History of Crawford and Clark counties, Illinois, Part 64

Author: Perrin, William Henry, d. 1892?
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Chicago : O.L. Baskin & Co.
Number of Pages: 826

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MARSHALL TOWNSHIP.

1524, and to Clark County, Ill., in 1852, and to Cumberland County. Ill., in 1858, where he died October 11. 1870, and she died Feb- ruary 6, 1877. Their son Emannel, the third of a family of ten children, was born in Cler- mont County, Ohio, February 9, 1818; moved to Clark County, Ind., in 1824, where he married Nancy Hutchings, August 2, 1838. Nancy, the daughter of Esrom and Polly Hutchings, was born in Clark County, Ind., August 9, 1821. Her father was born in Virginia in 1790. His father, Joseph, was a Virginian. Esrom married Polly Fifer, in Clark County, Ind., in 1815. Polly was the daughter of Christian and Catherine Fifer, nee Headricks, of Pennsylvania. Esrom and Polly moved to Clark County, Ill., in 1856, where they both died in the winter of 1865-66. Emanuel and Nancy Miller moved to Clark County, Ill., October 11, 1844, and purchased a large farm, upon which they still reside. They had five children: William A., Mary E., Sarah E., John H., and Stephen A. Stephen A. died in 1856. William A., a member of Company F, One Hundred and Twenty-third Illinois Volunteers, was killed at the battle of Perryville, Ky., October S, 1$62. He was brought home and interred in the family cemetery. Mary E. died in 1866. Sarah E. and John H. are still living. The subject of our sketch was born in Dolson Township, Clark County, Ill., June 24, 1852, where he received the advantages of a com- mon school education, and in 1870 became a student in Westfield College, remaining three years, making a specialty of the teachers' course; followed teaching for about seven years, and in connection with his profession superintended the management of his farm in Dolson Township. He taught one year near Tuscola, Douglas County, and taught six terms in one district in Marshall Town- ship, Clark County. He was married in Dol-

son Township, by Rev. J. L. B. Ellis, October 5, 1876, to Miss Sarah Lycan, daughter of Jacob G. and Mary Lycan, nee Lockard. They were among the first settlers of Dolson Township. They are still living, and cele. brated their golden wedding November 27, 1882. Sarah was born in Dolson Township, October 5, 1858. They have two sons- Walter Arthur, born September 15, 1877; Milo Ralph, born November 20, 1880. Mr. Miller lost his health by teaching school. He rented his farm and moved to Marshall Az- gust 15, 1882, and engaged in the undertak- ing business, associating with Lote Gray, who has been in the business for more than six years. They are proprietors of the Mar- shall wagon-yard. on Cumberland street. where they have built a new shop for their andertaking. Hearse free for every funeral. Mr. and Mrs. Miller are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Miller has bought property since he came to town, and is making preparations to erect a fine dwelling. His health has so improved that he has decided to make Marshall his home.

JOHN MORTON, banker. Marshall. Among the leading business men and honored citizens of Marshall, is John Morton, a native of Lan- arkshire, Scotland, born near Glasgow, April 23, 1826. He is the third of a family of four sons of John and Christina (Wood) Morton, and was educated in his native country. When about twenty-two years old, being impressed with and aggrieved by the unjust laws of the transmission of property to the eldest son, he resolved to seek his fortune in America. He set sail in the packet "Ann Harlot." in 1848, and in due time he was landed at New York. He spent the summer of 1848 in Rochester, N. Y., coming from that city to Licking County, Ohio, in the fall of same year. In the spring of the following year, lured thence by the " gold fever," he went to

