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John Rape died Jan. 29. 1872, and his widow lives on the farm where he settled
1826. It is in Cotton Hill township, i near New City, Sangamon county, Illi- nois.
RAPE, HENRY, born in 1784, in South Carolina, came with his brother
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Peter to Sangamon county, Ill., about 1825, preceding their brother John one year. Henry Rape was married June, 1836, in Sangamon county, to Polly Snodgrass. They had six children in Sangamon county-
JAMES H., born July 23, 1837, in Sangamon county, enlisted in 1861, for three years, in Co. I, 7th Ill. Inf., served full time, and was honorably discharged, July 24, 1864, at Chattanooga, Tenn. J. H. Rape was married Dec. 7, 1875, at the Revere House, Springfield, Ill., to Mrs. Maria L. Campbell, whose maiden name was Brownell. Sce Brownell fam- ily. Mr. and Mrs. Rape live in Chris- tian county, near Taylorville, Illinois.
GUSTATUS F., born April 28, 1840, was married July 28, 1870, to Sarah Raney. They had two children, ORA VERNON and RALEIGH, and moved to the vicinity of Virginia, Bates county, Missouri. Their children both died there.
THOMAS Y., born Dec. 20, 1842, was married July 29, 1869, to Clara A. Pettibone. They have one child, EAR- NEST R., and live in Cotton Hill town- ship, Sangamon county, Illinois.
WILLIAM L., born Nov. 23, 1845, was married April 29, 1874, to Jennie Beaty. They have one child, ROLLA E., and live near Taylorville, Christian county, Illinois.
ELIZABETH f., born April 23, 1844, was married Dec. 29, 1874, to Richard Hillman. See his name.
Henry Rape died Nov. 11, 1851, and his widow married George Hamilton. They had one child-
ROBERT RAPE, born May 5, 1855, lives with his mother, three-fourths of a mile west of New City, in Cotton Hill township, Sangamon county, Illinois.
Mrs. Polly Rape had never formed a letter with a pen until her sixtieth year. Her son, James H., was in the army, and . she found it difficult to induce others to write to him as often as she desired, so she resolved to learn, and commenced by copying letters and other documents, and was soon able to communicate with him. She continued this correspondence, to the great satisfaction of both, until his three years of service terminated.
RAPE, JACOB, was born Mar. 1, 1778, married Patsy Thornton, raised a
family, and died April 28, 1865, in San- gamon county. His widow lives in Christian county. Their grandaughter married George Morgan, and lives in Taylorville, Illinois.
RAPE, POLLY, born in 1786, in South Carolina or Tennessee. She was a sister to John, Peter, Henry and Jacob. She was married in Sangamon county to Henry Funderburk. See his name.
RAPE, PETER, was born Mar. 15, 1790, married and raised a family. His wife, Sarah Rape, died July 23, 1841, in her forty-sixth year. He died March 29, 1847.
RAUCH, JOHN JACOB, was born July 25, 1796, in Stutgardt, Wirtem- burg, Germany. He came to America in ISIS, and was eleven weeks on the pas- sage from Amsterdam, arriving at Phila- delphia in September. He entered into an agreement, before starting, with a man who came on the same vessel, by which that gentleman was to pay his pas- sage across the ocean in exchange for labor Mr. Rauch was to perform. He had fulfilled part of the agreement before starting, and acted as servant to the gen- tleman and his wife on board the vessel. On arriving in Philadelphia he found that the money had not been paid. The only excuse the man made was that his wife objected to it. In the early history of the American colonies some of them enacted laws under which emigrants might be sold at quetion to pay for their passage across the ocean. The custom still prevailed at the time Mr. Rauch arrived in the coun- try, but I have thus far failed to learn that there was any law for it at that time. Seventy dollars was the amount demand- ed by the owners of the vessel, and he was put up at auction to raise the money. The lowest, and perhaps the only bid was to pay the money on consideration of his serving three years in return, at hard labor, as the following paper will show :
PHILADELPHIA.
