Dan,
Thank you so much. I will
place the pictures on the website. Any other you would like to share I will also
place.
From
Cemeteries
of Brown County, Illinois
Mt
Sterling City Cemetery, pp. 200 - 281
James C. witty is listed
twice in the Mt Sterling Cemetery, one under the heading of “Persons Attaining
Ninety Years Buried in Mt Sterling Cemetery” and once in the “Recorded Burial
Section”
James C. Witty, 1840 – 1945
[In both entry’s these years are given. In the first entry, they indicated that
he was 95 years old. I don’t know if they had a math problem or a date problem.
According to the dates he’s 105 years old.}
Sarah E., wife of James
Witty, 1844 - ????).
Dora Witty, wife of Samuel
McClintock, 22 Aug 1871 – 4 Nov 1902, dau of James and Sarah
Witty.
Dora Lee Witty wife of James
A. Davis, 1874 – 1960, dau of James
and Sarah Witty.
Lillie Witty Calhoun. 22 May
1873 – 25 May 1905, dau of James
and Sarah Witty
The
two Dora’s bother me so here’s what I found in the
marriages:
MCCLINTOCK,
SAMUEL W WITTY, DORA B 02/06/1895 1A /183 2228A BROWN
DAVIS,
JAMES R
WITTY, LOUETTA
05/04/1897 1A /211 2559 BROWN
Looks
like the burial records are a little confusing but clarified by the marriage
records.
Here’s
Lillie’s marriage:
CALHOUN,
GEORGE
WITTY, LILLIE
01/08/1905 2 /49 4397 BROWN
Hope
this helps, Sincerely,
Ken
Huffman
-----Original
Message-----
From:
dschafer@unmc.edu [mailto:dschafer@unmc.edu]
Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 4:39
PM
To: khlh@cox.net
Subject:
Dear Ken & Laurie
I
thought you might like to see two of your permanent residents in
Brown
County. These are James C. & Sarah E. Witty. They were
both born about
1840, he in Cass Co., IL, she in Kentucky. His parents
were John Lucas &
Mary Witty. I don't know her maiden name.
They are listed on page 241 of
your burial book.
I entertain myself by
"solving" old family albums I buy. This album
contains members of the
Witty & Ely families, among others. This is tin
type taken about
1870. I also have one of two of their daughters (Dora &
Lillie) as
infants.
Please feel free to use the image on your website.
If you could
give me any information from the cemetery book (or
obituaries!) I would be
grateful.
Dan Schafer
From: dschafer@unmc.edu
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 2:38 PM
To: Ken and Laurie Huffman
Subject: Re: Witty
Ken -
Thank you for your help. Appended is a scan of a tin of Dora Witty McClintock and Lillie Witty Calhoun. It must have been taken about 1874. They look just lovely. If I find any other Brownites I'll send tham along.
Dan