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From: (Karen Barnard)
Subject: Re: [ILSCOTT] Surnames etc.
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 00:15:00 -0600
In-Reply-To: "Phil Husband" <phusband3@verizon.net>'s message of Thu,4 Jan 2007 13:27:22 -0500


Phil,
In "1880 History of IL. & Pike Co., IL." Page 417-418;
Flint Township

This was the smallest township in the county & was the first one
settled. In 1817 a Canadian Frenchman by the name of Teboe, located on
section 33 and was the first resident of Pike Co., IL. locating his
residence on the banks of the Illinois river and became the favorite
resort of hunters and trappers. He was killed at Milton in the year of
1844. Garrett VanDeusen was the next settler. He opened a ferry across
the Illinois, which is still carried on a Valley City , near Griggsville
Landing and is known as Phillips' Ferry. Mr. VanDeusen sold his claim
to Nimrod Phillips, many of whose descendants are still residents of
PIke Co.
The early settlers were alive to the importance of educating their
children and anxiously desired to have the proper facilities, or as good
as they could afford, to carry on the great work. Accordingly the
citizens met in section 19, near Flint Creek, in 1846, for the purpose
of inaugurating or organizing for school purposes. There were no houses
in the vicinity their deliberations were carried on upon a log in the
wild forest. Among those present at this meeting were Josiah Wade, Wm.
Thackwray, James Crawford, Richard Sweeting, James L. Thompson, James G.
and David Pyle, E.A. F. Allen, Francis Wade, J. Husband and Wm.
Turnbull. Peter Kargis presided over the deliberations of this body.
The first school in the township was taught in the winter of 1845-6 by
Wm. Turnbull, James G and David Pyle and James Thompson, who gave their
services without any compensation. The school was held in an old log
house bought and paid for by a few of the citizens.

Page 420;

ELIZABETH HUSBAND; Sec. #30; P.O., Valley City; was born in Coshocton
Co., Oh., May 1, 1834, the daughter of George McCune, deceased, also a
native of that county, being the first white child born in that county.
He removed with his family to St. Louis, Mo., in 1835, where he resided
until the fall of 1864, when he came to Pike Co., IL. and died Dec.18 of
the same year. He was sheriff in St. Louis Co., Missouri Co Treasurer,
Tax Collector and held other offices of trust. Mrs. Husband's
grandfather, Joseph Fuller, was a soldier under Gen. Washington. She was
married Aug. 20, 1850, to Edward Monnier in Rock Hill, Mo., and had
three children,-Henry E., b-Oct. 6, 1853; Ida L. b-Oct. 25, 1860; and
James b-Feb. 9, 1862. Mr Monnier died Feb.19, 1863 and she married
Jonathon Husband, who was born in Yorkshire, Eng., Sept. 21, 1803 and
emigrated to America in 1825; he died Nov. 28, 1870.
Page 421;
ROBERT HUSBAND, Farmer, Dec. # 20; was born April 11, 1842 in this
township, the son of Jonathon Husband, deceased, an early pioneer of
this county, who in company with Mr. Wade and Wm. Turnbull owned the
same coffee-mill. March 15, 1871, Robert married Esely Grable and of
their three children two are now living,- Nellie and Eddie. Mr. Husband
was a prosperous farmer, but worked two years in a saw-mill in
Wisconsin.
I see your Robert Husband b- 1815 and died 15 Jan. 1870 at the age of
55 years, 7 months and 12 days is buried in the Oxville Cemetery. a
Picture of his stone appears on the web-site for "The West-Central IL
Maga-Site" under Cemetery Inscriptions.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmaga/index.html

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