Some History of tho VfALUCE, MURPHY l~D COOKE Fn.milics (1600 - 1957)

Compiled by MAGGIE S~LLEE prior to 1920

Editod nnd Complotod by Mrs. H. Chris-Wallaco in 1957

Page 3 INTRODUCTION

After many years or gnthering informo.tion oonoerning our trJDily history and with the constant help I received from ~y mother nnd uncles and aunts and cousins and from Mr. lfilliam Whi tmnn, Mr. Alex Moore, Ur. Ebenezer Wo.llnoe o.nd others, I a.m happy to have my part in sending this little book out with the hope tho.tit may inspire in the hearts or us all u great pntriotism tor our beloved tree lnnd, a gr-enter determination to liva o. useful life, to strive for _the high a.nd holy idea.ls, to livo simply nnd honestly among men, to make ourselves that which my honor Him who created us. Let us be unselfish and hnve n kind thought for those o.bout us who gnve us what we have to look gratefully baok on, -- the memory of a righteous pioneer fe.mily or the early days of Illinois.

"I hnvo tried the best I could to finish what Cou~in Mary Claycome-Grubb nnd I were beginning together. We shnll miss much which might hnve been if she had been spared nwhilo longor. She was so very cnpnble with her well stored mind nnd power of expression. As for myself, in those later yeurs of closer essooiation with her~ I wns ooming to ronlizo und nppreciato more nnd moro her rnro ability and sweet spirit. I folt n true friend had fallen whon she slipped ~wny from this earthly lifo. Tho momory of her bonutiful spirit shall nlwo.ys be with those who knew hor.

"Somo of this history is rathor unoortnin but tho gro~tor pert, by f~r, wo kn011. Evidonco goos t~ uhow wo aro, undoubtedly, of Scotch-Irish doscent, though th0ro is quito an intorosting vr.riety of opinions ns to just how it roally is.

"If wo might only ho.vo hnd tho exact record c..s the ones who roc.lly knew could huvo given it. but that opportunity is gone.

nLot us bo found in tho rnnks of tho Christinn mon and women sooking to pre­ serve our froo schools end our precious libortywhich somo of those, in yonrs gone by in our family. helped to proservo by thoir hcoric sorvioo and sacrifice in the Wnr of tho Revolution nnd tho enrly duys of our country.

"Lot us realize tha.t tho workers in this world c.ro tho only onos of ronl worth, so we must be industrious."

---Maggio Snlloa, 1918

This introduction wns proparod by Maggio Snlleo noar tho yoar 1918 for tho publioa­ tion of the History of the Wnllaoo -- Murphy -- Cooko Fnmilies.

The foll0vting wns written in 1921 by Ma.ggie Sallee's only sistor, Emma Salaee­ Towne, with whom their mother, Pcrndine W~llaoe-Snllae, ma.de her home until her den.th in 1932e

"This history wo.s written by our dear Ma.ggie F. Sallee. She has spent many hr.n,..~ -tn a-A+.+.-IY1a- +:hn f'!\n+.s:! +.no-A+.'hA,.. n.nd .....-1+.;ftO' -Ii:_ HA,- i'o.milv wnA f:pu}v O'Pni:o.f'ul ----- ...... o ...... ~ --.. ~ _...... __....,._ ...... ,.0------~- ·•-.-.----,--c, ----· ------., ------e1 o------for her work of lovo for thom.

"Before tho book wns finishod, she was c~lled to her henvenly home, wo believe ton far gronter work for sh0 wo.s fnithful to tha ond. Po.ge 4

"Maggie Salleo was mo.rried to Don Overfelton September 8, 1920 and died July 3, 1921 r.ftor soverc.. l wooks of patient suff'oring. A raw short months of happy marriod lifo a.nd a.11 hor plans for tho future Wero gone and our hearts woro snd, Sho rests from hor lnbors a.nd mr woPks do follow her,"

Emma. Snlleo-Towno, 1921

In this ye~r or 1957 - noarly 40 year~ after Maggio•~ introduction wns writton­ hor work is boing copiod, nrrnngod by hor plan as fnr ns possible- whioh we found ~...mong hor gonenlogicnl ros~arch nrtioles. All work which Mc~ggie hnd done is pro­ sontod. This will sorye ns the foundation on whioh most family linos mAy bo built ns only n fow will ba brought up to data. So each intorostod frunily line 'Iltly bo insortod ~nd added to Mo.ggio's work for future rafcrenoa,

It hns boon n privilogo to put this work togcthor for my husbnnd 1s family and for our children. Tho greatost effort has beon mndo to keop Mnggio 1s Christian spirit as shown through hor writings nnd ovidant thinking nnd oxprossions so tho futuro doscondants or tho families could renlizo hor beautiful, unsolfish lifo. Thus without lineo.l doscondr~nts of thoir own Aunt Paro.dine, Emma. o.nd Maggio will pass on to tho childron of the other lines oxurnples or bonutiful oharnctors of whom thoy may bo justly proud, They hnvo justified their lives.

(Mrs. H. Chris) Gra.oo Floha.rty~n.llaca Autumn 1957 Page 5

WALLtl,CE FAMILY BIBLE RECORD

The Wallace Family Bible is in tho possession (1957) of H. Chris Wallace, Rt. #1, :Monmouth, Illinois. The Frontis or Title Pago "The Holy Bible containing the Old nnd Now Testnmonts together with the Apooryphn: ------" Printod in 1814 and published by M. Cnrey, No. 121 Chestnut Streot, in Philadolphia, Ponnsylvo.nia.

Family Record - Page One - Column Ona - {in so.me hand writing, the following:) Rebooon Wallace born March the 30, 1771 Margnret Wnllnoe born Soptembor 21, 1773 So.rah Wnllnoo born Septombor 13, 1775 John Wullo.co born July 12, 1779 Willirun Vinllaoe born December 1781 Robert Wnllnce born Fobrunry 26, 1785 Tabitha. Wullaoe born October 5, 1787 Eliza Vvo.llace born MD.rch 5, 1790 Thomns c. ·~vollnce born November 19, 1800 Ha.riot vlnlla.oe born October 30, 1806 (A more recent entry in pencil at bottom of Column - as Column Two was filled)

Thoma.s ?lnllaoo diod June 29. 1921

Puga One - Column Two - (The rest is nll writton by the same person who had ma.de no entrios in Column Ono---so rocord or another generation.)

Robert Wallace born April 25, 1821 Nancy Wallace born May 23, 1823 William Wnllace born June 12, 1825 Ho.rriot Wallace born Novomber 3, 1827 Isano Yinllcoo born Juno G, 1830 Thomo.s Wallace born October 2, 1832 Jamima Wnllaoe born Mo.roh 8, 1835 Mnrgnrite Wallace born :Mny 22, 1837 :MnryWnllnoe born Novomber B, 1839 Pnre.dino W0,llo.oe born July 18., 1842 John Wallnce born Mn.rah 31, 1846

Pago Two - Column One .. (Ona entry undor dee.the)•.

Thomns c. Viallnce died April 9, 1861 Paga Two - Column Two - (Same ontry as in Colmnn One)

Thoma.a c. Wallace died li.pri1 9, 1861 Bhrriot Grifteo .diod February 22, 1877 R.F.M. (Robert) Wallace doportod this lite Septambor 16, 1881, Qged 60 yoors nnd 21 do.ya, 4 mo. Margot Wallace died July 23, 1886 Pnge 6 MURPHY F.tiMILY BIBLE RECORDS

Tho Murphy Family Biblo is in the possossion of H. Chris Vlnlln.co (1957) J Rt. :/1=1, Monmouth, Ille

The first page is titlod "Advortisemont to tho stereotype edition" New York, 1816

FAMILY RECORD

William Murphy nnd Nancy Forguson his wife vras mnrried October the 30th, 1800

Thomas Wa.llo.ce nnd Margaret Murphy his "Hif'e was Mo.rriod April 6, 1820

John E. Murphy and Fro.nky W. Doughty wns ma.rried 1furch 22, 1827.

Susan Jeno daughter of John nnd Frn.ncis w. Murphy wus married to Robert Mc.rshull~ October 6th, 1847 BIRTHS

Vii lliam Murphy vms born Fobruo.ry the 16th on Friday in the yoar of our Lord 1776

Margaret Murphy dnughtor of Willinm and N~ncy was born September 10, 1801 on Thursdny about 11 o 1clook in the morning

Eliza.beth M11rphy wo.s born on lVednosdo.y a.bout 10 o 1 clook in the morning, A:ugust 1, 1804

Jolm Ecols Murphy was born on Thursday about 11 o'clock in tho morning~ October 16, 1806

Nnncy Murphy was born on Wednesday nbout savon o'clock in tho morning, Deoombor 21., 1808

Ro.chel Murphywus born Monday nbout 6 o1olook in tho nrtornoon, June tho 3., 1811

Franky W• Murphy - John E. Murphy's wife - wo.s born November 14th., 1810 Susan Jane Murphy dnughtor of Franky und John Murphy wns born Jan. 31st, 1829

DE.l1.TI1S

Rachel Murphy deconsad this lifo Novomber the 8th, 1816, about 6 o 1clook in morn

William Murphy di6d Ma.rob 4th in tho yoar 1846

Nuney Murphy died August the 26th, 1862 David Newton son of John E. Murphy diad February 27. 1848

Noto: William and Nancy Ferguson-Murphy, Tholll.c~S Clellund and Margaret Murphy­ W~llace, John Eclos ~nd Snrah Jonos~inllnoo nro all buriod in the Ogdon Cemetnry, in Coldbrook Township. Wnrren County, Illinois.) Pnge 7 The Wo.llnoe Anoestry---Robert Wo.llnoe nnd others . by Jlo.ggie So.Ilea & Ma.ry Clnyoomb Grubb

Robert Wr.llcoe., the fathar of Thoma.s Clelland Wa.l.lnce, wns born in Irela.nd and brought to Virg. when n baby by his fnther, thus mnking the frunily Irish with n Sootoh no.me. (Note: Mo.ny Sootoh fnmilies wont to Irelnnd beccuse they were urged to do so by English gov., - a.s Kirkpntrioks, Terrolls).

Robert Wallnoe spoke the English lnnguage with n foreign ncoont or brogue. Mnrguret Murphy-Wa.lla.oe, wife of Thomo.s Clelland Wullr.. oe, _so.id her husband wns Sootoh. He (T.c.w.) never tnlked muoh to his children but Mnrg~ret M.-Vf., his wife, did "sit nnd tell them things". Some ho.vo heo.rd T.c.w. sny theywero Scotch­ Irish. (Note: Robert w. may h~ve mo.rriod in Irelnnd, so mother wns Irish). In lo.tar yeo.rs when Wm, Wnlla.oo, son of Thomns Clolla.nd o.nd Mo.rga.ret Murphy Wallo.co, was living nenr Eureka. Kans., an Englishmo.n-John Wnrr, who livod there said he'd seen Sir. Wm. Wa.lla.oe of Scotlo.nd time o.:f'ter timo und thc~t he-Wm. W.- rcsemblod Sir Wm. closely. It seams the family might hnve stopped over in Ireland for n time on w~y to Amorico.e Robert Wallnce wns a f~rmor nnd ownod lo.nd on the south side of Pilot Knob in Ky. about hulf wuy botwoon Bowling Groon and Gl~sgow. Ha wns married 2 (or 3) times and it is supposed that Thomas c. W~ll~oa nnd Hnrriet w. wore children of the 2nd or last murri~go. It is told Robort w. wns very fond of molnssos nnd mush.

Thomo.s Clelland and Ma.rgnrot Murphy-\Vull~oo lived with his fnthcr - Robert Yf. - on the farm until_ his donth. He was thot to have boon well clong in yenrs.

Thora is somo frunily connection coming in horo with tho 11.llinghc.m fa.mily and John MoMullon, who wns raised from infnnoy by Thomes c. nnd Marge.rot tr• It sooms thnt ono of the wives of Robert Wnllnce wr~s no.mod ~llinghnm und had m. u ma.n by thnt nrune boforo she m. Robert w. Thero nro somo interesting but vo.gue items in connootion with the hnlf siators and brothors, Ono hn.lf si~tor m. JnckWhite-n rich man who had 80 slnvos-lived in Yio.rren Co., Ky. She wo.s the second wife. To.bitha Kilpo.trio Vrr'.s Jnbitho., Betsy Ritchie wo.s Robeooo., Liza. Rnlston wo.s Vizn. lmd o. mysterious rocord- "Hc..rriott \h~llLOO 2 (could moC'.n nge) red hair". John, tho hnlf bro., is thot to havo sottlod in Wnrren Co., Ky. A John Wnll~ce from Ky. visited our family hero in Ill.- vms probubly o. nophaw of Thomas c. w. He w~s n short, fat man nnd thoro was nnothor mo.n with him. Thora was a. John Vfc..llo.oe who livod on o. to.rm 3 miles from tho old Wallnoo home in Ky. He hnd two boys o.nd throe or four girls (nbout tho timo of tho doa.th of Robt. J.'• M. Wallr.. oo.)

Thore ho.a boon o. Washington Walluoo, son of John W~llaoo (b. July 12, 1779, htl.lf' tro of Thoms Clollo.nd w·.) livod in Bowling Grcon, Ky., r.. nothor son li.vcd in Pottis Co., Mo. Somo of Wnll~co fnmily livod nt Arrov, Rock, Mo.

Robort (B. 2-26, 1785-hnlf bro.-) wa.s sont on nn orren~ by his father, vdth n lond, n good wngon and 6 horsos. He rnn away to Mo. with it and sottlcd in Coopor Co., Mo. Had several children.

Wm. (i2-4~ 1781-hnif bro.) cc.mo to iii. settled cast or Mosher Ccmotnry. Uncle Billy nnd his wifo lived inn littlo house in tho Smith Wallaoo ya.rd on what wns lo.tor tho David Mosher fnrm.

Thomns Clollo.nd nnd his ha.lf'•bro., Wm. "Unolo Billy" woro so.id to bo diff'oront from o.t loo.st u po.rt of tho othors of thoir tr.mily a.s they wore the 2 roligio11s_ly inolinede Page 8

After the m. of Thomo.s Clelland Wallnoo o.nd :Mt!.rgC'.. ret Murphy they me.do tho wise decision to booome Christi~ns and wore both bnptized tho so.mo d~y. Tho following intoresting a.ocolm.t ot their stepping out into religious freedom is givon by their son, Thomo.s J. Wnllnce • 10•2.1832--o.s follows: "Father nnd Mother belonged to the nha.rdshell" Bnptist, n church in Bowling Gre~n, of 41 mambars. "Rncooon" John Smith wo.s n preacher ot thnt church. he heard Alexander Campboll pronch o.nd hnd ~ tulk with him, and nocepted the Biblo, and tho Biblo alono nnd wont to preaching it. Ha sent an appointment to Bowling Groon-my Fnther nnd Mothor woro tharo-Smith pronohed 3 hrs. At tho end of his discourse he hold up tho Now Tos·to.ment o.nd so.id, 11 This is tho word of God, by it wo will be judgod. Brothren, how many of you will come o.nd givo mo your ho.nd, stn.nd with me on the word of the Lord, :ind that o.lono?" c.nd my rocollaotion is that 40 out of the 4.1 ga:va him thoir hand, fo.thor and mother o.mong thom, nncf In witnoss tho.t they proved true unto· donth-ma.y tho lord grant thnt wo nio.y provo truo unto doo.th." It wns n regulur thing for thom to nttond mooting onch Iord1s Do.y. Tho mules woro hi tohod to tho wo.gon o.nd tho 'Wt'.gon filled with cho.irs. 'l'vro sons hcvo gone out from this homo to prenoh tho Gospol,•Robort-F.Y.--1821-1881-- nnd Thomo.s--1832-1921~­ Wm.--1825 vro.s nlmost ns good n proo.chor nnd possessed~ splendid tonor voico. Tho Bible wc.s rond in tho homo nnd Thomns c. w. nskod tho blossing nt the table. Tho W~ll~ces end their children Tlero not nfraid of herd work. Thoy woro a genuine typ) of hospitnblo southorn pooplo. Goner~lly. somoome bcsidos thoir ovm frunily finding n shelter undor their roof. Thom-is c.vi. ha.d never hc.d his picture to.ken. After he ngroed to do so in his last illness, he w~s novor nbl0 to do so. We are told that Thoma.s--1832-1921--cnd John--1846-1935--rosomblod thoir rnthar. Ho had bluo oyos and rnther light ha.ir., wns to.11 o.nd slondor of build. Mc..rgurot Murphy W. wo.s a. womo.n of very lovnblo disposition, w=-.s short, s-r1oot with brown hair and oyos. Sho surely "lookod woll to tho wnys of hor household" nnd h~d n kind thot for those outside hor fo.mily oirolo. often sending tho childron off with bundles of things to givo to somebody. She wr.s kind but firm in tho mnno.gomont · of her ohildran nnd 11Aunt Poggy" wns tho tc..m!.liur no.mo by which sho wo.s known. Ono time whon Po.rndino wns n widow and hnd eono buck homo to live at "Grnnd­ mothor" (1fnrgnrot M.-J.11)-P's mothor 1s), ns thoyworc sitting ~nd visiting one ovo, somoono knockod. otis Clnycomb nnd n couplo onmo in. Otis snid, "Grandmothor, I've brot somoono to sco you". Gro.ndmothor (so oc.llod by na.rro.tor•Mo.ggio Snlloo) c.nd tho womo.n thon rocognizod eaoh other, ombrnood enoh other and woro ovcrjoyod. It w~s her sister-in-lo.w (ho.1:f' bro. 1s wifo) 11.unt Polly Vfright from Ky. who hndn1t soon oo.ch other for 30 years. Sho wns n sweat little womo.n nnd &o good, nnd "Grundmothor" hnd longod to soo her, ~nd thot sho 1d novor be nblc to do so. Tho two ant up half tho night visiting. Tho mo.n with her ,10.s Aunt Polly's brother. Grandfnthor was nlwnys willing to buy good books for his ohildron to rend nnd ho read much himself, and 1m.s woll informod on most subjects of intorost. He loft n will nnd tho ostato was sottlod up by tho older sons. Thero wcs n just npportionm.ont to tho hoirs and ns nonr ns cnn bo lenrnod n sntisfnotory settle­ ment of the ostato. Eaoh child got o.n 80 ncro £~rm nnd nbout 20 or more nores of timbor. Bosidos whnt wr~s given thomwhan thoy "sot•up8 housekeoping for thomsolvcs, whioh consisted of n horso, cow, sheep, bod and so forth. AB most r~milies do, this Waliace fnmily, tinnlly, as tho years pnssed sonttorod out to other plnoes nnd today (in 1917) only 3 of tho children livo in Ill.,--nrunoly, Mo.ryWnllace-Bruington, Pare.dine Wnllaco•S~lloo, nnd John E. Wnllnoo~--tho 3 youngest of the ohildron of Thomns c. a.nd Margo.rot Murphy-Vfnllo.oe. Page 9

Murphy Frunily by M'a.ggie Snllee a.nd Mrs. Katherine Fenton

Willia.m Murphyvm.s b. in then. of Irela.nd. He co.me to .Americc nnd lived in Virginin. His son, John,-Bnptist minister-wa.s b. in Va.. June 12, 1752 and wv.s m. ix> Rn.ehel Cooke. a. na.tive of Vn. on Feb. 8., 1774. Ro.ohel Cooke wa.s born in Va.. Vo.y 17, 1753. They moved to Knox Co., E. Tenn., lnter emigrated to the Green River country, Ky, where he died on August 14, 1818. Rachel Cooke-Murphy died in Ky. in 1832.

John Murphy (l 752-1819)wo.s in the Revolutionary War. .Their son# Willicun wo.s born in oastern Tenn., Knox Co. on Feb. 16, 1776, went on to Ky. with his parents nnd there mo.rried Nancy Ferguson. She was born on the Jo.mes River in Vo.• Her tnther vrr'.s Scotch o..nd her mother wns English. Both her parents died nnd she went to Ky. with her sister o.nd brother-in-law, going on horse-bnck. They both died in Ill., Wm, Murphy :Moh. 4, 1846 a.nd Nancy Ferguson-Murphy .August 26, 1862.

While John o.nd Rachel c. Murphy were in Er... st Tenn., he wo.s in the Rov. War. His fnmily who uere loft in o. Tenn. were ofton short of rood and the mother hnd to taka the be.by on horse-be.ck o.nd a bag of corn o.nd go many milos to tho mill. She lert tho older children o.nd told them not to be frightened if night co.mo on c..nd she wns not nt home ns she h~d to go u long w~ys, J~tor dnrk they heard whnt they thot wa.s their mother celling o.nd they stnrtod to go out but Wm. (1776-1846) so.id. "No, that is not Mrunmy 1s voice", and wouldn~t lat his littlo sistors - Peggy nnd P'-0.chel-go to meet her for he knEm it vms a. po.nther. She soon cume and heard tho panther but it did not o.tto.ok hor. Once whon John Murphy (1756-1819) vms riding through the woods n panther sprnr:g nt him but n neighbor who wo.s with him shot c.. nd k.--illed the po.nthor. 1Vm. {l ?'76-1846) would be sont tor the cows nnd ho wns so afrnid of the wild things he'd beg his lit­ tle sister Peggy (:Mnrg~ret) to go with him, tho his mothor h~d torbiddon him t~k.iq; her ns she Tins so smn.11. Onoo some wild o.nimnl frightonod tho horse a.nd sho foll off nnd ho thot for n time he'd killed Foggy so he nover slipped off with her ngnin. Indinns nnd po.nthors woro their consto.nt terror. When John wo.s o.wuy to Rov. Wo.r, his wito Rnohol got so nenr out of food th~t she hn.d only n littlo pioco of b~con c..nd the milk from ono cow. She wont out o.nd followod the oow and whnt she'd oo.t sho would cut for groans and cook for their dinner. While sho was getting the groons she found o. wild turkey tho.t wo.s deo.d, but still wnrm but she was a.fro.id to tnko it for food for foo.r of poisoning her children.

Tho da.ughtors of' John o.nd Rnohol Murphy wero H~nno.h whom. Thomns Forguson, the brother of Nuncy Forguson whom. Hnnno.h 1s brother William.·· They livod und died at Bowling Greon, Ky. Rachel who married Mnjor Potor Butler in Ky. Thay wont to Wnr­ ren Co., Ill. ~nd it wns on his farm tho fort w~s built whero tho fo.milios went for protoction in tho Indio.n troubles. Ho was in the Mexioan o.nd the Blo.ck :&.wk Y!o.rs us wall ns in the War of 1812. Thoy went west to Oregon nnd thus were pioneers of two stntos. They died at Monmouth, Oregon where their son, Irn F. M. Butler still lives (Must be nbout 1913-5 or so). He is 94 yrs. old. Mnrgnret m. Elij~h Do.vid­ son in Ky. nnd moved to Wnrren Co., Ill. nnd then thoy, too, went on to Oregon, and were buried there with their kin nenr Monmouth, Oregon.

"Aunt" Raohel Butler used to tall of o.n ostnte thn.t was coming- to thom throwth- the Cooke's but there wa.s n missing hair. All they had to,do wns to go to Bmrling Green, Ky. and prove that the childron of John and Ro.ohel 0ooko-Kurphy were their sons nnd daughters and they would hnvo received their Virginin estnto. They would not go for f'oar tho.t the missing hoir would bo found a.nd tho.t thoy might defr~ud someone. {Sant by Mrs. Fenton-of Monmouth, Oregon who wo.s grnndda.ughter of John Eokles · Murphy, brother of M'a.rgaret 14urphy-lfo.llo.ce (Hrs. 'l'hOlllls Clellr*..nd w.-), a.nd son of Wm. & Na.ney Perguson-Murphy.) ***** ~ge 10 There has beon c sonrch mndo to obt~in the record of John Murphy in the Rov. Wnr. Tho records of tho Rov. soldiers woro so poorly kept in Tonn., whore thoy woro living. John Eclos Murphy and his cousin, Ir~ F. M. Butlor romcmbcrod hoaring thoir grandfather John Murphy toll of his service so our nccount is by word of mouth.