This Indenture Witnesscth: That Johan Jacob Rauch, of his own free will, to go to Alabama Territory, hath bound himself servant to Francis C. Clapper, of Philadelphia, merchant, for the consider- ation of seventy dollars, paid to Lewis, Haven & Co., for his passage from Am- sterdam; as also, for other good causes,
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he, the said Johan Jacob Rauch, hath bound and put himself, and by these presents doth bind and put himself, ser- vant to the said Francis C. Clapper, to serve him, his executors, administrators and assigns, from the day of the date hereof, for and during the full term of three years, from thence next ensuing. During all which term the said servant, his said master, his executors, administra- tors and assigns, faithfully shall serve, and that honestly and obediently in all things, as a good and faithful servant ought to do. And the said Francis C. Clapper, his executors, administrators and assigns, dur- ing the said term, shall find and provide for the said servant sufficient meat, drink, apparel, washing and lodging, and to give him, at the end of the term, two complete suits of clothes, one thereof to be new. And for the true performance hereof both the said parties bind themselves firmly unto each other by these presents. In witness whereof they have interchangably set their hands and seals. Dated the sec- ond day of October, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
F. C. CLAPPER.
Bound before Conrad Wile, Register.
Mr. Rauch was at once sent to Alabama, and labored faithfully for two and a half years, the principal part of the time at boat building, and must have earned many times the value of the money paid out for him. His food and clothing during the whole of that time was of the very worst description, in addition to which he was treated to all manner of indignities on account of his lack of knowledge of our language, and for any other cause which the caprice or malignity of those with whom he was associated might suggest. Six months before the expiration of his time his hardships became intolerable. He left Alabama and made his way into Muhlen- burg county, Kentucky, arriving in 1821. There he found German people, who gave him employment by which he was soon able to clothe himself decently, and began to save money. He worked both in wood and stone as the opportunity for either presented itself. Oct. 24, 1824, he was married to Pauline Poley, sister to Joseph Poley. See his name. Soon after his marriage he built a sawmill on a
small stream, and occasionally worked at his trades, doing a good business. As Mr. Rauch learned more of the influence of slavery, he resolved to seek a free country in which to bring up his family. He accordingly removed with his wife and two children, to Illinois, arrriving Oct., 1829, in Sangamon county. In December he bought three-fourths of section thirty-three, which is the southern tier of sections in this county. It is in Auburn township, between the towns of Auburn and Virden. The stream called Sugar creek ran through his land, and among the first things he did was to build a saw and grist mill, and for many years Rauch's mill was known far and near, and hundreds of weary emigrants found rest under his roof, his house being on the road from Springfield to St. Louis. After arriving in Illinois, seven children were added to the family. Of their nine child- ren-
ANDREW, born Aug. 14, IS25, in Kentucky, was married June 13, 1854, in Sangamon county, to Margaret E. Cas- sity, a native of Kentucky. They have five living children, FRANK, CLARA, EMMA, ELMER and A. LEE. An- drew Rauch and family reside in the vicinity of the old homestead, in Sanga- mon county, near Virden, Macoupin county, Illinois.
CHARLES, born Dec. 28, 1837, in Kentucky, was married Dec. 18, 1859, in Sangamon county, to Mary Brooks, a native of Delaware. They have four children, LOUISA, JENNIE, JAMES and JOHN, and reside at the homestead, in Sangamon county, near Virden, Ma- coupin county, Illinois.
ELIZABETH, born April 25, 1830, in Illinois, died in childhood.
SATILLA, born Feb. 3, 1832, in Sangamon county, married Hiram Orr, and died five weeks later, at her mother's house.
JAMES, born Oct. 5, 1833, in San- . gamon county, was married, April 3, 1863, to Jennic B. Goss, who was born August 25, 1837, at Littleton, Grafton county, New Hampshire. They moved to Cali- fornia, and James Rauch died there, Nov. 12, 1864, leaving a widow, who returned to Illinois, Oct. 26, 1865, and is now -August, 1876-residing in Virden, Illi- nois.
