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Eighth Generation
Transcriptions for PETER
OLSON: "Peter Oleson...d bef 7 Feb 1866 in the Civil War. His children became wards of his brother-in-law, John A. Lock. Their family name was changed to Alson." Marriage Notes for HARRIET BROOKS and PETER OLSON: ...Celebrate the Rites and Ceremonies of Marriage, between Mr. Peter Olson and Harriet Brooks of Said [La Salle] County... La Salle County, Illinois Dec 3rd 1858 - I, Alfred Lolhrope [sp?], a Baptist Minister, hereby certify that on this day I joined in Marriage Mr. Peter Olson with Miss Harriet Brooks... Marriage Notes for HARRIET BROOKS and JOHN HOGABOOM: I [illegible, probably Justice Graham] a Justice of the Peace hereby certify that on the14 day of Sept.1867 I joined in Marriage Mr. John Hogaboom and Miss Harriet Hogaboom agreeably to the authority given in the above license. Marriage Notes for BURGESS
BROOKS and CAROLINE LOCK: "La Salle County, Ill., Nov.
20th 1862 - I Livingston Jenks a Justice of the Peace hereby certify
that on this day I joined in Marriage, Mr. Burgefs [Burgess] Brooks
and Mifs Caroline Locke agreeably to the authority given in the above
License." Transcriptions for HALADINE
O. BROOKS: ALBERT, Jacob 26 M GY laborer; Aldine 19 F NY; Theresa 3 F IL; William 1 M IL
LaSalle County Illinois Federal Census
of 1900 ALBERTS, Jacob W. Head W M Feb 1833 67 M 44 Germany Germany Germany 1848 52 Nat; Aldine Wife W F June 1840 54 M 44 12 10 New York New York New York; Fannie Daughter W F Oct 1875 24 S Ill Ger NY Transcriptions for JACOB W. ALBERTS: Page One MAN'S CORPSE FOUND The finding of the badly decomposed corpse of a man, about 11 o'clock Monday morning in an unfrequented piece of timber on the farm owned by Elmer Taylor in Farm Ridge township solves the mystery surrounding the disappearance of Jacob Alberts, an aged resident of that township, some months ago. The body was discovered by Charles J. Brooker, who is employed on the Taylor farm. From the advanced stage of decomposition, it is presumed that the body had been where found for some considerable time. ...it was by the clothing that the body was positively identified as that of Jacob Alberts. Alberts was one of the best known residents of Vermillion township, and for some time preceding his disappearance, had been brooding over the death of his wife, from which loss he had never fully recovered. Suicide was suspected when he disappeared but efforts to locate him proved vain. The Vermillion river for miles in each direction was dragged and dynamited but to no avail. Transcriptions for MARIAH
BROOKS: LOCK, Maria Head W F Aug 1843 56 Wd 8 7 New York New York New York; James Son W M March 1863 37 S Ill Ohio NY; Lydia E. Daughter W F Oct 1872 28 S Ill Ohio NY; Ida M. Daughter W F Aug 1878 21 S Ill Ohio NY 1910 Federal Census of La Salle County,
Illinois LOCK, [sic] Mare Head F W 66 Wd 8, 7 New York ... ; James Son M W 47 S Illinois ... Transcriptions for JOHN A. LOCK: John A. Lock being duly sworn, deposes and says, he is engaged to be married to Miss Maria Brooks that the said Maria Brooks is under the age of Eighteen Years, to wit the age of seventeen years, and that he is over the age of Twenty-one Years. That Martin Brooks her father and Hannah Brooks her mother have consented and are now willing that affiant and said Maria Brooks be married. 1870 Federal Census: La Salle County LOCK, Jno. A. 43 M OH farmer; Maria 26 F NY keeping house; Ellie 8 F ILL; James 6 M ILL; Andrew 4 M ILL; Rosa 3 F ILL (PERSONAL OBSERVATION: John's father, Peter and family, and John's brother, Noah and family, are living on nearby farms in the same township 1880 Federal Census: La Salle County LOCK, John 42 WM farmer-M OH OH OH;
Mary 36 WF wife-M NY NY NY; Lucy 18 WF dau-school-S IL OH NY; James
17 WM son-works on farm-S IL OH NY; Andrew 14 WM son-works on farm-S
IL OH NY; Rosa 12 WF dau-school IL OH NY; Lydia 9 WF dau IL OH NY;
John 7 WM son IL OH NY; Ida 1 WF dau IL OH NY (PERSONAL OBSERVATION:
John's parents are still living on a farm in Eagle township at this
time, but his brother, Noah and family, have moved to Vermillion township
from Eagle since the last census) Marriage Notes for MARIAH BROOKS and JOHN LOCK: John A. Lock being duly sworn, deposes and says, he is engaged to be married to Miss Maria Brooks that the said Maria Brooks is under the age of Eighteen Years, to wit the age of seventeen years, and that he is over the age of Twenty-one Years. That Martin Brooks her father and Hannah Brooks her mother have consented and are now willing that affiant and said Maria Brooks be married. Marriage Notes for SARA
