Pgs 412-686 - Illinois Ancestors

OF PENN TOWNSHIP. 639
of Midclletown, Delaware county, N. P., to learn the art, trade and
mystery of a farmer. At the age of eighteen his inaster died, and he
still reniained with the family until Much, 1841, ancl got an honorable
discharge. I11 1544 he married Miss Nancy, claughter of Peter and
Sarah Wea~er, 01 Delaware county, N. Y., engaged in farming there
~~ntil 1854, tvlien lie settled at pleasant Grove, Osceola to\~~nshlp, pnrchasing
eighty acres on section 34, where he enpgcd in grain and
stoclc-grojving. In tlie spring of 1860 lle joined the Piltes' Peal;
staml'ecle, traveling from Alarch 22 to Mag 7 over1;~ncl. Thepe he
worlcecl in the golcl mines, also prospectetl, all with such success that
the $23 lle started out with increased to $97 on liis retnrn home in
Novelnl~er, ISGO. In IS63 Ile soltl 111s Osceuln far111 nncl purchased 160
acres 011 section 3, Yenn. In l'ebrua~y, ISfiS, liis first wife died and in
No\reliiber of that year, lie marriecl hlrs. Ellen Philhower, clt~nghter of
Williani :~nd Barall Sciluyler, natives of Ke~v Jersey. To tl~e~n four
cllilclren were !)ern : Ira J., Cllarles JV., John H., antl Fred. A., all
residing liere or in attenclance on school at 13rt~clford. In politics Mr.
Wl~itten is Republican. For six years lie has serveti as justice of peace,
TV:LS road irllnissioner for a number of years ant1 also school director.
Ile IV~S fork erly a lllenlber of the old Free Will Baptist church, but
now sul~ports the &lethorlist church of \vhicll llis wife and some of his
children are members. The five cllildren of A11.s. Pllilho\ver are : Ann,
wife of Reuben Reclcling, of fl'ebrasl;a, ; George, of Springfield, Ill.;
Sarah, wife of Illenry Win. B~lcline, of Henry, Ill. ; Jennie, residing
here, and Peter, a resiclent of Bureau county, 111.
Cy- IVilso~, father of Rev. G. T. Wilson, of tlie M. E. church, died
in April, 188:3, aged seventy years. He came to Illinois froin Ohio
over sixty eight years ago.
Lydiu .LV/~iit, wife of Henry White, clietl at Snareville, January 30,
ISSO, agecl sixty-four ancl one-half years. She was born in Pennsylvt~nia
in 181.5, ~narried in 1838; ancl came with her. liilsbancl to Stark
county in 1836.
ilbrcrnl, ZImnz, aged seventy-eight years, died October 20, 187s.
In the pages clevoted to ~)ersonal reitliriiscences antl l~iogral)lly,
nluch of tlle un~vritten history of the to\\rnship finds a place ancl also
illany of the leading k~alriilies an ituthent'ic recortl.