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JOHN McNETT, son of Bartholomew and Amelia McNett, was born Sept. 17, 1843, on a farm west of Mount Morris, and died in Mount Morris, Jan. 13, 1935, aged past 91 years. The entire period of his life was spent in or near Mount Morris, his occu- pation being that of farmer. For a period of over 63 years, he resided in the house in the southwest part of town where he died. In 1867, he married Margaret Ann Hause, and they celebrated their 66th wed- ding anniversary in October, 1933. Mrs. McNett passed away in 1934. Nine children were born to them: Mrs. Ella Watts, Charles, Samuel, Walter, Mrs. Bessie Wes- ner, Mrs. Bertha Van Strien, and three children who preceded their parents in death.
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THIS OLD-TIME PICTURE represents a prominent Mount Morris family of many years ago. In the center below is Mrs. William Marsh (Harriet Haylor) and the others are her children. The two men at the right are Joseph and John Nye, her children from a former marriage. The two men at the left are Capt. Chas. T. Marsh and Capt. Frederick H. Marsh. At the lower left is Elizabeth Marsh, who married Edward McCready and is still living in Mount Morris, and at the right is Emma Marsh, who married Elifalet Stonebraker. The Nye brothers came to Mount Morris in 1853 and the Marsh family came in 1855. They were all natives of Dover, England. The father, William Marsh, served as a sailor under Lord Nelson in the British man- of-war "Victory" at the Battle of Trafalgar. Biographies of the Marsh and Nye broth- ers will be found elsewhere in this volume.
JOHN D. LOOKABAUGH, eldest son of Samuel and Mary Lookabaugh, was run over and killed in June, 1901, by a switch engine at Aurora. He was born June 30, 1856, in Franklin County, Pa., and moved to Mount Morris when nine years of age.
JAMES B. McCOY, son of James B. and Elizabeth McCoy, was born in Mount Morris, Aug. 17, 1845. He married Mary A. Smith in 1873, and they had one son, James Archibald. Mr. McCoy died in 1894.
AUSTIN MIDDLEKAUFF, son of Hen- ry and Elizabeth (Thomas) Middlekauff, was born at Mount Morris, March 22, 1863, and died April 19, 1932, aged 69 years. After attending the local schools. he engaged in farming northwest of Mount Morris, where his family was reared. He retired to Mount Morris in 1912. In 1887, he married Mary C. Moats and three children were born to them: Merritt H., Mrs. Floyd Olson and Mrs. Jesse H. Smith.
SAMUEL MIDDOUR died January 22, 1916, aged nearly 80 years. He was born at Quincy, Pa., Jan. 31, 1836, and came to Mount Morris in 1864, thus having lived
in the community for fifty-two years. Shortly after coming to Mount Morris he entered the mercantile business with Samuel Lookabaugh. In 1872, he formed a partnership in the live stock and grain business with Daniel Sprecher, and later he conducted a meat market for several years in partnership with Benj. Mumma. In 1882, he moved with his family to his farm a mile northeast of town where he engaged in farming until his death. In 1868, he married Harriet A. Little and they had three children, Eldridge, Lulu and Mina (Mrs. Vernon V. Rees). Mr. Middour was present and heard Abraham Lincoln deliver his famous address at Gettysburg. Mrs. Middour died Aug. 9, 1934.
CHARLES C. MILES died February 22, 1914, aged 72 years. He was the son of Israel and Mary Miles and was born near Sharpsburg, Md., Dec. 6, 1841. The family moved to Mount Morris about the year 1845, and Mr. Miles spent the re- mainder of his life here. He attended the public school in Mount Morris and Rock River Seminary. He was married in 1884 to Mary C. Hause, and they had one daughter, Mrs. Edith Gardener. Mrs. Miles died in March, 1938.
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WILLIAM C. MARSHALL, son of Reuben S. and Matilda Marshall, was born March 6, 1853, on the Marshall homestead, three miles north of Mount Morris, and died Feb. 13, 1927, aged nearly 74 years. His entire life was spent in or near Mount Morris except for 12 years in Iowa. He was the eldest of 12 children. In 1876, he was married to Mary Rowe, and they had two children, Gertrude (Mrs. Clyde Walk- up), and Reuben Marshall. The mother died in March, 1927.
