John C. Pierce 1819-1900 was born in Virginia, shown as West Virginia in some census records. He married Lavina Jones 1828-1914 who was born in Indiana. John was the son of Thomas Pierce and wife, Elizabeth who had the following children:

Buford Born 1815
Cynthia " 1818
Thomas " 1821 who married Caroline ?
Catherine " 1820
John " 1819 who married Lavina Jones
William " 1824
Amanda " 1827

This family lived Tipton and Marion Counties, Indiana...I have located them on 1860 and 1870 census in Franklin Twsp., Marion Co., Indiana.

John C. Pierce, son of above Thomas the progenitor, had children with Lavina
Jones Pierce as follows:

Frances Born 1849-1860
Flavius Joseph 1851-1836 married Aseneth Bell
James Bufford 1852-1939 married Kaijah Jewell
Thadius Madison "MAD" 1853-1929 married Lydia Greenlee
William Franklin 1856-1929 m. Asenith Vaughn
Josephine 1858-1933 married Martin Helm
Emily Alice 1860-1935 married Joseph Jackson and Tilman Pierce
Thomas S. 1861-1880
Mary Belle 1863-1938 James Hull
Lavina 1865-1941 m. Edward McAlister
Ida Elizabeth 1868-188?
Homer 1872-1914 married Mary Telitha Burk

It appears the progenitor of the family, Thomas Pierce, did not leave Indiana, but his son, John C. Pierce moved to Cowley County, Kansas along with his wife, Lavina, and all of his children sometime after 1872.

John made the run into Oklahoma with a couple of his sons, one of whom,
Madison was a sheriff and schoolteacher. The other son, William, was
sheriff of Newkirk, Kay County, Oklahoma for a time before moving to Pueblo,
Colorado.

Another son, Bufford, moved to Dallas, Texas where he died.

Home Pierce, his youngest son, settled in Cushing, Okla. where he died in an oil field accident in 1914.

Anyone working on this family?