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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, if any information would be found of that period.

No person should consider this site as an official or primary source of information. This site is not an authoritative source of records. For that purpose one should rely on more official sources such as census records, land deeds, birth certificates, military, family Bibles, Church and civil 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 - 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 that is 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 thoroughly 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. 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, whose father was James Pendry. It has now been established with certainty that Eli Pendry, at some later date, (late 1700's or early 1800's) changed his name to Eli Pendroy. The reason for this has not been identified, and is not known by the author.

James Pendry was on the Flower Swift Revolutionary War lists along with a Henry Pendry. It is not known if Henry Pendry was a father, grandfather or brother, or other relationship to James Pendry. Recently, a Henry Pendry has been identified who received a Land Grant from Virginia Colony in 1717.   (in year 1717 in Isle of Wight, County Virginia Colony. )

PENDRY, HENRY, Quaker, Flower Swift's 3rd Undated Militia Roster.

PENDRY, JAMES, Quaker, Flower Swift's 3rd Undated Militia Roster.

View Quakers James Pendry (& Henry Pendry) on the Flower Swift 3rd Militia list from Revolutionary War.

If this Henry Pendry is the same Henry Pendry who was located with James Pendry (both of whom are on Revolutionary War Flower Swift Quaker lists together), this would make 1717 the date farthest back that the linked Pendry/Pendroy surname has been traced to - so far, to early Colonial America, and almost sixty years before the Revolutionary war. However, this scenario could only be possible if the Henry Pendry on the Flower swift Militia List were quite elderly, unless there was one or more generation in between named "Henry Pendry" also.

This has become an item of interest because a Henry Pendr(O)y has been found in 1800 South Carolina census records. However, the surname Pendry is numerous in the British Isles and also in some areas along the eastern coast of Colonial America, so the (any) direct link has not been established yet.

On PAGE 117 of the microfilm of the 1800 Pendleton County South Carolina Census (The entry three places from the bottom of the page) the entry: Henry Pendroy. It is not written as PENDRY, but is written as PENDROY. This is the earliest know spelling ( Pendroy ) I have found in any document.

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On PAGE 117 of the microfilm of the 1800 Pendleton County South Carolina Census (The entry three places from the bottom of the page) the entry: Henry Pendroy is recorded. It is not written as PENDRY, but is written as Pendr(O)y. This is the earliest know spelling ( of Pendroy ) I have found in any document. I am hoping documentation which would clarify or establish if this may be the above/same Henry Pendry/Pendroy may surface in the future concerning this issue.

Eli and Mary Pendroy both lived through a lot of early American history. Eli Pendroy was born in 1776, 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, and 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 or Lopp) 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(p). Although I use Lop(p), I have included this "Mary Fox" reference in the record, because no written document has yet surfaced actually verifying that her name was Lop(p).)

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(p)  died Feb. 6, 1841 (66 years) in  Indiana.  Mary Lop (p) 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

Jacob Pendroy (Sr.), born August 17, 1795, and wife Margaret Boots

Greene County, Ohio

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

In 1803 Ohio became the first territory  carved out of the Northwest Territory, and was opened for settlement. Ohio was rich with both pioneer/frontier/settler exploits and Native American history and events. The struggle that ensued as settlers moved in during the western expansion into Ohio territory was monumental, to say the least.

About two miles north of Xenia Ohio, lies a crossroads now called Oldtown (or Old Town) or Old Chillicothe. This area was the center of civilized Native American life in the Ohio Territory.

Here, in the last half of the 1700s, the Shawnee/Delaware Nation(s) center/capitol was located. Oldtown in Greene County, Ohio was home of the great orator and Shawnee, Tecumseh. The Shawnee Tecumseh, and his brother Tenskwatawa "the Prophet", attempted to band together all the Indian tribes to stand against what they saw as the encroachment of the settlers into Indian land. Tecumseh was born in Chillicothe (Oldtown) in 1768.

