page 7 Recent Births Son, seventh child, born to Mr. and Mrs. Cicero Lee of Barry, Aug 7. Mother 41, formerly Emma May Kramer Daughter, Neoma May, second child, born to Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Hull of Kinderhook, Aug. 24. Mother 21, formerly Nellie Allensworth Daughter, Johninia Ernistine, second child, born to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Wilson of Hull, Aug 22. Mother 18, formerly Dollie Kelly. Son, Charles Phillip, third child born to Mr. and Mrs. Harlow Reed of Hull, Aug 20. Mother, 26, formerly Agnes Smith Son, Elmer Lewis, third child born to Mr. and Mrs. Bevie L. Griffin of Hull Aug 11. Mother 34, formerly Sallie Williams. Daughter, Nona Beth, first child born to Mr. and Mrs. George Lippincott of Kinderhook Aug 4. Mother, 23, formerly Flossie Young. Son, Arnold Wayne, first child born to Mr. and Mrs. Lindon Quincy, of Hull, Aug 2. Mother 25, formerly Lela Cadwalder. Son, Robert Henry, third child born to Mr. and Mrs. M. Dixon of Rockport, July 2. Mother, formerly Mary Sharp, aged 28. Daughter, Lois Elizabeth, sixth child born to Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Ward of Rockport, Aug 26. Mother 33, formerly Lizzie M. Walton. Son, third child born to Mr. and Mrs. James Leslie Dixon of New Canton, Aug 21. Mother 22 formerly Flora Bell Weeks. Son, Kenneth Loraine, third child born to Mr. and Mrs. Wells C. Ham of Griggsville Aug 22. Mother 30, formerly Elizabeth M. Lister Daughter, Mary France, fifth child born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Arthur Bell of New Salem Aug 28. Mother 32, formerly Grace Maude Moore. Daughter, fourth child born to Mr. and Mrs. Cloyd Franklin Woodward of Baylis Aug 16. Mother, 28, formerly Helen Anna Eichman. Daughter, Vivian Eilene, first child born to Mr. and Mrs. Lorenzo Shelton Mayes of Kinderhook, Aug 3. Mother, 18, formerly Rachel Lenora Hinch. Son, second child born to Mr. and Mrs. Wesley E. Kern of Barry Aug 20. Mother, 26, formerly Eleanor Louise Anderson. Son, first child born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Norris of Hull Aug 27. Mother 20, formerly Louise Pryor. Daughter, Helen Elizabeth, born to Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Rodhouse of Pleasant Hill Aug 8. Mother aged 31, formerly Lillie V. Foster. Fifth child. Daughter, Laura Mildred, seventh child born to Mr. and Mrs. James W. Simpson of Pleasant Hill Aug 19. Mother 41, formerly Mary E. Witty. Son, Kenneth William, seventh child ------------ Mrs. Harry Edwin ----- 28 (blacked out so unable to read) Blanche ----------- Son, sixth child born to Mr. and Mrs. Chester A. Autery of -------- Aug 16. Mother, aged 30, formerly Alten Ransom. Daughter, third child born to Mr. and Mrs. Howard E. Barton of Nebo Aug 27. Mother, aged 32, formerly Maude B. Peters. Son, Lyle Glenn, eighth child born to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ransom of Nebo Aug 7. Mother, aged 30, formerly Hettie Pearl Smith. Son, Alfred Wayne, first child born to Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd F. Miller of Rockport Aug 7. Mother, age 1?, formerly Jessie O. Johnson. Daughter, Lois Mae, fourth child born to Mr. and Mrs. Grover Cleveland Woodward of Hadley Aug 25. Mother, aged 33, formerly Funice R. Mink (maybe they mean Eunice). Daughter, Genevee Florine, fourth child born to Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Andrew Bollman of Detroit Aug 2. Mother, formerly Pearl May Harris age 30. Son, Robert Oscar, fourth child born to Mr. and Mrs. Emmor Daniel of Detroit Aug 22. Mother, aged 30, formerly Mary Katherine Splain. Son, Paul Kermit, seventh child born to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Francis Daniel of Detroit, Aug 24. Mother 40, formerly Vera Flossie Sneeden. Son, John William, fourth child born to Mr. and Mrs. Louis Otto Vannatta