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JACOB, born Aug. 16, 1835, in Sangamon county, was married, Oct. 27, 1859, to Emma C. Cassity. They have three living children, ADA, EFFIE and BYRON, and reside in Virden, Illi- nois.
FRANKLIN, born Oct. 11, 1837, died Dec. 17, 1SAS.
REBECCA, born Nov. 6, 1839, in Sangamon county, was married, Oct. 26, IS69, to John McGlothlin. They have three children, LOUELLA, HORACE and CHARLIE A., and reside five miles southwest of Auburn, Sangamon county, Illinois.
BARBARA A., born June 2, 1842, in Sangamon county. married Matthew Patton, Jun. See his name. They do not live in Chicago, as stated in connection with his name, but now-Sept., 1876- reside three miles southeast of Auburn, Sangamon county, Illinois.
John Jacob Rauch died Nov. 23, 1843, where he settled in 1829. His widow, Mrs. Pauline Rauch, resides there with her son Charles. It is in Sangamon county, near Virden, Macoupin county, Illinois.
Mr. Rauch left his family with the title to a sufficient quantity of land to make a good farm for each one; with a large amount of personal property, and his children are among the most respected citizens of the county. When we consid- er that he was twenty-two years of age at the time he came to America, without a knowledge of our language, compelled to lose so much of the best time of his life to pay for the privilege of coming, and that he died before he was fifty years of age, his success was wonderful, and it is highly probable that his early death was caused by over exertion. Although he had been so treacherously dealt with on coming to the country, and for the first three years after his arrival; yet his abhorrence of anything like repudiating a ยท contract was such, that he charged his sons if the duplicate to the contract by which he was robbed of his three years time, should ever be presented, they should pay the whole seventy dollars, for the reason that he had not rendered the last six months service, and that because it was physically impossible for him to en- dure it. In the later years of his life, when pondering on the hardships and in-
dignities he had endured, he wrote in German on the margin of the contract quoted, "Jacob Rauch says this indenture was not good." He doubtless alluded to the fact that it was not binding because it was never signed by himself. The back of the indenture bears an inscription, also in German, in his own handwriting. It appears to have been more intended as an expression of a sentiment than an address to any particular one of his children. It is in these words:
"DEAR CHILD, you had better remain in a low station of life; the higher you stand the more you may be humbled; and the Lord will love you better, for He is the Most High, and does great things by means of the lowly.
"JACOB RAUCH."
RAY. THOMAS, was born Jan. 28, 1794, in Gallatin county, Ky. He was married, Feb. 22, 1816, to Polly Furnish, a native of the same county. Mrs. Ray died, Sept. 21, 1S20, leaving one child. He then married Susan Ray, who was born April 20, 1798. They had one child in Kentucky, and the family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving October, 1824, in Island Grove, south of Spring creek, and the next spring moved north of Spring creek, in what is now Gardner township, where they had three living children. Of their five children-
SAMUEL E .. born Dec. 25, 1817, in Gallatin county, Ky., married in Sanga- mon county, Sept. 20, IS3S, to Elcy Jane Robison. They had four children- SUSAN J., horn July 21, 1839, in Wash- ington county, Iowa, where her parents lived one and one-half years. She was married, march 12, 1856, to Isaac Gregory. See his name. She died, Nov. 19, 1864, leaving twins. POLLY A., born May 6, 1842, in Sangamon county, married, Jan. 17, 1861, to John Swarens. They have'five children, ELLA, FRANK, CLAR- ENCE, LURA and HATTIE, and live one and one-half miles north of Bradfordton. ELCY C. died in her third year. EM- MA M., born March 23, 1852, lives with her parents, half a mile east of Bradford- ton, Sangamon county, Illinois-1874.
JOHN G., born Aug. 20, 1824, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, Feb. 1, IS55, to Abigail Van Gilder, and he died March 25, 1855.
