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JOHN H., born Feb. 10, 1834, in Ken- tucky, raised in Sangamon county, married Mary Ream, a native of Maine. He went to Iowa and enlisted in 1861 in a cavalry regiment for three years. He was wounded in Arkansas in 1862 or '63, and was honor- ably discharged on account of physical disability occasioned by his wounds. They live at Abington, Jefferson county, Iowa.
ELIZABETH, born August 9, 1827, in Sangamon county, died unmarried, Sept. 14, 1854, in Christian county, Illi- nois.
CHARLOTTE, born Jan. 14, 1830, in Loami township, Sangamon county, Illi- nois, married Oct. 3, 1848, to James M. Turpin, who was born May 10, 182S, in Howard county, Missouri, and came with his parents to Sangamon county in 1845. He was a soldier in the Mexican war. He enlisted in August, 1862, in Co. I, 73d Ill. Inf. for three years, was elected second lieutenant at the organization of the com- pany, promoted to first lieutenant Dec. 6, 1862, served until after participating in the battle of Chickamauga, when he resigned on account of business engagements at home. Mr. Turpin is now a merchant in Loami, Illinois. He has represented his township in the Sangamon County Board of Supervisors.
ADIN, born July 12, 1833, in Sanga- mon county, is unmarried, and resides near Winchester, Kentucky.
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CAROLINE, born Oct. 11, 1834, died Sept. 30, 1853.
JAMES G., fun., born August 9, 1840, in Sangamon county, died January, 1859, at Decatur, Illinois.
Mrs. Elizabeth Webb died Sept. 10, 1843, and James G. Webb died March 12, IS44, both in Loami township. He was a soldier from Kentucky in 1812, and taken prisoner at the battle of River Raisin.
WEBB, WILLIAM, was born about 1773 in Virginia, went to Ten- nessee, and was married to Jane Hillis, in Warren county. They had ten children. The family moved to Petersburg, Illinois, in the fall of 1830, and in 1835 moved to Spring creek, eight miles west of Spring- field. Of their children-
ROBERT, born in Tennessee, married there to Elizabeth Lofton, came to Sanga- mon county with his father, has seven chil- dren, and lives near Oskaloosa, Iowa.
SALLY, deaf and dum', lives with her brother Robert.
ELIZABETH, married in Tennessee to Samuel Neal, and both died, leaving three children.
WILLIAM, married in Sangamon county to Innocent Brown, had five chil- dren, and all moved west.
ISABEL married Samuel Blue. See his name.
JANE, died in Petersburg, aged six- tecn years.
JOHN married Susannah Taylor in Sanganion county, have six children, and live near Ioka, Keokuk county, Iowa.
ANN, went to Iowa, married Calvin Tandy, has six children, and live in Oska- loosa, Iowa.
FANNIE, born July 26, 1826, married David H. Blue. See his name.
ISAAC, married Ellen Osborn, have ten children, and live in Jefferson county, Iowa.
Mrs. Jane Webb died in Petersburg, Illi- nois, and William Webb went to Keokuk county, Iowa, and died there in IS48.
WEBER, GEORGE R., born May 29, 1SOS, in Baltimore, Maryland. His parents moved while he was an infant to Shepherdstown, Jefferson county, Vir- ginia, their former home, and where they were married. George R., whose name heads this sketch, was married in Shep- herdstown, May 1, 1832, to Susan Shep- herd. They soon after moved to New
York city, where Mrs. Susan Weber died. G. R. Weber returned to Shepherdstown, Virginia, and from there came to Springs- field, Illinois, arriving April 15, 1835. He was married in Springfield, Illinois, Sep- tember, 1836, to Catharine Welch. They had eight children in Springfield.
MARY E., was married in Springfield, to Jacob English. They have six children, and live in Howard county, Kansas.
EMMA, was married in Springfield to Frank Child.
CATHARINE C., born Oct. 4, 1844, was married in springfield, April 11, 1874, to Isaac Short, who was born Sept. 5, 1839, in South Bloomfield, Ohio. They reside in Springfield, Illinois.
ANNA M. lives with her parents.
