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ZILILE CisNA, one of the potent forces of Carman, was born in Perry county, Pennsylvania, October 10, 1828. His father, John Cisna, and his mother Polly were natives of the same place. His father was born in 1789, and lived to be more than ninety years old. In 1843 they came to this county from Burlington, Iowa, but did not locate permanently until 1857. In 1866 Zelile and one of his brothers went into the business of general merchandising at Shokokon. From here they removed to Carman in 1870 (see History of Carman). In 1853 he went to California for the purpose of mining, at which he was very successful,-so much so that he acquired a thirst for more speedy gains, and to further his aims, in 1854 he went to Australia. While here he worked in the mines at Bendgoo and Balerette, but was not successful. He returned to Illinois in 1855. November 2, 1859, he wedded Miss Mary Jane Parr, by whom he has seven children, one of whom is dead. They are: Fannie, Laura, Mary, Zelile, Joseph, George and Pearly. Mr. Cisna is a member of Carman lodge, No. 732. of Masons.
THOMAS MARSDEN, one of the early settlers and one of the most successful business men of the community, was born in York. Eng-
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land, April 3, 1819. His parents, William and Hannah (Bouker) Marsden, were farm laborers. His grandparents, Henry and Alice, followed the same business. His parents emigrated from England to America in September, 1841. Our subject had come two years previous and was located at Dayton, Ohio. From there he came to this county in 1844, settling near Terre Haute. Prior to coming to America, in 1838, he married Miss Elizabeth Hardman, who died at Dayton, Ohio, soon after their arrival there. By her he had one child, William, who lives in Honey Creek township. In 1841 he was married a second time, to Elizabeth Lamerman, who died in December, 1877. Mr. Marsden received a very meager education in his childhood, but by business training and experience he has acquired a ready fund of prac- tical knowledge. December 2, 1866, Mr. Marsden opened a Inmber yard at Shokoken, where he is yet engaged in business. He also has another at Blandinsville. In the two he does a business of more than $30,000 each year. He is a member of Carman lodge, No. 732, of Masons, and a republican in politics.
J. B. McCLUN is a native of Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, hav- ing been born there June 7, 1820. His father, Alexander McClun, was in the war of 1812, and was in the engagement at Baltimore. He lived to be ninety years old. Our subject was raised on a farmi and received a common school education. In Cuyahoga county, Ohio, March 4, 1847. he married Miss Mariah Hazen. She is a native of Portage county, Ohio, and was born December 20, 1829. They came to this county in March, 1865. They have five children : Louiza J., born June 11, 1848, died March 30, 1854; Susan L., born June 28, 1850 ; Mary E., born November 24, 1856 ; Alice C., born January 16, 1859, died September 15, 1862 ; and Minnie, born May 19, 1866. He is now proprietor of the Carman House, Carman, Illinois.
ADDITIONAL MATTER.
The following sketches were received too late to insert under the head designed for them, and necessarily appear in this place :
SOLOMON HEVENER, farmer, Oquawka, son of Jacob and Catharine (Trimpock) Ilevener, was born in Montgomery county, New York, in 1810. Like most boys, his youth was spent on the farm. In 1832 he was united in marriage with Miss Harriett Orcutt, a native of Schoharie county, New York. After his marriage he engaged in farming for himself in his native state. In 1864 he sold and removed to Oquawka,
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Illinois, and a short distance out of town, a farm where he and his devoted wife are now in comfort spending their declining years. Their children, Helen L., now the wife of Mr. Frank Pike ; Adelaide, wife of Mr. Abram Boyd, and Jacob, are well educated and settled in life. They are in faith Methodists and of German ancestry.