of Baylis Aug 29. Mother, age 25, formerly Gladys Mildred Daniels. Son Eugene Lee, first child born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lee Pfrimmer of New Canton July 31. Mother, age 31, formerly Mary Lucille Yokem. Son Willis Calvin, third child born to Mr. and Mrs. Willis Calvin Mooney of Rockport Aug 27. Mother 26, formerly Okla A. Loutzenhiser. Daughter, second child born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Chandler of Hull Aug 30. Mother, aged 20, formerly Ellen Smith. Son, second child born to Mr. and Mrs. Glen Wilson of Hull Aug 23. Mother aged 19, formerly Susie Mann.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ingram Akin Richey Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.pike/1519.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Jen, I noticed you mentioned the Ingram name in your post. Do you have very much information regarding the Ingrams? My ancestor John Ingram had seven boys, one of whom was James Ingram. James' wife was (based on various ways I've seen it) Ritter Susan Ann Akin. Ritter's parents were John and Frances (Davis) Akin. John's dad was Isom Akin, born about 1722 in Chesterfield, VA. I don't have any original sourced information on the Akin line. I became interested in the connection after reading the Akin and Richey letters regarding the 1852 wagon train to Oregon on Multnomah County's USGENWEB site. Anyway, just wanted to see what you might have along the Ingram line. Would be happy to share anything useful I have.

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.pike/3566/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Would like more information on your Absolum McClain. Have been trying to connect him to my groub of McClain for years. There are three groups of McClain that run from Henderson County to Pike County. One line is from Joseph McLain,one line from John Richard McClain, and one line from Andrew Francis McClai line. Joseph and John are my ggg uncles and Andrew is my ggg Grandfather. Chuck McClain moycastle@netzero.net

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.pike/2021.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I have the obit for lilly schoolcraft clinging. My grandmother was Dora (clinging) Baucom. Her parents were Sylvester & Melvia (Hoover) Clinging. I can send you a copy if you'd like.

That's what I was going to tell any of their researchers, that this same picture is for sale on ebay. Item number: 290004179660 Vintage Cabinet Photo:Photo by Ware-Pittsfield,IL-Ethel & Homer Goodin ----- Original Message ----- From: Christine Walters To: ILPIKE@rootsweb.com ; Janet Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 6:26 PM Subject: Re: [ILPIKE] Ethel and Homer Goodin If there are any researcher, I have an excellent photo of Ehtel and Homer as children, on my Pike Co IL website... http://genealogytrails.com/ill/pike/pioneergoodin.html Christine Walters Janet <jlt@adams.net> wrote: Are there any researchers on this list who are looking for the family of Benjamin Goodin (b:abt 1872)? 1910 census shows children Ethel M. age 15 Homer B. age 13 Estell F. age 8. IL web site looks like Ethel m:Roy Colvin 1916; Homer m:Nellie Atwood 1920. I don't see Estell but Benjamin's wife is Ola Patterson. Census gives her name as Anna O. Goodin. I have some info for a researcher of them. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ILPIKE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Are there any researchers on this list who are looking for the family of Benjamin Goodin (b:abt 1872)? 1910 census shows children Ethel M. age 15 Homer B. age 13 Estell F. age 8. IL web site looks like Ethel m:Roy Colvin 1916; Homer m:Nellie Atwood 1920. I don't see Estell but Benjamin's wife is Ola Patterson. Census gives her name as Anna O. Goodin. I have some info for a researcher of them.