The Shawnee in the Ohio River valley had been mobilizing a full-scale campaign beginning as early as 1775 to stop white settlers. The Shawnee Chief Blackfish is well known for repeatedly laying siege to Daniel Boone's Boonesborough beginning in 1775. When Daniel Boone was captured by the Shawnee in 1778, it was the Shawnee Village Oldtown or Chillicothe where he was held. Boone ultimately developed friendly relations with the Shawnee.

In 1797, James Galloway, Sr., a soldier of the Revolution and an Indian fighter, companion of Daniel Boone, came into the valley of the Little Miami with his family from Kentucky in 1797 and settled in the vicinity of the Indian Village, or Chillicothe, now and for many years known as Oldtown, just north of the city of Xenia. Twenty nine 29-year-old Tecumseh was taught to write and read by a James Galloway daughter named Rebecca and the two reportedly fell in love.   (Some say the "love affair" part may or may not be actually true, but the fact that she taught him to read and write English language was true) .

In 1808 Tecumseh and his brother Tenskwatawa moved their Indian center from Oldtown/Chillicothe, Ohio to "Prophets Town" in Tippecanoe County, Indiana (junction of the Wabash and Tippecanoe rivers).

Events were set into motion in September 1809 when Governor/General Harrison got some Indian leaders to sign the Treaty of  Ft. Wayne, which ceded about three million acres of Indian lands to Ohio and Indiana Territory at a price of less than a penny an acre. This was the catalyst that started Tecumseh's attempts to form his envisioned inter-tribal confederacy to fight the settlers and/or invalidate the Ft. Wayne Treaty. But, at the end of day, the lack of an effective Indian civilization (effective government, legal system, education, land boundaries, deed system, infrastructure, organized military & etc.)  ultimately provided too many obstacles.

On November 7, 1811 at Prophets Town, Indiana Territorial Governor William Henry Harrison's militia defeated the Indians with a force of 1,000 men. After the battle the troops burned the evacuated Prophets Town to the ground.

The battle happened while Tecumseh was away, recruiting other tribes to join the Indian confederacy. Tecumseh had apparently warned his brother not to do battle (yet) against Harrison until Tecumseh returned with more men, but The Prophet was somehow provoked into attacking Harrison's forces anyway, resulting in a great Shawnee defeat, and a subsequent diminishment of The Prophet's status among the Indians.

Tecumseh returned later to Prophets Town and continued his struggle elsewhere to battle the white settlers.  Later, he thought aligning with the British in the War of 1812 was the last hope to battle the superior American numbers, organization, weaponry, and technology.

The British, for their part, thought the establishment of an Indian State north of the Ohio River could serve as a buffer between America and British Canada.

Tecumseh was commissioned a Brigadier General by the British and commanded a force of 2,000 native Americans from 30 tribes. In 1813 General Harrison moved north with 3,500 troops chasing the fleeing British. Tecumseh's troops stood and fought at the British flank - to cover the British retreat - as the British General Proctor and the Redcoats fled for their lives into Canada. Tecumseh was killed there protecting the British flank at the Battle of the Thames River, Ontario.

There ended Tecumseh's vision of any unified Indian confederacy which could be strong enough to fight the Americans. The various tribal leaders following Tecumseh drifted away to other places or where they had came from. The acclaim William Henry Harrison received for the Battle of Tippecanoe victory later helped Harrison to become the 40th US President in 1840.

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. (Note; William Ellis Pendroy)

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 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 using the last name "Pendroy", (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) and as expected Pendry, but also Pendray, Penderey, Penderoy, Pendri, Pendrie, Pendery, and  Pendrey. (Pendry especially, Pendray and Pendrey and Pendery are each established surnames in there own right).

As just mentioned, Pendry was the surname Pendroy was derived from.

The other variations (Penderoy, Pendri, Pendrie and Penderey are all virtually non-existant or exist in very small numbers.)

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 himself 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

The below map shows the known areas where Pendroys lived in Indiana (Harrison County: James Pendroy), (Delaware County: most identified Pendroys lived there). (LaFayette County, several Pendroys lived in this area, who did not leave Indiana).  Ft. Wayne, Indiana is circled because Jacob Pendroy was recorded in Delaware County, Indiana 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.

Eli, Jacob, James and William Ellis Pendroy all moved to into 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  1860.  (Lafayette, Indiana area).

