TITUS KELLOGG AND FAMILY IN YELLOW
SAMUEL H.
KELLOGG AND FAMILY IN RED
1583 First mention of Kellogg in English written records (Phillippe), although name had been used for hundreds of years
1620 Mayflower sails to America
1640 (approx.) Three Kellogg brothers (Lt. Joseph, Daniel and Samuel); settled in Massachusetts and Connecticut
1660 (approx.) Hadley, Massachusetts is founded; Joseph becomes a selectman; Daniel settles in Norwalk, Connecticut; Samuel settles in Hatfield, Massachusetts.
1682 LaSalle discovers mouth of Mississippi River
1714 Natchitoches founded by St. Denis (French explorer)
1715 New Orleans founded by Bienville
1775 American Revolution begins; Declaration July 4, 1776
1783 Treaty of Paris brings end to Revolutionary War
1799 George Washington dies
1800 Lucy Fletcher (who will marry Titus Kellogg) and her parents leave New Hampshire for Worcester, Massachusetts
1803 Louisiana Purchase; entire Mississippi River Valley is purchased from France.
1812 Louisiana Admitted as a State; what will later be Martin and Coushatta is in Natchitoches Parish
1817 Lucy Fletcher and her family move to the “far west” Chautauqua County, in the extreme western part of New York;
1817 Isaac Elliott (grandfather of Mary Rose Elliott) born in North Carolina
1817
Lucy Fletcher marries Titus
Kellogg in Ashville/Jamestown, NY
1828
Samuel Hiram Kellogg, Sr. born
in Tennessee
1831 Rebecca Frances Lindsey, Samuel, Sr.’s future wife, is born in Oakville, AL
1835
Lucy and Titus send two of
their children to Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
1836
Titus goes bankrupt and
children withdraw from school; family begins to think about moving to Louisiana
1837 Titus has visited Claiborne (later Bossier) Parish, and arranged for land grants for farm in area; various family members receive land grants over next several years; family has moved to Cincinnati in preparation for move; spent winter there until August of 1839
1838 Claiborne Parish established, includes later Bossier and Webster and Red River Parishes.
Titus and family
move to Minden, Louisiana, and settled farm a few miles from there
1842 Mary Fletcher
Kellogg is visited by James Harris Fairchild, professor at Oberlin, and marries
him in Minden, LA.; they return to Oberlin, Ohio; taking youngest son of Titus
(George) with them; Marcia Louisa Kellogg marries her first cousin, Alfred
Augustus Kellogg and moves to Vicksburg
1843
Titus Family moves fifteen
miles to Lake Bistineau;
Bossier Parish established out of old Claiborne Parish; includes present day Red River Parish
1844 William Edwin
Kellogg elected county clerk for Bossier Parish ; moves to Bellevue, parish
seat; Charles Augustus moves to New
Orleans
1846 “Cotton worm” destroys Titus and Lucy’s crop
1848
Titus Kellogg dies and is
buried in present day Koran, LA
1849
Samuel Hiram Kellogg, Sr. weds Rebecca Frances Lindsey; they leave
Alabama for Mississippi
1850
Lucy Fletcher Kellogg sells
land and slaves and moves to New Orleans; is frightened by cholera epidemic and
returns to Oberlin, OH
1850 Samuel Hiram
Kellogg, Sr. and family are residing in Itawamba County, MS
1853
Samuel, Sr. and family move
from Mississippi to Martin, LA
Mark
Jefferson Lindsey and his wife, William Hunter and his wife move to Martin, LA.
1857
Charles Augustus dissolves business in New Orleans,
moves to Keokuk, Iowa; his mother also moves, as does his sister Lucy and her
husband Charles Birge
1858
Samuel Hiram Kellogg, Jr. born
in Martin, LA
1860 Ft. Sumter fired on; Civil War begins
1863 Samuel Hiram
Kellogg, Sr. dies
1864 James Richard
Currey Kellogg born in Martin, La.
1865 Civil War Ends
1869 Mary Rose
Elliott born in what later becomes Red River Parish
1871 Red River and Webster Parishes established
1889
Dick Kellogg and Mary Rose Elliott marry
1890 Totsy Kellogg
born
1893
Loretta Kellogg born
1895 Fanny Kellogg
born
1897 Henry
Clyde Kellogg Born
1899
James Roy Kellogg Born
1903
Plese “Big Bubba” Kellogg Born
1904 Mary Rose
Elliott and infant son die
1913 Totsy
marries Alice B. Carter
1914
Dick Kellogg (Totsy’s father) dies
1918
Totsy marries Meroe Helen Kellogg