Andrew Jackson DANCY Mary Jane DANCY Travis DANCY Lillian DANCY Florinda A FARMER Joseph Davis DANCY Elizabeth J DANCY Belle DANCY Margaret BROWN Mini tree diagram
Charles Ozias DANCY

Charles Ozias DANCY1,6,3,4,7,8,9,5

26th Jul 18561,2,3,4,5 - 27th Jun 19286,4,5

Life History

26th Jul 1856

Born in Wayne County, Kentucky.1,2,3,4,5

7th Nov 1881

Married Florinda A FARMER in Warrick County, Indiana.1,7

1st Aug 1882

Birth of son Travis DANCY in Spencer County, Indiana.10,11,12,13,4

22nd May 1904

Birth of daughter Lillian DANCY in Bristol, Sullivan, Tennessee

27th Jun 1928

Died in Arkansas County, Arkansas.6,4,5

28th Jun 1928

Buried in Mt Pleasant Cemetery, Ethel, Arkansas County, Arkansas.4,5

Notes

  • Every record has his name as Ozias, or a phonetic variation like Ozion.  In November 2018, I found a record for one of his daughters that reported his name as Charles O Dancy.

    U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
    Lillian Roark [Mary Lillian Dancy]
    Birth 22 May 1904 Bristol, Sullivan, Tennessee
    Death May 1980
    Father Charles O Dancy
    Mother Flora A Hutchins
    SSN 412080937
    01 Nov 1972 Name listed as LILLIAN ROARK

    Bristol, Tennessee is on Interstate Highway 81, on the border with Virginia (a joint city with Bristol, Virginia).  It is near the point of the Kentucky-Virginia-Tennessee border,  Also note that the surname of Lillian's mother is reported as Hutchins, but other records indicate her maiden name was Farmer.  Florinda was only 16 when she married Ozias, so the name Hutchins must be her second married name, as she survived Ozias by almost 20 years.

    I first found information on Ozias in the 1930 census in Prairie Township, Arkansas County, Arkansas, when his wife was a widow living next door to their son Travis.  From Travis' information, I learned that Ozias was born in Kentucky.

    I then found Ozias and his wife in Indiana in 1910.  I learned in the process that her full name was not Flora, as reported in 1930, but Florinda.  I found them a few houses away from their single son Travis, age 27, living as a single on his own farm.

    This 1910 census also reported that Ozias was born in Kentucky, as well as both his parents. With this information I searched for Ozias in Kentucky.

    I found Ozias with his parents in Wayne County, Kentucky, in 1860, when he was 4 years old.  There were also two sisters, Mary Jane 5 and Eliza J 1, and a brother Joe Davis 3.  His parents here are listed as A J and Margaret Dancy.  They are living near Monticello, which is their post office.

    1860 Federal Census, Wayne County, Kentucky, 10 August, PO Monticello, page 168, Hse #1117, Fam #1109
    A J Dancy 28 M Day Laborer $300 personal estate born Kentucky
    Margaret Dancy 23 F Housewife born Kentucky
    Ozias Dancy 4 M born Kentucky [b abt 1856]

    I then was able to find Ozias' parents in the Kentucky marriage register, where I found them as Andrew J Dancy and Margaret Brown.

    I found Ozias and the other children with their mother in the 1870 census living with Ozias' older sister Mary Jane Massie in Warrick County, Indiana.  Ozias was reported in 1870 as Silas.  This has led some genealogies to report Silas as a middle name, when in fact his full name was Charles Ozias Dancy.  This would seem to indicate that Ozias' father died before the 1870 census.

    1870 Federal Census, Warrick County, Indiana, 13 September, Skelton Township, P O Folsomville, Indiana, pages 24-25, Hse #172, Fam #173
    Massie, James B 26 M Farmer $1000 Real Estate $400 Personal born Indiana [b abt 1844]
    Massie, Mary J 17 F Keeping House born Indiana [b abt 1853]
    Dancy, Margaret 35 F born Kentucky [b abt 1835]
    Dancy, Silas [Ozias] 14 M Farm Laborer born Indiana [b abt 1856]
    - page 25 -
    Dancy, Joseph 12 M At Home born Indiana [b abt 1858]
    Dancy, Belle 10 F At Home born Indiana [b abt 1860]
    Dancy, Elizabeth 8 F At Home born Indiana [b abt 1862]
    Dancy, Thomas 5 M At Home born Indiana [b abt 1865]

    Ozias and Florinda married in November 1881.

