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Jacob and Fanny Adriance were in the 1900 census living next to Hiram Goff's family in Maple Twp, Dodge Co., NE. In the 1920 census he lived with his son-in-law, Hiram Jay Goffe in Long Beach, Los Angeles Co., California. Fanny had died in 1909.
Rev. Jacob Adriance
Born: 22 OCT 1835 at Cayuga County, New York
Died: 18 DEC 1922 at Fremont, Dodge County, Nebraska
Buried: Ridge Cemetery; Fremont, Dodge County, Nebraska
Married: on 26 APR 1860 in New York.
Fannie A Rogers
Born: unknown
Died: 1908 at Fremont, Dodge County, Nebraska
Buried: Ridge Cemetery; Fremont, Dodge County, Nebraska
Children:
Mrs H J Goffe of Long Beach, CA
Mrs H A Burrill of Fremont, NE
Myrtle, died as an infant and buried at Ridge Cemetery
Rev. Emory, buried at Ridge Cemetery.
Jacob and his family moved from Cayuga County to Niagara County, NY in 1845 where he reached adulthood. He attended the Wilson Collegiate Institute. At the age of 16, he experienced a conversion and felt the calling to become a minister at age 18. Adriance left New York in 1857 to begin his Methodist ministry in the West, first coming to Nebraska City, Otoe County, Nebraska.
Adriance was assigned to the "DeSoto Mission" by the Elder of the Omaha District. Besides the Washington County towns of DeSoto and Cuming City, Adriance was also responsible for servicing Tekamah and Decatur in Burt County, Nebraska as well as any tiny town in between. Upon arrival in Washington County, he discovered there were no churches established anywhere.
The first regular minister at DeSoto, Washington County, Nebraska was Rev. Jacob Adriance, also of the Methodist Church. This was in 1857 and the first meeting was in Jacob Carters home. Jacob Carter was a Baptist. How this meeting came to be in his home may never be known!
On a visit to Cuming City, where seven Methodists lived, Adriance organized them and appointed H. Benner as leader. The same thing happened in Tekamah with William Bates appointed leader and the meeting spot was in Benjamin Folsoms home.
During the Colorado Gold Rush in the Denver and Central City areas, Rev. William H. Goode, was sent to the area by the Kansas and Nebraska Conference of the Methodist Church to organize a church. The first organized church was one at Central City. Rev. Goode, with the assistance of Rev. Adriance, established the church and when Goode left in August, 1859, Rev. Adriance became the minister for the congregation. The two ministers also began the first Methodist church in Denver. Again, as in Nebraska, Adriance was a circuit rider minister servicing Golden City (now Golden), Boulder, Arapahoe, Gold Hill, and Denver City. In February, 1860, Adriance left to attend the Methodist Episcopal conference in Leavenworth, Kansas.
The year 1862 found Adriance back in Nebraska. When the Methodist Episcopal Church was moved from Cuming City, Nebraska to Blair, Nebraska in the summer of 1869, the first sermon was preached by Rev. Adriance, in a car at the railroad station, previous to the moving of the church. Rev. Adriance became the first regular minister.
At Waterloo, Douglas County, Nebraska in 1871 the Methodist Church held their first services in private homes before having services in the first log and sod school house at the Weston Farm. Circuit rider Rev. Adriance assisted in the erecting of the building.
In 1878, at the age of 43 years, Rev. Adriance began to experience health problems, including a loss of hearing and he retired from active ministry.
His obituary was published in Fremont Weekly Herald 22 Dec 1922, Page 1:
Aged Minister Who Died Here Monday Founder First M. E. Church of Denver
Rev Jacob Adriance, pioneer Methodist preacher in Nebraska and Colorado, passed away early Monday morning, at the home of his daughter, Mrs H A Burrill, 78 West Linden avenue, at the good old age of eighty-seven years. Thus came to a peaceful close a life the fruits of which were of inestimable good. And though he has gone home, the good results of his labors as one of the first ministers in the then untamed territory west of the Missouri river, will continue throughout the circling years of eternity. Rev Adriance was born in Cayuaga County, New York, October 22, 1836, the son of Thomas and Margaret Adriance, natives of the Empire state and themselves of excellent American stock. Converted at the age of sixteen, early in life he felt the call to preach, for which he was fitted by education in the common schools of his native state and in Wilson Collegiate Institute of Niagara County, New York. In 1857, Rev Adriance came west, as a field which doubtless appealed to him as offering the greatest need and opportunity for the service which he had to give. He settled first as De Soto, but the following spring(1858) he came to Fremont (which had been platted only the year before) and took charge of the Platte Valley Circuit of the Methodist Episcopal church. This circuit comprised twelve different appointments and required a travel of three hundred miles to complete it. The pioneer minister made this circuit each month on horse-back, traveling often through storm and snow, with no broken track to guide him and with mercury frequently registering twenty-five or more degrees below zero. After a year of this heroic service Rev Adriance was transferred to Pikes Peak in Colorado, where the discovery of gold had just been made and was attracting motley hordes. Thus he became the first resident minister in that territory and had the honor to have organized the First Methodist Church of Denver. Upon the organization of the Provincial Colorado government, Rev Adriance was chosen to serve as chaplain of the lower house of the legislature. It was in the midst of his work in Colorado that the pioneer preacher returned to New York state, and there, on April 26, 1830 (error was 1860) was married to Fannie A Rogers, a daughter of Rev and Mrs L C Rogers. He continued his labors in Colorado then until 1871, when he came back into Nebraska, where he kept up his heroic service until