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
Showing posts with label Roberts Homes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roberts Homes. 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
Daro Home
--Posted to the Roberts Illinois History Group Facebook Page by Stan Daro. April 2020.
"The picture of the house is our house taken in the mid 1940's after Walt Daro bought the house."
Friday, April 24, 2020
More Homes
--Posted to the Roberts Illinois History Group Facebook Page by Tim Theesfeld. April 2020.
The next photo includes at least three houses. These homes also are on the east side of North Main Street, just a little further to the north end of the street.
The next home would be the Pettit/Riddle/Estep home (below.)
The third home in the photo is what I remember as the home of Ida Tornowski (below.)
The next photo includes at least three houses. These homes also are on the east side of North Main Street, just a little further to the north end of the street.
The first house in the above photo and below, I remember as Jerry and Viola Shambrook's home. Jerry Shambrook notes that he bought the home from Earl Day in 1959.
The next home would be the Pettit/Riddle/Estep home (below.)
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.
Friday, August 09, 2019
Friday, May 31, 2019
Sunday, May 12, 2019
A. P. & Nancy (VanMeter) Bayler
I received an email this week from an individual researching the A. P. Bayler family history. If you would like to connect with this individual let me know, and I can set that up. The following photos were provided by Bill Hurston via email May 2019.
A. P. Baylor
Nancy (VanMeter) Bayler
A. P. & Nancy Bayler. Possibly in front of their home in Roberts located at the corner of Locust and Adda Streets.
A. P. & Nancy Bayler in middle of the front row. Photo taken possibly in front of the home located on Section 27 in Lyman Township.
Mr. Bill Hurston is searching for a home in Roberts possibly located at one time on Section 27 in Lyman Township, Roberts, Illinois. He does not think the home is still standing though. If you have any information on a home located south of Roberts on the east side of 115, please email me jandowell@hotmail.com.
The land appears to also have been owned by G. Minch (1884 plat), Leonard Rock (1966 and 1977 plat).
Photo below is possibly the home from this location.
Saturday, April 20, 2019
Sunday, July 29, 2018
Wakelin Home????
--Photo from James Lossing. FAG Friend. July 2018.
Research.
Saturday, July 14, 2018
Homes and Businesses
Thomas McNeish has moved his dwelling house into the western part of town and is making additions to it.
J. B. Meserve has dressed the smoke stack of his elevator in a new coat of paint. It looks nobby.
The farmers are taking advantage of the favorable weather; they have sown all the flax and oats, some of which is already up nicely, and a large number are planting corn.
Roberts is the only place in Ford County that can boast of a cheese factory. Mr. Tobey is the proprietor, and we are sure he will turn out a good article as he has employed efficient help.
--Paxton Record. 8 May 1879.
Sunday, June 24, 2018
Thursday, June 21, 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.
Sunday, April 29, 2018
Saturday, November 18, 2017
Trusheims and Roeders
More from Daniel Flora on his family.
Trusheim home.
This home belonged to Justus Trusheim and Anna Götzel. They farmed approximately 240 acres. If you kept going about 2-4 more miles east you'd hit the Roeder farm. This is likely how my G Grandparents met; though the story is they met while in Minnesota.
--Lyman Township Plat. 1916.
--Artesia Township Plat. 1921.
Trusheims.
Jacob Roeder
Daniel Roeder
Sophia Trusheim
--Photos and information from Daniel Flora.
Trusheim home.
This home belonged to Justus Trusheim and Anna Götzel. They farmed approximately 240 acres. If you kept going about 2-4 more miles east you'd hit the Roeder farm. This is likely how my G Grandparents met; though the story is they met while in Minnesota.
--Lyman Township Plat. 1916.
--Artesia Township Plat. 1921.
Trusheims.
Justus born in Hessen. Wife Anna Götzel from Austria. Children are William in back, Sophia (my Great Grandmother), Katherine, Lydia, Jesse (on lap), and Charles.
William married Mamie Schaefer. Sophia married Daniel Roeder. Kate married Heinrich Weber. Lydia married Frederick Saxsma. Jesse married Carrie Weerts, Charles married Sedina Vossberg.
Daniel Roeder
Sophia Trusheim
--Photos and information from Daniel Flora.
Swanick Homestead
The attached photo has been identified by my Aunt Rosie Swanick Duperre as the original Swanick farmstead of John and Anna Dolan Swanick. Both John and Arthur Swanick bought farms north of Roberts, Illinois about 1880. Arthur and his wife, Rose' farm was about 1/2 to 3/4 mile north of John and Anna's. Not sure of when the photo was taken. But the photo may have been taken in the 1890s judging by the ages of the kids. The original 80 farm was located in the W 1/2, SW 1/4, Section 6 in Lyman Township, Ford County, Illinois.
