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Gardner, Ernest Arthur. History of Ford County, Illinois. Chicago: The S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1908, p 492. (pic included)
Henry C. HALL was too well known in business circles in Paxton to need special introduction to the readers of this volume. His name was an important one in trade circles and was a synonym of all that is honorable, straightforward and reliable in business transactions. For many years he operated extensively in grain but later gave his attention to real estate investments and the sale of property. Mr. Hall was a native of Fountain County, Indiana born Oct 11, 1841. His father, James Down Hall was born in Ross County, Ohio April 1821 and died in Paxton in Jan 1903 when in the 82nd years of his age. With an older brother, William Hall, he went to Fountain County, Indiana where he remained for several years, subsequently removing to Warren County, that state where he opened up and improved a farm which he lived for 9 years. In 1852 he arrived in Ford County, Illinois. Two years previously he had drive 100 milk cows to Wisconsin where he sold them to the farmers in the dairy district this being before the era of railroad shipment. On the way he met George B. McClellan, then General McClellan, commander of the Union Forces who with a staff of assistants was surveying for the route of the Illinois Central Railroad. Through General McClellan he became enthused regarding the conditions of the country through which the railroad was to pass and decided to locate near the line. Accordingly, in 1852, he settled 12 miles east of Paxton at Henderson's Grove, Vermilion County but not being able to secure government land in that neighborhood he removed in the Spring of 1854 to claim 5 miles SE of Paxton where the great part of his life was passed, his time and energies being given to the cultivation of his farm, which became a valuable property. His early political allegiance was given to the whig party and on its dissolution he became a republican. He was elected the 2nd sheriff of Ford County, serving for two years beginning in 1860. During the first year of his service the old courthouse was built and int he following year he had his office there, beign the first sheriff in that temple of justice. He married Eliza Whisman, a native of Wythe Co, Va who was reared by her grandparents inthat county. She died in Paxton age 79. In their family were 4 children: Henry C; William Franklin, who died 40 years ago; Melvina E, the deceased wife of Dr. Pickerd of Indinapaolis, Indiana nd Mrs. Rebecca Snyder, a widow, living at Paxton. Henry C. Hall was but 10 years when he came to Illinois, the family home being established in Vermilion County where for two years they lived prior to a removal to what became the old farm homestead near Paxton. For 56 years Henry C. Hall lived in or near this city. The experiences of pioneer life with all its attendant hardships, privations, duties and pleasures became familiar to him. His education was acquired in the common schools and when not occupied with his textbooks he aided in the labors of the farm. On attaining his majority, thinking to find other pursuits more congenial, Mr. Hall came to paxton in march 1862 and entered the graint rade here, being successfully and extensevily connected therewith until 4 yeaers ago. He did not confine his attention, however to the grain trade alone but dealth also in livestock, lumber and coal, operating in all those lines during the greater part of the time. The sphere of his activity was also extended to include neighboring towns and cities as well as Paxton and at one time he had 12 different stations. He established business before he was of age and for about 3 years was alone, after which his father became his partner, unde rthe firm style of JD & HC Hall. That relation was terminated after 5 years and Henry C. Hall was then joined by his brother-in-law under the name of Hall & Snyder. They were together 6 years after which Mr. Hall admitted Timm Ross to a partnership and they operated above mentioned lines under the firm of Hall & Ross. Later Mr. Hall was alone. He became the largest operator in grain, lumber, livestock and coal of any man in the business. He bought and sold grain most extensively, though he shipped large quantities of livestock of all kinds and his annual sales brought him a very gratifying financial return. For 36 years he has occupied offices in the Clark block. After he had been in the office for a year he was married and built the present residence of his widow on W. Franklin Street which was afterward his home. Four years before his death he sold his grain business and withdrew from the trade for two years but later was engaged in real estate and loans. He admitted JM Marsh to a partnerhsip under the firm style of Hall & Marsh. In this connection he handled much property and negotiated many important realty transfers. He was a man of resourceful business ability, readily recognizing and utilizing opportunities and his efforst were so discerningly directed along well defined lines that he won a most gratifying measure of success. On 10 October 1872, Mr. Hall was united in marriage to Miss Mary Pierpont, who was born in 1849 in Morris, Connecticut and in 1858 came to Ford Co with her parnets, Leonard and Cynthia Pierpont who were also natives of Conn. Her father was the youngest brother of the Rev. John Pierpont a man of national reputation. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Hall were born five children: Mary T, now the wife of George L. Shaw of Chicago; Bertha M. and Edith P, at home; Clara W, who died in 1880 and Henry Pierpont who was born in June 1885 and died of tyhpoid fever February 1907. He was a young man 6' in height, of athletic build and a favorite with his many friends so that his death was deeply regretted in social circles as well as immediate family. In his political views Mr. Hall was always a stalwart republican after casting his first presidential ballot for Abraham Lincoln in 1864. He served as Twp. trustee 40 years and declined to fill the office for a longer period. This simple statement is the highest proof that can be given of the position which he held in public regard and int he confidence of those who knew him. For 12 years he was a member of the city council and was still serving on the board of alderman at time of his death. His fidelity to municipal progress found tangible evidence in his active work for many movements for the public good. He belonged to the Congregational church to the support of which he contributed liberally and his family were associated with him in this membership. He found appropriate place among those men of business and enterprise int he state of Illinois whose force of character, whose fortitude amid discouragements whose sterling integrity, whose good sense in the management of complicated affairs and marked success inshaping large industries and bringing to completion great schemes of trade and profit, have contributed in eminent degree to the development of the resources of this noble commonwealth. His career wa snot helped by accident, or luck or wealth or family or powerful friends. He was in the broadest sense a self-made man, being both the architect and builder of his own fortunes.
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Biographical annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Chicago: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1905, p. 121. Dewalt BONEBRAKE born Oct 1, 1755 - died Aug 29, 1884, son of Fredrick and Christina Bonebrake was a soldier of the Revolution and served in the campaign around Philadelphia in 1777. He was an educated man and taught his children in the German tongue. He was not only a farmer and teacher but was skilled as a worker in metals. He frequently worked on his farm all day and at his trade of a blacksmith in the evening. He removed to Ohio in 1800. Going down the Ohio in a flat boat to the mouth of the Hocking River, and up the Hocking he landed at Athens, Athens County. He settled near a village now called Hibbardsville where he remained about 7 years when he removed to Preble County and settled near Eaton. He was brought up in the German Reformed Church but shortly after his settlement in Preble County, he united with the United Brethren of Christ. he married Chstiana Wolfe born Aug 31, 1764 - died July 9, 1851, a native of Berks County. They had: 1. Adam born July 18, 1783 removed to Fountain County, Indiana. 2. Frederick born Dec 25, 1785 was a soldier in the War of 1812; he was a minsiter of the UB Church. 3. Elizabeth born Feb 20, 1788 married Peter Zearing. 4. Jacob born Feb 20, 1789 was a soldier in the war of 1812. 5. John, twin brother of Jacob was a soldier int he War of 1812. 6. Conrad born March 10, 1791 was a soldier in the war of 1812; he was a minister of the UB Church. 7. Peter born NOv 13, 1793 was a soldier in the war of 1812; a minister of the UB CHurch. 8. David born March 1, 1796. 9. Daniel born June 16, 1797 was a minster of the UB Church. 10. George born March 25, 1799 was a mnister of the UB Church. 11. Henry born Oct 8, 1801 was a minister of the UB CHurch. He was elected a bishop but after praying over his election over night, reported to the conference that he had neither the grace of heart nor the college training necessary. 12. Catharine born March 1, 1804 married a Sears. 13. Joel, born Feb 13, 1807 died Jan 19, 1810. David Bonebrake, son of Dewalt and 3 of his brothers went to Fountain county, Indiana in 1828. Cornelius Bonebrake, son of David was only six weeks old when his parents moved to Indiana. Cornelius married in 1855, Phoebe Jane Bales, daughter of Moses Bales and had: James O; Grant; Elsada who married Charles Isley and a daughter that died young in 1865. Lewis D. Bonebrake, Commissioner of Education of Ohio is a great grandson of Dewalt Bonebrake. THERE IS MUCH MORE ON VARIOUS BONEBRAKE FAMILIES IN THIS BOOK
Gardner, Ernest Arthur. History of Ford County, Illinois. Chicago: The S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1908 p 134 -- The following are excerpts from an intersting volume, entitled "Remembrances of a Pioneer" published in book form in 1904 by Mrs. Jane Patton who is still living on the old homestead in Button Township. In 1884, (sic - think this is 1854) my husband and I moved to Vermilion County, Illinois. We bid farewell to the home of our childhood and the homes that we had lived in and good people that had lived there. Some of them live there yet and I love to visit those old scenes of my young days. How sweet is their memory after so many years spent away from them. The day we loaded our wagons to leave for Illinois, we had a home and yard full of people. They were so glad to get us away that they all wanted to help us start. They made us a barrel of kraust, and loaded 5 wagons and about sundown we came across the creek to one of the places that I never got tired of going to, that was my Aunt Jane Campbell's and Uncle Samuel and Joseph Campbell's to spent the night. It was a hard trial to leave all the relatives and neighbors behind. Mrs. Harshbarger; Mrs. Dice, Mrs Greenley, and many more that had been good to me in so many ways besides all the relatives but we had decided to come and I think it was for the best that we did. We were two days on the road. We brought two cows, four horses, chickens and turkeys. We stayed at Mr. Joseph Delays six or seven miles form the state line city and ate dinner at Marysville what is Potomac now. We got to our future home in the afternoon in time to unload our goods and put up four beds and the cook stove. These were essential things tha tnight for there were 5 men came with us besides our own family; they came to drive the teams and have a good time and they had it. We had brought lots of things cooked and had a turkey for the first meal in our new home and we all enjoyed our supper that evening. That was Thursday evening and all stayed with us until Monday morning and then started home. They had seen those black prairies but before they started for home they visited the deep cut prairie, Prospect City what was afterward Paxton but the railroad was the object in view. None of them had ever seen a railroad as far as I know. I know I had not. There was only one house in Paxton or what is Paxton now. The Mr. Stites' family was there and the trains stopped when needed. The boys wanted to get something to take home with them and found some beans for sale and bought them to take home. They wanted to kill a deer to take home but did not get to do that but got some venison some place, I think but am not sure of that. Deer were plenty then for you could see them almost every morning going form the timber out on the prairie, but they could see you would see them. Mr. Patton went back to Indiana in December and took the boys back there to school. There was no school here that winter. The Illinois Central commenced to run trains the spring we came here; in the fall there was no railroad at Danville, Illinois. Then men came to our house from Covington and the country around there more than once to go to Loda or Paxton and take the