Mary (Hurst) Talbot

--Photo from James Lossing.  FAG.


Obit and headstone at Lyman Township Cemetery Blog:
https://lymantownshipcemetery.blogspot.com/search/label/Talbot%20Mary%20%28Hurst%29

Harriet (Hurst) Dillon

Born 1874.  Daughter of Joseph Hurst and Harriet (Harvey) Hurst.  Died 16 May 1965.  Aged 90-91.
She married Harvey G. Dillon on Dec. 28, 1897, in Ford Co., Illinois.
They had two children:  Oliver Harvey Dillon and Genevieve Dillon.
Buried:  Lyman Township Cemetery.  (There is not stone for this burial.)

--Photo from James Lossing on FAG.  Info also from FAG.

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Adelaide Wakelin

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

--Roberts Herald.  26 June 1918.  Page 1.

Wakelins

Adelaide & Thomas Walter Wakelin.

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

Another H. A Whorrall photograph.  Roberts, Illinois.

???

???? Might not even be Roberts.

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

Research.

Wakelin Home????

Maybe the home of Thomas and Sarah (Whorrall) Wakelin.

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

Research.

Green Street Looking West

Photo was taken in May 1946.

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

Thomas and Sarah Wakelin.

Thomas Wakelin was a baker and had a bakery in Coventry, England. He was also a local preacher of Wesleyan Church.
He and his family came to El Paso, Illinois in 1860. They started from England and encountered such a severe storm that the ship was damaged and they had to put into Cork Ireland, and wait for another ship. It was six weeks from the time they left England until they reached El Paso.
Uncle Joseph Whorrall lived there with his wife Debbie and family in a log cabin, and that was where they stopped. Debbie had a big family and was not a very tidy housekeeper. William was 14 and Thomas was 7 years old when they arrived there in El Paso. William remembered about their drying corn on the roof for winter and even had some tobacco drying.
Grandma had brought sponge cake and crackers from England and of course tea and tea pot. Aunt Debbie said after Sally got there she make a pot of that English tea and served the dry sponge cake and crackers which Sally called biscuit. Aunt Debbie said, "Grace, that was the best food I ever tasted." Papa said there was lots of wild game and Grandma nearly had a fit because Aunt Debbie let the children throw meat bones to the dogs and they ate them on the hearth- which drew flies since the window had no screens.
The first work dad (William) did was to help get in a load of hay. They put him on the wagon, but he didn't know how to spread it. Dad and the hay slipped off and they surely scolded him, then showed him how to spread it. The hay was wild slough hay. They also were drying wild plums for winter, had mosquito bar over them, and flies so thick. They dried berries too.
Thomas and Sarah settled on a farm near the present location of Roberts, Illinois, but that was several years before the coming of the railway and therefore before Roberts had been brought into existence. It was such a change from life in England. Grandma Wakelin brought copper kettles and dishes and silver from England. The copper kettles had to be scoured, and as soon as the food was cooked in them the food had to be poured out. Grandpa had brought a lot of goods, coats, etc., from England which he sold at a profit.
Sarah was taller and real slender. Thomas was short and stout and he always wore a plug hat and carried a walking stick. One morning he got up early and went down town. The banker, Mr. Anderson, asked him, "Thomas, what have you got on your neck?" He said a handkerchief. It was dark, in the room and he had picked up Sarah's white cotton stocking-and did they joke him. Sarah got up and hunted everywhere for the other stocking. She could not understand what had happened to it. Sarah wore a bonnet with the strings tied in a bow. She didn't wear glasses but used a reading glass. She would carry her Bible to church and follow when the minister read the lesson, also the songs.
[Also contributed by J Lossing] Thomas WAKELIN was born January 1, 1816, when the bells were ringing the old year out and the new year in.

--Photo and story from James Lossing.  Find A Grave.

Thomas and Sarah (Whorrall) Wakelin buried:  Lyman Township Cemetery. Roberts, Illinois.

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.

Roberts, ILL. Society Reunion

I have read articles about this group of Roberts families that all moved to California and kept in touch. 
ROBERTS, ILL. SOCIETY REUNION BROOKSIDE PARK APRIL 3, 1927.
From James Lossing: "People who moved to southern California kept in touch and got together a number of times. This one in 1927 must have been a special occasion.
Most of the Wakelins are here, also John Colteaux and family."

--Photo and information from James Lossing.  FAG Friend.  July 2018.

