These People Were….. Flora A. Haynes Bashaw was born May 4, 1853 in Circleville, Pickaway County, Ohio; her parents were Samuel and Rebecca (Bechtel) Haynes. She married Thomas Bashaw on October 23, 1872 in Preston Prairie, Mount Carroll Township, Carroll County, Illinois. She died May 11, 1927 in Mount Carroll Township, Carroll County, Illinois. There is a discrepancy between the years of birth and death inscribed on the nameplate of Thomas Bashaw’s tomb and what I show on my family tree. I show he was born April 20, 1847 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, which is the date given in his obituary. His parents were David and Catherine (Thomas) Bashaw. Thomas Bashaw was a farmer. He died May 4, 1934 in Mount Carroll Township, Carroll County, Illinois according to the Illinois Statewide Death Index, 1916-1950. Flora S. Bucher was born Flora B. Strickland in 1851 in Bradford County, Pennsylvania; her parents were Morgan and Lucinda Jane (Watts) Strickland. She married George Frederick Bucher on October 4, 1870 in Carroll County, Illinois. She died in 1932 George Frederick Bucher was born November 16, 1846 in Wayne County, Ohio. His parents were John Jacob and Anna (Coons) Bucher. He was elected mayor of Mount Carroll, Illinois in 1898. He was also an agent for Champion Mower and Reaper. He served in Company E, 62nd Regiment of the Illinois Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. Neither George Frederick Bucher nor his wife are listed in the Illinois Statewide Death Index, 1916-1950. Charles F. Holman was born December 4, 1912 in Mount Carroll, Illinois the son of William Tecumseh Sherman and Nettie (Krause) Holman. He married Suzetta E. Petty on June 20, 1936 in Mount Carroll. He was a grocer. He died November 10, 1970. Suzetta E. Petty Holman was born in Savanna, Carroll County, Illinois on February 23, 1916. She was the daughter of Ernest and Laura (Quinn) Petty. She died November 1, 1990 in Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona. William Tecumseh Sherman Holman, known as W. T. S. Holman, was born September 3, 1864 in Mount Carroll Township, Carroll County. His parents were Charles and Sarah A. (Cook) Holman. He married Nettie E. Krause on October 2, 1900, in Carroll County, Illinois according to the Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900. (Some family trees show this date as November 1, 1900 in Loran Township, Stephenson County, Illinois.) He owned and operated a furniture store and funeral parlor in Mount Carroll. William T. S. Holman died February 7, 1945 in Mount Carroll. Nettie E. Krause Holman was born in 1875 in Germany. I have been unable to determine the names of her parents. She died May 24, 1961 in Mount Carroll. W. Fremont Patterson was born in May 1856 in Carroll County, Illinois. His parents were William P. and Elizabeth (Warfield) Patterson. He married Margaret D. Sutton in 1896. W. Fremont Patterson was the owner of the Hotel Glen View in Mount Carroll, and Patterson’s Opera House, the first opera house in Mount Carroll. He died December 12, 1928 in Mount Carroll. Margaret D. Patterson’s maiden name is questionable. She is Margaret Sutton on her son John Patterson’s obituary, but her daughter Jeanette M. Patterson Slothower’s entry on the California Death Index, 1940 -1997 shows her mother’s maiden name as Miller. I could find no source which gives me Margaret D. Patterson’s parents names. She was born in October 1864 in Illinois and died December 9, 1932 in Freeport, Stephenson County, Illinois. John M. Rinewalt’s full name was John Miller Rinewalt. He was born August 6, 1856 in Mount Carroll, the son of John and Margaret (Miller) Rinewalt. He married Ella May Shirk on January 8, 1879 in Carroll County, Illinois. He was a lawyer and a banker. He and his wife had no children. Despite the list showing his death date as 1936, the Illinois Statewide Death Index indicates he died December 26, 1935. Ella May Shirk Rinewalt was born June 11, 1859 in Illinois, probably in Mount Carroll. Her parents were Benjamin Palmer and Sarah Isabella (Moffett) Shirk. She died March 20, 1934 in Mount Carroll. I could find no unifying factor which brings all these people together. Although I have them all on my two family trees, they don’t seem to be related. Even if Margaret D. Patterson’s maiden name really is Miller, she doesn’t seem to be related to John M. Rinewalt’s mother, Margaret Miller. The Pattersons and the Rinewalts are on the same 1900 census page for Mount Carroll, both families living on Clay Street. Most of the other families also lived in Mount Carroll. But if Oakwood Mausoleum truly was a private crypt, I could not find the reason these people chose to be buried there. For more information on the Bucher family, refer to my Rootsweb.com tree “The Horner Family of Carroll County, Illinois (And Nearly Everyone Else).” For more information on all of the others, refer to my Rootsweb.com tree “The Downing, Bickelhaupt, And Preston Families of Carroll County, Illinois.”