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ILLINOIS GENEALOGY EXPRESS
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Welcome to
Piatt County,
Illinois
History & Genealogy
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Biographies
Source:
Piatt County History
together with a
Brief History of Illinois
from the
Discovery of the Upper
Mississippi to the Present Time
by Emma C. Piatt
With Map and Illustrations.
1883
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MR. WILLIAM G. LEAVITT, farmer, Hammond, was
born in 1825, in New Hampshire. He was married in his native
state, to Mary French, a widow. They had ten children,
eight of whom are living. Sarah and Margaret are
married and living in New Hampshire. Harriet, the wife
of V. C. Sleeper, lives in Wellington, Kansas, and has
three children. Abbey married Scott Moonan; has
six children, Willie, Walter, Fred, Park, Charles and
Sarah. James William is married has one child, and
lives in Cerro Gordo township. Herbert married
Elnora Simms, has one child, and lives in Kansas. Harry
W. and Luther M. are living at home. Mrs.
Leavitt died in 1872, and Mr. Leavitt, in 1873, was
married to Mrs. Mary T. Osgood. Mr. Leavitt,
upon moving from New Hampshire, settled in Menard county, from which
place he moved to Piatt county, and bought the half section of land
upon which he still lives. AT present, however, he owns 240
acres of land. He improved the farm himself, and has planted
out at least five hundred trees.
Source: History of Piatt County History
together with a
Brief History of Illinois from the Discovery of the Upper Mississippi to the
Present Time by Emma C.
Piatt With Map and Illustrations. 1883 - Page 432 |
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MR. WILLIAM A. LISTON, carpenter and farmer,
of Hammond, was born in Ohio in 1822. He moved from that state
to Macon county, Illinois, in 1859, and to Piatt county in 1872.
At a previous time he moved into Piatt county, but only remained two
yeas. He was justice of the peace for about six years.
About 1843 he and Phebe Cooper, born in Ohio in 1825, united their
lives, and ten children, nine of whom are living, is the result of
their union. Jeremiah E. was killed in the late
war; Rachel L. is married and lives in Maroa; Albert
is married and lives in Missouri; William is in Decatur;
Sarah C. is married to N. B. Wallace, and lives in
southern Illinois; Walter H. is a barber in Decatur, while
Joseph, Jacob, Matthew and Zarelda A. are at home.
Source: History of Piatt County History
together with a
Brief History of Illinois from the Discovery of the Upper Mississippi to the
Present Time by Emma C.
Piatt With Map and Illustrations. 1883 - Page 432 |
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MR. T. F. LIVENGOOD, farmer and minister, is
of German descent, and was born in 1830, in North Carolina. He
moved from there to Indiana, and thence to Moultrie county,
Illinois, and to Piatt in 1861. He married Catharine Pearson,
of Indiana, in 1850. His son, Athan A., married
Margaret Moore, and lives in Champaign county. David F.
married Barbara Meeker, and lives in Douglas county.
Permelia is the wife of Vincent Quick, and has two
children, Oscar and Lena. The names of the remaining
children are Mathias E. Albert, Sarah, Lilley, Cora, Ella
Pauline and Addie. Mr. Livengood was ordained as a
minister in the Christian church in 1866. He formerly preached
on a circuit running through Champaign, Piatt, DeWitt, Moultrie,
Douglas and Vermilion counties. Now he travels only in
Douglas, Vermilion, Champaign and Piatt counties. He has
organized seven churches in Champaign county, where most of his
preaching has been done, one in DeWitt and one in Piatt county.
When he settled in this section of the country he found the people
hospitable. At an early day here the people always called upon
the new settlers, congratulating them on coming into the county.
Mr. Livengood preached his first sermon in the Taylor
school-house in Douglas county. Upon our asking him in regard
to the first couple he married in this county, he said: "I remember
how I was scared, but don't remember their names." He told us
of once going fifteen miles, swimming the West Okan and traveling
bad roads, to marry a couple. He sais he "had a good time
otherwise but got no pay." Since he was ordained a minister he
has made an average of one hundred conversations each year.
The largest amount he has ever received in one year from one church
has been $140; the least amount, nothing.
Source: History of Piatt County History
together with a
Brief History of Illinois from the Discovery of the Upper Mississippi to the
Present Time by Emma C.
Piatt With Map and Illustrations. 1883 - Page 431 |
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MR. JOHN LOWE, farmer, is a native of
Kentucky. He moved from there direct to Illinois in 1861, and
to Piatt county in 1869. He lived for a time in Sangamon
township. He married Sarah T. Atkin, who has three
children, Edward, William and Albert, living.
Mr. Lowe went to the army from Vermilion county in Co. B of the
25th Ill. He was out four years, serving one year in the 149th
reg. He engaged in the battles of Pea Ridge, Perryville,
Murfreesborough, Mission Ridge, and also those of the Atlanta
campaign. He was never wounded or taken prisoner.
Source: History of Piatt County History
together with a
Brief History of Illinois from the Discovery of the Upper Mississippi to the
Present Time by Emma C.