When John nnd R~chol Cooko•Murphy left v~. thoy took all thoir possessions on ~~o horsos. The first ye~r tho sonson wos bud and thoy did not rniso nny crops and sho ato hc.lf a.s much c.3 hor husbund c.s ho ho.d to work so hnrd c.nd wo.sn 't well, thoy livod on Hickory roots nnd such things.

Wm. Murphy-our unoostcr, was born in Tonn. on Friday, Feb. 16, 1776. Wont to Ky. with his paronts end there mnrriod Nuncy Forguson on Oct. 30, 1800. Sho wnn born on tho Jo.mos River below Richmond in Va. Hor fnthor wns Scotch und her mother was English. Both hor puronts died and sho wont to Ky. with her sister and brothor-in­ lo.w, going on horso-back. Pcrhc..ps Ii~ncy Ferguson ,10.s born a.bout 1770 (dnto-Nov. 10, 1779). Hor sister a.nd bro.-in-lnvrwcro not kind to her. She lo~rnod to reud by tho light of pine knots with tho help of u little neighbor girl. Sho h~d a little room off to herself. She.would go burofoot ulmost to tho mooting plnco or house then pt~ on her shoos which sho hn.d cnrriod. She wv.. s baptized and when she co.me home her sister ~ant off into the woods und stayod ~longtime nnd loft Nancy to tend tho baby, hor sister vrr.~ kind to her after th~t. Thoy hnd wc.ntcd hor to t~ko d~ncing losso!\s c.:t1

W"illia.m :-1urphy--l 776-1846--our uncost.or wo.s c.. fnrm~r. Ho is dosoribod a.s o. very devout Christian men of strict religious principles. Ho wr~s n Bible ro~dor ~nl ho could "tnlk in mooting" nnd tho oldor goncrutions 111oro Bnptists. Ho whi-ttlod out all tho dishes, knives und forks ~nd spoons from wood, l7hcn they first wont to houso­ kccping. They used gourds for dippors. They lived on the frontier n.nd nlmost stnrvctl. Thay sto.rtoc. out very poor but got into bottor circumstr..ncos lr.tor by ha.rd work c.ntl f inc.lly, got qui to c. bit of lc.n

Tho liurphy cc.bin homo wns botwoon whr.t nftorwo.rds been.mo tho Cc.l'rln Luco.s nnd Miche~l Ei-.11 homcstonds. Tho loc~tion in Coldbrook Twp •• Wa.rron Co. ME 1/4 of Seo. 18 is the logc.l description. 1.ftor tho donth of viillirun Murphy on lich. 4, · 1846, his wifo-Nuncy wont to live with their only son, John Eclcs ~Iurphy. Ho ovmod lnnd oloso by his pnronts homo n.nd sold it -rrhon he went wost to Oregon in 1850. Onco a.ftor tm romovr~l to Oregon of thQ Jo}'\_11 E: l~Iurphy fc.:mily, one cf the scns;Jl'fr.u. 1.iur-1:1hy-roda c. mustung pony from Monmouth, Oregon to Ill. He did not hnvo good ho~lth. John Stow­ art bought out John E. Murphy whan ho loft Illinois.

John E. Murphy made arrangements for his mother to go and live with Thomas Clelland and Margaret Murphy..Vlallaoe when ha moved to Oregon. A pathetic story is told of how little great grandmother (Nancy), clung to the back of the wagon when her only son a.nd his family started on the long. weary journey overland. It grieved her so much to part from him and she never saw him again on earth. Pn.ge 11 Nancy Ferguson-Murphy gave the Murphy family bible to her grandson, John E. Wallace6 youngest son.of Thomas c. Wallace. It contains the record of her family and is bound with deerskin. (Note: This Murphy bible is now in 1957 in possession of &rry Chris Wallace~­ youngost son of John E. Wallace - and will go to John Chris Wallaoo, son of Harry Chris Wallace,-both of Coldbrook Twp., ~arren Co., Ill.)

Nancy Ferguson Murphy lived with her daughter, Margaret M. Wallace until hor death on August 26. 1862, being, near 84 yrs. old. She had a room all her own and hor grandchildren sat at her feet and hoard wondorf'ul stories f'rom real lifo, just alike or the same each time repeated, and they learned valuable lessons fr01n hor knowlodgo. Her faculties were remarkably well presorved in hor declining years. Many a night have tho fo.mily bean awakoned from sleop by henring her singing hymns. According to her wish, those who watchod by her corpso sang this song of her scloc­ tion1 "The Angels That Watched Round tho Tomb." M.a.ry and Paradine Wallace and Mrs. Liza Bruner being tho onos who sung. ~-rs. Brtm.cr boing one of thosa usoful persons in tho neighborhood who wont about doing good at such times. It is thought that John McMullen was also one of the watchers. Wm. and Nnnoy Murphy are both buried in the Ogdon Cometary but sad to rekte no stone marks the exact spot (in 1915). Tho little bluegrass mounds being south of the graves of Thoms c. w. and Margarot M.- Wnllaoe. Thero has been some difforonco of opinion as to tha nationulity of tho Murphys. It boing sa.id that they had o.n Irish nrure o.nd ca.me from Scotla.nd. While it is told one of the Murphy grandfathers could not speak English fluontly. The following nro tho names of the ohildron of Wm. and Nancy Forguson-Murphy: 1- Y°Jtirga.rat born Sept. 10, 1801 11 on Thursday a.bout 11 o'clock in tho morning". 2- Elizabeth born aug • 1., 1804 "on Wednosmy about lO o'clock in the morningn 3- John Ecols born Oct. 16, 1806 "on Thursday Qbout 4 o 1clock in tho morning" 4- Maney born Dao. 21, 1808 11 on \'fodnosdc..y about 7 o'clock in 1~,M. 11 5- Rachel born J,me 3, 1811 "on Monday r.bout 6 o 1olock in P.M." · She died Nov. 8., 1816 "about 6 o'clock in the morning".

Eliznbcth (2) married Nimrod Daweoso. The¥ lived in or ne~r Jaoksonvillo Ill. Their childron were Wm., Neely, Mary (Alexundor), Elizabeth (Osborno), Jim nnd Sam­ uol. . John Ecols (3) mnrriod Frankie VI. Doty Moh. 22, 1827. They improvod land in Coldbrook Twp •. John E. Murphy came from Ky. nnd hnd a hand in organizing the first ohurch of the Disciples of Christ in Wurron Co., Ill., which took place in Juno 1831. Ho beca.mo a noted proachor. In u few yoars ho organized u church nenr Donny, assist­ ed to organize ono in 5 mil0s of Oquawka (than o~llod Yollow Banks). Ho ~as a pion­ eer minister of the gospel in tho country a.round horo. Wm. Whitman who had a hurnoss shop mended up his harness and mo.do him now ones Qnd furnished him n full outfit for tho trip wost to Orogon in 1850. Ho is spoken of in a very kindly mo.nnor. His ohildron woro Wm., Susnn (m. Robt. Ma.rsh~ll-Oct. 61 1841), Hondcrson, James, Elizn­ both (m. Al Luons-paronts of Kntharino Fonton) 1 Nancy, Preston, (Emma and Mo.rg~rot, twins.) Nenoy (4) mnrriod Elijah Davidson, they livod in Monmouth, Ill. for ya~rs~ th~ moved to Fayottovillo, Ark. whore thoy both died. Their children wore: lifary {Loe), Julia (married Bedford Murphy). Emelina (Higbee), Forry, Benjamine, Snrah.

Raohol (5) h.E.pponod to a dreadful accident Qnd died from tho injuries. She fell off a wagon load of corn a.nd tho wcgon ran over hor. Page 12 Margaret (1)wour.grnndmotlie~...,as tho oldest child of Wm. and Nancy Forguson Murphy and ~s born and married in a house not fnr - perhaps 2 or 3 miles from tho old Wallaoe.homestoad in Ky. She wo.s a donr good grandmother and is doscribed as tho 11best woma~ in the world", Sho oontrollod hor children but never whipped thom. Grandfnthcr*s tactics boing of tho opposito kind. She slept much bettor when she got out of Ky. for sho was glad to got nway from thoir numerous colored noighbors. Somo of tho Murphy familios owned slnves, Grandmothor wna in pe~sonQl nppoaranco much tho snme ns hor mothor only taller with long dark hnir and brbWn eyes. Sho clung t9 the dignified custom of the _south by addrossing hor husband as Mr. Wnllnco. Horo is an interesting account told by hor children of Mnrgarot Murphy whon she was a beautiful Kontucky bollo. Sho wns quite popular c.mong hor a.oqunintances, nnd once an admirer sent to her, by ono of his plo.nto.tion sorva.nts, a. po.cko.go of silk goods of some description. Sho promptly rolled tho girt up and sont it back to tho young man by the so.mo colored sorvo.nt. Tho sorva.nt snid to his mnstar on his return, "Thero is something Miss Peggy sent to you." The young man wo.s delighted c.nd jumped up a.nd down with joy., whon lo, ho 0p0nod tho paokago nnd found his gift returned. Mr. Walluoo had n bottor atnnding in Miss Poggy1s affoctions.

On.co whon Groo.t Grandfather Vf:m. Murphy had to go off. somowhoro to sta.y a.11 night, Gro~t Grandmother N~ncy Murphy had a couple of womon como into her room nnd sleep noar her and tho children. Thoy put all tho children in bed, and pulled all tho beds against tho doors so no ono could opon tho doors. Sho wn.s nfruid of tho colored peoplo. Somotimos thoro wore uprisings of tho bl~cks and they would kill the white folks.

(Note: This matorinl on the l!urphys wo.s gathered and put together by Maggio S~lleo (Overfelt), daughter of Paradino "FI~llaoe-Snllea who w~s tho youngest daughter of Thomas Clelland nnd Margnrot Murphy~~cllace. Parudine wus born on July 18, 1842. Presented so us to keop the spirit of Mo.ggio I s efforts as her mother nnrrntad it o.nd as Maggie wrote it.) Pege 13 The Old Kentucky Home by 1faggie Sa~lee and her Mother Howwe wish there might have beon a pioturo of the Old Kentucky Home of the Wallace family, but we will do the next best thing, give the best description of it we oan, since we failed in getting the pioturos we had hoped to have.

The farm, one of modest proportions, was located on tho road about half way be­ tw'cen Bowling Green and Glasgow, Kontucky. Bov,ling Green boing tho county soat of -{Tarron Co., and Glasgow the county seat of Barron Co. il. plain, story nnd a half brick house, with two rooms below and two above, was on the south side of and fucod Pilot Y\llob. Pilot Knob being a noted land mark in early times, and was situated firteon miles from Mammoth Cavo, in Ky.

Wm. \fallaoa. son of Robt. F. M. YI"o.llaoo who was the oldor half-brother of John E. 11., wr.s at the old V(alla.co homo in Ky. when he was cnlled there nt the time of his father's death in 1881• and said tho Knob was coverod with small evergreens. There was a Spring on tho eouthsido of tho house. and n littlo farther on the hill. 1"T0rc tr:o graves. Some man told him that one was tho gravo of Robert Wc.lla.co und tm Jther is supposod to have boen his wife.

In Ky. thoro aro sink bolos instead of sloughs. There wns a sink hole ~bout 50 rt. across the top and 20 rt. docp 1-ihioh was about 50 ft. from tho kitchen door. and contained a fine Spring which thoy usod. If we remember correctly, Nancy Wallace Claycomb remembered tho bake ovon in tho yard where they cooked out of doors, and a big tree in tho yo.rd. There was n stage stand of note, that ran from Bowling Green to Glasgow, and it is thought that Thomas Clelland -~7allnoe ovmed the stage route o.nd hired Alex Moore to drive~ and he ohnnged horses ~t the Wallace Tavern, perhaps driving four or six horses to the ste.ge. There is no telling v1ho ~~r hc.ve snt o.s guests in the old tQvern, nt the tabla of Margaret Murphy~nllQce nnd fensted on Kentucky biscuits, sweet potato puddings, hoe cake and bacon, and ~11 the other good things. She snid Faithful Yellow Nance (the mul~tto wife of Bl~ck Rubo),knaw so well how to prepare these good things. Greut loads of passengers often arrived for enrly breakfast. There w~s a great deal of tea.ming done in those days.

YThen poople went to meeting they cc.rried thoir shoos ovor their shouldors to save wearing thom out, and put them on uftor they got there.

Riohr.rd Potter (or Portor, cnnnot tell y,rhich lotter is intendod) of Bowling Green, Warren Co •• who was tho foundor of Potter College in Ky• was a friend or ncq_uaintunce of tho Vfo.llo.oe fe.mily, Robt. F. M. Vfo.llc.ce-son of Thomc.s c. 7r.- o.nd Dick Potter were boyhood frionds.

Thomas c. ?J-a.llnco improved tho farm on Pilot Knob, and fell hoir to tho fa.rm and the nogro serw.nts. It was tho place Pioneer Robert Walluce, his fnthor, had owned before him. His ho.lf-brothor John (20 yrs. older) lived on the north side of the Knob. Grandmother Margaret w. usod to tell Hugh WQllaco Qbout tho old blind mulo that 11sod to go up on Pilot Knob to gra.zo a.nd would not coma down, somebody had t~ ~~ Jet him. The Wullaco fann later went by tho nnmo of tho Mury farm.

Thomas c. and Margaret M.-V!allaoo lived on -t~ho old pla.ce with his father, Robert Wallnce, until his death. Thore wcro many nogroos about thero and tho cabins •ere not far fro~ tho Tavern. Tho little black ~nd ~hita children played together. Robert Wallace loft Thomas c. w. two slQvcs,-Rube end Cy •. Cy was a bad niggdr,­ he1d steal. run off and hide to get out of work. Thomus told him ho was going to Ill. and he ~-s going to fr0e his niegers·but if he didn't behave himsolf he would sell him. Ho did no better. and sad to relate, ~ocording to tho custom of the South, Pnge 14 ho was sold. Rube was a noted nigger of worth, and mnrried c. tree woman, Yellow Nance. They wore a valuable assot to the 1-lnllacos. Thomas c. Vv. had no claim on Yellow Nence but, according to law, might ho.ve sold nll her children if ho hnd been so disposed. let us fo~vantly say with his son. Thomas J. Wcllaoe, "Thank God he didn't." The sl~ves would have nmounted to sovernl thousnnds of dollars. liJ treed Rube and his children long before he would have been compelled by lnw to have done so if he had still lived in Ky. and they nf'tenmrd came to Illinois and sottlod noar Monmouth_ taking the family name otWallaoe.

Yellow Nance wns a faithful assistant to grnnd.'1lother, and she "thought a hoap of luss Peggy", and they got along fine, sho proving herself to be o. gonuino south­ ern "black mmmy" to £rnndmothor 1s (Mc.rgaret) children. Hor little son Dan and Grandmothor 1s littl~ Tomru.ywerc babios togothcr. Tommy would leavo his own Mother and cry for Yellow No.nee. In "A Bit or This o.nd That" in following pc.gos is a story of Robort Wallaoo and the negroos midnight feast. Another story is told about Tho?mls Clellnnd Wallaoo (or wns it his f~ther, Robert?) r.hon ho lived in Ky. Someone kept stealing his corn from tho corn crib, To put a stop to it ho sot n steel trap inside tha corn crib. Ono morning he found a man caught in tho trap. When ha 1d roc-.ched in to got tho corn tho trnp snc.pped and caught his hand. A time came when Thomas c. ,~. rode awny on horsobnck with soma other mon to look at the Illinois country. He didn1t think he wanted to move, at first, but whon he got bnck to Ky. and snw his farm thero, ho decided to bring his tnmily and to try their fortunes in this thinly settled rogion. Grandmother "Margaret" was delighted to come-she wanted to get awo.y .from the oolorod pooplo who wore vory nmnerous thore. She ,ms afrnid of them.

Thom.Els c. w. SQld his Ky. lund and bought 1500 acros from tho government in Coldbrook Tovrnship, Warren Co.~ most of the first purchuso being mado nt ~1.25 per aora. Extansivo preparutions wero ma.do for the moving. They driod enough fruit to lnst ttco yeQrs,-cpples, pears, and pee.ohos. It took nine bushels of green fruit to mnko one bushel of dried. They gathered in bushels of fruit before night und men, women und all would peel the fruit lato into tho night. It was dried in kilns with hont. The monl wo.s made by beating corn in hollow logs with an iron wedge. The women spun yards o.nd ya.rds of cloth, c.nd thoy brought goods boxes full of cloth to bo usad for olothing, bedding, blankets ~nd so forth. Grandmother (Margeret) had women help her w0uvo. "Auntn Batsoy Clayton•a particular friend of hors- both in Ky. and 111.•assisting her in this proparation of cloth for tho housohold uso.

So in the autumn of 1833 Thomas Clollnnd Wnlluoo nnd his family bid goodbyo to thoir old Kentucky home. lo~dcd up their goods for tho long, tiresome journey ovor• land to Illinois. Somowhero wo ho.vo it told that thoro wore nine wneons in the crowd. Grandfather Thomas C. Wallace having throo of his own, Perhaps two big ooverod pra.irio schooners and one smaller wc.gon, with four to six oxon hi tohed to the big wagons and somebody ?ro.lking and driving thom with a stick, Thay nlso had one span of horses. Alox Mooro, Joh..~ McMullen, Yost(?) Huffman and Poto Shelton aBBisting. T'ney aiao drove a hord of cnttlo.

It took n month or six we0ks to come, and they cooked by the roadside. Grand­ mother Margaret washed every night, drying tho clothes by the camp-fire before the~ retired for the night.

They would travol all day and never seo a house. Thoy crossed tho Illinois River on a rnft and swam tho c~ttle and horses across. One river was vory muddy. Po.ge 16

Sovo·ral f'c.. milies migro.ted at tho so.ma time, among thom Isaac o.nd No.nay Murphy­ he was a nophew of Nancy Ferguson-Murphy and c~s thare wo.s illness in their family, they were compellod to stop over and oomo by them.solves lator. A family by name (Ed.) Grounds, and possibly somo of tho Da.vidson family. The Wnllaces stopped to visit Grandmother Jdargarot 1s sister, Betsy Murphy-Deweese, wifo of Nimrod Doweoso who lived nt Jacksonvillo, Morgun Co., Ill.

The Claycomb family is thot to ho.vo come by bout.

Tho long tiresome journey was finally ondod, but n large task awaited the fc.m­ ily in establishing a n<3W homo in the "Prn.irio Sto.te", Illinois. ***** For protoction agsimt the Indians, it was necessary for tho travolers to stay et Ft. Butler, not too far from tho location of tho Old Coldbrook Christian Church ~hich was fotmdod later. Tho men crossed tho "Cednr Fork Creak" to r~rm tho land purchased by Thomas c. Wr.llr,ce, a.nd to prcpo.re tho cc.bin for his fc.mily. Tho cabin was in roudiness by 1834. Further rotarenco is given elsewhere to Mr. Peter Butler of Ft. Butler.

In 1853 Tho:mns Clolland Wallace built the house which is still in use on the original sito, Chnnges have boon r..tade and additions have onlnrgod it in tho meun­ timo. The basement wns wullod uith rock from tho neighborhood of Olmstond's Mill, north of Mom1outh. It wo.s un unusually fino b~somcnt for tha.t early timo and wns planned to be usod for cooking - us the kitohon. Thnt wns not successful nnd such use soon aba.ndoned.

When stoves bocamo the style and firopl~ocs old-fashioned, tho huge fireplace in the wost end of tho house was torn out and tho spac0 used for cupboards noedod for storago. Tho cupboard urea was and still is o~llod "the press". It ~s from this 11 press" that Grc.ndlr.Q Marga.rot Murphy would take out hor little trunk she had brought from Ky. holding hor procious personal things and got mnple sugnr to givo to her grandchildren - John, Paradine, I1'nry and so on.

The stono foundation of the old firoplaco oa.n still be soon in tho ba.sement. Page 16 The New Homo in Illinois by Maggie Salloo and Mo.ry Claycomb Grubb

After the arrival in Illinois, in tho fall of 1833, the 'Vfallacos livod tho first winter near the fort- Ft. Butlor. Tho fort wns composed of logs, set up on ond, in a di+.ch, with port holes in logs to shoot through from tho inside, There wa.s provision mda for shelter and water, on the insido of tho enclosure. It wo.s loouted out where the ones inside could sea wall.

The noxt yoar the Wallace family moved to their fann, in 1834. The first house built on the Wallace farm, was a double log ccbin, consisting of tw'o rooms and n fircpluoa in each ond, north nnd south, and afterward n porch was built on tho wost side, with a little corner room for Grnndfathor 1s harnoss, nnd later a kitchen wo.s built on tho east side, with a room on tho southeast for Great-grandmother Murphy. built, espooially, for hor, and it contained a littlo heating stove and hor furni• ture. Most of the early ca.bins were built a.like :'lith a. firoplacc built on tho out­ side, up part way of rocks and the chimnoy of sticks and mud. The chimneys ho.d to be ,;rc.tchod very carefully, nnd oven then somotimos caught firo and burned partly up. The Vio.llaoos lived in tho old log ca.bin until thoy built tho now frame houso in 1853., thut the children of J.E. Wallcco live in at the present time. All of the children lived to bo grown &nd marriod and membors of tho Christian Church in Coldbrook, except Isaac. ,tho died in onrly youth. Tho frame house wns being oonstructod when Jemima w~s married to Jnmes Bruington in 1853. Theirs and Lll fonnor marriage ceremonios there had been porforjaod in the south room of tho old log cabin. There were two windows in the living room, which we.son tho north side and WGst of the kitchen. Ono window boing about 12 x 18 inches und wu~ close by the wost side of the fireplace and sot at a hoight so a grown person could look out comfortably, but tho childron hnd to stand on something to seo out. Tho other wa.s a largor windm-t on the wost and tmderne~th sot a goods box oontaining Grandmother's bod olothos, and south of that window wns a door that led out to the porch, and souf:;h of the door wns tho stairrvay that lod upstairs.

Thero woro two rooms upstairs, and nll tho partition at first thet thcro were at first betwocn tho rooms was a howed out log that reaohad from one side of the room to the other, and was nearly JGWo feet high. It was a favorite plnce for the childron to pla.y and jmnp over the log on rc.iny days, with the corn-cob,. dolls• The extra mon slopt upstairs.

Undor tho stairway ~ms n little closet whero a barrol of sugar was kept nnd ono ho.lf b~rrol of green coffee, that would have to bo put in puns and sot in tho oven ~nd stirred until roasted. Also sacks of dried fruit ware kept in tho store closet. In the southenst cornar of the room was tho girls bed with c trundle bed under it for tho children and in the northoo.st corner was grandmothers and grnndfo.ther 1s bed, with ~~other trundle bed under it. The little trundle bods, at loust were ~.do by (}ra.ndfuthor. Between tho girls' bed o.nd the olosot, was a. door thnt opo11ed into tho south room. In tho northeast corner or that room tharo wns a bed, also one in tho northwest corner. Evory bed wus suppliod with da,my fo~thor bods and straw muttros­ ses nnd ropo springs with bed frills around tho bedstead.

