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P A G E 6
Portraits
from the Cheuvront
Families
(lineage:
JosephIII-AaronI-JosephI)
Note: these photos are copyright-protected.
If you wish to copy them please contact their submitter for permission
these wonderful photos and stories are
courtesy Michael Cheuvront
mchevy@earthlink.net
thank you so much, Cuz!
Joseph Cheuvront III,
(s/o Aaron Cheuvront and Sarah Richards)
born in Harrison County, Virginia, 1809,
disappeared on a trip to Kansas around 1857 or '58. Michael Cheuvront
came across an old letter that mentioned this; Joseph's wife,
Hannah Rouse, is listed as a widow on the
1860 Jackson County, Va census.
See a scan
and transcription of Vinton's letter here.
Son of Aaron Cheuvront (1782-1863), and grandson
of Rev. Joseph Cheuvront (1757-1832).
Joseph III was 12 years old when his grandfather
died in 1832.
(photo from a ferrotype taken ca. 1855)
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Lemuel GreenI (s/o Aaron Cheuvront and Sarah
Richards)
and his in-laws, the Rouses about 1890:
Seated l-r: James Rouse, age 84; his sister,
Hannah Rouse Cheuvront, age 81,
(widow of JosephIII Cheuvront); her sister
Mary Polly. Rouse
Cheuvront, age 79 (wife of Lemuel GreenI
Cheuvront); Hannah & Mary's
brothers, John Rouse, age 76; Sylvestor
Rouse, age 70.
Standing with his hands on Hannah & Mary's
shoulders is Lemuel GreenI
Cheuvront, age 80, son of Aaron Cheuvront,
grandson of Rev. JosephI
Cheuvront. Lemuel came to Nebraska with his
nephews Lemuel2, Moses E.,
and Sylvestor a few years after the Civil War.
(SEE ALSO: photos p. 17)
Hannah Rouse Cheuvront, wife of JosephIII,
taken circa 1885. Hannah was born in New York
in 1811,
and died in Nebraska in 1893.
Lemuel GreenII Cheuvront (1833-1906), s/o
Joseph III,
& his bride, Mary Jane Humphrey
taken on their wedding day in 1862
Lemuel GreenII and Mary Jane with part of
their family in 1892.
Wiife Mary Jane (Humphrey), and daughters,
( left to right): Mattie Edna, Estelle
Florence, and Mary Maude. Not shown in the
photo is their brother Frederick. (Michael Cheuvront's grandfather)
Though he was born on the Muskigum River
in Ohio, Lemuel moved to Virginia, where he was a Union soldier during
the Civil War. His brother Moses also fought for the Union side,
but another brother, Sylvester (1844-1885), was a Confederate soldier.
(Brother Andrew born in 1835, died in 1860 just before the war.) After
the war, Lemuel, Moses, and Sylvester emigrated to Nebraska. In 1862, Lemuel
transcribed the last words of his great-grandfather, Rev. Joseph Cheuvront,
from his grandfather Aaron's original, and this copy was published in a
Nebraska newspaper by his brother Moses. Michael has provided us with a
beautiful scan of Lemuel's transcript.
(more of Lemuel GreenII's decendants on photos
p. 8;
link to Scan of Joseph's last words on Site Map.)
Mary Jane Humphreys, wife of Lemuel G2, and two of their daughters,
from a tintype taken in1875
Ellen Jane (Campbell)Humpreys
(1825-1899?), mother of Mary
Jane Humphreys, wife of Lemuel G. CheuvrontII
Lemuel G2 Cheuvront holding a bunch of bananas
at his store in Lincoln, NB in
1889. (see also: photo page
17)
Left is his son Emmett Calvin Cheuvront (age
13), and
front is his son, Frederick Clifton Cheuvront
(age 10),
grandfather of Michael Cheuvront
Moses Ellsworth Cheuvront
(1848-1919), s/o Joseph III, in about
1899.
Moses was probably the first family historian,
writing
letters of inquiry to family members
as far back as the 1880s. In 1910,
Moses had an article about his great-grandfather,
Rev. Joseph Cheuvront,
published in a Nebraska newspaper,
the Lincoln State Journal, entitled:
"Was in Washington's Army; Ancestor
of Lincoln Man was Army Chaplin".
Many hand written copies of this article
were made and widely circulated
across the country, and it became
one of the main sources of information
about Rev. Joseph Cheuvront for Rev.
Wesley L. Cheuvront's "A Brief
History of the Cheuvront Family in America."
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