JACOB G. MILLER, son of John M. and Susan Price Miller, was born in Pine Creek Township, May 16, 1847, and died in Rockford, Oct. 22, 1934, aged 87 years. He attended country schools and Rock River Seminary, and in 1867 began his teaching career of over 50 years. In 1874, he married Ann Swingley and they had one son, Merritt S., who lives in Rock- ford. Mr. Miller was a lifelong member of the Lutheran Church and the Masonic fraternity.
LEWIS D. MILLER died December 21, 1914, aged 63 years. He was born in Lin- coln Township, Ogle County, Jan. 18, 1852. He was engaged in farming in Lin- coln and Leaf River Townships until the year 1900, when he moved to Mount Mor- ris to take charge of the Old Folks' Home for the Brethren Church, which position he held for nine years. Mr. Miller was married in 1874 to Mary Ann Diehl. They had two children who died in infancy. The mother also died, and in 1879 Mr. Miller married Susan E. Diehl, who died in 1937. They had two children, Clinton and Clifford.
JOSIAH MIDDLEKAUFF, son of Elias and Elizabeth Middlekauff, was born in Washington County, Md., June 16, 1843, and died April 17, 1927, aged nearly 84 years. He came to Pine Creek Township with his parents when he was three years old, and lived in that vicinity, engaged in farming until 1907, when he retired to Mount Morris. In 1877 he married Estella Mumma, and they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary only two months before his death. They had four sons: Roy, Earl, Olin, and one who died in in- fancy. The mother died April 11, 1937, aged 84 years.
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MRS. HARRIET MIDDOUR AND MRS. MARTHA SMITH, life-long residents of Mount Morris, were the twin daughters of William and Wilhelmina Little. They were born at Columbus City, Iowa, Oct. 19, 1842. They were only four years of age when the family moved to Mount Morris, where the father, a wagonmaker by trade, had a shop on East Main St. They received their education in the local school and grad- uated from Rock River Seminary, and later taught school in this vicinity. In 1866, Harriet married Samuel Middour and three children were born to them, Eldridge, Lulu and Mina (Mrs. Vernon Rees). The father passed away in 1916 and the mother Aug. 9, 1934, aged nearly 92 years. The other twin, Martha A., married D. H. Smith in 1865 and there were five children: Mable Haney, Nellie Walker, Gertrude, Eldridge and H. B., who is the only surviving child and lives at Canton, Miss. Mr. Smith passed away in 1895, but at this writing Mrs. Smith is still alive, aged nearly 96 years.
JAMES L. MUMMA died Feb. 8, 1905, aged nearly 64 years. He was the son of Shaeffer and Naomi Mumma, early pio- neers of Ogle County. He was born in April, 1841, in Pine Creek Township. He engaged in various occupations, but for over twenty years he was employed in the south side butcher shop in Mount Morris. Mr. Mumma married Sophia E. Etnyre in 1867, and they had seven chil- dren, but unfortunately four of them died in childhood, those living being Allie (Mrs. Harry J. Powers), Wilbur and Mable (Mrs. Walter Marshall).
MRS. MARGARET NEWCOMER died July 5, 1911, aged 67 years. She was of the well-known family of Rev. Thomas S. Hitt, and was born on the Hitt farm near Mount Morris on Dec. 21, 1844. She grew to womanhood at her rural home, and attended Rock River Seminary. Later she attended Northwestern University at Evanston. In 1870, she was married to Albert N. Newcomer, and they had four children: Emily (Mrs. Jos. L. Rice), Mor- ris H., Thomas E. and Robert H.
JOHN M. MILLER, familiarly known as "Uncle Johnny," died March 7, 1900, aged 83 years. He was born in Berkeley County, W.Va., in 1817. He came to Pine Creek Township in 1840 with the Mary- land colony, and married Susan G. Price, who had arrived six months before. They had nine children, those living in Mount Morris being Jacob G. Miller and Mrs. Ella Winders.
