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Children:
i. Josephine Agnes (3) Fulton.
ii. James Elbert Fulton.
iii. Robert Moffett Fulton.
iv. Ralph Erskin Fulton.
v. Nancy Mary Fulton.
vi. William Shakespeare Fulton.
vii. Juanita Fulton.
viii. Margaret Belle Fulton.
ix. Clara Dimple Fulton.
iv. William Connell, born Oct. 15, 1846.
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WILLIAM CONNELL (2) FERGUSON, born October 15, 1846, near Reynoldsburg, Ohio; died September 2, 1923; married October 14, 1878, Samantha Wood; born September 13, 1851, in Ohio. William lived with his parents during their lifetime and continued to make the farm his family homestead after their death. He was an elder of the church for some years.
Children :
i. Ralph (3). vi. William K.
ii. Agnes B.
iii. Bryce James.
iv. Helen W.
v. Robert Harvey.
vii. Howard.
viii. Hugh Russell.
ix. Elizabeth B.
The French Family
WILLIAM (1) FRENCH, born in Halsted, Essex, England, March 15, 1603, came to Boston, Massachusetts, in the ship Defense in 1635. He married Elizabeth Symmes and settled first in Cambridge and later in Billerica, Massachusetts. He was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com- pany of Massachusetts.
SAMUEL (2) FRENCH, married Sarah, daughter of John Cummings, and settled in the part of Dunstable, Massachu- setts, that is now in New Hampshire.
There are two generations missing in this line, unless they were Joseph (3) and Samson (4) French.
JONATHAN (5) FRENCH, born in Dunstable, Massachu- setts, September 22, 1751; died May 17, 1838; married Jean Blair, a daughter of Colonel John Blair; died July 4, 1831.
Captain Jonathan (5) French and his brother David (see page 119) settled in Cambridge, New York, before the Revolu- tionary War. The brothers enlisted May 21, 1775, and Jona-
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than served throughout the war, both serving later in the Albany County Militia under Captain John Blair.
Children :
i. John Blair (6), born about 1780.
ii. Beveridge.
iii. Clement.
JOHN BLAIR (6) FRENCH, born about 1780; married first Margaret Crawford.
Child:
i. Jonathan (7).
John Blair (6) French married as his second wife Robena McMicken.
Children :
i. David (7), died at Reynoldsburg, Ohio, aged 14.
ii. John McMicken.
iii. Rensselaer W., born Mar. 11, 1814.
iv. Robert.
v. William.
vi. David.
vii. Janet.
RENSSELAER W. (7) FRENCH, born March 11, 1814, at Worcester, New York; died February 22, 1902, at Chicago; married April 24, 1839, Nancy, a daughter of John Pollock; born at Gratiot, Ohio, October 2, 1819; died at Peotone, Illi- nois, August 18, 1880. (Portrait, see page 134.)
Mr. French was licensed to preach at Wooster by the Asso- ciate Presbyterian Presbytery at Richmond, Ohio, July 13, 1843. His first pastorate was at North Henderson, Mercer County, Illinois, July, 1844, and dimitted May, 1849.
His second pastorate was at Somonauk, De Kalb County, Illinois, where he was installed in November, 1849, which
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charge he held until September, 1859. The details of his pas- torate are related in the history of this church.
Children :
i. John Pollock (8), born Feb. 14, 1840; died Nov. 12, 1856.
ii. Robena Jane McMicken, born Apr. 29, 1841; died May 3, 1879; married Rev. N. H. Brown, 1862.
iii. Mary Anne, born Jan. 20, 1843; died Sept. 1, 1883. iv. Albert C., born Dec. 12, 1852.
ALBERT C. (9) FRENCH, born December 12, 1852; mar- ried September 7, 1875, Mary Stuart Taylor, of Elgin, Scot- land. They reside in Chicago.
Children:
i. Rensselaer W. (10).
ii. Harvey B.
iii. Jennie M.
iv. Albert Chanceller.
v. Marguerita Wilton.
vi. Robert Gordon.
DAVID (5) FRENCH, born in Dunstable, Massachusetts, January 23, 1753; died in Salem, New York, November 6, 1836; married first in Cambridge, about 1775, Susanna, daughter of Colonel John and Sarah Blair of Pelham, Massa- chusetts, and Cambridge, New York, who was born in Pelham, Massachusetts, April 22, 1748; died in Cambridge, New York, before 1820. He married second, about 1820, Elizabeth, daughter of John Foster, one of Dr. Clark's ruling elders.
