The LaSalle County Genealogy Guild – 115 W. Glover St.—Ottawa, IL 61350—Tel. (815) 433-5261

May/June 2017

GUILD HOURS Mondays & Saturdays MAY MEETING—Saturday 20 May 2017 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Meetings—3rd Saturday of Month The topic of our presentation this month will be “Genealogy of Reddick At 1:00 p.m. Mansion” presented by LORRAINE MCCALLISTER. Lorraine first 115 W. Glover St., Ottawa arrived in Ottawa with her parents LuVerne and Joanne McCallister, after her 815 433-5261 father was transferred to the area by Libby Owens-Ford. Her father died in 2011, but her mother still lives on Fort Street, where Lorraine grew up. She INTERNET CORNER was in the first graduation class of Shepherd Junior High School. Lorraine The LSCGG’s Home Page address is: graduated from OTHS and went on to Illinois State University and earned a Lscgg.org teaching degree. Her first job at Prophetstown-Lyndon-Tampico School dis- LSCGG’s e-mail address: trict where she started in 1978 and ended up spending her career teaching [email protected] language arts. She is a Reddick Mansion Association volunteer. She has spent many If you are a member and have not given hours researching the mansion’s name sake first owner, William Reddick us your e-mail address, please do so who was merchant politician and public official. at the above address.

OFFICERS JUNE MEETING—SATURDAY, 17 JUNE 2017 President: Jenan Jobst (815) 433-2919 DR. DAVID MANIGOLD will be our speaker this month. His Vice President: Margaret Clemens presentation will be on the “Daniels Cemetery,” Rutland Township, (815) 434-6342 LaSalle County, Illinois. Many of the burials in this cemetery were Co-Secretaries: Sandy Vahl & Carole Wenzel people that died from cholera. Dr. Manigold is a local physician who Editor: Carole Nagle is working with a crew of volunteers to research and restore the Dan- iels Cemetery.

PRESIDENT’S LETTER Happy Spring,

It feels like spring today. It is supposed to be in the 60’s and 70’s today and tomorrow. On Feb. 28th a tornado hit Naplate and Ottawa. Two people were killed when a tree fell on them. That was only 2 blocks north of the Guild. Some houses were flattened and many lost their roofs. We have damage to the Guild building. The neigh- bor’s tree fell on our roof, made 4 holes in the roof, cracked the main beam and broke a light fixture. Our friend, George Conrad, came over and put a tarp on it and covered the probates with plastic so they wouldn’t get wet. The insurance adjuster has been here and so has a contractor. We will get the inside beam repaired and a new roof. We had 2 visitors today, one from Hawaii and one from Texas. It is always good to have people in to do research. Hope you have a Happy Mother’s Day and Father’s Day . Jenan Jobst, President

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MEMBERSHIPS GUILD—2017

Our library continues to grow with the help of a few vol- unteers. Recent obituaries continue to be filed by Carol New Members Wenzel. Family histories are being donated. We have gotten more probate records from the County Court house. Jim PRIVATIZED Keating is digitizing the marriage records and improving the For Members Only quality so they can be easily searched and copied. He is also scanning obituaries. Thanks to our new volunteer, Julie Hallock. she has been helping with all the cemetery photos that Everett Ross took. We are alphabetizing them and putting them in binders. It is a tedious and time consuming job but one that needs to be Change of Address and/or Name done and Julie is doing a great job. Also, thanks to Jim Collins for all his research and for PRIVATIZED proof reading the newsletters for me. For Members Only Volunteers are still needed. Anyone wanting to submit an article or query for the newsletter please send it to the Guild in care of Carole Nagle .

