Hey, What information can I get on Bradley Polytech University, My Great grandfather was a teacher there, I am guessing in the 1880's, but I am not sure what he taught. His name was George Torrence Adlington. Thanks, Sandy -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 6:28 PM Subject: ILPEORIA-D Digest V99 #194

was in peoria 2 weeks ago went to bradley to see about a great aunt who was a music teacher there i now have her year book picture and info try to contact Barbara Galik ,309-677-2830 or e-mail [email protected] she is in charge of the special arcives. john faginkrantz

you might check with bradley university on info on joe stowells he was a basketball coach for years.

Family legend has it that John Nelson MILLER is the son of Reuben MILLER and Nancy STURGEON. Nancy is living with John on the 1850 census. She is age 64 and listed as born in KY. That means her was born ca 1786 before KY was a state, but the area she was born in could easily have been known as KY for quite some time before the 1850 census. (KY became a state around 1792.) So we have been looking in surrounding states for early marriages. I have no evidence of their marriage or death or burials for Reuben or Nancy. Nancy and her sons are listed on the 1830 St. Louis Co. MO, St. Louis Township. Reuben is not listed. If he was alive then, he could have been away working in the various mines in the St. Louis area or across the state line in IL working in mines. Just a guess. We have wondered if our bunch of MILLERs came from Granville Co. NC with Francois WIDEMAN who in 1799 brought 26 families to the Big River township south of St. Louis via South Carolina, KY and IL. Those families were: brothers Mark Wideman, John Wideman and Jacob Wideman, his sisters families: Elizabeth Wideman Benton and Elijah Benton, Clarissa Wideman and John Wilson (their descendant, Clarissa WILSON married a brother of our John Nelson MILLER, Andrew Jackson MILLER and she died in Peoria in 1857 and is buried in the Jones Cemetery) Sarah Wideman Pruitt and Charles Pruitt. Other families included: Peter Huskey family, Benjamin Williams family, LaFayette Ramsey family, Landon Williams family, James Hensley family, Thomas Hearst family, James MILLER family, Charles Priest family, Jacob Collins family,l David Delanny family, William Estepp family, Hugh McCullock family, James Davis family, James Rogers family, James Pounds family (a descendant of Andrew Jackson MILLER and Clarissa WILSON married into this family in Jefferson Co. MO), William Drennen family, Thomas Evans family, Henry Metts family. Many of these families are still in Jefferson Co. MO today and have intermarried. Our Nancy STURGEON MILLER and her sons migrated to Peoria beginning in 1834 to 1836 according to what I have pieced together. I am trying to keep an open mind that Reuben could have been his middle name, etc., but we can't find any Nancy STURGEON married to any MILLER. We also have not found the parents of our Nancy STURGEON. Thank you for your help. Leniegh Schrinar 145 Mazet Road Riverton, WY 82501 > Is your John Miller a descendant of Christian Miller, born in Hamburg, > Germany and immigrated to America when he was 16 to Hamptonsville, NC.? > Married to Araminta Whitehead of Irish descent. The family then removed to > KY and then IL when 13 Millers arrived in 1837 in Princeville. > In the Slane article it refers to descendants of Benjamin Slane who was born > in Chester, Frederic Co., VA in 1798. Married to Delilah Cheshire of > Hampshire Co. in 1824. They had 6 children: Benjamin F. (called Frank(, John > Z., Elizabeth A., Delilah J., Samuel S. and James T. Slane. In 1830 they > went to Ohio. > I will have to review notes on the Beall family. > > ==== ILPEORIA Mailing List ==== > Visit the Peoria County USGenWeb Home Page! > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilpeoria/peoria.htm

Have you ever tried to use the search engine on the web, such as anywho.com and yahoo.com. You can do this for any name ane any city-works great gene [email protected] wrote: > Hi List, > I am looking for any Stowells that live or have lived in Peoria. Any help > would be appreciated. Thanks Mark:) > > ==== ILPEORIA Mailing List ==== > 2,500 Discussion Lists!!! USGenWeb and The USGenWeb Archives! > Special thanks go to RootsWeb. Your generous donations to > RootsWeb makes this all possible. Find out more! > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > RootsWeb Gen. Data Coop. Box 6798 Frazier Park, CA 93222

Part 3 Of this little pioneer settlement much that would be of interest could be said, but that would take us beyond the scope of this paper. That those first years in Illinois were both primitive in matters of dress and very plain in matters of living, goes without saying and had it not been for kind-hearted, industrious Grandma Will who preceded us to IL by a few years and announced that she had planted garden for all of the newcomers, we might have truly said that our living was both plain in quality and scrimped in quantity; for what little cash came into the treasury in those early years, father depended upon his trade. Being a Yankee, he considered a barn indispensable and the second year put up a good framed barn, enclosed with hardwood lumber of his own sawing. The example seemed contagious and numerous other jobs of the same kind were soon given to him. In addition to this, he got several jobs in building over and repairing both flouring mills and sawmills, one near Princeton, one on Crow Creek where he took the ague which stayed by him for many months and was altogether more than he bargained for. He also did work on the old Evans flouring mill, which many of the old settlers will remember, located upon the Kickapoo Creek in Peoria Co.. MORE TO FOLLOW

