William Addie Waggoner1,2,3

Family Chart
ID# 9028, (1861 - 1926)
FatherJesse M. Waggoner4,5,6 (abt 1830 - 15 Feb 1884)
MotherHarriet Adeline Foster4,7,6 (1835 - 1910)

Key Events:

Birth: 7 Apr 1861, Martinsburg, Pike Co., Illinois8,9,10
Marriage: 21 Nov 1886, Pike Co., Illinois, Martha B. Kessinger (Mar 1868 - 1907)11,12,13
Marriage: 20 Nov 1909, Pittsfield, Pike Co., Illinois, Nettie Kessinger (26 Jul 1875 - 14 Nov 1943)14,15
Divorce: 1910, Pike Co., Nettie Kessinger (26 Jul 1875 - 14 Nov 1943)16,17,18
Marriage: 18 Jan 1911, Bowling Green, Missouri, Mary Emma Brogart (about 1866 - )19,20,21
Death: 13 Dec 1926, Pearl Twp., Pike Co., Illinois22,23,24
Burial: 15 Dec 1926, Old Miller Cemetery, Pearl, Pike Co., Illinois3,25

Copyright Notice

Narrative:

     William Addie Waggoner was born on 7 Apr 1861 in Martinsburg, Pike Co., Illinois.8,9,10
     He appeared on the 1870 Federal Census of Martinsburg Twp., Pike Co., Illinois, in the household of his parents, Jesse M. Waggoner and Harriet Adeline Foster.26 He appeared on the 1880 Federal Census of Spring Creek Twp., Pike Co., Illinois, in the household of his parents.5
     William married first Martha B. Kessinger, daughter of Ransom A. Kessinger and Sarah J. Peacock, on 21 Nov 1886 in Pike Co., Illinois, with W. D. Hanks, justice of the peace, officating.11,12,13
     William and Martha appeared on the 1900 Federal Census of Pearl Twp., Pike Co., Illinois, enumerated 20 Jun 1900, reporting they rented their farm. Their children Obird and Ocie were listed as living with them, as were two laborers, Henry Wagner, age 26 (relationship, if any, not stated), and James Creek, age 66.27
     He was working on a farm, presumably his father's, at age 19, and a farmer by 1900.28,27,29,30
     His wife died in 1907.24
     William married second Nettie Kessinger, daughter of Catherine Christinna Kessinger, who was the older sister of his first wife, on 20 Nov 1909 in Pittsfield, Pike Co., Illinois, with S. P. Rupert, Justice of the Peace, officiating.14,15
     William and Nettie appeared on the 1910 Federal Census of Pearl Twp., Pike Co., Illinois, enumerated 15 Apr 1910, reporting they rented their farm. His children by his prior marriage, Obird and Ocie, and her daughter by her prior marriage, Verna, were listed as living with them.31
     William and Nettie's marriage was apparently dissolved in 1910. No record of a divorce is found in Pike Co., so either they divorced elsewhere, or perhaps their marriage was declared invalid when it became apparent that her prior marriage had never been dissolved when her first husband attempted to divorce her.16,17,18
     William married third Mary Emma Brogart, daughter of Moses Brogart and Melvina Buchanan, and widow of his first wife's older brother on 18 Jan 1911 in Bowling Green, Missouri, with R. L. Motley, judge of probate court, officiating.19,20,21
     William and Mary appeared on the 1920 Federal Census of Pearl Twp., Pike Co., Illinois, enumerated 8 Jan 1920, reporting they owned their farm, which was mortgaged. His son Obird and his family apparently were living close by, as they are listed as the second household following.30
     William died on 13 Dec 1926 in Pearl Twp., Pike Co., Illinois, at age 65.22,23,24 He was buried on 15 Dec 1926 in Old Miller Cemetery, Pearl, Pike Co., Illinois, next to his first wife.3,25

Children:
     Children with Martha B. Kessinger:

  • Obird W. Waggoner27,31 (Jan 1890 - )
  • Ocie Waggoner27,31 (Dec 1894 - )