View a list of Pendroy family from 1860 Indiana Census. It is almost certain this Pendroy group (who stayed in Indiana) are the family of William Ellis Pendroy. The William Ellis Pendroy information in the John R. Pendroy biography also  states information about the brother Joseph Pendroy who married Drusilla Kirtley, but died at  age 35. (See below or at bottom of  this page, where John R. and Josephine (Terrell) Pendroy information is also at):

William Ellis Pendroy and wife Mary Pendroy of Green County Ohio

John R. and Josephine (Terrell) Pendroy

William E. and Mary Pendroy of Green County Ohio had 4 sons born around the 1830 time era... their oldest son Eli Pendroy died at age 40 in Indiana, Joseph Pendroy that died in Lafayette Indiana, (Tippecanoe Co.) at age 35, James L. Pendroy that was farming near Lafayette Indiana in 1890. The below biography is of John R. Pendroy that married Josephine M. Terrell in Perry, Kansas in 1868 after serving in the Co. H of 2nd Colorado Infantry in the Civil War.

I did find in public records online that the Drusilla Pendroy listed was named Drusilla Kirtley, before she married this Joseph Pendroy. (Note: The marriage record online is mistakenly spelled: Pend(E)roy. Drusilla KIRTLEY(female) B. 1840-1841 @ (Cabell [Putnam] Co.)?, [West] Virginia[10133]D. @ Indiana? M. /1/ 6 Jun 1860 @ to Joseph PENDROY M. /2/ 23 Mar 1865 @ Cabell Co., West Virginia to [10133]William KIRTLEY (#2C23) (son of Jeremiah S. KIRTLEY & Susan -----) b. 1839-1840 @ Cabell Co., [West] Virginia

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 carrying sizable amounts of money & important documents. 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. Jacob Pendroy and William E. Pendroy recorded their Indiana land deeds together on the same day - 10/27/1832.

View a list of Pendroy family from 1860 Indiana Census. It is believed this Pendroy group (who stayed in Indiana) are the family of William Ellis Pendroy. However this is not known with certainty, as of this time.

I did find in public records online that the Drusilla Pendroy listed was named Drusilla Kirtley, before she married this Joseph Pendroy. (Note: The marriage record online is mistakenly spelled: Pend(E)roy. Drusilla KIRTLEY(female) B. 1840-1841 @ (Cabell [Putnam] Co.)?, [West] Virginia[10133]D. @ Indiana? M. /1/ 6 Jun 1860 @ to Joseph PENDROY M. /2/ 23 Mar 1865 @ Cabell Co., West Virginia to [10133]William KIRTLEY (#2C23) (son of Jeremiah S. KIRTLEY & Susan -----) b. 1839-1840 @ Cabell Co., [West] Virginia

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

View a Land deed of William Ellis Pendroy in Delaware County Indiana.

"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."

(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.

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, in (Cambridge, Iowa area) Elkhart Township of Polk County, Iowa, about 40 miles away.  She lived with or near her daughter Margaret Anna (Burns) Zook (Mrs. Henry Seward Zook) in Cambridge Iowa.

The census data on-line here 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 is in the 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 it is known 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 was 83 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.

View a PLAT Page Map of Summit Township, (Otley, Iowa) Marion County, Iowa from 1875.

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) Church in Marion County, Iowa in 1855 near Otley Iowa, which is 4 miles S.E. of Monroe, Iowa.

Apparently, this old church is still standing and is a house being lived in, in Otley, Iowa.

Their involvement in starting the first Methodist Episcopal (Methodist) Church  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, Nellie 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).

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.

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, Nellie Byers' letter was in a way the genesis of my research and certainly this site.  

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.
	Margaret "Mag" Pendroy b 09-22-1865 at Otley, Iowa. Married Frank Marlenee. Items in a scrap book belonging to Margaret (Maggie) Pendroy Marlenee
	Charles William Pendroy - Born 10-05-1874 at Otley, Iowa in Marion Co.M. Elsie Jane Gilmore.

