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Power/Curran family 1865-1899
The Tampico Area Historical Society encompasses parts of Whiteside County and Bureau County in Illinois. Focus is on Tampico, Hume Twp., Hahnaman/Deer Grove, & Prophetstown in Whiteside County & Yorktown & Thomas in Bureau County.

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Katminder 9 posts Aug 06, 2007 3:14 PM	HI, everyone! Still looking for imformation about the Curran family. Thomas Curran b 23 May 1821 Waterford County IRE-d 23 May 1895 Tampico, Whiteside Co, IL Buried in St Mary's Cemetery Married to: Mary Power b 12 Oct 1824 Waterford County, IRE- d 26 Jan 1899 Tampico, Whiteside Co, IL buried in St. Mary's Cemetery. Children of couple: Henry b 1854-d 1932 mar Mary Raynor Bridget b 1856 William b Sept 1858- d 3 Jan 1916 mar Bridget Brien, father of Marie, Ethel, and Grace. Thomas b 1860 Mary A b 1862 Ellen b 1863 Michael b 1866 They are found on the 1865 US Census in Whiteside Co, Prophetstown: Curran, Thomas (4) 1 male (20-30). 1 female (20-30), 1 male (-10), 1 female (-10) Later I found them on another census, but still living in the Prophetstown area and farming. Did men live in town and farm out of town? I'm a little confused about that. After his father's death, William Curran apparently road the railroad to Dubuque Ia and then onto to Humboldt IA where he married at age 37 to Bridget Brien age 30. They were the parents of Marie and Grace. another child, Ethel, died in infancy. I know there is some relationship to the Keefes from the Deer Grove area. In Marie Curran's death certificate, her father is listed as being born in Dear Grove. Thanks for all your help so far! Kathy Minder Geneseo
Denise 26 posts Aug 08, 2007 9:00 PM	Kathy, Have you contacted Joan Cooney - secretary of St. Mary's? She is in the process of updating their records. We will be working together trying to coordinate our efforts. I have a wonderful volunteer that has photographed the entire St. Mary's cemetery. She said the index we have is inaccurate. She is now cross-referencing the stones with the list and also getting the obits. There are also graves that have sunken and no longer visable as well. I'll certainly post any new information we have, but you may want to contact Joan - IN WRITING, with a list of specific information you are looking for.
Katminder 10 posts Aug 09, 2007 3:05 PM	Thanks, Denise. I had checked with the secretary before, but the name wasn't Cooney. I'll get right on that. You're always so helpful. I've been trying to locate the home where my Egerts lived in Yorktown Twp. I think we'll be driving out there soon, maybe after the weather breaks. I'm not fond of hot weather! Kathy
JackP 50 posts Aug 13, 2007 5:57 PM	Dear Kathy, I don't care how high the grass gets, I'm going to type tonight. 1. Thanks for the reply - information over on the Where is That, message about 8 Mile. I have a question or two about that entry, but will ask over there when I get time. 2. Power/Curran family: I don't have all the answers, but I do have information on one or more of them. Henry, 1854 - 1932 ( I have d. 18 Feb. 1923) and married Mary Raynor, that you listed have a W-side marriage # 5110, 10 - 12 - 1879. Henry and Mary are in the Bureau Co. Fairfield Twp., census 1900. He is a farm Lab. One daughter at the time, Mary, b. Aug., 1885. I believe she had the middle Int. of "A, for Alice" for several reasons. Later in life she was known to most everybody (present day descendants) as MAY. Cir. 1908, Mary Alice Curran, married John H. Mosher. I have it that he was b. Apr., 1886, the son of John Mosher and Catherine Higgens, aka, Kate/Katie/Cathern. John and Kate have W-side m. #4648 1-9-1878. John Mosher, wife Cathern, son Harry age 1, and some of the Higgins family are found in the 1880, Hahnaman Twp. Census. John's father-in-law listed, Thomas Higgins, b. Ireland, age 72. The 1900 census, Hahnaman Twp., Lists John Mosher and wife Catherine with 8 children. Their fourth child is son John, (John H. as above) b. Apr. 1886. Their 7th. child is daughter Mary. (Mary Alice) Mary Alice Mosher , b. 16 Sept. 1891, m. 24 Feb. 1912, Paul Thomas Overley. She died in Marshall Michigan, 8 Aug. 1976. Her husband Paul was b. 21 May 1892, and died same place, 31 Oct. 1977. Paul was a brother of my Grandmother, Alice Lillian Overley. So then, my Grandmothers' brother, married a sister of John H. Mosher, and John H., the Grandfather of the present day Mosher's of P-town, that you spoke of while talking about 8 Mile. 3. You also mentioned the family name of Egert. A double cousin of my father's married an Egert. The cousin was Lila Myrl Pritchard, 1902 - 1999, and her husband was Perry James Egert, 1897 - 1987. Perry was the son of George Egert, 1867 - 1929. I don't know of George as being in Yorktown Twp., but could have been. Perry and Lila farmed many years south of 92, on the East side of the Atkinson slab. If they sound familiar I would like to know about it. Jack
