John Sylvester & Nancy Scott Strange family

• James Phillip- b. 18 Jun 1840 Dewitt co. Ill.  d. 21 Dec 1925  m/1. 3 Dec 1863 Nancy Smoot/Snoot b. 11 Dec 1839  d. 7 Jun 1872; one son.  James m/2. 19 Sept 1878 Mary Booth b. 30 July 1852  d. 15 Oct 1903, no children
• Mary Lucinda- b. 15 Apr 1842 Dewitt co. Ill.  d. between 1870-1900 in Missouri, Nebraska, or Kansas  m. 9 Dec 1860 Alexander L. Etherton, s/o Joshua & Sarah Summers Etherton/Atherton b. Aug 1836 Illinois  d. after 1900, probably in Omaha, Douglas co. Nebraska.  They moved from Illinois around 1867 and was never heard from by her family again.  Her brother Henry Clay Strange "remembered his mother, Nancy, crying as though her heart would break when Mary & family left.  They never heard from them again" (from notes by Irma Wood).  Nancy died in 1867, very shortly after they must have left.  The family was in the 1870 census in Daviess co. Missouri.  They do not seem to be in the 1880 census, but Alexander is alive in 1900, a widower, in Omaha, Nebraska, living with a daughter and her husband (who, incidentally, IS in the 1880 census, still married to his first wife, and living in Daviess county Missouri, next door to children of Alexander Scott).  Judging by the grandchildren's dates and places of birth, the family seems to have gone to Beatrice, Gage co. Nebraska around 1880, was in Mankato, Jewell co. Kansas from about 1884 to 1888, and then back to Nebraska again.
• Henry Clay- b. 26 Aug 1844 Waynesville township, Dewitt co. Ill.  d. 29 Nov 1931 Dewitt co. Ill.  m. 9 Aug 1868 Zerelda Scott d/o John Wilson & Leuinda Blair Scott b. 1 Jan 1844  d. 25 Mar 1925; 6 children
• Andrew Jackson- b. 15 Sept 1846 Dewitt co. Ill.  d. 1 July 1848 Dewitt co. Ill.  Buried Rock Creek Cemetery.
• William Porter- b. 6 Oct 1848 Dewitt co. Ill.  d. 24 Feb 1924  m. 16 Sept 1869 Dewitt co. Ill.  Angeline Montgomery d/o Albert M. & Sarah Ann Frisby Montgomery  b. 18 Jun 1853 McLean, McLean co. Ill.  d. 7 Jun 1933 Clinton, Dewitt co. Ill.; both buried Evergreen Cemetery, Dewitt co. Ill.  4 children.
• Charles Allen- b. 6 Dec 1850  Dewitt co. Ill.  d. 22 Mar 1901 Hermosa, Custer co. South Dakota, buried Hermosa cemetery  m. 9 Mar 1876 Richardson co. Nebraska  Rose Ann Wheaton d/o Samuel M. & Irene Summer Wheaton  b. 29 Aug 1858 Lafayette, Winsconsin  d. 26 Oct 1915 Gregory, Gregory co. S.D.; 3 children.  Charles and his 2 younger brothers were living with their eldest brother James P. in 1870 (their parents had both died).  By 1880, Charles & Rose were living in Poor Man Gulch, Lawrence county, Dakota Territory.  In 1900, Rose and their children were living in Hermosa, South Dakota, while Charles was listed as an inmate in the South Dakota Hospital for the Insane in Yankton co. S.D.
• Samuel Glenn-  b. 11 Mar 1853 Dewitt co. Ill.  d. 1 Nov 1926 Iowa (but buried Rock Creek Cemetery)  m. 9 Dec 1875 Ann Eliza/Elizabeth Hougham d/o John S. & Samantha Atkinson Hougham  b. 23/24 Feb 1853 Waynesville Twp., Dewitt co. Ill.  d. 17 Dec 1884 Nebraska, but buried Rock Creek Cemetery; Samuel lived in Shell Rock, Butler co. Iowa around 1924 (where the picture was taken), but was back in Heyworth twp., McLean co. Ill. by 1925.  Cut his foot while chopping wood on 25 July 1881 so bad that it made the newspaper. 2 children.
• Martin Sylvester- b. 2 Aug 1856 Dewitt co. Ill.  d. 18 Sept 1934 Leroy, McLean co. Ill.  m. 1880/1  Martha Doggett b. 29 Sept 1860/1 Yorktown, Delaware co. Indiana d. 10 Mar 1920 Leroy, McLean co. Ill.  Martin was living with his eldest son James in 1910 (in Leroy, McLean co. Ill.), and was listed as married, but Martha was not listed for some reason.  Martin & Martha are both buried in Oak Grove Cemtery, Leroy, Illinois.  7 children.