Known Surnames and Families
On the Kennedy Company Wagon Train of 1862
The names found on this list are taken from the Reconstructed Roster done by Marjorie Miles and Pat Packard. Ella Jane Allison McCarley has been updating and doing additions and corrections. 3 Diaries from member’s of this Wagon Train as well as published articles and reminiscences by members and descendents were used to compile it. If you think your family may have been on this train but the name is not mentioned , please contact me. We would also like to know about the families that we only have surnames for.
Bovee, George
Bovee, Mrs. Harriet
Children:
(
Manfred
Orbie O.
Bowell
Bowman
Bullwinkle, Charles
Clark – See Raley Party
Collins, Dr. D. Y.
Coons, W.H
Creamer, J. W.
Orderly
Sergeant of Kennedy Comp.
Culberson/Cubberson, Ed
Rev.
Lt. Orderly of Kennedy Comp.
Captain of splitter company after
Cummins
Cummins,
Robert
m. 1 Lucretia Meyers.
Children who made trip:
Jessie
Woodson
William Henderson
James Madison
Cummire, Jordoff R.
Justice of Peace of the Kennedy Company..
Deitrich
DeLong,
Joseph Henry
Dole
Ellis
Family
Children on the 1862 Train
Susan
France Ellis Zaring
Ellis, Samuel G. & Wife
Rhoda Ann Kennedy Children on the 1862 Train
John Morris
Mary Rosetta
Ellis, Ellis Ebenezer
wife Eliza Jane Zaring
(sister of Eli Zaring)
Children on 1862 Train
John
Charles
Ellis, Hiram Lee
Ellis, Sarah C. Ellis,
Henry Clay
Espsy
Files Family
Files, Robert
m. Harriet Ann
Children on 1862 train:
George
Forebush/Farbush, George
Goyer
Gholson,
Daniel
Sister
of John K. KENNEDY
With son William.
Hale/Hall, Buckskin Captain after Kennedy
resigned.
Hathaway
Hillman/Hilman, John C.
(later addition) His name is included in
Cummins list, but he wrote a letter Aug 11 and it appears he was with
the Bristol Comp. He may have traveled
with both trains.
Hunter, A.
J ames, Joseph W. – a youth
Jones, Lem
Kennedy Outfit
Kennedy Family
Kennedy, John Knox Captain
m. 1
Children on 1862 train.
Ellis, Rhoda Ann Kennedy. Samuel G. Ellis (
Kennedy, Mary Elizabeth
m.2 Sarah
McGuire Stotts
( she the sister of John McGuire and
widow of John Stotts.)
Stotts, Cassie
Stotts, Margaret A.
Stotts, Susan Jane
Son of Sarah McGuire Stotts and John K.
Kennedy
Kennedy, John Henry
Little
Macky/Mackay,
Thomas
Mahffrey
Family
Mahffrey,
Margaret McAdoo
Children on Train.
They settled in Union Co., ORError! Bookmark not defined.
Mahaffey, Samuel
Mahaffey, Pierce A
Mahaffey, Margaret A.
Mard
Mateker
McClung,
John Scott
From Dahlonega,
Wapello Co.,
McCormick
Family
Mr. McCormick
Mrs. McCormick
Small boy McCormick(?)
McGuire
Family
McGuire, John
Garrett
brother of Sarah
McGuire Stotts Kennedy, the wife of John K. Kennedy. 2nd Lt.
m. 1 Martha
Kirkpatrick
Children of John
& Martha on 1862 Train.
McGuire, William Harvey
McGuire, Solomon McGuire,
Mary Elizabeth
McGuire Elizabeth (Lizzie)
McGuire, Martha Jane
m.2 abt. 1853
Mary Jane Fitzimmons Paul Children of John and Mary
Jane Paul who were with the McGuire Family were.
Paul, Mary EPaul,
Luellenn/Ellen Paul, Eveline/Eve
McGuire, John Wesley
Son of John G. McGuire and
Mary Jane Fitzsimmons Paul McGuire
Miller Family
Miller, Abram Augustus “Abe”
Nancy Moore 1 child on train.
