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THE HENRY FAMILY
viii. Parmelia, married Clark Ovett.
ix. Thomas, married Rose Sinty.
x. William, married first, Mary L. Robertson; second, Catherine Ensign.
xi. Anna Parmelia, married William Robertson. (See page 230.)
xii. John, second.
JAMES (3) HENRY was born January 22, 1812, in Green- wich, New York; died July 6, 1899, in Somonauk, Illinois; married October 26, 1837, in Washington County, New York, Jennett Beveridge, born May 5, 1813, at Cambridge, New York; died December 2, 1901, at Somonauk, Illinois. Both are buried at Oak Mound Cemetery. Their portraits face page 120.
James (3) Henry and his wife, Jennett (Beveridge) Henry, came to Somonauk in the spring of 1853 and bought a farm one mile north and east of Somonauk village. They united with the Associate Church by certificate. Their children became members of the same church.
Children:
i. Anna Mary (4), born Dec. 30, 1838, at Lakeville, N. Y .; died Feb. 23, 1909; married Jan. 1, 1863, Henry M. Winter. He died Dec. 8, 1900, in Iowa. Children:
i. Anna Lydia (5) Winter, born Oct. 28, 1863.
ii. Albert C. Winter, born Oct. 5, 1866. For ten years has been the superintendent of the O. M. Cemetery.
iii. William Winter, born Mar. 9, 1869; died June -, 1869.
iv. Martha Winter, born Nov. 18, 1872.
v. Jannette Winter, born May 17, 1875.
vi. James Henry Winter, born Mar. 11, 1877.
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ii. Parmelia, born July 3, 1840, at Lakeville, N. Y .; died May 30, 1841.
iii. Isabella Beveridge, born May 10, 1842, at Lake- ville, N. Y .; married Sept. 3, 1868, William C. Norcross, of Monmouth, Ill. Mr. Norcross was an attorney at law. He died Dec. 6, 1913.
Children:
i. Hiram (5) Norcross.
ii. Sara Norcross.
iii. James Norcross.
iv. John Vetch, born July 27, 1844.
v. George B., born Sept. 26, 1846, at Lakeville, N. Y .; died unmarried Mar. 31, 1897.
vi. Sarah T. L., born Sept. 15, 1848, at Lakeville, N. Y .; died July 4, 1925, in Viola, Kan .; married in October, 1881, Ebenezer E. Mitchell. He died Dec. 23, 1903, in Viola, Kan.
vii. Philomelia J., born Nov. 13, 1850, at Lakeville, N. Y .; died July 18, 1919, at Viola, Kan .; mar- ried Nov. 2, 1871, James Doig Orr, who died Dec. 21, 1874. (See page 207.) She married second, Oct. 24, 1889, Rev. James S. Turnbull. He died Sept. 17, 1922.
viii. Agnes R., born Jan. 25, 1853, at Lakeville, N. Y .; married Dec. 28, 1876, Easton Kirkpatrick. (See page 166.)
ix. Margaret Elizabeth, born Apr. 11, 1857, at Somonauk, Ill .; married Jan. 31, 1884, Hampton E. White, who died Nov. 15, 1927. (See page 238.) x. Minnie J., born at Somonauk, Ill., Aug. 17, 1859; died Aug. 2, 1886.
JOHN VETCH (4) HENRY was born July 27, 1844, at Lakeville, New York, and came to Somonauk with his parents
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in the spring of 1854, when in his tenth year. He worked on the farm in the summer and went to school in the winter term.
In 1862, when eighteen years old, he enlisted in Company H, 105th Illinois Infantry Volunteers. The regiment was mus- tered into the United States service September 2, at Dixon, Illinois, and remained at Camp Douglass nearly one month. Ordered to Louisville, Kentucky, September 30, the regiment rode in cattle cars and on flat cars; on October 8 it was ordered to Frankfort, skirmishing with the enemy all the way for six days; from Frankfort it made a raid upon Lawrenceburg and captured a few hundred prisoners.
On March 25, 1864, Mr. Henry was transferred to the 17th Cavalry Volunteers as sergeant-major and was soon pro- moted to first lieutenant and quartermaster of the regiment. The regiment was placed under the command of Major-Gen- eral Rosecrans in Missouri, where it engaged in the six days' battle with General Price, completely routing his army and capturing General Marmaduke and thousands of prisoners. During this battle Lieutenant Henry was assigned as aide to Brigadier-General Wood for two days. After Lee's surrender the regiment was retained in service to help quell the maraud- ing guerrilla bands that infested all parts of the state. When this was accomplished the regiment was mustered out in de- tachments.
