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Philip Allen Arbogast

Philip Allen Arbogast

Male 1838 - 1914  (~ 75 years)

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  • Name Philip Allen Arbogast  [1, 2, 3
    • One obit named him as Phillip Allen Arbogast, while another named him Philip Augustus Arbogast. One gave his birth in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, while the other gave his birth in Scranton, PA.

      Death cert named him as Philip Allen Arbogast, and only cited Pennsylvania as his birthplace.
    Born 16 Jan 1838  Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3, 4
    • It is too great a coincidence that the Rausch family book would indicate an Eva Roush with a son, Philip Arbogast who had moved from PA to MO. PLUS finding a Philip Arbogast in Howell Co, b in PA, who named a daughter Eva. This is certainly a nephew of John Roush.
    Gender Male 
    Census 25 Jul 1860  Thomasville, Moore township, Oregon County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    • 1. Raush [Roush], Francis, 42, farmer, real estate $400, personal $1550, Pennsylvania
      2. _____, John, 23, male, Pennsylvania
      3. _____, Adam, 19, male, Pennsylvania
      4. Arbogast, Phillip, 23, male, Pennsylvania
      5. Roush, George, 22, male, Pennsylvania
      6. _____, Elizabeth, 21, female, Ohio
    Census 4 Jul 1870  Piney township, Oregon County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    1. Arbogast, Philip, 33, male, white, farmer, real estate $300, personal $300, Pennsylvania
    2. _____, Mary, 26, female, white, keeping house, Missouri
    3. _____, Eva, 7, female, white, Missouri, attending school
    4. _____, Washington, 6, male white, Missouri, attending school
    5. _____, Posey, 4, male, white, Missouri
    6. _____, Mary, 2, male [female], white, Missouri 
    • 1870 U.S. census, Oregon County, Missouri, population schedule, Piney township (Alton P.O.), p. 10 (penned, recto), p. 5 (stamped, verso), dwelling 65, family 65, Philip Arbogasthousehold; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 18 June 2021); citing NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 796.
    Census 1June 1880  West Plains, Howell County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    1. Arbogast, Philip, white, male, 41, married, hotel keeper, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania
    2. _____, Mary, white, female, 35, wife, married, [married during census year? he wasn't], keeping house, Missouri, Illinois, Tennessee
    3. _____, Eva, white, female, 17, daughter, at home, attended school, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Missouri
    4. _____, Washington, male, white, 16, son, works on farm, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Missouri
    5. _____, Edward, white, male, 13, son, works on farm, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Missouri
    6. _____, Mollie, white, female, 5, daughter, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Missouri
    7. _____, Bertha, white, female, 3, daughter, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Missouri
    8. Gillett, Lina, white, female, 19, servant, single, cook, Kentucky, New York, Ohio
    9. Davidson, Joseph, white, male, 20, boarder, single, blacksmith, Missouri, Scotland, Scotland
    10. Elledge, Lee, white, male, 22, boarder, single, D. G. Clerk, Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee 
    • 1880 U. S. census, Howell County, Missouri, population schedule, West Plains, enumeration district (ED) 51, p. 22 (penned, recto), p. 439 (stamped, recto), dwelling 32, family 32, Philip Arbogast household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 19 June 2021); citing NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 691.
    Buried 1914  Thomasville, Oregon County, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    • Place of death unknown - however, I presume that he must have moved from Howell County back to Oregon County, Missouri, and died there.
    NEWS 28 May 1914  West Plains, Howell County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [9
    Obit, West Plains Journal:

    "Philip August Arbogast, an aged pioneer, died at his home near Thomasville Sunday afternoon.

    Mr. Arbogast was born in Scranton, Pa. in 1838 and came to Missouri before the war. At the close of the war, in which he was a confederate soldier, he moved to West Plains. Later he went to Thomasville where he has since resided.

    He is survived by three daughters, Mrs. C. S. Hill of the city, Mrs. Thomas Walker, of Los Angeles, Mrs. Wm. Barnett of Joplin, and two sons, James and Ed Arbogast of Stroudsburg, Pa." 
    • "Personal and Local," The West Plains Journal (West Plains, Missouri), 28 May 1914, p.8, col. 1, item on the death of Philip Augustus Arbogast; digital image, Newspapers.com (www.newspapers.com : accessed 16 June 2021).
    NEWS 4 Jun 1914  Alton, Oregon County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    "OBITUARY

    Phillip Allen Arbogast, a confederate veteran of the Civil war, died at his home five milds [sic] east of Thomasville in Oregon Co., at 10 o'clock Sunday afternoon May 24th 1914.

