On October 27, 2003 I had
occasion to visit the LaSalle
County Genealogy Guild. I was researching the Holler and Stedman
families. After telling one of the assistants what I was looking for
she showed me a book which had references to Dimmick Township, the location
of Philip Holler's farm. The book was titled, "Brown Munro, Sr.: A
Life in Time (1829-1909)" and was written by Nancy Brown Brooker Bowers.
This was the beginning of discovering a new cousin and a whole new branch of
the family.
Brown Munro was a farmer and a
neighbor to Philip and Elizabeth Holler. In fact, his wife, Mary
Nisley, was the cousin of Elizabeth Holler, and along with her parents came
to Illinois with the Holler Family from Pennsylvania in 1846. I
discovered through the book that Elizabeth's mother was Elizabeth Nisley,
Mary's aunt.
Brown Munro kept a diary from
1864 until his death in 1909. Cousin Nancy has given me the entries
for various members of the family and I can't thank her enough for her
assistance and generosity.
