Combined history of Randolph, Monroe and Perry counties, Illinois . With illustrations descriptive of their scenery and biographical sketches of some of their prominent men and pioneers, Part 87

Author: McDonough, J.L., & Co., Philadelphia
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.L. McDonough & Co
Number of Pages: 578


USA > Illinois > Perry County > Combined history of Randolph, Monroe and Perry counties, Illinois . With illustrations descriptive of their scenery and biographical sketches of some of their prominent men and pioneers > Part 87
USA > Illinois > Randolph County > Combined history of Randolph, Monroe and Perry counties, Illinois . With illustrations descriptive of their scenery and biographical sketches of some of their prominent men and pioneers > Part 87
USA > Illinois > Monroe County > Combined history of Randolph, Monroe and Perry counties, Illinois . With illustrations descriptive of their scenery and biographical sketches of some of their prominent men and pioneers > Part 87


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PRESENT BUSINESS.


Cox's Coal Mine is owned by Joseph Cx, and is leased and worked by P. White. The shaft is two hundred feet deep, through which are raised daily from seventy-five to eighty tons of coal. The machinery is operated by a thir- teen horse-power engiue. The vein is six feet, and fifteen men are employed in mining the coal.


Barber's Coal Mine is owned and operated by D. C. Barber The mine is worked by a shaft two hundred feet in depth The coal is raised by a thirteen horse-power engine from a vein six feet in thickness. Fifteen men are employed, and about seventy five tons of coal are raised daily. The tunnel to connect these mines and to afford ventilation and safety for them is rapidly approaching com- pletion.


Tamaroa Mill .- The original mill, built by B. P. Curlee and A. Anderson, was burned in 1861. These gentlemen immediately rebuilt the present mill, whose value, including equipments, is about $10,000 . It has three run of burrs, two for wheat and one for corn, and its capacity is fifty barrels a day. The size of the maio building is forty-six by forty feet. There is a shed attachment, forty by ten feet, and an engine room, forty by twenty fect The motive is supplied by a forty horse power engine. The present owner and proprietor is Mr. H W. Adams.


Tumuroa Custom Mill is owned and operated by J. H. Eaton. It is a combined saw and grist mill. The saw mill


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department was built in 1877, and a corn burr with a capacity of one hundred bushels a day was soon added. The sawing department does custom work in hard wood ex- clusively, and is equipped with a " double saw rig " A wheat burr was added in 1881, with a capacity of sixty bushels a day. The grist mill is thirty-five by thirty feet in length and breath, and the value of the entire establishment is about $3 000


R C Ligenbey's Grist and Saw Mills were built by Henry Willis in 1876, and are operated by the present owner. The building is fifty feet in length, and twenty-four feet in breadth. The engine-room is eighteen by twenty-four feet, and the engine has a capacity of sixteen horse-power. The present value of the mills is about 83,000.


Physicians .- T. M. Sans, J. S Williams, F M. Ward, S. J Layman.


Lawyer and Real Estate Agent .- IIenry Clay.


Police Magistrate -John W. Corgan.


Justices of the Peace -W H. II. Large, S L. Willoughby. General Stores .- Blanchard & Co., D. C. Barber & Sons,


D. A. Spencer, A. Blanchard.


Family Groceries .- P White.


Hardware, Stores, Tinware and Agricultural Implements .- M. F. Stone Milo Keck.


Drug Stores .- Williams & Willoughby, B. F. Lipe.


Hotel -A. P. Adams.


Butcher .- John Miller.


Barbers .- James Flener, A Barker.


Harnessmakers -Pierce & Herrin.


Shoemakers .-- F. Ruppe, W. H. H. Large.


Lumbermun .- R. C Nicholson.


Livery Stable .- B. Osborn.


Blacksmiths .- Samuel Robinson, T. R. Harrison, James Taylor, L. Bartneck.


Postmaster and Stationer .- J. B. Swan.


Station Agent .- Nathan Holt.


