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Camp Hancock and Serilda Pittman


Proposed Hancock Lineage

Compiled by Judy Griffin, 2007 - email address




Camp Hancock

Camp Hancock was born about 1817 in Virginia. (1) No death date, place or record has been found. He was variously listed as Kamp/Kemp/Kent in some records. Camp has been one of the more difficult persons to research. He seems to have appeared from nowhere and disappeared late in life, with confusing records during his lifetime. His marriage to Serilda Pittman, born in Kentucky or Tennessee, who was about eighteen years younger than Camp, is our direct line. Again, there is no death information for Serilda. The information that follows is what we have been able to find out about Camp and Serilda, some of which may be questionable.

Camp is first found in 1838 when a Kemp Hancock married a Sally Goodrich on June 13, 1838 in Madison County, Illinois. (2) In 1840 a Kemp Hancock was living in Jefferson County (about 60 miles southeast of Madison County). (3) There were Goodrich families in Jefferson County in 1830. In this 1840 census Kemp’s family was comprised of one male 20-30 (born 1810-1820, the age span is right for Camp), one female less than 5 (could be Jurusha below), one female 20-30 (wife, born 1810-1820). Listed just above this Kemp’s entry is a Goddard family, a name that is part of the early Camp Hancock mystery.

Researcher Jane Sanders states that Camp Hancock married a Mary Goddard before 1847. Her source is an Aunt who said they were her great grandparents. She cites an entry in The Descendants of Jacob Leonard Sanders that states, “Emily A. Handcock, daughter of Camp Handcock and Mary Goddard, is buried at Liberty Cemetery, Franklin County, Illinois.” (4) She also states that the authors did not provide documentation, but the fact was common family knowledge long before the book was written. There was an Emily Hancock, born circa 1842, living with Camp Hancock in 1850. There are now have two possible wives, Sally and Mary.

By 1850, Camp was again in Madison County (if he ever left), living in the southwest corner of the county. (5) Camp and his family were living in the Nicholas Hedgar household. Nicholas was apparently a single man, a farmer age 20. Camp was age 35, born in Kentucky (about the right age), a farm laborer, and could not read or write. Evidently Hedgar owned the land and Camp was working for him. Listed with Camp was his wife, Sarah, age 30, who also could not read or write, born in Tennessee. While Sally can be an alternative name for Sarah, it is less likely that Sarah was an alternative name for Mary (Mary Goddard theory). The children of Camp and Sarah, all born in Illinois, were: Jurusha, female, age 11 (born circa 1839); Marion, male, age 11 (born circa 1839); and Emily, age 8 (born circa 1845). If Camp did marry twice, Jurusha and Marion would be children of his first wife, Emily the child of a possible second wife. There are now may have three marriages for Camp, if Sarah was not Sally or Mary.

Just two years later, 1852, there is a marriage record for a Charles M. McNay and Sarilda M. Pitman, married on February 3, 1852 in Jefferson County. (6) The next year, a Sarilda McNay married a Kemp Hancock on November 14, 1853 in Greene County. (7) A possible fourth marriage for Camp, though we finally find Serilda!

In 1860, Camp was living in Jerseyville, listed as a Kent Hancock, age 47, a laborer, born Ireland. (8) Listed with him were Sarilda, age 22, born Ireland, and Lizzie, age 4, born Illinois. Lizzie was Nancy Elizabeth. The birth places are undoubtedly an enumerator error. None of Camp’s previous children are listed, nor have they been found. The 1870 census clarifies the information on Camp and his family. (9) It listed Kemp Hancock, age 53, born Virginia; Serilda, age 35, born Tennessee; Elizabeth, age 14 (she was four in 1860); George W.(?), age 9; William H., age 5; and Mary J., age 3. The family was now in Otter Creek and Camp was a farm hand with no real estate and a personal estate valued at $100. Camp and Serilda still cannot read or write, but all the children except Mary J. are in school. We do find Camp on the Jersey County personal delinquent tax list for 1865 for the sum of $5.44. (10)

Unfortunately we have a ten year gap before we find the family again, although one researcher has a note that Serilda died circa 1874 at age 39. (11) In 1880, neither Camp or Serilda were listed and their children were living with Camp’s daughter, Elizabeth (Nancy Elizabeth), and her husband David Worthy (see Worthey document). (12) The information given in this record stated that Camp and Serilda, parents of their children listed, were born in Kentucky. George was now 18, Henry age 16, and Mary age 12. At this point Camp and Serilda disappeared from the records found so far.

