CENTENARIAN
Whiteside County Illinois
Elizabeth Bartel daughter of Joseph & Isabelle (Eckel) Bartel - Born 17 October 1910 in Sterling - died 9 March 2005 at the Morrison Community Hospital.
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Eva Engelkens of Morrison celebrated her 100th birthday on Aug. 5, 2000, with her family at a party at Resthave Nursing Home.
She was married to the late Jacob E. Engelkens. Her children are Doris (Fred) Shuck, Rockford,
Allan (Wanda) Engelkens, Chadwick, and Margaret (Kenny) Anspach, Byron.
She has 12 grandchildren, Leanne, Lynn, Keith, Kent, Linda, Randy, Elaine, Brad, Gary, Julie, David, and Diann;
30 great-grandchildren; and three great-great grandchildren, and one sister, Beatrice Riley of Lake Alfred, Fla.
From the Morrison Co, Whiteside News Sentinel August 22, 2000 - Website of Christi Harnish-Riley
Peter Ford --
In January, 1908, it was the privilege of the writer to stand by the grave of the oldest man who ever lived in Whiteside. He was laid to rest in the Catholic cemetery at Tampico. It is a regret never to have met the veteran, and hear from his own lips the incidents of a career that started with the last century. Some of his younger neighbors who knew the old gentleman well, have given the writer various reminiscenes of their intimacy.
Henry Pott and his brother-in-law, Henry Flock, ran a threshing machine, and frequently did work for Peter, on his farm. It was in the days when horse power was used. They had a pair of fine horses which they attached to the machine, the farmer furnishing the others. Henry did the driving with a long whip. Peter was lying barefoot by the stack, watching operation. The fat horses of the threshers were not pulling, and his own were doing most of the work, so Peter called out, “Henry, touch up your team with your lash, the whiffletrees are dangling against their legs.” Peter was a close observer and saw everything.
Mr. Ford came of a long lived race. All of his brothers and sisters lived to be over 80; one aunt lived to be 115 years of age and his grandmother also passed the century mark.
The highway commissioners of Hahnaman township are making arrangements to install two new steel bridges over Green river near Deer Grove. The structures spanning the river near Deer Grove have been in a dangerous condition for some time and these will be replaced with two good steel structures. The township of Hahnaman is one of the most costly townships of the county to be bridged, due to the many ditches and the Green river which crosses it.
His daughter, Mrs. Coleman, says her father had no faith in doctors, would not take medicine, and when sick, would often fast four days. He lost his last teeth ten years before his death. Although for the last four years, he sat much in his chair, he was not helpless. Appetite so good that he regularly took three meals a day. Took great interest in current affairs, and followed the operations of the Beer struggle and our Spanish-American war. He never wore glasses.
Viola (Beck) Frommelt - 1899 - 2005
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Ada L. (Sawyer) Hill (April 11, 1903 - April 3, 2005) - Obituary
Evelyn (Kelsey) Hollenbeck 1903 - 2005 Obituary
Roy L. Jacobs - Obituary
Cora F. (Vogel) Maring born in Morrison 31 December 1901 ... Obituary
Reuben C. Martin born 24 March 1874 - died 22 October 1974. Reuben was the son of
Samuel C. and Barbara (Landis) Martin who were married 22 October 1869. Married to Cora T. Jones.
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Alice E. (Kennedy) Mathew 18 December 1875 - 21 September 1977
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Robert McCune - October 9, 1904 - June 2, 2005
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Mildred (Gibson) Merrill - Born in Tampico .... Obituary
Elizabeth Nice is Morrison's oldest citizen. (July 2005) - She gets her hair done every week, she wears pretty earrings every day and she uses her Oil of Olay. Thats why Elizabeth Nice looks much younger than her 104 years. Her family calls her Grandma Nice. Grandma Nice will be the honored guest as she rides high in the Wells Fargo Stage Coach in the citys Sesquicentennial Parade. She will wear the same dress she wore for the Centennial Celebration 50 years ago. Elizabeth grew up in Morrison and was married for 63 years to Carl Nice who was mayor of Morrison from 1935 - 1945.
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Gerda Peterson Ohlson born 24 December 1930
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Mrs. Alfred C. Schmucker Has 105th Birthday Nov 5
Sterling Daily Gazette; Friday, 11 Nov 1955; page 9; Column 1
A former Whiteside County lady whose husband was at one time a grocery merchant in Morrison reached her 105th birthday Nov. 5. She is Mrs. A.C. Schmucker of South Holland, sister-in-law of Mrs. Leonora Cochran, 1102 1st Ave., Sterling, who furnished the following interesting newspaper article written by Gregory Gerdes.
Thirteen years before President Lincoln delivered his famous Gettysburg address, Margaret Miller was born on a farm near Greencastle, Pa about 20 miles from the Civil War cemetery. That lady, now Mrs. A. C. Schmucker of South Holland, lived in Illinois when Lincoln made his speech, but today she still has recollections of the woes of the war between the states. She observed her 105th birthday at the Colonial rest home in South Holland, where she resides.
It was in 1853 that her parents moved to Lee County and continued farm life near Dixon. Eight years later the Civil War broke out. As a girl of 10, Mrs. Schmucker assisted her mother to prepare baskets of baked goods for the Yankee soldiers at a nearby camp. They rode 10 miles by horse and buggy to deliver the food. She also spoke of how some of the wounded soldiers returning home from the war were cared for by her mother. Spelling school was another of her interests — Lee County schools would challenge each other in spelling contests, she said.
