Individual Notes

Note for: Edna Blanche HARRISON, 14 SEP 1902 - 18 MAR 1983 Index

Burial:
     Date:   22 MAR 1983
     Place:   Caledonia cem, Sparta, Randolph Co., Illinois

Individual Note:   Edna Blanche Harrison Alexander was a very devoted Baptist Church member. She became a christian after she was married and had 4 of her 11 children. She served as village clerk for the Village of Tilden for several years.

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Note for: Elmer Ellsworth Harrison, 14 NOV 1878 - 1 APR 1938 Index

Burial:
     Date:   7 APR 1938
     Place:   Caledonia cem, Sparta, Randolph Co., Illinois

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Note for: Mary Catherine Mead, 26 MAR 1883 - 18 DEC 1960 Index

Baptism:
     Date:   4 AUG 1883
     Place:   Immaculate Conception Catholic Church of St. Mary's Missouri

Burial:
     Date:   21 DEC 1960
     Place:   Caledonia cem, Sparta, Randolph Co., Illinois

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Note for: Martin Harrison, 17 SEP 1846 - 19 DEC 1886 Index

Burial:
     Date:   21 DEC 1886
     Place:   Steeleville cem, Steeleville, Illinois

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Note for: Andrew Jackson Mead, 8 JAN 1856 - 31 AUG 1912 Index

Burial:
     Date:   1 SEP 1912
     Place:   St. Marys, Missouri

Individual Note:   Andrew Jackson (Jack) Mead and his brothers after they got older apparently were affluent enough to each own a horse as one aquanintance said she remembered the Mead boys riding into St. Mary, Mo. and stirring up the dust by riding their horses in circles just for fun. Jack's son Andrew, recalls a humorous incident told to him about his dad's attempt to catch a wild turkey. "The turkeys appeared every morning in the same place, so he figured he would dig a hole at this spot , get in it and cover himself up with brush hoping the turkeys would walk over this trap--they did and he grabbed one by the leg,but that ole turkey almost flogged him to death and it just about tore up his jacket,besides half freezing while he was waiting for the turkeys.

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Note for: Martha Maria Dean, 28 JUN 1858 - 2 MAY 1890 Index

Burial:
     Date:   3 MAY 1890
     Place:   St. Marys, Missouri

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Note for: Mary Bridget Lyons, 9 MAY 1919 - 19 DEC 1986 Index

Burial:
Place: Jefferson Barracks cem, St. Louis, Missouri

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Note for: Violet Porter Baughman, 22 MAY 1832 - 25 APR 1904 Index

Burial:
Place: Steeleville cem, Steeleville, Illinois

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Note for: Nathaniel G. Mead, 31 AUG 1825 - 28 MAR 1863 Index

Burial:
     Place:   Memphis, Tennesse in Civil War

Individual Note:   Nathenial G. Mead, at the age of 37,in 1862,went off to fight in the Civil War,leaving behind his wife and five children never to see them again.Nathenial enlisted August 18, 1862 and was mustered in on September 9, 1862 and died of chronic diarrhea on March 28, 1863 in Memphis, Tennessee, at the Overton General Army Field Hospital. He is buried in the Memphis National Cemetery at Memphis, Tennessee.