John Newton Spoonamore, Sr.

He is listed as being 24 years old in the 1850 census. His future wife was living next door.

From: http://www.evermore.imagedjinn.com/home/1464/mckenneys-of-belmont-m... :

1875 - George Washington McKenney Jr. is boarded with Thomas Merritt Baxter in Osage Mission, Neosho, KS. Phillip Spoonamore was uncle to John Newton Spoonamore who married Amanda Baxter in 1853. Thomas Merrit Baxter was her brother. Thomas Merritt Baxter is given in one of the censuses as raising cattle. In Osage Mission, Neosho, Ks in 1870, Lydia Burris, sister of Eliza Burris who was married to Thomas Merrit Baxter in 1871, is living beside Joseph Carlock whose wife is Sarah Elizabeth McWhirt.

We already have a Spoonamore connection through the Ira Kelsey family that was living beside William McKenney in Van Buren, one that evolved via the Alpheus Cutler family in Fremont and Mary Cutler marrying George Washington Martin. It’s a significant relationship as we shall see in 1880 (below).

And now in Neosho, G. W. McKenney Jr. is boarded with relations of the Spoonamores.

Another connection may be had through Arthur Cheoweth and Elizabeth Baxter of Harrison County Ohio. Elizabeth Baxter was a first cousin of Emblem Baxter, Thomas Merrit Baxter’s father. In 1840 in Harrison County, Arthur Chenoweth (son of Arthur Chenoweth and Elizabeth Baxter) and wife Mary Delong are living next to John Gault in Harrison County, Ohio. This John Gault was married to Nancy McKinney, daughter of George McKinney Sr. and Mary Campbell of Harrison Co. Ohio, perhaps relations of my George W. McKenney Sr. See 1880 for this family’s connection to John A. Warner who moves to Mission, Brown, Kansas and marries Lavina Simmonds (a lot of Ioway descending).