1850 Census - Oliver is living with the family of Jirah Demouth (Pequannock, NJ) and working as a Laborer. He gives his age as 53. On the census form his name is spelled "Levy."
Familysearch.com lists an Oliver Levi marrying Susan White, 22 JUL 1855 in Bloomfield, Essex, NJ. -
Possibly a son of Oliver and Mary.On death record from NJ archives name is spelled "Levy". Age at death is given as 76 which would make his birth 1792 rather than the 1797 we have from census. A lot of people back then didn't know how old they were. Place of birth is given as Massachusetts.
Mary was one of the three Demouth children that married three Levi children. Mary married Oliver Levi. They had one daughter, Maria, born in 1818. She married Isaac Burgey in 1838. Mary was named as a child of Jacob by both May Sommers and Mrs. Webber, but she is not in the legal record found by Alex Fowler that lists 8 of Jacob's children.
On Ancestry.com there are many notations on Family Trees that the Isaac Lamb, born 6Mar 1736/1737 died in Canada in 1777.
Also on Ancestry: All New York Military in the Revolution results for Isaac Lamb:
Heading: The Line -- Fourth Regiment
Rank: Enlisted Men
Name: Isaac LambAncestry: "New York in the Revolution" by Berthold Fernow;
Originally published as Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New York, Volume XV, Albany, New York, 1887
p. 219: A Listing of Fourth Regiment, Eighth Company, Privates:
Lamb, Isaac, Mar 1, '77; war, Killed in battle of Saratoga, Sept 19, '77.
A. P. 18-425. M R
The next person in our Mudge line is Abigail Tryon (b. 1 JUN 1754 Sharon Connecticut; d.?). Abigail married Isaac Lamb on 27 Dec 1772. It is believed Abigail and Isaac had several daughters. Isaac died as a soldier in the Revolutionary War on 19 SEP 1777 in the Battle of Saratoga.
The next we hear of Abigail, she is married to William Levi and having lots of babies in the late 1790's.
This seems strange to me. Here are the names and approximate dates of birth of William and Abigail Levi's children:
William A. Levi abt 1780
Oliver Levi abt 1797
Mariah Levi 28 Feb 1797
John Levi 1798
Phoebe Levi
Betsy Levi 1 Oct 1799
Frances and Elizabeth, twins who died in infancy
Willaim Levi (Or it may be we are confused and there is only one son, Willaim Levi.)I find it hard to believe that a woman in her 40's would have all these babies so close together. Perhaps the Abigail Lamb who married William Levi was a daughter of Abigail Tryon Lamb. It would make more sense for a woman in her 20's to be having so many babies close together. If you look at the the family of Abigail's parents, Oliver Tryon and Deborah Mudge, you will see that the first daughter was named Deborah after her mother, one son was named Oliver after his father, and one son was named Ziba after his grandfather, Ziba Tryon. If Abigail Tryon grew up with siblings named after an earlier generation, she may well have wished to continue the tradition, especially if her parents died young, as we suspect they may have, by the record of her becoming the ward of Elnathan Goodrich. One son of Abigail's is named for her husband William, and one is named for her father Oliver. Abigail and her mother, Deborah, didn't rate namesakes. I am suggesting that the Abigail Lamb that married William Levi may have been the daughter of an Abigail Lamb who was the daughter of Abigail Tryon and Isaac Lamb. This relationship would make more sense from a fertility angle. On the other hand, William Levi was supposedly born around 1737 or 1747. He would have been in his 40's or 60's in the 1790's. Why would a girl in her 20's want to marry such an old man?
Another problem is the two sons, William Levi. William A Levi may have been from a previous marriage. Or it may be we are confused and there was only one son, William Levi.
Three of Abigail and Williams children married three siblings of the Jacob Demouth family form Morris County, New Jersey.
Oliver Levi married Mary Demouth
Mariah Levi married John Demouth (our ancestors)
Betsey Levi married Thomas DemouthA fourth sibling, William A. Levi, Married the daughter of a neighbor and friend of Jacob Demouth, Abraham Crane.
So this is the end of our Mudge story and the prequel to our Demouth story. Our Mudges came to America very early in the colonial period. They were successful and prosperous builders of mills and surveyors of new towns. They participated in major ways in two of the big stories of our colonial era, Indian wars and witchcraft. One escaped the burning of Northfield, one's mother was hung as a witch, one lives to this day as a ghost at Mudge Pond.
Here's how we are related to our Mudges: Jarvis Mudge married Rebecca (the witch) and had Micah Mudge. Micah married Mary Alexander (from Scotland) and had Ebenezer (the ghost). Ebenezer married Abigail Skinner and had Deborah Mudge. Deborah married Oliver Tryon and had Abigail Tryon. Abigail married William Levi (the Hessian soldier) and had Mariah Levi. Mariah married John Demouth and had Jacob Demouth (who fought in the Civil War.) Jacob married Cordelia Martindale and had Samuel DeMouth (who fought in the Spanish-American War in the Philippines). Samuel married Elzora Pierce (and together with their children they practically starved to death on the prairie) and had Thelma DeMouth. Thelma DeMouth, the artist who painted L'Allegro, married Forrest Zimmerman and had Dianne. Dianne Zimmerman married Paul Stevens and had Dawne Stevens. Dawne married Jason Pamplin and had ... you wonderful children.!
So aren't you glad about the Mudges?Love,
GrannyI found the following reference regarding an Isaac Lamb, Abigail his wife, and Job Mead in a book at WI State Historical Society. This Isaac lived in Amenia, NY, very close to Sharon, CT. However, it now appearss that this may have been a different Isaac Lamb. According to my correspondent, Mr. Layton, The Issac Lamb in Amenia was the son of William. Our Isaac Lamb was the son of Isaac Lamb. That Isaac Lamb died before 1790 according to FamilySearch. Right now (3/2012) I'm keeping my mind open.
31 Aug 2004:In response to a Query about the meaning of a finding re: Isaac Lamb's death referenceIntestate:Lamb, Isaac - Amenia, US Army soldier Date: 5/11/1792 To whom assigned: Abigail, his widow, renounced her rights and Job Mead, Amenia farmer (source: Dutchess Co., NY Probate Records 1787 - 1865; Register of Wills and letters Testamentary and of Administration in the Sur, Rhinebeck, NY 12572.)
