Pgs 412-686 - Illinois Ancestors

OSCEOLA TOWNSHIP. 587
granted ancl certain preliminaries settled December 9, 1883, Rev. R.
C. Wall, of Tiskilwa, took charge of the mission,. giving services every
seconcl and fourth Sundays in the month. Irvlng Barton and B. G.
Holves mere elected wardens ; Mrs. Robert Hdl, clerk, and Mrs.
William Harvey, treasurer. The same rector allid the same officers
have been retained from year to year. Since services began the little
congregntion has lost by death and removal seven and received an
acldition of six members, so that at the present tiine twenty-five Inembers
keep up the expenses, assisted by a sinall number who have shown
a friendly interest, though not inernbers. A roo111 has been rented in
which to holcl services, and no property is owned except an organ
valued at sixty d$lars. As there mere few chilclren a regularly orn
oanized Sunday-school has not been kept up.
LOMBARDVI TALE.
Lombardville was surveyecl for Julia A. Lombard and Alfred H.
Castle by Edw~n Butler, and the plat acl~no~oleclgecl July 8, 1870.
State, Franklin, Lombard ant1 Duncan streets west to alley are shown,
while Howard, Main and Washington run east and west. There were
six full blocks with twenty feet alleys and two half blocks in the
original' town. The purchasers of lots at Lombarclville. were : John
Yorde L! Co., IS71 ; F. W. Aubrey, 1872 ; Leslie Robison, 1874 ; C.
Schmeitzer, 1873; F. W. Bachman, D. Mosselman, Geo. H. Hurst,
1574 ; Julia A. Lombarcl, C. T,atimer, 1875 ; John M. Brown, F. and
W. F. IIorton, 1877; F. I3lumb, 1876, and in later years the Thurms,
BlacBs, Swans, Wares, Arnolcls, McNetts, B1a,isclells, Codes, Planks,
Zoola, Josiah Cratty, C. N. Miller, Brewer, Davies & Go., Jarnes Hall,
Lawrence ancl Jaines O'Brien, Abigail Mnnclel, Mary H. Walker, the
Haskins, G. Churchill, 2. B. Haven, John Rinzenberg, Daries ~k Fleming,
Hattie Westcott, F. E. ant1 Thomas Abbott ant1 Jaines P. Saunders.
The Loinbardville Improvement Association mas organized in
April, 1870, with F. Horton, president ; Thonlas Doe, secretary ; James
Hall, treasurer ; E. 1'. Wright, Chas. Lntimer, ancl T. Doe, a committee
on constitution, and I-Iorton, Latimer nncl Harsh, colnlnittee on buildings.
The Lo~nbarcL Elevator Conlpnny filed articles of incorporation
May 6, 1870, signed by Ferclinancl Horton, James Hall, Francis Davis,
Robert Hall, Charles Latimer, the first trustees. The hotel ant1 elerator
at Lombardville were colripletecl in the fall of 1S70, just after the
Lombardville Mining Company d i sco verecl coal.
It is alleged that during the sulnmer of 1886 a saloon mas carried
on at Lombard under Unitecl States license, but in direct opposition to
local li~ms. To escape penalty the institution would Lb close up" before
the period for serving legal procees ant1 open after the term of Court
was ended.
B~~nclford Cem,etery.-There are many of the olcl settlers of this
township tenanting the Braclfortl cemetery. Among them, so far as
monuments tell the story of death, are the following na~necl : Benj.
Brewer died in '77 ; James B. Russell, '67: Zac11. Bevier, '73; Zacll.
Bevier, '69 ; Rebecca Keely, '77 ; Dr. Davicl R. Little, '64 ; Susan 13.