Pedigree of Brian L. Lightfoot Robert Letcher Mountjoy

Robert Fisher Mountjoy
(Abt 1812-)

Susan Tolbert Brown
(Abt 1817-)

Robert Letcher Mountjoy
(1842-1884)

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Spouses/Children:
1. Margaret Arnspiger

Robert Letcher Mountjoy ¹ ² ³

Born: 16 June 1842, Anderson, Kentucky, United States
Marriage (1): Margaret Arnspiger on 16 August 1866 in Logan, Illinois, United States ¹ ² ³
Died: 24 November 1884, Logan, Illinois, United States at age 42

bullet Noted events in his life were:

1. 1880 US Census, 4 June 1880, Eminence Township, Logan, Illinois, United States. ³ 1880 US Census
Page 239A, District 48, Dwelling 51, Family 54, Roll 0227
Eminence Township, Logan County, Illinois
Robert L. Mountjoy..Self..36..KY..Farmer
(Living with wife, 4 children, 1 brother, and 2 nephews to wife.)

NOTE - If his birth date was 16 Jun 1842, then his age should have been 37 instead of 36.

Robert married Margaret Arnspiger, daughter of Steven Arnspiger and Catharine Howser, on 16 August 1866 in Logan, Illinois, United States.¹ ² ³ (Margaret Arnspiger was born on 29 December 1844 in Logan, Illinois, United States,⁴ ⁵ ⁶ died on 23 August 1935 in Logan, Illinois, United States ⁶ and was buried on 26 August 1935 in Eminence Township, Logan, Illinois, United States ⁶.)

bullet Noted events in their marriage were:

1. 1880 US Census, 4 June 1880, Eminence Township, Logan, Illinois, United States. ³ 1880 US Census
Page 239A, District 48, Dwelling 51, Family 54, Roll 0227
Eminence Township, Logan County, Illinois
Robert L. Mountjoy..Self..36..KY..Farmer
Margaret Mountjoy..Wife..34..IL..Keeping House
Lillie S. Mountjoy..Dau..12..IL..At Home
Paralee Mountjoy..Dau..11..IL..At Home
Amanda Mountjoy..Dau..6..IL..At Home
Tolbert Mountjoy..Son..2..IL..At Home
Marion Mountjoy...Bro..26..IL..Farmer
George Atteberry..Othr..18..IL..Farm Laborer
Frank Atteberry..Othr..20..IL..Farm Laborer
Martha Brining..Othr..28..IL..Housekeeper

NOTE - Marion Mountjoy was a brother of Robert. George and Frank Atteberry were both noted as "other" relationship to Robert but were actually nephews to Margaret through her older sister, Susan. Martha Brining was probably un-related.

1 Dr. W.W. Houser, Genealogy of the Houser, Rhorer, Dillman, Hoover Families (1910), page 79.

2 Illinois State Archives, "Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763–1900," database(https://cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/databases/marriage.html : accessed 13 January 2021), MOUNTJOY, ROBERT J. and ARNSPIPER, MARGARET, Logan County, 08/16/1866, Vol./Page 002/0016, License Number 00001524.

3 1880 U.S. census, population schedule, Eminence Township, Logan County, Illinois, enumeration district (ED) 48, p. 239A, dwelling 51, family 54, Robert Letcher Mountjoy and Margaret Arnspiger; database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/collection/1417683 : accessed 20 Mar 2017); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T9, roll 0227.

4 Dr. W.W. Houser, Genealogy of the Houser, Rhorer, Dillman, Hoover Families (1910), page 77.

5 1900 U.S. census, population schedule, Lincoln, Logan County, Illinois, enumeration district (ED) 42, sheet 7B, dwelling 152, family 152, Judson D. Fusch and Paralee Mountjoy; database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/collection/1325221 : accessed 08 Oct 2009); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T623.

6 "Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1948," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1438856 : accessed 6 August 2020), Margaret I Mountjoy, 23 Aug 1935; Public Board of Health, Archives, Springfield; FHL microfilm 1,765,616.

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