Clover
Family Research Compendium
Monroe County, Randolph County, St. Clair County
Part Four
This
page contains miscellaneous court records and cemetery records.
Randolph County Births, 1792-1879, No Clovers.
In the last issue, Volume 10: 43, I gave information on the relatives of Rebecca Nelson which sounded to me as if it had come from Mormon church records. After checking with Salt Lake City, I have now located at least some of them. The information is as follows: On Sunday, 25 September 1842, Rebecca Nelson was baptized as a proxy as the niece of John Harness, John Shehan, Sarah Shehan, and the cousin of Rebecca Clover and Maria Walton. This baptism would have been done in the river at Nauvoo, Illinois. It proves that she believed the relationships as stated were true and that the persons named were deceased. The copy is from Volume C, page 11 from item one on FHL 485753.
Pat Vaseska sent the following from the Monroe County records with which she was working.
Monroe County Records
Waterloo, Monroe County, Illinois
Common Law Files Box B65
Charles Osterhage
VS
Philip Stumpf
And Others
If the jury believe from the evidence that about the year 1810 Catharine or Kate Clover, Sarah or Sallie Sheehan, and Mary Harnish were the owners in fee simple of the undivided claims known as Claim 572 Survey 410, in Monroe County, Illinois, and that they verbally agreed among themselves to partition said tract of land, and that in pursuance of such agreement they made such partition in said year of thereabout, and that they live between the share allotted to said Catharine and the share allotted to said Sarah was to be the creek and other lines as described in the deed from W. R. Walton to Wilson and Cahoe read in evidence; and if the jury further believe from the evidence that said Catharine Clover and Sarah Sheehan each took possession of their respective shares immediately after such division was made, and occupied the same, and recognized the dividing or boundary line described in said Deed as the dividing or boundary line between their shares, then the line so made and recognized is binding upon all subsequent purchases holding under conveyances from said partitioners of partition and claim, of the several tracts of land as aforesaid.
Filed March 26, 1886
John Wiesenborn, Clerk
Catharine (Kate), Sarah (Sallie) and Mary Harness were the children of Leonard Harness (Harnish) and that after his death the said three children, made a verbal partition among themselves for division of said land.
Sallie Harness was married to John Sheehan. She died still owning the land. John Sheehan thereafter, died intestate, and left their only daughter, Mary, who was married to Richard Walton, died, before the deed from William R. Walton to Wilson and Cahoe was made. Richard was the only surviving heir at law of the said William R. Walton and Mary his wife who had not previously parted with their title.
The jury found from the evidence that the Plaintiff Osterhage by a regular chain of title found, that said William R. Walton, has proved title of the land in controversy, and that John Stumpf, the ancestor of the present defendants without right entered upon and withheld said land. Chancery Cases Box A67.
I tried for a long time to locate tombstones for the Clovers in Monroe County, Illinois. I wondered at my inability to find them. Finally, a few years back, I discussed this with a Clover descendant, Pat Vaseska, who lives in Monroe County and who has done a lot of work for the genealogical society. She tells me that at one time there were a lot of Clovers buried in Johnson Cemetery, but the cemetery is now gone. One of the local road commissioner's plowed up the cemetery to make the road wider. There were caskets and tombstones all over the place. He pushed them into a creek which is one of the saddest things I have heard lately.
The sole surviving Clover tombstone in the entire county is for William Noline Clover who was a son of John Clover and grandson of Jacob Clover. His tombstone is in Eagle Cliff-Miles Cemetery on D Road between Columbia and Waterloo, in Monroe County, Illinois. It reads: William N. Clover, Consort of Ann Allen, born December 1826, died 31 March 1878. At one time, there are supposed to have been many other Clover tombstones. The cemetery has suffered the most appalling depredations having been repeatedly vandalized. There is now no stone for William’s wife. Of the nearly 2000 original burials, only about 450 tombstones now exist. The cemetery was read and the findings are in the Monroe County Genealogical Society holdings. This research is courtesy of Pat Vaseska who read the tombstones in Eagle Cliff for the local genealogical society.