Mrs. Schmucker, who has witnessed all the advances of modern travel, has never ridden by airplane. She recalled the first auto she saw. “E.A. Smith, our banker, drove a horseless carriage into the Whiteside County fair grounds,“ she said, and told how the spectators “cheered and cheered.”
Of German-Swiss extraction, Mrs. Schmucker is a Methodist. She could offer no recipes for long life, although she said one must live “a good honest and decent one.” A widow, she has only one daughter, Mrs. Ralph Libberton of 7759 Kingston Ave., who is 78. Mrs. Schmucker’s husband operated a grocery business in Whiteside County until 1922, when he died. Mrs. Schmucker lived there until three years ago and moved to the South Holland home. One of five girls and two boys in the Miller family, Mrs. Schmucker and a sister, Mrs. A.A. Dysart of Sycamore, DeKalb County, still survive. Mrs. Dysart is 100.
Contributed by Suzy Wert -- [Transcriber’s Note: Mrs. A. C. Schmucker was Margaret R. (Maggie) Miller. Her daughter, Grace Schmucker Libberton, married later in life and had no issue. Her sister, Mrs. A. A. Dysart, was Amanda Miller.
Maggie Miller’s father was Daniel Miller and her mother was Elizabeth ______.
Maggie’s husband’s name was Albert Clayton Schmucker, although there are a couple of articles in the newspaper calling him Alfred. He was the son of Jacob Schmucker b. 1819 Somerset Co, PA and Catherine Kring, born 1818, also in Somerset Co.]
Bessie (Fry) Scott was born 02 March 1888 in Coleta, Whiteside County, Illinois. She died
3 June 1988 in Sterling, Whiteside County, IL. Bessie Fry was the daughter of
John Rosenberger & Amanda Elizabeth (Sigler) Fry. Frank Clarence Scott and Bessie Fry were married
on June 2, 1909 in Sterling. Truly a Whiteside county native. she lived here her entire life.
Alice (Koenes) Seaman-Heun Obituary
Juinetta (Snyder) Sissing -- 104 Years -- 26 Dec 1901 - 11 Sep 2006 Obituary
Florence (Geerts) Vander Vine Born 01 April 1992 Fulton Co IL
Died 20 December 2006 Fulton Co IL
Daughter of Harry and Grace (Huizenga) Geerts
Married Peter Vander Vinne 6 February 1923 in Ustick Twp.
Peter died 5 June 1982
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Winnie (Buikema) Van Zuiden of Morrison observed her 100th birthday on Saturday, July 26, 2003. She is currently a resident of Resthave Home in Morrison, after residing with her daughter Mildred Heun, in FUlton for more than five years.
Winnie, the eldest daughter of the late Louis M. Buikema and mary Newendyke Buikema, was born July 26, 1903, in Fulton. There were 12 children in her family.
She married Clarence Van Zuiden on June 6, 1929 in Fulton. He died in 1967. She has two daughters, Mildred (Wilbert) Heun of Fulton and betty (Arthur) Pruis of Morrison and one son, Mavin (Ethel) Van Zuiden of Morrison, She has four grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.
Prior to her marriage, Winnie was a "maid" for a prominent Morrison family, the Ramseys. She did domestic work for many years and worked at Resthave Home from 1969 through 1984 as a kitchen aide. She enjoys crocheting, baking treats and growing roses, sharing them with neighbors and friends. She is a lifelong member of the First Reformed Church in Fulton.
From the Daily Gazette - Celebrations - August 5, 2003 Obituary
Phebe (Jackson) Vennum born 23 Jun 1784, died 19 Jun 1889
Photo & Biography (included with her son Edward Vennum)
Carol "Hand" Warner chooses to reveal very little about her life - but she's a wealth of information, as is anyone who lives to tell about the last 100 years. Carol will turn 100 on Oct. 28. To most it's a big deal, but to her its just a matter of happenstance. "You just live each day at a time," she said, adding: "Each day goes by - you do a little housework."
Her only child, a daughter Mary Carol White, said her mom does a little more than that. "She has a flower garden out back," White said. The garden is still blooming inspite of heavy falls frosts. Carol added that she still makes it to church" nearly every Sunday." She attends Wesley united Methodist in Sterling. In her later years, Carol is residing in an apartment in Sterling. That keeps her in the general area where she was born - on Prophetstown road, between Rock Falls and Prophetstown.
As an adult, she married George Warner and they had Mary Carol. Mr. Warner died several years ago and Carol depends on her daughter and family. Toether they complete five generations. According to Carol the family is all she needs. If she could have anything for her birthday, she would choose nothing of monetary value. "Just to be with my family and that's it," Carol wished for.
And so it will be -- with a few friends included. On Sunday, there will be a birthday open house form 2 to 4 p.m. at the Wesley United Methodist Church, 2200 16th Ave. Sterling. Friends of Carol are invited to attend. Those unable may send cards to her at 1203 6th Ave. Sterling.
Contributed by Nancy Vance - By Jonie Larson - Gazette Neighbors Editor
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Mary Carroll (Hand) Warner born 28 Oct 1889 Rural Rock Falls, died 05 September 1991 at Coventry Village, Sterling IL.
Wealthy Weaver 24 January 1835 - 21 Mar 1939 -- 104 years, 1 month 25 days
Verna (Duke) Wood 05 Sep 1904 - 16 Jul 2005. Born in Dresden TN, the daughter of John R. & Gertie (Sutherland0 Duke. She married Gerald M. Wood on May 7, 1932 in Paris TN, he died Jan. 30, 1997. She died July 16, 2005 at the Good Samaritan Village Nursing home in Geneseo. Burial was in Tampico Cemetery.
Nellie E. (Coats) Zigler - 106 Years Old Obituary
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