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Susan <I>Lewis</I> Starns

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Susan Lewis Starns

Birth
Perry County, Kentucky, USA
Death
1 Nov 1910 (aged 78)
Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon, USA
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Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon, USA Add to Map
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Susan Lewis Starns was the daughter of William Martin Lewis and Hannah Louise Snethen. She was the 8th of 12 children. In the early 1840s the Lewis family left Kentucky on Middle Fork of the Kentucky River on log rafts. They followed the rivers to Platte County, Missouri. There at the age of 15, Susan married 22 year old Thomas Starnes, Jr. on 5-10-1848. A year later he started on a path to become a minister with the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Thomas and Susan had 11 children between 1849 and 1871. Susan and the children followed Thomas as he was assigned to various territories by the church. He preached in Missouri, Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Oregon and Washington. They arrived in Oregon on 10-19-1876 by wagon train. They met up with Susan's parents who had come to Monroe, Oregon in 1853. In 1894 -1898 Thomas and Susan had served at Fort Klamath as missionaries to the Klamath Indians. They were in charge of a girls' school there. Thomas died in Corvallis, Oregon 1905 and Susan died there 5 years later.

Susan and Thomas Starns' children included William Washington, Margaret Elizabeth "Maggie," Robert Middleton, Sarah Catherine "Kate," Jesse Douglas, John Henry, Mary Emma, Susan Jane "Jennie," Lavina Belle "Vena," Benjamin "Oakes" Bradford and Georgia Hannah "Birdie" Starns.
Susan Lewis Starns was the daughter of William Martin Lewis and Hannah Louise Snethen. She was the 8th of 12 children. In the early 1840s the Lewis family left Kentucky on Middle Fork of the Kentucky River on log rafts. They followed the rivers to Platte County, Missouri. There at the age of 15, Susan married 22 year old Thomas Starnes, Jr. on 5-10-1848. A year later he started on a path to become a minister with the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Thomas and Susan had 11 children between 1849 and 1871. Susan and the children followed Thomas as he was assigned to various territories by the church. He preached in Missouri, Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Oregon and Washington. They arrived in Oregon on 10-19-1876 by wagon train. They met up with Susan's parents who had come to Monroe, Oregon in 1853. In 1894 -1898 Thomas and Susan had served at Fort Klamath as missionaries to the Klamath Indians. They were in charge of a girls' school there. Thomas died in Corvallis, Oregon 1905 and Susan died there 5 years later.

Susan and Thomas Starns' children included William Washington, Margaret Elizabeth "Maggie," Robert Middleton, Sarah Catherine "Kate," Jesse Douglas, John Henry, Mary Emma, Susan Jane "Jennie," Lavina Belle "Vena," Benjamin "Oakes" Bradford and Georgia Hannah "Birdie" Starns.

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