" I received the following: I have a book "United Presbyterian Church in Amenia: History 1748-1910" that I purchased when I was there last week, while researching for my FARR ancestors in Amenia. In the records, it has an Isaac Lamb in 1758, donating 8 L to the building of the Red Meeting House. There is also a David Lamb donating 1 L , Nathan Mead Jr 6 L, Eli Mead 1 L, and Joab Mead 4 L - 10 S. ( L= pounds S= shillings). There is no baptismal records for either of these families between 1749-1775. There were no baptism records at all for the church between 1775-1786. Job Mead is mentioned in 1794 and is refered to as Capt Job Mead, and serving on the church committee. The Church was staunchly Puritan up til 1788, when it began it's move to Presbyterian. In 1800, Capt Job Mead donated $16.25 towards repairs to the church, Job Mead Jr 3.25, Nathan Mead 3.00. I do not find any Lamb's at all. Capt Job seems as tho he is a prominant figure within the church, until his death in 1819. I do have a copy of the Old Amenia Cemetery, showing all the graves, and who is buried where. I do not find any Lamb's as being buried in this cemetery (that I can see). I do find Mead's. There are other cemeteries in the Amenia area tho. Now, as to the meaning of what you found. I am going to venture a good guess at it. There was a lot of curfuffle happening in the church for some time. Some had left and became members of the newly formed Baptist church in town, not agreeing with the ways and administration of the Amenia Church. The church council changed the terms of covenant several times over the years. Being a member, you were to be totally committed, financially as well as spiritually. The church was one of great strictness it seems, almost to a form of a dictatorship by the elders. One of a few things could be probable. a) When Isaac died, his wife Abigail renounced her rights to his ownings, as well as Job Mead, as a leader of the church, as to what the church should get. b) Isaac owed Job monies, which he chose not to collect, being Bretheren to Isaac. c) depending when it was probated, it could have been that Abigail would receive nothing if she should re-marry (possibly, Mead). I do find an "A. Mead" buried in the cemetery near Capt Job. The financial records I found as charts in the book. I will read more of the actual text, and see if I can find more about Isaac. Good Luck ...... Mark"
From Rootsweb TRYON-L Archives
Archiver > TRYON > 1997-03 > 0858402308
5. Quaker Births & Deaths from Oblong M.M. H974.733 9(?) F93: Heads of
Families at Oblong, 1761, p.37 TRYON-children of Oliver TRYON and
Deborah [MUDGE] [I've changed the foll data from narrative to list for
ease of reading. det]
Oliver Tryon
+ Deborah [MUDGE from 7. below-det]
=2E. William, born, 10 of 7m, 1746
=2E. Samuel, 27 of 7M, 1747
=2E. Deborah, 19 of 6M, 1749
=2E. Oliver, 2 of 6M, 1752
=2E. Abigail, 1 of 6M, 1754
=2E. Ziba, 31 of 3M, 1756
=2E. David, 2 of 9M, 1760.I have a copy of letter from Haviland Records Room, Records Committee,
New York Yearly Meeting, Religious Society of Friends, 15 Rutherford
Place, New York, N.Y. 10003, dated 18-VII-1984 to Ramona [Manchester]
Tryon, R.D. # 2, Schoharie, NY 12157 who was source of all herein (Items
1 to 7). It deals with information found in Albany by Ramona in volume O
5/1149, Oblong Monthly Meeting, Register, 1745-1783, p.199, Oliver's
arrival at Oblong in 1760/61; the lack of knowledge of whence he came
because "the register preceding this one has been lost." There is an
interesting short statement on when/where Friends settled. There is no
further mention of the Tryon family in the Oblong records.From WikiTree:
"Categories: Oblong Monthly Meeting, New York | Tryon Family in America.
Quakers
Oliver Tryon was a Quaker.Oliver was born in Wethersfield on December 15, 1715, the son of Ziba Tryon and Dorothy Baldwin.[1]
Baptism
Oliver, child of Ziba, bp December 18, 1715[2]
Marriage
Oliver is said to have married Deborah Mudge in Sharon, CT before 1746. While no specific record of the marriage itself has been found there is other evidence that Olver and Deborah were married. In Sharon, Connecticut on the 19th of May 1758, Oliver and Deborah Tryon signed, together with other heirs of Ebenezer Mudge, an undertaking to divide Ebenezer's estate amongst themselves without resorting to administration.[3]
Oliver Tryon appears with his wife (not specifically named) in the Oblong [Dutchess County, New York] Meeting for 1761.[4] Part of the Oblong in Dutchess County, New York and Sharon, Connecticut are only about three miles distant from each other and there is quite a bit of evidence that families settling in the Oblong in Nine Partners and the area of New Milford, North East and Amenia kept close links with nearby Sharon and vice versa.
Children
Oliver and Deborah Tryon are said to have had seven children. They are:
William Tryon (b July 7, 1746),
Samuel Tryon (b July 27, 1747),
Deborah Tryon (b June 19, 1749),
Oliver Tryon (b June 02, 1752),
Abigail Mudge Tryon (b June 1, 1754 in Sharon, CT) m Wm Levi by whom she had 7 children, also Isaac Lamb (no children),
Ziba Tryon (b March 31, 1756), and
David Tryon (b September 02, 1760, Wethersfield Township, Hartford, CT).[5]
David Tryon appears in the Quaker records as marrying a woman not named in the record before 25 Nov 1784. This is almost certainly Mary Wakeman Pierson, who he is said to have married September 09, 1784. He was disowned by the monthly meeting December 15, 1784.[6] This indicates he "married out" -- that is, married a non-Quaker, a common reason for disowning.
Sources[Quaker Births From Oblong Monthly Meeting], Dutchess County, New York, LDS Film # 873511, Records of Josephine Frost, Transcribed by Debbie Axtman, Pages 37-40
↑ Connecticut Vital Records to 1870 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928. Vol. Wethersfield, p. 263
↑ Connecticut, Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920, Volume 126 Wethersfield, p.225. Original record Vol SM p. 50. (ancestry.com)
↑ Alfred Mudge (1868), Memorials: being a genealogical, biographical and historical account of the name of Mudge in America, from 1638 to 1868, private publication, Boston, p. 56
↑ Oblong Monthly Meeting [Quakers], List of Heads of Families from New Milford, Oblong, Nine Partners, Oswego and Peach Pond meetings, for the year 1761
↑ Quaker Births & Deaths from Oblong Monthly Meeting H974.733 F93: Heads of Families at Oblong, 1761, p. 37
↑ Quaker Records: Nine Partners Monthly Meeting, Dutchess County, New York (Ancestry.com)
NotesQuaker Calendar - There has been much confusion over the dates in Quaker records. Friends used numbered months and days rather than what they considered pagan names for them (i.e. "Thursday" coming from "Thor's Day"). Thus, when the secular calendar was changed in 1752, making January the first month instead of March, Friends began calling January "First Month".
Our Mudge story continues with Ebenezer and Abigail's tenth child, Deborah Mudge (b. 1726 Hebron, CT; d. bef 19 Mar 1768). Deborah married Oliver Tryon (b. 1715 Wethersfield, CT; d. bef. 19 Mar 1768). in 1745 and they had seven children. Either one or both of them died before March 19, 1768, because there is a court record of that date naming Elnathan Goodrich as a guardian for their fifth child, daughter, Abigail. Elnathan was a brother of Abigail's uncle by marriage. Let me put that another way. Abigail's mother, Deborah Mudge, had a sister, Martha Mudge. Martha's husband was David Goodrich, David's brother, Elnathan Goodrich. Elnathan became the guardian for Abigail Tryon on March 19, 1768 when she was 13. We don't have any record of what happened to Deborah or Oliver after that point.
