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Purnell (Pernal) Dale and family
Purnell Dale was born abt. 1805 to Mathew and Catherine Purnell Dale. He was probably born in Carlisle, Nicholas County, Kentucky, as that is where his parents had settled after leaving Maryland.
He married Nancy Baker on June 3, 1828, in Nicholas county. Nancy was the daughter of Jacob and Barbary (Barbara) Baker. Her oldest sister, Elizabeth, had previously married Purnell's brother Isaac.
Between 1832 and 1834 they moved to Rush County, Indiana. After Mathew's father had passed away, his family in Kentucky desired to move to Missouri, so Purnell sent a notarized paper relinquishing his share of the farm in Kentucky, thus allowing the land to be sold. It is not recorded whether he received a share of the proceeds, but he most likely did.
Any proceeds from an inheritance were not to be enjoyed long. Apparently Purnell died sometime after the 1850 Census was taken and before the 1860 Census. In 1860, his wife, Nancy, was living in Anderson Township, in Rush County with several of their children still at home.
Nancy Baker Dale was born about 1813 in Kentucky, most likely Nicholas County. She was the daughter of Jacob and Barbary Baker. Her father died before she was married, so it was her mother who signed the marriage license giving her hand in marriage to Purnell Dale. After she married Purnell, she became the mother of at least 10 children-more likely 11. In 1850 her age was given at 37. Ten years later she was listed as 40. It seems she found an age she liked and stayed with it. She was widowed by 1860, with children she was left to raise alone.
The children of Mathew and Nancy (Baker) Dale were:
1. Virginia Born abt. 1829, most probably in Nicholas, KY, Virginia was first named in the 1850 census. But at that time she was living near to her parents with the Higgins family, for whom she was probably working. (There is a possibility she married a man named Gipson, but this has not been proven.)
2. Daughter-unknown and unnamed-she was listed on the 1840 census with Virginia as age 10-15.
3. Barbara Frances (Sometimes called Frances or Barbery) She was born May 1, 1832, in Nicholas County, KY. She married Jacob Coleman in Rush County, IN, on Dec. 11, 1852. Then it seems they immediately moved to Illinois where they bought land first in one county and then another. There she bore her first 8 children, burying 3 before they moved into Polk County, Missouri in 1871, where her last son, Perry Alonzo was born. Then by 1873 they settled in Cowley Co., Kansas, in what would be known as Harvey Township. But they left there after 1880 and moved to southern Utah, where they apparently were fruit farmers. Her husband died in Woodside, Utah. Barbara went to live with her daughters and granddaughters. She died about 1911, and may have been known as Frances Rebecca Coleman then.
4. James-He was born about 1834 in Indiana, probably Rush County. By 1850, he was helping his dad farm at age 15. He was a student as well. He was not seen again until the 1870 Census, where he was found in Jackson Township, Boone County, IN, near to brother, John and Zenis, with a wife, Angeline (34) and his children: Martha A. (15), William L. (13), Mary E. (11), Purnil R. (9) and Cary A. (6). He was a farmer. Ten years later on the 1880 Census, his children were listed as: Purnell (19), Cary A. (16) and Elizabeth (7).
5. John-He was born about 1835, in Indiana, probably Rush County. On July 19, 1855, he married Amanda Jane Sims in Rush County. They were listed in Jackson Township, Boone County, IN. near to brothers James and Zenis, with wife Amanda (39), Lavinia E. (12), Lola N. (6), Roland J. (6) and 2 farm laborers.
6. William-was born about 1836, probably in Rush County, Indiana.
7. Margaret Katherine (Catherine)-was born about 1838, probably in Rush County, Indiana
8. Joshua-was the forgotten son who was unbelievably overlooked when records were sent to the ancestral file. He was born about 1841, apparently in Rush County, Indiana.
9. Isaac-was born about 1842, in probably Rush County, Indiana. He served in the Civil War (see Civil War Pension Records #Min C 194686). Afterward he married Sarah Loop on Mar 10, 1866, in Boone County, Indiana. (She was possibly the daughter of David and Peggy Loop, formerly of Virginia.) Isaac died just shy of their fifth anniversary, on Feb. 15, 1871.
10. Nancy A.-was born about 1845, in probably Rush County, Indiana. Perhaps her mother died after 1860, as there are papers releasing her guardianship when she turned 21, in 1866. She apparently married a man named Wolf (or Wulf, or Wolfe) and lived in (Manyanola) Colorado, where she remained close to Barbara. She was visited by family in 1916.
11. Zenos Purnell-was born in 1848, probably in Rush County, Indiana. He married (1) Elizabeth Feathers on Feb. 9, 1869, in Boone County, IN. They were listed on the 1870 Census in Boone County with a two month old baby, Elba. He was then a farmer. In 1872, he moved to Hillsboro Cain Township, Fountain County, IN, to work on the railroad. In the 1880 Census he is listed with three children: a son, Elba (10), a son, Hirley (8), and a daughter, Daisey (6). Zenis was listed in an 1881 History of Fountain County as a miller and a stock and grain merchant. Perhaps he was widowed, for on July 19, 1888, he married Mamie A. Weidman.
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