If there are any researcher, I have an excellent photo of Ehtel and Homer as children, on my Pike Co IL website... http://genealogytrails.com/ill/pike/pioneergoodin.html Christine Walters Janet <jlt@adams.net> wrote: Are there any researchers on this list who are looking for the family of Benjamin Goodin (b:abt 1872)? 1910 census shows children Ethel M. age 15 Homer B. age 13 Estell F. age 8. IL web site looks like Ethel m:Roy Colvin 1916; Homer m:Nellie Atwood 1920. I don't see Estell but Benjamin's wife is Ola Patterson. Census gives her name as Anna O. Goodin. I have some info for a researcher of them. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ILPIKE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: graves, gray Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.pike/723.1.2.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi, my name is cheryl goedecke (graves). if you havent found the charley gray, i think ours is the one and same, thru elisabeth gray. please em me at ducksplace@brightok.net . i am looking for the lilly, lillie graves m to lancelot graves b1760 he left her and m nancy clark

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Grotts/Cook/Davis/Harmison Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.pike/1540.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Mrs. J.B. Grotts would have been Mary Elizabeth Harmison(I thought is was harrison) David, Cook, Grotts. Mrs. Joseph Bruner Grotts. If you would like what little information I have on her, please let me know.

A few more pictures to give a little better look at the cemetery: This one is in the old section and is looking down the hill to the entrance to the cemetery. The entrance is just below the lowest branch of the large tree on the right side of the picture: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilpike/cemeteries/Kinderhook/Khook/clutf.jpg This one is what also considered part of the old section of the cemetery, though you will find a mix of old and newer stones in this section. The road at the top right of the picture is actually a circle drive that starts once you top the hill. Stones in the center of the circle are definately part of the new section, as well as those on the outer edge of the circle to the back of the picture. http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilpike/cemeteries/Kinderhook/Khook/fitzcmp.jpg This one is in the same vicinity as the one above. http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilpike/cemeteries/Kinderhook/Khook/liketlola.jpg I couldn't find any large overviews of the newest section. I can picture it all in my mind, but trying to describe it without a picture for reference is difficult. Does anyone have any pictures showing much of the area around the circle drive? Possibly from the very back tree line looking toward the circle with the maintenance building on the left? Or from the maintenance building looking out into the circle back to the tree line? Good luck in your research, Barbara Saxbury-Freeman Pike Co ILGenWeb County Coordinator http://www.PikeCoILGenWeb.org

If you look at the picture found at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilpike/cemeteries/Kinderhook/OldKinder.html , you are looking at the old section. You then follow the road off to the right side of the picture and up the hill to get to the new section. Since there is some mixing between the two sections, there is no obvious dividing line, other than the condition of the stones due to aging. Good luck in your research, Barbara Saxbury-Freeman Pike Co ILGenWeb County Coordinator http://www.PikeCoILGenWeb.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christine Walters" <chrisw1940@yahoo.com> To: <ILPIKE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 11:09 PM Subject: [ILPIKE] Kinderhook Cemetery > Can anyone tell me if the Kinderhook Cemetery is really in Two Parts.. and Old and a New Cemetery? Is it that the old cemetery is filled up and they have started a new one.. > > Christine Walters > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ILPIKE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >

Can anyone tell me if the Kinderhook Cemetery is really in Two Parts.. and Old and a New Cemetery? Is it that the old cemetery is filled up and they have started a new one.. Christine Walters __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

While doing research at the courthouse I obtained copies of 2 death cert. which are of no importance to me. They are Addison Cadwell 1831-1908 of Griggsville and James Colvin Clark d:16 May 1910 Pittsfield If anyone is researching or wants a copy of these I'll gladly scan and send to 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.pike/3565/mb.ashx Message Board Post: What Browning s are in your surname list? Betty Finch rbfinch1@uti.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jeffers Elder Belford Winterbotham Coss Pine Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.pike/340.1.3.1.2.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I have a Thomas Starks, married to Mary Ann Jeffers...children are William, Earl, Martha, Della, Blanche and Elizabeth. they are in Adams county but the Jeffers were from Pike via Ohio. The date of Martha's birth is 1878. If this is of any interest, let me know.. Candace Smith andace@bellsouth.net