Lieutenant Henry returned home the latter part of June, 1865, having served his country for nearly three years as an efficient soldier, and was mustered out of service one month before he was twenty-one years of age.
On December 26, 1865, Lieutenant Henry married Carrie R. Poplin.
Children:
i. Frank V. A. (5), born Jan. 17, 1869.
ii. Jessie May, born May 26, 1872.
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In 1870 he was appointed to the position of clerk in the United States railway service, from Galesburg to Quincy. In 1871 he was detailed for service on the Buffalo and Toledo route, and the year following was transferred to the Chicago and Burlington route as head clerk. On the organization of the New York and Chicago fast mail service (twenty-six hours en route-a fast service at that time) he was appointed head clerk and served on the first train. A year later he was trans- ferred as chief clerk at Quincy, Illinois, having charge of all mail railroad lines south of Galesburg, Peoria, Bloomington and Danville.
On February 6, 1885, Mr. Henry married second, Jessie E. Dawson Williams.
Child :
i. Lulu Belle (5) now Mrs. Sherwood, of Iola, Kan.
In 1905 he entered the state service at the Southern Illinois prison at Chester, and resigned February 1, 1920. During this time he was also superintendent of the warden house. In Feb- ruary, 1921, he entered the Illinois Soldiers' and Sailors' Home at Quincy, Illinois, and for a time assisted and acted as post- master.
In April, 1923, he was appointed sergeant-major of the home and in May, 1924, was promoted to adjutant. July 1, 1925, he resigned on account of his wife's failing health, though still retaining his membership in the home. For three years he and his wife lived at Iola, Kansas, where she died in April, 1927. Mr. Henry has returned to the home, where, at the age of eighty-three, he enjoys the happy memories of a well-spent and highly useful life while "waiting," as he says, "for the bugle call to the Eternal Home."
CHESTER (3) HENRY, born in Washington County, New York, in 1829; died at Goldfield, Iowa, September 15, 1915; married October 12, 1860, Ellen Ann French; born 1840, in
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Washington County, New York; died November 12, 1905, at Goldfield, Iowa. Both are buried in Oak Mound Cemetery, Somonauk, Illinois.
Children :
i. Gilbert (4), born 1861; married in 1888, Nora Mc- Eachron.
Children :
i. Ellen Jannette (5), who graduated from Mon- mouth College in 1913; married Rev. Ralph McLaughlin. They are missionaries, teaching in Cairo, Egypt.
ii. Duncan, married Emma Handy, teaching, at Sayo, Abbyssinia.
iii. Merran is secretary to a large institutional church at Pittsburgh, Pa.
iv. Frank Ross, living at Goldfield, Iowa.
v. Gilbert, living at Ackley, Iowa.
ii. Anna Bell, born 1863; living in Goldfield, Iowa.
iii. Sarah Elizabeth, born 1864; married W. J. French. (See page 123.)
iv. John Blair, born 1867; married first, Chrissie Mc- Bride.
Child:
i. A daughter, who died at the age of twenty years. Married second, Maude Stokes.
Child :
i. Gretchen (5).
v. Mary Ellen, born 1875; married Albert McCleery. (See page 178.)
vi. Frank R., born 1877; at the age of twenty was drowned in the Fox River.
Chester (3) Henry came to Illinois in the early '50s. He worked on a farm in Iowa and taught school for some time; came back to Illinois and continued teaching until he mar-
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ried in 1860. He and his wife began housekeeping on the farm south of the church, where they lived a long time. In 1899 they removed to Goldfield, Iowa, where they spent the rest of their lives. They were members of the United Presbyterian Church.
The Howison Family
GEORGE (1) HOWISON was born in Roxburyshire, Scot- land, about 1785; died September 8, 1846, in Squaw Grove township, De Kalb County, Illinois; married early in the nineteenth century, in Scotland, Margaret Brown; born about 1789; died in Squaw Grove township, April 29, 1874, Mrs. Howison's maiden name appears on the memorial tablet as Margaret Black, but further research seems to prove the name to be Brown. Her portrait faces page 134.
