. Mount Morris: past and present; an illustrated history of the township and the village of Mount Morris, Ogle County, Illinois, in their various stages of development, together with a local biographical directory . in Mount Morris, at which the eleven living members ofthe family were present. x\t that time it was estimated that thirty-eightof their children, seventy-two grandchildren and five great-grandchildrenwere living. A picture was taken at this reunion of Aunt Kittie Rice,Grandmother Mumma, UncleGeorge Fouke and Uncle JohnTimmerman, all of them beingover ninety years of age. An-other,
. Mount Morris: past and present; an illustrated history of the township and the village of Mount Morris, Ogle County, Illinois, in their various stages of development, together with a local biographical directory . in Mount Morris, at which the eleven living members ofthe family were present. x\t that time it was estimated that thirty-eightof their children, seventy-two grandchildren and five great-grandchildrenwere living. A picture was taken at this reunion of Aunt Kittie Rice,Grandmother Mumma, UncleGeorge Fouke and Uncle JohnTimmerman, all of them beingover ninety years of age. An-other, taken of the entire assem-blage, is shown on page persons appear in it whohave since died. Another arrival from theeast in 1837 was Caleb Marshallwho was accompanied by hisfamily. His son, Reuben S.,now living on the old home-stead, three miles north of town,was but ten years of age at thattime, and he has a vivid remem-brance of the early pioneer John Gale, of Oregon; Spenser, of Nora Spring,Iowa; and Isaac S. Marshall, ofDecatur county, Iowa, are theother living children. In September, , for onethousand dollars, John Fridleypurchased the old Ford cabin reuben s. 20 MOUNT MORRIS: PAST AND PRESENT. and claim, where he continued to live until the time of his death. Theland then became the property of his sons, Andrew, David, John, Jacoband Benjamin. Of these, Andrew, John and Benjamin are yet living in thetownship, and David and Jacob have died. These settlers who arrived in were well pleased with the newcountiy, and consequently in the following spring, , at the solicitationof Squiie Samuel Hitt and Capt. Nathaniel Swingley, who had inducedmany of the settlers of the year previous to emigrate, a large number offamilies, known as the Maryland colony proper, left their eastern homesand came to Mount Morris township. Many of them took vip claims here,while others went to Carroll county and other places. Among these fam-ilies
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