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From: "Lee Hendricks" <>
Subject: [ILKNOX-L] Bates & Selby HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF IL. & KNOX COUNTY
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 08:02:05 -0700


Mr. Don Baker, Thurman researcher, sent me a copy of a biographical sketch
for the family of Allen Thurman from the Bates & Selby Historical
Encyclopedia of Illinois and Knox County. Does anyone on the list have
access to a copy of that book? The information which Mr. Baker sent to me
was a typed transcription of the record, and I'm wondering if there was
additional information in the same biographical sketch.

Please e-mail me with any additions or corrections you might find, if you
have access to the book.

My sincere thanks,
Lottie in Mesa, AZ
Truitt descendant

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Bates & P. Selby, HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ILLINOIS & KNOX COUNTY, Munsell
Publishing Company 1899.
pp 967:

THURMAN, ALLEN; Farmer; Salem Township; born in 1823 in Highland County,
Ohio. He was an educated in the common schools. His parents, John and Elsa
(Bales) Thurman, work born in Virginia. Mr. Allen Thurman's first wife,
Elizabeth, who was born in Maryland about 1823, was the daughter Littleton
Truitt; she died in 1878; her parents died in Ohio. Seven children were
born to them: John Allen, born October 25, 1849; Mary Ann, born March 7,
1843, died in infancy; Permlia, born May 15, 1850; Rachel, born Feb. 22,
1853; Isaac, born Sept. 21, 1855; and William, born March 19, 1858.

In 1884 Mr. Thurman was married to Barbara Branble in Peoria, Illinois; she
was born in Maryland. Mr. Thurman came to Illinois in 1833, and settled on
the Township line between Elba and Salem Township. Soon after his first
marriage he settled on a farm in the southern part of Elba Township. His
two sons, Isaac and William, are in Montana; John Allen lives in Elba
Township. Mr. Thurman has been a school Director of his Township. In
religious belief, he is a Christian. Politically he is a democrat.

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