From WikiTree: BiographyDEBORAH MUDGE, dau. of Ebenezer Mudge and Abigail Skinner (p. 56), b. in Hebron 1726. She m. Oliver Tryon, of Sharon, Connecticut before 1746. He died prior to March 19, 1767. Probate Court held March 19, 1768, "Abigail Tryon, dau. of Oliver Tryon, late of Sharon, deceased, a minor, ae. 13 years on the first day of June Jast, made choice of Elnathan Goodrich as her guardian."
Child Abigail Tryon b. June 1, 1755
Sources
Alfred Mudge, Memorials: a genealogical account of the name of Mudge in America (1868) (Boston, Alfred Mudge & Son, 1868), OpenLibrary.org, page 73.
Quaker Births & Deaths from Oblong Monthly Meeting H974.733 F93: Heads of Families at Oblong, 1761, p. 37"
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October 31, 2005Dear Children,
Tonight I want to tell you everything I know about:
William L. White
(1839 - 1918)William L. was the oldest son of Irish immigrants, Andrew and Matilda White. They lived in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, in an area near Galena called Irish Hollow. Most of Illinois is very flat, but Jo Daviess County is a part of the Driftless Area that escaped the ice age glaciers. The counryside is made up of very picturesque hills and valleys with the Apple River flowing through it. I loved this part of Illinois long before I had ever heard of Whites or Stevens. When Nana first told me she was born in Apple River, Illinois I knew it was fate that had brought me to join this family.
I have found no record of what the L. in his name stood for. I believe it was Leslie, because one of his sons was Wilbur Leslie, and another was William Wesley. But that's only a guess.
When William was not yet 20 he married a girl down the lane, Rachel Black, whose family was also from Ireland. William's father had to sign for him as he was underage to marry. We don't know what happened to Rachel. Perhaps she died in childbirth as did many women at that time. What we do know is that by September of 1860 William appears on the census living back with his birth family. On April 26 of 1862 he married Ellen Barrett (nee Faragher) a widow with a four year old son, Enoch.
The next we hear about William is when he is acting as executor of his father's estate. His father, Andrew, died on August 23, 1863. His mother had already died, we don't know when. As the eldest son, it was William's responsibility to see that all his father's property and possessions were disposed of properly, a task he fullfilled. He was only 23.
William and Ellen moved to a farm in Apple River township right near Mt. Sumner, a funny mound that juts way up above the surrounding countryside. Together they had eleven children. You can read about their life together and about their children in the story about his wife, Ellen Faragher. They lived there until they sold their farm in 1908 and moved into the village of Apple River. William died there on the 24th of October, 1918, and is buried in the nearby West Ella Cemetery.
In trying to learn about this family I have searched through records from Jo Daviess County and Census records. It has been a little bit difficult because White is a common name. It's amazing how many William Whites there were in the county at the same time. For an example, I found there were four White families farming in sections 34 and 35 of Apple River Township in the year 1878. They were J.C. White, William L. White, William White, Sr., and William White, Jr. Fortunately our William almost always used his middle initial.
The only other thing I know about William is that he was an excellent craftsman with wood. We have a beautiful little drop-leaf table that he made for Ellen. His granddaughter, Helen, told that he made many pieces of furniture for her.
Here's how you are related to William L. White. William and Ellen had William Wesley White. William Wesley White had Helen Frances White. Helen Frances White had Paul Robert Stevens. Paul Robert Stevens had Dawne Irene Stevens. Dawne Irene Stevens had Sarah Elizabeth, Hannah Irene, Timothy Paul, and Rebecca Anne Pamplin. Hooray for William L. White!
Love, Granny
18 April 2007
Dear Children,
Tonight I will tell you the story of our ancestors Andrew and Matilda White. They were your Grandpa Stevens great-great-grandparents on his mother's side. They were both born in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland, Andrew in about 1800 and Matilda in about 1807. They married and came to America about 1833, first settling in Philadelphia where the ship had landed them. There Andrew worked in a dye works and saved money until 1837 when he bought land in Jo Daviess County, Illinois for $1.25 per acre. Andrew and Matilda were the first white man and woman to settle in Elizabeth Township, Jo Daviess County, Illinois.
When I was a young teenager once a year our family would drive from our home in Waukegan, Illinois to visit my dad's parents in Portland, Oregon. We always went by way of Jo Daviess County, Illinois. I called it Apple River Country because we crossed the Apple River. This part of Illinois is filled with rolling hills and woodlands and little farms nestled down in valleys. I thought it the most idyllic country I'd ever seen. Sometimes, on our way home, we'd come through the Apple River country just before sunup and I'd tell my dad, "Be sure to wake me up when we get there." To me that was the best part of the trip. At dawn the land had a hushed and mysterious beauty with the mist swirling gently up from the valleys. I felt like I was looking in on a very beautiful and secret place. One time I wrote a musical composition about it. Ask me to play it for you sometime.
Jo Daviess County, Illinois is very important in our family's story. The Apple River runs through it and it has a small town called Apple River. Imagine my surprise and delight when I married your grandpa and learned that his mother, Nana, was born in my Apple River Country!
What did Andrew and Matilda find when they finally arrived in my Apple River country in 1837 or 1838? The following description comes from a collection of biographical sketches of early settlers, written in 1888 and posted on the website genealogytrails.com.
"At the time Andrew White settled in this county the land around him was in its primitive condition and over it Indians and wild animals roamed unrestrained. The hardy pioneer battled with the elements of the new soil, season after season, under many drawbacks and discouragements, including a distant market, to
which he conveyed his products by the slow methods of horse or ox-team. There probably seldom occurred to him the thought of retracing his steps to a more congenial clime and he persevered until Providence began to smile upon his labors. There opened up slowly from the wilderness the fields of corn and grain
and the other indications of civilization, while around him, here and there, gradually appeared the cabins of other settlers, encouraging him to prosecute his first purpose."It must have been very soon after they arrived that their daughter Mary Jane died there on September 22, 1838 at the age of one year. Isn't that sad? We don't know why she died. At that time many babies and children died of things like diptheria and whooping cough and measles, things we give children shots for nowadays. Andrew settled and farmed in a beautiful corner of Apple River Country, a long winding valley called Irish Hollow, probably one of the very valleys I wrote about in my song. After Mary Jane, Andrew and Matilda had five children; William L., Samuel D., Martha J., Matthew, and Ann Eliza. They must have lost another baby along the way for the biography says the household included seven children, but only five survived to adulthood.
