History has confused details of Ben Longacre Jr. with details of Ben Longacre Sr.
Ben Jr.'s last child was born in Tennessee in 1832, we'd have to put a date later than 1832 for his moving to Missouri.
Ben Jr. was a Justice of the Peace in Tennessee, it seems everything was going well for him, the only reason we can see for his moving was that his father and other brothers and sisters were moving to the Bluff Springs Missouri area.
From "History of Johnson County, Missouri," by Ewing Cockrell, Historical Publishing Company, Topeka, Cleveland, 1918.
"This was probably about 1835 or 1836. In 1836, he sold to Benjamin Longacre, who soon put up a tanyard and tanned skins for the settlers for a radius of fifty miles. Henry Coilbern, the first saddler of Warrensburg, grandfather of John R. Colbern, the stock man, came here for his supplies. He also built the first mill in the township, which was probably in 1837."
We believe the tannery was run by Ben Jr. As they also got the date for the Ben Sr.'s grist mill off by 10 years.
Page 831 in The History of Vernon County mentions Andrew Longacre, and indicates Ben Jr as the owner of the tannery.
In the History of Johnson Co., MO. page 514. "Benj. Longacre built the first grist mill of the township in 1827."
A couple of the mill stones are still on the ground, around the corner from Bluff Springs Cemetery.
Ben Jr. was the grandson of Andrew Longacre, born 1716 in Chester PA, and moved to Winchester VA around 1753. This Andrew Longacre is the progenitor of all the western and southern Longacre's.
Ben Jr. would be the second great grandson of Anders Peterson Longacre & Magdelana Cock Longacre , the first Longacre's to be born in America.
In 2008, Nancy Thompson discovered the broken gravestone of Judith (Perkins) Longacre in Rosewood Cemetery, Vernon County, Missouri. Rosewood is an abandoned pioneer cemetery that reportedly was desecrated by a previous landowner. Judith Perkins Longacre was Ben Longacre's wife. In Ben's will he asked his son Frank (Ben Franklin Longacre) to take care of Judith. When Frank moved to Vernon County, he took his mother with him. She was buried in the Rosewood Cemetery in 1860, and over the years the Cemetery was abandoned.
Ben Jr.'s last child was born in Tennessee in 1832, we'd have to put a date later than 1832 for his moving to Missouri.
Ben Jr. was a Justice of the Peace in Tennessee, it seems everything was going well for him, the only reason we can see for his moving was that his father and other brothers and sisters were moving to the Bluff Springs Missouri area.
From "History of Johnson County, Missouri," by Ewing Cockrell, Historical Publishing Company, Topeka, Cleveland, 1918.
"This was probably about 1835 or 1836. In 1836, he sold to Benjamin Longacre, who soon put up a tanyard and tanned skins for the settlers for a radius of fifty miles. Henry Coilbern, the first saddler of Warrensburg, grandfather of John R. Colbern, the stock man, came here for his supplies. He also built the first mill in the township, which was probably in 1837."
We believe the tannery was run by Ben Jr. As they also got the date for the Ben Sr.'s grist mill off by 10 years.
Page 831 in The History of Vernon County mentions Andrew Longacre, and indicates Ben Jr as the owner of the tannery.
In the History of Johnson Co., MO. page 514. "Benj. Longacre built the first grist mill of the township in 1827."
A couple of the mill stones are still on the ground, around the corner from Bluff Springs Cemetery.
Ben Jr. was the grandson of Andrew Longacre, born 1716 in Chester PA, and moved to Winchester VA around 1753. This Andrew Longacre is the progenitor of all the western and southern Longacre's.
Ben Jr. would be the second great grandson of Anders Peterson Longacre & Magdelana Cock Longacre , the first Longacre's to be born in America.
In 2008, Nancy Thompson discovered the broken gravestone of Judith (Perkins) Longacre in Rosewood Cemetery, Vernon County, Missouri. Rosewood is an abandoned pioneer cemetery that reportedly was desecrated by a previous landowner. Judith Perkins Longacre was Ben Longacre's wife. In Ben's will he asked his son Frank (Ben Franklin Longacre) to take care of Judith. When Frank moved to Vernon County, he took his mother with him. She was buried in the Rosewood Cemetery in 1860, and over the years the Cemetery was abandoned.
