Hurst Wakelin Photos

Lady on left, Adelaide Hurst Wakelin. Lady on right, possibly Adelaide's sister, Mary Hurst Talbot. Lady in the middle not identified. Do you recognize her? James Lossing believes this photo was taken at the Wakelin home on East Green Street in Roberts.

Adelaide Hurst Wakelin on the right with Peanuts the dog.  Photo possibly around 1908. Anyone recognize the taller lady?  Again the location is probably at the Wakelin home on East Green Street.

So the Wakelin family home was behind where Jean Fox currently lives and where Louise Arnold used to live. This would be on the north side of East Green Street. "Church" on the corner, then looks like W. Shambrook, then W. L. Wakelin with a large lot.  Jean Fox notes on the RIH FB page about these photos with the Wakelin home that "Wakelin's house is Sara's home now..."

--Photos from James Lossing. 

Wakelin

Wakelin Homes.
First picture Mae, Sadie, Harvey, Adelaide, Della on rail, Genevieve and Walter.

Second picture Walter, Sadie, Mae, Della, Harvey, and Adelaide.  I understand that this house on the farm burned down and they moved to town.

House they built in Roberts after the fire.

--Photos from James Lossing.  FAG Friend.  July 2018.

Ruedger Home

Home of Margaret Ruedger. Section 11. Lyman Township.  Plat map is from 1884. Very close to Beeset Grove.

"My grandmother, Della Ruedger Blome, said she was born in 1892 in Beeset Grove."
--Ayesha H. Leroy. 

"That’s my childhood home. My parents, Merle and Wilma Flessner, moved there in the early 1950s. The house was torn down around 1974 when a new house was built" 
--Peggy Bargman.

"And right above the Ruedger farm is “M.J. Foster” for Martha Jeanette Foster’s farm, originally owned by her husband, Eliab Foster, who died in 1872."
--Susan Kathleen Foster Nelson

--Photo and comments from Ayesha H. Leroy.  Roberts Illinois History Group (RIHG) Facebook. June 2018. 
--Response from Peggy Bargman also on the RIHG Facebook.  June 2018.
--Comments by Susan Kathleen Foster Nelson.  RIHG Facebook.  June 2018.

Foster Home

This was noted on the Roberts Illinois History Group Facebook page by Susan Kathleen Foster Nelson (June 2018):

"This is Martha Jeanette Clark Foster's home . . . eventually unmarried daughters, Leda and Martha Foster lived here.  These three are the women in the photo.  Several of Martha Foster's children continued to live in her home with her.  After my GGF's divorce, he lived with his mother, as did one of his older brothers.  Martha Jeanette Clark Foster died in 1908.  She gave birth to 13 children, but the last 4 died at birth or as a toddler.  Eliab was first married to Martha's older sister, Jane Rebecca Clark, and they had three children, whom Martha raised along with her own.  Leda died in 1950, & Martha died in 1934, and my GGF died in 1942.  I would imagine the home changed ownership around 1950."

Also posted to the same page from Alyesha H. Leroy (June 2018):

"That is the Martha Jeanette Clark Foster home, as my cousin Susan Kathleen Foster Nelson said.  That addition to the back held a kitchen with a coal/wood burning cook stove.  There was no running water, not even a pump, when my mother visited there in the 1920's. The other room held a loom, which my mother believed her aunts used to weave rugs.

I think this is the Gene and Mary Schuler home on North Street.  More research needed.

Maybe Another Roberts Home

--Maybe Zahn family members in photo.

A Roberts Home

--Possibly what we would know as the Safford house.  A strong resemblance.  And maybe Zahn girls.