Chapter 6 Dr. Joel Grammer - Faculty and TA Directory

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of Administration. To the Hon. W. F. Ellis Hudge of the County Court of Jackson County,
and State of Illinois:
The petition of the undersigned respectfully represents that L. F. Grammar late of the County
of Jackson aforesaid, departed this life at his home in Pomona, Illinois in said County, on or
about the 8th day of April A.D. 1904 leaving no last will and testament, as far as your
Petitioner knows or believes.
And your Petitioner further shows that the said L. F. Grammar died, siezed and possessed of
personal estate, consisting chiefly of three hourses, two cows, three calves, four hogs,
fourteen sloats?, harness, surry - 1/2 interest in a binder and drief? and hay rake and harrow,
farming utinsils? - growing wheat. and all of said personal estate being estimated to be worth
about three hundred dollars. That said deceased left surviving him his widow, and Mariah
Lipe, Sarah Hagler, Catherine Wright, Emma Lipe, Orra Gregory, Ferdinand Grammar, Luisa
O'Guinn, Frank Grammar, Grover Clevland Grammar and Annie Grammar his children as
heirs. Your Petitioner, being widow of said deceased, and believing that said estate should be
immediately administered, as well for the proper management of said property, as for the
prompt collection of the assets, by virtue of her right under the Statute, therefore prays that
your honor will grant Letters of Administration to her in the premises upon her taking the
oath prescribed by the Statute, and entering into bond in such sum and with such sureties as
may be approved by your Honor.
America A. Grammar
Louis Frank had thirteen children: 214
with Polly
• Joseph Milton, born April 13, 1852.
• William Emery, born May 10, 1853.
• Sarah Elizabeth, born February 24, 1855; married Jefferson “Jeff” Hagler on April 4,
1874; died January 4, 1938. Jeff may have worked on the railroad. 215
• Mariah Isabelle, born July 4, 1857; married 1) William “Bill” Lipe 216 and 2) Carnes
Brooks; died October 17, 1941 and buried Oakland Cemetery, Carbondale. Mariah and
Bill Lipe ran the Jackson County Poor Farm. 217
• Emma Jane, born March 12, 1865, or January 12, 1864; married 1) Jacob Lipe and 2)
Albert Betts; died February 6, 1920.
• Mary Katherine “Kate,” born January 24, 1868; married Isaac “Ike” T. Wright; 218
children:
214 All of this information is from the work of other researchers; I have not verified any of it personally.
215 Per 1993 letter written by John L. Wright.
216 Jackson County, Illinois, Book D, page L. I don’t have date.
217 Per 1993 letter written by John L. Wright.
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