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Harry T. Sifford, Granite Quarry N. C. has done some of the early genealogy
work. He has personally visited the
European sites that he references in the family history. Our family is very
grateful to him for the research that he has done. He plans to put the
information together into a book that he intends to publish on the Sifford
Family. Some of the following is the result of his research.
Harry Sifford first identified the Sifford family in Switzerland
(“Helvetia”). Some members of
the family then migrated to the Erbach Sovereignty (a Hessen State) of Swabia,
modern day southeastern Germany. The majority of the Sifford farms/property were
in the area of what is now Olfen, Germany. Information was also found in Beerfelden (also a Hessen
State) in the Beerfelden Lutheran Church regarding the Sifford family.
(Olfen and Beerfelden were apparently joined as part of the same district
in the 1970s being geographically in the same area of Germany.)
These are both in the southeastern part of Germany.
From there the Siffords migrated to the United States through the port of
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This migration took place before 1750. From there
they scattered all over the country.
SO WE BEGIN WITH THE SIFFORDS:
Stephan Siefert or Syfferg, 1614 – 1679, born in Helvetia, Switzerland ---- first generation identified
(Swabia was an independent sovereignty that was part of Prussia and was deeded over to Germany in 1806 and is now part of modern day Germany.)
Jacob Siefert, 1635 – 1718, born in Switzerland or Swabia ----second generation
Joachim Jacob Siefert, 1690 – 1760, born in Switzerland or Swabia,
died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ----third generation
Wife not identified
Jurg Ludwig Siefert,
9/05/1736 – 9/18/1789 probably born in Swabia (became part of Germany in
1806), but died in Rowan Co., N. C.
Johann Leonard Siefert, 3/11/1743 - 1806 born in Odenwald, (in the
Beerfelden area) Germany, died in Lincoln, N. C., married Ann or Catherine Ann
Eddleman. In Jurg Ludwig’s will,
he received at least 400 acres of land, and other specific items.
Elizabeth Siefert, married a Rhus or (Reece or Reese).
In Jurg Ludwig’s will, she received 100 acres of land.
Johann Christian Siefert, married royalty, the daughter of the Duke of
Erbach (Sovereignty of Germany) (this son is not confirmed but probable) Mary
(name stated in her brother, Jurg’s, will.) In Jurg Ludwig’s will, she
received 190 acres of land, and other specific items.
Other children not identified
Jacob Seifert is listed on the Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s -1900s, the year is 1735-1755 in Pennsylvania. This could have been Joachim Jacob Siefert who was born in Switzerland or Swabia and died in Philadelphia, Penn. in 1760. According to the Church of the Latter Day Saints, Family History Center in Philadelphia, Penn., Joachim Siefert from Finkenbach and his wife Eve Elizabeth Edelmann and their ten children came to the United States on a ship “Two Brothers” on Sept. 28, 1753 into the harbor of Philadelphia, Penn.
Joachim or Johann Christian Siefert, born in Switzerland or Swabia, a probable son of Joachim Jacob Siefert. He was a missionary and in 1739, he was found to be the first pastor of Christiansted Lutheran Church on the island of St. Croix in the U. S. Virgin Islands. He had married royalty, the daughter of the Duke of Erbach, a sovereignty of modern day Germany, although he was a commoner. After leaving the Bahamas, he settled in Virginia. He owned about 10,000 acres in Pulaski Co., Virginia (northwest corner of the state). This is in the Belspring Area and there is a mountain named after the family called Sifford Mountain. He then migrated to Pennsylvania and then to North Carolina.
Jurg Ludwig Sievers/Siefert was a communicant at a Lutheran/Reformed Union Meeting House at Dillingersville, Penn., from 1756 to 1767. He moved to North Carolina between 1768 and 1770. Sometime in the mid 1770s he sold his property in Penn. to Hans Schantz, but he apparently had purchased property in N. C. prior to that time. C.A.G. Storch, early Rowan Lutheran pastor, records his grave service at Organ Church in his diary as 9/19/1789.
The 1790 United States Federal Census shows a Jacob Syfert on Water Street East Side in Philadelphia, Penn. Jacob had living in the house with him, 1 free white male age 16 or older, 1 free white male under age 16 and 4 free white females (including heads of families). No slaves were listed. The relationship to the Sifford family is uncertain.
Jurg Ludwig Sievers (Sifford) or Siefert, 9/5/1736 – 9/18/1789, born in Swabia or Pennsylvania, buried at Organ Church in Rowan Co., N. C., the first Sifford to go to North Carolina from Pennsylvania, married to:
Elizabeth (No. 1), probably Edelmann/Eddleman, in 1761 in Pennsylvania
Catherina Siffert, born
6/13/1762, baptized 6/27/1762 at St/ Paul’s Lutheran Church, Montgomery Co.,
Pennsylvania
George Lewis Siffert, Jr., 9/19/1766 – 9/1813 in Rowan Co., N. C., born
in Penn. and baptized 10/26/1766, at the Union Meeting House in Dillingersville,
Pennsylvania (his will was probated
in 1813 in Rowan County, N. C.)
John Peter Siffert, born around 1768 in Pennsylvania, died 7/1815 in
Rowan Co., N. C., (Buried at Zion “Organ” Lutheran Church, but no marker
found.) married on 11/22/1797 to Susan Coon in Rowan Co., N. C. She was the
daughter of Antony Coons of East Rowan, N. C. Leonard Cluttz, bondsman; Jno
Rogers, wit. In his father’s
will, he received 200 acres of land, the NW corner of which is the site of Organ
Church, as well as other specific items.
Christena (Christian) Siffert, born 10/26/1770, in N. C., and died in
Rowan Co., N. C., married on 9/04/1801 to Michael Troutman in Rowan Co., N. C.;
George Genz, bondsman; Jno Brem, wit.
(Elizabeth, the wife and mother, probably died in Christena’s childbirth or soon thereafter)
Jurg Ludwig Sievers (Sifford) or Siefert married to:
Elizabeth (No. 2), 3/31/1754 – 4/3/1829, buried at Organ Church, Rowan Co., N. C.
Abraham Siffert, born
around 1773, died in the 1860s in Mo., married Margaret Lentz on 4/9/1798. She
was the daughter of Bastian Lentz, Jr. In
his father’s will, he received 200 acres of land and the requirement of caring
for his mother the rest of her life, as well as other specific items.
Eva Siffert, 1775 or 1776 – 1843 born in Rowan Co., N. C., died in
Cabarrus Co., N. C. She married Leonard Kluttz on 10/6/1791.
In her father’s will she received 50 pounds of gold, as well as other
specified items.
Mary Elizabeth Siffert, born around 1778 – 1779 in Rowan Co., N. C. She
married John Fisher. This was his second marriage.
Hannah Elizabeth Siffert, 3/7/1781 – 3/8/1850 married John
Kluttz. (Buried in the Grace United
Church of Christ “Lowerstone German Reformed Church” cemetery, in Rowan Co.,
N. C.)
According to “Rowan County (N. C.) Records: Early Settlers” by Eugene H. Bean the following Siffords were identified as early settlers and land owners previous to 1800: Gaorge, 1792; Ludwig, 1785; Lewis, 1777; Leonard, 1790; and Jacob, 1790. Also, Seffert, Frederick, 1785; Henry, 1764.
The Union School and Church in Dillingersville, Montgomery Co., Penn., was established in 1735. The site of the original school now has a stone sign that names the school and church. The original school had been rebuilt and the present structure has been preserved from the 1800s as an historical landmark. Dillingersville, Penn. is located about 40 miles NW of Philadelphia, Penn. It is in a very rural farm area with very little of anything around it. There is still a St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, but it split and moved and the church that is on the original site of St. Paul’s is called New Goshenhoppen United Church of Christ. It has a large cemetery that has many graves dating back to the 1700s. The church has been rebuilt three times.
In the “Official Church Records of Organ Lutheran Church, 1774-1882 (Translated from German) Cemetery Records from 1774-1848”, it is stated that “the following members of our congregation began to build the so-called Organ Church, namely: George Ludwig Siffert” – first name given along with 20 other names, including his brother, Leonhard Siffert. The constitution was introduced to the church 12/31/1789. The 9th item, “We deacons obligate ourselves to pay our pastor’s salary accurately every six months”, listed Ludwig Siffert as the 2nd deacon on the named, along with 43 others, including his brother, Leonhard Siffert.
In “Rowan County, N. C. Vacant Land Entries, 1778-1789” it was noted on 11 Mar 1778 “#592 Ludwick Sifford 300 A. on waters of Dutch Buffelow (Crk) adj county line, Phillip Yeost, & John Benfield’s & George Leagle’s conditional line, including the Improovment he bought of Jacob Yeost.”
In August of 1786, Jurg Ludwig Sievers deeded ten acres of his 701 acres “to the elders of Zion congregation (now Organ) including the meeting house, school house, and other bldgs” for five pounds. He did not live to see the church completed in 1794. The church cemetery is also on the ten acres.
Jurg Ludwig Siefert, Sr.’s will is in Will Bk D in Rowan Co. N. C. and was written in 1789 and probated in 1799. The will is four pages written in German. The translation indicated that he was to have a Christian burial and concerning his worldly goods he felt blessed by God. He distributed his estate in the following way: His wife, Elizabeth, would get the bed and bedstead, the chest, 4 cows and calves, 2 steer of the 2 yr. olds, 8 sheep, 8 pigs, her own spinning wheel, pots, bowls, spoons, plates and the kettle for her property as long as she remains a widow and 200 acres of land until the son, Abraham, would come of age. Then he must provide for his mother as long as she lives with food, drink and clothes – and he didn’t want this to be difficult for his children and he wanted them to get along well with each other. Then his son, Abraham, would get the place where he lived, 200 acres of land, the wagon, the blanket, all the harnesses and things for 2 horses and whips or straps, 1 plow with all that goes with it, 3 horses, the brown, the pale and another for his property, but he had to pay his sister, Eva, 50 pounds of gold as he could, and another daughter also 50 pounds of gold, but first to Eva. And his son, Johann Peter, would get 200 acres of land for his property, but divided into 2 equal parts and what is left went to his brother, Leonard Schafer, 400 acres of land for his property and if he paid 50 pounds to the Executors he would have another 400 acres, but if he couldn’t, then the 400 acres of land had to be sold and use the gold to pay any debts, and his sister, Elizabeth, would get 100 acres of land for her property. Then he ordered his Executors to give each 100 or 400 acres of land. The he would give his sister, Mary, 190 acres of land for her own, the black cow with the calf and everything that he was owed from someone and 4 sheep, 6 pigs, 2 pots, a new spinning wheel, that the Executors had to buy, the small table from the house for her own, and to Eva, his daughter, a white cow and calf, 4 yr. old cow and calf, 4 sheep, 4 pigs, her bed and bedstead, her clothes, spinning wheel and pots must be purchased for her by the Executors. He appointed his faithful friend, Georg Heinrich (Beurger or Berger) and his wife, Elizabeth, as guardian or Executors, and this was all done on May 9th, 1789. He then added his carpentry tools, naming each one of them, to his 2 boys for their own. The witnesses were John Rintelman, Elisabeth Seiffert and Heinrich ____. The he added: his dear daughter, Eva, would get a 2 yr. old brown horse for her property and his dear sons, Abraham and Peter, would get the plows and what belongs to them as their property. He apparently used the same witnesses for the addition. Both the original and the addition were signed and sealed by Georg Ludwig Seiffert.
Catherine Siffert/Sifford 10/12/1791 – 9/19/1839 born in Rowan Co., N. C. and died in Union Co., IL., married George Hileman on 9/12/1814 in Rowan Co., N. C. Catherine was the daughter of William Siffert, mother unknown. William Siffert/Sifford was the named Executor of the will of George Lewis Sifford, Jr. of Rowan Co. N. C., and he may have been his cousin and George Lewis Sifford, Jr. was Peter Sifford’s father. George Hileman, son of Jacob Hileman and wife of Catherine, was a named brother of Christian Hileman in their father, Jacob’s will. Christian’s son, Jacob, married a daughter of Peter Sifford, Tena L. Sifford. However the relationship of Catherine Siffert/Sifford to Peter Sifford is uncertain at this time.
George Lewis Siffert, Jr., married in Rowan Co., N. C., in 10/1791 to:
Christianna (Johstin), 10/1/1771 – 7/23/1856
John George Siffert (Sceford),
born 9/18/1793, baptized 10/13/1793 at Organ Church, Rowan Co., N. C., the
sponsors were Phil Jost & W., married on 9/04/1816 to Scuffiah (Sophia) Bird
in Rowan Co., N. C. David Miller, bondsman; Milo A. Giles, wit.
John Peter Siffert, born 11/8/1795, baptized 12/26/1795 at Organ Church,
Rowan Co., N. C., the sponsors were Peter Edelman & W.
Phillip Siffert, born 12/5/1798, baptized 2/10/1799 at Organ Church,
Rowan Co., N. C., the sponsor was Phillip Jost, married Elizabeth ?
Catharine Siffert, born 10/20/1800, baptized on 12/21/1800 at Organ
Church, Rowan Co., N. C., the sponsor was Ge. ?enss, married on 9/27/1830 to
Daniel Stirawalt; Volentine Propts, bondsman; Jno H. Hardie, wit.
Elizabeth Siffert, born 1/6/1802 in Rowan Co., N. C., baptized on
4/25/1802 at Organ Church, Rowan Co., N. C., the sponsor was Will Siffert,
married on 12/30/1830 to Jacob Lingle
Rachel Siffert, born 1/5/1804, baptized 2/19/1804 at Organ Church, Rowan
Co., N. C., the sponsor was Henr. Lenz.
Daniel Siffert, born 12/25/1805, baptized on 3/16/1806 at Organ Church,
Rowan Co., N. C., the sponsor was John Johse, married on 8/4/1830 to Lydia
Freeze in Rowan Co., N. C., Daniel Stirawalt, bondsman; Jno. H. Hardie, wit.
John Siffert, born 3/22/1808 in Rowan Co., N. C., baptized 5/29/1808 at
Organ Church, Rowan Co., N. C., the sponsors were the parents, married on
2/26/1833 to Katharine Smith in Rowan Co., N. C., Jacob S. Myers, bondsman; J.
H. Hardie, wit.
Salome “Susy” Siffert, born 1/6/1811 in Rowan Co., N. C., baptized on
5/12/1811 at Organ Church, Rowan Co., N. C., the sponsors were the parents,
married Andrew Castor
Male child who died around 1796 or 1797
George Lewis Siffert, Jr.’s will is in Will Bk G in Rowan Co. N. C., and was written 9/19/1813 and probated in 1813. In the will, he gave his wife Christianna full possession of his plantation and other property “so long as She remains my Widow, but if she marry again I will that She Shall have no more than an equal child part with my children, so that She my wife Shall have one Equal child part of all my property and possessions”. To his children he gave them the “privilege to go to Trades of their own choice at Eighteen years of age”. William Sifford was the Executor. (The relationship of William to George Lewis, Jr., is not known at this time.)
(The above information was obtained from Harry T. Sifford of Granite Quarry, N. C. and his earlier research on the Siffords, from Census documents, “Marriages of Rowan Co., N. C. 1753-1868”, Will Book G in Rowan Co. N. C., “Official Church Records of Organ Lutheran Church 1774-1882 (Translated from German) Cemetery Records from 1774-1848”, Church of Latter Day Saints Family History Center, Philadelphia, Penn. and other cross references from historical data and other verified documents.)
(1810
Census of Rowan Co., N. C. – 3rd U.S. Census)
George Siford, 9/19/1766 – 9/1813 (George Lewis Sifford, Jr.)
2 – free white males (Age under 10)
3 – free white males (Age 10 – 15)
1 – free white male (Age 26 – 44)
3 – free white females (Age under 10)
1 – free white female (Age 26 – 44)
John Peter Sifford was about age 14 at the time of this census, still living at home.