GEORGE W., born Nov. 27, 1850, in Springfield, Illinois, was married April 27, 1876, in Taylorville, to Nemmie Shum- way, daughter of the late Judge Shum- way. George W. Weber is the editor and publisher of the Taylorville Democrat, and resides in Taylorville, Illinois.
JOHN R. and NORVAL W. reside in Springfield, and are conducting a job printing office.
George R. Weber formed a partnership with John S. Roberts in April, 1835, for the publication of the Illinois Republican. When the state capital was removed from Vandalia to Springfield, the State Reg- ister office came with it, and that paper and the Illinois Republican, being both democratie, were consolidated in 1839, the proprietors becoming partners under the name of Walters & Weber. This part- nership continued until 1846, when Mr. Weber sold out to Mr. Walters, and en- listed in Co. A, 4th Ill. Inf., under Colo- nel E. D. Baker. While encamped on the Rio Grande, in Mexico, news of Mr. Walters' death reached there, and Mr. Weber being interested in the state print- ing, it was necessary for him to return. He accordingly was detailed to return home with those soldiers who were unfit for duty, and was never recalled. After the time expired for which he was elected public printer, he severed his connection with the office, and moved to his farm. He, however, contributed articles which appeared both as editorial and communi- cated to the columns of the Republican. Mr. Weber was also elected major in the Mormon war. He served six months as
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state commissary in our late civil war, and was appointed by President Lincoln as commissary at Camp Butler, which posi- tion he retained until the close of the re- bellion. George R. Weber has now re- tired from business, and resides in Spring- field, Illinois.
WEBER, JOHN B., born April 7, ISIo, in Shepherdstown, Virginia, was there married Sept. 23, 1832, to Sarah A. Woltz, sister of John Woltz. See his name. She was born in Shepherdstown, March 30, 1812. They had two children in Virginia, and moved to Springfield, Illinois, arriving April 16, 1836, and had eight children in Sangamon county. The eldest died, aged two years.
ANDREW Y., born Sept. 9, 1840, in Springfield. At the first call for seventy- five thousand men, by President Lincoln, in April, 1861, he, with other young men of Sangamon county, organized a com- pany, but the quota of Illinois was already full. Andrew J. Weber was elected cap- tain, and the company was sworn into the United States service as the Ist Reg. U. S. Rifles. After a number of changes it became Co. B, nth Mo. Inf. More than nine-tenths of that regiment were Illinois men. Company B united with the regiment at St. Louis, July 20. 1861. It was fully organized on the sixteenth of August, and was in the battle of Frederick- town, Missouri, Oct. 21, 1861. Captain Weber was promoted April 21, 1862, to major of the regiment. In the absence of higher officers he was in command of the regiment at the battle of Iuka, Sept. 17, and the battle of Corinth, Oct. 3 and 4, 1862, in which General, since Governor, and now United States Senator Oglesby, was shot and thought to be mortally wounded. General Rosecrans, in his re- port, says that the 11th Missouri, under Major Weber, led the skirmish which opened the battle, October 3, and also led the charge that drove the last rebel from the field on the fourth. Major Weber was promoted and commissioned lientenant
colonel, March 20, 1863, and commis- sioned colonel May 15, 1863. All his com- missions were signed by Governor Gamble, of Missouri. Colonel Weber was wounded in the head by a cannon ball, while on duty, on the Peninsula, in front of Vicksburg, June 29, 1863. The wound at first was not thought to be mor-
tal, but he died the next day, June 30. According to military usage a single regi- ment only would have acted as an escort, but after the capture of Vicksburg, July 4, the whole brigade turned out and escorted his remains to the steamer, by which they were brought up the river, conveyed to Springfield, and deposited in Oak Ridge Cemetery, July 9, 1863. His native city may well cherish, with pride, the memory of this young hero, who rose by talent, energy and industry to a position far above his years, and yielded his young and gifted life, a willing sacrifice on the alter of his country. He was but twenty- two years, eight months and seven days old when he was commissioned colonel of his regiment in the face of the cnemy; an incident unparalleled in the history of our *country.