Katminder 12 posts Aug 14, 2007 3:59 PM	Perry Jame Egert (b 3 Jun 1897 d 1987) mar Lila Myrl Pritchard (22 Aug 1902- d ?) 7 Apr 1920 in Geneseo, Henry Co, IL They were the parents of Wilbur Darrell, Lois Helen, LaVonna May, and Ronald Wayne. Perry's parents were George Edward Egert Sr. and Elizabeth Agnes Schreiner. Siblings include: daughter (SB)1891 George Edward Jr b 1892-d 25 Feb 1970 Clarence Raymond b 10 Jan 1895- d 9 Apr 1961 mar Hazel E Brown Laura Mae b 17 Oct 1899 mar Dwight Oetzel Grace Lorena b 6 Feb 1903 mar Glen Wildemuth Sylvia Iren b 17 Apr 1905 mar Charles Paxton I have all this information up to 1983. Wilbur Egert's wife, Mary Jean and Linda Oberle Perkins did a family tree book of the Egerts that year. It's very good, lots of family info, but hasn't been updated. It includes all the Egerts, Yackleys, Clementzs, and various other families. Love to share if you need more info. Kathy Norbert Leslie b 24 Jul 1907
JackP 52 posts Aug 16, 2007 5:52 PM	Dear Kathy, I had most of the information in my family file, as I happened to find on he internet what could be a portion of the work of Mary Jean and Linda. Your mention of Yorktown Twp., sort of got me wondering if you were getting at a different line of Egert's. I believe George Edward Sr. spent most of his life in Loraine Twp., but I've been wrong before. I don't want to steal your Power/Curran subject here, but I have a lot of information that I believe is relative, as we got off onto Perry and Lila Egert. On Lila's mother's side, her grandparents are my paternal great-grandparents. They were, Wellington Parlin and Hadassa (Graves)Baker. Came west out of Bingham, Maine just after the Civil War, and settled some five years in Neponset before moving to the farm (abt. 1873)on the North edge of Annawan. When one goes back into the early 1700's I have proven that Lila's fourth great-grandmother (my fifth)has been given the wrong identity for almost two hundred years. She has been (and in a lot of current genealogies) so often recorded as Elizabeth Hurd, who married Jonathan Sparrow. This came from the preachers records of marriages preformed, but the town clerk (Eastham, Massachusetts) recorded the upcoming marriage in the town records that Jonathan Sparrow and MRS. Elizabeth Hurd were to be married. I found in a book of the Paine Genealogy, while at the Library in Madison Wisconsin, that Elizabeth PAINE, married Joshua Hurd, and he died several months after the marriage of small pox, at Holms Hole. No children, but it did leave in Eastham, a Mrs. Elizabeth Hurd. I backed this up with mention of her in her brother's will, of sister Sparrow. Anyway, The Society of Mayflower Descendants, and MAYFLOWER FAMILIES Through Five Generations, Volume Six, Third Edition STEPHEN HOPKINS, by John D. Austin, F.A.S.G. (2001)and my family file have it corrected. Yes, Lila and her descendants are descendants of Stephen Hopkins. (One of the strangers) He was at or near Jamestown, before sailing 1620 with the Pilgrims. Lila and I share some 6 or more paths to Stephen, but the interesting part is that ELIZABETH PAINE (first married Joshua Hurd) then married Joshua Hurd's cousin, Jonathan Sparrow, is a proven descendant of Mayflower Passenger, Elder WILLIAM BREWSTER III. I joined the society under William Brewster, as I was a first through Elizabeth Paine, or the corrected Elizabeth Hurd. Needless to say, I spent years figuring out parents for Elizabeth Hurd, and come to find out, there were none, as she was born a Paine. This is not the path to Brewster that Julia (Baker) Colby wrote in the Baker genealogy 1914, Maine, and sent west, as that could only be referenced to the ill written Brewster Genealogy that gave children of Capt. Jonathan Sparrow, to the wrong wife. He had three marriages, and so many had there idea's of his children with each wife, but It's excepted today that the path the Brewster Genealogy followed was in error. I'm sure