train to Chicago. I forgot to tell the names of the ones who came with us when we moved to this country - Obidah Marlatt, long since dead, my uncle, Samuel Campbell, Joseph Douglas, a cousin and my brother, S. Cade. The first Sunday Mrs. WIlliam Robison came. I had never met here but she and Mr. Robinson came here from Fountain County. Some of the Robisons and Woods live there yet. They lived in the field just south of here but there is no house there now. She died the next June. She came the first Sunday and was very cheerful and friendly. It did me lots of good to have a neighbor so soon. She helped me just as if she had always known me, but she was taken suddenly sick of inflammation of the stoch and died. We miss our firneds when they are gone and do not forget their kindness. I will now tell about who lived here when we came. Uncle Tommy Lion lived at Sugar Grove then - in the house that has always stood there until lately. Mr. Bittle bought Mr. Lion out and then Mr. Patton bought the land of Mr. Bittle. Mr. Hiram Driskal and his family lived on the Driskal farm. All these have gone to their long homes, Mrs. Driskal lately. A Dr. Hobert lived in what is now a cattle pasture just east of the Sugar Grove schoolhouse. His family all died, 3 or 4 with what is known as milk sickness and then he left and got married again and died. Vannatta lived at what is known as the Lamb farm; Mr. Davis Morehouse lived where Joseph Kerr lives now; Mrs. Jesse Piles on the Piles farm the farthest out from the timber. Mrs. Piles still lives in Hoopeston but Mr. Piles had gone to his long home. Estrige Daniels lived on the farm that LaFayette Patton lives on, but the house was over in the field. Elihu Daniels lived south of William Moudy's. There is no house there now. Three families live dup close to where the frame and brick churches are now; the father, old Mr. Tanner lived west of the brick church and Peter lived SW, close the frame church and John lived north. Uncle John Dobbs, as everyone called him lived between the two church on a farm known as the old Walker home. His house was the place where we all went to church, had preaching every 3 weeks and class meeting every Sabbath something we do not have now. The house was a large hewed log house with a fireplace and room for 3 beds and for all the people that there was to come. Uncle John Dobbs was class leader and good one. I would like to go to a meeting of that kind now. There was John P. Dobbs and he lived close there but the next spring he moved out on the prairie, not far from old Pellsville, the farthest out of anyone then. He build a house with one room upstairs and one room downstairs. Obidah Marlatt gave it the name of the North Pole and that was the name of the neighborhood for awhile. That was the first house north of us until we got to Ash Grove. That spring two more familiesm oved out on the prairie, Mr. Dove and Mrs. Shannon, one east of us and Mr. Dove northeast of us. I remember seeing Mr. Dove's team the first trip he made with the material for his house. I think the team must have been 3 miles from our house. There was nothign there thenb ut the prairie grass, green or brown, asthe season might be. Southeast of our home half a mile, Harmon Strayer and his brother John lived and nortwest of us about three miles Milton Strayer. He is remembered as one of the good men of this world. He was kindness to perfection and Matthew Elliott, father of WHH Elliott, and he and his family were all Methodists of the old-time religion. Their house was the first house I ever ate in away from home after coming to Illionis. We went to church to our home, Uncle John Dopps (sic) and went there for dinner. We had venision for dinner, I remember. I thought then we had good people here and I think soyet. We had been here about 3 weeks then. There has been regular preaching by the Methodist preachers right in the same place. Only a short time after Uncle John Dopps went away, preaching was in the schoolhouse until the church was built. I would like to tell the name of the ministers that have been here in these 44 years but I think many of them are reaping their reward and their works do follow them. I will not say anything more about this eventful year at the present time. 1885. That winter was one of the cold, story winters of that time and we got the full benefit of the winds and snow. I think the snow staye dont he ground perhaps six weeks or more and cold all the time and only two rooms to our house and a smokehouse and stable for the horses and two cows; no fence only a pen for the corn fodder for the cows and horses. We bought that, and the cows would stay for the feed for there was no fence to keep them. Mr. Patton hired the rails made to fence 160 acrse of land, a good fence staked and two rails on the top and Mr. Patton and Obe Marlatt hauled all the rails to fence it, through the storms and snows. Sometimes the snow would blow and drift so that we could not see the tracks of the wagon of the next load. I could see them when they left the timber and get almost any kind of a dinner, except cook dry beans before they would get home to dinner. It was a mile and 3/4 straight west of the house where we lived to the edg eof the timber where they got the rails and I could see them very plainly. In the after part of the winter Obe Marlatt went to Bloomington after plows to break the prairie; that was as near as they could be gotten. He bought five, some for the neighbors. I think if some of the people had to do as we did they would think they would have a hard time now. Well, that spring it was break prairie with our own 4-horse team and ox. The man broke by the acre, $2.50 per acre, broke and planted sowed corn, 140 acres and raised the best vegetables of all kinds, melons, pumpkins by the wagon load and the best corn. We sold 100 acrs of it to cattle feeders the next fall for $500 and was pleased with our years' work. In the spring we built two room sto our house and dug a cistern fenced in a garden and put an addition to the stable. Money was very plentiful that summer or spring. John Adamson that lived at Covington brought 100 and over of 4-year old steers to be herded ont he prairire, and they were so large and got so fat on the grass without any expese excpet to pay the herder and for salt the prairie grass was so fine. 1856 was another year of improvement. We set out the fence to take in more land, hauled more rails and built two houses on the farm that winter for two tenants to move ont he farm in the spring. That spring I was sick, had a spell of fever and had a girl to stay with me. I had gotten so I did not need her and she was going home Sunday morning but Saturday evening she took a chill and was so bad Sunday we sent for her aunt, Mrs. Solomon Koder but we did not know anything about the disease then. It was spinal or spotted fever and the doctor nor anyone else could do any good as doctors fail in most cases of that disease. Her name was Nancy Skinner. There were 3 of them. They were orphan children and their aunt, Mrs. Koder had raised them All 3 of them were about grown and all of them died in a very short time. They had such a good home with their aunt and uncle. That summer everything was corn. We could not see the country so faraway and the people had come to the country so fast that there were new houses on all sides of us. There was lots of corn, and no sale for it, unless cattlemen came in with cattle to feed the corn to. Corn would grow then if you planted it without any trouble. The weeds had not got a strt then only the tumbleweeds and they would roll ove rthe field and lodge against the fences as high as the fence. 1857 was a new year and how many times we make resolves to lead a better life if these things concern our future welfare which it should. If we start wrong in our work we are very sure to come out wrong, unless we repent and go back and do our work over again. It is so much easier to make good resoutions than it is to keep them. I have found this true all through life. How true the words prove, "Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, prone to leave the God I love." THis winter, we did not do much work ont he farm and improve it so much and March 23 there came to our house another baby boy. We called him Charles Delaware, the Delaware being the name chosen by his oldest brother. This summer was the same; plow, raise corn, cut prairie grass and cut up corn and have lots of men to work as we always had. But the last of this year there came the greatest calamity that we ever called to pass through. Mattie, our only girl, came home from school sick with what proved to be cerebral spinal fevera dn as spotted fever. She was very bad from the first and her suffering was simply agonizing. Her muscles were contracted and sometimes her head would be drawn to her hips almost like a hoop. We had Dr. Courtney from Blue Grass Grove and Dr. WHitmore but they did not do any good, neither do I think any other doctor would. T heir principal medicine was solelia. She was very sick 8 weeks. When we would go to turn her in bed and let her limbs fall it would almost kill her but she lived through all this intense suffering. So many times she would have spasms and we would think she woudl not live one hour but she got over all this suffering without being left with some mark of it for life. She was past 7 at that time. One or two days after Mattie was taken, Lafayette was taken bad also. He had more fever and his muscles di dnot contract so much; it was more in his head and it has left its mark with him for life, for he has always been deaf ever since. He had gone to school just two or three days. He was sick 7 weeks and when he got better so he was conscious and knew us, we did not know that he had lost his hearing and was to be deaf all his days. But one night someone was there and brought a dog and it came close to his bed and he laughed at it. We talked to him about it and he would not say a word, and then we knew he could not hear but it never came to my mind that it was to be permanent or it would have been much harder to bear. His speech did not leave him. He just forgot most of the words, being so young, just two or three weeks past 4 and he says words yet. There was living at our house iwth us a good, sweet girl. Her name was Margaret Shoey. She had been with us about a year and half. She had a mother and an inhuman stepfather and the neighbors got her away from them. Mr. Dove had lived close to them and got us to go and get her but she hid from himt he first time and the second time she just told hims eh would not go. She took the same as the others had Saturday evening. Both Drs. were there but there was no help for her. The spots were more marked than on our own two children. She died Monday night or Tuesday monring at 1 or 2 o'clock. The disease was epidemic. There were 14 deaths in the surrounding country but our neighborhood suffered most. One little girl about two, Sylvester King, half a mile north of our home, died. She was sick just two or three days. John Wilson's half a mile SE of us lost a sweet little girl about the same age; and Mrs. David Morehouse, half mile south of us. All these were taken away in two or three days' sickness. We were all just like one family around there then. I left my own sick ones to go and prepare the bodies of those that had died. I speak of when our house was full of people helping us with our sick ones. There were no trained nruses then and no coffins kept int he furniture store for sale. The first thing after death was to straighten the body and take the measure fora coffin and go to the carpetner's and get a coffin made for that would take some time and the funeral would be appointed accordingly. I have helped take the measure of a great many people for a coffin for I was a born leader in taking care of sick and caring for dead. I commenced that kind of work before I was married. I remember a little baby just a few days old that I took on my lap and dressed for the grave when I was not more than 17. I think this will sound strange to some. 1858 came with all of the sickness and death. Some had died before the new year came and some after. Mr. Elihu Daniels, south of the Will Moudy farm died and Mr. Lucas had a daughter about 14 to die; a Mr. Mullen, that lived west of the brick church had two little children that lived with them. They had no children of their own and these two died. I think the disease was not contagious but it was epidemic. I never want to see another time like that. There was a family lived east on our farm. Their names were Hartman. They just stayed at our house. They had two little girls and they slept on the bed with our sick children. Mr. Hartman would only go home to feed his things sometimes for two or three days then would go home to sleep and rest and come again and his brother stayed all the time and their children never took the disease. Who can forget the people that do so much fo ryou in such distress and affliction? The people did not do any work around there only what had to be done and went where they were needed the most. I could write about it and never get done telling how good the people were to us, and all the rest that had sickness and death in their family. The tears will come sometimes yet when I think of it. That spring the creeks were very high. We could not cross the middle fork of the Vermilion for six weeks there ws so much rain and no bridges then. There was a man drowned that spring int he creek close to Charley Wood's home and it was more than a week before the body was gotten out of the creek. Mr. Patton's father came to see us that spring and went home and took sick and died May 31, 1858. Some one came after Mr. Patton and he went and found his father very sick. He stayed a few days and then came home but he was soon sent for again to attend the funeral. The east fork of the Vermilion was very high. He went horseback and had to swim his horse to get over the creek. No way to go to the rr and no telegraph. We took a wagon and went over into Indiana in August to attend the sale of the personal property, Mr. Patton and his brother being the administrators of his father's estate. 