father: Josiah Hoskinson, Mother: Nancy Jane Howard

Josiah Jr., Nancy and family lived in Wapello County, Iowa on a farm near Chillicothe from 1849 until January 1, 1866. When their youngest child, Emma Mariah was six weeks old, they loaded their belongings in a covered wagon, yoked the ox team and driving their livestock along behind the wagon - started for Kansas. He purposely started in the dead of winter so he could drive across the Missouri River, crossing near Nebraska City.

It took almost three weeks to make the trip in zero weather with a six week old baby. The family slept outside the entire trip. They came to Oskaloosa, Kansas, where his older brother, Benjamin lived and and after visiting there for a short while, they started on south bound for Cherokee County. They arrived there in the spring and the summer proved to be disastrous as far as crops were concerned. Some of their neighbors undertook to live on nuts and acorns but many died. They became sick during the summer with malaria. The following spring they loaded up again and headed north. They finally settled about ten miles south of Lawrence in Douglas County on a farm one and a half miles east of the village of Vinland, Kansas. Another child, who died at birth, was born here.

Children:

-Robert Hoskinson; b. 1847 d.1849
-Benjamin Franklin Hoskinson; b. 1848 d. 1934 m. Almyra Leonard 1876
-John Wesley Hoskinson; b. 1850 d. 1902 m. Lena Pinger 1884
-Charles Albert Hoskinson; b. 1852 d.1929 m.Anna E. Thompson 1875
-Joseph Dudley Hoskinson; b.1854 d.1943 m.Sarah Ellen Anderson 1878
-Mary Elizabeth Hoskinson; b.1856 d.1949 m. William Winfied Harris
-William Henry Hoskinson; b.1858 d.1944 m.Jennie Arabella Nichols 1883
-Banford Hoskinson; b.1861 d.1862 in Wapello County, IA
-George Marion Hoskinson; b.1863 d.1912 m.Anetta Hagerman
-Emma Maria Hoskinson; b.1865 d.1952 m.Elmer Ellsworth Hagerman 1885
-Ida Hoskinson; b.1868 d.1868