Carpenters .- W. J. Dingle, Samuel Bear, B. Johnson, J. W. Curlee.


Furniture .- David Johnston.


Grain Dealers .- W. A. Haines, R. H Nicholson, II. W. Adams, J. B. Swan. D. C. Barber.


Agricultural Implements .- John Miller, II. S Patrick, A. W. Adams.


Insurance Agents .- A. Blanchard, M. F. Stone, H. S. Patrick.


Restaurant, Bakery and Confertioncry -Charles and A. Frælich.


Milliner and Dressmaker .- Mrs. A. Kerstine.


SOCIETIES.


Tamaroa Lodge, A. F. & A. M., No. 207, was chartered in 1856. It has a membership of forty brothers, and meets in Masovic Hall. Its financial condition is good. It owns, just outside of the village limits, a cemetery with an area of ten acres. It was laid out in 1862, and is ornamented with handsome and costly monuments.


Perry Lodge. No. 97, I. O. O. F., was chartered in 1850. It is in easy circumstances financially, and has a member- ship of thirty-four. It meets in Odd Fellows' Hall every Saturday evening.


Royal Templars of Temperance .- The objects of this or- ganization are mutual aid and the advancement of temper- ance. It was organized in March, 1877, and it has a present membership of twenty persons. It meets regularly on Mon- day evening of cach week in Royal Templars' IIall.


Appleton was laid out by W. E. Smith, and platted and surveyed by Elijah T. Webb, deputy county surveyor, Sep- tember 23, 1853, and since added to the village of Tamaroa.


Berlin, an obsolete town, was laid out hy N. G. Curlee, in Section 17, T. 4, S. R. 1, and platted and surveyed by Thomas H. Campbell, county surveyor, June 11, 1840.


BIOGRAPHIES.


HON. LYSIAS HEAPE.


AMONG the old settlers of Perry county is the subject of the following sketch. He was born in York county, Peun- sylvania, June 6, 1813. Robert Heape, his great-grand- father, was by birth an Englishman. He came to America while yet a boy and settled in Maryland. His son Robert was born in Hartford county, same State, as was also John Shoek Heape, the father of Lysias. John C. married Mar- tha Allen, who was born in York county, Pa. In 1816, the family came west to Ohio and settled in Fairfield county. There Mr. Heape the father remained until about 1850, when he moved to Indiana, and there died in 1864 at the advanced age of eighty-four years. Of that union there were six children-three sons and three daughters; four of


whom are yet living. Lysias, the subject of this sketch, is the second son and third in the family. Ile was yet in his infancy when the family left Pennsylvania and settled in Ohio. He there grew to manhood, and his first schooling was in a sugar camp, and his teacher a man by the name of McBride. He subsequently attended the subscription schools that were held in the rude log school-houses of half a century ago. When he was eighteen years of age his father gave him permission to go out into the world and do for himself. lle cut timber-did any and all kinds of work that came in his way. In 1838, he married and came west to Illinois. He was attracted to Perry county hy acquaint- ances who had come here from his section of the country, and also his brother who then lived in Jackson county. He


