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Pendroy Surname History Information

This site is intended to be a resource where persons researching genealogy, that have the name PENDROY in it, can find out some information. In addition, my intention is to document some of the historical details associated with the Pendroy surname in 1800s, 1700s, and earlier.

No person should consider this site as an official or primary source of information. I do not intend this site as an authoritative source of records. For that purpose one should rely on official sources such as census records, land deeds, birth certificates, social security, military, family Bibles, Church and government records).

Since this site is intended for historical focus, it does not contain names of living Pendroy family members or other identifying information, (other than the author's) - for the protection of privacy. Almost all of the information is from the time period before 1900.  This site: "Pendroy Surname History Information", is genealogy and history information based on information in my possession, and correct to the best of my knowledge, at the present point in time.

Information on the many collateral lines (especially), is often provided by other researchers.   In large part, a majority of information on-line here has come from other researchers. If I am not aware of  conflicting information, I generally use research information from others as provided to me, and  for collateral lines, especially. In most cases, I  do not realistically have time to double check the vast quantity of research provided by other persons.

Therefore, this entire site is in effect, only my compiled personal opinion of what the "Pendroy Surname History Information" is, at a given point in time. As the Website author/editor, I do make changes, deletions and additions as more accurate or further information comes available.

I have made every effort to insure information on-line here is correct. I welcome, and encourage any person to contact me if they believe there is an error of fact, or omission here. I will not be offended, and will be glad you contacted me. I want information online here to be correct. So, please feel free to contact me if you have additions or corrections.  Numerous  cousins and researchers are still providing important information.

I want to especially thank all of the friends, cousins & researchers who have contributed information that is on-line here.

To date - virtually  all surname Pendroy on this site have been traced back to Eli and Mary Pendroy. No person named P-E-N-D-R-O-Y has been found to exist by this author in any record prior to Eli Pendroy (born 1776), who was born as Eli PENDRY, son of James and Jemima(h) Pendry.

Eli and Mary Pendroy both lived through a lot of early American history. Eli was born in 1776 in Guilford County, North Carolina, the year of the American Revolution and died in 1865 at the close of the Civil War in Iowa at age 88. Of course, some Pendroys in the earlier days stayed in the areas they lived in and/or migrated from:  (Virginias, Carolinas, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, and other areas of the country).

Their early stories are those of American pioneers.  Most people are proud of their pioneer heritage, if they have one. It would be difficult for anyone to read their stories, and not salute them as pioneers. As new territories opened up in the westward expansion and  Pendroys moved across America, they were often among the early settlers. Of course, many stayed in one place or other, along the way.

And, many Pendroys have gone to unrecorded places and/or  may now be lost in history, unknown to this author. The women, of course, in most cases  - married into other surnames, and are ancestors to some of the unknown cousins we all have out there. Today they could literally be in any area of the country.

Pendroy Marriages

Eli and Mary A. (Lop) Pendroy

To date - virtually  all Pendroys on this site have traced back to Eli & Mary Pendroy.

Known genealogy and biographical information...

Eli Pendroy's wife Mary A. Lop(p) died Feb. 6, 1841 at age 66 years in  Indiana.  Mary  was born in 1775. (Note, one typed source of information stated her last name was Fox, instead of Lop. Although I use Lop, I have included this "Mary Fox" reference in the record, because no written document has yet surfaced actually verifying that her name was Lop.)

Eli Pendroy  was born December 13, 1776 in North Carolina and died March 12, 1865 in Monroe, Iowa at age 88 years 3 months. Eli Pendroy was born as  Eli Pendry to James and Jemima(h)  (Reddick) Pendry of Guilford County, North Carolina on Dec. 13, 1776.

Wife Mary A. Lop  died Feb. 6, 1841 (66 years) in  Indiana.  Mary Lop was born in 1775. Old Eli Pendroy was 74 or 75 years old when he moved to Marion County, Iowa in 1851.

Children of Eli Pendroy and Mary A. (Lop) Pendroy

Eli Pendroy's two positively known children are Jacob Pendroy, and James Pendroy.   Based on date of births, it is believed by this author that almost certainly Elizabeth Pendroy,  Sarah Pendroy,  Eliza Pendroy,   Jane Pendroy , Mary Mariah Pendroy, and William E. Pendroy are children of Eli Pendroy also.

