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Oh the 27th of Feb. 1844 Mr. Caswell died, and in Feb. 1849 Mrs. Caswell was united in marriage at Alton with Woodbridge N. Smith of New Hampshire, who was doing bus- iness in Alton. On the 8th, of Feb. 1815 Mr. Smith died.
Mrs. Smith had been married previous to this union and was left with two children, Sarah J. and Maria. Sarah J.isthe wife of S. M. Hedges, a former merchant of Butler.
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Mrs. Smith continued to live in Alton until . May 1870, when she came to Butler where she has ever since resided with her daughter, Mrs Stella Seward.
Mrs. Smith is the youngest of thirteen children, only three of whom are known to be living.
Her father was a soldier in the Revolutionary war.
At Alton Mrs. Smith made a public profession of religion and united with the Baptist Church.
Her children are as follows :
By her first husband,
Mary Caswell, born Feb. 3d, 1838.
Charlott Caswell, born Sept. 10th, 1839. Died Nov. 30th, 1839.
Henrietta Caswell, born Jan. 10th, 1844.
Died in the 17th year of her age.
Stella Smith, only child by her second husband, born Sep. 20th, 1850.
MRS. LOUISA BASSET,
daughter of Ralph and Bethia Cleveland, was born at Ches- terfield, Mass. Aug. 26th, 1798. At five years of age she moved with her parents to the State of N. Y., living at three different places, viz: Gorman, Farmington and Middlesex.
At Farmington her parents died when she was fourteen years of age. At Middlesex, Oct. 26th, 1815, in the 18th year of her age she was united in marriage with Isa Basset Here also she made a public profession of religion and united with the M. E. Church. In the communion of this church her husband died at Middlesex, July 24th, 1844.
After the death of her husband, about the year 1850, she
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removed to Croton Mo. She remained here about three years and then went to Charleston, Wisconsin, remaining there several years, after which she came to Montgomery Co. Ill. and settled about three miles N. E. of Butler, where she has ever since continued to live.
The children of Mrs. Basset are as follows :
Charles C., born Jan. 10th, 1817. Died June 14th, 1818. William, born June 17th, 1818.
Martha B. born August 11th 1820.
Mercy C. born April 26th, 1824.
Mary E. born Sept. 18th, 1827.
Ira B. born Nov. 18th, 1830.
Samuel M. born Feb. 9, 1839.
Also two infants which died without name.
DANIEL BOST
was born Rowan Co. N. C., Dec., 31st, 1815. When twenty one years of age he moved to Hillsboro, Montgomery Co. Ill., and located on a farm a few miles N. E. of the town. In the year 1840 he was united in marriage with Miss Ella Lype of Montgomery Co.
On the 25th of Feb. 1865 his wife Died, being the mother of six children ; viz :
John Valentine, born Feb. 9th 1841.
An Infant, born Feb. 6th 1843. Died Feb. 11th, 1843.
Peter Francis, born Dec. 18th, 1843.
Rachel Caroline, born May 26th 1847.
Tilman Joshua, born Nov. 12th 1849.
Daniel Elijah, born March 20th, 1851.
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- On the 25th of May 1865 Mr. Bost was married to Mrs. Amanda Cooper of Montgomery Co. Ill.
In 1875 he moved with his family to Butler, still continu- ing to cultivate his farm.
Mr. Bost made a public profession of religion and united with the Lutheran Church at Hillsboro in the year 1840.
Upon removal to Butler, he and his wife connected them- selves with the Ware's Grove Lutheran Church.
The children of Mr. Bost by his second wife are as follows :
Charles Abraham Lincoln, born Oct. 7th, 1866.
Mahala Artilissa, born Nov. 2nd, 1868.
Flora Ella, born Jan. 21st, 1871.
Levi Thomas, born Nov. 27th, 1872.
George Hamilton, born Aug. 2nd, 1874.
Sarah Gertrude, born Oct. 26th, 1876.
REV. ELISHA E. BARRETT
was born in Virginia, Southampton Co. near City of Jerusa- lem, Nov. 21st, 1799.