Pat also tells me there is an additional record in the cemetery data base. Adam Clover died aged 21 years. He died 21 February 1912, son of George, buried in Columbia Lutheran Cemetery. This was in the St. Louis, Missouri newspaper. His identity is as yet unknown and the location of his stone is unknown.
Pat Vaseska has recently sent me information on a wonderful new find. Whiteside Pond Cemetery has been located. The stones were pushed into a ditch and most are broken. However, she did find a couple of stones of interest to us. She is working with the local society to find everything that can be found, fix it if possible and transcribe what can be transcribed. She sent me the following pictures. I am including the one with the broken stones so that you can see what the problem is.
Elias Clover, born 6 July 1808 died 30 July 1878, buried Whiteside Pond Cemetery, Monroe County, Illinois.
Catherine Lacy, wife of J. V. Lacy. She was the daughter of John Clover. Catherine Clover Lacy date of birth 21 June 1835, date of death 20 August 1881. She is wife of Joseph V. Lacy who is buried at Eagle Cliff Miles Cemetery. He has a military stone with no dates. Pat suggests that she may have died of cholera because there was a terrible epidemic through the area in 1881.
The Illinois State Archives in Springfield, Illinois
The Illinois State Archives in Springfield, Illinois maintains a card index file on surnames in various early records. Pat Vaseska copied all the Clover cards which are transcribed here. I have included all of the cards here which pertain to the area of Monroe, Randolph and St. Clair Counties except the ones on census records.
Illinois Territory:
Adam Clover. The Territorial Papers of the U. S., Volume XVI, The Territory of Illinois 1809-1814, by C. E. Carter. Adam Clover is listed on pages 235 and 237. FHL 929385.
Monroe County:
John Clover: Monroe County. LBR [No explanation given for these initials.]
Legislative Papers, 1826.
John Clover: Signer of petition for removal of county seat from Waterloo. Dated. 10 December 1825. [This must be the son of Jacob Clover.]
St Clair County:
Adam Clover: St. Clair County [Illinois] Records. Perrin Collection 1 June 1812.
James Smirl vs. John Murdock. Murdock gave bond with Adam Clover and Simon Vanorsdall as security, for $211.47 ½ due November 1. D.S. [Signature ?]
Adam Clover: St. Clair County [Illinois] Records. Perrin Collection 9 November 1812.
James Smirl Vs. John Mordock, Adam Clover and Simon Vanorsdall. General Court, Cahokia. Sheriff’s warrant for collection of $211.47 ½ on execution bond given 1 June 1812; also $7.39 fees. Endorsed: “No further bail to be taken.” “I have made the within amount.”
Adam Clover: St. Clair County [Illinois] Records. Perrin Collection 22 October 1813
Moses Austin assignee of John Butler, vs. Adam Clover and Daniel Raipert, his appearance bail. General Court, Cahokia. Warrant to sheriff for collection of $64.19 damages and $19.69 costs. Adjudged to Austin, assignee of John Butler. Endorsed: “Discharged by replevin,” signed Reuben Anderson, deputy sheriff for John Hays, Sheriff. [According to Black’s Law Dictionary, a replevin refers to a situation where the owner entitled to repossession of goods may recover those goods from someone who has the goods.]
Adam Clover: St. Clair County [Illinois] Records. Perrin Collection 12 November 1813.
Adam Clover defendant. Case: Moses Austin, assignee of J. Butter(Butler?) Vs. Clover and Daniel Raper(Rapert?). Said Clover and Rapert gave bond for $83.88 with John Moredoch as security. Witnessed by Reuben Anderson.
Adam Clover: St. Clair County [Illinois] Records: Perrin Collection, 17 May 1814.
James Leman, surviving executor of estate of Josiah Ryan, deceased, who was executor of estate of David Guise, deceased, vs. Daniel Guise, one of lineal heirs of David Guise, deceased by Adam Clover, his guardian and next friend. General Court, Cahokia.
