Should be in town in Roberts. Woodruff home. Do you recognize the home? Tim Theesfeld is trying to locate it. You can email me jandowell@hotmail.com
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Showing posts with label Woodruff. Show all posts
Saturday, April 25, 2020
Do you recognize this home?
--Posted to the Roberts Illinois History Group Facebook Page by Tim Theesfeld. April 2020.
"I think this was my Uncle and Aunt on the Woodruff side."
Should be in town in Roberts. Woodruff home. Do you recognize the home? Tim Theesfeld is trying to locate it. You can email me jandowell@hotmail.com
Should be in town in Roberts. Woodruff home. Do you recognize the home? Tim Theesfeld is trying to locate it. You can email me jandowell@hotmail.com
Friday, April 24, 2020
Homes
--Posted to the Roberts Illinois History Group Facebook Page. April 2020. By Tim Theesfeld.
In April 2020, Tim posted three photos of homes in Roberts to the RIHG Facebook Page.
The first photo was the home of his mother, Lila Norene Woodruff, and was taken in 1937.
This home current readers will remember as the Hamilton home (below.) It is located on the east side of North Main Street.
And right next door directly to the south were more Fosters. Unfortunately no older photo of that home, but we would know the home as the Roy and Dorothy Hafer place.
--Posted to the Roberts Illinois History Group FB page by Susan Kathleen Foster Nelson. April 2020.
In April 2020, Tim posted three photos of homes in Roberts to the RIHG Facebook Page.
The first photo was the home of his mother, Lila Norene Woodruff, and was taken in 1937.
The photo below was the home of Leda and Martha Foster and possibly their mother, Martha Jeanette Clark Foster, also located on the east side of North Main Street.
--Posted to the Roberts Illinois History Group FB page by Susan Kathleen Foster Nelson. April 2020.
This home is at 216 N. Main St. It is the home of the Foster sisters, Leda & Martha, and probably their mother, Martha Clark Foster, before them. The photos with gray & white paint are the two I took in 2007-8. I was told home was built by my GGF Parley J Foster. His sisters, Leda & Martha, lived there until they died.
I have previous posts about this home's history here https://robertsillinoisfordcounty.blogspot.com/2018/06/foster-home.html
Current readers know this as the home of Gene and Mary Schuler and their three children (below.)
And right next door directly to the south were more Fosters. Unfortunately no older photo of that home, but we would know the home as the Roy and Dorothy Hafer place.
--Posted to the Roberts Illinois History Group FB page by Susan Kathleen Foster Nelson. April 2020.
Photos of home next door to 216 N. Main. This is the other Foster home, usually the residence of Bela Foster & his wife Christina MacKay. They had no children. Said home was also built by Parley J Foster, brother of Bela. Photos taken 2007-8. Bela Foster wrote the newspaper columns about Roberts memories.
Sunday, October 14, 2018
Saturday, August 25, 2018
Sunday, August 19, 2018
Woodruffs
Daughter of Jonathan and Sarah Vaughn Richmond.
The following article appeared in the Wessington, Beadle County, SD Times Enterprise Saturday July 13, 1907:
"The W. H. Woodruff family received the sad intelligence Saturday of the death of Mrs. Norman Woodruff who passed away to her home above, June 29, in Roberts, Illinois. Many in Rose Hill (especially the pioneers of this county) will remember Mrs. Norman Woodruff. Her kindly deeds in time of sickness and trouble among her neighbors, and her christian charity to all, won for her many friends. The friends in Rose Hill extend their sincere sympathy to the bereaved family."
The following is from the Roberts, IL "Herald" issue of Wednesday May 5, 1920, page 1:
"Norman Harvey Woodruff was born near Ithica, New York, November 15, 1833 and died at his home in Melvin April 25, 1920, aged 86 years, 5 months and 10 days.
He was united in marriage to Alice R. Richmond June 2, 1861. The wife died June 29, 1907. Nine children were born to this union all of whom are living except George L., who died September 13, 1894. The living children are: Allie Wagner, Citrus Center, Fla.; Clayton Woodruff, Wessington, S.D.; Harvey O. Woodruff, Clarkston, Washington; Harry Woodruff, Alaska; Sadie Bear, Watseka; Nina Revell, La Hogue; Roy and Fred Woodruff of Roberts. There are 17 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren.
Mr. Woodruff was married to Lucy P. Erwin at Paxton, May 21, 1916. He leaves besides his wife and children, two sisters and two brothers. The brothers names are Charles Woodruff, San Francisco, Cal.; and Hugh Woodruff, St. Lawrence, SD.