Greene County, Ohio

In 1803, Eli Pendroy was documented as in Ohio near  the Caesars  Creek township area of Greene County, Ohio. This area is south of Xenia and East of Dayton, Ohio.

1803 and 1804 were the first years the Greene County, Ohio area was being settled. On Page 361 of "Robinson's History of Green County", the below  information is printed. 

(Click here to view the actual information as published in the  "History of Greene County, Ohio - Embracing  the organization of the County, Its division into Township, Sketches of Local Interest Gleaned from the Pioneers from 1803 to 1840, Together with a Roster of the Soldiers of the Revolution and the War of 1812, who were Residing in the County, Also A Roster of Ten Thousand of the Early Settlers from 1803 to 1840.  By George F. Robinson - Illustrated - Chicago The S.J. Clarke Co.

Pendroy, Eli, Caesars Creek, 1804, came to what is now Jasper Township in 1803; lost his land, and Galloway gave him 100 acres.

Pendroy, James, Caesars Creek, 1819.

Pendroy, Jacob, Caesars Creek, 1819; Feb 6, 1817 married Margaret Boots.

Pendroy, Wm. E., Caesars Creek, 1826.

Since I first read the published statement  "Pendry, Eli, Caesar Creek, 1804, came to what is now Jasper Township in 1803; lost his land, and Galloway gave him 100 acres",  I hoped I could find out  WHO Galloway was, and WHY he would give Eli Pendroy 100 acres of land.  I believe there may be an interesting piece of history behind that comment.

It is significant that the person who wrote the Greene County, Ohio history did not feel the first name of "Galloway" was needed. That indicates that this "Galloway" may have been so well known locally that use of his first name was not needed.

In researching the area history, one "James Galloway" was a regionally well known person around Xenia, Ohio. That is James Galloway Sr., who was one of the very first pioneers of Greene County, arriving there in 1797, before any significant settlement had occurred. The person in Public records deeding land to Eli Pendroy was "James Galloway". However, it is not known positively which James Galloway it was. This could have been a son or other relative of "James Galloway Sr."

Click to read more about the Pioneer James Galloway in Greene County, Ohio and view a picture of his restored pioneer cabin maintained in a  city park in Xenia, Ohio.

To date, I have not been able to determine the answer to the question of why a James Galloway gave 100 acres of land to Eli Pendroy. That may well turn out to be a question that is never answered. So far in my research I have not seen many instances where it was published that someone gave a person 100 acres of land. The land deed transfers themselves are public records and are well documented.

The following records are in the Land Index.

1819 Vol. 8, page 81 - 100 Acres, Virginia Military District 2358 - Grantor: James  Galloway - Grantee: Eli Pendroy.

1819 Vol. 8, page 81 - 100 Acres, Virginia Military District 2358 - Grantor: Nancy Grimes Galloway - Grantee: Eli Pendroy.

1824 Vol. 9, page 217    47 Acres, Virginia Military District 2358 - Grantor: Eli Pendroy et. al.  - Grantee: Jacob Pendroy.

1824 Vol. 9, page 285   30 Acres, Virginia Military District 2353 - Grantor: Eli Pendroy et. al. - Grantee William A. Ellis.

Another important piece of information found in Greene County records is the documentation of Jacob Pendroy's Marriage to Margaret Boots,  including the actual handwritten marriage records, (Along with the Greene County Ohio 1825 Tax Records and Greene County, Ohio Military Land Deed Records) from Greene Co.  using the surname "Pendroy".)

Even though the surname of Jacob Pendroy is spelled "Pendry" in this publication, there is therefore no doubt that it is Jacob Pendroy, who married Margaret Boots and went to Indiana, and then Marion County, Iowa in the 1840s.

An interesting side note and an example of how variant spellings can be transcribed by a census takers or others  in the old days...the 1820 US Census of Caesar Creek Township of Greene County lists  Eli Pendri and Jacob Pendri. There are no other  Pendroy or Pendry Census entries for 1820 Greene county except Eli Pendri and Jacob Pendri. Part of the problem is names were frequently mis-spelled in early America. I have found many variations in spellings in various publications of Pendroy including (most frequently) Pendry, Pendray, Penderey, Penderoy, Pendri, and Pendrey.

