John Eustice (1827-1860) was born
7 Feb 1827
in Crowan and christened there
4 Mar 1827
, son of Richard Eustis and Ann Barkle and brother to Richard. John sailed from
Liverpool
aboard the Roscius on the
11 January 1846
, celebrated his 19th
birthday at sea, and arrived at the
port
of
New York
on March 7.
According to family legend there were two other John Eustices aboard, but the passenger list has been located and it shows no other Eustice aboard at all. According to a notation on the
passenger list, his intended destination was
Canada
,
but if he ever actually went there, it was a short stay. He soon
joined his brother in southwestern
Wisconsin
,
where he continued in the mining trade that he had learned in the old
country. He was married about 1850 to Jane Oatey,
who was born
29 May 1830
in Gwinear parish,
Cornwall
,
daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Floyd) Oatey,
and had five children - four sons and one daughter. By the 1860 census, the
family had moved across the
Mississippi River
to
Dubuque
,
Iowa
, where he died late that same year
at the young age of 33. He is believed to be buried in an unmarked grave in
Center
Grove
Methodist
Cemetery
just outside
Dubuque
. His widow
returned to
Lafayette County
,
Wisconsin
and married again in 1865 to James Liddell (alternatively Liddle or Little), had four more children and died in
1885. |