History has confused details of Ben Longacre Jr. with details of Ben Longacre Sr.
Ben Jr.'s last child was born in Tennessee in 1832, we'd have to put a date later than 1832 for his moving to Missouri.
Ben Jr. was a Justice of the Peace in Tennessee, it seems everything was going well for him, the only reason we can see for his moving was that his father and other brothers and sisters were moving to the Bluff Springs Missouri area.
From "History of Johnson County, Missouri," by Ewing Cockrell, Historical Publishing Company, Topeka, Cleveland, 1918.
"This was probably about 1835 or 1836. In 1836, he sold to Benjamin Longacre, who soon put up a tanyard and tanned skins for the settlers for a radius of fifty miles. Henry Coilbern, the first saddler of Warrensburg, grandfather of John R. Colbern, the stock man, came here for his supplies. He also built the first mill in the township, which was probably in 1837."
We believe the tannery was run by Ben Jr. As they also got the date for the Ben Sr.'s grist mill off by 10 years.
Page 831 in The History of Vernon County mentions Andrew Longacre, and indicates Ben Jr as the owner of the tannery.
In the History of Johnson Co., MO. page 514. "Benj. Longacre built the first grist mill of the township in 1827."
A couple of the mill stones are still on the ground, around the corner from Bluff Springs Cemetery.
Ben Jr. was the grandson of Andrew Longacre, born 1716 in Chester PA, and moved to Winchester VA around 1753. This Andrew Longacre is the progenitor of all the western and southern Longacre's.
Ben Jr. would be the second great grandson of Anders Peterson Longacre & Magdelana Cock Longacre , the first Longacre's to be born in America.
In 2008, Nancy Thompson discovered the broken gravestone of Judith (Perkins) Longacre in Rosewood Cemetery, Vernon County, Missouri. Rosewood is an abandoned pioneer cemetery that reportedly was desecrated by a previous landowner. Judith Perkins Longacre was Ben Longacre's wife. In Ben's will he asked his son Frank (Ben Franklin Longacre) to take care of Judith. When Frank moved to Vernon County, he took his mother with him. She was buried in the Rosewood Cemetery in 1860, and over the years the Cemetery was abandoned.
Ben Jr.'s last child was born in Tennessee in 1832, we'd have to put a date later than 1832 for his moving to Missouri.
Ben Jr. was a Justice of the Peace in Tennessee, it seems everything was going well for him, the only reason we can see for his moving was that his father and other brothers and sisters were moving to the Bluff Springs Missouri area.
From "History of Johnson County, Missouri," by Ewing Cockrell, Historical Publishing Company, Topeka, Cleveland, 1918.
"This was probably about 1835 or 1836. In 1836, he sold to Benjamin Longacre, who soon put up a tanyard and tanned skins for the settlers for a radius of fifty miles. Henry Coilbern, the first saddler of Warrensburg, grandfather of John R. Colbern, the stock man, came here for his supplies. He also built the first mill in the township, which was probably in 1837."
We believe the tannery was run by Ben Jr. As they also got the date for the Ben Sr.'s grist mill off by 10 years.
Page 831 in The History of Vernon County mentions Andrew Longacre, and indicates Ben Jr as the owner of the tannery.
In the History of Johnson Co., MO. page 514. "Benj. Longacre built the first grist mill of the township in 1827."
A couple of the mill stones are still on the ground, around the corner from Bluff Springs Cemetery.
Ben Jr. was the grandson of Andrew Longacre, born 1716 in Chester PA, and moved to Winchester VA around 1753. This Andrew Longacre is the progenitor of all the western and southern Longacre's.
Ben Jr. would be the second great grandson of Anders Peterson Longacre & Magdelana Cock Longacre , the first Longacre's to be born in America.
In 2008, Nancy Thompson discovered the broken gravestone of Judith (Perkins) Longacre in Rosewood Cemetery, Vernon County, Missouri. Rosewood is an abandoned pioneer cemetery that reportedly was desecrated by a previous landowner. Judith Perkins Longacre was Ben Longacre's wife. In Ben's will he asked his son Frank (Ben Franklin Longacre) to take care of Judith. When Frank moved to Vernon County, he took his mother with him. She was buried in the Rosewood Cemetery in 1860, and over the years the Cemetery was abandoned.
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