Pgs 412-686 - Illinois Ancestors

OF' GOSHEN TOTVNSHIP. 545
in that vicinity. Her husband, colnrnonlv lrnomn as " Old Pat "at all
the neigkboring fairs, who died about t&o years ago, mas about the
first to ~nclulge in high-pricetl thoroughbrecl ~hort~l~orn cattle, and to
him maly be trncetl much of the in~provement of the stlock of Starlc as
well as IIenry county. She was buried in the ceinetev \vl~ich the
fanlily donated for tiie uses of a Catholic burying ground.
i!i~il~tkc (Nel.son) Cc~~ver, born at Augusta Me., in 1810, moved to
Ohio in 1817, thence to Indlana, where she marrietl Jonathan Carver
in 1830, ancl both moved to their 11ome. just north of Lnfayette, in
1867. Mrs. Carver died there February 15, 1SS5.
DT. J. B. C$a(bwfo~~l, physician ancf snqeoll, a. ~mti~~e of Washington
county, Iowa, obtained an elementary education in the scllools of
tlli~t county, and conlpleted a litemlay coarse at .t