Piatt With Map and Illustrations. 1883 - Page 431 |
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MR. JOHN LOVE ("Capt. Love"), a farmer near Hammond, is a
native of Pike county, Missouri. His father was a native of
South Carolina, and his mother was born in Ireland. They moved
from South Carolina to Pike county, Missouri. His father was
one of a little colony that went out in 1815, and in 1818 he died in
Missouri. Capt. Love's stepfather, Mr. Welch
Allison, moved to Macon county in 1834 or 1835, and his mother
died near Decatur in 1836. Capt. Love was one of a
family of four children. His brother Andrew moved from
Decatur to near Lovington, on the old Snyder place.
Andrew had a post-office in his house, which was named
Lovington. After the town was built it was named the same.
Capt. Love came to Macon county from Missouri in 1834, then
returned to Missouri, and again in 1835 came to Decatur, and in
January, 1836, began clerking for Mr. William Cantrall.
After about seven months he began clerking for Renshaw & Finley
(afterward Renshaw alone), and remained here for several
years. From what we hear of Mr. Love at this time, he
must have been considered quite a business manager. Although
but eighteen years old, he had a man's business entrusted to him.
His health having failed somewhat, Mr. Love went to his
brother's farm, near Lovington, and went into the stock business.
He was with his brother most of the time from this on, until his
marriage, in 1842, to Charlotte Emerson, a sister of Judge
Emerson. He then settled on a farm of his own near
Lovington, which place he afterward sold, and moved to Judge
Emerson's place, in Macon county. In 1853 he stopped
farming, and bought out a little store in Lovington, and remained
there till 1856. He sold out then, and somewhat unexpectedly
went to Sullivan, where he remained till 1859, when he sold out.
During the year 1860 he was out of business. After his return
fro the army, he bought a farm in De Witt, and remained there till
1868, when he moved to the farm he now lives on. He owns all
the section except 160 acres, which he gave to his daughter.
Capt. Love's first wife died in 1869. Their eldest
daughter, Mary Ellen, married Dr. J. W. Snyder, and
they, with their two children, live in Gilman. M. Jennie
married John R. Crantrall (see his name). Mr. C. H.
Love married Adaline Evans, and lives in Christian
county. They have two children. He helped Mr. C. D.
Moore to lay out the town of Hammond, and was the second grain
merchant in the place. Capt. Love was married in 1871,
to Sarah A. Cooper, a native of Iowa. Her mother,
sixty years of age, is living with Mrs. Love. Her
parents moved to Iowa in 1844, in which state her father died, after
which her mother moved to Sangamon county. On June 28, 1861,
Mr. Love went to the army as captain of Co. E of 21st Ill.,
Grant's own regiment, organized from the seventh
congressional district. He did a great deal of traveling
about, but was in only one regular battle, that of Frederickstown.
He was taken sick with a severe attack of pneumonia, and was
ultimately discharged because of chronic diarrhoea. Although
sick, he had been with the company several times. Upon
Capt. Love's leaving the regiment the officers and his men gave
him articles in sealed envelopes, what the injunction that he was
not to open them until he reached Nashville. Upon our urgent
and repeated appeals, and against his protestations, we have last
succeeded in gaining his permission to have these testimonials
printed in connection with the sketch of his life.
TESTIMONIALS TO CAPT. JOHN LOVE.
Camp 21st ILL. VOLS., NEAR MURPHREESBORO, TENN.
February 20, 1863
WHEREAS, Owing to long and
almost irreparable ill health, our honored comrade in arms and
fellow officer, Capt. John Love, of Co. E, 21st Ill. Vols.,
has been compelled to retire from our present field of labor;
therefore be it
Resolved, I. That
Captain John Love has our warmest sympathies in his of an
inevitable fate have declared that we must give him the hand of a
long and perhaps final farewell.
II. That in Capt. Love we recognize all
the attributes of a refined gentleman, an agreeable associate, a
noble companion in arms, and that in him the Government loses one of
his brightest ornaments, most valuable, patriotic, devoted and
faithful in all of his duties.
III. That bidding adieu to our old associate -
the ever faithful companion of all our hardships, privations and
dangers, such as only a soldier can realize - we can heartily
breathe an earnest "God bless you, " and when in the future we are
engaged in the arduous duties of the soldiers' life, we will recur
with memories of sweet pleasure and an honorable pride to the
days and times when Captain Love made one of our number.
IV. That we make this voluntary
testimonial to his virtues and moral worth, because such are
alone due to the brave, earnest, hopeful and uncompromising
defenders of the right - the Government of our Fathers.
Signed by officers
WM. P. CARLIN, Col. Commanding Brigade, 38th
Vols.
WM. E. MCMACHIN, Lieut. Col. Commanding, 21st
Ill. Vols.
J. E. CALLOWAY, Major 21st Ill. Vols.
W. C. HARRIS, Captain.
WALTER E. CARLIN, Lieut, and Brigade Inspector.
S. VORIS, Brigade Adjutant.
ALBERT WOODBURY, Lieut.
C. B. STEELE, Adj., 21st Ill.
E. D. COX, 1st Lieut. Co. A, 21st Ill.
J. P. H. STEVENSON, Capt. Co. B, 21st Ill.
PHILIP WELSHIMER, 1st Lieut. Co. B, 21st Ill.