Children by first marriage:
i. Benjamin (6), born Oct. 26, 1776; died in 1857; married Charlotte Miller of South Argyle, N. Y.
ii. John, married and removed to Ohio in 1817.
iii. Jonathan, born in 1781.
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iv. Rev. David, born Aug. 11, 1783; died in Taylors- town, Pa., in 1855; married Sarah McClellan and had five sons who were United Presbyterian min- isters.
v. Solomon, born in 1787; died Apr. 29, 1858; un- married.
JONATHAN (6) FRENCH, born in 1781, in the town- ship of Cambridge, Washington County, New York; died in Squaw Grove township, De Kalb County, Illinois, in 1848; married in Cambridge, New York, in 1805, Ann, daughter of William and Ann Edgar of Pelham, Massachusetts, and Cambridge, New York; born in Cambridge, New York, in 1783; died in Squaw Grove township in 1847.
Children, all born in Cambridge:
i. Elizabeth (7), born Sept. 3, 1806; died in Jackson, Washington County, N. Y., May 23, 1869; mar- ried July 15, 1824, George Armstrong.
ii. Ann, born Mar. 20, 1809; died in Jackson, N. Y., Feb. 14, 1887; married Feb. 17, 1833, James Hill. iii. William, born Sept. 30, 1811.
iv. Dr. Jonathan B., born in 1813; died in the home of his brother William in Somonauk, Ill., Dec. 26, 1843.
v. Alexander, born in Cambridge, N. Y .; married in Somonauk, Ill., Sept. 30, 1850, Eliza, daughter of Joseph A. Thompson. He was a charter mem- ber of the Associate Church. He removed to Cal- ifornia and his family is not traced.
Children:
i. Martin (8). iii. Elizabeth.
ii. Joseph. iv.
vi. Susanna, died unmarried in Washington County, N. Y.
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Mrs. William French (Isabel Beveridge) Charter Member
James Henry
Mrs. James Henry (Jennett Beveridge)
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vii. Mary Jane, born Oct. 26, 1819; married Apr. 1, 1843, David Miller Dobbin as his second wife. She was a charter member of the Associate Church. (See page 110.)
viii. Sarah, born in 1821; died in the house of her brother, James W. French, Feb. 1, 1881. She is buried in Oak Mound Cemetery. She was a charter member of the Associate Church in Somonauk, Illinois. (Portrait, see page 218.) ix. James W., born Oct. 26, 1826.
WILLIAM (7) FRENCH was born September 30, 1811; died in Somonauk, Illinois, July 19, 1880; married October 29, 1838, Isabel, daughter of George (2) and Ann (Hoy) Beveridge; born November 17, 1815, in the township of Cam- bridge, Washington County, New York; died April 15, 1894, in Sandwich, Illinois. They came to Somonauk with George and Ann (Hoy) Beveridge in 1842 and settled on a claim on the Somonauk Creek. Mrs. French was a charter member of the church, and Mr. French later became a member. They are both buried in Oak Mound Cemetery.
Children:
i. Ellen Ann (8), born in Washington County, N. Y., Dec. 20, 1840; died in Goldfield, Iowa, Nov. 12, 1905; married Oct. 12, 1860, Chester (3) Henry. (See page 152.)
ii. Mary Elizabeth, born 1844; died 1872; married 1863, Thomas Irwin. (See page 159.)
iii. Sarah Agnes, born Mar. 13, 1846; died June 10, 1926; married Jan. 2, 1872, James Martin (3) McCleery. (See page 180.)
iv. John Blair, born Nov. 24, 1848; died unmarried Oct. 18, 1866.
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v. George Beveridge, born Dec. 19, 1850; died Nov. 15, 1915; married first, Dec. 31, 1879, Clara M.
(6) Kirkpatrick; born May 4, 1853, daughter of Isaac and Sarah (Elliott) Kirkpatrick.
Children:
i. Mary Ella (9).
ii. William.
He married second, in 1896, Sarah M. Orr, who died Nov. 17, 1915.