Dec. 1st, 1822 he was married to Miss Mary Barden of N. C., Hurtford Co. He removed to Hurtford Co. N. C., im- mediately after his marriage. From here he removed, in 1827, to Salem Ohio, and from there, in 1837, to Ind., near Winchester, and in 1860 he came to Ill., locating upon a farm three fourths of a mile west of Butler, where he has ev- er since resided.
Mr. Barrett made a public profession of religion in Gates Co. Virginia when about eighteen years of age, and united with the M. E. Church.
In Southamton Co. Va .. in 1818, he was licensed to preach
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the Gospel, and in Ohio, about seven years afterward, re- ceived ordination.
He preached four years in Georgetown, Ohio, building up there a strong Church. He preached also in Williamsport, Ohio. In Ind. he preached in Portland, Jay Co., in Fair- view, Randolph Co. and in various other places. In Port- land he organized a church with about seventy members. He has frequently preached in Butler and vicinity since com- ming to this state, but has not been regularly engaged in ministerial work.
In Ind., as he traveled in his ministerial work on horse- back, when the country was thinly settled, he sometimes car- ried corn in his saddlebags on account of the uncertainty of finding feed for his horse.
In Williamsport Ohio, he spent several years in cabinet work.
In 1864 Mr. Barrett was elected to the State Legislature of Ill. for two years, to represent the Counties of Montgomery and Christain.
Of eleven children Mr. Barrett is the only one surviving. He has passed the 50th anniversary of his marriage.
MRS. MARY W. BARRETT,
daughter of Richard and Fruza Barden, was born in Hurt- ford Co. N.C., about July 1803. (The Family record furnish- ing the exact date is not at hand.) In the State and County of her nativity she was married when about eighteen years of age. When about twenty-four years of age she made a public profession of religion and united with the M. E. Church in Stark Co. Ohio. She has held connection in the M. E. Church in North Carolina, Ohio, Ind. and Ill.
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The children of Elisha and Mary Barrett are all living, and are as follows:
William F., born Feb. 23d, 1824.
Mildred E., wife of Joseph Collins, deceased, korn Dec. 1st, 1827.
Ann B , wife of Isaac F. Thompson of Randolph Co. Ohio, born Oct. 11th, 1830.
Richard R., born March 6th, 1834.
Fruza D., wife of Meredith Helm of Butler, III., born Jan. 21st, 1836.
Jesse C., born May 30th, 1839.
Martha F., wife of James Judd of Butler, Ill., born April 3d, 1841.
The grandchildren of Mr. and Mrs. Barrett are fifty three, and their great grandchildren twenty nine.
MRS. ELIZA JUDD,
daughter of Frazee and Elisabeth Bishop, was born Oct. 28th, 1808, at Middletown Ohio.
She was married at the place of her nativity in the 17th year of her age to William B. Judd of Franklin, Ohio. Af- ter marriage she lived still several years in Middletown and then removed with her husband to Dark Co. Ohio, where, Oct. 26th, 1841, her husband died in the 37th year of his age. Several years after his death Mrs. Judd, removed to Randolph Co. Ind. where she lived for about twenty years. She then came, in 1863, to Butler, Ill. where she has ever since made her home with her son James.
Mrs. Judd made a profession of religion in Middletown, Ohio, in the 22nd year of her age and united with the Pres-
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byterian Church. In Ind., she connected herself with the M. E. Church at Deerfield, and in 1875 with the same Church in Butler, Ill.
The children of William and Eliza Judd are as follows : Charles H., Elisabeth L., Mary Margaret, wife of Enos L. Watson of Winchester, Ind., James, Ann Maria and William B.
Elisabeth L., died at Deerfield Ind. at the age of twenty- four years. Anna M., at Dark Co. Ohio in the 2nd year of her age. William B., at Dark Co. Ohio in the 3d year of his age.
MATTHEW McMURTRY
was born in Doagh, Antrim Co. Ireland, Dec, 12th, 1807. When quite a child he removed to Brus Lee and remained there till fourteen years of age. He then went to Belfast and learned the trade of a Mill Wright. The first steam flour- ing-mill built in Belfast was built, during his apprenticeship, by his Uncle. In this mill Matthew McMurtry was employed as Mill Wright until he came to America.