The father and eldest son, James, came to America in 1831, three months being required for the journey. The following year the rest of the family was sent for and settled in Green- wich, Washington County, New York. In 1843 James and William came west by way of the Erie Canal and the Great Lakes to Chicago, where they remained a short time before taking up four hundred acres of government land in Squaw Grove township, De Kalb County, Illinois. They also pur- chased ten acres of beautiful timber land at Shabbona Grove. The first winter was spent in getting out rails, stakes, posts and wood for use on the new farm. In the spring of 1844 the other members of the family, except Alexander, came to Squaw Grove.
George Howison was a weaver by trade and a member of the United Presbyterian Church. He was first buried on the Wil- liam French farm, his body being later removed to Oak Mound Cemetery. Margaret (Brown) Howison had one daughter by a previous marriage. The daughter married a Mr. Carr and they had one son, John. Mrs. Howison was a charter member of the Somonauk United Presbyterian Church.
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Children:
i. James (2), born Jan. 20, 1818.
ii. Isobel, born Jan. 20, 1818; died in infancy.
iii. William, born Dec. 18, 1821.
iv. Eliza, born Aug. - , 1825; married Sept. 18, 1858, Alexander White; died Jan. 10, 1899. (See page 239.)
v. Alexander, born Nov. 20, 1826.
vi. Robert, born Jan. 12, 1830. (See page 157.)
JAMES (2) HOWISON, born January 20, 1818, in Smail- holm, Scotland; died April 21, 1901, at Sandwich, Illinois; married November 12, 1867, Mary Jane, a daughter of Julia Ann and Richard Kirkpatrick; born at Duncannon, Pennsyl- vania, March 21, 1840; died February 18, 1922.
Child:
i. Charles (3), married Bessie Warner, Oct. 26, 1898. Children:
i. Charlotte H. (4). ii. Charles.
On March 12, 1850, in company with William Patten, James Blair, James Walker and Mr. Hoag, James Howison started overland for California. The party used three span of horses and two covered wagons in making the trip. Mr. Walker died on the way at Lone Tree. The other four went first to Weaverton, where the first diggings were located, then later to Sacramento, where they laid in a supply of provisions; then they went to the diggings on the Yuba River where the sub- ject of this sketch hired out to a company for eight dollars a day. Here he was joined by his brother Alexander. During two summers he worked on a ranch for $160 a month and board. In 1856 the two brothers returned to the home in Illinois. While engaged in farming, Mr. Howison suffered a severe sunstroke, and on account of poor health moved to Sandwich in 1879, where he died April 21, 1901.
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WILLIAM (2) HOWISON, born in Smailholm, Roxbury- shire, Scotland, December 18, 1821; died October 4, 1905; married October, 1855, Catharine Walls; born December 25, 1824, in Salem, New York; died May 31, 1887.
In 1847 William secured one hundred sixty acres from the government in Clinton township, near Waterman. For many years he and his wife were faithful members of the United Presbyterian Church at Somonauk. The parents and five of the children are buried in Oak Mound Cemetery.
Children :
i. James A. (3), born May 28, 1856; died Mar. 14, 1882.
ii. William J., born May 28, 1858; died Apr. 5, 1913.
iii. Robert W., born Aug. 29, 1860; died March 10, 1924; married Apr. 29, 1922, Josephine Vermil- lion Henley. He was an extensive stockbreeder and a prosperous farmer.
iv. George W., born June 16, 1862; died Nov. 28, 1904, at Bartonville, Ill.
v. Albert, born July 25, 1865; married July 26, 1922, in California, Mira Bradbury, and is now living in Waterman, Ill.
vi. Mary M., born Jan. 7, 1868; died Feb. 21, 1896.
ALEXANDER (2) HOWISON, born at Smailholm, Rox- buryshire, near Edinburgh, Kelso County, Scotland, November 20, 1826; died August 24, 1907, at his home in De Kalb Coun- ty, Illinois. He came with his parents to Greenwich, New York, in 1832, when he was six years of age. He did not remove to Illinois until 1846, when he joined his parents in Squaw Grove township. He worked with his brother William the first year and then purchased of William one hundred sixty acres which he began improving. In 1852 he went to California by way of Cape Horn, and by a happy accident located his brother
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James, who had crossed the plains two years before. They were there for three and a half years, one year being spent in the mines and two years in gardening. The brothers returned by water, taking the Aspinwall line by way of the Isthmus of Panama. Surviving shipwreck and yellow fever, which broke out among the passengers, they reached home in safety.
