Enoch married Lynda/Belinda Hubbard 1/15/1813.
Known Children of their 13 children:
- Seth PArsons,
- Clarinda Persons, (1816-1886)(Memorial 71031052)
- Lorenzo P Persons (1817-1894)(Memorial 49745799)
- Laura Persons (1819-1834)
- Enoch Collins Persons,
- Eliza Lucina Persons (B: Mar. 28, 1825. Born at Sandisfield, Massachusetts)
- Maria/Marion Jane Persons, (B: Aug. 18, 1830. Born at Sandisfield, Massachusetts)
- Martin Vanburen Persons, (B: Oct. 20, 1833. Born at Sandisfield, Massachusetts)
They eventually settled and Enoch died in Kansas. The Lazy T Ranch is a working Quarter Horse and beef cattle ranch in the Kansas Flint Hills. The ranch was first homesteaded in the 1850s by Enoch Persons, the pioneer who first settled here. Today guests can visit his historic stone barn, pet horses and calves, feed goats by hand, gather eggs, take a hay rack ride into the scenic Flint Hills, enjoy original cowboy poetry, and experience ranch life.
The Enoch Persons barn and granary are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. The current owners, the Wilsons, are fifth generation Kansas ranchers. We have owned the property since 1968.
The Lazy T Guest House is a remodeled, 1923 farmhouse with modern amenities. It is located in a serene, secluded scenic valley surrounded by trees and hills, yet five minutes from the city of Manhattan, Kansas. The guest house overlooks the native prairie meadow on our historic northern Flint Hills ranch.
http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/08001351.pdf
The Persons and Wilson Family Farm: According to biographical accounts, the Persons family came to Riley County in 1855, settling in Township 10, between Manhattan and Zeandale. They had come from New Hampshire, to Leavenworth, Kansas by train and on to Manhattan by oxen. In 1865, their Manhattan Township household included:
- Enoch Persons (72),
- his wife Belinda Persons (72),
- their son Enoch Collins Persons (44)
- and his wife Rebecca (Coulson)Persons (24).
Enoch Persons, Sr. was born in Connecticut in 1793. His wife, Belinda Hubbard was born in Massachusetts. By 1870, both Enoch, Sr. and his wife had died, leaving the property to their son Enoch Collins Persons. Enoch C. married Rebecca Coulson on December 19, 1862 but was widowed in 1879. The couple had three children: Olive, Alvin, and Amory.
Enoch C. Persons was a lifelong farmer/stockman. Although oral tradition holds that Persons was a Civil War veteran, his service could not be documented in Civil War enlistment records. The abstract for the Persons' farm, which lists Abraham Lincoln as grantor, suggests that Persons obtained the property between 1861 and 1865. Given that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated just five days after the Confederacy surrendered, it is unlikely that the land was transferred as part of a land grant associated with Persons' possible Civil War service. Instead, it is likely that this transfer was a purchase at one of the public land sales between 1859 and 1861. Site evaluation and research suggests that Persons built his native limestone house and barn in the years soon after acquiring his property - that is, in the 1860s.
The Persons household in 1880 consisted of
- Enoch (59),
- Olive (13),
- Alvin (12)
- and Amory (11).
(The family was not listed in the 1885 Kansas Census.)
As his family grew, Persons continued to develop his farm. By 1881, Persons had doubled his original 80-acre tract. By 1890, he owned an entire section of land (640 acres). By 1895, Enoch C. Persons was 73 years old and sharing his household with his son Amory F. Persons (26) and his wife Jennie M. Persons (21 ). The 1890 Assessment Rolls listed A.F. (Amory) Persons as owner of 60 acres (out of Enoch's holdings).
Just prior to Enoch's death in Parsons, Kansas in 1905, the Persons household included:
- Enoch Collins Persons (83),
- Amory (36),
- Jennie (31) and their three children
- Chester P. (10),
- Florence U. (5),
- Georgia G.
