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Comment by Carroll Nichols Holmes on July 18, 2009 at 6:57pm

Yes, I am a life member.

Comment by Carroll Nichols Holmes on July 18, 2009 at 6:46pm

Harold, yes she had the half sister who moved to California. My ggf, her 1/2 brother, had died in 1863 and her brother Dudley Holmes had enlisted in the 8th Illinois Vol. Infantry and had been killed at the storming of Ft Donelson, TN, in 1862. Her other siblings had died in childhood, her mother in abt 1865. She did have one slightly older brother who apprenticed as a machinist in Peoria but he left, married a girl from Pennsylvania and ended up in Bay City Michigan. I have estabished contact with his only surviving Holmes family there. So, when she was released from her guardianship in about 1871-2, she appeared to have sold everything she had.
I did not find her in Michigan and did not find her anywhere else. I have looked at the guardianship papers and probate and land sale records but so far I haven't found anything except that she started using the name Ella. It is shown on some of the old property maps of Tremont and surrounding area of the time.
I haven't had any luck with newspapers yet. I don't think enough Pekin papers have been digitized.

Comment by Cheryl Rothwell on July 18, 2009 at 6:36pm

Tazewell County has one of the better G&Hs around. Have you contacted them?

Comment by Sheri Fenley on July 18, 2009 at 5:32pm

My SOLOMON family migrated to from Kentucky to Marshall, Clark County in 1825 and lived there until the 1880's. James A. SOLOMON son of Peter D. SOLOMON, moved his family from Clark County to Moultrie County (Jonathan Creek Township). In Cass County, I have the HOBROCK and THRON families who immigrated from Germany through the Port of New Orleans in 1846. The lived in Beardstown and Arenzville up until about 1900. Then last but not least is my James SHEERN family and the LESEURE family who lived in Paris, Edgar County and Danville, Vermillion County from 1818 until about 1830.

Comment by Jim Avery on July 18, 2009 at 5:06pm

I am also new to this group. I am researching the Wolford - Wohlford family anywhere. My Wohlfords went to Stephenson Co. IL in 1843 from Centre and Clinton Counties in PA. Some more followed later.

Comment by Harold Henderson on July 18, 2009 at 4:53pm

Carroll -- Wow -- this is a good one. It seems unlikely that a young single woman would go off entirely on her own in that time and place. Were there other siblings? Where did they go? Any other associates that can be identified? Did she sell all the property (or does her parents' probate list more than what she sold -- i.e., did she come back to sell or use the rest, perhaps?)? Does she appear in any court records in Tazewell? If you have a fairly precise departure date, have you checked city directories for Peoria and Chicago and St. Louis, especially if the family had any connections in any such direction? Any luck with digitized newspapers? Good luck (and I mean it!) -- Harold

Comment by Carroll Nichols Holmes on July 18, 2009 at 3:51pm

Some additional comment. I am looking for a great grand aunt of mine. She was born Hellen Elizabeth Holmes 28 Nov 1854 in Tremont, Tazewell Co, IL. Her father and mother died before she became of age and she lived her teen years with her 1/2 sister Ann Eliza (Holmes) Shaw and her husband Henry Shaw. She began using the name Ella Holmes before she was 18. When she became of age she sold the property that had been left to her and disappeared. I can't find her in any marriage records or census records using any manner of different names. Her former guardians moved to California along with their children although I have found no record of her there.

Any ideas?

Comment by Georgie Trammell on July 18, 2009 at 9:22am

Hi, as a new member of the Group, I thought I should proivide the places in ILL. I am interested in by County: Crawford; Henry; Kewanee; Knox; LaSalle; Mercer; Perry; Quincy; Sangamon. I am also interested in Sandwich. The Surnames I research are Pease, Spilman, Dotson/Dodson, Shepherd, Morgan, Wilson there are several others as I have over 2000 names in my research charts, but these are the primary ones. Anyone also researching these places or Surnames I would like to hear form.

Comment by Pat O'Leary on July 17, 2009 at 9:06pm

HI, All
I am new to the area. My link to the Illinois area centers around Joliet. My Grandfather's relations settled down there. My gf was Humphrey O'Leary, originally from Galion, Ohio. His brother, John O'Leary, also originally from Galion, Ohio moved around a little bit (they were orphaned early on) and eventually ended up in Joliet sometime around or after 1900. He had a son, also named John, who married and stayed in Joliet, raised a couple of daughters. On of the daughters married a person named Del Rose who was connected to a newspaper. Hoping this rings a bell out there somehow - might help get me past the " brick wall ".
Patrick
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Comment by Carroll Nichols Holmes on July 17, 2009 at 8:12pm

My Illinois ancestors came to Illilnois from New York and Massachusetts in the 1830s to Tazewell County. My 2nd ggf Palmer Holmes was one of the original settlers of Tremont, IL.
Names of Illinois ancestors: Kaufman, Kice, Hack, Holmes, Kipp, and a few others. They lived in Tazewell, Peoria, and Woodford counties.
I'm glad to share any and all information I have.

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