Pgs 412-686 - Illinois Ancestors

OF ESSEX TOWNSHIP. 519
daughter of Jesse and Lutitia Boblet. This lady died March 12, 1881,
leaving one chilcl, Nora Leffler. IIis second marriage with Miss Ella,
d:~~lghter of Isaac and Martha Nicholas, was celebrated
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March 3, 1886.
Her parents, natives of Ohio, came here wit11 their arents, were married
here ancl made their holne here since. I effler has built up
here one of the best farm honses in the county, ancl around it a fertile
larln of 175 acres. In politics he is Democratic. His public sympathy
centers ill school matters ancl at present he is clerk of the school board
of! liis district.
Je~c L. Mqfiit, son of Josiah and Jane (Stuart) MofEtt, was born
in this county in 1844. Josiah Mofkitt was born in Ross county, O., in
1808 where his parents, John ancl Lyclia (Cox) Moffitt, natives of North
Carolina, hacl settled. Up to his twenty-first yexr Josiah Moffitt's
educational aclvantages were very linlited. In is29 he niarried Miss
Jnne, a, daughter of John and Ann (Carnev) Stuart, \vho was born in
Derry'countv, Ireland, in 1813. She cam; with her parents to New
York in 1~17. and in 1820 nlovecl with them to Ross county, O., where
her mother djetl shortlv after. Her father inovecl to Stark county,
~)urchaseil :b f'arm ancl 'resitlecl here until his cleath in 1865. Josiah
BilofEtt and wife \\.ere engaged on their Ohio farm until 1836, when
they tool; up 160 acres in Essex ancl r~lade their home in the west-the
log cabin being without doors anct n~inclo\vs, Indians prowling around,
ancl in tlie absence of the disagreeable but then innocuous savage,
\valves presentecl tllemselves. The nearest market was Peoria. Here
the young :.wife was often left to protoct her four children. Josial~
cliecl'in lSS5, but this pioneer laclv still lives with her son (Jesse), now
in her seventy-third year. At ohe ti~ne she, with lier sister, were lost
on the prairies, ancl tlicl not fincl a lanclmark until tlie folloiving day.
Jesse niLoffitt remaineel on the lioinesteacl wliicll he arclecl in improving.
In 1819 he married Miss Sarah Arpnbright, born in Ohio in 1860,
where her father still resicles. Their chilclren are Freed, Ada B. and
Harley $1. In society matters Mr. RIofitt is a,n Odcl Fellow, in politics
cleinocratic, ancl in all public enterprises enterprising and liberal.
JOJL'IL 11 Ogle, son of William and Lucretia (Butler) Ogle. was born
in Stark county in 1840. His father was born in Ohio in 1810. His
mother was born in Vermont the same year, and with lier parents einigratecl
from Vermont. They were married in 1835 tmcl shortly after
cuine to the \vililerness of Spoon river, engaged in agriculture until
1856 when they ~novecl to Toulon. where Mrs. Ogle is today a ine~nber
of the DiIethoclist Episcopal church, ancl Willianl one of the leading citizens,
as related in the llistorv of Toulon and in the general history.
John H. spent his youth as"ot1ier pioneer boys. In his eighteenth
.! veilr he entered Rocli River Seminary, anti, after a Full course engaged
In school teaching in Starl; county. In his twenty-third year he marriecl
Miss Diantha W., daughter of Job and Diana Shinn, the father
being a Virginian and the lnother a native of Kew Hampshire. Of
seven children born to this marriage, six are living: MTilliam S.,
Lucretia D., Mary E., Laura, Diantha, John C. ancl Marcia (cleceased).
Mrs. Ogle, the lnother of this excellent family, cliecl September 7, 1880,
In 1882 the tt-iclower married Miss Anna, daughter of Hugh and Ann