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In January, 1865, John C. Beveridge married Mary Ann McCleery, a daughter of James and Jean (Thompson) Mc- Cleery. They lived in the little cabin for a few years, but in 1871 Mr. Beveridge built a good roomy, substantial house and in rapid succession added serviceable outbuildings. Being a good carpenter, he did much of the work himself. He was a skillful farmer and, specializing in hog-raising, it was in that industry that he accumulated the greater part of his wealth. He held several important positions in his township, serving successively as assessor, repeatedly as supervisor; and was school treasurer for Victor township from 1874 until his death in 1906-a period of thirty-two years. He was secretary of the Victor Mutual Fire Insurance Company for twenty years.
John C. Beveridge lived forty-four years in Illinois and lived all this time on his farm. He died January 3, 1906, and was buried in Oak Mound Cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Beveridge
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were members of the United Presbyterian Church of Somonauk.
Children:
i. Alexander William (4), born Feb. 2, 1866; mar- ried, first, Jennie C. Reed; born in Canada, Sept. 11, 1867; died near Waterman, Ill., Feb. 27, 1897.
Child:
i. Bruce (5).
He married second, Mary Maxwell, born Feb. 10, 1866, by whom he had two sons and one daughter.
ii. James McCleery, born Nov. 23, 1867; married, Dec. 28, 1899, Mary Ella Hays; born in Canada, July 7, 1873.
Children:
i. Ralph (5), a graduate of Ripon College in 1924; living in Chicago.
ii. Helen, now a student in Monmouth College.
iii. Albert Elmer, born July 3, 1871; died in Chicago, Apr. 30, 1904.
iv. George, born Aug. 19, 1874; died Oct. 3, 1907, in Reinbeck, Iowa. He was a young physician of more than ordinary ability; unmarried.
v. Rea, born Oct. 30, 1876; married Bertha McGeoch; born Oct. 24, 1877. He is a farmer and is living at Sheldon, Wis.
vi. May, born Oct. 30, 1876; living at Frenchberg, Ky .; engaged in vocational teaching; formerly taught in Knoxville College, Knoxville, Tenn.
vii. Margaret, born Dec. 18, 1878; living in French- berg, Ky .; engaged in vocational teaching; for- merly taught in Knoxville College, Knoxville, Tenn.
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viii. Archibald, born Jan. 29, 1885; died in Chippewa Falls, Wis., Feb. 1, 1921; married Alice Hess, of Somonauk village. She is teaching music in Peid- mond College, Demorest, Ga.
ANDREW (2) BEVERIDGE, the ninth child of Andrew (1) and Isabella (Cummings) Beveridge, born May 26, 1802, in Hebron, Washington County, New York; died July 3, 1883, at his home in Somonauk township, De Kalb County, Illinois; married May 17, 1841, Jane Martin; born May 16, 1821, in Argyle, Washington County, New York; died at her home in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, October 30, 1905. Their children were all born in West Hebron. Mrs. Beveridge was brought to Somonauk for burial and laid beside her hus- band in Oak Mound Cemetery.
Children :
i. Isabella (3), born Jan. 29, 1842; died Feb. 14, 1849, at Peoria, Ill.
ii. Margaret, born June 3, 1843; died Oct. 27, 1856, at the home in Somonauk township, De Kalb County, Ill.
iii. Andrew, born Dec. 2, 1844.
iv. Sarah Isabella, born Aug. 16, 1849; died in her home at Orland, Ind., Feb. 9, 1874; married, Nov. 7, 1872, Samuel Carter van Antwerp; born Mar. 21, 1847; died Oct. 4, 1909. They had no children. Mr. van Antwerp was a physician.
Andrew (2) Beveridge, with his family, left West Hebron, Washington County, New York, came to Somonauk, Illinois, in the spring of 1852 and purchased a farm near Freeland Corners, where he lived the rest of his life-thirty-one years. Mr. and Mrs. Beveridge at once identified themselves with the Associate Church of Somonauk (now the United Presbyterian) by certificate. On February 28, 1857, he was chosen for a ruling elder, which office he held until his death.
