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SAMUEL BRUNER
‘Yesterday morning, an old and
respected citizen of Liberty Hill., committed suicide at his residence
under the most unaccountable circumstances. He got up in the morning
and went to his wood shed to get some kindling to light a fire, leaving
his wife, her two children, his step children, in bed. On his not
coming in, they went: out to look for him and found him dead in the
shed. His throat had been cut with the knife he carried in his pocket.
BURNER was a sober, industrious man,
in good circumstances and was, in last July, married to a sister of Mr.
MASON, formerly of Placer County, who contested TUTTLE’s seat in the
Legislature of this state. Since their marriage, they have lived
happily and no trouble is known to have come upon him. He has resided
at ‘You Bet’ and other places in ‘Little York’ for fourteen years past.
He has always been a temporal man and at the time of his death, he was
the owner of several valuable mines. He has recently been engaged in
opening claims at Liberty Hill with the intention of working them. He
was an unusually quiet man and his friends say that he would often sit
for hours without speaking to any one. The deceased was a native of
Virginia and about forty-seven years old.--[Nevada (CA.) Daily
Transcript.} Mr. BURNER was a brother in-law to the editor of this
paper and the husband of Mrs. Virginia B. KENNEDY, formerly of
Charleston and Shelbyville, Illinois.
[Cumberland Democrat, Friday, November 25th, 1870, p. 3, c.l.]
ELIJAH EGGERS
Died on Wednesday morning, March
12th, 1873, at about ten c clock, Mr. Elijah EGGERS. Although Mr.
EGGERS has not been a citizen of our town but a short time, he had by
his industrious habits and accommodating disposition, made many
friends. The old gentleman was aware of his approaching death and on
Wednesday, called his family around his bed side and bid them all an
affectionate adieu. His remains were buried on Thursday in the city
cemetery.
[Cumberland Democrat, Maj. Point, Fri., 14 March 1873].
NATHAN
HARVEY
Nathan HARVEY, 36, died at his
residence in Newport, Vermilion County, Indiana. He was ill two weeks
of disease, flux and typhoid. He was born in Parke County, Indiana, in
1835 and at the early age of fourteen, had the bad misfortune to lose a
kind father. Consequently, he was thrown at an early age upon his
resources to battle with the world but his perseverance and
industry...on the help of friends, he obtained a good education as far
as the common schools of the county offered the facilities and he,
choosing law as his profession, finished as his legal studies after a
three year course at Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he graduated with
honors.
Mr. HARVEY, who is a brother of our
esteemed fellow citizen, Louis HARVEY, as will be remembered settling
in Prairie City and commencing the practice of law here. But afterward
he removed to his old home at Newport where he entered into
co-partnership with William EGGLESTON, one of the first attorneys of
Newport and at the time
of his death had succeeded in building up a practice second to no firm
in Vermilion County and way... in the ... goods of this world. Having
acquired several hundred acres of land in Missouri and Kansas as well
as a fine residence in Newport.
Mr. HARVEY, as our citizens know who
were well acquainted with him, was a man of strictly temperate habits.
Never using arduous spirits of any description and not even falling
into the common habit of the use of tobacco. Nathan HARVEY was a man of
warm impulses and had as many warm friends and as few enemies as any
man that ever lived in Vermilion County. He never attached himself to
any church but one ...to live without reproach to himself and with
credit to his friends. And during his last illness, when life's fatal
fever was fast spending its powers, he ... the dreaded summons and met
death as becomes a man whose life had been without reproach.
Mr. HARVEY leaves a wife and
three children to mourn his loss. But they have this consultation
to sustain them, that the husband and father that has departed, leaves
a name unsoiled by dishonor or . ..and true friends who mourn with them
in their bereavement.
Mr. Lewis HARVEY was summoned to
Nathan's bedside and reached Newport just in time to behold the last
surge struggle. Reason had fled and Nathan HARVEY, in the bloom of his
manhood, had obeyed that inevitable summons which is held in reserve
for us all and had entered the (lark river of death, which separates
the mortal from the immortal life. Let us cherish his noble qualities,
while if he had faults, let the oblivion of the grave cover them. Peace
to his ashes.
[Cumb. Democ., Friday, Sep. 29th, 19711.
HORACE
G. HARVEY
Horace 0. HARVEY, four months and
three days, died on the 14th inst., the son of Lewis and Emma HARVEY.
Our little boy is gone. We buried him
yesterday in the Old Salem Churchyard. After forty eight hours of
intense suffering from cholera morbus and hemorrhage of the bowels, our
little pet left us for a better land.
[Cumb. Democ., Maj. Point, Friday, 25 July 18731.
PHILIP
HETZER
Philip HETZER departed Wednesday,
September 115th, 1871. The deceased was a inert universally esteemed
for his good and upright qualities as a citizen. He was unassuming in
life, living quietly and peaceable with those around him. For many
years his health was feeble yet he was ...patient and submissive,
industrious, moral and upright.
Philip HETZER was the noblest work of
God. An honest man. in his death (Wed., 15th Sep. 1871), his family
have lost a kind and indulgent father and community an exemplary
citizen.
[Cumb. Democ., Friday, October 18711.