    Indiana, Marriages, 1810-2001
    Florinda A Farmer
    Ozions [Ozias] Dancy
    Marriage License issued 7 Nov 1881 Warwick County, Indiana
    Ceremony presumed, as they continued a whole life together, but return giving information on the ceremony is empty, not recorded
    Record of License in Warrick County Marriage Book, p 271

    In 1910 they were are still in Skelton Township of Warrick County, Indiana.  They had no children in the household, but their single son Travis was renting a farm a few houses away from them.

    1910 Federal Census, Warrick County, Indiana, 29 April, Skelton Township, District 176, page 12A, Hse #225, Fam #229
    Dancy, Ozias Head M W  53  married 28 yrs  KY KY KY Farmer
    Dancy, Florinda Wife F W  44  married 28 yrs  IN IN IN

    Because this census gives the numbers of years in this marriage, we can say that Ozias and Florinda married in about 1882.  The actual record reports the date Ozias and Florinda married as November 1881.  Travis was 27 in 1910, and that would mean he was born about 1883.  The actual birth date is 27 June 1882.

    Indiana, Index to Select Marriages, 1780-1992
    Ozions Dancy
    Marriage 7 Nov 1881 Warrick, Indiana
    Spouse Florinda A Farmer

    I later found Travis and his parents in 1920 in Prairie Township.  This gave me some timeline for their move to Arkansas.  They were in Indiana in the 1910 census but in Prairie for the February 1920 census enumeration.  It turns out that they were married in Indiana in 1910 and moved to Arkansas County, Arkansas, where the newspaper item about their move said Travis and Lillie made their residence in to DeWitt.  But they actually moved to a rural area near St Charles, on the White River, east of DeWitt, the southern county seat.

    In the 1920 census Ozias' name was spelled differently, as Ozrons.

    1920 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas, 5 February, Prairie Township, District 15, page 5B, Country Road, Hse/Fam #93
    Dancy, Ozrons Head M W  63  IN IN IN Farmer [b abt 1857]
    Dancy, Flora Wife F W  54  IN IN IN [b abt 1867]

    Arkansas Death Index, 1914-1950
    Ozians Dancy
    Death 27 Jun 1928 Arkansas County

    Note that the death index reports the year of death as 1928, but the gravestone reports it a year later.  I have found this in other cases.  Usually i seems the stone was put up later, maybe after some years, and the stonecutters used the current year or otherwise got the year wrong.  Besides that, the manager of Ozias' Find a Grave memorial reports that the burial was on 28 June 1928, while the gravestone reports the death was not until 29 June.

    Gravestones of Mt Pleasant Cemetery
    Dancy  Ozias
    July 26 1856   June 29, 1929
    Mt Pleasant Cemetery, Ethel, Arkansas County, Arkansas
    Photo by Orville Boyd Jenkins, 13 May 2017

    he gravestone for Ozias had the wrong date of death.  The stone reads 29 June 1929, but besides being a year after than reported by the Arkansas Death Index, he day is a day later than the burial.  Te day of death appears to have been 27 June 1928.

    Charles Ozias Dancy
    Birth 26 Jul 1856 Wayne County, Kentucky, USA
    Death 27 Jun 1928 (aged 71) Arkansas County, Arkansas, USA
    Burial Mount Pleasant Cemetery Arkansas County, Arkansas, USA
    Death Data has the year 1928
    Burial 28 Jun 1928
    Spouse Florinda Agnes Farmer Dancy 1865-1945 (m. 1881)
    Son Travis Dancy 1882-1958
    Created by Dr. J The Seeker 3 May 2020
    --  Find a Grave Memorial 209742403, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209742403/charles-dancy

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