Alexander (2) Howison, married November 18, 1862, Margaret McCleery; born near Dalton, Ohio, February 22, 1843, a daughter of James and Jean (Thompson) McCleery. They went to live on the Howison homestead, where he again took up farming, and the rest of their lives was spent there. Mrs. Howison died August 23, 1916. Both were members of the United Presbyterian Church. The deceased members of the family are buried in Oak Mound Cemetery.
Children :
i. George Andrew (3), living on the homestead.
ii. Margaret Jean, living with her brother George A.
iii. Elizabeth Ann, died June 3, 1888.
iv. Archie H., married Martha A. Randles, Feb. 8, 1899; died June 24, 1901.
v. Mary Jeannette, living with George and Jean.
vi. Ralph James, married June 13, 1906, Margaret Beveridge, daughter of William G. Beveridge. Children :
ii. Robert W.
i. Donald (4), deceased. iii. Evelyn Mae. vii. Isabella Catherine, died July 30, 1886.
ROBERT (2) HOWISON, born January 12, 1830, in Smailholm, Roxburyshire, Scotland; died August 27, 1912; November 27, 1862, Robert married Hannah Ellen Kirk- patrick, born March 13, 1835, near Duncannon, Pennsyl- vania. She came with her parents, Richard and Julia (Kirk- patrick) Kirkpatrick, to De Kalb County, Illinois, in 1857, and settled in Clinton township.
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A short time after his marriage Robert (2) and his wife moved to their farm in Clinton township, where they lived for forty years. They were consistent members of the United Presbyterian Church. From the farm they moved into the vil- lage of Waterman, where Mr. Howison died August 27, 1912. He was buried in Oak Mound Cemetery. At this time, November, 1927, Mrs. Howison is in her ninety-third year and in good health.
Children:
i. George Bert (3).
ii. Margaret, married John Moore.
Children:
i. Albert (4) Moore.
ii. Ella Moore.
Mr. and Mrs. Moore removed to Idaho, where they lived and prospered on a farm for several years, until Mr. Moore lost his life in an accident resulting from a runaway team of horses. Mrs. Moore returned to Waterman to educate her chil- dren. She married second, Lavill Rowley.
iii. Mabel.
iv. Fred.
The Irwin Family
WILLIAM (1) IRWIN, son of James Irwin and Jane Winslow, was born in County Caven, Ireland, February 18, 1800; died in Somonauk, Illinois, in the home of his daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Beveridge, July 22, 1866.
In Ireland he was proud to be an Orangeman, but when twenty-one years of age came to America and settled in Argyle, Washington County, New York. Here he married May 11, 1826, Margaret Harper, who was born in the North of Ire- land, September 15, 1807, and died in Somonauk, Illinois, February 28, 1890.
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In 1848 they removed from Washington County, New York, to Ross Grove, Illinois, twelve miles west of the Somon- auk United Presbyterian Church, and with their children, all born in New York State, were faithful members of that church.
In 1859, after the death of their son-in-law, Thomas G. Beveridge, Mr. and Mrs. Irwin came from Ross Grove, Illi- nois, to make their home with their daughter, Mrs. Beveridge. Children :
i. Elizabeth (2), born Dec. 18, 1827; died May 19, 1892; married Apr. 9, 1851, Thomas G. Bev- eridge. (See page 92.)
ii. Margaret Jane, born Jan. 16, 1830; died Mar. 6, 1833.
iii. William M., born July 21, 1832; died Oct. 4, 1834. iv. Mary, born Dec. 13, 1834; died Apr. 8, 1862; mar- ried Oct. 31, 1860, Robert Brown.
v. Jane, born Apr. 30, 1837; died -; married Dec. 31, 1857, Daniel Miller.
vi. Eleanor, born Sept. 15, 1839; died Jan. 4, 1885; married Dec. 31, 1862, Hiram J. Coon.
vii. Thomas, born Dec. 14, 1841.
viii. Martha Ann, born Dec. 27, 1845; died Sept. 12, 1846. ix. Sarah Ann, born May 1, 1848; living; married Feb. 8, 1886, Hiram J. Coon.
THOMAS (2) IRWIN was born December 14, 1841; married November 7, 1863, Mary Elizabeth (8) French.
Children:
i. Anna Lizzie (3), born May 12, 1865; died Sept. 20, 1916; married May 24, 1883, James S. Harvison .. Children:
i. Glenn Irwin (4) Harvison, born Oct. 13, 1887; married August, 1920, Nynah Byers.
ii. Maribel Harvison.