George Sifford fought in the War of 1812 and is listed as #6 in the Sixth Company detached from the Eleventh Brigade. This was taken from “MUSTER ROLLS OF THE SOLDIERS OF THE WAR OF 1812: DETACHED FROM THE MILITIA OF NORTH CAROLINA, IN 1812 AND 1814, PUBLISHED IN PURSUANCE OF THE RESOLUTIONS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF JANUARY 28, 1851, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE ADJUTANT GENERAL” p 69. (Probably this George Sifford was either the son of George Jr., John George Siffert, who was born in 1793 and would have been about the age of 19 or George Lewis Sifford, Jr. who was born in 1766 and would have been about the age of 46. Both could have been fighting age. If it was George Jr., he died the next year, in 1813 at about the age of 47. It is unknown at this time if he died in the war or if he died of natural causes.)
(1820 Census of Union Co., IL. – 4th U.S. Census)
John Peter Sifford or Siffert, 11/8/1795 - 1/30/1853 - born in Rowan Co., N.C., came to Union Co. in 1819 and married in 1820
1 – free white male age 16 - 26
1 – free white female age 10 - 16
0 – free people of color
0 – slaves / servants
It is noted that in Chapter III “Land Patentees and 1846 Land Owners, Union County, Illinois” there is a reference in 1819 to John Vancil’s “Cabin at the foot of the long ridge”… This is believed to be the log cabin and property that Peter Sifford bought from John and Nancy Vancil in 1825. It is not known where Peter and his family lived in Union County prior to 1825.
It is noted that in Chapter I “Commissioners’ Court Proceedings, Union County, Illinois, 1818-1826” Peter Sifford is named on page 121, Tuesday, March 4, 1823 related to working on the county roads for a newly appointed supervisor. Peter is also mentioned on page 163, Monday, Sept. 6, 1824 again related to working on the county roads for a newly appointed supervisor.
The 1820 Census of Union County, IL., indicated that Peter Sifford was engaged in agriculture. Peter’s wife, Leah, was apparently around the age of 16 at the time of their marriage, since the only female listed is age range 10 – 16, and Leah was born in 1804, and they had been married in Feb. of 1820.
(1830 Census of Union Co., IL. - Heads of household census)
Peter Sifford
1 – free white male (Age under 5)
1 – free white male (Age 30 – 40)
2 – free white females (Age under 5)
1 – free white female (Age 5 – 10)
1 – free white female (Age 20 – 30)
Peter Sifford’s neighbors, at the time of the 1830 Census were: Peter Casper, Conrad Sitter, Christian Hileman, several Trees families and Darrall Lentz.
Peter Sifford was listed in the Union Co., Illinois Militia as an officer - 1st lt., 2/10/1832, but no evidence could be found that he was involved in any active fighting. He was not listed on the roster of the Black Hawk War, 1831 – 1832, which seems to match the date of his enlistment.
(1830 Census of
Cape Girardeau County, Mo. – Heads of Family)
Caleb Sifford (Age 30 – 40)
1 – free white female (Age 30 – 40)
1 – free white male (Age 10 – 15)
Catherine Sifford (No age range given unless she was 10 – 15)
2 – free white males (Age under 5)
1 – free white male (Age 10 – 15)
1 – free white female (Age under 5)
1 – free white female (Age 5 – 10)
2 – free white females (Age 10 – 15)
1 - slave
Lewis Sifford (Age 50 – 60)
1 – free white female (Age 50 – 60)
1 – free white male (Age under 5)
1 – free white male (Age 5 – 10)
2 – free white males (Age 10 – 15)
1 – free white male (Age 15 – 20)
1 – free white female (Age under 5)
2 – free white females (Age 5 – 10)
1 – free white female (Age 15 – 20)
Samuel Sifford (Age 30 – 40)
1 – free white female (Age 30 – 40)
2 – free white males (Age under 5)
2 – free white males (Age 5 – 10)
2 – free white females (Age under 5)
Samuel S. Sifford (Age 30 – 40)
1 – free white female (Age 30 – 40)
2 – free white males (Age under 5)
2 – free white males (Age 5 – 10)
2 – free white females (Age under 5)
(1835 Census of Union Co., IL.)
Peter Sifford - free white male (Age 31-40) married on 2/20/1820 (Bk A-3 – their marriage is the 14th entry in the first marriage book of Union County, IL.), with George Woolf, officiating, to:
Wife (Leah Elizabeth Mull) - free white female (Age 31-40)
2 Boys - free white males (Age
0-10)
3 Girls - free white females (Age 0-10)
1 Girl - free white female (Age 11-20)
Also noted in the census: 1 person over 18 and under 45 subject to military duty. Also listed "free males of color, free females of color, French Negroes and Mulattoes held in bondage, indentured / registered servants and their children" but none noted.
It should be noted that Christian Hileman married Nancy Davis 3/06/1823 (Bk
A-10) in Union County, IL. They are
the parents of Jacob Hileman, who married Tena Lavina Sifford, and Alexander
Trees married Katherine Hartline 9/18/1825 (Bk A-20) in Union County, IL.
They are the parents of Henry Trees, who married Lucinda Sifford, and
Maston Trees, who married Sarah Jane Sifford.
Christian and Nancy Hileman, and Alexander and Katherine Trees, as well
as Peter and Leah Sifford were all early marriages recorded in the first
marriage book of Union County, IL. Book A.
One of the boys must have been Silas Sifford since he was born in 1827 and
therefore would have been under 10 years old.
On Silas Sifford's marriage license to Mary Elizabeth Goodman Oglesby or
Oglesbey, he listed Peter and Leah (Mull) Sifford as his parents.
There were 3 Sifford girls that married in the 1840s. They were daughters of
Peter and Leah Sifford. John
Jackson Lence married Elizabeth Sifford on 9/6/1842 (Bk 1-134).
Jacob Hileman married Tena Lavina Sifford on 2/15/1846 (Bk 1-185).
Isaac J. Sitter married Anna Sifford on 1/9/1848 (Bk 1-216).
(“HISTORY OF ALEXANDER, UNION AND PULASKI COUNTIES, ILLINOIS” by
Perrin in 1883, p 364, as well as marriage records in the Union County
Courthouse, Jonesboro, IL.)
In 1839 Peter Sifford was on the Union County tax list as having 3 horses, 15 cows, 1 wagon or cart, 1 clock or watch and other personal property with a total value of $550. His land was worth $4 an acre and he still had only the original eighty acres that he purchased from John and Nancy Vancil off of Vines Road in 1825. But by 1849 he added an additional eighty acres to that original eighty-acre site and had also acquired one hundred twenty acres south of and along what is now Wright’s Crossing Road, a little east of the railroad and between there and Poplar Street / Bell Hill Road, giving Peter a total of 240 acres. In 1846 land was valued at $3 per acre, giving him a total value of real estate of $720, and $125 worth of horses, $65 worth of cattle, $10 worth of clocks, $30 worth of wagons, $50 worth of stock and $125 worth of other property not enumerated with a $405 total value of personal property. Of note, his state real estate tax in 1846 was $5.40 and his county tax was $1.44. His personal property state tax was $3.03 and his county tax was $0.81. He paid all of his taxes. By his death in 1853 he had acquired an additional forty acres off of Vines Road. (The personal land information is based on the 1839 and 1846 tax lists and the 1846 taxable assessed property list and land records of Union County, IL., as well as the probate record of Peter Sifford, 1/30/1853.)
(1850 and 1860 Census of Union Co., IL.)
Peter Sifford 11/08/1795 - 1/30/1853, a farmer born in Rowan Co., N.C. (Buried in the Casper Cem., #190, died at 57 yr, 2 mo, 22 days)
Leah (Mull) 2/11/1804 or 1805 - 3/11/1890 wife born in Rowan Co., N.C.
(Buried in the Casper Cem., #234, died at 85 yr, 1 mo.)
Lucinda 1/1/1832 - 10/6/1867 at 35yr, 9mo, 5d
Jackson 8/15/1834 - 2/27/1896
Leah 1835 or 37 - 1/24/1885
Daniel 1/15/1839 - 11/28/1904
Sarah Jane 1841 or 10/07/1842 – 1/04/1919
Hannah Clarissa (born ~1844)
Louisa H. 1849 -5/26/1872 (Casper Cem., #188) (Louisa R.) age 23, “died
of consumption Tuesday afternoon” – 3/26/1872 (Jonesboro Gazette 3/30/1872)
The 1850 Federal Census listed Peter Sifford and Leah living in Dist. 2, Union Co., IL., with 7 of their children. Neither Peter nor Leah Sifford could read or write. Their neighbors on the census were several Lence families and a Mull family. Peter was a farmer and had real estate valued at $480.
Jackson and Daniel Sifford were listed in "1862 military census", men 18 to 45 years old and able to serve in the Union Army during the Civil War. Also listed were Jacob Hileman, Henry Treese, Isaac Sitter, A.L. Sitter and Maston Treese, sons-in-law of Peter and Leah Sifford.
On 8/01/1825 Peter Sifford purchased 80 acres that included a log cabin off Vines Rd. in Union County, IL. (E ½ NE ¼ Sect 32, Twnshp 11S R 1W) that had been owned and built by John and Nancy Vancil in 1818. (The land had been purchased by John Vancil on 8/14/1818 at $2.00 an acre for a total of $160.00.) The cabin still stands and has been owned by only five families: Vancil, Sifford, Sitter, Fishback and VanOosting, the current owner who purchased the cabin in 1982. The original cabin did not have a separate kitchen, but the first add-on kitchen had been a lean-to style and may have been both a summer and winter kitchen. That kitchen was destroyed by fire and a kitchen was built in the 1960s by Fishback to replace the one destroyed using the original foundation “footprint”. A “courting parlor” was added at some time – probably because the Siffords had eight girls! The living room had been divided in half – one side being the half and upstairs, and the other side being the half and “courting parlor”. There were two front doors, but the lean-to kitchen was shared. Apparently more than one family (probably some of the married children) lived in the cabin at one time, thus requiring the divisions. The original 1818 logs in the living room and the upstairs bedroom have been painstakingly scrubbed and preserved. The chinking was painted white to brighten the house. Several rooms have been added to the side and upstairs, leaving the front 1818 log wall and one side 1818 log wall of the living room and upstairs bedroom still exposed. The 1818 log wall that separates the living room from the kitchen has also been well preserved. There is also a barn on the property dating back to about 1818. It was partially collapsed and the current owner has erected a protective shell around the structure and is continuing to restore it to the original condition – “a work in progress!” Several pieces of farm equipment were found under the collapsed wings of the barn, but the exact age of these horse-drawn items have not been determined at this time. (Union County Courthouse land records and other documents and the real estate abstract verified the purchase of the cabin and property. The current owner, Van Oosting, relayed the particular information regarding the cabin and living arrangements and the barn.)
Peter Sifford died “on or about the 30th day of January A.D. 1853”. His son-in-law Jacob Hileman was named as administrator of the estate. This is the final settlement after all bills and obligations were paid: Leah Sifford, widow, sum of $80.95, Silas Sifford, sum of $14.72, Isaac J. Sitter in right of his wife, Anna, sum of $14.72, Lucinda Sifford, sum of $14.72, Daniel Sifford, sum of $14.72, Jackson Sifford, sum of $14.72, Leah Sifford, sum of $14.72, Sarah Sifford, sum of $14.72, Louisa Sifford, sum of $14.72, and (Hannah) Clarrisa Sifford, sum of $14.72. It was also noted in the probate records that the widow, Leah Sifford, received specific property worth $466.60. (Probate Book 5 page 354 and Probate Journal A, pages 331-332 Union County Courthouse, Jonesboro, IL., as well as “Union County, Illinois, Probate Records 1818-1855” page 192.)
By the 1860 Census Leah Sifford, with Hannah (Clarrisa), Louisa and Daniel Sifford were living with a son-in-law and daughter and granddaughter, Maston and Sarah Trees and 6 mo. old Lucinda, in the area of South Pass, IL. It is not certain if that was in the Sifford log cabin or not. Sometimes there has been more than one family living in the cabin.
(1860 Census of Union Co., IL.)
John Jackson Lence or Lentz 4/4/1818 – 2/2/1875 or 76, died in Jonesboro, IL. He was the son of John and Sallie (Mull) Lence, both born in N. C. He was born in Union Co., IL., and married in Union Co., IL., on 9/6/1842 (Bk 1–134), with W. G. Nimmo, a Justice of the Peace, officiating, to:
Elizabeth (Sifford) (about 1820 - 9/30/1844) (Buried in the Casper Cem., # 189 – her tombstone reads 9/30/1841 as death date, age 24 yr, 1 mo 2 days – tombstone death date in error if age correct and based on birth dates of her children.)
Jane Sarah or Sarah Jane (born ~1843) married in
the early 1860s Adam F. Lence/Lentz (born ~ 1843 in IL. a farmer in Union Co.,
IL., Casper Precinct) (In the Union
County, Illinois, 1862 Military Census, there was an Adam Lence listed – not
known if this is the same Adam Lence)
William Carol (b. 9/30/1844 in Union County, IL.) married Luella Mulkey
(b. 6/10/1852 in Jonesboro, IL.) on 12/31/1872 in Cairo, IL.
Luella was the daughter of Judge John H. Mulkey.
After the death of Elizabeth, his first wife, who apparently died in childbirth, John married Millie Lingle. They had one daughter, Mary Ann Lence, who married a Treece. Millie died one year after they married. In 1850 John and others from Union County went to California to mine for gold. In 1857 John returned and on 4/22/1860 (Bk 2-249) married Eliza Dilday. She was born in Tennessee and appeared in the 1860 census with John J. Lence and the two children above. John and Eliza had one son, John, and one daughter, Helen. John bought a mill in 1860 in Jonesboro, IL. He retired in 1870 to a farm, where he died in 1876. (“HISTORY OF ALEXANDER, UNION AND PULASKI COUNTIES, ILLINOIS” by Perrin in 1883, p 104 - 105, and verified with other documents at Union Co. Courthouse in Jonesboro, IL.)
William Carol “W. C.” Lence taught school for two years, attended college of Notre Dame, and then studied medicine with Dr. G. W. Schuchardt in Jonesboro, IL. He attended University of Louisville Medical School, graduating in 1872 and began his practice in Jonesboro, IL. He was “a member of the Masonic fraternity, Jonesboro Lodge, No. 111, and the Knights of Honor, Jonesboro Lodge, No. 1,891. In politics, the Doctor is identified with the Democratic party”. (“HISTORY OF ALEXANDER, UNION AND PULASKI COUNTIES, ILLINOIS” by Perrin in 1883, p 104 – 105)
(1850, 1870 and 1880 Census of Anna, Union Co., IL.)
Jacob Hileman 12/21/1823 – 6/21/1908 was born in Anna, Union Co., IL. He died in Anna, IL., of “Senile Gangrene”. His father, Christian Hileman, and his mother, Nancy (Davis) Hileman, were both born in N. C. He married on 2/15/1846 (Bk 1 – 185) in Union Co. IL., with John Williams, a Justice of the Peace, officiating, to:
Tena Lavina (Christina) (Sifford) 10/2/1825 – 3/29/1892 in Union Co., (Both Jacob and Tena are buried in the Anna Cem, Sect. H, Row 1, [beginning on West, S – N])
Philip W. 10/3/1846 – 11/18/1913, married on
10/18/1868 (Bk 3-85) to Alice Godard 11/17/1849 – 8/25/1888, with P. H. Kreb,
Minister of the Gospel, officiating. (Both are buried in the Anna Cem. Sect. H,
Row 6 [S – N])
John L. 1849 – 1924, on 11/13/1873, (Bk 3–87) married S. Maletna S.
Hess 1853 – 1920, with J. A. Smith, a minister, officiating.
(Both are buried in the Anna. Cem. Sect. C, Row 4 [N – S])
James M. or N. 1852 – 1913 on 2/27/1877 (Bk 4–230) married Maggie
Mullins, she was age 20 and he was age 24, they were both from Anna, with S. P.
Myers, a Minister of Reformed Church, officiating. (Both are buried in the Anna
Cem. Sect. I, Row 22 [S – N])
Ellen D. 1854 – 1856 on 12/25/1881 (Bk 5–236) married Charles E.
Staub, she was age 25, born and living in Anna, IL, her first marriage.
The groom was age 26, a blacksmith from Anna, IL, born in Washington, son
of James and Henrietta (Hannsbury) Staub, his first marriage.
