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ERIENNA TOWNSHIP.
ABRAHAM HOLDERMAN, SR., Seneca. The subject of this sketch, Abraham Holder- man, is a son of Abraham and Charlotte Hol- derman, who came to what is now Grundy County in the fall of 1831, the year before the Black Hawk war. Subject was then nine years old, being born in Ross County, Ohio, January 22, 1822. At the time of his first recollection of this county there were but two houses be- tween the Holderman Grove and Chicago, and no house from them to Bloomington. Went to mill over thirty miles. Nearest trading point was Chicago. Their first school was taught in the winter of 1834, obtaining a teacher for $10 per month. At this time there
was not a sawed board nor a nail in any of their buildings. Some years they lost all their hay and grain from prairie fires. Subject was mar- ried in Grundy May 4, 1847, to Miss Mary E. Iloge, daughter of William and Rachael Hoge. She was born in Loudoun County, Va., August 17, 1827, and came with her parents to this county the fall of 1831. They were the first family in the county. Her brother James Hoge being the first white child born in the county. Subject has a family of eight chil- dren, three of whom are dead-William Hol- derman, born July 3, 1848 ; Joseph, February 11, 1850, and Hendley, December 11, 1851, all deceased ; Abram J. Holderman, whose biog-
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raphy appears on another page ; Albert II. Hol- derman, April 19, 1856 ; Martha J. Holder- man, born March 16, 1858; Landy S. Hol. derman, born November 8. 1859, and Samuel D. Hoklerman, born July 21. 1865. Mr. Hol- derman now owns about 5.000 acres of land, principally in one hody, besides giving his chil- dren 2,000 acres. Engaged in farming and stock-raising. Politics, Republican ; seventy- three voters in the township when organized, seventy-one of whom were Irish canal hands ; subject being the only one left in the town- ship.
ABRAM J. HOLDERMAN, farmer, P. O. Morris. The subject of this sketch is a native of Grundy County, Ill., born May 17, 1853, son of Abram and Mary E. Holderman, who are among the first settlers of the county. Edu- cated in his native county, and married, March 6, 1876, to Miss Josephine V. Bashaw, daugh- ter of Robert and Virginia Bashaw. She was born in Rappahannock County, Va., September 14. 1855, and came to this county in 1873. Her mother is dead, the father living in Vir- ginia. They have a family of three children- Mary V. Holderman, born in Grundy County March 28, 1877; Walter T. Holderman, born in Grundy County September 29, 1878 ; Robert J. Holderman, born in Grundy County, February 11. 1882. Subject now owns a farm of 640 acres in Sections 11, 12, 13 and 14, of Erienna Township ; residence four and one-half miles west from Morris. Engaged in stock-raising ; politics, Republican.
JOSHUA HOGE, JR., farmer, P. O. Morris, the subject of this sketch is a native of the county of Grundy, Ill., born July 25. 1850, son of Samnel and Matilda Hoge, of Nettle Creek Township. Raised in Grundy County and educated in the State Normal Lombard University, and took a course in Bryant & Strat- ton's Commercial College of Chicago. Mar- ried, February 19, 1876, in Morris, to Miss Lora
E. Quigley, daughter of Henry and Matilda Quigley, formerly of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Hoge was born in the vicinity of Meadville. Craw- ford Co., Penn .. December 11, 1859. They have a family of two children-Samuel Hoge, born in Grundy County, August 12, 1877 ; un- named, born August 25, 1882. Subject owns a farm of 560 acres of valuable land in the town of Erienna, Sections 1 and 6, of Erienna ; resi- dence, four miles west from Morris. Value of land, $50 per acre; engaged in stock-raising and mixed husbandry ; politics, Republican. Mrs. Hoge's father was a native of Pennsyl- vania, born 1812, and died in Crawford Coun- ty, Penn .. 1866. Iler mother is now living with her son, E. H. Quigley, of Morris, in her fifty-seventh year.
