Peoria city and county, Illinois; a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement . emainslie in Springdale cemetery. Of his descendants there are now living, one daugh-ter, Mrs. Elizabeth Bowman, living at Los Gatos, California, aged about eighty-one years; seven grand children, six of whom live in Peoria and one in Lincoln,Nebraska; eighteen great grandchildren and about as many great great grand-children. The late Rev. David G. Stouffer was a nephew of Samuel .Markley. \Mien Stephen R. Beggs arrived with his family in Peoria in the fall of 1839,the only house he could obtain
Peoria city and county, Illinois; a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement . emainslie in Springdale cemetery. Of his descendants there are now living, one daugh-ter, Mrs. Elizabeth Bowman, living at Los Gatos, California, aged about eighty-one years; seven grand children, six of whom live in Peoria and one in Lincoln,Nebraska; eighteen great grandchildren and about as many great great grand-children. The late Rev. David G. Stouffer was a nephew of Samuel .Markley. \Mien Stephen R. Beggs arrived with his family in Peoria in the fall of 1839,the only house he could obtain was an old, dilapidated dwelling, long tenantedby rats and vermin, which vigorously contested the intrusion for several time, while the preacher was away. Judge George B. Parker, not then achurch member nor even a professor of religion, found and rented a good com-fortable dwelling and moved the preachers family in before he returned. That Daniel Brestel was an ordained minister is attested by the fact that heperformed many marriage ceremonies, especially for German couples. We have. REV. STEPHEN R. as pastor of the Metho<list Eiii-co|ialChiirtli at IVoria. built the lirst Metli-odist meetiiifj liouse.
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