Adam Clover: St. Clair County [Illinois] Records: Perrin Collection, 20 May 1814.
Moses Austin assignee of John Butler vs. Adam Clover, Daniel Raipert and John Mordock. General court, Cahokia. Sherriff’s Warrent for collection of $83.88 on execution bond given 12 November 1813; also $6.07 fees. Endorsed: “No further bail.” “The within amount of this execution was paid to the clerk of the court.”
Adam Clover: St. Clair County [Illinois] Records: Perrin Collection, 1815.
Endorsement appears on back of road petition by residents of vicinity of Turkey Hill, St. Clair County. “Adam Clover, Alex. Wells, constable for Eagle [Township]. [The photocopy I have of the card cut off the last letter of the word constable. Consequently, I do not know if it was constable or constables.]
John Clover: St Clair County [Illinois] Records.
Perrin Collection. D. S. (By mark) 21 August 1816. [This probably refers to a signature by mark]
Security for Daniel Rapert’s replevin bond to Reuben Bradly for $39.44, plus $3.40, costs. Said Rapert is from Monroe County. Circuit Court.
John Clover: St. Clair County [Illinois] Records. Perrin Collection. 19 February 1817.
Reuben Bradly vs. Daniel Raipert and John Clover. Circuit Court, Belleville. Warrant to sheriff of Monroe County for collection of the $39.44 on execution bond given 31 August 1816 plus $3.87. [note discrepancy in date and amount between this and the previous case.] Adjudged to Bradly. Endorsed: “No further bail to be taken.” “I have made the amount of the within writ.”
William Clover: St. Clair County [Illinois] Records: Perrin Collection, June 5, 1811.
William Clover gave bond to U. S. for $50 as security for $50 bond of Reuben Anderson on condition that said Anderson appear at next September General Court, a writ of “mittimus”, ie, mittimus having already been issued from office of Enoch Moore, J. P. directed to John Moore, coroner, against Anderson for not delivering a fee to Michael Miller. Witnessed by J. Moore, coroner. D. S. (By mark) [According to Black’s Legal Dictionary, mittimus is a basically an order to arrest a person and convey that person to a place of safe keeping and for the jailor to hold the person.] [Note that Reuben Anderson shows up in a case naming William Clover in 1813. In that case, Reuben is a deputy sheriff. He also appears as witness in a case naming Adam Clover in 1813.]
William Clover: St. Clair County [Illinois] Records. Perrin Collection. June Term 1813:
William Clover was a Grand Jurer, no 7 in a list of 24 Grand Jurors given by name and number. Court of Common Pleas, Cahokia.
William Clover: St. Clair County [Illinois] Records. Perrin Collection. 25 October 1813.
George Reamy and Ephraim Connor vs. William Clover. General Court, Cahokia. Warrant to sheriff for collection of $9.37 damages and costs in a certain action of debt. Adjudged to Reamy and Connor. Endorsed: “I have made the within amount in full.” Reuben Anderson, D.S. [Signature?] for John Hays, Sheriff.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat, St. Louis, Missouri, Wednesday, April 26, 1876, issue 343; col F
Special Correspondence of the Globe-Democrat. CHESTER, ILL., April 25, 1876. – the particulars of the murder of John McAskin, by Hermann Muttert, in the Harrisonville Bottom, three miles south of Smith’s Landing, on the St. Louis road, Saturday morning, about 6:30 o’clock, April 15, are about as follows:Muttert and Mrs. Josephine Nau lived in a double house, on the Nau farm, and Mr. McAskin was in the habit of stopping with Mrs. Nau when in that part of the county. From the
evidence given before the Coroner’s jury, it seems that the Mutterts had some of Mrs. Nau’s personal property in their possession, and had refused to give it up. Mrs. Nau called on McAskin to accompany her into Muttert’s part of the dwelling to demand possession of the property, and he did so, a daughter of Mrs. Nau, Annie, going along. Mrs. Muttert ordered him out of the house, and not going as quickly as she desired, she pushed him towards the door. Charles Muttert, the husband, who was sitting in the room at the time,REACHED FOR HIS SHOT-GUN,which hung against the wall over his head. McAskin, noticing this movement, said: “Don’t be hasty, Charlie,” and stepped towards the outside door. Mrs. Muttert again pushed McAskin out upon the platform, and from there to the ground, at the same time picking up a piece of wood to strike McAskin. Muttert at this moment stepped to the door, with the gun