By 1909, the entire section of land was in Amory's name. The A.F. Persons' household was listed in a 1925 Riley County Decennial Agricultural Census. Included in the household were Chester (29), then a widower, Florence (24), a single teacher, and Georgia (22), a single student. The family was not listed in the 1930 Census. Members of the Persons family remained in the Manhattan area. Georgia Persons, who was born December 13, 1901, married a local man named Weisbender. She died in October 1983. 12 In fact,
both of Amory's daughters reportedly married Weisbenders. Jane Weisbender, great-granddaughter of Enoch C. and living in Wichita, was a source for the Persons family history. Five generations of the Persons family farmed and improved the property until the mid Twentieth Century. A new wood-frame farmhouse was constructed in 1923, south of the original stone house. The history and fate of the stone farmhouse is unknown; it was gone when the Wilsons purchased the property in 1968. It is unclear if his daughters and their families lived on the farm during his later years but neighboring families managed the farm beginning in 1949. Dixie Worrell Everson, a descendent of early pioneers who homesteaded at the same time as the Persons family, is quite familiar with the Persons farm because her sister and children were good friends of the Persons family. In 1949, Mr. Everson started running the Persons ranch with Dixie's father, "Dutch" Worrell. They farmed and ran cattle for the Persons family and continued to do so for the subsequent owners. The farm was owned by the Persons family until Amory Persons' death in 1958, when it was sold to three Manhattan-area businessmen (Hunter, Lundburg, and Ambrose). The businessmen purchased the land as an investment. It was this partnership that named the place, "Lazy T. Ranch" and installed the sign at the entrance. The Eversons, who managed the property for the Persons', continued to manage the farm for several years under its new ownership. Later a family named Russell moved there and ran the farm. In 1968 (reportedly following a divorce of one of the partners), the farm was sold at auction. At that time, the quarter section with the house and barn was separated from the farmland. Professor Ed Smith of Manhattan bought the three quarter sections of farmland, which remains in the Smith family today. John and Glenna Wilson, parents of the current owner, purchased the quarter-section with the farmstead.
Known Children of their 13 children:
- Seth PArsons,
- Clarinda Persons, (1816-1886)(Memorial 71031052)
- Lorenzo P Persons (1817-1894)(Memorial 49745799)
- Laura Persons (1819-1834)
- Enoch Collins Persons,
- Eliza Lucina Persons (B: Mar. 28, 1825. Born at Sandisfield, Massachusetts)
- Maria/Marion Jane Persons, (B: Aug. 18, 1830. Born at Sandisfield, Massachusetts)
- Martin Vanburen Persons, (B: Oct. 20, 1833. Born at Sandisfield, Massachusetts)
They eventually settled and Enoch died in Kansas. The Lazy T Ranch is a working Quarter Horse and beef cattle ranch in the Kansas Flint Hills. The ranch was first homesteaded in the 1850s by Enoch Persons, the pioneer who first settled here. Today guests can visit his historic stone barn, pet horses and calves, feed goats by hand, gather eggs, take a hay rack ride into the scenic Flint Hills, enjoy original cowboy poetry, and experience ranch life.
The Enoch Persons barn and granary are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. The current owners, the Wilsons, are fifth generation Kansas ranchers. We have owned the property since 1968.
The Lazy T Guest House is a remodeled, 1923 farmhouse with modern amenities. It is located in a serene, secluded scenic valley surrounded by trees and hills, yet five minutes from the city of Manhattan, Kansas. The guest house overlooks the native prairie meadow on our historic northern Flint Hills ranch.
http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/08001351.pdf
The Persons and Wilson Family Farm: According to biographical accounts, the Persons family came to Riley County in 1855, settling in Township 10, between Manhattan and Zeandale. They had come from New Hampshire, to Leavenworth, Kansas by train and on to Manhattan by oxen. In 1865, their Manhattan Township household included:
- Enoch Persons (72),
- his wife Belinda Persons (72),
- their son Enoch Collins Persons (44)
- and his wife Rebecca (Coulson)Persons (24).