Jacob Andrew and Margaret (Brown) Pendroy's children at that time in the 1870 Marion County, Ia Census - Vol. 126.:

	Olive F. Pendroy 13, F. W. Born Iowa
	Elizabeth A. Pendroy 12, F. W. Born Iowa
	James Martin Pendroy 7, M. W. Born Iowa
	Margaret H. Pendroy 4, F. W. Born Iowa

Many Pendroys that were living around Monroe, Iowa pioneered into Mc Henry County, North Dakota in 1882. The biographies of many of these are featured below. This included Jacob Andrew (called Andrew) Pendroy and wife Margaret Brown, and his family and also the family of brother James Martin (born 1834) Pendroy and most of the extended families and In-laws. Almost all were of children and family of Jacob and Margaret (Boots) Pendroy.

Known Children of James Martin  (Jim) and Susie (Messinger)  Pendroy

All are extensive and poignant biography and information of a man that was a true American Pioneer, as well as priceless details of pioneer life.

A special thanks to the Duncan family in Oregon & Pendroy families in Minnesota for providing more information.

James and Mary Ann (Wiseman) Pendroy

View the funeral card of Mary (Wiseman) Pendroy, wife of James Pendroy.

Eli and Mary (Lop(p)) Pendroy's son James Pendroy born Jan. 27, 1798 in North Carolina. Wife Mary Ann  (Wiseman ) Pendroy was born Nov 10, 1806 in Virginia.

James and Mary Ann (Wiseman) Pendroy were married in Harrison County Indiana.  When they were married there, Corydon was the Capitol of Indiana. Corydon was the Capitol until 1825.

View a larger picture of the Corydon Capitol State Historic Site in Harrison County, Indiana.

Book III: Early Land Records of Jasper County, Iowa; 1847 - 1853 ~ Sorted by Grantee ~

Pendroy, James - DEEDED FROM - Elliott, James H.

S 1/2 of the SE 1/4 of Section 2 and a square of 10 acres lying in the NE corner of the SW 1/4 of the SE 1/4 of Section 15 in Township 78 N of Range 21 W containing 90 acres Signed: James H. Elliott, Juliann E. Elliott, 31 Apr 1853 $150.00; Book 3, Page 213; Filed: 12 Nov 1853

Book III Early Land Records of Jasper County, Iowa: 1847 - 1853 ~ Sorted by Grantor ~

Pendroy, James & Mary Ann - DEEDED TO - Humels, Lewis

S 1/2 of the SE 1/4 of Section 2 and a square of 10 acres lying in the NE corner of the SW 1/4 of the SE 1/4 of Section 15 in Township 78 N of Range 21 W containing 90 acres more or less Signed: James Pendroy, Mary Ann Pendroy, 09 Nov 1853 $150.00;   Book 3, Page 216;   Filed: 12 Nov 1853

Marion County Iowa 1856 census volume 57

James and Mary Ann Pendroy Farm Location: NE Q of the NW Q of Sec. 15 Township 77 North of Range 19 West in Marion Co. Ia. This is the section immediately north of Otley Iowa in Summit Township. Their  farm, or most of it, appears to have been sold after Mary Ann's death. After 1890, and with the migration of Jacob's family to N.D., most Pendroys appear in Jasper County Census  (4 miles north nearer  Monroe), and have pretty well left Marion Co. Iowa, and now live nearby Jasper County, Iowa..

 1850 Delaware Township, Delaware County, In. #395 - Page 190 - Sept 21, 1850

1840 (No Township) Delaware County , Indiana

Author Note: I have never found any information on JAMES RUSSELL PENDROY.   May have died young or may be lost in history to found in the future.

Amanda Sophia (Pendroy) Trussell - then Mapes

Limited known Biographical Information

Parents were James and Mary Ann (Wiseman) Pendroy.

Amanda Sophia Pendroy, Born   05- June-1845 married Albert Trussell on 23 June, 1878; then married Abe Mapes

Sarah Ann (Pendroy) and Abraham P. Burns

Detailed information of Abraham & Sarah Ann (Pendroy) Burns

Children of Abraham P. and Sarah Ann (Pendroy) Burns

Sarah's parents were James and Mary Ann Pendroy.