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MARGARET A., born Nov. 16, 1832, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, June 24, 1852, to Seth W. Wick- ham. He was one of three children born of the same mother, Oct. 30, 1824,' in Muskingham county, Ohio. Of the other two: Elmus died in his tenth year, and Louisa married S. P. Weaver, and died in Ohio, in her twenty-first year, two weeks after she was married. Seth W. Wickham and wife had one child, THOM- AS W., and she died April 7, 1867. He was married, Dec. 31, 1868, to Mrs. Cor- nelia A. Large, whose maiden name was Frazee. Sec Frazee. They have one child, MINNIE L., and reside one mile southeast of Farmingdale, Sangamon county, Illinois-1874.
SUSAN P., born March 26, 1836, married Thomas Johnson, had one child, and she died in 1856. Her son, Charles Johnson, lives with his uncle, Thomas B. Ray.
THOMAS B., born March 10, 1841, married, Feb. 23, 1865, to Charlotte Brown. They had one child, CHAR- LOTTE, who lives with her grandfather, Rezin D. Brown. Mrs. Ray died, Jan. 5, 1866, and T. B. Ray lives at the home- stead settled by his father in 1825, in Gardner township, Sangamon county, Illinois.
Mrs. Susan Ray died Dec. 15, 1859, and Thomas Ray died Aug. 24, 1871, both in Gardner township.
William Ray, the father of Thomas, came to Sangamon county, and after a few years sojourn, returned to Kentucky, and died there.
RAY, REASON or REZIN, was born in Maryland, went to Kentucky, where he married Sarah Walters. They had four children, and came to Sangamon county in 1823, settling in Gardner town- ship. His daughter-
LAVINA, born in Kentucky, in 1822, married in Sangamon county, to Ezekiel Drennan. See his name.
Mrs. Drennan remembers the "deep snow." She was eight years old, and was helping her father gather corn, and slipped into a whirlpool that formed around a hill of corn. She went under the snow, and her father happening to see her go down, drew her out in time to save her from suffocating.
RAY, SAMUEL. His daugh- ter-
ELIZABETH, born Aug. 5, 1833, married, Dec. 2, 1852, to Robert Haggard, in Sangamon county, and died July 22, 1867, in Labette county, Kansas, leaving six children.
REDMAN, JAMES B., was born in St. Louis county, Mo., and com- menced learning the trade of a black- smith in St. Louis with Rames & Owens, moved with them to Springfield, Illinois, in April, 1830, and later was four years engaged in the same business with Nathaniel Rames, as Rames & Redman. He then returned to St. Louis county. and was there married, in 1834, to Mar- tha A. Graham, and had two children-
MARY E., born near St. Louis, mar- ried John O. Rames. See his name. MARGARET married William T. Henly, and resides near St. Louis.
Mrs. Redman died, and James B. Red- man is living with his third wife, at Baden, St. Louis county, Mo.
REDMAN, WILLIAM E., was born May 15, 1815, in Maryland, eight miles north of Washington City. He was married, Jan. 6, IS40, in Hagers- town, to Catharine Wolgamot, and moved with her father to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving May 31, 1840, in what is now Woodside township. They hal eight children in Sangamon county, five of whom died under seven years. Of the other three children -.-
ISABEL O., born July 16, 1843, married Dec. 19, 1865, to Daniel Keller. She had one child, MARY, and died in Chatham, Illinois.
CATHARINE F., born March IS, IS42, married Nov. 11, 1872, to Daniel Keller, also. They have three children, HETTIE, HARRY and CHARLEY, and live in Chatham, Illinois.
CHLOE ANN E., born March 20, 1847, married Oct. 15, 1867, to D. F. Brewer. They have four children, KATIE E., ADAM POE, JOHN M. and CHLOE B., and reside in Spring- field, Illinois. Daniel F. Brewer was born April 26, 1842, in West Chester, Butler county, Ohio, enlisted Sept. 4, 1861, at Cincinnati, Ohio, in the 11th Independent Battery, served until Nov. 5, 1864, when he was honorably discharg- ed, and came to Chatham in IS65.
