This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.knox/1410.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Did these brothers have a sister named Bridget? Best regards.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.knox/2168.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thank you so much for your help. It seems again, that I have another branch of the family that had no children. I was most interested in Lizzie's husband. He comes from a long line of families with many many children who just seemed to stop having them in this generation, and I was so hoping to find children from this union. And please, don't worry about how last names were spelled. They are often spelled two or three ways on the same document. Again, many thanks to both of you for your kind help.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.knox/2168.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I don't usually answer these queries, but, I felt I must on this one, about Elizabeth Page Beresford. I do the Abingdon Cemetery Records, and noticed Elizabeth Beresford is buried in the Abingdon Cemetery, in the same Burial Plot, as her parents, Daniel and Sarah Stegall Page. Just a short obituary for you. Services For Mrs. Beresford Grave Side Rites At Abingdon Cemetery Tuesday Afternoon. Grave side funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth Page Beresford, formerly of Chicago, were held Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 with Rev. A. Harold Dagley of the Methodist church officiating. The casket bearers were: Frank Singleton, George Amos, Raymond Galusha and C.J. Vander Wert. Burial was in the Abingdon cemetery. Elizabeth Beresford, daughter of Daniel and Sarah Stegall Page, was born on a farm near Abingdon, November 10, 1878, here she grew up attending the rural schools. Early in life she united in the Methodist church. In 1902, she was united in marriage to George Beresford by Rev. F.L. Hanscomb at Abingdon. She was preceded in death by her husband, father, mother and sister, Mrs. Lina Basiger of Kewanee and her only brother; Adelbert Page of Abingdon. Surviving is a niece, Mrs. Dorance Lundstrom and a nephew Guy Page of Wollaston, Mass., besides more distance relatives. Copied as is from the Abingdon Argus. Elizabeth died July 28, 1951, and was buried July 31, 1951 Her husband is not buried with her, unless, he has no stone. I have no record on him.

Spellings of last names really had me confused too when I first started tracing my family history. Before Social Security last names were never spelled exactly the same. Many people could not read or write and names were spelled many different ways depending on who wrote it. One President of the United States said that he never trusted a lawyerwho wasn't intelligent enough to figure out 6 or 8 ways of spelling a name!! After SS, names had to be more exact. There are no "right" or "wrong" spellings before that. You have to go by family names, locations, etc. to make sure you have the right family. ----- Original Message ----- From: <gc-gateway@rootsweb.com> To: <ILKNOX-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 6:52 PM Subject: Re: [ILKNOX] Lizzie PAGE > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: > Classification: queries > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.knox/2168.1/mb.ashx > > Message Board Post: > > Hello. I have some information about this family. Elizabeth "Lizzie" > Page was born around 1878 to Daniel Thomas Page and Sarah Ellen Stegall. > This is according to the Knox County Census. We have the last name > spelled as "Beresford" but in her father's obituary it is spelled > "Bearsford." I'm not sure of the exact spelling. > In 1927 they were living in Chicago, according to her mother's obituary. > In 1948 they resided in Jacksonville Illinois, according to her brother's > obituary. > > I'm sorry I don't have more than that right now. I've struggled with the > spelling of the last name! I hope I helped a little bit. Feel free to > contact me at > cbwp34@sbcglobal.net if you have any other questions. I'm descended from > the Stegall's and have quite a bit of information. > Jana Grooms > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ILKNOX-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.knox/2168.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hello. I have some information about this family. Elizabeth "Lizzie" Page was born around 1878 to Daniel Thomas Page and Sarah Ellen Stegall. This is according to the Knox County Census. We have the last name spelled as "Beresford" but in her father's obituary it is spelled "Bearsford." I'm not sure of the exact spelling. In 1927 they were living in Chicago, according to her mother's obituary. In 1948 they resided in Jacksonville Illinois, according to her brother's obituary. I'm sorry I don't have more than that right now. I've struggled with the spelling of the last name! I hope I helped a little bit. Feel free to contact me at cbwp34@sbcglobal.net if you have any other questions. I'm descended from the Stegall's and have quite a bit of information. Jana Grooms