In the picture, John is on the left with Arthur on the right. Anna Dolan Swanick is on the left with Rose Layden Swanick is on the right.The boy looks like Robert and the little girl in the middle looks like Elma. The girl on the far left is one of the older girls.
Both the 1st and 2nd farmsteads are gone today. I remember in the 1950s that there were a couple of trees along the road where the 1st farmstead was. It was located maybe less than an 1/8 of a mile south of the 2nd farmstead where my grandma Regina Swanick (James was her husband) and Bud had lived.
--From Jim Hornickel. Email.
--Lyman Plat. 1884.
Sunday, October 29, 2017
25 July 1872.
LYMAN ITEMS
Small showers of rain visited us on Monday and Tuesday, but on Wednesday it rained as if it really meant it, and it came just in time to save our early corn which was really in need of it.
Horace Lester, one of our well known citizens, has just returned from Nebraska, where he has been purchasing himself a farm. Horace has the "fever" about as bad as anybody we ever knew.
The G. C. & S. R. R. Co. is erecting a station house in Thawville.
The first car of corn was loaded, from the new warehouse on Wednesday, July 17. Five minutes is the time it takes to fill a car.
Our farmers report the army worm is working at their crops. The first place that they made their appearance was in the north part of the Township, and they are reported as steadily advancing southward.
Our school house is being painted -- white.
J. B. Meserve is making preparations to erect a dwelling house in town.
John Newman, whom we mentioned some time ago as leaving for Galesburg for medical treatment, returned on Thursday a mere skeleton, not able to lift his head. His brothers Wm. and James accompanied him.
The smoke stack of Meserve's warehouse was raised to its place on Saturday last. This was something of a feat. It being raised in one lengthy fifty foot piece.
Another big rain on Saturday night.
Reports from Livingston County state that the laborers on the Fairbury road, southeast of that place, came across some copper ore in their excavations.
--Paxton Record. 25 July 1872.
Small showers of rain visited us on Monday and Tuesday, but on Wednesday it rained as if it really meant it, and it came just in time to save our early corn which was really in need of it.
Horace Lester, one of our well known citizens, has just returned from Nebraska, where he has been purchasing himself a farm. Horace has the "fever" about as bad as anybody we ever knew.
The G. C. & S. R. R. Co. is erecting a station house in Thawville.
The first car of corn was loaded, from the new warehouse on Wednesday, July 17. Five minutes is the time it takes to fill a car.
Our farmers report the army worm is working at their crops. The first place that they made their appearance was in the north part of the Township, and they are reported as steadily advancing southward.
Our school house is being painted -- white.
J. B. Meserve is making preparations to erect a dwelling house in town.
John Newman, whom we mentioned some time ago as leaving for Galesburg for medical treatment, returned on Thursday a mere skeleton, not able to lift his head. His brothers Wm. and James accompanied him.
The smoke stack of Meserve's warehouse was raised to its place on Saturday last. This was something of a feat. It being raised in one lengthy fifty foot piece.
Another big rain on Saturday night.
Reports from Livingston County state that the laborers on the Fairbury road, southeast of that place, came across some copper ore in their excavations.
--Paxton Record. 25 July 1872.
8 February 1872
LYMAN ITEMS
Our revival meeting still continues, much good has been done.
W. C. Thompson arrived at home from his visit to the "celestials."
H. J. Howe, our county surveyor, was seen in town this week....
Flora & Newman's building rapidly approaches completion; a good frame east side of Main street. Another house in town, this time a dwelling, Alfred Guise is the proprietor. Mel Lincoln, of the firm of H. Lincoln & Son, of Buckley, was in town this week.
This week an important event has taken place; nothing more nor less than the birth of the first child inside of the corporate limits of our town, G. H. Bushor, our business maker, is the happy "parent," and he is just about as happy as a man can be -- and live.
The grain business is nearly at a stand still, no more cars are allowed to be loaded with grain until further orders, and as everything in town capable of holding shelled corn is full, (which is not otherwise occupied) buyers are constrained to purchase nothing except ear corn for the time being.
The called meeting alluded to in our last, was largely attended by the citizens of Lyman. After considerable desultory talking, a committee consisting of Messrs. Gose, Hurst and Haling were appointed to take the best legal advice obtainable on the subject in question, viz; our "G., C. & S." R.R. aid bonds, and to report at an adjourned meeting, on Feb. 7th, 1872.
Public sales are many, too numerous even to be noticed. Auctioneering must be good business. We notice that Ed. Gill is booked for one in the north part of the Township.
Weather cold, blowy and blustery.
Some of citizens are making preparations for a "new departure," Missouri is the destined point. We hope they will never regret their leaving Lyman and that they will enjoy both health and prosperity in their future homes.
Real Estate is changing hands in our vicinity and at good fair prices.
One of our citizens who sold out with the intention of making Kansas his future home, has returned and is now about purchasing another near here. He says he can buy land here as cheap as he can good land there, and the poor land is dear at any price. So much for Kansas. "Suckers" stay at home and don't grumble.