He left Belfast for America in Oct. 1831, and reached New Orleans in Dec. following. He stayed only about a month at New Orleans and then went went to Nashville Tenn. Here he remained something over a year and then went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and after a few weeks removed to Coving- ton Ky., where he lived for thirty-four years. He then re- moved to Louisville Ky., where he remained about eight months and then returned to Covington, where he lived for two years more. In 1855 be removed to St. Louis where he spent two or three years. During this time he was engaged in buisness for about three months in Belleville, Ill., his fam- ily remaining in St Louis.
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In all these several places he was engaged in his trade, superintending the machinery of Rolling Mills, Flouring Mills etc. In the year 1858 Mr. McMurtry exchanged a house and lot in St. Louis for a farm two miles S. W.of Butler Ill., and on Aug. 2nd, 1858, moved with his family to the farm, where he has ever since made his home.
About two years after removal to Montgomery Co. Mr. McMurtry bought a ware house in Butler where he dealt as a grain merchant from May 1861, to Sept. 1864, still making his home upon the farm.
Mr. McMurtry made a profession of religion when about eighteen years of age, at Belfast Ireland, under the ministra- tion of Rev. Wmn. Carr, and united with the Seceder Church.
After two years he united with Dr. Cook's Church of the same City.
In Covington Ky. he was ordained a Ruling Elder in the First Presbyterian Church at the time of its organization.
Mr. McMurtry, since coming to America, has held Church connection in all of the following places, Viz ; Nashville, Tenn., Cincinnati, Ohio, Covington and Louisville, Ky., St. Louis, Mo., and Butler, Ill.
Mr. McMurtry has been favored with the ministrations of several eminent divines.
Dr. Cook of Belfast, one of Ireland's able ministers, Dr. Wm. Palmer of New Orleans, Lou., an emient preacher, Dr. John Edgar of Nashville, Tenn., Dr. Joshua L. Wilson of Cincinnati, Ohio, who held a controversy with Dr. Lyman Beecher on Church Doctrine at the time of the division of the church into Old and New School bodies, Dr. J. L. Halsey, who has for so many years occupied the chair of Pastoral Theology in the North Western Presbyterian Theological Seminary at Chicago, Dr. J. M. Worrell of Covington, Ky., and Dr. N. L. Rice, the eminent Divine and Controversial-
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ist, - all these at different times have been his spiritual in- structors. ..
Mathew McMurtry's grandfather and grandmother McMur- try lived together fifty-three years ; his father and mother over fifty-four, and he and his wife have lived together over fifty years, making three successive generations in the family which have passed the 50th anniversary of their marriage.
MRS. ELIZABETH McMURTRY,
daughter of Robert and Janet Smyth, and wife of Mathew McMurtry, was born about the year 1803, at Strandton near Belfast Ireland. She was married in the year 1827.
At about eighteen years of age she made a public profession of religion and united with the Presbyterian Church of her native place, and has held connection in the various chuches mentioned above.
The children born to Mr.and Mrs. McMurtry are as follows :
Jane, born July 24th, 1828. Died Oct. 27th, 1838, at Covington. Ky.
Sarah, wife of Robert Bryce, born Nov. 9th, 1830.
Elizabeth, born Feb. 22nd, 1833. Died Oct. 27th, 1837. at Covington, Ky.
Mary Ann, born Dec. 26th, 1834. Died Aug. 2nd, 1855
at St. Louis, Mo.
Ezekiel James, born Aug. 17th, 1837. 9 1837 at Covington, Ky.
Died Nov. 1st,
Jane Elizabeth, wife of James S. McMurtry of St. Louis, Mo., born Nov. 13th, 1838.
Susanna Esther, born Feb. 10th, 1841.
James, born April 20th, 1843. Died Sept. 17th, 1877 at Davidson, Colorado.
Abigail Emma Simm, born March 12th, 1847. Died April 16th, 1861 near Butler, Ill.
Jane, the first child and Elizabeth the third, both died the same day of scarlet fever.
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MRS. MARY McREYNOLDS,
daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Soverens was born near Morgantown, Virginia, July 9th, 1798.
Here she was united in marriage with John McReynolds in the 19th year of her age.
In 1829 she moved with her husband to Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and from there to Kenton Co. Ky. where she spent a few months. She then removed to. Boon Co. Ky. not far from Covington, and in 1855, to Hillsboro, Ill. Here, in the same year, Mrs. McReynolds buried her husband, his death oc- curring on the 17th of Dec.