HENRY A. NEFF, son of Abraham and Amelia (Murray) Neff, was born August 30, 1814, in Frederick City, Md., and came to Ogle County in 1842. He was a black- smith by trade and had a shop in Mount Morris until 1868 when he became a farmer. In 1839, he married Cynthia Ann McNett, to whom three children were born: Margaret A., Charles F., and Wm. H. Mrs. Neff died in 1845 and a year later he married Indiana Clark. Seven children were born to them as follows: Addison W., Clark C., Lura (Mrs. Arthur McCoy), Mary E., Milton C., Emery and Nettie (Mrs. G. W. Deppen). Mr. Neff died in 1887
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WILLIAM NALLEY died October 28, 1913, aged nearly 78 years. He was born in Washington County, Md., Dec. 10, 1835. He came here with his father's fam- ily when a child, and lived in or near Mount Morris for nearly 60 years. He married Sarah A. Palmer in 1862, and they had one son, Arthur W. Nally, who located in Rockford.
DAVID NEWCOMER, while working as brakeman on the Burlington in Sep- tember, 1901, died from injuries received by falling from a moving train near Ore- gon. He was the son of Emanuel New- comer. He was born near Adeline, Ill., and was 25 years old at the time of his death.
JOHN R. PETRIE was the first child born within the present limits of Mount Morris. He was born in the original "Old Sand- stone" February 17, 1841, his parents being Mr. and Mrs. Frederick G. Petrie. He served as sheriff of Ogle County from 1870 to 1874. He left Mount Morris about 1880 and located in South Dakota. He died at Sawtelle, Calif., Sept. 26, 1921.
HENRY T. MOATS, son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Moats, was born near Hagers- town, Md., July 31, 1839, and died in Mount Morris, Oct. 30, 1920, aged 81 years. He lived in Mount Morris Township for 76 years, having come here when five years of age in 1844, with his uncle, Dan- iel Zellers. In January, 1864, he married Anne E. Sprecher, and they engaged in farming east of Mount Morris until the death of Mrs. Moats in 1897. Five children were born to them-Daniel P., William A., Mary C., Emma H., and Martin. The mother and three of the children passed away and, in 1901, Mr. Moats married Mrs. Florence Sprecher. They moved to town in 1903.
ADDISON W. NEFF, son of Abraham and Amelia (Murray) Neff, was born at Mount Morris, March 14, 1847, and died at Vancouver, B.C., Jan. 16, 1926, aged nearly 79 years. For many years, begin- ning in 1852, he conducted a blacksmith shop in Mount Morris. In 1873, he married Emily A. Black, and they had four chil- dren: Aida E., who died in 1914; Lura Eloise, who married Edward Chambers, and Olive M., who married Leonard C. Roney. One child died in infancy. Mrs. Neff passed away in 1911. In 1912, Mr. Neff went to live with his daughter, Mrs. Chambers, at Vancouver, B.C., where he died. Mr. Neff came of a musical fam- ily and his daughters were accomplished musicians.
JUDGE MERRITT W. PINCKNEY died June 7, 1920, in Chicago, aged 61 years. He was born in Mount Morris Dec. 12, 1859, and attended Rock River Seminary, of which his father, Daniel J. Pinckney, was principal. In 1881, he graduated from Knox College and in 1883 from the Union College of Law. He practiced law in Chi- cago and in 1905 was elected judge, which position he held until his death. His work on the bench made him nationally fa- mous. In 1885, he married Mary Van Vechten, who survived him. There were no children.
WILLARD POND was the son of Levi Pond and was born in Onondaga County, N.Y., May 23, 1816. He came to Illinois in 1845 and settled on a farm a half mile north of Mount Morris where he lived until his death Nov. 29, 1897, aged 811/2 years. In September, 1841, he married
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Mary E. Jones and they had four daugh- ters: Matilda (Mrs. Geo. B. Geiger), Hannah (Mrs. Isaac Fry), Laura J. (Mrs. Thos. Hiestand), and Alice (Mrs. Jacob Knodle).
NELSON T. POTTER died April 2, 1907, aged 761/2 years. He was born near Hagerstown, Md., Oct. 20, 1830, son of James and Rebecca (Donaldson) Potter, who came from Maryland in 1849 with their family of nine children. He went west in search of gold in 1852 and 1864. In 1863, he married Barbara Hiestand and later engaged in farming north of Mount Morris. They had six children: Edward, Alvernon, Irving, Grace (Mrs. Chas. Thomas), Robert and Luella.