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Parrick/Woosley Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.pike/340.1.3.1.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I have found teh following names in the Woosley cemetery in Pike County close to Barry: Parrick, Theodore b.1865 d.1937 Parrick, Rebecca b.1873 d.1945 Parrick, Nancy b.28 Sept 1823 d.24 May 1900 Woosley, Joshua b.4 July 1884 (78 yrs, 11 mon, 23 days) Woosley, Margaret b.8 Sept 1868 (61 yrs 10 mon) Woosley, Nathan b.21 July 1828 d.10 July 1897 Woosley, Margaret J. b.26 Dec 1837 d. 30 June 1876 Woosley, Melinda b.27 June 1888 (48 yrs, 2 mon, 16 days) Hope this helps. Sincerely, Stephanie Mitchell

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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.pike/1988.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Mrs. Charles Aber Was Last Surviving Member of the Nathan Bradbury Family NANCY ANN (BRADBURY) VERTREES, wife of Soldier John Vertrees of the Black Hawk War, was descended in direct line from the ancient English family whose history, as far back as 1433, was recorded in the preceding chapter. The first emissary of this family to the new world, as noted in this history, was Thomas Bradbury, New England settler. Known in Bradbury history as "Thomas the Immigrant." Nancy Ann was seventh in line of descent from this Thomas. In the Bradbury Memorial, a volume of 320 pages, appears a copy of the last will and testament of an earlier Thomas Bradbury, Sir Thomas, who was Lord Mayor of London in the reign of Henry VIII. It begins: "In the name of god amen the ixth of the moneth of January the yere of our god m v and ix and the first yere of the Reign of King Henry the VIIIth, I thomas Bradbury mayre of the citie of London beying in hole mynde and of goode memory thanked be our lord god make ordeyne and declare this my present testament," etc. He then bequeathed to each of numerous relatives and friends "a blake gowne," which, perhaps, was to be worn in mourning for his departure. To a few he gave "a ryng" of certain value. To his beoved wife, Johane, he gave "all lands and tents in the counties of Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent and the citie of London and elsewhere within the realme of England." The Bradburys were early comers to Pike county, Illinois. Jacob Bradbury, sixth in line from the immigrant, Thomas, settled in Brown county, Ohio, long before Illinois became a state. In 1826 he built with his own hands a houseboat with a fireplace in each end, equipped with portholes for defense against the lawless bands of river pirates that then infested the western water courses. In this vessel, Jacob and Patience Bradbury and their thirteen children floated down the Ohio river in the autumn of 1826. They wintered at Cairo, and then in the spring of 1827 poled, sailed and cordelled up the Mississippi and Illinois rivers, landing at Naples, in then Morgan county, March 21, 1827. Jacob Bradbury was a squatter on government land near the present village of Perry, later buying the land from the government when it was offered for sale. Jacob was 44 years of age when he landed in this region, having been born November 8, 1783. His wife, Patience Bradbury, was born November 1, 1782 and died December 10, 1863 in her 82nd year. Their children included Polly (later Polly Quimbey), born May 18, 1801; Thomas (bearing the name of the sixteenth century Lord Mayor of London and of the New England immigrant), born January 23, 1804; Lemuel, born April 18, 1805; Sarah (Sally), born November 30, 1806; Ruth (later Ruth Wadsworth), born April 24, 1809, died in September, 1856; Lucy, born October 20, 1810; Nathan B. (Father of the late Mrs. Charles L. Aber of Pittsfield), born September 20, 1812; Elizabeth (Betsey) born July 9, 1814; Samuel, born December 3, 1815; Catherine (Catey), born September 19, 1817; Eliza, born September 10, 1819; Jacob G., born September 29, 18! 