Pgs 412-686 - Illinois Ancestors

456 BIOGICAPB'SZ' AND REMINISCENCES
J4rs. Ab6y M. Blcmchcwd, wiclo~v of W. D. Elnncl~aril, died August
18, 1885. She was born in Maine ia 1811, luarried in 1853, and came
here that gem. Eugene, the youngest son of Mal.1~ 13l:lncl1ard, of
Eli~ii~a, diecl at Stuart, la., in September, 1883. On AToreurbel* 12,
1886, Mrs. Ann Bl,znchard, wife of J. Blancht~rcl, aged sixty-five vemas,
(lied. She \\.as the daughter of IJngh and Anna White, pioneklas of
the county, and more recently of Ilarvey county Ihn.
DY. &>lw:n Rozulnnd Boczrcl~~rlcj, was' l.10~11 in Luzerlle county, Pa).,
BIarch 3, 1829. IIis father, Orlando, was a nt~ti~e of Massachusetts;
granclfntller, a native of Connecticut, ancl great-g~anndfathe~. a n;~t ive
of Great Dritnin. His ~llother, Mary Brace, was born in Ne\r 'rvorl<
state, to \rhicll her father's people moved iao111 Conilecticut p~io1* to
the Eevolution . Orlal~tlo Doart hnun was born in ITS!) ; movecl to
Pennsy1r;kni:~ in 18% ; llaving previously beell eng:.ag:.ed in the drug
trade in St~ratoga coul~t~, N. . where lle was n~;\n.ietl, ant1 wllerae
tlwee of his clllltlren \\.ere bo1~11, nanrel,~ : William Il., Jane 13. ;~ntl
Persis P. Their son, Etlrvin, was born in l'ennsyl~~iuiin. 31~s. bIalby
(Brace) Bosrdi11a11 died in 1832. Five years Inter he m;~rried Miss
Ann Wle, to ~vhoin were born James G., Nayy ancl Ma~gtaret E. In
IS40 the family mo~~ecl to Illil~ois, and settled on a f:11~111 in 1 %~ Pa\\-
Grove, Lee cdunty. There his wife tlietl in ISC(i and lliinself in June,
1873. Dr. E. E. 130,zrdlnan was etlucatetl in the schools of Pa\\. Paw,
struclied inetlicine there under Ur. G. W. EIun t, subsequently nttendecl
the Indiana. Neclical Scl~ool ;~t L:L Porte, f~om ~vllicllle graduated in
1849, ant1 oonlnlencetl l~r'ixct ice in this tomnsllip. His marriage mi tll
Miss IIannall, daugllter of dmbrose and I-Ian nali (I\ilu~~son) Fuller was
solemnizecl Sel9tember 12, I 550. To tlle111 ten clliltl re11 \\-eiae born,
namely: C'harles O., tleceasecl; Bila~y II., ina.rrietl at Creston, Iowa;
Edwin O., a physician of Osceola, this county ; Kancy J., ~lr:n.rietl, of
Rnya Palln couutjr. Neb.; Snli~l~ C., deceased ; Jt~mes A. clece;~setl ;
Aclella fi., deceased ; George I).,-\Villiaiil 11. ant1 Anna I,., resitling at
hoine. 111 185% the tloctor purc11;~seil a. farm, ~vl~iclr lle carrietl on in
connection mi tll his ~)i~ofcssio~~:~l duties. In 1881 lle was appointed
public administrator for this county. For forty-tlwee years he 11;ls
been a menlber of the 1:tq)tist cl11uac11, his nyi fe being :.tlso it, men] bela.
IIe 11;~s been a Itepuitlici\n since the orpnizi~tion of the party ; 1)nt his
busy professional life a.ntl fai*n~ \vorlr lelt 11 in1 little time to be netire in
politics. ( TTide (4. mc I'hysi(!kl~cs.)
fi!ilzoi/c 0. Bon7~r/v/ircli, so11 of Dr. E. It. and Hannah (Fuller)
Goardnla~l, pioneers of tll is to wliship, was born here, May 18, 1855.
The sulnmeias of his early years were passed on his father's Sarln and
the winters in attendance on school. In 1871-3 he was at the
East Paw Paw schools; then read ineclicine ~mtler the tlirection
of his father; subsequent'ly ~vas a student of T:ush Metlical
College, Chicago, a,ncl graclunted in the spring of 187s. In July of
that year 11e married Miss Mila J., daughter of Miles ant1 31aG- I,.
(Ames) Huestis, natives of New Porli. Iler gr;tnd f;~tl~er 11uestis "~vxs
a native of France, a shoeil~aker by trade, ancl hela granilmother EIuestis
an Alsatian or Lorminer. Iler grandfather and erandinothe~~ Allies
were natives of New York and were farmers of that state. Miss