DANIEL H. NEWCOMER, son of Cyrus and Elizabeth Newcomer, was born at Waynesboro, Pa., Feb. 4, 1859, and died at the family homestead, northwest of Mount Morris, Dec. 28, 1936, aged nearly 78 years. He came to Illinois with his parents when a child and spent his en- tire life on the home farm. In 1884, he was married to Cora E. Long and four children were born to them: Harry C. and Harvey A., twins, Mrs. Nellie Davey and Mrs. Eva Watson. In 1934, Mr. and Mrs. Newcomer celebrated their golden wedding anniversary.
REV. J. M. REES, retired Lutheran min- ister, died at his home just east of Mount Morris, July 2, 1909, aged nearly 73 years. Rev. Rees brought his family to Mount Morris in 1896 from Port Byron, Ill., to give his children the advantage of our schools. He was born in 1836 at Lewis- burg, Pa., and came to Illinois with his parents in 1850. He studied for the minis- try at Susquehanna University at Selins Grove and was ordained in 1871 at Jersey Shore, Pa. He held a number of pastorates in Iowa, before he retired in 1894. Rev. Rees was married in 1873 to Frances Plumb, and five sons and four daughters were born to them. Three children pre- ceeded the father in death and those re- maining were Mrs. Birdie Reynolds, Mrs. Aimee O'Hara, Leslie, Vernon, Vera and Perley.
MARIA HITT NEWCOMER, daughter of Rev. Thos. S. and Emily (John) Hitt, died at Santa Monica, Calif., Sept. 30, 1935. She was born in Mount Morris Jan. 12, 1848, and spent her entire life here until she moved to California in 1931. She was nearly 88 years of age at time of death. She attended Rock River Seminary and later taught music in that institution. Her father was one of the founders of the Seminary and her brother, Robert R. Hitt, was Congressman for many years from this district. She married Chas. Newcomer in 1889.
MRS. CATHERINE NYE died March 27, 1910, aged nearly 90 years. She was the daughter of James and Nancy Coffman, and was born near Hagerstown, Md., July 24, 1820. She came to Pine Creek Town- ship with her parents in 1840. In 1842, she married Michael Stonebraker and they lived two miles north of Mount Morris for many years. Eight children were born to them, among whom were Mrs. Ellen Bell, Newton, Eliphalet, Charles, Mrs. Urilla Potter and Orville. Mr. Stonebrak- er died in 1858, and in 1860, Mrs. Stone- braker became the wife of John H. Nye. Two sons were born to them, Frank and Ulysses C. Mr. Nye died in 1896, and dur- ing the remaining years of her life, Mrs. Nye lived with her son Ulysses.
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MAJOR CHAS. NEWCOMER, one of Mount Morris's prominent citizens, passed away August 11, 1907. He was the son of Samuel and Sarah (Fridley) Newcomer and was born August 22, 1825, at Beaver Creek, Md. He was 82 years of age at time of death. He came to Illinois with his father's family in 1845, and they set- tled on a farm near Mount Morris. He was the eldest of nine children. His sis- ter, Mrs. Ellen Trine, was a life-long resi- dent of Mount Morris, and his brother, Albert N. Newcomer, married Maggie, daughter of Rev. Thos. S. Hitt. Mr. New- comer first engaged in farming, and it is said that the first carload of grain mar- keted by rail from Mount Morris was raised by him. He erected the middle ele- vator and continued in the grain business until he sold the elevator to John Weller. In 1855, he was elected Sheriff of Ogle County, and in 1861, he was made a mem- ber of the Constitutional Convention. During the Civil War, Mr. Newcomer was appointed Paymaster of the Dept. of the Cumberland, with the rank of Major, with headquarters at Louisville, Ky. In 1877, Major Newcomer and Dr. Isaac Rice established the Bank of Mount Morris, of which the former became the sole pro- prietor in 1880, remaining so until 1899, when he sold out to Jos. L. and J. H. Rice, and retired from active business. He was married in 1853 to Rosalie D. Blanchard, and they had three sons, Franklin F., Chas. E. and Lyle C. The mother died in 1872. On June 2, 1879, he married again to Maria Hitt, daughter of Rev. Thos. S. Hitt, and sister of Hon. R. R. Hitt.