in his hands, and, as McAskin was in the act of walking away from the house, Muttert told his wife to step aside, and, taking deliberate aim at McAskin, fired, the whole charge of turkey-shot entering McAskin’s head back of the left ear, tearing away the entire back part of the head. The murdered man sank to the ground, dead in his tracks, falling over on his right side, where he was left until the arrival of the Coroner. Some of the brain was scattered a distance of about eighteen feet from where deceased lay.After the arrival of Coroner Kuehn, a jury was impaneled, composed of the following gentlemen: Joseph Lacy, W. D. McRoney, Isaac N. Clover, S. McCauley, Calvin Burton, Elias Iman, Charles Loeme, Francis M. Clover, S. Johnson, A. J. Anderson, Ben. Marney and John Heidger, and after a careful examination of the case,THE FOLLOWING VERDICT WAS RENDERED:We, the jurors, sworn to inquire of the death of John McAskin, on oath do find that he came to his death by a gun-shot would inflicted by the hands of Charles Muttert, with the intention to kill him. We further find that the shot was fired from a distance of about ten feet; taking effect in the side of the back of the head, tearing the bones and scattering his brains, thereby causing instant death.Constable Crowder, with assistants, brought Muttert to the Waterloo Jail Saturday night. The prisoner does not seem to realize that he has committed such a terrible crime, and states that McAskin has been troubling him for some time, and that he was justified in blowing out his brains.The murder was witnessed by three persons – Mrs. Muttert, the wife of the
murderer, Mrs. Nau, and her daughter Annie. This, perhaps, is one of the most cold-blooded and deliberate murders that has ever occurred in Monroe County. Nothing was shown in the evidence at the inquest at all calculated to justify such a barbarous act. There is a rumor, however, that the murder is the result of some old feud unknown to any one except the parties themselves.THE PRISONERis about thirty-three years of age, five feet nine inches in height, has small dark eyes, low forehead, dark complexion, and weighs about 160 pounds. He has a wife and four children, ranging from ten years to six months in age, and financially, is in comfortable circumstances.All of McAskin’s relations live in Canada, he having come to Monroe County in 1876, when he commenced teaching school, immediately after his arrival, and followed his profession with marked success for a period of five years. During a part of
the time he was thus engaged, he was in partnership with Mr. Hilyard, in the mercantile business, at Lilly’s Landing, on the Mississippi. At the end of the three months, the business connection with Mr. Hilyard was dissolved, and Mr. McAskin opened a store on his own account in the immediate neighborhood of where he was so brutally shot.THE BODY OF DECEASEDwas taken charge of, after the inquest, by John McCormick and Wm. H. Hilyard, who had it interred in Miles’ Cemetery, at Eagle Cliffs.As a teacher and a business man, Mr. McAskin was a success. Indeed, his prosperity was in a measure the cause of more or less of the ill will that had been created against him. Mr. McAskin, during his residence in Monroe County, had gathered around him many warm, true friends, who sincerely regret his untimely death.Muttert, no doubt, will pay the penalty of this fearful deed at the end of
rope.
http://monroe.ilgenweb.net/newspaper4/1876_murder_of_John_McAskin.txt
Randolph County Births, 1792-1879, No Clovers.
In the last issue, Volume 10: 43, I gave information on the relatives of Rebecca Nelson which sounded to me as if it had come from Mormon church records. After checking with Salt Lake City, I have now located at least some of them. The information is as follows: On Sunday, 25 September 1842, Rebecca Nelson was baptized as a proxy as the niece of John Harness, John Shehan, Sarah Shehan, and the cousin of Rebecca Clover and Maria Walton. This baptism would have been done in the river at Nauvoo, Illinois. It proves that she believed the relationships as stated were true and that the persons named were deceased. The copy is from Volume C, page 11 from item one on FHL 485753.
