Outagamie County, WI - Biography of Col. Theodore CONKEY of Appleton 1818- ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ************************************************************************ Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives SUBJECT: Biography of Col. Theodore CONKEY of Appleton 1818- SUBMITTER: W. David Samuelsen EMAIL: dsam@wasatch.com DATE SUBMITTED: Apr 16, 1999 SURNAMES: CONKEY, FOOT, REID, BARNES SOURCE: Record of the Pioneers of Outagamie County, Wisconsin; page 25, pub. 1898, The Post Publishing Co. BIOGRAPHY: COL. THEODORE CONKEY Col. Theodore Conkey was born Dec. 11, 1818 and died in Appleton. He was married to Cinthia Foot, Jan. 28, 1848. They settled in Appleton in 1849. They have had four children, Alice Conkey Reid, born May 21, 1852, and died Nov. 21, 1892. Edward Conkey was born in 1854 and died in 1882. Their only surviving child, Helen Conkey Barnes, was married to Mr. Lyman E. Barnes. Their children are: Theodore Conkey, born in 1882; Allie Alexandra, born in 1885; Thomas Hart, born in 1888; Edward Talcott, born in 1889; Lyman Eddy, born in 1893. Mr. and Mrs. Barnes now reside on her father's homestead on Prospect street in Appleton. Her mother now resides with them.