Enoch Persons, Sr. was born in Connecticut in 1793. His wife, Belinda Hubbard was born in Massachusetts. By 1870, both Enoch, Sr. and his wife had died, leaving the property to their son Enoch Collins Persons. Enoch C. married Rebecca Coulson on December 19, 1862 but was widowed in 1879. The couple had three children: Olive, Alvin, and Amory.
Enoch C. Persons was a lifelong farmer/stockman. Although oral tradition holds that Persons was a Civil War veteran, his service could not be documented in Civil War enlistment records. The abstract for the Persons' farm, which lists Abraham Lincoln as grantor, suggests that Persons obtained the property between 1861 and 1865. Given that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated just five days after the Confederacy surrendered, it is unlikely that the land was transferred as part of a land grant associated with Persons' possible Civil War service. Instead, it is likely that this transfer was a purchase at one of the public land sales between 1859 and 1861. Site evaluation and research suggests that Persons built his native limestone house and barn in the years soon after acquiring his property - that is, in the 1860s.
The Persons household in 1880 consisted of
- Enoch (59),
- Olive (13),
- Alvin (12)
- and Amory (11).
(The family was not listed in the 1885 Kansas Census.)
As his family grew, Persons continued to develop his farm. By 1881, Persons had doubled his original 80-acre tract. By 1890, he owned an entire section of land (640 acres). By 1895, Enoch C. Persons was 73 years old and sharing his household with his son Amory F. Persons (26) and his wife Jennie M. Persons (21 ). The 1890 Assessment Rolls listed A.F. (Amory) Persons as owner of 60 acres (out of Enoch's holdings).
Just prior to Enoch's death in Parsons, Kansas in 1905, the Persons household included:
- Enoch Collins Persons (83),
- Amory (36),
- Jennie (31) and their three children
- Chester P. (10),
- Florence U. (5),
- Georgia G.
By 1909, the entire section of land was in Amory's name. The A.F. Persons' household was listed in a 1925 Riley County Decennial Agricultural Census. Included in the household were Chester (29), then a widower, Florence (24), a single teacher, and Georgia (22), a single student. The family was not listed in the 1930 Census. Members of the Persons family remained in the Manhattan area. Georgia Persons, who was born December 13, 1901, married a local man named Weisbender. She died in October 1983. 12 In fact,
both of Amory's daughters reportedly married Weisbenders. Jane Weisbender, great-granddaughter of Enoch C. and living in Wichita, was a source for the Persons family history. Five generations of the Persons family farmed and improved the property until the mid Twentieth Century. A new wood-frame farmhouse was constructed in 1923, south of the original stone house. The history and fate of the stone farmhouse is unknown; it was gone when the Wilsons purchased the property in 1968. It is unclear if his daughters and their families lived on the farm during his later years but neighboring families managed the farm beginning in 1949. Dixie Worrell Everson, a descendent of early pioneers who homesteaded at the same time as the Persons family, is quite familiar with the Persons farm because her sister and children were good friends of the Persons family. In 1949, Mr. Everson started running the Persons ranch with Dixie's father, "Dutch" Worrell. They farmed and ran cattle for the Persons family and continued to do so for the subsequent owners. The farm was owned by the Persons family until Amory Persons' death in 1958, when it was sold to three Manhattan-area businessmen (Hunter, Lundburg, and Ambrose). The businessmen purchased the land as an investment. It was this partnership that named the place, "Lazy T. Ranch" and installed the sign at the entrance. The Eversons, who managed the property for the Persons', continued to manage the farm for several years under its new ownership. Later a family named Russell moved there and ran the farm. In 1968 (reportedly following a divorce of one of the partners), the farm was sold at auction. At that time, the quarter section with the house and barn was separated from the farmland. Professor Ed Smith of Manhattan bought the three quarter sections of farmland, which remains in the Smith family today. John and Glenna Wilson, parents of the current owner, purchased the quarter-section with the farmstead.