Auta/Aistie A. Miller
Neely, Tim(?)
(Although no first name is
mentioned, I believe this be be Tim Neely who married Susan Jane Stotts
Newman Family
Newman, Tom d. 10 Aug near Massacre
Rocks, Power Co., ID in the Indian battle.
His body was not recovered.
Newman, Mrs.
5 Newman children unnamed.
Ocherman
Orndorf
Paul Outfit
Paul, Joseph Rev.
Pastor of Kennedy Train.
m. Mary/Polly Cummins
Children of Rev. Joseph and Mary Cummins on
1862 Train
Zaring, Mercy Paul.m. Alvin Zaring
shortly before crossing the plains. (see Zaring family).
Paul, Thomas Rev.
m.1 in 1849
Elizabeth Mortimore She died in childbirth
Louisa Jane
Mary Melvina
Isaac Edwin
Harriet
Martha Alice/Patsy
Lucinda Arietta age 2 b. 1860 IA
McGuire, Mary Jane Fitzimmons
Paul widow of their son John Paul,
deceased. She m.2 John G. McGuire. See
McGuire family for their children.
Rayburn, Mary
Traveling with the Paul family to join brother
in
Piper
Raley Party
From
Bailey Family
Bailey, George. W.
Bailey, Mrs. Elizabeth
Bailey
Children:
Hellen
age 10
Mary N. age 7
Minna age 3
From
Settled Willow Creek,
Umatilla, OR
Clark, Fred
Clark, Mrs. Fred
Clark, Infant
Raley Family
Raley, Rebecca d. 1863
Raley, Jonathan age, 33 son of William
and Rebecca Raley
m. Rachel (?) age 29
Children
on Train:
Benjamin
Franklin “Ben”
James H.
Raley, Andrew young son of Rebecca and William
Moore, Mary Jane Rebecca Raley’s orphaned
granddaughter.
Rayburn – See Thomas Paul Family
Redheffler
Possibly the William Redhener, part of whose
journal was published in Washington Statesman, Walla Walla, WA 4 Oct. 1862
Rounceville Family (as
Ronsevills)Error! Bookmark not defined.
Rounceville, Nathan Error! Bookmark not defined.
m. Nancy Cummins Harvey
Russell
Scott Group .
Scott, Hamilton
Scott,
Wilson
(brother of
Scott, Robert Shaw (cousin)
J. (John) M. Scott (don’t think they are same
family as above.)
Slater
Samles
Samlley
Stanfield Family
Stanfield, Ardly
Stanfield, James
2nd Sargeant, Corporal and
Constabele of Kennedy Comp.
Stott/Stotts – See John K. Kennedy Family
Taylor Outfit
From Mahaska Co., IA. Ten family members and
two hired men, not identified.
Taylor Family
Taylor, Ephram
Taylor, Nancy (his wife)
Children of Ephram & Nancy
Ezra
Christina
Martha
Jane
John Wesley
James Madison
William B.
Ephraim Jr.
Albert
Townsend Family
Townsend, Mr.
Townsend,
d.
Children:
Boy
Townsend – 18 mo
Girl
Townsend – 3 years
Vennerns, Thomas
Young
Zaring Family
Zaring, Alvin
Paul, Mercy the youngest daughter of
Joseph & Mary Cummins Paul.
Children on 1862 Train
Ezra Eli
Luella
“Ella
Zaring,
Susan J. Ellis She was the widow of Eli
He m.1
Nancy Paul
Child of Eliz
Zaring and Nancy Paul was Nancy Jane b. 1854
who stayed in Mahaska, Co., with her Zaring Grandparents.
Children of Eli and
Susan on the Train.
Sarah
Alice
August
Alverna/Verni (Elina)
For more information about the Kennedy Company
Wagon Train or to add your family to it please contact:
Ella Jane McCarley