GEORGE P., born Dec. 2, 1842, in Springfield, Ill., enlisted at the same time and in the same company with his brother, Andrew J. He was elected and appointed orderly sergeant. When his brother was promoted to the office of major, he was promoted to second lieutenant of Co. B, and after that promoted to first lientenant and adjutant of the regiment, the latter of which he did not accept, being physically unable to discharge its duties, which pre- vented his re-enlisting as a veteran with the regiment. He was honorably dis- charged at St. Louis, May 1, 1864. George P. Weber was furloughed home with the remains of his brother, Colonel Weber, and was married July 28, 1863, to Vienna Meader. They have four children, MIRIAM M., SARAH A., TIMOTHY and ELI, and resides four miles west of Pawnee, Sangamon county, Illinois.
It is worthy of remark that when the 11th Missouri Infantry, composed as it was of Illinois men, went through St. Louis in 1861, stones and other missiles were thrown at the soldiers from the windows. When they returned on fur- lough, after re-enlistment, they were greeted with bouquets of flowers, a grand banquet, and were presented by the citi- zens of St. Louis with a magnificent stand of colors.
GAMES W. was born November 10, 1844, in Springfield, Illinois, enlisted Nov. 12, 1864, for one year, in his native city, in the 10th Ill. Cav., served full term and was honorably discharged Nov. 12, 1865, at
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San Antonio, Texas. Three days after his discharge he started to come home on horseback, in company with two other members of the same regiment, William M. Brown, of Sangamon county, and John Ingalls, of Madison county, Illinois. They were followed from San Antonio, and on the 24th of November stopped at the house of a man named Deason and obtained their dinners. That was in Rusk county, a few miles from a very small village bearing the local name of Rakepocket, but the post- office is Pine Hill. After taking their dinners they continued their journey, and having passed through the village were followed by four men, also on horseback, who, after keeping near them about one mile, to the vicinity of Sharon, in Panola county, pretending to be in a hurry, the four men rode rapidly, overtook and passed the three travelers, when the four sudden- ly wheeled their horses, and each present- ing a revolver, called on the travelers to surrender, which they did. Just at this moment a lad on horseback, who had been to mill, came near the parties, and seeing the men arrayed facing each other, and all on one side with deadly weapons drawn, paused to see if he could ascertain the cause of the strange spectacle. The boy was then ordered by the desperadoes not to remain any longer at the peril of his life, and he moved on quickly. Passing a turn in the road he halted and saw the four drive the three off the road into the woods. In a few moments more he heard the report of fire arms, followed by pierc- ing screams, and then all was still. The boy reported that night to his parents, and the next morning upon search being made the three bodies were found, and decently buried. The assassins obtained three horses and equipments, and from a memo- randum found it was thought they also got $2,100 in money. The four inhuman wretches were a one-armed desperado named A. J. Smith, a man by the name of Blackstock, and John and Jerry Deason, the two latter sons of the man at whose house the murdered men had taken their last dinner.
A few months after this occurrence John Deason came home sick and was secreted in his father's house. He was discovered and intelligence given to the soldiers at Shreveport, when a small band of them came upon and killed him on the spot.
Jerry was afterwards killed in Leon coun- ty, Texas. Blackstock was killed in Rob- ertson county, Texas. Smith fled to Miss- issippi, and his fate is unknown. These facts were obtained from a former citizen of Sangamon county, who was at the time living in the vicinity where the tragedy was enacted, and into whose hands one of the early sample sheets of this work had fallen, and in which he saw the name of James W. Weber.
BENJAMIN R. B., born in Sanga- mon county, married Oct. 29, 1872, to Sarah McCormick. They had one child, LALLAH ANN. who died in 1875. They reside near Pawnee, Illinois.
CHARLES E., born in Sangamon county, lives with his father.
Mrs. Sarah A. Weber died August 5, 1866. John B. Weber was married Nov. 28, 1867, to Mrs. Nancy J. Drennan, whose maiden name was Dodds. They reside ad- joining Pawnee, Sangamon county, Illi- nois.
