SOUTH THOMAS PRAIRIE

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I am trying a new format out for cemetery information. The information on this cemetery is not based on just headstone inscriptions but rather by state database records found on line as well as personal obituaries saved by my grandmother Hazel SMITH Lane, obituaries exchanged with other researchers, the Illinois State Historic Library, Legacy of Kin 1&2, Illustrated and Descriptive Sketch Book of Wayne Co., Il. (1903) as well as Betty Beeson and Doris Bland books.

SOUTH THOMAS PRAIRIE

Death Certificate numbers were found in the Illinois Statewide Database http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/GenealogyMWeb/idphdeathsrch.html

Although we have tried to be as accurate as possible in our research, mistakes happen, if you know of any corrections or additions to this family please contact me, thanks Laurie lselpien@msn.com

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Name	Birth Date	Death Date	Married	Illinois Death Certificate #	Obituary/ Picture	Family Tree	Additional Information
BING, Sarah	January 24, 1849	Feb 3, 1878	James V. Bing		Wayne Co. Press Mar 28, 1878		d/o john C. and Pamela Borah
BOBETT, Clemence	Apr 29, 1883	Oct 26, 1892			Wayne Co Press Nov 10, 1892		d/o Mr. & Mrs. Edward Bobett
BORAH, Eliza	Mar 19, 1829	Oct 1, 1900	Wm. N. Borah
BORAH, Hettie	Sept 16, 1860	Mar 8, 1884			Wayne Co., Press Mar 13, 1884		d/o Wm. N& Eliza Borah
BORAH, Capt. Jacob B.	April 29 1820	Feb 2, 1901	Married Emma J.	Capt Co. D, 87 Il Vol. Inf.	Biography		s/o John Borah Sr.
BORAH, John Sr.	Oct 21 1787 / 77? See bio Lancaster Co, Pa	Mar 27, 1842	Married Sally		Biography		s/o Jacob Borah Rev War Soldiers
BORAH, John C.	WC, IL.	Jan 25,1877 54y 7m 15d	Married Pamela PRICE Feb 17,1848		Wayne Co, Press Feb 8, 1877		Leaves wife 6 children died of disease with son Johnny
BORAH, Rev. John W.	Nov 28, 1842	Apr 19, 1934	Married Miriam Borah				Co. D. 87^th Il Inf.
BORAH, Katie	Sept 29, 1891	Nov. 10, 1898					d/o J. B. & B. J. Borah
BORAH, Marie C.	Aug 4, 1901	Feb 18, 1910					d/o J. B. & B. J. Borah
BORAH, Miriam F.	Dec. 19, 1847	Mar 17, 1932	Married Rev John W.
BORAH, Pamela	Sept 14, 1825 New Harmony Posey Co., Ind.	Dec 24, 1894	Married John C. Borah Feb 17, 1848		Wayne Co, Press Jan 3, 1895 Lg obit		3^rd child of Larkin & Sally Price leaves Son Larkin and 5 daughters 1brother Van R. Larkin 1 sister, Sopnronie Shannon
BORAH, Sally	May 26, 1787	Nov 17, 1876	Wife of John Sr.
BORAH, William N.	Mar 7, 1818	Aug 31, 1910			Biography

GRAY, Florence S.	1884	Mar 22, 1891			Wayne Co Press Mar 26, 1891		Daughter of Thomas & Rebecca Gray
GRAY, Rebecca	1851	Jan 5, 1920		Death Cert# 3627 Fairfield WC, IL
GRAY, Thomas J.	1854	Mar 20, 1891 Jasper Twp., Il.			Wayne Co Press Mar 26, 1891		Thomas died Saturday Florence Sunday
GREGORY, Benjamin	June 4, 1825 Christian Co. Ky.	Sept 2, 1881 Malignant tumor	Married Lucinda		Wayne Co. Press Sept 8, 1881		Leaves wife & 8 children
GREGORY, Lucinda	Feb 16, 1829	May 5, 1907	Married Benjamin
GRICE, Emma FITZGERREL	Sept 9, 1845	Mar 28, 1911	Married Pierson Grice Nov 3, 1871				4 children 1 boys 3 girls
GRICE, Pierson B.	April 2, 1848 Meigs Co Ohio	Mar 10, 1891	Married Emma FITZGERREL Nov 3, 1871		Wayne Co., Press Apr 9, 1891		Entered Army age 17 Co. B 143^rd Indiana Vol. Member G. A. R. Fairfield
HAY, Jane E. BORAH		Jan 12, 1900 71y 5m 20d	Married L. P. Hay		Biography		d/o John and Sarah (Wilson) Borah
HAY, L. P.	November 22, 1823, White County , Ill	Mar 18, 1906	Married Sept 4, 1846, Miss Jane E. Borah		Biography	Fifth Illinois Cavalry, Company D,	s/o John & Hannah (Webster) Hay
McCLIN, Matilda Cathren SHAW	Aug 23, 1832 WC, Il.	May 4, 1912 79y 8m 11d					Daughter of William Finty Shaw b. Hopkinsville Ky. & Elizabeth Shaw
MURFIT, Mary B.	Sept 2, 1835	May 24 1905	Married William Murfitt
MURFITT William	Feb 6, 1830 England	Jan 17, 1908	Married Mary B.	Resident 53y			Bought a general store from Jacob Hall and ran it.
MONROE, Nellie Mirian		April 28, 1935		Death Cert# 19410 jasper Twp, WC, Il.
MONROE, William M.	1866	1944	Married Nellie
SHAW, William Finty	Dec 13, 1812	May 16, 1880
SHORT, Bazillius Perceluis	Apr 3, 1823 Kolbingen, Wurtenburg, Germany	May 24, 1889 Heart disease	Married Sarah d. 1878 Married Feb 1879 Catherine Martin		Wayne Co. Press May 30, 1889		Moved from Lebanon, Pa. To Wayne Co. 18y before death Civil War Co. F. 4 Pa. Cav.
SHORT, Sarah	Jan 25, 1822	Oct 6, 1878
TICE, Harriet	July 11, 1838	Mar 8, 1919		Death Cert# 21469 Fairfield WC, Il.
TICE, Lydia “Liddie” MARTZ	June 23, 1826	Dec 1, 1890 64y 5m 8d	Married Oct 17, 1850 Henry H. Tice		Wayne Co., Press Jan 8, 1891		Henry Tice died dec/Jan week before Jan 5, 1893 in Ellery
TICE, Una	Oct 17, 1831	May 3, 1892	Married Harriet		Wayne Co Record May 5, 1892 Wayne Co. Press May 12, 1892		Died in the home of Mr. & Mrs. Curt Owen
WILSON, Anna	1883	1908

