Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . gone day soon after his cabin was erected, stoppedlong enough to cast a pitying glance at his sur-roundings and bluntly advised him to CurseGod and die. His house was the second on thaiprairie, and the prairie land was then thought tobe useless, but time demonstrated the wisdom ofhis location. Mrs. Joiner died April 12, 1886. deeply re-gretted by all who had known her. In he was about eighty-four, Mr. Joiner mar-ried Mrs. Mary Waterbury, widow of F. his first wifes brother, and she isliving in Chicago. By his first wife he had twochi
Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . gone day soon after his cabin was erected, stoppedlong enough to cast a pitying glance at his sur-roundings and bluntly advised him to CurseGod and die. His house was the second on thaiprairie, and the prairie land was then thought tobe useless, but time demonstrated the wisdom ofhis location. Mrs. Joiner died April 12, 1886. deeply re-gretted by all who had known her. In he was about eighty-four, Mr. Joiner mar-ried Mrs. Mary Waterbury, widow of F. his first wifes brother, and she isliving in Chicago. By his first wife he had twochildren. Alvin .Joiner of Polo, and Mary W.,who married a Mr. Thompson and is living atPort Sanilac, Mich. Mr. Joiner was. in his time,a man of more than ordinary enterprise and bus-iness sagacity, and the success that he won wasespecially noteworthy. JOINER, Henry S.—A career singularly in har-mony with the best tenets of farming and thelargest responsibilities of country life, has beenthat of Henry S. Joiner, the owner of a farm of. IIISTOHY OF OGLE COUNTY. iOO acres in Point Township, and memberof a family wliose earliest local usefulnessreaches back for considerably more than half acentury, ilr. Joiner was Iioru in Grand DctonrTownship. Ogle Countj-. December 29, ;. andhis years were spent in the log cabin of hisparents, William and Mary J. (Smith) Joiner,the former of whom was born in ^erniout Oc-tober 1830, and the latter in New York Oc-tober 27, In childhood both parents cameto Ogle County with their parents, the father of? the former being Alyin Joiner, and of the latterRobert Smith. Both profited by the educationafforded in the subscription schools, married,and for the first years of their wedded life, livedon a farm in Grand Detour Townshi]). Whilestill the cannons of the Civil War were booming inevidence of death and disaster upon Southernbattlefields, family removal was made to EaglePoint Township, and here the father died No-vember
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