1859 came and nothing special happened until fall, when Mr. Patton rented our farm here to a Mr. Hunt and Isaac Brown of Indiana for five years and made arrangements to move back to Indiana his father having left him a farm. He had two wagons loaded to go back but I was not very much in favor of going and leaving more here than we could get there. That night after supper Mr. Patton came down to Mr. Wm. Robison's and bought his farm of 200 acrs of land, the 40 that our house is on and the 160 south of our home. We never thought of going back to Indiana since, but loved to go and visit and see the old home of my childhood but the most of the ones I knew so well are gone. 1860. And who is it that is 50 or 60 years of age that does not remember the first five years of the sixties; about Abraham Lincoln and the war times and how we would watch for the news if we did not have any friends there. That spring we moved from the house we had lived in about 1/4 of a mile from the house I call home now, into a double hewed log house, with an entry between them. On Jan 22 there was another one added to our family, and we called him Franklin. He was a delicated little one and always was through life. We built our house that fall under many difficulties. The first house we lived int he lumber was all hauled from Indiana and we expected to have inside work of our present house of black walnut lumber but got it home from Indiana and put it in a kiln to dry and it took fire and burned up, except enough for our front door, 3 wagon loads. All the lumber was hauled from Paxton and the brick for the cellar form 10 mile Grove the other side of Paxton. in October, William went to get a load of brick and as he was coming home he had a barrel on his wagon on top of the brick and was on top of the barrel. The barrel fell off and he also and the wagon ran over his legs and mashed one of them as wide as the wagon tire so some of th epieces of bone were ont he outside of his leg when I got to where he was. He crawled to the horses and unhitched them and got on and rode one of the horses to Mr. Montgomery's and we were sent for. Mr Patton was after cattle up at Paxton. He was sent for and brought two doctors, Dr. LB Farrar and Dr. Smith of Loda and we had sent ofr a Dr. 5 or six miles south of our home. We got him about midngiht and all 3 doctors held a consultation. Two doctors were for amputation, but Dr. Farrar took the case. Billy, as we called him had amost bled to death before the doctors got there and the Dr. had cold water poured on his limb for several days every half hour or so and saved his foot and Dr. Farrar of Paxton should have all the credit that Billy Patton has two feet to walk on today. Well I did not have a very easty time that fall -- all the carpenters and the men to cut corn for that had to be done if we got anything for the corn; Billy and a sickly baby to care for. I had two girls to work for me some of the time, Mr. Anthony Godson worked here and the girl that afterwards became his wife, Susan Keplinger. John Harmon that live sin Los Angeles, California did the outside carpenter work but had Uncle John Koder and a Mr. William Civill to help and after the building was closed Mr. Kuder (sic) did the inside work and Mr. Wm. kinmin did the mason work - the fastest man I ever saw work at any kind of work. 1861 came as all years do and we had moved in our new house which was a good one for those times in this country full two stories high with 5 rooms above and 4 below and a cellar under the house. It has been acomfortable home for 40 years but sorrows have come often and pleast times also. If it were possible for me to live in this house for 40 more I would take care ofit as I have done it would be a good house at the end of 80 years if fire or cyclone did not destroy it. The first glass windows in the sitting room are all good, and never one pane of glass has been broken out for 40y ears. I would like tos ee all the different people that have made their homes for a long and some for a shorter time with us in this house in 40 years that it has been my home. Many have gone to their long home that had a home iwth us and were employed by us to work in the house and farm. I would like to see them all at one table. I think it would reach a long way. 1862 came and passed without any special incident to ur family, only the same routine of work that comes to people in everyday life. The horrors of the Civil War were thought more of that anything else and how anxious we were to hear formt he ones that left. 1863 came and without incident only we had plenty of work to do. We had a large drove of cattle that year and herded them on the prairies that summer. We did lots of farming and raised wheat at that time here on the prairie better than can be raised now on the prarie. In June that year, the 25th there came a little girl we called Ida J and she made ltos of racket most of the time when her eyes were open. That December Billy came home from Indianapolis. He had been there at school and soona fter coming home to spend the holidays took the lung fever and was very bad sick and one week after that his father took sick with the same disease. I suppose you would call it pneumonia now. THis year had a sad ending to us. 1864 came as no other year that I ever saw and never to be forgotten. The first day of that year wast he worst storm or blizzard. You could not see 3 steps from you and it was so cold you would freeze ina very shor time. Sammy Patton and a Mr. SMith had 125 head of cattle about one mile east of our house that they fed shock corn to and they would never have gotten hom that day if it had not been that there was a rail fence that they got close to and followed to our house and barn. There was a number of people perished that day and night in Illinois. So many school children started home and wer elsot by the way and lost their lives or limbs. Mr. John Wilson, a neighbor lost 100 head of hogs in that storm. Dr. LB Farrar came next morning to see our sick folk and stopped on the way and warmed at Mr. Button's and when he came to our house he was so cold he could hardly get to the house and the snow was drifted so that it was almost impossible to get any place. Almost all the chickens in the country froze to death. Mr. Patton took sick that New Year's day and Dr. Farrar was attending to Billy and then we sent to Urbana to Dr. Summers to come. Mr. Daniel Moudy went after Dr. Summers. Mr. Moudy will never forget that trip he almost sacrificed his life for us in that great affliciton. Dr. Summers came and stayed 3 days and nights and Dr. Farrar was here most of the time. He came through the bitter cold weather and snow drfits which lasted several weeks, the like of which I have never seen in this country beofre or since. Mr. patton was not expected to live and Billy was very sick. 8 days after Mr. Patton took sick, Samuel, the second son took as the rest; the red, brick-colored spittle and pain in the left side like all the others. The Dr. was here at the time he took down but could not check the disease and he was very bad sick. Three beds in two rooms and most of the time 3 men to care for the sick and sometimes more, day and night. There were no trained nurses at that time but I got to be pretty good one before all got well, especially in taking care of fly blisters. Three men sick at one time. It did not take me long sometimes to shed tears with all the care and trouble I had and hard work and to think of things out of doors and in the house. Joseph Harris came and left his home and stayed 26 days and fed the cattle and took care of the other stock and in the deep snow and very cold weather. Money does not pay for such work at such times and the men in the neighborhood would come and stay, sometimes two or three days and then go home and sleep and rest and then come back again. What would we have done if the neighbors hadn't been so good? I never got tired of doing something for the sick after that as long as I was able, if I could do it, no matter who they were. After all I have told about this siege of sickness in our own family, Charles McGlaughlin, an old Irishman that had no home only our house, took down with the same disease one week after Sammy took sick: three downstairs and one upstairs; four beds occupied with sick; one or the other of the doctors was there almost all the time. Franklin Rice went to Indiana after William Patton and to tell the folks over there about all the family being sick and William Patton came and stayed 15 days and his sister came soon after and stayed several days. All these trips then were worse than a trip to Denver would be now, but all our family got well after 3 months from the first to the close of the sickness. There was only one death in the neighborhood and that was a young man named Shaver. If we never got sick we would not be thankful for good health. I thought sometimes that I was nearer worn out than the sick were; I would go out in the kitchen sometimes after something and forget what I went after, but never gave up but once and that was the afternoon that Samuel came in and I had to fix another bed for him. I sat down ont he floor and cried and thought I could not do anything more but I thought this will not do and I had to do all I could do and was thankful I had so much help. This is enough for one year but not half I could tell about it. 1865 was a year of no special incident in the family only the common work on the farm and house. There was always plenty to do. Billy came from Jacksonville the 15th of April, the day Abraham Lincoln was assasinated and when he came about 5 o'clock in the evening I went to meet him and the first wod that he said was to ask fi I knew that the President had been killed. I had no heard it until then. A Mr. Ballard had just moved in the house we first lived in and I wnet there the next day and when I told him he just walked the floor, he was so excited that he did not know what he was doing hardly. The whole country was stirred up and in mourning for the beloved President's death. His name will live through ages to come. February 27, 1902. After almost one year of the time has passed I will try to finish the sketches I commenced some time ago and will tell something of what happned in the last year that has just closed, 1901. In this year I have passed through the great affliction of my life of bodily suffering that it was impossible for me to pass through and still live to tell about it but I will never tell it all for it would be impossible to tell it so anyone would know how much I suffered. May 8, 1901, I ran a small oak splinter in my forefinger on my left hand, and blood poisoning started from the effects of the splinter. The next day, the 9th of May we called Dr. Wylie of Paxton and Dr. Hester of Clarence and they split my finger. The next day they came and split my finger and the third time had 8 or 9 places opened on my hand. I did not know much by this time and when the doctor would dress my hand it was all I could do to stand it. The Dr. came twice a day for awhile and then went to Chicago for a trained nurse and she stayed 10 days. I had to have medicated water poured in every two hours and take whiskey and strychnine every 4 hours. The perspiration from the poison was very offensive and I had to have alcohol baths twice a day and a chill one every 24 hours and suffered intensely then. I would sometimes look at my hand and wonder if it would ever get better. Oh, how glad I would be whe the Dr. would get through dressing it! But everything has an ending and so did my trouble with blood poisoning after being under Dr. Hester's care from May 9 until July 17, making 59 visits. I thank him for his kindness to me all this time. May God's blessing be with him through life and may he live a righteous life, and be a blessing to the people wherever he may be. "I am exulting while I may, for joy is uppermost today." 1866. This year there was lots of work to do. Someo f the children at school and some at work at home. I will here write a subscription or copy of it which was written March 13, 1866 for John Keplinger, who lost his limb just at the close of the war. They were our neighbors then.