The south room was the pc~rlor o.nd in tho middle of tho south ond of ·the room was a firoplnoe to mntoh the one on the north sido of the north room. There was a goods box wost of the fireplace in the south room o.nd some splint bottom chairs. These things oomposod the f'lJ!nishings of tho enrly home. V'lhon tho young folks of the neighborhood came in, they were entertainod in tho south room, Grandfathor usu~ ally keeping the door shut so that he could rood, which he wns very fond of doir.ag. The mantle shelf in both tho old ~nd tho new housos was a handy plaoo to keop things. The ono in the cabin being high up and tho one in tho fro.mo house not so high. Page 17

In the new frame house (built in 1853) the fireplace was in the west side of the southwest room and a bed in the northwest cornor and a built-in cupboard in th3 southwest corner of the room. Grandfathcr1s money purse was kept in a trunk in tho livingroon,.• There was silver in ono and of tho purse, and gold in tho other. The children played with it sometimes when their father did not know it, but woro always voey oarof'ul to put it bo.ck in the right place. It didn't po.y thom to trifle ,·:'i th grandfather. Thero wns a tin box mnybe a foot long and not squaro, and a fow inches high, wherein he kept purt of his papers and money. Ho had a little trunk about 2 fact long and one foot wido, with an oval lid, nnd covorod ·with doer-skin, which helct the vuluablo papers and money. It set undor grnndf'athor 1s bed, and the little tin box on tho mantlo shelf, nnd closo beside it calmly roposad dear grandmother's cap box. It was something over a £oot long, with ovo.l lid nnd wooden, and she kopt it pa!.'erod neatly. Grandmother had ear-ache~ and wearing caps helped it nnd, n.lso, caps were quite popular. She took great pride in keoping her caps fresh, and would not wear anything but a dainty littlo cnp. Sha used k!iitting quills, and woro shoulder capes.

The kitchen was a han

Tho .folltlWing is u receipt for o. pomi.d cake, which Grandmother (n.uthor I~inggie Snlleo as told to her by her mother, Po.radine w. Snllec) brought from Kontukcy. It was used to bake wedding c~ka by: Pound Cake Hare is anothor one of Grandmother's old oako 0A eggs----- rocipos: 1 pound sugar 1 cup buttor 1 pound flour 1 cup sue;nr 1/~ !:Ound buttor 2 eggs 1/2 iDC'.oup of mveet cream 1 teaspoon soda. l teaspoon of r.odn 1/2 cup butter milk 2 tcuspoons of cream of tartar Be.ko in a loaf. Don't have too hot nn oven to begin with. Page 18

Grandmother hnd the procaution to keep hor cekas on a high sholt-perhaps there was a rec.son for so doing. Fish was a connnon food, a.nd wild gamo and a.pple dump­ lings, and corn meal dumplings, and in winter time, the prairie chickens WGro caught ~nd kept inn pen under the house, to be used as neodod.

In front of the firoplnco, there was a largo hole, under the floor, four or five feet square, and it was dug out for a little collar for potatoes ond so forth, and the ohildron ware put down thore, with a light, to get tho vegetables, and then helped out. This work not being relished, aspociully, by the children. Extra fino watormolons were raisod in the Fall, and they would stew them up and mko molasses, and put in wild orobapples which ma.do a fine dish. John McMullen wus very fond of pig feet und all the good things Grnnchnothor used to cook. The wild sorrel which graw so abundantly on the unbroken prnirio, is almost gono and the memory is tho most thc.t remains, Tho children used to ga.tl:or groat bc~skcts full of the lec.ves, o.nd Grandmother ma.de sorrel pies, similar to gooseborr~" pie, and they wero delicious. The sorrel grew a grant deal like clover, uith ~ bulb root, nnd the lanves were green on top and tho underside nnd stems woro red.

later a cook stove replaced tho firoplaco for cooking, and a cowwo..s traded for their first clock. Tcllow candles were used, end when they r~n out of candles, which were moulded by the dozen, they would pl~it rags nnd put in grecse Qnd burn th~t for light •.

Grandmother's fresh filled strnw ticks v1ere of consj_ deruble size o Frequently their married children oume home to st~y nll night on Snturd.~y night nnd it wns very ecsy for the grnndchildren to roll out of bed-which they sometimes did nnd thoir deddy1s had to pick them up off the floor. The original lil~o nnd shrubbery roots were brought from Ky. by 1!rs • Clayoomb (Uncle Harrison 1s mother--Uuncy Viallc co the oldest d~ughter married Hc.rrison Claycomb) and through her generosity, the Wallace Homestond blossomed in beauty on tho hillside. Thora wus a benutiful rod roso by one of tho south windows.

The fnrming problem wn.s n laborious to.ska \Vhere the sod wa.s plowed in summor, in every third row corn vms planted, but could not be cultivated ~lthough it would sometimes be good corn o.nd m,..'-l.ke fodder and foed o.nywr:.y. My mother, Pnra.dino, cc.n remember sooing ox teams plmv. Sometimen the sod was not cultivc.tod tho first yeo.r it was plowed up. Tho next spring the ground 110.s mo.rkod off with~ shovel plow, with one horso, and the seed corn wns droppod by tho boys nnd girls, who spent mo.ny won.ry da.ys o.t i·t - not only a.t their ov:n homo but around through tho noighborhood. The men covered tho corn with hoes. Often they snw snakes crnuling nlong the furrown r-rhen thoy v:ont to oo.rry w~tor to the mon in tho fiolds. It wnsn•t anything to kill throe or four ruttlosnakes a day. Uncle Tom stopped on ono barofootcd one time, but he jumped off before it bit him.

Thoy put up tho pruirio gross or hny nbout tho lest of August or in September. Tho boos would storo honey in the sod, and people would dig it out. nnd bosidos oat• ing honey, they would use it for soap. Codnr Fork Crook o~din~rily was n large stronm, und aboundod in fish, and ~ny timo ono could cntch ~ fino string of fish. Thero -wr1.s t!tlok timbor ~ll n.l(rng Cod~r FoTk~ Thg ~rook ttf"/1 to bo f0!"dod before thcro wns a bridge. Grnndfnthor, Alox Moore end Joh.~ MoMullon built the first saw mill in this part of the colllltry, it is snid. It was locntod just oast of tho pro­ sont rond to Cameron on Cedar Fork Creek. The mill ~s run bywntor power, and the so.w swung up a.nd dovm. Talbot Crock vrc..s also a. lnrgo stror.m, many pooplo hnvo boeu b~ptized in both of thoso cr0oks. Thoro was n little villngo started called Cnrroll on v;hut is tho Elmer Bruington homo a.t the present timo (in 1917). Hanry Bruner oom­ monced to build it up, but nftor Galesburg wr~s stnrtod it all wont cnck. Coldbrook was about tho earliest of the townships to be sottled up in Warren County. Po.ge 19

Grandfethor's blacksmith shop wo.s situated ovor south of tho b~rns ~ littlo west. Ho wns very handy nt nll kinds of work, and mended the boots nnd shoes for tho family, nnd pullod tneth with so~o big pinchors. About tho month of April the shoop wero tnkon to the crock, o.nd n pon built, nnd thoy wero wnshod, nnd after nbout ~ woek1s drying, they woro shonrod nnd tho wool tiod up and hnu~cd to Monmouth ton carding machine-u jug of oil nlwnys boing tukon along-then whon it wns brought homo tho women would spin it, bronch it and hunk nnd color it; then wenvo it into all kinds of nocessnry cloth. The 6irls ho.tad to pick the wool so bnd, and thoy also did much spin.ning o.nd knitting. Thoy used to spin so mo.ny cuts a. dc.y • a out being of about 144 thro~ds. Somo could spin fl•om 12 to 24 outs o. duy. They thon knit stocldngs at night. Gra.ndfathor taught his dnughtors to knit, first on foathors thon on wooden noodles. Tho shoop h...~d to bo kopt in an old log house nt night, to keep the wolvos off. Onco Chnuncy Colton of Galesburg, n pionoer storokoopor, (nlso bnnkor--F~rmors and Mochunios) got lost out on tho wide prnirio and wandered into Grandfather's nnd spent tho nir.ht thoro ns ho had beGn ohasod by wolves. Tho younger children of tho W~llncc fnmily romombor whon thcro was not a houso botwoen their cabin home ~nd Galesburg, o.nd when Galesburg was n very small plaoo. )Then Unclo Bob usod to go to Knoxville, thoro was not a sign of a. plnce in Gnlasburg. No wonder pooplo got lost on tho preirie. Unclo Bob hauled whent to Chicago and used to go with companios and on.rap a.long tho wc..y. Uncle 1~·111 onoo took c. wa.gon load of ourod pork to Gulcnt'..., and reooivod ~ littlo money and & sa.ddlo- he got a boy's saddlo~ I don 1t blame him. Of ovening tho children would go out with thoir mother to milk the oows and sit on the rail fonoo and liston for tho tinklo of the boll thnt hung a.round the old "Rod's" neck. Noxt morning, if tho caws ho.d not coma up the night beforo tho children ,vould have to go o.nd hunt thom. Orton thoy would go down in the timber with Grandf~thar nnd find nico fumilios of little pigs by the old logs.

Ylhen tho cotm.try was new, springs a.boundod here r-.nd thero. Often for ycc.rs a nonrby spring suppliod o. family with puro cold drinking wo.tor. The we.tor supply is considornbly diminishod since there ha.s boen oxtensi vo tiling out of tho land nnd thoughtloss cutting off of timbar. A spring at the present time is a ro.ro thing.

Uncle Tom romembers of no wild Indiuns about, but snw tho Cherokee Indians go through Warren Co. inn crowd with a gunrd. The Indians got loud nt Gnlonu, Ill. ~nd passed through somotimos on tho old Galena Trnil, but never bothered pooplo, only ono man boing killed around horo after the Wnllnces moved to Illinois. The govornmont troops pnssed through hero, also, pursuing the Indians, and camped on tho land where Do.lo Bruington now lives (in 1957) and Gro.ndfuther used to r;et tlll tho · lend he neod for bullots from the plncc whore the Gov. Troops cnmpod. Gra.ndfathor was quito ~ huntor and when thoy noodod fresh moat he would shoulder his riflo. He froquontly broueht home n deer. Once Grnn

Wagons filled with chairs nnd drnwn by mule toams, woro n popular means of con• veyo.noe. Singing schools, spelling schools, candy pulls and nll day visits woro foaturos of the social life und yos, jolly bob•slod parties, too, when thoy wore in Page 20 soason. Good sadd~e horses wora common as that WQS tho wo.y tho young peoplo wont pl~cori, canorally. Somo popular games wore Drop tho Hc.ndknrchiof, Blind-man's Bluff, Willinm n Tromble Too, Clubfist, and Chick-a.-Mo-a.-Chick-e..-Mo-Cranoy-Crow. Somo of thu old mules nnmcs ~oro Jaok, Jim, Dick ~nd Wild, nnd they tmdorstood Grcndf~thor 1s will pretty well.

Old Bo.ld wo.s Black Rube •s horse thct he gave Grnndfr.thor bocauso he set h:1.in froo, c.nd it ,ms tho first horse "Unolo" John E. Wo.llnce over triod to work, o.nd ho sn.id Goo and Hnw o.nd couldn 1t IllElkO him go right, for the old horso c.nd 11 ttlo John did not exactly undorstc.nd oaoh other. Wbilo GrnndfQthor sat on the fcnoo und lau­ ghed. Goe w~s to tho right and Hr.w was to tho loft. Thnt wc.s out just north of the house and orchard, end ho tried to plow with n single shovel plow, ~nd Unolo John was a very small boy. Grnndmothor used to ride ~n old grny horse and t~kc the child­ ron with her,

The schoolhouso wo.s n log cabin with firo-plo.co, bench soc.ts o.nd pu:1choon floor. Dr. Trioe, a sohoolmr~stcr~ c.nd vory oo.pnblc pro.oticing physioi~n, sonotimoD pulled tooth for pnticnts during noon hours. Tho first old log schoolhouuo v.;o.s a. little south nnd wost of tho Wcll~co homo. Tho other~ a fru~o schoolhouso, wns fnr­ thor wost on tho road down wost, past tho old George Cla.ycomb fa.rm (now Chris 1."fo.l- 1~00 homo in 1957). It wcs on tho north side of the road on n hill. Many mootings 0.11d singing o.nd spolli!lf; schools being held in the lr.ttcr house. This schoolhouse wns a.:rtcrwr.rd moved to ;-/hat is nov{ t,fu.in St. a.nd wc.s on tho north side of the rond, ~bout ono hQlf mile wost from tho prosont church oornors. Pooplo going for nilos to school a.nd church there, mnny vmlldng long distc.ncos.

Just horo it ~~ght be well to mention another one of tho old sohoolmastors nnd o. fri()nd of tho Wnlluoo fQmily. Ebonozcr Yla.lluco who tnught c.bout tho yvnr 1850. Many of tho Wnllaco ohildron being scholnrs under him. Ho wr.s present at tho timo of tho fnmily reunion in 1912 ~nd s~id he tnught 62 yonrs ~go. No direct fnnily connection has cvor boon cstr.blishod botv7oon tho two fc.m1lics of Yfc..llacos. His £au1- ily formerly lived in South Cnrolina, hbbvvillo District, settling there for relig­ ious purposes. It hn.s o.ppcr.rod to give him plonsuro to spoak of our VTallncc a.nd 1Aur­ phy fa.milos in our soa.rch, in thoso la.tor yoc.rs, for oorroct fc,cts concerning thoro c.11c1 he wns woll a.cqunintod with than. Concerning Thomas c. Wn.llaco ho sc.id, "Ho wc.s c woll inforncd man., self mo.do in rogo.rd to oduo~ti0n, ocoentric, intelligent moro thnn r.. ny of his fuHily. Thoy wcro nll o. good cla.ss of people." He said thr--t ~ur Gr[.ndmothcr, "Wc.s one of' tho best women ho ovor know~ 11 c.nd her fc.thcr - Wm. Murphy - thoy thought so much of, and whon thoy wcro running thoir mill in Monmouth they c.lvrr.ys triod to o.oconvaoda.to groa.t­ gro.ndfc.thor Murphy and hr.vc hia grinding rcc.dy ,·;hen ho wnntod to go homo. He n.lso spoko Tti th high rogc.rd of Ruben lfullccc•thc former slo.vc of Thona.s c. ·wc..llaco - whom ho know woll. Ho tells us tho.t "Ruben 11ns nn imported nogro who hnd been stolon o.wn.y from his nc.tivo oountry. He wns no oonnnon mc.n, nn intelligent nogro, of good standing ~nd knowledge, nnd his children vrcro rospocto.blo." Ebenezer Rallaco was n :mc.n of Good oduc~tion, ~nd vary strict discipline, tho hickory stick or switch being much in ovidonco in thoso da.ys. He boc.. rded ~t Mr. Andy Cl:;;.ycomb 1s holl10 o. lo.rgo pc.rt of tho time, but wont a.round among tho homes of tho scholur-s fi:oquoatly, ~nd no usod to drivo an old hnrso to a homo•mt~do sloigh, end ho would load tho sleigh up with tho children, ~nd tnko thom homo whon he went to their home to visit. Ono of tho favorite trc~ts for his scholars on tho last rla.y of sohool, boing li ttlo crinkled co.kos of mnplo sugur. l!onmouth, Ill. hr~s ben.n his homo for mnny yea.rs of his long life.

Yto desire, a.lso, to express c. ~frord of o.ppraoir.tion of 11.lox '.Moore who wns c. close friond of Grnndfo.thor1s and they worked side by sido, ~nd dny attar do.y ~ge 21

togothor in tho pionoor days. in holping trcnsform the gr~ss and flowors of tho vast prnirio into rich fiolds of wr~ving gr~in and the trocs cf the forost into roils and othor usoful mo.torials. Tho two fCJJilies living nonr togothor for many ycnrs.

Tho old rond ran down south past tho mill, through tho timber, thon onst then in a southlrostorly direotion. Ono Sund~y tho frunily stnrted to mooting ovor to Old Coldbrook Church (not n schoolhouse) ~nd Codar Fork w~s ovorflowod until the water was nwuy north Qnd south und they couldn't bogin to cross.

Tho chartor morbors cf the First Church or tho "Disciples of Christ" orgcnizod in V1f c.rron Co. wore o.s follows: Wr.i. vVhi tma.n and his wif'e So.rah (Ho boing c.. prenchor) John E. l'Wrphy, Fro.noes Murphy Henry E. &.loy, Betsoy G. Hnlay Elijah Dnvidson, Peggy Davidson (of 16 soc.) Hanry Moe.dows, Polly Mondows John G. H..'1loy, Betsy &loy Stophon Howard, Patsy Howr.rd Josiah 1!fhi tma.n, Julia lum 'Whitman

making 16 Charter Mombors a.ud tho da:Go of orga.nizution is Juno, 1831.

1.11 or tho c.bovo named, und moro bosidcs, coming from Kentucky. John E. Murphy soon bcoa.mo n notod procchcr. and other ministers co.mo in from Ky. In a raw yours John l~urphy org~nizod o. church nor..r Den.fly, assisted to org£'.nize ono in fivo miles of Oquo.wka., then oe.llcd tho Yellou Bnnks. Vfm. Yfhitmnn Sr. orgo.nizod one c.t Old Hon­ dorson, Knox Co., il.lexnndor Roynolds crGnnizod 0110 in Schuyler Co., one a.t Jncl::son­ villa, Morgun Co. After that ono was organized ~t Monmouth, in 1839, one nt Tol• bert (Ta.lbot) Creak in 1839, ono a.t Meridian o.nd othc.r plnces. Tho first church building was loc~tcd northwost of whoro C~moron now is, about one mile north and ono-ho.lf :milo west. Grundfc.thcr nnd Gro.nd"::tothcr v1ore rogulo.r attendants of it, n.nd nrtcrw~rds boonne ~omb~rs o.t Tolbert (To.lbot) Creek, when thoy hD.d tho organization on tho north sitle of the Cedar Fork.

Also thoro was another big meeting house called the Morrow mooting house near tho homo of 11 Unclo11 Davy 1!.Iorrow, where our folks c.ttondod u groat deal. l~tcrwa.rd, thoso mo1:1bors scc.. ttcrod out to Gorlo.w, 1-10:nnouth, o.nd Talbot Crook. Unolo Smith -~·:a.lla.oo is a son of -~vm. ''No.Ile.co, tho older hr.lf•brothcr of Grc.ndfc.thor Thom.'1s Clollr.nd -iffo.llo.cc, livod near there und prcnchod there. He ,10.s o. fine prca.oh~r und Eothcr (".uunt Pc.ro.dino" to John's ohildron) i.7ould rnthcr hcQr him preach thc..n to or.t :most anytime, He vrn.s noted for n1ilcs c..round c.s a. very c.:1.pc.blo minister,

Tho following arc tho n~mos of somo of thoso who wcro preachers in pioneer da.ys:

John E. Murphy (Grundmothor 1s only brother) Eldor Livy Hntohott Joseph Murphy Frc.. ncos Brwior L. S:mi th t'la.llo.co Honry l!urphy n.nd Robert F. 1'1. ~vclluco Bodford 1'.Iurphy. Thomns J. \1n.llo.oo,

It is told us thc.t lJJn~ JJ!urphy (c;!9Qr\ t-e;r-nndfr. thcr) ~nd hi~ t-9.-:o brother-a, Isuae ~nd Joseph Murphy, in connection ~ith Alexander Reynolds, Elijah Davidson, John E. Murphy. Wm. rfhitmnn Sr. nnd othors l~id tho found~tion of tho nDisciplos of Christ" in Vf a.rron. Hondorson and Knox Coll.l"'ltios in Illinois. (Noto: This o.rticlo wa.s wri tton by Miss ?:In.ggio Salloo as hor mother, Paro.dine 1Yo.1- laco-S~lloo, told her of hor rocolloctions of hor early life nnd tho stories passed on in the family. As Maggie v1orked 011 this tho evenings of two vri11tors, li.unt Pera.­ dino would sit up Vlith her with a shc.ul uround her shoulders as she reonlled to hor memory theso things of tho past. The c.rtiola was written o.bout 1915-1917) • Pnge 22 High 12" x 1811 Wl- N w - 7 6 10 2 07 ...._ Yf ti. Living Room K 2 ... i w .... t ~ ... C l h s 0 n p -- •··- +-c 0 -- (I] l ,.. '.: ----i-...- I 0 r i--- GJ 0 5 t I E B h ' 1 B 5 Nancy r ... Ferguson• n 1lurphy's ·- .... own

.. Parlor --- Bodroom ! w Vf ~ --- 1 ,·• I -- 4 l f 8 .... . ~ Yi - - s Cabin - Coldbrook Twp.~ Warron Co. - Illinois - before 1850 nnd lnter l - "Goodsbox" for clothes. 2 - Grandpa I s lt'1rnoss - Grundpn is Thom0..s Clella!ld -Vla.llo.ce. 3 • Buttle ...nicture on wall • 4 - Gree.. t-grc..ndnn ~>Iurphy 's bed and room (Nancy Ferguson-Murphy). 5 - Beds 6 - Bed f1r Grandf~ther and Grandmother. 7 - Fireplace with big dog irons, shovels and tongs, 8 • Fire;?lace T.ri th smnller o.ndirons., sho-.,els and tongs, 9 ... T:_\ble ~ 10 .. Cuobo2.rJ... • vi • ·Nind 01-rs. fTl- Little vrindov1, children hnd to stand on e. chair to look out. Children -w:-:.. tchod pr~iric fires from the little window on tho north room of the cnbin. t"i2- Lnrgc ;1inclov1, under which 11 goodsbox" vri th Grandmother 1~ro.rgaret Hurphy-1.~!o.llnce • s becl clothes. H - Collar-hole-House had 1~~ loft. T - Trundle beds where girls slept and John (baby), Mary, Mimo·, Mag. C - Closet - store-room for flour barrels, sugar, coffee, dried fruit, eto. S - StairHcy to the lort - over the store-room. B • Bed that 11Ir:i.ry and Paradine hid under :ind listened to 1,limo and Jim Bruington spark. They were leaning a6oinst the bed sitting in th~ gld-fushioned chcirs. The bed hcd a frill around the edbe and they did not know tho children were there.

(Note: The picture and these oxplunutions were mndo by Paro.dine so mo.ny yenrs ngo thc.t the ?Hper is yellowed o.nd brittlo und poncil m~rkings difficult to decipher. It is son1ev1hnt neur her plan and her explunutions • ..G.F .vr •., 1957) •

Tho "extrc. 11 men slept up•sto.irs - two rooms, 2' hig;h of hewn logs r.ith partition. Page 23

Cooke-Forguson-Murphy~Vallace Stories as told by PQradinc Wollnce-S~lloe to hor d~ughtor Maggie Honey nnd Gourd Story

They didn 1t hnva nny crocks or pans to put honey, sugcr, lard and such things so they raised large gourds, those days, nnd sawed off part for~ lid end ~fter thoroughly ole~ning them would use them. One d~y (not sure- it w~s Nancy F. Murphy or another generation) she w~s rocking her bnby ~nd sitting under the shelf which wns me.de by bo~rds l~id ncro~s the be~ms above their ho~ds. L gourd full of wild honeyw~s on the shelf. She hec.rd something pop up on the shelf n.nd looked up ~nd sc..w thc..t the gourd hn.d bursted o.nd the honoy ,rra.s running do,vn. on the ba.by. It we.a lucky thut the b~by 1s mother was close at hc.nd. It surely ~us c sweet bnby. ***** The Sweet Potato Story

Once when vim. Murphy and his family lived in Ky. c~nd the children wore smnll, they hcd ~ fine swoot potnto p~tch. It turned cold we~thor und the potatoes woro not dug und Grout-Grandfather h~d to mn.ke a trip off to tovm or to mill or some place, I~ftor he vrns gone little Gt-Grundmother (Nr.ncy) told the ohildron thoy ought. to dig tho sweet poto.toos. They c.11 went to ·Nork., tho children helping to pick up potutoas c~nd doing what thoy could to holp for they vroro little chj_ldron. Thoy got them nll dug o.nd in the oella.r undor tho floor. Y\ihcn G. G. Father Murphy cr.. n1c homo he said, "Woll, Nc.ncy, I'm c.frt:id our potutocs 11ill be frozen to-night. tt Then lit­ tlo G. G. Mothor scid, "I-lo, Mr. Murphy, thoy will not be frozen". Sho rnisod tho "doorn to the oollnr, took n oundlc und hQd him look at the nice potntoes~ nll safe from frost. G. G. FQthor vros so glud thQt they were in out of the cold but so sorry h:i.s ,vifo nnd children hud hnd tho hnrd 1':ork of digging them c.nd co.rrying them in.