They were married in Anna, IL., with J. H. Lippard, officiating clergy. The witnesses were John Hess and Bev Rhodes. (Both are buried
in the Anna Cem. Sect. H, Row 3 [N – S])
Hamilton Jacob 7/17/1857 – 9/14/1906, on 3/9/1879 (Bk 5–70) married
Catherine “Kitty” Elizabeth Fuller 5/2/1859 – 2/14/1941. He was age 21, a
farmer, born and living in Anna, IL, and this was his first marriage.
She was age 20 and born and living in Anna, IL, the daughter of James and
Emma (Mangold) Fuller, and this was her first marriage.
They were married at the home of the bride’s parents, with S. P. Myers,
a Minister, officiating. The
witnesses were J. W. Fuller and Jacob Hileman.
(Both are buried in the Anna Cem., Sect. E, Row 6 [S – N])
Mary M. 1859-1861, died at age 2 Y 9 M 1 D (Buried in the Casper Cem. #
232.)
George T. 1861 – 1933, on 9/11/1888 (Bk 7–220) in Anna, IL married
Mrs. Harriet Eleanore Bynum 1866 - 1928. He
was age 26, a teacher from Anna, born in Union Co. IL. 1st marriage.
She was age 21, from Anna, born in Eldorado, IL., daughter of William and
Elizabeth (Nicoles) Bynum, 2nd marriage.
William W. Faris, Minister of the Presbyterian Church, was officiating.
The witnesses were Mrs. Maggie Hileman, Mrs. I. H. Faris and Della Faris.
(They are both buried in the Anna Cem, Sect. H, Row 3 [N – S]).
Charles C. 1863 – 1930, (Buried in the Anna Cem, Sect. H, Row 3 [N –S]). Nancy E. 1866 or 67 – 7/14/1871, died at age 4 Y 10 M 28 D
(Buried in the Casper Cem. # 233.)
Elizabeth 1866 – 1932, (Buried in the Anna Cem, Sect. H, Row 3
[N – S])
Watson or William W. (born 1869 or 70 – 1870)
Christian Hileman, b. 1797, Jacob’s father, came to Union County, IL., from N. C. in 1819, as did Peter Sifford. In 1823, he married and settled in Anna Precinct, near where the Southern Illinois Insane Asylum now stands. The Illinois State Archives Public Domain Land Sales Database shows Christian Hileman purchased 80 acres of land W2NW Sect. 21 Twnshp 12 S R 1 W in Union County for $100.00 (80 acres at $1.25 per acre) on 6/07/1839. He owned a total of about 500 acres and was a farmer. Christian’s wife, Nancy (Davis) Hileman, b. 1805, came with her family to Union Co., IL., in 1817, and her father was the first tailor in Union Co, having his shop on his farm. (“HISTORY OF ALEXANDER, UNION AND PULASKI COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.” by Perrin 1883, p 71 - 72)
The Illinois State Archives Public Domain Land Sales Database shows Jacob Hileman purchased 40 acres of land NENE Sect. 20 Twnshp 12 S R 1 W in Union County for $50.00 (40 acres at $1.25 per acre) on 9 /11/1848.
The 1846 Tax List of Union County, Illinois listed Jacob Hileman as owning property in “District 2” Twnshp 12 S R 1 W: W ½ NW ¼ Sec. 21, 80 acres valued at $3 an acre, total of $240, state tax $1.80, county tax $0.48, paid. Also, $45 worth of horses, $10 worth of cattle and $50 worth of other property not enumerated, with a total value of $105. His state tax was $0.78 and his county tax was $0.21, both were paid. The 1850 Federal Census shows that Jacob Hileman was married, had two children and was a farmer with real estate value of $370.
The name Jacob Hileman appears 3 times in the “Union County, Illinois, 1862 Military Census”. It is uncertain if any of them represent this same Jacob Hileman. The ILLINOIS CIVIL WAR DETAIL REPORT does not show any Jacob Hileman that would have been the age of the Jacob Hileman who married Tena Lavina Sifford, as fighting in the Civil War.
In 1865 the Tax List of Union County, IL., listed Jacob Hileman of Anna, “Article or Occupation” Sorghum Syrup, “No. in Abstract” 89, “Valuation” 1040, “Rate of Tax” 5, “Amount of Tax Upon Particular Article” and “Total” 52.00.
Jacob Hileman was one of nine children. He was a farmer and had about 120 acres of land in the Anna Precinct. “He erected, in 1870, a handsome brick residence, which he has well and elegantly furnished.” The brick home still stands at the intersection of Hwy. 146 E. and Hwy. 51 S. at the east edge of Anna. Both Mr. and Mrs. Hileman were members of the Reformed Church, and Jacob was an Elder of the church. He was also a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge at Anna and a “Democrat, and, though not an office seeker, was Sheriff of Union County from 1870 to 1874.” (“HISTORY OF ALEXANDER, UNION AND PULASKI COUNTIES, ILLINOIS” by Perrin in 1883, p 71 – 72, and verified with other historical data, land and census documents.) The 1870 Federal Census of Anna, Union County, IL, records Jacob Hileman having real estate valued at $8,000 and personal estate valued at $2,000. He and his wife and 8 of their children were living somewhere in the area of the Isaac J. Sitter family – listed on the same census page. There was also a male age 21, Luther Robertson, born in N.C. living in the same house, but unknown relationship to the family. The 1880 Federal Census shows Jacob and his family still in Anna, Union Co., IL., with 4 of their single children. He is still a farmer and 2 of his sons are also farmers.
Jacob Hileman married on 2/21/1894 in Anna, IL., Mrs. Sarah A. (Phillips) Finch (Bk 8-151) with Rev. W. B. Minton, Minister of United Presb. Church, officiating. The groom was a farmer in Anna, IL., age 71 and the bride was age 60, either divorced or widowed, and living in Anna, IL. She was the daughter of John and Leanah (Tippy) Phillips and born in Belville, IL. The witnesses were J. M. Faris and John Howell. This was the second marriage for both of them.
The 1900 Federal Census shows Jacob Hilemanage 77, as living in Anna, IL., married to his second wife, Sarah A. Hileman, age 66 (they married in 1894 - his first wife, Tena Lavina [Sifford] Hileman died in 1892) and having a boarder living with them.
(1850, 1870 and 1880 Census of Anna and Stokes Precinct, Union Co., IL.)
Isaac Jackson Sitter 2/12/1821 or 22 - 3/29/1892 (Buried in Casper Cem. #? died at 70 yr, 1 mo, 17 days) son of Conrod and Elizabeth (Creiglow) Sitter, (who married on 3/12/1814 in Rowan Co., N. C., William Craglow, bondsman; Geo. Dunn, wit.), and half-brother of Abraham L. Sitter (who married Leah Sifford), born in IL., married on 1/2 / or 1/9/1848 in Union Co., IL., (Bk 1–216), with Wm. Elmore, M. G., officiating, to:
Anna or Mary A. (Sifford) 11/15/1824 or 29 - 11/2/1869 or 1870 (Buried in Casper Cem. #? died at 40 yr, 11 mo, 17 days) according to the tombstone, “Gave birth to 11 children: 9 boys, 2 girls, the last about 6 Weeks old when its Mother died…” “Wife dear take thy rest, the Summer flowers bloom while you the purest and Best, doth wither in the Tomb” – the Jonesboro Gazette obituary notice of 11/06/1869 stated “wife of Isaac, died of enteritis last Tuesday (2 Nov 1869)” born in Union Co., IL.
Henry Columbus (born ~1849
or 1850) born in IL., married Eliza Jane Norris on 3/16/1871 (Bk 3 – 189),
with N. N. Richardson, Minister of the Gospel, officiating.
Christopher Jerome (born ~1853) born in IL., married Ferba A. Penninger
on 4/29/1878 (Bk 5 – 22) at the home of her father, John Penninger, with John
W. McCoy, Minister of the Gospel, officiating.
The groom was age 25, a farmer and merchant from Stokes Precinct, born in
Anna, IL. The bride was age 18,
born and living in Stokes Precinct, the daughter of John and Mary (Wiggs)
Penninger. The witnesses were W. K.
Wiggs and John Smith.
Mary Jane 7/15/1854 – 8/8/1858 died at age 4 Y and 23 D “Sweet
be thy rest bright flower Until we meet thee in the resurrection home” (Buried
in the Casper Cem. with her parents.)
Peter Adolphus 1/24/1855 – 1/20/1907 born in IL., a farmer from
Sarratoga, married Emma I. St. John 1/24/1864 – 7/20/1938, of Anna,
IL., on 3/9/1886 (Bk 7-55) at the home of her father, George St. John, with S.
L. Wisner, a Minister of the Gospel, officiating.
The groom was age 31 and the bride was age 22, the daughter of George and
Rebeey (Curby) St. John. This was
the first marriage for both of them. The
witnesses were C. T. Cook and Columbus Sitter.
Peter died from “Angina Pectoris” and contributory cause of “Fatty
Degeneration of heart”. (Both are
buried in the Anna Cem. Sect. G, Row 8 [N – S])
Francis Marion 1856 or 58 - 1927 born in IL., married Isabel “Belle”
Penrod on 12/25/1878 (Bk 5 – 61) in Anna, IL., with William Rhodes, Minister
of the Gospel, officiating. The
groom was age 22, a farmer from Anna, IL., born in Union County, IL.
The bride was age 22, from Anna, IL and born in Union County, IL., the
daughter of Peter and Martha (Wheeler) Penrod.
The witnesses were Jas and Coral England.
They divorced 9/09/1881 and her maiden name of Belle Penrod was restored.
He had been accused of desertion (Cir. Crt. Bk P, pp 61, 66–67).
He then married Matilda or Malinda Jane Bridges and they had a female
child born 4/19/1886. (Birth Reg. #2 at Union Co. Courthouse, Jonesboro, IL., lists
a 3rd child b. 1888 to Francis M. and Malinda J. (Bridges) Sitter.
The tombstone of Francis M. Sitter lists Minnie M. 1888 – 1906.)
His third marriage was in Jonesboro, IL., on 12/04/1889 to Katie Ann
Kelley 1867 – 1948 (Bk 7-304), with Monroe C. Crawford, Judge of the County
Court, officiating. The groom was
age 32 and the bride was age 19. She
was the daughter of Thomas and Anna (Pierce) Kelley.
This was her first marriage. The
witnesses were Taylor Dodd and Ed Samson. (Both
Francis M. and Kate are buried in the Casper Cem.
The tombstone also lists Nelson Van 1899 – 1903, a son of Francis M.
and Kate Sitter.)
Andrew Jackson 2/29/1859 – 8/05/1878 born in IL., died at age 19 Yrs. 5
Mos. 25 Ds. (Buried in the Casper Cem.)
Lorenzo P. (born ~1860) a farmer from Anna, IL., born in Union Co., IL.,
married Sarah Regans (born ~ 1872 in Johnson Co., IL., the daughter of William
and Martha [Jinnain] Regans) in Jonesboro, IL., on 9/08/1892 (Bk 8-56), with D.
S. Nusbaum, Minister of the Gospel, officiating. It was the first marriage for both. The witnesses were Will
L. Lingle and Flora Sitter. At the
time of Lorenzo’s second marriage he was a merchant living in Johnson County,
IL. He was married in Jonesboro,
IL., on 9/28/1903 (Bk 10-257) to Minnie (Jones) Hogue, with Monroe C. Crawford,
Judge of the County Court, officiating. The
witnesses were May Crawford and Samuel D. Hon. The license indicated that Minnie was a widow, born in
Johnson Co, IL, lived in Goreville, IL., the daughter of Wm and Nancy (Brandon)
Jones. The groom was age 38 and the
bride was age 27. This was also the
bride’s second marriage.
Tempa Alice/Allis 1/26/1863 – 9/5/1934, born and died in Union Co.,
IL., married John W. Henard on 11/20/1881 (Bk 5-232) at the home of the
groom’s father, with W. P. Stokes, a Justice of the Peace, officiating.
Bride was 18, from Saratoga, and this was her first marriage.
The groom was age 21, a farmer from Mt. Pleasant, born in Union Co., IL.,
the son of F. M. and L. A. (Bridgers) Henard, and his first marriage.
The witnesses were not listed.
Harrison
Johnson 8/8/1865 – 9/17/1923, a farmer, born and living in Union Co., IL.,
married Martha “Mattie” Ellen Goodman of Ware12/25/1876 – 10/13/1902 on
9/16/1894 (Bk 9-175) at the home of her mother in Union Co. IL., with Monroe C.
Crawford, Judge of the County Court, officiating.
Mattie was the daughter of Robert G. and Martha (Johnson) Goodman.
The witnesses were Inez Abernathy and Samuel Abernathy.
This was a first marriage for both.
(Both are buried in the Anna Cem., Sect C, Row 5 [S – N])
William Thomas 1/1or 10/1867 – 2/13/1923 a farmer from Anna, IL.,
born in Union Co., IL., married on 11/2/1893 (Bk 8-134) Minnie E.
Penninger (6/30/1873 – 12/4/1943) in Lick Creek, IL., with John L. Gourley, a
Justice of the Peace, officiating. Minnie was the daughter of A.L. and T.J. (Threet) Penninger.
The witnesses were N. J. Gourley and Etta Gourley. (Both are buried in
the Anna Cem., Sect. B, Row 4 [S – N])
Martin Van Buren (born 9/16/1869) a farmer, born in Union Co., IL.,
married on 11/25/1894 (Bk 8-205) in Union Co., IL., to Etta or Ettie A. Trulove
at the home of her parents in Union Co. IL., Thomas and __ (Brooks) Trulove,
with Eld. E. D. Jones, a Minister of Christ, officiating.
The witness was H. C. Sitter. The
groom was 25 and the bride was 21, the first marriage for both.
Anna (Sifford) Sitter’s tombstone reads: “Born Nov. 15, 1829. Married to Isaac J. Sitter, Jan, 9, 1848, Gave birth to 11 Children: 9 Boys, 2 Girls, the last but 6 weeks old when its Mother died, Nov. 2, 1870, Aged 40 Yrs. 11 Mos. & 17 Days.”
Peter Adolphus and Emma (St. John) Sitter had seven boys. One of them, Isaac Roy, was the father of Pearl M. (Sitter) Adams and Truman A. Sitter, both still living in Cobden in the 1900s.
Conrod Sitter, father of Isaac J. and Abraham L. Sitter, half brothers, also came to Union Co., IL., in 1819, as did Peter Sifford, died 9/10/1845 (Union Co. IL. Probate Records) and is buried in the Casper Cemetery. In the 1839 Tax List of Union County, IL., Conrod Sitter had “8 horses worth $260, 22 cows worth $133, 1 clock or watch worth $5, money loaned $70, value of other personal property $225; total value of taxable personal property $693. Land: NE ¼ Section 8, township 12 S R 1 W, 160 acres worth $4 an acre, $640.” When Conrod Sitter died in 1845, Union County Illinois Probate Records – 1818-1845, page 83 indicated that his widow received $356.02, and each child or their heir received $50.85 (this included Isaac and Abraham Sitter).
Isaac Sitter’s father, Conrod Sitter, was listed in “Union County, Illinois, Militia Officers, 1819-1846 as an “ensign, 20 Oct 1824. He came to Union County in 1819. Died 10 Sep 1845.”
In the 1846 Tax List of Union County, Illinois, Isaac Sitter is listed as having $75 worth of horses and $16 worth of other property not enumerated, with a total value of $91. His state tax was $0.68 and his county tax was $0.18, and both were paid.
The 1850 Census shows Isaac Sitter, his wife Anna, 5 mo. old son, Henry and a 7 yr. old girl Sarah Lentel living in “District 2” of Union County, IL. Some of his neighbors were the Mangold, the Christian Hileman and the Henry Trees families. He is farming and has $371 worth of real estate owned.
It should be noted that Isaac Sitter was a soldier in the American Civil War. He was listed in the “Union County, Illinois, 1862 Military Census”. He enlisted as a Private on the side of the Union for the State of Illinois on 15 August 1862 from Jonesboro, IL by CPT McIntosh; mustered in on 11 Sep 1862 from Camp Anna, IL, to Comp. F 109 Illinois Infantry. He was from “Union Co, IL, age 39, height 5’11, hair dark, eyes grey, complexion fair, married, occupation wagon maker, nativity Johnson Co, IL.” (The ILLINOIS CIVIL WAR DETAIL REPORT and the American Civil War Soldiers database.)
