Pgs 412-686 - Illinois Ancestors

OF PENN TOWNSHIP. 625
Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, and mas elected Captain. In a
sllor*t time, on ac'count of failing heaitl~, he mas compelled to return
home. In IS70 the faulilv removed to Burlington, Iowa*, where he ena.3
m,oetl in the inanuk~ct~ured his scales. Two years later Mr. Jaclison
clletL, his ~vidou~ being now a resident of Peoria. Mi%. Bunnell, until her
~narriage, hat1 been engaged in teaching in the graded schools. Since
lrlarriaye Mr. and Mrs. Unnnell hare resitletl in Penn to\rnship, where
five chlldlaen halve been born to them, nainely : Nellie E., John C.,
13enl;~11 C., Fred. J. and Beynice &I. Mr. Bnnnell now oms 1,240
acres of the cl~oicest lantls in Penn ttomnship on which is situate oneg
of the finest Fa~~ln resiclenees in Starli county. He itlso owns a la,rge
amount of iae:~l estt~te in Nebrasl~a. MY. Bun~lell has always been a
Iiepublicxn. I-Iis \\rife is :L illeniber of the M. E. church.
D~u~.ii.Z G'r)yXI(m. born in 1-3ro\cn county, Ohio, in 1811, caine to Illinois
in pioneer times, anti to the Snareville neighborhood about 1858,
(Lietl tl~ere in October, IS79.
S'cun.tcel C'IYL~, bokn in IIuntingdon county, Pa., April 6, 1825, is
the son of Fretleric and Ca'tllerine (Snare) Cru&, both Pennsylvanians ;
the fol-iner born in 1794, was the son of a German settler, the latter,
claugllter of a (ier~nan settler ;llso. To tllern nine cllilclren were born,
eigll t of whom are still living, namely : Sr~l~iuel: of Penn township ;
Di~niel, of Elnntingclon county, Pa. ; Rancy, \\rife of Byron IIa,aclr, of
that county ; Ellen, Mrs. Josepll T. Fisher, of Johnson county,
Mo.; Eeuben I-I., a resitlent of Pennsylvania ; Margaret, Mrs. John
1 of l Iul~tingtlon county, Pa.; ~eirge W., also ~aesiciin,q there, and
81111, MYS. Jolln C. I,ytle, iaesiclinv in that count\.. The tather clied
there in 1876, send the mother in 1&7. Both were"of the Pennsylvania
agricultural class. Sarnnel Crunl in early years was a ~voodchopper,
schoolboy, iniller and farnler - al~or~t all i~ ' pioneer boy could be. In
1848 he it~t~riaied Miss Elizabetl~, tlaughter of Henry and Marpet
('Wise) EIess and paternal grantldaughter of ~aco6 and Elizabeth
(Zirnrnerman) IIess, Germans. Ji~co being l)o~n in IiSl died in 1869,
and Elizabeth, born in 1,789, died in 1859. Iler mother mas born in
1768, cliecl April S, 1857, antl her faxther, Henry, born in 1758, died
January 27, 1S37. After Mr. C~atun's ~rlarrjage he became a fariner,
came to this townslrip in 1S59, elgagecl in grain and stock-growing,
11~1~*chasetl eightjr acres on section 20 in 1869, came to reside on it in
1873, added e~gl~ty ikcres on section 17, erect.etl a fine fanu-house, and
11t~s resitlecl here clown to the present time. Their children are : Marwret,
\rift: of E. s. Gnaw ; Winfield l',., married, residing in this town-
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ship, and John TV., a tl13uggist at Castleton. Mr. Crum and his two
sons control 263 acres here. Ile has served as supervisor one year,
assessor three years, school director a~itl in lrlinor offices. Both 11e and
wife are me111be1.s of the Snareville BIethodist church. TV. B. Cr~~in is
the genial clerb of the to\rnsl~ip scl~ool board, and like his father, one
of the ,nost popular nlen in tl~e to\vnshil,. The frt~~~is :~ncl homes
which this ftl~nilv made 11el.e are the results of their own labors since
1859.. Theii~ repnta.tlion rests on indnstiy and intevrity.
Cyhrcrq,cey TI . Dnviso~,, wl~o married Eliza, E. $heeler, was born in
Wyoming county, Pa., December 12,1S19, son of James and Catherine
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