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John C. (3) married Melissa Johnson (3) and had William (4). Louisa (3) married Thomas Harrington, children Jane A. (4) mar- ried John James Walker. Benjamin H. removed to Ohio. Mary A. (4) married D. C. Huckelberry, had Ida (5), Ira (5), Charles (5). Ida (5) married M. N. McCartney and has Marcia May (6) who mar- ried Sidney Howell, they have Sidney Jr. (7) and reside in New York state. Alabeth (6) is a teacher in New York State. Mary A. (4) married second Commodore Friganza of Mound City, Ill. They had Willis (5). Martha A. (4) married Edward Conner of Metropolis, Ill. Joseph (4) and Ellen (4) never married. No knowledge of Frank (4) Joel (3) married Miss Simmons, children Sidney (4), Mary (4), and Ann (4) who married Frank Gillespie, they had Franklin (5), Dora (5), Arminta (5). This family removed to Williamson County. Mrs. Mary Damron, now living, says her father, Martin Harvick had three sisters, one married Jesse Canady, another Sabert Choat. The names of these men appear on the early county records but no further knowl- edge could be obtained of the families.
HEATON
James W. Heaton was born in Kentucky 1832. Came to this county in 1863, settling in Burnside Township. He dealt in tobacco which was one of our staples at that time, but as only a few made fortunes at that business he later settled down to farming. In this he was quite successful. He opened up a large farm and built the present home of Norman Casper. He married Laurinda J. Lindsey,
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had children J. C. B. and J. W. who are the pioneer apple growers of this county and also reside in New Burnside. Another son, N. T. and two daughters, Elmiretta and Effie live in California. "Uncle Jim" as he was familarily called was a devout member of the Baptist Church and an uncompromising prohibitionist. He was charitable, conscientious and was always ready to defend his position on any married Alice Mathis, they had Fred, Roy and Jeanette. Fred married Maud Trovillion; their children are Alice, Pauline, Robby, Fred and Samuel; J. C. B. married second Della Hawkins; W. J. Heaton married Ella Whitnel and they have Lindorf, Herman and Clara. The Heaton brothers are very famous as fruit growers and have taken prizes at every exposition in the United States in the last twenty-five years, as well as Paris, France. Their orchards are wonderful and one is well paid for a visit to them. They have exemplified the adaptabil- ity of the Ozarks for orchards and have set the pace which is being followed not only in this neighborhood but in many parts of this and adjoining counties.
HELM
There seems to be two branches of the Helm family, both coming from Tennessee. Whether they sprang from the same ancestor or not is not known. Thomas Helm was the head of one of these families coming here when his son, Robert A. was a youth. The latter was a member of Smith's Battery of Light Artillery, attached to the 6th Illinois Cavalry and gave his life for his country during the Civil War. The father of Thomas Helm, tradition says, was a soldier of the Revolutionary, serving from Virginia and lost his life at the battle o! Guilford Courthouse. His family followed the trend of immigration and came to Tennessee, and Thomas Helm Jr., continued from there to Johnson County. He married a Miss Cowden and their children were Robert A. (2), Leroy (2) and Elizabeth (2), who married Lee Walker. This family lives in the southeastern section of the county. Robert A. (2) married Mary J. daughter of Thomas Rice, who came originally from North Carolina. They had one son, Senator D. W. Helm, who is a native of this County and the only surviving member of this family. He was reared and educated here, graduated from Southern Illinois Normal, also the Wesleyan Law School of Bloom- ington, Ill. and located in Metropolis. He served Massac as States Attorney three terms and has represented this district in the State Senate several times. He was chairman of the investigating com- mittee to determine whether William Lorimer had been legally elected to the United States Senate, which was known as the Helm Committee. He was a member of the law firm of Courtney and Helm. Senator Helm married Mary, daughter of Henry C. Howell. (For family see Harvick).
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HOGG
Rev. J. N. Hogg was born in Marshall County, Tennessee, 1830 and came to this county with his parents John and Elizabeth (Wolfe), when about five years old. The other children were Matildah (2), who married W. H. Gage. Louisa (2) married J. R. McCorcle, Susan (2) married J. F. Holt. Nancy (2) married Calvin Pearce, they had Susan (3) who married James M. (see Price). Mary E. (2) married first G. B. Harvick, second James Slack. She says her father was a soldier in the Indian War and her grandfather was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. Rev. J. N. (2) married Rebecca (see Harvick). He was reared in this county and entered the ministry of the Presby- terian Church and preached for many years, removing from here with his family to Bethany, Ill., about middle life. There is a large fam- ily by the name of Hogg, properly spelled Hogue in this county be- side those given, all the same family, but different branches. This family must have come here later than most of the families given as their name is not found on the earliest records.