JOSEPH M. PIPER was born at Hagers- town, Md., Oct. 30, 1838, and died at De- Kalb, Ill., March 4, 1928, aged 90 years. The Piper family moved to Illinois when he was a small boy, making the trip in a covered wagon, and settled on a farm a few miles north of Mount Morris. He was educated in the district school and Rock River Seminary, also a year at the University of Michigan. He taught school for many years, including four years (1872 to 1876) as principal of Mount Mor- ris Public School. In the eighties he pur- chased the hardware business in Mount Morris of J. D. Armstrong which he con- ducted until 1890 when he sold out to C. E. Price. He served as County Super- intendent of Schools of Ogle County for 14 years and then went into the real estate business at DeKalb. Mr. Piper married Miss Caroline Cheney in 1864 and she preceded him in death five years.
EDWARD C. PAGE, a teacher of con- siderable prominence who grew to man- hood in Mount Morris, was the son of John and Hannah (Cheney) Page and was born at Belvidere, Ill., May 29, 1863, his father being superintendent of schools at that place. On the death of the father, the young son was brought to Mount
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Morris, where he attended the public school and Mount Morris College. He then entered Northwestern University and graduated in 1888; then took post graduate work for three years at the University of Chicago. He later taught American History and literature in the University of Chicago and then for many years occupied the chair of history in the Northern Illinois State Normal School at DeKalb, Ill., where he passed away. In 1899, Prof. Page married Janet Clive Gloss. daughter of Rev. Hamilton Gloss.
ANTON PIEPER, son of Frederick Pieper, was born in Germany, August 30, 1852, and died in Mount Morris, Nov. 29, 1928, aged 76 years. He came to America in 1869 and worked in various localities in Illinois, finally purchasing the farm west of Mount Morris where he reared his family. He moved to Mount Morris about ten years before his death. In 1875, he was married to Caroline Schnulle, and ten children were born to them, eight of whom survived the father as follows: Elizabeth, Mrs. Lena Snodgrass, Julia, Henry, August, William, Mrs. Amelia Holsinger, Mrs. Anna Diehl. The mother died Jan. 6, 1936.
DR. A. W. PRICE was born in Pine Creek Township, July 9, 1859, and died April 20, 1911, aged nearly 52 years. On October 13, 1880, he was married to Alice Griswold, to whom were born four chil- dren: Verna (Mrs. Lloyd Holsinger), Et- ta (Mrs. John Walsh), Harry Price, and one child that died in infancy. Mrs. Price died in 1908, and in September, 1909, he was married again to Mrs. Mary E. Reed of Creston. Mr. Price was a veterinarian and the family lived in Mount Morris a number of years previous to 1909.
BENJ. RIDENOUR died Feb. 24, 1918, aged nearly 79 years. He was born at Cavetown, Md., May 6, 1839, and came to Illinois in 1877. He engaged in farming three miles southwest of Mount Morris for many years and moved to town twelve years before his death. In 1857, he married
Susan Houser and eight children were born to them: John M., Mrs. Mary Rudy, Mrs. Rosa Gibbs, Mrs. Anna Few, Mrs. Emma Trap, Mrs. Ann Stouffer, Lee Ridenour and one daughter who died in infancy.
CHARLES PEACOCK died Nov. 1, 1914, aged 32 years. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Peacock. and was born Oct. 26, 1882, and spent his entire life in Mount Morris. He graduated from high school and completed the commercial course of Mount Morris College. He was unmar- ried.
ROBERT PATTERSON was the son of Adam and Mary (McDonald) Patterson, and was of a family of eight children, three sons and five daughters. He was born on the farm occupied by the Pat- terson family, five and one-half miles northwest of Mount Morris, August 31, 1850. He was educated in the district schools and continued to live on the farm after the death of his father in 1868 un- til the year 1881, when he purchased eighty acres of land of Daniel J. Pinck- ney, lying one and one-half miles west of Mount Morris, on which place he con- tinued to live with his widowed mother for twenty years. After the death of his mother he moved to Mount Morris, where he died July 10, 1921, aged nearly 71 years. He was unmarried.
