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Surnames: WHITE, CARLISLE, WILKINSON
Classification: Query
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Hi, I saw your posting for Abraham Carlisle and Maria Jane White. I was wondering if you
know for sure if Maria was a sister of Elizabeth White Wilkinson? In the 1850 Elizabeth,
Jo Daviess Co., IL census, there is a Maria J. White, age 18, in the household of Jacob B.
and Elizabeth White Wilkinson, and I was assuming that was her sister, but was not sure. I
see that Maria J. White married an Abraham Carlisle in Jo Daviess. I am trying to figure
out who Elizabeth's parents were, and what happened to her after 1864. Have my fingers
crossed that you might know more? Or do you not know Maria's siblings and parents?
Elizabeth was born abt. 1825 in either Illinois or Ohio, according to census records. She
married Jacob Butcher Wilkinson in 1841 in Jo Daviess Co., IL. They are in the 1850
Elilzabeth Precinct, Jo Daviess Co census, and then at some point they moved to Emporia,
Breckeridge Co, KS and are there in the 1860 census. I cannot seem to find Elizabeth or
Jacob in any other !
census records. Their oldest daughter, Mary Ellen Wilkinson, is my great great
grandmother, and her first husband was killed in the Civil War. According to the pension
records she filed on 30 Apr. 1864 in Page Co., IA, she was a resident of Clarinda, IA, and
her sister, Maria Elizabeth Wilkinson and her mother, Elizabeth Wilkinson, both residents
of Clarinda, appeared in court with her. (According to her husband's civil war
records, he enlisted in 1863 and at that time, his residence was Clarinda, IA; and also
according to her brother's records, his residence was in Clarinda also in 1863) The
next information in the pension record is dated 15 Nov. 1865, from Jo Daviess Co., and it
had Mary moving back to Jo Daviess County, but it doesn't mention her mother or
siblings.
Mary Ellen eventually remarried and they ended up in Walker, Linn Co., IA. (They were
quite nomadic and were in several different places in Iowa before they ended up in
Walker)
Any help would be greatly apprecieated.