31. JOSHUA R.3 VAN DRUFF (HENRY² VANDRUFF, JR., HENRY¹) was born March 31, 1837 in Greene County, Pennsylvania²⁹⁸, and died March 30, 1885 in Valley Falls, Jefferson, Kansas²⁹⁹. He married MARY FRANCIS LYNCH March 22, 1863 in Jackson County, Kansas³⁰⁰. She was born October 03, 1847 in Boxley, Hamilton, Indiana³⁰¹, and died April 03, 1926 in Valley Falls, Jefferson, Kansas³⁰¹.

Notes for JOSHUA R. VAN DRUFF:
Extraction from
1875 Kansas Census
Copy provided by Rose Vandruff Balao
Jefferson County, Delaware Township
Dwelling 201, Post Office, Valley Falls
Vandruff, J., age 38, farmer, b. PA, to KS from PA
Mary, age 28, b. IN, to KS from IN
W. M., (male)age 11, b. MT, to KS from ID
Maria, age 9, b. ID, to KS from ID
M.S., (male) b. ID, to KS from ID
Geo. H., age 5, b. KS
Annie, age 2, b. KS
(5/1/2000)

Extraction from 1880 Federal Census
Online at www.familysearch.org
Delaware, Jefferson, Kansas
Family History Library Film 1254383
NA Film Number T9-0383
Page Number 172B
Joshua VANDRUFF Self M Male W 43 PA Farmer PA PA
Mary VANDRUFF Wife M Female W 33 IN Keeping House IN IN
Wm. Henry VANDRUFF Son S Male W 15 KS At Home PA IN
Mariah VANDRUFF Dau S Female W 13 KS At Home PA IN
George VANDRUFF Son S Male W 10 KS At Home PA IN
Melissa VANDRUFF Dau S Female W 7 KS PA IN
Louis VANDRUFF Son S Male W 2 KS PA IN
(3/3/2003)

Transcription of Biographical Sketch
From History of the State of Kanses
By William G. Cutler
A. T. Andreas, Chicago, Illinois, 1883
J. VANDRUFF, farmer and stock-raiser, Section 24, P. O. Valley Falls, is a native of Pennsylvania, and was born in Greene County, March 31, 1837; was there reared and learned the carpenter's trade. Early in life he engaged in stock-driving between Chicago and Philadelphia. In 1857 he came to Kansas, locating at Valley Falls; worked at his trade as contractor and carpenter for a number of years, erecting a number of the first buildings. For a number of years he has been engaged in agricultural pursuits. During the war he was a member of the State militia. He was married, in 1863, to Miss Mary Lynch, of Indiana. They have had six children--William H., Maria F., George H., Melissa A., Lucius M., and lost one, Marian. Mr. V. is a member of the I. O. O. F., Crescent Lodge, No. 86.
(7/14/2004)

Transcription of Biographical sketch from
Portrait and Biographical Record of Jefferson
and Pottawatomie Counties, Kansas
Published by Chapman Bros., Chicago, Illinois
1890
JOSHUA R. VAN DRUFF, now deceased, was a most worthy citizen and had many warm friends in Jefferson County, being esteemed and respected by all who knew him. He was one of the old settlers of the county, of which he first became a resident in 1858, and to which he returned in 1868 after having spent a few years in the Northwest. He then located a mile west of Valley Falls, and during the remainder of his life was engaged in tilling the soil, holding a rank among the most progressive and financially successful agriculturists of the section.
His death took place on the farm, March 30, 1885, his sorrowing family having the sympathy of a large circle in their sad bereavement.
Mr. Van Druff was born in Greene County, Pa., March 31, 1837, and was a son of Henry and Olive (Rinehart) Van Druff. His father was also a native of Greene County and lived near Waynesburg, where he was engaged in tilling the soil until too old for active employment. The mother departed this life some years since. The parental family comprised nine children, of whom six now survive. They are Mrs. Elizabeth Chaffin, Mrs. Minerva Marchant, Mrs. Matilda Lippencott, Mrs. Orpha Smith, Maria, and Mrs. Margaret Zimmerman. One son, Henry C., died from the effects of a wound received during the late war; another son, John, went to California in 1851, and as the family never heard directly from him they supposed him to be dead.
The subject of our sketch was reared upon the home farm and educated in the common schools. He worked for a few years at the trade of a carpenter, and spent a few years in the gold mines of Idaho and Montana, whither he went in 1864, and where he made considerable money. The greater part of his life, however, was spent in agricultural pursuits.
In Jackson County, Kan., ten miles west of Valley Falls, on March 22, 1863, Mr. Van Druff was united in marriage with Miss Mary Lynch. The bride's mother, whose maiden name was Malinda Tansy, died when her daughter, Mary, was quite small, leaving two daughters, of whom Mrs. Van Druff is the elder; the other, Mrs.
Sarah Chilson, now lives in Oregon. Mr. Lynch subsequently married Miss Martha Whitecotton, who bore him eight children. Of the latter, five are now living. They are Mrs. Ann McReynolds, Amos, Sylvester, William and John. One died in infancy, Jane, at the age of twenty-two years, and Elsie, Mrs. Bennie, at the age of twenty years.
To Mr. and Mrs. Van Druff seven children were born, who bear the names respectively of William H., Maria F., Marion C., George H., Annie M., Lucius M., and Edith Belle. Maria married Charles Swisher, of Salina, Kan.; Marion is deceased. On Nov. 18, 1886, Mrs. Van Druff removed to Valley Falls where she has since lived,
educating her children. She is a lady of more than ordinary intelligence. A loving and efficient helpmate during her husband's life, she is striving to fill his place as well as her own in the management of her worldly affairs and the training of the children who are left to her care, and admirably she is carrying out his wishes and continuing the work which he had begun.
(2/26/94)