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California, where he engaged in mining for nearly two years. He returned to Ohio in the fall of 1851, and until 1853 was dealing in real estate. Some time in 1853, he came to Illinois, and settled in Melrose Township, where he purchased land and engaged in farming and stock-raising for several years. He still owns 700 acres of land in Sections 23, 24, 25 and 26 of that township. He is now associated with Robert Brown and Will- iam H. Lockard, in the Clark County Bank, located on Hamilton street; family residence on Michigan street. Mr. Morton was mar- ried at Rising Sun, Ind., November 1, 1855, to Miss Mary McKain, daughter of An- thony and Catherine McKain. She was born in Ohio County, Ind., May 12, 1834. They have a family of nine children, whose names and record are as follows: John A. Morton, born May 18, 1857, and married April 14, 1879, to Alice Prevo. They have a daughter, Mary Amy, born Angust 28, 1882. Catherine C. Morton, born June 1, 1859: Janette Morton, born April 29, 1862; James K. Morton, born October 31, 1864, and died June 19, 1866; Elizabeth Morton, born December 9, 1866; James Morton, born January 3, 1869; Thomas Morton, born August 5, 1872, died; Charles S. Morton, born March 10, 1874, died Feb- ruary 7, 1876; Mark Morton, born August 14, 1878. Mr. Morton is a Republican and a member of the Masonic fraternity. Both Mr. and Mrs. Morton are leading members of the Presbyterian Church. The stability of this family is known to many of our readers. and requires no comment here.

J. H. MYERS, butcher, Marshall, son of George and Sarah A. Myers, was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, on the 29th day of May, 1841. He is the eldest of a family of three children; his father was a native of Pennsylvania, born about 1812, and died on the 24th of June, 1844. His mother, Sarah

A. Hawert, is a native of State of New York, and now lives in Ashport, Ohio. J. H. was raised in his native county, and in the spring of 1861 he enlisted in the three months' service, at the end of which term he became a member of Company B, of the Seventy-eighth Ohio Regiment, in which he served three years, when, with the same organization, he veteranized and was mustered out July 15, 1865. He took part in the battles of Fort Donelson, Shiloh, the seige of Vicksburg and of Atlanta, and all the en- gagements incident to Sherman's memorable march. April 21, 1864, while on a furlough. he was married to Miss Margaret Shaw, daughter of Shadrack and Mary D. Shaw; she was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, December 25, 1840. They removed to Illi- nois and settled in Marshall, in 1867, where they still live. Mr. Myers is acknowledged as an honorable business man, and for many years has engaged in running the meat mar- ket of Marshall; shop on west side of public square. He has a family of six children named as follows: Emma J., George L .. William H., James E., Avy P., and Carrie B. Myers. He is a member of the I. O. O. F.

FLEMING R. NEAL, Marshall. The sub- ject of this sketch is a native of Clark Coun- ty, Ill. He is among the younger of a large family of Elza and Jane Neal. His father was born in Knox County, Ind., on the 25th day of December, 1808. He grew to manhood in Knox County, and was mar- ried in Washington County, on the 7th of Jan- uary, 1830, to Miss Jane McCampbell. They lived seven years in Knox County after mar- riage, during which time were born four children-William M., Calvin, Rufus and Margaret. In 1837, they removed with their family to Marshall, Ill., where he spent the remainder of his life. He was by trade a wagon-maker, and followed this business

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for many years. He afterward engaged in milling, and for some years ran a saw and grist mill six miles east of Marshall. He died in Marshall on the 30th day of January, 1882, having been a member of the Presby- terian Church over forty years. Jane Mc- Campbell is a daughter of James and Jane McCampbell, and was born in Clark County, Ind., July 25, 1812; she was principally raised in Washington County, Ind., where she was married. She has raised a family of fourteen children, of whom nine are still living. She still survives, and has a resi- dence on Hamilton street. She has been a member of the Presbyterian Church since 1828. F. R. Neal was born July 19, 1853. He was raised and educated in Marshall, and married on the 14th of October. 1874, to Miss F. Spotts, daughter of Conrad and Nancy (Calvert) Spotts. She was born in Clark County, Ill., August 20, 1853; they have two children-Ruth Neal, born Novem- ber 15, 1875; Edith Neal, born January 1, 1882.