(Thanks to Mr. & Mrs. Williams from the state of Nevada who provided the author with  initial  information on Sarah Ann (Pendroy) Burns, who is Mrs. Williams' great great GM.) Special  THANKS to the Paulsen family for providing all the additional and extensive in formation, newspaper articles & Sarah (Pendroy) Burns obituary.)

Sarah Ann Pendroy married Abraham P. Burns in Delaware Co. Indiana 01-20-1848. Sarah Ann Pendroy was born in Delaware County,   Indiana August 5, 1825. Sarah Pendroy lived to be 91 years and six months and 15 days, dying on the 20th of February 1917.

Sarah Ann Pendroy married Abraham P. Burns who was born 1827 in Virginia. Abraham P. Burns died April 10, 1865, during the civil war on a hospital ship between Delaware and New York City. The obituary of their son Albert Pendroy Burns states Abraham P. Burns "accompanied Sherman on his famous 'March to the Sea'."

View gravestone of Abraham P. Burns - Buried in Cyprus Hill National Cemetery, New York Grave #2445 - Civil War.

	William Curtis Albin, born 1852 in Iowa. He married May.
	Annie Albin was born July 1886 in Iowa.
	Mary Ann Albin born 29 August, 1850 in Monroe or Delaware Co. Indiana. Mary Ann died Dec. 08, 1925 in Burke, Gregory County, South Dakota. She is buried in Naper Boyd Co. Nebraska. Mary Ann Albin married Jesse Washington Cline April 16, 1868 in Newton in Jasper County Iowa.  Jesse Washington Cline was the son of Jesse Cline and Minerva West. Jesse Washington Cline was a private in the Civil War and a farmer. His burial was June 19, 1904 in Grand Junction Colorado - Mesa Co., 4 miles East, WRC Cemetery.

	Eli Milton Burns born 1855 in Iowa.
	Willis Burns, born 1857 in Iowa
	Lydia Margaret Burns, born 1858 in Iowa.
	Stephen A. Douglas Burns, born in Iowa.

America Jane Pendroy married 3rd husband James Atchinson August 05, 1867 in Marion County , Ia.

Rhoda Ann Pendroy  married William Watson (Bill) Bigley. William W. Bigley was born in 1854 and died in 1942 at age 88. Rhoda A. Pendroy was born on July 30, 1848. She died relatively young about age 37 on Sept. 2, 1885. This was 3 years before her mother Mary Ann (Wiseman) Pendroy died.

Children of William and Rhoda Ann (Pendroy) Bigley

(Thanks to Mick family for updated information May 2009.)

Picture of Alice (Bigley) Bell, Martha (Bigley) Crane, and Lydia Emma (Bigley) Wilson

Picture of younger sisters Lydia Emma Bigley and Martha Bigley at Monroe, Iowa.

Picture of William Watson Bigley at age 45

View a picture of Gifford Cemetery east of Monroe, Iowa, where William and Rhoda Ann (Pendroy) Bigley are buried.

View a picture of headstones of William and Rhoda (Pendroy) Bigley.

Mary Elizabeth (Pendroy) and John Clark Marmon

Mary Elizabeth's parents were James and Mary Ann (Wiseman) Pendroy.

Go to detailed information of John Clark Marmon's  family

Mary Elizabeth Pendroy married John Clark  Marmon 21 Aug. 1851 in Marion Co. Iowa. John Clark Marmon buried in Mt Zion Cemetery.

Children of Mary Elizabeth (Pendroy) and John Clark Marmon

(10 children, 6 sons, 4 daughters, 2 were infant deaths)

Some related marriage records are here.

Eli H. Pendroy and Eliza Ann (Grubb) Pendroy

Eli H. Pendroy's parents were James and Mary Ann (Wiseman) Pendroy.

Eli H. Pendroy was born April 15, 1831 in Harrison County Indiana.

View picture Eli's son  Edgar Grant and Tempa (Wilson) Pendroy

On August 27, 1857 Eli H Pendroy married Eliza Ann Grubb.

Read obituary of Eli H. Pendroy from Newspaper

View picture of Eli H. Pendroy and Eliza Ann (Grubb) Pendroy  headstone .