Part 2 Leaving Chillicothe, they went to Northampton, where Reuben Hamlin had a tavern. Here they established headquarters while exploring the country. They finally located timberland upon what has since been called Blue Ridge and prairie along the south line of Marshall Co., where Lawn Ridge now stands. They then took up their line of march for the nearest land office, Quincey, IL, 160 miles distant. Having made their entries and secured their patents, they returned to Hamlin's, which they made their stopping place while they built a small but comfortable log house on the exact spot where Isaiah Nurse subsequently built a good substantial home, now owned by H.H. Nurse and occupied by his son. Game was plentiful in those days and in their walks back and forth to Hamlin's, they often picked up a turkey with their trusty rifle that added materially to their bill of fare. It was now getting well along in the fall. The object of their summer's tramp accomplished, it was arranged that Isaiah Nurse should remain and keep house while Roswell Nurse and my father should return to the East for their families. So again the two men started on their tramp for Chicago, with a view of expediting their trip home, by taking a schooner to Buffalo, NY. It was now getting late in the fall and they were beset with high and adverse winds and bad storms, often compelled to lie under the lee of some island for days before they could proceed. Three weeks were consumed in the trip from Chicago to Buffalo, NY. Here again they took up their line of march for their homes in Chenango Co., about the center of the state on the south line, their long tramp finished, and the work they set out to do fully accomplished. It was upon his return from IL that I first met my father, my arrival having anticipated his by a few weeks. While we have no very distinct recollection of the occasion, we think it fairly to be presumed that we met him with the grace and dignity becoming one of our age and experience. And here closes the first chapter of the record. The spring following their return to NY State, Roswell Nurse moved with his family to their possessions in IL. My father being a mechanic with plenty of work in the East, and no assurance of any in his line in the West, deferred moving his family until 1843, when, with a good team of mares attached to a wagon with the box set upon springs, our family, then five in number, started on the long road to our future home, which we reached in three and one-half weeks. A young man by the name of John Champlin went through with us, driving a horse and buggy of Dr. Ashed Wilmot's who moved ti IL the same spring. Doctor's old Charley horse and sulky were known on the road for many years as the doctor made his professional visits. Our journey was made without incident or accident worthy of note, but the broad prairies, as hour after hour we drove over them without seeing a sign of human habitation, were in strong contrast with the same country two and three decades later. Our heavy goods father had drawn to Olean Point in the late winter before, when they were rafted down to the Ohio River in charge of Uncle Lyman Robinson, who came around by water the same spring, arriving at our destination some weeks ahead of us. The next day after our arrival, the goods were stored, the family found shelter amongst the neighbors, and father was in quest of a saw milll which he found on the Senachwine Creek, about two miles above Northampton. Being a millwright, he soon had it in order, and was sawing lumber for a house, while Champlin with he team and wagon was drawing it to the place designated for a building. In just two weeks from the time of reaching our journey's end, we were under our own roof, and gathered as a family in our own habitation. Crude and unfinished though it was, it was home, and life in our new environment was begun, in what was then called the "Little Blue Ridge Settlement." MORE FORTHCOMING

An article on the Stowell Family of Lawn Ridge from "Princeville and Vicinity". By Calvin Stowell, 1910 (OF INTEREST TO ME as I have several ancestors who were of Lawn Ridge - surnames mainly Foster, Sickles and Nickerson) To the Officers and Members of the Old Settlers Union of Princeville and Vicinity, Greeting: We have been repeatedly asked to furnish a sketch of our father's life in connection with his pioneer days in the early settlement of IL. We feel it to be a delicate matter to write of the life of one, or portion of the life of one, as close by the ties of nature, as father and son; but we realize that those of my father's generation immediately following, have passed over the "Dark River." and so far as I can remember, there is no one now living that could testify in regard to the facts connected with our final move to IL in 1843, aside from the writer. Of the incidents connected with his first trip to IL on his exploring expedition in 1836, we can only give them from memory as we have heard talked over again and again at the fireside in our childhood days and often repeated in our mature years. So under existing conditions, we should feel ourselves unworthy of the father that begot us, and the mother that bore us, if we should refuse to give any facts in regard to those pioneer years of hardship and heroic endeavor and endurance that would add anything to the history of the early settlers of IL, whose lives are now numbered up on the records of the heroic deeds of the past. In the spring of 1836, when my father, Ebenezer Stowell, was 29 years of age, he and his first cousin, Roswell Nurse, and his son, Isaiah Nurse, a young man just at his majority packed their grips with such things only as were absolutely necessary for health and comfort on the road, and, with one rifle as their only weapon, which they carried turn about, started from Bambridge, Chenango Co., NY, for the much talked of "Land of Promise," the young state of IL. Their plan was to make the trip on foot and to make any side explorations in going as might be deemed best. Just the route which they took, we are not able to give, further than this, that they explored quite thoroughly much of the country along the Wabash River in Indiana, and then struck across to Peoria, IL, which was then little more than a village. From there, they went up the river to Chillicothe, a town of a few houses along the river bank. Here they met Jacob Booth, whom they had known in York State, who had preceded them by a length time unknown to us. We have also heard them speak of meeting J.H. McKean, now a resident of Wyoming, IL, well past his four score and 10 years. But they had little time for visiting; time was precious and they were there on business. FURTHER INFORMATION FORTHCOMING