In about two years from the time of Mrs. McReynold's arrival in Hillsboro she moved to Butler, and not long after took charge of the Butler Hotel and conducted it for about eleven years.
In 1872 she removed to Greenfield, Mo.' Where her only surviving son, Bryant, now lives.
In about two years she returned to Butler to visit her daughter, Hester Hough, with whom she has ever since made her home.
Mr. McReynolds made a profession of religion in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, about the year 1836, and united with the Presbyterian Church, and was one of the original fourteen members of the Presbyterian Church in Butler, organized Aug. 29th, 1858.
About the year 1872 she was dismissed from the church of Butler to unite with the Presbyterian Church, Greenfield. Mo.
Mrs. McReynolds is the mother of nine children, all of whom lived to be heads of families. They are as follows ;
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Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Johnston, of Knox Co. Ohio, born Jan. 9th, 1818.
Hester, wife of Sebra Hough, deceased, born June 26th,'20.
Harriet, wife of Jonathan Soverens, deceased, born Sept. 2nd, 1822. Died Nov. 23d, 1877.
Margaret, wife of Ephrium Farley of Iowa, born Dec. 18th, 1826.
Catharine, wife of Wm. Masters, born Nov. 15th, 1828. - Died Sept. 8th, 1852.
Samuel, born April 11th, 1831. Died April 2nd, 1872. Bryant W., born March 28th, 1835.
Lucy, wife of Wm. Masters, Butler, Ill. born April 22nd, '39.
Mary, wife of Wm. Hanson, of Oregon, born May 27th, '42.
MRS. HESTER HOUGH,
daughter of John and Mary McReynolds, was born near Morgantown, Virginia, June 26th, 1820. From Virginia she moved with her parents to Mt. Vernon, Ohio, afterwards to Kenton Co. Ky. where, Jan. 10th, 1841, in the 21st year of her age, she was united in marriage with Sebra Hough who was born Oct. 7th, 1803 at New Haven, Conn.
Mrs. Hough lived about two years in Kenton Co. and then, with her husband, moved to Boon Co. Ky. not far from Covington. Here. May 12th, 1866, her husband died, and in 1867 she came to Butler, Ill. arriving on the 4th day of July.
Mrs. Hough made a profession of religion in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, at about thirteen years of age and united with the Pres- byterian Church. About the year 1868, after removal to Butler, she united with the Congregational Church of Hills-
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boro, Ill. and on the 20th of Aug. 1870, with. the Presbyte- rian Church of Butler.
The children of Mrs. Hough are as follows :
'Edward Augustus, born Oct. 26th, 1842. Married, Dec.
1866, to Miss Virginia W. Sothers.
Robert Bruce, born Feb. 14th, 1845.
Eugene Wilson, born Aug. 12th, 1849. Died, in Boon Co. Ky. Sept. 27th, 1852.
Claudus William, born March 22nd, 1854.
John Wrice, born Feb. 2nd, 1857.
Sebra, born June 26th, 1861. Died at Butler Ill. Aug. 20th, 1873.
James Thomas, born Nov. 10th, 1864. Died in Boon Co. Ky. Jan. 17th, 1865.
REV. J. LIVENGOOD
was born July 11th, 1814, in Honeybrook Township, Chester. County, Penn. His father dying when he was but two years old, he continued to reside with his mother, and sisters till about seventeen years of age, when the family removed to Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, Penn.
Ilere he was ยท engaged in various secular pursuits, but mostly in teaching school, untill he was about twenty three years of age.
At this time he became impressed that it was his duty to prepare hinself for a wider sphere of usefulness, and under this impression he repaired to Pennsylvania College with a view to studying for the Gospel Ministry.
Here, having attended a regular course of catechetical in- struction he was received into the church by the sacred. or-
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dinance of Baptism, and thus assumed the solemn obliga- tions of the Christain life ; and he humbly trusts that the vows which he then assumed have neither been forgotten nor their claims disregarded.
His College course occupied about four years.
Early in the spring of 1841 he bid adieu to his Alma Mater, and set out for the state of Ohio.