Transcription of Obituary
From the Valley Falls Vindicator
Valley Falls, Kansas
(Jefferson County)
Thursday, April 2, 1885
The news of the death of Joshua Vandruff, who resided on his farm about a wile west of Valley Falls, was received throughout the community with profound regret. He had been suffering from malaria two or three months, but it was not dreamed that his ailment would terminate fatally until almost the fatal hour arrived. The case was under the care of Dr. L. Northrup, who gave it the most careful and skillful attention. But the disease, which took the form of brain fever on Saturday proved too stubborn to yield to the treatment usually given in such cases, and the attending physician thought best to hold a consultation with other physicians. So Dr. Weaver, of Leavenworth, and Dr. Hunt, of this city, were called in Monday afternoon, but the patient was beyond human aid, and passed away about 7 o'clock the same evening.
Mr. Vandruff was one of the pioneer settlers of this place, and had amassed quite a competency of this world's goods, owning at the time of his death one of the most attractive and valuable homesteads in Jefferson county. He leaves a large family and numerous acquaintances to mourn his departure.
The funeral took place Wednesday forenoon at 10 o'clock, conducted by the Turners. A. L. Myers delivered a short funeral oration.
(2/26/94)

Transcription of Biographical sketch from
History of the State of Kansas
(Jefferson County)
Published by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, Illinois
1883
J. VANDRUFF, farmer and stock-raiser, Section 24, P.O. Valley Falls, is a native of Pennsylvania, and was born in Greene County, March 31, 1837, and was there reared and learned the carpenter's trade. Early in life he engaged in stock-driving between Chicago and Philadelphia. In 1857 he came to Kansas, locating at Valley Falls; worked at his trade as contractor and carpenter for a number of years, erecting a number of the first buildings.
For a number of years he has been engaged in agricultural pursuits. During the war he was a member of the State militia. He was married, in 1863, to Miss Mary Lynch, of Indiana. They have had six children - William H., Maria F., George H., Melissa A., Lucius M., and lost one, Marion. Mr. V. is a member of the I.O.O.F., Crescent Lodge No. 86.
(2/26/94)