21; Jotham B. (Who married Mahala Jane Hobbs), born March 12, 1823. Several of the foregoing names are familiar ones in Pike county history. Some of Jacob's children lived to a great age. In their old ages they retained vivid memories of their early lives in Ohio, the trip down the river and of pioneer days in Pike county, Illinois; of the log school house with a log out and the space covered with greased paper, that the children might see to follow the master's copies on the shelf beneath with their goose quill pens; of walks through unsettled regions to relatives distant nine miles and later of going every Sunday from seven to ten miles on horseback to church; and of spinning and weaving cotton, wool and flax for family wear. Jotham B. Bradbury, long a resident of Griggsville, was one of the adventuring family that landed at Naples the spring of 1827. He was then four years old. His birth had been at Withamsville, Brown county, Ohio, March 12, 1823. In Pike county he married Mahala Jane Hobbs, who was born near Simpsonville, Kentucky, July 21, 1822, a daughter of Nicholas Hobbs. Her father, a minister and school teacher, in 1830 brought his family to Illinois in a wagon and settled near Perry. Jotham and Mahala were married February 28, 1847 and they had seven children, three girls and four boys. Jotham Bradbury died August 13, 1905 at Griggsville, aged 81; he is buried at Walnut Grove. Mahala Jane died March 31, 1919, in her 97th year. Another of the family who figured in that early landing at Naples was Lemuel Bradbury, who was then 22. Leaving Pike county, Illinois, he settled in Pike county, Missouri, where he died February 20, 1877. His wife was Lydie Troy, a widow, whose maiden name was Repsher. Their children were Harriet, Eleanor, George, Nathan, Anson, Thomas and Charles. Catherine Bradbury, another of this early family, was born near Ripley, Ohio, September 19, 1817 and was nine years old when the family landed at Naples. She married Francis A. Kirkpatrick near Naples on December 3, 1833. She died August 13, 1904 at the home of a son near Carney, Oklahoma. Her story, related in 1905 in the Methodist Recorder, is typical of this hardy pioneer family, and for that reason is here repeated in part: "When 18 years of age she began her married life. Her first-born son was accidentally burned to death when only a few months old. About a dozen years after her marriage her husband was licensed to preach and in 1849 the family moved to Iowa where her husband became a prominent minister in the Iowa Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church. His first circuit could be covered only by about four weeks' travel on horseback. "The family, already consisting of six children, had to be clothed and fed from a salary of less than $200 and what the mother earned by sewing. The first year she was sick, had to be carried on a bed when the family was moved to the new parsonage from a temporary home. The next year she was sick for a month almost unto death, but thought of Hezikiah and prayed for fifteen years more of life that she might raise her children. Finally, the doctor, after spending the night with her, declared that the crisis was past. "A few years later, with the assistance of friends, a farm of 40 acres was bought in Davis county for two hundred dollars, upon which the family lived, improving it as best they could, while the husband and father preached on more or less distant circuits or performed his duties as president of the conference. "The oldest son, William, who was afterwards killed at the battle of Fort Donelson, was just then entering his teens and did much of the work on the farm himself. After five years this farm was left to be sold (though nothing was ever realized from it) and for nearly a score of years, the family, which increased to the number of twelve, moved from place to place, as the father was assigned to one field of work after another. "During this time the mother not only cared for the large family but often worked to help support it, for the father received from preaching only one to three hundred dollars a year which small sum he added to whenever possible by farming or other manual labor. "Though not physically strong, her dwelling, however poor it might be, was always neat, clean and homelike. The children went to school in clean clothes free from holes, though sometimes the clothes had to be washed in the evening, dried at night, and ironed in the morning, and carefully patched many times. "Although sometimes weak from overwork and the lack of sufficient nourishing food, she never failed to have a good meal for her husband when he returned from his weary travels, and also for the numerous brethren who in those days came as a matter of course to the minister's house for meals and lodging. "At about the hardest part of this period her beloved second-born son, who, though only eighteen, had been a strong support of the family, went to war, and soon was laid in a southern grave. "In 1875 a small farm was purchased near Rhodes, Iowa, and was cleared and improved by the boys while the father preached only in nearby places. In this year Laura, the youngest and only unmarried daughter, died and three years later the father and husband passed away. "The mother remained on the little