BROOKS and HENRY MEADOWS: "Ottawa, La Salle County, Illinois, December 31st 1866 - I Aaron B. Smith a Justice of the Peace hereby certify that on this day I joined in Marriage, Mr. Henry Meadows and Miss Sarah Ann Brooks agreeably to the authority given in the above License." Transcriptions for EDWARD
W. BROOKS: PATTERSON, Samuel 30 M PA farmer; Harriet 24 F CT keeping house; Nellie 2 F IL at home; Elizabeth 1 F IL at home; BROOKS, Edwin 23 M IL works on farm PERSONAL OBSERVATION: on adjacent farms in the same
township are the families of George Fetzer, Stephen Patterson, and
John W. Fitzer. The farm of the family Isaac Lock is a bit more distant. Marriage Notes for ANDREW BROOKS
and SARAH HORNBECK: "In the Office of the County Court of the said County [LaSalle County, Illinois] Martin Brooks of the County of La Salle and State of Illinois, who has this day applied to me for License of Marriage, being duly sworn, deposes and says that Mr. Jackson Brooks has not arrived at the age of twenty-one years and that Miss Libby Hornbeck has arrived at the age of eighteen years...That said affiant is the father of said Jackson Brooks, and willingly gives his consent to said Marriage. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 26th day of Nov. A.D. 1870 [signed] H. L. Mead [and] Martin Brooks" Marriage License for Jackson Brooks and Libby Hornbeck La Salle County Clerk, 1870 Vol D , LIC 502 "I Rev H. J. Heester a Minister...hereby certify that on the 1st day of December 1870 I joined in Marriage Mr. Jackson Brooks with Miss Libby Hornbeck agreeably to the authority given in the above License..." Transcriptions for NATHANIEL
J. APPLEBEE: FOUND DEAD IN BED Nathaniel Applebee was found dead in his bed at his residence in Farm Ridge Sunday morning by a member of the family who went to call him when he failed to come down at the usual time. He was apparently asleep, as was his four-year-old grandchild, who slept with him, but the old man had died during the night without a movement to indicate a struggle. He was in his usual health Saturday. He was 70 years of age and had lived in Deer Park and Farm Ridge for many years. He leaves a family of children, all grown, surviving him. The funeral took place yesterday afternoon from the residence. CORRESPONDENCE FROM WARREN BROOKS -17 Dec 1995 Transcriptions for TAMZ
R. DODGE: Family tradition has claimed "Nathan Junior married, had a family, and divorced; then remarried a girl from Bonn, Germany, by the name of Margaret Pfalzgraph." There is recorded in the 1860 Federal census of La Salle County that there lived one "Applebee, Nathan 26 NY farm laborer; [with] Uria 2 Il" BUT WITH NO WIFE. And postal correspondence has revealed that:
On the negative side of the argument: (1) their names differ - one is Tammy C. Applebee and the other is Tamz Dodge; (2) their first marriages were to different men - one to Edward Parker and the other purportedly to Nathaniel J. Applebee; (3) the father of one is named as Joseph Applebee. If the two women in question were one and the same, would Tammy/Tamz have provided false information regarding her marital status at the time that she married Edward Parker? Would Tammy/Tamz have moved three times - from New York to Illinois before the census of 1860, from Illinois back to New York between 1860 and 1865, and from New York back to Illinois before 1879 when she is recorded as marrying Edward Parker? Would she have claimed that her father was Joseph Applebee BECAUSE she had a son, Uria/Ernest, from her prior marriage to Nathan Applebee and wished NOT to let Edward Parker know? What needs to be located is a marriage record, probably in New York state, Greene County, between Nathan Applebee and Tamz/Tammy Dodge/Applebee. Transcriptions for JOSEPH
APPLEBEE: Joseph APPLEBEE Self M M W 44 NY Fa:NY Mo:NY Occ: Farmer ; Caroline APPLEBEE Wife F M W 43 NY Fa:NY Mo:NY Occ: Keeping House ; Elnora APPLEBEE Dau F S W 14 NY Fa:NY Mo:NY Occ: At Home ; Abram J. APPLEBEE Son M S W 11 NY Fa:NY Mo:NY Occ: At Home
Transcriptions for WILLIAM
APPLEBEE: William APPLEBEE Self M M W 29 PA Fa:NY Mo:NY Occ: Farmer; Delia A. APPLEBEE Wife F M W 22 IL Fa:NJ Mo:ENG Occ: Keeping House; Jessie A. APPLEBEE Brother M S W 15 IL Fa:NY Mo:NY Occ: Farmer PERSONAL OBSERVATION: living on a nearby farm at this time was the family of a younger brother of William, that of Edward "Eder" Applebee Transcriptions for EDWARD APPLEBEE: 1880 United States Census copyright 2000 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. Census Place: Phillipsburg, Phillips, Kansas Source: FHL Film 1254393 National Archives Film T9-0393 Page 137B Eder APPLEBEE Self M M W 23 IL fa:NY Mo:NY Occ: Farmer; Mary A. APPLEBEE Wife F M W 20 PA Fa:PA Mo: IL Occ: Keeping House PERSONAL OBSERVATION: living on a nearby farm at this time was the family of William Applebee, older brother of Eder Applebee.