JACOB POULL, retired mason and contractor, was born in Luxem- burg, Germany, in 1825. He is the son of Andrew Poull, a prominent mason and builder in his day. During his youth Jacob thoroughly mastered his trade and began to feel the impulse of aspirations. October 22, 1844, he married Miss Marguretta Delles, a native of his own town, who shared life with him until November 16, 1879, when she died and was buried in the Oquawka cemetery. March 16, 1847, he left Luxemburg for America via the river Rhine and ocean, and, after a voyage of forty-two days on the latter, landed in New York May 14, and at once pushed on to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where they arrived June 16, 1847. Mr. Poull soon after located in Chicago, where he began the business of his trade, which soon grew to immense pro- portions as he turned his attention to contracting and building, having some years later erected some of the best buildings in and around Chicago. As soon as May 8, 1861, after the outbreak of the war of the rebellion, he espoused the cause of his adopted country, and as a soldier identified himself with the 24th Ill. Vol. Inf. He was at once commissioned as second lieutenant. After over three years of active service he returned as captain of his company, of less than a dozen men, and was honorably discharged August 6, 1864. In the fall of the same year he bought a farm a few miles out of Chicago on to which he moved his family. In December, 1878, he sold out and removed to Oquawka, where he permanently located, at the same time buying near town about 250 acres of land. His six children are well educated and well settled in life. The sons are : Peter J., Nicholas F. and Theodore ; and the daughters are : Maggie, Katie (wife of William Alton) and Sarah (now Mrs. Charles West). Mr. Poull in early life being deprived of educational advantages, and since seeing the great need and advantage of proper school training, has seen to it that his children enjoyed all the advantages denied him.
JOHN HANNA, Oquawka, was born in Ohio. He became a resident of Indiana and in 1835 moved to Warren county, Illinois, two and a half miles southwest of Little York. He entered large quantities of land, owning at his death about 1,800 acres. He died in the fall of 1862. Ile had been twice married. He buried his first wife in 1851 or 1852. His second wife survived him a short time.
CAPTAIN D. C. HANNA, son of John Hanna, was born June 8, 1836,
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on the homestead in Warren county. He was raised on the farm. In 1860 he made a trip to Colorado, spending a year and a half there. He returned and enlisted August 14, 1862, in Co. C, 91st Ill. Vols., as first lieutenant. At Brownsville, 'in 1863, he was promoted to the captaincy. He fought at Mobile and many small battles. At Eliza- bethtown he with the whole regiment was taken prisoner by Morgan, but was soon paroled. He returned home in 1865 and devoted him- self to farming. In 1869 he was elected county clerk, which office he held eight years. He was also mayor of Oquawka, as the official tables indicate. Mr. Hanna was married to Miss Mattie E. Heaton, September, 1866.
NEWTON WOOD, Oquawka, son of Martin H. and Sallie Wood, was born in Ashtabula county, Ohio, March 18, 1825. With his parents he came to Henderson county in 1838, and settled near Jacks Mill on Sec. 24, T. 11, R. 5, where he now lives. Mr. Wood is a miller by trade, but has farmed for the last quarter of a century. He received his education in the common schools of Ohio and Illinois. April 18, 1853, he was wedded to Miss Elizabeth Hants, who has borne him two children, Frank, born August, 1856, and Laura, born November, 1861. He now lives at the old homestead.
JAMES H. Woons, Greenville precinct, is the son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Witherspoon) Woods. Isaac Woods, the father, was born in west Tennessee, March 14, 1783. He grew up to manhood there, when he removed to Indiana, settling in Gibson county. Just prior to this he had been married. Mrs. Woods was a native of west Ten- nessee. He was regularly enlisted and took part in the war of 1812 ; was at the battle of Tippecanoe. He settled and improved a farm of 160 acres, which was no small job. In 1841 he removed to Henderson county, settling in Greenville precinct, where he had bought a half-section of land, which he made into an excellent farm. He died August 30, 1872; is buried in Smith Creek cemetery. Was a democrat in politics, and was a member of Presbyterian church. James H. was born January 20, 1827, in Gibson ; removed with his father to Illinois and lived with him as long as he lived. Was married Novem- ber 15, 1850, to Miss Elizabeth Reed, daughter of John Reed, Esq.
ALFRED DEHAVEN, Bald Bluff precinct, son of William and Eliza- beth Dehaven, was born in Fountain county, Indiana. While he was quite young his father died, soon after which, with his mother, he removed to Mercer county, Illinois. Here he grew up on a farm and received what education the common schools afforded. May 1, 1864, he married Melissa Ann Clark, daughter of Henry Clark, an early set- tler of Bald Bluff. Mr. Dehaven was elected a school director of his
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district at the April election in 1880, and by his vigorous and energetic measures has succeeded in reducing the formerly high-handed expendi- tures of the district board. They are the parents of three children : William H., born December 17, 1866 ; Alpha Lelia, born November 9, 1868 ; Eddie James, born July 28, 1881. They have an adopted child, the son of William Newcourt, born September 16, 1879.
