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Ashmore Twp. -
CALEB REED, farmer and stock-raiser; P. O.
Ashmore; was born in Spencer Co., Ky., Dec. 1, 1818 and was 11 years
old when he came to Coles Co.; his father, Thomas Reed, was a
native of Pennsylvania; removed to Kentucky with his parents when a
boy, and there married Miss Anna Kirkham, a native of
Kentucky, and the 1st of December, 1829, left that State with his
family, consisting of a wife and five children, to found a new home
in the wilderness of Illinois. They came with a five horse
team, the journey consuming nearly a month; arriving in Edgar Co.,
they spent a few days, and about New Year's 1830, came to Coles Co.,
and settled on the farm now owned by his son Caleb Reed; he
entered quite a tract of land, owning at one time about a thousand
acres. He was a strong Whig, although he never sought to lead
or hold office; he was a quiet, industrious man, attending strictly
to his own affairs; conservative in his operations, not given to
speculation; a man who enjoyed in an eminent degree the esteem of
his neighbors and townsmen; he died in December, 1854, leaving four
children, three of whom are living. Caleb Reed, the
only living son, has always resided on the homestead; like his
father, he has never sought official positions, his farm of 30 acres
requiring his entire attention. He was married Feb. 22, 1844,
to Miss Jane Carter, a daughter of John and Mary Carter;
she was born in Wayne Co., Ky., Dec. 15, 1824, and came to Coles Co.
with her parents in 1830; of eleven children, eight are living -
Samuel H., of Douglas Co.; Martha A., wife of James T.
Wright, of Ashmore Twp.; George R.; Emma J., wife
of J. Elbridge Dudley, of Ashmore Twp.; John C., Thomas
L., Ida M. and Albert M.
Source: History of Coles County, Illinois - Chicago - Wm. LeBaron,
Jr., & Co. - 1879 - Page 603 |
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Ashmore Twp. -
JOSHUA RICKETTS, dealer in grain and produce,
groceries, glassware, queensware, etc., Ashmore; was born in
Muskingum Co., Ohio, Mar. 13, 1821. He is a son of Joshua
and Sarah (Taylor) Ricketts. He remained at home until
he was 13 years old, when he went to Knox County, Ohio, and engaged
in study with a view of preparing for the ministry, but meeting with
a change in his religious belief he abandoned the idea and engaged
in farming, afterward learning the trade of a marble cutter.
At the age of 23 he went to Coshocton, Ohio and followed farming for
a while, afterward removing to Terre Haute, Ind., where he engaged
in the marble business. Ini 1849, he came to Illinois,
remained one year in clark County, and removed thence to Charleston,
Coles County, in 1850. there he carried on the marble business
till 1861, when he enlisted as a private in J. W. Bissell's
Engineer Regiment of the West; was promoted to Second and afterward
to First Lieutenant. He served in this regiment twenty months;
when Gen. Morgan made his raid into Indiana Mr. Ricketts
again enlisted in the 109th Ind. Vols. and was commissioned by
Gov. Morton, Adjutant of the regiment. After a brief
service of eight days the regiment was mustered out, the occasion
for their enlistment having ceased. On the call for 100-day
men, in 1864. Mr. Ricketts, not waiting for a commission,
again volunteered in the 143d Ill. Vols., and served as Sergeant of
Co. "A." He took part in the capture of Island Number Ten,
siege of Corinth, and the battle of Corinth on the 3rd and 4th of
October, 1863. Returning to Charleston he continued in
business till 1873, when he was appointed Superintendent of the
Coles County Alms-house and Poor-farm, and still remains in charge
of the institution. He engaged in his present business in Ashmore in
1875. During the past year he has served as Collecor of the
township. He was one year Assessor of Charleston, and has
twice been elected Justice of the Peace. He was married Dec.
29, 1846, to Miss Catharine D. Roberts, of Coshocton County,
Ohio. She died in 1854, leaving three children - Sarah M.,
now wife of Wm. Killough, of Kansas; Wm. W. and Cornelia
M., wife of Geo. B. Shinn, of Coles County. Mr.
R. was married again Sept. 4, 1855, to Miss Melvina Jones,
of Clark County, Ill. They have nine children - Thomas A.,
Fannie B., John T., James E., Frank H., Oscar J., Charles W., Nettie
M. and Elizabeth.
Source: History of Coles County, Illinois - Chicago - Wm. LeBaron,
Jr., & Co. - 1879 - Page 604 |
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Ashmore Twp. -
A. T. ROBERTSON, M. D., physician and
surgeon, dealer in drugs, medicines, etc., Ashmore; was born in
Sumner Co., Tenn., June 30, 1834; his father Rev. John H.
Robertson, was born in Virginia, and removed to Tennessee with
his parents when but a boy; in 1829, he came to Coles Co., and
engaged in teaching school near the present city of Charleston; his
name appears on the records as a second person to whom letters of
administration were granted in Coles Co.; in 1832, he returned to
Tennessee, where he was ordained a minister of the M. E. Church, and
where he married Miss Sarah Carr, of Sumner Co.; about 1838,
he removed to Camden Co., Mo., and is now a prominent and well-to-do
farmer of Laclede Co., in that State. Dr. Robertson, at
the age of 21, engaged in teaching in Choctaw Nation, pursuing his
medical studies in teh mean time; this he continued two yeas; in
1858, he attended his first course of lectures in the medical
department of the State University at Nashville, Tenn.; he then
located at Carroll Co., Ark., and began practice; during the winter
of 1860-61, he attended lectures in the Jefferson Medical College,
Philadelphia, where he graduated and received his degree in the
spring of 1861; returning to Arkansas, he practice medicine there
till 1864, and then removed to Ashmore; after teaching school of
part of the first year, he began practicing medicine in July, 1865,
and has had a large and lucrative practice ever since. He was
elected Town Clerk in 1866, and served till 1877; during the past
two years, he has been Notary Public and Police Magistrate. He
was married in the Choctaw Nation Jan. 30, 1858, to Miss Rebecca
Mitchell, a native of Tennessee; they have three children living
- Leonidas C., Ashley H. and Sarah A. Dr.
Robertson engaged in the drug business about four years ago.
Source: History of Coles County, Illinois - Chicago - Wm. LeBaron,
Jr., & Co. - 1879 - Page 603 |
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