it was handed down in the Baker family that a connection to Brewster was there, and Aunt Julia did her best to figure it out. One of the Baker family that came out of Maine, was Eber Baker, founder of Marion, Ohio. His descendants also heard that they had a connection to Brewster, and one lady who passed away a few years ago tried all her adult years to join under William Brewster, but she kept trying through the children of Capt. Jonathan Sparrow, and it always failed. It wasn't until I figured things out, and clued her grandson in to what was what, that things for the Ohio descendants came together. I have been promised that when I go through the gates of heaven, that (the grandmother) Gracie will be the first to greet me. Having two connections to the Mayflower is only the tip of the iceburg. Jack
Katminder 16 posts Aug 17, 2007 8:29 PM	Hi, Jack, you're right about George Sr having spent his life in IL. His father, Barnhart Egert Sr was born in Wittisheim, Alsace-Loraine, France in 1836 and immigrated with his parents and siblings about 1851. George Sr had several siblings, too. Barnhart Jr who was my great grandfather, Joseph, and Josephine Clara who married Louis Daniel Heller. Barnhart Sr was killed by runaway horses near the Green River Bridge on Grange Road east of Geneseo at 31. His wife, Marie-Ann Clementz remarried. George Egert b 1796 in France married Anatasia Jagli (Yackley) in 1821 France. They immigrated in 1851 with seven children, (George) Joseph (who died unmarried), Michael, Barnhart, Theresa (Dress) who married an Oberle, Helen who married Joseph Rink, and Julienne who married a Clementz. A young daughter died in the area also, but it is not known where she or her parents are buried. That would be a real find, but probably never will be. I can go further back on the Egert side and Yackley side. A lot of the names are similar, lots of Yackleys, Egerts and Clementzs intermarried both here and in France. I think they were more German than French as it's been told they spoke German in the home.
andmic510 1 post Sep 27, 2007 7:26 PM	I am a great granddaughter of Lila Egert, granddaughter of Lavona Egert Oncken. There were a couple of corrections I wanted to add to Perry & Lila's information! Perry James Egert (b. 6/3/1897, d. 07/29/1987) married to Lila Myrl Pritchard (b. 8/22/1902, d. 10/25/1999). They had 4 children: 1. Wilbur married to Mary Jean VanDerVelde 2. Lois married to Dwight Oetzel 3. Lavona Mae (b. 7/20/1927) married to Ronald Wayne (b. 7/12/27) (My grandparents) 4. Phyllis married to Nelson Taber
jloncken 1 post Nov 09, 2007 3:43 PM	I am, also, the great grandaughter of Perry and Lila Egert. I would just like to add to my sister's post about my grandmother, Lavona Mae (Egert) Oncken. In a previous post it states that Lila and Perry had Lavona and Ronald Wayne as brother and sister. My sister did not clarify that that was incorrect. Lavona Mae Egert married Ronald Wayne ONCKEN. Together they had five boys. Bradley, Stanley, Richard, Brent, and Ronald Jr. I am the daughter of Richard Oncken. He married Barbara Berry. They had three daughters, Andrea, Rachel, and Jessica. If you would like anymore information, please feel free to contact me via e mail at cjmillard@charter.net. I do have in my posession a copy of the family records book that is mentioned in a previous post, containing most of the info regarding the Egert / Oncken family. Although, there are many updates due to marriages and births!
LesN 142 posts Nov 10, 2007 7:06 AM	Jack, I have the following PRITCHARD in my database: Tamson PRITCHARD b 1798, d 1841 m Mears CARTWRIGHT - there son, John Pritchard CARTWRIGHT m Sarah GUY and moved to Yorktown where John died in 1868. Not sure when Sarah nee GUY died; however, John m Hannah BROWN in Indiana 1841. She died in Yorktown 1883. Is there a possibility that Tamson is related to Lila?? Thanks, Les Last Edited by on Nov 10, 2007 8:11 AM
Katminder 27 posts Nov 10, 2007 6:34 PM	WHile I love hearing about the Egerts of my family, does anyone know anything about the Currans? I believe they were related to the Keefes and Myers from around Deer Grove, also.
Denise 104 posts Nov 10, 2007 9:40 PM	Excuse me - I don't mean to "interupt" but you folks might want to start a seperate message thread with EGERT in the new subject line and keep this thread for the CURRAN/POWER information. Denise Last Edited by on Nov 10, 2007 9:42 PM

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