Children:
     There were no children with Jeanette P. Kessinger

Children:
     There were no children with Mary Emma Brogart

Citations

  1. [S8649] Jesse Wagoner household, 1870 U.S. Census, Pike Co., Illinois, shows name as Ady Wagoner.
  2. [S8648] Jesse M. Waggonner household, 1880 U.S. Census, Pike Co., Illinois, shows name as William A. Waggonner.
  3. [S3132] William A. and Martha B. Waggoner gravestone, Old Miller Cemetery.
  4. [S8649] Jesse Wagoner household, 1870 U.S. Census, Pike Co., Illinois, shows them apparently living as parent and child.
  5. [S8648] Jesse M. Waggonner household, 1880 U.S. Census, Pike Co., Illinois.
  6. [S3148] William Waggoner and Jeanette Cobb, Marriage License.
  7. [S8648] Jesse M. Waggonner household, 1880 U.S. Census, Pike Co., Illinois, shows him as the son of her husband.
  8. [S3462] "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947," FamilySearch.org, record for Wm. A. Waggoner, citing FHL #1613463 and ref ID 48046, shows date, town, and state.
  9. [S3148] William Waggoner and Jeanette Cobb, Marriage License, shows town, county, state, and that he would be 47 at his next birthday.
  10. [S8649] Jesse Wagoner household, 1870 U.S. Census, Pike Co., Illinois, shows age 9 and state.
  11. [S8646] Marriage Record, Pike Co., Illinois, 3:149, no. 1097, marriage of William A. Waggoner and Miss Mattie Kessinger, shows date and officiant.
  12. [S3128] William Wagner household, 1900 U.S. Census, Pike Co., Illinois, shows married 13 years.
  13. [S3132] William A. and Martha B. Waggoner gravestone, Old Miller Cemetery, shows them on the same stone.
  14. [S3148] William Waggoner and Jeanette Cobb, Marriage License, shows date, town, county, state, officiant, and that this was his second and her third marriage.
  15. [S3120] William A. Waggoner household, 1910 U.S. Census, Pike Co., Illinois, shows married one year, and second marriage for each; she seems to have been ignoring her marriage to Robert Cobb, and acknowledging only her first marriage, to Brown.
  16. [S3130] William E. Wagner and Mary E. Kessinger, marriage license, shows he remarried 18 Jan 1911.
  17. [S3182] Interview, Becky of Pike Co. Illinois Circuit Clerk's office, 10 Mar 2011, stated that she checked the record for 10 years before and after 1910 and found no record for Waggoner.
  18. [S3236] Kessinger, probate papers, 1914, Pike County Clerk/Recorder, Petition for Probate, dated 11 Nov 1912, shows her name as Nattie Cobb.
  19. [S3130] William E. Wagner and Mary E. Kessinger, marriage license, shows date, town, county, and officiant.
  20. [S3129] Addie Waggoner household, 1920 U.S. Census, Pike Co., Illinois, shows married.
  21. [S3462] "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947," FamilySearch.org, record for Wm. A. Waggoner, citing FHL #1613463 and ref ID 48046, shows his wife as Emma Waggoner.
  22. [S3462] "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947," FamilySearch.org, record for Wm. A. Waggoner, citing FHL #1613463 and ref ID 48046, shows date, town, county, and state.
  23. [S718] Illinois State Archives, Database of Death Certificates, online, record for Wm A. Waggoner, citing cert. no. 0750296, shows date, county, and township.
  24. [S3132] William A. and Martha B. Waggoner gravestone, Old Miller Cemetery, shows year.
  25. [S3462] "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947," FamilySearch.org, record for Wm. A. Waggoner, citing FHL #1613463 and ref ID 48046, shows date.
  26. [S8649] Jesse Wagoner household, 1870 U.S. Census, Pike Co., Illinois.
  27. [S3128] William Wagner household, 1900 U.S. Census, Pike Co., Illinois.
  28. [S8648] Jesse M. Waggonner household, 1880 U.S. Census, Pike Co., Illinois, shows occupation as working on farm.
  29. [S3120] William A. Waggoner household, 1910 U.S. Census, Pike Co., Illinois, shows occupation as farm laborer, industry as home farm, but shows him working on his own account.
  30. [S3129] Addie Waggoner household, 1920 U.S. Census, Pike Co., Illinois.
  31. [S3120] William A. Waggoner household, 1910 U.S. Census, Pike Co., Illinois.