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ii. Isabel French, born Jan. 22, 1867; unmarried.
iii. William, born Apr. 7, 1869; married November, 1888, Luella Ross.
Children:
i. Mary Irene (4), born Oct. 22, 1889; married Dr. William Kirk.
ii. Eva Valera, born Mar. 30, 1891; married Guy Black.
iii. Agnes.
JOHN IRWIN married Jane Kirk in Argyle township, Washington County, New York.
Child :
i. Sarah, born -; married William (2) Harper, Apr. 25, 1848. (See page 146.)
The Kennedy Family
DAVID STEWART KENNEDY was born April 25, 1834, near Youngstown, Mahoning County, Ohio, son of James and Sarah Reid Kennedy, who were of Scotch-Irish ancestry; died May 17, 1898; married May 3, 1859, Nancy Wills Kelly; born near the town of Indiana, Indiana County, Pa., in 1837; died January 29, 1921, at Oak Park, Illinois. Children :
i. Sadie. vi. Reid.
ii. Harry, deceased. vii. Archie.
iii. Mary, deceased. viii. James, deceased.
iv. Matilda. ix. Anna.
v. Belle, deceased. x. Tom.
Mr. Kennedy entered Westminster College at the age of twenty-two and graduated in the class of 1858. Soon after this he entered the Allegheny Theological Seminary, from
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which he was graduated in 1862. His first pastorate was at Center, Washington County, Pennsylvania, in Chartiers Pres- bytery. Here he remained for ten years. He was next called by the congregation of Sewickley, Pennsylvania, in the Pres- bytery of Allegheny. After serving this congregation for six years he received a call from the Somonauk United Presby- terian Church, where he was installed as pastor, September 5, 1878, succeeding the Reverend William Turner Moffett, who was the second pastor of Somonauk church. Mr. Kennedy served this congregation with great devotion for a little more than fifteen years, when, on account of failing health, he resigned, giving up his charge November 21, 1893.
Mrs. Kennedy also graduated from Westminster College in the same class as her husband. Both are buried in Oak Mound Cemetery.
The Kirkpatrick Family
"Kirkpatrick, anciently sometimes spelled Kilpatrick, a surname derived from Cella Patricii, the 'church of Patrick.'
"The ancient family of Kirkpatrick of Closeburn, who possess a baronetcy, have, according to tradition, held lands in Nithsdale since the ninth century.
"Roger Kirkpatrick was one of the attendants of King Rob- ert Bruce at Dumfries when he met Comyn in the church of the Franciscans in that town, and it was he who, on Bruce's rush- ing out and expressing a doubt that he had killed the Red Comyn, dispatched the latter with the exclamation, 'You doubt! Ise mak siccar' (or sure), which became the motto of his family, their crest being a hand holding a dagger, in pale, distilling drops of blood."-Anderson's "Scottish Nation."
About 1730 Isaac (1) Kirkpatrick with his brother Richard and sister Mary, of Scottish ancestry, came from near Belfast, Ireland, and settled in the part of Lancaster County, Penn- sylvania, now in Cumberland County.
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His son Richard (2) had three sons, Joseph (3), Moses (3) and Isaac (3), of Rye township, Cumberland County, who were all soldiers of the Revolution from that county.
In 1855 Jesse (4) Kirkpatrick, with his brother Richard [(4), Isaac (3), Richard (2), Isaac (1)] and their families, came from near Duncannon, Perry County, Pennsylvania, and settled in Clinton township, De Kalb County, Illinois.
JESSE (4) KIRKPATRICK, born in Cumberland (now Perry) County, Pennsylvania, June 19, 1791; died in Clinton township, De Kalb County, Illinois, December 19, 1857; married in Perry County, Pennsylvania, January 25, 1819, Ruth Smiley; born in Shermandale, Perry County, Pennsyl- vania, May 1, 1791; died in Waterman, Illinois, October 8, 1879. Their children were born in Pennsylvania.
Children:
i. Ann (5), born Apr. 22, 1820; died Oct. 16, 1869; married William H. Henderson.
ii. Isaac, born Oct. 20, 1822; died Jan. 11, 1895; mar- ried Catharine McCord.
iii. Smiley, born Mar. 1, 1825; married Matilda Hipple.
iv. Hiram, born July 23, 1827; died Apr. 13, 1924; married Mary Thomas.
v. Margarette, born Nov. 23, 1829; married William McCoy.
vi. Eleanor, born June 12, 1832; died Nov. 3, 1917; married Robert G. Ferguson.