Enoch married Lynda/Belinda Hubbard 1/15/1813.
Known Children of their 13 children:
- Seth PArsons,
- Clarinda Persons, (1816-1886)(Memorial 71031052)
- Lorenzo P Persons (1817-1894)(Memorial 49745799)
- Laura Persons (1819-1834)
- Enoch Collins Persons,
- Eliza Lucina Persons (B: Mar. 28, 1825. Born at Sandisfield, Massachusetts)
- Maria/Marion Jane Persons, (B: Aug. 18, 1830. Born at Sandisfield, Massachusetts)
- Martin Vanburen Persons, (B: Oct. 20, 1833. Born at Sandisfield, Massachusetts)
They eventually settled and Enoch died in Kansas. The Lazy T Ranch is a working Quarter Horse and beef cattle ranch in the Kansas Flint Hills. The ranch was first homesteaded in the 1850s by Enoch Persons, the pioneer who first settled here. Today guests can visit his historic stone barn, pet horses and calves, feed goats by hand, gather eggs, take a hay rack ride into the scenic Flint Hills, enjoy original cowboy poetry, and experience ranch life.
The Enoch Persons barn and granary are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. The current owners, the Wilsons, are fifth generation Kansas ranchers. We have owned the property since 1968.
The Lazy T Guest House is a remodeled, 1923 farmhouse with modern amenities. It is located in a serene, secluded scenic valley surrounded by trees and hills, yet five minutes from the city of Manhattan, Kansas. The guest house overlooks the native prairie meadow on our historic northern Flint Hills ranch.
http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/08001351.pdf
The Persons and Wilson Family Farm: According to biographical accounts, the Persons family came to Riley County in 1855, settling in Township 10, between Manhattan and Zeandale. They had come from New Hampshire, to Leavenworth, Kansas by train and on to Manhattan by oxen. In 1865, their Manhattan Township household included:
- Enoch Persons (72),
- his wife Belinda Persons (72),
- their son Enoch Collins Persons (44)
- and his wife Rebecca (Coulson)Persons (24).
Enoch Persons, Sr. was born in Connecticut in 1793. His wife, Belinda Hubbard was born in Massachusetts. By 1870, both Enoch, Sr. and his wife had died, leaving the property to their son Enoch Collins Persons. Enoch C. married Rebecca Coulson on December 19, 1862 but was widowed in 1879. The couple had three children: Olive, Alvin, and Amory.
Enoch C. Persons was a lifelong farmer/stockman. Although oral tradition holds that Persons was a Civil War veteran, his service could not be documented in Civil War enlistment records. The abstract for the Persons' farm, which lists Abraham Lincoln as grantor, suggests that Persons obtained the property between 1861 and 1865. Given that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated just five days after the Confederacy surrendered, it is unlikely that the land was transferred as part of a land grant associated with Persons' possible Civil War service. Instead, it is likely that this transfer was a purchase at one of the public land sales between 1859 and 1861. Site evaluation and research suggests that Persons built his native limestone house and barn in the years soon after acquiring his property - that is, in the 1860s.
The Persons household in 1880 consisted of
- Enoch (59),
- Olive (13),
- Alvin (12)
- and Amory (11).
(The family was not listed in the 1885 Kansas Census.)
As his family grew, Persons continued to develop his farm. By 1881, Persons had doubled his original 80-acre tract. By 1890, he owned an entire section of land (640 acres). By 1895, Enoch C. Persons was 73 years old and sharing his household with his son Amory F. Persons (26) and his wife Jennie M. Persons (21 ). The 1890 Assessment Rolls listed A.F. (Amory) Persons as owner of 60 acres (out of Enoch's holdings).
Just prior to Enoch's death in Parsons, Kansas in 1905, the Persons household included:
- Enoch Collins Persons (83),
- Amory (36),
- Jennie (31) and their three children
- Chester P. (10),
- Florence U. (5),
- Georgia G.
