----- Original Message ----- From: "Donald Durr" <durrd001@hawaii.rr.com> To: <ILFORD-D-request@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 1:14 PM Subject: LaBolle Family in Loda > Looking for information on the LaBolle family in Loda, IL. I am doing a > family history for my children (their father, my ex-husband) was Phillip > Arnold LaBolle who died in San Diego in 1999. Phillip's father was Clifford > Vernon LaBolle b. in Loda and Nellie Cook who lived and died in the Loda > area. George and Nellie had a farm outside of Loda (either in Ford or > Iraquois Cty. > George was the son of Francois and Mary LaBolle who have a monument at > the Pine Hill Cemetery outside the town of Loda. There are other LaBolle > tombstones there which I have not been able to connect. I am trying to > learn if Francois might have been the brother of Augustine LaBolle who > settled in LaSalle and DeKalb counties. He ws from Alsace France. Francois > it is said shipwrecked off Ireland and that is how he met his wife Mary. > > Georges siblings were: George b. 1869-Thomas abt 1868-Mary abt Albert c. > 1862-Francis c. 1864-Joseph c. 1868-Theresa c. 1872 > I know of the decendants of George but not of any of the others.(George > begat Clifford V.-Cliford begat-Phillip A. and Clifford A-Phillip begat my > children-Jamie R.-Daniel P and David L. > > The Cook side: First arrived in Loda were James Wm. JW Cook who was born in > KY and emmigrated to Loda and ran a Watkins Spice route in a horse and > buggy. His wife Hattie Bell was formerly a Stevens of KY. They had > Nellie-Iva-Thelma-Ernie-Bill-Pearl-Aitha and May. > > Nellie married George LaBolle-Iva married Wm. Kuntz Sr. who found work in > Chicago. > > George died in a terrible farm accident in 1930. Eventually the boys all > moved to chicago. Clifford's brother Paul married Corrine Kelly of Paxton > who died in 1999 in Chicago. > > If you have any knowledge of these families or the things that drew the > families from Kentucky and France and Ireland to settle in Ford County, > please let me know. Aloha-Lois > > > >