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AUNT KITTY RICE died December 26, 1900, at the age of 103 years, 4 months and 2 days. Her maiden name was Catherine Funk and she was born at Beaver Creek, Md., Aug. 24, 1797. She came west in 1845 and became the second wife of Jacob Rice. She had no children of her own but became a devoted mother to Mr. Rice's twelve children, one of whom was the well-known Isaac Rice, father of Joseph L. Rice.
WILLIAM H. ROWE was born near Hagerstown, Md., Aug. 28, 1850, and died at Mount Morris Jan. 29, 1924. aged over 73 years. He came to Illinois in March, 1865, and resided in or near Mount Morris for 59 years. The greater part of this time he was engaged in farming. In 1875, he married Alice Swingley and five chil- dren were born to them: Mrs. Edith Coffman, Benjamin S., Mrs. Alva Houpt, Frank O., and Morris W. Mrs. Rowe passed away in 1921.
GEORGE W. SHANK died May 9, 1900, aged 75 years. He was born near Myers- ville, Md., Feb. 8, 1825. His father and mother both died before he was a year old. He married Susan Malone in 1848 and the following year settled in Pine Creek Township. They moved to Mount Morris in 1877 and Mrs. Shank died in 1892. They had three children: Laura (Mrs. A. M. Newcomer), George M. and Albert.
MRS. BARBARA RICE died Nov. 23, 1916, aged nearly 76 years. She was born in Pine Creek Township, Jan. 20, 1841, and was the daughter of Samuel and Barbara Funk, pioneers who came from the east in 1840. She was the last sur- vivor of ten children. Her mother died in 1842, and she went to live with Aunt Kitty Rice until her marriage in 1863 to Andrew Rice. Six children were born to them, but all of them died in early life except Mrs. Anna Mumma, who survives. Mr. Rice died in 1885.
EMILY NEWCOMER RICE, daughter of Albert and Margaret Hitt Newcomer, was born in Maryville, Mo., May 31, 1871, and died in Mount Morris on April 7, 1929, aged nearly 58 years. She came to Mount Morris with her parents when an infant and lived her entire life in the
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village. She graduated from the local high school and Rockford College. She was an accomplished musician, being a graduate of the Boston Conservatory of Music. In 1895, she was married to Jo- seph L. Rice. They had no children but left a foster daughter, Mrs. Margaret Glass. Mrs. Rice had three brothers, Mor- ris H. Newcomer, Thomas E. Newcomer and Robert H. Newcomer. She was a niece of Robert R. Hitt.
WILLIAM A. RICE, son of Jacob and Elizabeth A. Rice, was born near Adeline, Aug. 4, 1854, and died at his home several miles north of Mount Morris, June 2, 1933, aged 79 years. He attended the rural schools and Rock River Seminary from 1876 to 1878. He spent his entire life farm- ing and never married. For many years he wrote the "Cross Road News" in the Mount Morris Index, under the name of "Timothy Bunker, Esq.," which attracted considerable attention. He was a grand- son of Jacob Rice, early settler, who came to Mount Morris in 1837.
PROF. S. Z. SHARP (picture on page 146), was prominent in Mount Morris dur- ing the early days of Mount Morris Col- lege. He was born in Pennsylvania, Dec. 21, 1835, and devoted his entire life to the teaching profession and also was a minis- ter of the Brethren Church. He came to Mount Morris in 1881 and joined the fac- ulty of Mount Morris College, which con- nection he continued until 1888, when he became president of McPherson College, at McPherson, Kans. Prof. Sharp was married in 1862 to Salome Zook and they had six children: Horace, Agnes, Grace, Anna (Mrs. Ben G. Davis), Theodore and Maurice.
MARTIN T. ROHRER died January 11, 1911, aged nearly 84 years. He was born at Rohrersville, Md., June 9, 1827, and was married in 1853 to Margaret Avey. Shortly afterward they came west and engaged in farming near Mount Morris, and in 1865 they moved into town. He served as town clerk, justice of the peace and assessor at various times. To Mr. and Mrs. Rohrer were born eight children: Lottie (Mrs. W. A. Newcomer), Georgia (Mrs. W. W. Hanes), Ella, Min- nie, Samuel F., Martin T., Joseph H., and Maud L. (Mrs. John Rice). Mr. and Mrs. Rohrer celebrated their 50th wedding an- niversary in 1903.
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