Pgs 412-686 - Illinois Ancestors

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George Green's earlier years were passed at school, later he worked
in the coal mines for seven years, when in '55 he ~novecl to McLean
county, Ill., and engaged in farining. On March 1, 5S, he marriecl
Bliss Keta A. Bro~vn, born in tl~at county, August 19, '41, wllose parents
were natives of Tennessee ancl Indiana, yespectively. In '84 tlie
family moved to this to\vnship, where Nr. Green purchaseil eighty
acres in section 28. Their four children are among the dead : ~enizett,
born &larch 24, '59, died September 12, '64; Alfred, born September
12, 'GO, cliecl November 5, '13; William O., born April 28, '68, died July
22, '63 ; and Lucv Y., born Decelnber 6, '63, died Febr~~ary 25, '78.
Ah. and Mrs. ~rekn are members of the M. P. clinrcl~ of this township.
In earlier years he was a Republican, but changecl llis political
faith in favor of the Democracy. In aclclition to his property here he
is t,lle owner of forty acres of land in BIcl,eall connty, Ill.
AlzcZ~ew Ihcrty, born Novelnber 27, '33, in Tipperary county. Ireland,
is the son of John ancl ~arali (O'l3rien) IIarty, and granclson of
John and &Ittry (McCormick) EIarty, ~vllose ancestors for generations
were known in Ireland. On tlie motller's anct gmnilmother's side the
clescent is clearly l'lilesian, rvllile on the paternal side it is Pictish or
Scotch. The children of his gri~ndyarents mere Dominic, wl~o came
to the Unitecl States and settled at Ken7 Orleans ; Andrew, Patrick and
Julia, clie~l in Irelancl, Mary enligr:~teci to Cllicago; John, father of
Anclrew, died in Irelancl, December 18, '66. IIe was born in 179'7, a
year before the great rebellion, marriecl in '23 to niIiss Sarah O'Brien,
who was born in 1'798. Of their eight children, John caine to the TJnitecl
States in '50, diet1 here in '79 ; Eclwarcl came ill '48, died June 30,
' 76 ; Yatricl; clied in Australia in '83 ; Andrew settlecl in Penn township
; Sarah, 1~110 marrietl Patriclc AIcGiiire, came in '63, tliecl here in
'68 ; Dominic caiiie in '67, married here, and is a resident of Penn ;
Michael cai-ne in '63, lllarriecl here ancl resicles liere. Jan~es clied in
Ireland in '48. Alldrew Harty received a liberal educat~on in his native
parish. as tile penal 1x1~s were relaxed a few years before his birth.
In '52 lle came to ltaltimo~e, &It[., two years later canle to Illinois, engagecl
as a fun1 hand in this toivnshil>. an:l in '60 1)ul~cllasecl eighty
acres here, improving it the szme year. On August 15, '62, he enl~sted
in Conlpany F, One-linntlrecl-nntl-t n-elftli Illillo~s Volunteer Infan try,
l>romoted cor~oml and sergeant, and at Decatur, Ga., irm elected first
lieutenant. He participatecl in all the batteles creclitecl to the regiment
in tlie military cl~apter, until lionorably tlisch;~,rgecl ttt Greensboro, N.
C., ~ une 20, '65. While tlle regilllent was at Raleigh, N. C.. he visited
Caltimore, there iiiet Niss Sara11 Marie Il\r;~n, claiigl~ ter of TITilliailr ancl
Ann Ryan, of Tipgernry County, Ireland, ancl this 1;tcly he mariaied at
Baltimore in September, '65. Returning 11e resmmed worli on his
farm, purchaseci 160 acres acltlitional, to ~vliicll Ilc has since :iclcled 320
acres in this township. and 260 in AI:~i~sliall County. or Y2o acres clevoted
to grain, farming a,nd stoc!