Transcription of Obituary
From The Valley Falls Register
Valley Falls, Kansas
(Jefferson County)
Friday, April 3, 1885
Died at his residence half a mile west of the city, Monday, March 30, 1885, at 7:15 p.m. Joshua Vandruff, aged 48 years, of inflammation of the brain superinduced by malarial poison. He had not been feeling well for several days and Saturday morning was stricken with convulsions. Drs. Northrup and Hunt were called; but from the start deemed it a hopeless case. One or the other of the physicians was constantly at his bedside, until death came to his relief. The funeral occurred Wednesday at 10 a.m. the Turners, of which society he was an honorary member, took charge. Appropriate music was furnished by a choir and the new city Cornet band. Following is the oration of Hon. L. A. Myers on the occasion.
In the presence of the dead, nothing could be more beautiful and appropriate than the solemn notes of the dirge which has just been rendered. After that, reverential silence is more eloquent than words. But at the request of the friends of the deceased, I feel constrained to state a few facts connected with the life, death, and aspirations of our departed friend. Joshua Vandruff was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, March 31, 1837, and came to Kansas in 1857. In the Spring of 1864 he removed to Montana, and from thence to Idaho. After an absence of more than four years, he returned to Kansas in September, 1868, purchased, settled upon and improved the farm upon which he has resided to the time of his death. On the morning of Saturday last he was taken suddenly ill, and soon became unconscious - in which condition he remained, with perhaps brief intermissions, until Monday evening 7 o'clock, when he passed quietly away.
Under no circumstances is death a welcome visitor. Whether it comes to the young, the middle aged, or to those who have attained to the allotted span of three score and ten - whether it comes suddenly and unexpectedly, or after a lingering illness - boldly in the broad light of day, or stealthily like a thief in the night - it finds its victims more or less unprepared - and seems like a cruel blow to surviving relatives and friends. Death is a great mystery.
To the ignorant and the superstitious it is a great terror. To the intelligent and the thoughtful it is but a step forward and upward - a days journey, that transports us to a country of brighter skies, and greener fields, and more congenial companionship, an advance on the line of that infinite and eternal progression which leads toward
ultimate perfection. There comes upon the face of the dead a look of contentment and repose that is susceptible of no other interpretation. It may be natural for us that are left behind, but must so soon follow, to mourn the departure of our loved ones - but it cannot be otherwise than that all is well with these who have gone before.
The processes of nature are slow but sure. No more unphilosophical idea ever entered the mind of man, than the doctrine that we pass from this life, at a single bound, to a condition of everlasting bliss, or everlasting woe - and that further progress is impossible. The best thinkers believe, not that there is this life and another one merely - but that an unending procession of cycles of change, of development and advancement carries us forward in the future as we are carried from the cradle to the grave. No other theory is in harmony with our past experience. No other theory would justify our high hopes and our great aspirations. No other theory can satisfactorily account even for our present existence. Accepting this theory, how confidently we may look forward to the future! What encouragement it affords us to press forward in all the avenues of learning and of knowledge! How it dignifies and exalts our common humanity! It is well known that our departed entertained liberal and enlightened views on all these subjects. Those of us who have been intimately associated with him - who are familiar with his vigorous modes of thought and his keen intellect - and those who have studied and discussed these momentous questions with him, can well imagine that he met the grim messenger with a manly courage and an unfaltering trust.
Acting as he did upon the theory that what a man does is of vastly more consequence than what he believes - our friend could be no other than what he was - an honest man and a model citizen. Industrious, liberal, temperate, public spirited, out-spoken - no man possessed in greater degree the confidence, esteem and respect of his neighbors and acquaintenances.
Stricken down so suddenly, in the very meridian of his manhood, just as he was prepared to enjoy the competence resulting from years of enterprise and labor - it seems hard indeed! But such things have been and will be again.
The lesson ought to impress itself upon us all. Not that we must abandon our daily avocations and demurely fold our hands and like frightened children in the night, expect and dread the final summons - but arranging our affairs as best we may for the benefit of those we must leave behind - enjoying to the fullest measure in every rational way the life we are living - a mere span though it may be - let us also, as did our friend, by philosophical thought and contemplation rid ourselves of all superstitious fears, and cultivate that manly courage that will enable each of us to approach the grave "as one who wraps the drapery of his couch about him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. - "
(1/7/95)

More About JOSHUA R. VAN DRUFF:
Biographical sketch: On file 2/26/1994³⁰²
Burial: April 01, 1885, Rose Hill Cemetery, Valley Falls, KS³⁰³
Fact 1: Photo on file (provided by Helen Davis Gaede)
Fact 2: Probate documents on file (died intestate)
Fact 3: August 1998, Printed "Ancestors of Joshua R. Van Druff" for Jefferson Co. Gen Soc.
Member: I.O.O.F. Crescent Lodge No. 86³⁰⁴
Moved: 1857, From Greene County, PA to Kansas³⁰⁵
Obituary: On file 1/7/95
Occupation: Farmer, contractor, carpenter³⁰⁶