REVOLUTIONARY HEROES.
There have died in Henderson county four soldiers of the revolu- tion : Samuel Chapin, born in Chicopee, Massachusetts, September 24, 1760 ; served under Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga; died at Oquawka in 1842, and is buried in Oquawka cemetery; David Finley, born in Belfast, Ireland, September 3, 1848, and is interred in South Henderson cemetery ; Earl Frazell was born in Essex county, Vermont, Decem- ber 13, 1764, and died May 5, 1850; he rests in Oquawka cemetery ; Jeremiah Rose is buried at Oquawka.
THE WAR OF 1812.
It has been ascertained that at least fifteen of the heroes of the war of 1812 have resided in Henderson county, most of whom lie in the soil of this county and awaiting the reveille of the great hereafter. They are Wm. Beatty, Thomas Curts, John Crose, Abner Davis, Robert Erwin, A. D. Frazell, Samuel Gordon, John Goodnight, John Hopkin, W. A. Morehead, William Morgan, J. McDermot, Erastus Rise, John Tweed and Samuel Watson.
William Cousland served in the Black Hawk war, as also S. S. Phelps. Hiram Rose was in the Aroostook war. Wm. Herberts was in the war with Mexico.
SOLDIERS' MONUMENT, OF HENDERSON COUNTY.
While the war was even yet in progress a movement was started for the erection of a monument to the memory of those whose lives had fallen a sacrifice to their country, and a small fund was raised ; but the matter fell into neglect, the subscriptions were returned to the donors, except, perhaps, in Oquawka precinct, and nothing further was done until 1873. A meeting was called at the court-house for Saturday, July 19, at which "The Oquawka Soldiers' Monument Association, of Hender- son county," was organized, and of both which (meeting and associa- tion) D. Caswell Hanna was elected president, G. F. William Froelich
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secretary, and William H. Stockton treasurer. An executive committee of the association was chosen, consisting of James R. White, Jefferson H. Jennings and Thomas W. Kinsloe; and another on constitution and by-laws, composed of Robert Moir, J. H. Jennings and J. S. Linel. Committees were appointed for each precinct to solicit subscriptions. Dr. Cephas Park, secretary of the old organization, presented a report showing the funds in the hands of the committee belonging to Oquawka precinct to be $688.79. It was reported that a certain fund was held by John McKinney, Jr., treasurer of the late association, to the credit of the same precinct, and the treasurer was directed to collect the amount. Messrs. Moir and Park were elected honorary members, and tendered a unanimous vote of thanks for their zealous efforts in behalf of the extinct society, and the fidelity with which they had protected, and by judicious investment increased, the funds confided to their custody. Subsequently bids and designs for a monument were received · by a committee, and the contract was let to W. W. Webster, of Musca- tine, Iowa. At the meeting of June 1, 1874, the following committee was selected to procure grounds : Robert Moir, Dr. Cephas Park, H. F. McAllister; William C. Rice and Col. John B. Patterson. On Thurs- day, October 22, the "Spectator " said : "On Friday last Mr. W. W. Webster, of Muscatine, designer and builder of the monument, com- pleted the work, veiled the statue, and turned it over to the committee. The monument is built of pure Italian marble, the design elegant and appropriate, and the workmanship that of a master of his art. The base is eight feet square and four feet deep ; the die is four feet, on which are inscribed, on its four sides, 200 names of soldiers of Henderson county who fell in the field or died in the service of their country ; upon the die rests a fluted column nine feet high, on which stands the statue of a soldier, life size, finely carved ; the whole monu- ment being twenty-nine and a half feet in height." On each of the four corners of the raised foundation is a trained cannon pointing outward. These pieces were procured through the efforts of Senators John A. Logan and Richard J. Oglesby, who secured the passage of an act of congress donating them (they being condemned ordnance) to the association. The inauguration took place Tuesday, October 20, and the address was delivered by Maj. R. W. McClaughry, formerly. of the 118th reg. Ill. Vol. Inf. The monument was erected by the private liberality of the people ; subscriptions varied from $5 to $50. The cost of the monument proper was $2,500, but other expenditures brought the outlay for this object up to $3,300. The location is in the center of a beautiful enclosed park, planted to deciduous and evergreen trees, comprised in lots 1, 4 and 5, block 4, Swartz' addition, donated by
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John Mckinney, Sr., for many years a resident and business man of Oquawka. This handsome work is not more a monument to the glorious dead of Henderson county than to the affection, gratitude, generosity and patriotism of the happy and intelligent living.