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Agriculture was his life's occupation. He was a man of kind heart and true to his convictions. Dr. William Turner Moffett, once his pastor, who lived with the family for more than a year before the first church manse was built, paid to the home this beautiful tribute: "The Beveridge home was one of the finest examples of a Christian home I have ever known."
About one year after her husband's death Mrs. Beveridge sold the farm and house near Freeland Corners and removed, with her son Andrew (3) and family, to Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Andrew had secured a position there. They invested their money in the thriving young city and prospered. There she spent the rest of her life.
ANDREW (3) BEVERIDGE, born December 2, 1844; died at his home in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, November 9, 1919; married, November 7, 1872, in Somonauk, Mira E. Dewey, of Somonauk; born April 6, 1849.
Children:
i. Belle Carter (4), born Aug. 27, 1873; mar- ried Sept. 25, 1905, Hayward Marshall; born July 15, 1870; died Apr. 25, 1923. Since her husband's death, Mrs. Marshall has been living with her mother. She is a talented and use- ful woman. One item in her busy life is the care- of one hundred and fifty little children in the primary department of her church.
ii. Agnes Josephine, born Nov. 15, 1875; died Sept. 6,. 1886.
iii. Max Forest, born Dec. 13, 1878; married Aug. 4,. 1900, Harriet Adella Butler; born July 18, 1880 .. Mr. Beveridge was for some years in the banking business, later changing to the real estate and insur- ance business, in which he is prosperous.
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Mrs. Andrew (2) Beveridge (Jane Martin)
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THE BOYD FAMILY
Children:
i. Bertram Butler (5), born Nov. 27, 1902; mar- ried Nov. 15, 1923, Arka Shockley; born Jan. 2, 1905.
ii. Clifford Marshall, born Feb. 11, 1907.
iii. Andrew Donald, born Aug. 25, 1914.
iv. Maxine Jane, born Feb. 6, 1920.
Andrew (3) Beveridge was a graduate of Monmouth Col- lege in the middle '60s. While a student he enlisted in Com- pany A of the 138th Illinois Infantry and served in the Civil War. In his earlier life he was active in politics and occupied prominent positions. He was a faithful member of the Con- gregational Church, and for many years served on the board of trustees. In 1890 Mr. Beveridge, in company with W. C. Hollister, built the Hollister-Beveridge Building in West Ninth Street. He also engaged in many other enterprises in the city. Successful in the real estate business, his associates accounted him one of the best posted men on realty values in that section of South Dakota.
The Boyd Family
GEORGE (1) BOYD, born in Killcon, County Armagh, Ireland, May 17, 1795, was the son of John and Elizabeth McElroy Boyd; died in Northfield, Ohio, May 27, 1881; married in Argyle, New York, March 6, 1823, Elizabeth Nelson; born at that place March 19, 1799; died in North- field, Ohio, October 18, 1882. She was a daughter of Joseph (2) Nelson, and wife Mary, daughter of Lieutenant Daniel McCleary.
Children: i. Daniel Nelson (2), born Dec. 9, 1823. (Portrait, page 236.) ii. John, born Feb. 24, 1825.
DANIEL NELSON (2) BOYD was born in Argyle, New York, December 9, 1823; died in Burt, Iowa, February 4,
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1906; married first, Nancy Shroudy, by whom he had one son, W. J. (3) Boyd, of Ellensburg, Washington; married second, in Northfield, Ohio, April 5, 1860, Mrs. Margaret Darling Wallace, who died in Houston, Minnesota. Daniel Nelson (2) was a " first " member of the Somonauk U. P. Church.