JAMES
A. BELL
James A. BELL died 27 December 1 871,
a fellow and A... Master Mason and active member of the Lodge,
therefore be it, Resolved,
that the death of our late worthy brother, James A. BELL, the lodge has
lost one of its earnest, exemplary and esteemed members, and the
community a highly honored and valued citizen.
Resolved, That we esteemed our
deceased, worthy brother as an earnest, intelligent and upright Mason
and worthy citizen and we will emulate his example and virtues.
Resolved, that we tender our sincere sympathy to his bereaved family,
in this their severe affliction, and trust that He, “who tempers the
wind to the shorn lamb,” will be their shield and support in their
tribulation.
Resolved, that a mark of respect to
the memory of the deceased, the brethren wear the usual badge of
mourning for thirty days.
Resolved, that these resolutions be
entered upon the records of the Lodge, and a copy presented to the
family and a copy to the ‘Cumberland County Democrat’ for publication.
A true copy. Pledge signed by W. R. HUMPHREY, Secy.
[Cumberland Democrat, Majority Point,
Friday, between 12th and 29th January 18721.
MISS
LUCY JONES
DIED at Jewett, Illinois at half past
eight o'clock, Sunday evening, March 2’d 1873. Miss Lucy JONES,
daughter of OP. JONES, age L7 years and 9 months.
The deceased was a young lady of more
than ordinary and in being position and high and noble qualities of
mind and person. Lucy was only known to be loved an esteemed and her
quite lady like deportment endeared her to all and although cut down in
the early morning of life and claimed the victim of the dread deaf over
the left a name and memory, that is bright and
pure and silence respendent even though the dark and cheerless Lamb
shuts out from view her mortal form. And although lost to sight, her
name shall ever be fresh and green in and her memory
cherished as long as time shall last. Her friends do not mourn without
hope, for they feel assured that one so young, so innocent, so pure and
good has gone to a happier and better world, where sorrow and death
never . . . .Alas! Lucy has passed.
PEGGY
A. MUMFORD
Peggy A. MUMFORD, widow, died at ten
o'clock, Tuesday morning after a long and painful illness. The deceased
was the mother of James E. MUMFORD, a former publisher of the Democrat.
Mrs. MUMFORD had just completed her
68th year. In her death, the community lost a worthy and esteemed
member and her family a kind and loving generous mother. Mrs. Mumford
leaves several sorts and daughters as well as a large circle of fiends
and acquaintances. By request of the deceased, her remains were kept I
Or burial until Wednesday evening where they were deposited in the City
Cemetery.
Cumberland Democrat, Majority Point,
Friday, 8 March 18721
SARAH
McELHANEY
Amanda ALESHIRE, writes us that Mrs.
Sarah McElhaney, of Wood berry Township, a very estimable lady, died on
the 18th of February 1872, in the thirty second year of her age.,
leaving a husband and three children
to mourn her loss, and concludes the letter by the following touching
and beautiful tribute to the memory of the departed.
‘Our sister the Heaven hath
gained-Out lying the tempest and wind, Her rest she hath sooner
obtained-And left her companions behind; The voyage of life's at an
end. The mortal affliction is past; The age that in Heaven they spend,
Forever and ever shall last.
LUTECIA
BRUSTER
Lutecia BRUSTER, aged 68 years, died
Friday night at the residence of her son-in-law, Adam NICHOLS.
She was born in Grayson County,
Kentucky, in 1804. At the age of 17 years, she married David BRUSTER
and they shortly after, moved to Illinois, settling about four miles
from the site that later became Mattoon, Coles County, but afterwards,
moved to an area that became Cumberland County. There, in 1853, David
BRUSTER died, respected and beloved by all ‘who knew him.
For nineteen years, widow BRUSTER
lived amongst and with her children, raising fifteen children, nine of
which were boys and six were girls, all of whom survived their parents
except one daughter.
Mrs. BRUSTER lived in Cumberland
County ever since its formation and among the early settlers, She
developed many warm and devoted friends who mourn her loss, And
although the frosts of nearly three score year. and ten-hung about her
venerable brow, it pains their hearts to see the early pioneer of the
country to passing from time to eternity leaving a void in the history
....Two of her Sons were David and Thomas BRUSTER, of this County.
[Cumberland Democrat, Majority Point, Friday, 3 May 1872, p. 3, c. 2].
MARY
ELIZABETH BRUSTER
Died on Wednesday morning, May 1st,
1873, Mary Elizabeth, infant daughter of W. L. and Sarah E. BRUSTER.
Little “Mollie” was a bright,
beautiful little girl of nine months of age, and a few days ago was
well, and bid fair to live to be a comfort and blessing to her parents.
But disease laid its wasting hand upon her young and delicate soul and
the Angel of death entered the happy home and tore the pure young
spirit to that happy land where all is peace, and parting and sorrow is
not known. Yes, she is gone-gone forever from the sorrows and cares of
this world-crossed the mystic river which flows between life and death
and is an Angel around the Throne of Him who said ‘suffer little
;children to come unto me for’ of such is the Kingdom of Heaven.’ Like
a cloud in the evening twilight, her young life has faded away in its
early morn. pure and innocent she has gone as a messenger before and
although it seem hard to the bereaved parents, yet they have laid up
their treasure where moth and rust cannot enter and where she will ever
shine as a bright star set in the brillant casket of heaven, And
although Death lies on her like an untimely frost-Upon the sweeter
flower of the field.’ yet she is happy and safe in the hands of her
Heavenly Father [Cumberland Democrat, Majority Point, Friday,
3 May I 872. p. 3. c. 21.
CHARLES
PLATTENBURG
Charles PLATTENBURG, died Tuesday
morning, May 27, 1873, aged twenty years at the residence of his
grandfather, Mr. Elias ARMOR.