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Stegall, Townsend, Warren, Jeanes, Jaynes, Loveridge Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.knox/3811/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hello! I have done quite a bit of research regarding these families. I also have info on the Jeanes/Jaynes and Loveridge families. I have had struggled to find family photos. If anyone has any to share, that would be great! I am more than willing to share what I have. Thank you!! Jana Grooms

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: tucker, mundy,peacock Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.knox/3808.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thanks for the obit, helped confirm parentage of L. V. aka Lee Victor who married a Ella J Peacock( my family connecton)

Thanks so much for the obituary. You have been extremely helpful! ----- Original Message ----- From: <gc-gateway@rootsweb.com> To: <ILKNOX-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 9:44 PM Subject: Re: [ILKNOX] Harriet Williams > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: > Classification: queries > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.knox/3799.2/mb.ashx > > Message Board Post: > > Galesburg Daily Register Friday Evening Jan 28 1938 page 2 > > Former Manager of Departments at O.T.'s Dies > > Mrs. Harriett Ann Williams, a (could not read word) president for 38 > years, and for many years manager of the toy department and later the > economy basement of the O.T. Johnson store died at 3:30 o'clock this > morning in St. Mary's hospital, where she had been a patient since last > Saturday. Her health had been poor for years. Mrs. Williams was residing > with a son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs Harry A. Williams, 1245 North > Seminary street. > > Harriett Ann Swift was born in Passaic, N. J. on Sept 14, 1869, and came > to Illinois with her parents when a child three years old. The family > settled in Canton, where she was educated. On Sept. 14, 1892, she was > married there to Robert L. Williams and the couple came here in 1899 to > reside. Mrs. Williams was connected with the O.T. Johnson store for some > time until she retired three years ago. > > She leaves one son, Harry A. Williams of Galesburg; two grandchildren, Mrs > Betty Lyens of Galesburg and Bobby Williams at home; three brothers, Fred > Swift of Canton, Frank of Farmington, and Henry of Sioux City, Ia; two > sisters, Mrs. Lee Vance of Canton and Miss Emma Swift of Dixon; and a > number of nieces and nephews. > > Funeral services will be held at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon from the > Kimber and West chapel, in charge of Dr. W. Harry Freda, pastor of the > First Baptist church, of which Mrs. Williams was a member. Friends may > call Saturday afternoon and evening at the Kimber and West Mortuary. > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ILKNOX-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Judson, Hicks, Bartlett Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.knox/3800.4.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thank you so much you have been a great help in gathering much needed information. Dave

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dunbar Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.knox/2145.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thank you...

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.knox/2145.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: In Van Gilder Cemetery located in the North East corner of Section 2 on the Carl Ecklund Farm in the Barefoot Community are the grave listings of : Mary A Dunbar died April 29, 1850 age 13 years 5 months Mary Dunbar died Aug 10 1852 1 year daughter of G. W. and M. Dunbar Millie died Sept 10 1853 age 38 years 11 months Wife of G. W. Dunbar In the Henderson cemetery is listed: George W. Dunbar Co. K 83 Ill Inft 1810 - 1896 Martha Collins, wife of George W. other Dunbars listed beside them are : Eva 1870 - 1939 Nancy Hogan 1847 - 1873 G. W. 1847 - 1914 Eva 1859 - 1914

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.knox/2160.