EARLY DAYS IN THE TOWN OF LYMAN
by Bela Foster
Continuing . . .
by Bela Foster
Continuing . . .
In 1899, W. O. Sanders was elected Town Clerk of Lyman. He served more years in that office than any other person to date. He served sixteen years, thirteen of which were consecutive.
One day in the early summer of 1897 there came a rap at the door of the room in which I was sitting. On opening the door the visitor told me his name was W. O. Sanders. I invited him in and waited a minute or two for the talk I was expecting to hear. Any one who was schooled in Sanders text books would naturally expect him to be one of the family and he was. As he did not make any explanation I proceeded with my work. I had no idea that he intended to stay so long. Had I waited for him to introduce his books before I resumed my work I would be waiting yet. He did not even tell me his father was Sanders but he was. His Mother was Sanders.
His mother belonged to the Indiana branch of the Sanders family who came to northwestern Indiana in 1841. His great grandfather, William Sanders came to northern Indiana with the earliest settlers. His father was from the Ohio branch of the Sanders family who came to the country south of Toledo in the early part of the last century.
After studying his family history I decided they embraced not only the Sanders New Series but the Sanders "Union Series" as well. The chronological record of the Sanders ancestry is so complete that it reads something like the generations of mankind as recorded in the Bible.
When I first saw the ancestry of the Sanders family I thought it was complete but, when I saw the record of Mrs. Sanders ancestry, it was the finest record I ever saw. It took eighteen years time and travel through twenty-one states, five nations, and three continents to compile it.
The record covers not only ancestors but all other members of the family and goes back to J?? Beyser who was born January 19, 1669, married ?? Dorothea Wannenwatch, May 1698, and died April 12, 1728, at Pluderhausen, Wurttemberg, Germany.
The first of the family in America was Michael Beyser, who came here in 1826.
In 1902, J. E. Pankin, who had been Assessor of the Town of Lyman for several years, was chosen Town Clerk which office he held for one year.
In 1916, J. W. West, son of William West and brother of Mrs. Beulah Bond and William West, D. V. M., of Sibley, was elected to the office of Town Clerk. He was a painter, had lived in and near Roberts since his boyhood days. He married Gertrude Neagle, a step-daughter of J. E. Parkin. At the present writing he lives in Paxton, where he applies his trade. Mr. and Mrs. West have three daughters. He served as Town Clerk from 1816 to 1820, inclusive.
In 1822 Frank L. Mosher was chosen clerk of the Town of Lyman. He is the son of Mrs. Maggie Mosher, who was one of the early settlers of Lyman. She came here when she was a young girl. She attended school in the Marsten School when Martha E. Wyman, George Lyman and Marie Tinklepaugh taught school. She was the older daughter of John McDonald who came with this family of four children from Quebec, Canada, in the day of the sixties, while the Rebellion was in progress.
He is also a grand-son of Alexander Mosher, who helped to charm the snakes out of the Illinois prairie grass. His uncle, Alexander McDonald, was at one time Town Clerk of Lyman, therefore it is a justice to Frank to give him an office. He has held the office for the longest period consecutive service of any of the many clerks who have filled that office.
He is married and has two children, a son and a daughter. They are fine children and we are pleased to note they are following in the foot steps of their father and mother.
F. L. Mosher is still in office and when his unfinished term is ended he will surpass W. O. Sanders in time of service as Town Clerk of Lyman.
--Roberts Herald. 15 January 1936. Bela Foster.
One day in the early summer of 1897 there came a rap at the door of the room in which I was sitting. On opening the door the visitor told me his name was W. O. Sanders. I invited him in and waited a minute or two for the talk I was expecting to hear. Any one who was schooled in Sanders text books would naturally expect him to be one of the family and he was. As he did not make any explanation I proceeded with my work. I had no idea that he intended to stay so long. Had I waited for him to introduce his books before I resumed my work I would be waiting yet. He did not even tell me his father was Sanders but he was. His Mother was Sanders.
His mother belonged to the Indiana branch of the Sanders family who came to northwestern Indiana in 1841. His great grandfather, William Sanders came to northern Indiana with the earliest settlers. His father was from the Ohio branch of the Sanders family who came to the country south of Toledo in the early part of the last century.
After studying his family history I decided they embraced not only the Sanders New Series but the Sanders "Union Series" as well. The chronological record of the Sanders ancestry is so complete that it reads something like the generations of mankind as recorded in the Bible.
When I first saw the ancestry of the Sanders family I thought it was complete but, when I saw the record of Mrs. Sanders ancestry, it was the finest record I ever saw. It took eighteen years time and travel through twenty-one states, five nations, and three continents to compile it.
The record covers not only ancestors but all other members of the family and goes back to J?? Beyser who was born January 19, 1669, married ?? Dorothea Wannenwatch, May 1698, and died April 12, 1728, at Pluderhausen, Wurttemberg, Germany.
The first of the family in America was Michael Beyser, who came here in 1826.
In 1902, J. E. Pankin, who had been Assessor of the Town of Lyman for several years, was chosen Town Clerk which office he held for one year.
In 1916, J. W. West, son of William West and brother of Mrs. Beulah Bond and William West, D. V. M., of Sibley, was elected to the office of Town Clerk. He was a painter, had lived in and near Roberts since his boyhood days. He married Gertrude Neagle, a step-daughter of J. E. Parkin. At the present writing he lives in Paxton, where he applies his trade. Mr. and Mrs. West have three daughters. He served as Town Clerk from 1816 to 1820, inclusive.
In 1822 Frank L. Mosher was chosen clerk of the Town of Lyman. He is the son of Mrs. Maggie Mosher, who was one of the early settlers of Lyman. She came here when she was a young girl. She attended school in the Marsten School when Martha E. Wyman, George Lyman and Marie Tinklepaugh taught school. She was the older daughter of John McDonald who came with this family of four children from Quebec, Canada, in the day of the sixties, while the Rebellion was in progress.
He is also a grand-son of Alexander Mosher, who helped to charm the snakes out of the Illinois prairie grass. His uncle, Alexander McDonald, was at one time Town Clerk of Lyman, therefore it is a justice to Frank to give him an office. He has held the office for the longest period consecutive service of any of the many clerks who have filled that office.
He is married and has two children, a son and a daughter. They are fine children and we are pleased to note they are following in the foot steps of their father and mother.
F. L. Mosher is still in office and when his unfinished term is ended he will surpass W. O. Sanders in time of service as Town Clerk of Lyman.
--Roberts Herald. 15 January 1936. Bela Foster.
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