Andrew was an industrious and well-respected member of the community. Following is what was said about him in his son Samuel D.'s biographical sketch in 1888.
"He had become widely and favorably known throughout the county, not only for his pioneer labors in connection with the cultivation of the soil, but for the strength of his character, which left its decided influence upon his community. "
Matilda died on September 13, 1861 before reaching the age of 60. Andrew died two years later on August, 23, 1863. It's hard to tell how old he was. His son's bio says he was about 67. Censuses we have indicate he was born about 1800 which would have made him 63. I don't trust either figure totally. A lot of people didn't keep track of their birthdays in those times.When you look at families over several generations, you can sometimes see interesting patterns. Though Andrew and Matilda did not have twins that we know, there seems to be a higher than average number of twins among their descendants. Andrew's son William had two sets of twins. Samuel D. may have had twins. There were several sets among his grandchildren and children, Elmer Sanderson and Matilda White in particular. Andrew's daughter Martha had twins in a dugout in South Dakota.
Andrew and his family show up on the census in Jo Daviess County in 1840, 1850, and 1860. Many other families on those censuses have connections to our Whites. They are almost all from Ireland. It was common for people coming to America to immigrate to the same neighborhood where other family members were located. For all we know half the residents of Irish Hollow may have been related. But two families in particular stand out for me as being possible relatives of Andrew. I have postulated that Robert and Matthew were Andrew's brothers. Here are some of the connections I found between Andrew White, Matthew White, and Robert White that makes me suspicious that they were brothers: Robert White died in 1849, but his family is living two doors away from Andrew's in 1850 and Matthew White and his family are about ten doors away. Robert's son, Henry, married Andrew's daughter, Martha. If Andrew and Robert were brothers that would mean that Martha and Henry were cousins. It was not uncommon for cousins to marry one another in those days. Another connection is that when Andrew's son, Matthew, went off to the Civil War he went with Samuel and Robert White, two of the older Robert White's sons. Robert came straight to Jo Daviess County from Ireland in about 1847. I believe, as a new immigrant, he came and settled as closeas possible to his elder brother, Andrew. The case for Matthew White being Andrew's brother is even stronger. Matthew and Andrew showed up in Jo Daviess County about the same time, both very early settlers. Both were listed in the Personal Property Assessment of 1839. Both were born in Ireland and came to Jo Daviess County from Pennsylvania. Matthew's wife was born in Pennsylvania as was his first child. Matthew died in 1851, but his daughter's, Eliza Jane's, name appears in Andrew's estate papers in 1863, so there was still a connection. All three Whites had a son named Samuel. The possible brotherhood of Andrew, Robert and Matthew is speculative. I leave it for some future researcher to pursue when perhaps more records will be discovered.
Whether or not they were brothers, these three White families were part of a close-knit Irish community, hence the name "Irish Hollow." This fact becomes apparent in the various records I have been able to look at; censuses, and the estate files of Robert, Matthew, and Andrew. It's always interesting to read what items are sold at a persons estate sale and what prices they bring. I also found it interesting who the people were who bought the items and who were mentioned as debtors or creditors to the estate. Following this story is a list of some of those people and their connections to Andrew, Robert (d. 1849), and Matthew (b. 1812) White.
Among the sources for Andrew in this history is the listing of all the items sold at the estate sale. Along with all the farm tools and household goods listed are over a dozen books, one entitled History of the World. Andrew's son,William, was able to buy half of them. He also managed to buy most of the livestock. He bought a horse for $30.00, a cow and calf for $11.00, and a bull for $6.50. In light of those prices it is especially interesting to note that by far the most expensive item purchased was a "Snare" bought by William for $80.00! I wonder what that could be. Andrew's daughter, Martha Jane, bought only one item, her dad's watch for which she paid $20.00.
What isn't in the sale record is almost as interesting as what is. There is no mention whatever of the sale of property. The estate document says, "The property of said estate consists of real debts and personal property." Was Andrew able to transfer his farm to one of his sons before he died? From comparing the neighbors of Andrew's 1860 census with those of his son Samuel D. White in the 1870 census it's clear that Samuel D. is living on the property that had belonged to Andrew. He has the Roddens and Hazlitts on one side of him and the Irvins, Sherards, Gales, and Johnstons on the other. We don't know how he came to be the owner.Another interesting omission, Andrew's children Matthew, Samuel D., and Eliza do not appear in the sale records. Samuel is listed in the debts paid as having received $83.00 from the estate, but Matthew and Eliza are mentioned only in the list of heirs. Andrew died in 1863. Both Matthew and Samuel served in the Civil War. They were probably away at war at the time of the sale. Read below about Ann Eliza and you'll understand why she probably didn't participate.
One more item in Andrew's estate papers that was very interesting, there was an order for an autopsy of his body. An autopsy is done when someone dies in a mysterious or unusual way. Did someone suspect he was murdered? I wrote to the county for more information but there was none to be had so this mystery remains unsolved for now.
Now I'm going to tell you a little bit about the two men that may have been Andrew's brothers. Matthew White, possible brother to Andrew,was born in Ireland in about 1812. He married a woman in Pennsylvania and their first child, Samuel, was born there in 1836. They appear in Jo Daviess County about the same time as Andrew does. They show up in the 1840 census in the Small Pox District. I wrote and asked someone about that name and this is the reply I got, "Smallpox Creek runs through the county. It's probably a reference to that." Once in Jo Daviess County Matthew and his wife had children Mary, born in Illinois in 1838, James, Sarah, Eliza Jane, and Matilda. Matthew's wife died before the 1850 census so we don't know her name. In 1859 he married Mary Ann Costello and they had one child, Matthew. Then Matthew Sr. died in 1861 and the baby Matthew died in 1862. Matthew's son James married a German girl named Fanny. They raised at least seven children, first in Missouri, and then Kansas. Matthew's daughter Eliza Jane married James Bawden. They had at least 5 children in Jo Daviess County. Matthew's daughter Matilda married Alanson Crandall and they settled in Iowa.
Robert White, possible brother to Andrew, was born in Ireland and died 12 July 1849 in Jo Daviess County. In 1850 his widow Jane is shown two houses down from Andrew with her children Henry, Samuel, Robert, Henrietta, Thomas, and James. According to the birthplaces and dates listed for the children, Jane and Robert must have immigrated between 1845 and1848. By 1860 Jane is living in Carroll County with her new husband, William Shannon, and their five new children. Her eldest son from her marriage to Robert White, Henry, is still living in Irish Hollow. In the 1860 census Henry is now 21, and head of a family that includes his brother Robert, his sister Henrietta, and Thomas and James, who are designated as nephews. It looks like Henry's mother deserted the family she had with Robert. Robert's estate papers seem to amount to various efforts to force Jane to fulfill her obligations as exectrix of Robert's estate. They are hand written and very difficult to read. Robert's sons Samuel and Robert went off to the Civil War with Andrew's son Matthew. The three of them served together in I Company of the 96th Illinois Infantry.