How or why did Eli's last name change from Pendry to Pendroy? It is probable that the "why and how" of Eli Pendry's name change or evolution to Eli Pendroy may not be able to be ascertained. The surname may have been initially spelled that way in various places that kept legal or other records.

Another scenario could be that for unknown reasons Eli Pendry (or one or more of his children, conceivably), decided to change the surname spelling or to make it different into Pendroy. (Intentionally).

The Greene Co. Ohio 1825 Tax Rolls,  and also in  Greene Co. Military Land Deed Transfers use the surname Pendroy.

View hand written Pendroy Marriages in early 1800s in Greene Co. Ohio

On page 28 - is this..... "In the year 1807 Moses Collier was appointed to take the enumeration of the white males in Xenia township above the age of twenty one years; the following is the result."  William Aldridge,.....(alphabetical listing of names- edited by author to save space), ..Eli Pendry,........etc.

On page 296 of "Robinson's History of Green County",  this information on Eli Pendroy's known daughter Elizabeth Pendroy is printed.

"Dean, James, Xenia, 1826; son of Daniel Sr.; moved to Delaware County,  Indiana; married Elizabeth Pendroy; died."

Pendroys in Indiana

Eli, Jacob, James and William Ellis Pendroy evidently  all moved to Indiana in the 1830's. Documentation for Pendroys has been found in Harrison and Delaware Counties of Indiana in the 1830s, 1840s, 1850s, and in Tippecanoe County in 1860. 

Jacob Pendroy was recorded in Delaware County History publication as one of the Pioneers who was entrusted with entering lands for fellow settlers, notable in that doing so, one traveled sixty miles one way through 1830's Indiana wilderness,to the Ft. Wayne land office. Pendroy land deeds  in Indiana is recorded online. Click here to view their 1830s Land Deed Records online at the Land Deed Records online at  FT Wayne Indiana.

Jacob Pendroy started the first Methodist Episcopal (Methodist) Church at his home in Delaware Township, Delaware County Indiana in 1835. Read the full page as published. Read on-line at Delaware County, Indiana KITH AND KIN CONNECTION

View more Pendroy (Indiana) Land Deed Record Information, including copies of  actual land deeds showing legal descriptions, and name of President.

Pendroy marriage records from Indiana  can be viewed online on the Internet at  the INDIANA STATE LIBRARY Genealogy Division Database to an Index of Indiana Marriages Through 1850 database.

(Click here to see a summary of Pendroy marriages in Indiana known to author.)

William Ellis Pendroy

It is believed by this author that  William Ellis Pendroy was a son of old Eli Pendroy, and a brother of Jacob and James Pendroy. It is interesting to note that Jacob Pendroy and William E. Pendroy recorded their Indiana land deeds together on the same day - 10/27/1832.

Details of what became of William Ellis Pendroy after 1832 in Indiana are sketchy. He appears to have not went to Iowa with all of the other Pendroys that went there in the 1847 to 1851 time period.

March 22, 1999 note: A relative of William E. Pendroy has contacted me with some information. She has identified the full name as William Ellis Pendroy. He died of some type of illness, which also took four daughters that died. She stated the following: A son named Edwin and one daughter Clara survived. He was married to Ida Jane Merrick. They lived in Indiana. After William Ellis Pendroy died, Ida Jane (Merrick) Pendroy then is said to have married Francis D. Fouts.They had children named Ralph Estal, Earl, Meryle, Clifford, Robert and Helen.

On page 52 of "History of Delaware County" this is printed about William Ellis Pendroy.

(Author Note: The Graphic contains mention of Adam Boots. Also a name similar to Ketterman, but spelled Kitterman, this (Kitterman mention) being of unknown significance, I am mentioning it since the name Ketterman was related to the Boots name.)

"William E. Pendroy entered 40 acres of land in Section 28 as early as October 27, 1832, (This 40 is now owned with other lands of A. and L. Devoe), after which  time there were no other entries recorded for the section until 1836, in which the remainder of the section was entered by Thomas Humphries, Jesse McCray, Nicholas Pittenger, Daniel Richardson, Ira Lake, Uriah Lenon and John Moody."