Sugar Grove, Champaign County, Illinois.
We, the undersigned agree to pay John Keplinger who has lost a leg in defense of our country, the sum annexed to our names, for the purpose of assisting him to get an artificial leg. LH Unstad ... $2.00; Charles McLaughlan ... $2.00; Anton Giteen ... $2.00; R. F. Kerr .... $1.00; David Patton .... $5.00; J. H. Flagge .... $1.00; Harmon Strayer .... $1.00; Arthur F. Flagge .... 50; Wm. Montgomery .... $1.00; James Mercer ....50; Stephen Lamb ... $1.00; Joshua Lucas .... $1.00; John Warren .... $1.00; A. B. Lucas .... $1.00; W. H. H. Elliott .... $1.00; S. P. Mitchell ... $1.00; George P. Gitson ... $1.00; John H. Gitson ... $1.00; Aaron Albier ... $1.00; A. M. Elliott ...50; Elam Wait .... 50; Thomas Elliott .... $1.00; Milton Strayer ... $2.00; Joseph Harris ... $1.00; G. O. Marlatt ... $1.00; James B. Lucas ... $1.00. John Keplinger lives in Indianapolis Indiana and I suppose gets a good pension at this time, March 4, 1902. In the winter of 1866 we had a revival in the church. Here, I see by a letter that I wrote then, that Billy joined the church at jacksonville that winter and some names here at home that united with the church - Mrs. Hiram Daniels, George Tanner and some of the Sedletter boys. The Rev. Bannan (sic - this is probably Lewis Bannon from the Fountain/Parke County Indiana area who did many revivals throughout Indiana and Illinois during that time) was the pastor at that time and stayed with us while the meeting lasted; and Mrs. Search had so much influence in the church that winter. The Search family moved to Southern Illinois that spring and we were sorry to see them leave the neighborhood, for Mr. Search was the life of the Sabbath School in the Flagge schoolhouse at that time. 1867 came with its sorrows and joys, as most years do. On Feb 20, 1867, there came to our house a new baby girl and she got to be the pet of the family and ruled things as she pleased in her babyhood and girlhood too. That winter I had lung fever and came near leaving this world; was sick about 4 weeks. We named the baby Allie, and now there had been 8 children added to the family a little over 21 years and how many wants are to be supplied with 8 children to care for. When Henry C. Dodge wrote, "Nobody knows but mother," I think he was right. "Nobody knows of the work it makes, to keep the home together, Nobody knows of the steps it takes, nobody knows but mother." Mary Frayne was here and had been for over one year and stayed until the next May or June. She was a kind, good girl. Billy taught school at the Flagge schoolhouse that winter and Sammy and Lafayette went to Jacksonville, Illinois, to school Sammy to the Illinois College and Lafayette to the deaf-mute institution. Times have changed since then. I see by a statement today with a Paxton hardware and implement store that Mr. Patton settled Feb 7, 1867 with the hardware man at Paxton. He had bought two Schuttler wagons and they cost $242.50 and one barrel of flour $14.50 and one $13.50 and there were no trusts then. And sold 100 bushels of rye at 85 cents per bushel. This is all about 1867. 1858 was a new year with many things connected with it. Who is it that enters a new year without making resolves to live a better life and we should thankt he lord for all the blessings we receive at his hand. We should praise God for a home and the blessings of a home. But what changes since then! I take from a store bill at that time, dated 1868, George Wright's store, a few items. 1 1/2 pound Young Hyson Tea ..$1.20; 10 sheets paper .. 10; 1 lead pencil .. 10; 1 broom ... 40; 12 pounds sugar .... 2.00; 9 yards bed ticking...$4.05; 4 spools thread... 40. I forgot to tell about the building of the first church that was built in the country around here. It was built in 1868. It was a Methodist Episcopal church and still stands a monument to many that have gone to their long homes and there has never been a time when there has not been preaching services in it. It was dedicated in November 1868 by Rev. Dr. R.N. Davies. It is known as Pleasant Grove Church. I have before me a note that Mr. Patton paid Sept 2, 1871 that had been given to make up a deficiency on account of some of the subscribers failing to pay their subscription -- I think over 300 dollars in all; but Mr. Patton was very proud of our church and paid it willingly. 1870. This year was without special events to our family. Christmas of that year I went to Chicago with Edd Kingon, a deaf-mute that stayed with us that year and when he went home to spend the holidays, I went with him and stayed 4 days. I had a nice time and was very much interested in what I saw in Chicago but it was not much like it is now. I was at an entertainment at the Wabash Avenue ME Church and to the 1st ME Church and to the 1st Presbyterian and to the museum and everything was different from what I had ever seen. I thought it wonderful and Mr. Kingon and family entertained me royally and showed me around the city. I came home but Edd spent some time before he came back. Sept 3rd of this year I got the first sewing machine I ever had only a little hand sewing machine to fasten to a table but the Grover and Baker machine cost $75 a note on a year's time. "PS Point Pleasant, Robert Bradley, Agent" so says the old note before me. 1871. The years come and go, whether we are ready are ready or not. Our home affairs were just the same as usual throughout this year as far as I can remember. The last days of September, Mr. Patton and I went to Indiana and came home the first week in October, I think the dryest time I ever saw and the great fire at Chicago the 9th of October made us all feel sad; and the forest fires filled the air so full of smoke that you could not see very far. We had no deep well then and had to haul water for a mile and the stock had to be taken to the creek for water. It took the cattle herder half of the time to get the cattle to water and back. 1874. The new year had dawned upon us in quiet beauty and the sunshine of God's love is over us. The dear old year was kind to us. Each day brought some new blessing to us, whether we were tahnkful for the blessing or not. The new year brought us a deep well with fine water after 3 months of hard work and many discouragements Mr. Ketchum and Mr. William LeFever sank a well or made a trial for a well and did not succeed and the nmoved to another place, where our well is at the prseent time; and oh, the joy that came to us when the well was completed that June, and the windmill of the Haliday make was put up and ready for work and the well-house finished and a tank for the milk put in. There was not any place I enjoyed at our house so much as the well house and why should I not, after 20 years of getting water sometimes one place and sometimes another. One shallow well would go dry and we would go to antoher and then when it rained they would all have water in and overflow, and the water would not be fit to use, not even to wash dishes in. Sometimes I could not get supper until the men would come home from the field and haul water. This was Illinois before deep wells were made. 2 Peter ii; 17; Wells without Water. Rev. xxi: 6: I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. All the years since that itme the well has never gone dry, for the supply has never run out. 1875. again a new year has come to us. The old year was kind and waited and watched to supply all our needs. This year in many things was the same to us as others. W. T. Patton, or Billy, as we called him when we wanted him to get up to breakfast, though the best thing he could do would be to get married. So November 25, 1875, he was married to Fanny M. Flagge. Our family had been going up the mountain and stopped on the top when Allie was born in 1867, and stayed there for 7 years and then commenced to go down the other side, one by one until all are gone and I am left alone. Billy sat at our table longer than he was at his own at this writing. The realm of advanced activity in the years since that time is everywhere manifested; the resources of every department are being fully taxed. During adventures, mechanical inventions, scientific discoveries, commercial enterprises -- all these give signs of progress and unparallel activity in the years since the date of this page. 1876. Almost always the new year makes us think of past years and what may happen in the year we make our figures for now. This year was centennial year and many memories of that time clint to 1776 and to the year 1876, for the celebration of the year at Philadelphia that year was a grand celebration of the 100 years before. There was no special occurrence in our family that year I remember of until October. Mr. Patton went to visit his old home in Fountain County, Indiana where he always loved to go so well, and his oldest sister came home with him to visit us a week and then returned home. Mr. Patton was going to take her home but on Friday evening she took a chill. She was very sick from the first and died the next Wednesday, 20 Oct 1876. The body was taken back home. It was so sad for us to think how well she was when she came to us and how soon she was taken from us. When we went over to her home, my brother and his wife had gone to Philadelphia to the Centennial. This is all I will about this year. So many sad things come to us in our lives. 1877. The new years come to us with many memories of the past and of our duty before us for the future for each other and to live for the good of others and that the world might be benefited by us being in it if we live right. THe 11th of February the first granddaughter was born to us. W. T. Patton and Fanny M. Patton. A bright little babe and how much we were all interested in her welfare; but alas how soon it was taken from us! It was named Eve. Sometime before this, I had been called to superintend the arrangements where there was a new baby and looked after the welfare of the mother and child, and I can say I went wherever I was called, day or night, rain or shine and I always asked God to guide me aright in whatever I did and success attended all my work of this kind and there was never a death of mother or child in the more than 20 years of my practice of that kind of work within a circle of 3 or four miles and sometimes 5 or six. I was called to visit the sick and care for the dying. There were no trained nurses at that time, and the undertaker was not sent for as they are now. I always knew that there was no one sick or I would know of it, for I was often sent for before the docotr and if I said a doctor was needed, that was sufficient, he was sent for. I would often stay with the sick and dying two or three days. My motto was that if I could be more benefit away from home than at home there was the place I wanted to be. I never lived for myself alone. I always took an interest in other people's welfare. I rejoice that I was permitted to live at the time I did and in the evening time of life I would do as much as I can with my pen by writing letters and cheering words to all. Poverty and riches have little to do with our happiness in this life. 1879. This year is not to be forgotten by some of our family. This year, 10 April the oldest daughter of the family left the home of her childhood, the family circle, the loving mother, the kind and indulgent father and the affectionate brothers and sisters, for the affection of another and changed her nae from Martha I. Patton to Martha I. Flagg, to share the joys and sorrows of a husband, James W. Flagg. One more had left the parental roof. The family are going down on the other side of the hill one by one. This was a prosperous year on the farm. The largest and best crop of wheat that year and our cattle were fine and did well. We got a good price for everything. 