Elizabeth Shay and John Wheeldin

Jo Daviess County, Illinois

Catherina Shay Age 3 Orphan

Elizabeth Shay aged 5 Age 5 Orphan

Marriage- believe this to a mis read or mis transcribed entry- should be Shay

Wheeldin, John and Shade, Elizabeth 04/26/1862

1880 Census  -Wheeldin, John- page 237A

GREENWOOD CEMETERY-West Galena Township

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I believe this woman Ida Wheeldin Lickes, to be a daughter of Elizabeth Shay and John Wheeldin- now proven by obit of Elizabeth Wheeldin in Galena Daily Gazettte below-

Marriage found at ancestry- not proof, but possibly to be the same one as a second wife----

Obit of Elizabeth Wheeldin in Galena Daily Gazettte- Monday August 31, 1925- Death Date is Sunday, August 30, 1925.

From the 1878 County History of Jo Daviess County Page 660B - John WHELDIN is a farmer in East Galena Twp Page 403 - John WHEELDIN is in Co A 96th Vol Inf, Civil War, he enlisted 9-27-1864, and was muster out 6-18-1865 There are no references in the 1889 Portrail & Bio History

1850 Census of Jo Daviess Co., East Galena Twp, #2106/2110 Davis, Evan age 62y M b. England, a farmer, $700 real estate Davis, Elizabeth age 52 F b. England WHEELDING, John age 12, b England, attending school. Hopes this helps -- Marge

ST. MICHAEL CATHOLIC CEMETERY

East Galena Township

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St. Michael's Cemetery borders Route 20 and Bouthillier Street on the east side of the City of Galena. The following readings also include information from the sexton's records.

This is the son shown in the 1920 census- the youngest one-

1840 Census of the Mining Districts
Introduction

The huge lead mines on the Upper Mississippi River were opened by the U.S. Government for leasing in 1822. The nearest neighbors to the first miners were 90 miles south, Fort Armstrong, at Rock Island, Illinois, and 90 miles north, Fort Crawford, at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. They lived among the Fox and Sauk and the Winnebago Indians tribes who also claimed the lead mines.

In the rush to get rich, family members spread out over the entire Lead Mine Region. The first miners worked around Galena, Illinois, in JoDaviess County, working north into Grant, Iowa and LaFayette Counties, Wisconsin. The Dubuque County, Iowa, lands were not available to American miners until 1833 as designated in the Blackhawk War Treaty. Families split to claim the rich mines or to open a branch store unconcerned with state or county boundaries.

The following census also includes Clayton and Jackson Counties in Iowa. Though no mining is known to have occurred in those counties, these families might be connected to the leadmine people.

1840

two adults and two females-

1860 Census Index - page #'s.

1870 Census