Children by second marriage:
i. Thomas N. (3), of Aurora, Ill.
ii. Jennette, who married John Mesing, of Algona, Iowa. JOHN (2) BOYD was born in Argyle, Washington County, New York, February 4, 1825; died June 20, 1905, at his home in Sandwich, Illinois; married March 26, 1857, Mary, a daughter of Elijah and Agnes Stewart, born in Coitsville, Ohio, October 20, 1833; died December 17, 1910, at her home in Sandwich, Illinois. They were married by their pastor, Rev. R. W. French, at Somonauk. John (2) came to Somon- auk not later than 1850; Mary Stewart came with her parents in 1853.
Child:
i. Effie Elizabeth (3), born Mar. 11, 1863; taught school with unusual success for thirty years in Sand- wich, Ill. For the past six years she has been em- ployed by Marshall Field and Company, Chicago.
John Boyd successfully followed the carpenter's trade in his early manhood, but later was a farmer for many years. When the family removed to Sandwich Mr. Boyd worked in a manufacturing shop for a few years. Here he received an injury which finally resulted in his death. He was a man of rare genial temperament. With his wife and daughter he was for a long time a member of the Somonauk United Pres- byterian Church.
The Revolutionary ancestors of John and Daniel Nelson Boyd were Lieutenant Daniel McCleary and Joseph Nelson, Sr., of Salem, N. Y.
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The Cole Family
TOBIAS BRITT (1) COLE was born in Greene County, New York, of English stock, January 16, 1821; died October 5, 1883, near Winchester, Kansas. Of his early life little is known, as he was a man not given to talking about himself. His father died while he was young and his mother married one Burnett, a distiller.
The education of Tobias was limited, for at an age when most boys were in school he was apprenticed to a cabinet- maker. After learning his trade he followed it in New York City for some time but later removed to the state of Ohio, near Columbus, where he took up carpenter work, for which his early training had fitted him.
On January 16, 1843, he married Anna Cowden at her father's house near Reynoldsburg, Ohio. She was born August 25, 1822; died August 22, 1860, in Clinton township, De Kalb County, Illinois, and was buried in Oak Mound Cem- etery.
Children:
i. Orrin (2), born June 1, 1845; served in the Civil War in Company G, 9th Ohio Cavalry; died sud- denly Aug. 30, 1869.
ii. Isaac Newton, born Apr. 14, 1847; married Feb. 10, 1880, at Louisville, Ky., Emma Crump; died at his home in Fort Worth, Tex., June 3, 1911. He was in the railroad service the greater part of his life, being for many years a conductor on a pas- senger train.
iii. Clark Graham, born Jan. 22, 1849; died at his home in Manhattan, Kan., Dec. 11, 1913; married Aug. 18, 1873, at Somonauk, Ill., Mary A. Wood. iv. Laura A., born Oct. 17, 1852; married at Somonauk, Ill., Harry L. Keys. They are now living at Nor- wood, Ohio.
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v. Marcus D., born Nov. 21, 1854. Now living in Los Angeles, Cal.
vi. Elliot L., born Apr. 11, 1857; married Aug. 4, 1880, at Leland, Ill., Ella Wood. They have brought up a family and are now living in Aurora, Ill.
vii. A son, died Oct. 3, 1859.
Tobias Britt Cole emigrated with his family from Ohio to Somonauk, Illinois, in a covered wagon in the spring of 1853. Mr. and Mrs. Cole at once united with the Associate Church of Somonauk. They purchased one hundred sixty acres from the government in Clinton township and moved into a small cabin in Somonauk township while the erection of a house on the farm was in progress.
After the death of his wife in 1860 Mr. Cole returned with his children to Ohio. On April 24, 1862, he married second, Mrs. Elizabeth (Selders) McMillan, at Rushsylvania, Ohio. In the spring of 1863 he returned with his family to his homestead in Illinois.