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THANK YOU “Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which na- Thank you to John Neary for your generous dona-

ture has given to all men, of departing from the tion to the Guild. Also, the gentleman from Michi- country in which chance, not choice has placed gan and his mother from Palatine for your donation. them.” We are very grateful for your kindness. Thomas Jefferson THE GENIE’S VIEW PAGE 3

FEBRUARY MEETING County found more probates – 15 more boxes Building was hit by the Tornado – need a new Saturday: February 18, 2018 roof and cracked beam Guest Speaker: John Kettman

Guest Speaker: Rachael Mellon Meeting was opened at 1:00 by Jenan Jobst. Topic: “Irish Genealogy” Minutes provided: by Sandy Vahl To contact Rachael: Gemeni Genealogy, Treasurer’s report was read and approved Attendance: 28 [email protected] If your parents are from Ireland, you are an Irish Guest Speaker: John Kettman Citizen. Topic: Naramoor Cemetery, Kangley Illinois Know your history Mr. Kettman talked about visiting Naramoor Cemetery Know your sources and looking for his great grandmother only to find a ceme- Be prepared to think outside the box. tery overgrown and abandoned. He contacted Springfield in Why the Irish left Ireland… order to find out who is the caretaker of this cemetery. He Religious Persecution found out no one was the caretaker. He was very upset Economic Instability about this finding and proceeded to do something about it. Famine “the great hunger” Basic Sources. He arranged volunteers and took a class for cemetery US Census caretaking. Created some witching rods to locate bodies. He Catholic Church Records & histories has spent the last four years just working on cleaning up this Local Newspapers cemetery. Locating all the family members creating a GPS Passenger & ship lists plat map of the cemetery. In all this time, he still has not Civil War Records located his Grandmother, but has located many other family Illinois Archives Database members of the folks that are buried there. It has become a Immigrants savings bank passion for him that he takes very seriously. Irish National Archives

He could use volunteers, supplies and donations. He Next meeting: April 15, 2017 – “96 Miles of the I&M would like to paint a mural but needs legal access. Another Canal” by Robert Windy. See you there. battle he is taking on. Submitted by: Sandy Vahl, recording secretary To find out more about John’s success in locating his ancestor, like him on Facebook: Naramoor Restoration.

Next meeting: March 18, 2017. The Luck of the Irish for Genealogy by Rachel Mellon, 1:00pm. See you there. Submitted by: Sandy Vahl, recording secretary LANDED ON HIS HEAD And He Luckily Escaped With Only Some Bad Bruises

Joseph Roux, the well known farmer who resides north of the city, is suffering to-day from the results MARCH MEETING of an accident which happened Thursday afternoon. He was on his way home from the city and at the cor- Saturday: March 18, 2017 ner of Clay and Main streets he met a street car. The Guest Speaker: Rachael Mellon team made a sudden plunge, and the jump they made threw Mr. Roux out. He landed on the curb and his Meeting was opened at 1:05 by Jenan Jobst. forehead was badly cut up and scratched. And be- Minutes read and approved. sides that he was bruised about the back and sides and Treasurer’s report was read and approved his neck wrenched. He was taken to the office of Dr. Attendance: _29_ Weis, who attended to his injuries. Barring a number A few items shared: of sore spots, he is feeling quite well to-day. Mondays are the workdays – Volunteers are needed. Ottawa Republican Times, 14 October 1897 Pg. 2 THE GENIE’S VIEW PAGE 4