Mr. Woodruff has been ill about a year and was ministered to tenderly by loving hands. He died very suddenly last Sabbath evening - such was his desire. He had eaten a hearty supper and was engaged in pleasant conversation with the family when the summons came. His loved ones say that there was a laugh on his face when the spirit took its flight.
Mr. Woodruff was an Easterner and settled first in Henry County, Illinois. Some fifty-five years ago he came to Roberts - Melvin community, where by honest endeavor fair treatment of his fellows he won a host of friends. He enjoyed telling of the struggles and hardships incident to the settlement of this counry. We who live today are the inheritors of the prayers, tears, struggles and privations of the early pioneers. May their mantle fall upon our shoulders.
The funeral service was held from the M. E. Church in Roberts, Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock, Rev. W. L. Barnes of Melvin preached the sermon. Rev. D. G. Du Bois of the M. E. church in Roberts assisted. Interment at Lyman cemetery"
The following is from the Wessington, SD "Times Enterprise" issue of Friday May 21, 1920:
"We have just learned of the death of Norman Woodruff, one of the early pioneer residents of Rose Hill township. His son C. N. Woodruff, received the news of his death about three weeks ago. He died on April 25th having reached the age of 87 years. Mr. Woodruff came to this point in the early spring of 1882, filing a homestead and preemption on the South half of Section 11 in Rose Hill, the farm now owned by W. H. Bagley. The family left here in the early nineties, going from here to Missouri, and later back to their old home in Illinois, in Ford County. Since then Mr. Woodruff has lived in several states, but at the time of his death he was back at the old home."
"Norman Harvey Woodruff was born near Ithica, New York, November 15, 1833 and died at his home in Melvin April 25, 1920, aged 86 years, 5 months and 10 days.
He was united in marriage to Alice R. Richmond June 2, 1861. The wife died June 29, 1907. Nine children were born to this union all of whom are living except George L., who died September 13, 1894. The living children are: Allie Wagner, Citrus Center, Fla.; Clayton Woodruff, Wessington, S.D.; Harvey O. Woodruff, Clarkston, Washington; Harry Woodruff, Alaska; Sadie Bear, Watseka; Nina Revell, La Hogue; Roy and Fred Woodruff of Roberts. There are 17 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren.
Mr. Woodruff was married to Lucy P. Erwin at Paxton, May 21, 1916. He leaves besides his wife and children, two sisters and two brothers. The brothers names are Charles Woodruff, San Francisco, Cal.; and Hugh Woodruff, St. Lawrence, SD.
Mr. Woodruff has been ill about a year and was ministered to tenderly by loving hands. He died very suddenly last Sabbath evening - such was his desire. He had eaten a hearty supper and was engaged in pleasant conversation with the family when the summons came. His loved ones say that there was a laugh on his face when the spirit took its flight.
Mr. Woodruff was an Easterner and settled first in Henry County, Illinois. Some fifty-five years ago he came to Roberts - Melvin community, where by honest endeavor fair treatment of his fellows he won a host of friends. He enjoyed telling of the struggles and hardships incident to the settlement of this counry. We who live today are the inheritors of the prayers, tears, struggles and privations of the early pioneers. May their mantle fall upon our shoulders.
The funeral service was held from the M. E. Church in Roberts, Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock, Rev. W. L. Barnes of Melvin preached the sermon. Rev. D. G. Du Bois of the M. E. church in Roberts assisted. Interment at Lyman cemetery"
The following is from the Wessington, SD "Times Enterprise" issue of Friday May 21, 1920:
"We have just learned of the death of Norman Woodruff, one of the early pioneer residents of Rose Hill township. His son C. N. Woodruff, received the news of his death about three weeks ago. He died on April 25th having reached the age of 87 years. Mr. Woodruff came to this point in the early spring of 1882, filing a homestead and preemption on the South half of Section 11 in Rose Hill, the farm now owned by W. H. Bagley. The family left here in the early nineties, going from here to Missouri, and later back to their old home in Illinois, in Ford County. Since then Mr. Woodruff has lived in several states, but at the time of his death he was back at the old home."
Lyman Township Cemetery, Roberts, Ford County, Illinois.
--Photos and history from: "Pat from Sacramento" on FAG. 2018.
Sunday, August 12, 2018
Arthur James
Arthur James was the son of Alfred James and Emma Jane (Jones)and the husband of Melissa Inez "Nina" (Woodruff.)
Alfred and Nina Woodruff were married December 25, 1900.
The following is from the Paxton IL "Record" issue of July 25, 1901, Page 4, Col. 1:
"Arthur James was buried on Wednesday last from the home of Norman Woodruff. He leaves a young wife who is almost heartbroken."
In 1906 she married Charles W. Revell.
--Photos and history provided by "Pat from Sacramento" on FAG. August 2018.
Friday, April 21, 2017
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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