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William E. Redman enlisted June 2S, 1861, in Co. F, 21st Ill. Inf., for three years, at Springfield. Although he was past the age to be subject to military laws, he went to the field under Col. Ulysses S. Grant, served until April 28, 1864, when he was honorably discharged on account of physical disability. He was employed for a few months after that in the quartermaster's department. Mrs. Catharine Redman died Dec. 31, 1874, and Wm. E. Redman resides in Chatham, Sangamon county, Illinois.
REED, JAMES E., was born July 14, 1810, in Wayne county, Ky. His father died when he was four, and his mother when he was seven years old. He came to Springfield, Ill., in the fall of IS28, was in the Black Hawk war from Sangamon county in 1831, and again in : S32. He was married July 6, 1837, to Eliza A. Kendall. They had two child- ren-
MARY A., born Feb. 27, 1838, mar- ried March 4, 1858, to Josiah B. Morgan. They have four children, and live near Neodesha, Wilson county, Kansas.
SUSAN F., born March 12, 1839, married Feb., 185S, to Edward S. Mc- Murry. They have three children, and live at Leghorn, Pottawatomie county, Kansas. He is Postmaster there .- 1874.
Mrs. Eliza A. Reed died Sept. 22, 1847, and James E. Reed was married Nov. 6, 1847, to Mrs. Susan Ralston, who had previously been Mrs. Earnest, and whose maiden name was Kendall. They had two children-
SARAH E., born Dec. 21, 1848, lives with her parents.
BURZILLA K., born Nov. 20, 1850, married Oct. 16, 1873, to William T. Simpson. See his name.
J. E. Reed and wife reside five miles west of Springfield, Sangamon county, Illinois.
REID, SAMUEL H., was born in 1781, near Richmond, Virginia. His parents moved, when he was a young man, to Davidson county, Tenn., near President Jackson's country seat, the Hermitage; and from there to Warren county, Ky. While visiting his brother, Judge Alexander Reid, at Shelbyville, Samuel H. became acquainted with Eliza- beth Roberts. They were there married, and lived near Bowling Green, Warren
county, until six children were born. Mrs. Reid and three of the children died there. Mr. Reid was married in Warren county to Jane Gott, and moved at once to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in Sept., 1827, and settled on a farm he had previously purchased, three miles west of Springfield, where they had four children. Of his seven children-
SAMUEL H. and SARAH Y., twins, born May 20, ISIS, in Warren county, Kentucky.
SAMUEL H. married Oct. 20, 1840, in Sangamon county, to Elizabeth Davis. They had three children-SARAH J., born Oct. 27, 1841, married, April 19, IS5S, to Thomas L. Conner, who was born Sept. 1, 1832, in Allegheny county, Penn. They had four children, SAMUEL R. died young. WILLIAM L., MARGARET E. and SARAH J. live with their parents in Springfield, Illinois. DAVID A. died in infancy. ROBERT S., born Oct. 12, 1 848, married, Oct. 20, 1869, to Olive M. Cross, who was born Nov. 22, 1850, in Christian county, Illinois. They have one child, SARAH E., and live one and one-half mile west of Springfield. Sam- uel H. Reid, Jun., and wife now-1876- reside three miles west of Springfield, Illinois, on the farm settled by his father in 1827.
SARAH f. married David A. Reid, a distant relative, had one child, and mother and child died, in Lincoln county, Missouri.
DAVID A., born April, 1822, in Ken- tucky, raised in Sangamon county, and died March, 1840, in Lincoln county, Missouri.
By the second marriage-
ADALINE, born in Sangamon coun- ty, married Thomas Reid, had tvo child- ren, and she died Jan., 1855, in Lincoln county, Missouri.
WILLIAM M., born in Sangamon county, died, aged eighteen years, in Lincoln county, Missouri.
LUCINDA died, aged fourteen years, in Lincoln county, Missouri.
GAMES, born and died in Sangamon county, aged four years.
Samuel H. Reid, Sen., was a ruling Elder in the church organized by Rev. John G. Bergen, the first ever organized in Springfield, now the First Presby- terian church. He afterwards became a
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ruling Elder in the Second Presbyterian church, and continued to the end of his life. He died Sept., 1836, and his widow died sixteen days later, hoth in Sangamon county.