1880. This year came in with joy and gladness but how soon our joy may be turned to sorrow. We never know what a day may bring to us and we will be called to endure trials that we think we cannot bear up under. This was the case with me at this time. Mr. Patton left home Feb 20 of that year, on Friday morning, and went to his old home over on Coal Creek, what he always felt was his home more than Illinois after living here 26 years; Fountain County was dearer to him than the home we had here. That night he took a chill, pneumonia developed and there was no remedy. The Drs. were powerless. Dr. Spinning of Covington and Dr. Pettit of Veedersburg were called. He had gone to the farm that his father had given him to stay all night. A Mr. Isley lived there and had the farm rented. I was telegraphed for and went to Rankin that night and stayed and left the next morning at 4 o'clock. I got there at noon and found him very sick. I dispatched for Charley and he got there Thursday and Thursday I sent for Samuel and he got there Friday and all the rest came Saturday and Sunday about 11 o'clock the suffering was all over with him. He was conscious to the last and had been all through his sickness and what a consolation it was to hear him tell all about every arragnement that he wanted made and about the place he wanted his remains laid to rest. he wanted the Rev. Musgrove sent for. He was pastor of the church at Danville at that time and he came. He put his arounds around Mr. Musgrove's neck and talked to him so much. The consolation there was in all this. His life was taken Feb 29, 1880. This year there were two grandsons born in the family. A son to W. T. Patton the 5th of July 1880 and another addition to the name of Patton and he was named David. On the 8th of August 1880 a son was born to J. W. Flagg and Martha I. Flagg and he was David Ross Flagg. He ought to be true to his country if his name has anything to do with us. Sept 28, 1880 Lafayette Patton and Ella McHenry were married; another one less to sit at table and one more towards the bottom of the hill when all will be gone. They were married at Sparta, Illinois. None of the family at the wedding only Charley Patton. (Note: nothing for 1881 or 1882). This year, April 19, 1883 there was a boy came to live with WT and Fanny and they named him Charley. A large fat baby and he is that way now, only he is not a baby. In September of this year, little Freddie (note: don't believe she gave the relationship of him or his brith in earlier entries -- perhaps it was in the deleted 1881 or 1882?) died. On Oct 6, Alfred Ray Patton was born to Lafayette and Ella and now he is 6' tall. 1885. February of this year saw one of the family leave the home of her childhood for the protection of another. Ida J. Patton and Charles Augustus Lamb were married married .... 12 February 1885. Sept 28, 1885 another son born to JW Flagg and Martha and they named him Willie and that is all the name he has yet, poor boy! Well, things went along as usual, but all these years I always attended church and enjoyed going to church more than anything else and teaching little boys in Sabbath School. The weeks were not so long when I got to go to churc on Sabbath day. On Dec 13, 1885 there was born to Ida J. Lamb a sweet little lamb for them to feed and care for named Nellie and that is her name yet and she is larger than her mother now. The 3rd of February 1886 I went to Indiana for my brothers' birthday. I thought he had lived 60 years and I wanted to eat dinner with him that day. I went without any announcement of my coming and surprised him a little perhaps. It was Feb 4 but the next time they expected me to be there and the event is celebrated yet at that home. This year on August 11th a little girl made its appearance at WT and Fanny Patton's and claimed admittance as one of the family and theya dopted her and called her Carrie Patton. Oct 18, 1888 there came to Billy and Fanny, a little girl and they called her Elsie. She is not very large yet but the baby of the family is almost always babied too much for their own good. This April Grace Kirkley came to our house to board and teach at the Sugar Grove schoolhouse and afterward changed her name to Patton. What a trial to give up the last girl of the family! All say, "Now what will you do? .. All had some advice to give as to what would be the best thing to do. Well, I did just as I had been doing. Stayed in the old home, which was home to me still. I always loved my home better than I did any place else but I have to depend on other people's children to help me make it a home for myself and the different ones that have stayed with me in these years have all been good to me and I have had a good home with the different ones. I have tried to make a home for them for some of them did not have any home but my home but how well have I succeeded? I do not know what they say about it, but I hope that I did not do anything wrong about the way I treated them. Mary Allie Patton and David Henry Cade were married June 7, 1894 and went to Chicago the same evening and came back to visit his folks at Perrysville, Indiana nd soon after went to housekeeping in Potomac, Illinois. There is a nother section mostly about the community entitled ... Illinois in 1854 and some of the changes in the country since that time and the neighborhood in which I have lived since.
Gardner, Ernest Arthur.History of Ford County, Illinois. Chicago: The S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1908 p 111. J. D. HALL was born in Ross County, Ohio April 10, 1821. James Hall, father of JD Hall was a native of Maryland and died in Vinton County, Ohio 1855. Mr. Hall emigrated from Ohio to Fountain County, Indiana 1839 and to Warren County, Indiana in 1843. He was married to Eliza Weiman in Fountain COunty 1841. She was a native of Virginia. In February 1852 Mr. Hall emigrated to Ford County then Vermilion County where he began to make improvements on Section 33. Mr. and Mrs. Hall were blessed with 4 children. Mr. Hall built the first house north of the river in what is now Ford County. The post office when he first settled in this county was 18 miles from his farm at Higginsville. Mr. Hall began the grain business wiht his son, Henry C. Hall of Paxton in 1865. He had 285 acres of excellent land in Patton which he entered in 1854. He was the 2nd sheriff of Ford County.
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Gardner, Ernest Arthur. History of Ford County, Illinois. Chicago: The S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1908 p 111. The DAY Family settled on Section 13. They comprised Samuel Day, the father; Peggy, the mother and children, John P; Samuel; NB Day and Cordelia, wife of James Hock. Samuel Day was a native of Ky. He died in 1858. He married Peggy Purviance 1821. She was a native of Ky. They had 9 children. They came from Preble County, Ohio to this stae. Samuel came here in 1854. He was twice married; first to Susanah Swisher who die din 1858. He married Miss Jennie Lyons for his second wife in 1861. Samuel Day was the 1st circuit clerk and recorder of Ford County. John P. Day was born in 1824. He settled in Patton in 1857. In 1845 he married malinda Swisher, a native of Southern Indiana. He served as county treasurer several times. John P and Samuel Day were engaged in the real estate and loan business in Paxton. The Day family first lived ont he farm that was afterward owned by BQ Cherry. NB Day married Barbara daughter of Daniel C. Stoner an old pioneer of this county. Mr. Day is now living in Paxton. Cordelia married Mr. James Hock who was a resident of Paxton and one of the oldest settlers of the township. They were married in1 858. Mr. Hock was a farmer and stock raiser and came to what is now Ford County from Fountain County, Indiana in 1852.
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Gardner, Ernest Arthur. History of Ford County, Illinois. Chicago: The S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1908 p 113. John M. HALL was born in Washington County NY October 1810. He was brought up on a farm. In 1832, he went to Fountain County, Indiana. He held various offices of trust being at one time county recorder. In 1860 he went to Kirksville, Missouri and engaged in the mercantile business for two years when he came to Paxton in 1862. In 1838 he married Miss Nancy Nichols a native of Ohio. They had 3 children. Mr. Hall was supervisor of Patton Twp several years and held the office of police magistrate for many years. He was well liked and enjoyed the confidence of the people.
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Gardner, Ernest Arthur. History of Ford County, Illinois. Chicago: The S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1908 p 128. James Porter BUTTON deceased was born in Jefferson County, Ky Jan 29, 1822. He came to Ford County in 1852. Mr. Button was married to Miss Sarah R. Hock in Fountain County Indiana Feb 8, 1845. They had 8 children. Mr. Button entered land in Sec 25, Twp 23 Range 10 in the township which now bears his name. Mr. BUtton filled many positions of trust with credit to himself and satisfaction to his constituents. He was the treasurer of Ford County at the time of his death which occurred at Paxton March 22, 1866.
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Gardner, Ernest Arthur. History of Ford County, Illinois. Chicago: The S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1908 p 128. David PATTON, deceased, was born in Ross County, Ohio Dec 20, 1815. Thomas Patton, the father of David emigrated to Vigo or Parke County, Indiana when David was 3. He remained there only a few years. In 1823 the family moved to Fountain County Indiana where Thomas Patton died. Dec 10, 1844, David married Miss Jane CADE, daughter of William Cade, who settled in Fountain County 1823. Nov 2, 1854 Daivd came to Illinois and settled in Button Twp then in Vermilion County. Here he resided until his death Feb 29, 1880. He entered 480 acres of choice land in Sec 23, Range 14 West in Button Twp. There were 8 children. The widow is still living on the old homestead.