Read more about the "ELLIS CONNECTION" to Surname Pendroy

(old) Eli Pendroy and 1850 Census of Niles Township, Delaware Co. Ind. #195

In the 1850 census Eli Pendroy was located in Niles Township, Delaware Co. Indiana in the household of Elisha and Mary Bartlett. 

1850 Census of Niles Township, Delaware Co. Ind. #195

Pendroys in Iowa

Many of the Pendroys left Indiana as the Iowa territory was opened up for settlement. Pendroy families, including those of Eli Pendroy , Jacob Pendroy , James Pendroy , Jacob Andrew Pendroy , James Martin Pendroy , and Eli H. Pendroy , settled in Marion County, Iowa - in (Summit Township) in 1849 to 1851.

View a 1999 picture of cemetery of old pioneer Des Moines River town of "Red Rock"

The 1856 Census showed, as Heads of Household, all these known Pendroys were in the census living in the same general vicinity of Marion and Jasper County together: (old) Eli Pendroy, Jacob Pendroy, James Pendroy, Jacob Andrew Pendroy, William and America Jane (Pendroy) Burns, John and Nancy (Pendroy) Young, John C. and Mary E. (Pendroy) Marmon, Eli H. Pendroy, and Isaac and Elizabeth (Pendroy) Byers.

In addition: Sarah Ann (Pendroy) Burns, widow of Abraham P. Burns that died in Civil  War,  was also living in the general vicinity, believe in Story county, just north of Jasper County.This was about 30 miles away.  She may have lived with or near her daughter Margaret Anna (Burns) Zook (Mrs. Henry Seward Zook) in Cambridge Iowa. This listing is generally just the oldest Pendroys, numerous others were their children and young adults, or relatives, and soon became their own families.

(Old) Eli Pendroy in 1856 Marion Co. IA. census. Eli Pendroy does have "Sr." written by his name in the 1856 census, and Eli H. Pendroy (that married Eliza Ann Grubb),  has Eli Pendroy Jr. written by the census taker. They are on the same page and it appears each was living alone near the other Pendroys.

This notation was confusing to me in my early work because I thought this may mean  those two Eli's were father and son. But now know they were Grandfather and grandson, with James Pendroy being Eli H Pendroy's father. In fact one of the legal documents specifically states that Eli H. Pendroy was a son of James and  Mary Ann (Wiseman) Pendroy , and Eli H. Pendroy also signed a document stating that.

View 1860 picture of west side of town square of Monroe Iowa, circa 1860, Published on page 69 of "A History of Monroe, Iowa 1843 - 1976". Published in Observance of Our Nation's Bicentennial and the 80th Annual Monroe Old Settler's Reunion.

View 1860 Marion County census page showing on same page: Eli Pendroy, James  Pendroy, Eli H. Pendroy, and Jacob Pendroy  families.  Old Eli Pendroy (Born 1776) was living with his son Jacob Pendroy, who married Margaret Boots, and old Eli Pendroy was83 years old at that time. It is interesting to note that old Eli Pendroy, and his son's Jacob Pendroy, and James Pendroy who married Mary Ann Wiseman, all listed their place of birth as North Carolina.

Jacob Pendroy is the first known Pendroy family to pioneer into the Marion and Jasper County Iowa area near Monroe, in 1849.  The 1850 census also records,  as was known, that Jacob Pendroy and family came 1 year earlier to Marion County in 1849.

In the "Marion County History of 1881" Jacob Pendroy is recorded on page number 687 Summit Township (Chapter III).

"On March 3, 1854 the petition of Jacob Pendroy and sixty-one others, was presented to the County Judge asking that the township of Red Rock be divided and a new township to be called Summit be organized. The petition was granted and the first Monday in April fixed as the time for holding the organization election." John C. Donnel was appointed to carry out the provisions of the order, and the house of Jacob C. Brown was designated as the place for holding the first election."

In addition, some of the old Pendroys were in  the first Methodist Episcopal (Methodist) in Marion County, Iowa in 1855 near Otley Iowa, which is 4 miles S.E. of Monroe, Iowa.