John B. Weber was engaged in the manufacture of cabinet furniture in Spring- field and at Howlett, now Riverton, from 1836 to IS11, when he lost his left hand by a buzz saw. He was appointed by the legislature of 1842 and '43 to copy the land records of the state in numerical order, which kept him employed until 1849. He then went to California, and returned in 1851. He was quartermaster in the last expedition of the Mormon war of IS46. He was clerk in the commissary depart- ment in raising the first six Illinois regi- ments for the suppression of the rebellion. He was elected sheriff and collector of Sangamon county, and served from 1854 to IS56.
WEBER, PHILIP W., was born near Shepherdstown, Virginia, Jan. 28, 1812. He went south in 1835, built a mill in connection with others at Ray- mond, Mississippi, sold out there and came to Springfield in the Spring of 1837. He was married in Springfield June 18, 1839, to Amanda M. Shepherd. She was born Nov. S, ISII. They have six children, all born in Sangamon county, namely-
JOHN P., born March 19, 1840, un- married, and resides with his parents, near Pawnee, Illinois.
MARY E. lives with her parents.
WILLIAM S., born March 11, 1844, enlisted August, 1862, at Springfield, in
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one of two companies which were con- solidated to form Co. K, 124th Ill. Inf., but was left out on account of his being young and small of his age. He went to St. Louis in 1863, and made another un- successful attempt. He was married Jan. 1, 1867, to Henrietta Lough. They have two children, FRANK and ANDREW J., and reside in the extreme southeast corner of Pawnee township, Sangamon county, Illinois.
AMANDA, born March 3, 1846, mar- ried May 9, 1867, to John W. Blakey. They have one living child, EDGAR L., and live in Pawnee, Illinois. Mr. Blakey is a merchant there,
SARAH C. married Dec. 12, 1867, to Baalam N. Brown. They have two chil- dren, IDA BELL and FANNY MAY, and live near Pawnee, Illinois.
EMALA S. lives with her parents.
Mr. Philip W. Weber went to Cali- fornia in 1849 and returned in 1859, and soon after, in connection with his brother, John B., bought land and engaged in farming. He now-November, . 1876- resides on his farm, adjoining Pawnee, Sangamon county, Illinois.
WEBER, JACOB J., was born February, 1815, in Frederick City, Mary- land. He came to Springfield in the fall of 1837. He afterwards went to Fulton county, where he engaged in business and married Miss LaMasters. He came back to Sangamon county in 1855 and engaged in farming in Ball township. They had six children-
JOHN H. died Sept. 11, 1874, at Beatrice, Nebraska, in the twenty-seventh year of his age.
MARY married Dee. 5, 1867, to James T. Lamb. See his name.
VIR GINI A married Charles L. Megredy. See his name.
CARRIE lives with her unele, John B. Weber.
JOSEPH lives with his uncle, Philip W. Weber.
Mrs. Weber died, and Jacob J. Weber died suddenly, both on the farm in Sanga- mon county, Illinois.
WEBER, PETER S., was born in 1817, in Frederick City, Maryland. He came to Springfield in IS37, being the fifth brother, no two of whom came to- gether. He was married in Springfield to Miss Adams. They removed to La-
Salle, and his wife died soon after while on a visit to Springfield. He was married in LaSalle twice, and moved to St. Louis about 1850, and from there to New Orleans. He died in that city of yellow fever, August 25, 1853, leaving a widow and one son, GEORGE W. They soon after returned to her former home at LaSalle, Illinois.
WEBER, Mrs. ELIZA- BETH, whose maiden name was Shutt, came from Virginia to Springfield in IS44. She was the mother of George R., John B., Philip W., Jacob J. and Peter S. Weber. She died Jan. 27, 1868, at the house of her son, Philip W., which had been her home for twenty years previons.
WEST, BENJAMIN, born May 15, 1812, in Boston, Massachusetts. He was educated at Harvard College, and came to Sangamon county, Illinois, about IS35, and settled at Rochester. He was married April 16, 1840, to Permelia A. Taylor. They had three children in San- gamon county, namely-
LOUISA, born Jan. 30, 1841, married Benjamin T. Rice, a native of Cambridge, Massachusetts. They have two children, HELEN W. and NATHAN, and reside at Millbury, Massachusetts-1874.