WILLIAM KENNEDY, farmer, P. O. Mor- ris ; the subject of this sketch is a native of county of Queens, Ireland, born December 14, 1820, son of John and Hanora Kennedy; raised and educated in bis native country. Came to United States in 1839, landing at New York City August 9, of that year ; vessel, "Margaret Scott, of Liverpool." Located in Ohio, 1840 ; engaged on public works for about eighteen months and came to Illinois in the fall of 1841; assisted in the construction of the Illinois & Michigan Canal; was book keeper for Walter D. McDonald. Subject was married in May, 1842, to Miss Mary Kenrick, of Ireland, County Limerick. About 1849, he bought canal land and engaged in agriculture which he has fol- lowed since. He now owns a farm of 280 acres in Sections 1 and 2 of Erienna Township; resi- dence four miles west from Morris ; land valned at $50 per acre. Subject also owns a hand- some store building and some residence houses on Washington street, in Morris ; they have no family. Politics, Democrat, and is among the standard element of Grundy County. They are members of the Catholic Church of Morris.
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HENDERSON BUNCH, farmer, P. O. Mor- ris. The subject of this sketch is a native of Tennessee, born July 27, 1825. He is the second of a family of four children of David and Nancy Bunch. David Bunch was a native of Tennessee, and his mother, Nancy (Hart) Bunch, was a native of Virginia. When sub- ject was quite young his parents removed to Kentucky, where they lived but few years, and came to Illinois, and settled in what is now Grundy County, Norman Township, about 1834. Subject remembers vividly the Indians that were camped within one mile of his father's house for two years, 500 in number. They often trafficked with them, exchanging pork for honey, etc. David Bunch located on Section 27, of Norman Township, where he lived until his death, which occurred June 29, 1873, in his seventy-eighth year. His mother died in An- gust, 1875, in her sixty-eighth year. The first school attended by H. Bunch was conducted in a log house, built where Jonas Newport set- tled, built by an Englishman named Ford; the first house erected in Vienna Township. The school was composed of the children of David Bunch and Jonah Newport. Subject remem- bers when there was but one house where Ot- tawa now stands. Mr. Bunch was married, March 30, 1850, to Miss Mary A. Doty, daugh- ter of John and Sarah (Williams) Doty, who were among the pioneers of Grundy County. John Doty died February 19, 1872, in his seventy-ninth year, and her mother October 24, 1874, in her seventy-second year. They have a family of seven children living, having buried two. Martha J. Bunch, born June 10, 1852, married to Lemnel Quincy January 12, 1869; Cornelia M. Bunch, born October 25, 1854, married to Reuben Hollenbeck March 6, 1872;
William H. Bunch, born December 1, 1856, married to Miss Ellen Boyette, October 18, 1878; Esther A. Bunch, born December 27, 1858, married to David Humphrey, July 7, 1882; Perry E. Bunch, born February 28, 1860, died March 17, 1863; Ida I. Buneh, May 9, 1863, died March 4. 1864; Frances L. Bunch, born April 24, 1865; Marinda I. Bunch, born June 21, 1868; Sherman W., born October 24, 1870-
PERRY GOSS, farmer, P. O. Morris. The subject of these lines, P. Goss, is a native of Portage County, Ohio, born August 7, 1823, son of Beder and Phydelia (Cross) Goss. Sub- ject's father was born in Connecticut February 28, 179G, and moved to Ohio in 1804; died in Ohio May 3, 1879; his mother, a native of Ver- mont, was born September 30, 1800; she is still living in Wisconsin. Subject came to Indiana from Ohio in 1847; was married, in Montgomery County, Ind., Mareh 7, 1850, to Miss Mary Frances Spillman, daughter of William and Dorcas J. Spillman, Kentucky. She was born in Kentucky April 18, 1827; her parents died in Crawfordville, Ind., father March 20, 1876, mother March 8, 1879. Mr. Goss and family came to Grundy County September, 1854, and settled in Norman Township. Their family con- sists of nine ehildren, seven sons and two daughters. Their names are Albert B. Goss, born in Indiana April 12, 1851, married to Ellen A. Kimball August 10, 1882; William E. Goss, born in Indiana January 10, 1854; Charles B. Goss, born in Grundy County, Oc- tober 14, 1856; Mary Frances Goss, born Jan- uary 22. 1858; George P. Goss, born July 31, 1860; John F. Goss, born April 9, 1863; Ed- win Lincoln, born May 7, 1865; Eva Jane Goss, December 14, 1866; Julius Goss, born December 19, 1870. Mr. Goss now owns a
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farm of 213 acres, 200 of improved farm land in Section 27, of Norman Township, value $60 per acre; valuable improvements eight and a half miles southwest from Morris. Mr. and Mrs. Goss are members of the M. E. Church (Zion), of Norman Township. Mrs. Goss' father, William Spillman, was born in Kentucky De- cember 15, 1803; mother, Doreas (Garrison) Spillman was born in Kentucky September 22, 1802.
