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Adams County ILGenWeb Celebrates Family History Month With New Data For Each Day During October | |||
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James Henry Craig Biography The Craig family have been identified with Liberty Township for over eighty years. The late James H. Craig was born in that township nearly seventy-five years ago, and was long one of the most capable farmers and hardworking and straight-forward citizens. He was born on an adjoining farm June 23, 1844, and died at his home place in section 36, five miles southeast of Liberty Village, June 9, 1909, aged sixty-four years, eleven months and seven days. His father, John Craig, was born in Kentucky August 10, 1812, and when a child went with his parents to Indiana. In 1830 he came to Adams County and settled in Liberty Township. In 1836, John Craig married Agnes Farmer. She was born in Alabama May 18 1818, and was brought to Adams County by her father in 1835. John Craig was one of the prosperous pioneers of Liberty Township, owned 400 acres of land, and died August 28, 1877. He and his wife had twelve children, and of those to reach mature years there were four daughters and six sons, named Milton, Sarah A., Charles W., James H., Perleta J., John C., Jasial, Andrew J., Lucy E., and Malvina A. Those who survived James Henry and have since died were: Sarah, Mrs. Gordon, who died at Santa Rosa, California; Mrs. Lucy Hunsaker, of Decatur Arkansas; Mrs. Malvina Calahan, of Wichita, Kansas; Jesse, of Timewell, Illinois; Jackson, who lived with his brother James and Paulina A. Miller. Those who died before James were Milton, who served as a Union soldier from 1862 in the Seventy-Eights Illinois Infantry to the end of the war, and afterwards lived in Liberty Township and died about a year before his brother James; Robert, who died in early youth; and Charles, who died at the age of thirty-five. May 23, 1883, James Henry Craig married Miss Sarah Miller. Theirs was an ideal companionship for over a quarter of a century. For four years James Craig served as deputy sheriff under his cousin, George Craig, and during that time lived in Quincy and had charge of the jail. His home farm comprises 160 acres, a part of his father's old homestead. James Craig built the present house just before his marriage and afterward put up barns and there lived an industrious and peaceful life. He was a democrat. He was not a church member but attended the Pleasant View Baptist Church of which Mrs. Craig is a member. QUINCY AND ADAMS COUNTY, History and Representative Men. David F. Wilcox, Supervising Editor, Judge Lyman McCarl, Chairman of Advisory Board Assisted by the Following Board of Advisory Editors: Jos. J. Freiburg, Thomas S. Elliott, George W. Cyrus, Henry Bornmann, Volume II. The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and New York, 1919, P. 1313. Thanks to Mary Love Berryman for sharing this biography. _______________
LDS Family History Centers have lots of information for family historians. The records of Burton Memorial Presbyterian Church at Burton, Illinois, are available on microfilm for use at local Family History Centers. The title of the microfilm is Church Records, 1871-1909. It's FHL US/CAN Film 960877 Items 3. Anyone needing to know more about using local Family History Centers should visit the Family Search website. ________________
This photo is of Payson School, 1903. The
photo
 came
from Ed Hickerson who grew up in the Payson, Marblehead area. Ed
was the son of Joe Hickerson and Delia Young and the grandson of William
Hickerson and Samira Ellington. The back of the says "F. A.
Meise, Photographer, Coatsburg, Illinois." Thanks to Suzy
M. for sharing this photo. Suzy is the granddaughter of Ed
Hickerson and is researching the following families: HICKERSON,
YOUNG, ELLINGTON, BOWERS, BOLEACH (POLITSCH), ROLLINS, BROCKMEYER,
KAPPNER and FROHME. If you can identify anyone in the school
photo. Please email
the Adams County Coordinator.
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Kelly Family Obituaries Daniel B.
