| 21. Sarah Belle4 Elliott |
| 30. John D.4 Conlisk |
Monroe Record Jan. 9, 1902: Froze to Death. Early Friday morning news reached the city of the death of John D. Conlisk. It was reported that he had been in the city Thursday afternoon and started for home with his team a little after ten that night. His farm is about nine miles south of Monroe, and when almost three miles south of the city circumstances would seem to indicate that he was not well and had attempted to get out of his rig, and seek assistance from Edwin Heck. It appears that he drove into the barnyard of Mr. Heck but was unable to get to the house and fell to the ground where he lay and froze to death.Return to Ancestor Chart.The deceased was born in La Salle December 13th, 1838 and excepting the year he was teaching school in Peru, Ind., he spent his entire life in LaSalle township. He was married to Jane Gilday October 24th, 1863 and is survived by a wife and ten children. Funeral services were held from the house Sunday afternoon at two o'clock, Rev. Fr. O'Rorke officiating.
| 31. Jane4 Gilday |
Monroe Evening News Nov. 14, 1921: Death claimed one of Monroe countys' oldest residents in the passing away of Mrs. Jane P. Conlisk at her home 822 Harrison street, Sunday evening at 9 o'clock. Mrs Conlisk had been ill for the past four weeks with heart trouble. The deceased was a kindly lady and was very active up to the time of her illness. She had been a resident of this county all her life and was dearly beloved by all who knew her. She was one of the oldest members of St John.s church and was always active in church work. She was a member of the Ladies' Altar Society of St. John's church.Return to Ancestor Chart.Jane Gildea was born in LaSalle township, April 5, 1842 and fifty-five years ago married John Conlisk, one of the best known farmers of LaSalle township. Mr Conlisk died January 2, 1901 {sic}. She lived in LaSalle township until 1911, when she moved to Monroe where she had resided ever since.
She leaves to mourn her loss 10 children, who are Mrs. Charles B. Kirby of Monroe, Mrs. Breitner of LaSalle, Mrs. I. Larrow, of LaSalle, Clarence L. of Toledo, Burton F. Elkhart, Indiana, Albert L. of Denver, Colorado, Augustus, with the 155th regiment, Philippine Islands, Edward, William C. and Emory, all of Monroe. She also leaves 29 grand children and one great grand child and one brother Jno.B. Gildea of Toledo.
The funeral will be held at St. John's church Wednesday morning at nine o'clock and the remains will be buried in the Cooney cemetary in LaSalle township.
| 41. Sarah Jane5 Cameron |
Mr. Welch, Dear Sir: The bearer, Mr. Joseph Halford and my adopted daughter Sarah Jane Cameron, wish to get a license. Miss Sarah was given to me by her guardian five or six years ago. She is yet under age, and her guardian is some distance off, though it will be all right anyway. Give him license to marry her, and I will see that there is no trouble on her side. Yours truly, L.F. Stoddard.Return to Ancestor Chart.
| 52. Francesco5 Parma |
Cincinnati City Directories:
| 1834 | not there | |||
| 1839-40 | Parma, Francis (Italy) | Fruit and Confectionary store, | 4th bet Main and Sycamore | |
| 1842 | Parma Francis, | fruit store, | Sycamore bet, 2d & Lower Market (Third Ward) | |
| 1843 | Parma Francis, | fruit store, | 3rd bet Main and Sycamore | |
| 1846 | Palmer Francis, | fruiterer, | N s [North side] 3d, bet Main and Sycamore | |
| 1849-50 | Palma Francis, | confec. | e. s. Sycamore, b. 2d and L. Market | |
| 1850-51 | Palma F. | conf. | n. e. c. Broadway and Harrison | |
| 1851-52 | Palmer Francis, | confec. | 172 Broadway | |
| 1853/1855 | not there [based on his children's birthplaces, he moved to Tennessee, probably Memphis, before 1853 and was still there in 1855] | |||
| 1856 | Palmer Francis, | s.e.c. [south east corner] John and Wade | ||
| 1857 | Parmer F., | confec. | 403? W. Sth | |
| 1858 | Palmer Frank, | confec, | 403 or 463 W. 5th | |
| 1859 | Palmer Francis, | fruit store, | n.w.c. 9th and Race | |
| 1860 | Palmer Francis, | confec, | n.w.c. Race and 9th | |
| 1861 | not there [moved to Covington KY] | |||
| 61. Ellen5 Mulherin |
Monroe (MI) Commercial Sept 13, 1877: Mrs. Peter Conlik died on the 4th inst., at the advanced age of 82 years. She was born in Roscommon County, Ireland. She came to this country in 1831, remained in New York State one year and with her husband moved to LaSalle in 1832, suffering all the privations incident to pioneer life. She was a member of the Catholic Church; her whole life was in strict conformity with that faith. She leaves a large circle of relatives; and was widely known and respected by all who knew her.Return to Ancestor Chart.