View a picture of Gifford Cemetery just east of   Monroe Iowa.

Eliza Ann (Grubb) Pendroy was born August 27, 1837 in Indiana. She died May 1, 1871 at age of 34. Eliza's  parents were  Pleasant H. and Martha (Reed) Grubb.

Go To Detailed Information on Eliza Ann (Grubb) Pendroy's parents: Pleasant H. and Martha (Reed) Grubb.  Eli H. Pendroy did not marry again after death of wife Eliza Ann.

View a page with some dates of death listed of the Eli Pendroy family. The Bible was in the Rinehart family.

Edgar Grant and Tempa (Wilson) Pendroy

Edgar Grant Pendroy - Parents were Eli H. and Eliza Ann (Grubb) Pendroy  

Edgar Grant Pendroy was born May 1, 1868 - died March 19, 1964 in Jasper  County Iowa at Monroe. Ed died in March 18, 1964 at Monroe Iowa after living to age 95.

Ed and Tempa were farmers. Edgar Grant Pendroy married Tempa Wilson of Red Rock, Iowa and they had four children. Tempa (Wilson) Pendroy was the daughter of Washington and Jane (Flaugh) Wilson of Red Rock, Iowa in Marion County.

Obituary of Washington Wilson

Washington Wilson 1835-1897 

Washington Wilson died at his home near Dunreath, Marion County, Iowa, January 27, 1897, of pneumonia, after an illness of a little over four days, at the age of 61 years, 1 month and 24 days. Mr. Wilson was born in Logan County, Ill., on the 4th day of December 1835, and come to Iowa in 1840 with his mother, his father having died sometime before. They first moved to Elk Creek Township. He was married to Miss Jane Flaugh, daughter of Rev. Elisha Flaugh, a minister of the U. B. Church. There were born to them eleven children, of whom ten are living who, together with the widow, mourn the loss of a loving husband and father. The family wish to extend to their neighbors and friends heartfelt thanks for kind assistance in their bereavement. ~ The Newton Record, Friday, February 5, 1897, Page 8, Column 5 – Reasnor

Note: A special "Thanks" to Barbara Hug, who transcribed & posted this obituary 10/30/2003 at 08:51:08 to the Marion County, Iowa Genweb.

Tempa Wilson was born Jan. 18, 1880. Tempa died at her home April 23 1976. They were married Feb 26, 1902. Edgar and Tempa are buried in Silent City Cemetery in Monroe, Iowa.

(Minimal information is on-line here, for protection of privacy.)

View picture of Edgar Grant and Tempa (Wilson) Pendroy

View picture of grave of Ed and Tempa Pendroy.

George and Lydia Margaret (Pendroy) Marshall

Special "Thanks!" to JC Marshall, and George Marshall family who researched this information and provided other numerous documents on this site. JC & George Marshall descended from (old) Eli Pendroy's granddaughter Lydia M (Pendroy) Marshall.

Detailed info George and Lydia Margaret (Pendroy) Marshall

Lydia Margaret (Pendroy) Marshall's parents were James and Mary Ann (Wiseman) Pendroy.

Marshall, George - Coal Mine Owner - Operator and Farmer, Sec. 13, P.O. Monroe. Was born in Scotland, June 4, 1836. At the age of 17 years he came to the United States, landing in New York City in 1854. From this place he came to Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin, thence to the Rocky Mountains where he engaged in prospecting and mining in Colorado.

In 1863 he returned to Iowa and settled in Monroe, Jasper County, engaged in mining coal and was very successful. Selling out his interest in  this he moved on his present farm, at the same time opening a coal bank which he has operated since that time. Mr. M. has had many ups and downs in his life. As a rule, has been successful in   his enterprises. His farm is nearly all under-laid with with coal of a very superior quality.

On the twenty-seventh of October, 1864, he married Miss Lydia M. Pendroy, a daughter of James Pendroy, Esq. The family consists of eight children: Robert J., Mary S., George B., Emma G., Betsy R., Thomas E., Meek W., and J.B.H.

