, Winnebago, Jo Daviess, Pilot Grove, Elmore and Blue Earth City townships. Grass hopper infestations were so bad that some of the settlers went back to where they came from. The Warners stayed here. One time when grasshoppers were thick, Sam Warner took a young horse out of the barn to ride. Grasshoppers pelted the young horse so that she made a run for the barn and through the door way without giving Sam a chance to get off. RAILROADS In January 1870, the first railroad, The Southern Minnesota, was built in from the east to Wells, Minnesota. So Wells was for a short time the railroad market and commercial metropolis of the county. On October 30, 1879, the formal opening of the new north and south railroad, now completed from Blue Earth northward to a connection at Lake Crystal with the main line of the St. Paul and Sioux City railroad. When they were working on the railroad along the west end of the Warner land, some of the men got their meals at the Warners.
Misc. Notes
Somewhere along about 1882, James W. Warner and his wife Cordelia Shedd Warner had a division of property. Cordelia got 100 acres which left him with the remaining 140 acres. Sylvester Warner was then married to Isabel Maglouglin and living where Howard Warner eventually lived. James W. Warner tried to get Isabel to use her influence on Cordelia to get her to stay with him but to no avail. Cordelia's mind was made up and she went back to Indiana taking Samuel with her.