Notes for MARY FRANCIS LYNCH:
Transcription of Obituary
From the Valley Falls Vindicator
Valley Falls, Kansas
(Jefferson County)
Friday, April 16, 1926
Mrs. George W. Hull was born on October 3, 1847, at Boxley, Indiana and departed this life on April 3, 1926, aged 78 years and 6 months. She was united in marriage to Joshua VanDruff on March 22nd, 1863, and to this union were born seven children; Wm. H., Marie F., Marion C., George R., Anna, Lucius M., Belle E. Her husband and two of these children preceded her in death.
On September 5, 1894, she was united in marriage with George W. Hull of Valley Falls, Kansas. Mr. Hull was called to his reward on September 10, 1910, leaving her a widow for a second time.
She leaves to mourn her departure four children, who were present at the funeral; one step-son, six grandchildren, 2 great-grandchildren and a host of friends.
Services were held at the Federated church on Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock, conducted by Rev. I. N. Reid; and interment was in the local cemetery.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank all our friends and neighbors for their kind sympathy and assistance, also their beautiful floral offerings extended to us during the illness and death of our dear mother.
Mrs. Elmer M. VanDruff
Mrs. George F. Davis
Mr. Geo. H. VanDruff
Marie F. Swisher
(2/26/94)

More About MARY FRANCIS LYNCH:
Burial: April 15, 1926, Rose Hill Cemetery, Valley Falls, KS³⁰⁷
Fact 1: Photo on file (provided by Helen Davis Gaede)
Obituary: On file 2/26/94

Marriage Notes for JOSHUA VAN DRUFF and MARY LYNCH:
Transcription of Text
From Jackson County, Kansas record book,
Volume unknown, page 54, from
the collection of Esther Vandruff McAfee
This is to certify that Joshua R. Vandruff and Mary F. Lynch was by me the undersigned legally united in the Bonds of Matrimony on the 22nd day of March Anno Domini 1863.
J. W. Williams, J.P (seal)
of Douglas (illegible) Jackson County, Kansas
Filed for record April 6, 1863
and recorded May 8th 1863
by Amos Landon
(1/4/95)

Children of JOSHUA VAN DRUFF and MARY LYNCH are:

Notes for WILLIAM HENRY VANDRUFF:
Transcription of
Extract from Index to Indian Wars
Pension Files
1892-1926
Volume II: L-Z
transcribed by Virgil D. White
The National Historical Publishing Company
Waynesboro, Tennessee
1987
page 1586
VANDRUFF, William H., SA-1622329 CA 24 Aug 1928, srv 1885-94 7th US Inf & 6th US Cav.
(2/28/97)

Extraction from
1920 Census
Vol. 56, ED 415, sheet 8, line 47
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA
Vandruff, William H. (lodger) age 57, b. KS, father b. PA, mother b. IN enumerated with Edgar Shaw
(7/18/96)

Extraction from the 1930 Federal Census
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California
Roll T626_164, page 13-A, ED 747
Vandruff, William H., age 67, b. KS, lodger
(5/12/2003)

Extraction from Pension Records
of William Henry Vandruff
Sheet entitled "Prospective Legal Heirs"
dated Nov. 9, 1934
Brothers & Sisters
Mrs. Maria Swisher, Enterprise, Kansas
Melissa Vandruff, add. unknown, Bell, Married name & add. unknown
George & Louis add. unknown
(7/30/98)

Extraction from interments at
Los Angeles National Cemetery, Los Angeles, California
Via www.interment.net
Vandruff, William Henry, b. 12/25/1863, d. 07/16/1945, CAL 6TH REGT CAV, Plot: 191 6 R E, bur. 07/19/1945,
(1/21/2001)

More About WILLIAM HENRY VANDRUFF:
Burial: July 19, 1945, Los Angeles National Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA, Plot: 191 6 R E³¹¹
Fact 1: August 20, 1928, Applied for Indian Wars pension and collected same³¹²
Fact 2: Pension files say born in KS, 1875 Census says MT³¹³
Military service: Pension File No. SA-1622329 & SC-A11/21/28, filed 8/24/1928³¹⁴
Moved: Abt. 1909, To Los Angeles, CA, worked as a cook³¹⁵

More About MARY WISELY:
Burial: Unknown, Unknown

Marriage Notes for WILLIAM VANDRUFF and MARY WISELY:
Possible listing
From the Colorado Divorce Index
Petitioner VANDRUFF, MARY County CLEAR CREEK
Respondent VANDRUFF, WILLIE Decree Date 12/12/1899
Docket # 002912 Decree Type Divorce
(6/12/20040

