Having gone down the rabbit hole that is ancestry.com over the last year I have accumulated a mountain of information about those that came before me. This is where all that information will be shared.
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Almeda Noakes
Almeda Noakes was born in 1870 in Ellison, Illinois to William and Minerva Wilcox Noakes, the fourth of 8 children William had with Minerva after fathering 6 children with a previous wife. William was a farmer. Almeda married Emory Starr in 1892 at the age of 21. Two years later in Stronghurst Illinois she gave…
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Killian/Killion
Martha Jane Killion, our 3rd great grandmother was born in Indiana but moved with her family to Mclean County and at age 21 in 1874 married James Thompson Phillips, a Pennsylvania transplant who worked as a day laborer and later a farmer. Martha had 6 children, including our 2x grandfather, John William Phillips. She died…
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Ancestral Settlers Hamm and Keim
I previously wrote about my 6th great grandfather, Peter Hendricks, immigrating to America in 1754 from Germany in the origins of our Hendricks ancestors. Another 7th great grandfather who immigrated to America from Germany, or what was Bavaria, is Johan Jacob Hamm, born in Rhine Valley, Miesbach, Bayern, Bavaria, Germany on 1721 to Thomas Ham and Sarah Ann Berry. Johan Jacob Ham married Barbara…