Children by second marriage :
i. Anna (2), born Feb. 16, 1863; died at Xenia, Ohio, Nov. 21, 1899; married September, 1882, at Win- chester, Kan., Edward H. Vance.
ii. Ruth, born Dec. 11, 1864; died when a small girl.
iii. Chase, born Aug. 5, 1866; married Feb. 14, 1900, Margaret R. Bennett. Served in Company A, 20th Kansas Infantry, U. S. Volunteers, in the Spanish- American War. Now living in Canon City, Colo. iv. Hugh Moffett, born Nov. 28, 1868, in De Kalb County, Ill .; married Oct. 12, 1892, at Winches- ter, Kan., Emma Hurst. They are now living in Valley Falls, Kan.
v. Ralph E., died in infancy.
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vi. Abner, born July 18, 1871, in De Kalb County, Ill .; married at Winchester, Kan., Ella Hurst. They are now living near Oskaloosa, Kan.
Mr. Cole was a man of decided opinions, but one of the most kind-hearted, frequently giving his personal services to neigh- bors who were ill or in misfortune. He sold his farm in Illinois and removed to Kansas, near Winchester, in the spring of 1881, hoping the change of climate would prove beneficial to his health. Here he died three years later. His wife, Elizabeth (Selders) Cole, died September 3, 1892.
The second wife of Tobias Britt (1), Elizabeth (Selders) Cole, was born March 28, 1831, in Ohio; married first, May 4, 1848, Brice J. Wood; second, August 5, 1854, Alexander McMillan.
The Dobbin Family
The Dobbin family is of French Huguenot descent and the present name is a corruption of the name D'Aubigne. There are good reasons for believing that the family was driven from France during the Huguenot persecution and took refuge in Scotland. Later they crossed the Irish Sea to the north of Ire- land and settled in County Antrim. A manuscript history of this family is in the hands of Miss Hattie M. Dobbin, of East Greenwich, New York.
JOHN (1) DOBBIN was born early in the eighteenth century in Connagher, County Antrim. He married Mary Miller, of the same place.
Children:
i. William (2), born Feb. 22, 1771.
ii. James.
iii. John, born Mar. 17, 1776.
iv. David, died Feb. 19, 1861, aged 82 years.
v. Miller, married Margaret Mains.
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vi. Samuel, married first, Sarah Mains; second, Anna McNaughton Dyer. Both were great granddaugh- ters of Alexander McNaughton.
vii. Sarah, died young.
During the Revolutionary War John (1) came to America and fought on the side of the Colonists until the close of the war, when he returned to Ireland. Not long after his return his wife died.
When the Irish Rebellion failed in 1798 the Dobbin family, having espoused the cause of liberty, found themselves at the mercy of their enemies. James (2) and John (2) departed at once for America, but William, having been recognized and a price put on his head, remained in hiding.
John (1) Dobbin, with his three youngest sons, David, Miller and Samuel, came to America when Samuel was nine years old. They landed in Virginia and completed their journey north ward, several hundred miles, on foot. The father was quite feeble and could travel but slowly, so the two elder boys went on, leaving him and Samuel to follow as their strength would permit. After a painful journey of weeks they reached Washington County, New York. John (1) Dobbin is buried in an unmarked grave in the old McNaughton burial-ground on Lot No. 32 of the Argyle Patent, now Christie Cemetery. WILLIAM (2) DOBBIN, born in Connagher, County Antrim, Ireland, February 22, 1771; died June 24, 1858; married 1793, Margaret, daughter of Samuel and Jane (Dobbin) Andrew, born in November, 1771.
On June 19, 1824, William and his family, except his two eldest sons, who had already emigrated, came to America and settled in Jackson township, Washington County, New York. William (2) was a ruling elder in the United Presbyterian Church in Shushan, in that county, but is buried in South Argyle. Many of his descendants were members of the Somon- auk church in De Kalb County, Illinois.
