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Source: 
History of Crawford & Clark Cos., Illinois
Illustrated
Publ. Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers
Lakeside Building
1883

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Casey Twp. -
JOHN R. EMRICH, farmer, P. O. Casey, was born July 28, 1844, in Vinton County, Ohio, and removed to Ross County when young, where he grew to maturity, and from here entered the army.  He enlisted on Oct. 13, 1863, in Company I, Twelfth Ohio Cavalry, and served until November, 1865.  He was captured by Gen. Morgan, in June, 1864, and afterward released on parole.  His regiment was on duty in Kentucky, and in the last year of the war was with Sherman on his campaign.  Soon after he return home from service, he came to this State and came to Cumberland County, where he engaged in farming, and remained here until he came to this county and township.  He came to Casey in 1871, where for five years he was engaged in the furniture and undertaking business.  He located here on this farm in the spring of 1876.  He has 120 acres.  He was married on Sept. 17, 1867, to Miss Susan B. Cochonour, born in Clark County Aug. 3, 1857.  She is the second daughter of David Cochonour and Rebecca Mouser.  Mr. Emrich has three children, two daughters and one son - Perry C., Rosa M. and Ollie E. Lillie, and infant, died Aug. 20, 1872, aged two years five months and one day.  Our subject's father's name was John C. Emrich, and his mother's name was Charity Ratcliff.  He was born Nov. 25, 1809, in Maryland, and removed with his father, John Emrich, to Ohio, when young, where he was raised, and where he was married to Charity Ratcliff, a native of Ohio, and daughter of John and Rachel (/Ray) Ratcliff, both of whom were natives of North Carolina, and who removed to Ohio in an early day.  Our subject's father moved to this State in the spring of 1865, and died Aug. 1880, in this township.  His wife died Oct. 8 1876 in Casey.  Mr. Emrich was elected Collector of the township in 1882.  He is a member and officer of the Grand Army of the Republic, and is the only son living born to his parents.  In politics he has been a Republican since he cast his first vote. Source:  History of Crawford & Clark Cos., Illinois - Illustrated - Publ. Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers, Lakeside Building - 1883 ~ Page 83
Dolson Twp. -
FREDERICK B. ENNIS, farmer, P. O. Dolson, was the third person to settle in what is now Dolson Township.  He came about the 1st of November, 1833, with his parents, who located on the place where Moses Heath now lives.  He was born in Gallatin County, Ky., Apr. 17, 1817, a son of James and Judy (Boyer) Ennis, he a farmer, born in Virginia Mar. 4, 1790, and died Aug. 3, 1855, in Auburn Township, this county.  He served in the war of 1812.  The mother of our subject was a native of Pennsylvania, born Apr. 12, 1791, and died in Auburn Township Apr. 13, 1868.  The parents had twelve children, five sons and seven daughters, our subject being the eldest of the family.  He received a very limited education in the old subscription schools of his native county, and spent his early life in assisting his father on the home place.  At an early age, he commenced to learn the shoe-maker's trade, with his own ingenuity for a teacher, and made the first pair of boots he ever wore.  On becoming of age, he started out for himself, and worked at stone cutting, to which trade he served an apprenticeship.  He also worked at brick-making and making rails, and had made over 33,000 of the latter before he had reached the age of twenty-five, for most of which he received only 33⅓ cents per hundred.  Mr. Ennis was married.  Dec. 23, 1845, in what is now Dolson Township, to Rachel Marrs, born May 4, 1822, in Washington County, Ind., a daughter of William B. and Margaret (Snodgrass) Marrs, he a native of Tennessee, and she of Virginia.  The mother died in 1866, and the father in the year following.  Our subject purchased forty acres of his present place in 1839, and now has a farm of 186½ acres in Dolson Township.  He also owns eighty acres in Jasper, and forty acres in Cumberland Counties.  Mr. and Mrs. Ennis are members of the Clarksville Baptist Church, of which he is a Deacon and Church Clerk.  He is Democratic in politics.  He has served his township twelve years as School Trustee; about fourteen years as School Director; four years School Treasurer; Collector, two years; Assessor and Deputy, five years; and Township Clerk for about thirteen years.
Source:  History of Crawford & Clark Cos., Illinois - Illustrated - Publ. Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers, Lakeside Building - 1883 ~ Page 210

 

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