Lester Richard Varney

Other Events:

• Census: 5 Jun 1900, 486 South Robey Street, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
• Census: 19 Apr 1910, 2543 Lexington Street, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
• Residence: 15 Apr 1916, 4047 West Van Buren Street, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
• Census: 16 Jan 1920, 1129 South Euclid Avenue, Oak Park, Cook County, Illinois
• Occupation: 25 Oct 1921; Billing Clerk
• Residence: 25 Oct 1921, 1130 South Euclid Avenue, Oak Park, Cook County, Illinois
• Census: 11 Apr 1930, 1130 South Euclid Avenue, Oak Park, Cook County, Illinois
• Occupation: 11 Apr 1930, Cook County, Illinois; Advertiser - Storm Valves
• Census: 1940, 1130 South Euclid Avenue, Oak Park, Cook County, Illinois

Lester married Ruth Lillian Jauch 12 Jun 1917, Oak Park, Cook County, Illinois. Ruth (daughter of Frederick C. Jauch and Emma Minnie Lydia Wanner) was born 19 May 1898, 1717 Wrightwood Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois; died 22 May 1993, Scandia Village, Sister Bay, Door County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet]

1. Howard Lester Varney was born 25 Oct 1921, Robert Burns Hospital, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois; died 9 Aug 1998, Genesee County, Michigan; was buried Crestwood Memorial Cemetery, Grand Blanc, Genesee County, Michigan.
2. Robert Arthur "Bob" Varney was born 5 Aug 1924, Robert Burns Hospital, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois; was christened 15 Oct 1924, Portage Park Church, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois; died 16 Mar 2014, Lombard, DuPage County, Illinois; was buried 5 Aug 2014, Ellison Bay, Door County, Wisconsin.

Other Events:

• Military Service: four years; according to 1910 census
• Emigration: 1879, French Canada to Chicago
• Census: 4 Jun 1880, 98 Foster Street, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
• First Communion: 24 May 1883, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
• Occupation: 18 Apr 1895, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois; Plumber
• Census: 9 Jun 1900, 781 West 12th Street, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
• Census: 19 Apr 1910, 2543 Lexington Street, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
• Occupation: 19 Apr 1910, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois; shipping clerk for wholesale tailor
• Census: 2 Jan 1920, 4047 West Van Buren Street, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
• Census: 9 Apr 1930, 916 South Clinton Avenue, Oak Park, Cook County, Illinois
• Naturalization: 17 Mar 1939, 916 South Clinton Avenue, Oak Park, Cook County, Illinois; Certification no. P.175374-cn.4586148
• Census: 1940, 916 South Clinton Avenue, Oak Park, Cook County, Illinois

Notes:

First Communion name Ernest Ladouceur on 24 May 1883 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.
Naturalization papers signed 17 March 1939.
5 feet 4 inches, 126 pounds
grey hair, brown eyes
Buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, lot number 6'-949 pt.9 section Elm Grove.

John married Ida J. Buttlar 6 Oct 1894, 492 Hermitage Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. Ida (daughter of Charles Buttlar and Lena Rost) was born 26 Jun 1875, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois; died 16 Jan 1947, West Suburban Hospital, Oak Park, Cook County, Illinois; was buried 18 Jan 1947, Woodlawn Cemetery, Forest Park, Cook County, Illinois. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Census: 10 Jun 1880, 295 Morgan Street, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
• Census: 5 Jun 1900, 486 South Robey Street, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
• Census: 19 Apr 1910, 2543 Lexington Street, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
• Census: 2 Jan 1920, 4047 West Van Buren Street, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
• Census: 9 Apr 1930, 916 South Clinton Avenue, Oak Park, Cook County, Illinois
• Census: 1940, 916 South Clinton Avenue, Oak Park, Cook County, Illinois

Notes:

VARNEY, JOHN J BUTTLER, IDA 10/06/1894 / 223813 COOK

Other Events:

• Also Known As: Basile Varney, Baszil Ladouseur, John Varney
• Census: 1851, Deux Montagnes County, Quebec, Canada
• Census: 4 Jun 1880, 98 Foster Street, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
• Occupation: 4 Jun 1880, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois; Carpenter
• Census: 9 Jun 1900, 781 West 12th Street, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois

Notes:

Family tradition says Bauzil came from Normandy, France with mother. Father stayed in France. Met wife on boat.