I looked in the Peoria Phone Directory and there are five listings under this name. If you do not have access to this book and want the name/address/phone#, contact me and I'll sent them to you. Bill in Denver

Is your John Miller a descendant of Christian Miller, born in Hamburg, Germany and immigrated to America when he was 16 to Hamptonsville, NC.? Married to Araminta Whitehead of Irish descent. The family then removed to KY and then IL when 13 Millers arrived in 1837 in Princeville. In the Slane article it refers to descendants of Benjamin Slane who was born in Chester, Frederic Co., VA in 1798. Married to Delilah Cheshire of Hampshire Co. in 1824. They had 6 children: Benjamin F. (called Frank(, John Z., Elizabeth A., Delilah J., Samuel S. and James T. Slane. In 1830 they went to Ohio. I will have to review notes on the Beall family.

We are interested in the Coyle's of Kickapoo or thereabouts. We have the Thomas Coyle family emigrating from Ireland (time unknown) with his wife Bridget. he was born about 1834. We know from census of 1880 and pictures of the family that he had 4 daughters (Anne,Katie, Hattie, Mary) and 4 sons (John, James, Joseph, and Thomas). Family lore has it that he emigrated with a brother. We think this individual is Emmanuel Coyle b. 1831 and married to Frances Smeetam. Would be interested if anyone could tie the two families together or possibly pass on more infor about the Coyles of Peoria County. Thanks.

I am descended from the SLANE line that lived/live in Peoria. My great-great-great grandmother is: Eliza Jane SLANE b. 12 Jan 1829 Zanesville, OH m. John Nelson MILLER 3 Feb 1847 Peoria Co. IL d. 9 Aug. 1916 Oakdale, Antelope Co. NE Her parents are: Daniel F. SLANE b. 15 Aug 1804 VA d. 21 Feb 1884 Mahala LAFOLLET b. 13 April 1804 VA d. 1892 Peoria Co. IL Is Thomas BEALL in the article b. ca 1719 married to Sarah ANTRIM? Leniegh Schrinar 145 Mazet Road Riverton, WY 82501 > Article regarding the Slane family states the following. Big Hollow was so > steep they locked the wheels together and all got out and walked. Mrs. Slane > carrying the present President of our Old Settlers' Union in her arms, he > being then a babe of less than a year old. They passed through the Village > of Kickapoo, comprising one house and one log stable, of which John Coyle, a > brother of Mrs. Asa Beall, was sole proprietor. > Article on the Beall Family > Asa Beall, a soldier of the war of 1812, was born in Fayette Co., Kentucky, > Nov 28, 1792. He was the son of Thomas Beall, an old pioneer of Kentucky. > Although reared on a farm, Asa Beall learned to be a millwright by trade. He > built the first grist mill at Cincinnati, OH. He was married to Miss Susan > Coyle, Dec. 2, 1819. Susan Coyle was born July 2, 1800. In 1832 Mr. and > Mrs. Beall left Kentucky and came by boat to Peoria, IL. They bought a place > near Mossville on the Illinois River, where they lived for a short time. > Being among the early settlers, Mr. Beall found the country but little > improved. The nearest market was Chicago, where he hauled his grain. On > account of malaria and mosquitoes they soon disposed of their place and moved > to Section 36, Jubilee Township, near Kickapoo. They were the parents of > eight children. Contact me for more information on these families as written > in the book. > >From "Princeville and Vicinity". > > ==== ILPEORIA Mailing List ==== > Visit the Peoria County USGenWeb Home Page! > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilpeoria/peoria.htm

Dear Sandie I am related to Emmanuel and Frances Coyle (Child: Bridget b. 9-28-1861). they came to this country about 1862 from Scotland. Anything in the book about that. Thanks Tom Tracy

Hi List, I am looking for any Stowells that live or have lived in Peoria. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Mark:)

I have an Amelia SLANE. Her parents were William & Ann BALE from Jubille. I was told some of her relatives still live in Dunlap. I don't have any info for her yet, but I know she was already married in 1906 when her father died. She was my great great Aunt. Debbi Whitman

First burying ground near Princeville was on Section 25, near its north line, one mile south of Princeville.

