Pgs 412-686 - Illinois Ancestors

OF ESSEX TOWNSHIP. 523
cliecl, October 23, 1856. I-Ie 117as n member of tlie Methodist Episcopal
churclr. Five children blessed their union : Eri~lintr, now Mrs. Gus.
Hulsiaer, of Toulon; Olive M., now MYS. Willianl Barton, of Iowa;
Naycia A., now Mrs. Milo Griffin, of Io~vn ; IJyiu;~n E., now at home ;
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1 llomas II., in Io\\-a. In ISiiO Mrs. Stnutlarcl m:wried T,ymnn E. Standaid,
;L blaotller 01 Ilel* f'or1nc.1~ llusbancl. \\rl~o was l)or11 in 1830. In IS62
they caulc to West Jersey to~rnsl~il, ant1 began f;tl*~ning. Again, in
1665, shc ~vits left 2% \\-itlow; JIr. Stnntl;~~ld's cleat11 occu~*ring Fel~~anarv
5, ISG, his Ilcaltll 11nving Iwen failing sso~ne time. By "her secontl
ln;lrl*i:~ge hlrs. Stil~~(li~~il 1s the lnotllela of two chiltlren : Jennie M.,
TV. 13. TVllitle, of ISssrs to\\rnsl:ip, ;ind Alva A., at home. Mr.
St ~LII~I;LIYI. as is Mrs. Sti~ntl;~~r~l, IVitS iL ~neinl~er of the Met tlodist Episco-
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1XLl cir11rcl1.
In 1 ST5 3l1~s. St;~ntlartl pril*cl~;tsetl lo8 acres in Esses township, and
rnovetl upon it,, wllere she 11;~s ci*ectetl it, fine resitlenee, allout four miles
from Duncan. The latlv is now in her sixtieth rear, and until recently
11as been yui te \r ell a.nd act ire lol1 a, person of illat age.
~ ~ Z ~ WTrb:X4lc, C L ~ ST., one anlong the few pioneers of the county now
~aesitling here, was born in IIo\v;~rd coon tv, Ih[cl., in 1807. Ilis firther,
Cl~ristopl~el~, died in Tvtb~~ne countv, O., in'] 514, ~vhile in a fort seeliing
refuge iron1 the fury of 13ritish Indians. His mother was Mary Wil- -
son, dlo, lilie lrer i~usbantl, wa.s a native of Maryland, ancl moved wit11
hitn to Ollie tbl~out 1Sll. E:tlw;~r.cluarried Niss Rebecca nilliller in
1 S33, ant1 their family of two clliltlren came to this to\\rnship in 1536.
Stepl~en, 11 is bvotl~er, c;rnie from Intliana in 1836 with his wife, Jemi-
Init Kinser, and five cl~ildr*en : Adam, Tholnas, John, Harriet and
12ebecca. This Stepl~en set out for California during the nlining
st:~n~l~ette \rii~ Pl~nain:~, but ~ 1~;~s l~uriecl in the ocean. Thomas, another
brotl~er, settled in Rocli Islilnd county in 1836, but movecl to Missouri
;L few yews later, \vllel*e he was billecl during the political troubles
l'laecetlin~ tlle late JV~W. EtI~vard Trickle has serveel his township as
justice of the pence antl in ~nrions to\~nsllip offices. Of his children,
hmice. Wilson, Iteheccn, Mnrtlla, Milton, Eliza, Eclwarcl 11. nntl N;~ncp
;use living. Miltoll served in Conqjany F, One I-IundrecI and Twelfth
Infl~ntrv for three pays, nr~tl ~d \\7;1,rci 11.. in Company P,, Seventh Illinois
~dl~~nteer InKalltly tiuring the 117ala until discharged in 1865. A
reference to the general an tl to\\~nsliip llistories will point OLI t nlol-e
folly the i~rq)ortamt pilrts taken by the falllily in the settlelnent anti
l)laogiaess of the coouty.
.L~,~LYxoL +alci:Ifi. w110 tlietl No\~en~ber 25, 1883, \\-as the son of Christopller
and Mary (Wilson) Tlaiclile. IIe ~vas 11orn in l\ilarrlancl, February
1, ISO5 ; in 1811 moved wit11 parents to Ashland coi~utj-, O., ancl in
199- , t, r settled in Ksses to~rnsl~il~. \ritjll llis ivife. Nancy JIasnn, to \vhom
he was mn.rriet1 at the age of t\vent,v-seven Yea1.s. :~.ntl two children,
.Jackson antl Catl~erine Trlclile. In I 871 l ~e movetl to llTpoming, where
his wife clietl, in August, 1sS 1. Of their four chiltlren, twb reside here-
Mason ;~ntl C;~tllernle ; the 1;ltte~ is the 117ife of F. F. J:rockwar. On
conling lrere he p~u*ch:~setl 4O!j :xcres, ~rllich he increased to nearly 1,000
acres before l: is cleath.
ilhrson B. T~ick/e. son of Jefferson ancl Nancy (Mason) Trickle, was