Posted by MaryDona on July 24, 19102 at 03:15:45:
In Reply to: SHEARER OF PROPHETSTOWN posted by PEGGY QUINTERO on November 28, 19101 at 04:55:58:
: WASHINGTON SHEARER AND HIS WIFE, LAURA JANE PRINCE MOVED TO PROPHETSTOWN AROUND 1883. THEY CAME WITH SIX CHILDREN WHO WERE BORN IN WV. THE CHILDREN WERE; JOHN, LILLIE, IDA, LILAH, SUSAN, AND GRACE. WASHINGTON AND LAURA HAD FIVE MORE CHILDREN WHO WERE BORN IN PROPHETSTOWN. THEY WERE; GEORGE, FRANK, BRACE, LOUIS, AND A BABY THAT I HAVE NO DATA ON. I HAVE LIMITED DATA ON MOST OF THE CHILDREN EXCEPT IDA ELIZABETH SHEARER WHO WAS IN PROPHETSTOWN THROUGH THE 1910 CENSUS AND THAT IS WHERE I LOST HER. WASHINGTON AND LAURA ARE BURIED IN PROPHETSTOWN ALONG WITH THEIR DAUGHTER SUSAN WHO HAD MARRIED ROY CROOK. THEY LIVED ON MAIN STREET WHERE SUSAN HAD A DRESS SHOP AND ROY HAD BECOME A SHERIFF. WASHINGTON AND LAURA WERE MY GG GRANDPARENTS AND GRACE WAS MY G GRANDMOTHER. I AM LOOKING FOR INFO ON THIS LINE AND HAVE SOME INFO I WOULD LOVE TO SHARE.
Peggy, I have been searching for my Warren family from Prophetstown, IL and what caught my eye was my ggrandmother Elizabeth worked as a seemstress in a shop on Mainstreet. I wondered if by chance she worked for your susan?? elizabeths husband was George W. Warren and they had 2 daughters Maud Julia 1896-1935 my grandmother who married a Zolper from Mendotta, IL and the other sister is either Beatrice or clara or possibly Lillian. George was first married to Melvina (britton) Warren who is burried in Prophetstown. Do any of these names sound familiar???? Good luck with your search!!!