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William Franklin Challis

Male 1857 - 1937  (80 years)


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  • Name William Franklin Challis  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] 
    Born 1857  Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11] 
    Gender Male 
    Race White  [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12] 
    Occupation Lawyer  [3, 12] 
    Residence 1860  Pontiac, Livingston, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Age: 2 
    Residence 1870  Louisville, Pottawatomie, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Age: 13; Census Post Office: Louisville 
    Residence 1 Mar 1875  Wamego, Pottawatomie, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    Age: 18 
    Residence 1880  Wamego, Pottawatomie, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Age: 22; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Self 
    Residence 1900  Rock Creek, Pottawatomie, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [7, 9] 
    Age: 41; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head 
    Residence 1910  Rock Creek, Pottawatomie, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Age: 52; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head 
    Residence 1920  Wamego, Pottawatomie, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Age: 61; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head 
    Residence 1930  Wamego, Pottawatomie, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Age: 72; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head 
    Died 1937  [2] 
    Buried Wamego, Pottawatomie, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    • Wamego City Cemetery, Find A Grave Memorial# 35133231
    Person ID I5799  Clark Benscoter
    Last Modified 4 Mar 2020 

    Father Henry G Challis,   b. 3 May 1821, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Apr 1906, Westmoreland, Pottawatomie, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 84 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Prudence A Wright,   b. Abt 1832, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1886, Onaga, Pottawatomie, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 54 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Married 28 Dec 1853  Will, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [13] 
    Family ID F2646  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elizabeth R Challis,   b. 1859, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1947  (Age 88 years) 
    Married 1879  [7] 
    Children 
     1. Leonard Mark Challis,   b. 19 Aug 1886, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Jun 1967, Akron, Washington, Colorado, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years)  [natural]
     2. Winifred Challis,   b. 25 Jan 1897, Westmoreland, Pottawatomie, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Jul 2003, Fruita, Mesa, Colorado, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 106 years)  [natural]
     3. John Wesley Challis,   b. 30 Jun 1895, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Oct 1966, Fort Morgan, Morgan, Colorado, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 71 years)  [natural]
     4. William Challis,   b. Abt 1894, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [natural]
     5. Mary A Challis,   b. Nov 1888, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [natural]
     6. Gail Horatio Challis,   b. Oct 1892, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [natural]
     7. Ella Udell Challis,   b. Sep 1884, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [natural]
     8. Rhea Challis,   b. Abt 1883, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [natural]
     9. David Challis,   b. Abt 1880, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [natural]
    Last Modified 4 Mar 2020 
    Family ID F1746  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 1857 - Illinois, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Age: 2 - 1860 - Pontiac, Livingston, Illinois, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Age: 13; Census Post Office: Louisville - 1870 - Louisville, Pottawatomie, Kansas, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Age: 18 - 1 Mar 1875 - Wamego, Pottawatomie, Kansas, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Age: 22; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Self - 1880 - Wamego, Pottawatomie, Kansas, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Age: 41; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head - 1900 - Rock Creek, Pottawatomie, Kansas, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Age: 52; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head - 1910 - Rock Creek, Pottawatomie, Kansas, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Age: 61; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head - 1920 - Wamego, Pottawatomie, Kansas, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Age: 72; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head - 1930 - Wamego, Pottawatomie, Kansas, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - Wamego, Pottawatomie, Kansas, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • William F. Challis, widely known as editor of the "Signal," of Westmoreland, Kan., and also a lawyer at that place for the past twenty-four years, was born in Illinois, in 1857. He is a son of Henry G. and Prudence A. (Wright) Challis. Henry G. Challis was born in Hampshire, England, and was a son of a farmer at that place. He learned the blacksmith's trade in England and remained there until twenty-one years of age. He then came to America, locating first in New York. He only remained there one year, when he came west, settling first in Illinois and afterwards removing to Wamego, Kan. Wamego at that time was only a very small settlement of pioneers. Mr. Challis worked at his trade there until 1881, when, with his family, he moved to Onaga. He continued at the blacksmith's trade for four or five years longer, when he retired and came to Westmoreland to live with his son, William F. His death occured in Westmoreland, in 1907, and that of his wife occurred in Onaga, in 1886. William F. Challis was married, at the age of twenty-two, to Miss Elizabeth Riddell of Pottawatomie county. Mrs. Challis is a native of Illinois. Mr. Challis studied law under Mr. Hick, an uncle, and began practice in 1881, in Onaga, where he remained five years. He then located at Westmoreland, where he has since resided. He is editor of the "Signal," published there, and keeps up the study and practice of law. He has taken an active part in political affairs, as a Democrat, and has served one term as county attorney of Pottawatomie county. He is an extensive land owner, having a tract of 900 acres in Pottawatomie county, and in connection with his professional work carries on stock raising on an extensive scale. Mr. Challis' family consists of five sons and four daughters: Gail, Winifred and William and Wesley (twins), are at home; Leon is in Oklahoma; Rhea is married to Dr. Henry Lehnhoff of Lincoln, Neb.; Udell is the wife of W. F. Meagher of Muskogee, Okla.; Mary is employed as teacher in the public schools of Garrison, and Leonard manages his father's farm. The Challis family attend the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Challis holds membership in four fraternal orders-the Masons, Knights of Pythias, Modern Woodmen of America, and the Knights and Ladies of Security.