Charley commenced learning the
printing trade with James MUMFORD but the past three years he had been
an attachee of the Champaign Union Office in Champaign. He was not only
a good printer who took pride in his trade, but was also a young man of
excellent habits and was industrious, honest and truthful. His ambition
and desire to excel in his business and a too close application to
work, brought on a disease of the lungs which after a very brief
illness terminated fatally last Tuesday morning.
[Cumberland Democrat, Majority Point, Friday, 30 May 1873].
BENI
WHITE
Died on Tuesday morning last, at his
residence in Prairie City, aged 77 years old, Mr. Beni WHITE, Sr., born
North Carolina, and there is hardly an ‘old settler in this or Coles
County what didn't know ‘Uncle Beni.'
Many years ago we remember him as a
citizen of Charleston when we were a boy. From some time the old man
had been suffering from something like heart disease which terminated
fatally on that morning. Uncle Beni dies respected by all that knew him
and leaves the proudest monument to his memory he could have left, that
of being a just and upright man.
[Cumberland Democrat, Majority Point, Friday, 7 June 18721.
LUCINDA
RODGERS
Mrs. Lucinda RODGERS, (a sister of I.
W. HINKLE), died on the 24th July 1872, in the fortieth year of her
life. The deceased was a native of Delaware County, Ohio. But for a
number of years, has been a resident of this and Coles County, where
she was employed as a school teacher. Mrs. RODGERS leaves a large
circle of relatives friends to mourn her. [Cumberland Democrat,
Majority Point, Friday, 9 August 1872, p._, c. 2].
JOHN BREWER
Death of John BREWER, age 17 years,
the second son of Hon. Thomas BREWER, of this place. In company with
several other young men,
a brother among the rest, John went out hunting on Wednesday and while
riding along in the Spring Wagon, the gun he was carrying caught in the
hind wheel of the wagon and some how discharged, the entire contents of
one barrel (which was loaded with sixteen buck shot), entering his
breast. The poor boy faintly. ‘Lord, Lord’ and fell over. Mr. BREWER
had just buried his wife.
John had just finished one term of
school at St. Frances College at Quincy, Illinois and was preparing to
return in a few days to complete his course of study. The funeral
service will take place at Mr. BREWER’S residence at two o’clock today.
Rev. McCANN will preach the Sermon.
[Cumberland Democrat, Maj. Point, Friday, 16 August 1872]
Mrs.
CARTER
Mrs. CARTER, ‘sister of Edmond
RICHARDSON, died on Saturday night at the age of eighty-five years.
Mrs. CARTER was an English lady. Her husband was a soldier under the
Duke of WELLINGTON and was engaged in the Battle of Wales.. The old
lady had many old time mementos of Old England and the times that are
past and gone.
[Cumberland Democrat, Majority Point, Friday, 28 August 1872, p. 3, c.
2.].
MRS.
HANNAH ADAMS
Mrs. Hannah ADAMS died 1 September
1872. She was the only daughter of Josiah WHITE of this place. For
several years, she had been living with her husband in Camden, South
Carolina, which place she left for home a few days ago and hardly lived
to reach her parents, dying the day after reaching home. She was buried
on Monday. A large concoarse of friends and relatives followed her
remains to the grave. (age appears to be 20 years and a few days. Print
faded.)
[Cumb. Democ., Friday, 6 September 1872].
DAVID
T. WISNER
Died at Margeana, Missouri, 4
September 1872, David T. WISNER, aged 62 years, six months, seven days.
He was among the earIiest of Cumberland County, Illinois, pioneers,
here before Cumberland (Illinois?) made a state.
It was throught that WISNER lived at
the Woodberry Post Office where he kept a store, stock and the various
commodities of the country and contributed largely in assisting the
farmers; in finding a market for their products. Mr. W. was a man of
fine intellegence and although uncultivated by education, he was a man
of sound mind and excellent ideas and would have left his mark in the
world had he applied his thought to study. He died very suddenly and at
his store.
[Cumb. Democ., Fri. 13 Sept. 1872).
MRS.
ELIZABETH CARSON,
SR.
Died at the residence of Mr. David
CARSON, senior, near Greenup, Illinois on the twenty-third of May,
1873, Mrs. Elizabeth CARSON, Sr., and step-mother of Mr. Andrew CARSON,
Circuit Clerk of Cumberland County. She was fifty-two years and eleven
days. She had been a resident of Cumberland County for a great number
of years and was highly esteemed for her neighborly qualities and
leaves a large circle of friends and relatives.
[Cumberland Democrat, Majority Point, Friday, 30 May l873].
MRS.
ISAAC SIMMONS
Hall of Ross Lodge, No. 356, 1.O.U.F.