farm with the younger sons about a dozen years, then kept house for her youngest son until she was 78, when he was married. She then made her home with him in Winona, Minnesota, and in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, though occasionally visiting the other children. It was on one of these visits that she peacefully passed away at the home of her son in Oklahoma." Thus The Methodist Recorder paid tribute to a pioneer Bradbury mother, who left four sons and four daughters scattered from the Atlantic to the Pacific, each with the memory of a mother whose love and sacrifice for her children never failed and who, in her sphere, had endured and wrought as patiently and heroically as ever did martyr or hero of history. Jacob Bradbury, born in 1783, was a brother of Nathan Bradbury, born February 1, 1788, both being sons of Benjamin Bradbury (born March 2, 1744) and Molly Bradbury (born May 17, 1750). There were 11 children in the Benjamin Bradbury family: Polly, Benjamin, Jr., John, Ruth, Sally, Gibbons, Moses, Jacob, Thomas, Nathan and Samuel. Several of these children are identified with Pike county history. Jacob Bradbury's son, Nathan B., born in the opening year of the second war with Britain, married Dorcas Boggess in Pike county, June 27, 1838, with Justice Peter Kargis, early settler in Chambersburg township, officiating. They had four children, Malissa, born March 10, 1839, died October 29, 1841, aged two years, seven months and 19 days; Lucreta, born May 23, 1840, died October 27, 1842, aged two years, five months and four days; W. W. Bradbury, born September 30, 1842, died July 29, 1843, aged ten months. Dorcas (Boggess) Bradbury died February 23, 1843, and on February 8, 1853, Nathan B. Bradbury married again, his second wife being his first cousin, Carthena Bradbury, eldest daughter of Jacob Bradbury's brother, Nathan, and a sister of Nancy Ann Bradbury who married John Vertrees. Nathan and Mary Ann Bradbury's family comprised five children, namely, Nancy Ann (wife of John Vertrees), Mahala (wife of Jacob Hobbs), John, Carthena (wife of Nathan B. Bradbury), and Cephas Bradbury. Nathan Bradbury died January 3, 1876. Nathan B. Bradbury and his second wife, Carthena, had five children, namely, Alice, born January 9, 1854; Edwin Ruthven, born June 21, 1856, died January 24, 1883, aged 27; Bruce, born November 11, 1858; Winfield Scott, born February 28, 1861, died July 4, 1862, aged 16 months and four days; Anna May, born at New Salem June 29, 1863, died in Pittsfield May 15, 1938, aged 74. Anna May Bradbury, a niece of Nancy Ann Vertrees who was her mother's sister, married Charles Lincoln Aber at New Salem August 22, 1886, he a son of H. C. Aber and Anna Stone. They had five children, namely, Donna, wife of John Dinsmore of Pittsfield; Sada, wife of James Gallette Willsey of Pittsfield; Frank, who married Mavis Branch; Loyd, first born, who died at the age of eight; and Edith, who died at the age of five months. C. L. Aber was long engaged in blacksmithing in Pittsfield, where he still resides. His wife was the last surviving member of the Nathan B. and Carthena Bradbury family. Carthena Bradbury, born in Ohio in 1823, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Anna May Aber, in Pittsfield on May 9, 1905, aged 81 years and seven months. She was buried in Gray cemetery in New Salem township. She had long survived her husband, Nathan B. Bradbury, who died November 17, 1879, aged 67 years, one month and 21 days. He was at one time a pilot on the Mississippi and later lived for a while in Colorado. Benjamin F. Bradbury, son of Thomas and another of the early Pike county settlers, was born in Ohio in 1824 and died at Perry July 3, 1906, aged 82; he is buried in Old Baptist at Perry. His father, Thomas, died in Pike county August 19, 1845, leaving the following children: Charles, Zenas, Benjamin F., Martha A. Finley and Nathan Bradbury. The Bradbury Memorial, from which is derived much of the family prior to the Pike county settlement, was compiled chiefly from the collections of John Merrill Bradbury of Ipswich, Massachusetts, by William Berry Lapham and was published in 1890 by Brown, Thurston & Company of Portland, Maine. The facts were gathered by diligent and exhaustive research among the old archives of England, deed records, church registers and various books and records of English heraldry. The known descendants of Thomas Bradbury the Immigrant, from whom descended all of the Pike county Bradburys, numbered 1296 when the Bradbury Memorial was published in 1890. Including the men who married Bradbury women, there were nearly 1900. The name Bradbury is derived from Brad, meaning broad, and Bury, which is variously defined as a house, a hill, a domain and a town. In English records it is found spelled Bradberrie, Bradberry and Bradbury. In Pike county records at