Showing posts with label Thompson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thompson. Show all posts
Saturday, March 21, 2020
Sunday, February 16, 2020
Saturday, October 26, 2019
Sunday, March 03, 2019
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.
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.
Saturday, June 30, 2018
Thomas and Miller Thompson
--Paxton Record. 10 October 1878.
Thomas Thompson, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Thompson, died last Saturday of diphtheria. This is the second son they have lost by that fatal disease within the last two weeks. . . .
Find A Grave lists Thomas Thompson died 6 October 1878. Miller Thompson died 25 September 1878. It is noted on FAG there are is no stone for either child, and they are the sons of Iver Thompson.
Sunday, June 17, 2018
More from 28 March 1878
--Paxton Record. 28 March 1878.
"W. E. Thompson, of photographic notoriety" possible photography studio in Roberts??
In the April 4,1878, his name is given as Will C. Thompson. Not sure which is correct. Research: Can I find any pics from his studio. Moved to Council Grove, Kansas.
Saturday, November 25, 2017
26 November 1874
LYMAN LOCALS
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Snow fell to the depth of about four inches on Thursday and Friday of last week.
Farmers generally are well prepared for the winter, very little corn remaining in the field to be gathered. The average yield per acre, as near as we can learn, has been from 12 to 15 bushels.
The summer's drought has been productive of at least one good result, viz: the obtaining of good wells. We do not see the necessity of having to haul water in barrels when a good well can be obtained, as is the case in this vicinity, at a depth of not more than 60 feet, or if figured in dollars and cents, at a cost of about $60.
The Lyman Literary Society has been reorganized, and the general interest manifested seem to promise much for its future success. John Thompson successfully fills the President's chair . . .
--Paxton Record. 26 November 1874.
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Snow fell to the depth of about four inches on Thursday and Friday of last week.
Farmers generally are well prepared for the winter, very little corn remaining in the field to be gathered. The average yield per acre, as near as we can learn, has been from 12 to 15 bushels.
The summer's drought has been productive of at least one good result, viz: the obtaining of good wells. We do not see the necessity of having to haul water in barrels when a good well can be obtained, as is the case in this vicinity, at a depth of not more than 60 feet, or if figured in dollars and cents, at a cost of about $60.
The Lyman Literary Society has been reorganized, and the general interest manifested seem to promise much for its future success. John Thompson successfully fills the President's chair . . .
--Paxton Record. 26 November 1874.
Sunday, October 29, 2017
15 February 1872
LYMAN ITEMS
Weather the coldest we have so far experienced for this winter.
Our Station Agent, keeps his head tightly bandaged and gets as mad as a hornet when any one says "Ears," and mentions last Sunday as an extremely cold day. "O dear what can the matter be."...
The R. R. Co. has seen fit to change Agents at Melvin, Mr. Thompson not being an operator, and they intending to make that place a telegraph station, a change was necessary.
Geo. H. Thompson, of the firm "Thompson & Lyman," has the appointment as Postmaster at this place, this is a good appointment and gives almost universal satisfaction.
The Revival Meetings noticed in our last, have at last been discontinued. Much good as been done. It is the intention of the Pastor to commence a series of meetings in the Grand Prairie school house.
Why is it that we see so many Peach Orchard's farmers hauling their corn to our station and doing their trading at our town? We wondered at this, and so we inquired, and this was what they told us. We can get more for our corn at Johnson & Meserve's than we can in Melvin, and then we can get more for our money here. So!
Considerable Real Estate is changing hands in our vicinity at rather low prices.
Christopher Anderson, one of our citizens, has taken a journey to Scotland. It appears that Mr. Anderson was at one time manager of a R. R. office in that county, and that company now wishes his proof to their books in an important case, and so gives him $25 per day and expenses of journey.
Hon. C. H. Frew passed through town, on the up passenger, on Saturday last.
A Farmer's Club is making its appearance in our part of the county.
Seven emigrant wagons passed through town one day last week, bound further south.
And still they marry: Geo. Barnhart was the lucky man, to Miss Amelia Smith, all of this town.
--Paxton Record. 15 February 1872.
Weather the coldest we have so far experienced for this winter.
Our Station Agent, keeps his head tightly bandaged and gets as mad as a hornet when any one says "Ears," and mentions last Sunday as an extremely cold day. "O dear what can the matter be."...
The R. R. Co. has seen fit to change Agents at Melvin, Mr. Thompson not being an operator, and they intending to make that place a telegraph station, a change was necessary.