Child :
i. Paul (9).
vi. Andrew L., born Mar. 15, 1853; died Feb. 26, 1891; married Feb. 27, 1884, Agnes, daughter of Samuel and Agnes (Stewart) McBride.
vii. Jeannette, born Mar. 15, 1856; married Nov. 29, 1876, Thomas J. McIlhenney.
Children :
i. Andrew (9) McIlhenney.
ii. Joseph McIlhenney.
iii. Isabel McIlhenney.
iv. J. Hoy McIlhenney.
JAMES W. (7) FRENCH, born October 26, 1826, in Washington County, New York; died in Goldfield, Iowa, February 14, 1890; married September -, 1852, Mary Ann Skinner, daughter of Alexander and Elizabeth (Armstrong) Skinner, who was born in South Argyle, New York, Novem- ber 5, 1826, and died in Clarion, Iowa, May, 1907.
Mr. French lived on the farm in Squaw Grove township that his father had purchased of the government in 1844, until February, 1890, when he removed to Goldfield, Iowa, where
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he suddenly passed away a day or two after his arrival. He and his wife are buried in Oak Mound Cemetery.
Children:
i. Alexander Skinner (8), born Nov. 8, 1855; married Dec. 31, 1885, Theresa Agnes McClellan; born Aug. 14, 1863, daughter of James and Emeline (Stewart) McClellan.
Children:
i. Walter B. (9), born June 8, 1888.
ii. Alta Grace, born July 27, 1891, was graduated from Monmouth College in 1913, and is now a missionary in Egypt, sent by the Woman's Board of the U. P. Church.
iii. John M., born Oct. 20, 1898. He is a farmer near Goldfield, Iowa.
iv. Francis May, born Apr. 4, 1903.
The four children were graduated from the high school of Goldfield, Iowa.
ii. Susan (8), unmarried and living with her brother William in Waterloo, Iowa.
iii. Anna Elizabeth, born Oct. 15, 1859; died May 4, 1895.
iv. William J., born Aug. 15, 1863; married Sept. 29, 1886, Sarah E. (4) Henry, daughter of Chester and Ellen Ann (French) Henry.
Children:
i. Elsie May (9) was graduated from Monmouth College and is now a missionary in Egypt and superintendent of the Central Girls' High School in Alexandria.
ii. Mary Ellen, graduate of Monmouth College and teacher of French and mathematics in the high school, Onawa, Iowa.
iii. Leile B., at home.
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The Gilchrist Family
The surname Gilchrist is derived from two Gaelic words Gille and Criosd, meaning the servants of Christ.
THOMAS (1) GILCHRIST, ancestor of this branch of the Gilchrist family, was born in County Monaghan, Ireland, in April, 1766. He came to America when a young man and was a large landowner in Argyle and Hebron, Washington County, New York. He died in Hebron, February 25, 1849.
The surname of Mary, his first wife and the mother of his children, is not known. Her death occurred February 18, 1832, at Hebron, she being then sixty-two years of age. His will, dated February 20, 1849, and probated April 24, 1849, named five sons and a daughter. His will also mentions his second wife, Mary, and a niece Mary, a daughter of his brother, Andrew Gilchrist. Huggins was the name of one of his wives.
Children:
i. William (2). iv. Robert.
ii. John.
v. Joseph.
iii. James.
vi. Eleanor.
JOSEPH (2) GILCHRIST, the youngest son, was born in Hebron, Washington County, New York, June 2, 1814; died in Clinton township, De Kalb County, Illinois, June 22, 1910; married in Hebron, New York, February 7, 1839, Martha Jane Randles; born June 22, 1816; died May 21, 1883; daughter of Alexander (3) Randles and his wife Mary A. Loudon, and granddaughter of Hugh Randles and wife Jane, daughter of Alexander McClellan of Hebron, New York.
Joseph Gilchrist and family came from West Hebron, New York, to De Kalb County, Illinois, in 1864, settling in Clinton township. They united with the Somonauk Presbyterian Church and were members for years.