Robert's oldest son Henry married Andrew's daughter, Martha Jane White. He and Martha had three sons, more about them later. Henry served in the Civil War and reportedly died of his injuries, though he lived until about 1870. Robert's second child, Samuel, raised a family in Jo Daviess County. Henrietta married Robert Moore and raised a family in Carroll County, Illinois. She had twins.Now we'll turn to Andrew and Matilda's five children. What became of them? Their oldest son William L. White is our ancestor. He has his own story.
Andrew and Matilda's second son, Samuel D. White, fought in the Civil War. He was a private with Company D of the 45th Illinois Infantry. He served from Nov 20, 1861 to Dec 30, 1864.
Soon after the War ended Samuel and his brother Matthew married two local girls of French parentage who lived next door to one another. They may have been related. Samuel married Josephine Mougin in September of 1865 and Matthew married Harriet Bonhotal in October 1865. Samuel and Josephine appear to have lived and farmed on the land that had belonged to his father, Andrew. On the 1870 census many neighbors are the same as Andrew's were in 1860. By 1880 though he is still in Elizabeth Township, the neighbors are different so I don't know if he or they have moved. Samuel and Josephine had 16 children but they didn't have very good luck with their children as on the 1910 census Josephine says she has given birth to sixteen children but only 7 are still living. I think there may have been diabetes in that family. The 1910 census also says Samuel is blind. He and Josephine lived out their lives near the place of his birth. Samuel died in 1912 and Josephine in 1914. There are buried together in the Greenwood Cemetery in Galena. Many of their decendants continued to live and farm in the Jo Daviess county. One daughter and one granddaughter married railroad engineers, Lizzie Shellhorn and Myrtle Kish. The Kishes lived in St. Paul, Minnesota. There was at least one set of twins among Samuel's descendants, Vernon and Vera Sanderson. And their daughter Matilda is thought to have had two sets.
Andrew and Matilda's daughter Martha Jane White married the boy next door, her possible cousin, Henry White, son of Robert and Jane White, on December 24, 1861. Their first child, Samuel David, was born in 1862. The Sherard History says Henry fought in The Civil War and died of his injuries. I haven't yet found his military record. After the Civil War Martha and Henry had two more sons, Robert in 1866, and Henry in 1870. By the time of the 1870 census, Henry Sr. had died and Martha and the three boys were living with her brother Samuel. In 1872 she married James Sherard, who had been living with his uncle and family in Irish Hollow. There is no mention of little Henry after the 1870 census, so he must have died, but Sam and Robert as well as their old neighbors from Irish Hollow, James and William Black who were brothers of William L. White's (eldest son of Andrew and Matilda) first wife Rachel Black, all accompanied James and Martha on the three week trek to Dakota Territory soon after their marriage. What an adventure that must have been! The 1910 census shows that Martha has had 13 children, only 9 of whom are living, including twins James and Matilda Sherard. Besides baby Henry, three Sherard children must have died as well. Martha and James were good hearted people. The 1900 census shows them with six children still at home and in addition they are caring for three nieces and Martha's handicapped sister Ann Eliza. Read more about the Sherards in the article titled "Sherard Family" in the sources for Martha. Martha and James lived and farmed in Turner County, South Dakota until they died, Martha in 1914 and James in 1919. Many of their descendants stayed in South Dakota. Some moved on to Oregon.
Andrew and Matilda's third son, Matthew enlisted in the army along with two sons of Robert White, Samuel and Robert, and Josephine Bonhotal's brother, Henry. The three served in I Company of the 96th Illinois Infantry. Matthew received a Distinguished Service commendation. After the war he married Harriet Bonhotal whose parents were from France. I have found her named spelled many different ways, some of them extremely creative. I think this one is right. The 1870 census shows Matthew and Harriet living in Boone County, Iowa with two small children, Louisa J. and Ruben H. By 1880 they are back in Jo Daviess County, Rice, with children Rosie (same age as Louisa should be), Rubie, and Gerty. They are listed on the Census index, but the actual image is not available on Ancestry or FamilySearch.com. However the index shows them living next door to Harriet's mother, Catherine "Bonhotell" on one side and the Augustus and Catherine Mougin family on the other side. The Mougins are the parents of JosephineWhite, wife of Matthew's brother Samuel. Matthew's son Ruben married and moved to Pennsylvania. The genealogy trails story on Samuel D. White (1888) says his brother Matthew is living in northern Wisconsin.
Andrew and Matilda's youngest child Ann Eliza, born in 1846, suffered from some sort of handicap. In the 1880 census she is living with her brother Samuel. The column #20, "Maimed, crippled, bedridden, or otherwise disabled" is checked. Columns 22, "cannot read," and 23, "cannot write" are checked. The 1900 census shows her living with her sister Martha. The word "invalid" is written in the column titled "Occupation." There are "No" s in the columns "Able to read" and "Able to write," but a "Yes" in "able to speak English." At that time and place there were few alternatives to families caring for their own elderly and handicapped members. I'm glad Ann Eliza's siblings rose to the task after her parents were gone.We come to the end of the story of Andrew and Matilda White, our Irish ancestors who immigrated from Ireland and founded a family in the beautiful Apple River Country. Andrew was known throughout his community for the strength of his character as well as his pioneer industry. At least three generations of Andrew and Matilda's descendants were born in Jo Daviess County, Illinois. Though they themselves were immigrants, two of their sons fought in the Civil War to preserve the Union and end slavery. They had books in their home when few did and they taught their children to care for one another. 'Tis a fine legacy we have from our Irish ancestors, Andrew and Matilda White.
Here is how we are related to Andrew and Matilda. Andrew and Matilda had William L. White. William L. had William Wesley White. William Wesley White had Helen Frances White. Helen Frances White had Paul Robert Stevens. Paul Robert Stevens had Dawne Irene Stevens. Dawne Irene Stevens had Sarah Elizabeth, Hannah Irene, Timothy Paul, and Rebecca Anne Pamplin. Hooray for Andrew and Matilda White!