HOOD
James Hood came to this county from Tennessee about the time of the Civil War. He was a native of North Carolina and married Mary Buie. He settled near Mt. Pisgah neighborhood. Their chil- dren were Robert (2), Daniel (2), Washington (2), Gilford (2), Nel- son (2), Samuel and Elizabeth (2), Sarah (2), Isabelle (3), Telitha (2). Robert (2) married Amanda Ferguson, they had Ann (3), Frank (3), Mary (3), John (3). Ann (3) married M. M. Wilkerson, children Charles (4), Cora (4), Frank (4), Mary (4), Nellie (4), James (4). Frank (3). married Zora (see Bridges). Mary (3) married George Jones, children Herbert (4), Maud (4), Edna (4). Maud (4) married Paul (see Phelps). Daniel (2) married Margaret Davis, they had Charles (3), who is our present Coroner; William (3), Hillery (3), Washington (2) married Martha Sexton, they had Jennie (3) who married John Martin. He married second Victoria Maxey, children Fred (3), Harry (3). Fred (3) married Blanch Boyt of Mound City, where they reside. Harry married Tate Dougherty. He served Alex- ander County as Judge. Gilford (2) was a soldier of the Civil War. He married first Amanda Niblock, they had Lily, who married J. C. Kearney; he married second Adaline (see Whittenberg). Mathew (2) married Kate Adams, children John (3), Ester (3), Ellen (3), Florence (3). Samuel (2) married Caroline Jones, children Gussie (3), George (3), Ella (3), Laura (3), Josey (3), Frank (3), James (3). Elizabeth (2) married William Lowery. Nelson (2) never married. Sarah (2) married Jesse Fain. Isabelle (2) married Edward Dooley. Telitha (2) married James Furguson, children Matildah (3), Dona (3), James
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(3), John (3). Robert Hood (2) lived to be ninty-one years old, farmed in the south western part of the county all his life. He was a Mason, I. O. O. F. and a republican.
HOWELL
Just what time the Howells came to this county is not known. Tradition says the father was a resident of Kentucky and decided when an old man to move to Missouri. On their journey the father died in this county and the mother and family concluded to make this their home. That they were among the early pioneers is evident by their intermarriage with the old families. The brothers and sisters were, Henry Cook (2), who married Peggy Johnson (see Harvick). Samuel (2) married Jane (see Simpson). A. D. (2) married Dulcina Poor, and had Thomas M. (3), James (3), Samuel P. (3), Hissouri (3) married Lewis (see Walker). James (2) married Sarah Rentfro. Joseph (2) married Jane Rentfro. Brilla An n(2) married Joshua (see Simpson). Elizabeth (2) married Mr. Emerson. Jane (2) mar- ried Mr. Rentfro.
HOWERTON
The Howertons of this county are descendants from Benjamin F. Howerton, a native of Virginia, whose father it is said was a Colonel in the Revolutionary War. John W. was a son of Benjamin and was born in Tennessee, 1821. He married Sarah Casey (3), daughter of Randolph and settled near what is now New Burnside, 1842. They had Randolph who married Eliza McCuan. John married Missouri Boozer, Rebecca married Allison Clark. Elizabeth mar- ried John Taylor. Ruth married George Boozer and Sarah married James Allen. Paul of New Burnside and Mrs. Minnie Holaway are children of John. John and Randolph were teachers of this county. John is a resident of New Burnside and does the legal business of that village.