It’s deep sorrow that the Lodge has learned of the death of the wife of
Isaac SIMMONS. And at motion of Charles HANKER, the following preamble
and resolutions was unanimously adopted.. ..The wife of our esteemed
brother, Isaac SIMMONS, who was a worthy member of the Rebecca degree
of this lodge
[Cumberland Majority Point, Friday, 23 May l8731]
ABRAM
BOPB
Abram BOPB, an old resident of the
county, died very suddenly on Thursday last. The day before his death,
he was able to he out in his field plowing but getting wet, he was
taken with a congestive chill and died
Thursday. He was a very old man, his venerable locks were white as snow.
Abram BOPB was a man respected by all
and leaves a name above approach. He was truly one of the noblest works
of God, a just and upright and honest man. Age 76 years and I month.
(On the same issue and page ‘There will be a public sale at the late
Abram “BOBP”S on the 4th day of June next’.).
[Cumberland Democrat, Friday, 16 May 1873].
P.
F. PERRY
P. F. PERRY died at his residence in
Greenup on last Saturday morning at ten o'clock after a brief illness.
He was buried near Cottonwood Chapel in Cottonwood Township on Sunday.
Mr. PERRY was a man of warm heart,
noble and generous impedes. Like other men, he had his faults but where
we know of human nature shown bright the principles of an honest and
just man, a man that no stain of dishonesty rests upon his name. His
memory will be held in kindly remembrance by his many friends to whom
in life he was a true and unfaltering friend. Peace to life ashes!
[Cumb. Democ., Prairie City, Fri., 7 Mar. ‘73]
STEPHEN
DELANY TOSSEY
Died Wednesday, September 17, 1873,
Stephen Delany TOSSEY, 51 years, 7 months 25 days. He was born in Union
County, Ohio on January 21, 1822.
At eleven years old, with his father
and brothers, he went to Michigan near Kalamazoo, then a small village,
and
lived there about three years. Later he returned to
Michigan and lived in an area
inhabited largely by Potowaitorme and Shawnee Indians. He became
familiar with their language
and he never forgot it.
He was one of the best scholars in
the country. Many nights he only had blazing hickory bark ~o study by.
He attended school a few months at Marysville, Ohio under the charge of
Charles W. SANDERS, author of SANDERS Series of Readers, etc., also at
Worthington Ohio, then considered a model school.
In the fall of 1853, he settled ‘in
Cumberland County, then almost wilderness, on land he had purchased a
year or two previous, leaving a good farm in Ohio. He was elected to
Circuit Court in 1856 and again elected in 1860 by the largest majority
of men on the ticket which was headed by the lamented DOUGLAS. He
served until 1864 and declined another election. it is thought he
contracted consumption in a toe close application to the duties of this
office.
He invested extensively in real
estate, paying cash down whether the tract was large or small. He never
owed a store bill to the amount of one dollar in his life. No honest
man ever applied to him in vain for aid when in his power to
render it.
Besides relatives, his father
and mother are yet living, both of whom, verging on a century of age.
He was a resident of Cumberland County 21 years He was buried in
Prairie City Cemetery. Marysville, Ohio Tribune; and Casey, Illinois
Times-please copy.
(Also) The late Stephen D. TOSSEY
died at his residence in Jewett, Wednesday, September 17, 1873. To Mr.
TOSSEY, the event was not unexpected. For the past year, he held
himself in readiness to obey the dreadful mandate. Having set his
temporal house in orderand arranged his business affairs. he calmly
entered that better world of peace and joy.
He was industrious and frugal
dismissed the goods of this world and in every effort in that direction
towards success. Commencing life poor, he has left an estate worth
$5O,OO0, the results of hard industry and frugality. Mr. TOSSEY was a
member of the Christian Church and few Ministers knew Scripture better
than he. It was his request that Mr. DAVEE preach his funeral sermon
but as Mr. DAVEE was unwell and could not attend the funeral, his
remains were buried without this ceremony.
[Cumberland Democrat, Majority Point,
Friday, 26 September 1873]
JOSEPH
ROBERT TATE
Joseph Robert TATE, son of Garrison
TATE, died Wednesday, September 17, 1873 at the age of 13 years. 6
months and I day.
[Cumb. Dem., Maj. Pt., Fri., 26 Sep.’73].
MRS.
CARRIE THOM(P)SON
Died Mrs. “THOMSON,” of whose sad
misfortune we gave notice last week, died on Sunday evening from the
effects of her burn, and was buried on Monday afternoon, the funeral
being one of the largest ever witnessed in Effingham.
The deceased wa; a most amiable lady,
and, from the position she filled in the church of which she was a
devoted member, her loss will be mourned as next to irreparable; while
... society, in her untimely demise, is deprived of one of its most
esteemed members and brightest ornaments.
[Effingham City Democrat, Thurs. 23 Feb., 187:1, p. 3, c. 2].
IN
MEMORIAM
As the regular session of the M.E.
church on the 26th of February, 1871, on motion of the Superintendent,
the following persons were appointed a Committee to report resolutions
expressive of the School on the death of sister Carrie “THOMPSON” and
the calamity threat befell her husband, W. M. THOMPSON, to wit: H.C.
