ILMONTGO-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > >ILMONTGO-D Digest Volume 03 : Issue 114 > >Today's Topics: > #1 Re: [ILMONTGO] Sanders ["Brad & Linda Collins" <oldretcop@] > #2 [ILMONTGO] Obit of Charles Alvin S ["Lynne Evans" <evans6@bellsouth.ne] > #3 [ILMONTGO] IRAD & Wrights [Joyce & Ed Thomas <ejthomas@i1.net] > >Administrivia: >Administrivia: >Please consider supporting RootsWeb: > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > >To unsubscribe from ILMONTGO-D, send a message to > ILMONTGO-D-request@rootsweb.com >that contains in the body of the message the command > unsubscribe >and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software >requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > >______________________________ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > Re: [ILMONTGO] Sanders > From: > "Brad & Linda Collins" <oldretcop@wamusa.com> > Date: > Tue, 2 Sep 2003 19:19:50 -0500 > To: > ILMONTGO-L@rootsweb.com > > >I found William Simpson in 1860, Hillsboro Post Office with wife Betsy age >42 born IL >dau Emily age 17 born IL >son William M age 8 born IL >son John W age 7 born IL >son Alonzo W age 4 born IL >and dau Laura A age 10/12 born IL >with farm hand Henry Aydelot age 27 born Switzerland >Are William Simpson's children with he and Chloe Hill Sanders in 1870? Has >his wife died....OR ....did he divorce his wife to marry Chloe??? > >Linda > >______________________________ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > [ILMONTGO] Obit of Charles Alvin Sanders > From: > "Lynne Evans" <evans6@bellsouth.net> > Date: > Tue, 2 Sep 2003 21:47:46 -0400 > To: > ILMONTGO-L@rootsweb.com > > >Hillsboro, Illinois, Friday October 20, 1916 > >Alvin Sanders Dead > > Alvin Sanders, the oldest man in the county except one, died at the >Litchfield hospital Thursday morning at 8:30, aged 96 years, 9 months, and >24 days. > Deceased was born in Adair County, Kentucky, Dec. 25, 1919. His >parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Sanders came to Montgomery County in 1832 and >settled on a farm near Bost Hill church. He (John Sanders) lived there >until his death raising a family of 12 children, 8 boys and 4 girls. The >boys were Alvin, John, Erving, Jeff, Elias, Robert, and Finley. The girls >were Elizabeth, who married Easton Whitten, Nancy Jane who married James >Brown, Rebecca who married John J. Bost, and Lavina who married Phillip V. >Johnson. The boys are all dead except Robert who lives in Pana. The girls >living are Nancy Jane Brown of Pana, and Luvina Johnson now living in >Florida. All the Sanders boys and girls raised families. > Alvin Sanders was married many years ago to Miss Chloe Hill and the >following children were born to this union: J. L. Sanders of Fillmore, Henry >T. who lives in Nebraska, Mary who married Daniel Cress and who died a >number of years ago, Luvina who married Fletcher Gamble and who lives at >Litchfield, Drucilla who married Henry Follis and who lives at Litchfield, >Malissa who is married and lives in Texas. Another girl died in infancy. > Alvin left here in 1856 and went west and nothing was heard from him for >over 40 years. His friends all supposed he was dead, but he returned about >14 years ago and for the last four years he has been in the Litchfield >hospital. > His wife secured a divorce and married again, her second husband being >"Uncle Billy" Simpson who was office county treasurer of this county. > The funeral will be held this Friday morning at 10 o'clock at the >residence of his son, Lafayette Sanders in Fillmore. Interment will be made >in the Fillmore cemetery. > The history of Alvin Sanders, if it could be written, would make an >interesting book. He was a gold prospector and a bear hunter. He is said >to have killed 21 grizzly bear. The first bear he killed weighed out 70 >pounds and he sold the meat, he said for a dollar a pound! This spoiled him >and he went hunting bear for a living. He used to remark that a man who >would shoot one of these little black bears was a d----d coward. He said >anybody could kill a black bear with an ax! > He claimed to have made a fortune prospecting for gold but he lost most >of it. He had enough to live on, however, but would not live with his >children, preferring to stay at the hospital. He traveled all over...... > >I'm missing the last line of the article. Got cut off by the microfilm >reader. >I have in my notes that William Simpson was a widower when he and Chloe >married in 1870. The 3 Simpson children in the household were William (20), >John (17), and A. D. (14). William's age is a bit off from the 1860 census >and Laura is missing. > >Lynne > > Lynn, I think we have a connection. My lines are Browns & Roberts who settled in Irving in the 1830's. I have David Deadrick Brown mar to Catherine Cress in abt. 1831. I have an 8 page file on my Browns if you would like it. Send me your e-mail address and I will send it to you. Tiss ejthomas@i1.net >______________________________ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > [ILMONTGO] IRAD & Wrights > From: > Joyce & Ed Thomas <ejthomas@i1.net> > Date: > Wed, 03 Sep 2003 00:03:46 -0500 > To: > ILMONTGO-L@rootsweb.com > > > Tammy, Thank you for the IRAD web site. I notice you have Wrights > listed in your Surname list. My gr gr grandfather James Dinwiddie > married a Mariah Wright in Greene Co., IL in 1835-6. Also their son > George W. Dinwiddie married Alice Ann Wright. Here is about all I > have on them.: > > From his pension and enlistment papers. > "George W. Dinwiddie: age 25 married, Height 5'8" hair light, eyes > gray, complexion light. Occup: > Farmer, b: in Whitehall, Greene Co., IL Enlisted Aug 12, 1862 > Mustered out July 12, 1865 in Mobile, > AL Co. I 91st Inf. Illinois. > George W. Dinwiddie of Woburn, IL applied for pension after C.W. > Cause injury left knee & disease of eye. Monthly rate $4.00. Started > October, 1880" > > I corresponded with a Wright researcher for awhile. Let me look for > her letter.From what I remember, the Wright line was very tangled up. > :-) Her name is Martha Fleming. I think she posts on Gen Forum or > Ancestry.com > TTYL Tiss