By 1909, the entire section of land was in Amory's name. The A.F. Persons' household was listed in a 1925 Riley County Decennial Agricultural Census. Included in the household were Chester (29), then a widower, Florence (24), a single teacher, and Georgia (22), a single student. The family was not listed in the 1930 Census. Members of the Persons family remained in the Manhattan area. Georgia Persons, who was born December 13, 1901, married a local man named Weisbender. She died in October 1983. 12 In fact,
both of Amory's daughters reportedly married Weisbenders. Jane Weisbender, great-granddaughter of Enoch C. and living in Wichita, was a source for the Persons family history. Five generations of the Persons family farmed and improved the property until the mid Twentieth Century. A new wood-frame farmhouse was constructed in 1923, south of the original stone house. The history and fate of the stone farmhouse is unknown; it was gone when the Wilsons purchased the property in 1968. It is unclear if his daughters and their families lived on the farm during his later years but neighboring families managed the farm beginning in 1949. Dixie Worrell Everson, a descendent of early pioneers who homesteaded at the same time as the Persons family, is quite familiar with the Persons farm because her sister and children were good friends of the Persons family. In 1949, Mr. Everson started running the Persons ranch with Dixie's father, "Dutch" Worrell. They farmed and ran cattle for the Persons family and continued to do so for the subsequent owners. The farm was owned by the Persons family until Amory Persons' death in 1958, when it was sold to three Manhattan-area businessmen (Hunter, Lundburg, and Ambrose). The businessmen purchased the land as an investment. It was this partnership that named the place, "Lazy T. Ranch" and installed the sign at the entrance. The Eversons, who managed the property for the Persons', continued to manage the farm for several years under its new ownership. Later a family named Russell moved there and ran the farm. In 1968 (reportedly following a divorce of one of the partners), the farm was sold at auction. At that time, the quarter section with the house and barn was separated from the farmland. Professor Ed Smith of Manhattan bought the three quarter sections of farmland, which remains in the Smith family today. John and Glenna Wilson, parents of the current owner, purchased the quarter-section with the farmstead.
Known Children of their 13 children:
- Seth PArsons,
- Clarinda Persons, (1816-1886)(Memorial 71031052)
- Lorenzo P Persons (1817-1894)(Memorial 49745799)
- Laura Persons (1819-1834)
- Enoch Collins Persons,
- Eliza Lucina Persons (B: Mar. 28, 1825. Born at Sandisfield, Massachusetts)
- Maria/Marion Jane Persons, (B: Aug. 18, 1830. Born at Sandisfield, Massachusetts)
- Martin Vanburen Persons, (B: Oct. 20, 1833. Born at Sandisfield, Massachusetts)
They eventually settled and Enoch died in Kansas. The Lazy T Ranch is a working Quarter Horse and beef cattle ranch in the Kansas Flint Hills. The ranch was first homesteaded in the 1850s by Enoch Persons, the pioneer who first settled here. Today guests can visit his historic stone barn, pet horses and calves, feed goats by hand, gather eggs, take a hay rack ride into the scenic Flint Hills, enjoy original cowboy poetry, and experience ranch life.
The Enoch Persons barn and granary are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. The current owners, the Wilsons, are fifth generation Kansas ranchers. We have owned the property since 1968.
The Lazy T Guest House is a remodeled, 1923 farmhouse with modern amenities. It is located in a serene, secluded scenic valley surrounded by trees and hills, yet five minutes from the city of Manhattan, Kansas. The guest house overlooks the native prairie meadow on our historic northern Flint Hills ranch.
http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/08001351.pdf
The Persons and Wilson Family Farm: According to biographical accounts, the Persons family came to Riley County in 1855, settling in Township 10, between Manhattan and Zeandale. They had come from New Hampshire, to Leavenworth, Kansas by train and on to Manhattan by oxen. In 1865, their Manhattan Township household included:
- Enoch Persons (72),
- his wife Belinda Persons (72),
- their son Enoch Collins Persons (44)
- and his wife Rebecca (Coulson)Persons (24).