RICHARD (4) KIRKPATRICK, born in Cumberland (now Perry) County, Pennsylvania, April 4, 1797; died in Clinton township, De Kalb County, Illinois, September 3, 1871; married about 1832 his relative Julia Ann Kirkpatrick; born March 17, 1810; died April 28, 1898. Their children were born in Pennsylvania.
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Children:
i. Isabella (5), born Mar. 27, 1833; died July 14, 1915; married John Harter.
ii. Hannah Eleanor, born Mar. 13, 1835; now living; married Robert (2) Howison. (See page 155.)
iii. Matilda, born Feb. 29, 1836; died Aug. 16, 1864; married Amos McCaskey.
iv. Albina, born Nov. 19, 1839; died May 27, 1913; married William James Walker. (See page 236.)
v. Mary Jane, born Mar. 21, 1840; died Feb. 18, 1923; married first, James Howison; married second, William James Walker. (See pages 155, 236.)
vi. Julia Ann, born Apr. 20, 1843; died Oct. 23, 1918; married Jan. 24, 1867, Robert Walker. (See page 236.)
vii. Rebecca, born Dec. 28, 1844; now living; married, Nov. 28, 1867, John Walker, Jr. (See page 236.) viii. Jesse Patterson, born in 1846; died aged 11 months. ix. Isaac Finley, born Apr. 16, 1850; now living.
HEZEKIAH (5) KIRKPATRICK [Moses (4),
(3), Richard (2), Isaac (1)], born January 18, 1813, in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania; died in Clinton township, De Kalb County, Illinois, June 22, 1883; married April 7, 1840, Nancy E. Elliott; born in the north of Ireland about 1810; died in Clinton township, De Kalb County, Illinois, August 10, 1867. Hezekiah (5) and his brother Isaac (5) with their families removed from the part of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, now Perry County, and settled in De Kalb County, Illinois, in the spring of 1852, coming by railroad to Turner Junction, now West Chicago, and from there in wagons to their destination. Hezekiah bought one hundred sixty acres of prairie land in Clinton township, adjoining Squaw Grove, and built a house, and later two other
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houses. James P. Kirkpatrick, a grandson, now lives in the last home.
Soon after their arrival Mr. and Mrs. Kirkpatrick united with the church, and later the children all followed their example.
Children:
i. Nancy Jane (6), born Jan. 22, 1841; died Jan. 21, 1863; married James Finney and removed to southern Indiana, where she died a year or two later.
Child:
i. Jennie Margaretta (7) Finney, married Isaac Trible; they are now living in California.
ii. Moses Calvin, born June 8, 1843; died Apr. 20, 1863. In the summer of 1862 he enlisted in the 105th Regiment of Illinois Volunteers. While in the South his health failed and the following spring he was discharged and brought home, dying soon after. He was buried in Oak Mound Cemetery.
iii. John Simpson, born Aug. 18, 1845; died Nov. 9, 1912; married first, Dec. 9, 1875, Margaret J. McCord; second, Ida Kirkpatrick.
Children by first marriage:
i. Mertie E. (7). iv. Mabel.
ii. James H. v. Nancy.
iii. Jessie S.
iv. Eliza, born May 15, 1848; died Apr. 13, 1926, at her home in Topeka, Kan .; married Jan. 22, 1879, John W. Owen; born 1854; died 1927.
Children:
i. Arthur K. (7) Owen, a Roentgenologist, mar- ried Eugia Timms.
Child :
i. Kirk.
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ii. Charles Archibald Owen, married Margarette Corrett; they have a daughter and four sons, and are living in Egypt, where Mr. Owen is a missionary teacher.
iii. Mary Owen married A. R. Morrow, a phy- sician, living in Chicago, Ill. They have two daughters.
v. Margaretta, born Feb. 20, 1852; died Aug. 18, 1899; married Nov. 9, 1871, William Mitchell.
Children:
i. Edith E. (7) Mitchell, married Peter Hutter. Children :
i. Harry Kennedy (8) Hutter, teaching geol- ogy and chemistry in Muskingum Col- lege, Ohio.
ii. William Glenn Hutter, living in Aurora, Ill.
iii. Jesse Calvin Hutter, married Eva Winter.
iv. Margaretta K. Hutter, married Joseph Chestnut and is living on a farm in Kansas.
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