Cabinet Photo from Roberts

A cabinet card photo from a Roberts photographer, H. A. Whorrall.  The first I have seen. Exciting. 
Photo is the Wakelin sisters from Roberts.

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

Wakelin Family Photos

 Adelaide Wakelin and her older daughters, Sadie, Genevieve, and Mae.



Wakelin children after Wesley died.

Della Wakelin, 20 month old.

 Della Wakelin and her mother.

 



Sadie, Genevieve, and Mae Wakelin.

Sadie, Genevieve, and Mae Wakelin.

Young Sadie and Mae Wakelin, maybe.

 

--Photos and names provided by James Lossing.  FAG Friend.  July 2018.

Thomas and Adelaide (Hurst) Wakelin Family

Children of Thomas Walter Wakelin and Adelaide Hurst:

1. Sarah Adelaide WAKELIN was born November 14, 1882, Roberts IL Died 28 April, 1954, Los Angeles, CA.  Married December 19, 1900, in Roberts, Illinois Henry Emanuel WALDSCHMIDT. b. 27 Jan, 1867, Peru, Illinois,  died 6 Sept, 1942 in Los Angeles, California. Three children.
 

1. Wesley Henry Waldschmidt, b. 24 Aug. 1904 Roberts IL, d. 16 July, 1967, Long Beach, CA.  m. 25 June 1940 Beatrice Beverly Olson, b. 20 Feb. 1908, North Dakota, d. 13 Feb, 1973, Los Angeles, CA. One child Wesley Henry Waldschmidt, b. 3 June 1941, d. 4 June, 1941.

 

2. Hilda Bernice Waldschmidt b. 28 Aug, 1908, Los Angeles, CA, d. 14 Jun 2000 San Diego, San Diego, California. M. 21 Mar. 1925, Dudley Glidden Beadle, b. 26 Feb, 1902 New York, d. 01/31/1996, San Diego, CA.  Two children.

 

3. Norman Eugene Waldschmidt b. 29 Dec. 1924, Glendale, CA, d, 08/11/1985, Los Angeles, m. 7 July 1948 Harriet (Terrry) Runge b. 28 Oct, 1924, Chicago IL. Four sons.     

 

2. Mary Genevieve WAKELIN was born April 11, 1884, Roberts, IL d. 11 Nov. 1971, Los Angeles, CA.  Married June 26, 1907, Los Angeles, Royal A. WEAVER, b. 24 Jan, 1882, Nebraska d. 27 Dec. 1962.
 

1. William Clarence Weaver b. 26 April, 1908, Madison, NJ, d. 24 Jan, 1987, Downey, CA, m. 29 Jan, 1935, Compton, CA Genevieve Helen Marshall, 6 May, 1915, d. 18 May 1999, Los Angeles Co. CA. Four children.
 

2. Glenn Wakelin Weaver, b. 19 Nov, 1912, Pasadena, CA, d. 13 Apr 1998, m 1. 27 March, 1936, Luene Huston Lucas b. 31 July, 1912 Jonesboro, Arkansas, d. 8 Nov. 1986 Glendale CA, m. 2. 1 Jan, 1989, La Crescenta, CA. Helen Cox.  Two children with Luene.
 

3. Florence Adelaide Weaver b. 27 Feb. 1918 Williams, Arizona, d. 30 Aug 1998, Arcadia, CA, Compton, CA Stanley Ray Arrowsmith, b. 24 July, 1913, d. 10 Feb 2005 Arizona, divorced. Two children. 
    

4. Ruth Claudine Weaver, b. 12 Oct. 1920 Los Angeles, CA, m 4 April 1940, Compton, CA, Ansel Glenn Creasser, b. 27 Oct. 1915, Los Angeles, CA, d. 6 Nov. 1987. Three daughters.     

 

3.  Harriet Mae WAKELIN was born November 28, 1885, Roberts, IL, d. 31 July, 1964. m June 28, 1905, Roberts, Illinois, Clarence Orville SQUIRES, b. 14 June, 1884, Roberts, IL, d. 28 May, 1961. Two children.
 

