This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SHOEMAKER, SMITH, BRENNEMAN, ASHBROOK, DUNSHEE, SWITZER, TIBBETTS, MOYER, MELENDY, ORCUTT, LAUGHRIN, GOBLE, LAYCOCK, ATHERTON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Yg.2ADE/880 Message Board Post: OBITUARY: John Isaac Shoemaker, son of Cornelius and Sophia (Smith) Shoemaker, was born in York Township, Carroll county, Illinois, April 23, 1852, and spent his entire life in this community, passing away at his home in Thomson, Feb 23, 1932, aged 79 years and 10 months. February 27, 1877, he was married to Miss Victorine Smith, who survives him. To their union were born two daughters, Sadie, who died Aug 3, 1900 at the age of 24, and Bertha (Mrs. Ray Brenneman) of Thomson........................................................ Besides his wife he is survived by his daughter, Mrs. Brenneman, a grandson, Sidney Brenneman, one brother, C. D. Shoemaker of New England, ND and two sisters, Mrs. Jennie Ashbrook of Ashley, OH, and Mrs. Cyrena Dunshee of Thomson, also many other relatives.......................... Attending the services from out of town were the following: Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Pratt, Mr. and Mrs. George Beck, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Ashby, Mrs. Mary Dunshee, Mrs. Hallie Francke, Mrs. Bickelhaup, Miss Rose Klitz, [of] Mt. Carroll; Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Riorden, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hansen, John H. Moyer, Mrs. [Myron Tibbetts -?-], Mrs. Belle Switzer, Kenneth Tibbetts of Fulton, Ill.; C. Lamb, Mrs. Madge Lamb Bower, James Ogden, Mr. and Mrs. Duall, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Olds of Clinton; Mr. and Mrs. Kyle Melendy, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Orcutt, of Savanna; Mr. and Mrs. George Laughrin of Milledgeville; Mrs. Glenn Goble of Maywood; Mr. and Mrs. Willis Pape [Pope?] of Polo; Mr. and Mrs.Willilam Laycock of Davenport and Clayton Atherton of Rochester, Wis.