REED, JAMES FRAZIER. was born Nov. 14, 1Soo, in county Ar- magh, Ireland. His ancestors were of noble Polish birth, who chose exile rather than submission to the Russian power, and settled in the north of Ireland. The family name was originally Reed- noski, but in process of time the Polish termination of the name was dropped, and the family was called Reed. James F. Reed's mother's name was Frazier, whose ancestors belonged to Clan Fra- zier, of Scottish history. Mrs. Reed, and her son, James F., came to America when he was a youth, and settled in Virginia. He remained there until he was twenty, when he left for the lead mines of Illi- nois, and was engaged in mining until 1831, when he came to Springfield, San- gamon county, Ill. He served in the Black Hawk war, and at its termination returned to Springfield, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits, made money, and bought a tarm near the latter city. Mr. Reed was for several years engaged in manufacturing cabinet furniture at a point on the Sangamon river, seven miles east of Springfield. He employed a large number of men, and a village grew up there, which, in honor of his first name, was called Jamestown. It has since been twice changed, first to Howlett and then to Riverton, the present name. He was mar- ried, in 1834, to Mrs Margaret W. Backen- stoe, whose maiden name was Keyes, a daughter of Humphrey Keyes. Sec his name. Mrs. Reed had one child by her first marriage. In Apr., 1846, Mr. and Mrs. Reed, with many others, started overland for California. Scc Reed and Donner party. Mr. Reed settled at San Jose Mission, California, and invested in land from time to time. He was among the first who tried their fortunes at gold hunt- ing, in which he was very successful. Of Mrs. Reed's child by a former marriage-
VIRGINIA E. Backenstoe, born in Sangamon county, Ill., was married in San Jose, California, in 1850, to John M. Murphy, who was born Jan. S, 1824, in Canada, and went to California in 1844. They had nine children, three died young.
Of the other six: MARY M., born Oct. 1850, in San Jose, was married there, in June, 1869, to P. McAram. They have two children, THOMAS P. and MARY V. Mr. McAram is a Banker in San Fran- cisco, California, and resides there. JOHN M. was born March, IS5S; VIRGINIA, born April, 1860; JULIA A., born Feb., 1866; DANIEL J., born Dec., 1867, and THADEUS S., born July, 1874; they are natives of San Jose, California, and the five latter live there with their parents. Mrs. Virginia E. Murphy writes me, in Dec., 1875, that she never was taught or made to feel, during Mr. Reed's lifetime, that she was a step-child or half-sister, and that he was the most loving and in- dulgent step-father that ever lived. So thoughtful was he of her feelings that he took occasion, after the death of her mother, to assure her of his continued affection, and that he knew no difference between herself and nis own children, as she came to him with her mother, a little babe. He made no distinction between Mrs. Murphy and his own children in his will.
Mr. and Mrs. James F. Reed had six children; one died in infancy. Of the other five-
MARTHA G., born Feb. 26, 1838, in Springfield, Illinois, accompanied her parents to California, and was married there, at Santa Cruz, Dec. 25, 1856, to Frank Lewis, who was born in Lancaster, Worcester county, Mass., Sept. 15, 1828. They had eight children; one died in infancy. KATE, horn Oct. 6, IS57. MARGARET B .. born June 6. 1860. FRANK, Jun., born March 22, 1862. MARTHA J., born April 6, 1864. JAMES F., born August 25, 1866. CARRIE E., born September 15, 1870. and SUSAN A., born Dec. 31, 1873, live with their mother, in San Jose, Cali- fornia. Mr. Lewis enlisted, in 1846, in the Ist Massachusetts Vol. Inf., for the Mexican war, and served to its close. He spent the next two years in New Orleans, and three years in Central and South America, went to San Jose, California, in June, 1852, and was for many years a member of the city council of that place. He was a wholesale and retail grocer, and died June 18, 1876, mourned by a large circle of acquaintences. The Mayor
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