HOFFMAN
Christian Hoffman the founder of the Hoffman family in the United States was a native of the province of Hesse, Germany, and was the father of five sons, one of whom, John, was indentured to pay the passage of his father's family to America. They settled in Alamance County, North Carolina which joined Guilford County. John Hoffman built a mill on Back Creek, Alamance County. He married a Miss Ingle. He died about 1836. Their children were George, Daniel, Christian, John, Jacob, Henry and David. George married Eliza Shoffner and they had nine children one of whom was Hillery who married Siloma Clapp. George H. Huffman was a native of Gilford County, North Carolina and a son of Hillary and Siloma. His father moved to western Tennessee and on account of his union
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sympathies, removed from there to Johnson County, 1860. Of a family of several children all have left the county, except George H .. A brother resides at Grand Tower, this state and a sister Mrs. Alice Meredith lives in Lincoln, Nebraska. Mr. Huffman enlisted in the Civil War under Captain Perkins in the 14th Illinois Cavalry, which belonged to Sherman's Army. Their campaign was mainly in Tennes- see and Georgia, they were also on that famous march to the sea. He was a prisoner for eight months in the historical Andersonville, Libbny and other prisons, but was finally taken to Goldsboro, North Carolina, where he escaped. In 1922 he visited his old home in com- pany with a son and daughter and also the neighborhood of his last imprisonment, and showed them the route of his escape. They met the families of the people who had helped him in getting away. Those who actually assisted him to escape have died or moved away. He was secreted by Lazarus Pearson, a quaker, for seven days, an dthis good man gave him his exemption papers for which he had paid the Confederacy $500.00. Mr. Huffman's companion in escape was Henry . Preston. The quaker gave him his son-in-law's papers and accom- panied by Mr. Pearson's two daughters, they passed the Confederate lines with safety. At the close of the war, Mr. Huffman returned to this county and engaged in such persuits as blacksmithing, farming stock raising and occasionally operating a saw mill. He was unfort- unate in losing one arm in an accident may years ago, while engaged in the latter business. He was our county treasurer for four years. Recently he retired from active business. He and family are mem- bers of the Methodist Church of Vienna where they have resided for some time. He is also a devoted member of the G. A. R. Post there being very few left at the present time. He married Mary, daughter of Thomas Jones, a member of one of the old families of the county. Hoffman is the correct way of spelling the name and is still used by the families residing in the original location, but the families of this county spell the name with a u.
HUFFMAN
Charles J. is a son of George H. and Mary (Jones) Huffman. He is a native of this county and was educated in the schools of this and Massac Counties. He served as deputy Post Master under W. H. Gilliam for some time and took up the study of law. He spent one year in the Law Department of the University of Illinois and on going to Washington, D. C. as secretary to P. T. Chapman he entered George Washington University and graduated from the law depart- ment of that school, 1907. Since then he has maintained an office in Vienna and practiced his profession in this and other courts. He was elected States Attorney for the county 1920. He is a mason and
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a K. of P. He and wife are Republicans, members of the Methodist Church and Egyptian Chapter number thirty O. E. S. (see Simpson).
F. M. Huffman is also a son of the above named parents. He served abroad with the 47th Inf., 4th Div., was commissioned Lieut- enant in the 51st Inf., 6th Div., was overseas 11 months. He is one of Vienna's energetic and progressive business men, conducts a Gents Furnishing store and also owns quite a good deal of real estate. He is a mason, a republican, a member of the Methodist Church and active in the American Legion Post of Vienna. He mar- ried Nellie Gray. (see Simpson).
JACOBS
Luther F. Jacobs was a native of West Fork Hundred, Sussex County, Del., born 1832, a son of Stansberry and Henrietta (White). Mr. Jacobs was a well educated man and taught in this county many years and also followed farming and fruit growing. He served in Co. H., 31st Ill. He married Francis Short and they settled in the part of the county known as the "Neck" where they raised their family, namely Charles, Ettie, Alice, George, B. K. and Bertha.
JOHNSON
Jasper was a son of Peter and Sarah (Harell) Johnson, born in this county. He was a teacher in the fifties and was Postmaster in Vienna in 1861. He served in the 31st Illinois Regiment during the Civil War. He removed to Chicago after the war where he reared his family. (For family see Simpson).
JONES
Etheldred Jones was among the earliest settlers of this county; he was of Scotch ancerstry, but whether a native of Scotland or North Carolina is not known. He came from North Carolina to Tennessee and from there to this county. He had children Mary (2), Susan (2), Clara (2), William T. (2) John (2), Lorena (2). Mary (2) maried John Wise; Susan (2) married Rayford Pearce, Clara (2) married Newton Pearce. William T. (2) married Eliza (see Carter). John (2) married Jane Smith. Lorena (2) married Have Davidson.
James Jones was born in Tennessee in 1779, and there seems to be no history farther back than that date. He settled on what is now a part of the Oliver farm. The exact date is not known, but he lived there in 1825. This farm is located about two miles west of Vienna and now owned by J. C. Chapman and G. B. Gillespie (1924). James (1) had a son by his first marriage, Henry (2), born 1793, who tradition says, settled near the present site of Goreville and is the ancestor of Thomas M. James of that neighborhood. James (1) married second, Elizabeth White and their children were James (2).