Following is a list of the soldiers whose names, with company and regiment, are inscribed on the monument, to which is added that of Harrison Chrisman, Co. C, 91st Ill. Inf., and that of Charles J. Foster, Co. M, 12th Ill. Cav., whose surname only was engraved among those whose regiment is unknown :
Tenth Illinois Infantry, Company E .- John A. Anderson, August Arrickson, John W. Bolthoff, Otho P. Craig, Albert C. Garrison, Thomas Miller, Absalom Martin, J. M. Shoemaker, Francis P. Speck. Company G .- Benjamin F. Bennett, William S. Beal, Edward M. Herndon, David F. Roderick, W. Wallace Rice, Americus Wyatt.
Sixteenth Illinois Infantry, Company F .- David Crutchfield. Thomas H. Davenport, Alvarro Gay, William Leonard, Jacob A. Laycraft, William A. Martin, David Montgomery, John H. Murphy, Edmund B. Owens, Cornelius O'Brien, Alexander Peterson, Warren Patterson, Joseph A. Snick, Thomas Whicher.
Seventeenth Illinois Infantry, Company B .- S. A. Mills. Com- pany C .- Peter Corzatt, William Thompson. Company I .- James M. Phelps.
Twenty-eighth Illinois Infantry, Company C .- Alonzo Curry. Company D .- Arion Painter. Company H .- William Cook, Andrew Cargill, Henry Davis, Ira Simmons, Perry Wilber.
Thirtieth .Illinois Infantry, Company A .- John J. Burrus. Com- pany K .- Martin R. Fordyce, Thomas Mellerbarg.
Thirty-third Illinois Infantry, Company E .- Jason L. Watson.
Thirty-sixth Illinois Infantry, Company C .- Elisha L. Atkins, John Shook, Ezra Shotts.
Forty-second Illinois Infantry, Company E .- Lewis Watson.
Fiftieth Illinois Infantry, Company F .- James T. Morse.
Fifty-ninth Illinois Infantry, Company B .- Francis M. Caldwell, George W. Evans, Sylvester Pace.
Seventy-fifth Illinois Infantry, Company G .- William W. Clark. Seventy-eighth Illinois Infantry, Company C .- Charles H. Magie. Company H .- Joseph Bierman, Edward McKini, Isaac M. Shaw.
Eighty-third Illinois Infantry, Company A .- David Endicott. Company C .- Joseph I. Francis. Company F .- John C. Allison.
Eighty-fourth Illinois Infantry, Company G .- Thomas Arm- strong, Peter Augustus, Thomas Biggs, Ezra L. Camp, George W. Caldwell, John G. Curtis, Richard Chipe, James A. Coburn, Willian
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M. Duvall, George D. Davis, George W. Gordon, Fleming Gowdy, Albert Hoskinson, John Hensley, Henry Hess, Gillam Harris, Charles Kaiser, James C. McDill, William R. Pinkerton, Levi B. Wilkinson, Thomas C. Pinkerton, Richard Parrott, Benjamin C. Pierce, William Reynolds, Orson Rose, Benjamin F. Smith, Samuel L. Spence, Charles Spanier, George W. Tompkins, Malachi W. Titus. Company H .- Andrew Jackson, Oliver R. Personius. Company K .- William J. Allaman, Charles Berggren, David B. Beebe, Archibald Beal, George W. Coroden, James R. Ewing, William P. Foster, James F. Fryrear, Rodolphus J. Hovey, John C. Harrah, John F. Jamison, Michael Jackson, Thomas G. McDill, Thomas MeIntire, Joseph T. Parnell, Samuel G. Plummer, William S. Stanley, William Short, John F. Tinker, Samuel Wilkins.