Tho Little Pig Th~t 1~rc..s Too Much Hog

Grout Grandmother Nnncy had n pot pig. She fed it all tho buttermilk it could ant. Ono dr.. y it overnto, tho next morning when she ·went out to tho poj_~ to sco it, it WQS do~d. It hud bursted. ***** The CJucken Thiof'

Our G. Grc.ndfathor iifm. 1,!urphy got up ec.rly ono :r.iorning to go somo pl~~co. Ho met a. colored 1nnn '\'Tho wo.s tho big[;ost mc.n ho over sr.w. By closer obsorvr.tion ho fotmd tho rec:.son. Tho mc.n ha.d visitod tho chicken roc.sts and ha.d stolen a lot or chickens. His clothos ·were stuffod full of young ohickons. fuge 24 . A Bit of This nnd Thnt

Grent-gra.ndfnther Robert Wallaoo lived in Ky. nnd hnd slnvos. Ono night nonr mid-night, he honrd CI. noise and got up to soo whc.t it ·rras c.11 about. liJ saw a. stir down among tho ca.bins of tho slaves and wont dovm thoro. Ho found a. big orov1d of niggers and lots of good things cooking about tho firopl~oos,-chiokons nnd so on,­ propc.ring for n groat foa.st. Ho told thom thoy hcd to oomo up to his houso ·with thom, sot thom on his tc.blo, nnd oo.t them thore in his house, n.nd ncdo thom do it, (I beliovo tho whito folks v,c.ited on them). Grnndfr.thor Thome.a Clollc.nd ~-,.:~.llncc 11'C'.. s n little mischievous young ono. Thay put him on tho stnirwo.y ~nd shut tho door. Ho 1d opon tho door n bit o.nd C[tll through tho orr..ck, 11 Is it good, Sc.m? 11 "Is it 11 good, Poto? , "Hollo, Dick." Ho toc.. sod thom ell the time thoy wero eating. They woro so plaguod they could ho.rdly oat. So th~t was the wny tho fo~st ended. Margeret Murphy-Wo.llnoe so.id hor fnther-in-lnw (Robort w.) wus good to his sorw.ntsc ***** Thomas Clollund v1allace (Youngest son) got or inherited the nogro sorw.nts and tho i'o.rm. ***** John McMullon was r~isod from infancy by tho Thom.s c. 1f~llaoes. Robert Y/a.llaco mlS mo.rriod 3 times. O:lo wifo wns nnmo ? l.llinghum {vrns it h'.3r ~~iden no.mo?) as nhc had mo.rried nn Lllin6ham (Orm. a McMullen) before murrying Robort 1No.llo.oa. John MoMullon diod o.t the homo of John E. \Inllo.co on Jen, 7, 1892 at 6 P. M, uft3r only o. wcok1s illnoss of pnoumoni~. He was nonr 80 yoQrs old. Must h~vc been born near 1813. ***** 1. lottor de.tad Murch 1st, 1884 v-rc.s rocoivod by Pern.dino probc,.bly from her nephew and wifo, -Billy n.nd Ella Kippor~fc~llc..co,-from Sodc.lio., 110.

11Mr. Martin e.nd 1... llio C-~Ic.. llo.co) a.re mr~rriod o.nd gone. She wao m."..rriod Wodnes­ dny this ~rook and ho.s gono to Eurokn. (Kansus) to live v1ith hor Mr. :Mcrtin. Thoy o.ro boarding o.t tho Hotol at prosont. Hor woddi~g dress wus mcdc of myrtle groon silk and -vclvote For tho wedding din.-rier we hnd turkey, ducks and pressed chickon. There wcro 5 prosont who could pluy tho violin. ( Chris thinks o.mong thom vrould be .i:l.llio I s brothers - Guorncy n.nd Kipper - who were lo.tor outstnnding musicians.) They suro had somo singing thnt dny. Only the kin folks were ~t tho wadding." ***** Dir~ry kept by 111.\,unt" Pc-.ro.dino 1hillnco-Sc..llee I s husbr.nd•Philip Snlloo before they woro mo.rried So.turdc.y - il.ugust 10., 1867--John ~.;!a.Ile.co ca.me to sec me in the ovoning to "fix" for Mo. Monday - L.ugust 12, 1867--'''Phil ,1ont to Gnlosburg nnd bought c. i;,rr.. gon. 11 11 ihursdo.y- .i:' ... ugust 15, 1867•-"fixod ,1ugon bOVTs. Friduy - ..t·:.ugust 16th--"finishod fixing r1y we.gen c.nd 7vont ovor to John Yf.::llo.oos." Snt.-ls.ugust l 7th--"riont to Gc..lasburg nnd got SL"!lon shod, pc:.id out C3.50. 11 Mon.-L.ugust 19th--"fix for stc..rting to llo. 11 Tucs.-.l~ugust 20th•-"stc.rtcd for Mo., ste:.ycd nll nisht south of Roso-ville." Tuos.-Soptombor 3rd--"got through to Thos. Vfo.llr.ces." "houso•rnising, scwod wheat, hunted for door. 1/vont down to Ft. Scot., camo bc!ck to Tom's - killed c. shoop for Tom, huulod o. lond of 1.vood and visited." Frida.y-Sopt. 13, 1867•-"startod for home from Tom 1Ynlla.cos. Viednosd~y-Soptember 18th--" cross od tho :Ho. Ri vcr this morning." Thursdo.y-Soptembor 19th--"got to Bob Vi!nll~oos after Da.rk11 "hunted for turkoys'!. Monday-September 23rd•-"Sto.rtod for home from Robt. Wallcoos this morning." So.turdc.y..Soptombcr 28, 1867--"got homo from Missouri. 11 ***** Pnge 25

Chris Wallace i-ocnlls his futhor (John Eckles Wo.lla.ce) telling that Thomas W• who lived in Mo. had written (1867) to say for John to drivo old horsos on their trip to Mo. On their way south thoy woro stopped sovornl times by men who rode out of wooded aroas and askod them from whoro they cnme, whore thoy wero going, and uf'ter looking thom ovor woll, ospocinlly the horses, lat them go on thoir way. Thnt was the timo of the height of tho nativities of the Jo.mos and the Youngers outluv1ory in that part of our country. ***** Co.moron Christian Church wc.s organizod 1831 in Warron Coe; Ill. Tho first loc~tionw~s at old Coldbrook, from whero other brnnohos wore formed, and from whore it wns moved to Cc.meron and onllcd by that nr\.Dl.ee

Coldbrook Christien Church wns orgQnizod in 1839, the snmo your - 1839 - tho Mon.nouth Christian Church wo.s orgc"nizod. Thoso aro bro.nchos of old Coldbrook Christinn Church. It my hnve boon tho first Christian Church organized in Illinois.

Tho first Christian Church or church of o.ny donominntion in Knox Co. wus organized by Bro. Isaac Gmmn at Old Henderson~ tho church died out.

Thora wcro 16 churtcr members in tho old Coldbrook Christian Church and all from Ky., John E. Murphy among theme other preo.ohors came from Ky. In a few yoo.r& J.E. Murphy orgunizod n church noar Denny nnd ussistod orgnnizing one at Yellow Bunks ( Oqua,vkn) within five miles of Oquavrko.. Wm. Whi tmo.n (preo.oher) organized church at Old Henderson, Knox Co. and, after thut, one wus stnrted nt Monmouth, Tnlbot Creek, Meridrui und other plnces. ***** Church officers ordained by Elder Hatchett (nt Coldbrook Christinn Church), - Elders: Yfm. Griffee, Clo.rk Young. Dea.cons: John E. Vvc.llc.ce, D. Frymire. ***** John E. Wc.llnce I s sons, Hugh and Chris served on the Coldbrook Church Bonrd us deacons for many years. Hugh hn.s now pnssed nwuy.

Cl1ris 1/lullace o.nd his son, John Chris Vf n.llace, serve o.s Elders in the same Coldbrook Christian Church in 1957. ***** Page 25 Letter from Elwin Clnyoomb of Eurekr'.~ KLins~s - Written ~bout 1933

I hc:ve been requested to write c sketch of the lives of Grundf~ther ~nd Grnnd­ mother ~1Ta.llcce, nnd to give my impressions of them ns I knew them.

Tho!DC'.s Clell~nd W~llace, son of Robt. Yfallcce was born Nov. 19th in the yenr 1800 in Warren Co. in the state or Kentucky.

lfn.rgaret 1.!urphy, daughter of Wm. n.nd l'innoy Murphy wns ,born Sept. 10th in the yeo.r 1801, in the same county nnd st~te.

In this loonlity thoy grew to r~:rJx,od ~nd womanhood, nnd were married April 6th in the yecr 1820. Their home in Kentucky wns on tho Robert W'nllnoe homestead, situ~ nt0d C'.bout hnlf way between Glasgow and Bo,,,ling Green, nnd not far from Mt:mmoth Cave. It wus on n stage route between these two plnoas, nnd wns n st~tion or stoppin plnce whore they kopt nnd ontortnined tro.velcrs. Attor living there a. nmnbor of yeurs, they considerod the quostion of rinding a now homo inn now country. With this purpose in mind, grandfather, with a party of other man took a trip in a north­ westerly diractioh, and finnlly decided on u locclity botwoon tho Illinois and Mississippi Rivers, in vfurran Co., Ill. This move being heartily socondod by Grand­ mother Yla.llaoe1 they bognn proparntions for breaking up tho old home in Ky. and es• tnblishing unothcr in the now sto.tc. of Ill. And boing f'ortifiod with thoir Biblo, a strong Christian Spirit, and an oquipmont for moving, as it w~s dono in those days, they stnrtod in the Fo.11 of 1833, on this long and nrduous journey. They finally stopped ono milo north of the Old Fort ~fl1ich vms situated two milos wost of the pro­ sent tovm of Cr.moron, whoro they spent tho first winter. Th~-t £a.ll Alox Mooro a.nd John 1-!cMullon broke the first 8od on wh.c-t wns to be, c.nd is now known ns tho old Wallaco Homestead, loc~tod throe milos north of Cameron. While doing this work, one of thom, hold the plow, Qnd tho other drove the oxon nnd thoir plnco of h~bitution wr.s o. rail pen.

Robert nnd NnncyWallnce, tho two oldest children, w~lkod three miles ~nd car­

ried -nrovisions to them v1hile thcvV were doing this work. Aloe Moore end John Mc~fullen aocompc.niod tho Wn.llnces from Ky. to Ill., and during their ,1holc livos wore friendly to und intinK~toly c.ssocir:.ted with tho family. 11. sketch of the livos of Thomo.s c. and ~Iar~urct Wall~oa ~ould hnrdly bo complotc without ~n honor~ble and frntornnl mention of those two men. Tho old homostcad wns purohnsod from tho United St~tos Govormnont. Potor Butler being gov. a.gent, nnd loc~tod o.t the Old Fort. After boooming settled in Ill • ., Gr­ cndfuther and two other men wont b~ck to Ky. on horseback to close up his business uffairs at the old farm. Gr~ndmothcr and the family hnd almost despaired or seeing him age.in whon one night a.f'tor dcrk, somo ono ruppod on tho door vvi th c. riding sv1i tcL. r.nd Grandmother said~ "That •s Pap. 11

Here nt this place they began tho life of tho pionoor nnd hero thoy livod for tho romainder of their livo3. Tho red man and his squnw hcd just gone, and we might nppropriutoly sa.y with tho poet, Whittior: "Behind tho Rod Squnw 1s birch ca.noo. Tho Stoumor smokes and raves, A-~ .... .:.a..~ ... ,_.a.._ ----- _.J__, __ ..3 ,11 __ -;-,.L•- -•,u.u. v.J. '-'J .LU\10 <-t..t-V tjt,t\~(.1\1 J.Or 3~ e Above old Indinn gra.vcs. I hoar the trends of pioneers, Of nations yet to be, Tho first low we.sh of waves, V~fhorc soon shnll roll a. humrtn soo.."

And· they like other c~rly settlers of the now stnto of Ill. uorc Q fine typo of tho ear1y pioneer. They wore fit ['_nd sui t0d for such vrork, bronking the rnw sod, Pnge 27 subduing a wild and new oountry. building~ home, establishinb c church and tho school, n.nd appropria.ting the best to bo had on t~ now c..nd virgin soil, Thomas c. Walla.no built the first s~w mill in that vicinity and had n black­ smith shop. In tho houso wcs tho loom for wea.ving cloth, and in and out of doors was ovorything needed for the m~nufacturing of most of tho noccssarics of tho home ~s was required in a now country in those early days. On tho fnrm, after the pionoor days wore about over wore tho heaviest hogs, tho bost mule teams, the struightost corn rows, and the greatest yield to the acre to bo found in the neighborhood, and in the hou.se wa.s the so.me thoroughnoss, a.nd excollonoe of effort o.nd a. hospitl:\lity thnt oould not be excelled. ·

Personally. Grandfather Vfa.llaco wa.s o. spa.re built m~n of mediwn h0it;ht, and rather light complexion. In his re:mer and spcooh he ,vns o.brupt a.nd often o.ppo~~red stern, but uotwithstnnding these truits ho wns rcverod, and respected by everyone. Industry, honesty of purpose, and uprightnoss in nll his deulinss wero his predomi­ nant chc.raoteristics. He wcs not a collogo grnduc.to, but had c well disoj.plinod mind. Ho wns n greut re~dcr of books, history nnd biogrnphy being his fnvoritcs. He wns well informed on a.11 current Cj_Uostions of tho timos.

Tho Do.ily Newspnpor w~s not road or knovm then, ns it is today, but tho good old reliable weekly nm1spa.por was o.lm:.ys to bo found in his hour,e nnd this ho thor­ oughly r0cd nnd digestod. Ho was u close obsorvor of men and events, and his judg­ monts wore ma.inly correct nnd imp~rticl. His rending, observation nnd foresight onr.. blod him to predict the coming of tho Civil ·;:h·.r of 1860--1865. Ho did not livo for himself' n.lono, bnt for his family n.nd his followmen. In his o.ccumul[ttion of property. he providod 80 c.crcs of good Ill. lc.nd, or its oquivnlont for eLch of his children.

It is with such thou.6hts thr.t I romonber him in my younger and boyhood dr:ys1 and to hcvo k.1owr1 him us I did hns alwayD been Q pleasure and an inspir~tion. Near tho close of his life ho hP..d plannod tlmt ho and GrZ;.ndmother and ·the three young'Jr children - lliry, Pnrndino, c.nd John E. - 11ould go south ~~nd spend tho winter, but fr.iling hoa.1 th prevonted the fulfillment of this axpect:rtion. li. rnpid decline of health soon sot in, and h0 died .ii.!:)ril 4, 1861 at the o.go of 61 yrs, 4 mo., 15 days.

Grandmother N~rgarot Murphy was nlso spcro us to build1 had not u lurgo frnmo und u complexion ~ornowhnt between light and dark. Sho was a woman of groat industry Qnd wonderful ondurunco. During hor mnrriod life sho boro and nursod eleven child­ ron, On tho roa.d from K.y. to Ill. my nother, than Nancy lfiallc..co, and a younc ;sirl at thr..t time, told nc thnt sho carod for her brother Tom~ tho bnby, while Gr~nd- . mothor cookod for tho mon and tho f£imily n.t camping timo. Sho wus c provident house­ wife vri-'Gh o.11 the virtuos which bolongod to so me.ny of tho wivos of tho oo.rly pion­ aors in those dnys and, which wo cro ~11 glad to speak of as bolonging to our ~othors. Sha w~s dcvotod to her family and it scomod thut she could not do enough for thom, or nnyono who hnpponod to be nonr her, or of her household. In writing or spec.king of the oc..rJ.y pionoer, tho mun is usually pla.cod in tho forefront. Ho it ,1as who got out ~nd minelcd uith his fellows. Ho went to tho ol0ction, wont to mill nnd tho trc..di~ post whilo tho mother nnd wife kept a.nd gucrd0d tho homo, c.nd wr.itod for hL~ who wnn nooossurily a.way. Vln.iting is the hr:.rdost work in life, wa.iting for him f.L n ·+.· f' ~ rl"ll - ~ "--.t- - .!~.!~-- .r, __ ..,_,__ ----·-- __._ - come or wh__ o l l noan 1: QO!n.-j ?m.l.:l.ng ... or .... :m...: ...-- o •. \.i. VI. .... J,.l.J.6 v-,C;..1.uJ.!46 J.Or tlilU r~J.n 1i0 I tho drought to ond. Grc..ndrnothor Y{c..llo.co could -vrr.it vrith fortitudo nnd with pr.tionco. She was nindo of tho stuff tho. t could onduro trin.ls, hardships., c.nd afflictions nnd hor ondurnnce -r1r.s not in n noisy or doraol1strnti ve .,:rr-.y I but wn.s tempered vri th roo.son, and Q doop and solid religious consecration. In writing of this doer und good womo.n, I ~m ocrt~in thc.t I onn..~ot spcnk too highly or too -:•1011. I hrtvc c.lwnys tbo: 1 ght th~~t sho co.r10 c.s non.r embodying [.:11 tha Christian virtues as 1tis possible for any person to attain. Such ere my impressions Pa.ge 28 of her, o.nd I saw her nnd know hor intimately until I had grown to mnhood. She lived ton ripe old ngc. and died on tho 23rd of July, 1886 at tho ngo of 85 yr., 10 months and 13 dnys.

i'ha religious livos of those two poople can oasil~r o.nd appropriatoly be con­ sidered togothor. They wero both members of~ ohuroh which takos tho biblo for itc Crood, and to it they aro piously dovotod. As a boy I romombcr Grandfather Wnllnco coj1ing by our place on Slm.do.y mornings with his family in tho lumbor vlt'.gon on his wuy to tho old country ohurch, which evoryono in thnt -rlcin.ity attended, nnd in thoir homo wr"s c..lwnys round a strong and hoo.l thy roligious o.t-raosphero. Th-: childron nll beco.mo mombors of tho snmo church, und two of the sons, Robert ~nd Thoma3, bo­ c~mo ministers or the gospol.

If in this sketch I ho.vo upponrod to givo Tho:rnns Clelland a.nd Marge.rot 1iullnoo a high plnca in the social, civil nnd religious life of thoir d~y, it hns boon fr~~ c.n honest oonviotion of mind gc.inod from observation o.nd tho testimony of :many 11,ho !:new thom, and those of us who o.re tl-1oir dosoenda.nts., cnn vroll bo thankful t~°lL'!.t v10 havo such ancestors.

In a corta.in sense thoir livos are continued in us, a.nd oc..ch of us hnve nomo physical, mental, moral nnd religious tr~it or chnructoristio of those two people. Thero is more than o. memory of then1 left to us though mnny yoo.rs he.ve passed sinc-3 th~J wore with us in the body. Something that has como r~r down tho courno of timo with us and n part of us. Thero is a mystery o.bout this transmission of life from person to person, nnd from gonorution to gonorntion. But it is that which mc.l:cs ull mr.nkind kin n.nd every man our brother. Nations sink· and rise but humanity is im• mortr.l. I do not feel Justifiod in closing this skotch v1ithout o.cknowlcdging to my cousin, Miss Maggio ualleo, my indobtodnoss for ma.ny facts and suggestions used in its praparction.

By Elwin VI• C1r~ycomb Page 29 August 26, 1933•-0elebration of the 100th Anniversary or the Wallace Family's Arrival in Illinois In honor of this great occnsion of the hundredth ~nniversary of the o.rrivo.l or theYlnllace Family in Illinois, a great number of the relntives gathered nt the John E. 1~·a1lace home, south of Coldbrook, on Saturday, i;..ugust 26, 1933 :ind enjoyed o. pic• nic dinner o.nd progrnm. John E. 1'-rallace is the only one left of the eleven children of Thomas Wa.lla.ce a.nd Mc.rgnret Murpl:y-Nc.llo.ce who co.me from Y1Sntucky in 1833. J. Cre~th Wallace ?res in clk~rge of the meeting VThich was opened by the entire group singing "Praise God from lVhom 1~11 Blessings Flow" which was led by John Parker. This wns followed by a. prayer by .i"'rnold Bruington. ii.i'ber this the meeting wns turned over to Lurn Vlnllaoe ...Pa.rker who oonduoted the rest of the progrrun. Mrs. Clara Mar• tin read a scripture from the !.turphy Bible, dr.ted 1814 o.nd Mrs. Ollie Frymire rood tho T!o.lln.oe Bible., dated 1816. Both bibles were taken from the covered wngon upon their urri'Vt'.'.1 in Illinois. The eleven children of the originnl frunily were mentioned and their descondents that were present wore roquestod by John Cree.th ·~fallace to stnnd by groups 0.11.d ea.ch branch 0£ the family vras represented by n spanker. Group A - Robert Wnllnce married Catherine Claycomb nnd had two childron -­ Billy llc.. llaoe and Ho.rriet Vlallc.ce. No descendants were present. Mow living -­ Billy Vfallnoe deso.-J. K. (Kipper) Yvc.llace, £'. slide trombone player living in Los 1.ngales. Dr. Gurney c. Wullace, n lending physician in Denver, Colo. Blancha Wnllaco. Harriet «nllaoo m~rriod lunber Smith - son lunber Smith.

Group B - No.noy ~fallace mo.rried Hilrrison Claycomb. Elwin Clo.ycomb - Eureka, Kans~s, only living child. .A lotter wns ron.d from him.

Group C - \Afilliam lffallnce ma.rried Mary 1.nn Claycomb. Loren Yi~lla.ce of Ca.rth­ nge, Mo. only living child.

Group D ~ Hnrriet Wallace married William Griffee. Ollio Frymire--only living one of nine children. Fiftoen descendants prosont.

Group E - Iso.ao Wallace -- not mtirried.

Group F • Thomo.s J. Wnllnoe married Honriotte Ho.lay. No dose. prosont {Dr. and Mrs. Mallard to o.rrivo in ovening.)

Group G - Jomim.~ Wallace marriod Jamos Bruington. Clarn M.~rtin and daughter present, Group H - Margaret Wallaco mnrriod Jnmes Barnett. Ahn Bradley represented the desc. Present a.

Group I - :Mary l!'la.lla.co mo.rriod Goorgo Bruington - 19 dos. present. Arnold Bru­ ington represented that branch or gt"()l;p. Ho told how tho family had kopt tho old home­ stond for 100 years, and hart tho old fireplaoo is still standing although it has been rebuilt rooontly. Ho also romindod us that our groo.t grnndfathors holpod ost• nblish tho church. Ho said, "W'o can a.11 be proud thnt our nnoostors havo done so much for us."

Group J - Paro.dine Yfallccc married Thomas Griffeo, later Phillip Snlloe. Two children, Emma and Maggio (left o. history "Now Homo in Illinois"). Mnggio mar:riod Don Overfelt in the summer of 1920 nnd diod in full of 1921. Em.mn married Goorgo 1 Towne. George Tawno. Emmo. s husband1 we.a present c.nd represented this group. Page 30

Group K • John E. Wnllnce married Sarah Jones and later Elizabeth Fisher. Seven children by Snroh Jones, all clive - present Lum, Mnry, Sarah~ J. Creath, and Chris with Mary in Los l.i.ngeles and Hugh nnd Frank not able to c.ttend.