Geo. H. Thompson, of the firm "Thompson & Lyman," has the appointment as Postmaster at this place, this is a good appointment and gives almost universal satisfaction.
The Revival Meetings noticed in our last, have at last been discontinued. Much good as been done. It is the intention of the Pastor to commence a series of meetings in the Grand Prairie school house.
Why is it that we see so many Peach Orchard's farmers hauling their corn to our station and doing their trading at our town? We wondered at this, and so we inquired, and this was what they told us. We can get more for our corn at Johnson & Meserve's than we can in Melvin, and then we can get more for our money here. So!
Considerable Real Estate is changing hands in our vicinity at rather low prices.
Christopher Anderson, one of our citizens, has taken a journey to Scotland. It appears that Mr. Anderson was at one time manager of a R. R. office in that county, and that company now wishes his proof to their books in an important case, and so gives him $25 per day and expenses of journey.
Hon. C. H. Frew passed through town, on the up passenger, on Saturday last.
A Farmer's Club is making its appearance in our part of the county.
Seven emigrant wagons passed through town one day last week, bound further south.
And still they marry: Geo. Barnhart was the lucky man, to Miss Amelia Smith, all of this town.
Saturday, March 25, 2017
1873 Elections
In 1873 the following officers were elected: Supervisor, O. D. Sackett; Town Clerk A. M. Haling, Assessor W. R. Newman, Collector Joseph Hurst, Commissioner of Highways Patrick Russell, School Trustee H. B. Ferguson, Justices of the Peace G. H. Thompson and Peter Gose, Constables Josiah Paddick and John Orr.
--Roberts Herald. 15 May 1935. Bela Foster.
--Roberts Herald. 15 May 1935. Bela Foster.
1874 Elections
In 1874 election was held in the school house and the following officers were elected. Supervisor H. B. Furgerson, Town Clerk G. P. Lyman, Assessor J. L. Smith, Collector W. H. Thompson, Commissioner of Highways James Bond, School Trustee A. B. Graham, Overseers of Highways B. G. Hersperger, E. T. Havens, H. N. Hawk, John Miller, J. N. McNeil, A. T. Light, W. R. Kennedy, W. Wilson, J. B. Meserve, A. Shaffer, J. Landel.
--Roberts Herald. 15 May 1935. Bela Foster.
--Roberts Herald. 15 May 1935. Bela Foster.
Sunday, January 08, 2017
Early Days in Lyman #7
EARLY DAYS IN THE TOWN OF LYMAN
by Bela Foster
Continuing . . .
1869 was a very wet year. It was so wet that scarcely anything except grass and weeds grew. Hardly a farmer raised more than one or two hundred bushels of corn. I remember that J. N. Barker worked the Deacon Woodward farm. He was to have half he raised and his board. He raised one load of corn. The boys sat pretty that year. They could go swimming every day if there was no work to do. The flies and mosquitos flourished as did the chinch bugs here last year. The horse fly is very voracious and is not particular about what animal supplies his meals. They hatch in the low lands and have eyes that are large and full of sight. They alight on an animal and when they are filled and they leave the blood flows for a few seconds. If the animal is not well blanketed it is covered red with blood spots before night. They did not bother by entering houses much. Mosquitos were the worst pests as they worked nights and cloudy days. In the evening we would build smudges something like your neighbor does with dry and green grass, on the windward side of the house, as we had no screens in those days. The flies were chased about with green branches and home made extirpators.
These pests multiplied almost any place that year. This year was followed by several years of malaria, starting that year. Some had chills every day, others every other day. The druggist could not supply the demand for quinine, which was used as a febrifuge. It is no wonder that people were sick and many died. The water they drank, the food they ate, the flies and mosquitoes preying on their system, was enough to bring these results. My sister, Martha and I were spared the suffering and therefore came in handy to help those who were sick.
A. M. Haling and others had made an agreement with the G. C. & S. Railway to give them the right of way if they would put a town on his land, the Beset half section. After some litigation the company put in a side track one half mile east of the present Fred Woodruff home.
My Note: I have to get a plat for 1935ish, when Mr. Foster is writing these article.
--1876 Lyman Township Plat
Mr. Haling put up an office and a large corn crib and bought corn and sold coal and flour. The company had also promised Alonzo Roberts, Van Stlenbert, Taylor John of Thawville and the people of Melvin, the same thing. When it looked as though the town would be at Beset, George H. Thompson and Doolittle erected a store building just north of Otto Bleich's house.