deafness caused him to retire from the ministry in 1878. The following year of 1879 the deceased removed to a farm which the late E H and L H Rogers had located for him in 1862 on a land warrant which was a present to the minister from his father. This farm was situated some distance northwest of Fremont, near Jamestown in Maple township, and for a long term of years he served as postmaster at that place. Nineteen years ago the deceased and his wife retired to Fremont, where, five years later, Mrs Adriance passed away. Since then he has made his home, alternately with his two daughters, Mrs H J Goffe of Long Beach, CA, and Mrs H A Burrill of this city. In addition to the two daughters mentioned, Rev Adriance is survived by his brother Edgar, of this city, eight grandchildren and four great grandchildren. An excellent character and a long life of faithful service, cheerfully given, insured to this pioneer minister a wider and sincerer circle of friends than is ordinarily given one man to enjoy, and these now mourn his transition as sincerely as the bereaved members of his own household. The funeral was held at one-thirty oclock yesterday afternoon at the First Methodist Episcopal church, with the pastor, Rev E L Baker, officiating. Burial was made in Ridge cemetery, where sleeps also his departed wife, their infant daughter, Myrtle and son, the late Rev Emory Adriance. Four grandsons of Rev Adriance and two cousins acted as pall bearers: Rex Burrill of Fremont, Jay Goffe of Lincoln; Walter L Goffe of Waverley; J B Vance of Sterling; C L Rogers and Rex R Moe, both of Fremont. The funeral was largely attended, and the Rev W H Underwood, who once administered as Rev Adriances pastor when the latter was a resident of Maple township, and who is at present superintendent of the Methodist Old Peoples Home at Blair, assisted the local pastor in the service, speaking reminiscently of the deceased and adding a tribute to his honor.
Source: Ruth Moss, Washington County Genealogical Society
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1880 Census, Platte, Dodge Co., NE
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Tombstone, Ridge Memorial Cemetery, Fremont, Nebraska.
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1880 Census, Platte, Dodge Co., NE
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Ruth Moss, Washington County Genealogical Society
_William MCCONNELL __+
| (1796 - 1873) m 1820
_James Robert MCCONNELL _|
| (1836 - 1915) m 1870 |
| |_Sarah H. WHITE _____+
| (1796 - 1845) m 1820
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|--Ada "Addie" MCCONNELL
| (1885 - ....)
| _John NEWMAN ________
| | (1807 - 1881) m 1839
|_Hannah NEWMAN __________|
(1850 - 1899) m 1870 |
|_Mary BLAIR _________
(1809 - 1855) m 1839
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1900 Census, Marion Twp, Davis Co., IA
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Banta, D.D. History of Johnson County, Indiana. Chicago, IL: Brant & Fuller, 1888.
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1900 Census, Marion Twp, Davis Co., IA
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_William MCCONNELL __|
| (1815 - ....) |
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|--John F. MCCONNELL
| (1843 - ....)
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|_Mary _____ _________|
(1829 - ....) |
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1850 Census, Sugar Creek Twp, Mecklenburg Co., NC
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1850 Census, Sugar Creek Twp, Mecklenburg Co., NC
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_John MCCONNELL _____|
| (1841 - ....) m 1869|
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|--Mary MCCONNELL
| (1872 - ....)
| _Jacob LYNCH ________
| | (1806 - ....)
|_Martha A. LYNCH ____|
(1841 - ....) m 1869|
|_Hannah _____ _______
(1814 - ....)
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1880 Census, Kitanning, Armstrong Co., PA
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1880 Census, Kitanning, Armstrong Co., PA
_Alexander MCCONNELL _+
| (1772 - 1820) m 1795
_Samuel MCCONNELL ___|
| (1815 - ....) |
| |_Barbara _____ _______
| (1772 - ....) m 1795
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|--Robert MCCONNELL
| (1844 - ....)
| ______________________
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|_Nancy _____ ________|
(1820 - ....) |
|______________________
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1850 Census, Elizabethtown, Marshall Co., VA
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1850 Census, Elizabethtown, Marshall Co., VA
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1870 Census, Toledo, Lucas Co., OH
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1870 Census, Toledo, Lucas Co., OH
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Per city directory of Toledo, Lucas Co., OH
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An estimate based on age of children
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_Peter J. SMITH _____|
| (1803 - ....) m 1843|
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|--Milton SMITH
| (1849 - ....)
| _William MCCONNELL __
| | (1779 - 1867) m 1812
|_Hannah MCCONNELL ___|
(1822 - ....) m 1843|
|_Sarah CARTER _______
(1788 - 1865) m 1812
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1850 Census, Bloom Twp, Seneca Co., OH
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1850 Census, Bloom Twp, Seneca Co., OH
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1860 Census, Chesaning, Saginaw Co., MI
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_Samuel WILSON ______|
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|--Rebecca WILSON
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| _Benjamin WINSLEY ___
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|_Rebecca WINSLEY ____|
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|_Mary _____ _________
[28975] Rebecca was mentioned in the will of her grandfather, Benjamin Winsley.