History of the Lemen family, of Illinois, Virginia and elsewhere . inted farm in Kidge Prairie,St. Clair County, on which the family resided, and,also, a large farm near Troy, in Madison County, Illi-nois. He was a good neighbor, exceedingly kind andsympathetic in cases of affliction and bereavement,and a good citizen; and though never seeking officialpreferment, he was often school director, servedoften on local juries, and one term on the FederalGrand Jury at Springfield, 111. Was a supporter ofthe church and other good causes; kind and affec-tionate as a husband, and as a father, indulgent,
History of the Lemen family, of Illinois, Virginia and elsewhere . inted farm in Kidge Prairie,St. Clair County, on which the family resided, and,also, a large farm near Troy, in Madison County, Illi-nois. He was a good neighbor, exceedingly kind andsympathetic in cases of affliction and bereavement,and a good citizen; and though never seeking officialpreferment, he was often school director, servedoften on local juries, and one term on the FederalGrand Jury at Springfield, 111. Was a supporter ofthe church and other good causes; kind and affec-tionate as a husband, and as a father, indulgent,always providing abundantly for the wants of hisfamily. In politics he was a Democrat, though nevera rank partisan; and in later years he said he made ahabit of looking more at the fitness and qualificationsof candidates than he did at their party lived and died in the faith of the Baptist Church,expressing, particularly in his last days, an abidingconfidence in his final acceptance, and a hope thatreached beyond the confines of the grave. In his. 70—WILLIAM K. LE^EN. BIOGRAPHICAL. 339 last illness, which was protracted, he suffered withone form of Brights disease, complicated with sym-pathetic heart trouble, which eventually baffled thebest medical skill, and in the early afternoon of Octo-ber 6th, 1897, at his home, without a struggle, hepassed to his rest, aged sixty-nine years and threedays. On October 8th, at the residence, in the pres-ence of his family and a vast concourse of otherrelatives and friends, the funeral services were con-ducted by Rev. J. B. Webb, after which the cortegemoved to Edwards Cemetery in Madison County,where his remains were interred. Of the children, John E. Lemen (247), a success-ful and prominent farmer, united in marriage withMiss Luella, an accomplished daughter of Mr. andMrs. Hiram Pierce, of Shiloh Valley, III., and theyreside at their farm residence in Ridge Prairie. Thedaughter, Miss Ella (249), a young lady of rareaccomp
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