The children of Camp and Serilda:



Serilda Pittman

Serilda’s family is as much a mystery as Camp’s. Name variations can be Serelda, Zerilda, Zerelda. In the 1860 census, living just six households from Camp and Serilda in Jerseyville, there was a Mrs. Margaret Pittman, age 50, born in Tennessee, a pauper. (14) In 1860, Camp Hancock gave a statement on the insanity hearing for a Nancy Pitman: (15)

This Nancy, born in 1812, could be the mother of Serilda Pittman, and seems to be the Margaret Pittman found in the 1860 census. It would be surprising if Camp could give a written statement, perhaps someone wrote down his testimony. The William T. Hutchinson was a physician in Jersey County, no relation.

Listed with Margaret in 1860, all born in Tennessee, were Margaret, age 18; Lemuel, male age 16; John age 11; and Sarah, age 8. If all these children were actually born in Tennessee, Margaret would have come to Illinois circa 1852, the year Sarilda first married. It appears that Margaret’s son, John Pittman, married an Ann Elizabeth Cannedy on June 12, 1866 in Greene County. (16) John and Ann were in Texas by 1870. (17) In 1880 John’s brother, Lemeul, was living with them there. (18)

These Pittmans, found the 1850 census for Gallatin County, Illinois, may be Serilda’s family. This county is in far southeast Illinois, bordering Kentucky. Certainly the household headed by a Nancy Pittman, with children Alexander, William J., Margaret, Lemuel and George are the same family found listed under Mrs. Margaret Pittman in 1860. The names, dates and places of birth for children Margaret, Lemuel and John are the same in this 1850 record. Living next door were a John Pittman, his wife Mary, their children Francis M., Matilda, and Lucinda G., and a Lemuel Pittman, age 20, perhaps a relative. All the children in both families were born in Tennessee.

The father of Serilda could be a Lemuel(?) Pittman, born circa 1812 in South Carolina.

Glenn Spradley, a Pittman family researcher gives the following information (with my comments added). (19) He married a Nancy Margaret who was born about 1814 in North Carolina. At least we now know that the Nancy Pittman, at whose insanity hearing Camp Hancock gave testimony, was undoubtedly the Mrs. Margaret Pittman, residing in Jerseyville in 1860 with her children Margaret, Lemuel, John and Sarah. She was the Nancy Pittman residing in Gallatin County in 1850 with all the children listed below except Chelsea and Sarah. Moreover, there was a gap of about five years between the birth of Alexander and Chelsea. Serilda, born circa 1835, could be a child missing from this lineage.

Lemuel(?) and his family were probably listed in the 1840 Morgan County, Tennessee Census, next to his brother Reason Pittman’s family. Lemuel was not listed with the family in the 1850 Gallatin County, Illinois, but Nancy Margaret was, next door to Lemuel’s brother John. The children of Lemuel(?) Pittman and Nancy Margaret were:

Another Pittman researcher, Sandra Morrison, who has been researching the line for more than twenty years, gives some interesting information about Sarilda’s possible brothers, Lemuel and John Henry, listed as the sons of the Nancy who was declared insane. (20) She also states that Lemuel, John and Reason Pittman were brothers. (21) She stated that the story goes that John Henry & Lemuel were orphaned at an early age and scattered. John Henry married Ann Elizabeth Cannedy right after he and Lemuel were discharged from Andersonville Prison in the Civil War and returned to Illinois. Lemuel never married and went with John & Ann to McKinney, Collin County, Texas circa 1866, where he may have remained and died around 1899. That is what was stamped on his pension papers. In a newspaper clipping for Greene County, Illinois, Chelsey Pittman Hand stated that she came to eastern Illinois from Tennessee with her parents, Lemuel and Nancy Pittman, when she was eleven years old. It also listed a sister Fanny, but no brothers (and John Henry was still living). Someone in the family told me there was a younger sister who was put in an orphanage or something when Nancy died.

In the obituary for Camp’s daughter, Nancy Elizabeth, it said she was survived by an Aunt, Mrs. Fannie Murphy. This could be a sister of Serilda (or a Hancock). A search was made for Fannie. There is a burial record for a Mary Frances Pittman Murphy, born September 28, 1850, died in 1936. In the 1930 census, a Fannie M. Murphy, age 76, was living in Jerseyville. In 1900 this same family was living in Otter Creek Township, Fannie was listed as Mary F. Murphy, born September 1853. They were there in 1880, with Fanny age 27 (parents born Tennessee). In 1870 Fanny was listed as Mary, age 18, married within the year (July, probably 1869). Mary (aka Fanny) was not found in earlier censuses or in the Illinois Statewide Marriage Index.