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came in a wagon that contained his household goods and all his worldly wealth. He landed here on the 10th of January, 1840. He prospected around, and in June of the same year entered a quarter section of land in section 7, T. 5 R. 1, and there through the kindness of Mr Holt, now of Tamaroa, he was permitted to live in a cabin, which was upon the latter's land, until he could improve and prepare a habita- tion of his own. The first year he built a small clap board house with puncheon floors-the windows he whittled out with his penknife in his leisure moments, and there he and his wife commenced housekeeping, and there on that same piece of land has continued to the present. He was married on the 22d of February. 1828, to Miss Hannah Reeder, daughter of Joseph and Hannah Reeder. Her mother was the widow of John Logan. Iler maiden name was Hamp- son. There have been six children born to Mr. and Mrs. Hleape, four of whom are living. Their names in the order of their birth are-Eunice, who died in her twentieth year ; William G. who is a farmer and a resident of the county ; Saralı Ann and Martha, who are teachers in the public schools of the county. His wife is a member of the Christian church. From the year 1847 to 1855, Mr. Heape was em- ployed by the association of the Christian church in Southern Illinois to preach and travel over the district. In that ministry he travelled and preached until his voice gave way, and he was compelled to resign the call. He was well known far and near, and was prominent as a preacher of the gospel for many years in Southern Ills. Politically Mr Heape cast his first vote for Martin Van Buren, but he soon discovered that his party was proslavery. Hle then avowed his abolition sentiments and cast his vote for James G. Birney, and afterwards voted for John P. Hale for president. In 1856, he was one of the few who voted for John C. Fre- mont. Mr Heape has the honor of being one of the original and, perhaps, the only avowed abolitionist who lived here as early as 1840. In 1879, he was elected one of the commis- sioners of the county by the Republican party. This, in brief, is a history of Mr. Heape, who may be termed a pioneer of two States, viz., Ohio and Illinois.


NELSON HOLT.


AMONG the old settlers and pioneers of Perry county, Illinois, is the subject of the following brief biographical sketch. He was born in Monroe county, New York, Janu- ary 6th, 1816. The family is of English descent, the ances- tors of whom settled in Connecticut, where his parents, Con- stant and Sybil (Dart) Holt, were born, reared and mar- ried. They removed to Monroe county, New York, then a wilderness in 1812, and there died. Mr. Holt was raised up on the farm, and received a good English education in his native State. He commenced teaching before he was eighteen years of age, and taught for five winters in his na- tive town. In the autumn of 1839, he came West to Shaw- neetown, Illinois, and taught school there six months. Dur- ing that winter he purchased one quarter section land in section six in T. 5 S. R. I. W. in Perry county. In the summer of 1840, he returned East, and married Eliza G.


Holt of Willington, Connecticut, on the 13th September of that year, and the same Fall moved to their farm in Illi- nois, and there resided until the spring of 1842, when he engaged in teaching school at Pinckneyville for one year. In the spring of 1843, himself and wife went to Jonesboro, in Union county, where they were both employed in teaching school for two years Ile then returned to his farm, and there, in addition to his farming, opened a private boarding school, and continued teaching most of the time until March, 1851. On the 1st day of August of the same year, he ac- cepted the position of Civil Engineer on the Illinois Central railroad, which was then in process of location and construc- tion, and continued in that capacity until April, 1855, when this part of the road was finished and opened for business. Ile was then appointed Station Agent at Tamaroa and has held that position ever since. At the present time he is the old- est Agent and employee of the company, having entered its service in the summer of 1851-nearly thirty-two years ago -the ordinary life-time of an individual. What a record it shows of ability, zeal and faithfulness to the company's ioterest. It speaks volumes for Mr. Holt's honesty and in- tegrity. He is also agent for the St. Louis Coal R. R. Co., originally the Chester and Tamaroa road. He has also been the agent of the American Express Co. for twenty-six years ; also, agent of the Adams Express Co. for several years past.


From the spring of 1846, until the fall of 1851, Mr. Holt was Postmaster of Mt. Hawkins P. O. then located at his house. During this time he also served the county one term as County Surveyor and School Commissioner. In May, 1846, there was one daughter born. She died at the age of six months. October, 1847, another daughter was born named Emma Eliza, who is the wife of Hamilton Cox, as- sistant agent and telegraph operator at Tamaroa. They have two children, named Eliza and N. Holt Cox, twelve and eight years respectively. Mr. Holt's first wife died December 7th, 1870, and on the 16th of October, 1871, Mr. Holt married Mrs. Sophia A. Dunham, a native of Mans- field, Connecticut. Both Mr. and Mrs IIolt are members of the Baptist church, and he has been a member for over fifty years. In politics he is a Republican-is in good health, and bids fair to live and labor for many years to come.


HON. CHARLES E. R. WINTHROP.