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Children :
i. Samuel (3), born July 5, 1794.
ii. John, born 1796.
iii. Joseph, born July 5, 1799. 4
iv. Mary, born June, 1800; died 1803.
v. Jane, born April, 1804; married James McAllister, Sr. (See page 168.)
vi. William Miller, born July, 1806.
vii. James, born July, 1808.
viii. James second, born July, 1810; died at sea.
ix. David Miller, born Jan. 31, 1813.
x. Mary second, born June 14, 1815; married Sept. 25, 1845, John Nelson.
SAMUEL (3) DOBBIN, born July 5, 1794; died in Green- wich, Washington County, New York, in 1866; married Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Christie, a Revolutionary soldier. Their daughter Margaret married, as his second wife, John Walker. (See page 237.)
JOHN (3) DOBBIN, born in Ireland in 1796; married Rachel McLean in Washington County, New York, where she died in middle life. He died in Salem, N. Y.
Child:
i. James McLean (4), born in Washington County, N. Y .; died Jan. 11, 1863, from a wound received in the battle of Chickasaw Bayou. He is buried in Oak Mound Cemetery. He married Nov. 25, 1858, Annette S. Stewart. (See Stewart Family.) Child:
i. Dwight Stewart (5), born Dec. 29, 1859; died Aug. 8, 1863.
JOSEPH (3) DOBBIN, born July 5, 1799; married his cousin Martha S. Dobbin.
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JANE (3) DOBBIN, born April, 1804; married James Mc- Allister. (See page 168.)
WILLIAM MILLER (3) DOBBIN, born July, 1806; married Mehitabel Milliman. They came to Henderson County, Illinois, in 1842.
JAMES (3) DOBBIN, born July, 1808; died an infant. JAMES (3) DOBBIN, second, born July, 1810; killed or drowned at sea, aged 24 years.
DAVID MILLER (3) DOBBIN, born in Connagher, in the Parish of Ballamoney, County Armagh, Ireland, January 31, 1813; came to America in 1824, when eleven years of age; died November 29, 1898, at his home in Viola, Kansas.
David Miller Dobbin married first, in the township of Jack- son, Washington County, New York, January 18, 1836, Charity Irvine Graham; born in Washington County, New York, August 11, 1816; died in Reynoldsburg, Ohio, June 16, 1839; daughter of John W. and Margaret Irvine Graham and granddaughter of William and Mary (Mc- Burney) Graham of Salem, New York.
Children :
i. William John (4), born Dec. 5, 1836.
ii. Mary Jane, born Mar. 18, 1839; died Aug. 16, 1839.
David Miller (3) Dobbin married second, in the township of Jackson, Washington County, New York, April -, 1843, Mary Jane French; born in Cambridge, New York, October 26, 1819; died in Squaw Grove township, De Kalb County, Illinois, January 27, 1848; daughter of Jonathan and Ann (Edgar) French.
Children:
i. Margaret Ann (4), born Dec. 31, 1844; married Thomas Irwin, Aug. 28, 1872; died Jan. 2, 1874. ii. James Blair, born Oct. 13, 1847; married Dec. 29, 1877, Lucretia Carr; died at Viola, Kan., May 21, 1919.
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David Miller (3) Dobbin married third, in the home of her sister, Mrs. Margaret Thompson, in Victor township, De Kalb County, Illinois, September 9, 1852., Eliza, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Hall) Stott; born in Argyle, Washington County, New York, Feb. 17, 1817; died near Viola, Kansas, October 25, 1903.
Children :
i. Sarah Mary (4), born June 16, 1853; married Feb. 15, 1877, Miles Robinson.
ii. Eliza Jane, born June 29, 1855; married May 17, 1883, James Irvine More.
iii. Agnes Isabella, born Feb. 24, 1857; married Mar. 15, 1883, Walter Speer.
iv. Emma, born Sept. 4, 1859; married Sept. 16, 1881, J. H. Robinson.
WILLIAM JOHN (4) DOBBIN, born in Washington County, New York, December 5, 1836; died in Viola, Kansas, July 8, 1922; married first June 9, 1859, Sarah Ann Stewart, born August 9, 1837; died December 13, 1880, in De Kalb County, Illinois. Mr. Dobbin came to Illinois with his father in 1844. Both he and Mrs. Dobbin were active members of the Somonauk United Presbyterian Church.