THOMAS L. ORNDORFF, lawyer, Mar- shall, is a native of Guernsey County, Ohio, born March 24, 1839 His father, Phineas Orndoff, was a native of Frederick County, Va., and came to Clark County, Ill., from Ohio, in the fall of 1854. He settled on Big Creek, in Wabash Township, where he died in December, 1864. His mother, Cath- erine (Jennings) Orndorff, was a native of Muskingum County, Ohio, and died in Clark County, Ill., in November, 1854. Our sub- ject was principally educated at Zanesville, Ohio. He was married in Clark County, Ill., January 1, 1858, to Miss Sarah A. Pitman, daughter of William and Sarah Pitman. She was born in Frederick County, Va., January, 1840, and died in this county, November, 1864. The result of this marriage was three daughters-Sarah C., born October 27, 1858,

and died in Marshall December 24, 1881; Josephine Orndoff, married to William Mc- Gregor; and Alice A., born January 8, 1863. Mr. Orndorff was married to his present wife. Elizabeth Fishback, October 1, 1868. She is a daughter of Jacob Fishback, of Wabash Township, and was born September 17, 1850. By this union there are two children-Thom- as A., born September 11, 1869; William E., born March 8, 1872, and died June 23, 1872; and Pearl, born August 29, 1875. Our sub- ject began life as a farmer, and in this call- ing and in teaching were spent most of his years from 1858 to 1874. In February, 1865, he was mustered into service as First Lieutenant of Company G, One Hundred and Fifty second Illinois Infantry (Capt. Pitman), which commission he held until mustered out at Memphis, Tenn., September 15, 1865. In 1871, he removed to Marshall and became a student in the law office of James C. Robinson. He was admitted to the bar in 1877. He was elected to the office of State's Attorney, which office he now holds, having been re-elected in 1880. He- owns a farm of 126 acres in Sections 24 and 31 of Wabash Township, including two dwellings. His family residence is on the corner of Jefferson and Walnut streets, Mar- shall. He is a Democrat and member of the Masonic fraternity ..

SAMUEL PARK, farmer, P. O. Marshall, is one of the aged citizens of the city of Marshall. He is a native of Licking County. Ohio, born November 21, 1810. At that time, Central Ohio was a vast, heavily-tim- bered wilderness but thinly settled. His father, John Park, was born in Hampshire County, Va., February 16, 1786, where he remained with his parents until his twenty third year, when he married Miss Margaret, daughter of Alexander and Jane McBride. She was born in the same county, and of

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Irish parentage. Soon after, they emigrated to Licking County, Ohio, where they re- mained during life. Many of the Park fam- ily were sufferers in the Revolutionary war. among whom was John Park's mother, who was taken prisoner by the Indians in Green- brier County, Va., and taken to Sandusky, in the Northwest Territory, where she re- mained a prisoner for nearly four years. Af- ter her return to Virginia. she married Samuel, the father of John Park. The Park family are among the oldest families of the nation. They are of English origin, and commenced their American history with the colony at Jamestown, Va., in 1608 or 1609, from whence they have spread into nearly if not quite every State and Territory in the Union. Samuel Park, the subject of this memoir, continued to reside in Lieking County until the fall of 1850. Then he moved with his family to the Valley of the Wabash and set- tled in the southwest corner of Hutsonville Township, Crawford County, Ill., where he remained nine years; thence to his present farm, joining the town of Marshall, in Clark County. This change was made to obtain better facilities for educating the younger members of his family. He now rents his farm and resides on South Michigan street in the city of Marshall. In early life, he enjoyed only such limited facilities for ob- taining an education as was afforded in the pioneer log-cabin schools when there was no public money to aid in keeping up schools. In youth, he learned the blacksmith trade, after which he obtained a copartnership with an auger and sickle maker, and acquired the art of making them, which he followed until compelled to abandon his trade by loss of health. Since then he has followed farming and wool-growing as his chief busi- ness in life. On June 2, 1831, he married Miss Aletha A., daughter of Benedict and