Basile married Malvina Célérier, dit Roch 28 Aug 1865, Notre-Dame-de-Montréal, Montréal, Canada. Malvina (daughter of Joseph Zéphirin Célérier, dit Roch and Marie Magdeleine Favreau) was born Abt 1847, Boucherville, Chambly County, Quebec, Canada; died 20 Mar 1909, 1249 W. Congress St., Chicago, Cook County, Illinois; was buried 23 Mar 1909, Mount Carmel Catholic Cemetery, Hillside, Cook County, Illinois. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Census: 1851, Boucherville, Chambly County, Quebec, Canada
• Census: 4 Jun 1880, 98 Foster Street, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
• Census: 9 Jun 1900, 781 West 12th Street, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois

Other Events:

• Naturalization: 1868, Omaha, Nebraska; Declared intention according to 1892 Cook County, Illinois voter registration file
• Occupation: 1875/1876, Ashland Avenue & 16th, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois; Tinner
• Occupation: 1880, 295 South Morgan Street, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois; Tinsmith
• Census: 10 Jun 1880, 295 Morgan Street, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
• Occupation: 10 Jun 1880, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois; Machinest
• Occupation: 1892, 294 South Morgan Street, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois; Tinner

Notes:

The 1892 voter registration lists our Charles Butler of 294 S. Morgan St. naturalized in Omaha 1868 and residing in Illinois 22 years earlier (1870). But an 1870 Chicago census for a Charles Butler can't be found.

However, there is an 1870 census in O'Fallons (or North Platte), Harrison Township, Lincoln County, Nebraska for a 24 year old German (Hesse-Darmstadt) Chas Butler soldier accompanying a railroad surveying crew. The commanding officer listed on the previous census page is Captain Lester Walker.

[NOTE: Buffalo Bill is listed at nearby Cottonwood Springs (Ft. McPherson) as Indian scout. His biography indicates "In 1868, Cody was again employed by the U.S. Army as a civilian scout and guide for the Fifth Cavalry. His experience and skills as a plainsman made him an invaluable tracker and fighter."]

The following written by captain Fifth U. S. Cavalry and brevet major U. S. Army Lester Walker:

"In May, 1869, the Fifth U. S. Cavalry arrived at Fort McPherson under General Carr. Eight companies were left here and four companies went to Sidney and Cheyenne. The government was surveying this county at that time and the troops were used to protect the surveyors. Large bands of Indians had left the reservation and were killing settlers and stealing horses. During the summer of 1869 the order from General Auger, commanding the department, was to clear the country of Indians between the Union Pacific and the Kansas Pacific. I was an officer of the Fifth U. S. Cavalry and was in command of the post at North Platte in 1869 and 1870, and was in all the Indian campaigns until I resigned in 1878."

http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/topic/resources/OLLibrary/pionrem/nepr0190.html

Also in the above web page is and entry by BY MRS. SARAH CLAPP:

"The coming of the railroad through the state, bringing thousands of settlers with household furnishings and machinery for tilling the soil, was of the greatest importance. It was concerning the guarding of that right of way that a writer for the Horse World has some interesting memories and devotes an article in a number in February, 1896, to the stories of Colonel W. F. Cody, Major Frank North, Captain Charles Morse, Captain Luther North, Captain Fred Mathews, and my father, Captain S. E. Cushing. The correspondent was under my father, in Company B, during one of the scouting expeditions, when the company was sent to guard O'Fallon's Bluffs, west of Fort McPherson on the Union Pacific. He tells much more of camp activities and of his initiation into border life than of the skirmishes or scouting trips. He was fond of horses and tells of a memorable race in which a horse of Buffalo Bill's was beaten by my father's horse 'Jack.'"

