1850 census

Name: Elizabeth Speaks [Speak]
Gender: Female
Race: White
Age: 11
Birth Year: abt 1839
Birthplace: Virginia
Home in 1850: District 31, Lee, Virginia, USA
Line Number: 32
Dwelling Number: 1228
Family Number: 1259
Household Members (Name) Age
Joseph Speaks 37 [SPEAK]
Lear Speaks 40 (Leah)
Manoah Speaks 17
Mary J Speaks 15
John J Speaks 13
Elizabeth Speaks 11
Nicholas Speaks 9
Simpson B Speaks 6
Rachel D Speaks 3
Sarah Speaks 0

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MISSOURI MARRIAGE RECORD

Name: Ezekiel Cuendy --- [Ezekiel Cudney]
Marriage Date: 8 Nov 1857
Marriage Place: Buchanan, Missouri, USA
Spouse: Elizabeth B Speak

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1860 Kansas Territory Census

Name: Elisabeth Cudney
Age: 22
Birth Year: abt 1838
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birth Place: Virginia
Home in 1860: Verdigris, Woodson, Kansas Territory
Post Office: Pleasant Grove
Dwelling Number: 362
Family Number: 311
Occupation: Fw
Household Members (Name) Age
E Cudney 35 --- b. New York - Ezekiel
Elisabeth Cudney 22 -- b. Virginia
Leonides Cudney 3/12 -- b. Kansas

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1860 Kansas Territory census

Name: Sarah A Sparks -- [Leah Speak]
[Speak]
Age: 48
Birth Year: abt 1812
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birth Place: Virginia
Home in 1860: Iowa, Doniphan, Kansas Territory
Post Office: Iowa Point
Dwelling Number: 1443
Family Number: 1307
Occupation: Farmer
Real Estate Value: 800
Personal Estate Value: 160
Household Members (Name) Age
John J Speakes 23 [Speak]
Sarah A Sparks 48
Manart Sparks 27
Mary Sparks 25
Michael Sparks 17
Simpson Sparks 15
Rachel Sparks 12
Sarah Sparks 10
--- all born in Virginia

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Elizabeth's children, Leonidas Cudney, 9; Rhoda Cudney, 5; & Joseph Cudney, 3; are recorded with Elizabeth's mother, Leah Speak, in the 1870 Wolf River, Doniphan County, Kansas census. Elizabeth's daughter, Martha Cudney, age 8, is recorded with her aunt, Rachel (nee Speak) Turkleson, in the 1870 Wolf River, Doniphan County, Kansas census. Most censuses record Martha's birth in Kansas, but the 1870 census records Martha's birth in Iowa.

E. D. Cudney is recorded as age as 40 in his June, 1863 Civil War draft registration. He is recorded as a farmer residing in Edna in Cass County, Iowa.

"Ezeek" Cudney is recorded as age 48, a farmer born in New York, in the 1870 Edna, Cass County, Iowa census.

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U. S. GENERAL LAND OFFICE RECORDS
-- This record (dated 10 Jan) was signed by Franklin Pierce. (14th U. S. president)
-- An 1859 land record for Ezekiel D. Cudney from the same county was signed by James Buchanan. (15th U. S. president)

Name: Ezekiel D Cudney
Issue Date: 10 Jun 1856
Place: Taylor, Iowa, USA
Land Office: Council Bluffs
Meridian: 5th PM
Township: 67-N
Range: 35-W
Section: 27
Accession Number: IA0470__.490
Document Number: 8212

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Moray Cemetery records indicate that a stone was read and that Elizabeth was the wife of E. D. Cudney.

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