Rachael Belt, who was also born in Lieking County, Ohio, November 3, 1810. They had been schoolmates and associates from childhood. They have had nine children. eight of whom lived to the age of men and women, as follows: John A., born March 17. 1832; Wesley, born November 19. 1833; Henry C., born August 16. 1835; George. born September 12, 1839; Mary E .. born May 10, 1842: Samuel B., born September 2, 1844: Alvin T., born October 28, 1846; Ale. tha J., born April 31, 1849: Emily 1., born August 20. 1552. and died March 11, 1854. George and Alvin T. lost their lives in the service of the Union in the war or 1861-65: Aletha J. died at the age of nineteen years, and Henry C. at the age of forty. leaving a wife and six children. There are three sons and one daughter still living, and all have families. John A. is a farmer: Wesley and Samuel B. are practicing physicians. Samuel Park has been a member of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church for nearly fifty-three years and Mrs. Park for over sixty years. Mr. Park claims to be a real frontiersman in his birth and early life experience, and has an unusually vivid recollection of pioneer usages and incidents. One. among many land- marks in his carly recollections, is the return of the soldiers from Gen. Harrison's cam- paign in the Northwest in 1813. Mr. and Mrs. Park have been living together as man and wife for nearly fifty-two years, and are still enjoying pretty good health, both phys- ically and mentally. They are now living alone as happily as when they first began the cares of life together. The above is the pro- duction of Mr. Samuel Park's own pen.

ALEXANDER MI. PAYNE. grain dealer, Marshall, is a native of Clark County, Ill .. born September 11, 1838. His father. Eben- ezer Payne, was a native of Preble County, Ohio, and was one of the first settlers on

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Walnut Prairie. He died in Marshall. Sallie McKeen, mother of our subject, was a native of Warren County, Ohio. She died in Mar- shall. Mr. Alexander Payne is the third of a family of four children. of whom but two survive, the subject of these lines having one sister, Elizabeth, who is married to W. T. Martin. Alexander Payne grew to man- hood in this county, and moved to Marshall with his parents in 1848. He was educated in the public schools of Marshall, where he was married on the Sth of March, 1860, to Miss Emma Harlan, daughter of Justin and Lucinda Harlan. She was born in Marshall March 12, 1842. They have a family of five children, all of whom were born in Marshall. Their names are as follows: William H., Edwin, Sallie. Mary, Clara. Mr. Payne has been prominent in the milling inter- ests of Marshall, beginning that business in 1858. In 1874, he and Wilson Harlan erected a large brick mill on the site of the old Marshall Mill, which burned in 1879. Since that time Mr. Payne has been operat- ing a warehouse on the Wabash Railroad, opposite depot. Mr. Payne is a member of the Knights of Honor. Residence on Hamil- ton street.

HENRY PLASTER, farmer, city of Mar- shall, is the third of a family of nine chil- dren, of James and Hannah Plaster. He was born in Loudoun County, Va., on the 12th day of June, 1819. When he was about twelve years old, his parents removed from Virginia to Clark County, Ill., and settled on Big Creek, in Wabash Township, where they lived on farm until coming to Marshall about 1858, when the father died October 25, 1882, in his ninety-second year, the mother having died in Marshall in 1874. Henry F. Plaster was raised on the farm and received a common school education He was married in Marshall, October 24, 1861. to Miss Mary

E. Bradley, daughter of Lewis M. and Nancy C. Bradley, of Marshall. She was born in Ohio, March 13, 1838. They have a family consisting of two children, one of whom is dead ; Leonidas Franz S. Plaster, born in Marshall on the 14th of October, 1862; Car- rie Loraine Plaster, born in Marshall on the 1st of June, 1868, and died October 14, 1876. Mr. Henry Plaster came to Marshall previous to his marriage, and has been a resident ever since. The family residence is on Michigan street. He owns a farm of 65 acres adjoin- ing his residence in Section 13 of Marshall Township. He and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Marshall.