Pittman researchers have participated in a DNA project. (22) The lineage above states that the father of Lemuel(?) was a Lemuel Pittman. There were four Pittman families that lived in the northwest corner of South Carolina from 1790-1815 (Samuel Pitman Sr., Robert Pitman, Timothy Pitman, Lemuel Pittmon). The DNA test results from the John Pittman, brother of Lemuel(?), were an exact match with descendants of the Lemuel Pitman and John Henry Pitman branches, and one marker off with the Daniel Pittman, another son of Lemuel. Spradley states that Lemuel Pittman/Pitmon was born before 1765 and married married Jerusa? A Lemuel Pitmon was listed in the 1810 Greenville County, South Carolina Census. Their children were:

In an email, Sandra Morrison states that Lemuel, John and Reason Pittman were brothers. (23) “I am from the Nancy Pittman (Lemuel) family in 1850 Gallatin Co, IL and the 1860 Margaret (Nancy) Pittman family in Jersey Co, IL. From the DNA tests, Lemuel & John are brothers and Reason Pittman is another brother.”



George Washington Hancock

Brother of William Henry Hancock

George Washington Hancock was born on February 9, 1861 in Jersey County and died on April 3, 1953. (24) George married Martha Elizabeth Manning on November 7, 1883 in Jersey County. He and Martha divorced in September 1889. (25) Martha remarried rather quickly on September 28, 1889 and is said to have moved to Oklahoma. (26) George and Martha had one child, Viola Oliva Hancock.

George then married Roxina B. McManus (Roxine Jane Bell Fosha, maiden name Fosha) on October 1, 1892 in Jersey County. (29) Roxine was born on November 11, 1866, died on January 5, 1946, and was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Jerseyville. Roxine/Roxina had been previously married and had two daughters: Edna McManus, who married David E. Maxwell on August 29, 1920 and resided in Godfrey; (30) Elizabeth McManus married _?_ Bell and resided at Wood River.

The children of George and Roxina were:

George W. Hancock, 92, a retired carpenter, died Friday evening, April 3, at ten-fifteen o’clock at the home of his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Asa Maguire, on Sherman Street with whom he had made his home in recent years. The aged man was a son of the late Camp and Sirlida Pittman Hancock and was born in Jersey County on February 9, 1861. His age at the time of death with ninety-two years, one month and twenty-four days. Mr. Hancock followed the carpenter trade most of his life and for twenty-five years was employed as a carpenter by the International Shoe Company in Jerseyville. He had erected a large number of homes in Jersey County. Surviving him are three daughters, Mrs. Maguire of Jerseyville, Mrs. Emil Lueking of Alton and Mrs. A. A. Martin of San Pablo, California; one step-daughter, Mrs Elizabeth Bell of Wood River; five grandchildren and ten great grandchildren. His wife, Mrs. Roxie Hancock, and one step-daughter, Mrs. Edna Maxwell, preceded him in death. (31)



William Henry Hancock

William Henry Hancock was born in November 1864 in Illinois (32) and died on January 12, 1928 in Alton, Madison County. (33) He and was buried in Upper Alton Cemetery, Alton. In some records he was named Henry Hancock. William married three times and had children by all three wives. His first wife, our direct line, was Hettie Dabbs, born circa 1869 in Otter Creek Township, Jersey County, and died in 1893. Hettie and William were married on March 21, 1886 in Jersey County. (34) Hettie was buried in the Dabbs Cemetery. They had one child, Emma Magadeline.

William then married Emma E. Dabbs, born circa 1873, sister of Hettie. Emma had first married William Springman, divorced him and married William on April 1, 1895 in Otterville, Jersey County. (36) Emma probably died before 1900, since William Henry was listed as a widower in the 1900 census. No record of Emma’s death has been found. The child of Emma Dabbs and William Springman was John Wesley Springman. John lived with Emma’s father, W.W. Dabbs (1900-1910 censuses). According to the Jersey County, Illinois burial index, John W. Springman was born on October 8, 1893, died on April 19, 1965, and is buried at Otter Creek cemetery. He probably married a Gladys Henson in 1931, since Gladys lived in Otter Creek, near the Dabbs and other related families. (37) Emma and William had one son, Ross Raymond. In December 1917, Ross Raymond Hancock and John Wesley Springman, of Otter Creek Township, sold 80 acres of land in Township 7, Range 12, to Mary Beach of Otter Creek for $500. This was Mary E. Dabbs, daughter of William Washington Dabbs, who married Don Beach in 1905.

