Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: Tunis Van Nest    
         Census name: Tunis Vanness 
                Born: 1809                 in New Jersey  1,2
              Census: 1850, 1860, 1870     in Bernards Twp, Somerset Co, NJ  
          Occupation:                      farmer  2,3,4
              Father: John Van Nest 
                Wife: Mary Kirkpatrick   5,6,1  
                Born: 1816                 in New Jersey  1,2
              Census: 1850, 1860, 1870     in Bernards Twp, Somerset Co, NJ  
              Father: John Kirkpatrick 
              Mother: Anne Coriell 
           M Child 1: John Van Nest 7     
                Died: young                 7
           F Child 2: Anna Maria Van Nest 7     
                Born: ca 1839              in New Jersey  2
              Census: 1850                 in Bernards Twp, Somerset Co, NJ  
           M Child 3: William C. A. Van Nest 7     
                Born: ca 1841              in New Jersey  2
              Census: 1850, 1860, 1870     in New Jersey  
           M Child 4: John Van Nest II 7     
                Born: ca 1845              in New Jersey  2
              Census: 1850, 1860           in Bernards Twp, Somerset Co, NJ  
           F Child 5: Sarah Elizabeth Van Nest 7     
                Born: ca 1847              in New Jersey  2
              Census: 1850, 1860, 1870     in Bernards Twp, Somerset Co, NJ  
           F Child 6: Mary Jane Van Nest 7     
                Born: ca 1849               2
              Census: 1850, 1860, 1870     in Bernards Twp, Somerset Co, NJ  
           F Child 7: Phebe Ellen Van Nest      
       Also known as: Phebe A. VanNest 4
                Born: ca 1853              in New Jersey  3
              Census: 1860, 1870           in Bernards Twp, Somerset Co, NJ  

Sources:
(1) U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, Ancestry.com. 
(2) 1850 Census. 
(3) 1860 Census. 
(4) 1870 Census. 
(5) Charles A. Hanna, Ohio Valley Genealogies, Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore MD, 1989 (orig. pub. 1900), p. 45. 
(6) Anna Reger Gaston, Gaston Family Lines of Somerset, "Somerset County Historical Quarterly," Somerville, NJ, Vol. 5 
(1916) (http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~windmill/html/somersev.html) 
(7) John Littell, Family Records or Genealogies of the First Settlers of the Passaic Valley (1851) 
(http://www.archive.org/details/familyrecordsorg00litt), p. 204. 







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