Chapter 6 Dr. Joel Grammer - Faculty and TA Directory
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3. Louisa Ann (GRAMMER) PENROD CORGAN<br />
John I?...Reverend John...Jacob...<strong>Dr</strong>. <strong>Joel</strong>…<strong>Dr</strong>. <strong>Joel</strong>’s children<br />
born October 22, 1829 135 <strong>Dr</strong>. <strong>Joel</strong> <strong>and</strong> Elizabeth (CLAPP) GRAMMER 136 Madison County?, Alabama 137<br />
married 1) September 16, 1844 138 Jacob PENROD Cape Girardeau, Missouri<br />
2) May 6, 1849 139 James Albert CORGAN Union County, Illinois<br />
died January 31, 1907 140 cause: “senile debility” <strong>and</strong> heart problems North Mak<strong>and</strong>a, Jackson County, Illinois<br />
1) Jacob PENROD 141<br />
born December 3, 1823 John <strong>and</strong> Barbary (TOPE) PENROD Jackson County, Illinois<br />
married September 16, 1844 Louisa GRAMMER Cape Girardeau, Missouri<br />
died July 17, 1847 142 cause: measles during the Mexican War 143 Ft. Leavenworth, Missouri (now Kansas) 144<br />
2) James Albert CORGAN<br />
born 1819-1820 145 Patrick <strong>and</strong> Polly (SINGLETON) CORGAN Union County?, Illinois<br />
married May 6, 1849 Louisa GRAMMER Union County, Illinois<br />
died October 9, 1876 146 Mak<strong>and</strong>a?, Jackson County?, Illinois<br />
Louisa’s first husb<strong>and</strong>, Jacob, was the gr<strong>and</strong>son of Frederick <strong>and</strong> Betsy (<strong>Grammer</strong>) Tope,<br />
who was most probably a sister of William, Senator John, <strong>and</strong> Jacob <strong>Grammer</strong>. That would make<br />
Louisa <strong>and</strong> Jacob second cousins. Jacob was also brother to Emanuel <strong>and</strong> John <strong>Grammer</strong> Penrod, two<br />
names that figure prominently in the life of Louisa’s father, <strong>Dr</strong>. <strong>Joel</strong>. Jacob’s parents, John <strong>and</strong><br />
Barbary (Tope) Penrod, joined the Latter Day Saints in 1835. Since Jacob was only a child at the<br />
time, he most probably became a Mormon as well.<br />
Lousia was married when she was a month shy of being fifteen years old. At age seventeen,<br />
she gave birth to her first child. Jacob enlisted in the Mexican War on May 10, 1847, mustered in on<br />
135 Tombstone, Zion Cemetery, Mak<strong>and</strong>a, Illinois. Death certificate disagrees, stating birth date was 1828.<br />
136 Direct mention in probate file of Louisa's father, <strong>Dr</strong>. <strong>Joel</strong>. Also indirect evidence from obituary of her brother, John<br />
Wesley.<br />
137 1850-1880 census listings; see notes at end of this section. Also death certificate.<br />
138 Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Marriage Book "B", 1839-1854, Entry #220, John I. Wilkinson, J.P. Verified by Jacob’s<br />
pension file with the National Archives.<br />
139 Marriage to James Corgan, May 6, 1849, Union County, Illinois, by Henry Casey, M.G., Book 1, page 239.<br />
140 Death certificate #515, Jackson County, Illinois. Jacob’s pension file states date of Louisa’s death was Feb. 1, 1907,<br />
but this is undoubtably a mistake.<br />
141 Most of the information on Jacob came from Jo Ann Doctorman.<br />
142 From military service record in the National Archives.<br />
143 From Jacob’s pension file.<br />
144 In 1847, Fort Leavenworth was a part of Missouri.<br />
145 Per 1850, 1860, <strong>and</strong> 1870 censuses<br />
146 Obituary, Jonesboro Gazette, October 14, 1876, page 2, column 8.<br />
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