According to the following:

http://www.historicomaha.com/frtomaha.htm

"[Fort Omaha] Soldiers also participated in the protection of construction crews and mail coaches as well as assisting with road construction, telegraphic services and mapping."

Fort Omaha was built in 1868 the year before our Charles filed for his naturalization intent.

http://www.omahahistory.org/fort_omaha.htm

It is likely that Fort Omaha would be a the place for this soldier to file for citizenship. Age 24 would make him born about 1846 instead of about 1842 that the1880 census and about 1843 in the 1896 death records for our Charles indicates. This type of discrepancy is not uncommon with census records.

9 Oct 1871, Sheridan "called to this city [Chicago] companies A and K of the Ninth Infantry, from Omaha" for assistance in the Great Chicago Fire relief effort. It seems natural Sheridan would call upon troops that protected and worked with construction crews. They were relieved on 24 Oct 1871 once civil unrest did not materialize. Our Charles may have been in one of these companies, but was he infantry or cavalry?

http://greatchicagofire.org/rescue-and-relief-library/military-rule-chicago

The church where Charles and Lena (Rost) Buttlar were married 11 Feb 1872 is mentioned in the following as "apparently served as a first aid station during the Chicago Fire":

http://users.rcn.com/cowdery/gethsemene.PDF

Could this Charles Butler, serving as soldier in Nebraska during pioneer times, protecting railroad crew possibly with Buffalo Bill be our Charles Butler. These events make it a compelling story that this is our Charles Butler who met his future wife Lena after the outbreak of the Chicago Fire could be one and the same. However, such a story never was passed down through the generations. But then again, no one knew he was in Omaha either. Maybe his early death made it less likely these stories were passed down.

More data is needed, however, before we can can confirm the connection. Fort McPherson records at the National Archives would be a start:

http://www.nebraskahistory.org/lib-arch/research/public/federal_finding_aids/ft_mcpherson.pdf

Charles married Lena Rost 11 Feb 1872, Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. Lena (daughter of Lena Krost) was born 27 May 1849, Büren, Germany; died 27 Sep 1924, 2141 South Central Park Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois; was buried 30 Sep 1924, Forest Home Cemetery, German Waldheim section, Forest Park, Cook County, Illinois. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Immigration: 1871, US
• Census: 10 Jun 1880, 295 Morgan Street, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
• Naturalization: 1891; 29 years in country according to 1900 census
• Census: 5 Jun 1900, 486 South Robey Street, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
• Occupation: 5 Jun 1900, 486 South Robey Street, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois; Washing
• Census: 20 Apr 1910, 3324 Lexington Street, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
• Census: 2 Jan 1920, 4047 West Van Buren Street, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
• Residence: 1923, 916 Clinton Avenue, Oak Park, Cook County, Illinois; Oak Park City Directory

Notes:

Is Lena short for Magdalena?

Notes:

http://users.rcn.com/cowdery/gethsemene.PDF

Other Events:

• Census: 1851, St André, Deux Montagnes County, Quebec, Canada

Joseph — Marie Emiline Sigoin. Marie was born Abt 1811, Canada; died Bef 28 Aug 1865. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Name: Emmelie Sigouin
Spouse: Basile Sarrasin Dit Ladouceur

Other Events:

• AFN: PCHC-KG

Joseph married Marie Magdeleine Favreau 25 Jan 1831, Boucherville, Chambly County, Quebec, Canada. Marie (daughter of Jean-Baptiste Favreau and Louise Dalpé, dit Pariseau) was born 20 Nov 1810, Boucherville, Chambly County, Quebec, Canada; was christened 20 Nov 1810, Ste-Famille Parish, Boucherville, Chambly County, Quebec, Canada; died Bef 6 Oct 1862. [Group Sheet]