William’s last marriage was to Mrs. Hattie Hand on December 6, 1905. (38) She was the Hattie Carter who had first married Manford Hand on July 4, 1889 in Greene County. (39) She was found in the 1900 census in Greene County with her children from her first marriage: Zada, born September 1891; Harold, born August 1893; Freda, born July 1896; and Clifford, born May 1899. The children of Hattie and William were: Paul, Norman, and Virginia.

Hattie’s daughter, Freda Renee (Hand) Blasa died, probably in childbirth, with her infant daughter, on August 14, 1937. They were buried in Noble Cemetery. Her obituary stated that she was the daughter of Manford Hand and Hattie (Carter) Hand and was born July 6, 1895 in Fayette, Illinois. The obituary names her two brothers, Harold and Clifford Hand who were living it Jerseyville, and Clifford Hand living in Alton. Also named were her two half brothers, Paul and Norman Hancock of Alton and her half sister, Mrs. Virginia Cox of Alton.

William’s granddaughter, Hilda Hutchinson, recalled William circa 1920: “I only remember Grandpa Hancock lived fairly near us at one time when I was a little girl. He grew muskmelons. I remember going there - only to the patch and eating them. I’m sure he rented the land. He moved to Alton and had a grocery store. When he moved to Alton, I don’t know, but Sadie [her sister] and I went to see him not long before he died. He left each of us $25.00 in his will.”

Sometime after 1920, William moved to Alton, where he was a grocer, with a store at 1300 E. Broadway, living at 615A E. Broadway, Alton. (40) His son Paul said that William also had a restaurant in Alton for about six months. When he died in 1928 in Alton, he left no real estate, but his personal property was valued at about $3,000. In his will he named his living children: Ross, Paul, Norman, and Virginia. He also named the children of his daughter Emma: Linley, Sadie, Hilda, Dorothy, and Opal.



Emma Magadeline Hancock

Emma Magadeline Hancock was born on December 1, 1889 in Jersey County, Illinois and died on May 6, 1920 in Otter Creek Township, Jersey County. (41) She married Elvin Charles Hutchinson on July 24, 1909 in Otterville. Emma had five children. See Hutchinson and Dabbs family histories for more on this family.

Hutchinson, Emma (Hancock). Buckeye. Relatives and friends in this neighborhood have been greatly grieved over the death of their dear one, Mrs. Elvin Hutchinson (nee Emma Hancock), as she had spent her entire life in and around this vicinity and was loved by all. She leaves a devoted husband to care for five small children, one boy and four girls, ages ranging from three years up to twelve. She well knew what it was to leave these little children without a mother as she had been left motherless when only three years old. During her months of suffering she never murmured a complaint, was a lover of Christ, and a faithful christian. In her last few hours here on earth she waited patiently for death and was willing to go when her Lord called.

Emma had a child out of wedlock before she married Elvin Hutchinson. This was Linley Wesley Hills, (42) whose father was Linley Otto Hills, son of Stephen V. Hills and Rosetta Landon (see Hills family). His birth certificate states Lindly Hills was born in Otterville, father was Lindly Hills, a laborer, age 18, born in Illinois. Mother was Emma Hancock age 18, born in Illinois. Linley was born on August 30, 1889 in Otterville and died on February 27, 1965 in Corunna, Michigan. He was buried in Corunna. Linley had several marriages, but no children. He served in World War II in Africa. His last wife was Alberta Brooks. In 1930, Linley was a bus driver for the Shore Bus Line, boarding at the Michigan Hotel in Benton Harbor, Michigan. He was listed as married, but no wife was listed as living with him. (43)

Linley W. Hills Dies. Corunna [Michigan] - Linley W. Hills of E. King St. died Saturday afternoon at Memorial Hospital. He was 57. Funeral services are to be held at 11 am Tuesday at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, with the Rev. Paul S. Downie officiating. Burial will be in Hillcrest Memorial Gardens. The body rests at Kribs Funeral Home where Masonic services are to be held at 8 p.m. today. Masons are to meet at the funeral home at 7:45. Mr. Linley, a rural mail carrier on Route 2 out of the Corunna Post Office, lived most of his life in this area. He was born at Otterville, Ill., Feb. 28, 1907, the son of Linley and Emma Hills. He married Alberta Brooks in Owosso July 3, 1944. He was a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church and Corunna Lodge 115, F & AM. His wife and four half-sisters in Illinois survive.