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Children, born at West Hebron, N. Y .:
i. Alexander R. (3), born Aug. 29, 1840; died Oct. 3, 1845.
ii. Anna Mary, born Oct. 13, 1841; died May 21, ยท 1870; married Jan. 14, 1868, James Elliott Kirk- patrick. (See page 166.)
iii. Albert Leroy, born Mar. 2, 1843; died Dec. 24, 1926.
iv. Andrew T., born Oct. 4, 1844; died Nov. 9, 1846.
v. Margaret I., born Aug. 10, 1846; died May 2, 1864.
vi. Wallace, born June 6, 1848; died Feb. 3, 1915; married Dec. 29, 1881, Jane H. Stott.
vii. Sarah Jane, born May 25, 1850; died Feb. - , 1894. viii. Emma J., born July 21, 1852; died Aug. 18, 1865. ix. Alexander, born Mar. 25, 1854; died Jan. 29, 1907. x. Andrew R., born Mar. 22, 1856; married first, Dec. 26, 1890, Elizabeth M. Stewart; married second, Jan. 4, 1899, Jane E. Grey.
xi. Isadore A., born June 25, 1859; died Jan. 1, 1862. xii. Jane Hannah, born Oct. 19, 1860; married Feb. 10, 1887, George F. McKnight.
ALBERT LEROY (3) GILCHRIST, born March 2, 1843; died December 24, 1926, in Waterman, Illinois; mar- ried first, January 11, 1870, Ellen Mary Forsyth, who died April 3, 1890; married second, April 20, 1893, Vella M. Morton.
Child :
i. Margaret (4), married Walter R. Wilson.
Children :
i. Florence A. (5) Wilson.
ii. Walter B. Wilson.
iii. Robert W. Wilson.
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ALEXANDER (3) GILCHRIST, a son of Joseph and Martha Jane (Randles) Gilchrist, was born in West Hebron, Washington County, New York, March 25, 1854; married October 22, 1886, Cora Seaton of Richmond, Indiana.
Children:
i. Albert (4).
ii. Ruth.
He came to Somonauk, Illinois, with his parents in the spring of 1864. They bought a farm and settled in Clinton town- ship. Alexander united with the church, June 24, 1871, at the age of fifteen years. Later he attended Monmouth College for a few years. He graduated from Wooster University, Ohio, with the class of 1879. From there he went to Allegheny Theological Seminary and was licensed to preach on June 7, 1881. Not long after, he received a call to become the pastor of the United Presbyterian Church at Richmond, Indiana, was ordained, and was installed June 3, 1882. Dr. Gilchrist lived at Richmond until October 11, 1895, when he accepted a call to the Central United Presbyterian Church at Omaha, Nebraska, and began his pastorate there in 1895.
June 28, 1899, he was appointed to the office of correspond- ing secretary of the United Presbyterian Board of Home Mis- sions, with headquarters in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. He died January 27, 1907, soon after his return from a visit to the missions of Wyoming.
ANDREW (3) GILCHRIST, born March 22, 1856, mar- ried first, December 26, 1890, Elizabeth M. (8) Stewart, a daughter of Alexander M. Stewart and Jane Collins.
Child :
i. Alexander Stewart (4).
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The Graham Family
In the seventeenth century some of the Graham families of Scotland took refuge in northern Ireland because of religious persecution. They accepted the Presbyterian faith.
In 1774, John and William Graham, brothers, sailed from County Down, Ireland, near Belfast, for America, for the same reason that the Reverend Thomas Clark, M. D., and his congregation of Scotch-Irish Presbyterians had so done nine years previously-on account of persecution by the Estab- lished Church.
John and William and their families had a long and tedious voyage of sixteen weeks in a sailing vessel, being driven hither and thither by storms, among icebergs in the northern Atlantic. Provisions ran short and were dealt out to them in scant measure. Because of such extreme hardships some of their chil- dren died and were buried at sea. They landed at last in New York City. From lack of facilities for transportation, per- haps, or more probably from lack of funds, they made their way on foot for two hundred miles north and settled in Wash- ington County, New York, within the bounds of Dr. Clark's congregation at Salem.
WILLIAM (1) GRAHAM, the ancestor of the Grahams who came to Somonauk, was born in the north of Ireland, March 17, 1750. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary McBurney, was born about the same date. They appear to have married before they were twenty years of age. William en- tered the Continental army. His description of a night of hard- ship during the Revolution follows.
"One morning we were ordered to march. It was a cold rainy day throughout. Late at night we were ordered to halt, to wrap in our blankets, if we were so fortunate to have one, and lie on the ground to sleep without fire or light, for the enemy was near.
