Notes for Claiborne Rothwell Eastham

1840 Missouri Census, Saline County, Arrow Rock Township, Page 77 dated 29 Oct, 1840.

Household listing:

Claibourn Easam (sp),

    Male, 20-30, 1, Claiborne Eastham (?),
    Female, 15-20, 1 Henrietta Wood Eastham (?),
    Total 3 This does not add up, but no other indications in any column.

    1 person listed as occupation Agriculture,

    2 person listed as over 21, who cannot read/write.

1850 Missouri Census, Pettis County, District 68, Page 135 dated 12 Sept, 1850.

Household listing:

    David Wood, 56, M, Farmer, born Va.
    Lucy Wood, 45, F, born Va.
    Henrietta M Eastham, 24, F, born Va.
    Clabourn R Eastham, 34, M, Farmer, born Va.
    Elvira C Eastham, 20, F, born Va.
    Nancy W Eastham, 15, F, born Va.
    Lucy A Eastham, 8, F, born Mo.
    David W Eastham, 4, M, born Mo.
    James H Eastham, 2, M, born Mo.
    Laura A Hansbrow, 7, F, born Mo.
    Sarah M Roberson, 59, F, born Va.

    Relationship of Clabourn/Henrietta Eastham to David/Lucy Wood?
    See marriage index above.
    David/Lucy Wood are parents of Henrietta Wood.

    Relationship of Elvira/Nancy Eastham to Clabourn/Henrietta Eastham????
    Nieces??? Sisters???
    Children from previous marriage of Claibourn Eastham?
    Hardly. since Claibourn would have been 14 when Elvira was born.

    Relationship of Laura A Hansbrow to entire household????
    Relationship of Sarah M Roberson to entire household????

1850 Missouri Census, Saline County, District 90, Page 46 & 47 dated 26 Oct, 1850.

Household listing:

    Clairborne Easton (sp), 35, M, Farmer, born Va.
    Henrietta M Easton, 26, F, born Va.
    Lucy A Easton, 8, F, born Mo., attended school,
    David Easton, 5, M, born Mo.
    James Easton, 1, M, born Mo.

1857, May 1, United States of America Sale of Public Land Certificate number 40474 issued to Claiborn R Eastham of Pettis County, Missouri:
for the South half of the North West quarter; the West half of the South East quarter; and North East quarter of the South East quarter of Section Twenty, in Township forty seven of range twenty three in the District of lands formally subject to sale at Clinton now Warsaw, Missouri containing two hundred acres.

1860 Missouri Census, Pettis County, Dwelling 622, Family 616, Page 90 dated 19 Sep, 1860.

Household listing:

    Claiborne Easom (sp), 37, M, Farmer, $2,400 Real Estate, $300 Personal Property, born Va.
    Henrietta Easom, 36, F, born Va.
    David, 13, M, attending school, born Mo.
    James, 12, M, attending school, born Mo.
    William, 6, M, born Mo.
    Susan, 2, F, born Mo.

The next dwelling, number 615, to Claiborne Esom in the 1860 Pettis County Census is:

    John Edwards
    Lucy Ann Edwards

    Could this be the daughter, Lucy A. listed on the 1850 Pettis County census?
    Yes, see WFT Volume 26, tree 731. See notes from Claudia Tillman.
    Lucy A Eastham married John W Edwards February 8, 1860 in Mo.

1870 Missouri Census, Saline County, Marshall Township, Dwelling 309, Family 314, Page 171 dated 17 Aug, 1870.

Household listing:

    Claborn Eastham, 50, M, Farmer, $300 Personal Property, born Va.
    Henrietta, 45, F, born Va.
    David, 22, M, Farmer, born Mo.
    William, 17, M, Farmer, born Mo.
    Susan W, 12, F, born Mo.

MoGenWeb, Cooper County, Missouri birth record, 1890.

Claiborne R Eastham's son, William Rothwell's wife, gave birth to a son in 1890. Birth record gave William's middle name as Rothwell. Since William also had a son named William Claiborne, it is deemed correct to consider the "R" in Claiborne R Eastham name to be Rothwell. This evidence also proves that John Eastham and Polly Rothwell were Claiborne R Eastham's parents, since Polly Rothwell is known to be a daughter of Claiborne Rothwell, of Albemarle County, Virginia.

September, 2000

A search by Harry A Eastham of the courthouse records in Cooper, Pettis, and Saline counties of Missouri turned up only documents bearing the name Claiborne R Eastham.