SAMUEL C. PREVO, merchant, Mar- shall. Among the merchants who have taken position in the front rank is the subject of these lines, Samuel C. Prevo. He was born in Clark County, Ill., in York Town- ship, on the 27th day of August, 1847. He is the second of a family of six children of Henry and Amy Prevo. He was raised in this county, in which he received a common school education. In 1870, he graduated from the Terre Haute Business College, and began life as a merchant. He first opened a general store in York of this county, where he continued until 1877. He then engaged in farming for a few years, but came to Mar- shall in 1881, where he opened an extensive stock of dry goods and clothing, and where he now has a store of which Marshall should be proud. While Mr. Prevo has had flatter- ing success in business, his domestic life has not been all sunshine. Death has removed a wife, to whom he was married February 1, 1872. Her name was Eliza Kelly, daughter of James Kelly, formerly of New York City, where she was born September 15, 1850. She died at York, this county, May 11, 1873, leaving a daughter, Alice Prevo, who was born in York, November 27, 1872. Mr.

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Prevo was married to his present wife, Emma Hogue, on the 7th day of September, 1876. She is a daughter of Jonathan and Tamar Hogue, and was born in Clark County on the 19th of April, 1855. They have buried one son, Randal Prevo, who was born March 4, 1880, and died July 31st of same year.

JOHN SCHOLFIELD, lawyer, Marshall. Among those deserving of a special mention in the history of this (Clark) county, is Judge John Scholfield. The first that is known of his ancestry is the migration of a family from England who settled in West Chester, Penn- sylvania, in the early part of the last century. They were members of the religious society known as "Quakers " -- styled by themselves " Friends." He followed some mechanical employment, as did his descendants, until the father of our subject, who was a farmer. Shortly after the close of the Revolution, this family removed to Loudoun County, Va., and there Thomas Scholfield, the father of subject, was born on the 1st of Au- gust, 1805. When he was five years old, his father died, and soon after this event the family moved to Muskingum County, Ohio, at which p.ace Thomas Scholfield grew to manhood. In October, 1828, he migrated to Clark County, Ill. In April, 1831, in what is now Melrose Township, he was mar- ried to Miss Ruth Beauchamp, daughter of John Beauchamp, a native of Maryland, who in early life removed to South Carolina, 1 where he was married in Rockingham County of that State. Here the mother of our sub- ject was born, in June, 1810. While she was yet a small child, the family moved from South Carolina to Orange County, Ind., and settled near Paoli, from whence, after a residence of several years, they removed to Clark County, Ill., locating a few miles west from York. Mrs. Beauchamp was a member of the society of "Quakers" or " occupied in teaching in the common schools,

"Friends," and this fact probably accounts for the location near Paoli, and afterward near York, for at that time both named places were provided with meeting-houses for that sect, and, considering the then sparsely settled condition of the country, quite exten- sive settlements had been made. For about one year and a half after the marriage of Joseph Scholfield, he resided from one half to three quarters of a mile north from the present village of Melrose, in a cabin erected on land belonging to Jonathan Medsker. Here our subject's oldest brother was born. In the fall of 1832, his father having become the owner of a small tract of land lying im- mediately south from and adjacent to that on which the village of Martinsville was subse- quently laid off, built a cabin upon it and moved his family there. There his brother died the ensuing winter or spring, of croup. He was buried within the limits of the vil- lage of Martinsville, but not in the cemetery, as there was none at that time, and he was the first white person buried in the village. Here at this residence John was born, on the Ist of August, 1834, but when two years old, his father having sold this place and entered land west from Martinsville, moved upon it. At this residence his mother died on the 16th of August, 1849. His father in 1856, re- moved to California, whence, after a year's residence, he removed to Washington County, Oregon, where he still lives. John Schol- field's early education was obtained in the common schools of Clark County, which were usually limited to three months each year. And even this time was often encrosched by withdrawals to assist in the labor and support of the family In April, IS51, he became a pupil in the private academy at Marshall, owned by Rev. D. Andrews, and thereafter for about three years, his time was alternately

