Person Sheet

Name William LANSING Birth 17 Feb 1846, Jefferson, Wisc. Death 8 Apr 1913, Salem, Oregon Father Andrew LANSING (1807-1877) Mother Melissa BROWN (1819-1850)
Spouses
1 Nettie (Nanette) GRIEBE Birth 4 May 1850, Bern, Switzerland Death 25 Oct 1933, Salem, Oregon Burial Lee Mission cmty., Salem Oregon Father John GRIEBE (1805-<1880) Mother Henriette SHARE
Marriage 4 Jul 1869, Alexandria, Douglas Co., Minn.
Children Emma May (Em) (1869-1942) Nettie (1871-1949) unnamed1 (Twin) (1873-1873) unnamed2 (Twin) (1873-1873) William Jerome (1874-1901) Eddie (1877-1879) Henrietta Mae (1880-1910) Clara (1882-1962) Blanche (1884-1899) Grace (1886-1945) Edna Ruth (1890-) Ethel Anna (1893-1984)
Notes for William LANSING
William Lansing was a carpenter by trade and sometime farmer. He enlisted Feb. 29,1864 at Fort Snelling (St Paul), Minn. as a private in Co. C, 2nd Cav. Regt. Vols. and was Honorably Discharged Nov. 17,1865 at Ft. Snelling. Bureau of Pensions reports that "While serving in Co. C, 2nd Reg't Minn. Cav. he was disabled by inflammatory rheumatism, disease of Kidneys and scurvy winter of 1864 & 1865 - -". Ralph Wilson Sr. says "Grandad Wm Lansing was with the Cavalry during the Civil War in North and South Dakota. Stories are told of rounding up 17 Indians - - hung them to keep them from joining the South - - They would rather have been shot - - ". Ralph Sr. also recalled "Grandad had half brothers, Jerome & Bert (Ed. only Bert was 1/2 Bro.) Onetime, grandad was tipping baled hay out of the loft and hit Bert with one and broke his neck". On March 14,1898 William wrote Bureau of Pensions that he married Nanette Griebe, July 4,1869 at Alexandria, Douglas Co. Minn. by J.O.Harde, J.P. (Nettie Lansing in her own Declaration for Widows Pension gives her maiden name as Nettie Griebie, married by John T Hardy and that Wm served in Co. C, 2nd Minnesota Cavalry, otherwise no discrepancies). Son William was born in Kansas in 1874; The family had moved to Atlantic, Iowa by 1875-6, and came to Oregon via emigrant train in 1899. George Lansing and William Jr. had gone to Oregon at least a year earlier; meanwhile the Wilson clan was exploring around Port Orchard, Washington and Puget Sound area. At least a couple of young Iowan bucks followed the Lansing girls to Oregon. A book, History of Cass County Iowa - - etc. 1884 p 613 has under Marne, Iowa a paragraph verbatim "Lansing Brothers, wagon-makers, have their shop in connection with Adolph Koch's blacksmith shop. They were among the first to do business in the town." On page 618 George and William Lansing are included among the charter members of Lodge Ancient Order of United Workmen, No 218, organized August 26,1880 and also as "organizing members" Feb. 2,1884, of a Post of the Grand Army of the Republic. William, 4 yrs, is listed as a son of Andrew in the 1850 census. In 1870, William, 24, (& family) carpenter, still in Jefferson County, Wisc. In 1875 Kansas census, Wilson Co. Center Twp. Williams trade is listed as wagonmaker (see Geo L. above) In the 1880 census both Wm & Geo record their fathers Birthplace as "HOLAND", otherwise no discrepensies (perhaps meaning Holland, N.Y. ?, wew). By the time of the 1900 census the William Lansings were recorded in Salem, Oregon, he a carpenter.
Notes for Nettie (Nanette) (Spouse 1)
The oft told family story is that Nanette Griebie was one year old when she and her mother, Henrietta (Share) Griebie, escaped across France, racing ahead of the gendarmes, to board ship for America. Nanettes father, John Griebie, was said to have been killed either as a soldier or while trying to avoid being drafted in the kings army; his family reputation was that of a rather lazy demanding husband (Ed. however all the Lansing & Wilson women think thataway). HOWEVER, it is certain that John Griebie came to America where he is recorded in the 1860 Minnesota Census (and your Ed. recalls seeing his name w/family on a ships passenger list c.1850 ??; but, now I can't find the reference).