Family History-- John Wesley would have been about 20 years old when he came to AZ with his family.
"PIONEERS OF AZ [from Osborn family tree, Ancestory.com]
John Preston Osborn and his wife Perlina Elizabeth Swetnam were looking for a better place to live for her health. They migrated to Colorado from Iowa then onto Arizona. They arrived in Prescott, July 7 1864 as part of wagon train traveling from Colorado. They brought with them the high grade dairy cattle he was known to raise in Iowa."
John Wesley's first marriage was to Laura Frances Morrell on May 9, 1889 in Maricopa Co., AZ when he was 35 and she was 19.
She died only a few years later leaving 2 children:
Roy Swetnam Osborn (1890-1969) and
Gladys E Osborn (1891-abt 1971)(she married Harry Bennett abt 1912).
His second marriage was to Leona Ann Kelly on July 5, 1898 in Maricopa Co., AZ when he was 44 and she was 30.
They had 3 children:
Katherine Rose (1899-1968) who married Harry Morrell
John W., Jr., who died at age 6 (1904-1910)
Robert Leonard (1906- ) who married Ruby L. Martin
Family History-- John Wesley would have been about 20 years old when he came to AZ with his family.
"PIONEERS OF AZ [from Osborn family tree, Ancestory.com]
John Preston Osborn and his wife Perlina Elizabeth Swetnam were looking for a better place to live for her health. They migrated to Colorado from Iowa then onto Arizona. They arrived in Prescott, July 7 1864 as part of wagon train traveling from Colorado. They brought with them the high grade dairy cattle he was known to raise in Iowa."
John Wesley's first marriage was to Laura Frances Morrell on May 9, 1889 in Maricopa Co., AZ when he was 35 and she was 19.
She died only a few years later leaving 2 children:
Roy Swetnam Osborn (1890-1969) and
Gladys E Osborn (1891-abt 1971)(she married Harry Bennett abt 1912).
His second marriage was to Leona Ann Kelly on July 5, 1898 in Maricopa Co., AZ when he was 44 and she was 30.
They had 3 children:
Katherine Rose (1899-1968) who married Harry Morrell
John W., Jr., who died at age 6 (1904-1910)
Robert Leonard (1906- ) who married Ruby L. Martin
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