Their involvement in starting the first Methodist Episcopal (Methodist) in Marion County, Iowa in 1855 is published in the "History of Marion County Iowa on pages 690-691:

"Methodist Episcopal Church: The first M.E. Church was organized by Reverend R.B. Allender, in 1855. The following persons constituted the class: W.B. Keeler and wife, Boyd Donnel and wife, Thos. Honnold and wife,  Eli Pendroy, Jacob Pendroy and wife, Jacob Honnold and wife, John Young and wife and Wm. Donnel and wife.

The pastors were:

1. R.B Allendar
2. Rev. Fleming
3. E. Woods
4. Austin Coleman
5. A. Laubach
6. R. Holland
7. Ira O. Kemble
8. T.J.O. Wooden
9. Marcus Carrier
10. Rev. King
11. J.H. Armstead
12. T.J. Meyers
13. E. Sampson
14. A. Kersha
15. A.J. Belknap
16. J.A. Cooke
17. A.H. Shaffer
18. F.M. Slusser
19. L.M. Hartley
20. Rev. Cowen

A frame church was erected during the summer of 1870. It is 30 by 40 feet, will comfortably seat 250 and cost $2,500. The church when first organized used the summit school-house as a place of worship. There is a Sunday School in connection with the church, with an attendance of about forty. The Superintendent is Wm. Durose."

Author note: Surnames Young, Honnold, and Donnel were all married to Pendroys and many were neighbors. Mrs. John Young was Nancy M Pendroy b 29 May, 1829 Ohio - m John William Young. (Nancy M. was Jacob Pendroy's daughter)

Margaret Jane (Berry) Donnel,  born 02/23/1848 was  William Preston and Rachel (Pendroy) Berry's daughter. Rachel was Jacob's daughter.  Margaret Jane Berry married Thomas S. Donnel who was the son of John C. and Nancy Donnel.

John Baldwin Pendroy (son of James M. Pendroy) was married to Forrest Belle Honnold.

Author Note: The Monroe area of Jasper County Iowa is in extreme southern Jasper county., near the Marion County line.  In 1850 more Pendroy families lived south of the nearby county line in Marion County Iowa - about 3 to 4 miles away around Otley and Red Rock. There is some information about Pendroy families in the 1850 census of Jasper Co. IA.

Click here to view Pendroy information in 1850 Jasper Co. Iowa census data.

Photos and information of Jacob and Margaret (Boots) Pendroy graves, and graves of their grand children. (Children of James M. and Sarah (Baldwin) Pendroy, and Jacob Andrew  and Margaret (Brown) Pendroy).

Jacob Pendroy was born August 17, 1795 in North Carolina and died at age 75 in October 12, 1870 in Otley, Iowa in Marion Co. Margaret Boots was born 11-01-1793  and  died 11-03-1874.

In 1817 Jacob Pendroy married Margaret Boots on Feb. 17 in Greene Co. Oh.

Margaret (Boots) Pendroy was born in 11-01-1793  in Hardy County, Virginia.  (That VA. county became West Va. after civil war) and died at age of 81 on Nov. 3, 1874.

Jacob and Margaret Pendroy are buried in the Monroe, Iowa Silent City Cemetery.

Children of Jacob and Margaret (Boots)  Pendroy

Jacob and Margaret (Boots) Pendroy are buried in Silent City cemetery in Monroe, Iowa and their grave stones are still legible in 1999. They are recorded on page 23 of "Jasper County Iowa Graves"  as in Monroe cemetery in Fairview Township. There are other Pendroy graves beside them.

Margaret Boots's parents have been identified recently as Adam Boots who married Mary Elizabeth Ketterman 10-20-1788 in Hardy Co., W. Virginia. Click here to read more about Boots family

As was known, 83 year old Eli Pendroy was living with 66 year Jacob and Margaret (Boots) Pendroy in the 1860 Marion County IA.census. 

In 1856 census 10 year old (Step) Grand daughter Jane Mosier is listed in Jacob Pendroy household and states she was born in Mills County Iowa.

Much early information about Jacob Pendroy was gleaned from a letter from Nellie Byers, written several decades ago now, which I received from a Pendroy family from Aberdeen SD in the 1980s.   The letter is in the possession now of many families doing research on the surname Pendroy. In fact, Nelly Byers' letter was in a way the genesis of my research and certainly this site.  