JUSTUS HOLLENBECK, farmer, P. O Seneca. The subject of these lines. Justus Hollenbeck, is a native of Greene County, N. Y., born January 6, 1821: was raised and educated in his native county. When at the age of twenty-two, he went to East Troy, Wis,, having married, August 31, 1843, to Miss Rebecca Bennet. daughter of William and Hannah Ben- net. She was born in Schoharie County. N. Y., August 25, 1816. Soon after marrying they went to Wisconsin, where they lived nine years, and came to Illinois in 1852, settling in Grundy County, Vienna Township; now lives in Sec- tion 33 of Norman Township, where he owns a farm of 160 acres, all in Section 33, valued at $40 per acre; his residenee is nine miles south- -west from Morris, and five miles southeast from Seneca; log Run divides his farm from north to south. They have a family of seven chil- dren-Emma E. Hollenbeck was born in East Troy. Wis., March 25. 1844; was married to Alphonso Diebold, of Seneca; Louisa Hollen- beck was born November 9, 1815; was married to John Barker, of Seneca; George Hollenbeck was born February 28, 1817, and died Deeem- ber 13, 1865; Isabelle Hollenbeck was born February 17. 1849, and died by drowning in a well April 22. 1855; Julius F .. and Julia A. Hollenbeck, born June 11, 1852; Julia A. is married to Spencer Cox. of Seneca; JJulius F. is married to Frances Kelsoe; Adeline Hol- lenbeek was born September 5, 1855; was mar- ried to John Nott, of East Troy, Wis. Our subject is a son of John and Elizabeth Hollen-
beek, of Greene County, N. Y .; his mother. Elizabeth (Bennett) Hollenbeck, died at their home in Wisconsin March 7, 1852, in her fifty-third year ; his father is still living in Wisconsin, in his eighty-eighth year. Mrs. Hollenbeck's parents died in Greene County. N. Y.
G. II. HULL, farmer, P. O. Wauponsee. The subject of this sketch is a native of Rens- selaer County, York State, born February 25, 1827; he is the third of a family of five, Samuel and Hannah (Green) Hull. The fa- ther was a native of New York, born April 29, 1795, and died at his home in Rensselaer County, N. Y., September 12, 1882. His mother, Hannah Green, was born in New York Febru- ary 28, 1803, and died in New York March, 1874. Subject was married in New York Au- gust 17, 1850, to Miss Elizabeth A. Shaw, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Shaw, of New York. She was born in Rensselaer County October 24, 1831. They came to Illinois in March, 1854, and settled in Grundy County, 1856, where they now live; he owns a farm of 100 acres of improved farm land, 2-40 acres in Section 35, of Norman Township, eighty acres in Section 33, of Norman Township, and eighty acres in Section 12 of Vienna Township; splendid residence and improvements on See- tion 35, nine miles southwest from Morris; val- ue of farin land $50 per acre; engaged in mixed husbandry and stock-raising. They have a fam- ily of three-Doer C. Hull, born in York State December 9, 1851, married to Miss Lizzie D. Wilson. December 24, 1873 : Earl J. Hull, born in Illinois July 26, 1856, married to Miss Ettie Brown January 25, 1882; Cora E. Hull. born May 11. 1867. Mrs. Hull's parents. Samuel Shaw and Elizabeth Wilkey, were married Feb- ruary 9, 1808; she is the youngest of a fam- ily of six children. Her father was born March 25, 1780, and died January 7, 1864; her mother, Elizabeth Wilkey, was born December 16, 1787; and died September 1-4, 18445.