Lydia Margaret (Pendroy) Marshall

Born: June 17, 1837 in Munciatown, Delaware Co. Indiana

Married: 10-27, 1864 in Newton (Jasper Co.) Iowa to George Marshall

George Marshall born June 4, 1836 Salisburgh, Lanarkshire, Scotland

  Children of George and Lydia M. (Pendroy) Marshall:

Lydia M. (Pendroy) Marshall died December 3. 1908 and is buried in Steamboat Springs, Routt County, Colorado.

George Marshall, husband of Lydia M. Pendroy, died April 23, 1918 and is buried with her in Steamboat Springs, Routt County, Colorado

John W. and Mary Ellen (Goyer) Pendroy

John Wiseman Pendroy was the son of James and Mary Ann (Wiseman) Pendroy

John Wiseman Pendroy was born in June 04, 1839 in Muncie (Delaware County) Indiana. It is documented in the published obituary of John W. Pendroy's brother (Eli H. Pendroy Obituary) that his Pendroy family came to the Monroe, Iowa area from Delaware County, Indiana in 1851 when John W. Pendroy was about 12 years old.  In 1861 he enlisted in the Civil War from Red Rock, IA in Marion County. John W. Pendroy joined E Company - 14th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment in 1861).

Thanks again to Chaney and Luchner for providing information, about John W. Pendroy and Mary Ellen Goyer.

John W. Pendroy has a Civil war headstone. The transcribed description of his Civil War enlistment says the following:

(The W. of his middle name was mistakenly transcribed as an M. in the Iowa Civil War records.)

"Pvt. John W. Pendroy - Red Rock, Iowa - age 22 - 14th IA Vol. Infantry - Co. E"

View a picture of John W. Pendroy's military headstone

(At Graceland Cem. in Avoca, Ia.)

View Pictures of John W Pendroy & and more details on John W. Pendroy's military unit and history.

John W. Pendroy  married Mary E. Goyer 28 Feb 1867 in Cairo, in Union County Illinois.  Mary Ellen Goyer  was born Feb. 26, 1842 in Hamilton Co. Ohio. Mary Ellen (Goyer) Pendroy lived 19 years longer than her husband. When she became more elderly, she relocated in June 1928 with her daughter Margaret Greer to Montgomery, Alabama. Mary E. (Goyer) Pendroy died there April 27, 1932 at her daughter's home at the age of 89 years, two months, and one day and is buried in Montgomery, Al.

Children of John W. Pendroy and Mary Ellen (Goyer) Pendroy

Children of Thomas  Filer and Dora Pendroy:

1. Lizzie Filer, born Nov. 1889 Co. died Bremerton, Kitsap Wa. married Bradford.
2. John Filer Born May 1893 Co.
3. Evelyn May Filer Born Oct 1986
4. Ada Filer born Feb 1898 Colorado.
5. Thomas Filer Jr. b 26 July 1900 Trinidad, Las Animas Co., d 06 Dec 1983 Bremerton, Kitsap, Washington. Married Mills.
6. Howard Filer
7. Alice Filer

William Ellis Pendroy and wife Mary Pendroy of Green County Ohio

John R. and Josephine (Terrell) Pendroy

William E. and Mary Pendroy of Green County Ohio had 4 sons born around the 1830 time era... their oldest son Eli Pendroy died at age 40 in Indiana, Joseph Pendroy that died in Lafayette Indiana, (Tippecanoe Co.) at age 35, James L. Pendroy that was farming near Lafayette Indiana in 1890. The below biography is of John R. Pendroy that married Josephine M. Terrell in Perry, Kansas in 1868 after serving in the Co. H of 2nd Colorado Infantry in the Civil War.

	Mary L. Krohn married Isaac Mann (Details on Warner and Isaac Mann)
	Elizabeth Krohn married William Lister of Randolph County
	John S. Krohn
	Henrietta Krohn (resided with brother William)
	William  F. Krohn
	Barbara Krohn married R.W. Maxwell

Author note: The Spelling of Mary (Mariah)  Pendroy's name was found once as "Pendri" and once as "Pendry" in the publication. But the actual written marriage record spelled it "PENDROY". This is encountered several times in the  old publications.