    P. A. Arbogast was born in Harrisburg, Penna. Jan. 16, 1838; came to Missouri when a young man and located on a farm in Oregon Co., near Thomasville. In 1860 he was married to Mary E. Howell, daughter of Erasmus Howell and niece of Thomas Howell, for whom Howell Co. was named?Mrs. Arbogasts death occurred March, 11, 1891 some years later he was married to Elizabeth Depriest of Thomasville whom he survived just one year.

    Mr. Arbogast had been a sufferer from heart trouble for several years and although he had been in quite a serious condition for some time his death came unexpectedly. His daughter Mrs. Hill of West Plains, had been with him much of the time the past few weeks but had been in West Plains a few days preparing to move to Thomasville she with another daughter of Mr. Arbogast, Mrs. Thos. Walker who arrived from Los Angeles, Calif. were enroute to Thomasville when his death occurred.

    The decedent is survived by five children?Mmes. Eva Hill of West Plains, W. F. Barnett, Joplin, Mo., Thos. Walker, Los Angeles Calif. Messrs Edward and James Arbogast, Strandsburg, Penna." 
    • "Obituary," South Missourian-Democrat (Alton, Missouri), 4 June 1914, p.11, col. 4.for Phillip Allen Arbogast; digital image, Newspapers.com (www.newspapers.com : accessed 5 June 2021).
    Person ID I237  Full
    Last Modified 21 Jun 2021 

    Father Samuel Arbogast,   b. Abt 1807, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1873, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 66 years) 
    Mother Eve Roush,   b. 1808, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1871, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 63 years) 
    Married Between 1828 and 1832  [10
    Family ID F78  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Mary E. Howell,   b. Abt 1845, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Mar 1891  (Age ~ 46 years) 
    Married 1860  [4, 11
    • The 1880 Howell County census clearly marks Mary as having been married within the census year. Oddly, it does not so mark Phillip.
    • "Obituary," South Missourian-Democrat (Alton, Missouri), 4 June 1914, p.11, col. 4.for Phillip Allen Arbogast; digital image, Newspapers.com (www.newspapers.com : accessed 5 June 2021).
    Children 
    +1. Eva Savilla Arbogast,   b. 10 Sep 1862, Thomasville, Oregon County, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Feb 1950, Springfield, Greene County, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 87 years)
    +2. John Washington "Wash" of "Johnny" Arbogast,   b. Abt 1864, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Jun 1905, Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 41 years)
     3. Posey Allen Arbogast,   b. 1865, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1871, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 6 years)
    +4. Edward P, Arbogast,   b. Abt 1867, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 15 Jan 1949, Pearl River, Rockland County, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 82 years)
     5. Ella May Arbogast,   b. Abt 1868, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1870  (Age ~ 2 years)
     6. Rosa Vivan Arbogast,   b. 1872, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1873, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 1 years)
    +7. Mollie Arbogast,   b. 3 Oct 1875, West Plains, Howell County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 May 1962, Whitewater, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 86 years)
    +8. Bertha Arbogast,   b. 17 Apr 1877, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Sep 1963, Santa Cruz County, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 86 years)
    +9. James Howell Arbogast,   b. 4 Jul 1883, West Plains, Howell County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Aug 1952, 600 Scott St., Stroudsburg, Monroe County, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 69 years)
    Last Modified 16 Jun 2021 
    Family ID F100  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Elizabeth Depriest,   d. 1913 
    Married After 1891  [4
    Last Modified 16 Jun 2021 
    Family ID F3216  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Documents
    Francis Roush, 1860 Oregon County, Missouri, census
    Francis Roush, 1860 Oregon County, Missouri, census
    1860 U.S. census, Oregon County, Missouri, population schedule, Thomasville (post office), Moore township, p. 65 (penned), p. 199 (thickly penned, verso), [no stamped p. no.], dwelling 440, family 442, Francis "Raush" [Roush] household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 3 February 2012); citing NARA microfilm…

  • Notes 
    • One of the daughters married C. S. HILL and lived in West Plains MO. One married Will Barnett and lived in Joplin. One married Tom Walker and lived in Carthage.
      NOTE: NAME Philip Allen ARBOGAST
      male, white, widowed
      Born: 16 Jan 1838 PA
      father: Samuel ARBOGAST, PA
      mother: Eva ROUSH, PA
      Died: 24 May 1914
      Cause: Chronic nephritis w/ cardiac insufficiency
      Burial: Thomasville Cemetery
      Informant: Eva S. HILL [eldest dau] [12]