HISTORY OF THE DANIELS population was approximately 4,500, Rutland’s 650 accord- CEMETERY PROPERTY ing to the 1850 census. The Illinois-Michigan Canal construction was started in The Daniels Cemetery is found in the SE 1/4 of Section 32 1836 and was completed in 1848. In 1854, there was no in Rutland Township, LaSalle County, IL. It is located just Interstate 80. Route 71 was a single lane dirt path that fol- south of Interstate 80, west of Illinois Route 71, east of the Fox lowed the course of the Fox River north and east generally River and 3 miles north of Ottawa, IL. toward Chicago. Rural homes had no telephone, indoor On June 16, 1835 Jonathon Daniels bought the east half of plumbing, refrigeration, electricity or most importantly, the NE quarter of Section 32 (80 acres of Federal Land) for running water. The Lincoln Douglas Debates were 4 years $100. The 1834 Rutland Township Plat Map depicts the pres- away, and “The War Between the States” was 7 years away. ence of a cemetery on the Daniels property corresponding to location of the current cemetery. Jonathan Daniels died in Daniels Family and Cholera 1853 and it appears the land became the property of his son, Jonathon Daniels, his son Aaron and their families came Aaron, at that time although the vehicle for the transfer is un- to the Rutland area from Licking County, Ohio in the fall of known. Jonathon’s wife, Mary, died in 1854 and her probate 1831 along with many of the other early era Rutland set- and will made no mention of land being left to any one. tlers. Jonathon purchased 80 acres of land from the federal In march 6, 1863 Aaron Daniels sold his property to Elias government at $1.25 per acre. Much of the area land was Trumbo although the deed was never recorded in the LaSalle later designated as “Canal Land”:, the receipts of which County recorders office. Elias Trumbo were earmarked by the federal government for canal con- struction. Jonathan died in 1839. J. Frank Trumbo Aaron Daniels was described as “a respectable farmer” December 1876 in the area newspaper articles; he lived in his Rutland home December 12, 1903 with his wife, his mother and 6 children. April 6, 1927 On Saturday, August 12th, 1854, Aaron’s daughter, Mi- October 9, 1942 nerva, 17, took sick with nausea and diarrhea and died with- in 24 hours. By the following Monday, Jonathon, 20; Ruth, Identification: 14; Judith, 11; and Aaron, 4 had also taken ill, and in short The LaSalle County PIN for this Tax Exempt property is 15-32 order, were also dead. Over the next two weeks, Aaron’s -302-000. It’s Map number 14-32-400-002 wife, his mother, another daughter, a granddaughter, a sister in law and a niece would develop the same illness and die. Earliest death Another 7 of their family friends and neighbors would also Latest death die of cholera including two brothers (Channel), a father and son (Head) and an area school teacher (Miss Kinglsey, By Bill Strong who died in Ottawa trying to get to her home in “Tonica Station”), and Garret Galvan, an unlucky neighbor who helped bury the family dead….for a total of 19 related deaths. RUTLAND TOWNSHIP AND THE It takes ingestion of 100,000,000 Vibrio cholera bacteria DANIELS FAMILY to cause a case of dysentery. Infected patients develop pro- CHOLERA OUTBREAK fuse watery diarrhea (“rice water”) with output 20—50 quarts of liquid stool per day, and die rapidly of dehydra- Rutland Township History tion and kidney failure unless the diarrhea fluids are rapidly Jolliet and Marquette were the first Europeans to explore replaced. There are 3-5 million infections and 100,000 the area, but Rene’ Robert Cavelier Sieur de LaSalle was the deaths worldwide annually in contemporary times. The next and his name is give to our county. He established Fort treatment is ingestion of large quantities of balanced elec- Crevecoeur near Peoria, and then in 1682, Fort St. Louis at trolyte solutions. Oral Rehydration Solution is used suc- what is now Starved Rock, across the river from the Illinois cessfully worldwide for epidemics to modern times and is nation village. He left 25 of his explorers to settle Fort St. composed of 5 tsp sugar and 1/2 tsp table salt in 1 liter of Louis. Three years later, Indians attacked the fort, killing 20 water. and kidnapping the other 5. They were never to be seen Aftermath again. Embalming would only become popular after the Civil The first European settler in the Ottawa area arrived in War. Formal cemeteries and funeral homes 1823. The first European settler in the Rutland area was Wil- liam A. Clark from South Carolina in 1829. LaSalle County (continued on page 