Timeline for William Lane Fenex and Sabra Ann Johnson
·
1865 William
Lane Fenex, Jr. born in Dallas County, Missouri to William Lane Fenex and Sarah
St. Clair (or Sinclair).[1]
·
1868 Sabra
Ann Johnson born in Benton Township, Dallas County, Missouri to William H.
Johnson and Sabra Ann McKinney.[2]
·
1871 William
Lane Fenex’s mother, Sarah St. Clair dies.[3]
·
1871 Sabra
Ann Johnson’s father, William H. Johnson dies.[4]
·
1878 Letters
of Administration are assigned to James Southard after William Lane Fenex, Sr.
died. Death date is unknown. The relation of James Southard to William is
unknown.[5]
·
1880 William
Lane Fenex worked as a farmhand in Maries County, Missouri.[6]
Sabra was living with her mother and siblings.[7]
·
1882 William
Lane Fenex ended up in Wyoming. Sometimes lived with Bryant B. Brooks at his
cabin.[8]
·
1884 John
Fenex, William’s brother, was killed in a gunfight and buried at Fort Fetterman,
Wyoming.[9]
·
1889 William
and Sabra marry in Buffalo, Dallas, Missouri.[10]
·
1890 Grace
Edna Fenex born in Buffalo, Dallas, Missouri.[11]
·
1891 John
Franklin Fenex born in Buffalo, Dallas, Missouri.[12]
·
1891 Bought
a ranch at Boxelder Creek-Jim Abney ranch.[13]
·
1893 James
Edward Fenex born in Converse County, Wyoming.[14]
·
1894 William
LeRoy (Roy) Fenex born in Converse County, Wyoming.[15]
·
1897 Moved
to Glenrock, the Guy Peterson house. Bill worked at the Glenrock Coal Mine
until 1907. Floyd Earl Fenex born.[16]
·
1900 Helen
Francis Fenex born.[17]
·
1902 Homer
Glen Fenex born.[18]
·
1903 Guy
Mervin Fenex born.[19]
·
1906 Gladys
Fenex born.[20]
·
1908 Bought
land with Noah Young, Dr. Jay Smith, formed the Glenrock Sheep Company.[21]
Walter Fenex born.[22]
·
1910 Ruth
Omega Fenex born.[23]
·
1911 Moved
back to Glenrock. Bought McDonald Ranch near the Platte River. Ruth Fenex died.[24]
·
1914 Moved
in the Kirby Hotel.[25]
·
1916 Struck
oil near the Big Muddy Oil Field. Built a beautiful brick home in Glenrock.[26]
·
1918 Walter
Fenex died.[27] Sons James Edward and
William LeRoy are deployed to WWI.[28]
·
1929 Great
Depression begins.
·
1930 Sabra
runs a boarding house in her home.[29]
·
1941 William
Lane Fenex died after breaking his hip.[30]
Pearl Harbor and Wake Island attacked. Sabra’s grandson, Jack Fenex, is taken
prisoner on Wake Island.
·
1956 Sabra
Ann Johnson died.[31]
[1] 1870 U.S. census, Dallas County, Missouri, population
schedule, Buffalo Post Office, p. 22-23 (penned), dwelling 141, family 139,
William L. Fnex, Jr. in the household of William L. Fnex; digital database, Ancestry
(https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 20 July 2020); citing FHL microfilm 552272.
[2] 1870 U.S. census, Dallas
County, Missouri, population schedule, Buffalo Post Office, p. 27 (penned),
dwelling 174, family 171, Sabre Johnson in the household of William Johnson;
digital database, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 20 July
2020); citing FHL microfilm 552272.
[3] “Mrs. Fenex, wife of Capt. W.
L. Fenex Died Suddenly,” Buffalo (Missouri) Reflex, 21 Jan 1871;
digital database, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 21 July 2020), p. 5.