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Galesburg Daily Republican Register Thursday Nov 4 1920 Joint Inquest is Held Today No Blame fixed for Gardner and Tucker Deaths by Jury No blame for the death of Elijah Tucker and Mrs. Sarah E Gardner, who were killed by a Santa Fe train at Appleton Tuesday afternoon was laid on the railroad company or any other party by the coroner's jury which sat in the inquest this morning in the Kimber and West funeral parlors. The verdict simplystated: "We, the undersigned, jurors sworn to inquire of the death of Elijah Tucker and Mrs. Sarah E. Gardner, on oath do find that they came to their death by being struck by a Santa Fe company's engine of train No. 9 at about 2 o'clock on the second day of November 1920, the said Mrs.Sarah E. Gardner being instantly killed and the said Elijah Tucker dying at St. Mary's hospital at Galesburg at about 2:45 o'clock the same day, the said persons beign killed and fatally injured by said engine." signed O. L. Campbell, foreman, C. J. Haggenjos, E. R. Hannum, M. H. Eddy, K. J. Bolton and K. J. Klinck. The sons of Mrs Gardner, the father of the dead young man, the railroad men and several bystanders at the time, were the principal witnesses at the inquest. The session was a unusally long one, lasting about two hours, from 10:30 to 12:30. Dr. C. B. Ripley, deputy coroner, presided at the inquest. Aside from some adverse testimonies, little new developed. Leonard Gardner, a son of Mrs. Gardner who was killed in the wreck, said that when the accident happened his mother was on the way to the polls in Appleton to cast her vote in the presidential election. Tucker had been asked to take her to town and back in his car and he had readily assented. Tucker was a straight, nice boy, Mr. Gardner said, and Mrs. Gardner's family felt that she was safe in his care despite her advanced age. Leonard Gardner with his wife and his brother's wife went early to the Appleton polls to vote and awaited the coming of their mother to assist her in casting her vote. They were sitting in the hall which was used as the polling place, when some one came in hurriedly and announced that two men had been killed by the train at the crossing. With others, Gardner "broke and run for the crossing" as he put it, and when he came near to the depot, he met Douglas Derham. "Your mother is killed," Derham cried to him. Then Gardner ran on to the tracks. There he saw Tucker lying beside the track injured. Looking higher he saw the form of his mother mangled until hardly distingushable. With his brother Albert and some other person, he lifted her body from the engine and laid it down. Later he and K. J. Klinck took it to the Gardner home several miles southward. Bad road surface on the south approach to the Santa Fe tracks, it was the witness's opinion was responsible for the accident. He said that the road way was covered to the depth of over a foot with oose, mud, sod, and dirt making the stretch impassable. It later developed in other testimony that this was the result of a Santa Fe road gang which was then repairing the roadway and that the road was merely somewhat rough and not impassable. This was an example of adverse testimony received. In the following several testimonies, little was added to the evidence. Charley Gardner, brother of Leonard, was examined after his brother left the chair. Lee V. Tucker, father of Elijah P. Tucker, testified that his son was 23 years of age on last August 25. " You think the approach to the track--", Dr. Ripley began--when the examination of the father was nearly concluded. Without waiting for him to finish, Mr. Tucker exclaimed, "Contributed to his death? Yes, I do before my God." The Gardner brothers recalled for additional testimony stated that their mother was 81 years of age on last August 25, the same as the birthday of young Tucker and that she had been in excellent health as the young man had been. Charles L. Marsh, boss of the men who were occupied at the time, Tuesday afternoon, grading the road in question threw the evidence to a new angle by stating that the west side of the road on which the auto approached the track had been finished and was in good shape beyond being a little rough. He also said that he attempted to stop Tucker, who paid no attention, and described the details of the wreck. I. W. Estes and Charles Elliott both workman for Marsh contributed to the testimony by testifying the Ford runs about Tucker drove over the road at a good gait, seemingly unimpeded but slowed nearly to a stop when it approached the track. Charles M. Paul, engineer on the train, said that neither he nor the fireman saw the car in front due to the arrangement of the window of the cab as the engine came around a curve, a half mile out of the station, which in turn was a hundred yards or so east of the crossing. He thought a jolt which was felt when the engine passed the crossing wasa due to trouble in the engine mechanism and was astonished when he stopped the train a quarter of amile further on, to find the wreakage and two bodies on the pilot. He told of the position in which the wreakage and bodies was on the machine and of how the train was backed up to the station, the man being taken inside and brought here and the woman's body being placed in a truck to be taken home. William Hamm, Station agent at Appleton, Douglas Derham of the store north of the depot, and Andrew Nelson who was on the road and north of the tracks at the time of the accident, all testified. A statement by Dr. Baird who attended Tucker when he was brought to St. Mary's hospital closed the testimonies. Dr. Baird said the injuries were a depressive fracture of the skull back