FANNY, born May 2, 1843, died Dee. 11, 1861, caused by swallowing her false teeth, while asleep, on the night of the 9th of the same month. She died at the house of her mother, Mrs. John North, near Mechanicsburg, Illinois.
BENJAMIN, Fun., born Jan. 30, IS45, in Sangamon county, and was edu- cated in the Lutheran College at Spring- field. He went to New Hampshire to visit his father's relatives, and from there embarked on board the ship Syren, Nov. 16, 1861, at Boston, for San Francisco. The voyage was made around Cape Horn, arriving at the latter eity in March, 1862. Captain Green, of the Syren, determined to sail for the Phillippine Islands. On ar- riving at the port of Manilla, the captain interested himself in the welfare of young Mr. West, and seeured for him a situation in the shipping house of Russell & Stur- gis, of Boston. That was in July, 1862. After spending a year in their house at Manilla he was placed in charge of a branch house 150 miles distant on the island of Yoilo. Soon after his arrival at the latter place, he went in a pleasure boat
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with a small party of friends to a neigh- boring island, and on their return the wind capsized the boat some distance from the shore. His comrades expected him to cling to the wreck until they, who were more experienced, could go to shore and bring assistance. He attempted to swim to shore also, and when they returned no vestige of hint could be found. He had gone down alone and unseen. That was on December 25, 1863.
Benjamin West was a lawyer, and was one of the representatives of Sangamon county in the state legislature at the session of 1846 and '47. He died at Rochester June 23, 1847, and his widow married Erastus Woodruff, who died and she mar- ried John North. See his name.
WEST, SAMUEL, was born Nov. S, 1813, in Boston, Massachusetts. He came to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in 1834 or '35 at Rochester. He returned to Boston on a visit, accom- panied by Mrs. Lucetta Stevens, whose maiden name was Putnam. Her husband, Samuel Stevens, having died in Rochester, she was returning to her friends in New Hampshire. Samuel West and Mrs. Stevens were married July 7, 1840, at Unity, New Hampshire. They returned to Rochester soon after. She had one child by her first marriage, namely,
SAMUEL P. STEVENS, born Oct. 27, 1838, in Sangamon county, mar- ried at Rochester March 2, 1858, to Olive J. Slater. They live at Avilla, Jasper county, Missouri.
Mr. and Mrs. West had six children in Rochester, namely-
BENGAMIN P., born June 15, 1841, died, aged eight years.
SAMUEL F., born May 28, 1843, married Nov. 6, 1867, in Rochester, to Margaret E. Barr. They have two chil- dren, NELLIE E. and CHARLES F., and reside near Pawnee, Sangamon county, Illinois.
MARTHA S., born Feb. 22, 1846, married Dec. 7, 1865, to William Jameison Cooper. See his name. She had four children, and died April 26, 1873.
CHARLES, born August 16, 1848, in Rochester, Illinois, married in 1872 to Gertrude D., and lives near Arvilla, Jasper county, Missouri.
LUCY, born Oct. 4, 1850, married June 8, 1870, in Rochester to William
Everhart, who was born May 1, 1843, in Loudon county, Virginia. They have two children, FRED B. and NORA, and reside in Rochester, Sangamon county, Illinois.
LOUISA, born April 30, 1854, mar- ried Charles Barr. They live in Roches- ter, Sangamon county, Illinois.
Mrs. Lucetta West died Oct. 14, 1859, in Rochester, Illinois. Samuel West was married July 29, 1860, to Mrs. Zilpha Kimball, whose maiden name was Put- nam. He died Sept. 2, 1868, and his widow resides in Springfield, Illinois.
WEST, ELIJAH, was born July 30, 1786, near Carlisle, Nicholas county, Kentucky. He married Elizabeth Hen- derson, had nine children in Kentucky, and moved to Macoupin county, Illinois, and from there to Sangamon county, arriving in 1835, in Auburn township. Of their children --
FESSE B. married Eliza J. Peebles, in Iowa, and lives there.
