Posted on: Hancock Co. Il Bios Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Il/HancockBios?read=10 Surname: Booker, Kimbrough, Lambert, Mapes, Robison, Simpson, Thornber, Wiedmyer ------------------------- The Carthage Republican Carthage, Illinois Wednesday July 1, 1931 Page 7 Column 2 MY ANCESTORS. Edith Mapes. Most of my ancestors were of Irish and French descent. Joseph Mapes was born in Ohio in 1820 and was married to Jane Simpson in 1841. To this union fourteen children were born, all dying at a young age except four, namely: Henry, Delila, Rachel and Phoebe. Henry was born in 1843 at Middleborough, Ohio. He came with his father to Illinois in 1863 and located on the DeHart farm northeast of Carthage. In 1866 he was married to Miss Narcisse Kimbrough and located on a farm northeast of Carthage and in 1877 moved to a farm near Powellton, which still belongs to the Mapes family. To this union four children were born: Frank, Mary, Thomas and Clara, who died at the age of three. Thomas Mapes lives one-half mile from his father's place and Mary, who lived with her father till his death in October, 1928, and is still living on the old home place. Frank Mapes, my grandfather, was born on February 9th, 1868. In 1888 he was married to Susie Lambert, her mother being Jane Thornber before marriage, and her father being a Latter Day Saint elder. Her four brothers, Joseph, Daniel, George and William were also elders. To this union four children were born: Lester, Emory, Hazel and Flossie. Lester is a teacher in a St. Louis high school in Missouri. Emory, my father, lives on a farm one and one-half miles from his father's home northwest of Ferris, Ill., which Mrs. T. E. Buckey, of Iowa, owns. Judge Mack of Carthage has the renting of it. Hazel lives in Omaha, Nebr. Flossie lives on a farm near Stronghurst, Ill. When all these children were very young their mother was taken from them by death, which left them in the care of their father. After the death of their mother, the father sold his place and moved to Oklahoma, living there just one year, when they returned to Illinois and bought the farm again. In 1905 he was married to Miss Eva Robison and to this union one child was born, Kenneth, who lives at home. Emory Mapes, my father, lives on a farm northwest of Ferris, Illinois. He was born September 21st, 1892, and helped his father farm until 1913 when he was married to Miss Willa Wiedmyer of Loraine, Ill. Willa Wiedmyer was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Wiedmyer, of Loraine, Illinois, her mother being Jane Booker before marriage. To Mr. and Mrs. Emory Mapes were born six children, one son dying in infancy in 1915, the others being Edith, myself, Ruth, Mildred, Robert and Betty Jane, all being at home. I have no great grandparents living, but have two grandfathers, one grandmother and one step-grandmother, living. Bibliography — 1. Grandfather Mapes; 2. Grandmother Wiedmyer; 3. parents. Link: Bryant Genealogy URL: <http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=bryant>