5) was formed out of Putnam and Tazewell counties in 1831. Rutland Township was officially organized in April of 1850 and was called Trenton Township for the first two years. By 1850, Ottawa’s THE GENIE’S VIEW PAGE 5 weren’t yet established. If there was time for caskets, cabinet LOWELL makers made them on order. Burial was a pressing matter in the month of August in Rutland Township. Garrett Galvan Died at Vermillionville, May 11, 1879, Henry Capler, assisted in the burials, became ill and also died of cholera. It aged 56. The deceased was one of the many passengers is presumed that a “cholera pit” was probably dug on the who came in days of yore on the “Underground Railroad,” Daniels property by horse and plow to receive the Daniels on his way to the Queen’s dominions; but dreading the family fatalities. northern climate decided to remain here, where he made a The prevailing theory of cholera cause was “miasma”, home and an honest living. In his last sickness he was a deadly vapors of unknown origin. Lime was spread on the great sufferer, but a good sister who was with him and kind streets of London during outbreaks in a desperate attempt to neighbors did all in their power to make his last hours com- suppress the vapors. Three weeks after the Daniels outbreak, fortable. He trusted in his Savior and expressed a willing- Dr. John Snow (an anesthesiologist) in the Soho district of ness to die. London would recognize an association between common Tonica News, 17 May 1879 water sources and “Asiatic” Cholera from an outbreak (500 deaths) there and recommend removal of the “Broad Street Henry Capler was born a slave in North Carolina in 1821. water pump handle”. Of 70 plus workers at the Lion Brew- He escaped from slavery in 1845. Henry died a free man 11 ery on Broad Street who got daily beer allowance, none got May 1879. He is buried in the Vermillionville Cemetery in sick. Only 5 of 535 inmates in a nearby workhouse became Deer Park Township, LaSalle County, Illinois. His loose ill but they had different water source. Susannah Eley, a stone now resting under a tree near the west fence south widow in Hampstead, who lived a few miles away from end. Broad Street sent her servants to the Broad Street pump be- cause of “how the water tasted”. Her niece visited her dur- Vermillionville Cemetery Records ing her illness, drank the water and died a few days later. There are now 77 graves in this Rutland “pioneer” or “cholera” cemetery. There is a report that 23 of those graves were brought to the cemetery sometime in the 1950s. There The Earlville Leader are many other LaSalle County “cholera cemeteries”. Aaron January 28, 1915 Daniels was apparently away from town on business at the time of the Daniels family disaster. He would remarry and The Earlville Brick and Tile Manufacturing Co. appoint- move the remainder of his ill-fated family to Kansas eleven ed the following officers for the ensuing year; president, years later. George Hoadley; secretary-treasurer, George Boltz; direc- Compiled by David Manigold, May 2016 tors, Mrs. O.J. Radley, Don Farnham and George Arnold. Herman Haas died at his home on Stilson Avenue Janu-  1850 Census ary 30, 1915 after an illness of one week. Mr. Haas was  LaSalle County Genealogical Guild born in Germany April 22, 1829. Ed Gill, who lived four miles northwest of Earlville ad-  Reddick Library Periodical Archives vertised a farm sale. The Gill family was preparing to  History of LaSalle County, Illinois: Its Topography, move to Minnesota. Geology, Botany, Natural History, History of the Mound Mr. and Mrs. George S. Wiley, formerly of Earlville, builders, Indian Tribes….Baldwin entertained 275 guests at the Ottawa Boat Club.  UCLA Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of January 31, 1935 Public Health George W. Mundie, 76, former Earlville citizen, died Janu- ary 24, 1935, at the People’s hospital, Peru. Next issue will have “The Aftermath of the Outbreak” Mr. and Mrs. Carl Cook were surprised on their 54th by Joseph Boisso wedding anniversary January 26, 1935, when their children brought a basket dinner and gifts. Mr. and Mrs. C.M. Pool of Ottawa, former Freedom residents, observed their golden wedding anniversary Janu- ary 22, 1935, at the home in Ottawa. January 13, 1955 Funeral services were held December 31, 1954 for Mrs. Fred Hutchinson, 48, of Somonauk, who died in the Sand- GENEALOGY TIP OF THE DAY wich hospital December 28. Color photographs from the 1960s and 1970s are noto- January 20, 1955 rious for fading. Sometimes they are blurry. If you Funeral services were held January 19 in the Earlville