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and attending this institution. In October, 1854, he entered the Law Department of the Louisville University, and obtained the de- gree conferred by that institution in March, 1856. He began the practice of law in Mar- shall in the spring of 1855, between the terms of the law school, returning to Louis- ville in October of that year. Mr. Scholfield and Hon. James C. Robinson, formed a part- nership for the practice of law in 1855, which continued until the election of subject to the office of States Attorney of the Fourth Judi- cial Circuit, which occurred in November, 1856. This circuit then comprised nine counties in Central Illinois. In 1860. he was elected to the Lower House of the State Leg- islature, as a Douglas Democrat. In 1869, he was elected a delegate from the counties of Clark and Cumberland to the convention, to frame a new constitution, and was chair- man of the committee on schedule in that body. In 1869, a partnership was effected between Mr. S. and Judge Wilkin, under the name of Scholfield & Wilkin, which contin- ned until 1870, at which time Mr. S. was em- ployed as a solicitor for the St. L., V. & T. H. Railroad Co., which position he resigned three years after. In 1873, he was elected Judge of the Supreme Court of the State from the Second Supreme Judicial District to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge Thornton. In June, 1879, he was re-elected to the same office for the full term of nine years. On the 29th of December, 1859, he was married to Emma J. Bartlett, daughter of the late John Bartlett of Mar- shall.

JACOB SCOTT, retired, Marshall. Jacob Scott is a native of Bucks County, Penn., and is the second of a family of eight chil- dren of William and Hannah Scott. William Scott, father of Jacob, was born in Pennsyl- vania, and the mother, Hannah Hagerman,

was also a native of same State. Jacob was born June 2, 1811, and was raised principal- ly on the farm, but at the age of eighteen began an apprenticeship at the carpenter and joiner trade. At this he worked about twelve years, and then abandoned the trade to pur- sue the interests of the farm. He followed farming in Muskingum County, Ohio, where his father had moved when subject was a small boy, and where his father died, leaving the mother and children a good farm home. About 1836, he went to Licking County, where, on the 1st of November, 1835, he had married Miss Hettie Brown, daughter of Adam and Mary (Canden) Brown. She was born in Licking County, Ohio, May 29, I818, and was the sixth of a family of seven children. One brother Solomon Brown is one of the honored citizens of Melrose Town- ship, of this county. Mr. and Mrs. Scott have had a family of ten children, of whom one is deceased, viz .: Mary J., the wife of Robert Craig, was born September 8, 1836; William was born September 25, 1838, mar- ried Miss Mary Craig; Adam B. was born September 16, 1840, married to Miss Sophia Mitchell; James was born October 2, 1842, married to Martha Colven; Alexander, born October 27, 1844, married Miss Ella Robin- son; Hannah M., born December 22, 1846, widow of Lenhart Leasure; Martha A., wife of William Kuykendall, was born December 24, 1850; Jacob M. was born August 5, 1855, married Sarah Belch; Hattie A., wife of Victor Tobennach, was born September 28, 1860. Mr. Scott emigrated to this county from Licking County, Ohio, in the fall of 1849, and settled in Melrose Township, on the farm now owned and occupied by Wash- ington Kreager. Here they remained until they sold out to Mr. Kreager about 1871. They then came to Marshall, and made a residence of two years, and in 1873 purchased

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History of Crawford and Clark counties, Illinois, Part 64

Author: Perrin, William Henry, d. 1892? Publication date: 1883 Publisher: Chicago : O.L. Baskin & Co. Number of Pages: 826

Author: Perrin, William Henry, d. 1892?
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Chicago : O.L. Baskin & Co.
Number of Pages: 826