1. Glenn Orville Squires b. 26 Sep, 1910 Roberts, IL, d. 28 Dec.1976, Riverside, CA, m. 25 Nov. 1936 Riverside, CA, Pansy May Banks, b. 11 July, 1914, Selah, Washington, d 6 Jul 2003, Riverside, CA. One daughter
 

2. Clara Vivian Squires b. 28 Dec, 1914, Roberts, IL, d. 23 Aug 2004 Puyallup, WA, m. 27 June, 1937, Upland, CA, Ewart Ward Robson, b. 11 May, 1914, Manzanar, CA, d. 24 Mar., 1984 Anacortes, WA. Three children     

 

4. Walter Wesley WAKELIN was born November 29, 1887.  Died January 9, 1895, in Roberts, Illinois .

 

5. Harvey Miles WAKELIN was born May 15, 1890, Roberts, IL, d. 4 June, 1930, Los Angeles, CA, m1. 1 April, 1911, Roberts, IL,  Jessie O. BOND, b. 15 July, 1889, Roberts, IL d. 10/01/1976, Los Angeles, CA divorce. Jessie m2 ___ Johnston . Harvey m2. Ruth ___ ? . Three children with Jessie.
 

1. Walter Earl Wakelin b. 10 March, 1912, Roberts, IL. d.  04/18/1985, Los Angeles, CA married and had children.
 

2. Donald Everett Wakelin, b. 30 April, 1916, Paxton, IL, d. 18 April, 1985 Sherman Oaks, CA, married and had children.
 

3. Leta Ann Wakelin, b. 14 March, 1918, Roberts, IL, d. 16 Jun 2004, CA, m Moorehouse, had children.

 

6. Della Melissa WAKELIN was born August 5, 1892 Roberts, Illinois, d. 20 Dec. 1979, Riverside, CA.  Married July 7, 1915 in Los Angeles, California, Lloyd Clinton LOSSING b. 24 Jan, 1892, Compton, CA,.  Died 2 July, 1965, Compton, California. One child.
 

1. Kenneth Lloyd LOSSING was born August 29, 1917, Los Angeles, California.

 

 Wakelin Family Portrait

 

--Photos and family history from James Lossing.  FAG Friend.  July 2018. 

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"I've come across some advertising on TISSUE PAPER of local businesses--two pieces of such advertising were torn off and placed between photos in the Foster/Ruedger album I have, which looks to be about 120 years old."

--Photos and comments from Ayesha H. LeRoy.  Posted to the Roberts Illinois History Group FB Page.  July 2018.

Left to Right:  Mrs. Pettit, Della Wakelin, Sadie Wakelin, Mrs. Roberts, Mrs. Swanick, Amelia Waldschmidt, Lena Wakelin, Genevieve Wakelin.

From James Lossing: " In this picture, with the ladies sitting on the ground, can anyone tell me about Mrs. Swanick, Mrs. Roberts, and Mrs. Pettit? Della, Sadie, and Genevieve are my grandmother and two of her sisters. Lena and Amelia are Waldschmidt sisters. I don't know if that picture was taken in Roberts or California."

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

John Ruedger and Norman Gilmore

"Thought I'd post one of John Ruedger--the son of John F Ruedger, the Civil War veteran. Young John was only 6 when his father died, and he was raised by the Blesch family and his oldest brother, Reynold. He went to Valparaiso College, and this is a photo from then. Anyone know if the other chap was from Roberts?"

--Photo and comments by Barbara Arthur Leroy.  Posted to the Roberts Illinois History Group FB Page.  July 2018.

Rice & Lyman 1881

--Paxton Record.  1 December 1881.

Haling

Nettie and Florence Haling

--Photo from Barbara Arthur Leroy.  Roberts Illinois History Group FB Page.  July 2018.

Roberts Photos

 

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

John Caleb Kenward, Sr.

James Lossing has several images in his collection he cannot identify.  We posted this to the Roberts History Group FB page asking for identification.  Jean (Thomas) Fox identified Mr. Kenward as her gr gr grandfather.

The following are unidentified.  You can email me if you recognize anyone in these photos.  jandowell@hotmail.com

Above photo.  Possible identification from Jean Fox:  "This might be Hazel Kenward, sister to Nancy Kenward Seng and daughter of Samuel Kenward."

 Above photo.  Possible identification from Jean Fox:  "I believe that this is Nancy Kenward Seng."

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

Roberts Creek?

Possibly "The Grove," not sure.

From James Lossing: 
"My grandmother was Della Melissa Wakelin, youngest daughter of Thomas Walter and Adelaide (Hurst) Wakelin.  These pictures are from her album and must have been taken around 1909, when she was in her teens."

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