BRUMBACK, Rev. M. N. POWERS and W. H. GLOYD, who reported the following
preamble and resolutions, which were unanimously adopted by a rising
vote:
Whereas, under circumstances of great
affliction, it has pleased our Heavenly Father to remove Sister Carrie
THOMPSON from her labors on earth to her reward in Heaven, and to
prostrate her husband, W. M. THOMPSON on a bed of affliction, and,
Whereas, Brother and Sister THOMPSON
were the founders and continued support of this Sabbath School,
therefore be it
Resolved, That we have witnessed with
mournful feeling the great loss we have sustained in the death of
Sister THOMPSON; and, were it not for our hope that our loss is her
eternal gain, in this affliction, we would he inconsolable.
Resolved, That we tender Brother
THOMPSON our warmest sympathy in this hour of his affliction.
Resolved, ‘that the Secretary forward
a copy of these resolutions to W. M. THOMPSON and to each of the
newspapers of this city, for publication. H. C. BRUMBACK Rev, M. N.
POWERS, W. H. GLOYD, committee.
[Effingham City Democrat, Thurs., 2
March 1871, p. 2, c. 4]
CHARLES
CALLIER
Charles CALLIER, once the principal
merchant of Tuscola, died yesterday at PHILLIPS boarding house, of
delirium tremens.
[Effingham City Democrat, Thursday,
21 March 1872, p. 3, c. 1].
WILLIAM
F. THORNTON
General William F. THORNTON died at
his residence in this city (Shelby) at four o'clock Tuesday morning.
His death resulted from no specific disease but at the extreme old age
of eighty four years, his system simply failed his strength gave away
and he died peacefully and quietly.
In many respects we regard General
THORNTON as one of the most remarkable men of his day. We write at the
hour of our paper going to press and muss refer ... notice until our
next issue...when we say our loss is a reputable one...our courts are
adjourned, business is suspended and now assembled at the Court House
testifying by appropriate speeches and resolutions their respect for
his virtues and their sorrow at his loss.
Long and deeply will this community
feel the calamity for we regard in..which has in General THORNTON, ...
good and great man is gone of wonderful sagacity, large benevolence,
spotless character and unsoiled honor, leaving to his family, a
reputation, richer as a heirloom than all his accumulated land and
money.--Shelby Leader.
[Cumberland Democrat, Majority Point, Friday, 31 October 1873].
ZACK
DAVEE
Mr. Zack DAVEE, an old citizen of
Greenup, died at his residence in that city on last Saturday. Mr. DAVEE
had many warm friends
in this vicinity.
[Cum. Demo., 3 Oct.. ‘73].
IRA
SHERMAN
On last Tuesday, Mr. Ira SHERMAN cut
himself with a corn knife while cutting up corn. The cut was on the
inside portion of the knee joint and the doctors thought it of little
consequence and in a few days Mr. SHERMAN would be all right again. The
wound became inflamed and on Sunday, mortification insued and on Monday
morning, Mr. SHERMAN died at about eleven o'clock (abt. 29 Oct. 1873).
[Cumb. Dem., 3 Oct. 18731].
JOHN
FELTNER
John FELTNER died October 5th, 1873
at the age of 73 years. He lived in what is now Cumberland County for
about forty years.
[Cumberland Democrat, 24 Oct. 18731.
JACOB
CULLORS
Jacob CULLORS died Saturday, August
2’d, 1873 at three o’clock p.m. at his residence in Prairie City. Good
old Uncle Jacob CULLORS was nearly sixty years old. For the last thirty
years, he had been a good consistent member of the Methodist Church. No
man ever lived in this community whose sustained a better character, as
an upright man, one of strict honesty and unblemished integrity...
.Rev. J. C. McCANN preached Jacob CULLORS funeral service at the
Methodist Chuich, Prairie City, last Sabbath The remains
were followed by a large group of friends and acquaintances to the
Salem burial ground.
[Cumberland Democrat, Majority Point, Friday, 8 August 1873].
JOHN
B. BUCHANAN
John B. BUCHANAN, whose death at
Neoga of typhoid fever, November 2’d, was briefly noted in last weeks
issue. He was born in Jefferson County, Indiana on November 11, 1819.
His father was one of the early settlers of that county where he raised
a family of fourteen children, of whom only two are now living; Jas. U.
BUCHANAN, a farmer, living near Neoga in Cumberland County and:
Jas.(Jos.?) T. BUCHANAN, a prominent lawyer of Evansville, Indiana.
Mr. John B. BUCHANAN, was married in
Indiana to Miss Elizabeth PETERS of Switzerland County, Indiana in the
fall of 1857, then moved to illinois, settling on a small farm two
miles north of Neoga in what was at that time a wild unbroken country.
By energy and unceasing industry, he soon provided a comfortable home
for his family.
His wife died early in the fail of
1862, leaving eight children, seven living. In the fall of 1863, he
re-married to Miss Margaret A. EWING, sister to James M. and Nathaniel
EWING of Neoga Township. His wife and three small children survive to
mourn the loss of a kind husband and indulgent father.
Mr. BUCHANAN was one of the pioneers
of Cumberland County and one of its most highly esteemed and
influential citizens. His death, coming as it did; cast a gloom over
his neighborhood that will long be remembered. His active
business life was so interwoven with all the industries of the
immediate vicinity, that his loss will be felt and regretted as long an
any remain who knew him. Mr. BUCHANAN leaves his family in good
circumstances, having accumulated since his residence in Illinois by
hard labor and patient toil
[Cumberland Democrat, Majority Point, Friday, 21 November 1873].