--Roberts Herald. 8 February 1872.
Our revival meeting still continues, much good has been done.
W. C. Thompson arrived at home from his visit to the "celestials."
H. J. Howe, our county surveyor, was seen in town this week....
Flora & Newman's building rapidly approaches completion; a good frame east side of Main street. Another house in town, this time a dwelling, Alfred Guise is the proprietor. Mel Lincoln, of the firm of H. Lincoln & Son, of Buckley, was in town this week.
This week an important event has taken place; nothing more nor less than the birth of the first child inside of the corporate limits of our town, G. H. Bushor, our business maker, is the happy "parent," and he is just about as happy as a man can be -- and live.
The grain business is nearly at a stand still, no more cars are allowed to be loaded with grain until further orders, and as everything in town capable of holding shelled corn is full, (which is not otherwise occupied) buyers are constrained to purchase nothing except ear corn for the time being.
The called meeting alluded to in our last, was largely attended by the citizens of Lyman. After considerable desultory talking, a committee consisting of Messrs. Gose, Hurst and Haling were appointed to take the best legal advice obtainable on the subject in question, viz; our "G., C. & S." R.R. aid bonds, and to report at an adjourned meeting, on Feb. 7th, 1872.
Public sales are many, too numerous even to be noticed. Auctioneering must be good business. We notice that Ed. Gill is booked for one in the north part of the Township.
Weather cold, blowy and blustery.
Some of citizens are making preparations for a "new departure," Missouri is the destined point. We hope they will never regret their leaving Lyman and that they will enjoy both health and prosperity in their future homes.
Real Estate is changing hands in our vicinity and at good fair prices.
One of our citizens who sold out with the intention of making Kansas his future home, has returned and is now about purchasing another near here. He says he can buy land here as cheap as he can good land there, and the poor land is dear at any price. So much for Kansas. "Suckers" stay at home and don't grumble.
--Roberts Herald. 8 February 1872.
21 December 1871
LYMAN ITEMS
Weather fine for this season of the year.
Roads dry, smooth and somewhat dusty.
News miserably scarce. Nobody married, though rumor says that certain parties contemplate entering the married state shortly. Nobody dead. Not even a dog fight....
Our young folks had a party at F. A. Roberts new house. On Monday last. They had a very fine and enjoyable time. We were there and speak from experience.
David Howe, one of our oldest settlers, and the father of our present County Surveyor, has been suffering for some time with an asthmatic complaint and is now very unwell.
We have as yet heard nothing from anybody about putting up a hotel at this place; a splendid location for one. A lot opposite the depot building is offered, free of cost, for this purpose. Our improvement in town, for this week, is a blacksmith shop, which we have sadly needed for some time, but now the vacancy is filled with a first class workman.
The inhabitants of the south west part of our township have been treated to some miniature prairie fires -- not much in size or extent -- mere pocket editions of those we used to have four or five years ago. No damage done.
A team of horses ran away in town last week, and the way they did "git up and git" was a caution. Consequences, a goodly supply of kindling wood, and minus a wagon.
The United Presbyterian denomination are holding their quarterly meeting in the school house, just out of town.
Our township still retains a smack of its original wildness yet. A wolf was seen on section 19, in this town on Sunday last.
Since scribbling my first item the weather has changed suddenly and is now cold, and the dust I bragged about, is covered up with snow.
--Paxton Record. 21 December 1871.
Weather fine for this season of the year.
Roads dry, smooth and somewhat dusty.
News miserably scarce. Nobody married, though rumor says that certain parties contemplate entering the married state shortly. Nobody dead. Not even a dog fight....
Our young folks had a party at F. A. Roberts new house. On Monday last. They had a very fine and enjoyable time. We were there and speak from experience.
David Howe, one of our oldest settlers, and the father of our present County Surveyor, has been suffering for some time with an asthmatic complaint and is now very unwell.
We have as yet heard nothing from anybody about putting up a hotel at this place; a splendid location for one. A lot opposite the depot building is offered, free of cost, for this purpose. Our improvement in town, for this week, is a blacksmith shop, which we have sadly needed for some time, but now the vacancy is filled with a first class workman.
The inhabitants of the south west part of our township have been treated to some miniature prairie fires -- not much in size or extent -- mere pocket editions of those we used to have four or five years ago. No damage done.
A team of horses ran away in town last week, and the way they did "git up and git" was a caution. Consequences, a goodly supply of kindling wood, and minus a wagon.
The United Presbyterian denomination are holding their quarterly meeting in the school house, just out of town.
Our township still retains a smack of its original wildness yet. A wolf was seen on section 19, in this town on Sunday last.
Since scribbling my first item the weather has changed suddenly and is now cold, and the dust I bragged about, is covered up with snow.
--Paxton Record. 21 December 1871.
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