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Isaac Robert Littell

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Isaac Robert Littell
b. 17 January 1855, Dearborn County, Indiana, to Ephraim and Lucinda (Shedd) Littell
d. 12 January 1945, Brooklyn Center, Hennepin County, Minnesota

m. 1 April 1880, Jennings County, Indiana
Sarah Jane Withrow
b. 17 March 1861, Jennings County, Indiana
d. 1 October 1928, Brooklyn Center, Hennepin County, Minnesota

Children with Sarah Jane Withrow:
• Floyd W. (1883-1920)
• Alberta W. (1904-1986)

They lived in Geneva Township, Jennings County, Indiana, before emigrating in 1900.

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Stephen H. Dawidowicz
Trenton IL
E-mail: dplus9@aol.com

Isaac William Bond

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ISAAC WILLIAM BOND
b. 19 December 1827, Virginia, to Joseph and Mary (Ashelman) Bond
d. 22 May 1915, Eugene, Lane County, Oregon

m. 9 October 1851, Knox County, Indiana
Hester “Hettie” McClure
b. 19 August 1835, Knox County, Indiana, to Vincent Scott and Sarah “Sally” (Bruce) McClure
d. 14 April 1901, Eugene, Lane County, Oregon

Children with Hester McClure:

  • Vincent Scott (b. ca. 1854) married Etta McConnell
  • Joseph Wolfe (b. ca. 1855) married Mattie Zumwalt
  • Louisa Elizabeth (b. ca. 1856) married Rufus Robertson
  • William Loretta (b. ca. 1859)
  • Allen Watson (b. ca. 1861) married Rachel Gross
  • Mary Ann “Mollie” (b. ca. 1863) married Charley Withrow
  • Emma Jane (b. ca. 1866) married William Wheeler
  • Eliza Catherine (b. ca. 1868) married Halvor Wheeler
  • Hetty Amanda (b. ca. 1870) married John Parker
  • Robert Bruce (b. ca. 1873) married Belle Gibson

Isaac came to Knox County, Indiana, in 1837. He and his family left for Oregon from Oaktown, Knox County, on 21 March 1853 with a wagon and ox team. Several relatives also were part of this wagon train. This group became lost and wandered around for two weeks before coming to a place they had been before. They were “The Lost Wagon Train of 1853,” which rescuers were sent out to find.

Most of the land used for the Eugene Maholn Sweet Airport originally belonged to the Bonds. Isaac was a charter member of Pleasant Hill Grange and Irving Grange. He was Deacon of the Christian Church for many years. He served on the school board for twenty years, and he was a member of the board of supervisors for roads for three terms.

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Christie Hill Russell
Paris IL

Eli Barbre

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Eli Barbre
b. 25 July 1798, Kentucky
d. 29 November 1839, Waverly, Morgan County, Illinois

m/1. about 1819, Posey County, Indiana
Nancy Wilkerson
d. 1835, Edgar County, Illinois

m/2. 17 January 1829
Anna Wilson

Children with Nancy Wilkerson:

  • Isaac (b. 1820) married Nancy Bennett
  • William (b. 1822) married (1) Rebecca Smith, (2) Lucy M. Smith
  • Charlotte (b. 1824) married Wright Miller
  • Celia D. (b. 1826) married (1) Edward Bennett, (2) Charles Wiggins, (3) James Cleveland, (4) Henry Atkinson

Children with Anna Wilson:

  • Sarah E. (b. 1831) married Harvey Withrow

Eli and Anna Barbre moved to Sangamon County, Illinois, in 1835. Elder Eli Barbre, one of the ministers in the Springfield Association, moved his family often as he worked “as a laborer in the vineyard of his Divine Master.” His first four children were born in Indiana, while the younger ones were born in Illinois.

One of the children returned to Indiana to live. Isaac Barbre moved to Illinois with his parents but returned to Indiana, where he married and served for three years in an Indiana regiment during the Civil War.

Two of these children lived in Illinois at the time of their father’s death in 1839. William
Barbre, Eli’s second son, married in Sangamon County, Illinois, and served in Company B, 10th Illinois Cavalry. Celia D. Barbre resided in Clark County, Illinois. Charlotte Barbre lived in Lynn County, Oregon, in 1839.

From: Waverly Genealogical & Historical Society Newsletter, Waverly, Illinois, #65 (October 1994), p. 5.