Hi Joanie - I would like to thank you for the following. I was having delivery problems with the LaSalle list for a number of weeks and missed the reply you sent regarding my John MASKER. I just happened to be searching the archives today for some HOOTON information and stumbled across your reply to my message. I'm sorry that my thank you is so tardy! My LaSalle deliveries are still sketchy as I receive digests with replies without ever having gotten the original messages. Yes, John MASKER was related to the HOOTONs. John's second wife was Sarah Ellen HOOTON, daughter of James HOOTON and Esther CARROLL. William HOOTON was Sarah Ellen's brother. There were several other children as well, including one named Thomas who is probably buried somewhere nearby. I believe he died about 1903. You also may have answered another question for me. There were two other MASKERs in the area that I guessed were probably John's children from his first marriage. One of these is also buried in Riverview/Riverside. Both are found in the local city directories in the 1890s to early 1900s. Thanks again. It gives me alot to go on. :-) Shelly Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 13:12:25 -0600 From: Joan <A HREF="mailto:[email protected]"> To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ILLASALLE] John Masker - Inquest Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ...from Streator Daily Free Press Tuesday, May 4, 1896 ---Coroner Blanchard, of Marseilles, in the absence of his deputy, U. S. Painter, from the city, came over here this morning, empaneled a jury and held an inquest on the remains of John Masker. A verdict of accidental death was returned. Was John related to the Hootons? Buried in Lot 22 were: John Masker William Hooton died Nov 1962 Esther died 23 Apr. 1934 James died 19 Apr. 1932 Just curious, Joanie Joan wrote: > > ...from Streator Daily Free Press > Monday, May 4, 1896 > A SAD ACCIDENT > John Masker, While Moving a House Fatally Injured. > John Masker met with a fatal accident this afternoon, about 1:30 > o'clock, while engaged in moving the old Schlitz bottling establishment > across the street from where it had been to the rear of Rosene's pants > factory. > The building was being moved by means of a gin, to which was attached > a team of horses. Mr. Masker was standing behind the lever which > projects out from the gin, and which turns the same, when the clevis on > the single-tree behind the horses broke, allowing the lever to swing > back with fearful force, striking the unfortunate man on the chest and > arms. > The patrol wagon was called an the injured man was put into it, but > he died of his injuries, before his home at 206 Sixth Street was > reached. The deceased was a mason by trade, he being about 46 years of > age. He leaves a wife and four children , to whom is extended the > sympathy of the community. The family have resided here about ten years > coming to Streator from Clinton, Iowa. > > Regarding the train accident, maybe they were crossing a set of tracks > at the time the tree broke? > Sixth street is right across from the hospital. Since he died on the > way, they just probably took the body home. Or, they might have known > his injuries were fatal and nothing could be done. They did that with > coal miners injured in cave ins. > > Joanie