THE subject of the following sketch is of English ancestry, and a descendant of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth Rock, in 1620. Members of the family a few generations after settled in New York, and there John S. Winthrop, the father, was born and remained a citizen of that State until his death. The latter event occurred while he was on a visit to his son, the subject of this sketch. In life he was en- gaged in the wholesale dry goods business, in which he amassed a fortune and then retired. He married Harriet Rogers, a native of New York city. She died in 1835. By that union there were ten children, five sons and the same number of daughters. Three of the sous and two of the daughtersare yet living. Charles E. R. is the fouth son.


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He was born in New York city, October 8, 1816. In his youth he enjoyed fair advantages and received a good edu- cation. At the age of seventeen he was placed in charge of a wholesale drug store. During that time the family had moved back to Stamford, Connecticut, but soon after returned to New York. Young Winthrop disliking the drug busi- ness abandoned it, and secured a position as a leveler in the Engineer corps, on the New York and Erie railroad, which was then being built. He served ten months in that capa- city. About that time the State of Michigan was carrying on the general improvement system and were trying to im- prove the St. Joseph river for slack winter navigation. To that point Mr. Winthrop made his way and obtained a simi- lar position. Three months later he was sent to Saginaw, and remained there three years, and then the crash of 1837, so well known in the financial history of the country took place, and all work was suspended. He returned to New York, where he made the acquaintance of a young man who had been to Illinois, and who gave a glowing account of this county. Young Winthrop came here on a tour of observa- tion, and finding the country all that his youthful imagina- tion had painted it, remained here. His arrival dates November 25, 1839. He purchased eighty acres of land in sec. 2, of 5-1, on which was a rude cabin. About fifteen acres of the land were improved and under cultivation. He commenced farming, for which he always had a strong in- elination, and followed it and remained where he settled to the present time. After his first purchase he entered differ- ent tracts, and now owns a fine body of land. On the 21st of February, 1842, be was united in marriage to Miss Delilah Lipe, a native of Jackson county, Illinois. She is the daugh er of Jonas and Esther Lipe. By that union there have been nine children, of whom two sons and three daugh- ters are yet living. Charles E R. died July 2, 1877. He in life married Nancy J. Kirkpatrick, and left one child, named Claude Winthrop. Delilah, wife of Richard Ham- pleman, died February 14, 1881, leaving two children, named Winthrop and Auguste. Harriet R. died in her fifth year, and Emily C. in her third year. The names of those living are John S. who is a farmer. He married Miss Mary Patrick and has six children, whose names are Charles, John, Effie, Elsie, Katie and Walter Scott. Henry R. mar- ried Martha Hutson and has three children, named Carrie, Dempsy and Handlon. Ellen is the wife of Zebedee Ham- pleman. Esther is the wife of W. D. Eaton, and has two children, named Ethel and Roger Eaton. Susan is the youngest of the children and is yet beneath the paternal roof. Both Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop are members of the Missionary Baptist church. He is a member of the A. F. and A. M. and I. O. O. F. orders. Politically he was originally an old line Whig, but joined the Republican party on its organization, and has remained steadfast to its principles ever since. He served one term as Superinten- dent of Public Schools. In 1870, he was elected County Judge. In both positions he gave ample satisfaction, and evidence of his ability to conduct the offices and discharge the duties thereof in the interests of the whole of his con- stituency.


JOHN S WILLIAMS, M. D.