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Gardner, Ernest Arthur. History of Ford County, Illinois. Chicago: The S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1908 p 132. Jacob STRAYER, father of MIlton and Harmon Strayer was born in Berkley Co VA 1796; he came to Ford County in 1854 and lived here until he died Jan 3, 1879. Elizabeth, his wife was born in Fairfield Ohio Aug 1, 1803. She died June 21, 1883. Milton Strayer was born in Fountain County Indiana. In September 1851 he moved to Ford County on the line of Champaign County and entered the land where Lafayette Patton lived. In 1854, Mr. Strayer moved onto his farm on Section 25, in the narrow range of sections in this township which land he entered in 1853. He was married Aug 31, 1851 to Miss Sarah Jane Middlebrook a native of Ohio and daughter of WIlliam Middlebrook who located in Fountain County Indiana about 1841. Mr. and Mrs. Strayer had 10 children. Harmon Strayer son of Jacob and Elizabeth was born in Fairfield County Ohio Sept 20, 1820. He came with his parents to Fountain County Indiana in 1824. He came here in Fall 1851. In 1858 he married Miss Martha McClure, daughter of Samuel McClure an early settler of Cass County, Indiana. She was born in Ohio; they had 4 children.
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Gardner, Ernest Arthur. History of Ford County, Illinois. Chicago: The S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1908 p 133. Joseph HARRIS was born in Germany March 25, 1838. When 19 he came to America and in 1857 located in Ford County. In 1860 he was united in marriage with Miss Josephine Strayer, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Strayer. She was born in Fountain County, Indiana. They had 9 children. Mr. Harris, for 5 years worked by the month. In 1865, he bought land of the Illinios Central RR Company.
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Gardner, Ernest Arthur. History of Ford County, Illinois. Chicago: The S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1908 p 134. J. E. WALKER, or Elmer Walker was born in Fountain County, Indiana in 1858 and that year came with his parents to this township.
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SOURCE: "History of Champaign County, Illinois with Illustrations," 1878
Dr. GEORGE W. HARTMAN. Geo. W. Hartman was born in Davidson county, North Carolina, the 16th of April, 1827. He was the eldest child of John P. and Catherine HARTMAN, who were natives of that State. The family consisted of eight children, of which four were boys and four girls. The parents of the following sketch immigrated from North Carolina to Indiana, in 1831, and settled at Salem in Washington county. After remaining there for one year he removed his family to Fountain county in the same State, where he engaged in farming, and has remained ever since. He was one of the pioneers of that State, and endured the privations and hardships incident to those times. Dr. Hartman remained at home until he arrived at the age of twenty-one years, but prior to that time he commenced the study of medicine. On the 10th of March, 1848, he married Miss M. C. MOSIER. There were born to George W. and Martha Hartman two children, one boy and one girl. His wife died on the 15th of Dec. 1860, and the two children survived the mother but a short time, one dying in 1864 and the other in 1867, from consumption. On the 10th of October, 1861, Mr. Hartman married Miss M. Ella BOWMAN, of Sidney. Prior to this union there had been eight children, four of whom are living, the other four having died during infancy from brain diseases.
Dr. Hartman commenced the practice of medicine in 1848, although he was at that time but twenty-one years of age. His careful studious habits and industry in acquiring a thorough knowledge of Materia Medica and all that pertains to the science of the healing art, enabled him at that early age to successfully combat the diseases incident to his locality. He was remarkably successful. After practising in Fountain county, Indiana, for two years he removed to Warren county, where he remained three years. After which he came to this State and practised in Clark county. The practice in the latter place not proving remunerative as he had hoped, he again pulled up stakes and came to Sidney, landing here on the 23d of November, 1854, and has remained here ever since. When he first commenced the practice in this county the country was sparsely settled, requiring long and wearisome rides to see his patients. The difficulties and trials attending the practice of medicine in those days is but little understood by the physicians of this day. The Dr. soon learned the necessity of having pure drugs, such as he could rely upon in his practice, and in order to meet this want he opened a drug store in 1856, and continued in that business in connection with his profession until 1868. In 1852, two years before he moved to Sidney; while on a visit to this section he purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land in this township, which under his judicious management has improved and is now one of the best farms in this locality. The Doctor has by his long experience with men, learned to depend upon himself, and in matters pertaining to political affairs of his State and county has always expressed his views in plain and unmistakable terms. He is, and always has been since old enough to vote, a member of the Democratic party. In his religious views he has no strong tendencies toward any particular denomination, but prefers to work by the golden mean of doing unto others as he would have others to do unto him, and believes that in this is contained the genuine essence of true religion. Dr. Hartman is a prominent member and worker in the masonic order, and is at present a member of the Blue Lodge Chapter, Council and Commandry, and also a member of Scottish Rite masonry. He, in these orders, is well and favorably known through this section of the State. Dr. Hartman is a kind, courteous gentleman. He is honest and upright in his dealings with his fellow-men, and in his profession commands the respect and esteem of his brethren. It is with pleasure we append this brief biographical sketch and commend him to our numerous readers.
American biographical history of eminent and self-made men : Michigan volume.
Cincinnati: Western Biographical Pub. Co., 1878, p. 9 -- Dr. George W. HARTMAN was born in Davidson County, NC April 18, 1827. When but a child of 4 Goerge W. removed with his parents to Indiana and when but a mere boy began the study of medicine and when 21 entered upon its practice in Fountain County, Indiana. In 1853, he removed to Sidney Ill and for a period of 28 years thereafter he was kept busy with his large professional business. Early in 1881, Dr. Hartman's health began to fail and Oct 12 of that year he died. He was a genial, popular man and his death was greatly deplored by a alrge circle of friends and patrons.
Men of progress, Indiana. Indianapolis: Indianapolis Sentinel Co., 1899, p. 282.
ROWLAND, George is a physician and surgeon of education and great skill residing in the city of Covington, Fountain County, Indiana and was born at Hillsboro, Fountain County on Easter Sunday morning april 19, 1840. His father was Dr. Thomas Rowland, born in Loudon County, Virginia July 25, 1810 and came to Fountain County, Indiana in 1836 and read medicine with Dr. Crawford near Rob Roy, in Fountain County. In 1839, he married America McIntyre and began the practice of his profession at Hillsboro but soon after removed to the village now known as Veedersburg, in the same county where he secured a very large and lucrative practice. IN addition to being an eminently successful physician, he was also distinguished as a business man and accumulated a large amount of property, including one of the finest farms in fountain County, which he brought to the highest state of cultivation. He was a man of varied attainments, not only in his profession but in general knowledge. He was popular and generally beloved in the community where he lived but never aspired to official positions. He had been a Republican in poltics, but by readings observation and reflection was preparing himself to abandon that party, and had he lived a few years longer, would have been a Democrat by conviction. In early life he united with the church and always gave the weight of his influence to those great moral and religious principles the church maintains and advocates. He was a man of unquestionable truth and integrity, whose word was as good as his bond. In his early business career he had learned the value of probity, and on one occassion when he desired to purchase a farm valued at $1,400 without ad ollar to make the payment, a rich neighbor promptly loaned him the money, asking for no security beyond personal note. He possessed many lovable traits of character. He was a student of nature, history,literature, art and science and was surrounded by hosts of friends who regarded his death, which occurred AAug 21, 1864 as a great loss to the community. His mother was born in Washington County, Indiana Jan 4, 1813. She emigrated to Fountain County in 1832, was married to Dr. Thomas Rowland in 1839 and died April 14, 1844. She was the mother of two children, George and Mary Frances. She was a beautiful woman and is still referred to, by those who remember her, more than half of a century ago, not only for her loveliness of features but for her many lovable and womanly virtues. She was the daughter of Maj. Robert McIntyre, who was distinguished for his services to his country in military and civil affairs. He was a native of PA where he was born 1766 in Chester County and emigrated to southern Indiana prior to 1816. He settled in Washington County and had the distinguished honor of being a delegate fromt he county to the convention that formed the consitution of Indiana and afterward was elected and reelected to the indiana legislature. he was a major int he Black Hawk war, and in a battle with the Indians was struck by a bullet which lodged near his heart where it remained up to the time of his death in 1846 when he was 80. The Rowland ancestors were 3 brothers, Thomas, Gordon and George who emigrated from North Wales to America in 1700 and settled in the eastern part of Virginia. George Rowland grandfather of the subject of this sketch was born in Loudon County VA and was a soldier in the War of 1812 as is shown by the records in the war department at Washington DC. The early education of George Rowland (picture) the subject of this sketch was received in the common schools of Fountain County and the influence they exerted was to create an ambition for a higher education especially in the arts and sciences and elementary principles of medicine. At age 18, he entered the Berean College at Jacksonville, Ill but did not graduate. At this college he was the classmate of Sol Smith Russell, the distinguished actor. The father of the celebrated comedian was president of the college to whom young Rowland made daily recitations. In the year 1859 George Rowland began reading medicine, surgery and obstetrics with his father, Dr. Thomas rowland at the old homestead in Fountain County, and continued the studies until sept 1863 when he entered the Medical College of Ohio, attending the lectures during the collegiate year. In August 1864, his father died, leaving a large unsettled estate of which he was appointed administrator, which required 4 years for its settlement. In Oct 1864, he entered the medical department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and graduated with honors in March 1865. During the summer of 1865 he was appointed house physician in the old Commercial, now CIty hospita of Cincinnati and had during his entire time a large number of the wards of the hospital under his charge. In October 1865 he again entered the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati and graduated with honors in Feb 1866. The distinguished professors int he college at that time were Prof. Blackman, surgery; Prof. Dawson, anatomy; Prof. Wright, obstetrics; Prof. Parvin, obstetrics; Prof. Bartholomow, materia medica; Prof. Gobrecht, anatomy and Prof. Comegys, medicine. Having graduated from two justly renowned medical colleges, Dr. Rowland returned to Fountain County, Indiana the place of his birth, where he has since resided engaged int he practice of his profession. His professional training as has been shown from the time he began reading medicine until his graduate in 1865 and 1866, was of the best character. A lover of books, science and literature from his boyhood days, with his hospital experience and assiciation with eminent physicians, he has been in position to add dignity to his profession. His library bears eloquent testimony of his studious habits and though, during the 33 years of active practice, stupendous advances have been made in medicine, surgery and obstetrics, Dr. Rowland has kept in the first rank of the learned profession. It has required time, study and laborious investigation and when not engaged in active practice of his profession, medicine, surgery and obstetrics, he is found in his library consulting authorities on diseases and cures and finds time to contribute to 1st class medical journals and the preparation of papers for medical societies. In his early student days he formed the habit and learned to love the microscope and during all of his professional life he has used the instrument in connection with his practice. Dr. Rowland has had no partnerships int he practice of medicine. He is modest when speaking of his achievements in his profession but as an indication of his mastery of surgery, he has one case at least to his credit of vast importance which has given him well-earned renown. Some years ago a Mrs. Black, aged 30, had wha tis known as extra uterine pregnancy and the fetus went to full term and die din the mother's abdominal cavity. Six days after Dr. Rowland and Dr. LM Rowe of Indianapolis removed the fetus, weight 8 pounds, leaving the placental afterbirth fastened in the abdominal cavity which was throughoutly removed by excellent drainage. The woman recoverd and now lives in the city of Covington Indiana in excellent health the only case of the kind that ever occurred in Fountain County and which was well calculated to give Dr. Rowland high rank as a surgeon. In politics Dr. Rowland is a Democrat, never very active but in 1896 was an enthusiastic supporter of Mr. Bryan and the free coinage of silver and is now, more than ever, convinced of the justice of bimetallism and has an abiding faith that in 1900 the American people will win a victory for Bryan and the money of the constitution. Dr. Rowland never held any official position except that of United States Examining surgeon and was secretary of the examining board fo rnearly 11 years, previous to May 1897 and examined thousands of soldiers during that time. Dr. Rowland has no club affiliations but was a member of a literary society, The Chautaqua Literary and Scientific Circle," From 189-1892 when 21 members graduated with great honors. Dr. Rowland is one of the charter member sof the Fountain County Medical Society, organized in 1867 and is still a member. He has been its president or secreatry for many years and is now its secreatry. He has always taken an active part int he meetings of the society, evinced by the fact that he nearly always attends and has read a large number of papers before it. He has been for near 20 years a member of the Indiana State Medical Society before which he has read several papers which appear in the publications of the society. Dr. Rowlands holds his membership in the Catholic Church. He wa smarried May 31, 1869 to Miss Mary Ann Spencer, of Belleville, Wood County, West Virginia. Two children have been born to this union: Mauda Eva Keever born July 20, 1871 in the city of Huntington W. Va. She attended the city schools of Covington In for 11 years and graduated with high honors int he city HS and also in the Normal college of the city of Covington and also took a music course at DePauw University, Greencastle. She was married Dec 28, 1898 to Samuel Tompkins Browne of Washington DC who holds the posiiton of auditor of the war department, and is also a student in the medical department of Columbia University preparing himself for dentistry. Recently Dr. Rowland was appointed health officer for Fountain County since which time the Indiana legislature extended the time of holding such office to four years from Jan 1, 1899 at a largely increased salary (note: it says Dr. Rowland had two children but only one mentioned).