MRS.
S. F. WASCHEFORT
After a long and painful disease,
cancer on the stomach, Mrs. S. F. Waschefort, of Teutopolis, died Sat.,
the 18th inst., at one p.m., aged 53 years, 28 days. Her funeral
commenced 7:30 a.m. Tues. at the Catholic church....The services were
of an imposing solomnity....Rev. P. MANRITIUS, Rector of St. Joseph's
College, officiated at the Solomn Requiem, and Rev. P. MATHIAS preached
the funeral discourse and performed ‘the burial ceremonies according to
the ritus of the Catholic church with unusual impressiveness .... the
deceased, attended by a large funeral procession, was conveyed to the
parish cemetery to the family vault, where she may rest in peace, until
awakened Judgment Day, by the Archangel's trumpet, to be resurrected in
glory and united with dear ones left to mown the untimely loss of an
affectionate mother to 3 daughters and a son and a most faithful,
devoted wife to the bereaved husband.
Of the many virtues which adorned the
deceased in her pilgrimage through life, those of unaffected humility,
modesty, compassion for the suffering poor, accompanied always with
substantial acts of charity....
[Effingham Democrat, John HENRY,
Publisher, Thursday, 23 January 1873, p.3, c.41.
MRS. ROBERT FINNEY
First
is an article about his death with no title:
Mrs.
Robert Finney received word of her husband’s death, while he was
crossing the water for France. The body
reached home last Sunday and the funeral was held at her father’s
residence Monday at two o’clock. Rev. A.
J. McCash preached the funeral assisted by Rev. Kruzon.
His body was laid to rest in Hazel Dell cemetery, with military
honors. He leaves a loving wife to mourn
her loss. She has the sympathy of the
entire community in her sad bereavement. Robert
was a member of the young men’s Friendly Bible class, in the Sunday
school where he will be greatly missed by his friends.
Second
article:
MRS. ROBT. FINNEY
RECEIVES LETTER FROM
HER LATE HUSBAND’S
CAPTAIN.
Mrs.
Audrey Finney,
Hazel Dell, Illinois,
Dear
Mrs. Finney:-Before we reach our port I want to write a few lines
expressing my deepest sympathy to you in the death of Robt. Finney, one
of the men under my command.
The
news of his death was a great shock to me. He
had complained of feeling ill shortly after leaving port, but had kept
up with the activities of the other men on board, and it was not until
the day before his death that he showed any cause for alarm. He was then taken immediately to the ship’s
hospital, where in spite of every effort-I know-by the army and naval
medical officers, pneumonia gained the upper hand, resulting so
unfortunately and sadly.
I
have had command of this company only a short time-not quite a
month-but I had come to know your husband well, for he was on of those
always willing to take on additional work if it was to benefit the
other men in the company. Among other
things his volunteering for cooking duty at a time when we were short
handed in our kitchen pleased me immensely. The
men, too, who were in the company with him, invariably spoke most
highly of him, and his loss has made itself strongly felt among them.
This
I know is but scant consolation to you, whose is the great loss, but I
do want you to know that his personality had made strong friends for
him among his company, and that he was respected by his officers. His body, I am told by the ship’s authorities
will be returned to the states, and I presume to you.
The few personal effects that he had with him-for most of our
things were sent home before embarking-will in time is forwarded to you. But whether they can be sent direct or must go
through the Adjutant General of the Army, Washington, D.C., I cannot
yet learn. A list of these, however, I am
enclosing. He carried, I know, insurance
of $10,000 which will be paid you in monthly installments by the Bureau
of War Risk Insurance, Washington, D. C.
In
closing, I wish once again to express deeply and sincerely the sympathy
of myself and the men for you in your loss, and yet with that is the
realization that he gave his life for his country-the noblest death of
all.
With
respect and sympathy, I am,
Robt.
A. Gibney, Capt, M. T. C.
Co.D, 302 Water
Tank Train
Obituary.
Robert Finney was born in Clark County, Illinois, on
February 15, 1888. Was married to Audrey Sartor, of Hazel Dell, Ill on Oct 29, 1910. To this union were born two sons, both
preceding the father in the eternal sleep. He
enlisted in the U. S. army on June 13,1918. After
a brief training at Kansas City, he was sent to Baltimore, Md., to
continue his training. He was not well
when he embarked upon the transportation ship. Death
came on Oct. 4, 1918, on board the U.S.S. Leviathan at sea, while
attached to Co. D, 302nd Water Tank Train, U.S.A. aged 30
years, 7 month and 19 days.
In
life “Bob” was a kind husband, son and brother. In
death he is remembered as a man of truth and valor.
He
leaves to mourn, his wife, Mrs. Audrey Finney; mother, Mrs. Alice
Finney; two sisters, Mrs. Edith Mills and Mrs. Edna
Weaver; six brothers, Vess, William, Bert, Harley,
Guy and Oral. The
father, Benj. Finney, died May 8, 1910.
Many other relatives and friends remain to mourn his departure
and to cherish a fond memory of the man that did all that he could for
home and country.
