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Hi,
I got this from my Kentucky Jackson Purchase list and Bill (listowner) gave
me permission to repost it. Am sending it to Kathryn & Trisha also but
there was another person who was connected to this line and I can't remember
your name. Would you please send me your name and address again offline?
I'd like to keep track of his descendants because I think maybe this Wm.
Chester is my John's brother. Thanks.
Pat
McAlpine
-B
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Jackson Purchase Vignettes - # 11 - Nathan L. Chester - Calloway County
"Nathan L. Chester, a successful agriculturist of Burnside Township,
Johnson County [IL], was born in Calloway County, Ky., February 4, 1844.
His father, John Chester, was born in Christian County,Ky., September 17,
1816, to William Chester, a native of the Carolinas, who died in Calloway
County, aged about seventy years. John Chester had by his first wife, who
was a Miss Elizabeth Frizzell of Calloway County, Ky., four sons and five
daughters. She died in Johnson County in 1871, aged fifty-two years,
leaving four children, Nancy Jane, widow of John Rushing, now residing on
her farm in Burnside Township; Nathan L.; Rebecca, widow of Thomas C. Cole,
of Burnside Township; and James M., a farmer in Kansas. John Chester was
married to his second wife in 1873, and she died in 1880. He is still
living and resides with N.L.Chester. John Chester's mother died in Calloway
County, Ky., in 1891, at the age of ninety-five years.
The parents of Nathan L. Chester came to Illinois in the fall of 1850 by
team, and drive stock. They bought a small farm and deeded eighty acres,to
which they added eighty acres more, making one hundred and sixty acres, to
the whole of which Mr.Chester has a deed from the government. He had but
limited opportunities for securing and education in his youth, but by
application to his books, he made seven terms. Failing health, however,
compelled him to desist, and he has never since been a strong man, being
able to do but little hard labor. He was married March 2, 1865, in
Williamson County, this State to Sarah M. Holland, of Kentucky, daughter of
Bryant Holland and his wife Nancy Harrell, both of Kentucky, who came to
Illinois in the Spring of 1860, and died in Arkansas.
Mr. and Mrs. Chester have buried two daughters and two sons, all of whom
died in early childhood. They now have three sons and five daughters, viz:
Rilda B., wife of Joseph Lay, a farmer of Pope County, and who has two sons
living; Lizzie, a young lady of twenty-one years, who is teaching her
second term of school; J. Walter, a young man of nineteen; Mary S.,
sixteen; Roxie, fourteen; Arthur L., twelve; Emma C., seven, and John R.
five, all of whom are still under the parental roof and attending school.
Mr. Chester has a farm of 137 acres on Section 26, Burnside Township, on
which he has resided for 25 years, and has been a general farmer, though he
raised some tobacco in former years. he has been School Trustee six years
and Justice of the Peace three years. In politics, he has always been a
Democrat, and both he and his wife are regular church-goers, attending the
Baptist Church, of which they are influential members."
-"Biographical Review of
Johnson, Massac, Pope & Hardin
Counties, Illinois"
Biographical Publishing Co., 1893
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