1884 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

John Borah, Sr., was born in Lancaster County, Penn., about 1777, and removed to Butler County, Ky., in an early day, and came to Wayne County, Ill., and settled on the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of Section 23, in Jasper Township, in 1821. He was a man of sterling integrity, of good common sense and fixed principles. He was long an Elder of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and died in 1842. His father, Jacob, was a Revolutionary soldier.

William N. Borah, the first son of John, is one of the most substantial citizens of the county. William N., came with his father's family to Wayne County in the spring of 1820. Although William N. Borah was not yet three years old, he remembers distinctly passing through Fairfield as the family were on their way to their then new home, and that they stopped for dinner at an uncle's, named McMakin, some of whose descendants now live in Marion County. He remembers there were three houses in Fairfield at that time, Gen. Leech's, John Barnhill's and Dr. Park's. Leech's house was on the northeast corner of the public square; Dr. Park's residence is still standing on Main street a block west from the north side of the square. Few among us are more extensively read in general literature than he. He has five times filled the position of Supervisor, and has paid especial attention to the interests of education. He is a pleasant, hale gentleman of the old style, and it is a treat to spend an evening with him, when the conversation will not be allowed to falter. The first schoolhouse William Borah remembers, about 1824, was about half a mile from John Borah's house and was built on his land.

Jacob B. Borah, another son of John, the pioneer, was born in Wayne County, Ill., in 1820. He is mentally well preserved, bright, quick and well read. He has certainly been of great value in compiling this history, by the accurate fund of information from which copious notes have been frequently drawn. He was a Captain in the late war, and is highly esteemed as a private citizen. It is by such men that the world is made better.

L. P. HAY, farmer, P. 0. Fairfield, was born November 22, 1823, in White County, Ill. He is a son of John Hay, born 1776 in Allegheny County, Penn., where he farmed. About 1817, he located in White County, Ill., on Little Prairie, near the Grand Chain, and then removed to Big Prairie, where our subject was born. Here he farmed, and in partnership with his uncle Lowry, put up a distillery, which he operated for a number of years, he doing the main buying and selling, and flat-boating the produce (whisky and pork) South on the Wabash, and then to New Orleans, an occupation he had followed several years during the war of 1812, and after. The number of porkers killed and shipped by them would amount to from 500 to 1,000 in one year. John Hay died 1836. His father, John Hay, Sr, was a native of Virginia, where he farmed. He died in Pennsylvania. His father, or the great-grandfather of our subject, was Alexander Hay, a native of Scotland; he died in Virginia. The mother of our subject was Hannah (Webster) Hay, born in Virginia; she died 1856 in White County, Ill. She was a daughter of Henry and Lucretia Preston Webster, natives of Virginia. She had ten children, of whom two are now living, viz.: Hon. Lowry Hay, former Sheriff of this county, and once a Representative of White County, Ill., and Lawrence P., our subject, who was educated in White County, Ill., in the old fashioned subscription schools. He came to Wayne County, in March, 1842, and bought 320 acres of land, owning at one time several hundred acres in adjoining counties. Here he was married, September 4, 1846, to Miss Jane E. Borah, born July 22, 1828, in Wayne County, Ill. Her parents were John and Sarah (Wilson) Borah, whose history appears in another part of this work. Nine children blessed this happy union, viz.: Samuel T., deceased; Mary J., wife of McK. Sunderland; Sarah A., born December 12, 1850, wife of Peter Cox; now a resident of California; Clemence A., born February 16, 1853, wife of Henry Koontz, also a resident of California; Nancy H., born August 19, 1855, wife of George B. Sunderland, now living in Ohio; Eliza H., deceased; Kate, born September 30, 181; John W., born September 11, 1864; Joseph M., born February 9, 1867; and Lucy, born July 12, 1872. Mrs. Hay is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Mr. Hay obeyed the call of his country to save the stars and stripes, by enlisting September 13, 1861, in the Fifth Illinois Cavalry, Company D, in which he served till May, 1865. He made his way from private to Quartermaster Sergeant, then Second Lieutenant, and was afterward promoted to First Lieutenant. He served in the Trans-Mississippi Department, resigning at La Grange, Tenn. He is a radical Republican, and a member of the G. A. R.

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