Pgs 412-686 - Illinois Ancestors

entered in Goshen townshil). One year Inter he, 11;s wife, one son and
three daughters embmced the Morinon flii t 11, nloretl to h'a.n\~oo, \rliere
the parents resided until their cle;ttll, while tl~eiia c11 iltlren follo\ve(l the
fortunes of tllat churoll to Gitlt Lake, where, totlay. one of tlreir sons
-Joel Pa~lrish -is n celebrated IYIonllon pre;lcl~er. Of his elerer~
children, wllo accompanied lriin f roln Cynn:tcla to S t;u.l< county, T,vtlia is
wife of Jacol) Emery of Galva, antl Sulfilla is the widow of Ril\~alatl
Mott, also a ~orrnoli (\\rho built the oltl cou~*t-house), :we living. ItulofT'
I'arrisll, aged seventy-eight lTears, tlietl ill 1882.
'iSyt ivr I'tov4~l,, son of '~l~mnel Par)aisIl, it11 tl 11 is wife, Sol,lr ia A1 t-
I~ouse, came fl*oin Canadi~ ~ vi th their family to Goshen to\f~~slr il) in
I 837, inaking their \\-:l.gon a sleeping-l*ooiu, and eighty ;Lclaes tl~ci la li \.-
ing-room for t \\TO weeks, until tllei~ basswootl log house \r;ts coinpletetl
r 1
-the pioneelas nitling in its bailtling. 111e logs \reiacA first g;~t~l~ertltl,
then sk)lit in llalves, the b;lt*li 1)eelctl ofl' :tntl usetl for ~aoofing but, to
lieel' this " species" of ibooF ill pl;lcc, poles llntl to he lnitl o\Tclb it. It is
relatetl that wllile Sqail*c l':~wislr s " To III ill at ITtlica.," 11 is \\ri Fc
two clriitlren and a \~isito~ 1iel)t house tlulling tllat \\rintcib 01' IS::;-S.
One night a sto1.111 caine on, the efforts of tlic wife :mcl visitor to keep
the roof on failed. The snow began to pourb in, so tl~;~t some otl~ei~
plan hat1 to be ;tdopted. This was siinply to t:ll;c tlo~rn the cl~iltli*e~~'s
trundle-bed, and, wi tll the ropes i~clonging to it, tic tlo\\rii the ~*ebcllio.us
I):n*k. Tl~e 1)1;u11 \v:ls atloptetl, the end of the laope tied to tl~e store ant1
the lan~ily slept out tlle stont~ witl~out fultl~ei* ir~telalaul)tion. 011 tlle
rctt1u3n of' the fatlier the laoof was t lro~*ouglr ly lael):l iretl. Soinc tinle
latela Mr. Parrislr a.dtlecl another e~gh ty :I cr.c:s to 11 is li last pu~~cl we, ;~n t 1
resitletl in C+osllen until 1850, \\'hen he llrovctl to 'l'oulon, wllel*e he tlietl in
1877. &IPS. Snpllis I'arrisl~ is still ;I, ilesitlent of the count\ se:].:.. Theill
children \Irere: I:ethuel, of Goshen ; S;wall, rife of J:IIII~~' ~c~tim~)son ;
Hiram, of IJnivn county, In. ; IIappy, wife of George Dugan. of Ta~ylo~a
county, la. ; Cyntl~i;~, wife of C-eorge &la stielcl, 9F Kebraska ; I,ucy
Cooley, tleceasktl ; Sold~ia, wi fe of D. M:\xfieltl, ol' 3ebrasl;;i ; Ituloff,
residing I\- i tlr his mot irela. ;~ntl one son n;nnetl 1'etc.r. tleceitsetl, \rllo was
:L blacksi~l i t11 at Tou Ion. 'Squire P:11>11isl1 ~vas not ;t 111ei11l)ell o-f any
church, though raised a (cJualtela. IIis \\life 1):~ i)eeil a hletllodist for
years.
I;'etl,7wl I'a~~isl,, eldest son of 'Stpi lac I'al2r.isll, 1v;t s bo1.n in Can:\ (la,
Septeinber 15, 1532. Ilc \vns cclr~cated ill this county, i~ecei~~illg iL libem1
edoc;ttion in the high scl~ools of l'ouloir :~,ntl Ga,lra. lwr tiyo
yea!rs after coining of ;r ge he \~ui*ketl on 111s Fathe~a's S;lrln. 14 e i~~;~r~ai;:(l
fifiss Elizal~eth, claughter of John Strayer, l)ol*n in 183!) ant1 1tla.ri~ietl in
1856, as tolcl in the n~~nl~*l*iage recortl. To tl~eirl one son ~vi.as born, February
16, 1S5i- W illianl II., now 21, fa.rnler of this township. Sincc
this time Mr. I'arrisl~ has been etlgagcd in agriculture ant1 stocB gt8o\ring.
IIe first 1)urclrasetl oigllty acres of the 11oineste:rtl farn~ on sectiu~l
I I, thrsee ye;ilBs later lie :~cclnirecl the otl~er eight aeiacs. To this hc
has since tl.~ltlecl 240 aclWes, or the '' I:o\ren F:um ;" :~lso PO on section
10, 1vhicl1 Samuel 1'alarisll entered ; also SO acres oil section 11. prcllasecl
froin Samuel Ijurge ; I 11e l,~u~cllased 200 itcres fro111 A. K.
Harris, on sections 9 ancl 10 -- aggregating 'iGO acres hilly iinprorecl.