History of Gage County, Nebraska: Dobbs, Hugh J. (Hugh Jackson) Windmill Publications, Inc., Mt. Vernon, IN, 1995 Article found on pages 838-840 (with Photo) JOHN APPLEBEE was a youth of fourteen years when he came with his parents to Nebraska Territory and during the long intervening years he has maintained his residence in Gage county, where he has been an appreciative witness of the splendid march of development and progress, in which he himself has played a sturdy and worthy part. In Section 16, Hanover township, he is the owner of the farm of eighty acres upon which he resides, and which is a part of the old home place of his father. This he utilizes in his farm operations. Mr. Applebee was born in La Salle county, Illinois, July 20, 1851, and is a son of John and Ella (Denton) Applebee, both natives of the state of New York, their marriage having been solemnized in Illinois. In the latter state John Applebee, Sr., continued his association with farm industry until 1865, when he came with his family to Nebraska Territory and became a pioneer settler of Gage county. His household effects were shipped by rail and river to Nebraska City, from which point he transported them to Gage county by team and wagon. He settled on the farm now owned by his son John, girded himself vigorously for the arduous work in hand, and eventually reclaimed and improved his land. This honored pioneer passed the closing period of his life in the home of his son William, of Filley, this county, and attained to the patriarchal age of ninety-two years, his wife having passed away on the old homestead place, at the age of eighty-four years. Concerning their children the following brief data are available: William is deceased; Edward is a farmer in Hanover township; John, subject of this review, was the next in order of birth; Jennie is the wife of Alfred Boyer, of Virginia, this county; Hannah became the wife of Frank Boyer and her death occurred several years ago; James is a resident of Nemaha township; and Jesse maintains his home in the city of Beatrice. He whose name initiates this article acquired his early education in the schools of Illinois and Gage county and was reared to manhood on the farm which he now owns and occupies. He was still a young man when he relieved his father to a large extent of the management of the farm and since the property came into his session he has made numerous improvements on the same. He has borne his share of the heavy labors involved in the developing of a farm from the primitive wilds, encountered his measure of hardships and reverses, but has reason to take just pride in the material prosperity that has crowned his efforts. In the early days he witnessed the ravages of many prairie fires and was often called upon to plow around his stacks of grain to save them from such conflagrations. As a youth he worked at times for other pioneers of the county, as did also his father, and at times they would go to points twelve or more miles distant in the morning hours, apply themselves to work during the day and return to the home at night. He recalls the depredations and havoc wrought in the historic grasshopper scourge of 1872-1873, when the insects were so thick in the harvest fields as to obscure the bundles of grain. He followed in many a harvest the old-time reaper and bound the grain by hand, and for three years the family home was provided with water from what was ironically termed a dry-land well--three barrels on a wagon, by means of which water was hauled from a spring two miles distant. The corn raised on the Applebee farm in the pioneer era was frequently sold for ten cents a bushel, and the great change in conditions is shown in the fact that in the summer of 1917 Mr. Applebee sold a load of corn, at Pickrell, for one hundred and thirteen dollars and forty cents, to realize which return in the early days it would have been necessary to sell fully a thousand bushels. Under primitive conditions Mr. Applebee applied himself earnestly and vigorously, and his attitude under the present conditions of opulent prosperity in the county has not changed, as he continued to have the deepest appreciation of the dignity and value of honest toil and endeavor. His political allegiance is given to the Republican party, but he has never been diverted from the even tenor of his way by any ambition for political activity or public office. Mr. Applebee was twenty-one years of age at the time of his marriage to Miss Elizabeth Griffin, and her death occurred in 1887. Of their children the first two died in infancy; Emma is the widow of Albert Brinton, of Hanover township; Elmer is a farmer in the same township; Walter resides in the village of Pickrell; and Viola is the wife of Pearl Stanley, of Beatrice. The second marriage of Mr. Applebee was with Miss Ida Post, who was born in Illinois, and she presides most graciously over their pleasant and hospitable home. Of their children two died in infancy, and those surviving are Pearl (the wife of Jesse Green, of Haxton, Colorado), Mary, Edna, Annie, Clyde, Esther, Ruby, Hazel, Erma, and Myrtle. 1880 United
