Updated: July 2005

ABRAM and SARA TRACY
Abram Tracy was born about 1804 in Pennsylvania. (1)
Abram married Sarah Krouse, who was born in about 1810 or 1815. (2)
Children: (3)
Joel, born Aug. 31, 1833.
John, born about 1838.
Marion, born about 1840.
Sarah, born about 1841.
Another boy with a name something like Hansberry, born in 1845.
Abram, born about 1845 or 1846.
Mary, born about 1851.
The Tracys lived in Gilboa, a small town in Putnam County, Ohio. Abram was a cabinetmaker, according to the 1850 Census.
The Tracys moved from Ohio to Clay Township, Adair County, Mo., sometime after 1851, because the 1860 Census indicates that their 9-year-old daughter, Mary, had been born in Ohio.
In the 1860 Census, Abram is listed as a farm owning real estate valued at $2,500 and personal property valued at $625.
The census records indicate that neither Abram nor Sarah could read or write.
(1) 1850 Census of Gilboa in Blanchard Township, Putnam County, Ohio, and 1860 Census of Clay Township, Adair County, Mo. (2) Sara’s maiden name comes from Hancock County Record of Death 4, page 36, which lists her son Joel’s death. The 1850 Census says she was 35 but the 1860 Census says she was 50. (3) The 1850 Census lists the children, except for Mary. Some years of birth may be wrong, because Joel’s was. In addition to these children, a Nancy Tracey, age 21, and a Lewis Tracey, age 7 months, are listed in a neighboring household. The name of the head of the household appears to be something like Anarius Zellers or Zellus. The 1860 Census lists Abram and Mary.


JOEL and ELIZA TRACY
Joel H. Tracy was born in Aug. 31, 1833 in Ohio to Abram and Sara (Krouse) Tracy. (1)
Married Eliza Beagle Bash. (See below.)
Children: (2)
Martha May, born May 31, 1873. Married George Price.
Sarah Belle (Helms), born 1870.
On Nov. 26, 1868, Joel married Eliza Beagle. (3) Eliza was born about 1832 in Muskingum County, Ohio to John and Matilda (Selsom) Beagle. (4)
Eliza was the widow of Samuel Bash. Samuel died of "a broken heart" on May 8, 1865 while stationed at Camp Chase with the Union Army’s 147th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The Bashes had five children: William H., Thomas, John, Ann (Dietelbach) and Sam. (5)
Joel was a farmer in Hancock County, Ohio.
Elsworth Price Sr., Joel’s grandson, wrote that his older brothers told him that Joel had a little pug dog and "could make the best fried potatoes they ever ate."
Eliza died in 1900. Joel died Sept. 28, 1909 of Angina Pectoris. He died at the home of his daughter, Martha, east of Arlington, Ohio. (6)
(1) Hancock County Record of Death 4, page 36. (2) Price genealogy and 1880 U.S. Census, Hancock County, Ohio. (3) Hancock County Marriage Record 5, page 184. (4) Parents’ names listed in "History of Hancock County, Ohio," by Warner, Beers & Co., page 788. The Mormon’s International Genealogical Index says Eliza was born Dec. 22 1831. Her tombstone says "Eliza Bash, wife of Joel H. Tracy, born 1832, died 1900." (5) Unpublished genealogy compiled by the Bash family. (6) Eliza’s date comes from her tombstone and Joel’s comes from the Hancock County death records.