Pat Vaseska sent the following from the Monroe County records with which she was working.
Monroe County Records
Waterloo, Monroe County, Illinois
Common Law Files Box B65
Charles Osterhage
VS
Philip Stumpf
And Others
If the jury believe from the evidence that about the year 1810 Catharine or Kate Clover, Sarah or Sallie Sheehan, and Mary Harnish were the owners in fee simple of the undivided claims known as Claim 572 Survey 410, in Monroe County, Illinois, and that they verbally agreed among themselves to partition said tract of land, and that in pursuance of such agreement they made such partition in said year of thereabout, and that they live between the share allotted to said Catharine and the share allotted to said Sarah was to be the creek and other lines as described in the deed from W. R. Walton to Wilson and Cahoe read in evidence; and if the jury further believe from the evidence that said Catharine Clover and Sarah Sheehan each took possession of their respective shares immediately after such division was made, and occupied the same, and recognized the dividing or boundary line described in said Deed as the dividing or boundary line between their shares, then the line so made and recognized is binding upon all subsequent purchases holding under conveyances from said partitioners of partition and claim, of the several tracts of land as aforesaid.
Filed March 26, 1886
John Wiesenborn, Clerk
Catharine (Kate), Sarah (Sallie) and Mary Harness were the children of Leonard Harness (Harnish) and that after his death the said three children, made a verbal partition among themselves for division of said land.
Sallie Harness was married to John Sheehan. She died still owning the land. John Sheehan thereafter, died intestate, and left their only daughter, Mary, who was married to Richard Walton, died, before the deed from William R. Walton to Wilson and Cahoe was made. Richard was the only surviving heir at law of the said William R. Walton and Mary his wife who had not previously parted with their title.
The jury found from the evidence that the Plaintiff Osterhage by a regular chain of title found, that said William R. Walton, has proved title of the land in controversy, and that John Stumpf, the ancestor of the present defendants without right entered upon and withheld said land. Chancery Cases Box A67.
Pat Vaseska sent the following from the Monroe County records with which she was working.
Guardianships
Monroe County Courthouse Section E box C
Pat Vaseska sent the following from the Monroe County records with which she was working.
Minutes of the
Organization of Monroe County, IL
January 6, 1816
Page 40
Michael Clover infant orphan of William Clover, deceased, personally appeared in court with the Approgation thereof made choice of John Jonston (Johnson) for his guardian whereupon the said John Johnston (Johnson) with Robert Hawk and Alexander Jameson his securities entered into and executed bond in the penalty of one thousand dollars conditioned as the law directs.
Page 56
It was ordered that John Clover be allowed two dollars for a wolf scalp.
Guardianships
Monroe County Courthouse
Section E box C
April 17, 1866 - Thomas Crowder minor heir of Putman
Crowder who’s guardian’s were his grandparents, Green
Crowder and Adeline A. Agnew Crowder. Child now lives with his
grandfather Eli Clover. Eli did not file for custody, as
Thomas’s mother, Mahala Clover Crowder is still alive. Putman
Crowder and Mahala Clover were married in Monroe Co., IL on Feb. 9,
1834.
Cemetery Records
I tried for a long time to locate tombstones for the Clovers in Monroe County, Illinois. I wondered at my inability to find them. Finally, a few years back, I discussed this with a Clover descendant, Pat Vaseska, who lives in Monroe County and who has done a lot of work for the genealogical society. She tells me that at one time there were a lot of Clovers buried in Johnson Cemetery, but the cemetery is now gone. One of the local road commissioner's plowed up the cemetery to make the road wider. There were caskets and tombstones all over the place. He pushed them into a creek which is one of the saddest things I have heard lately.