Ariving at Canal Dover, he took up his abode with the Rev. J. B. Reck, Lutheran Pastor at that place, for whom he preached occasionally, and under whose supervision he read Theology until the meeting of the English Lutheran Synod of Ohio, which convened in Bucyrus, Crawford County in the Autumn of 1841, at which time and place he recieved license to preach the gospel. And in two years from that time, at the meeting of the same synod in Wooster, Wayne . County, he was ordained to the work of the Holy Ministry.
His ministry embraces a period of over thirty six-years.
His first charge was at Tiffin City, Ohio, and occupied nearly nine years.
His second charge was at Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio, and occupied about four years.
In the Autumn of 1854 he removed to the State of Illinois and located at Hillsboro, Montgomery County, where he assumed charge of four congregations, viz: at Hillsboro, Litchfield, St. John's, and at Ware's Grove. At the end of seven years he resigned his charge at Hillsboro ; at the end of nine years, he resigned at Litchfield and the following year he gave up St. John's. This charge of four congrega- tions being so large, and the fields so far apart, the work was necessarily very laborious. It is now divided into three pastorates, and served by three pastors.
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In the spring of 1865 he located on a farm in the vicin- ity of Ware's Grove and continued to serve the church at that place some nine years longer making his entire ministry in that congregation over nineteen years. After resigning at Ware's Grove he served the Mt. Zion congregation, in Roun- tree Township, about two years.
On account of certain physical disabilities he is compeled to desist for the present, from the active duties of the Min- istry, which he deeply regrets.
In the month of Oct. 1842 the subject of this sketch was united in marriage with Miss Amanda Mary Beyer of Shanes- ville, Tuscarawas County, Ohio.
MRS. AMANDA M. LIVENGOOD,
only daughter of John and Elizabeth Beyer and wife of Rev. J. Livengood, was born Jan, 12th, 1822 at Shanesville, Ohio. where she lived until her marriage Oct, 1842 in the 21st year of her age.
Mrs. Livengood made a profession of religion at Shanes- ville, Ohio at about eighteen years of age and united with the Lutheran Church.
She holds her membership at the present time in the Church at Ware's Grove.
The following children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Livengood, in the order in which their names occur, viz :
Frances Ellen, born Aug. 27th, 1843.
John B., born March 15th, 1845.
Rebecca Ann, born March 16th, 1847.
Amanda Mary, born May 12th, 1849.
Luther M., born Nov. 8th, 1851. -
Caroline Virginia, born Dec. 8th, 1855.
Edward William, born June 29th, 1857.
Robert Jesse, born Feb. 10th, 1860.
Catharine Elizabeth born Sept. 14th, 1862.
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Of these children all are living, except John B. who was killed at the battle of Corrinth while fighting for the Union.
WILLIAM SEWARD,
son of Israel and Margaret Seward, was born in Hamilton, Ohio, Aug. 17th, 1818. His parents moved to Montgomery Co. Ill. when he was about fifteen months old. They settled upon the top of what is now known as THE SEWARD HILL, one half mile south of Butler.
When about ten years of age, Willaim returned to Hamil- ton, Ohio and spent three months at school. Other than this his whole life since fifteen months of age has been spent in the vicinity of Butler. When quite a youth he carried the mail for four years on horseback from Hillsboro to Jackson- ville.
In the 24th year of his age he was united in marriage with Miss Susan Fuller of East Fork, about ten miles South East of Hillsboro.
The officiating minister was Rev. T. A. Spilman, the fath- er of the writer of these sketches.
In the year 1858 Mr. Seward made a profession of relig- ion and united with the Presbyterian Church of Butler.
In 1858 he was ordained a Deacon of the church, and about the year 1865 was elected and ordained a ruling elder.
Mr. Seward's residence is situated on the north side of the "Seward Hill" where he has lived for thirty-six years.
MRS. SUSAN SEWARD,
daughter of Moses and Elizabeth Fuller and wife of Wm. Seward, was born in the year 1818, in Clark Co. Ohio near
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Carlyle. She came to Ill. in June 1840, and settled in the community known as East Fork, and was united in marriage with Mr. Seward in 1841.
In the family of Mrs. Seward's parents there were eight children, one son and seven daughters, all of whom lived to be heads of families, and all of whom are living still except the two oldest daughters.