Love,
Granny
# This list is from the creditor and debtors named in Andrew's Estate papers plus the people who bought things at his Estate Sale. In this list * means a near neighbor; the number designates the number of family entries on the 1860 census either Before Andrew (B)or After Andrew (A). + means a probable relative of a near neighbor from the 1860 census. N means a further neighbor, still in Elizabeth Township (Irish Hollow). The place of birth is also listed.+Robert Irwin Crier for the Estate sale
*James Irwin - 2A IRE
*Henry White - 9A Son-in-law IRE
William White - Son IL
*William Rodden- 2B IRE
*Charles Haislitt 1B IRE
*John Fitzpatrick 14B IRE
*William Shererd 3A Uncle of future IRE
son-in-law; signed Robert
White's (d.1849) estate papers
Martin Donnehue 2nd Husband of Matthew White's (b.1812) widow
*Saml. Campbell 6B IRE
+ Robert Irwin IRE
*Michl Donnegan 5A IRE
*Wm & Mary Johnston 6A IRE
*James H Jackson 1A Clerk of the sale IRE
+Anthony Smith
N James Entwhistle
* Robert Young 7A IRE
Martha J. White Daughter IL
*William Gale 4A IRE
*Thomas Knox 13A IRE
Robert Dick Petitioner in Rob't White (d.1849) IRE
& in Matthew White (b.1812)
estate papers
+ Hugh Young IRE
+ Peter McGough IRE
N Eliza Jane White dau Matthew White (b.1812) IL
living w. James Moore family in 1860
was paid $11.00 from the estate
Samuel D. White Son IL
The John Fitzpatrick on the 1850 census with Andrew's family is likely the John Fitzpatrick living with the family of Andrew Akins on the 1860 census, and the John Fitzpatrick who bought items at Andrew White's estate sale on 5 Nov 1863 and the John Fitzpatrick who married Catherine Handling 19 Apr 1863.
In the 1850 and 1860 census she is called "Anna E." In the 1880 and 1900 census she is "Eliza."
Ann Eliza, born in 1846 and the last of Andrew and Matilda's children, suffered from some sort of handicap. In the 1880 census she is living with her brother Samuel. The column #20, "Maimed, crippled, bedridden, or otherwise disabled" is checked. Columns 22, "cannot read," and 23, "cannot write" are checked. The 1900 census shows her living with her sister Martha. The word "invalid" is written in the column titled "Occupation." There are "No" s in the columns "Able to read" and "Able to write," but a "Yes" in "able to speak English." At that time and place there were few alternatives to families caring for their own elderly and handicapped members. I'm glad Ann Eliza's siblings rose to the task after her parents were gone.
Enoch and Ellen had just been married six months. They were at a social gathering. Elleh was in the kitchen with the womenfolk. Enoch was out in the yard pitching horseshoes with the menfolk. Ellen paused in her work to look at her husband through the window. He was standing to the side learning with his rifle propped under his chin. A stray horseshoe came zinging his way. It hit the loaded rifle causing it to fire. Ellen came running from the kitchen. She had seen the whole thing. She cradled his dying head in her dish towel but it was obvious to all that nothing could be done to save Enoch. He died very quickly. But Ellen was five months pregnant and in January gave birth to their son, Enoch Barrett, Jr.
The Ellen Faragher Story
14 October 2005
Dear Children,Tonight I am writing to you about Ellen Faragher. Ellen was a pioneer woman who was strong and brave. She endured a lot of hardship in her life and met it head on, leaving her descendants a legacy of courage in the face of life's disasters, as well as a more material legacy.
Ellen was born on the Isle of Man, an island in the Irish Sea between England and Ireland. She was christened at Patrick, a small village near Peel, on December 26, 1836. Ellen was the 10th child and 8th daughter of a prosperous farm family, William and Ann Kelly Faragher. I say prosperous because they lived in a large beautiful home that even had a name, Ballacooil. We have a picture of it. Though Ellen was the 8th daughter, she didn't have seven sisters to greet her birth. One sister, Ellinor, born in May of 1836, only lived for seven months. You may think it strange that a family would name a baby so closely to another who had died, but this practice was quite common in earlier times. In fact Ellen may have been named Ellinor. In her father's will, he refers to Ellen as "Ellinor."
We don't know very much about Ellen's life in Isle of Man before she came to America. Her granddaughter, Helen Romppainen, was fond of telling that the folk of this island were rugged and independent people. One story Helen remembered of her grandmother was that as a young girl Ellen helped the women with the wash and spread the clothes on the rocks to dry. I always imagined this to be right on the shore of the ocean. In the photo we have of Ellen's childhood home, over on the left edge, we can see something very blue that looks like the ocean.
I want to tell you a few of the things I've learned about this Isle of Man place where Ellen was born. In ancient times Isle of Man was home to people called the Celts. The name of the island is from the a Celtic word for Neptune, Mannanan. The Vikings wreacked havoc on the island in the early 800's. During the 900's they sent settlers and the Isle came under the rule of the Scandinavian kings of Dublin. At that time Man was ruled as part of the Sudreys which are all the little islands west of Scotland from the Hebrides south to Isle of Man. In 1275 Scotland won control of the isle. For the next century or so it went back and forth from Scottish control to English. But by 1406 it was in English hands and stayed there. Something very interesting happened that year. King Henry IV of England gave the island to Sir John Stanley and his heirs on the condition that they send two falcons to every king of England upon his coronation. Why is that interesting? That is the very same Sir John Stanley that is in our family tree on the Derrick line. He was one of our ancestors! Sir John did some good things for IOM. He ordered laws to be written down. He began the practise of trail by jury, rather than trial by battle. And he curbed the power of the church. We'll learn more about him on another day.
Through the years IOM had some good rulers and some bad. During a period when the peoples' rights to their land were not being respected many on the island turned to fishing and smuggling for their livelihoods, a leaning which lasted for a century or more. Today IOM has a vigorous tourist industry and is known as a tax haven. It's very famous for its motorcycle races which we have watched on our TV in Wisconsin. The native language of the Isle of Man in called Manx. The last native speaker of Manx died in the 1970's, but it is now being taught in some schools. Do you think our Ellen spoke Manx? Perhaps. All the farms have names with lots of l's and vowels. I'll bet they are from the Manx language. The Faragher's farm was named "Ballacooil."
The story of how Ellen came to America shows how tough and independent she was. Here is an account of this journey in a letter from her daughter, Lizzie, to Helen in 1962.
"Mother came from England when she was 18 yrs. old. It took 7 weeks to make the voyage from Peel, Isle of Mann, England, to Elizabeth, Illinois by train, stage, and boat. While on the sea she witnessed several deaths and burials of passengers. They would have a short service then lower the bodies by ropes into the deep waters. When she got to Galena (Illinois) she had no way to get to Elizabeth, so she walked those miles to her sister's home and stayed there until she was married to Enoch Barrett in April 1857."
Can you imagine the courage it took for a young girl of just 18 to come to America all by herself in the first place, and then to walk the last 15 miles all by herself through the forest, carrying all her gear with her? We have a beautiful piece of hand woven cloth which she brought with her on that journey from the Isle of Man.Why she came to America is also interesting. Aunt Dorothy in her letters to the Stevens family wrote,
"About Grandma White, I don't know her maiden name. I think it was something like Faricker. The Mormon church today sends out missionaries. In Grandma White's day they sent missionaries to the Isle of Man. A number of Grandma's sisters came to this country to join the Mormon colony."