John E. Wnllnce 1a talk on August 26, 1933 at the reunion

'~7ell, I run no public speaker, but I will go bnok to things thc~t hnppened wny b~\ck beonuse those thin~s come to nry mind better than the present. My gro.ndf'ather ~:fm. Murphy, a.nd gra.ndmother, Mnncy Ferguson Murphy, came or went to Kentucky from Tennessee about 1790, and they brought everything they had on two horses o.nd they settled at Pilot Knob. The first yeo.r they didn't ro.ise much. They didn't h:.ve muoh o.mmunition und whet they ho.d they snved to kill Injuns. l~d the next yecr their brother-in-l~w came out und they built n little pen arotmd the house to keep the wolvos out. One day they were sheo.ring the sheep and the Indians co.mo on the!Tl o.nd after they drove them in their house, one of the women made a bullet by ohmring a. pioca of lead nnd killed an Indio.n with it. Her husbc.nd wns killed und then the India.ns set the houso on fire. They tried to put it out with wo.ter c.nd couldn'.t nnd then sho got down and wiped up the blood of her husb~nd c.nd put out the fire. Thnt took some nerve. So you know t~ey hnd n pretty no.rrow esca.pe.

"The floor of the oabin was called punchoon flooring nnd tho sn~kos could coma up through tho floor. "Sha" was rocking tho baby and n great big copper-head cumo up through o. crack in the floor. "She" grabbed a. boe..rd a.nd cr.lled tho men in a.nd they killod it. That was how thick the coppor-heads wero. lind "he" henrd something in the le~ves and ho thought it vms n sno.ke nnd he walked up nnd put his foot down and ho struck it agninst some scissors and ho thought the sncko hnd bit him and thon they ldllod n okickon und put some blook on it and gnvo him some whiskoy, thon thoy hunted for the snako and when they found tho scissors ho felt better. Ofu, sho and they - meaning 'Vim. Murphy and No.ncy Forguson-Murphy - grandpa.rents or John E. Vfallo.ce) Arter that they built a bettor hcusc and my daughter (Mnry Viullace-Ryder) was back to Ky. two or thrco yoc.rs ago and the house wos still sta.nding and in good repair. Thay found the grnvc of one sister end sho wus buried in the ycrd. None of my bro­ thers or sistors ever hnvo beon back except my brother Bob and ho wns 1.~•ithin 15 milos when ha was killod nt u reilroad crossing.

"In 1833 the dc~ughtor MurGo.rct Murphy ho.d married Tholll£'.s c. 1lallace o.nd they came to Illinois and sottlod on Peter Butler's plnoe not far from tho Fort Butlor in 1larren Co., Ill. John McMullen broke this field up in the Fall of 1833~ and thon the noxt Fall thoy moved ovor horo ~nd built clog cabin of two rooms below and two ahovc and the beds stood one above tho other. Ono night compnny camo homo with thom ~nd they put an old lndy in with me. Whan I woke up tho noxt morning I bont it out of there and she alwa.ys cn.llod mo hor husbo.nd. Thoro woro tvro fireplaces, one r.t one end nnd one ct tho other. vlhon company camo thoy made them beds on the floor. In 1853 my fnthcr built tho Old Homostcnd. In the 100 yoars tho.t this lnnd has boon in cultivation it would take sovcrnl trucks to haul tho products off. •~vo wont to Old Coldbrook to church, it waa undor tho troo closo to whoro Oscar C1.1rtis livos. Vfo would got in tho wngon a.nd go off through tho prnirios. There wcro two grac.t ravts or posts throur-;h it (church) to hold it up. I got cross one time and, they handed me out the window to Tom and Jim Gardner and they took care of ma. The church at Sodom dividod and part went to Gorlaw and tho other p~Tt mot at a school houso. I was ono of ·tho officers and I vrnnt you to know thut the Biblo is tho mnin thing in life. Some nights I go to bod and I can1t sloop and those passages of &cript11r';l mako mo strong. Wo ought to study the Biblo. If a mo.n doosn 1t study tho Bible he do~sn•t know whothor ho is living right. It is worth ovorything to huvo it said. "rloll dono thou good and faithful sorvnnt." I give tho credit to my dear mother. I wns loft without n father whon I wus snnll nnd sho took so much pains with mo. I think pooplo do not pay enough nttontion to tho Bible, it is worth all to us. too6 if we livo right. I hopo you will all try to road tho scripturos moro and I will ask John (P~rkor) to load "God Bo With You Till Wo Moat .hgnine" Pnge 31 Mr. Chris Wallaco read n letter from Elwin Claycomb whioh told of his experience. with his gra.ndmothor.

It was mentioned thc.t John E. '\!ia.llaoo I s gro.ndfc..thor v1a.s mt'.. rried throe times and Mrs. Nat Yotm.g gave a talk represonting one or these branches of tho frunily. ~Vm. V/nllaoe)

J&r. Dell Frantz of Monmouth go.vc a short talk. Mrs. Eo.rrison Frantz wr:.s also present. Mrs. Boll Portor nnd Goorge Portor represented tho Allingham family. Mrs. Bello Portor gcLve a talk. lliss Audrey Parker rec.d a paper written by :Maggie Sallee, "New Home In Illinois.' Mr. Creath Ho.llo.ce then spoke of w.rious other achievements of the Wa.lla.cos o.nd u ni0.i11ont of si le11t prayer 1;10.s held in revorenoe for Mrs. Jessio Dnvie' son, Elmer. who go.vo his life i'or his country. The improvement in orops a.nd livostook were men­ tioned nnd Uncle John {J.E.w.) suid, "Thoy came to Illinois in tho Fall a~d in tho Sprinb thoy ·\·,ore o.lmost wi·bhout food. Ono of thom killed n goose o.nd in its ora.vr they tound some boans and planted thom and I still hc.ve some of tho.t stook. 11

Nr. C11ris 1:~Thitma.n end Mr. Goorgc Towne gn.ve prnyers for the younger ge~.1era.tion of V'fcllac()s v1ho uro to carry the no.mo of :"fn.lluce on dawn thruout tho coming years. They v,ero prosontod 1rvith souvcniors of this c~r.JJivcrso.ry by Creath 1'fallnce which wore ono ounc.,o s ilvor dollars v:i th 1833 to 1933 c.nd with '":l nl luce ..,:'i.nni vcr sury" - 100 yoars ongrnvod thuraon.

i.!r. Leslie P~rker of Los hngoles guvo u tulk in which ho snid1 •~10 nro nll go­ in~ an, novor canwo go bock. Wo cnn 60 bnok ~nd trace footstGps of our ancestors from the ago of timo. thoy e:.11 point o,:nvr..rd. Nono point be ckvro.rd. They uro o.11 go­ inG onv1::l.rd •. This group ,·:ill novor moot ago.in o.rter todc.y. It is impossible to get two groups together the snmo wo.y. It !Uny be in ono yon.r, ti vc yon.rs, or ton, somo Itill be o.bsont. Ylo nro going on c.. s this poom implies. "Ho than rocitod tho poom, "Ono Hundred Yoo.rs from No·,1•"

"Ju1d so wo are all going on. Our forestops pointing ono direction--ON. l(,t us wa.lk by fv.ith, wo cc.nnot wn.lk by sight. It hns bean so.id that thoro a.re three irapor·bunt things,-tho most important timo., tho most important plnoo, o.nd tho most inr portant thing. Tho ri1ost important tim.o is tho prosont, tho most important ple100 is tho prcsont pluce und the most important thing is to do good to one close by us. Faith in all throe stops. They hr:,d thoir homo hero, tht,1Y ho.d their ohuroh, thoy had their inith in God nnd in Christ. So shnll wo press onward in fQith and God 1s choicost blossing rost upon you." Mrs. wslio Parker (noc Lurn Vfc..llo..ce) montionad thc.t Unole Tom and Uncle Bob wero preachors from the provious generation nnd that sho had vowed thorc would bo n preacher in the J. E. Wa.llaoa group. Since J. Crea.th vlo.lla.oo chosen by his mothor to be n proachor and nnmod for one, hc.d fnllon down on thn.t high calling, she wus oducating hor son, John 1vo.llaco Pnrkor., to bo o. proo.chor.

John Pn.rkor led tho group in singing "In tho S1w·1oet By and By." lu-tor whic,h Mrs. Ieslio Pnrker dismissed the group with prQyor. Page 32 Paradine ~?~allaoe 's Story ~arrat~d bv Paradine Sallee to Emma Towne "' Paredine Elizabeth Wallace was born on July 18, 1842 in Coldbrook Township, Warren County# Illinois in the old log cabin. She was the youngest daugnt~r of Thom.as Clelland and Margaret ~{urphy-l!'!allace. She grew to womanhood in the old ho~e and went to school in the old log school house. Dr. Trice being teacher until there was a school house built out on the prairie where she finished her education. She always had to help r:i.ilk and do all that a .girl was stron6 f,noubh to sta:1d at her e.;e as the brothers had gone out into homes of their awn, except her younger brother, ,John. The girls helped their father a 6roat deal "1ith pla.nt­ inf; corn in tho fields and picking "down rows" of corn in the fall and pulling vreeds.

Ortea Y·Ihcn she was a little girl and her mother and Aunt Betsey Clayton were picting ~c~::.se., they told Paradine she could go to the houso and get dinnor. She did::i'·t; c:;;:actlJ1 know haw to do it but she made a pumpkin pieJ without eg;s, and the folks all thou$ht it was r;ood. That v,as pro:t"lably the fir:=;t meal she ever cootod. Sha progressed from th~t pum.p1:in pie to peach cobblor~ biscuits, pres0rves a·:1d ovorythi11; good ono could thin:c of to oat. Cooking being a quality for 1:"hich she ,vn.s 110-tor:.

She was just as proficient i11 th0 othor departments of housc-lrcoping o.nd homo­ kooping.

Paradino was of medium height and f8ir with blue eyes and light hair and rather plump. Among her virtues, she ·r:as possGssed of onorgy end axJcutive ability v::i1ich in her lr.. tor llf'c ~,las a val uo.blo a ss0t.

On Juno 16., 1861 si10 1?us married to Thomas s. Griffee. Elder Lucy - the father of Dr. Lucy - officiatins• They lived on ll farm :1cr father gave her, vast of thEJ old L;nr~an You:1g home. Thuy and :,.r. Gifford 1 s f elks b6ing their ~ei6hbors. Later the·v sold that farm to Calvin Lucc.s ['.nd bou:i~ht o. f0.rm one mile east of whero t~10 J - presc!'lt Coldbrook Church stands. That ino.s also land v1hic'h her father had formerly o-r:~1od. At this place !·r. Griff0e di~ci of typhoid favor in tho year 18,34, uged 24 years a·:.d 8 months. They sufforod ·the loss of an ini'a.nt son also. ~.:r. Griffee ws.s a fine :t11~11 of happy dispos i tic-a Qnd w,:.,ll liked by tho so ·who kn(,'VI hiJ.1. Eo v;as born on ::arch 13, 1840., had blue oyos and had an ao•.indanco of light 1~.i.ciry medium size. 5e Vi'nS bc:.ptizo

: ... ftcr her husband's den.th Po.radine went back home and lived with her raother and John until the year 18G9 when she mc.rried Philip l~c.,ridoth Salleo., on July 25th.

They 1tvc:~1t to a home he hc.d prcpurod for her, t~7o miles north of the Coldbrook Cht":rch. Thoy "'::c.rc mnrried in thi: ovonine; on Sundf.l.y, it vro.s rainy and the mud wa.s d-:op. The coro7riony illus road in t~1c old pc..rlor, by EldorHenry Murphy. The bride was o.ttirod i~n r·. vrhitc. lr,vrn dross ·with little blue flo~1crs in it and sh0 v1orc a white br8..itl bon"l'l•Jt wi t~1 w7hi to trimmings and cc.rricd a dainty fnn.

Pt..ilip ; I. Sallco vt:.1..s a thrifty fc..rmor, t~ll, fuir a:i~od; with blue eyes ~nd d~rk hair, ·r.rhich beer.me groy vcr~.r co.rly in life. He w.:1s of a plccsnnt disposition~ even tori.1p8r. decidedly upright und honest in his dealings and thotful of the poor n.nd needy. Ee wa.s a groE:.t lover of childr:Jn nnd wc.s 2- ho.rd worker all of his lifo. He got vrhs.t ~10 had b~y· hr.:.rd licks and good :mo.nugoment. I-Ie was born in Buckinp;ham Co., Va., rc.r~h 15, 1832 c.nd oo.:mo to Illinois in 1837 with his father end mothc:- - .Abisha v.nd Lucy Adcock-Sallee - along with his brothers and sister. They first settled in Kcll~r Toi.mship, ·1'fa.rrcn Co., Ill. 3is groat grandparents on his fathor's side wore scid to hnve corno from Fronce in 1742. Page 33

In 1867 - mo yocrs boforo his marriage to far~dine • ho with John E. Wallace and some other young men m~dc n trip overland into Missouri and down into .K::!nsas. Phili, Salloo wns n groat rc~dcr and student end took religious and other papers c~nd kept up 17ith the times in currant events.

.l:.bout ~~'lo yoc.r 1858 au.ring the first wock in Dccon~1Jcr ho wns baptized by Elcic:r Smith ..?:tlle.oo vrho wc.s holdinf, o. revival 1i.1eotir1£• He was o. doacon in tho c:·.ristian Church c.t Coldbrook a.nd tc.u6ht in the Bible School; at on.e time ho hc.d r. clc. SG of young mon. rle was a mc.n or o:::omplary ha.bi ts o.n~ commanded the respect of l1is r.oquaintc.ncos .. It hus been sc.:icl of his fc.th,Jr by n life long o.oquc.inta.noc c-.:.... t}-!C £a.:t1ily, "Ea vtr-:.s n man of' unflinching integrity., his word was o.s g~od as his bon.d. ?;1ilip Sullc~. and his brothers wore men of the so.me stamp of :,·our grnndf~thcr, as business m~n."

To this union two 5irls were born. Em..,no. Luey on April 16, 1871 c.nd ?laggio Fr~nccs 011 :Tov. 26., 1876., both born in Xolly Twp •• on the ft..rm. Their father died in 1881, Oct. 12th, at t:10 uge of 49 years and aftur months of suffering.

Parndine 2nd h0r girls continued to livo at the old hone until tho fall of 1884 1v-h.e~ tho house "'NC.. s built on tho farr.1 over south, in Coldbrook ~;p., o.nd one nilo ccst of the Coldbrook Church. Thoy livod there until Sept. 30, 1899 whon they bou6!1t a homo at 201 GGrfiold Ave. in Galesburg r.. nd tho throe moved to town. i.'!aggio and her mothor continued to livo there after Emrnu was marriGd to George E. To·rmc of Cobden, Ill., on Jz~nunry 2 7, 1903 end movod to tho homo in Coldbrook ,·,hero they livod until Emma's dca th. ·:~ncn 7-·aggio wo.s murri:,:;d Parndinc Snlloe movod to the old home t't:10 miles north of' Coldbrook end spent the rest of hor da.ys ·with EromQ un

All of' t}1c fo.mily of Pc.re.dine Sc..llco hove been members of tho Christian Church, for she :.1r:.d always said she would never mf-.rry a mc.n that was not o. Christian and sha l:opt :ri~;r -rrord. She wus baptized by Eldor Smith ":ifallcco in Codr-r :i·ork Creek c.bout 1857. Th0rc vrore 17 pe,-,plc joined tho church tho sama day she did, -v-.~hile Uncle Sj:-~i th ·, ·all[·.ce wo.s holding n meeting at old Coldbrook Churci1. They ,-vere bc.ptizod ":7cst of t]1c bridge on the CG.:i:1cron Road• The banks 111ere lined with people c.nd soir1e t;VOn climbod up in tho trees. This was the bogi1ming of a bcc.utiful Christia.n life which hc.s continued through the changing years ri'ith unfaili!lg and incrcQsin6 f~ith.

Iier ohildrej.1 have triod to be fni thful n.nd true to her, for l7hose low and fc.i thful:aoss she thc.. rrl::s God. and George Tov'1no has been a true loving son-in-law.

Durin6 the time this family has boon struggling along, fatherless, thero havo bcc:..1 mc.:.·1y 'boys., a.t different ti:rnos, who found a home n.nd a chance to attend. school in return for tr..'.;ir good honest work - doing chores and so O?le The memory of some spociul ones is very pleasant a!ld tho mother of the homo found a plaoo in her heart for them as wall ns her m·fn children.

?erndine S~llea WQS a teacher in tho Bible School at Coldbrook for about t\7enty yea.rs nnd at one time taught a splondid class of young people. Hor hands a.re o.lwc.ys busy 1:.ri th some usoful work. And hor "own works" do surely "praise her. u Wallo.co and :Murphy Family Linongo Page 34 Robert Wo.llnoe b o. 1750, possibly Irelnnd m. c. 1769 to Jemima. - D. o.nd buried Wo.rren Co., Ky. Children: Rebecca b. Moh. 30, 1771, m. Ritchie 11argaret b.Sept. 21, 1773 - So.roll b. Sept. 13, 1775 John b • July 12, 1 779 Wm. b. Dec. 1781 m. Na.nor Robert b. Feb. 26, 1785 - Tabitha. b. Oct. 5, 1787, m. n Kirkpntr.ick or Kiipatric Elizn b. Moh. 5, 1790, m. ~Ralston ****Thomns Clelland w. b. Nov. 19, 1800, d. Apr.9.1861, m. Ma.rgo.ret Murpltf Harriet Oct. 30, 1806, diod young

Thomas Clellnnd Wnllace b. 11/19/1800, d. 4/9/1861--m. 4/6/1820 in Wo.rren Co., Ky. to M&rgaret Murphy b. Sept. 10, 1801 in Wo.rren Co., Ky.-d. and buried Ogden Como­ tnry. Children: Robert F.M. b. Apr. 25, 1821, d. Sept. 16, 1881 m. Catherine Clnycomb N~ncy Wnllnce b. 5/23/1823 - m. Ha.rrison Clo.ycomb William \ia.lluoe b. 6/12/1825, m. Mtiry lum C10.ycomb, d. 2/22/1877 Harriet b. 11/31/182.7, m.1Ym. Griffee Iso.a.c b. 6/6/1830, d. young Thomas b. 10/2/1832, d. 6/29/1921, m, Henriettn Haley Jemimn b. 3/8/1835, m. Jo.mes Bruington Yr1.rgr.. ret b. 5/22/1837, d. 7/23/1886, m. Jo.mes Bo.rnett Mr.ry b. 11/8/~839, m. George Bruington Pnr~dine b. 7/18/1842, m. 1 Thos. Griffee, 2 Philip Sallee ****John Eolos b. 3/Sl/1846, d. 3/10/1935, m. 12/19/1867 to (1) Sa.rnh Jones b. 8/8/1845, d. 12/21/1886 (2) Elizaboth Fisher d. 4/11/1921

John Eoles Wo.llnoo b. 3/31/1846, d. 3/10/1935, m. 12/19/1867 to Snrnh Jones b. 8/8/18451 d. 12/21/1886 -- Both b.-d. ~nd buried in Coldbrook Twp., Wnrron Co., Ill.- Ogden Cemotnry. Children: lorn ~ngiolo b. 1/1868, de 5/16/1871 Hugh Moses b. 3/3"i/1870, d.1937 Fra.nk Thomns b. 6/11/1872, m. 5/25/1912 to Holen Luons Lurn b. 9/26/1874., d. m. 9/5/1906 to Leslio Pnrkor Ma.ry Jones b. 3/6/1877, m. 8/10/1907 to Fred Ryder Ja.oob Cro~th be 4/6/1879, d. 2/13/1953, m. Stella Schlnrb Ho.rry Chris b. 2/13/1882, m. 9/22/1920 to Gr~co M. F1oho.rty Sa.rah b. 3/13/1884., m. Loo Lucc.s

John Murphy (Rov, Soldior) b. 6/12/1752,***** Culpepper Co., Vn. - d. 8/14/1819, Bowling Green, Ky., m. Culpoppor Co., Va. 2/8/1774 to Ro.chol Cooko be 5/17/1753, Culpoppor , Co., Va.. d. 1832 c,t Bowlin Greon, K • • ~ ,n _._.,._ JJ.,~1, f / 1T6 -~ ~•• ildran: Iso.a.c m. Nnncy ~ ~ - fln> .c,,.,.~..... ~l!..ll:.li~,,,,,,,,,,_~-·· 4' Josoph (procchor) G,- ~~---- ~: 1 John c),V)'V ~ Hosea. Soth Cooko Ho.rgnrot m. in Ky. to Elijah Davidson: moved fro..~ Ky, to_lft;,nmouth; IlL Rnchol m. Mo.jor Poter Butlor, c.lso -bn Qr:ega to Monmouth~ Oregon. Hannah d. in Bowling Groen, Ky., m. Thoma.s Ferguson WillitlID. Murphy 2/16/1776, d. 3/4/1846, Warren Co., Ill, m. Nancy Forguson b 11/10- 1779, de Aug. 26, 1862 Coldbrook Twp., Wcrren Co., Ille., Ogden Cemot~ry. ****Childron: Mnrgarot b. 9/10/1801, d. 7/26/1886, m. Thomas Clollo.nd W~llnoe Eliza.both b • 8/1/1804, m. Mimrod Dowooso S~ _ John Eclos b. 10/16/1806, m. Franky Doughty - ~ ~e,,,rv ~ No.ncy b. 12/21/1808, m. Elijo.h Dc.vidson Rnchol be 6/3/1811, d. 11/8/1816 Page 35

Rooord or Yln.r of 1812 for Willio.m Murphy

\Villio.m Murphy- Corporr.l. onlistod 9/1/1812 to 10/1/1812 in Capt. Honry Ja.mos Co.,

2nd Regiment Kontucky liilitic...

Roforonco: Sam Hills Kentucky Soldiors 1812, pa.ge 62 Kentucky Soldiers War of 1812, pngo 61

Willia.m Murphy wns born in Fobrunry 16, 1776 (2/16/1776) in Virginia and diod on

March 4, 1846 (3/4/1846) in Warren Co., Illinois - .Ogden Camotury.

On 10/30/1800 wn.s murriod to

N~ncy Ferguson wr..s born Novombor 10. 1779 (11/10/1779) in Virginia on Jrunos R. below Richmond and died. August 26, 1862 (8/26/1862) in Coldbrook Township, Wurron

Co., Ill. c.nd is buried in tho Ogdon Comoto.ry there. Nnncy 1s fnther vrns Jumos

Forguson.

Willirun Murphy and Nnncy Forguson-Murphy hnd five childron. M."l.rgar.ct b • 9/10/1801, n1. Thomas Clollnnd Vio.llnoo Elizaboth b. 8/1/1804, m. Nimrod Dowoso John Eckles b. 10/16/1806, m. Fruncos Doughty (Doty) Na.ncy b. 4/12/1808, m. Davidson Rnchaol b. 6/~/1811, died young

Mnrgarot Murphy b. 9/10/1801 in Wnrron Co., Kontucky nnd diod on July 23, 1886

(7/23/1886) in Coldbrook Twp., Wnrron Co., Ill. und buriod in tho Ogdon Comot~ry.

On 4/6/1820 sho was married to

Thomas Clollnnd Wull~co wns born November 19, 1800 (11/19/1800) nt Bawling Groon.