The sole surviving Clover tombstone in the entire county is for William Noline Clover who was a son of John Clover and grandson of Jacob Clover. His tombstone is in Eagle Cliff-Miles Cemetery on D Road between Columbia and Waterloo, in Monroe County, Illinois. It reads: William N. Clover, Consort of Ann Allen, born December 1826, died 31 March 1878. At one time, there are supposed to have been many other Clover tombstones. The cemetery has suffered the most appalling depredations having been repeatedly vandalized. There is now no stone for William’s wife. Of the nearly 2000 original burials, only about 450 tombstones now exist. The cemetery was read and the findings are in the Monroe County Genealogical Society holdings. This research is courtesy of Pat Vaseska who read the tombstones in Eagle Cliff for the local genealogical society.
Pat also tells me there is an additional record in the cemetery data base. Adam Clover died aged 21 years. He died 21 February 1912, son of George, buried in Columbia Lutheran Cemetery. This was in the St. Louis, Missouri newspaper. His identity is as yet unknown and the location of his stone is unknown.
Pat Vaseska has recently sent me information on a wonderful new find. Whiteside Pond Cemetery has been located. The stones were pushed into a ditch and most are broken. However, she did find a couple of stones of interest to us. She is working with the local society to find everything that can be found, fix it if possible and transcribe what can be transcribed. She sent me the following pictures. I am including the one with the broken stones so that you can see what the problem is.
Elias Clover, born 6 July 1808 died 30 July 1878, buried Whiteside Pond Cemetery, Monroe County, Illinois.
Catherine Lacy, wife of J. V. Lacy. She was the daughter of John Clover. Catherine Clover Lacy date of birth 21 June 1835, date of death 20 August 1881. She is wife of Joseph V. Lacy who is buried at Eagle Cliff Miles Cemetery. He has a military stone with no dates. Pat suggests that she may have died of cholera because there was a terrible epidemic through the area in 1881.
The Illinois State Archives in Springfield, Illinois
The Illinois State Archives in Springfield, Illinois maintains a card index file on surnames in various early records. Pat Vaseska copied all the Clover cards which are transcribed here. I have included all of the cards here which pertain to the area of Monroe, Randolph and St. Clair Counties except the ones on census records.
Illinois Territory:
Adam Clover. The Territorial Papers of the U. S., Volume XVI, The Territory of Illinois 1809-1814, by C. E. Carter. Adam Clover is listed on pages 235 and 237. FHL 929385.
Monroe County:
John Clover: Monroe County. LBR [No explanation given for these initials.]
Legislative Papers, 1826.
John Clover: Signer of petition for removal of county seat from Waterloo. Dated. 10 December 1825. [This must be the son of Jacob Clover.]
St Clair County:
Adam Clover: St. Clair County [Illinois] Records. Perrin Collection 1 June 1812.
James Smirl vs. John Murdock. Murdock gave bond with Adam Clover and Simon Vanorsdall as security, for $211.47 ½ due November 1. D.S. [Signature ?]
Adam Clover: St. Clair County [Illinois] Records. Perrin Collection 9 November 1812.
James Smirl Vs. John Mordock, Adam Clover and Simon Vanorsdall. General Court, Cahokia. Sheriff’s warrant for collection of $211.47 ½ on execution bond given 1 June 1812; also $7.39 fees. Endorsed: “No further bail to be taken.” “I have made the within amount.”
Adam Clover: St. Clair County [Illinois] Records. Perrin Collection 22 October 1813
Moses Austin assignee of John Butler, vs. Adam Clover and Daniel Raipert, his appearance bail. General Court, Cahokia. Warrant to sheriff for collection of $64.19 damages and $19.69 costs. Adjudged to Austin, assignee of John Butler. Endorsed: “Discharged by replevin,” signed Reuben Anderson, deputy sheriff for John Hays, Sheriff. [According to Black’s Law Dictionary, a replevin refers to a situation where the owner entitled to repossession of goods may recover those goods from someone who has the goods.]
Adam Clover: St. Clair County [Illinois] Records. Perrin Collection 12 November 1813.