The 1865 Tax List showed Isaac Sitter of Anna with “Stallion”, no number listed, and a $10 tax total. The 1866 Tax List showed Isaac Sitter of Anna with 1 Stallion and 1 Jack and a $20 tax total.
After the death of Anna (Sifford) Sitter in 1869, Isaac J. Sitter married Alice Hartline, his housekeeper, on 9/05/1872 (planned wedding day as stated in the last will and testament of Isaac) (they married in St. Louis, Mo. and are listed in “Missouri Marriage Records, 1805 – 2002) and they had a least one son, George, born ~ 1873 (his name was on the 1880 Federal Census, age 7) and one daughter, Mary. George was still single in 1894. (The information on Alice and the two children is from “South Pass Revisited, A 150 YEAR HISTORY of COBDEN, ILLINOIS” page 220) The abstract of the land owned by Isaac J. Sitter verifies that at the time of his death, Alice Sitter was his widow. Alice is also named in his last will and testament.
According to the 1870 Census of Anna, Union County, IL., also living in the house were housekeepers Tayer (Layer) Sifford (Age 60) born in N.C., and Louisa Sifford (Age 20) born in IL. I believe this is Leah Sifford, the widow of Peter Sifford, (the name on their marriage license appears to be Leyah, which would be similar) who would have been closer to 65 than 60, but was born in N. C., and her daughter, Louisa, was 20 and born in IL., as the census indicated. Leah was probably helping her (as yet) unmarried widowed son-in-law with the children after the death of her daughter, Anna. The 1870 Census also showed Isaac Sitter as having $2,500 worth of real estate and $25,000 worth of personal estate. He probably was already in the business at “Sitter Cross Roads” in Sect. 8 Twnshp 12 S R 1 E, where he had a store as well as his residence, although the census listed him as a farmer.
A Warranty Deed dated 6/10/1875 shows Isaac J. Sitter buying Lot No. 26 in Winstead Davies first Addition to the town of Anna, IL., from William and Electa Morgan of Red Bud, IL., for $1,000.
The 1880 Federal Census shows Isaac and his second wife, Alice, living in the Stokes Precinct, Union Co., IL., with 9 children. He is still listed as a farmer.
In “AN ATLAS OF UNION COUNTY, ILLINOIS, 1881” by D. J. Lake and Co., in the Mount Pleasant Business References, Isaac J. Sitter, was listed as: ”Dealer in Dry Goods, groceries, Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Hardware, Queensware, and all kinds of goods kept in a first class country store; also Dealer in all kinds of Live Stock. Store and Residence at Sitter’s Cross Roads, Sec. 8.” The Atlas also verifies that Isaac J. Sitter had at least 300 acres of land in Section 8 Township 12 South Range 1 East of Union County, IL. An abstract from the current owner of the land also shows that John Murphy and Lotta Murphy, His Wife, sold by Warranty Deed to Isaac J. Sitter for $5,000.00 on 1/22/1879 260 acres of land. It also shows that Lafayette Murphy and Malissa C. Murphy, His Wife, sold by Warranty Deed to Isaac J. Sitter for $190.00 on 8/22/1879 40 acres of land, giving him a total of 300 acres. It also shows that Isaac J. Sitter and Allice Sitter, His (2nd) Wife mortgaged the property to John Murphy for $4,000.00 to be paid April 1 of 1880, 1881, 1882, and 1883, in 4 equal payments of $1,000.00 without interest. On 2/4/1885 the 260 acres were mortgaged to Jacob Rendleman for $2,000.00 to be paid in 12 months with “8% interest per annum until paid”. The abstract then showed on 3/1/1894 the heirs of Isaac J. Sitter sold 260 acres to Riley R. Hindman. Riley was married to a niece of Isaac’s, Cynthia (Sitter) Hindman, who was the daughter of Solomon Sitter. The disposition of any other property is uncertain.
Isaac J. Sitter died 3/29/1892. According to his last will and testament (Will Record 2 pages 120-127, Union Co., IL.) written 9/04/1872 at age 51 years, and after all expenses and just debts were paid, each of his 10 children were to receive 1/10th of all his property personal or real at the time of his death. The one exception being the death of one of the children and then the other surviving children would equally divide that portion among those surviving. If Alice Hartline became his wife on 9/05/1872 she would receive $2,000.00 out of his estate provided she stayed his wife and continued to live with Isaac as such until the day of his death, but if she married him and did not live with him as his wife until the day of his death she would only receive $1,000.00 out of his estate, and all the rest residue and remainder of the estate real and personal would be given to any blood children previously mentioned, or their heirs to be divided equally between them. His son, Christopher Jerome Sitter was appointed Executor. (The abstract of the land owned by Isaac J. Sitter verifies that at the time of death, Alice was his widow.)
(1850,1860,1870, 1880 and 1900 Census of Cobden and Casper Precinct, Union Co., IL.)
Silas Sifford 5/24/1827 - 7/3/1904 (dates from family Bible) (Buried in Cobden Cem. according to death certificate but no cemetery record or marker found.) He married on 9/7/1848 (Bk 1-225) in Cobden IL., with W. G. Nimmo, a Justice of the Peace, officiating, to:
Elizabeth Ellen (Powell) 11/6/1831 - 1/9 or 11/1877 at 45 Yr., 2 mo., 13 D, born in Logan Co., OH, the daughter of James and Annie Powell. (Buried in the Cobden Cem., Blk. 3, Lot 24. No. 1)
Melvina or Anna M. or Amanda (~1849 or 1850) married James T. Hardin on
3/19/1871 (Bk 3–86) with James F. F. Wallace, a Justice of the Peace,
officiating. (1850 called
Melvina, 1860 called Anna, 1870 called Amanda, but marriage license listed as
Anna M. Sifford)
Tena L. or T. Lucy 5/16/1851 - 10/19/1880 (Buried in the Cobden Cem.,
Blk.3, Lot 24, No.3) married James Davis on 10/24/1878 (Bk 5–50), at the home
of Silas Sifford, with J. F. F. Wallace, a Justice of the Peace, officiating.
The bride was age 26, from Cobden, IL, born in Union County, IL, 1st
marriage. The groom was age 21, a
farmer from Anna, IL., born in Union County, IL., son of Levi and ___ (Casper)
Davis, 1st marriage. The
witnesses were S. G. Clay and P. H. Fellows.
Thomas (~1853) only on the 1860 Census at age 7, but there is a child
listed on the 1870 Census that could be Thomas (difficult to read), but it was
read as L. Laura, age 18 and male.
James (~1855) only on the 1860 Census age 5
Francis (~1858) only on the 1860 Census age 2
John F. 9 or 10/23/1863 - 1/15/1943 (Buried in the Cobden Cem., Blk.3,
Lot 24, No. 4) a farmer, married Mary A. Ford on 2/25/1890 (Bk 6-484) at
Jonesboro, IL., with Dewitt C. Dougherty, a Justice of the Peace, officiating.
The witnesses were Joseph Price and Sanil D. Hurst.
The bride was 17 and born in Perry Co., IL., the groom was 26 and born in
Union Co., IL. She was the daughter
of Frank and Nancy [Sanders] Ford. They
divorced on 6/18/1894 (Chancery Bk U pp 186 – 187); she charged him with
desertion. Her name was restored to
Mary A. Ford. No children were
listed. John died from
“Hypo-tension With head Disease”. (He
was found outside the house by neighbors and carried into his house where he
died soon after.) Dr. Tweedy signed
the death certificate. (Arthur F.
Goodman, a nephew, was the Administrator of John’s estate.)
Lucia L. 8/14/1867 - 5/31/1911 (Buried in the Cobden Cem., Blk. 3,
Lot 74, No. 2) born in Cobden, IL., (birth date based on family Bible), married
Andrew Jackson Goodman on 5/29/1884 (Bk 6–210) in Jonesboro, IL., at age 16,
having written permission from her father Silas Sifford, with D. C. Dougherty,
Police Magistrate, officiating. (Lucy was not on the 1870 Census, unless she was
the name that was very difficult to read and listed as a male age 18 – maybe
it should have been a female age 18 months – the name could have been read as
L. Lucia or something similar. She
was on the 1880 Census as Lucy age 12.) The groom was a farmer, age 24, born in Jonesboro, IL., the
son of Thomas and Nancy (Bickerstine) Goodman.
This was the groom’s second marriage.
The witness was Amy W. Wilson.
The 1850 Federal Census showed Silas Sifford and his wife and their daughter age 9 months, living in Dist. 2, Union Co., IL. He was a farmer and some of his neighbors were the Vancil, Lence, Mull, Dillow and Rich families. The census also showed that Elizabeth Sifford could not read or write. In 1851 Peter and Leah Sifford deeded to Silas Sifford, their son, 120 acres in Sects. 20 and 29, Twnshp 11 S R 1 W, north of Cobden, IL. In 1857 Silas Sifford purchased from Mr. and Mrs. Allen Bambridge, for $100.00 part of NE ¼ NE ¼ Sect. 29 Twnshp 11 S R 1 W in Union Co., IL., consisting of 22 acres. In 1859 Silas Sifford purchased from Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Ashley and Mr. and Mrs. David Phillips, for $47.50 Lot numbered 10 in Block F in the Town of South Pass, IL. The 1860 Federal Census of Twnshp 11 S R 1 W, Union County, IL., showed Jackson Sifford, his brother, with real estate valued at $1,000 and personal estate valued at $300, listed next to Silas, who had real estate valued at $4,000 and personal estate valued at $1,000, both apparently along Wright’s Crossing Road north of Cobden, IL. In 1865 John Powell and Silas Sifford bought from Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Sammons, for $700.00 NE ¼ SE ¼ Sect. 20 Twnshp 11 S R 1 W in Union Co., IL., consisting of 40 acres. In 1866 Silas Sifford bought from Mr. and Mrs. James Powell, for $624.00 NE ¼ NE ¼ Sect. 12 Twnshp 12 S R 1 W in Union Co., IL., consisting of 40 acres (Saratoga area). Also in 1866 Silas and Elizabeth Sifford sold 10 acres from Sect. 29 Twnshp 11 S R 1 W in Union Co., IL., to Philip H. Fellows for $1,000. Also in 1866 Silas Sifford bought from the Illinois Central Railroad Company for $600.00 SE ¼ SE ¼ Sect. 20 Twnshp 11 S R 1 W in Union Co., IL., consisting of 40 acres. Also in 1866 Silas and Elizabeth Sifford sold 20 acres from Sect. 20 and 29 Twnshp 11 S R 1 W in Union Co., IL., to John Clay for $380. By the 1870 Federal Census Silas and his family were living in the Casper Precinct, Union Co., IL., and the Tate family was a neighbor. He was still farming and his property was valued at $6,000 and personal estate valued at $600. (The Census also showed a Jasper Miles, unidentified, living with Silas and his family.) But by 1881 Silas only owned 91.09 acres in Sects. 20 and 29, Twnshp 11 S R 1 W, along Wright’s Crossing Road where he lived with his family. (The above land information was verified by the 1881 Plat map of “Town 11 South, Range 1 West of Union County, IL.” and Deed Records and Federal Census documents.)
Silas Sifford bought an 8-plot cemetery lot, Block 003 Lot 024, in the Cobden Cemetery on 8/23/1877 for $20. His first wife Elizabeth is buried in that Lot, as is their daughter Tena L. (Sifford) Davis and their son, John F. Sifford.
A Warranty Deed dated 2/25/1878 shows Tena L. Sifford selling the North half of Lot No. 2 in Block E in the Village of South Pass to Augustus Koahler for $75. It is not known how Tena acquired the property.
The 1880 Census of South Pass, Union County, IL., showed that 2 farm laborers lived with Silas and his family, Andrew Goodman age 21 and Jack Day age 17. Silas’ first wife, Elizabeth, had died and Silas had married his second wife, Mary Elizabeth (Goodman) Oglesby. Mary had been divorced and was an older sister of the farm laborer, Andrew Goodman, who had also been divorced. Also living at home was a son, John Sifford age 16 and a daughter, Lucy Sifford age 12. Lucy would later marry Andrew Goodman with written permission of her father, Silas Sifford.
The 1900 Census of Cobden, Union County, IL., District 95, shows Silas Sifford and his second wife, Mary and his son, John Sifford, age 35 and single (actually John was divorced in 1894), living together and Silas’ mother-in-law, Nancy Goodman, age 67 and a widow, also living with them. It shows that Mary, Silas’ second wife, had 2 children, but neither were living, and that Nancy Goodman, his wife Mary’s mother, had 6 children and only 5 of them were living. In the marriage information on Mary Elizabeth Goodman and Thomas Oglesby and on the census pages, there was nothing to indicate that any children had been born to that union, therefore it is thought that Mary and Silas had the 2 children that did not survive. The Census also showed that Silas owned his farm, but had a mortgage on it. According to the census, some of Silas’ neighbors were the Tate, Fitch and Andrew Goodman families. (Nancy Goodman was also the mother of Andrew Goodman.)
(1860, 1870, 1880, 1900 and 1910 Census of South Pass,
Abraham Leonard Sitter 4/12/1833 or 34 – 8/01/1917 born in Union Co., IL., the son of Conrod and Sarah (Naybors) Sitter and half-brother of Isaac J. Sitter (who married Anna Sifford), (Buried in the Casper Cem., #318, died at 84 yr, 4 mo, 18 days) a farmer, married on 5/24/1855 in Anna, IL., (Bk 2-79) with William C. Rich, a Justice of the Peace, officiating, to:
Leah (Tempe) (Sifford) 1836 or 37- 1/24/1885 (Buried in the Casper Cem., #318), born in IL., died in Twnshp 11 S R 1 W, at age 47 or 48 yr, 5 mo, 20 or 23 days of pneumonia, daughter of Peter and Leah (Mull) Sifford, a farmer’s wife. She died 2 days after her daughter, Lucinda, died. (Union County Death and Stillbirth Records, 1877 – 1899)
Serena L. or Leah (born
5/04/1857) born in Union County, IL., and from Cobden, IL., married Nelson
Dillow (12/19/1855 – 11/05/1914) on 1/19/1882 (Bk 5–238) at age 23, with C.
W. Sifford, officiating Clergyman, 1st marriage.
The groom was an Agriculturist, age 27, from Anna, IL., born in Union
County, IL., the son of Peter and Mahulda (Trees) Dillow. (Uncertain at this
time of the relationship of Nelson and James Dillow – they may be brothers.)
The witnesses were Scott Hortman and A. J. West.
(Both are buried in the Anna City Cemetery, Anna, IL.)
Sarah S. 6/01/1859 – 5/18/1888 born in IL., died at age 28 Ys. 11 Ms.
18 Ds., married James Dillow, born in Union Co., IL., a farmer, son of Peter and
___ (Treese) Dillow, on 2/02/1886 (Bk 7-50) at A. L. Sitter’s home, with J. F.
F. Wallace, a Justice of the Peace, officiating. The bride was age 25 and the groom was age 28, first marriage
for both. The witnesses were L. K.
Waugh and John Anderson. (Sarah is
buried in the Casper Cem.)
Lucinda E. or Ellen or Ella E. or L. 1/28/1860 – 1/22/1885, born in
IL., died in Twnshp 11 S R 1 W from “congestion of the lungs”, age 21 or 22
yr, 11 mo, 5 or 24 days, “farmer’s daughter”.
She died 2 days before her mother died.
(Buried in the Casper Cem., as “Ella E.”) (Union County Death and
Stillbirth Records, 1877 – 1899)
Dora or Adona E. 11/05/1865 – 4/09/1908 born in IL., married George H.
St. John on 8/26/1890 (Bk 7-345) at the home of her father, A. L. Sitter, with
J. F. F. Wallace, a Justice of the Peace, officiating.
The groom was age 23, born in Union Co., IL., a farmer and schoolteacher.
He was the son of George R. and __ (Kirby) St John.
The bride was age 24 and also born in Union Co., IL., and this was the
first marriage for both. The
witnesses were A. Johnson and L. K. Waugh.
Tena Elizabeth (born ~1867 or 68) born in Union Co., IL., married on
2/11/ 1896 (Bk 8-292) at the home of her father, A. L. Sitter, to Frank
McElhanon (1868 – 11/01/1898 born in Cobden and died of typhoid fever), with
J. F. F. Wallace, a Justice of the Peace, officiating. The groom was a farmer, the son of G. W. and __ (Green)
McElhanon. Both were age 27 and
their first marriage. The witnesses
were G. L. Sitter and David Kimmel. After
his death she married William Sullivan (7/29/1879 – 7/29/1934).