Tiurron Co., Ky. und diod on 4/9/1861 in Coldbrook Twp., Wurron Co., Ill. nnd is buriod bosido his wifo in Ogden Cometary. Mnrgnrct Murphy-Wnllaco nnd Tho:rnn.s Clollund Vfnllaoo hnd eleven ohildron. Robort r:o.lluco b. 4/25 1821 m. Co.thcrino Claycomb a.nd d. 9/16/1881 NnnoyWallaoe b. 5/23 1823 De Harrison Claycomb Willian Wallace b. 6 12/1825 De Mery 1~ Claycomb Hnrriot b. 11/3/1827, d. 2/22/1877, m. Phil Griffee Isn~c b. 6/6/1830 Thomo.s b. 10/2/1832. m. Honrottn Ho.loY. d. 6/27/1924 - diod vouna: Jomimn b. 3/8/1835, -r.i. Jim Bruington - - · · - - 1{-,,rgnrot b. 5/22/1837, L'l• Jim Bnrnctt M~ry b. 11/8/~839, m. Goor6c Bruington Pnrudino b. -7/18/1842, m. Griffoo, lntcr Phil Snlloo John b. 3/31/1846, m. 12/19/1867, to 1 Sur~h Jones b. 8/8/1845 in Wnrron Co., nnd 2 Eliznboth Fisher Page 36

Cool-:o Fa.mily History (Gnthorod bufore 1915-By ~10ggie Salleo and Mrs. Katherine Fanton)

The family is of groat antiquity. Normo.n De Cooke nnd Robert De Cooke were wit:1.csses to a gra.nt of land by DoPercy to the ohurch of st. Peter and Hyldea at Whilby. Yorkshire. Robert De Cooke and his son held the hereditary office of Naster of the Cooke of the i'1Ionistary. This was about the middle of the 12th Century. In Beaston Yorkshire the family was called Gales (or Giles) de Cooke: the former part {Giles) being dropped. Robert Cooke and his wife Katherine were living in Lavenhait Sussex about 1400. Their son, Thoniis Cooke., was Lord i1:iayor of London in 1462. His son Sir John Cooke was one of the private secretaries. His son, John Cooke, married Alice Saunders: and their son was Sir Anthony Cooke "The English Scholar" who was tutor to Edward VI and was knighted at his royal pupil's coronation. His wife was Annie Fitz-1'Tilliams and one of their daughters married Nicholas Bacon; and t~ey were grandparents of Lord Bacon. Many of the family were in Parliament and they ware all from the Yorkshire family. **** Frances Cooke-?ilgrim-waa from Yorkshire and was a member of Robinson's Church when they went to Holland in 1608 to escape the persecutions that tho "Separatists" were subjected to in England. He went to Holland from England with the original Pilgrims. He was married at Leyden the June 30, 1603, to Hester Mahien (or Mahieu) from Canterbury., England. She was a Huguenot. 1~·1hen the Pilgrims embarked in t!1e :·:ay.flower, he and his ten year old son John went vrith them; leaving his wife Hester and the other children at Leyden to c omo later on the ship nAnn". "Robinson's Letters to Gov. Bradford"

Francis Cooko was the 17th Signer of the Cape Cod Compact before they 10ft the :.~1yflowor and built one of the sevon houses built a.t Plymouth. He and his son escaped illness. "Captain 1,;iles Sta11disl1 e.nd Francis Cooke bein6 at work in the v1oods came homo leaving their tools, v1hich v1ere taken by the savages. This e;ave us occasion to keep more strict wutch and to make our muskets and equipment ready, which by the moisturo c,nd ro.in ·wore out of tamper." -- Frain "Eradfords Plymouth Plc.nta.tionst **** Frances Cooke died at Plymouth on April 7, 1663. His will dated Oct. 7, 1659: nnd is vritnessod by Joh__n Aldon and John Honland. His son John was the lo.st of the ~1.:Cyfl0v-1cr Passengers to die in 1694 ~t Dc.rmouth. They wcro prominent men in the colony. The son Jol1n married Sarah 1'Varrcn - dc.ughtcr of Richard ·\•lurron, tho .,.... . 1 . .Pi grim.

1.-:0 o.ro descendants from Fro.nois Cooke - Pilgrim - through the Va. desccnde,nts. 1~fillia.m Cooke ..Hns th0 father of Rr.:~ohcl Cookc-Yurphy - wife of John Murphy. '1Hc , ..... - . - - - was digHificd aiiii impo8iae; in &ppc::-~runco ~na gra[:,:;.ty-~ rospec-cca oy n1.s neighbors.".. Ho was in the Revolutionary :far, had 6r::1.~1ts of land, c.nd lived after tho manner of a. "Virginie Gcntloma.n." Seo vrc.r record ut end of article.

Yio do not posses tho dates of ·ffm. Cooke's birth or death nor know whero ho is buried et this time {1915). There w~s u John Cooko, brother of Rachal &nd thut is the only one of whom wo'ro cortain. Tvro other brothers Hosea and Jesse lived in Ky. and woro ~illcd by Indians ncur Fro.nkfort, ry. in 1792. Pf\ge 37

Rachol Cooka ,a.s a native or Va., born May 17, 1753. She 1119.rried John Murphy on Fob. a, 1774. Sho diod in Vv arron Co. {noar Barron Co.), Ky. in 1832. Through tho fact tho.tour line wont to Ky. the link has beon lost. DHe was in the Revol• ution" ho.s soemed to bo tho explanation.

othor Cooko rylativos,-Capt. Thoma.a Cooke came to N. England in 1635 sottling in Boston. Others wore John, Edward, William, Arthur, George, Richard, and Garrot coming in the lnttcr part of tho 17th oontury. Mordecai Cooke cnmo from England in 1650 bringin.g his wifo with him and soon nftor settling in Glouohestor Co •• Va., She waa sluin by the Indians and soalpod. He co.llod tho place Mordecai •s Mount. His second wife was Joan Constable. Ha owned 1200 o.cros of' land and his son iiiYordooo.i wo.s o.lso a largo la.nd owner. Giles Cooke wo.s a member of Gov. Spottm·1ood army which crossod tho mounte.ins c.nd desoondcd to tho forks of tho Shcnc.ry.doah. Ho vrc.s a. ¥night of tho Golden Horse Shoo.

John Cooke was a very dignified individual who o.lways rodo in a fino carriage had command of a rogimont during tho Revolution and was a brother of our ancestor 1¥illia.m Cooko. '.Mr. Ira Butler of Oregon to whom we aro indobtc,d for much of tho family history. rome;mbercd his grandmother Rachal Cooko-Murphy as he was 17 yrs, old whon ho wont to Ill. from Ky. Ho so.id he just likod to sit und look at his grnn

Mar..y of tho Cookos n.ro buriod at Romford, 13 miles from London whero Thoma.s Cooko ,vho wt.. s Lord Muyor of London, hnd a house a.nd whore his gro.ndson lived and wa.s buried• Tho Cooko 's place wr.s onllod Gildon Hcl l nnd was pullod down in tho last oontury. Tho Cookos woro cduc~tcd ~ta time when it meant something. Through all the changes in Engl~nd they woro Protostnnts. Francis Cooke in his inventory includes "one groat Bible" c..nd "four old bokos'' that ho brought in tho Mayflower. Books wcro his most vnluod possessions. ovidontly. lfilliam Cooke's Revolutionary Record Page 38 William Cooke was tho father of Rochel Cooko-Murphy. His services in assisting in tho ost~blishmont of Juoorioan Indopondcncc during the War of tho Revolution woro us follows: Quoted from tho records of the War Dopartment ---

"Tho l!far Dopartment, 1295 - 75 - 4" Tho Adjutant Goneral Office Washington, Oct. 26. 1907 It is shown by tho records that one Wm. Cooko bombardior,- Cr.pta.in John Chnmp Carter's Co •• nlso known as Cc.pt. Wm. 1-~e.tter's Co.; 1st Artillery Rogimont-Con-l:;incnta.l Troops, Revolutionary 1.~!o.r-onlisted Dae. 20, 1776 to serve throo yonrs, he WD.s appointed Corporal Aug. 1st, 1778 and Sorgcnnt Noy. 1st, 1778, and thnt ho was dischQrgod Dec. 20, 1779. This regiment was assigned to the stf!to of' Vn.. "Ho wns at Vci.lloy Forgo."

Jno. ~N • Richr~rd son, Commonwealth of Virginia Rogistar Lund Offioo Riohmond **** ?Io. 2821 Council Chamber M..~roh 24, 1 784

I do certify tha.t "'.,~~"m• Cooko is onti tlod to tho proportion of la.nd ~\llCWTGd ~ scrgcnnt of tho Continontnl Linc who enlisted for tho War nnd has served to tho c:~.d there of• Benjamin '9:crrison -- Thorne.a l:Torriwcc.thcr A warrc:1t for 400 noros issued Ma.rch 26, 1784 **** Lnnd Offico, Richmond, v~.

I do certify the.t t~-ic foregoing is n true copy from tho records of this offico. Yfitnoss my hnnd c.nd acnl of office this 2nd dcy of January, 1907 Jno. Vf • Riclw.rdson Registor of Land Offico **** Extracts fron1 c. lotter written to !Y!o.gt:io So.lloo from Kcthorine Lucus-Font on Hor mothor 1,vas u Hurphy-dnu. of John E. Murphy who migrc.ted to Oreg. 1850 Dntod 11larch 30th, 1915 from Portland, Oregon "I hnvo boon to Plymouth since I sent other material and have gone through records r.t '!Vc..shington, and hcvc boon to Europe and whilo in London wont through goncologiccl rocords. I huvc the Will of r~~noos Cooke witnessed by John Aldon nnd John Howlc.nd in 1659, c.. copy of tho mnrrio.ge rocord e.t Loydon 30th of tTuno. 1~03 ·whon Frnnccs Cooke n~d HcGtcr Mnyhiou wcro murricd. Tho invontory of his ostc.to ·when ho died."

h; ' ·Ic a.re dcscondcd through hia (Frc.ncis Cooko) son Jo.cob a.nd not through tTohn. Jc.cob mo.rriod Damaris Hopkins who c.lso cr~mo the first voyngc of the Mayflowor. Tho \lill of Stophon Hopkins is witnessed by :!ilos Stnndish and 11'!m. Bradford. One of the most interesting mutters uncc.rthod is the Deed from Francis Cooke o.nd v1ifc to <-Ta.cob Cooke cu1d Dc..mnrn.s Hopl:ins Oi.1. the lOtli of Juno, 1646 witnossod by liilos Standish, Jo.mos Hurst und John Howland. the first of tho r0corda of that kind in tho Now 'forld." Page 39

"I ha.vo not so.tiaf'iod myself just how tho doscondn.nts of Fra.nois Cooke ca.mo down from the English brnnch, sow~ havo to tako thnt in e lump, beginning with Frc.nc:i.s Cooke goi!lg from Englund to Hollv.nd. I hnvc tried to run down nnything I could nnd vnrif'y but thoro cro missing links liko tho Cooko who wont to Va, first :'"; o cc.l111ot and I think novor will find tho. t link."

~.. fritten by Mrs. Fenton Quotes from "Saints and Strangers• Page 40

The following ero quotc.tions from "Saints and Strangers" -- Being the Lives of tho Pilgrim Fcthers and Their Frunilios, with Their Frionds and Foes ---

ThG author - George F. Willteoia., publication in 1945 - Roynal & Hitchcock, i~ .Y •

~uotoe from Pretaoo "Tvloro, porha.ps has boon writton A.bout tho Pilgrims than any othor group in our history. And yet thoy aro oxtrnvo.ga.ntly praised for accomplishing: what they ncvor attempted or intondod, and nrc ovon moro foolishly abused for posscssi~g cttitudcs nDd cttributos quito foroign to thom. ---

"--Tbcy vrorc nlways quito able to spoaJ.: for thomsolves, and never hnd any diffidence in doing so. T~oy wrote mnrvolous lottors, cs fresh and crisp todny as v1hon ponncd throe centuries a.go. Though rclativoly fow, thoir chroniclos rro rv:rinrknbly rich i:1 tho vory stuff of human life. They will etend for0v,.1r as o bright clear mittor of all tho hopes and fears that lio olosost to mon•s hocrts."

Quotos from Covor•Fly-loat 11 "Saints and Strangers - Being the Lives of the Pilgrim Fathers and their Families, with Their Friends and Foes; and an accou_l'J.t of Their Posthumous ~\Tanderi!1gs in Limbo, 'l'heir I'inal Resurrection and Rise to Glory, and the Strange Pilgrima6es of Plymouth Rock".

,r- !ith this book George ·Willison has brought back to life men and women who were among the most stalwart of American ancestors. He has destroyed a myth that too long engendered the impression that the Pilgrims, while commendably pious and much to be ~dmired, ware withal a drab~ stern folk-dedicated to prud0ry.

11 The reuder will find himself livint among lusty English men and women who were well aware of good food, g,ood drink, and pleasurable living. They were an adventurous, hard-headed group, united in their campaign for freedom of worship. ~ith them the reader will go through their term of exile in Holland, their long &nd troubled voyug0 from the Old Europe to new Amerioa, and their hazardous period of sattlin~ on the strange, bleak coast.

nrt ·v1as in and around Scrooby, in almost the center of Queen Elizabeth's England. that the movement began which a century later sent the Mayflower west­ ward with its load of Weavers, smiths, carpenters, printers, tailors and such - with :lot a drop of blue blood among t!1em. It was a long way, a. roundabout wa.y, a troublod way frOJJl Scrooby ~•Jr..ter to Plymouth Rook." Page 41 quotas from "Saints and Strangers" Cha.ptor I-Page 2 -- "Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrim Sago."

st The Pilgrims themsalvos wero to blame in largo part for tho fog that so long obsourod them, for thoy and their immodiato dcscondnnts ware singularly careless of thoir tame. Simple and humblo folk or plebiun origin, thoy rc~d no cnrth-shaki~ import into what thoy waro doing. Thay oroctod no monuments to themselves nnd their prowoss, leaving behind rogrettably raw memorials of any kind, whothor inscribod on pnpor or in stone. Usod to toil and hardship, m~ny of thorn illiterate, few with any fonnc..l schooling, thoy performod us bost thoy could tho homoly day-to-day tasks that had to bo dona, content to let history oomo aftor them. They did not even bother to koop town records until 1632, twolvo ycurs artor landing."

Pa.r;o 3 "--It was in 1630, as ho himself tolls us, that Gov. Bradford sat down amid the distractions and burdens of office to bogin what ho called his 'soriblod V1fri tings'• The so woro necessarily 'pooced up at timos of loo sure afterwards', for to tho day of his death some thirty years later Bradford led e busy and usually bodcvilod life in the center of aff'uirs. By 1650 when he lo.id down his pen, ho hud piled up n manuscript of 270 folio pages, all patiently inscribud in his own no~t hnnd. His chronicle, simply end modestly cntitlod OF PLIMO'lH PU.HTATIOI, relutod in graphic detail tho story of tho Pilgrims from 1606 to 1647, through tho most critico.1 and ovontful period of thoir nlmys eventful onro0r."

Pago 7 "---tho mythme..kors complotoly missed tho essentie.1 chnracter and spirit of tho Pilgrims. ---

"Tho Pilgrims wore not ninotocnth century pictists, or quietists. Thoy wsro not pnlo plaster saints, hollow and bloodless. They wcro men-end women, too-or couregc and conviction, strong and positivo in their attitudes, prepo.rod to sacrific-3 much for their principles, oven their vory lives. Fur from boing Victoriens, they were children of another and a gr0Qt0r age, the Eliz~bothun, and in their livos rofl~cted many of tho qunlities of thnt affi~Zing ago - its rost­ lossnoss and impatience with old ways, its passionate onthusia.sms, its oa.gcr curiosity and during speculntion in ~11 fields, its boldness in action, its 2bounding and apparently inexhaustible onorgies.

"Never did the Pilgrims quietly resign thomsolV·Js to defeat, no ma.ttcr who.t tho odds a.go.inst them. Thoy lnunchod thomsolv;.;s upon tho most ha.zc.rdous of von­ tu.ros not once but mnny times, u nd no obstoclo or untov,a.rd circumstr.noo could stay them or divert them from th0ir course. Fnr from bcin::; humble ari.d soft spoken, they were quick in their own dofJnne, fond of controversy, nnd sh~rp of tongue, ongaginB in many n high-pitchod quarrel with frionds nnd foos aliko, cvon nmong thcmsolvos. Given to spoaking thoir minds plainly, they expressed thomsolvos in tho lcnguago of Mf:'.rlov1c end Shnkcspor.rc, in the torrential Lnd often rn.ft._jr­ shaking rhetoric of Eliznbcthnn Englund, with no slightest rognrd for tho proprieties und polite circumlocutio,1s of n later day. In denouncing tho •twhora R"-m~U _ +'h~v m&l~n+. ;n~t: --o+.._ _'-'....., ...... , , "-"' __ .._.,..J -~--- - V -- - +.hn-t:.------

"Tho Pilgrims wore Eliza.bothc.n, too, in thair accoptnncG of tho simplor joys of life. Thoy practisGd no macorntions of the flesh, no tortures of sclf-donial. They approci~ted tho pleasures of the t~blo and of tho bottle, liking both strong wators and beer, ospootally tho latter., novor complr..ining more loudly of their hardships thanwhon necessity reduced thom to drinking -wntor, which thoy alwnys rog~rdcd With suspicion ns a prolific sourco of humcn ills. They woru not monks or nuns in thoir intimnto relations cs their usually numerous families nnd more Page 42 than ooonsionnl irroguluritios attest. Fond of the comforts of connubial bod and bonrd, th~y mnrriod oarly and often ~nd late, sofilctimos within a few weeks of losin,.) a. me.to. Only on the Sabbath did they go r.-.bout in funororil blc..ol:s c.nd grays. Ordin~rily thoy woro russGt browns and Lincoln groan common nmong the English lowor classes from which thoy spr~ng. Unliko their Puritan nci~hbors at Boston, with whom they arc so often confused to thoir dis~dvr-.ntago, they passed no luws against 'gay appnrol. "'Many of tho Pil6rims hcd largo t"-nd wried wa.rdrobos. ~I.1h'1t of Ruli~ Eldor Willium Brovrstcr ~ one of tho most oxcmplary of 'yo Sninots ', oon­ t;:i j_ncd for wour on occasions - though prcsumubly not on the same occasion - a rf.:ld cup.~ whito cnp, n quiltod o~p, u lnco onp, n violot coat, and '1 paire of greane dr~v1ors •'

"In still other respects tho Pilgrims mirrored thoir age, which was ono great confusion und oontontion, not unlike our own, with two irroconcil~blo philosophies of lifo in mortal oombnt. All of Buropc had boon in a fermont for more than a c~~1tury-ovcr sinoo tho.t fatoful dny in 1517 when Martin Luther ht~d ncilod his ninety-five thosos to tho door of Vl!ittcnbcrg Cathedral, blc.sting tho autocrL.tio pr0t011sions of tho Holy Seo nnd its many notorious 'abusos.• --- giving diroction to pov1orful Intent forcoa that soon swept the continent in tho groo.t rovolutionary movement known o.s tho Ref orn1a t ion." Page 43

"Saints and Strangers"~ Cooke, Hopkins Ref&roncos

Note: Maggio Snlleo's nnd Jira. Fenton's informntion and letter given in foregoing pagos and faots gnthorod prior to 1915 ubout Francis Cooke and family are ramark­ word ablyI, aocur~to. Some facts for word with additional mnterial nro found in "S~ints and Strangers" by George Willison which wn.s publishod in 1945.

The statoments quoted refer to Frnncis Cooke and Stophcn ~opkins• families rls fou~·1d in the volumo o.bovo montioncd.

?ngo 88 - Title of chuptor - "At tho Greon Go.to, Lcydon" "Here a.t LGyden it is possiblo to idontify a few more of tho origi:nnl Serooby congroGution. ---

"Th0ro W3re the two Mortons, Goorgo nnd Thomo.s, --- a fow miles up -tho Ryton fro1n Scrooby, and their ::.1oi3hbor Fro.ncis Cooko, of tho hamlet of Blyth., o.11 Pilgrim Futhors in timo. 11

Pago 122., 123 - Ti tlo of chapter • "A Waighty Vioago11 11 Somo ho.d decidod to split their familios. --- "Others had chosen to come ,·rith children nnd not "l1ith wivos. Fra.ncis Cooke., wool oombor, ond Thomas Rogors, cumlot morchunt und citizen or Leyden, had oaoh brought o.lo11g a son ---"

Pr~go 162 .. Titlo of chnptor - "Mow Plimoth Plantod'' 11 ---Abovo c. rou6h roa.d, dignifiod ns tho Hi6hvray - now Ma.in Strcot - wore tho lots of ,John Billington, Isnac Allerton, ------Frcncis Cooko and Edm1rd ~-:·!fnslow." "On the slopo from tho Highwc.y to tho boaeh were the plots of Stcphon Hopkins, John Howl~nd, and Denoon Samuel Fuller, tho l~st on tho edge of n high bank ovor­ lool(ing Plymouth Rock."

Pago 169 - Ti tlo of chc.ptcr - 11 Yollo,·1 Foathor, tho Big Chief" 11 For some timo no-vr tho Indj_nns had bcon cnusing tho Pilgrims stoa.dily in• creasing ooncorn, boing a source of constant na.gging worry, --- "O:ic de,y le..to in Janunry., six weeks aftt:r putting into the harbor, Cr.ptain Jones chnncod to spy ~v10 Indians, tho first thnt anyone had seen. T1;oy wcro intor:tly watching the ship from Clarke's Island ncc.r by and sooing thomsolvos observed quickly vnnish3d, which did nothing to oQlm t~u Pilgrims fears. Thon, nbout two wooks lat0r, thGy hnd cCTusu for sorious alarm. Out hunting wutor-fowl to feed the hunbry, a Pil~rim was lying concoalcd in tho roods along tho bank of a small strca.M scvcro.1 miles r.-.way when he wo.s suddenly startled to sco n dozen pc.intcd wr..rriors ma.rching by very n.:ic.. r him, hondcd towurd tho plnntc.·cion, and to hcnr souna.s of mnny more in tho woods behind. Slipping awcy o.s soon as possible. ho hastened 'with what speed ho could' to give tho nlnrm. All o.t work in the woods and tho oloarin6 dropped thoir tools and ran for their blundorbussos, tensely watching in nll directions for nny attack that did not coma. Toward evening Standish c.nd Frn.ncis Cooke cautiously re,turncd to tho woods to ;i.:cthcr up thoir • ¥ - • • ¥ - - - tools, but thoy were nowhoro to be found. They had boon cc.rricd off by tho Indi!'.. ns who had crept up unobsorvcd to tho vory odgc of the olonrin6 •

"That unsoon oycs were watching them from the dark rim of the forest was n profoundly disturbin6 thou6ht and led tho Pil6rims to koop stricter watch and looK ce.rofully--- to thuir muskets, 'whioh with-ttho moisture and raino wcro out ~r tompor'." Page 44

PD.. go 170 n---tho meoting broke up in soma confusion with tho startling appoarnnco or two Indi~ns just across tho brook, on the summit of 'Strawberry Hill' oppcsito Ft. Hill. Tho fiorcoly painted brr.vos madG signs for tho Pilgrims to como ovor, but the latter wore suspicious nnd nftor arming thomsclvos bookonod the Indinns to oomo to them instead. The warriors were equally wary and suspicious, und ~t length Captian Standish and Stephan Hopkins volunt0crod to go noross, tnking a sinble musket with thorn. Wading tho brook, thoy laid the muskot on tho ground 1in signo of' ponce & to pa.rloy with thom.' Thon thoy slowly :ind ca.utiously ud­ vnnoG'i, but tha bravos would not tarrio thuir oomin6 , taking to thoir hools ~nd di3appoarins dovrn the far slopo of tho hill, from bohind which now camo ~ great doal of' noiso, suggestin;; that o. cons id ere.. ble force was marshaled thoro • ''

P~go 262, 263 - Titlo of chaptor .. "Tho Undcrto.kors" "•-all of tho shareholders - or 'purchasers' - waro woll ploasod with tho cx­ coption of Brudford, Allorton, and tho othurs who hnd signed the mortgago and wcra responsible both oollectively and individuully for its pnymont. ---it soemod only £air to thorn th~t they bu granted exclusive direction and control of tho mon0y - raising enterprises of tho colony. Besides, they hoped thus to sooure moans to bring over the rest of tho congrogution at Layden. ---

"To accomplish these ends 1 a scheme was soon born,•--it was adopted in 1627. A momopoly in the colony's trade was granted to Bradford, Allerton, and Standish, who ware given the ri~ht to choose whomever they wished to become partners - or 'undertakers' - with them. The Undertakers were empowered to do what they liked with all the furs, corn. beads, hatchets, knives, and other 'trucking stuffe 1 in the common store. They alone were to use the colony's trading posts and boats. Every year each Purchaser was to pay them three bushels of corn or six pounds or tabacco, whichever was stipulated. In return for suoh sweeping privileges, the Undertakers were to pay all of the colony's debts amounting to 600 (pounds) - both the money owed tho adventurers and scattered debts. In addition, t~ey agreed to supply Plymouth each year with ~50 worth of shoos and hoso, to be traded for corn at six shillings n bushel. The arrangement was to continue for six years, at which time all rights and pri vilegas v.rere to revert to the Purchasers, twenty-seven of whom signod the contract • .Amon6 ths signers were such 'old standards' as Stephen Hopkins, Edward Doty (now a free~An), deacon Samuel Fuller, Pater Browne, Francis Cooke, Francis Bacon, Cuthbert Cuthbertson, William Bassert, and John Billington."