>From "Princeville and Vicinity" White's Grove Baptist Church, Historical Sketch Written for Golden Anniversary, by Mabel Walliker, 1922 Saturday afternoon, Dec. 9, 1871, 13 people met at the home of Isaac German near the White's Grove school house. After Scripture reading and prayer the declaration of faith and covenant were read and adopted. E.M. Armstrong and John C. White were elected deacons. The name selected was White's Grove Baptist Church. The members attending that meeting were as follows: Mrs. Louisa Walliker Armstrong, Mr. and Mrs. EM Armstrong, Mr. and Mrs. James Curry, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac German, Mr. and Mrs. John C. White, Mr. and Mrs. William White, Mr. Chas. Walliker, Sr. and Miss Emma McKay. Social Life at Whites Grove, by Mary J. Smith, 1929 Other families in the neighborhood were Hughes, Duncan McGregor, Henry Roney, Lambert, Leaverton, Schaad, McNeal, Isaac German, David Mendell, James Morrow, Purcell, Camp, Pigg. Albert Burgess, Whittington, later Charles and Henry DeBord, Bowles, Frank Belford, LaMay, James Currey, William Mann, James McMillen and Weidner. (more information if desired on these articles).

Circa 1844 the cemetery one mile south of Princeville was abandoned for the present Princeville Township Cemetery.

Article regarding the Slane family states the following. Big Hollow was so steep they locked the wheels together and all got out and walked. Mrs. Slane carrying the present President of our Old Settlers' Union in her arms, he being then a babe of less than a year old. They passed through the Village of Kickapoo, comprising one house and one log stable, of which John Coyle, a brother of Mrs. Asa Beall, was sole proprietor. Article on the Beall Family Asa Beall, a soldier of the war of 1812, was born in Fayette Co., Kentucky, Nov 28, 1792. He was the son of Thomas Beall, an old pioneer of Kentucky. Although reared on a farm, Asa Beall learned to be a millwright by trade. He built the first grist mill at Cincinnati, OH. He was married to Miss Susan Coyle, Dec. 2, 1819. Susan Coyle was born July 2, 1800. In 1832 Mr. and Mrs. Beall left Kentucky and came by boat to Peoria, IL. They bought a place near Mossville on the Illinois River, where they lived for a short time. Being among the early settlers, Mr. Beall found the country but little improved. The nearest market was Chicago, where he hauled his grain. On account of malaria and mosquitoes they soon disposed of their place and moved to Section 36, Jubilee Township, near Kickapoo. They were the parents of eight children. Contact me for more information on these families as written in the book. >From "Princeville and Vicinity".

Service Records of World War veterans - Princeville Township - Kenneth Henry Sheeler, May 22, 1918 at Peoria. Infantry, 17th Company. C.O.T.S. 2nd Lt. Camp Gordon, GA. Nov. 30, 1918 at Camp Gordon. Princeville Marriage Bells - (Special to the Chicago Daily News) By Paul Hull - Princeville, IL Nov. 7, 1889 - The social season has fairly opened in Princeville and the approaching winter promises a number of brilliant events. In fact, for a year past our society people have had much to divert them. Ever since Ed Sheelor married Dode Rice last spring the entire population of maidens and bachelors seem to have turned their attention to marrying and being given in marriage. Mr. Sheelor is a son of John Sheelor, who, aided by his bay mare Fary, has so successfully carried the mail for the last 10 years between Princeville and the West Hallock cheese factory. He is also, brother to Boogey Sheelor, whom your readers probably remember as being engaged to in Boss Herrick's harness shop. Miss Dora Rice, the bride, is one of Princeville's most beautiful and accomplished daughters. She is also Jim Rice's daughter. Jim keeps the hotel and is the most extensive buyer in the town. This wedding broke the matrimonial ice, so to speak, and marriages came thick and fast. The Moody Family - Julia Moody, (Mrs. John Henry) daughter of Ira Moody and Ann Maria Reaves, lives in Princeville and her children are Albert in Houston, TX, Bruce on the home place, Miss Rie, Mrs. Blanche Sheelor of Galesburg, Miss Julia, Sherman T. of Monica and Mrs. Sadie Cornish, besides three, Emily, Carlisle and Mabel, who died when young. This is a part of an article regarding the ancestry of the Moody family from Massachusetts. >From "Princeville and Vicinity"