have access to photographs from this ear that have not Methodist Church for William Alfred (Barney) Dudley, 45, been scanned or preserved digitally consider doing so. who died suddenly of a heart attack in Riverside January Genealogy Tip of the Day with 16. t THE GENIE’S VIEW PAGE 6

ANOTHER STORM STRIKES OTTAWA Lincoln school building, Ottawa, the large chimney at the Visited Nearly Every Portion of LaSalle County northwest corner of the building was blown over the brick GREAT DAMAGE RESULTED going down with a great crash and crushed through the roof Many Buildings Throughout The County making a hole about fifteen feet square and falling down into Are Destroyed the assembly hall on the third floor. The damage probably be $1,000. That April proved to be the banner storm month during King & Hamilton factory, North Ottawa, smoke stack the past year is evident from the large amount of damage blown down and portion of roof blown off. done in LaSalle county during the past four weeks. About C.E. Fisher, Pearl street, Ottawa, kitchen roof off. three weeks ago a severe wind storm swept over the county Corner Lafayette and Post streets, Ottawa, tree two feet in doing considerable damage. diameter blown down. Another severe storm came last Thursday afternoon and J.A.Welch store, Ottawa, one story addition blown out on evening from which considerable damage was done in many sidewalk. parts of the county, unroofing buildings, wrecking them, de- D. Nichol, barn damaged. Murphy barn damaged. stroying wind mills, tearing down telephone and telegraph Joseph Graff, 1340 West Jackson street, small barn blown poles and uprooting large trees. Before the downpour of rain over. the dust which had accumulated on the streets blew in clouds The Northern Illinois Light & Traction trolley was broken and added to the disagreeableness of the storm. at the extreme west end of Illinois avenue. The damage in Ottawa was perhaps not as great as by the At the Krug home in Dayton township a hay wagon was first storm, but it will amount to at least $2,000 or $3,000. picked up and carried thirty feet before it was dropped. On The farmers of the county suffered considerable loss from the Friested farm a grainary was overturned. On the Durkee the destruction of wind mills and outbuildings. farm a shed was unroofed and fence blown down. John Objects left on the sidewalks in Ottawa were sent flying McCormick had a windmill blown down. Charles Ellis sev- through the air, but fortunately no one was injured by them. eral buildings damaged. Cupula blown from school house. One little girl walking along in front of Fisher’s department Bert Strait’s wind mill blown down. store was struck on the back of the heard and knocked flat on In Wallace township windmills were blown down on the the sidewalk. A gash was cut in her forehead and with the farms of T.S. Flingsty, J.J. Murray and J.F. McDaniels, and exception of a few slight bruises was not otherwise injured. many small buildings damaged. Jerry Studebaker, Farm Ridge, windmill and corn crib Peru and LaSalle not too much damage……. wrecked. The Starved Rock Poultry farm, south of Utica , was a John Thomas, Deer Park, windmill blown down. sufferer from the storm. Two large coops of chickens were G.T. Webber, Deer Park, hay shed and hay stack demol- picked up and carried several hundred feet and deposited near ished. the river. The structures were almost demolished. The Walter Merz, Deer Park, engine house and cider mill chickens were nearly all killed and a great many eggs de- wrecked. stroyed. The coops were sixty-four feet long, twenty feet Rev. A.L. Lockert, Deer Park, roof and side of chicken wide and six feet high. Several hundred chickens were in the house blown away; lost a lot of chickens. coops at the time. The loss will be several hundred dollars. James Warrick, Deer Park, roof blown off from hog A large number of chimneys were damaged in Utica. house. At Streator the damage by the storm was considerable, J.J. Horning, Deer Park damage to wind mill. although worse in the country. West of the city a number of Mrs. Mary Addis, Deer Park, sheds and other buildings windmills were destroyed, outhouses blown down, roofs damaged. blown from barns. In the city considerable damage was At Peterson, south of Mendota, the steeple on the Catholic done to the telephone systems, the wires blown down in church was reported blown down. (now Peterstown) many sections of the city. Several homes were badly dam- At Jacob Richert’s north of Mendota, a hail stone measur- aged. The milk bottle plant suffered great damage, the power ing three inches in diameter was found. house which was quite a large building was almost complete- A. Kent of Utica had a new wind mill blown down, barn ly demolished, being razed to the ground and the fragments twisted and cow shed down. scattered everywhere. ………. Richard Smith, Rutland, corn crib wrecked. Ole Stangling, of Wedron, windmill and barn wrecked. John McDonald, Wallace, residence, barn and cribs dam- Thomas Classon’s coal house was moved sixty feet. aged. Estimated loss $700. L.W. Mers, of Deer Park suffered considerable dam- Dan O’Conner, Ottawa township roof and side off barn, age…….Considerable damage was done at the home of Rich- damage $20. ard Farnworth in South Ottawa. George R. Williams, the Theodore Strawn farm, corn cribs damaged. dairy man suffered quite a loss. The Fair Deal- St. Columba church, Ottawa, slate shingles off. er, 7 May 1909

