Pgs 412-686 - Illinois Ancestors

OF GOSFIEK TOWNSHIP. 547
county. Of tbeir nine cl~ildren, sis are liring, i~n~llely : ~ ann~, Forrest,
Arthur, C'li~rik, George ancl Elwood. He and Mrs. Eltzrotll were ori~inallv
lnen~bers of the Congregat.ioni\l church of IAafwette, but since its .
disdr8;lnizi~tion they Iiave not united wit11 any otl'ier denomination.
IJp to 18% Mr. Eltzrotl~ voted wit11 the denlocrscy, but since tllnt
time 1l;ls slq~portetl the republicans in all national affairs. Connected
\r i ti1 this family there is the name of one other pioneer of the county----
1L~chel $3ltzrotll) Coburn, \~-llo setlt let1 here in 1S30, and in 1 SlO locitecl
at l'ri~~ce~~ille.
C'o,c~(c(l Ehe~ay, deceasetl, who settled here August 7, 1535, was born
in New Jerse~. Was reared priucil3ally ill Pemlsylvania, \vllere lle
\Y as 1rl:lrried to S;~rall Fisher before they re~novecl to EIolmes coun tg,
Ollio. where tllev lived urn ti1 1833, the the of settlexnent here. The
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,journey \vest lnntle wit11 ox temns and ~~~agons. the party colnprising
four fmnilies, viz.: Ji~cois Emel:). and wife. Debodotn, Joseph
Elllery ant1 wi fe, Ilannall, Jesse and wife, &Inrg:.aret, and Conratl, the
R~tller of' tl~ laee sons. Conrad purcllnsetl 24(! acres of n7iltl lands at
congress prices, ;xnd on this li~ntl he settletl i~nc! livetl t1urin.g his life.
IIe was a soltliel* of the vrar of 1812, and tlitl tluty on the irontier in
tlefe~~sc of the i~ol~zes t~nclives of the border settlers. To them weye
holm tlli~teen chi lclren, eleven of whom came to Starb cot1ntj7 with
their ljalael~ts, viz. : Jacob (Galva.j, Catllellne (cleceasecl), Joseph (dece:tsecl),
Edith Itussell, Jesse (Princeville, Ill.), Sa~aa.ll AtcClennehan
(deceased), Conmd (cleceased), Milly (10 wa), Day id (Iowa), Mary
(IoIv~), a'nd John, \vho ~esiiles on the old holnestead.
.h)hn Ek~ely is the youngest son of the family of Con~act Emery,
and the oi~ly representative of the family in Stxrl; county. IIe was
born in ilohnes county, Ohio, in Is97, was eight years oltl when his
p:trents settled on tIhe prairies of Illinois; received a coinlllon scllool
etluci~tion ; was married to Sarah, daughter of Jose1111 Potter, an early
settler, now deceasetl, in the year 1849, who llas bo~ne him six cl~ilclren,
fire living, viz. : Estella O., Cl~arles A., Everett (deceased), Luellen A.,
C4ill)ert C. 1Ie owns a far111 of 267 acres of goocl land, which coin-
1"-ises the oltl l~omestentl ; is a member of tlle I. 0. 0. F.. Lafngette
lodge, ;tntl votes tile Rel)ublican ticket upon all questions at issue.
pJkcob Full, born a.t Eaton, Ohio, in 1510; settletl wit11 his fanlily in
(+ashen township, this county, in 1857. In 1869 11e lllovecl to Abingdon,
where he died April 19, 1885.
L V $ 2 . On October 2, 1S65, four sisters. Mrs. Farr, of Lafayette;
Mrs. I