States Census Johnny APPLEBEE Self Male Married White 23 ILL. Fa: NY Mo: NY Occ: Farmer ; Sarah E. Wife Female Married White 22 NY Fa: NY Mo: NY Occ: Keeping House; Emma A. Daughter Female Single White 6M Nebraska Fa: ILL Mo: NY ; James Brother [to Johnny] Male Single White 17 ILL Fa: NY Mo: NY ; John Father [of Johnny] Male Married White 62 NY Fa: NY Mo: NY Occ: Farming; M. Ellen Mother [of Johnny] Female Divorced White 52 PENN Fa: NY Mo: NY Occ: Nurse ; Burt Brother [to Johnny] Male Single White 4 Nebraska Fa: NY Mo: Prussia PERSONAL OBSERVATION: it appears that John Applebee and his divorced wife, Mary Ellen, were living in the same household in 1880 with the family of their son, Johnny. John and Mary Ellen had divorced in 1873. A son was born on May 11, 1873 to John Applebee and a young girl, Elizabeth Fisher. The brother, Burt (whose mother is stated to have been born in Prussia), mentioned in the above census of 1880 MAY BE the son born out of wedlock to John Applebee and Elizabeth Fisher (who is stated elsewhere to have been born in Germany), even though the age of Burt in 1880 is stated as four years rather than seven years. Transcriptions for JULIUS
APPLEBEE: Transcriptions for SALOMA APPLEBEE: Transcriptions for THOMAS
APPLEBEE: To the Hon. P.K. Leland, Judge of the County Court sitting in Probate -- Your Petitioner Nathan Applebee, guardian of Thomas and Martha Applebe, minor heirs of Phebe Applebee, deceased, represent unto your Honor, that one Thomas Holcott did, about the month of February A.D. 1866, die or depart this life, seized of the following Real Estate, viz The West 1/2 of the S.W. 1/4 of Sec. 6 and the West 1/2 of the N.W. 1/4 of Sec. 7 in Townships 31, North of Range 3, East of the 3rd Principal Meridian. Also that tract, beginning at the N.E. corner of S.W. 1/4 of S.W. 1/4 of N.W. 1/4 of Sec. 8, Townships 31 north of Range 3, East of the 3rd Principal Meridian, thence west 40 rods to the section line between Sections 7 and 8, thence north on said line 63 rods to [the] corner of the lands belonging to P.J. Vandeberg, thence east along said Vandeberg's line 38 rods and 3 links to the corner of said Vandeberg's land, thence upon a straight line to the place of beginning - containing fifteen (15) acres more or less. And your Petitioner further shows unto your Honor, that the afore mentioned Phebe Holcott, intermarried with your Petitioner, and that she did, about the 15th say of December A.D. 1864, die or depart this life, leaving her surviving, four children, two of whom are Thomas and Martha Applebee minors, and wards of your Petitioner, and upon and to which four children the undivided one-sixth (1/6) of the aforementioned Real Estate.... And your Petitioner further shows unto your Honor that no personal property ever came to the afore mentioned Thomas and Martha Applebee, wards of your Petitioner and that they have no personal property, and he further shows unto your Honor that all of the Heirs of the afore mentioned Thomas Holcott have parted with their shares of the afore mentioned Real Estate which came to and descen[ded] upon them with the exception of the afore said Thomas and Martha Applebee, wards of your Petitioner, at the rate of one hundred and twenty five dollars for the one twenty fourth (1/24) part of the afore said Real Estate, and he further shows unto your Honor, that the part or share, of the afore said Real estate, which came to and descended upon, each of the said Thomas and Martha Applebee, is the undivided one twenty fourth (1/24) of the afore described Real Estate, which the said Thomas Holcott left to the Heirs surviving him. And he further shows unto your Honor, that it is for the best interests of said minors that their share or part of said Real Estate be sold and the proceeds be invested in some other manner est suited for their benefit and he accordingly prays that such may be done. [Signed] Nathan Applebee 1880 United
States Census Thomas APPLEBEE Self M M W 27 IL Fa: IL Mo: IL Occ. Livery; Ida APPLEBEE Wife F M W 28 IL Fa: NY Mo:NY Occ:Keeping House; Grey APPLEBEE Son M S W 6 IL Fa:IL Mo: IL Occ: At Home; Mabel APPLEBEE Dau F S W 4 IL Fa: IL Mo:IL Occ: At Home
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