B. F. REED, Capt. Co. D, 21st Ill.
J. S. TAYLOR, 2d Lieut. C. D, 21st Ill.
JNO. A. FREELAND, 1st Lieut. Co. E, 21st Ill.
DAVID S. BLACKBURN, Capt. Co. F, 21st Ill.
J. W. VANCE, 1st Lieut. Co. F, 21st Ill.
W. J. HUNTER, 2nd Lieut. Co. F, 21st Ill.
A. GEORGE, Capt. Co. G, 21st Ill.
A. W. SONGER, 1st Lieut. Co. G, 21st Ill.
EDWIN HARLAN, Capt. Co. H, 21st Ill.
N. S. McKEEN, 1st Lieut, C. H. 21st Ill.
CHAS. HOWE, 1st Lieut. Co. I, 21st Ill.
J. S. COX, 2d Lieut. Co. I, 21st Ill.
J. L. WILSON, 1st Lieut. Co. K, 21st Ill.
E. M. SEELEY, Surgeon, 21st Ill.
E. D. WILKIN, Chaplain, 21st Ill.
J. E. JONES, Quartermaster, 21st Ill.
DICK L. SMITH, 2d Lieut., 21st Ill. |
MEMORIAL OF RESPECT.
Presented to Capt.
Love on the morning of his departure from Co. E 21st Ill.
Vols.
About to take farewell of your company and rejoin your
family in Illinois, it may be a pleasure to yourself and
friends, that your company thus express their lasting friendship
and esteem for one who has been so long their captain, and our
serious regret for the misfortune, and sympathy for the long and
lingering sickness that has at length deprived us of one whom we
will so sadly miss.
We shall always admire the high sense of duty that
stamped all your actions; try to imitate the purity of morals
and principles that characterized all your conduct; reflect the
indefatigable zeal that has always actuated in all your effort
to suppress this foul rebellion; and feel grateful for the
anxious care you always manifested even in your sickness for
your company. In you we feel only the loss of an earnest,
dutiful officer, but a sincere, tried and impartial friend.
While we remain in the field with a determination to fight to
the last, the execrable friends' fiends of this hideous
rebellion, we hope health may be restored, that your life may be
spared for many years of usefulness, that you may long enjoy the
sweets of social intercourse, a blessing to your family, an
honor to your friends.
JOHN A. FREELAND, 1st Lieut. Co. E,
21st Ill.
JNO. W. NAZWORTHY, Serg. Co. E, 21st Ill.
GEO. W. LYNN, Serg. Co. E, 21st Ill.
A. W. MCPHEETERS,
JAS. A. GUIRE, Corp. Co. E, 21st Ill.
JAS. A. FRUIT, Corp. Co. E, 21st. Ill.
JAS. M. MOORE, Corp. Co. #, 21st. Ill.
ENOCH WALKER, Corp. Co. E, 21st Ill.
SAMUEL BOGGS, Corp. Co. E, 21st Ill.
A. M. ASHMORE,
CHRISTOPHER BICK,
H. A. SMITH,
A. M. BONE,
ROBERT BEAN
PETER CORFER,
ANDREW K. BONE,
E. M. McGUIRE,
E. HANEY,
GEO. W. SHERWOOD,
J. A. MITCHELL,
A. M. MITCHELL,
THOMAS FARREL,
FINIS E. KENNEDY,
W. I. C. McCLURE,
JNO. GAULDING
PATRICK KENEDY, |
RICHARD BENETT,
WILLIAM MILLISON,
EZEKIEL NORRIS,
ALFORD NASH,
W. B. THOMPSON,
PETER BURG,
PERRY OSKINS,
JAS. H. NAZWORTHY,
JAS. R. DUNCAN,
JNO. WILBURN,
J. B. REESE,
JEFFERSON BROWN,
THOMAS SMITH
MORGAN J. RAY,
DAVID P. CLARK
DANIEL CLIFFORD,
HENRY BAKER,
JNO. ABBOTT,
MORRIS MacKABOY
W. H. HOSKINS.
MARLETUS HILL,
MOSES HILL,
JOHN E. HINES,
GEO. K. JENKINS,
GEO. P. McDOWELL. |
Source: History of Piatt County History
together with a
Brief History of Illinois from the Discovery of the Upper Mississippi to the
Present Time by Emma C.
Piatt With Map and Illustrations. 1883 - Page |
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MR. J. W. LYNCH, blacksmith, Hammond, is a
native of this state, and moved from southern Illinois to Christian
county, and thence to Piatt county in 1868. He was raised a
blacksmith, and was the second blacksmith in Hammond, having bought
out George Ragland, of that place. Mr. Lynch
first married Miss Nancy Booker, who died, after having one
child, William Henry. He next married Elizabeth
Balmer, who is the mother of six children, Edward, Sally,
John, Myrtie, James and Charles.
Source: History of Piatt County History
together with a
Brief History of Illinois from the Discovery of the Upper Mississippi to the
Present Time by Emma C.
Piatt With Map and Illustrations. 1883 - Page 433 |
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