Abraham Shafer

 --Paxton Record.  15 August 1878.

--Photo from Find A Grave.  Steven Baker.

Tommie McNeish

That terrible scourge of the little ones, scarlet fever, has made its appearance in our place, and taken for its first victim little Tommie McNish, one of the brighest little boys in town. He died on the 13th after an illness of only four days, it is hoped the disease may not extend.

--Paxton Record.  23 March 1877.

--Photo from Find A Grave.  Carolyn Wilson.

Eddie F. Bastian

 --Photo from Find A Grave.  Steven Baker.

--Paxton Record.  24 February 1876.

Edna Newman

--Photo from Find A Grave.  Carolyn Wilson.

--Paxton Record.  21 November 1878.  Page 1.

Carl Lohman

--Paxton Record.  14 March 1872.

Find A Grave Volunteer, Carolyn Wilson, does not list his burial in the Lyman Township Cemetery.   

David Howe

--Paxton Record.  7 March 1872.
Find A Grave Volunteer, Carolyn Wilson, does not list his burial in the Lyman Township Cemetery.

Amelia Bernhardt

--Stone Photo from Find A Grave.  Steven Baker.

--Paxton Record.  21 November 1878.  Page 1.

Jennie B. Gordon

--Stone Photo from Find A Grave.  Carolyn Wilson.

 



--Paxton Record.  21 November 1878.  Page 1.

Fairley - McClelland Wedding

--Paxton Record.  9 December 1880.

25 November 1880

--Paxton Record.  25 November 1880.

14 October 1880

--Paxton Record.  14 October 1880.

Methodist Church Burns to the Ground

--Gibson City Courier.  26 December 1902.  Page 4.

--Paxton Daily Record.  26 December 1902.  Page.

Church Burned at Roberts
--Mr. Louis Yackee, of Roberts, spent Christmas with the family of J. A. Cooper on North Main street.  Mr. Yackee brought news of the burning of the M. E. church there Wednesday afternoon at 4:30, just as the young people were getting ready for the Christmas celebration. 
The building was a frame one and built thirty years ago and it is supposed fire caught between the roof and the ceiling, blew the flames in the opposite direction from the parsonage and it was saved, although it was thought necessary to push in the walls of the burning building.  The seats and the new organ were rescued as well as the more valuable ornaments of the Christmas tree which was not accountable.  The Christmas exercises were postponed till last night and held in the Congregational church.  Rev. A. W. Atkins is pastor and there is a congregation of over 200.

--The Pantagraph.  Bloomington, Illinois.  26 December 1902.  Page 7.

Methodist Episcopal Church Early History

--Historical Atlas of Ford County, Ilinois.  1884.  Page 65.

German Evangelical Church Early History

 



 

--Historical Atlas of Ford County, Illinois.  1884.  Page 65.

Congregational Church Early History

 

--Historical Atlas of Ford County, Illinois.  1884.  Page 65.

 

The First Permanent House in Lyman Township

George P. Lyman, of Lyman Township, says that his father built the first permanent house in that township on Section No. 2.
This house was raised July 4, 1856.  There were several temporary or pre-emption shanties built the year previous.  He thinks his father's was the only house at that time between Spring Creek and Oliver's Grove, the only road or trail running through his farm.  Land seekers and travelers came in great numbers, stopping over night at the Lyman homestead.  This same year, a colony from Connecticut took up several thousand of acres in this immediate vicinity.  This event was hailed with grate joy by the Lyman family.  Among these colonists were S. K. Marston, who afterward taught the first singing school, and his estimable wife was the first public school teacher in that township; E. L. Havens, Capt. A. C. Maxon, S. C. Burt, John T. Forbes, Lyman Peck, J. M. Wyman; later came G. H. Thompson, G. B. Winter, H. J. Gamble and others.  The first Sunday school was held at the house of Mr. Peck.  First preaching was by Rev. Bishop Hall, Methodist, and Rev. Lemual Foster, Congregationalist, and then Rev. Mr. Needham.  These services were held at the various homes of the farmers.  A series of meetings were held a year or two later, by Revs. Foster and Needham, and many, including nearly all the young people, united with the church.  A union church was organized and continued several year, but finally merged into a Congregational Church.

--Historical Atlas of Ford County,  1884.  Page 13.  

--Atlas of the State of Illinois.  Chicago.  1876.

Civil War Veteran



 --Paxton Record.  14 October 1880.

--Photo from the collection of Barbara Leroy.

More information on Mr. John Ruedger:  https://lymantownshipinthecivilwar.blogspot.com/search/label/Ruedger%20John%20F

7 October 1880

--Paxton Record.  7 October 1880. 

Died at the hotel, last Saturday, of congestion of the lungs, Lawrence, son of Mr. and Mrs. Brandenburg, aged seven years.  This is the second child they have buried since they came to Roberts six weeks ago.  The bereaved parents have the sympathy of the entire community in their dire affliction.

--Paxton Record.  9 September 1880.
There is no recording of the burial of Willie in Lyman Township Cemetery from Carolyn Wilson, Find A Grave volunteer.

9 September 1880

--Paxton Record.  9 September 1880.
I checked Find A Grave Lyman Township Cemetery page, no Johnson listed for this 1880 obit. Nothing listed at FAG for Willie Brandenburg. There is a Loren R. Brandenburg son of Henry C. and Fannie Brandenburg died 1 October 1880.