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WILLIAM JOHNSON, farmer, P. O. Mor- ris. The subject of this sketch is a native of Knox County, Ky., born April 1, 1827. Sub- ject is the third of a family of seven children of John and Charlotte Johnson; parents were both natives of Ashe County, N. C. When sub jeet was but two years old, his parents re- moved to Indiana, where they lived one and a half years, coming to Illinois in 1831, and settled in Iroquois County. Here subject was raised until nineteen years old, when he, with his mother, came to Grundy County in 1845, his father having died in Iroquois County April 7, 1842. He has lived in Grundy County ever since; first settled in Hog Run, near the settle- ment of David Bunch. Subject now lives in Norman Township, where he now owns a farm of 160 acres of land, eighty acres in Section 13 of Norman, and eighty acres in Section 18, of Wanponsee Township; residence four and a half miles southwest from Morris. Subject was married in Grundy County December 14, 1850, to Miss Harriet Dean, daughter of John and Maria Dean; she is a native of England, born September 20, 1833. They have a family of tive children, all born in Grundy County- John W. Johnson, born August 9, 1852, mar- ried to Miss Lydia B. Dix, of Nettle Creek Township; Maria Johnson, born October 10, 1854, married to Malbone W. Bennett; Scott Johnson, born June 4, 1857, married to Miss Emma Helman; Elrac Johnson, born April 20, 1861; Willie Johnson, born November 17, 1867; politics, Republican, and one of the or- ganizers of Republicanism in Wauponsee Township. His mother, Charlotte (Hart) John- son removed to Minnesota in 1854 with two sons and two daughters, where she died Sep- tember 8, 1878. Mrs. Johnson's parents were formerly of England, and residents of Grundy County for over twenty years, and now living in Macon County, Mo.
CHARLES M. PIERCE, farmer, P. O. Mor- ris. Charles M. Pierce, the subject, is a native
of Worcester County, Mass., born March 5, 1817; son of William and Lydia (Lincoln) Pierce; raised and educated in Franklin Coun- ty, Mass., town of Wendell. Here his parents died; his father in the fall of 1827; his mother was cousin to Gov. Lincoln, of Massachusetts. She died in Wendell in 1873, in her eighty-ninth year. In early life subject learned the trade of tanner and currier, which trade he followed in his native State for twenty-three years; was burned out in 1850, and moved to Illinois in 1855 (January), and settled in Norman Town- ship of Grundy County, having married in Massachusetts, November 24, 1841, to Miss Clarinda Browning, of Massachusetts, born in Worcester County (Rutland), May, 1817; died in Massachusetts November, 1847. By this union he has two children-Edwin L. Pierce, born in Massachusetts November 19, 1842, living in Missouri; Clarinda G. Pierce, born in Massachusetts October 4, 1844, married to Thomas Drackley, of La Salle County. Sub- ject was married to his present wife May 20, 1848, to Miss Charlotte Clapp, daughter of Oli- ver and Adelia Clapp, born in Massachusetts, March 4, 1830. They have a family of six children as the result of second marriage -- Mary E. Pierce, born May 4, 1849, married to Fred M. Green March 17, 1872, now a resident of Green County, Kan .; Hetta Ella, born June 22, 1850, died June 27, 1865; George A. Pierce, born May 10, 1852, married to Mary B. Slos- son January 1, 1880; Walter M. Pierce, born May 30, 1861, educated at Morris and Ann Arbor, and teaching in Kansas; Charles M. Pierce, born October 11, 1866; Minnie B., born October 3, 1868. Subject owns a farm of 160 acres in Section 27 of Norman Township; resides eight miles southwest from Morris; engaged in mixed husbandry. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity.