Pendroys in North Dakota

Pendroy Migration to & McHenry County North Dakota

Many Pendroys that were living around Monroe, Iowa pioneered into Mc Henry County, North Dakota in 1880s. The biographies of many of these are featured below.

All or almost all, were the extended families and In-laws of children of Jacob and Margaret (Boots) Pendroy.

In 1883 James Martin Pendroy and sons and Jacob Andrew Pendroy and sons, and other extended Pendroy families traveled west in covered wagons to the Dakotas and founded Pendroy, North Dakota.

Interesting old picture from 1880's in Pendroy North Dakota, showing pioneer women in Pendroy North Dakota quilting.

Dakota farm women and children at a quilting party around 1885. Left to right: Myrtle Robinson, Liza Histness, Gertrude (small child sitting at her mother's right arm) Pendroy, Susie (the four little children's mother who is sitting at the upper left corner of the quilt) Pendroy, Lizzie (very small child, almost invisible in this picture - the child's small face is visible as a small white spot just above the mother;s left elbow. In the book, you can clearly see the child's  face and eyes)Pendroy, Mrs.(middle aged woman)McKay, Alzie(directly under the deer) Alern, Jessie Robinson Pendroy, Sarah Pendroy(the older woman is Sarah (Baldwin) Pendroy who is Mrs. James Martin Pendroy and she is the only adult on the right side of the table), Lulu Pendroy(small child in lower RH corner), and under the quilt Beatrice Pendroy(this child either may not be visible under the quilt, or may be cropped out).

View this picture and read information online at the North Dakota State Historical Site. The pictured quilt is highlighted as one of the oldest known quilts in North Dakota.

This picture was taken at the Post Office in Pendroy, ND during a neighborhood quilting bee. The photo is one of the oldest in North Dakota showing women working at this handcraft.

This photo dates from 1888 and is part of the photographic collection of the North Dakota State Historical Society.

	Pendroy ND Post Office, the 2nd one in McHenry Co ND, was established in June, 1883, and J. M. Pendroy was commissioned as Post Master.
	James M. Pendroy (b. 1832) was elected County Judge of McHenry Co. North Dakota.
	They took an active part in the organization of McHenry County, North Dakota. James Martin Pendroy (b 1832) was one of the first county commissioners elected, and filled that office for a number of years.
	The first sermon preached in the English language was delivered by Rev. E. P. Royce at the house of J. M. Pendroy, December 30 1885.
	The first public school taught in the Oak Valley District, was by Mrs. Eliza Masteller, and Miss Janey Strong in 1886, there being two school houses erected in the district that year.
	The first public printing done for the county was done by Perry A. Pendroy on a hand press in June 1885.
	Thomas F. Berry and wife built and ran the Hotel Berry in Velva.
	The Pendroys brought the first purebred Hereford bulls into McHenry County. They drove 125 head of cattle overland when they settled, travelling 15 miles a day with the herd. The cattle belonged to Jacob Andrew Pendroy.
	In later years Levi Boots Pendroy and Jim Andrew Pendroy,  started the town of Pendroy in Montana, which is still in existence.
	James Martin (Born 1862) Pendroy's oldest daughter, Lizzie, was the first white child born in McHenry county, North Dakota.

According to marriage records in Delaware County Indiana, Jemima Jane Pendroy had earlier married Horatio Pace in Delaware county Indiana on 12-02-1841. View marriage information of Horatio Pace and and Jemima Jane Pendroy

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Daniel Mosier and Jemima also had children of their own together. Jemima is buried in Monroe, Iowa, with husband Daniel Mosier. Author note: Mr. Daniel Mosier is a name that is encountered frequently in early history of the area. In 1846, and 1847 and 1849 the History of Jasper County mentions his selection as a Grand Jury member.

In 1847, the Assessment rolls for the county of Jasper showed Daniel Mosier and is listed with the assessed value of his farm. In 1850 Daniel Mosier was selected as a juror for the first Coroner's Inquest on April 12, 1850. According to the Monroe Mirror article about the first "Old Settlers" Reunion, Dan Mosier was in the area in 1843. That is the year  Monroe Iowa was "officially settled".

1850 Jasper County Iowa Census

These Mosier-Pace records relating to this family marriages are in the Marion County Iowa marriage records. These marriages list Daniel and J.J. or Jennie Pendroy (Jemima Jane) as their parents.