Hills, Linley. Linley Hills Died Feb. 27 In Michigan. Linley Hills of Corunna, Michigan, a native of Jersey County, died February 27 in Corunna where he had resided for about thirty-five years. Mr. Hills, a city mail carrier, had been ill about three months. His death occurred the day before his 57th birthday anniversary. Mr. Hills was born and reared in Jersey County and was a son of the late Mrs. Emma Hancock Hutchinson. He was a veteran of World War II. Final rites were held March 2 in Corunna and burial was there. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Alberta Hills, and four half-sisters, Mrs. Henry Egelhoff of Jerseyville, Mrs. Sadie Fretz of Alton, Mrs. Opal Walker of Centralia, Mo., and Mrs. Hilda Laird of Mt. Prospect.



Emily A. Hancock

Emily A. Hancock was possibly daughter of Camp Hancock and Mary Goddard. In 1860, an Emily Hancock, age twelve, was living with the Richard Richeson family in Franklin County, Illinois. (44) This Emily Hancock is the right age, and could have been living in with this family as hired help. Emily Ann Hancock may have been born in 1853 and died in 1904. She was buried in Liberty Cemetery, Franklin County, Illinois. From The Descendants of Jacob Leonard Sanders - “It is believed that William Johnson Kearney II married a fourth time to a lady from Dahlgren, Illinois; however, he returned to the home of his eldest son, Leslie, when he became ill and died. He requested to be buried by Emily Handcock Kearney.”

It appears Emily A. Hancock was married on August 11, 1869 to an Archibald L. Harmon in Hamilton County, Illinois. (45) This family was found in the 1870 census for Hamilton County. Archibald was nineteen and Emily, born in Kentucky, was twenty. (46) Archibald L. Harmon died before 1878. Their children were: Henry Clay Harmon, born September 13 (year?); Louis Marion Harmon, born November 7, 1873; William Riley (called Riley) Harmon, born September 19, 1875. Riley married (1) Myrtle Fuller, (2) Amanda Foster. He died in Franklin County, Illinois, in West City, in 1967, and lived in the same neighborhood and was considered part of the family with the Kearney offspring of Emily A. Hancock.

Emily married, second, William Jonce (or Johnson) Kearney II, born January 4, 1832 in Bowling Green Kentucky and died on October 11, 1908 in Dahlgren Illinois (Franklin County). They were married March 15, 1878. Emily was William’s third wife. William Jonce Kearney then married for a fourth time, a woman from Dahlgren, Illinois, and may have died married to her, but he was buried beside Emily Ann Hancock.

Emily and her second husband were found in the 1880 census for Franklin County. (47) Emily was age 35, born in Illinois, and could not write. Living with them were three children of William’s from a previous marriage: William, Eliza J., and James M. The Nancy E., age one, was a daughter of William and Emily. Also living with them were children of Emily’s first marriage: Henry Harmon, age nine; Lewis M. Harmon, age six; and Riley Harmon, age four, all listed as step-sons of William.

Emily and William had three children: Nancy Ella Kearney, who married Louis Andrews; Joseph T. Kearney, who married Annie Conner (Minnesota); and Belle (Minnie) Kearney, who married John Jacob Sanders.


Endnotes

1 Illinois. Greene County. 1870 Census.

2 Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763–1900, Vol. 6, p. 42, license no. 668.

3 Kemp Hancock household. 1840 Illinois Federal Census, Jefferson County, Roll: M704_61, Page: 323.

4 Maude Kearney Browning and Loretta Hiller Harris, The Descendants of Jacob Leonard Sanders, privately published 1983, p. 51.

5 Camp Hancock household. 1850 Illinois Federal Census, Township 3 North Range 10 West, Madison County, Page: 543, Roll: M432_119, dwelling 65, family 65.

6 Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, vol. 2 page 183, Jefferson County.

7 Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, vol. 1, p. 110, No. 3299, Greene County.

8 Kent [sic] Hancock household. 1860 Illinois Federal Census, Jerseyville, Jersey County, Roll M653-188.

9 Kemp Hancock household. 1870 Illinois Federal Census, Otter Creek, Jersey County, Roll: M593-233, p. 774.

10 Jersey County Democrat, June 29, 1866. Personal taxes remaining unpaid for the year 1865.

11 Email from Joellen McAlister, Re: Camp Hancock, Date sent: 2 May 1999. . . . I have an undocumented pencil entry that indicates Serilda Pittman Hancock died about 1874 at age 39 in the Otterville area of Jersey Co., Ill.