WAS born in Allen county, Kentucky, March 2, 1839. The family is of Welsh descent. Langston Williams, the grandfather of the present family, was born in North Caro- lina, and while yet a young man went to Kentucky and set- tled in Allen county, and there married Ruth McElroy, who was of Scotch ancestry. Of that union was Richard Il. the father of John S., who was born in Allen county, Ky., De- ceruber 28, 1814. He remained a resident of the latter State until the spring of 1840, when he came to Illinois and settled in Perry county in the Grand Cote Prairie. In 1857 he moved to Four Mile Prairie and in 1865 to Six Mile, and there still resides. He has devoted his whole life to farming and stock raising. When the Mexican war broke out, he enlisted in Company K of the 2d Ills. Vols. com. manded by Col. W. H. Bissell, and was orderly sergeant of his company. He took part in the battle of Buena Vista and escaped without a wound. Ile married Miss Nancy Thompson in 1838, who was born in Allen county, Ky. She died in 1840. He afterward married Eliza Gillespie, of Perry county, Ill. She was a native of Tennessee By that marriage there were eight children. By the first mar_ riage there was one son, the subject of this sketch. He was in his infancy when the family came to Illinois, and here in Perry county he grew to manhood and received his educa- tion in the public schools. He remained at home at work on the farm until 1859, when he went to Texas, and there entered Mantua Seminary and remained eighteen months. When the war of the rebellion broke out he enlisted in Co. K of the 16th Texas Cavalry under Col. George Fitzhugh, and remained in the service two years when he was captured by the Union forces when General Banks was on his disastrous Red River expedition. He had become dissatisfied with the cause of the South, and therefore very promptly took the oath of allegiance and came north to his home, and here taught school until 1870, when he concluded to adopt medi- cine as the business of his life, and with that idea in view entered the office of Dr. C. C. Swanwick, of Jackson county, Illinois, and remained until the death of the doctor ; then studied with Dr. Jones, of Pinckneyville. In the winter of 1874-75 he entered the Missouri Medical College at St Louis and took two full courses, and graduated from that institution in the spring of 1876 with the degree of M. D. He commenced the practice in Tamaroa, and by his close attention to business and uniform success in the treatment of his patients, soon built up a lucrative practice. It is hardly necessary to say that Dr. Williams belongs to the regular school of medicine and is also progressive, as is indicated by his membership in the Medical Societies of Southern Illinois, which have for their object the mutual advancement of its members. On the 14th of March, 1875, he was united in marriage to Mrs. Sarah Spiller nee Patrick, daughter of Rev. Hillary Patrick. She is a native of Tennessee. She had two children by her former marriage, whose names are George C. and Maud Spiller. By the latter union there is one son named IIomer Williams. Dr. Williams is a mem- ber of the ancient and honorable order of Masonry, and holds his membership with Tamaroa Lodge. Both he and


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his wife are members of the Presbyterian church. In 1879 he formed a partnership with C. L Willoughby in the drug- business, which firm still continues.


FREDERICK WILLIAMS


THE Williams family un the paternal side is of Welsh descent. Frederick Williams, the grandfather, was born in South Carolina, and was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. He died in that State March 18th, 1808; his son, William Williams, was born in South Carolina in 1773, and there married Martha Wells and in 1807 removed to Christian county, Kentucky, and there died in 1859 Ilis wife sur- vived him and died in 1876, aged ninety-one years. There were eleven chikdiren by that union, five of whom are still living ; Frederick, the subject of this sketch, is third in the family ; he was born in Christian county, Ky. Mar. 18, 1808. At the age of nineteen, which was in 1827, he came to Perry county, Illinois to look after and improve lands that his father had entered here some years before; liking the county, he remained here, built a log cabin, fenced the farm and im- proved it. For the first five years he kept "Bachelor's Hall," then in 1833 married. In 1841 he removed to Pinckneyville and engaged in general merchandising, but money being scarce, business was unprofitable and he aban- doned it and went back to farming and stock-raising. In 1844 he removed to the place where he now lives. In 1855 he built his present large and commodious dwelling-lo ise, and there he has lived in ease and comfort since that time On the 17th of January 1833, he married Miss Bexey Orton, who was boru in Orange county, Indiana, January 15th, 1815. Iler parents, Johnzie and Rachael (Campbell) Orton, were natives of North Carolina and came to Perry county in 1832. There have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Williams eight chil- dren, six of whom are living Their names in the order of their birth are: Cordelia M., Christopher C., Desdemona M , Clariuda I. C., Franklin L. and Frederick A. Williams.