Elizabeth Ann Pendroy was the daughter of Jacob and Margaret Boots Pendroy. She was born Dec. 17, 1816 in Indiana.

Elizabeth Pendroy married Isaac Byers. The Isaac Byers family was also in Marion County Iowa in the 1856 census - volume 57. 

Isaac and Elizabeth (Pendroy) Byers appear to have originally gone to Iowa in 1853, three years prior to the 1856 census. Their youngest son, Noah, was born in Marion Co. in August of 1854. They were in Marion Co. for the 1856 census.

It was initially believed by this author, and was stated on this site that Elizabeth (Pendroy) Byers went to North Dakota with other Pendroys.

However, recent further research from the Bolton family indicates several years before the 1881 – 1883 Pendroy migration to McHenry Co. North Dakota, Isaac and Elizabeth (Pendroy) Byers ended up together at an 80-acre farm in Winchester, Van Buren County, Iowa, and both are buried at nearby Winchester Cemetery.

In fact, Noah Byers, their youngest son, married in Van Buren Co. in 1878 and remained there until after the death of his parents at Winchester.

However, it is possible that the Byers family may have moved briefly to ND but then left at some time fairly soon thereafter to return to Winchester. Hopefully, more information on this issue will be forthcoming in the future. Because, within a few years, evidence shows they ended up together at an 80-acre farm in Winchester, Van Buren County, Iowa, and both are buried at nearby Winchester Cemetery.

Elizabeth and Isaac may have simply moved in with, or close to that homestead at Winchester. Noah's first five children were born in that area. This scenario would have Elizabeth being there with the grandkids of "her baby" Noah. It is not until several years after the death of his parents that Noah and his wife and family move to Voltaire, ND in McHenry County near where the Pendroys settled. [Probably 1900]. This may have been because his brother Jacob [appears to have gone two years earlier], as well as all of those Pendroy relatives, encouraged him to come.

Another issue, is Isaac and Elizabeth (Pendroy) Byers are believed to have had five daughters and four sons. Three daughters were stated from a source as having died young, (One was supposed to have died and is buried in Delaware County, Indiana, and the others on Muscatine Island in Mississippi River."

However, there are not details or evidence to establish what happened to their children. There is sketchy information, which states there was the older daughter Netty Byers, who appeared on a list somewhere as an older sister to Eli Byers. It may make some sense since she purportedly died in Indiana where Eli Byers was also born.

(One source of Byers information I have received, stated that there was an oldest daughter named "Netty". This "Netty" was said to the oldest but a birth year and date was not given. Netty would have been born before the Eli Byers, mentioned above. This information about Netty has not been documented from other sources to date. (Another puzzle hopefully resolved one way or the other in the future.)

Biography of Eliza Masteller, born in 1857 d. of William and Rachel (Pendroy) Berry.

View Grave stones of brothers David & Joseph Stickels at Silent City - Monroe Iowa.

Tribute and 1936 Obituary of Rachel's son Thomas F. Berry of Velva North Dakota

1. Rachel Berry 36 F W Birth Indiana (Widow of William Preston Berry)
2. Margaret Jane Berry 12 F W born Indiana. Later  married Thomas S. Donnell -  Thomas S. Donnell was a Civil War Veteran. Thomas S. Donnell's parents were John C.  and Nancy Donnel. He was born 1840.Enlisted in Third Iowa Cavalry on Sept. 3, 1861. Discharged Sept. 18, 1862. Diasab. (Page 430 - History of Jasper County Iowa - 1878). Thomas S. Donnel(l) had siblings Eliza, Mary, Nancy, and John. He went to North Dakota and then Colville, Washington. Click here to view  Donnel and Donnell marriages in Marion County Iowa. Children of Thomas and Margaret J. (Berry) Donnel were: 1. Margaret Donnel born 07-10-1877 who married Oscar W. McKern in 1892. Oscar W. McKern was born 01-17-1875 son of James L. and Eliza J. (Morse) McKern. 2. Dora Donnel born 1873 who married William McKern who was born 01-13-1869 to James L. and Eliza J. (Morse) McKern. 3. Docia Donnel who married Milton Robinson.
3. Sarah A. Berry 10 F W born Indiana. Sarah Ann Berry never married.
4. Mary E. Berry  8 F W born Iowa married David William Stickels 07-28-1870
5. Thomas F. Berry 5 M born Iowa. In 1892 married Miss Isabelle Smothers.