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CENTURIES OF CHANGE RAMBLIN’ ROUND Excerpts from By C.C. Tisler The Daily Times—Special Section Danway Store Building Recalls Old Customs 30 March 1999 Remember back to the days when huge general stores, 1699 French priests found a settlement in Cahokia, the oldest like the one shown in the picture, were scattered all over town in Illinois rural LaSalle County?

1673—Louis Joliet of Canada and Jacques Marquette of France travel through Illinois. On their return voyage up the Illinois River, they stop at Kaskaskia, a village of the Illinois confeder- acy (consisting of Michigans, Tamaroas, Kaskaskias, Cahokias and Peorias) located seven miles below Ottawa, Marquette died two years later.

1680—LaSalle establishes settlement near Peoria. He dies in Remember how they 1687. sold about everything used on a farm, from pitchforks and Iroquois Indians attack Illinois tribes. patent gall cures to cotton goods and rock candy? Remember now there was usually a post office tucked 1717—Illinois becomes part of French colony of Louis- away in one corner, with the store proprietor adding to his ana. John Law, a Scottish financial promoter in Paris, sells income because of his appointment. Usually the post master shares in Mississippi Company until 1720, when stockholders was a Civil war veteran. When the Republicans were in discover the company didn’t deliver its promises and bought power the postmasters were of that political faith, but when back shares, causing collapse. The scheme succeeded in bring- the Democrats took over the national administration the Re- ing settlers and slaves to the colony. publicans were shooed out. Well, there is just such an old building at Danway, in 1775—Chief Shabbona born in Will County. Later settles in Miller township, northeast of Ottawa, south of Norway. Shabbona Grove in DeKalb County. Persuades some of the Long ago it was a post office and store building. tribes not to participate in Black Hawk War. Eventually settles It did just such a business as the ones already described near Seneca in Grundy County. Buried near Morris. and supplied the wants of farmers for miles around when travel was by horse and buggy and was slow and difficult. 1778—George Rogers Clark and his band capture villages of It was, like hundreds of others of the same kind through- Kaskaskia and Cahokia from the British. Illinois (as well as out the nation, a forum where farmers gathered on wet days Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin and Michigan) becomes county of when field work was impossible, to discuss politics and Virginia Settlement increases. state, county or national governments then in power. New methods of farming were discussed and crop conditions 1787—Illinois becomes part of Northwest Territory, which sets talked over. The proprietor on such days did a good busi- regional boundaries. ness. Autos Ruined Business 1800—Illinois becomes part of Indiana Territory. Gradually business declined as better roads became common and the automobile started to displace the horse. 1809—Territory of Illinois formed. Abraham Lincoln is born The post office was abandoned when the federal government in Kentucky. started the rural free delivery system. Now there is no business transacted at the store. The big 1818—Illinois becomes 21st state in union. Territorial delegate old building has been changed only through the addition of a to Congress, Nathaniel Pope, has northern border extended to garage used by a resident of the hamlet. include Chicago, Galena and much of Northern Illinois. Shad- Along the gravel road north of the village is the private rach Bond elected first governor. State divided into 15 coun- burial ground of Michael Danway. Apparently he and his ties. family are the only persons buried there for there is but one marker and that is to the Olsons. In the spring the lilacs 1820—Vandalia becomes first Illinois capital. bloom, heavy with perfume along the fence of the tiny burial plot. Later the roses supplant the lilacs on drowsy June days. 1821—Legislature appropriates $10,000 for surveying the route Daily Republican Times of the Illinois & Michigan Canal, which would link the Great 1939 Lakes and the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers. THE GENIE’S VIEW PAGE 8