  • Sources 
    1. [S47] Roush - book, History of the Roush Family, Julia Roush O'Melia and Lester Le Roy Roush, (Parkersburg, West Virginia : Melvin C. Roush, 1942), Vol II, pg 119 States that Eve ROUSH married Samuel Arbogast in 1832 and had three children, the third being Philip Arbogast. (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S481] Missouri - death certificates (online), Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Records, Missouri State Archives, (http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates/ :n.d.).
      Black Pond Township, Oregon County, Misosuri

    3. [S51] Missouri, Howell - census 1880 (Ancestry), Missouri, Howell County, (http://www.ancestrry.com: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

    4. [S6345] "Obituary," South Missourian-Democrat (Alton, Missouri), 4 June 1914, p.11, col. 4.for Phillip Allen Arbogast; digital image, Newspapers.com (www.newspapers.com : accessed 5 June 2021).

    5. [S2127] 1860 U.S. census, Oregon County, Missouri, population schedule, Thomasville (post office), Moore township, p. 65 (penned), p. 199 (thickly penned, verso), [no stamped p. no.], dwelling 440, family 442, Francis "Raush" [Roush] household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 3 February 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 637.

    6. [S6357] 1870 U.S. census, Oregon County, Missouri, population schedule, Piney township (Alton P.O.), p. 10 (penned, recto), p. 5 (stamped, verso), dwelling 65, family 65, Philip Arbogasthousehold; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 18 June 2021); citing NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 796.

    7. [S6360] 1880 U. S. census, Howell County, Missouri, population schedule, West Plains, enumeration district (ED) 51, p. 22 (penned, recto), p. 439 (stamped, recto), dwelling 32, family 32, Philip Arbogast household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 19 June 2021); citing NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 691.

    8. [S80] Arbogast - burials in Oregon Co MO (email), (Celia Tate (coordinator of the Oregon County, Missouri, GenWeb site) to Janis Walker Gilmore, e-mail, 23 Nov 1998; regarding Arbogast family burials appearing in the Oregon County, Missouri, cemetery book.), Taken from Oregon County Cemetery records. (Reliability: 3).

    9. [S6347] "Personal and Local," The West Plains Journal (West Plains, Missouri), 28 May 1914, p.8, col. 1, item on the death of Philip Augustus Arbogast; digital image, Newspapers.com (www.newspapers.com : accessed 16 June 2021).

    10. [S47] Roush - book, History of the Roush Family, Julia Roush O'Melia and Lester Le Roy Roush, (Parkersburg, West Virginia : Melvin C. Roush, 1942), Vol II, pg 119 States that Eve ROUSH married Samuel Arbogast in 1832 and had three children, the third being Philip Arbogast. (Reliability: 3).
      However, John was born around 1828. This book has been wrong before, so I am guessing that the marriage date might be closer to 1828.

    11. [S40] Missouri - Death records 1910 - 1955 (MO Archives online), («i»Missouri Digital Heritage«/i» (http://www.sos.mo.gov/mdh/), "Missouri Death Certificates, 1910 - 1956," digital image,), Eva Arbogast Hill, died 24 February 1950, Greene County, Missouri. (Reliability: 3).
      State of Missouri
      Springfield (city), Greene County, Missouri
      Registration district: 128
      Primary district: 2000
      Registrar's Number: 171
      State File Number 4510 (stamped)
      Address of death: 1255 E. Elm, Springfield, MO
      Eva Arbogast Hill
      Died: 24 Feb 1950
      Female, white, widowed
      Born: 10 Sept 1862, Thomasville, Missouri
      Age: 87
      Father: Phillip Arbogast
      Mother: Mary Howell
      Informant: Mrs. Thomas D. Martin, Springfield, Missouri
      Cause of death: bronchiopneumonia
      Signed by H.D. Silsby, M.D., 609 Cherry Street, Springfield, MO; 27 Feb 1950
      Buried 26 Feb 1950, Oak Lawn Cemetery, West Plains, Missouri
      Funeral Director: Alma Lohmeyer, Springfield, MO
      «i»Approximate marriage date is based on the birth of eldest daughter, Eva, in Sept 1862«/i»

    12. [S58] Missouri, Howell - B&D Newspaper Abstracts, 1889 - 1910 (book, Gen Soc'y), (West Plains, Missouri : South Central Missouri Genealogical Society, n.d.), pg 70 (Reliability: 3).