Children :
i. Albert (5), born Mar. 28, 1860.
ii. Henry George, born June 9, 1863.
iii. Charity Agnes, born Jan. 2, 1866.
iv. Mabel, born Oct. 4, 1870.
v. Stewart, born Oct. 4, 1870.
vi. Benjamin Miller, born Dec. 12, 1880.
William John (4) Dobbin married second, February 28, 1882, his cousin Nancy Ferguson.
ALBERT (5) DOBBIN, born March 28, 1860, in De Kalb County, Illinois; died in California, December 10, 1924;
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married, first, March 27, 1883, Clara Graham, born February 27, 1864; died March 27, 1894, at Viola, Kansas. Their one child died in infancy. He moved to California in 1894 and married, second, March 8, 1899, Louise Adams Benson, who died near Chino, California, December 10, 1923.
Child:
i. Silvia Helen (6), born Jan. 20, 1900; married Earl Dawson.
HENRY GEORGE (5) DOBBIN, born in De Kalb County, Illinois, June 9, 1863; died December 18, 1905; married February 21, 1901, Mrs. Mary (Livingston) Nighs- wonger; born February 21, 1869.
Children:
i. Marjorie M. (6), born May 23, 1904.
ii. Juanita H., born June 7, 1906; died July 30, 1908.
CHARITY AGNES (5) DOBBIN, born in De Kalb County, Illinois, January 2, 1866; married Charles Ellsworth Stinson at Viola, Kansas, December 31, 1885.
Children:
i. Sara C. (6) Stinson, born Nov. 30, 1886; died May 14, 1911.
ii. Ralph Turnbull Stinson, born Nov. 17, 1889.
iii. Max William Stinson, born Dec. 13, 1891.
iv. Mabel Jean Stinson, born Jan. 13, 1894.
v. Helen Etter Stinson, born Feb. 23, 1896.
vi. Mary Stewart Stinson, born Feb. 23, 1896.
vii. Robert Campbell Stinson, born Dec. 30, 1897.
viii. Edith Stinson, born Dec. 30, 1899.
ix. Charles Willis Stinson, born Mar. 9, 1902.
x. Leroy Dobbin Stinson, born Aug. 30, 1905.
xi. Marle T. Stinson, born May 11, 1910.
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STEWART (5) DOBBIN, born in De Kalb County, Illi- nois, October 4, 1870; married near Viola, Kansas, February 20, 1896, May Graham; born in Indianola, Iowa, November 25, 1872.
Children:
i. Wilda M. (6), born Oct. 5, 1897.
ii. Glen, born Sept. 22, 1899.
iii. Blanch Martha, born July 28, 1903; married, Sept .. 11, 1924, Albert Warner, born Aug. 7, 1903.
iv. Emma Lucile, born July 28, 1907.
v. John Ralph, born Oct. 15, 1911.
BENJAMIN MILLER (5) DOBBIN, born in De Kalb County, Illinois, December 12, 1880; married May 22, 1907, near Viola, Kansas, Elizabeth Jane Robinson, born Mar. 17, 1883. Mr. Dobbin has been a minister of the gospel for over twenty years and is at present pastor of the United Presbyterian Church at Pretty Prairie, Kansas.
JOHN (2) DOBBIN, born March 17, 1776, in Ireland; died March 22, 1861; married Jane McKillip in Washington County, New York. He came to America in 1798 and settled in Washington County, New York.
Children:
i. John (3).
ii. David.
iii. James S., married Mrs. Elizabeth Bacon Ames.
iv. Maria.
v. Martha.
vi. Sarah.
vii. Ann, born Aug. 5, 1807.
