GLENWOOD CEMETERY
COLLINSVILLE, MADISON COUNTY, ILLINOIS

Photos taken & contributed by Gene Beals
Member of the General Society of the War of 1812

Solomon Slayback, Jr.
08 Aug 1793 - 31 Dec 1871

Born in New Jersey, he was the son of Solomon, Sr. and Sarah (Hoagland). His correct and exact date of birth and the spelling of his name is as stated above.

Solomon married Phebe Day on the 16th of April 1818 in Hamilton County, Ohio. She died in Butler Co., Ohio. It is theorized that she died giving birth to a son who appears to have survived, but nothing more of him is known. She was laid to rest at St. Mary's Cemetery, now known as Springdale Cemetery.

Solomon then married Elly House in Butler County, Ohio on the 21st day of December 1820. Sometime before 1850, Solomon, Elly and their seven children moved west to Madison County, Illinois.

Solomon died 31 December 1871 and Elly not long after. They were the parents of Israel, Susan, Abel, Margaret, Mary Jane, Amanda, and Julia Caroline Slayback.

Solomon's Veteran's stone, pictured here, was not marked and placed by a Slayback descendant, but by Mr. Gene Beals, a member of the General Society of the War of 1812, a fraternal organization for direct descendants of soldiers who served in the War of 1812. The women's organization is called the Daughters of the War of 1812.

Feeling that our veterans should always be remembered, in 1997 Mr. Beals began the process of marking the graves of the veterans who served during the wars in the 19th Century.  Besides the soldiers of the War of 1812, he has also marked the graves of sixty Civil War, two Mexican War, one Black Hawk War and two Spanish American War Veterans. 

For his generous contributions, the Slayback descendants offer sincere thanks to Gene Beals.

Amanda, daughter of Solomon and Elly (House) was born in Ohio and had come to Madison County, Illinois prior to 1850 with her parents. She and Charles are the parents of at least seven children: Albert, Clarence, Eddie, Freddie, Chase, William "Willie" and Ella M. who married Moses Harrison. All listed as buried in Glenwood Cemetery.

Two baby girl Wilkins are listed on the Glenwood Cemetery Index as buried there, but no documentation to prove they are the children of Charles and Amanda. Both are buried in the same section and lot (Section C, Lot G) as the other Wilkins family members, but no given names are listed and no birth, death or burial dates - only their age at death.  One daughter was one year old and the other was two years old.

Also buried in the same section and lot is a John Wilkins.  It is unknown whether he is an infant, child or an adult.  With gap in the children's age between Willie born 1868 and Ella born 1876, it is possible these could also be the children of Amanda and Charles, but no documentation to prove such.

Son of Charles and Amanda (Slayback) Wilkins, Clarence was born in Madison County, Illinois. He was enumerated in the 1860, 1870, and 1880 census residing in Collinsville.

On 13 June 1883, he married Fanny Eichman, who was born about 1858 in Illinois. She appears to be daughter of Michael and Helena Eichmann, listed as Fanny in their 1880 household.

Freddie Wilkins, son of Charles Wilkins and Amanda (Slayback) was born in Madison County, Illinois and died two months shy of his eighth birthday.

Her brother Wilson who was born on 03 June 1818 is buried in Section F, Lot 151, but has no marker. He married Susan Ann Slayback in Madison County on 26 June 1851. Susan Ann was the daughter of Solomon Slayback and Elly (House). She first married Daniel O.H.P. Shaffer in 1842, and after his death in October of 1850, she married Wilson Penney.

GLENWOOD CEMETERY
COLLINSVILLE, MADISON COUNTY, ILLINOIS

Photos taken & contributed by Gene Beals
Contributor to the markers of 198 veterans laid to rest at Glenwood

Son of Joseph and Sarah (Grubs), he was born about 1833 in Clarion County, Pennsylvania and was buried 21 May 1895 in Section E, Lot 91, Grave 1 of the Glenwood Cemetery.

 

Isaac came to Collinsville, Illinois with his parents in 1844 where his father and Uncle James U. Moore started a blacksmith shop which was located on North Goethe Street.  After the death of his father, Isaac took over the cowbell factory and in 1876 sold it to Christian Blum who had come from Germany, operated a hardware store and had previously owned a business which supplied tin roofs for buildings.

 

Isaac married Julia Caroline Slayback in Collinsville on the 23rd of March in 1854. Julia, who had been born in Illinois in about 1838, was the daughter of Solomon and Elly (House). 

 

Aside from being a blacksmith, Isaac was also a wagonsmith, businessman and civic leader.  He became the last village president of Collinsville, serving two one-year terms from 1870-1872. 

 

An account in the "125th Anniversary Book of Collinsville, published in 1962," states that Isaac found great delight in the occasional practice of obtaining a double handful of nickels, dimes and quarters, and would toss them into the air so that the youngsters could scramble for them when they fell.  He was considered one of the wealthiest men of the community until his investments took a slide and he was forced to take a clerking job in a local store to earn a living.

Shown in the center of the photo, is Civil War Veteran Frederick Hoge's grave. At the bottom of the hill to the far right near the road is the black section and also to the left of the building on the left side of the photo is the black section.

Isaac C. Moore is buried on the slope to the right of the Hoge marker. To view the markers of other veterans buried here, see the link below which will take you to another of my websites. You will need to use your back button on your browser to return to the MOORE & PILCHER site.

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