LORENZO RENIFF, farmer, P. O. Waupon- see. The subject of this sketch is a native of Massachusetts, born July 24, 1819; son of
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Daniel and Rhoda (Cummins) Reniff; raised and educated in Franklin County, Mass .; by trade a carpenter. He came to Illinois in 1842, and located in Patnam County, where he lived twelve years. Here he was married, December 25, 18-18. to Miss Lutheria E. Chittenden, daughter of Daniel and Mary Chittenden ; she was born in the State of New York, March 19, 1831, and came to Illinois when six years old. They have a family of five children-Lucius MI. Renitf, born in Putnam County July 22 1850. married to Miss Jennie Lord, daughter of Abram Lord, of Morris, September 29, 1872; Grace E. Reniff, born February 22, 1853, mar- ried to Bruce Cooper, February 22, 1874, died in Norman Township May 2, 1875; Clara A. Reniff, born April 2, 1856, and married to Eu- gene Van Atta, March 3, 1878 ; Ida MI. Reniff, born February 21. 1859 ; Herman G. Reniff, born March 28, 1865. Subject moved to Grundy County in December, 1853, and settled in Nor- man Township, where he now lives. He owns a farm of 120 acres in Sections 14 and 26. Residence, eight miles southwest from Morris ; land valued at $50 an acre. Mr. Reniff's father died in this county in August, 1861, and his mother in February, 1864. Mrs. Renitf is a member of the Zion Methodist Episcopal Church, of Norman Township Her mother, Mary A. (Lowel) Chittenden, was born in Ver-
mont January 24, 1806, and died in Grundy County July 13, 1881. Her father was a na- tive of York State, where he died in 1837.
THOMAS WINSOR, farmer, P. O. Morris. The subject of tlils sketch is a native of Dev- onshire, Ipplepen, near Torquay, England, born April 21, 1816 ; son of James and Elizabeth Winsor. Subject is the seventh of a family of eleven children ; raised and educated in the elements of an English education in his native country. Married, February 12, 1843, in England, to Miss Martha Thomas, daugh- ter of William and Mary Thomas, born in Devonshire, near Torquay, July 15, 1819. They came to the United States in the sailing vessel "Agnes," landed at New York and came by canal and lakes to Joliet, settled in Kendall County for two years, and then re- moved to Grundy County in 1850 and located in Saratoga Township, where he bought land and lived until 1864, when he removed to Nor- man Township, where he now lives. Here he owns a farm of 160 acres in Section 24. resi- dence five and a half miles southwest from Morris. They have a family of eleven chil- dren, two of whom are dead, one son dying in England, and one daughter in Grundy County. Mr. Winsor is a Republican, and has served Norman Township as Justice of the Peace for eleven consecutive years.
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JAMES ANDERSON, retired, Verona, is a native of Huntingdon County, Penn., born May 27, 1817, son of Andrew and Elizabeth Anderson, of Ireland, who came to the United States in 1793, he being then but three years old. When subject was nine years old, his parents moved from Pennsylvania to llarrison County, Ohio, where they lived until 1810, when they removed to Illinois, and settled in
Pike County. There our subject was married, March 25, 1841, to Miss Lydia Marshall, daughter of David and Elizabeth Marshall, born in Huntingdon County, Penn., May 16, 1804. Mrs. Anderson has been blind since the fall of 1874. They came to Grundy County in June, 1855. and settled in Section 13, of Vienna Township, where he owned 330 acres of land, including 168 acres in Section 18 of Mazon
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Township, where he lived until 1873; he has lately sold his farms and bonght property in the village of Verona, where they have lived for the past two years, his father died in this county February 19, 1857; his mother died in Macon County, Ill .; in 1867. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson are members of the Presbyterian Church of Verona. Since selling his farms he has retired, and they expect to spend the remainder of their days in the quiet of the village of Verona.
A. H. BRUCE, farmer, P. O. Verona, is a native of Westford, Mass., born September 29, 1828. When he was two years old, his parents removed to Oneida County, N. Y., where sub- ject was raised and educated; he was married in Oneida County, N. Y., May 31, 1850, to Miss Malvina Janes, daughter of David and Eliza- beth Janes; she was born in Oneida County, N. Y., September 17, 1827. In the spring of 1852. they came to Illinois and settled in Vienna Township, Grundy County, where they own a farm of sixty acres, improved land, in 1 Section 26, worth $50 per acre; their residence, is one mile northeast from Verona. They have a family of ten children, three of whom are dead: Lucy A., born March 11, 1851, married to O. Johnson September 11, 1869; Mary E. born September 12, 1832, married to William Dewey June 18, 1873; Leroy A., born Novem- ber 25, 1854, married to Christina Coles Janu- ary 24, 1878; Elizabeth M., born June 16, 1856, married to James Bennett February 6, 1876; Fred J., born March 21, 1858, died June 1, 1858; Ada A., born June 16, 1859, died March 12, 1864; Eddie L., born May 19, 1861, (lied March 11, 1862; Katie M., born June 16, 1864; Herman A., born March 17, 1866; and Sarah E., born October 23, 1869. Mr. Bruce is one of the early settlers of the county, and remembers when the wolves were very plenti- ful, and has had them jump at his horse as he rode along. Mr. and Mrs. Janes, parents of Mrs. Bruce, died at the residence of Mr. Bruce
in this county; her father in August, 1855, and her mother in March, 1856.