| 85. Nancy6 Hogsett |
| 86. James Mayes6 Rutledge |
In the early day, he cut a conspicuous figure in our county, having served as Constable for many years, and incidentally as Deputy Sheriff, and many times have we seen him ‘cheek by jowl' with some horse thief or other violater of the law. ... He put in our old log jail the first prisoners we ever saw go to jail, ... He also served in the Legislature as a Representative from this county.
Return to Ancestor Chart.| 136. Andrew7 Lair |
He received 400 acres of land lying on the Dix River which runs into the Kentucky River, about 13 miles below his land. He settled on the land in March 1779.
Kentucky land records indexes show the following:
6 Jun 1780 192 acres at Johnson Fork in Kentucky Co.
5 Aug 1783, 346.5 acres on Indian Creek in Fayette Co.:
"Andrew Lair ap... Enters 346 ½ acres of Land and Treasury Warrant No. 11065 adjoining sd ... Indian creek and Running up the creek for quantity .... upperside thereof." Fayette Co. land entries, Vol. 2-340 [FHL film 272975]
Hughes Family Research Notes (Ancestry): Augusta County, VA Deed book 15, p 220, dated 5 November 1768 - 224 acres (which had been patented to John Hughes) was conveyed to Joseph Lair by John Hughes and Sarah Hughes. This land was on a branch of Linville Creek and was adjacent to the land owned by the Lincoln family. Witnesses to the transaction were Andrew Byrd, Matthias Lair, and Edward Sampson.
A further reference to this transaction can be found in Augusta County, VA Deed book 22, page 197, dated 16 August 1774 when the property was sold by Joseph Lair to his brother Andrew Lair. Joseph Lair Date: Nov 5, 1768 Location: Augusta Co., VA Record ID: 33844 Description: Grantee Book-Page: 15-220 Property: 224 acres at the Watering Spring of Linvel's Creek, by patent.
Remarks: £80. Delivered to your father, Mathias Lair, 25 Jun 1771. Grantee Joseph Lair/Lear. This land record was originally published in "Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800." [Extracted from the original court records of Augusta County 1745-1800, deed book no. 15.]
Return to Ancestor Chart.| 160. Andrew7 Hallford |
Sandra Joyce Walker unpublished manuscript, p.1: Andy Halford was one of the first two school teachers in Hurricane Township, Fayette County, Illinois.
The following story mentions Andy Halford, and it was taken from the Life and Adventures of P.G. Donaldson, the Jewett Printery, Cowden, Illinois, 1908.
In the year 1848 snakes were numerous. At that time I was a boy of eight years and did not like to go to school; and to get out of going to shcool I trumped up a snake story.Return to Ancestor Chart.I was playing in the yeard and a bee stung me on the toe; thinks I, 'I've got the thing alright now', so I bulged into the house crying. My parents asked me, 'What is the matter?' and I said, 'snake bite, boo, hoo, hoo'. My mother says, 'Let me see your toe. Yes I see the print of its teeth on his toe,' and called my father to come see but he seemed to doubt.