Adam Clover defendant. Case: Moses Austin, assignee of J. Butter(Butler?) Vs. Clover and Daniel Raper(Rapert?). Said Clover and Rapert gave bond for $83.88 with John Moredoch as security. Witnessed by Reuben Anderson.
Adam Clover: St. Clair County [Illinois] Records: Perrin Collection, 17 May 1814.
James Leman, surviving executor of estate of Josiah Ryan, deceased, who was executor of estate of David Guise, deceased, vs. Daniel Guise, one of lineal heirs of David Guise, deceased by Adam Clover, his guardian and next friend. General Court, Cahokia.
Adam Clover: St. Clair County [Illinois] Records: Perrin Collection, 20 May 1814.
Moses Austin assignee of John Butler vs. Adam Clover, Daniel Raipert and John Mordock. General court, Cahokia. Sherriff’s Warrent for collection of $83.88 on execution bond given 12 November 1813; also $6.07 fees. Endorsed: “No further bail.” “The within amount of this execution was paid to the clerk of the court.”
Adam Clover: St. Clair County [Illinois] Records: Perrin Collection, 1815.
Endorsement appears on back of road petition by residents of vicinity of Turkey Hill, St. Clair County. “Adam Clover, Alex. Wells, constable for Eagle [Township]. [The photocopy I have of the card cut off the last letter of the word constable. Consequently, I do not know if it was constable or constables.]
John Clover: St Clair County [Illinois] Records.
Perrin Collection. D. S. (By mark) 21 August 1816. [This probably refers to a signature by mark]
Security for Daniel Rapert’s replevin bond to Reuben Bradly for $39.44, plus $3.40, costs. Said Rapert is from Monroe County. Circuit Court.
John Clover: St. Clair County [Illinois] Records. Perrin Collection. 19 February 1817.
Reuben Bradly vs. Daniel Raipert and John Clover. Circuit Court, Belleville. Warrant to sheriff of Monroe County for collection of the $39.44 on execution bond given 31 August 1816 plus $3.87. [note discrepancy in date and amount between this and the previous case.] Adjudged to Bradly. Endorsed: “No further bail to be taken.” “I have made the amount of the within writ.”
William Clover: St. Clair County [Illinois] Records: Perrin Collection, June 5, 1811.
William Clover gave bond to U. S. for $50 as security for $50 bond of Reuben Anderson on condition that said Anderson appear at next September General Court, a writ of “mittimus”, ie, mittimus having already been issued from office of Enoch Moore, J. P. directed to John Moore, coroner, against Anderson for not delivering a fee to Michael Miller. Witnessed by J. Moore, coroner. D. S. (By mark) [According to Black’s Legal Dictionary, mittimus is a basically an order to arrest a person and convey that person to a place of safe keeping and for the jailor to hold the person.] [Note that Reuben Anderson shows up in a case naming William Clover in 1813. In that case, Reuben is a deputy sheriff. He also appears as witness in a case naming Adam Clover in 1813.]
William Clover: St. Clair County [Illinois] Records. Perrin Collection. June Term 1813:
William Clover was a Grand Jurer, no 7 in a list of 24 Grand Jurors given by name and number. Court of Common Pleas, Cahokia.
William Clover: St. Clair County [Illinois] Records. Perrin Collection. 25 October 1813.
