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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The Brent Women
The photo above is of Phoebe Ann Moore Brent and daughters Vesper, Eva, Jessie and Ida circa 1885. Ida Brent Married Emory Starr in 1898 and raised Ernest Starr from the age of 3. Emory is my 2x great grandfather and Ernest is my great grandfather. After Emory was killed by a lightning strike in……
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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……