Joseph T Libby's first family
According to The Libby Family in America (volume I), Joseph was married to a woman named Hannah J Lovett and they had two daughters, Ida and Hannah. When Joseph married Sarah in Texas in 1870, he was a widower.
There is a Joseph T Libbey (age 25) and wife Hannah A Libbey (age 21) in the 1850 census living in Frankfort, Maine (the town he was born in and where the rest of his family lived). On the same page are Joseph and Mary Thompson and family, and William Thompson and family. Joseph Thompson was Joseph's maternal grandfather (and Mary was his second wife) and I think William may have been his uncle.
NOTE: Libby has various spellings - Libby, Libbey, Lybby, Libbie. I also do not know if the information in the book is accurate (was it Ida and Hannah or Ida and Fannie? ... was his wife Hannah A or Hannah J. To make things more interesting, often the census records are hard to read, and the census takers mis-spell names, or get initials and/or ages wrong, too).
In the 1870 census, William and family are on the same page as Joseph's twin brother David Libby, along with several families named Clement. Their mother's mother was a Clements.
But back to Joseph's first family... in 1860 there are two Libbey girls, Ida E (age 9) and Fannie F (age 6) living with a John H Sewall and Hannah A Sewall in Foxcroft, Maine (about 50 miles from Frankfort). And John, Hannah and Fannie also appear in the 1870 census LIVING IN MINNEAPOLIS (and very interestingly, on the same page at Sarah and Otis Westcott and daughter Corah!!).
Joseph himself does not reappear in a census until 1880 when he and Sarah are living in Bennington, Iowa, where he is trying his hand at farming ...
Name Age
Joseph Lybby 52
Sarah Lybby 34
Eddy Lybby 5
Lafayette Lybby 2
The 1890 census records were all lost in a fire, and by 1900 Joseph had died, so that is about all I have.
What happened to his first wife Hannah? Was she dead by 1860 when the two girls are living with the Sewalls? Were they somehow related? And what happened to Ida and Fannie? It's so hard to trace women who change their names when they marry!!
Someday I hope to go to Maine and do some research to try to answer some of these questions!
There is a Joseph T Libbey (age 25) and wife Hannah A Libbey (age 21) in the 1850 census living in Frankfort, Maine (the town he was born in and where the rest of his family lived). On the same page are Joseph and Mary Thompson and family, and William Thompson and family. Joseph Thompson was Joseph's maternal grandfather (and Mary was his second wife) and I think William may have been his uncle.
NOTE: Libby has various spellings - Libby, Libbey, Lybby, Libbie. I also do not know if the information in the book is accurate (was it Ida and Hannah or Ida and Fannie? ... was his wife Hannah A or Hannah J. To make things more interesting, often the census records are hard to read, and the census takers mis-spell names, or get initials and/or ages wrong, too).
In the 1870 census, William and family are on the same page as Joseph's twin brother David Libby, along with several families named Clement. Their mother's mother was a Clements.
But back to Joseph's first family... in 1860 there are two Libbey girls, Ida E (age 9) and Fannie F (age 6) living with a John H Sewall and Hannah A Sewall in Foxcroft, Maine (about 50 miles from Frankfort). And John, Hannah and Fannie also appear in the 1870 census LIVING IN MINNEAPOLIS (and very interestingly, on the same page at Sarah and Otis Westcott and daughter Corah!!).
Joseph himself does not reappear in a census until 1880 when he and Sarah are living in Bennington, Iowa, where he is trying his hand at farming ...
Name Age
Joseph Lybby 52
Sarah Lybby 34
Eddy Lybby 5
Lafayette Lybby 2
The 1890 census records were all lost in a fire, and by 1900 Joseph had died, so that is about all I have.
What happened to his first wife Hannah? Was she dead by 1860 when the two girls are living with the Sewalls? Were they somehow related? And what happened to Ida and Fannie? It's so hard to trace women who change their names when they marry!!
Someday I hope to go to Maine and do some research to try to answer some of these questions!
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