Page 235, 236 .. Title of chapter - "T;1e Season of Gentle Shov1or 11 11 ---Al-T-:E of London., -- with supplier; and so:n1e sixt ·~ passengers. She had sot sail from England with another vcssel.---

"In this second large wo.va of immisration there were, all told, just ninety­ three persons. As on previous ships, Strangers constituted the larger part of tho passengers • .F1rom London came the wife and five daughters of Richard Vfarron of the ?-1ayflower company ---"

"The Saints on board numbered thirty-two, almost ns many as on tho Muyflowor. The 3rawors wero again united with the arrival of their daughters, Patience, now a woman of twonty-three1 and Fear, a girl of seventeen, who soon marriad Isaeo .A.:llerton: The~e we.s e.lec :!nether of thG o:rigine.l Scrooby congre~ation on bonrd - the last cvor to reach Plymouth - tho prosporous merchant, Goorgo Morton,. 'n pious gracious sermnto of God', who had brought his wifo, four childr0n, a nophe?:J and his wifo's sister, ·Mrs. Alico Southv1orth, widow of Cushman's friend, Edward Soutl1Worth, tho silk worker. Alioo had come at Bradford's invitation, it would seom, for thay wore eilmost immodintely married. Allerton's sistor, Sarah, widow of D0gory Priest of tho Mayflower company, had taken a third husbnnd, Godbert Godbortson {Cuthbert Cuthbertson), a hatter, und they now came with five children of various marriagos. There wore throe childron with Francis Cooke's wife, Hester (Mnyhieu), o. 1/{allon; • 11 -·- - Page 45

Pabo 89. 90 - Chaptor "At the Green Gnte, Leyden" (Leyden co~rogation) "The congregation took no formal namo c.t Loyd0n. Nor was it the only En~lish church in the city. Another hc.d been formod a.bout n yoo.r beforo its arrival. Populn.rly known as tho Scottish Church bocauso of its Cnlvini~t tenots and Prasbyterian structure, it wcs really an English-spouking unit of the Dutch no­ formod Church. The lutter wns not n stntc church, but it anjoyed spoci~l privil­ egos. Tho st~to paid the salary of its ministers end assigned each of its congro­ ga.tions a plc.co to worship. Th0 Scottish Church hud boon given St. Catacrine's Gasthuis, formerly a convent chapel, vmich stood closo to the Pieterskcrk and the Grcon Gate. --- Hore in Leyden --- the two Enr;lish churches woro soon so olos,:;ly cssociated that it is often difficult to distinguish between tho m0mbcrs of ono o.nd tho other. --- they ovon took connnunion togother. ---

"---As the mombors of the Dutch Reformed Church wore obviously of the elect, no nc.riu could con10 of association ·v.ri th them. :Many in the congrogGtion followed the pr~ctioe of John Jenny, --- lntor a Pilgrim Father, who whon business took him to other cities always uttondod Dutch scrvicon'without any offonco to the Church'• Ma.ny of the Dutch end ?ro:1ch-spcaking ~N'alloons cc.me, in turn, to ho~r Robinson at Green Gato, nnd not a faw wcro converted ~nd joined tho final pilGrimagc tot ho Now 1Horld--notably, Philippe de la. Noyo (D.:12.no)-, Godbcrt Godbcrtson ( Cuthbert Cuthbertson), 7

Pago 437, 439 - Appendix A - Tho PilgrLn Comp~ny 1~710 should bo included in tho Pilgrim Co.? --- The author includes - a-'all saincts • • 'strange;rs ', hired i1[.n1ds, and ind.~nturod scrvc.nts who er.mo on any of tl10 Pilgrim ships --!je.. yflowcr, Fortune, Anne, Littlo J~mos, Tulbot, Handmaid, or second Nia.yflowGr: --

b-['.11 mombors of tho Gro·_in Gr.to congrog~~tion who cLmo nt nny other timo 1 oi thor soon or lntor:

c-those of the merchant cdvonturers who settled in the colony:

d-r1ll othGrs who sottled at Plymouth L:nd were granted lc.nd thoro before 1631 (such ~s Phinocs ?ra.tt, c.. refugee from 1i--!oss[~gussct), and those who co.mo vri th (..Tonn Oldham 'on their perticuler. '"

1':fayflower--- 11 (Pilgrim from Scrooby) Frcncis Cooke (1577-1663) -- wool comber, of Blyth, Notts - Amsterdnm, 1607-00; Loydon, 1609-1620; Purchaser, 1626; died Plymouth" The son., John, who ccmo to America with his fnthe,r married Snrc.h :,rnrron.

Pago 446 iL'tlno (ship) Suints -- · "":\:a-s_. Hostor (Mo.yhieu) Cooke (c. 1592-1675) -- {'il1ialloon), wifG of Fro.ncis Cooke - mnrriod Lcyacn, 1610-1613 (m. 1603)

Jo.ne (C. 1615-1666) mc~rriod Plymouth, c. 1638 to 3xporionco Mitchell, diod at Bridgewater: 7 children Page 46

Hostor (C, 1616 - o. 1666) mr.rricd ut Plymouth in 1644 to Richard Yfribht, son of ·,~!illium 1;1!right; 3 children.

Jo.cob (1618-1675) mnrriod in 1646 to Dr.ma.ris Hopkins nnd in 1669 to Mrs. Elizabeth (Lcttico) Shurtloff; 6 ohildron7

Fabe 486 Notes "Six of our prcsidonts, incidcntly, ho.vo numborod i'-!Eyflowcr immigrunts nmong their a.nccstors:

"tr. s. Gr~nt, froL1 Riche.rd i.rro.rrcn; tfii::illirun Howo.rd Tc.ft, from Francis Cooke, of the Scrooby group; 11 .Frn.nklin Dela.no Roosevelt, from'Frnncis Cooke, Isac.c Allerton, Riche.rd ~~rren, John Howlund, end John Tilley~- tho 'Delano' in onothcr brnnch of his f'n.rnily comos from Philipr,c do la. Woyo, tho young Vi!o.lloon who joined the oongro­ gntion at Groen Gato und cn~c on the FORTUNE in 1621." Page 47

,Jncob and Dnmo.rias Hopkins-Cooke - 11 A 1:Vo.ighty Vioage" P~gc 133 "Tho largest fc..mily on bo~rd wns that of Stcph0n 9:o_pkin~ of 'Notton-under-Edgo, Glouccstcrshiro, moro recently of London. rlis wife Elizabeth, his socond. had tho 02.rc of three young children - Giles, Constc.ncc, o.nd Do.mo.ris - and now at sea was delivered of another, appropric.tcly namod Ocoanus.'!

Ooennus died before 1627. Dn.mc.ris wo.s born c. 1617 (c. 1627) (P. 441 - "Saints and Strangorsa) Jt..cob C:Joko 1618-1675 ~rri-.Jd 1646 to Dr.maris Hopkins (P. 446 - "Saints c~nd Strangers") Jo.cob Cooke murriod 1669 to :·'!Jrs. Elizo. beth (Lotti cc) Shurtliff

Tho children of Jacob and Damaris Hopkins-Cooke wcro:

Elizabeth b. Jctn. 18, 1648 married ~ohn Doty Caleb b. JI.ch. 29, 1651 married Jc.no Jacob b. Mch. 26, 1653 married Lydia i:illor on Doc. 29, 1681 (fnthor John }tI.) Mnry b. Jan. 12. 1658 ,.. h Martha b. J.:'.:C • 16, 1660 ma.rried Elkannh Cushms.n Francis b. Jun. 5, 1663 murriod Elizabeth Lashnm Ruth b. Jan. 17, 1666 **** The Stophcn Hopkins Fbmily - Tho Pilgrim Co.

~s~_?!__ S_:t;_0_Eho:1 Ho_Bkins b.c. 1585, died 1644 at Plymouth - wa.s of vrottcn­ undor- Edge, Glouchcst0rshirc.

Stophc:1. Hopkins sorvod bravely and well from tho lhnding of tho Mayflower until his donth in 1644. In his later yours he wcs frequently in conflict with tho a ut:10ri tio s •

He served as assistant governor 1633-36 and probably 1624-1632.

ElizQbeth __ wes his second wife. Giles and Constance wore Hopkins' children by his first wife. Stephen's children:

By first wife Giles, b.o. 1607 - d.c. 1690 married in Plymouth, 1639 to Cathorino -dhold,?n a.nd rom()vod to Yarm8uth, diod Ensthcm - 7 children

Const~noc, c. 1605-1677# m£.rricd ct Plyu~uth, c. 1627 to richolas Snow diod o.t Eastham.

By socond wifo - Eliza.both Da.rnuris, b. 1617 - (o. 1627) ~rriod in 1646 to Jacob C0oko Oco~nus, b. 1620 - d. 1627 (Fi vo moro children born in '.:1ynouth.) One we. s Dcborr.h 1~~opl:ins who married Josio.h CookG, tho son of Francis Cooke, tho lr~st s:.,n of tho Pilgrim, Frnnci s CoQko. **** Page 48

"Sc~ints nnd Stran~ors 11 quotes about Stephen. Hopkins

11 11 .?o.go 148 - Babos in the Wildornoss -- U~ :;n arri vr. l ct Plymouth, the land o.round "lrCl s to bo explored e.rtor plr~ns wore started for scttlomont. To investig:·.to tho rivor which thoy p~sscd on way to their hc.rbor, volunt.:.,ors wcro cc.llod for. Sixteen mon stepped forward c.nd vrero put a sh,:,ro • under c -::immc.nd of Cr. pt. ?jilcs St~ndisl1 --"unto whom was o.djoinod, for counsel ,:.:~1.d c.dvisc~ ·::~-~,. Br~dfard, ~~~on :.Iopkins, and Edward Tilley."

Pa·.... c 153 Stcp~~,~Jopkins with ono of his servants, Edward Doty, volunteered to round tho bay and lfhcvo a look at '~hiovish Harbar,' or Plyt:1outh, as it had boen named b~/ Capt. ,John Srni th six years previously."

Stephen was often tho one chose~ to deal ·with tho Indians, as • M.'\sss.soit and Sc:_uo.ato v1ho 11.10.s usE.·d as a guido by hi1.1.

11 Stcphc;_1. iiopl~ins apponrs to he:vc ownod tho first horse in the Old ColJny, a :r.iare, o.nd she dr;es not a.ppeo.r in the records until twelve yco.rs later, in 1644.'1 Cooke Family Lineage Page 49 by linggie Salloo Cool::o Family ·distory (Pro:r.arod bof'oro 1915 by JiD.ggic Sallee und i:rs. Fontan)

FrQncis Cooko - born Ycrkshiro, Engl~nd, m. nt Leyden June 30, 1603 (Soe lotter from !:rs. Fenton) to Hester Ma.hien (or u) from Cnntorbury, England, (Robinson's Letter to Gov. Bradford) Fr~ncis Cooke died at Plymouth April 7, 1663, Will·dQted October 7. 1659

T~1eir children: John b. nan~ 1610 diod ut Dnrtmouth utter 1694 - m. Sarah 1!!0.rr3n the daughter of Richard ·:.f"urrsn, the Pilgrim who landed in first group in 1620 - 5 children

Jane Cooke n. 1638 to Exporionco i·'liot-Hill (!1!itchell) Josiah Cooke m. 1635 to Eliz:J.both Deo.ne Hoster Cooke m. 1644 to Richard Wright Ho.ry Cooko m. 1645 to JDhn (;·i) homo.son

J~cob Cooko m. 1646 to Do.~~ris Hopkins, daughter of Stephen Hopkins6 Pilgrim.

Thoir children:

Eliznboth b. Jan. 18., 1648 m. John Doty Caleb b. ?,Toh. 29, 1651 m. Jo.no Their chil

? 1648 (?) Francis Cooke m. 1648 (?) to Their children: Josiah m. Deborah H_o_p_k-in_s_(_sister of Damaris Hopkins)

Cannot place this family - • - ..,.. ""' ~ ..,_,.. ~ -. I ' - 1111 A' • - a "I Kooert., son or tJonn ana L.L1zaoelin ana 11.oiga1.L Their children: Charles 1717, Nathan 1719, Robert 1721, Sarah 1724 Page 50

"Saints and Strangers"

Francis Cooke be 1577 d. 1663 - vrool comber, bor11. in Blyth, Motts, died at Plymouth m. Hester tayhieu (f~alloon) born 1592 - died 1675 - Plymouth

Their children:

John born (1612) 1609 d. 1695 at Dartmouth m. Sarah Warren, dau. Rich. Warren Jane born o. 1615 - d. 1666 at Bridgewater m. 1638 to Experience Ili tchell 7 children Hoster born c. 1616 Leyden - d.o. 1666 m, to Richard, son of William Wright. m. at Plymouth in 1644 - 3 children Jacob b. 1618 at Leyden d. 1675 at Plymouth m. 1646 to Damaris Hopkins 6 children - Damaris b. 1617 at Leyden - d.c. 1698 at Plymouth. Jacob married 2nd to 1.Irs. Elizabeth (Lattice) Shurtleff Their children: ~lizabeth b. Jan. 18, 1648 married John Doty Caleb b. }/oh. 29., 1651, married Jane Jacob b. Moh. 26., 1653 m. Lydia Miller-- on Dec. 29, 1681 - ?/Sary b • Jan. 12, 165 8 Eartha b. ~!1oh. 16, 1660 m. Elkanah Cushman Francis b. Jun. 5, 1663 1n. Elizabeth Lashmnn Ruth b. Jan. 17, 1666

Hester and Francis Cooke must huve had seven children, though only £our nnmed in 11 So.ints and Strangers"• Those·not named must have been born in Plymouth after 1920, - They are Josiah, l-F;:..ry. and Francis, the last son to be born to them. Page 51

Cooke "The Indian Musso.era" Story

Two brothers of Rachel Cooke, Bosea and Jesse, were both killed by Indians in 1792~ in the Innis Settlement near Frankfort, Kentucky. Thay had built their cabins side by side for protsction. In April 1792, while they were she~ring their shGe~, a band of Indians me.do an ~ttack and at the first onslaught killod one nnd mortally wounded the other. The wounded man crawled to the cabin whore he gave diroctions for bnrricading, saying, "Bar the door," and breathed his last. They had iron bars with which they securod the doors. Tho two women wero doing the family washing and they with their throo children prepared to dofend themsclvos. In th3ir fright they could not find the bullets and, finally, ono was found, but it vre..s too large fer tho gun. So ono of the women in a frenzy bit the bullet in tv10 parts. Just then one of tho Indi~ns began with his tomahawk to cut through the door and in brokon En~lish dem~nded instant surrender. One big fat Indian got up on a. stump and barod his broast a.nd saicl, rt:rn1i te Squaw shoot, W'hito Squaw shoot." Just tn0n ono of the women fir~d tho gun through the narrow crack betwoen the logs of the cubin and one of tho chiofs foll dead.

Tho infuriatod savogGs swo.rmod on the roof of tho cabin sotting it on fire in scvcrul plaocs, but from tho loft undornGath, tho flames wore extinguished as fast c.s thoy burned through until the wo.t0r wa.s oxha.ustod. They than broko eggs o.nd sprcc.d on tho burninb roof und tl1c blood soaked clothing of the dead man. Soon tho Indians -.rroro soon with t}1~ir on.rs to tho ground nnd woro honrd to say, 11 ~foss foot, hoss foot." The pooplo in tho fort had heard the firing and wore cominf; to tho ruscuc, so tho so.Vt'.gccs sullc11ly rotirod. The women and children ,1cro not hurt. "Uncle Ira Butlcr'1 said there used to be much controversy c.mong tho neighbors over tho wives of tho two Cooke brothGrs whom tho two Indi~ns hcd killod. Somo thought tho ono who bit tho bullet in two pnrts deserved more credit, while others thoug:it tho ono vrho shot t!1e Indinn v,ith the bullot deserved more credit. This is~ true story. It h~s boon told rnr..ny, m~ny timos by ~~noy Ferguson-Murphy to her grr.ndchildron c-.nd we.a r.lso nmong ;._:;rs. ?enton 's notes on "fnreily history"• Among tho books of Thomc.s c. ir;c.lln.cc, this story vies c.lso told. 11 11 Tho nr.r.10 of the book being Perilous Advonturos , pnrt of tho ler.vos of' tho book r.rc now lost. (1957-wcs destroyed) It hc..s nlso boon soon ~-s c.. nowspnper clipping. Page 52

Copy of the Will of Robert ..~allace of Bowling Green. Kentucky- Made by Minnie Bruington Dansey at Bowling Green, r=y., ·1-•iarren Co. l'.ay, 1933

In the name of God Amen: I, Robert Wallace of the• county of 1.,arren and state of Kentucky, being now in reasonable health and sound mind and wishing to direct in what manner my estate now in hands shall be disposed of. I wish no administrator on my estate by any person but for my children to meet and divide it among all but Rebecca heirs, Robert and Tabitha who has already got their shares and more whon the divide is ~aking. I wish the others to be generois with Sarah who I think got the lc;ast •- I wish my ne6ro inan Reuben to belong John William and Thomas and he be counted in their shares and to have him yaar about or hire him to such othors, and so by all mea~s treat him well for he is a good slave.

L'Iy ohildron when I am dead bury me decently, there is in my drawer more than sufficient for this purpose, there is $7.50 in silv~r and twenty dollars in United States po.per bosides twenty dollcrs, I lent Y':illiam ~~allace and there will be more tho.11 one becl apieco for you. I wish you to lot John i\·~c~.:ullen have one with the olothos his mothor hus as she was a good and faithful wifo to me and raised geoso and me.de noarly ull tho beds and best clothes on the place and I think it jnst and rigi1t to do us I request you to o.nd I cxpoot you will think so yoursel vcs.

Signod Robert 11\fallaco, ·,·1Jarron Co., Ly., So.turday. Feb. 1828 County Court.

This instrument of writing was produood in court nnd proved to be tho hand writing of Robort Wallaco, D3cd, excopt the signatures at the bottom by tho oaths of Goor6o Allingham and P3tor Butler and order~d to rocord. Toste Jon and Hobson, cl6rks. Page 53

Indonturo - 1823

This Indonturo mode this 23 do.y of September., 1823 botw0on Robert 17allaoe and Eliza.both ~-'fallaco his wifo of tho one part a.nd Thomas c. vVallaoe Son of s. (said?) Robert of the other part, all of th~ cou.~ty of ~rarren and Stato of Kontucky.

WITNESSET~: That tho said Robort ~nd Elizabeth for and in considoration of tho lovo and affection tho(y) bvar towurds snid Thomas ~nd tho further considorc.tion or One thousnnd dollars to them in hand paid, tho reooipt of which they hereby aoknow­ lodgc, h~vo granted, bargained end sold, alioned and confirmod. and by these pro­ scnts do alion, bargain and sell unto tho said Thomas c. Wallaco his heirs and c.:::-id -=-~ssif;ns forever, one eerto.in trc.ct or pa.real of land, lying in Warren County. boin6 ti1e tract on ~hich s. (suid) Robort nnd Elizabeth now reside, supposad to contuin throe hundred a.nd cloven acres, said convoyancc to bo subject to the li1i1itc.tions and conditions hereinafter oxprcssad, which s. (so.id) tract is bounded c.s folloY:s: Bebinning at n. bla.ck oak, Seventy polos from a stone mo.rkod R. Yr. tho beginning corner of Todds n1ili tary survey South ten ··if est from Ss. Stono corner; thence South Sovcnty oight ~/ost one hundred c.nd sixty polos to a whi to oak, thence North aizhty polos to a stake now oornor to V!illiwn Yfo.ll&ce., thence with his line South forty-~10 Eust ninety-four poles to an ash and hickory, thence South thirty­ ono &'1st forty four polos to two hic!•:orios, thence South fifty eight West thirty· polos to a black oc~, thenco South Twenty Ono East throe hundrod and thirty two polos -~o a stako, anothur of l'Tilliam t·ic.llr~ce 's cornor, thence North ten East four hU-'ldr-:,d £1..nd sixty five polos to tho __Boginning; tobcthcr with o.11 tho im~r.ovo- monts and Qppurtonn!1ces___ whatsoevor -there unto belonging or in any way appertain•

To hnve and to hold the suid tni.ct or parcel of l~nd~ be the same more or less unto the said6 Thomas c. Wnllaoc his hoirs and assigns forever., Subject to this condition and limitation. tcr.rit: Tho snid Robert Wallnoc is to retain the use, possession and enjoyment of tho whole tr~ct or parcel of land, hereby convoyed freo from any kind of rent or charge whatcvor during his life, and this conveyance to insuro to the full intent an4 meaning horcof to the suid Thomas c. Wallnco and his hairs~ subject to this furthor condition and limitation., towit: The Ss. Elizabeth is o.t ·tho death of so.id Robert should she survivo him, to have tho use, onjoymont ~nd possossion of one third, pnrt of tho cleared land on said tract, and one third of tho dwelling houso and other buildings, together with timber~ firowood and to support h~r in the onjoyment of the samo, free from any kind of rent or charge whatever., during her life, in place of dower; And the said Robert and Elizabeth do hereby bind themselves their heirs & forever to wnrrent and defend the title to tho af. tract or pnrcol of land unto tho said Thomas c. Wallace his heirs and assigns ugninst all claims wh~tsoever, subject as nf. to the roscrvation of the lifo estate of s~id Robert and the life estate of tho one third thereof of said Elizabeth.

In Testimony whereof the contracting partios have sot thoir hands and affixed their sonls hereto. the day and yonr first above written. Test of the other part - - - .. c:1011ars .....

Intorlinod before signed. Robert Wallace (Saal)

Goo. Allingha.m Elizaboth Wallaco (Sonl)

Ruth Allingham Thomo.s c. Wallace {Seal) Page 64 I, acknowledge full sntisf~ction of tho consider~tion of tho One thousand dol­ lars nnmad in the within Deed and hereby aquit the snid Thoma.a c. Wnllnoo thoretrom this 27 October 1825.

Toste Dr. Johnson Robert Wa.llc.oe State of Kentucky

Vif arren County, Seot.

