Pgs 412-686 - Illinois Ancestors

688 BIoG~APHY ARD kEhf~lIsc~NcES
was reared and educated there, and there also married Miss Olive,
daughter of Joel ancl Sarah (DeWolf) Parrish. In 1838, with his wife
ancl three children, he came here by wagon roacl and Iocatecl in the
northeast quarter of section 2, Goshen, where he residecl six years. In
1844 the family movecl to DuPage county, Ill., ~v11e~e his wife cliecl in
1548. he subsequently went to &1ichi6aa.n, where he clietl in ISAI.
Thew children are 13. R. Brown, of Stnrlr county ; Lucy, Snrall ancl
Alva W., the latter born here in October, 1839. Alva voted for
Lincoln in 1860, ancl in 1861 enlisted in Coml)any B, Thirty-serenth
Illinois Infantry, servecl over his three years' ter.111, ~aeCnlistecl and was
honorably dischargecl after the war. lie was slightly n~ounclecl at Pea
Ridge. On his ret.urn he nlarriecl Miss Sarah F. I-loclson, :L native of
Goshen township. Removecl to IIarrison connty, Iowa, some years
ago, where his wife diecl June 23, 1886. Thefatiler of this f;~mily~~~as
an old member of the 3!Iet.hoclist church and a zealous worker. IIis
wife mas daughter of Joel Panaish, a Pennsylvanian, resident of Canada,
who came to Stark county in January 1838, died in Io\va in IS43
or 1844, followed in a few clays by his wile. B. R. Brown was born in
Canada in 1835, came with his parents to this county ancl has resicled
here almost continuously for the past half century. In January, 185.8,
he 1oca.tecl permanently his present honie, and for ten years has servecl
as comn~issioner of high\mys. In 1557 he miwried Miss Maria J.,
daughter of Joseph and Barbara (Ilecliert) Cain. They are the parents
of six children, viz.: C. Morrow, Lucy E., Charley E., Alva C., Joseph
W. and Olive 13.
zuci9%dc6 Banter, who died February 2, 1852, was born in Beaver
county, Pa., in 18J6; rnarriecl Vincent Dancer in 1832 in Iticl~mond
county, Ohio ; mol~ecl to Fulton county, Ill., in 1556, and in 1867 calne
to Stark.
John Bryden, son of Thomas and Margaret Drytlen, was born in
Northumberlandshire, Eng., April 25,1821, where his father's cleath occurred
September 6, 1874, at the a e of eighty-six, and his inotl~er's in
18'76, in her eighty-fourth gear. fohn Dryden is the foul*tli child of a
family of nineteen children. His early life ~j7as spent at farin labor
until his twenty-first year, when he began mining. In IS47 he married
Miss Margaret, daughter of George and Mary Itenwick, born in
Cumberlandshire, Eng., June 22, 1820. In 1554 he came to America;
proceecling at once to Stark county, Ill., and pnrchasecl a piece of land
near Wyoming, remaining there three years, during which time he nTas
engaged at mining. He revisited Englancl for his wife, and the same
year (1857) they. returned and in five years after they removed to
west Jersey township. In 1864 they purchased a farm on section 18,
where he is engaged in agriculture, owning 160 acres,within three iniles of
the village. Five children have blessed their union, three of whom are
still living : Thomas J., George (cleceaseil), Mary J. (deceasecl), Blaggie
A. ancl John G. Politically Mr. Dryclen is a Greenbaclier, and has held
several township offices. 1111873 Mr. Dryclen was called bncli to England
on account of the illness of his father, ancl at his death was
engaged in the settlement of the estate, he being the eldest son.
Re6ecca (Moore'' Dunz, a native of Augusta, Ga., where she married