ID: I5422
Name: James William Voss
Surname: Voss
Given Name: James William
Sex: M
Birth: 2 Sep 1839 in Lawrence Co., TN
Death: Oct 1891 in Hector, Pope Co., AR
Burial: Price Cemetery, Hector, Pope Co., AR
_UID: 1B6BAEC14F075849B0762B9FC1FEE8B2359F
Note: All spouses, children and birth order of children is sourced to Goodspeed's "Pope County, Arkansas - Biographical and Historical Memoirs," at pp. 71-72. From that narrative, at page 71, "Mr. Voss and family left Tennessee and emigrated to Arkansas, in 1858, settling in Pope County, but afterward removed to Yell County, thence to Searcy County, where his wife died in 1868. In 1869, Mr. Voss purchased 120 acres of land in the last named county, and improved seventy-five acres, but sold it all in 1881. He then purhcased his present property, consisting of 160 acres, with eighty acres under cultivation."
1860 Census
Name: James Voss
Age in 1860: 21
Birth Year: abt 1839
Birthplace: Tennessee
Home in 1860: Wilson, Pope, Arkansas
Gender: Male
Post Office: Dayton
Household Members:
Name Age
James Voss 21
Susan J Voss 23
Emeline Voss 1
1880 Census
Name: James Voss
Home in 1880: Red River, Searcy, Arkansas
Age: 40
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1840
Birthplace: Tennessee
Relation to Head of Household: Self (Head)
Spouse's Name: Tennesee
Father's birthplace: Tennessee
Mother's birthplace: Tennessee
Occupation: Farmer
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Gender: Male
Household Members:
Name Age
James Voss 40
Tennesee Voss 32
Franklin Voss 19
Mary Voss 14
William Voss 12
William Andrew Voss 12
Philander Voss 9
Morris Voss 7
Ellen Voss 5
Stephen Voss 3
Sally Voss 11M
Change Date: 31 Oct 2010 at 01:00:00
Father: Robert Newton Voss b: 1810 in Tennessee
Mother: Charlotte Mitchell b: 1813 in Tennessee
Marriage 1
Susanna J Pennington b: 1837 in Lawrence Co., TN
- Married:
18 Oct 1857
in Lawrence Co., TN
Children
 Emmaline Voss b: 1858 in Lawrence Co., TN Franklin Pierce Voss b: Sep 1861 in Arkansas- Mary Delilah LaQuincy Voss b: 11 May 1864 in Arkansas
- William Robert Voss b: 1867 in Searcy Co., AR
Marriage 2
Mary Tennessee Williams b: Sep 1847 in Arkansas
- Married:
1869
in Searcy Co., AR
Children
- James A Voss b: 1870 in Searcy Co., AR
- Philander Marcellus Voss b: Jan 1871 in Searcy Co., AR
- Victoria Ellen M Voss b: 1873 in Searcy Co., AR
- John Morris Voss b: Feb 1874 in Searcy Co., AR
- Nathaniel Stephenson Voss b: 14 Apr 1877 in Searcy Co., AR
- Sally Voss b: 1879 in Searcy Co., AR
- Wiley Andrew Voss b: 14 Mar 1882 in Pope Co., AR
- Aranna "Rosie" May Voss b: May 1885 in Pope Co., AR
- Joseph Lester Voss b: 25 Aug 1886 in Pope Co., AR
- Benjamin Harrison Voss b: Dec 1888 in Pope Co., AR
- Maude Ethel Voss b: Jan 1892 in Pope Co., AR
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