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born 1801; Bennett (2) born 1804; Andrew J. (2) born 1809; Milton (2) born 1810; William (2) born 1812 John (2) born 1813; Polly (2) born 1815; Thomas (2) born 1817; Harvey (2) born 1819; Susanna Ann (2) born 1820; Patsy (2) born 1823; Lucinda (2) born 1825; Juliet (2) born 1830; Elizabeth (2) born 1831. Bennett Jones (2) was sheriff of this county many years ago. Susan Jones (2) married Samuel Jobe (see Simpson). Patsy (2) married William (see Simp- son). Elizabeth (2) married Samuel Glassford, after her death he married Juliet (2) (see Glassford). Thomas (2) married Amanda (see Simpson). He was prominent in the business affairs of the county, was appointed drainage commissioner of this county in 1852 and served in the State Legislature from this county from 1856 to 1858. He lived in Simpson Township. Family tradition says Will- iam removed to Missouri in the neighborhood of Lebanon, no history of this family.
KERLEY
Thomas Kerley, the ancestor of the family in this county, was a native of North Carolina and of Irish descent. He came the usual route, living a while in Tennessee and then on to Illinois, in 1840. He settled in Pope County and later came to what is known as "Flat- wood" in Simpson Township. He married Miss Meredith in Tennes. see, whom the biographer of Dr. T. B. Kerley says, raised a family of fourteen children and at her death had one hundred and thirty-six descendants. James L. Kerley (2) born in Tennessee in 1836 was one of these children. He was a progressive and substantial farmer of his neighborhood and married Mary J. McKee, who had Sarah Cath- erine (3), Joseph A. (3), Thomas B. (3) Allen (3), Gilbert (3), and Hattie (3) who married a Mr. Ditterline. James L. (2) married Susan McKee, second and they had Hillis (3). Dr. T. B. (3) was raised on a farm and began the study of medicine under Dr. J. H. Simminons, of Simpson. He later graduated from the college of Physicians and Surgeons at Keokuk, Iowa, 1888, and has practiced in Simpson and vicinity continuously since. He also is interested in farming and was one of the founders of the Simpson bank. He married Mary E. Simmons and the children are Granville L. (3), who is a physician of Denver, Colorado; Lindorf L. (3) was a gradu- ate of the Bloomington Law School of this state, and began practice in Chicago, moving his practice later to Denver, Colorado. He en- listed in the World War, was commissioned Lieutentant, served in France and was killed in a railroad wreck near Orleans, France, December 5, 1918. His remains were brought to the United States in 1921, and interred in the Fraternal Cemetery, Vienna, Ill. Delbert R. (3) is cashier of the First Bank of Simpson. He married Dimple Simpson, and their children are Homor (4), Maurice Lindorf (4).
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Orlin R. (3) a resident of Simpson, married Mary Cowan and they have Thomas Granville (4).
Quillin T. Kerley is head of another branch of this family in the county. He came here in 1852 and married Elizabeth R. Simmons. After her death he married Fannie Shirk. They had Rebecca (2), James (2), Jerome (2), Robert (2), Dilard (2), Quillin A. (2).
KUYKENDALL
Hon. A. J. Kuykendall was a prominent man in the medievial days of Johnson County. He descended from a Holland family who came to North Carolina in Colonial times. Joseph, his father was a native of that state but moved to Kentucky with his brother's family in an early day. Joseph married Mary Taylor of Kentucky and re- sided there till 1815 when he set out with his family to the Territory of Illinois. It was while enroute to Johnson County that Andrew J. was born 1815 in what is now Hardin County. The father settled on a farm near the present site of Sanborn.
The white inhabitants were very few in Illinois at that time and most of them were in the southern part of the state. Deer, bear and other wild game were plentiful. The opportunities for an education were very meager and A. J. could claim only a course of three months schooling. He applied himself to study and began teaching small children. He continued his self education along the line of law and was admitted to the bar, when he began the practice of law in Vienna, about 1845. Early in his business career he took active interest in politics and served in the State Legislature in both House and Senate, several sessions, having been elected first in 1842. He had been a Democrat in politics supporting Douglas in 1860, but. when the Civil War broke out and Governor Yates called a special session of the Legislature, he declared himself in favor of the pre- servation of the Union, and voted for men and money to put down the rebellion. On his return home he assisted in raising a regiment, which became the famous 31st Illinois Volunteer Infantry, with John A. Logan as Colonel and A. J. Kuykendall as Major. He later resigned his commission and was elected to Congress from this district, which was then the thirteenth, 1864. Mr. Kuykendall was successful in his legal profession but was also fond of farming, and devoted much of his time to that business, and stock raising, in his later years. He served the county as prosecuting attorney and judge and was a help- ful concillor in many movements for the progress of our county and owned interests in different businesses in the town. He owned and operated the Star Mill; built the large dwelling on the brow of the hill on West Main Street, known as the Blanchfill Place. He later built a handsome residence just south of town where he spent his
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decling years. He married Cynthia (see Simpson). Joseph Kuy- kendall, the pioneer had James (2), Andrew J. (2), and a daughter who married a Mr. Smith and removed from the county. Joseph married second a Miss Cooper and their children were Joseph (2), Mrs. James Peterson (2), Mrs. H. Taylor (2), Mrs. Hood (2), Fannie (2), who married Dean Harper and Mrs. Giles Taylor (2). (See Taylor).