Cordelia M, wife of Dr. T. A Lovelady ; they have seven children named : Isabel H., Desdemona Aneadna, Otis E., Oscar M , Thomas F., Luella C and Ethel Bexey. Chris- topher C. married Miss M. E. Ferguson; they have five children whose names are: Lillie M., Minna B., Frederick L. D., Lenora and Benton. Desdemona M. is the wife of John E. Campbell, now a resident of Elk county, Kansas; they have seven children whose names are: Frederick A., Benjamin F. E., Mabel E., Charles W., Edith L., Daisy M B and Edward E. Clarinda I. C. married Dr. T. C. Mckinney, who is a resident of Carbondale, Illinois ; they have two children named : Auguste B. and Daisy. Frank- lin L married Miss Alice L. Bayliss; they have three chil- dren whose names are: Roger Roscoe, Emil and Lois. Frederick A. married Miss Amelia A. White; they have one child whose name is Auguste Minnie Williams. Both Mr. and Mrs. Williams are members of the Christian Church. Mr. Williams is a Republican in politics; he was originally an Old Line Whig, and is a devoted follower of Henry Clay. He and his family were opposed to slavery, and as soon as the Republican party was organized, and gave evidence of


its hostility to slavery, he joined its ranks and has remained a member to the present. Ia the Black Hawk war of 1832, Mr. Williams volunteered with defence against Black Hawk and his Indian allies; he was in command under General Henry, of Illinois. In the late war his son Christopher C. was a soldier, and enlisted for three years in Co. F of the 13th Illinois Cavalry; he served nearly one year, when he was honorably discharged on account of physical disability. This in brief is a history of Mr. Williams. His family have been the pioneers of two States, Kentucky and Illinois. IIe has lived here for over half a century and has lived to see his county and State grow from insignificance to the third State in the great union of States, and his county to that im- portance and wealth that places it in the lead of many of its contemporaries. Mr. Williams is well advanced in years, but yet he gives indications of many years of usefulness.


JOSEPH B. CURLEE.


THE subject of this sketch is a representative of one of the oldest families in this section of the country. His grand- father, Ervin Curlee, was a native of North Carolina. He moved from Tennessee, and from there to Illinois, and set- tled in Fayette county in 1829. He was a soldier of the war of 1812. He married a Gilbert. She died in Tennessee in 1812. He subsequently married Nancy Ferrill, who died in 1846. Of that union was Nathan Gilbert Curlee, who was born in North Carolina Feb. 2, 1805, and was the oldest son. He came to Illinois in 1828. The family stopped in Washington county, near Nashville, and made one crop, and then came to Perry county, settling on section 17, in town 4, range 1, on land that he had entercd and improved, and there remained until his death, which occurred January 15, 1858. He was a farmer by occupation, and also kept a country store which in the early history of the State was one of the landmarks in that section of the country. Mr. Curlee was raised a Baptist, but later in life professed reli- gion and joined the M. E. Church, and was regularly or- dained a minister in that Christian organization. He was possessed of good business tact and qualifications, and accu- mulated property rapidly ; but he was very charitable and benevolent in his disposition, and gave much of his wealth away. He was the friend of the poor. and no one ever came to his door soliciting charity or help who went away empty- handed.


HIe married Mary King, who was born in Virginia, No- vember 28th, 1803. The marriage occurred in 1824. She died December 16th, 1867. By that union there were seven children, two of whom died in their tenth year, and five grew to maturity, and two are yet living, viz: Zebedee P. and Joseph B. The latter was born June 25th, 1838, on the section where his father settled when he first came to Perry county. There he grew to manhood, and there he has made his home to the present. Ile received a fair English edu- cation in the public schools of his neighborhood, which was further improved by one year at the Wesleyan University at Bloomington, Illinois. In 1862 he engaged in the mer- cantile business in Tamaroa for one year, and then returned




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