Here are some bios of those who went forth from Fountains borders :) ENJOY!
KZ -- Jeff, please add :)
Pen pictures from the garden of the world, or, Santa Clara County,
California. Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1888, p. 452 -- Thomas OSBORN of the
Willows was born in Franklin Co IN Jan 1, 1824. He is the son of Daniel and
Rebecca (French) Osborn who are natives of Ohio. His grandparents, Cyrus
and Esther (Baldwin) Osborn removed from Newark, NJ to Butler Co OH during
the latter part of the last century. Cyrus Osborn was one of the party who
went to the scene of St. Clair's defeat to bury the dead. He lived to
return to his home, but died soon after. Daniel Osborn served under General
Harrison In the he War of 1812. When his son Thomas was but a few months
old, he became a pioneer settler of Fountain County, Indiana locating there
two years before the county was organized. There the subject of this sketch
was reared, assisting in his youth in clearing a farm in the dense forest.
His schooling was limited to a few weeks' attendance, each year at
subscription schools. On the 20th of October 1847 he was married to Miss
Harbaugh, who is a native of the state of PA. They have 8 children, 4 of
whom were born in Indiana and four in Wisconsin they having removed to Dane
Township, Dane County of that state in 1849. There they lived until 1858,
thence returning to Fountain County, Indiana. In 1868, they removed to
Vermillion County, Illinois and again, in 1872, to Veedersburg, Indiana.
Here Mr. Osborn conducted a hardware business for one year, and in April
1873, became a Californian settling in Tulare County where he bought a
ranch, which he stocked with 6,000 sheep. This business he followed for
about six years, when he sold his sheep and engaged in attle raising at the
same place. His ranch contained 800 acres, while his range covered
thousands of acres. Selling his property, Mr. Osborn established himself in
his present home in January 1885. It is situated in the Willow District,
near the junction of Lincoln Avenue and the Almaden Road. For this
property, which had been previously improved by John W. Badger, he paid $450
per acre. It contains 14 acres, devoted to fruit, consisting principally of
apricots and Silver prunes. The names of their children in order of their
birth are: Alice, wife of Isaac Waldrip, of Fountain County, Indiana; Joel
S, engaged in stock business in Tulare County; Oliver D, a resident of Los
Angeles; Eve, wife of William Duncan, Danville, Il; Elizabeth living at her
father's home at the Willows; Daniel, an employee of the Southern Pacific
Road; Mary m, a teacher and a member of the home household as is also
Butler, the youngest. Mr. Osborn, a man of kindly, honest nature has
devoted his life to agriculture, and has made a success in that line, as his
surroundings prove. He is a Republican of long standing, having been one of
the organizers of the party, in Dane County, Wisconsin. In religion, he is
a Baptist, with which denomination both he and his wife are identified.
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Fulton, Charles J. History of Jefferson County, Iowa. Chicago: S.J. Clarke
Pub. Co., 1912-1914 p. 99 -- Montgomery LaTourette, who operates a farm of
154 acres in Locust Grove Twp, is one of the more recent acquisitions among
the residents of Jefferson County having lived here little more than half a
dozen years. He is descended from an old Hugeunot family and traced his
lineage back to the Count and Countess de LaTourette who lived in splendor
in an old chateau in La Vendee at the time of the revocation of the Edict of
Names. The county learning that his name was on the list of the proscribed
ones and that it would fare sorely with him if he attempted to escape was
forced to use more ingenuity to devise a plan whereby he might secure his
safety. Accordingly he invited all the neighboring gentry to a levee at his
chateau and when the gayety was at its height he and the countess made their
escape, under cover of the night, going on foot to the sea where a vessel
bound for Charleston lay at anchor. On this they embarked, taking with them
only the family jewels and a Huguenot Bible and in 1693 landed in Staten
Island, NY. Montgomery LaTourette was born in Tippecanoe County, Indiana
November 15, 1846. The grandfather, John LaTourette, a weaver by occupation
was a native of NY state where he lived until middle life when he came west
and settled in Ohio and later Indiana. His death occurred near Covington,
Fountain County, Indiana. The grandfather, Garrett LaTourette was a native
of Germantown, Ohio where he was reared and when grown to manhood became a
steam engineer. He was united in marriage to Margaret Ann Sherry, who was
of Irish descent and was born in Indiana. They were the parents of 3
children: Montgomery, subject of this biography; Henry, a carpenter in
Benton Co Iowa; and Sarah, deceased who was the wife of John Heath. In 1851
the father, Garrett LaTourette, died near Lafayette, Indiana and 3 years
later in 1854, his widow and the children came with relatives to Iowa,
making their home in Benton County. There Mrs. LaTourette entered upon a
second marriage the union being with William Cline, a farmer by whom s he
had one child, Albert who is engaged in agriculture at Guthrie, Oklahoma.
Montgomery LaTourette attended school in Benton County Iowa and afterwards
assisted with the work of tilling the fields on the home place. He then
bought a farm adjoining his mother's and developed this devoting himself
especially to the raising of grain which he shipped in large quantities to
the local market. In 1895 he sold out this farm and bought another in Van
Buren County, Iowa which he operated until 1902, situated east of
Birmingham. He then removed his family to Jefferson Co Iowa and established
his home on the old Daniel Warner farm in Center Township, remaining there
until March 1, 1911, when he bought the tract of land on which he lives at
the present time, 154 acres in Locust Grove Twp. Here he is engaged in the
various lines of general farming and also raises a good grade of stock,
feeding grain and hay which he raises. the farm includes 15 acres of timber
land of considerable value. For his helpmate Mr. LaTourette chose Sarah E.
Carver to whom he married on June 12, 1879. On her mother's side she was
descended from an old colonial family, the great grandmother having been a
native of Virginia where the Deans were of much important in the early part
of the 19th century. They were planters and very large property owners
employing many slaves on their land, freeing them, however, long before the
Civil War broke out. The grandfather of Mrs. LaTourette, James Carver was
born in America of English parents and came from PA to Franklin County, OH
where he was engaged in tilling soil. Her father, Thomas Carver was a
farmer born in Franklin Co Ohio who came to Iowa as one of the pioneer
settlers of Linn County. He enlisted in Co I, 20th Iowa Volunteer Infantry
and served two years when he was taken ill with typhoid fever and passed
away in the Spring of 1864 at New Orleans. Mrs. LaTourette's mother was
Elizabeth A. Dean before marriage. A native of Ohio she was married in Linn
County, Iowa and now lives with her granddaughter, Leta Carver in Benton
County, Iowa. There were 4 children in the Carver family; Sarah, Mrs.