Kelly Daniel B. Kelly, one of the oldest residents of Quincy, died Thursday morning at 2 o'clock of kidney trouble, aged 96 years. He was born March 11, 1828 at Woodbridge, N.J. and was married in 1850 to Miss Rebeccah Conroy, who died in 1918 at the age of 88. Six children were born to them, all of whom are living. They are Mrs. Anne Grammer, of Huston, Idaho; Mrs. Sarah Wilkins, of St. Louis; William Kelly of Marceline, Mo.; Mrs. Emma Burton, of Stockton, Kas.; Mrs. Elizabeth Richardson and John C. Kelly, of 315 Broadway, Quincy, with whom Mr. Kelly made his home. There are a large number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Mr. Kelly came to Illinois in 1857 and
located in Beverly, coming to Quincy in 1906.
He was a member of the Vermont Street M. E. Church and of Bodley
lodge of the Masons. He retired from the carpenter contracting business
in 1900. Funeral
arrangements will be announced later. John
Conroy Kelly John Conroy Kelly, carpenter contractor, died Friday morning at 9:50 ’clock, in his home, 1243 ˝ Maine Street, after a week’s illness.
Mr. Kelly was born in Beverly, October 22,
1862, a son of Daniel and Rebecca Conroy Kelly. He has lived in Quincy
for 40 years. Surviving are
two sons, Eugene and Lawrence Kelly of Quincy;
two daughters, Mrs. Ethel Wirth of Liberty and Mrs. Hazel
Bockenfeld of Quincy; a
sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Richardson of Quincy, and 11 grandchildren.
A daughter, Mrs. LaVerta Koenig, died in 1935. Ethel Wirth Barry, Ill. – Mrs. M. Ethel Wirth, 89, of Barry, a former resident of Liberty who died Wed. (Dec. 29, 1976) at 5:35 p.m. in Blessing Hospital in Quincy will be held Friday at 2 p.m. in the Gill Memorial Home. The Ref. R. V. Henry will officiate. Burial will be in Kingston Cemetery near Liberty. The family suggests memorials be made to the Kingston United Methodist Church. Mrs. Wirth was born in Beverly, Jan. 8, 1887, a daughter of John C. and Dora J. Huff Kelly. She was a member of Kingston United Methodist Church. She married Albert E. Wirth Sept. 9, 1914 in Quincy. He preceded her in death.
Surviving are a son, Dale of Liberty, and a
grandchild. She was
preceded in death by a son, two brothers and two sisters. Ward
Eugene Kelly Ward Eugen Kelly, 73, formerly of 1243 ˝ Maine, died Sunday morning a 5:30 in Hill Memorial Hospital at Soldier’s Home. He had lived at the home since July, 1961. Mr. Kelly was born in Beverly Nov. 9, 1888, a son of John C. and Dora Huff Kelly. He had lived in Quincy for 55 years and was employed as a carpenter. A veteran of World War I, he enlisted May 27, 1918, and was discharged Jan. 12, 1919.
Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Ethel Wirth
of Liberty and Mrs. Hazel Bockenfeld of Montclair Cal.
He was preceded in death by a brother, Lawrence, and a sister,
Mrs. Laverdy Koenig. Mrs.
Albert Koenig Mrs. Berda Esther Koenig, wife of Albert Koenig, 824 York Street, died in the home of her father, John Kelly, 1243 ˝ Maine Street, Thursday noon. She had been in ill health two years and bedfast five months. A daughter of John and Dora Huff Kelly, she was born in Beverly, Feb. 19, 1892, and was married to Mr. Koenig in 1909. The family has lived in Quincy thirty-four years. Surviving are her husband; five sons, Albert, Raymond, Lawrence, James and Robert, and three daughters, Dolores, Arlene and Hazel Koenig, all at home; her father, John Kelly, Quincy; two brothers, Eugene an Lawrence Kelly, Quincy and two sisters, Mrs. Hazel Roan, Quincy, and Mrs.. Albert Wirth, Liberty, and many nieces and nephews. A son, Lester, died in 1930. Mrs. Koenig was a member of the Salem Evangelical Church. (Burial – Greenmount Cem., Quincy) Thanks to Wilda Madrid for sharing her Kelly Family Obituaries. _______________ |
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