of the left ear, a fractured right arm, and many cuts and bruises. He attributed death to an internal hermorrhage. Tucker died, according to the docter at 2:45, 45 minutes after entering the hosptial. The train was heading west and the automobile was being driven from the south. Tucker had to approach the right of way over the recently surfaced road then across the eastbound track of the major line where the car was struck. There was a switch lying to the north and thereafter the roadway descended again to the road over another stretch of newly repaired surface similar to the south. The grade in each case was about 5 percent. Funeral services for Elijah Tucker who died as the result of injuries sustained in an accident at Williamsfield last Tuesday will be held at the residense of Dr. Ben Baird at 2 p.m. Friday. Immediately after the services the body will be taken to Chicago in the 5:12 train and burial will be made in Graceland cemetery there. Elijah Peacock Tucker was born in Chicago in 1897 and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Tucker. His grandparents were Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Peacock of Chicago and Mrs Mary Tucker of Williamsfield. He received his education in the Galesburg schools and In Winona Lake Agricultural college. For some time past he has been operating his father's farm near Dahinda. He was married last April to Miss Alma Thurman who with his parents Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Tucker survive him. He was a member of the Victoria Masonic Lodge and of the Murgo Grotto of Galesburg.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.knox/3800.4/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Galesburg Evening Mail, Tuesday, December 31, 1912 Mrs O. B. Judson Laid to Rest Funeral Held This Afternoon at the Home on North Chambers Dr. Campbell Preached Sermon Paid High Tribute to Wife and Mother Who for 56 years presided over Home Funeral services for the late Mrs. O. B. Judson were held at the residence, 122 North Chambers street, this afternoon at two o'clock with Rev. S. Van Pelt and Rev. S. M. Campbell officiating. Mr. and Mrs. Everett E. Hinchliff furnished the music, their duets being rendered with great beauty and sympathy. A bunch of carnations from the Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church was especially noticed among the many tributes. With the bouquet was this card: "Accept the sympathy of the Woman's Missionary Society of the Presbyterian church. These forty-two carnations are in honor of the forty-two years which your mother was a member of our Society. With her going, the last charter member of the Society has passed away." Rev. Campbell preached the sermon, which follows: "This is the coronation service for God's servant and we are gathered - relatives and friends - in this home where she has been a happy wife and mother for fifty-six splendid years, that we may console each other and that we may give praise to God for the goodness and mercy that followed her all the days of her life. It is our privilege and our pleasure to think of her as having come out of this life's tasks and experiences into the experiences and enlargements of that unsullied life where she more largely shows the intercourse of the Divine." "Mrs. Judson's life has been a long one - her pilgrimage extending over 78 years. To recall these years is to recall a historical period of great interest and to review her years in Galsburg is to re-write the history of the city. Both Mr. and Mrs. Judson have been so well-known to us all, that they seem a part of our city and their names are inseperable as they themselves have been." "Mrs. Judson was born of Quaker parentage in December, 1834. She came to Galesburg in 1854 and was married to Mr. Judson at Washington, Illinois, May 21, 1856, fifty six years ago last May. Very soon thereafter, they came into the home where we are gathered today, then in the corn fields, and here they have since resided." "Here the children were born, here the family history has been lived, and from here she will be carried today to rest beside the departed daughter and among many friends who have gone before her into the larger life. The connection which Mr. and Mrs. Judson have had with our city through its business and social and church life, has been a very close one and they have gathered about them as the years have gone a multitude of acquaintances and warm personal friends who will share with the sons and the daughters the regrets that these lovely days of fellowship must end and that the father must travel for a little way without the companionship that has been so beautiful both to him and to us all." "Mrs. Judson's life has been a home life, and yet it has been associated with the best things in our city. Devoted to her home and children she yet found time for sympathy and substantial help to the charitable work of the city. Her devotion to her church has been conspicuous. I found a minute in the record