Burtie Lyman 1878

--Photo from Find A Grave.  Steven Baker.

 



--The Weekly Standard.  Paxton, Illinois.  30 November 1878.  Page 8.

Depot

--Photo from Betty Thompson.

Wedding in 1878

--The Weekly Standard.  Paxton, Illinois.  17 August 1878.  Page 8.

North Lyman News

--Paxton Record.  4 March 1880.

Roberts News

--Paxton Record.  4 March 1880.

Della Wakelin

Della Wakelin. Graduation photo.

--Photo contributed by James Lossing.

Hurst Wakelin Photos

Lady on left, Adelaide Hurst Wakelin. Lady on right, possibly Adelaide's sister, Mary Hurst Talbot. Lady in the middle not identified. Do you recognize her? James Lossing believes this photo was taken at the Wakelin home on East Green Street in Roberts.

Adelaide Hurst Wakelin on the right with Peanuts the dog.  Photo possibly around 1908. Anyone recognize the taller lady?  Again the location is probably at the Wakelin home on East Green Street.

So the Wakelin family home was behind where Jean Fox currently lives and where Louise Arnold used to live. This would be on the north side of East Green Street. "Church" on the corner, then looks like W. Shambrook, then W. L. Wakelin with a large lot.  Jean Fox notes on the RIH FB page about these photos with the Wakelin home that "Wakelin's house is Sara's home now..."

--Photos from James Lossing. 

26 February 1880

--Paxton Record.  26 February 1880.

Diphtheria



Died, at his residence, three miles north of Roberts, Sunday evening, Jan. 25th, John McDonald. John was a young man of about twenty seven, just entering upon life when the destroyer in the shape of diphtheria laid him low. He leaves a brother, two sisters and a circle of friends to mourn his death. So passed from our midst one who was the very embodiment of health and vigor surely, "thou hast all seasons for thine own", Oh! death.

--Paxton Record.  29 January 1880.

--Paxton Record.  12 February 1880.

North Lyman

--Paxton Record.  12 February 1880.

12 February 1880

--Paxton Record.  12 February 1880.

Phipps - Woodrow & Fairley - Bunker Weddings

--Paxton Record.  29 March 1888.

McNeil - Hummel Wedding

--Paxton Weekly Record.  20 April 1893.

Hunt - Yackee Wedding

--Melvin Transcript.  30 September 1898.

Kenward - Gullett Wedding

--Paxton Weekly Record.  24 February 1898.

Woodruff - Squires Wedding

--Melvin Transcript.  17 June 1898.

Woodard - Iler Wedding

--Paxton Weekly Record.  20 October 1898.

Samuel John Tapp

  

--Portrait and Biographical Record of Ford County, Illinois.  Lake City Publishing.  Chicago.  1892.  Pages 352-353

 

--Buried Lyman Township Cemetery.  My Photos.

The article states her name as Louisa Thompson.  But FAG states Harriet L. "Hattie" Thompson Tapp.  Middle name maybe Louisa?

Colteaux, Squires, Waldschmidt

From James Lossing:

Seeing on the blog the newspaper clipping of Wilfred Colteaux, I thought I would send these pictures of him in 1927 when their family was visiting Roberts people in California. I think the Colteaux family visited several times before they came to California to live for a while. 
In the long picture of the Roberts Reunion at Brookside Park, Wilfred is seated eighth from the left. His mother is seated third from the right and his sister seventh from the right. His father, John Colteaux is standing in the back fourth from the right. (Below)

The picture below must have been taken that same day because John is wearing the same clothes.  (Below)

The first picture below is with the Waldschmidt and Squires families.  Left to right Edna Colteaux behind Jeannette, Henry, Sadie, and Norman Waldschmidt in a column, Clara Vivian Squires, her parents Mae and Clarence (C. O.), Sarah Jane Ridge Squires (widow of Philip Squires), Wilfred and Glenn Squires.  Sadie Waldschmidt and Mae Squires are Wakelin sisters.

The second picture must have been takin in 1927 also.  It looks like another get together of Roberts people.  Wilfred is on the right in front, and his mother and sister are also sitting in front. Three of the Wakelin sisters are there: Genevieve Weaver, Sadie Waldschmidt, and Della Lossing.

--James Lossing.  Email.  October 2018.

Charles O. Hayes

 

--Portrait and Biographical Record of Ford County, Illinois.  Lake City Publishing.  Chicago.  1892.  Pages 338-339.

Bert Roberts

Needs more identification.

--James Lossing.  Email September 2018.

John McDonald Obit

--Paxton Record.  29 January 1880.

Hurst

William & Mary Jane (Roberts) Hurst.

--Photo from James Lossing.  Email.  September 2018.

Needing Names

--James Lossing.  Email.  September 2018.
Hurst, Roberts, ???  James is getting names for me.

Cider Mill

--Sibley Journal.  11 August 1911.  Page 1.

Warren Talbot

--Photo from James Lossing.  Email.  September 2018.

1880

 

--Paxton Record.  15 January 1880.

F. C. Linn Drug Store

 

Interior of the F. C. Linn Drug Store.

--K. Family Photo Album.

Ladies' Aid Society

Congregational Ladies' Aid Society.  Roberts, Illinois.  1907.

--K. Family Photo Album.

Congregational Church Meeting

Congregational Church meeting at the Squires' home.

--K. Family Photo Album. 

Front Seat: Oscar Roberts, Sela Foster, (child) Forrest Whorrall; Back Seat: Lizzie Roberts, Bell Anderson, Hattie Foster, Zillah LaRosa Whorrall, Running Board, Venice and Cleo Whorrall, Standing: Henry Whorrall. The photo was obtained from Venice Whorrall Fairley, Onarga, IL. Notes on the back of the picture from James O Talbot: Oscar Roberts is Oscar James Roberts, my grandfather and Lizzie Roberts is Mary Elizabeth Whorrall Roberts, my grandmother. Henry was my mother's (Flossie) uncle. We spent a lot of time looking for Indian relics and shooting his old guns. The three children in this picture belong to Zillah and Henry Whorrall.

--Contributed by Patricia Ellis.

Ortlepp Home

North east corner of Main and South Streets.
Drawing by Rev. John Whorrall.

 --Contributed by Patricia Ellis.

Wesley Wakelin

Wesley Wakelin.  Born 29 November 1887.  Died 9 January 1895.  Burial in Lyman Township Cemetery. 
Cemetery record: Wesley Wakelin, age 7 yr.
Father: Thomas Walter Wakelin, b. England abt. 1853. Mother: Adelaide (Hurst) Wakelin. They were married Oct. 12, 1881, in Ford Co., Illinois.
Paternal grandfather: Thomas W. Wakelin (b. England abt. 1816). Paternal grandmother: Sarah Wakelin (b. England abt. 1815).

--Photo and History from James Lossing.  FAG.  August 2018.

Woodruffs

Roy and Edna (Smith) Woodruff.

--Photo from Pat from Sacramento.  FAG.  August 2018.