      Pages 590-591 from volume III, part 1 of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Transcribed December 2002 by Carolyn Ward. This volume is identified at the Kansas State Historical Society as microfilm LM195. It is a two-part volume 3.

      http://ksgenweb.com/archives/1912/c3/challis_william_f.html

  • Sources 
    1. [S226] 1860 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;), Year: 1860; Census Place: Pontiac, Livingston, Illinois; Roll: M653_199; Page: 807; Image: 117; Family History Library Film: 803199.
      Record for Wm F Challis

    2. [S259] U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).
      Record for William Franklin Challis

    3. [S778] 1930 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2002;), Year: 1930; Census Place: Wamego, Pottawatomie, Kansas; Roll: 715; Page: 14B; Enumeration District: 0034; Image: 873.0; FHL microfilm: 2340450.
      Record for William F Challis

    4. [S118] 1910 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.Original data - Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910 (NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Was;), Year: 1910; Census Place: Rock Creek, Pottawatomie, Kansas; Roll: T624_450; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 0123; FHL microfilm: 1374463.
      Record for William F Challis

    5. [S137] 1870 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;), Year: 1870; Census Place: Louisville, Pottawatomie, Kansas; Roll: M593_441; Page: 389B; Image: 111; Family History Library Film: 545940.
      Record for William F Challis

    6. [S784] 1920 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Year: 1920; Census Place: Wamego, Pottawatomie, Kansas; Roll: T625_544; Page: 6B; Enumeration District: 140; Image: 1153.
      Record for William F Challis

    7. [S149] 1900 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;), Year: 1900; Census Place: Rock Creek, Pottawatomie, Kansas; Roll: 495; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 0146; FHL microfilm: 1240495.
      Record for Leonard W Challis

    8. [S788] Kansas State Census Collection, 1855-1925, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;), Kansas State Historical Society; Topeka, Kansas; 1875 Kansas Territory Census; Roll: ks1875_16; Line: 24.
      Record for Frank Challis

    9. [S149] 1900 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;), Year: 1900; Census Place: Rock Creek, Pottawatomie, Kansas; Roll: 495; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 0146; FHL microfilm: 1240495.
      Record for Henry G Challis

    10. [S225] 1880 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Year: 1880; Census Place: Wamego, Pottawatomie, Kansas; Roll: 393; Family History Film: 1254393; Page: 348B; Enumeration District: 248; Image: 0540.
      Record for Frank Challis

    11. [S50] 1920 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. (NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Reco;), Year: 1920; Census Place: Wamego, Pottawatomie, Kansas; Roll: T625_544; Page: 6B; Enumeration District: 140; Image: 1153.
      Record for William F Challis

    12. [S49] 1930 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626,;), Year: 1930; Census Place: Wamego, Pottawatomie, Kansas; Roll: 715; Page: 14B; Enumeration District: 0034; Image: 873.0; FHL microfilm: 2340450.
      Record for William F Challis

    13. [S441] Illinois, Marriage Index, 1860-1920, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2015;).
      Record for Prudence A Wright


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