VERY UNUSUAL OBITUARY the most widely known of all her people, being engaged ENTOMBED AT EARL In various lines of business, principal among which was the breeding of fine horses his stud at the time of his Remains of Hon. Charles M. Smith death being one of the finest in America. He leaves a Lowered into Earth Yesterday widow, a sister, the wife of Clifford Belcher, a prominent Impressive Burial Services At His lawyer of Farmington, Me., and three sons, Howard, Late Residence in the Pretty Little City- A.H. and Chas. M. Jr. It is meet to speak of it here that Numerous Floral Offerings –His Personal History and Public for a number of years the cloud of domestic unhappiness Works hung over the man, but what was contained within that -A Great Horseman cloud only he and his wife ever knew. Suffice it to say that it disappeared with the coming on of his illness and There were laid to rest in the quiet cemetery in a pretty that no one of earth more sincerely mourns him than does grove surrounded by waving grain, - two and one half miles his wife. south of Earl yesterday afternoon the remains of one who in His public career and what career can be more public life understood and appreciated the fine points of a race horse than the starter of races-began at Cedar Rapids, Ia., six- as few men ever can or will—Hon. Charles M. Smith, great teen years ago, and, as it seems that fate willed it to close starter, great breeder and great horseman. Gathered at Earl at this time, it is fitting that it has closed where it was yesterday afternoon to witness the fall of the flag upon his begun. Without doubt he was one of the very few start- last starting, were many prominent horsemen from this and ing judges who will be called great when the history of other states and from Ottawa and surrounding cities. His the American race track shall have been written, for no personal friends like him, lovers of horseflesh, came to bid more competent man and no more honest judge than he him a last farewell with the hope that when the great starting could have been found upon this continent. His presence judge of the eternal course shall call him upon the last day of in the judge’s stand at the race course was a guarantee of the race of man, his unblemished character, his sterling hon- honest racing for every spectator, and every horseman esty and his manliness may bring him within the bounds of knew that the first sign of unfairness or of crookedness the distance flag and give to him a piece of the purse of rest. would be most severely rebuked upon the instant of its At the eastern side of the pretty little city of Earl, in the inception. Among his friends he was a royal entertainer midst of a beautiful velvety lawn shaded by the verdure of and to strangers a courteous gentleman. He had of bad tall trees is the Smith residence. Within, at the hour of the habits, practically none. He was moderate in beverages, funeral, were the more intimate friends of the dead man and moderate in narcotics, and an early man to his couch. his family, while seated upon the wide lawn were hundreds In his death horsemen and the public lose a light in the who were unable to find room in the parlors. After a short world of respectable sport which leaves a darkness for but impressive service in the drawing room, the floral offer- there are no cross lights which will illumine the vacant ings were placed upon a table in the center of the lawn, and spot. His place is not filled, and his magnificent stock the three sons of the dead man , assisted by a friend, brought farm must pass away as a thing of other years. His influ- the casket out upon the lawn and placed it beside the flowers. ence in the Illinois Valley circuit is not to be estimated in It was explained that the remains were not presentable and dollars and cents and it would be a fitting tribute to his that the casket would not be opened, the family preferring memory to name with his name the more important race that his friends remember him as he was when he last met of each meeting following the meeting just past. He has them. The ladies and gentlemen then filed by the casket and finished the great race, the driver, life, has dismounted flowers and the pall bearers took up the casket and placed it from the sulky and the track is silent. in the hearse. It was nearly 4 o’clock when the funeral pro- cession left the house and nearly every person present at the The Fair Dealer, 22 August 1891 house followed the corpse to its last resting place. He had been a Universalist during his life and the Universalist minis- ter of Earl spoke in kindly tones of his worth. Mr. Smith was born in 1840 at West Wilton, Maine, and was aged fifty-one years. He was the son of Spaulding Smith, one of Maine’s well-known and wealthy men of that day and at the age of twenty-one years was sent by his father "In all of us there is a hunger, marrow deep, to know our to Earl to attend to money matters in that vicinity. Since that heritage - to know who we are and where we came from. time—1861-he had been a prominent man at Earl, and for the Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow past fifteen yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness." — Alex Haley, Roots THE GENIE’S VIEW PAGE 9