My Notes: Otto Bleich is the father of Edwin Bleich per FAG. And Edwin Bleich is on the 1977 plat. And the side track would possibly be located on what was Ray and Leonard Rock's property in 1977. Currently owned by John Zick Jr. per the 2016 plat. And in 2016 Chester Bleich would be the owner of the Edwin Bleich property. Chester died not too long ago; I posted the obit on the Roberts Illinois Facebook Group page.) So was the Thompson and Doolittle store building where the Bleich home is now standing, just over the tracks off of 54? And this was the store I believe that was moved from the Beset location, to Roberts, then to Thawville.
--1977 Lyman Township Plat
So on the map below Otto has property on the other side of 54. Ida is Otto Bleich's spouse. I don't see a home in Section 15, but one is on Ida's property on Section 10 appear.
--1948 Lyman Township Plat
They also put up a temporary building on the east side of the road on the Haling property for a flax seed store house. They carried on the business for about one year, until the chances of a town at Beset was nil.
1871, Dr. Cassingham, then a young man saw the possibilities of a town in Lyman came here and had his office at Conger's who lived on the Tornowski farm on the hill a mile north of the Thompson store.
--1916 Lyman Township Plat.
My Notes: The Tornowski farm on Section 3 is where we believe the old cemetery is located. Right between Section 2 & 3. The Forbes farm would be Section 2. The old article from 1922 states the Forbe farm is the location of the burial site. How convenient for the MD to be located near a cemetery??? With the Thompson store being located only a mile south. Across the highway??? Dr. Cassingham had his office at Conger's who lived on the Tornowski farm on the hill. Maybe where Daniel Flessner lives???? Kay Schmidt who is part owner of this corner of Section 3 told me she spoke with Wayne Tornowski, and he told her there was a cemetery at this site.
He boarded at Conger's until his family came when he moved into the only residence in the new town which we named Bungtown. When the G. S. & C. began the erection of a depot on the Roberts land the hopes of a town at Beset waned. Bungtown was moved to the site of Roberts. Thompson's store was moved to Roberts and anchored a little north of where the hotel is now.
My notes: The hotel was located where the Roberts Feed Mill currently sits. Next to the Congregation Church. So it would have been very close to the church or in the same spot. Moved to erect the church???
Dr. Cassingham occupied it for a year or two and later it was put on skids and moved to Thawville. It stands on the south side of Thawville's main street yet but has been remodeled and changed in appearance.
My notes: Sandra Grohler Kay gave me info on this building. I need to find that. On the Thawville History FB page I think.
James R Smith, of Kansas City , Missouri, writes Mr. Foster as follows: "I have been interested in the articles you have written in the Roberts Herald recently, giving a very interesting story of the early days, settlers and settlements of Lyman township and of Ford County."
"It is certainly splendid of you and the editor to give the readers of the Herald, such a plain and accurate account of those old times and conditions, which those first settlers passed through in helping to make Ford County what it is today."
"Many of the names and places mentioned by you were brought back very vividly to my memory, although it has been more than fifty years since I left Ford County, and many of those good old settlers have gone on again to another home. But those old sweet memories will always remain until time with us, also shall be not more. So far as I know, I believe my brother, David B. Smith and myself are the oldest living natives born of Lyman township. Both of us were born near the site of the old school on the Smith farm. Personally I thank you and the editor of the Robert Herald for the articles you have written."
--Roberts Herald. 17 April 1935.
by Bela Foster
Continuing . . .
1869 was a very wet year. It was so wet that scarcely anything except grass and weeds grew. Hardly a farmer raised more than one or two hundred bushels of corn. I remember that J. N. Barker worked the Deacon Woodward farm. He was to have half he raised and his board. He raised one load of corn. The boys sat pretty that year. They could go swimming every day if there was no work to do. The flies and mosquitos flourished as did the chinch bugs here last year. The horse fly is very voracious and is not particular about what animal supplies his meals. They hatch in the low lands and have eyes that are large and full of sight. They alight on an animal and when they are filled and they leave the blood flows for a few seconds. If the animal is not well blanketed it is covered red with blood spots before night. They did not bother by entering houses much. Mosquitos were the worst pests as they worked nights and cloudy days. In the evening we would build smudges something like your neighbor does with dry and green grass, on the windward side of the house, as we had no screens in those days. The flies were chased about with green branches and home made extirpators.