Gilbert L. 2/12/1871 – 12/12/1951, born in IL., a farmer, married on
4/14/1897 (Bk 8-371) in Cobden, IL., at age 26, to Nannie L. Hartline 4/12/1878
– 3/31/1933, age 19, daughter of John and Nancy (Wilson) Hartline and sister
of Josephine, who married Charles Peter Sitter.
Daniel M. Brown, Clergyman in Congregational Church, officiated.
The witnesses were Charles L. Walker and Jossie Hartline.
(Both are buried in the Anna Cem., Sect.C, Row 3 [S – N])
Lenora 10/12/1874 –
3/21/1961, born in IL. (Buried in the Casper Cem., # 317.)
Charles Peter 7/30/1876 – 6/1 or 2/1960 born in IL., a farmer, married
on 5/03/1899 (Bk 8-526) in Cobden, IL., to Josephine Hartline, 6/7/1876 –
1/9/1962, born in Cobden, IL., daughter of John and Nancy (Wilson) Hartline and
sister of Nannie, who married Gilbert L. Sitter. Daniel M. Brown, Clergyman in Congregational Church,
officiated. They are both age 22
and first marriage for both. The witnesses were John Dan Hartline and A. Maie
Hartline. (Both are buried in the
Casper Cem.)
Edna Augusta “Edney” (b. 3/9/1879) born in Union Co., IL., married on
10/15/1902 (Bk 10-184) in Cobden, IL., to Jacob Basler, with Christopher Gorez,
Pastor of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, officiating. He was a farmer, born near Cobden, in Union Co., IL.,
the son of Benjamin and Barbara (Clemmons) Basler.
This was the first marriage for both and they were both 23.
The witnesses were Bertha Sitter and Kate Basler.
Bertha Anna 3/28/1882 – 12/13/1908 or 18, born in Union Co., IL., died
in Anna, IL., married in Cobden, IL., at age 21, on 8/16/1903 (Bk 10-244) to
Fred Dillow, with S. M. Hock, a Justice of the Peace, officiating.
The groom was age 23, a farmer, born in Union Co., IL., the son of Walt
and Ernestine Dillow. This was the first marriage for both. The witness was Francis Powell.
Abraham L. Sitter was born in 1834 and his father, Conrad, died in 1845 and his mother, Sarah, died in 1847. In the 1850 Federal Census “Abram” was age 14 and living with his older half-brother, Solomon Sitter and his family. Abram’s brother, Jacob Sitter, age 9, was also living with Solomon’s family. In 1855 Abraham and Leah Sitter sold 46 acres of land to his brother, Benjamen W. Sitter, for $100. The land was in the West side of the SE ¼ Sect. 3 Twnshp 12 S R 1 W and had been part of the estate of his father, Conrad Sitter. By the 1860 Federal Census, Abram L. Sitter was married to Leah (Sifford) and they had 2 daughters. He was a farmer and had real estate valued at $300 and personal estate valued at $400. They lived in Twnshp 11 S R 1 W in Union Co., IL. (The Post Office listed was South Pass.) It is probable that they were living in the Sifford house on Vines Rd. at that time, because the dates 1862 and 1863 had been burned onto two ceiling beams in the living room of the house and Abraham was in the Civil War from 1862 to 1863. Also, by the 1860 Federal Census, Peter Sifford’s widow, Leah Sifford, was living with another son-in-law and family with three of her single children. By the 1870s, according to the abstract of the land Peter Sifford had owned, Abraham had acquired most of that property and ultimately the Sitter family maintained ownership of much of the property until selling the acreage where the Sifford cabin stands in 1962.
Abraham L. Sitter was a soldier in the American Civil War. He was listed in the “Union County, Illinois, 1862 Military Census”. He enlisted as a Corporal on the Union side for the State of Illinois, Company C 109 Illinois Infantry. He joined on Aug 14, 1862 by J M Rich in Union Co, IL; he mustered in on Sep 11, 1862 at Camp Anna, IL. “Residence South Pass, Union Co. IL, Age 19 or 26, Height 5’3 or 5’8, Hair Dark, Eyes Blue, Complexion Light or Dark, Occupation Farmer, Nativity Union Co, IL. “Remarks TRANS TO CO A 11 ILL INF”. He was transferred into Company A, 11 Infantry Regiment Illinois on 1 Apr 1863 and transferred out Company C, 109 Regiment, Illinois Infantry on 1 Apr 1863. “Remarks TRANS FROM 109 IL INF TRANS TO INVALID CORPS.” Hospitalized January 1863, trans. Co. A, 11 Illinois Infantry, then trans.12 Dec 1863, Co. A, VRC, and mustered out 3 Jul 1865, Detroit, Mich. (AGR, UCSD, MDR, 7 Feb 1863 JG). He was a farmer and fruit grower in Cobden (1860UCC, 1881LA). Abraham L. Sitter is listed in the Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension files, 1861 – 1934. According to the pension card, he filed for the pension on Jan 17th 1883 and was listed as an Invalid. (From “Union County, Illinois, Civil War Soldiers and All Soldiers of the 109th IL. Infantry, 1861 – 1865” p 158, the ILLINOIS CIVIL WAR DETAIL REPORT and the Civil War Pension Index.) It should be noted that James N. Sitter, Abraham L. Sitter’s brother, also fought in the Civil War. He joined as a PVT, Co. M, 6th Cavalry, on Dec. 1, 1863 at Cairo, IL., by CPT Phillips, mustered in on 5 Dec 1863 at Cairo, IL. “Residence Jonesboro, Union Co, IL, Age 18, Height 5’5, Hair Brown, Eyes Blue, Complexion Fair, Occupation Farmer, Nativity Union Co, IL.” “Remarks Died Nov 9, 1864 Huffs Ford, La.” (ILLINOIS CIVIL WAR DETAIL REPORT) Died 1 Dec 1864, near Nashville, Tenn. (Union County, Illinois, Probate Records 1856 - 1868).
(It is also noted that a John Sifford was a U.S. Civil War Soldier between 1861-1865. He is listed as joining as a PVT on the side of the Union, in the 14 Illinois Infantry, Company E. He joined May 25, 1861 at Jacksonville, IL, by CPT Meade. He mustered in on May 25, 1861 at Jacksonville, IL. “Residence Petersburg, Menard Co, IL, Age 26, Height 5’10, Hair Dark, Eyes Black, Complexion Dark, Occupation Stage Driver, Nativity Danville, Northumberland Co, PA.” “Remarks Reenlisted as Veteran Volunteer.” He then reenlisted as PVT Company E, 14 Illinois Infantry, on Jan 1, 1864 at Camp Cowan, MS by LT. Mason. He mustered in on Jan 1, 1864 at Hebron, MS. “Remarks VETERAN SEE CO “A” VETERAN BATTALION”. [He was then showing Leroy, McLean Co, IL. as his residence.] He then transferred to Company A 14/15 Illinois Infantry Veteran Battalion as a PVT. “Remarks TRANS AS CO A 14 ILL INF AS REVIVED PER SPECIAL FIELD ORDER NO 103 HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF TENN APR 28, 1865”. [He was showing Taylorville, Christian Co, IL. as his residence.] He then mustered out at Ft Leavenworth, KS on Sep 16, 1865 by CPT Hubbard. “Remarks VETERAN STOP FOR TRANS FROM CAIRO ILL TO SPRINGFIELD ILL THENCE TO ST JOSEPH MO $12.58.” [ILLINOIS CIVIL WAR DETAIL REPORT] He is listed in the Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934. According to the pension card, he filed for the pension on? Oct. 29, 1890 and was listed as an Invalid.) (From U. S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865 and the Civil War Pension Index.) (It is not yet known how this John Sifford is related to the Peter Sifford family.)
By the 1870 Federal Census, Abraham Sitter was still farming and had real estate valued at $2,000 and personal estate valued at $600, but is listed as having his home in Anna, IL. By 1880 he is back in South Pass, IL., farming, with his wife and 9 of their children, all still single and at home. A. L. Sitter is listed as a patron for the Atlas of Union County, ILL., of 1881 for Town 11 S R 1 W (Cobden). By the 1900 Federal Census A. L. Sitter is still farming and widowed and living with three of his single daughters in Cobden, IL. By the 1910 Federal Census, Abraham, age 75, a truck farmer, is living in Cobden, IL, part of Precinct No. 1, with one of his single daughters and a single granddaughter. He is also next on the census to one of his son’s and family. He may have still been in the Sifford house on Vines Rd. because his son, Charlie, lived across the road from the Sifford house. Beside the Charlie P. Sitter family, his other neighbors included the Frank M. Bigler, the Harris Rendleman and the J. F. Stadelbacher families.
Henry Treese 1833 or 34 or 35 – 1/18/1875 born in Union Co., IL., died in Anna, IL., at the age of 41yr, 11mo and 18days. (Buried in the Casper Cem., # 255) Henry was the brother of Maston Treece, who married Sarah Jane Sifford, and his parents were Alexander and Catherine (Hartline) Trees. He married on 11/30/1856 (Bk 2-129) at the house of Leah Sifford, the bride’s mother, in Union Co., IL., with William C. Rich, a Justice of the Peace, officiating, to:
It is not known if any children were born to this union.
In the 1839 Tax List, Union Co., IL., Alexander Treas, the father of Henry and Maston Treese, had “4 horses worth $120, 9 cows worth $60, value of other personal property $150; total value of taxable personal property $330.” Land: W ½ SW ¼ Sect. 8, Twnshp. 12 S R 1 W, 80 acres worth $4 an acre, $320. According to the 1850 Federal Census Alexander Trees, age 49, was a farmer in Dist. No. 2, Union Co., IL., with real estate valued at $800. His sons, Henry and Maston, were still single and living at home, as were five other children.
The 1860 Federal Census, Anna Precinct, did not list any children of Henry and Lucinda Treese, and Lucinda died in 10/06/1867.
Henry Treese was listed in the “Union County, Illinois, 1862 Military Census”.
On 9/27/1868 (Bk 3-203), Henry Treese married his second wife, Mary A. Lence, in Union Co., IL., with John W. Jolly, M. G., officiating.
The 1870 Federal Census showed Henry, a farmer, age 35, living in the Anna Precinct with his second wife, Mary A. (Lence) Treese, age 23, but no children as yet, and having real estate valued at $3,000 and personal estate valued at $1,000. A younger brother, George, and his wife are listed next to Henry on the census.
(1870 Census of Casper Precinct, Union Co., IL.)
Joseph Sifford (Age 39) a farmer born in IL.
Ruth Sifford (Age 36) born in IL.
Norton C.
(Age 36) born in IL. (Relationship
not stated.)
James M. (Age 9) born in IL.
S. Kate (Age 7) born in IL.
T. Ann (Age 6) born in IL.
Frank T. (Age 4) born in IL.
Levi M. (Age 2)
born in IL.
Ida J. (Age 1) born in IL
Joseph Sifford was a neighbor of the Mastin and Sarah Jane (Sifford) Treese family, the Ollis family and the Martin Mull family. (Mastin Treese was a son-in-law of Peter Sifford and Martin Mull was the father-in-law of Jackson Sifford.)
(1880 Census of
Anna, Union Co., IL)
C. W. (Calvin Wright) Sifford (11/6/1850 – 6/12/1925) born in Rowan Co., N. C., and died in Millersburg, IN., a “Minister of the Gospel”, the son of Paul A. and Margaret
(Peeler) Sifford and the grandson of Abraham Siffert, who was a half brother of Peter Sifford’s father, born in Salisbury, N. C., married on 5/2/1876 to:
Mary Rebecca (Henkel or Hinkel) (Age 29), born in IN.
Paul A. (Age 4) born in
IL.
William D. (Age 1) born in IL.
(Female child born 8/6/1881)
(Luther born 12/20/1883)
(The female child and Luther are from birth certificates in the Union Co. Courthouse in Jonesboro, IL, not the 1880 census.)
Rev. C. W. (Calvin Wright) Sifford was a co-founder of the Union Academy in Anna, IL.
(1860, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920 and
1930
Jackson Sifford 8/15 or 17/1834 - 2/27/1896 (Buried in the Cobden Cem., Blk. 4, Lot 53, No. 6 - purchased in 1893) a farmer, married on 5/10/1857 in Union Co., IL., (Bk 2-143), with William C. Rich, a Justice of the Peace, officiating, to:
Rosena Sarah (Mull) 12/1837 - 3/4/1904 (marriage license reads Sena Mull) died from “Rheumatism of Hart”, with Dr. Lingle signing the death certificate, (Buried in the Cobden Cem. according to the death certificate, but no record found of that burial.), the daughter of Martin and Catherine Mull.
William C. 10/6/1859 -
10/11/1892 (Buried in the Cobden Cem., Blk. 4, Lot 53, No. 4)
John M. 8/24/1860 - 10/7/1915
Sarah C. 1862 - 1928 - married James E. Davis (1852 - 1925) on 7/10/1881
(Bk 5 – 202), with Simeon P. Ives, Minister of the Gospel, officiating.
She was age 18, from Cobden, IL., born in Union Co., IL., 1st
marriage. He was age 29, a farmer
from Anna, IL., born in Union Co., IL., 1st marriage.
His birthplace and parents were not named.
The witnesses were Wm. Dale and Ida Hill.
(Both are buried in the Casper Cem.. #208.)
Tempa (born ~1864) married _____ Tweedy (Tempa Tweedy) (According to her
father’s will.)
Frank or Thomas Franklin 1865 or 1/15/1870 - 11/27/1929
Ida (born ~1870) married ____ Durall (According to father’s will.)
Delia (born ~1872) married _____ Beaver around 1890 (Named as Delia
Sifford in father’s will – probably divorced, but may have been widowed.)
Louis or Lewis Murphy 10/31/1875 - 10/28/1938 (Buried in the Cobden Cem.
according to death certificate and named on the side of the Jackson Sifford
marker, Blk. 4, Lot 53, No.?)
Cora B. (born ~1876) (Cora is single in 1896 according to father’s
will.) (Cora apparently died between 1938-1943.)
Anna or Lena or Nina Alice 12/21/1877 (Union Co. birth records) (Ninna is
single in 1896 according to father’s will.)
Edward (12th child) 9/10/1879 (Union Co. birth records) (Deceased by the
1880 census.)
Amos Clinton 9/10/1882 - 6/3/1929
(Rosena Sarah Mull Sifford was also spelled Rosanah and Rosenah and Rocinda and Sena)
On 2/14/1859 Jackson and Daniel Sifford’s adult siblings and their spouses sold their portion of 160 acres of land to Jackson and Daniel. The land was originally the property of their father, Peter Sifford, and was the E ½ NE ¼ & NE ¼ SE ¼ & SW ¼ NE ¼ Sect. 32 Twnshp 11 S R 1 W, being 160 acres, more or less.
The 1860 Federal Census showed Jackson Sifford and family as a neighbor of his brother Silas Sifford and family and the George Vancil family, apparently along Wright’s Crossing Road, north of Cobden. He was a farmer with real estate valued at $1,000 and personal estate valued at $300.
Jackson Sifford was listed in the “Union County, Illinois, 1862 Military Census”.
In 1866 Jackson and Rosena Sifford sold 2.76 acres of land to Julius Kasslitz for $102. The land was in the NE ¼ NE ¼ Sect. 32 Twnshp 11 S R 1 W in Union Co., IL.
The 1880 Federal Census showed Jackson still in farming and with 11 children. It did not list Edward, born in 1879, as one of the children. Jackson Sifford is listed as a patron for the Atlas of Union County, ILL., of 1881 for Town 11 S R 1 W (Cobden). According to “HISTORY OF ALEXANDER, UNION AND PULASKI COUNTIES, ILLINOIS” by Perrin in 1883, Jackson had 85 acres of land and was engaged in fruit and vegetable farming and general grain. He and his wife were members of the Lutheran Church and a Democrat.
It is worth noting that the Sifford School was located on Sifford property that was located in SE ¼ NE ¼ Sect. 21 Twnshp 11 S R 1 W of Union Co., IL.