[4]
“Mr. William Johnson Died,” Buffalo (Missouri) Reflex, 8
September 1871; digital database Newspapers.com
(https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 20 July 2020), p. 5.
[5] Dallas County, Missouri,
Administrators and Guardians bonds and Letters, Vol B, 1871-1894, p. 199,
Letters of Administration to James Southard (1878), for the estate of William
L. Fenix, 8 March 1878; digital database, “Missouri, Wills and Probate Records,
1766-1988,” Ancestry (https://ancestry.com
: 22 July 2020); image 110 of 337.
[6] 1880 U.S. census, Maries
County, Missouri, population schedule, Jefferson, enumeration district (ED)
99, p. 3-4 (penned), dwelling 29 &
39, family 30 & 40, William Fenix in the household of Francis Terry; digital
database, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 20 July 2020);
citing FHL microfilm 1254702.
[7] 1880 U.S. census, Dallas
County, Missouri, population schedule,
Benton, enumeration district (ED) 26,
p. 43 (penned), Sabry Johnson; digital database, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 20 July
2020); citing FHL microfilm 1254684.
[8] Dixie Lam Kading, “Fenex,
William and Sabra Family,” in Pages from Converse County’s Past, ed.
John R. Pexton (Casper, WY: Wyoming Historical Press, 1986), 194-195.
[9] Ancestry, Find a Grave,
database with images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50321855
: accessed 22 July 2020); memorial 50321855, John Fenex (3 September 1884), For
Fetterman Cemetery, Converse County, Wyoming; gravestone photograph by Nancy
Mayer.
[10]
Dallas County, Missouri, Marriage Records Vol. 5,
1886-1894, William L. Fenex and Sabra Johnson, 1889, marriage license and
return; Dallas County Court House, Buffalo; “Missouri, County Marriage,
Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991,” digital database, FamilySearch
(https://www.familysearch.org: accessed 7 July 2020); FHL microfilm 007424381.
[11]
1900 U.S. census, Converse County, Wyoming, population schedule, Precincts
13-16, 18, enumeration district (ED) 23, sheet 4B, dwelling 74, family 81, William
L. Fenc?; database
with images, FamilySearch
(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3VR-K5Z : accessed 15 July 2020), citing
FHL microfilm 1241826.
[12] 1900 U.S. census, Converse County, Wyoming, population
schedule, Precincts 13-16, 18, enumeration district (ED) 23, sheet 4B, dwelling
74, family 81, William L. Fenc?; database with images, FamilySearch
(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3VR-K5Z : accessed 15 July 2020), citing FHL microfilm 1241826.
[13] Dixie Lam Kading, “Fenex,
William and Sabra Family,” in Pages from Converse County’s Past, ed.
John R. Pexton (Casper, WY: Wyoming Historical Press, 1986), 194-195.
[14] 1900 U.S. census, Converse County,
Wyoming, population schedule, Precincts 13-16, 18, enumeration district (ED)
23, sheet 4B, dwelling 74, family 81, William L. Fenc?; database with images, FamilySearch
(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3VR-K5Z : accessed 15 July 2020), citing FHL microfilm 1241826.
[15] 1900 U.S. census, Converse County,
Wyoming, population schedule, Precincts 13-16, 18, enumeration district (ED)
23, sheet 4B, dwelling 74, family 81, William L. Fenc?; database with images, FamilySearch
(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3VR-K5Z : accessed 15 July 2020), citing FHL microfilm 1241826.
[16] 1900 U.S. census, Converse County,
Wyoming, population schedule, Precincts 13-16, 18, enumeration district (ED)
23, sheet 4B, dwelling 74, family 81, William L. Fenc?; database with images, FamilySearch
(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3VR-K5Z : accessed 15 July 2020), citing FHL microfilm 1241826.
[17] 1900 U.S. census, Converse County,
Wyoming, population schedule, Precincts 13-16, 18, enumeration district (ED)
23, sheet 4B, dwelling 74, family 81, William L. Fenc?; database with images, FamilySearch
(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3VR-K5Z : accessed 15 July 2020), citing FHL microfilm 1241826.