George Reamy and Ephraim Connor vs. William Clover. General Court, Cahokia. Warrant to sheriff for collection of $9.37 damages and costs in a certain action of debt. Adjudged to Reamy and Connor. Endorsed: “I have made the within amount in full.” Reuben Anderson, D.S. [Signature?] for John Hays, Sheriff.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat, St. Louis, Missouri, Wednesday, April 26, 1876, issue 343; col F
Special Correspondence of the Globe-Democrat. CHESTER, ILL., April 25, 1876. – the particulars of the murder of John McAskin, by Hermann Muttert, in the Harrisonville Bottom, three miles south of Smith’s Landing, on the St. Louis road, Saturday morning, about 6:30 o’clock, April 15, are about as follows:Muttert and Mrs. Josephine Nau lived in a double house, on the Nau farm, and Mr. McAskin was in the habit of stopping with Mrs. Nau when in that part of the county. From the
evidence given before the Coroner’s jury, it seems that the Mutterts had some of Mrs. Nau’s personal property in their possession, and had refused to give it up. Mrs. Nau called on McAskin to accompany her into Muttert’s part of the dwelling to demand possession of the property, and he did so, a daughter of Mrs. Nau, Annie, going along. Mrs. Muttert ordered him out of the house, and not going as quickly as she desired, she pushed him towards the door. Charles Muttert, the husband, who was sitting in the room at the time,REACHED FOR HIS SHOT-GUN,which hung against the wall over his head. McAskin, noticing this movement, said: “Don’t be hasty, Charlie,” and stepped towards the outside door. Mrs. Muttert again pushed McAskin out upon the platform, and from there to the ground, at the same time picking up a piece of wood to strike McAskin. Muttert at this moment stepped to the door, with the gun
in his hands, and, as McAskin was in the act of walking away from the house, Muttert told his wife to step aside, and, taking deliberate aim at McAskin, fired, the whole charge of turkey-shot entering McAskin’s head back of the left ear, tearing away the entire back part of the head. The murdered man sank to the ground, dead in his tracks, falling over on his right side, where he was left until the arrival of the Coroner. Some of the brain was scattered a distance of about eighteen feet from where deceased lay.After the arrival of Coroner Kuehn, a jury was impaneled, composed of the following gentlemen: Joseph Lacy, W. D. McRoney, Isaac N. Clover, S. McCauley, Calvin Burton, Elias Iman, Charles Loeme, Francis M. Clover, S. Johnson, A. J. Anderson, Ben. Marney and John Heidger, and after a careful examination of the case,THE FOLLOWING VERDICT WAS RENDERED:We, the jurors, sworn to inquire of the death of John McAskin, on oath do find that he came to his death by a gun-shot would inflicted by the hands of Charles Muttert, with the intention to kill him. We further find that the shot was fired from a distance of about ten feet; taking effect in the side of the back of the head, tearing the bones and scattering his brains, thereby causing instant death.Constable Crowder, with assistants, brought Muttert to the Waterloo Jail Saturday night. The prisoner does not seem to realize that he has committed such a terrible crime, and states that McAskin has been troubling him for some time, and that he was justified in blowing out his brains.The murder was witnessed by three persons – Mrs. Muttert, the wife of the
murderer, Mrs. Nau, and her daughter Annie. This, perhaps, is one of the most cold-blooded and deliberate murders that has ever occurred in Monroe County. Nothing was shown in the evidence at the inquest at all calculated to justify such a barbarous act. There is a rumor, however, that the murder is the result of some old feud unknown to any one except the parties themselves.THE PRISONERis about thirty-three years of age, five feet nine inches in height, has small dark eyes, low forehead, dark complexion, and weighs about 160 pounds. He has a wife and four children, ranging from ten years to six months in age, and financially, is in comfortable circumstances.All of McAskin’s relations live in Canada, he having come to Monroe County in 1876, when he commenced teaching school, immediately after his arrival, and followed his profession with marked success for a period of five years. During a part of
the time he was thus engaged, he was in partnership with Mr. Hilyard, in the mercantile business, at Lilly’s Landing, on the Mississippi. At the end of the three months, the business connection with Mr. Hilyard was dissolved, and Mr. McAskin opened a store on his own account in the immediate neighborhood of where he was so brutally shot.THE BODY OF DECEASEDwas taken charge of, after the inquest, by John McCormick and Wm. H. Hilyard, who had it interred in Miles’ Cemetery, at Eagle Cliffs.As a teacher and a business man, Mr. McAskin was a success. Indeed, his prosperity was in a measure the cause of more or less of the ill will that had been created against him. Mr. McAskin, during his residence in Monroe County, had gathered around him many warm, true friends, who sincerely regret his untimely death.Muttert, no doubt, will pay the penalty of this fearful deed at the end of
rope.
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