On 2/28/1893 Jackson Sifford bought an 8-plot lot, Block 004, Lot 053 in the Cobden Cemetery for $20.
On 2/21/1896, just six days before his death at the age of 61 years, Jackson Sifford wrote his last will and testament. In it he requested that all of his just debts be paid in full. He gave his wife Rosena SW ¼ NW ¼ Sect. 22 Twnshp 11 S R 1 W and SE ¼ NE ¼ Sect. 21, excepting a 20-rod square parcel in the NE corner, being 80 acres, more or less, and NE ¼ NE ¼ Sect. 21, being 40 acres, more or less, in Twnshp 11 S R 1 W. After Rosena’s death all of the land would go to his sons equally. His personal property would remain on the place and be used by his sons after the death of Rosena. Each daughter received $100 from the sons within the first 5 years of the date of the will, one exception being his daughter, Sarah Davis, who would only receive $5. Silas Sifford was to be the Executor of the last Will and Testament.
The 1900 Federal Census showed Rose (Rosena) Sifford, widowed and with 5 children still living at home. It also showed that Rosena had had 12 children but only 10 of them were still living. Apparently Edward, who was born in 1879, did not survive, since he was not listed on the 1880 census. Birth records at the Union Co. Courthouse listed his birth. William C. was the other child that did not survive. He died in 1892. (Have not been able to locate the 1870 Census of Jackson Sifford.)
The 1910 Federal Census showed 4 of the brothers, Lewis, Frank, John and Amos, and a sister, Delia Beaver and 3 of her children living together in Cobden, IL. Lewis was a truck farmer and the other 3 brothers were listed as laborers. The sister, Delia Beaver was listed as married for 12 years and having 3 children, all of whom were still living. She was not listed as widowed, but no husband was listed. By the 1920 Federal Census only the 3 brothers, Frank, Louis and Amos, are single and living together in Cobden, IL. Frank is now the truck farmer and the other 2 are both listed as unemployed. The 1930 Federal Census only shows Louis M. Sifford listed, a truck farmer, single, and his sister, Cora B. Sifford, living with him. Cora was listed as divorced, having married at the age of 30 and she was now age 42. (Specific marriage information not found.)
(1860, 1870, 1880, 1900 and 1910 Census
of Casper Precinct, South
Mastin or Maston Trees,Treese or Treece 12/1836 – 2 or 9 or 12/28/1900, born in Union Co., IL., a farmer, and died in Anna, IL., at age 64 yr, 9 mo, 18 days. (His tombstone lists 2/28/1900 as death date.) Mastin was the brother of Henry Trees, who married Lucinda Sifford, and his parents were Alexander and Catherine (Hileman) Trees. He married on 1/23/1859 (Bk 2-203) in Union Co., IL., with William C. Rich, a Justice of the Peace, officiating, to:
Sarah Jane (Sifford) 10/7/1842 – 1/04/1919 (Both are buried in the Casper Cem., #315)
Lucinda A. or Laura 1/21/1860 – 9/19/1925, married Andrew J. West 12/18/1855 – 12/25/1946, in Anna, IL., on 1/30/1879 (Bk 5-66), at the Lutheran Parsonage in Anna, IL. The groom was an Agriculturist, living in Anna, IL., born in Fountain Co., IN., the son of Benj. and Mary (Ferguson) West. He was age 23 and the bride was age 19. This was the first marriage for both of them. The marriage was officiated by C. W. Sifferd, a Lutheran Clergyman, and performed at the Lutheran Parsonage in Anna, IL. The witnesses were Mrs. Mary R. Sifferd, C. W.’s wife, and Alice Leyerly. (Both are buried in the Casper Cem., # 333. Also buried in the Casper Cem. # 332, “Harry son of A. J. & L. A. West died 11/14/1881 at age 1 Y 11 M 25 D”)
Henry Adam ~1862 – 1/09/1889 died “in Anna Precinct of meningitis, age 26 Y, 9 M, 11 D, teacher, single, born in Union County,” (Buried in the Casper Cem., # 248) (Union County Death and Stillbirth Records, 1877-1899)
Willis or William 2/04/1867 – 3/03/1949 a farmer, born in Union Co., IL., living in Anna, IL., married Manda Cassell 12/27/1866 – 8/12/1944, on 12/17/1891 (Bk 8-6) in Anna, IL. The bride was born in Union Co., IL., and was the daughter of John and Melinda (Mull) Cassell. This was a first marriage for both of them. The witnesses were Ira Lee and Inez Culp, and M. Culp, a Minister of the Gospel, officiated. The groom was age 24 and the bride was age 23. (Both are buried in Casper Cem., # 292. Also buried in the Casper Cem., # 293, “Died in Service Roscoe S. son of W. E. & Amanda Treese 2/15/1895 – 10/16/1918, 38 Div. Bat. E 139 F A”)
Charles C. (born ~ 1869) a clerk, born in Union Co., IL., living in Anna, IL., married Lulu C. Mackey on 4/14/1898 (Bk 8-454) in Anna, IL. The bride was the daughter of John M. and ____ (Saunders) Mackey. This was the first marriage for both of them. The groom was age 28 and the bride was age 25. The witnesses were M. E. and Ethel Stienwalt, and the Baptist Minister, L. L. Stienwalt, officiated.
Robert P. (born 12/1871 or 1872) a farmer, born in Union Co., IL., living in East Anna, IL., married Eva Treece on 4/04/1897 (Bk 8-369) in Anna, IL. The bride was the daughter of Walter and Sarah (Waldor) Treece. This was the first marriage for both of them. The groom was age 25 and the bride was age 19. The witnesses were S. M. and Matilda Dillow, and the Justice of the Peace, James W. Coleman performed the ceremony at his residence in Anna, IL.
Cora B. (born ~ 1874)
Martin L. or Luther M. (born 8/1877 or 1878) a farmer, born in Union Co., IL., living in Anna, IL., married Nora M. Wheeler on 8/16/1903 (Bk 10-245) in Anna, IL. The bride was born in Creal Springs, IL., the daughter of James W. and Sarah D. (Browning) Wheeler. This was the first marriage for both of them. The groom was age 25 and the bride was age 19. The witnesses were Margaret Walter and Maud Cassel, and Lawrence Smith, Minister M. E. Church, officiated. (A Luther Treece, age 29, born in Union Co., IL., a laborer, married, died 1/13/1907 at 4 am in Anna, IL., and is buried in the Casper Cemetery. He died from Consumption [of 4 months]. Death Reg. 3 page 312, Union Co., IL. It is uncertain if this is the same man – Martin L. or Luther M. Treece.)
Maude 9/04/1880
Kittie 5/06/1883
The 1860 Federal Census showed Masten Trees, a farmer, living with his family and his widowed mother-in-law, Leah Sifford, and 3 of her unmarried children in the South Pass, IL., area near the John Rich family and the A. W. Lingle family. He had real estate valued at $2,000 and personal estate valued at $5,000.
Maston Treese was listed in the “Union County, Illinois, 1862 Military Census”.
The 1870 Federal Census showed Mastin Treese and his family living in Casper Precinct of Union Co., IL., next on the census to Martin Mull, who was the father of Mrs. Jackson (Rosena) Sifford, and having real estate valued at $2,500 and personal estate valued at $500. He continued to be a farmer. His mother-in-law and her children were no longer living with him.
By the 1880 Federal Census the Maston Treece family is
living in Anna, IL., and they are neighbors to 3 Treece families (Thomas, Walter
and Singelton) and the Simon Cerney family. He continues to be a farmer.
M. Trees is listed as a patron for the Atlas of Union County, ILL., of
1881 for Town 12 S R 1 W (Anna). The
1900 Federal Census shows Maston and his family living in Anna Precinct #3,
formerly Hess Precinct, they own their home, but have a mortgage on it, and he
continues to farm. The census also
shows that Mastin and his wife have been married for 40 years and Sarah Jane had
11 children, but only 9 of them were still living.
Four of the children were still single and living at home.
They are living near two of their married sons and families, one of
Mastin’s brothers, George, and the Walter Treece families.
By the 1910 Federal Census Sarah is widowed and living in Anna, IL., with
two of her single children and a servant. Only
7 of her children are now still living. Some
of her neighbors are Wm. and Pearl Dillow, her son Robert and his family, Mrs.
Walter (Sarah) Treece and the Oscar Casper families.
(1870, and 1880 Census of Casper
Precinct, South Pass
Daniel Sifford 1/15/1839 - 11/28/1904 (Buried in the Anna Cem., Sect. E, Row I [beginning on West], S - N) married on 4/18/1861 in Union Co., IL., (Bk 2-298) with William C. Rich, a Justice of the Peace, officiating, to:
Susan Catherine (Casper) 11/8/1842 - 3/18/1923, she died from “Senility” and her son-in-law, Wm. M. Eddleman, M. D. signed the death certificate (Buried in the Anna Cem., Sect.E, Row I [S – N]), the daughter of Henry and Eliza (Rich) Casper. Henry was born in N. C. and Eliza was born in Tenn. (listed on census pages as Sarah C., Susan C. or Catherine S.)
Dora Ellen or Endora 3/23/1862
- 1944 married William M. Eddleman, M.D. 3/22/1858 - 1925 born in Union Co., IL.), son of Eli and Mary (Halderman)
Eddleman, on 3/22/1887 (Bk 7-128) at her parents' home, with T. Earnhart, Pastor
Lutheran Church of Anna, IL., officiating. The bride was age 24 and the groom was age 29, and this was a
first marriage for both. The
witnesses were the bride’s parents. (Both
are buried in the Anna Cemetery near her parents.)
William Ralph 9/18/1864 – 1/17/1916
(W. Ralph Sifford graduated from Medical Dept. University of Tenn.
3/22/1894, probably the same person)
Thomas Peter or Peter T. 10/10/1865 – 2/17/1936 born in Cobden, IL.,
married Minnie English 4/25/1870 - 11/2/1929 (she was born in Jonesboro, IL.,
and died in Cook Co., IL.) on 12/23/1888 (Bk 7-236) in Jonesboro, IL., with W.
W. Faris, a Minister of the Gospel, officiating. Minnie was the daughter of Columbus and Laura (DeWitt)
English. The bride was age 18 and
the groom was age 23 and a farmer. The
witnesses were W. C. Lence and Estella DeWitt and others.
(Both are buried in the Anna Cem., Sect. G, Row I [beginning on East], S
– N)
Minnie Jane 9/6/1868 – 1904, married Egbert G. Kerth on 11/15/1894 (Bk
8-202) in Anna, IL. Egbert was a
hardware merchant, born in Cairo, IL., the son of T. J. and Rosa E. (Kirchner)
Kerth. The bride and groom were
both age 25. The witnesses were
Miss Lena Robinson and T. J. Kerth. H.
L. McGill, Pastor of the Mt. Moriah Lutheran Church, in Anna, IL., officiated.
(Minnie is buried in the Anna Cem., Sect. E, Row I [S – N] )
Eliza Elizabeth 7/23/1871 - 7/9/1945, married _____ Ury, (Eliza is buried
in the Anna Cem., Sect. E, Row I [S – N] )
Henry Casper 7/16/1874 -2/10/1952, married
Amy E. Marks 6/1877 – 9/12/1958, on 10/25/1898 (Bk 8-490) in Anna, IL. The
bride was age 21, born in St. Louis, Mo., the daughter of Alfred and Anna
(Kirkpatrick) Marks. The groom was
age 24, a clerk, living in Anna, IL. This
was the first marriage for both. The
witnesses were Anna K. Marks and Elizabeth Sifford.
H. L. McGill, Pastor of the Mt. Moriah Lutheran Church in Anna, IL.,
officiated. (1920 Census of Union
County shows them living in Township 12 1-West with no children at home.) He
died from “Cerebral Embolism due to Cancer of liver”.
At the time of his death, he was living at 604 S. Main St., Anna, IL.
(Both are buried in the Anna Cem., Sect. C, Row 4 [N – S] )
Male child 12/22/1876 -12/25/1876 (Buried in the Casper Cem., #331)
Lena Dell (born 12/11/1877) married John Edwin Lufkin, Jr. on 12/14/1905
(Bk 10-422) in Anna, IL. The groom
was an electrical engineer, age 31, living in Anna, IL., the son of John E. and
Chloe Allen (Bagg) Lufkin. The
bride was age 28, living in Anna, IL. This
was the first marriage for both. The
witnesses were Kathryn Dickinson and James Perviue. H. L. McGill, Pastor of the Mt. Moriah Lutheran Church in
Anna, IL., officiated.
Susie Mabel (born 11/04/1880) married Andrew McKinley Finch on 6/22/1904
(Bk 10-313) in Anna, IL. The groom
was age 22, a farmer, living in Anna, IL., the son of Andrew Daniel and Mary
(Bowmen) Finch. The bride was age
23, living in Anna, IL. This was a
first marriage for both. The
witnesses were Roy Dodd and Elsie De Wolfe.
H. L. McGill, Pastor of the Mt. Moriah Lutheran Church in Anna, IL.,
officiated. Susie later married a
Bruchhauser
Daniel Ford 12/31/1884 - 10/25/1892 (Buried in the Anna Cem.)
Clarence G. 9/28/1889 - 4/17/1890 (Buried in the Anna Cem.) (Both Daniel
and Clarence are buried in the Anna Cem., Sect. E, Row I [beginning on West], S
– N)
In the 1860 Federal Census, Daniel Sifford was living in the South Pass area of Union Co., IL., with an older sister and her family (Masten and Sarah Trees) and Daniel’s mother, Leah Sifford, and 2 of his single sisters. It also showed that Daniel had a personal estate valued at $150. There was also a check mark in the column “Married within the year”. Daniel was married about 9 months later on 4/18/1861, not within the year of the census.
Daniel Sifford was listed in the “Union County, Illinois, 1862 Military Census”.
The "ATLAS OF STATE OF ILLINOIS, UNION COUNTY, 1867", page 143, lists D. Sifford with a total of 80 acres in Sect. 21 and 22 in T 11 S R 1 W and a school on the property in Sect. 21.
By the 1870 Federal Census, Daniel and Sarah Sifford and family were living in the Casper Precinct of Union Co., IL. Daniel was a farmer with real estate valued at $3,000 and personal estate valued at $500. They lived near three other Casper families, including her father.
The 1880 Federal Census showed the Daniel Sifford family with 7 unmarried children and still farming. They lived near the William Hicks and James Fitch families in Enumeration District 121 of South Pass, IL. D. Sifford is listed as a patron in Town 11 S R 1 W (Cobden) of "AN ATLAS OF UNION COUNTY, ILLINOIS. 1881 on actual Surveys under the direction of B. N. GRIFFIN." D. Sifford is also listed on page 13 with a total of 160 acres, E 1/2 NE 1/4 and SW 1/4 NE 1/4 Sect. 21 (120 acres) and SW 1/4 NW 1/4 Sect. 22 (40 acres) and a school on the property in Sect. 21. On 11/29/1882 Daniel purchased 40 acres from the Illinois Central Railroad Company at $6.00 an acre for a total of $240. The property was the NW ¼ NE ¼ Sect. 22 Twnshp 11 S R 1 W of Union County, IL.
According to “HISTORY OF ALEXANDER, UNION AND PULASKI COUNTIES, ILLINOIS” by Perrin in 1883, Daniel was a farmer and a fruit grower. His farm contained 125 acres of land, with 100 acres cultivated and a portion devoted to fruit growing. Daniel and his wife were members of the Lutheran Church and he was a member of the orders of A., F. & A. M. and K. of H. Daniel was a Democrat.
By the 1900 Federal Census, Daniel and Catherine lived in Anna, IL., District 100, with 3 of their unmarried children and Catherine’s sister, Bell Casper. One of their sons, Henry and his wife of one year, lived one number after them on the census page. Henry was in Union County government. It also shows that Daniel and Catherine had been married 39 years and that Catherine had 11 children, but only 8 of them were still living.
On 11/02/1902 a Chancery Summons from Union County Circuit Court was given to Silas Sifford Executor of the Last Will of Jackson Sifford and thirteen other people, “to answer unto Adolphus Flamm, John Sweitzer, et al., the matters and things contained in their certain bill of complaint for Injustice etc.” The summons was signed by William H. Pierce, Clerk of said Court.