book of the Second Presbyterian church of Galesburg saying that she was received upon profession of her faith and baptism in Jan. 1857. Throughout the fifty-five years of her fellowship with the church, she has shared all its fortunes; she has given her service to its missionary and social organizations and she has devotedly loved its worship. Only a week ago last Sabbath she expressed the wish she might go to church." "If this history seems but brief, it will take little imagination to fill in these dates, which are after all, but parentheses of a busy life. There has been the material in these years for a long biography. In them joys and sorrows have come: in them there have been many loving tasks done and many hopes cherished and fulfilled." "Can we ever part with a mother without recalling the story of the ten thousand duties which only a mother can attend to? To many of us beside this mother's children, a day like this stirs all the springs of memory, and other mother's faces and other mother's kindness came hastening back to gladden us and to refresh our spirits. What a good thing it would be for us if we should make occasions like this the decision time for some worthy idea in our lives. Is there some duty neglected? Is there some ideal of life awaiting our response? Is there some service in church or community that has been calling us? Have we forgotten how to make life sweet for those who travel beside us? And these troubles we should bravely meet, or forgiveness we should lovingly render? What a time it might be to lift our lives up to the nobler expression - called to it by the freshened memory of this mother whose response to duty was so conspicuous and tender." " But one can scarcely avoid the more personal word which it seems possible to say today in your presence. The long life of our friend and her sincere Christian trust makes it possible to speak of her in quiet terms of love. Those aged Saints have a way of getting into our hearts very decidedly. It is a pleasure to recall Mrs. Judson's brightness and alertness of mind. How ready she always was with half witty responses to our greeting. She was very intelligent, a lover of books and an interested observer of our busy world. There above all, she was a real Christian cherishing those thoughts and views of life which go so far to make life beautiful both here and hereafter. And now, that she as gone, is not this a beautiful thing to remember that she has cultivated that trust in God which is the work of the Christian, and that she has tried to live with the light of God's love shining into each common day? She would not wish that we speak any extravagant words of prais! e and we will not. But we will thank God for the life so reverently lived for the tasks so carefully wrought, for the onward and upward look cherished toward Christ, and toward the heavenly home." "With you, then, who loved her most, we sympathize and with you we rejoice. And we pray that God's grace may rest upon our elder brother and father as he travels on, upon the children, and grandchildren and upon all whose hearts are tender at this home-going hour." The pallbearers were W. L. Steele, Prof. Longdon. I. L. Pillsbury, R. N. Shaw, C.C. Merrill and E. R. Drake. Interment was made in Hope cemetery.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bengston, Peterson, Swanson Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.knox/3802.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Yes. her name is Anna (Annie)Peterson Bengston. She married Olof Bengston 15 sept 1870. I need to get a copy of the Marriage certificate and know where she is buried. All these events took place in Knox County.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.knox/3802.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Looked in the cemetery records at the Galesburg Library and found only these Bangston buried in the Wataga cemetery in a section across the road from the Masoleum. Claus C. Bangston 1855 - 1933 Anna M. Bangston 1862 - 1953 Alberta Bangston 1865 1955 Don't know if these are related to you but I now see the other spelling you have listed. Could it be Annie Bengston?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.knox/3799.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Galesburg Daily Register Friday Evening Jan 28 1938 page 2 Former Manager of Departments at O.T.'s Dies Mrs. Harriett Ann Williams, a (could not read word) president for 38 years, and for many years manager of the toy department and later the economy basement of the O.T. Johnson store died at 3:30 o'clock this morning in St. Mary's hospital, where she had been a patient since last Saturday. Her health had been poor for years. Mrs. Williams was residing with a son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs Harry A. Williams, 1245 North Seminary street. Harriett Ann Swift was born in Passaic, N. J. on Sept 14, 1869, and came to Illinois with her parents when a child three years old. The family settled in