'Look,' says Mother, 'His toe is swelling'. Father says to me, 'What kind of a snake was it that bit you?' I told him, 'A striped one'. Another yarn mixed in! I knew it was a bee that had stung me on the toe but I had to stay with the snake bite or get my hide tanned. I had wished a thousand times that I had taken the tanning then; it would have saved me a heap of suffering in mind and conscience.
Mother sympathized with me and said, 'He had better not go to school today', but Father said, 'Go, a garter snake is not poison no how'. Mother sympathized with me to the last; 'Look how his toe is swelling'. I began to feel like I would like to be excused, but I had gone too far and must take my medicine. So I hobbled off to school.
Uncel Andy Haultford was the teacher and when I went in and sat down he looked over his specks and said, 'Presley, what is the matter with your foot?' Says I, 'I'm snake bit.' Says he, 'Your parents were simple to send you to school knowing you were snake bit'. Too late to take it back and knowing to own up now, instead of getting one flogging I would get two. I knew the teacher was a good hand to let the fur fly.
To all appearances I was very sick at my stomach and the first remedy - a large chew of tabacco - was laid on by the teacher. He then said to my brother, 'Lige, go get a horse and take Presley home'. I knew things had set in now, for here came father and a young man by the name of Pope.
By this time everything was working favorably; my foot was swellen as big as two feet. Father ordered Pope to take me before him; being too sick to sit up he laid me across old Pidge's wethers. So the procession moved homeward. Poor deceived mother met us south of the orchard; she says, 'Is the child sick?' 'Yes,' said Pope; 'He has been trying to throw up but he seems to be heartsick now.'
The thing sets in in earnest. 'Lige, you kill a chicken quick.' Here he comes with it, they cut it open alive and put it on my foot all fluttering. Well, thinks I, this won't hurt - just a chicken lost. Not giving the chicken remedy time to do any good they suggest another remedy; some one suggested cucklbur tea. Thinks I, now the thing does set in. Think of a boy having to drink a quart of cucklebur tea!
The remedies all tried, the swelling gone down, the old teacher Haultford came up late in the evening; he thought that probably the tobacco did good, others said chicken, others, cucklebur tea, but the writer can say, for one, that cucklebur tea made him dog-gone sick at his stomach.
| 162. John Levi7 Sears |
The family was in Warren Co. KY in 1818, moving shortley thereafter to AL and from there, in the 1820s, to Fayette Co. IL. They settled on 40 acres about 1 mile of northeast of where the present village of Bingham stands. Their home was built on a rolling piece of land which had several good springs of water. The Shelbyville to Greenville road passed not far from their door.
Being from the south, with Southern sympathies, living in a Union State during the Civil War made things difficult. John has been referred to as the "King of the Copperheads".
On 11 Aug 1864, John and Hannah Sears were killed in the doorway of their log home by soldiers of the 41st IL Volunteers. When the soldiers came to the door, John refused their request and was shot. His wife, standing behind him, tried to intervene. She was killed by the same bullet that killed her husband. Accounts differ as to what the soldiers were looking for. Some say horses or money, and others say they were after his son Thomas who had deserted the Union Army.
Return to Ancestor Chart.| 272. Matthias8 Lehrer |
Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s (Ancestry:
Name: Matthias Lair
Year: 1738
Place: Pennsylvania
Source Publication Code: 3570.5
Page: 90
Primary Immigrant: Lair, Matthias
Annotation: Date of arrival with port or place of settlement, a few are date and place of first mention of residence in New World. Listings of mostly Mennonite German immigrants, the majority were from Baden-Durlach in the Palatinate.
Source Bibliography: Johnson, Mrs. Arta F., editor. "Immigrant Ancestors." In The Palatine Immigrant. Vol. 9:1 (Summer 1983), pp. 28-33; vol. 9:2 (Autumn 1983), pp. 90-95; vol. 9:3 (Winter 1984), pp. 137-142; vol. 9:4 (Spring 1984), pp. 169-174.
Return to Ancestor Chart.| 273. Catherina Margaretha8 Moyer |
| 320. John8 Hallford |
| 322. Wooten W.8 Harris |
| 644. Isaac8 Harris |
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