Mrs. Seward made a profession of religion when about nineteen years of age and united with the Baptist Church in Clark Co. Ohio. In 1868 she connected herself with the Congregational Church of Hillsboro, Ill.
The children of Wmn. and Susan Seward are as follows:
Alonzo B., born April 25th, 1843. Died. at Butler, Ill. March 29th, 1877.
Almeda, wife of Thomas J. Watkins of Butler, Ill. born April 9th, 1848.
Israel, born May 23d, 1850. Died at Butler, Ill. Aug. 25th, 1851.
Clarence F., born July 22nd, 1852.
Mary Ellen, horn Nov. 28th, 1855.
Cornelia W .. born Feb. 22nd, 1859.
William Lincoln, born Nov. 4th, 1861. Died at Butler, Ill., Nov. 3d, 1864.
GEORGE C. SEWARD,
son of Israel and Margaret Seward, was born in Montgomery Co. Ill. Oct. 11th, 1821.
In May 1844 he was united in marriage with Miss Harriet Casey of Jefferson Co. Ill."In Sept. 1845 his wife died at But- ler. Ill. and on Feb. 1st, 1848 he was united in marriage at 0
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the age of twenty seven years, near Butler III. with Miss Unity Phillips, daughter of Captin Thomas Phillips who re- cently died in Hillsboro, Ill.
One incident, or accident in the life of Mr. Seward is re- membered with interest by his friends.
It was his lot in his younger days to be mail carrier for several years on the lines between Hillsboro and Jacksonville and Hillsboro and Alton.
During that time there came a freshet which raised the waters of Shoal Creek to an immense height. George attempt- ed to cross the stream with a two-horse conveyance. A part of the bridge being gone he was carried away by the current. He got out of the carriage, stepping on one of the horses, and caught hold of a small Elm tree which he, after becoming wet nearly all over, climed, and in the branches of which he remained until the next day.
It was about one o'clock in the afternoon, and in the month of Dec., when he took refuge in the tree. It was a little after dark when his friends discoverd him.
The stream was now about three fourths of a mile wide, and the current baffled their efforts to get to the tree. The logs which were carried down the stream would strike the slender tree and partially dislodge him.
He could see and hear his friends from his lonely perch, which probably helped to beguile the uncomfortable hours of the night; but it was not until about 9 o'clock in the morning that with a horse trough and poles they succeeded in reaching and rescuing him.
Mr. Seward has never lived else where than in Montgomery Co., and has been for thirty two years upon the farm where he now resides.
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In the year 1865 Mr. Seward united with the Presbyterian Church of Butler.
The children of Mr. Seward are as follows : By his first wife,
Lewis, born April 28th,"1845.
By his second wife :
Harriet C., wife of Lloyd C. Washburn, born Dec 19th, 1848.
Thomas I.,' born July 25th, 1851.
Benjamin H., born Oct, 29th, 1853.
George T., born Sept. 14th, 1856.
Clara M., born Sept. 19th, 1859.
Jesse J., born Sept. 12th, 1863.
Infant, without name, born Dec. 17th. 1867. Died Feb. 15th, 1868.
WILLIAM WATSON
was born in Machergknappan, Denegall Co. Ireland, Jan. 14th, 1800. He left Ireland for America at eighteen years of age, with the entire family, consisting of parents, two brothers and a sister, and came to Albany N. Y. where he lived for about five years.
He then removed to Geneva, N. Y. and lived there five years, and from there went to Genesee Co. N. Y. where he lived ten years. Here, Aug. 1834, he was united in marriage with Miss Mary Taft.
On the 26th of Nov. 1839 he came to the farm on which he now resides in Montgomery Co. Ill., five miles north of Hillsboro near to the Montgomery Chapel.
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William Watson, and his brother John residing in Hillsboro, are the only members of the family now surviving.
MRS. MARY WATSON,
daughter of Wm. and Elisabeth Taft, was born at Cumber, County Down, Ireland, Dec. 10th, 1815. She had three brothers and one sister.
When about eighteen years of age she came to America, accompanied by her sister and family. She located in Gen- esee Co., N. Y., where she was married in the 19th year of her age.
Mrs. Watson made a profession of religion and united with the Presbyterian Church of Butler about the year 1862. .
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