Canton, where she was educated. On Sept. 14, 1892, she was married there to Robert L. Williams and the couple came here in 1899 to reside. Mrs. Williams was connected with the O.T. Johnson store for some time until she retired three years ago. She leaves one son, Harry A. Williams of Galesburg; two grandchildren, Mrs Betty Lyens of Galesburg and Bobby Williams at home; three brothers, Fred Swift of Canton, Frank of Farmington, and Henry of Sioux City, Ia; two sisters, Mrs. Lee Vance of Canton and Miss Emma Swift of Dixon; and a number of nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon from the Kimber and West chapel, in charge of Dr. W. Harry Freda, pastor of the First Baptist church, of which Mrs. Williams was a member. Friends may call Saturday afternoon and evening at the Kimber and West Mortuary.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.knox/3810/mb.ashx Message Board Post: THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH! You've given me a Marry Cristmas! Hope yours is wonderful too!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.knox/3809.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Galesburg Register Mail Wednesday Oct 3 1984 page 7 Martha McMillen Toulon---Martha McMillen, 92, Toulon, died Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. in the Stark County Health Center. She was born in Stark County March 29, 1892. She married Fred McMillen Oct. 8, 1913. Surviving are her husband; one son, Harold McMillen, Toulon; one daughter, Lucille Bowes, Toulon; three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. She had taught in rural Stark County schools, and was a memeber of the Toulon United Methodist Church. Funeral will be Friday at 2:30 p.m. in the Kidd Funeral Home, Toulon, the Rev. Ron Dickenson officiating. Burial will be in Toulon Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home Friday from 1:30 p.m. until the service. Memorials may be made to her church, the family said.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.knox/3808.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Galesburg newspaper Saturday Oct 21 1922 page 2 Mrs. Mary Tucker Williamsfield, Ill Oct 21 --- Oct 1, 1831, Mary Mundy was born in Boston, Mass., the daughter of James and Katherine Mundy. At the age of eight years she came to Elba township, Knox Co., Ill. with her parents who were one of the pioneer families of this county She was united in marriage to Samuel Tucker of Elba township, Feb 29 1849, and has resided in Truro township ever since. They were the parents of 12 children, of whom three sons and two daughters are living: L. V. of Dahinda, Noah N. of Williamsfield, E. S. of Knoxville, Sarah E. Eastman and Evylin M. Baird of Galesburg, James passing away April 30, 1921, Elizabeth C. Moon, Feb 28, 1920, Mark E., Nov. 12, 1907, and others in infancy. She was a woman of many estimable qualities. Aside from bringing up her own family, she contributed very largely to the rearing of the children of other members of her immediate family. She was ever ready to minister to the wants of those who were sick or in distress in the community and many of the needy can testify to her benevolence and good care. She was a charter member of the local order of the Eastern Star, and during the late war was deeply interested in the activities of the Red Cross and contributed largely to every organization, which had for its purpose the furthering of the winning of the war. This also characterised her actions during the Civil war, when for a period of three years, while her husband was at the front in the service of his country, she continued to manage and maintain the home interests and not only successfully brought up her family of five children, but very materially increased the productiveness of the farm. She was liberal in her contributions to all the churches in her community, giving to each, share and share alike. Buried in Williamsfield Cemetery: Samuel Tucker Oct 12, 1822 May 8 1893 Mary, his wife, Oct 1, 1831 Oct 17, 1922

Hi fellow genealogists! According to the available illinois marriage index, 02-08-1883 Frank Miller marries Sophia Ekstrom. I suspect that this Sophia Ekstrom is a sister to an ancestor of mine, who stayed in Sweden (where I'm from) when her two sisters and only siblings emigrated in their 20's together with their 11 year old cousin in 1881. The cousin, Carl/Charles Johnson, stayed with their aunt Helen who had emigrated 1869 and married a David Niles, living in Wataga, Knox County. Unfortunately they died without kids. Sophias older sister Matilda married a Gustaf Carlsson in Cass, Ill 1886 and eventually ended up in Kansas. I have recently got in contact with their descendants, still living in Kansas - but none of us have any clues where Sophia went? She was born 16th of July 1861 named Johanna Sofia Ekström. So my question is if anyone knows anything about Frank and Sophia, or have the possiblity to see what the marriage record says. thank you very much /Kristian Dreij