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LaSalle County Genealogy Guild 1891-1911 20th ANNIVERSARY 1876 ATLAS & 1870 MAP of Publications for Sale COMMEMORATIVE ISSUE LaSALLE COUNTY Price $40.00 + 1892 PLAT BOOK OF LaSALLE LaSALLE TRIBUNE 1996 reprint. $4.00 P&H Hard bound, 245 pages, in- dexed and 115 etchings of farms and CO., IL $35.00 + $4.00 P&H. 92 pag- $35.00 + $4.00 P&H es of original text plus 33 pages every buildings. name index. Hard bound, acid free 1899 LaSALLE COUNTY PATRIOT- paper. IC ROSTER Price $10.00 + $2.00 OLD OTTAWA—1850-1930 by John A. P&H “Jack” Hilliard, hard bound, $40.00 + 1850 LaSALLE COUNTY FEDERAL $4.00 P & H. CENSUS $25.00 + $5.00 P&H. 425 1906 HISTORY OF LaSALLE OLD SCENES OF OTTAWA BY Bob pages includes index. Hard bound on COUNTY Index Only Price $16.00 + Jordan & Jim Ridings, hard bound, acid free paper. $3.00 P & H $20.00 + $3.00 P & H 1924 LaSALLE COUNTY HISTORY 1870 LaSALLE COUNTY FEDERAL Index Only Price $21.00 + $3.00 CITADEL OF SIN—the John Looney CENSUS VOLUME II. Price$25.00 + P&H Story by Richard Hamer & Roger $5.00 P&H; Vol. II $25.00 + $5.00 Ruthhart $20.00 + $4.00 P & H

P&H. Books are hard bound on acid CANAL TOWN—Ottawa—$25.00 + $4.00 P&H Cemeteries free paper with index. Vermillionville Cemetery (Deer Park 1880 LaSALLE COUNTY FEDERAL Twp.) Price $6.00 + $2.50 P&H CENSUS, VOLUMES I & II Each St. Valentine’s Cemetery (Bureau Co.,) volume $25.00 + $5.00 P&H. Hard $13.00 + $2.50 P&H bound on acid free paper. Calvary Cemetery (Ottawa Twp) $6.00 + $2.50 P&H 1867 OTTAWA, IL CENSUS (Done Oakwood/Rockwell Cemetery (LaSalle) by the Board of Education), heads of $30.00 + $4.00 P&H household, address, where employed. $10.00 + $2.00 .