I have found one sister, Ann, who did come to America and convert to the Mormon faith. Her descendant, Irene Clark, and I have been in contact and have collaborated on the Faragher genealogy. I believe the sister she came to join in Elizabeth was her sister Elizabeth who had married Robert Corris on the Isle of Man. I have combed the 1860 census for Elizabeth, Illinois, and the only person I found that could be Ellen's sister is Elizabeth "Carsis". 1860 Census (Ancestry p.625) lists Robert and Elizabeth "Carsis" born in England, Elizabeth is 36. Ellen's sister Elizabeth would have been 36 in 1860 and married Robert Corris. Robert "Carsis" is also the correct age to be Robert Corris - 35. Another bit of supporting evidence I have found is a Robert Corris listed on the 1855 property tax list for Elizabeth, Illinois. A third reason, Ellen, Elizabeth, Ann, and Jane are the 4 sisters to whom the father left only one pound in his will. Ann and Ellen were both in America when he died. If this is the correct Elizabeth, she also was living in America in 1865 when her father wrote his will. Perhaps we will find that Jane too, came to America. Why did he leave them only one pound each? Perhaps he felt they could be of no use to him in his old age. Because of these three bits of evidence I am 99% sure Elizabeth Corris is the sister Ellen came to be with in Elizabeth, Illinois in 1854.Lizzie says Ellen lived with her sister until she married Enoch Barrett, March 14, 1857. Enoch was born on July 15, 1834, in England, the son of Michael and Annie Barrett. On the marriage certificate Ellen's name is written "Hellen Fariher." Lizzie's letter describes what happened next.
" Enoch B. was killed in October as he stood leaning on a gun, watching a game of horse shoe, when a horse shoe hit the hammer of his gun and it went off and killed him. Mother was in the kitchen helping with dinner for a crowd of men and heard the report of the gun and saw Enoch fall. She ran out and took off her apron and wrapped his head with it. And there, alone left, she struggled on until Jan. 12, 1858 when her baby Enoch was born."We don't know where Ellen went after her husband died. Life must have been very hard for a single mother in those days. In the 1860 census Ellen and baby Enoch are living with the family of William and Eleanor Ludener. William's occupation is listed as miner. Ellen's description says, "Eleanor Barrett, age 23, seamstress, born in England." Perhaps she was trading her sewing skills for room and board for herself and little Enoch.
Ellen was on her own for five years. On April 26, 1862 she married William L. White. William had also been married before. He had married Rachel Black, a girl who had grown up very near to himself. We don't know when or how Rachel died. Adding to little Enoch, William L. and Ellen had eleven children together, including two sets of fraternal twins, and three more children that died in infancy and of whom we have no record. That made a family of 11.
William L. and Ellen had a farm in Section 35 of Apple River township, Jo Daviess County, Illinois. It was right near a huge hill called Mt. Sumner. We have a photo of the farm house. Nana never tired of painting it. It was the house where Nana (Helen) was born. Life was a hard lot for a farm woman in those days. Aunt Dorothy wrote about it in her letters.
"I don't know if many people nowadays have cisterns or not. There was one on our Illinois place. (This would be the Apple River farm.). . . My but life is much easier on womenfolk than it used to be. We don't have the big ironings they used to have to do. Grandmother White had to have every sock ironed. Everything had to be ironed. The water had to be hand pumped and carried in pails. It was necessary to boil the clothes. The bar of soap (one kind was called Octagon) had to be sliced up so as to be softened by the water. We didn't have chore girls, woven metal gadgets to get the sticky particles of food off the dishes. I've heard the practice of saving string made fun of nowadays. There were no tapes or rubber bands for quickly sealing packages. What alot of sewing and mending had to be done!"
Plus cooking everything from scratch for a family of 11 plus any hired help. Plus birthing and nursing and caring for 9+ kids. And she had time to worry if every sock was ironed?Helen White, Ellen's granddaughter, reported that every now and then, maybe once a year, Ellen would simply disappear for two or three days. No one knew where she went, but when she returned they would welcome her back with open arms and say nothing about it. I don't doubt that she needed a vacation!
Another detail of life that Helen remembered was that Ellen gave each of her sons a bearskin coat which she bought for them.
When William and Ellen retired, about 1908, they sold their farm and moved to a new home in the town of Apple River. William died there on 24 October 1918 and Ellen died 6 September 1927 at the age of 90.
Following is a list of the bequests ordered by Ellen's will. Remember that $92 in 1927 would equal $1000 today:
Annie E, White, daughter - $1000.00; the house in Apple River, with the understanding that John K. White may live there also, as long as he likes; all household goods. Annie was also named executor.John K. White, son - 1000.00
Enoch Barrett, son - 500.00Phillip L. White, grandson - 100.00 (Phillip, Dorothy, & Helen; children of Ellen's son William)
Dorothy White, granddaughter - 100.00
Helen White, granddaughter - 100.00
Edith M. Phillips, granddaughter - 100.00 (Edith & Ellen; children of Ellen's daughter Lizzie)
Ellen W. Phillips, granddaughter - 100.00
Howard F. White, grandson - 100.00 (Howard & Merritt; sons of Ellen's son Tibbals)
Merritt W. White, grandson - 100.00
James Barrett, grandson - 100.00 (James, son of Ellen's son Enoch Barrett, Jr.)
Methodist Episcopal Church of Apple River - $200.00 for foreign missions and $200.00 for homeland missions
Any remaining property was to be divided equally among her five living White children, William, John, Joseph, Annie White, and Elizabeth Phillips. After all the above payments were made, $5313.80 remained. $1062.76 went to each of the 5 White children. The $100.00 for grandson Howard was turned over to the county treasurer as no one knew the whereabouts of Howard.
Besides the cloth she brought with her from the Isle of Man, we also have several pieces of furniture that once belonged to Ellen. We have an end table that her husband William made for her. We also have two rockers. One is a platform rocker, one of the first pieces of furniture Ellen ever owned. It's currently upholstered in green velvet. The other is a traditional rocking chair with spindle rungs between the arm rest and the seat. It was at one time covered with white paint and was refinished by Dianne and Jon Stevens. It now has a red velvet upholstered seat.
You may be wondering what became of Ellen's children. Here's a run down.
Enoch Barrett, Jr. - He grew up to be a farmer. He married Margaret Barningham, a girl with no hair and no eyebrows or eyelashes either. It seems strange that Ellen willed the remainder of her estate to only her White children, leaving out Enoch, though he was left $500. Enoch and Margaret had one son, James, after both were in their 40's. James never married. He lived with Aunt Annie until Aunt Lizzie moved in. He did not like Aunt Lizzie. He once told Helen, "Aunt Annie is very religious, but she lives her religion. Aunt Lizzie just talks hers." When he died in the 1960's, he owned several large farms in Jo Daviess County. His estate came to over $200,000 and was left to his cousins.