The “Standard Atlas of Union County Illinois, 1908” showed a picture of Henry C. Sifford, Circuit Clerk and Recorder, Jonesboro, Illinois.
The 1910 Federal Census showed the widowed Susan C. Sifford living on Lincoln St, in Ward 1 of Anna, IL. One of her unmarried daughters, Elizabeth, was living with her, and they lived next on the census page to her son, Henry C. Sifford and his wife. It shows that Henry and his wife were married 10 years, but had no children.
The 1920 Federal Census shows Susan C. Sifford, age 77, widowed and still living with her single daughter Elizabeth, age 48. Her sister Isabelle Casper, age 67, was again living with them and single. She was listed with them in the 1900 census, but not the 1910 census. Susan was living at 205 Lincoln St., Anna, IL. She owned her own home and had no mortgage. The census showed that her daughter, Elizabeth, was a saleswoman in a bookstore.
(1860, 1870, 1880 and 1900 Census of Cape Girardeau Co.,
Mo.)
Columbus Abernathy (born 5/1846), a farmer, born in Mo., the son of Joab and Mary Abernathy of Cape Girardeau County, Mo., married on 6/04/1868 (Bk 3-1) in Union Co., IL., with James Kely, a Justice of the Peace, officiating, to:
Hannah Clarissa (Sifford) (born ~ 1844 or 1846) born in Union Co., IL.
Robert (born ~ 1869) (only listed on the 1870 census)
Louisa (born ~ 1871)
Alma (born ~ 1874)
Rodger (born 4/1888)
In the 1860 Federal Census, Columbus Abernathy is still living at home at age 14 with his parents and six other children. His father, Joab, was a farmer and had real estate valued at $800 and personal estate valued at $550. They were living in Shawnee Township, Cape Girardeau County, Mo. The census listed the post office as Pocahontas.
The 1870 Federal Census showed Columbus married to Clarissa and having one child, Robert, still living in Shawnee Township, Cape Girardeau Co., Mo., but the post office was New Wells. It showed that Columbus had real estate valued at $300 and personal estate valued at $150. The 1880 Federal Census showed Columbus and Clarissa with two girls, Louisa and Alma. Columbus was still farming but they now were listed as living in Randol Township, Cape Girardeau Co., Mo., and their son, Robert, was not listed.
By the 1900 Federal Census, Columbus Abernathy was widowed and living in Shawnee Township, Cape Girardeau Co., Mo., renting a home in Pocahontas Village. He is listed as a “Day Laborer” and lives with a son, Rodger, age 12.
(1880 and 1900 Census of South Pass,
Cobden, Union Co., IL)
Silas Sifford, (born 5/24/1827) a farmer from Cobden, IL., born in Union Co., IL., died on 7/03/1904 at age 77 Y, 2 M, and 2 D from “Rheumatism of the Hart”, and contributory causes of “Chronic Rhumatism and Chronic ____”, Dr. Lingle signed the death certificate, married (2nd marriage) on 3/21/1879 (Bk 5 – 72) at age 50 - 53 in Anna, IL., to:
Mary Elizabeth (Goodman) Oglesby (age 23) (divorced or widowed) 2 or 3/28/1856 or 1857 - 6/10/1905 from Cobden, IL., born in Union Co., IL., the daughter of Thomas and Nancy (Glascoe) Goodman. Joseph Levix, Police Magistrate, officiated at the marriage and the witnesses were W. Kirkpatrick and W. Casey. She died 6/10/1905 at "age 48 years” from “Apoplexey”. She was “found dead”. (Both are buried in the Cobden Cem. according to the death certificates - no markers or other documentation found.) (Birth date according to family Bible.)
2 children were born to Mary, but neither was living at the time of the 1900 census
Mary Elizabeth was an older sister of Andrew Jackson Goodman. She had married and divorced Thomas Oglesby in Perry Co., IL. The divorce information did not indicate that any children were born to their union.
The 1880 Federal Census showed Silas and Mary living in the South Pass area of Union Co., IL., apparently along Wright’s Crossing Road, north of Cobden, IL., with 2 of Silas’ unmarried children, John and Lucy. Andrew Goodman, Mary’s brother, and another man were farm laborers living with them. Silas was listed as a farmer. The 1900 Federal Census still shows Silas and Mary living in the Cobden, IL., area along Wright’s Crossing Road, and only their son, John, still living with them. Mary’s mother, Nancy Goodman, is widowed and living with them.
A Warranty Deed dated 7/10/1880, showed Mary E. Sifford and her heirs buying one acre of land, more or less, from John and Sarah Buck for $100, on the west side of Cobden, IL., around Ash and Centennial Streets.
The abstract of the land originally owned by Peter Sifford and then by Silas Sifford and his second wife, Mary E. Sifford, showed that after the death of Silas and after the death of Mary E. Sifford one year later in 1905, some of the property went to her mother, Nancy Goodman, and Nancy’s son-in-law and daughter, John and Annie Merchant, John Sifford and Lucy (Sifford) Goodman. Nancy Goodman and her son-in-law and daughter John and Annie Merchant, sold their portion to Andrew J. Goodman, “on her part upon the agreement of the said Andrew J. Goodman to care for and provide for her during the remainder of her lifetime.” Nancy was his mother and when his widowed sister, Mary E. Sifford died, Nancy, who had been living with her daughter Mary, had no one to help care for her in her older years, so she put that language into the bill of sale of the property to insure that she would be cared for by her son. (The property was along Wright’s Crossing Road, north of Cobden, IL.)
Mary’s mother, Nancy Goodman, had bought an 8-plot cemetery lot in the Cobden Cem., in 1891. Silas died in 1904, Mary died in 1905 and Nancy died in 1909, and all three death certificates indicated they were all buried in the Cobden Cem., but no markers or gravestones of any kind have been found, and there is no documentation at the cemetery that any of them were buried there, just their death certificates stating it. All three of them could have been buried in the 8-plot lot, Block #1, Lot #13, but there is no documentation to confirm this.
AND NOW WE CONTINUE WITH THE GOODMANS:
(1820 Census of Franklin Co., IL. - Heads of Families)
Archabald Goodman - white male over 21 yr.
6 - all other whites
0 - free people of color
0 - servants / slaves
James Goodman - white male over 21 yr.
2 - all other whites
0 - free people of color
0 - servants / slaves
(The relationship of the above to the Clyde L. Goodman family is unknown at this time.)
(1830 Census of Union Co., IL. - Heads of household census index only)
Archibald Goodman
(Also listed Adam Goodman from Mill Creek Precinct - owned 80 acres)
(On 11/13/1828 Union Co. listed a marriage between James King Cochran and Dorcas
Goodman [Bk A – 40])
(On 5/22/1831 Bk 1-19 Archibald Goodman gave consent for marriage of Josiah
Goodman to Lotty Duncan.)
(On 5/23/1831 Josiah Goodman married Sally Duncan)
(1835 Census of Union Co., IL.)
Archibald Goodman - free white male(Age 51-60)
Wife - free white female (Age 51-60)
1 Girl - free white female (Age
11-20)
2 Boys - free white males (Age 11-20)
1 Boy - free white male (Age 21-30)
(Archibald is the only Goodman listed in Union County in the 1835 census and
I believe that he may be the grandfather of Thomas Goodman, who was the
father of Andrew Jackson Goodman)
(On 10/31/1839 Allen B. Goodman married Margaret Hileman)(Bk 1-88)
(The 1840 Census of Union Co. had listed both Archibald Goodman and Allen B.
Goodman)
(On 11/11/1841 Bk 1-120 Henry R. Bundy married Elizabeth Goodman.)
(1850 Census of Union Co., IL. showed no Archibald Goodman, but the census of Saline Co., IL. showed him in Stonefort)
Archibald Goodman (Age 66) a farmer born in N.C married on 9/27/1849
in Saline Co. to:
Nancy (Bush) Goodman (Age 51) wife born in N.C. (Vol. 1, p. 31)
(I believe this may be the same Archibald Goodman that lived in Union Co. in the
1830s and this was a different - perhaps second - wife than in the earlier Union
Co. census. Also there were no children living at home.)
(An Archibald Goodman married Pheba Nelson on 5/18/1856 in Union Co.) (Vol. 2,
p.110)
(The 1850 Census of Union Co. listed the following Goodmans: A.B., Calvin,
Dulland, Elizabeth, Felix, Jeremiah, John, Moses, and Paul. Their relationship
to our family is unknown.)
(The 1850 Union Co., IL. Mortality Index listed: Eda Goodman, age 35, married,
born in N.C., died in May from cancer, with duration of 9 mo.)
(On 1/26/1851 Paul Goodman married Lucretia Earnhart) (Bk 1-278)
(There was a listing for Martha Goodman, born 1853, daughter of deceased soldier
Calvin A. Goodman (married to Elizabeth Dixon) , given to guardian Henry C.
Brooks, brother-in-law. Also given were Daniel F., born 1856, Elizabeth America
Ellen, born 1858, Eliza Angeline B., born 1860 and Eveline D. Brooks.) (This was
actually done in 1866.)
(On 10/6/1853 Bk 2-20 Nelson D. Goodman married Rosannah Goodman.)
(On 11/22/1853 Bk 2-24 Alexander M. Halterman married Juliann E. Goodman with
consent of her parents.)
(On 2/15/1856 Bk 2-102 Noah Medlin married Mary Jane Goodman.)
(On 11/24/1856 Bk 2-125 William Glascow married Mrs. Avarilla Goodman.)
(On 3/1/1857 Bk 2-137 Robert B. Goodman married Malinda Ann Anderson.)
(On 8/8/1858 Bk 2-186 James M. Goodman married Martha Ann Holt, Paul Goodman,
groom's father gave consent.)
(On 6/14/1860 Bk 2-256 Albert Lee Goodman married Mrs. Elizabeth Hall.)
(1860 Census of Union Co., IL.)
Thomas Goodman (Age 30) born in IL, married around 1850 or 51 to:
*Nancy Elvira (Bickerstine, Biggerslack or Glascow) Goodman 1832 - 3/25/1909
(Cobden Cem. Blk 1, Lot 13, No.? - no marker found) born in Carmi, IL., and died
from “Gangreen bed sore from lying quiet in bed” and intercapsular fracture
of the right femur. (3 marriage licenses of their children give 3 different
maiden names for Nancy, their mother)
Minerva (Age 8)
Mary Elizabeth 2/28//1856 - 6/10/1905 (birth date from family Bible) (2nd wife
of Silas Sifford)
Andrew Jackson 8/11/1859 - 2/21/1925 born in Jonesboro, IL (birth date from
family Bible)
? John ? (Apparent younger brother who worked on a Mississippi river boat - he
drowned and they never recovered the body - date unknown)
(The family moved from Union Co., IL. prior to the 1870 census, and lived in
DuQuoin at the time of the 1870 census.)
(Thomas S. Oglesby married Mary E. Goodman in Perry Co. on 2/13/1871. Mary
Oglesby v. Thomas Oglesby was granted a divorce 3/15/1879 in Union Co., Circuit
Ct. Book O, pp 261 and 271)
*( Nancy bought a cemetery lot #13 in block #1 with 8 grave sites. She paid $2
on 6/12/1891, $2 on 4/9/1892, $2 on 4/15/1893 and $12 on 7/13/1893 for a total
of $18. But there are no markers and no documentation of burial for either
Thomas or Nancy. Nancy’s death certificate states that she is buried in
the Cobden Cemetery but there is no cemetery documentation and no marker to
verify this.)
(The 1860 Census of Union Co. listed the following Goodmans: Albert, Calvin,
Daniel, Henry, J.W., M.H., Monroe, Moses, Munroe, Robert, Shaw, Thomas, W.H.
Wooford, and Dorcas. Their relationship to our family is unknown.)
(The 1860 Union Co.,IL Mortality Index , Township 12 and 13, South, Range 3E,
listed: Goodum (Goodwin, Goodman) Catharine, age 6. born in IL., died Feb. from
winter fever)
(Thomas Goodman was listed in "1862 Military Census", men 18 to 45
years old able to serve in the Union Army during the Civil War.)
(Union Co., IL. men in the Civil War)
6th IL U.S. Cavalry, Comp. M. - Hardin D. Goodman
13th IL Cavalry, Comp. I - Thomas B. Goodman of Anna killed near Pine Bluff,
Ark. 2/22/1865
31st U.S.Infantry - Allen L. Goodman, Rec., Anna 1/21/1864, died at Camp Butler,
Springfield, IL. (also called Albert and Elbert)
Calvin A. Goodman, Sgt. H Union Co. 9/1/1861
Talbert T. Goodman, Rec., Anna 1/23/1864
(Miscellaneous Goodman entries in Union Co., IL.)
(On 9/14/1862 Bk 2-341 David Buchanan married Mrs. Martha Ann Goodman.)
(On 8/22/1863 Bk 2-385 Henry C. Brooks married Eveline D. Goodman.)
(On 4/19/1864 Bk 2-422 Frederick Baker married Elizabeth Goodman.)
(There was a listing for John L. Goodman, born 1/23/1864, son of deceased
soldier Elbert (Albert) L. Goodman, given to guardian Elizabeth J. Baker,
mother.) (This was actually done in 1878.)
(On 10/10/1864 Bk 3-71 Hardin D. Goodman married Mrs. Elizabeth Damron.)
(On 4/23/1865 Bk 3-175 Drake H. Rendleman, Jr. married Martha Jane Goodman.)
(On 7/27/1865 Bk 3-71 Monroe Goodman married Nancy Ann Rose.)
(On 8/6/1865 Bk 3-71 Robert Goodman married Martha Johnson.)
(On 3/2/1866 Bk 3-49 John Essery married Kissiah Jane Goodman.)
(On 4/25/1866 Bk 3-39 Samuel Dickson married Mrs. Elizabeth Goodman.)
(On 11/15/1866 Bk 3-25 Anderson J. Chitty married Dorcas E. Goodman. Lousa
Goodman gave the bride permission.)
(On 5/19/1867 Bk 3-187 John Silber married Mary Ann Goodman.)
(On 1/10/1868 Bk 3-72 Joseph Goodman married Mrs. Levina McFatridge.)
(Philip G. Goodman was a justice of the peace from or between 1818 and 1868.)
(The following marriages were listed in “Marriages of Union County, IL. 1818-1880”)
(On 12/30/1869 John T.S. Linn married Ellen F. Goodman.)
(On 12/30/1869 John L. Goodman married Lydia E. Freeze.)
(The 1870 Union Co., IL. Mortality Index, Union Precinct #32 listed: Elizabeth
Goodman, age 51, married, born in TN., housekeeper, died in Oct. of brain
fever.)
(On 7/13/1871 James W. Andetund married Rose Goodman.)
(On 12/13/1872 Thomas Quinlan married Mrs. Mary Goodman.)
(On 11/30/1873 Charles Goodman married Matilda Penrod.)
(On 4/20/1874 Samuel Fourtner married Elizabeth America Ellen Goodman, daughter
of Calvin A. Goodman.)
(On 10/14/1875 John C. Goodman married Sarah L. Eddleman from Dongola Precinct.)
(On 7/27/1876 John S. Copeland married Sarah J. Goodman from Union Precinct,
daughter of Robert B. Goodman.)
(On 8/22/1876 Jasper Garrett married Alice Goodman from Jonesboro, Henry and
Kisire (Keza Jeffords) Goodman gave consent.)
(On 4/7/1878 William Emery married Julie Ann Goodman from Union Point. She was
born in Union Co. the daughter of John and Harriet [Gargus] Goodman.)
(In 1878 Amanda Goodman, age 8, died in Union Co. of Remittant Fever.)
(There was a listing for Lulu Goodman, born 9/2/1882, daughter of Robert B.
Goodman, given to guardian Matilda Goodman, mother.) (This was actually done in
1895.)
(On 4/26/1883 John E. Stafford married Mrs. Betty (Goodman) Freeman from Clear
Creek, Alex. Co. She was born in Rowan Co., N.C. the daughter of Henry and
Sophia (Hartman) Goodman.)
(On 8/14/1883 Henry F. Goodman married Lydia A. Lodail. He was a farmer from
Clear Creek, Alex. Co., born in Union Co. the son of Henry and Sophia (Hartman)
Goodman.)