12 1880 Illinois Federal Census, Otter Creek, Jersey County, ED 99; sheet 116, p. 26, dwelling 241, family 248.

13 Jersey County Burial Index.

14 Mrs. Margaret Pittman household. 1860 Illinois Federal Census, Jerseyville, Jersey County, Roll M653-188.

15 Probates in Jersey County, FHL film 1310668 order book 2 in 1860.

16 Illinois Statewide Marriage Database, Vol. E, p. 4, license no. 5513.

17 John Pittman household. 1870 Texas Federal Census, Precinct 1, Collin County, Roll M593-1579, p. 345.

18 John Pittman household. 1880 Texas Federal Census, Precinct 1, Collin County, FHL film 1255296, NA film T9-1296, p. 55C.

19 Spradley Ellis Family Tree. Glenn Spradley, updated: 2005-02-09.

20 [Pittman mail list] PITTMAN, CANNEDY, HAND, April 3, 2001. Information from Sandra Morrison

21 Re: John Henry & Lemuel Pitman, email from Sandra Morrison February 28, 2005.

22 www.familytreedna.com/public/PittmanDNA/, accessed February 2005.

23 Re: John Henry & Lemuel Pitman, email from Sandra Morrison February 28, 2005.

24 George Washington Hancock and Roxine Jane Bell information from marriage certificate from Joellen C. McAlister.

25 Jersey County Democrat, September 26, 1889. Martha E. Hancock vs Geo. W.

Hancock, Divorce. Default.

26 Jersey County Democrat, January 2, 1890. Review of 1889. September 28: P. G. Hayes and Mrs. Martha Hancock were married.

27 Re: Hancocks - George Washington, posted on Hancock Family GenWeb by Janet Arnold, March 17, 2000. 1900 Oklahoma Federal Census, Seward, Logan County, Roll T623 1339, Page 1A, Enumeration District 146.

28 RE: (Fwd) George Washington Hancock and Martha E. Manning, email from Janet Arnold-Pate.

29 Illinois Statewide Marriage Database, Vol. B.

30 Jersey County Historical Society Marriage Book Three.

31 Jersey County Democrat News, April 9, 1953.

32 1900 Illinois Census, Jersey County, Otter Creek Township.

33 Probate of William Henry Hancock.

34 List of Marriages, Jersey County from Jerseyville Library.

35 Obituary, n.p. and daughter Hilda Hutchinson.

36 Newspaper notice, April 1895: Wm. H. Hancock Married Emma E. Springman at Otterville. Emma E. Springman divorced Wm. Springman and married Wm. Hancock. Marriage date from List of Jersey County marriages, Jerseyville Library.

37 Jersey County Marriage Index Book Three, Springman, John W.; Henson, Gladys M.; 26 Dec 1931; Howell, Fred W. Co. Judge.

38 Jersey County Historical Society, Jersey County Marriage Book Two.

39 Illinois Statewide Marriage Database, Vol. F, p. 182, license no. 2540, Greene County.

40 Alton City Directory, 1927.

41 Obituary, n.p. and daughter Hilda Hutchinson. Note recorded from material held by Fritz and Doris Egelhoff: Emma Hancock. Emma died May 6, 1920 at 4 o’clock a.m., age 30 yr 5 mo 6 day.

42 Birth certificate.

43 Linley W. Hill. 1930 MI Federal Census, 4th Ward, Benton Harbor, Berrien County, ED 11-15, SD 12, Roll: 976, Page: 11B, Michigan Hotel (Water Street). Hill, Linley W.; boarder, age 20, married at age 20 (no wife listed); born IL, parents born IL; occupation bus driver, Shore Bus Line.

44 Franklin County, Illinois 1860 Census, Gen 977.394, p. 158 - Benton Twp., Benton Post Office, SS R 3 E, 10 July, 1860 - Dwelling no. 84. - Family No. 84.

45 Hamilton Co., Ill. Marriages, 1821 - 1870. p. 174.

46 Archibald Harmon household. 1870 Illinois Federal Census, Township 5 South Range 6 East, Hamilton County, Post Office: Mcleansboro, Roll: M593-225, Page: 544, Dwelling 140, family 140.

47 Wm. J. Carney household. 1880 Illinois Federal Census, Northern Township, Franklin County, Supervisor's District 8, Enumeration District 14, Roll: T9-207; Family History Film: 1254207; Page: 529D, dwelling 449, family 465.