ANN (3) DOBBIN, born August 5, 1807; died in 1847; was a charter member of the Somonauk church. She removed from Washington County, New York, to Somonauk, Illinois,
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some time previous to March 18, 1846, for on that date she united with the Associate Church there. She married, as his second wife, July 4, 1846, Francis Telford, a son of James and Elizabeth (McAuley) Telford, both of Jackson, Wash- ington County, New York, and died November 16, 1847, leav- ing no issue. Francis Telford, born March 20, 1809, died Sep- tember 27, 1887, in Mason City, Iowa.
DAVID (2) DOBBIN, died February 19, 1861, aged 82 years; married first, - McKay; second, Nancy Lourie.
Children :
i. John (3).
ii. Elizabeth, married James Mains, Jr., a brother of Sarah and Margaret Mains.
iii. Mary, married - - Harrison.
iv. Martha, married James Foster.
v. Jane, married William Telford, of Argyle.
MILLER (2) DOBBIN married first, Margaret Mains, a great-granddaughter of Alexander McNaughton; second, Mrs. Margaret Tinkey Beattie.
Children of first marriage:
i. Samuel (3).
ii. Margaret.
iii. Jane.
iv. Eleanor.
Child of second marriage :
i. Sarah (3).
SAMUEL (2) DOBBIN, who came into possession of Alex- ander McNaughton's land in that part of Argyle now Green- wich, married first, February 4, 1810, Sarah Mains; second, Mrs. Anna McNaughton Dyer.
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Children:
i. Margaret (3), died in infancy.
ii. Alexander.
iii. William.
iv. Mary.
v. Eleanor Livingston, married George (3) Walker. (See page 235.)
vi. Isabel.
vii. James, married Catherine Campbell.
viii. John Miller, married Phoebe McL. Graham. Their daughter Hattie (4) Dobbin, of East Greenwich, N. Y., has the family history in manuscript.
The Ferguson Family
JAMES (1) FERGUSON was born May 18, 1798, in Washington County, New York; died February 3, 1872, in Somonauk township, De Kalb County, Illinois, from the ef- fects of a fall. He married Nancy A. Graham, fifth child of John W. and Margaret Irvine Graham (see Graham Family), born August 7, 1807, in Washington County, New York; died at Somonauk, Illinois, June 1, 1893. They were married February 28, 1830, and lived in Franklin County, Ohio, purchasing a farm near the village of Reynoldsburg, where they lived until the spring of 1851. They then removed to De Kalb County, Illinois, and bought a farm in Somonauk township. There they lived for the rest of their lives.
They were members of the Associate Church in New York and Ohio, and also in Illinois, until 1858, when the Associate Church united with the Associated Reformed Church, form- ing the United Presbyterian Church, which continued to be their home church.
They were ever ready to do their part in any good work. "Aunt Nancy," as she was called, was quick to respond in case of sickness or need.
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Children:
i. Robert (2), born May 7, 1834, in Washington Co., N. Y .; married Apr. 28, 1861, Eleanor (5), daughter of Jesse Kirkpatrick; born June 12, 1832. ii. Nancy Maxwell, born Apr. 2, 1837; married Feb. 28, 1882, William John (3) Dobbin; died Aug. 19, 1926, in her ninetieth year.
iii. Margaret, born Aug. 12, 1843, in Franklin County, Ohio; married Joseph T. Fulton; born Jan. 17, 1835, in Logan County, Ohio. They were mar- ried in her father's house, in De Kalb County, Nov. 7, 1864. In August, 1862, he enlisted in Company H, 105th Regiment Illinois Infantry. He was wounded at the battle of Resaca, Ga. In 1869 they removed to Winchester, Kan., and set- tled on a farm. After several years of farming they removed to Topeka, Kan., and Mr. Fulton entered the real estate business there. He died at the age of sixty-two. Corporal Fulton was a man of ability, a fine scholar, and a good executive. He was elected an elder of the Somonauk U. P. Church in 1867. Mrs. Fulton and her daughter Clara now live in Los Angeles, Cal.
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