6. Eliza E. Berry 3 F W born Iowa - Married Alex Masteller  December 2, 1880.

	John Young 26 M Ohio
	Nancy 21 F Ohio
	William 4 M Indiana
	Jemima J.  F Indiana

	William (Willie) Young - (Believe this William  provided the nice poem about the untimely death of (his cousin) Lizzie Pendroy at age 21.)
	Milton Young - Married Lide D. Moss
	Julia Etta Young - Married Luther Heaivilin, had 10 children.
	Ellen Young -  b 1855, d age 76. m Nat McComas & 8 children. 2- mar Tom Smith, 1 dau.

Click here to view an 1878 map of Marion County showing the house of James Martin Pendroy on the Section 18 in the NW corner. The old "Pendroy Cemetery" in Summit Township of Marion County Iowa has not been located, but is mentioned in 1881 History of Marion County Iowa. USGS Information showing approximate Location of "Pendroy Cemetery" near Otley, Iowa.

	William Finley Pendroy b 2/18/1858 IA died 14 Apr 1863 at Monroe, IA   Buried Silent City.
	John Baldwin Pendroy - born 02/24/1860 in Marion Co. IA. Married Forrest Belle Honnold.
	Levi Boots Pendroy born 07/12/1861 in Marion Co. IA. Married Jessie Robinson.
	James Andrew Pendroy b 04/01/1863  in Marion Co. IA. Married Silda Masteller.
	Perry Austin Pendroy b 09/23/1866  in Marion Co. IA. Married Alice Tice
	Margaret J. Pendroy born Dec 20, 1868 died 27 Dec 1868 age 7 days at Monroe, IA.  Buried Silent City Cemetery.

	James M. Pendroy 37, M., Indiana, Farmer
	Sarah J. Pendroy 44, Fem., Ohio
	John B. Pendroy 10, Male, Iowa .
	Levi Boots Pendroy 9, Ma le, Iowa
	James A. Pendroy 7, Male, Iowa
	Perry A . Pendroy 3, M, Iowa
	Jacob Pendroy 77 years, North Carolina
	Margaret Pendroy 70, Fem., W. Virginia. (June 30, 1870 Census.)

After the civil war, in 1883 through 1885 several  Pendroy families went west in  covered wagons to Dakota Territory. This was referred to as the Pendroy Colony (or Pendroy Settlement) in the North Dakota Territory. That colony became Pendroy, North Dakota near the current towns of Velva and Towner N. D. in the Mouse/Souris River area in north central North Dakota. (McHenry County).

The 1955 article on Levi Boots Pendroy's death in the Choteau "Acantha" states: "Pendroy was born in Otley , IA., and as a young man in company with his father and three brothers, traveled in a covered wagon to the Mouse River of North Dakota and settled in that area. Later a post office was established and named Pendroy, North Dakota.

The 1887 History of Marion County Iowa mentions a Burkhalter (Burckhalter) family Cemetery in Sec 29, but do not know if still exists. The Pendroy Cemetery mentioned on the same page has not been found. USGS Information showing approximate Location of "Pendroy Cemetery" near Otley, Iowa.

	Julia Pendroy, born 10-18-1854 at Otley , Iowa. Died April 23, 1856 at age two. Julia is Buried in Silent City Cemetery at Monroe, Ia.
	Olive J. (Ollie) Pendroy b 03-18-1857 at Otley Iowa. Married Marsealis Walker in  Feb. 17, 1878 in Marion County Iowa.
	Elizabeth A. Pendroy (Lizzie) b 1858 in Marion Co. Iowa and died 09-13-1879 at age 21 in Jasper Co. Iowa. Buried in Silent City Cemetery.
	Barbara E. Pendroy b 10-19-1860 at Otley, Iowa died 13 Dec., 1863 at age 3.  . Buried in Silent City Cemetery.
	James Martin Pendroy born 27 Oct., 1862  at Otley, (Marion Co.) Iowa. Married Susannah Messinger in 1883. Died 11-29-1948 an Sauk Centre MN.