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"We were all soaked with rain. It turned bitter cold in the night, and in the morning when ordered to arise my hair (then worn long) and that of many others, was frozen to the ground. The blankets were also frozen around us so it was difficult to unfasten them. Severe colds were contracted that night from which some of the men never fully recovered."
William and his wife joined Dr. Clark's church at Salem and were members until the union between the Associate and the Reformed Presbyterian Church (called the Associate Reformed) in the latter part of the eighteenth century. Not all members of each denomination joined the union, thus making three denominations instead of one, the Associate, the Associate Reformed, and the Reformed Presbyterians.
William Graham and family severed their connection with the Salem church and joined the organization of the Associate Church of Coila, a few miles from Salem, which was organ- ized in 1785. William became an elder there in 1800, and in 1807 signed the call for Dr. Bullions, who remained pastor at Coila for fifty years.
On September 30, 1817, William and wife, his son George, with his wife and seven children, and his wife's sister Margaret, left Cambridge, New York, some in a wagon and some on horseback, and after six weeks of travel over rough roads and almost trackless wilderness, reached Franklin County in cen- tral Ohio. There they settled in the heavily timbered woods and cleared a farm in the new country. It had been a tiresome jour- ney; George Graham's wife told a granddaughter that she rode on horseback hundreds of miles, carrying a baby in her arms, while another child was born soon after the family reached Ohio.
William and his wife were charter members of the Asso- ciate Church of Truro, Franklin County, Ohio, organized in 1817. He was one of the first elders. Pioneers in the virgin woods of two states, New York and Ohio, they lived useful
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lives, and there are today about two thousand of their living descendants in the United States.
Children:
i. John W. (2), born May 2, 1775.
ii. George, born June 2, 1777. (See page 141.)
JOHN W. (2) GRAHAM was born in Salem, Washington County, New York, May 2, 1775, and died near Reynolds- burg, Ohio, May 29, 1848; he married in Washington County, New York, about 1797, Margaret, daughter of James Irvine of Cambridge, New York; born March 29, 1779; died in Washington County, New York, March 5, 1823.
Children:
i. William Irvine (3), born July 29, 1798; died June 3, 1877; married Apr. 17, 1821, Eunice Gillette; born Dec. 7, 1798, who was a descendant of Rev. Guillaume Gillette, a French Huguenot, who, to avoid religious persecution, fled from France to America in 1688.
ii. James, born Dec. 10, 1799; died May 6, 1830; mar- ried Feb. 28, 1823, Jane Adams McLean.
iii. Mary, born Aug. 10, 1802; died Jan. 24, 1832.
iv. Robert, born Mar. 14, 1805. (See page 132.)
v. Nancy A., born Aug. 7, 1807; died June 1, 1893; married Feb. 28, 1830, James Ferguson. (See page 115.)
vi. John G., born Oct. 25, 1809; died Aug. 19, 1849; married July 5, 1837, Fannie Williamson.
vii. George D., born Jan. 8, 1812. (See page 138.)
viii. Rosanna, born May 7, 1814. (See page 139.)
ix. Charity Irvine, born Aug. 11, 1816; died Jan. 14, 1849; married Jan. 18, 1836, David Miller Dob- bin. (See page 110.)
x. Elizabeth Jane, born Aug. 14, 1818; died Mar. 13, 1890; married Mar. 24, 1840, James McIntyre.
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WILLIAM IRVINE (3) GRAHAM, eldest child of John W. and Margaret (Irvine) Graham, was born July 29, 1798, near Salem, Washington County, New York; married April 17, 1821, Eunice Gillette; born December 7, 1798. Mrs. Graham has an interesting ancestry. Her great-grandfather, Guillaume Gillette, a Huguenot clergyman and physician, came to America from France in 1688, being driven from there by religious persecution. Settling in Connecticut, he mar- ried Elizabeth Welsh of that state. His son, Elisha, a Baptist minister, married a daughter of Lieutenant-Governor Buck- ingham. Their son, Fidelio Buckingham, married Tabitha Dunham, a descendant of the Puritans of New England. They removed to Washington County, New York, where they reared their family.
Child:
i. Abner Warner (4), born Feb. 7, 1840.
William Irvine (3) Graham and his wife removed to Put- nam, near Lake George, where they bought a farm. Later they lost the farm because of a defective title and had to start at the bottom again. They were the parents of thirteen chil- dren, one of whom is the subject of the following sketch.