More About MARION C. VANDRUFF:
Burial: February 1876, Rose Hill Cemetery, Valley Falls, KS³¹⁷
Fact 1: Family Bible says born in MT, 1875 Census says ID³¹⁸

Notes for GEORGE H. VANDRUFF:
Extraction from the 1930 Federal Census
Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon
Roll T626_1949, page 2-B, ED 23
Vandruff, George, age 60, b. KS
Vandruff, Effie, age 54, b (?)
(5/12/2003)

More About GEORGE H. VANDRUFF:
Burial: January 06, 1931, Unknown cemetery, Amity, OR³²²
Occupation: January 01, 1931, Apartment owner³²²

Notes for EFFIE L. SPENCER:
POSSIBLE CA Death Index listing
Effie L. Vandruff
Spouse's initials: GV
D. 8/24/45
La County, CA

More About EFFIE L. SPENCER:
Burial: August 28, 1945, Sunnyside Mausoleum, Los Angeles County, CA³²³
Occupation: Apartment house owner³²³

Notes for LUCIUS MARCHANT VANDRUFF:
Extraction from the 1910 Federal Census
Pueblo, Pueblo County, Colorado
Series: T624 Roll: 124 Page: 146
Dwelling 127
April 20, 1910
Vandruff, Lucius M., age 32, b. KS, Father b. PA, mother b. IN, marr. 5 yrs., physician
Vandruff, Austa M., age 33, b. KS, father b. PA, mother b. KS, marr. 5 yrs. 0 children
(4/29/2003)

Transcription of Obituary
from the Valley Falls New Era
Valley Falls, Kansas
(Jefferson County)
Thursday, January 19, 1911
Death of Dr. Lucius Vandruff
After a lingering illness Dr. Lucius M. Vandruff died at the home of his mother, Mrs. Mary F. Hull, in Valley Falls, Friday noon Jan. 13, 1911, aged 32 years, 9 months and one day. The cause of his death was tuberculosis of six years standing.
Lucius, a younger son of Joshua and Mary F. Vandruff, was born on the Vandruff farm one mile west of Valley Falls April 12, 1878. His father died when Lucius was only seven years of age. He was educated in the Valley Falls schools, graduating from the High school in 1898.
He attended the State University two years and after a four year course graduated in 1904 from Rush Medical College, Chicago. The same year Dr. Lucius Vandruff was married to Miss Austa Musa Cowan at Valley Falls, June 17.
They located at Humboldt, Kans., where he gained a large practice, but at the end of a year, his health failing, they went to Oregon remaining there eighteen months, his health being much improved. Returning to Humboldt he again engaged in the practice of his profession with the reputation of being a conscientious and
successful physician. At a fire in their residence he overtaxed his strength and fell sick. He was advised to seek another climate. He tried Arizona a few months after which they located at Pueblo, Col., where his faithful wife taught school. But his health continued to fail and last fall he came to Valley Falls to be with his mother, in his last days, his wife resigning her school to join him.
He joined the Congregational church at Valley Falls at the age of 11 years. When they moved to Humboldt he, with his wife, joined the Presbyterian church there, of which he was a member in good standing at the time of his death.
The funeral was held from the Hull home in Valley Falls Sunday afternoon, Dr. Dysinger of the Lutheran church officiating at the services in the presence of friends of the family.
By request of his wife the choir sang "Crossing the Bar", expressive of his sentiment while in the shadows.
The burial was in the family lot in Rose Hill cemetery.
In their great loss, the bereaved wife and mother have the full sympathy of many friends.
CARD OF THANKS
We desire to thank our friends for their kindness and sympathy in the hour of our bereavement.
Mrs. Austa Musa Vandruff
Mrs. Mary F. Hull
Mrs. Anna Vandruff
(2/26/94)

Ed. Note: Probably named after DR. LUCIUS A. MARCHAND, prominent physician of Fayette County, PA, descended from a long line of MARCHAND physicians, married to Minerva Van Druff, daughter of Henry Vandruff, Jr.
(11/23/94)

More About LUCIUS MARCHANT VANDRUFF:
Burial: January 15, 1911, Rose Hill Cemetery, Valley Falls, KS³²⁷
Education: 1898, Attended Kansas State University³²⁸
Graduation: 1898, Valley Falls High School³²⁸
Member: Presbyterian Church, Humboldt, KS³²⁸
Obituary: On file 11/23/94
Occupation: Physician³²⁸