Enoch Persons, Sr. was born in Connecticut in 1793. His wife, Belinda Hubbard was born in Massachusetts. By 1870, both Enoch, Sr. and his wife had died, leaving the property to their son Enoch Collins Persons. Enoch C. married Rebecca Coulson on December 19, 1862 but was widowed in 1879. The couple had three children: Olive, Alvin, and Amory.
Enoch C. Persons was a lifelong farmer/stockman. Although oral tradition holds that Persons was a Civil War veteran, his service could not be documented in Civil War enlistment records. The abstract for the Persons' farm, which lists Abraham Lincoln as grantor, suggests that Persons obtained the property between 1861 and 1865. Given that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated just five days after the Confederacy surrendered, it is unlikely that the land was transferred as part of a land grant associated with Persons' possible Civil War service. Instead, it is likely that this transfer was a purchase at one of the public land sales between 1859 and 1861. Site evaluation and research suggests that Persons built his native limestone house and barn in the years soon after acquiring his property - that is, in the 1860s.
The Persons household in 1880 consisted of
- Enoch (59),
- Olive (13),
- Alvin (12)
- and Amory (11).
(The family was not listed in the 1885 Kansas Census.)
As his family grew, Persons continued to develop his farm. By 1881, Persons had doubled his original 80-acre tract. By 1890, he owned an entire section of land (640 acres). By 1895, Enoch C. Persons was 73 years old and sharing his household with his son Amory F. Persons (26) and his wife Jennie M. Persons (21 ). The 1890 Assessment Rolls listed A.F. (Amory) Persons as owner of 60 acres (out of Enoch's holdings).
Just prior to Enoch's death in Parsons, Kansas in 1905, the Persons household included:
- Enoch Collins Persons (83),
- Amory (36),
- Jennie (31) and their three children
- Chester P. (10),
- Florence U. (5),
- Georgia G.
By 1909, the entire section of land was in Amory's name. The A.F. Persons' household was listed in a 1925 Riley County Decennial Agricultural Census. Included in the household were Chester (29), then a widower, Florence (24), a single teacher, and Georgia (22), a single student. The family was not listed in the 1930 Census. Members of the Persons family remained in the Manhattan area. Georgia Persons, who was born December 13, 1901, married a local man named Weisbender. She died in October 1983. 12 In fact,
both of Amory's daughters reportedly married Weisbenders. Jane Weisbender, great-granddaughter of Enoch C. and living in Wichita, was a source for the Persons family history. Five generations of the Persons family farmed and improved the property until the mid Twentieth Century. A new wood-frame farmhouse was constructed in 1923, south of the original stone house. The history and fate of the stone farmhouse is unknown; it was gone when the Wilsons purchased the property in 1968. It is unclear if his daughters and their families lived on the farm during his later years but neighboring families managed the farm beginning in 1949. Dixie Worrell Everson, a descendent of early pioneers who homesteaded at the same time as the Persons family, is quite familiar with the Persons farm because her sister and children were good friends of the Persons family. In 1949, Mr. Everson started running the Persons ranch with Dixie's father, "Dutch" Worrell. They farmed and ran cattle for the Persons family and continued to do so for the subsequent owners. The farm was owned by the Persons family until Amory Persons' death in 1958, when it was sold to three Manhattan-area businessmen (Hunter, Lundburg, and Ambrose). The businessmen purchased the land as an investment. It was this partnership that named the place, "Lazy T. Ranch" and installed the sign at the entrance. The Eversons, who managed the property for the Persons', continued to manage the farm for several years under its new ownership. Later a family named Russell moved there and ran the farm. In 1968 (reportedly following a divorce of one of the partners), the farm was sold at auction. At that time, the quarter section with the house and barn was separated from the farmland. Professor Ed Smith of Manhattan bought the three quarter sections of farmland, which remains in the Smith family today. John and Glenna Wilson, parents of the current owner, purchased the quarter-section with the farmstead.
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