(On 12/13/1883 Alfred N. McNeeley married Mary A. Goodman from Clear Creek,
Alex. Co. She was born in Union Co., the daughter of Henry and Sophia (Hartman)
Goodman.)
(On 7/22/1884 Henry T. Goodman received license to marry (never returned to
county clerk) Dolly Smoot. He was from Dongola. (His mother was Kizire (Mrs.
Dennis) Karraker, the former Mrs. Henry Goodman.)
(On 5/11/1885 Thomas D. Parham married Anna Goodman from Jonesboro. She was born
in Union Co. the daughter of Tolbert and Nancy (Goodman) Goodman. The bride's
name also recorded as Sarah J Shoat on license.)
(On 6/18/1885 Andrew J. Goodman married Katie Bryant. He was a farmer from Lick
Creek, born in Union Co., the son of Hardin D. and Elizabeth (Wall) Goodman,
both deceased.)
(On 4/8/1887 William B. Huddleston married Melissa Goodman)
(Guardianship information
is from “Union County, IL. Guardianship Records 1818 – 1918”)
(1870 Census of Perry Co., IL.)
Township 6, Range 1 W, Post Office, DuQuoin, IL.
Goodman, Thos., (41 yr.) farmer, born in Tenn., and had $200 worth of personal property, married to”
Nancy, (37 yr.) born in IL.
Mary (16 yr.) born in IL.
Audren (Andrew) (10 yr.) born in IL.
Annie (2 yr.) born in IL.
(Also listed in the same house)
Cooper, Nathan (23 yr.) mechanic, born in Tenn.
Sarah (19 yr.) born in IL.
Laura (2 yr.) born in IL.
(Note: Another Mary Goodman (15 yr.) a servant, born in IL., listed in another area – T6S R2W DuQuoin, Perry Co., IL., living with Patrick Vancil Family. It is not known if this is the daughter of Thos. and Nancy Goodman.)
(Nothing else is known at this time about the two sisters of Andrew – Minerva and Annie.)
Andrew Jackson Goodman 8/11/1860 - 2/21/1925 (Cobden Cem. Blk. 3, Lot
74, No. 1) a farmer, married on 9/28/1878 in Cobden to
Matilda (McNew) Goodman (Born ~ 1860)
Albert 1/16/1880 - 1/6/1941 (Buried in Ingram Hill Cem., Pankyville, IL - no marker found) born in Carbondale, IL
(A.J. and Matilda were divorced on 3/8/1884 - he was accused of desertion and she was given custody of their child, Albert Goodman.)
(1880 Census of Union Precinct, IL.)
Robert Newton Goodman (Age 21) farmer, born in IL. parents born in N.C.
Martha (Age 30) wife, keeping house, born in N.C., parents born in N.C.
Mary (Age 18) Widowed daughter, born in IL.
Robert (Age 10) son, born in IL.
Emma (Age 8) daughter, born in IL.
Martha (Age 3) daughter, born in IL.
John Easters (Age 14) ward, born in Mo. father born in Mo., mother born in N.C.
(1880 Census of Meisenheimer Precinct, IL.)
J. L. Goodman(Age 30) farmer, born in N.C., parents born in N.C.
Lydia E. (Age 28) wife, housekeeper, born in IL., parents born in N.C.
Dennis E. (Age ?) son, born in
IL., cannot write
Bradly L. (Age 7) son, born in IL.
Arther El (Age 5) son, born in IL.
Ernest (Age 2) son, born in IL.
(1880 Census of Meisenheimer Precinct, IL.)
Wm. H. Goodman (Age 48) farmer, born in N.C., parents born in N.C.
Camilla (Age 45) wife, housekeeper, born in N.C., parents born in N.C.
Martha J. (Age 22) daughter, born
in N.C.
James M. (Age 16) son. born in IL.
Mary A. (Age 13) daughter, born in IL
Sidney W. (Age 7) son, born in IL.
Albert Goodman (Age 24) a coal mine examiner and in the WPA married on
7/27/1904 in Harrisburg, IL to:
Mary (Scales) Goodman (Age 17 with consent given by her father) "Died
3/7/1906, A mother for 3 weeks, 4 days and 10 hours - Age 18 yr, 3 mo, and 8
days old" (written by Albert)
James Leroy 2/9/1906 - 2 /25/1965
Albert Goodman (Age 26) married on 11/6/1906 in Gaskins City, IL to:
Celia (Downen) Goodman (Age 16 ) (2/7/1891 - 1/16/1908) (dates are from
tombstone in Ingram Hill Cem)
Died in childbirth and neither the mother or child survived
(Mrs. Albert Goodman #2 -no first name given -died 1/16/1908 at Gaskins City, IL
at16 years. I wonder if she was 16 when they married and they have the wrong age
at death for Celia? The marriage license stated she was 16 yrs. at
the time of the marriage.)
(This information was from marriage licenses, family Bible records, death records and personal family knowledge.)
(1920 Census of Saline Co., IL.)
Albert Goodman 1/16/1880 - 1/6/1941 (buried in Ingram Hill Cem.
Pankyville, IL according to death certificate - no marker found, died “by over
drinking too much intoxicating liquor”) married Aug, 12, 1908 in Gaskins City
or Harrisburg, IL to:
Ruth E.(Grace)
1/12/1883 - 11 or 12/12/1964 (she was the aunt of Gladys Grace Goodman Keneipp)
born in Kentucky (buried in Perry Mount Park Cem., Pontiac, Mi.)
James Leroy "Roy"
2/10/1906 - 2/25/1965 (son of Mary Scales Goodman) married Delphena ? (both
buried in Perry Mount Park Cem., Pontiac, Mi.)
Violet Grace 7/2/1909 - 2/2000 at age of 90, married Darwin E. Catlin 1905 -
1991(both buried in Perry Mount Park Cem., Pontiac, Mi.)
*Blanche Elizabeth 8/10/1912 - 12/28/1990, married Lester H. Brown (both are
buried in Perry Mount Park Cem., Pontiac, Mi.)
Mildred Inez 10/23/1915 - 7/13/1984, married James Robert Carr 1st, then married
Albert O'Connor (Mildred and Albert are both buried in White Chapel Cem., Troy,
Mi.) (Her death certificate is in Oakland Co., Pontiac, Mi.)
Martha 6/1/1920, married Jerome Kreder, (d. 9/18/1965) (he is buried in Perry
Mount Park Cem., Pontiac, Mi)
George Andrew - still birth - (3/29 or 30/1922) buried in Ingram Hill Cem.,
Pankyville, IL.
Thomas - stillbirth - born between 1920 and 1922
Extension of Albert Goodman's Children
Roy married Delphena (10/13/1908 – 2/4/1991) and they had one daughter, Alberta Louise, who lived only 7 days. He later married Dell _____? They lived near Detroit and had no children. Roy died from a heart attack while shoveling snow.
Violet married Gilbert Thompson 7/17/1926. They divorced 6/21/1927. Then she married Darwin E. Catlin on 6/27/1927 in Harrisburg and they lived in Chicago at 4030 Monroe and 4328 W. Van Buren and later at 2598 Edgevale Dr, Drayton Plains, Michigan, but spent the winters in Marathon, Florida with Blanche. They had two sons, Frank Darwin who died at age 2 and is buried in the Harrisburg Cem., Sunset Hill, Lot # 358, and Dennis Wayne, who married and had two children, Michael and JoAnn. They also had a daughter, Violet Denise Griffin, and she lived with her husband, Bob, in Pontiac, Mi. They had seven children.
Blanche married Lester H. Brown (Les) "Brown" and they lived at 89 Osceola, Pontiac, Mi., 17 Boca Ceiga, Nakomis, Fl. and Marathon, Florida. They had 2 sons, one was Leslie and one was Gerald.
Martha lived in Pontiac, MI. She married Jerome M. Kreder (b. 11/21/1907) on 11/29/1946 in Angola, IN. They had no children.
Mildred married James Robert Carr in Chicago. They had one son, William Roy (born in 1942) who lived in Harrisburg, IL. He married Chi and they had a son, Jim, and a daughter, Lilia. She then married Albert O'Connor in Michigan. They had two children, Martha Ruth, born in 1948 and lives in Waterford, Mi. (married and divorced and no children) and Edward Patrick, born 10/23/1950. Edward Patrick also lived in Harrisburg, IL. Her husband, Albert, died 11/5/1974. In 1980 Mildred was ill and "no hopes of getting better". Mildred's death certificate is in Oakland Co. Michigan, in Pontiac.
Ruth E. (Grace) Goodman, Albert Goodman's wife, lived with her daughter Martha after Albert died and stayed there until her own death.
Andrew Jackson Goodman (Age 24) a farmer born in Jonesboro, living in
Cobden, and died from “Aletectosis” and chronic bronchitis, and buried in
the Cobden Cem., Blk. 3, lot 74, married
on 5/29/1884 (Bk 6 – 210) in Jonesboro, IL to:
Lucy (Sifford) (Age 16 with written permission from her father, Silas Sifford)
born and living in Cobden and died from “Pulmonary Tuberculosis” and buried
in the Cobden Cem., Blk. 3, Lot 74
Grace 10/27/1887 - 5/5/1934
(Cobden Cem. Blk. 4, Lot 106, No. 1)(as Mrs. Grace Rader) born in Cobden
Clyde (female) 9/5/1891 - 5/11/1908 (Cobden Cem. Blk.3, Lot 74, No.3) born in
Cobden
Arthur Franklin 2/13/1893 - 9/21/1959 (Cobden Cem. Blk.3, Lot 74, No.6) born in
DuQuoin
Paul H. 2/11/1898 - 11/6/1962 or 64 (Cobden Cem. Blk.3, Lot 24, No.8) born in
Cobden
Harry Edward 9/10/1895 - 11/4/1964 born in Cobden
Elmer Clifford 11/25/1902 - 2/10/1974 born in Villa Ridge
Extension of Andrew Jackson Goodman’s Children
Grace married Robert F. Rader (8/5/1882 - 11/25/1935)(Cobden Cem. Blk. 4, Lot 106, No. 2) on 12/2/1906. They had 6 children: Robert L.8/7/1907, he married Ruth Sullens and they had 1 girl, and they divorced and he married Claudine, and they had 1 girl; Alma Lucille 3/17/1909, and she died at 9 mo. 3 days (Cobden Cem. Blk. 3, Lot 74, No. 8), Melva Lorene 9/15/1911, she married A. Monroe Brown and they had children; Frances Aline 7/1/1918, she married Claude Keller and they had 2 boys and 1 girl; Lucy Maxine 7/31/1920 - 5/9/1972, she married Irvin Morgan and they had 2 girls and 1 boy; and Marcella Grace 11/17/1923, she married Gene Sorrells and they had 1 boy and 1 girl. Grace's husband, Robert F. Rader, had a brother Albert J. Rader 3/7/1884 - 5/30/1954 (Cobden Cem. Blk. 4, Lot 106, No. 5) who lived with them.
Clyde died at age 16 years, 8 months, and 6 days.
Paul served in the Army, in Quartermaster Corps. in WW 1. He was married twice. He and his first wife, Marilyn, had a daughter, Arleen (Mrs. Raymond Caron) lived in Westbrook, MA. (Both Arleen and her husband are deceased.) They divorced and then he married Marie Burton Morrissey in Boston, MA., (she was born in Mansfield, MA.) and they had a daughter Lucy born in 1937. Marie died 2/26/2004 and her cremated remains were buried on top of her husband, Paul in the Cobden Cem. Paul died from “Bronchopneumonia, terminal, due to Edema of Brain, due to Cerebral Hemorrhage”.
Harry served in the Army in WW 1. He married Eva and they had no children. Eva came from Southern IL. They lived in Portland, Maine, and then in Jacksonville, IL. They are both buried in Jacksonville, IL.
Elmer Clifford served in the Navy in WW 1. He married Rose. They had 3 children: Elaine, Harry and Elmer. Both Elmer and his wife, Rose are buried in Philadelphia, Pa.
(Divorce Index, 1818 - 1918, Union Co., IL.)
John L. Goodman v. Mary K. (Wright) Goodman, granted 3/4/1885, she was
accused of committing adultery. They married 2/14/1882. Chancery Book S, pp10 -
11,20, 23 and 24;
John L. Goodman v. Samantha B. Goodman, granted 3/8/1888, she was accused of
desertion since 2/15/1886. Chancery Book S, pp 436 - 437;
John L. Goodman v. Martha L. (Davis) Goodman, granted March term of 1889, she
was accused of committing adultery. Martha was given custody of their son,
Robert Burley Goodman, and he was to pay her $5 a month support. They married
3/25/1888. Chancery Book T. pp79 and 110;
John W. Goodman v. Clarissa E. Goodman, granted 11/20/1893, she deserted him
10/22/1890. (Then John L. Goodman married Martha Kelley on 5/27/1889, and they
are both buried in the Casper Cem.)
Marilda J. (alias Marinda) Goodman v. Robert Newton Goodman, granted
6/21/1899, he was accused of cruelty and habitual drunkeness, frequently being
on sprees of drinking, fighting and quarreling. Her name was restored to Marinda
J. Slaughter. They married 5/2/1893 and separated 10/19/1897. Chancery Book W, p
291)
(Moses Goodman died on 3/3/1888 in Anna of senile gangrene at the age of 81 yr.
5 mo. 6 d. He was retired, married, born in N.C. lived in IL. for 33 yr. and was
buried in Anna.)
Arthur Franklin Goodman married on 9/21/1915 in Anna to
Golda May (Cooley) 1894 - 10/19/1920 (Cobden Cem. Blk. 3, Lot 74, No. 7) died
from “Pulmonary T. B. and flu”.
Arthur Eugene 7/23/1916 -
10/28/2001 (Cobden Cem. Blk. ?)
Corrinne May 1/4/1919 - 10/26/2002. (Cobden Cem. Blk. ?)
(1920 Census of Union County shows Clifford Goodman, single, age 17, living
with Arthur and Golda.)
Arthur Franklin Goodman (he died from an acute M. I., posterior, due to
Coronary Thrombosis, due to Coronary Atherosclerosis and Essential Hypertension)
He married on 1/26/1922.
Gladys Eloise (Grace) 11/26/1900 - 8/9/1991 (Cobden Cem. Blk. 3, Lot 74,
No. ?) (she died from a CVA due to Arteriosclerotic Vascular Disease)
Kenneth Harold 7/5/1923 -
7/10/1997 (Buried in Cape Girardeau, Mo.)
Arthur Jr. 11/14/1924 - 6/17/2001 (Buried in Jonesboro Cem., Jonesboro, IL.)
Clyde Lovell 5/2/1927.
Extension of Arthur Franklin Goodman’s Children
Arthur Eugene never married. He died from Congestive Heart Failure and Atrial Fibrillation.
Corrinne May married Ralph W. Rich, and they had 1 boy, Ralph W., Jr. She died from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Chronic Congestive Heart Failure.
Kenneth H. married Rudell Berry, they divorced, and he married Geneva Morgan, and they had 1 girl, Debra Gay, they divorced, and he married Linda Dickens on 1/31/1976. There were no children from that marriage.
Arthur Jr. married Vana Lee Zwahlen, they had 2 boys, Dennis Michael and Gary Stephen and 1 girl, Tina Marie, they divorced, and he married Carla Oliver, they divorced, and he married Shirley, they divorced and he married Barbara, they divorced. There were no children from the other marriages. He died from “ASCAD”.
Clyde L. married Isabelle Muller on 7/1/1946, the marriage was annulled. Then he married Jacqueline J. Berry on 7/8/1948, and they had 1 girl, Sherran Christine, they divorced, and he married Carol Lynn Warren on 7/9/1976. There were no children from that marriage.
Compiler's note:
I will update this as I get more dates, etc. but all information except the Archibald Goodman information is verified on the back of marriage licenses or on birth or death certificates, or obituary notices, and other books that document early county history/records. I have listed many marriages and divorces and deaths that involve someone with the Goodman or Sifford names. Some of them or all of them may be related to this family but I have not yet been able to verify their connection. But they are still listed. This has been a fascinating adventure looking for all of the documents to prove information. We have been a lot of places and to a lot of court houses and libraries and cemeteries and on the internet, but we are not yet finished !!!!!!!!!!!!! Hope that you enjoy this bit of history.
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