I, run Clerk of tho County Court for snid County~ do certify tho.t this Indenturo from Robort V!allaco and wife to Thomas c. Wnllo.oo, was this do.y a.cknowledgod bof'oro mo in my office by the said Robort to bo his not and dood; thnt I have rooordod snid Indonturo togother with this oortifioQto ~s roquirod by lnw;

Witness my hand this 28th day of' October 1825 Jon A. Hobson A Copy attests P. Y. Ewing, Clerk By Sarah E. Brit D.c. Rocordod in Book Ml2 pugo 106. Page 55

Remi ..1isconcos of tho Linooln-Douglas Dobc.to at Knox College in Oot. 7, 1853, by J.1. Vfo.llncc

I wont to the Lincoln-Douglas Doba.tc vrith my father, Thomc.s Clelland 1~!nllaoe, my brothor Robort (F.M.) and John Licli'Iullen, o.lso .P... lox_ !-~ooro, Sr., John Clnyton, a.nd !l.iadison Jones. All want together in one wagon and drove a mule team. I wns twelve yoars old. Just hud a small platform. Lincoln and Douglas Ck'UilO out through u window of tho old collago onto the platfor!.1• Thoro wore but fow houses around the collogo - ,-ras j~st open pruirio. Thora wore only seven houses botwoen Coldbrook nnc Galesbur[. Lo·~s of lane wr.. s not fonccd. Thora vro.s an awful crowd in Galosburg that day and much excitcmei1t. I got awful hune.ry e.nd saw a boy (Dell Culvor) with soino cookies, but 1:rhc:.1 ho :_:ot c.round v1hero I wus I found ho W-4ls selling them, so I did not c:ot an:,., but v,r.s provided for later. Thomas C. Vfallccc (my father) did not teke an c.cti vo pt~rt in politics, but 't!TD.S alvrr.ys & Domocrut. Ho car;;,e to Illinois from Ecn­ t,lcl:y i11 1833 ~nd ownod slaves there, but ga:vo them th,=;ir freedom before he came to Illinois. They {tho freed sla.vos) ca.mo to Illinois uftc:nvo.rds a.:id ho helped them to get homes here. I still liv1., on the pla.co iny father se;ttlod in 1833.

11.n Affidavit - of tTuly 4, 1856

•.-~o. 16379 - st. of Ill • ., ·;T:o.rron Co~ - by recorder of deeds tho.t tho nnnexod Instrtm10nt of 1,•Triting ".vc.s filod for rocord on July 4th., A.D. 1856 o.nd he.a boon duly recorded in Vol. 26 of Dcods on Page 431 and 432. Vfitncssod in l1onmouth by ~1m. Billin~s Clerk, and ox-officio Rocordcr.

Tho 11 Instrum.ont of YJ"ritin6 11 follorrs • An affidavit by John L. Dox (Gox, Coe) Onto.rio Co., Gtute of New Yor!..: Know a.11 mon by these prcsc:1ts that on tho 20th day of ';Jri.y Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-Six, porson~lly uppoarcd before mo John L. Dox a resident of tho a.forosuid county vroll !ctown to me as being o. erodible witnoss whoso statoments c.rc ontirlcd to full fo.ith o.nd orodit., c.nd who af'tor boing duly sworn according to ln~-;, deposes and says th.L4t he v-ras well o.cquc.intod i.'lith Jnmos Gay who rcsid_cd in thii· County in the yoo.r Eighteen Hundred end Nineteen and ho verily believes a.nd undor­ stc..nds o.ftcr~·:o.rds rcrnovcd to Ono ida Cou.'lty• Sta to a.fore so.id--- and further dopono.nt s~ith not. Signed John L. Dax

~Norn tc bofcro mo this 20th dc.y of. -:;.,fny 1856 Goo. ~? • ·wintor Justice or tho Pea.co Lineage or Children ot Thonas Clelland Page 56 and f•iarga.ret Murphy 1.iifallaoo

Robert F. M. Wullaca ~nd Catherina Marie Claycomb Robert F. M. Wallace was born April 25, 1821 in Warren Co., Ky., was killed by a train near South ~nion, Ky. on Sept. 15, 1881 and buried near Bowling Green, ~!Tarren Co., l[y., married on June 20, 1343 i:1 Vfarren Co., Ill. to Catherine Marie Cl&.yoomb who was born on Uay 10, 1819 in Breckinridge Co., Ky. and died near Shelbyville, 1v!o. near the year 1881. Their children were:

~~:illiam D. 1"J"allaoe b. Oct. 31, 1845 in Ill., died in Peoria in 1917, lllf\rried Ella M. Kipper on June 10, 1873 in Pettis Co., Mo. She died in Denver Colo. on July ~ _l~p7. Theif children were Bl nche Gurn7y~ and John Kipper 1/Fulle.ce, ~~.Jti+IJ:J~ ., , -~ (?- "f j 1'!75 Blanche ~-.:-allace b. Jan. 17, 1875, d. Apr. 12, 1904. Gurney Cle.. ycomb vlall[:ce b. Oct. 28, 1877 married (1) Nellie Lindsley Feb. 27, 1908 - Denver, Colo., (2) Louise 1(eizele Apr. 27, 1919 Children of Gur~ey and Nellie Walluce Frc.ncis 1tallace b. Doo. 8, 1909 m. Ja.n. 15, 1938 in Denver to Esther Erickson. Th0ir children: Barry Kent b. July 16, 1940, Bo~~ie I{ay b. Dec. 19, 1948 Virginia Louiso Wallace b. Apr. 1, 1914 marriod June

~_.Y: .... , 4, }.~8 to Stotn Howard Nowlen .,. ~ ,or;; n . Q 1 0c :a ~ ~~~"".1 ~ .3/~l lf'T'l -cJ. Cf-;-,J,IIV(>~ -• 1'i.--""'J -~-p, uoru.110... be Jo.n. , 1849 m. Perry T·f, Smith on Oct. 30, 1866 in Abingdon, Ill. and bv., L. s. ,.7allacc in tho rosidonce of Robert F. M. 1~allace. Their children were Amber born July 14, 18'2 and Gertrude born Feb. 9, 1875.

Nnncy ~~llnce ~nd F.arrison Claycomb-Record of 1913

l·:a.ncy "'.-.··allacc born Eny 23, 1823 in 1Narrcn Co., Ky. married .August 1839 at "?nrren Co., Ill., to Harrison Claycomb who was born ~-Jov. 18., 1813 in Breckinridge Co., :~~'• Both died and c.re buried at Eurel:a, I~nsas.

Thair children: Caroli11c b. Juno 11, 1841, d. i/Iny 8, 1842 in l\'"arron Co., Ill. at Monmouth El1:7in Y'la.llacc Claycomb b. Nov. 19, 1842 Wa.rron Co., Ill. at :Monmouth 1· illi::un Otis c. b. Feb. 3, 1845 in )'To..rren Co., Ill. m.

Rachel Arrah Brown on.Nov, 10, 1870 at Burlington, f~ns. Thoir children are !kudo Addie, Edna. Browning, Georgo El~7in, Vfilliam otis, Harriet Vera, and Charles Hnrold.

Mary Jano b. Fob. 7, 1847 in Warren Co., Ill. m.

Prof. John~~. Grubb on AuE.:ust~ 5., 1885- . - at Eurokn_--- - . - . , T~nB:

Harriet Allie be Doc. 23, 1848 in irrarron Co., Ill, de 1"1:orccdos, Texas m.

c. A. Buck on Fob, 3, 1876 at Galesburg - Tht;ir children arc Nannie )fur, Mnry Bello, Elwin Lee, Hira.m Harrison, Charles Claycomb., and Lt. Y!m• York

Grenville Franklin b. May 3, 1851 in Warren Co., Ill.~ d. July 20, 1905 at Soattlo ~ifashington, buriod nt Eureka, Y~ns. m. Jan. 26. 1876 to Po.go 57 Clc~ra. Richardson ::.t Brodhoc.d, 'Wisconsin. Their ohildron nru Harrison Cluycor,4b, Haney Clc.ycomb, Granville ilicha.rdson Cla.ycomb, a.nd J:·fnrjory c.

Frederick b. Jan, 24, 1856, d. Jan. 26, 1856 ~·fu.rgr.. rot Addia b. Doc. 20, 1859 in ;_.,--a.rron Co., Ill., died Jo.n. 11, 1909 nt Eurokn. ¥.a.nsas, mnrriod at Eurokr.. , l(c.nso.s to .L.lonzo Ha.rt on Doc. 28, 1880. ~hoir ohildron nro ~.J.a.ry .b.rra.h, Roy, Rnlph \'Vesley, and ilice Cluyoomb H~lrt

Y{illirun ~iio.llr.oo c.nd Mnry An..."1 Claycomb

~\fillirun Yia.lluco wo.s born ,June 12, 1825 in Yfo.rrcn Co., Kentucky and died on Ifc..roh 4, 187G. V'!illia1n 1?allnoo oauo to Ill, with his parents o.nd lived in ,r._rn.rron Co., Ill. until 1872 when in April he took his fnmily to Grootr11ood Co., K~ns~s ,1hcre he bought a fa.rm nine miles northwest of Eurokn, I':nns. whore ho rosidod until his docth.

1Jilliam ~i:fullaoo was mnrriod on April 27, 1847 to Hary Ann Clayoo:nb who was born Januury 29, 1821 in Brackenridge Co., Ry., and passed away July 10, 1897 ut ~uroko.., Y\.cl.nsas.

To this union tho followin; childron wcro born: Elennro Wallace b. February 14, 1848, d. Feb. 8, 1867 Loil ~;~[ulluce born August 3, 1849 m. Louise M. Mott on F,Jbe 3, 1887 o.t Euroko., T,-n •1c-. J.:.'--1.l ._. • Their childron ,voro Lcte., .14_;lsic, Doe ~,1ott, Denzoll, Fro.nk Loil (Loyal), and !!~ol vin Claycomb Y:'c.11::~co

i·~nnie 7 • .,.1~0.llcco born October 2, 1851 und diod vrhon young I.arrcn Y~. i 1:o.llo.cc born Mn.rc~1 10, 1854 was mr-1.rricd on Oct. 27, 1892 nt Jefferson, Ill, to Effie ,J. ~:Ic]•.-Iillon b. Dec. 31, 1861 at Douglas, ~7is. 'I1hoir son, Glen L. F. \·Iallacc born Sopt. 6, 1893 at Eurokn, Ke.nse.s.

/ La.rrcnce 3, ~1:allaco born March 15, 1856 in Wa.rron Co., Ill. and was marriod Doccmbcr 28, 1881 to Helen A. Cogswoll at ~uroka, Knnsas, To this union vtor0 born: Claude c. 1;·!0.llace, };;n_rgucri to, Clark, a.nd Holen A. v:allaco

r.!J'.a.rr.;urot Allio ~_.~ro.llo.ce born ~rov. 20, 1857 in 1¥nrron Co., Ill., died Aug. 6, 1900 ut Eureka, Knnsus., vro.s mc.rriod Feb. 1883 to Srunuol Allon !~~rtin b. in Union Co., Ohio on April 11, 1842 a.nd who died July 26, 1901 at Euroku., xc~nsas. Their children ,r1er0: Dick Wa.llc.ce ?.-!D.rtin, Sidney ...":..llen, Clauda J.c.1i-r., Mo.ry Margaret nnd Sc.ra.h Henri Martin.

Thomas c. trallace b. j.Jch. 20, 1860 and B0rrymu.n 1/Iallo.oe b. July 11, 1863 d. in infancy Lsa A. Wallace b. Nov. 19, 1865 John Jl-1. ··/ro.lla.cc b. July 15, 1861 in Galesburg, Ill. m. Nino. Burkett - Jun. in Los il.ngolos, Cr1ol• Thoir da.ughtor lJJnrjorio Oli vc b. l:..ug. Pago 58 Isaac Wallace

Isaac Wallaoe, the fifth child of Thonns C, and Margaret Murphy "il!allace, was born in Kentucky, on June 6, 1830.

He was a good little boy who missed much of tae joy. of life on account of his being deaf - scarlet fever leaving him with this affliction.

His death occurring early in life, he possibly being twelve or more years old.

Thomas and Henrietta Haley~,allace

Thomas Wallace was born October 2, 1832 in Warren Co., Ky., and died June 29~ 1921. He was married to Henrietta Ruley. Their childron were: Clelland, Botty, ~hitman, Mao, Etta, Myrtle, Sally, and Orah.

Jemima Wallace and James Bruington - Record of 1913

Jominio. Yf o.llaco b. Mnrch 8, 1835 in Warren Co., Ill. died April 6, 1900 at V.rinfiold., Kansas married June 19, 1853 at ,varren Co., Ill. by Eldor Smith Wallace to James Bruington b. August 23, 1831 at Breckonridge Co., Ky., died Moh. 7, 1899 o.nd buried in the Union CEHneta.ry o.t Ylini'ielu, Knns.

Thoir children: Thoma.s Selden Brui?lJ_;ton b. 11.pril 12, 1854 1"fo.rrcn Co., Ill. (in 1957 is novr still living and is 103 years old) m. Docomber 22, 1876 to Elmnn Foster nt Cumbridgo, Ill. who WUG born November 6, 1853 nt Tipton Co., Indiana and diod l~frirch 24, 1923 and wns buried c~t Montezuma, Ko.ns. Thoir ohildron: Frod Seldon Bruington b. ,Juno 14, 1876 Coldbrook Twp., Ill., d. December 7, 1918 o.t Moo.do, ·.¥~n.f., buried Montozuma, Gray Co., Ko.ns. marriod Doe .• 24, 1906 to Floronco Reynolds. Minnio Myrtle Bruington b. 11.pril 11, 1881, Coldbrook Twp., Warren Co., Ill. m. July 25, 1909 a.t Dodge City, Kuns. to Jo.mos Willio..m Do.nscy b. Murch 30., 1879 ut I.dams Co., Pa.. Jo.mos Clo.rko Bruington b. Nov. 23, 1891 o.t Larned, Pnvrnoc Co., I~uns. m. to Lola Loo Danials on Mn.y 31, 1941 at Pensacola, Fla.

Jumcs Bruington diud September 28, 1857. Robert Bruington died }'.lay 29, 1862 ·illirun Eugene Bruington b •.April 11, 1862 i:Vurrcn Co., Ill., married to Lizzie Maud Thompson of Kellogg, Kn.nsns on Dooombor 25, 1886. Thoir childron: Lois a. nt 15 months, Lloyd nnd Mo.rgo.rot Clara June Bruington b. Nov. 4, 1864 in Warren Co., Ill. m. august 11, 1884 in Galesburg, Ill. to Fr~ncis o. Martin, Thoir ohildron: Effie May, James

Nattio Pc.rndine B. b. Jnn. 20, 1867 in Vfo.rron Co., Ill., d. 11.pril 25, 1906 m. Laona.rd .Aubroy Millspaugh a.t Do.le, Knns. on Juno 2, 1866. Thoy ho.do. daughtor, Ona Mny.

Cora M.~rgnrot B. b. July 19, 1869 in Wnrron Co., Ill. m. Thomas R. Newby ~t Do.lo, Kuns. on August 1, 1897 Pngo 59

Eltvin W~llo.co Bruington b. Ji~rch 17, 1872 in W~rron Co., Ill. m. on Fob. 20, 1900 to Gro.co Ednn Silla.mo.n of Vfinfiold, Ko.nsa.s. Their children: Pnul Leroy, Donald Emery, a.nd Doan Jn..~os

Orln Loo B. b. Feb. 8, 1895 in ·:_r.I"o.rron Co., Ill. Lillio May B. b. Fob. 25, 1877 nt G~lcsburg, Ill. m. Merritt Robert Fro.nipton on Nov. 25, 1896 at fulo, Knnsns. Their children: Robert Hurold, Holon o.nd Juno.

lio.rgc.rot w·nllnco nnd Jo.n10s Bo.rnott

1-inrGc-rct Vvo.lla.co wo.s born x·Io.y 22., 1837 in Wo.rron Co., Ill. nnd diod July 23, 1886 in W~rrcn Co., Ill. Sho wus 1nnrriod at Wnrron Co., Ill. to Jamos Ilnrnott in 1i\!o.rron Co., Ill. c.nd thoy c.. ro buriod in Monmouth Comotury. Thoir children woro: Emmott Bn.rnctt, ll.lmu, otis., V!c.rron, Seldon und Alto..

!-·:a.r~7 T1c.llo.oo o.nd Goorgo Bruington

Mc.ry ~r.r['_llu.co wc.s born N'ovcmbor 3, 1839 in Wa.rron County, Coldbrook Twp., Ill. v10.s mr.rriod in tho same locution in 1863 to Goorgo Bruington v1ho wns born in Knox Co., Ill. u~1d y;ho wa.s tho son of Thonk°-S c.nd Jo.no (McGlothlin) Bruington, na.tivos of' Brockinridgo Co., Ky. They made their homo in ~ifrirrcn Co. o.nd to Ga.losburg, Knox Co. upon rotiromont. George nnd l.itry Bruington a.ro both buriod in tho Linwood Cometary just wost of Galesburg.

Their children: :iii.a.rgarot we.s born in 1864 ma.rricd Chris v'Thi tma.n Jossio wo.s born in 1866 and mo.rriod Ellsworth Davis Arnold vms born in 1868 t:nd r.ic.rriod Addie Hull Elmor Vll\.S born in 1871 c.nd ma.rriod !-.Iimn Gnrdnor Almo. wa.s born in 1877 n.nd mo.rriod Frunk Johnson

Pa.ro.dinc 'Na.llnco and Thomo.s Griff'oa o.nd (2nd) Philip Snlloo / - ?n.ro.dinc Wa.llncc wo.s born July 18, 1842 in Coldbrook Township, Yfnrrcn Co., Illinois in the old log cnbin ~nd diod in 1931 in Coldbrook Twp., 'Wnrrcn Co., Ill. where sho spent most of her life - oxoopt for n fow yours sho lived in Gnlosburg with hor dnughtor, :l\:Io.ggio. Sha o.nd hor tv,o da.ughtors a.re buriod in the Gulosburg Linwood Cometary.

Po.ro.dinc 1:"Jc~llo.co was married on June 16, 1861 to Thomas Griffee who was born Heh. 13th in 1840 nnd diod o.t o.gc 24 in 1864 vrith Typhoid fever. They sufforod the loss of nn infant son.

Pa.rndino -~··[nllo.c,,,o-Gri ffQQ w0:s mnrriorl on July 25, 1869 to Philip Mcrodoth Sa.llco ,1ho ,10.s born ~-hrch 15, 1832 in Buckinghrun Co., Vo.. o.nd co.mo to Ill. in tho your 1837 nnd who died Oct. 12, 1881.

Tho ohildron of Para.dine o.nd Philip Sc~lloo, born in Kelly Twp., 1rlnrrcn Co., Ill. 1'toro: Emma Lucy born ~pril 16, 1871, who diod in 1932 a.nd mnrriod Ja.nu~ry 27, 1903 to George Towno of Cobden, Ill. Mo.ggio Frnncas born November 26, 1876 diod July 3, 1921 and mo.rricd on Scpt­ ombor 8, 1920 to Don Ovorfolt. Pa.go 60

John Eokles Wnllaoe and So.ro.h Jones

John Eckles 'Vfall·:-:.ce wns born ¥larch 31, 1846 in VTa.rren Co., Ill., and died :March 10, 1935 in ColJbrook Twp., Warren Co., Ill. and is buried in Ogden Cemetary. He wao mnrried on Deo. 19, 1867 in Warren Co. to Snrah Jones who wo.s born August 8, 1845 in Warren Co., Ill. and died in Coldbrook Twp., Wo.rren Co., Ill. on Dec­ ember 21, 1886 nnd is buried in Ogden Cemetury.

John E. Wo.llaoe mnrried (second) Eliza.beth Fisher of Tronton., ?ao. who diod in Warren Co. april 11, 1921 and is buried in Ogdon Cometary.

Tho children of John nnd Saro.h Jones Y:allo.co wore all born in 1.1\fa.rron Co., Ill: Lorn Angio born October 1, 1868 nnd diod Mo.y 16, 1871 Hugh Mosos b. }./Io.rch 31, 1870 nnd died in 1937 Frank Thomas b. Juno 11., 1872, m. May 25, 1912 nt Long Boach, Co.I. to Holen Luc~s b. July 9, 1892. Their children o.ro Nonthoo., Elsarn, Fro.nk and Po.ulo. Lou

Lura. be Sept. 26, 1874, d. Feb. 9, 1938, m. Sept. 5, 1906 to Loslio Po.rkcr who was born Fob. 26, 1881, d. Jan. 28, 1940 und both a.re buried Forost Lo.wn, Los Angelos. C~l. Thoir childron ~re Audrey and Wnlla.oo John Parkor.

i1ary Jonos Walla.oo b. I~In.roh 6, 1377 m. ll.ugust 10, 1907 to Fred Rydor who was born July 9, 1866, d. January 8, 1947 in Po.sadona., C,al. Thoir childron nro John {fo.llc.oo Rydor and Jo.mos Hn.11 Rydor.

J~cob Croath b. April 6, 1879 died Fobruury 13, 1953 in Donvor, Colo., m. to Stolla. Schlarb Their children uro David v.nd Paul Uocl

Harry Chris be Fobruo.ry 13, 1882, m. Soptombur 22, 1920 in Go.losburg, Ill. to Gro.co tfu.blo Flchnrty b. N'ovo1ubor 1, 1885 Their children nro John Chris nnd Snrnh Eliza.both INDEX

Introduction• ••••••••• • • •. • • • •• • ••• • • • •• • •. 3 - ·4 Wallace Family Bible Rocord •• • • • •••••••••• • • • •. • • • ·6 Murphy Fnmily Bible Record• • • • • •. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 6 Tho \1c..llnoo Ancestry -- Robert Wa.llnco nnd othors • • • • • • • • • • • • 7 - 8 Murphy Fnmily • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 9 - 12 Tho Old Kcntuoky Homo • • •. • •. • • • • • •••• • •••••• • •• 13 .. 15 The ~?aw Homo in Illinois • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • .16 - 22 Cooko - Forguson - Murphy - Wa.lla.co Storios •. • • ••••• • • •• • • 23 ~ Bit of This & That••••.•••••••••••••••• • • • • • .24 - 25 Lotter from Elwin ~laycomb or Euroka~ Knnsns •••••••• • • • • • • .26 • 28 Colebration of tho 100th Anniversary of tho Wullnco Fnmily's lu-rivnl in Illinois•••.•.• ••••• • •. • ••29 - 31 Pnrndine Wcllnco's Story.• •• •••.• •••••• • •••••••••32 - 33 Vfnllaoe o.nd Murphy Family Linoo.go • • , • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 34 Record of War of 1812 for Willinm Murphy.•.•.•• •• •••.•••• 35 Cooko Family History ••• • •. • •• •. • • ••• • • •• • ••••••36 • 37 Willio.m Cooko 1s Rovolutionary Rooord • • • •••••••• • • ••••••38 - 39 Quotes from 11 So.j.nts and Strangers" • • • • • • • • • •••• • •• • • • .40 - 46 Jnoob and Dnmnrias Hopkins - Cooke - "A Wnighty Viongo" •• • ••••• • 47 - 48 Cooke Fo.mily Linenge by Ma.ggio Salloo • ••• • ••• • •• • •••• • • 49 "So.ints o.nd Strc.ngcrs" (Cooko Linoa.go) • • • •. • •. •. • •• • • • •. 50 Cooke "Tho India.n ?io.ssc.cro" S'tory • • • • • • •. •••••• • • • • • • 51 Copy of Will of Robort Wallace, 1828 •. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 52 Indonture of Robert Wnllnco, 1823 • •. • • ••• • • • • • • • • • • • .53 - 54 Raminisconcos of tho Lincoln-Douglas Debnta - An Affidnvit, 1856 • •. • • • • • • • •. • •. •. •. • • •• • •. • 55 Lineo.go or Children of Thonns Clelland o.nd Mnrgnrot MurphyWullnoe • • • • • •. • • • •. • • •. • • • • • • • .56 • 60