LaTourette; John Franklin who die din infancy; Tabitha Jane, wife of EH
Skinner of Birmingham, Iowa whom she married when a widow a former marriage
having taken place with George Reynolds of Wapello County who die din 1904;
and Thomas A, an editor at Conception Junction, Missouri whose present wife
is a Mrs. Hodgen, his former wife who was Ella Dixon, having died 24 years
ago. Mr. and Mrs. LaTourette are the parents of 4 children: Schuyler, a
farmer at Canby, Oregon who is married to Lena Erickson, a daughter of
Charles Erickson and has one child, Dwight; Clifford C, who lives at home
with his parents; Fred who is a farmer in ND; and Mary a pupil in Fairfield
HS. Mr. LaTourette and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church of Fairfield, and he is connected with the Masonic order having
joined the Benton City Lodge, No. 181, AF & AM at Shellsburg while his
daughter Mary belongs to the Rebecca Lodge, Batavia. In politics his
sympathies are with the Democratic party and the principles for which is
stands, but at elections, he is not fettered by blind partisanship,
preferring to exercise his own judgment in regards to the candidate whom he
chooses to support with his vote. Large in his views and unopinionated, Mr.
LaTourette stands for the type of citizenship of which our body politics is
in crying need - the openminded man who can think for himself and has the
moral stamina to abide by his convictions.
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The Biographical record of Bureau, Marshall and Putnam Counties, Illinois
Chicago: S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1896 p 59 -- Samuel BUCK, who resides upon
section 19, Richland Twp while not classed especially among the pioneers,
has yet spent in Marshal County nearly 40 years of active business life, and
is well and favorable known, not alone in his own county but in the
adjoining counties, as well. He is a native of Montgomery County, Indiana
born Sept 25, 1831, and is a son of Andrew and Hannah Butt Buck, the former
a native of PA born May 14, 1797 and the latter of Maryland. They settled in
Montgomery County, Indiana near Crawfordsville at a very early day and there
spent the remainder of their lives, the mother dying April 3, 1843 when
Samuel was in his youth, the father Aug 10, 1869. They were the parents of
10 children, 6 sons and 4 daughters all of whom grew to maturity, but 3
daughters and our subject are the only ones now living. One son, Daniel was
a soldier in the Mexican War and another, Jacob was a soldier in the Civil
War, died in service. The subject of this sketch grew to manhood on his
father's farm in Indiana and was educated in the district schools. He there
learned the making of brick, and became an expert in that industry. It was
for the purpose of engaging in this industry that he came to Marshall
County, Illinois, in the Spring of 1857. Purchasing a small tract of land
on Sec 19, Richland Twp, which was then covered with timber and brush, he at
once set about the improvement of the place, clearing and developing a farm.
He also commenced the manufacture of brick, in which business he continued
in connection with farming until 1882, a period of 25 years. At that time
he made many thousands of superior brick and sold his products for miles
around. For some years he also operated a steam saw mill and in carrying on
the 3 lines of business it may well be conceived he was a busy man. Two
years after coming to this locality Mr. Buck united in marriage with Sarah
J. Malone, a daughter of Joseph Malone, now deceased who located here in
1843, coming from Fountain County, Indiana where Mrs. Buck was born. On
coming to this county she was but a very small child and here she grew to
lovely womanhood and in 1859 married our subject. Three children were born
to this union - Andrew, Ella and William. The daughter is now the wife of
Lincoln Kunkle and resides in Richland Twp. The mother died April 30, 1888
after a haply married life of 29 years. She was an earnest Christian woman,
a member of the Christian Church many years and died in the hope of the
resurrection and the blessed reunion beyond the grave. On coming to this
county, Mr. Buck was in limited circumstances, but he came with an object in
view, and with a steadfast determination to succeed in life. From a small
beginning and to his original purchase of 160 acres of land, he added from
time to time until today he is the owner of 775 acres of fine land all of
which is highly improved. Almost all the improvements made have been by his
own hands or under his supervision. Success has crowned his efforts and he
is able to enjoy the fruits of a life well spent in honest toil and the
honest accumulation of years. Samuel Buck has, from the beginning of his
life in Marshall County, enjoyed the confidence and esteem of his fellow
citizens. A man of fine qualities and of excellent judgment, he has
frequently been called upon to administer upon estates and it can be safely
assumed he never betrayed a trust and every duty was faithfully discharged.
Fraternally, Mr. Buck for some years a member of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows but at present does not affiliate with the order, although its
principles he holds in the highest respect. Politically, he is a Democrat,
with which party he has always been associated, believing strongly in the
principles of the party, as advocated by its great leaders, Jefferson,
Jackson, Douglas and others. Of late years, however, he has taken but little
interest in political affairs, leaving such matters to younger men. During
his residence here he has often been called upon to fill local office,
having served as supervisor of the township and for many years as school
director, having taken great interest in educational matters. Purely a
self-made man, his life is worthy of emulation by the youth of the land.
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Surnames: Allen, Carson, Swaim
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Message Board Post:
John CARSON b. ca. 1830 IND
Huldah SWAIM b. ca. 1835 NC
John CARSON m. Huldah SWAIM 14 JAN 1858 Fountain Co. IND
Their son, John M. CARSON b. 15 MAR 1864 IND
John CARSON, a Civil War soldier, d. 12 FEB 1865 New Orleans, LA.
Huldah CARSON, d. 20 JAN 1870 Fountain Co. IND.
1870 Census, Fountain Co. IND, Fulton Twp. P.O. Harveysburg, John M. CARSON living with Hezekiah SWAIM, 29, and family.
Rev. Cyrus B. ALLEN appointed guardian of John M. CARSON 15 FEB 1871 Fountain Co. IND, but Cyrus was living in Waveland, Montgomery Co. IND 24 APR 1871 when he filed a Civil War pension application: "Guardian's Declaration for Minor Children" in behalf of John M. CARSON.
Rev. Cyrus B. ALLEN living in Boone Co. IND, Lebanon Twp. on 1880 Census:
Cyrus ALLEN, 57, b. OH; Susan, wife, 47, b. OH; Charles, son, 23, b. IND and John M. CARSON, ward, 15, b. IND.
I would like any information on John M. CARSON and/or Cyrus B. ALLEN
Before you go to the courthouse in Covington in Fountain County, visit the
West Central Indiana Genealogy Research Library at Veedersburg. It is
open Monday and Friday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. plus 1st and 3rd Saturdays
same hours. Other times can be arranged by appt.
They have marriage indexes to 1999 plus many other indexes for other records
in the county clerk's office. Plus they have cemetery listings, burial
records from funeral homes, a family file and also books on families, and
many, many obituaries of various years in binders, all with indexes.
Check the Fountain county Gen Web: http://www.rootsweb.com/~infounta/ and
also the site of the library:
http://www.k-inc.com/~darliercenter/fcgslibindex.html
Phone numbers are on the library web site.
Betty Dotson, Membership Secretary, Fountain Co. Genealogy Society, Inc.
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Past and present of the city of Decatur and Macon County, Illinois.
Chicago: S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1903, p. 270 -- One of the most prominent and
successful physicians and surgeons now engaged in practice in Decatur is Dr.
Noah D. MYERS, who has that love for and devotion to his profession which
have won him a place among the ablest representatives of the medical
fraternities in this section of the state. The Doctor was born in Fountain
County, Indiana, Feb 17, 1843. his grandfather, Jacob Myers was a resident
of North Carolina and in the Spring of 1811 removed to Indiana. He found
that the red men were so numerous at that time that he considered it unsafe
to reside in such close proximity of them and, accordingly, returned tot he
south. In 1829, however, he again ventured to the frontier and remained a
resident of Indiana until his death. John Myers, father of our subject, was
also born in NC and died April 1, 1903 at the residence of the Dr. in
Decatur. He wedded Catherine Fine, who died in 1892, age 79 years. Both
were of German lineage. In their family were 11 children of whom 4 are now
living: Noah D; Peter, who resides in Gila, ILL; Susana wife of MM Sowers of
Gila; Amanda C wife of JA Sander, of Covington, Indiana. upon the home farm
in his native state Dr. Myers spent the days of his boyhood and youth. He
attended the public schools and he worked int he first steam sawmill in his
localtiy this having been erected by his father near Wallace, Fountain
County, Indiana. Later he became a student in Harmonia College at
Russellville, Indiana and subsequently matriculated in the State Univesrity
at Bloomington, Indiana where he pursued a scientific course. With broad
general knowledge to serve as the foundation upon which to rear the
superstructure of professional learning, he took up the study of medicine in
the office and under the direction of Dr. A. T. Steele of Waveland, Indiana
and in 1870 he became a student in Rush Medical College at Chicago but that
insitution was burned during the great Chicago fire in 1871 and Dr. Myers
therefore completed his course in the medical college of Ohio in Cincinnati
where he was graduated with the class of 1872. Being now well equipped for
his chosen profession the Dr. opened an office in Veedersburg, Indiana where
he remained for a short time, removing then to Browns Valley in the same
state. In 1874 he came to Illinois, locating at Gila, Jasper County. He
built the first house in the village there and practice din that locality
for 13 years having a large country practice which was of a varied and
important character. In 1887, however, desiring a broader scope for his
labors, he came to Dedatur where he has since carried on general practice
and has won for himself a place among the leading and successful physicians
of the city. He belongs to the Decatur Medical Society and the members of
the medical fraternity acknowledge his worth and capability. In 1873, Dr.
Myers was united in marriage to Miss Mattie J. WARD, a daughter of Samuel
and Sarah Musgrove Ward, of Parke County, Indiana. They now have 4
children: Bessie Lee, wife of WH Peters; Minnie M; Lulu P, the wife of
William a. Shorb and Merle M. The Dr. is a valued representative of the
Masonic fraternity. he was made a Mason in 1889 in Ionic Lodge No. 312 F&AM
with which he is still affiliated. He is also a member of the Order of
Eastern Star and holds membership relations with the Modern Woodmen of
America, the Fraternal Tribunes and the Yeomanry. His political support has
ever been given to the Democracy and he has taken an active part in
politics. He was a member of the pension board during President Cleveland's
administration. The Dr. deserves credit for what he has accomplished. He
earned a portion of the funds necessary for his college expenses as a
"Hoosier Schoolmaster," in the rural districts of Indiana. He has throughout
his professional career advanced steadily by reason of his close
application, his zeal and interest in his work and his broad study and
thorough investigation. He is connected with a calling wherein advancement
is won through merit and it is because of his capability that he is justly
regarded as a prominent practitioner here.
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