Rachel never married. She died of a stroke in 1902 at the age of 40.
William Wesley White was our ancestor. He attended Illinois Normal and became a teacher. He lived and farmed in Illinois, Virginia, New Mexico, and Missouri. More about him later.
John K. also attended Illinois Normal. He was a very religious man. His first wife, Emma, died of puerperal fever when their baby, Emma was born in 1895. The baby died too. His second wife divorced him leaving some in the family to think she must not have been quite sane. John was a schoolteacher, however, the 1920 census shows him living with his brother Tibbals in Iowa and working as a chiropractor! On the 1930 census he reports his occupation as house painter.
After John came the twins, Joseph and Annie, born in 1873. Joseph lists "instructor" as his profession on the 1910 census, at which time he was living with Mom and Dad in the village of Apple River. In 1920 he has married a woman 14 years older than himself and they are both working as missionaries in Delaware, Ohio. I cannot find him on the 1930 census, but we know he was still living when his mother died in 1927.
Annie is the one in the family we know most about (next to William Wesley, of course!) In 2002 Paul and Dianne went to Apple River to try to locate the old farm house. At the place where we thought it should be we met two old men, the Williams brothers, in their eighties. They both remembered Annie White, the school teacher. They spoke glowingly of how sweet she was and how much they had loved her. As a young girl Annie was a beautiful blonde. Her brother, William Wesley, counselled her not to marry a certain wealthy gentleman because he was not religious enough. She turned him down and never did marry. Annie taught school for many years. When her parents retired, sold the farm, and moved to town, Wesley encouraged her to quit teaching and take care of them. Annie did so and was paid $2 per week to care for them and keep house. Out of this salary she saved enough to help her niece Helen with her college expenses. When William and Ellen died, they left their home to Annie with the understanding that she would make a home for any White who was down on his luck. Annie lived there with her brother John and the two were good, industrious people. Other Whites came to visit but they seldom stayed because Annie and John were so religious. So they took in other old people who needed their help. When Annie was way up in her seventies and eighties she was painting her two story house and caring for little old ladies. Dianne and Paul Stevens have a beautiful map of the United States which Annie drew and painted when she was 18. She exhibited it in the state fair in 1890 and won a first prize. I believe Annie also played the piano. In Lizzie's letter she mentions inheriting Annie's piano. Annie lived to be almost 85. It's nice to know she is still remembered with respect and affection.
After Joseph and Annie came another set of twins in 1876, Tibbals and Lizzie. Can you imagine? Twins not yet three and Ellen has another set of twins. I'm sure the 10, 12, and 13 year olds had a lot of work to do helping her out. There were no disposable diapers then. And Ellen irons everything - including socks! Do you think she ironed the diapers?
In Ellen's will she calls him George Tibbals, but everyone always called him Tibbals. We have no idea where that name came from. Tibbals was the post master for many years at Oskaloosa, Iowa. He married Ella Francomb and they had one son, Howard. After only 12 years of marriage Ella died and Tibbals married Della Sincox. They produced another son, Merritt. Then Tibbals and Della both died in the terrible flu epidemic of 1923. Tibbals and both wives, Ella and Della, are buried in the home cemetery at Apple River. Howard, just 17(According to the 1920 census, Howard was probably 19 when his parents died), went to live with Aunt Annie and Uncle John in Apple River. A short time later he left for Chicago and was never heard from again. Merritt was a small child of 3 in 1923. He went to live with his mother's Sincox relatives. When he grew up he lived in Virginia and had 6 kids. One daughter came to visit us in about 1973 when she was studying Portugese at the University of Wisconsin.
The 1900 census shows Lizzie working as a schoolteacher. Besides the one letter we have from Lizzie about Aunt Annie's death, everything we know is from her niece Helen. Lizzie married Hayes Phillips, a minister of The Church of the Nazarene. When she became ill with TB they moved to La Lande, New Mexico. There she recovered and took in Edith, a child whose mother was dying of TB. After that she had her own daughter, Ellen. They stayed in the ministry until Uncle John and Grandma White died. Then they came to live with Annie in the big old house in Apple River, Illinois. When Annie died, Lizzie inherited most of the furniture, except for several pieces which went to Helen. Lizzie writes (White, Lizzie - letter to Helen White 31 DEC 1962):
"I had left to me the old family Bible with the family record made out by John and can be depended on. In it he had all the grandchildren's names and ages down to Ellen."The youngest child of Ellen and William L. White, Wilbur, died at the age of 15 from meningitis.
The Williams brother who remembered Annie told us the Whites were all teachers and were all very bright. We know that Wesley and John attended college to become teachers. We know that Joseph, Annie, and Lizzie were teachers at some point in their lives. They may all have attended college, but we can't be sure. Requirements for teachers were different in those days. I have checked with Illinois Normal and they don't have records that far back. But we know the White children must have had a love of learning.
So that's the story of Ellen Faragher from the Isle of Man. She was a strong and independent woman who embarked on a long and difficult journey, becoming our immigrant ancestor. Her life was tough. She watched her young husband die accidentally and struggled through single motherhood. With her second husband she bore eleven more children, only 5 of whom outlived her. She seems to have instilled a sense of religous fervor and a love of learning in her children, sending at least two to college. With her and her husband's hard work and frugality, she was able to leave a tidy inheritance for them when she died.
Here's how we are related to Ellen Faragher. Ellen married William L. White and they had William Wesley White. William Wesley married Adie Nicklaus and they had Helen White whom we call Nana. Helen married Harold Stevens and had Paul Stevens. Paul married Dianne Zimmerman and they had Dawne Stevens. Dawne married Jason Pamplin and they had . . . Sarah, Hannah, Timmy, and Becky Pamplin! Hooray for Ellen Faragher!
Love,
Granny
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From Source: Ballacooil means Cooil's farm. On a 1703 census, Thomas Quool lived there.
A Manx Scrapbook
W. WALTER GILL
ARROWSMITH
LONDON BRISTOL
NUMBER ONE OF THE MANX SCRAPBOOKS
First published in 1929
Printed in Great Britain by J. W. Arrowsmith Ltd., 11 Quay Street, Bristol
CHAPTER IV
THE PARISH OF PATRICK.
Patrick has no town, two villages and a hamlet, a nominal railway, few roads, and few people to use them. For these shortcomings she makes up with her abundance of wild land overlooking the sea and Ulster. The ruined Cathedral on the islet of her saint is cartographically in the next parish, but the ruins of her mines unbeautifully remain to her, and her chief river is slowly recovering from their poison. She has a seaboard second in wild loveliness to that of Rushen towards which it ascends, and between it and her mountains a belt of farmland narrows Southward to vanish where they become the cliffs of the Big Bay. Her two ports are ports no longer, and the fishing industry she shared in at Peel is a recent addition to the list of her ruins.