[18] 1910 U.S. census, Converse County,
Wyoming, population schedule, Glenrock Woodruff Precinct, enumeration district
(ED) 46, dwelling 2, family 2, William L. Fenex; digital database Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.org : accessed 7 July 2020); citing FHL
microfilm 1375759.
[19] 1910 U.S. census, Converse County,
Wyoming, population schedule, Glenrock Woodruff Precinct, enumeration district
(ED) 46, dwelling 2, family 2, William L. Fenex; digital database Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.org : accessed 7 July 2020); citing FHL
microfilm 1375759.
[20] 1910 U.S. census, Converse County,
Wyoming, population schedule, Glenrock Woodruff Precinct, enumeration district
(ED) 46, dwelling 2, family 2, William L. Fenex; digital database Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.org : accessed 7 July 2020); citing FHL
microfilm 1375759.
[22] 1910 U.S. census, Converse County,
Wyoming, population schedule, Glenrock Woodruff Precinct, enumeration district
(ED) 46, dwelling 2, family 2, William L. Fenex; digital database Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.org : accessed 7 July 2020); citing FHL
microfilm 1375759.
[23] Wyoming Department of
Health, file no. 1911, registered no. 319 (1911), Ruth Omega Fenex; Bureau of
Vital Statistics, Cheyenne; copy, Wyoming State Archives,
Cheyenne, digital photograph of printed copy, Tiffany Wacaser, 11 October 2017,
held privately by photographer, Putnam Valley, NY 10579.
[24] Wyoming Department of
Health, file no. 1911, registered no. 319 (1911), Ruth Omega Fenex; Bureau of
Vital Statistics, Cheyenne; copy, Wyoming State Archives,
Cheyenne, digital photograph of printed copy, Tiffany Wacaser, 11 October 2017,
held privately by photographer, Putnam Valley, NY 10579.
[25] Homer Fenex, “The Pioneer
Life of William Lane Fenex and Sabra Ann Fenex,” edited by Jan Pope, 2009; held by Tiffany Wacaser, tiffany.wacaser@gmail.com, Putnam
Valley, NY.
[26] Homer Fenex, “The Pioneer
Life of William Lane Fenex and Sabra Ann Fenex,” edited by Jan Pope, 2009; held by Tiffany Wacaser, tiffany.wacaser@gmail.com, Putnam
Valley, NY.
[27] “Walter Fenex Dies After Operation,” Douglas Budget,
29 August 1918; digital database Wyoming Newspapers (https://www.newspapers.wyo.gov : accesse 17 July 2020); 4, col. 3.
[28] Homer Fenex, “The Pioneer
Life of William Lane Fenex and Sabra Ann Fenex,” edited by Jan Pope, 2009; held by Tiffany Wacaser, tiffany.wacaser@gmail.com, Putnam
Valley, NY.
[29] 1930 U.S. census, Converse County, Wyoming, population
schedule, Glenrock, enumeration district (ED) 5-10, sheet 7-B, dwelling 168,
family 188, Sabra Johnson in the household of William L. Fenex; digital
database FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org : accessed 7 July 2020); citing NARA
microfilm publication T626, roll 2621.
[30] Wyoming Department of
Health, death certificate, file no. 1941, registered no. 2064 (1941), William
Lane Fenex; Bureau of Vital Statistics, Cheyenne; copy, Wyoming
State Archives, Cheyenne, digital photograph of printed copy, Tiffany Wacaser,
11 October 2017, held privately by photographer, Putnam Valley, NY 10579.
[31] Homer Fenex, “The Pioneer
Life of William Lane Fenex and Sabra Ann Fenex,” edited by Jan Pope, 2009; held by Tiffany Wacaser, tiffany.wacaser@gmail.com, Putnam
Valley, NY.
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