Pgs 412-686 - Illinois Ancestors

700 ' BIOCIR~'PHY AND REMINIBOENOEB , .
into. West ~ersei village, .where their ,re;idbnce was then erected.
Mr. Sanders owns 160 acres, tooether with village property, all the
savings of years of labor. In r3igious matters he is a Methodist of
oi7er thirty years' standing. His secbncl marriuve was solemnized
April 13, 1871, with Miss Catherine Egbelat, wllo, Illre her l~usbni~tl, is
a devout church member. Prioim to 18.56 Mr. Sanders was a Democrat.
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but since that time has been filitllf ul to ilepublican doctrine and party.
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Darius 8unders, born in Mor1.i~ county, N. J., in 1816, diet1 3lnrcll
27, 1884. In 1888 he settled in West Jerse,y township.
Eldw Jolm Slt~yent: born in i\larylund, October, 1793, served t \\ro
. ' campaigns in the W~LI' of 1819, after inoving to Ohio with his parents ;
. came to Henry county in 1850, to Stark county in 1853, latter to Mis-
, I - souri, from which he was tlriven by the Jay-11nwlcers in IsGI. He re- ,
' . turned and settling at Millbrook, Peoria county, died there Julv 14, -
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I 1882.
BeUe (F~imme~*) $Slfer, born in West Jersey township in 1863 ;
t married Peter Shafer in 1854 ; died hiIarcli 15, 1885.
icfavy J;. Swank (Shannon), died at Grimes, lo\\-it, Febroary 1, 1885,
s '( ' aged t wen ty-eight years,
I 'ete~&/ieets, deceased, son of Michael and Elizabeth (Wy ~aell)
, . Sheets, was born in IIt~~llpsl~ire county, Va. His parents \vere of Pterman
origin and were marriecl in West Virginill in the spring of 1836 ;
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. , : removed to what is now Essex townsllip; purchased 280 i~cres on seer
. tion It3 for $1,000, including sm:kll llouse and thirty acres broken.
, Seven children accompanietl thein hither, namely : Mtllindn (tlecot~setl), .
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Irene, Mrs. Alexan tler Cllristy ; Georc)*e, Valon tlne (deceasecl), ilosi~nnai,
' . Ben ton county, lo wa ; W il liarn M., %loriclu (tlecciksed), A ntlrew J., of
a. Noclaw ay county, Mo., uT:~s born here. Jacob Wygell, iwot.her of
Mrs. Sheets, came with then], renlained two 01. three years and retumetl
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to Virginia. Peter Slleots i~nd wife .have p~ssed auTny fi80m tlloir
I pioneer labors herbe as stated in the history of Essex townsllip. Geo~ge
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1 Sheets \r:ts born in Switzel*lt~~rtl uourr ty, neiLr I'i~triot, in 1825, ant1 wils
twelve years oltl when he settlctl wit11 1):~rents in Essex to\\rllsllip. IIc
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was iniirrietl, Uece~llber 24, 1844, by Justice Etl wn18tl T~.icl;le, to Cl~iwlottc,
daughter, of 1)avitl Silrllncri~~an, wlrosu llistory is given in this
worlc. 111 1848 he locatctl ill West Jcrsey to\vilsl~ip, anti O\\~IIS t~dt~y
an eighty-ilcr.e ftrrn~ well jnq)~ovetl. Their clliltlrea arc Elim A., 3li.s.
J. 11. Emery, Silri~ll E., Mrs. (i. 1:. Varsitle, Einli~a J., Mrs. E. I