Contributed
by Sharon Barhydt (folksandmore@yahoo.com)
OBITUARY OF
ISAAC J. PUGH
from the TOLEDO (ILLINOIS) DEMOCRAT
Volume 65 (date not shown)
WELL KNOWN RESIDENT AND CIVIL WAR
VETERAN DIES
Another one of
Toledo’s pioneer resident, one
closely connect with her early history and development, and one of the
few Boys in Blue left in the township, is gone in the passing of Isaac
J. Pugh, who died at his home in Toledo on Monday evening, June 23rd
(1924), at 7:15 o’clock, after an illness of many months with kidney
trouble. Mr. Pugh had been in very poor health for some time,
being unable to be out of the house all winter. When the warm
spring days came he made a few trips to town, only a very short
distance from his home, but the past few weeks his condition grew
steadily worse and his death was expected hourly for some time before
the end.
Mr. Pugh was one
of our most highly respected and
beloved citizens and until he retired from being actively engaged in
business and community affairs, he was closely identified with the
growth of Toledo from its earliest days, and was connected with many of
its history making changes and events. Being a grain and stock
dealer, he shipped the first car-load of hogs over the present railroad
through Toledo, built in 1877, loading them at a point between Greenup
and Toledo before the track was built to this place. In order to
do this, the train came from Green as far as the rails had been laid,
and, after the stock had been loaded, backed back into Green.
Mr. Pugh, who
owned stock in the telephone company
when it was first organized, was the proud possessor of the first
telephone ever installed in Toledo.
Probably no one person has built as
many houses in Toledo as Mr.
Pugh. In all parts of town there are homes that were erected by
him, and in many of them he resided with his family.
He laid out the
Toledo Park cemetery, and until he
became too feeble to care for it, maintained and kept in proper
condition this city of the dead with his own hands.
An interesting memory of his earlier
life, and one of which he liked to
talk, was the fact that he helped bring the county records from Greenup
to Toledo, then Prairie City, in 1857, when the first court house was
built at this place. He was the last surviving of three men who
performed this task, the trip being made with books and other county
property with a yoke of oxen.
Mr. Pugh was born
in Licking county, Ohio, October
15 (1839), and was 84 years, 8 months and 8 days of ag4e at the time of
his death. He was a son of William and Lydia (Adams) Pugh, the
fourth in a family of five chidden, and was of Scotch-Irish
extraction. the parents of Mr. Pugh were born in Virginia.
When he was about 14 years of age he came with his parents to
Cumberland county and settled in Sumpter township. Here his
father died in 1863.
Mr. Pugh remained
at home and worked for his father
on the farm until he was twenty-one years of age. He was married
January 22, 1861, to Miss Margaret A. Bloxom, who was born in Clark
county, Indiana (1842-1919). To them were born five children,
Mary Jane, Albert, Oscar, Serena and Medora, the first three of whom
are deceased, Albert and Oscar dying in infancy and Mary Jane passing
away about 35 years ago.
Mr. and Mrs. Pugh celebrated their
golden wedding anniversary on
January 21, 1911. In December 1919, Mrs. Pugh died, breaking the
union that had lasted almost 59 years.
On March 19, 1921, Mr. Pugh married
Mrs. Eva Smith, the youngest sister
of his first wife. She has been a loving companion and a great
blessing to him during his last days.
Mr. Pugh enlisted in his country’s
cause in August 1862, in Company B,
123rd Illinois Volunteer (Mounted) Infantry, and was honorably
discharged in July, 1865. He was wounded October 8, 1862, at the
battle of Perryville, Kentucky.
He took a very
active part in the organization and
work of Hall Wilsons Post No. 424 of the Grand Army of the
Republic. He was the last of the chartered members of this post.
This list of departed veterans,
appearing on the faded and time stained
charter, is as follows: John Dare, S. F. Halite, A. T. Brewer,
David Bruiser, Henry Steven’s, J. T. Confer, Matthew Hurst, Sills C.
Wholesale, Geo. Adkins, W. R. Humphrey, Wm. Logan, Wm. Ross, Alex
Hughes, Thomas R. Storm, R. T. Anderson, Andrew J. Lee, Wm. W. Park,
Alen Gaskill, Isaac Niccum, J. J. Hastings, Phillipp Lawrence, Q. C.
Tomlinson, John Priance, William Merriwether, R. D. Ashwill, Isaac J.
Pugh, John Rauch, Henry Adkins, Louis Curtner, Wm. Mathews, Geo.
Greenwood, and Joseph elliott. The charter bears the date of
April 4, 1884.
Mr. Pugh was a
resident of Cumberland county since
1853, and had resided in Toledo since 1881. He was engaged for
many years in the grain and stock business, and also ran a hotel for a
number of years. He was a man of just principles and fair
dealing, as his success indicated.
At one time he was
a member the United Brethren
church. He later he joined the Presbyterian church of Toledo, of
which he was a charter member. He was always a zealous and devout
worker and was ordained a ruling elder in the church, which office he
held up to the time of his death. His name is not transferred to
the roll of the “Church of the Redeemed” around the throne of God.