These pests multiplied almost any place that year. This year was followed by several years of malaria, starting that year. Some had chills every day, others every other day. The druggist could not supply the demand for quinine, which was used as a febrifuge. It is no wonder that people were sick and many died. The water they drank, the food they ate, the flies and mosquitoes preying on their system, was enough to bring these results. My sister, Martha and I were spared the suffering and therefore came in handy to help those who were sick.
A. M. Haling and others had made an agreement with the G. C. & S. Railway to give them the right of way if they would put a town on his land, the Beset half section. After some litigation the company put in a side track one half mile east of the present Fred Woodruff home.
My Note: I have to get a plat for 1935ish, when Mr. Foster is writing these article.
Mr. Haling put up an office and a large corn crib and bought corn and sold coal and flour. The company had also promised Alonzo Roberts, Van Stlenbert, Taylor John of Thawville and the people of Melvin, the same thing. When it looked as though the town would be at Beset, George H. Thompson and Doolittle erected a store building just north of Otto Bleich's house.
My Notes: Otto Bleich is the father of Edwin Bleich per FAG. And Edwin Bleich is on the 1977 plat. And the side track would possibly be located on what was Ray and Leonard Rock's property in 1977. Currently owned by John Zick Jr. per the 2016 plat. And in 2016 Chester Bleich would be the owner of the Edwin Bleich property. Chester died not too long ago; I posted the obit on the Roberts Illinois Facebook Group page.) So was the Thompson and Doolittle store building where the Bleich home is now standing, just over the tracks off of 54? And this was the store I believe that was moved from the Beset location, to Roberts, then to Thawville.
--1977 Lyman Township Plat
So on the map below Otto has property on the other side of 54. Ida is Otto Bleich's spouse. I don't see a home in Section 15, but one is on Ida's property on Section 10 appear.
--1948 Lyman Township Plat
They also put up a temporary building on the east side of the road on the Haling property for a flax seed store house. They carried on the business for about one year, until the chances of a town at Beset was nil.
1871, Dr. Cassingham, then a young man saw the possibilities of a town in Lyman came here and had his office at Conger's who lived on the Tornowski farm on the hill a mile north of the Thompson store.
--1916 Lyman Township Plat.
My Notes: The Tornowski farm on Section 3 is where we believe the old cemetery is located. Right between Section 2 & 3. The Forbes farm would be Section 2. The old article from 1922 states the Forbe farm is the location of the burial site. How convenient for the MD to be located near a cemetery??? With the Thompson store being located only a mile south. Across the highway??? Dr. Cassingham had his office at Conger's who lived on the Tornowski farm on the hill. Maybe where Daniel Flessner lives???? Kay Schmidt who is part owner of this corner of Section 3 told me she spoke with Wayne Tornowski, and he told her there was a cemetery at this site.
He boarded at Conger's until his family came when he moved into the only residence in the new town which we named Bungtown. When the G. S. & C. began the erection of a depot on the Roberts land the hopes of a town at Beset waned. Bungtown was moved to the site of Roberts. Thompson's store was moved to Roberts and anchored a little north of where the hotel is now.
My notes: The hotel was located where the Roberts Feed Mill currently sits. Next to the Congregation Church. So it would have been very close to the church or in the same spot. Moved to erect the church???
Dr. Cassingham occupied it for a year or two and later it was put on skids and moved to Thawville. It stands on the south side of Thawville's main street yet but has been remodeled and changed in appearance.
My notes: Sandra Grohler Kay gave me info on this building. I need to find that. On the Thawville History FB page I think.
James R Smith, of Kansas City , Missouri, writes Mr. Foster as follows: "I have been interested in the articles you have written in the Roberts Herald recently, giving a very interesting story of the early days, settlers and settlements of Lyman township and of Ford County."
"It is certainly splendid of you and the editor to give the readers of the Herald, such a plain and accurate account of those old times and conditions, which those first settlers passed through in helping to make Ford County what it is today."
"Many of the names and places mentioned by you were brought back very vividly to my memory, although it has been more than fifty years since I left Ford County, and many of those good old settlers have gone on again to another home. But those old sweet memories will always remain until time with us, also shall be not more. So far as I know, I believe my brother, David B. Smith and myself are the oldest living natives born of Lyman township. Both of us were born near the site of the old school on the Smith farm. Personally I thank you and the editor of the Robert Herald for the articles you have written."
--Roberts Herald. 17 April 1935.
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