J. B. Kuykendall is a native of this county and a son of Major A. J. and Cynthia (Simpson) Kuykendall. He was born near Tunnel Hill in 1842, and enlisted in Company D., 31st Illinois Volunteer, 1861, when very young. He served as adjutant of his regment with the army of the Tennessee, and took part in the battles of Belmont, Jackson and the sieges and capture of Vicksburg. He was later placed with Shermans command and honorably discharged as a lieut- enant in 1864. He began soon after the war as a merchant in Vienna, but later entered the milling business, which he followed more than fifty years. He is at this writing a very active man of eighty-two years. He retired several years ago when his mill was de- stroyed by fire, from a very successful career. He is a Mason. a republican, and he and wife are members of the M. E. Church. For family (see Simpson).
LADD
Milton Ladd was prominent in public affairs in our early history. He was said to be a minister, but his denomination is not known. He was commissioned to survey land at different times by the county. His mother was the daughter of Elisha Reynolds. The only other knowledge of his family is that he had a daughter, Nancy, born in this county, 1824. She married J. M. Davdige in 1840, a lawyer reared in Louisville, Kentucky, and who resided in Vienna a short time, prior to 1843, but removed to Pulaski County, near what is now Olmstead. His father was Razin Davdige, also a lawyer of Kentucky. The mother of the Drs. Whitnel who came to this county from Kentucky, was a Ladd, but it is not known if they were con- nected with this family. Another daughter of Milton Ladd married Jackson Simpson, when he was past middle life.
LAUGHLIN
Reverend Reuben Wilson Laughlin was born 1831 in Caldwell County, Kentucky and came with his parents to Johnson County when six years old. He was converted when only seven years of age, and when sixteen he received a clearer vision of what it meant to be a Christian, which profession he followed his long and examp- lary life. He united with the M. E. Church and was licensed to preach at Old Reynoldsburgh 1854. Rev. E. Joy was the presiding
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elder. Father Laughlin, as he was known, served twenty-three differ- ent charges and often filled the pulpit after he was superannuated. He was the oldest member of the Southern Illinois Conference, at his death. He married Nancy Triplett who was born in South Carolina, 1829. They lived together sixty-six years, and died on the same day, Jan. 25, 1917, at Vienna, Ill. Their children were E. J. who resides in Max, Neb., G. E. lives at Malvern, Iowa, Mrs. P. E. Curlee resides at Pine Bluff, Ark. Mrs. May, wife of John F. Cavitt resides at Tunnel Hill and has Ruth. Rev. and Mrs. Laughlin reared their granddaughter, Gail, who married Alonzo Ramey and resides in Vienna, Ill.
LAWRENCE
The Lawrences are an old and large family of New Burnside community. They came here before the war. Henry, Newton and William were brothers. Two of the second generation were Frank who married Miss Morray, a daughter of Captain J. B. and Lem as he was known who married Phoebe Dalton. Dave, Ray and Frank are of the younger generation still. Some of the second generation served in the Civil War. The family lines could not be traced out. They were influential and widely known citizens. The Grand Army Post at New Burnside was named in honor of William Lawrence.
LAYBOURN
H. C. Laybourn was a native of Ohio, moved to Burnside in 1889. He served in Co. A., 66th Ohio in the Army of the Potomac and was wounded at Peach Tree Creek in 1864. He was the corre- spondent for the county newspaper from New Burnside for many years, was a great Sunday School worker and held office in the Johnson County Sunday School Association twenty-five years. He married (first) Sarah L. White of Ohio, they had Albertie, who mar- ried T. J. Matthews, and Dr. C. W. Laybourn who was for many years connected with the Haley Eye Infirmary of Centralia, Ill., but is now a resident of California. He married (second) Julia Lambert, and had one daughter, Mrs. George W. Shelton of Leadford, Ill. He died 1923.
LOONEY
Honorable W. A. Looney was a prominent physician of Vienna who was born in Henry County, Tennessee in 1831. His father W. E. was born in North Carolina and was a son of Samuel, who it is believed, was a native of Ireland, emigrating to this country from the Isle of Man. The parents of W. A. moved to Mississippi where his father died when he was two years old. His mother returned to Tennessee, later married David T. Whitnel and removed to Ken-
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