Pgs 412-686 - Illinois Ancestors

666 BIOGRAPHY AND REMINISCENCES
moved to Jackson county, Ohio, in 1852, where he cliecl, and where
Mrs. Price still 'esides, in the eighty-sixth year of her age. Both of
Mrs. Speers' parents died in England, but a brother and sister reside
there still. Captain Speers and wife were the parents of eleven chilclren.
two of ~vhom cliecl in inp~tncv : William F., the eldest, who served
three years m Coinpany E, ~ig-l;t~-sixth ~llinois ~oluntekr Infantry,
lost his wife in 1882. leaving three chilcl~en. He inarriecl Mrs. Elizabeth
(McCowan) ~&~htonrfor second wife and resides at Starlr Station.
Henry C., who-served one year in the mar, married Miss Mary
Nixon, resides in Kansas. Albert J. is a farmer of Valley township ;
Mary R. mas a school teacher until her marrinee ~vith Williain Gray,
of Chillicothe, Novelnber 25,1886 ; Tlloi~las M. cliecl in his twenty-ninth
year, February 21,1886 ; Oliver C. died Marc11 #t, 1868, in his eighteenth
year; Esther C., Ella M. and Jailies A. resicle with their p;~rents. The
father of this large family is a staqnch Republican, and cleclares his
boys ancl girls to be also of that political faith. Is a, meinber and
stocliholder of the Central Agrict~ltural Society, liberal in religious
matters, and equally liberal in his financial support of all Christian
churches. IIe has been school director '01. twenty-three years; has
served as supervisor, road commissioner, justice, cbllector, and fillecl
other township offices, and during his resiclence here of over thirty-one
years has never been plaintiff or defendant, but served as juryman several
times in a court of justice. Many of his cllilclren attend the Congregational
church, ancl some of thein are ~neinbers thereof. At the
date of his marriage he had eighteen dollars capital.
Carle Xzc~gy, son of Isaac and Mi~ry (Carle) Stagg, was born in
Montgomery county, N. Y., in 1840. I-lis paternal ancestors were
French, who came to America at a very early date ancl settled in New .
York. Ilis father when a young inan learned the tracle of a carpenter,
and at the age of twenty mas married to Miss Mary, daughter of Jolln
and Lt~cretia Carle, also natives of New Tor.!