GEORGE W. CARPENTER, grain, Verona, is a native of West Greenwich, R. I .; he was born April 15, 1826, son of Amos and Mary (Bailey) Carpenter, he being the sixth of a fam- ily of nine children. When he was about six years old, his father moved to Eastern Con- nectient, where george W. was raised and edu- cated. In 1854, he came West and settled in Grundy County, Ill .; bought 160 acres of land in Section 9, of Mazon Township, where he lived twelve years, and then moved to Morris, where he engaged in the implement and grain business. He remained there in business un- til 1878, when he came to Verona and engaged in the grain trade, which he still carries on. He shipped, in 1880, 153,638 bushels of corn. He was married first, in 1854, to Miss Sarah Underwood, born in Woodstock, Conn., in 1830, who died while on a visit at Bingham- ton, N. Y., in 1878. They had three children, one of whom is dead-Ella A., born in Grundy County April, 1857, married in 1876 to Mr. A. H. Gage, of New York ; Mary B., born in 1861, died in 1863; and Mary Lilian, born December 26, 1866. He married in March, 1881, Mrs. Rebecca Murphy, formerly of Ohio. They have a farm of eighty acres of improved land in Section 12, of Vienna, worth $55 per acre. He is a Republican, and has frequently been elected to the offices of his township. He has an elevator and a nice residence in the vil- lage of Verona.
TIIOMAS S. COLMAN, farmer, P. O. Wau- ponsce, is a native of Putnam County, Ill., born August 2, 1838, son of John and Mary A. Col- man, who moved into Putnam County, Ill., from the State of New York, in 1835. His father was born in Vermont in 1797 and died in La Salle County May 2, 1849, and his mother in New Hampshire, in January, 1806 ; she died at the residence of her son, in Norman Township, Grundy County, July 13, 1881. Our subject
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was raised and educated principally in La Salle County, Ill. Hle married, November 25, 1864, Miss Catharine Nelson, daughter of Miles and Adeline Nelson of New York. She was born in Steuben County, N. Y., December 15, 1838, and is the eldest of a family of tive chil- dren. Their family consists of three children- John N., born October 1. 1865 ; Guy A., born September 12, 1869 ; William T., born August 22. 1871. Mr. Colman now owns 160 acres of improved farm land in Section 12, of Vienna Township, valued at $55 per acre ; he resides one half mile south of Wauponsee Station. Ile is a member of the Masonic fraternity ; in polities, he is a Republican, and has been elect- ed to the offices of his township. Ile has one brother, John T. Colman, living in Norman Township, Grundy County.
MATTHEW DIX, farmer, P. O. Verona, is a native of Berkshire, England, born May -4. 1831, son of Charles and Martha Dix, of England. He is the fifth of a family of eight children, and was raised and educated in Eng- land. Hle came to the United States in 1856, in the vessel " Amazon," being six weeks on the passage. He came immediately to Illinois and settled in Kendall County, where he en- gaged in farming for eight years ; came to Grundy County in the spring of 1865. Here he located in Section 22, of Vienna Township, where he owns a farm of 160 acres of well-im- proved land, and resides one and one-half miles northwest from Verona ; the land is valued at $50 per acre. Mr. Dix was married in Kendall County. September 21, 1864, to Miss Gertrude Cody, daughter of Thomas and Harriet Cody, born in Oneida County, N. Y., July 8, 1813. They have n family of seven children. three of whom are dead-Freddy L., born in Grundy County December 20, 1868 ; Lewis M., De- cember 24, 1870, died of diphtheria December 22, 1880 ; Clara .A., born November 2, 1872; Mina G., January 20, 1876, died June 12, 1877 ; Sadie E., born February 3, 1878 ; and Ellie
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