ABNER WARNER (4) GRAHAM, born February 7, 1840; died January 25, 1925, at Riverside, California; mar- ried at Reynoldsburg, Ohio, November 6, 1866, Mary For- rester; born June 20, 1847, near Reynoldsburg, Ohio; died April 5, 1917, at her home in Tarkio, Missouri. She was the daughter of the Reverend Robert Forrester, twenty-two years a pastor in Reynoldsburg.
Children:
i. Nellie L. (5)
ii. Margaret.
iii. William Forrester, a minister and a poet.
iv. John Gillette, a banker.
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Abner Warner Graham came with his father's family from Washington County, New York, to Reynoldsburg, Ohio, May 12, 1852. He worked on the farm and atterded the district school. A bright, active mind, he was a diligent student and an exhaustive reader, so that when he was seventeen years of age he began to teach school. His first school was large, about sixty pupils, ranging from small children to adults, and his wages were $3.50 per week. This was the spring of 1857, when the wages of the laborer were very meager. He continued teaching during the school year of five or six months and worked as a laborer the rest of the time. In the spring of 1861, for a few months, he attended Central College, Iberia, Ohio,' where ex-President Harding afterward attended. The Civil War broke out that spring, and after fulfilling his previous engagement to teach a winter and spring term he enlisted May 31, 1862, in Company A, 50th Regiment, Ohio Volun- teers Infantry, and served to the end of the war. His regiment was almost constantly in the field, the first two years in Ken- tucky and Tennessee and then with General Sherman through to Atlanta. At Atlanta his corps was detached and went with General Thomas to subdue the Confederate army of the West. At Franklin the opposing armies were in hand-to-hand combat with bayonets and swords. During the Atlanta campaign, and while with General Thomas in the West, he commanded his corps, his superior officers being, one in the hospital, and the other on detached duty.
At this time his regiment was so reduced that on January 1, 1865, it was consolidated with the 99th O. V. I. When they were no longer needed in the West, his corps, the 23rd, was sent east by way of Washington and the coast to North Caro- lina to join Sherman's army as it came north from Savannah after the "March to the Sea." The trip was one of hardship- by boat from southern Tennessee to Cincinnati. From there to Washington by freight train in the dead of winter, without
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fire, with insufficient clothing; they were a week on the way. En route through Ohio he passed within two miles of his father's home. At Washington they took a steamer and in four days more the corps landed near Wilmington, North Carolina, from which place they marched across the country to Golds- boro, where they joined General Sherman's army. Ordered to march out after Confederate General Johnston's army, they had reached Raleigh, North Carolina, when the news of Lee's surrender caused general rejoicing. They lay at Raleigh until the surrender of Johnston's army, which closed the war, but were not discharged until July 17, 1865.
In 1868, with his wife and child, Mr. Graham came to De Kalb County, Illinois, where he engaged with Culver Brothers as a salesman in their general store in Sandwich. They at once joined the United Presbyterian Church of Somonauk, of which they were useful members for many years.
In 1882 he went into a mercantile partnership in Biggsville, Illinois. In the fall of 1884 he was elected on the Republican ticket to the lower house of the legislature as a representative of the 24th district, composed of the counties of Hancock, Henderson and Mercer. In 1888 with his family he removed to Tarkio, Missouri, where for seventeen years he was a sales- man in the general store of Rankin, Travis & Company. In 1906 ill health obliged him to resign his position and spent the summer in Colorado. Having partly recovered, he returned to Tarkio and accepted the position of librarian of Tarkio Col- lege, which he held for eleven years, when he resigned and lived a retired life until his death in 1925. Abner W. Graham was a ruling elder in the church for more than thirty years, and a man of unblemished character, always exerting a strong influence in righteous causes.
ROBERT (3) GRAHAM was born March 14, 1805, in Washington County, New York; died in De Kalb County, Illinois, February 15, 1891; married March 20, 1834, Sarah
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Williamson; born June 10, 1813, in Putnam, Washington County, New York; died October 27, 1911, aged ninety-eight years. Mrs. Graham is buried beside her husband in Oak Mound Cemetery. Her father, Daniel Williamson, from Cromarty, Scotland, and her mother, Margaret Ray, from County Down, Ireland, met in Washington County, New York, were mar- ried there early in the nineteenth century, and are buried in Putnam Cemetery.
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