Peelle
Passco
1822 – 1908
Passco Peelle, son of William and Sally (Cox) Peelle, was born in Indiana in 1822.
Marriage
Passco married Martha Johnson in 1845 in Wayne County, Indiana. They settled in Randolph County, Indiana, where they owned 159 1/2 acres due west of Lynn and northeast of Bloomingsport. School No. 8 sat on the other 1/2 acre of the section.
The Children
Martha gave birth to 8 children:
- Rachel married Abner Wiley Benson in 1874. They lived in Randolph County, Indiana. Their daughter Lu corresponded with her cousin Nellie Peelle. Unlike Nellie, Lu never married.
- Carolina died of scarlet fever before her third birthday.
- Evaline married John A. Farmer in Randolph County, Indiana in 1870. They moved to Kansas and Evaline resided in Bourbon County for the last 33 years of her life. They had a son that was missing at the end of the Spanish-American War. Their other children never married.
- Elzena “Jennie” married William T. Lewis in 1873. She died when her youngest child was only two years old. W. T. Lewis raised their four living children (2 died young). He never remarried.
- William Johnson♥
- Sarah Ann “Sally” married Christopher C. Longnecker. They raised their 8 children in Randolph County, Indiana. Sally lived to the ripe old age of 91.
- Emmaline D. “Lillie” moved with her parents to Kansas. In 1881, she married Alpheus “Alf” Potter. They lived in Bourbon County, Kansas near Mapleton.
- Mossie Lea moved with her parents to Bourbon County, Kansas. In 1887, she married Alvin “Ed” Wilkie in Johnson County, Kansas. They lived in Fort Scott, Kansas and Ed worked on the railroad. Mossie died at 39.
Move to Kansas
In 1879, Passco and Martha moved to near Hiattville in Bourbon County, Kansas. The three youngest children moved to Kansas; however, the older girls were married and stayed behind in Indiana. It is unclear why the family moved to Kansas; however, the property that they purchased north of Hiattville and the town of Hiattville both had ties to Randolph County, Indiana.
After a few years living north of Hiattville near the Schofield School, Passco, Martha, and William J. moved into Hiattville, where they owned several properties. Then, in the mid-1890s, they all moved west of Hiattville to the house that sat on what became the Davis property. They lived there until selling for nothing and moving back to their original home north of Hiattville. By this time, the family consisted of Martha, Passco, William J., William J.’s wife Matilda, and William J. and Matilda’s three children. They did not remain at their old home long as they soon purchased “The Homeplace” southeast of Hiattville.
Passco passed away in 1908.