Eighty-eighth Illinois Infantry, Company I .- John Segar.
Ninety-first Illinois Infantry, Company B .- Robert J. Brown, · John Hixenbaugh, William Jacobs, William Moore, John J. Nichols, Merit W. Paul, George W. Roberts, Nathan J. Stewart. Company C .- John N. Barnes, C. Harrison Coon, Green Fullerton, William B. Hop- kins, George A. Monteith, Martin Reese, James M. Stock, William J. White, Harrison Chrisman.
One Hundred and Eighteenth Illinois Infantry, Company G .- John F. Bryan, Provine Burch, Lewis Cargill, Boone Crenshaw, Isaac D. Ecklin, James Fielding, Joseph W. B. Frits, Hugh Graham, Luther Gittings, John Glasgow, John H. Hopper, William H. Jackson, Ira B. King, William L. League, Patrick Moore, William McClain, Covington Messick, Alonzo W. Park, William L. Spiker, Alexander Spiker, William Spiker, William F. Wolff.
One Hundred and Forty-eighth Illinois Infantry, Company I .- T. C. Leslie.
Second Illinois Cavalry, Company H .- Enoch H. Coggswell. Fourth Illinois Cavalry, Company C .- Henry A. Brokaw.
Seventh Illinois Cavalry, Company L .- Elijah Jecklin, William M. Morris, George Post, John H. Schenck, George Thompson.
Eleventh Illinois Cavalry, Company H .- Robert D. Leslie, Calvin B. Galloway, David Salter.
Twelfth Illinois Cavalry, Company L .- John W. Allaman, Jona- than Earp, William Toler, J. Wesley Wheeling. Company M .- Charles J. Foster.
Fourteenth Illinois Cavalry, Company A .- John K. Atkinson.
Seventh Iowa Infantry, Company E .- Patrick Cadle, John L. Foster, John Littlefield, Henry W. Robbins.
First Iowa Battery-Robert O. Pursell.
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Seventh Missouri Cavalry, Company D .- Henry Billings. Charles Hall, James Moore, Joseph Poehler, William Willhite, George Williams.
Tenth Missouri Infantry, Company B .- W. Simpson Stokes.
Twenty-sixth Missouri Infantry. Company C .- John Hufnagel. John Link.
Second Colorado Cavalry .- William. Kirby.
Seventeenth United States Infantry .- Gidcon H. Ayres.
Eighteenth United States Infantry .- Samuel Cisna.
Sixth United States Cavalry, Company C .- George Burton.
Fourth United States Artillery, Company G .- Melville C. Hinds. -
United States Navy .- R. W. Kelly.
Company and Regiment Unknown .- James P. A. Lewis. Thomas Nash, Charles Shull, S. Griffith, J. Wilkinson, H. M. MeLain. Swigert.
Mr. Froehlich. the efficient and gentlemanly county clerk, took the leading interest in the erection. of this monument, and devoted much time and labor to the patriotic undertaking. No other man is so fully conversant with whatever pertains to the military history of Henderson county, and his information on the subject is the outgrowth of his indefatigable industry in perfecting the record of her share in the struggle for the Union, and in perpetuating the memory and the shin- ing deeds of her sons in its defense. As a corollary to the monument he has designed and had manufactured by Culver, Page, Hoyne & Co., of Chicago, a Soldiers' Record, giving the name of each soldier, his rank, company, regiment, state, arm of service, when enlisted, resi- dence at enlistment, when discharged, cause of death, when and where died, place of burial and history of soldier. Mr. Froehlich has been for a long time, and still is, engaged in an exhaustive research and correspondence for material to prepare an epitomized history of every soldier who ever went from Henderson county ; also such a his- tory of every one who went into the military service from any other place. but who is buried in the county ; and in addition, sketches of veterans of other wars who reside, or whose ashes lie here. Too much praise cannot be awarded him for his painstaking zeal and enthusiastic public spirit.
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