Mr. Pugh is
survived by his widow, two daughters,
Mrs. John W. Stirewalt (Rena) of Charleston and Mrs. A. L. Woolery
(Dora) of Champaign, eight grand children, two great-grandchildren, one
sister, Mrs. Jane Elder of Plains, Kans., and many other relatives and
close friends who will mourn his departure.
Funeral services
were held at the Toledo
Presbyterian church Wednesday afternoon at 1 o’clock, conducted by the
pastor, Rev. J. G. Reynolds. Beautiful and appropriate music was
furnished by the church choir, composed of Mrs. A. F. Bussard, Mrs. W.
C. Greathouse, Mrs. J. D. Hurt, Mrs. J. P. Cottingham, Mrs. Harry
Thornton, Chas. A. Willis, Ben C. Willis and W. M. Lovins, with Mrs.
Chas. A. Willis as accompanist. The selections were “My Beautiful
Dream,” “In the Garden,” and “That Beautiful Land.”
The remains were
laid to rest in the Toledo Park
cemetery and the services at the grave were in charge of the members of
Hall Wilson Post G. A. R. No. 424 who gave their ritualistic
ceremonies. Those present were W. P. Jackson, J. H. Williams,
Robert Reynolds, Jasper Stirewalt, Richard Hines, David Beals and
Samuel McElhiney. Mr. Pugh’s death leaves only ten members of
this post left in the township, the members not being able to attend
the services being W. T. Young, J. R. Cowan and Frank Wagle.
Full military
honors was accorded the remains, a
firing squad composed of Lloyd Craft, Charles Douglas, Dan Havickhorst
and Jake F. Steger of the Votaw-Swank American Legion Post of Neoga
firing the salute with taps being sounded by Leland Smith at the grave
and Hamp Rodgers in the distance, the latter two being Boy Scouts.
The pallbearers were the four
ex-service men mentioned above and Chas.
Wiley and Everett Oakley.
The many beautiful
flowers were in charge of members
of the Women’s Relief Corps, as follows: Mrs. Rhoda J. Brewer,
Mrs. J. C. Thompson, Mrs. Jane Shure, Mrs. J. T. Cougill, Mrs. Jemina
Ferguson, Mrs. Samuel McElhiney, Mrs. Richard Richardson, Mrs. Mary
Curtner and Mrs. J. H. Williams.
Among the
relatives and friends from a distance who
were here on account of Mr. Pugh’s illness and death were Mrs. Walter
Brewer and three children, Misses Mildred and Miriam and Robert, of
Paris, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Smith and little son, Guy Nolan, of
Indianapolis, Mrs. Mae Templeton and daughter, Miss Vera of Paris, Mr.
and Mrs. John W. Stirewalt and two children, Lyle and Hazel, of
Charleston, Mrs. A. L. Woolery, two daughters, Mrs. C. R. Eyestone and
Miss Alice Woolery, and son, Todd Woolery, of Champaign, and Lewis
Havens of Rockville, Ind., a former Civil War comrade of Mr. Pugh, who
was in the same company with him.
(Contributed by Robert Perry)
MARGARET ANN
BLOXOM PUGH
Margaret Ann Bloxom Pugh was born in
Parke County, Indiana, April 23, 1842 and departed this life at the
family home in Toledo at 2:30 a.m., on December 6th, 1919 aged 77
years, 7 months and 13 days.
She came to Illinois with her parents
at the age of eleven years. She was united in marriage to I. J.
Pugh on January 22nd, 1861, this happy wedded life continuing for 58
years. to this union were born five children, two boys and three
girls: Albert and Oscar who died in infancy, Mary June Green who
died early in life, Rena Stirewalt of Toledo, Illinois, and Dora
Woolery of Champaign, Ill.
She leaves to mourn her loss her
husband, two daughters, Rena Stirewalt of Toledo and Dora Woolery of
Champaign, six grandchildren, two brothers, I. H. Bloxom of Pratt,
Kans. and Louis Bloxom of Adena, Colo., and two sisters, Mrs. Mary
Brewer of Toledo and Mrs. Eva Smith of Paris, Illinois.
Mrs. Pugh was converted and joined
the U. B. church at the age of 17 years and has always lived a
consistent Christian life. About 23 years ago she joined the
Presbyterian church at Toledo and was a faithful member unto
death.
But now she is gone! The death
angel has called for her and she is gone to live with the Blessed
Master where the sun never goes down.
Funeral services were held at the
Presbyterian church in Toledo on Sunday afternoon, December 7th, 1919,
at 2 o’clock, conducted by Rev. J. E. Thomas. Interment in Park
cemetery at Toledo.
(Contributed by Robert Perry)
Neoga
Illinois
Feb 22 1876
John
Lidley, carriage dealer, died at the home of of Jesse Gibson,
his father-in-law, on Monday morning if typhoid fever.
Dr.
G.W. Albin died at his residence in Neoga Wednesday evening. He
was one of the oldest physicians in the county, having practiced
medicine in this vicinity for nearly forty years. The funeral services
were
held in the Presbyterian Church,
conducted by the Rev. G.B. Black, assisted by local ministers.The
Knight Templars, Masonic and Eastern Star Lodges were present and took
part in the obsequies. Twenty knights from Mattoon were in attendance.
The Doctor leaves a widow and three children and a large number of
relarives and friends. The remains were interred in the Neoga Cemetery.