the court house it frequently appears as Bradberry. John Vertrees and Nancy Ann Bradbury were married at Perry, March 2, 1837. The ceremony was said by that "morning star of the Baptist church" in the west, the Reverend Jesse Elledge, grandson of the Boones, who early in the 1820s was preaching in the ancient groves along the Illinois river. He was a son of Charity Boone, who was a daughter of Kentucky Edward, younger brother of Daniel. John Vertrees and his wife left Perry in the early 1840s and located in Knox county, Illinois, near Galesburg, settling first on a farm in Indian Point township. For 43 years this farm home was their residence. They became the parents of five children: Dr. Charles M. Vertrees of Murrayville, Illinois, Mrs. D. C. Kerr of Juniata, Nebraska, Mrs. Dr. Pollock of Galesburg, N. B. Vertrees of Des Moines, Iowa, and Mrs. H. L. Chaffee of Des Moines. In 1886 Mr. and Mrs. Vertrees, yielding to the solicitations of friends, let the farm to renters and thereafter spent most of their time in the city of Galesburg, at the home of their son-in-law, Dr. Pollock. Mrs. Vertrees was all of her life a member of the Christian church and was a sincere, devoted Christian, possessed of a gentle, loving disposition. She died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Pollock, in Galesburg in 1889, being the first of her family to die. Her husband was then 77. All of her children were at her bedside when she died. She was buried in the cemetery at Abingdon, Illinois. Dr. Charles M. Vertrees of Murrayville had a daughter, Sadie Vertrees Kennedy, who resided on Cook Avenue in St. Louis, Missouri. John Vertrees, as before stated, came of a warrior race. When he was a babe in arms, his father, the second John Vertrees, was fighting the British in the northern part of what was then a very small nation. This was in 1812. Both of his grandfathers had served in the war of the Revolution, one of them, Captain John Vertrees, having been with Colonel George Rogers Clark in the conquest of the Illinois villages in 1778. In the Civil War, two of John Vertrees's brothers and one of his sons fought for the Union cause. John Vertrees himself was the latest surviving veteran of the Black Hawk War. The Galesburg Evening Mail once commented on the death of a man near Springfield, stating that he was the last survivor of the war with Black Hawk. John Vertrees a few days later visited the office of the Galesburg newspaper and proved the statement incorrect. He himself was a survivor of the war with the famous Indian. On April 28, 1898, during the Spanish-American War, John Vertrees, then in his 87th year, stopped in Jacksonville enroute from his home in Galesburg to visit his son, Dr. C. M. Vertrees of Murrayville. While in the city he was interviewed by the Jacksonville Daily Journal. Said the Journal the following day: "Mr. Vertrees is now 87 but is still hale and hearty. In these war-like times the memory of his army career crowds upon him, for he did valiant service in the Black Hawk War in 1832. The flight of years has not impaired his faculties to any extent, and his reminiscences of the Indian war are exceedingly interesting. He was born in Elizabethtown, Hardin county, Ky., and in 1829 moved to Illinois, residing for some years in this locality. He remembers when this county (Morgan) was nothing but a mere wilderness and when Jacksonville could boast but few citizens. Mr. Vertrees says he has seen the treachery of one war and is ready to enlist in another if his services are needed. A soldier 87 years old is a little out of the ordinary, but he certainly has had plenty of valuable experience. He says that he intends to go with a company from Murrayville. Mr. Vertrees in his old age sometimes visited his nephew, the late John E. Vertrees, and family in Pittsfield. He was a fine, well-preserved old gentleman, neat in his personal habits, with an immense store of information relating to early days in Illinois. John Vertrees died at Galesburg in 1901 at the age of 89; he is buried at Abingdon beside his wife, Nancy Ann (Bradbury) Vertrees.

Does anyone have a HARRY ALBERS married 1935 to MARY VIRGINIA (GINNY) CHAPPELL? They moved from PIKE CO. to ST. LOUIS, MO, where she died during WWII, the big one.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bonifield, Bonnifield, Bonafield, Bonafant, etc...... Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.pike/3564.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi, Thank you so much for your reply! Can you tell me about Herbert and his family? When and where was he born? I'm trying to piece the Bonifield family together and find out the ties to me. It's been a long and frustrating road as I'm finding many variations of spelling the BONIFIELD name. Any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated! Thank you again! Sincerly, Denise