MAHALA married Davidson Smith, and lives in Wisconsin.
ELIJAH A. was married in Sanga- mon county to Atha Organ. They had four children. ATHA A. married Scott Bumgarner, and lives in Auburn town- ship. WILLIAM T., ELIJAH A., Jun., and MARGARET A. live with their mother. Elijah A. West died Nov. 20, IS55, and his widow lives in Auburn township, Sangamon county, Illinois.
JOHN H. died unmarried.
NATHAN A. went to Iowa, and mar- ried Mary Peebler. They live in Oregon. SARAH A. married John Allsbury, and died in Piatt county, Illinois.
WILLIAM M. married Hannah J. Landers, and lives in Auburn township, Sangamon county, Illinois.
MILTON JI. died unmarried.
ELIZABETH lives in Piatt county, Illinois.
Elijah West died Jan. S, 1840, and his widow died also, both in Sangamon coun- ty, Illinois.
WHITED, JAMES, was born Sept. S, ISO4, in Virginia. His parents moved when he was an infant to Fentress county, Tennessee. Lucy Thurman was born in that county, August 23, ISHI. They were there married March 5, IS2S, had three children in Tennessee, and came to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving March
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28, 1838, in what is now Woodside town- ship, where nine children were born, two of whom died under thirteen years of age.
RICHRD R., born in 1830, married Mary Grissom, had three children, and he was stabbed to death at a convivial party in Sangamon county, Jan. 17, 1860. His widow and children live at Albia, Monroe county, Iowa.
MARY H. married Thomas W. New- lun, have three children, and live in Ball township.
SUSANNAH died in 1850, aged IS years.
JEANETTE, married Joseph Ncw- lun, have six children, and live near Wood- side, Illinois.
JAMES V. married Miriam A. Tucker and lives at the homestead near Chatham, Illinois-1874.
LUCI A. married William Knotts, have five children, and lives in Chatham, Illinois.
RUHAMA M. married William Car- ter, and died Oct. 10, 1872, leaving two children near Woodside, Illinois.
ROBERT H., born Dec. 9, 1851, mar- ried, August 25, 1869, Agnes J. Showers, have one child, CHARLES E., and live near Woodside, Sangamon county, Illinois.
THOMAS A. and GANE R. B., live near Woodside, Illinois.
James Whited died April 19, 1870, and his widow died January, 1873, both in Ball township, half a mile south of where they settled in 183S.
WHITESIDES, CHARLES, born 1785 in Virginia, and taken by his parents to Fayette county, Kentucky. They traveled in boats from Pittsburg down the Ohio river to Limestone-now Maysville-Kentucky. Charles White- sides was married in iSio in Fayette county, Kentucky to Elizabeth Graves, who was born in 17SS in that county. They had five children in Fayette county, and in 1819 moved to Cumberland county, same state, where five children were born, and the family moved to Sangamon coun- ty, Illinois, arriving June 30, 1831, in Springfield. In 1833 they moved to the vicinity of Williamsville, and in 1835 moved to German Prairie, northeast of Springfield. Of their children-
JOHN M., born April 11, ISII, in Fayette county, Kentucky, was married in Cumberland county, same state, to Eliza-
beth Dawson. They had five children, and Mrs. Whitesides died in Kentucky. He and his children came to Sangamon county in 1844, and now reside in Linn county, Kansas.
EMILY, born in IS13 in Kentucky, died in Sangamon county in 1833.
WILLIAM A., born Nov. 5, 1815, in Fayette county, Kentucky, was married in Sangamon county, Illinois, Feb. 19, IS46, to Honor A. Branch. They had two children, ALBERT, born Dec. 27, IS46, died Dec. 7, 1860; LOUISIANA, born Sept. 11, 1849, was married Oct. 13, 1870, to Edmond Miller. See his name. She died Nov. 23, 1871. Mrs. Rebecca Branch, the mother of Mrs. Whitesides, died at their house July 25, 1876. She spent the last sixteen years of her life in their family. William A. Whitesides and family reside two miles northeast of Rochester, Sangamon county, Illinois.
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