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201 Company A, 125 Illinois Infantry. Musician. Cline, Nathaniel (I5)
 
202 Company E, 115th Indiana Infantry. Vanvickle, Andrew (I2086)
 
203 Conductor Elmer E. Gritton is the most unfortunate man on the road. His family is again in quarantine, this time on account of diphtheria.
The Champaign Daily Gazette, Champaign, Illinois. Monday, 15 February 1915.
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Conductor Elmer Gritton, whose home is quarantined on account of diphtheria, is living in a caboose.
The Champaign Daily News, Champaign, Illinois. Tuesday, 16 February 1915.
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The home of E.E. Gritton, 205 East Illinois street has been quarantined on account of diphtheria.
The Champaign County News, Champaign, Illinois. Wednesday, 17 February 1915.
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LKH note: a lesson in searching for one than one news article about the same event. In the series above each article gave a new clue about Elmer and his family. 1. He is a railroad conductor.
2. His family has been in quarantine more than once. 3. He lived in a caboose while they were in quarantine. 4. Their home address is listed.
 
Gritton, Elmer E. (I896)
 
204 Conductor Gritton had one of the longest trains ever pulled into the Urbana yards Friday night. It was an extra from the west, consisting of 91 cars and three quarters of a mile long.
The Urbana Daily Courier, Urbana, Illinois. Monday, 15 March 1915, page 2.
 
Gritton, Elmer E. (I896)
 
205 Cook County, Illinois Marriage Indes: 1930-1960. Family F69
 
206 Corporal, US Army, WWI Wiggans, Jesse Herbert (I648)
 
207 Crash victim dies.
Injuries fatal to Rolla O. Moss
Rolla Oliver Moss, 72, of Danville Route 3, northeast of Danville, died Sunday (Nov. 18, 1956) in Lake View Hospital, where he had been a patient since Thursday.

He had suffered injuries in a two-car collision on the Bowman Ave. Rd. south of Bismarck last Thursday morning. He is the 24th traffic fatality in Vermilion County this year.

A retired farmer and stock buyer, he was born in Blount Township Jun 3, 1884, son of John Burton and Martha Isabell Watson Moss. He was a member of the Church of Christ.

Mr. Moss on Aug. 10, 1904, married Merle L. Hoover who died March 19, 1930. On April 29, 1936, he married Minnie Frumm who preceded him in death march 13, 1956.

Surviving are five children by the first marriage, John F. of Perrysville, Frank of Alvin Route 1, Paul of Danville Route 3, and Mrs. Florence Huffman and Mrs. Marjorie Ping, also of Alvin Route 1; three brothers, Ernest U. and Frances Elmer Moss, both of Danville, and Era B. Moss of Danville Route 3; 15 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. A daughter died in infancy.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Edmund & Dickson Funeral Home with the Rev. W. C. Billingsley officiating. Burial will be in Johnson Cemetery, northwest of Danville. The body is at the funeral home.

Newspaper clipping from Cora (Gritton) Hedges. No publishing information available.
 
Moss, Rolla Oliver (I2186)
 
208 Currently Harrison County, West Virginia. Family F1547
 
209 D. Woodson Rites Friday
Services for Delbert Elder Woodson, 75, 3000 Van Highway, Tyler, are set for 10 a.m. Friday in Memorial Funeral Home Chapel with the Bro. David Hill officiating.
Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery under the direction of Memorial Funeral Home.
Mr. Woodson died Wednesday evening at his home after a brief illness.
He was born Jan. 14, 1906, in Waurika, Okla., and had been a resident of Tyler the past eight years. He was a member of the Park Heights Baptist Church and was retired from Halliburton Services.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Ruby L. Woodson of Tyler; two sons, Jimmy Woodson of Forney and Jack D. Woodson of Jacksonville; one daughter, Mrs. Mary Pace of Whitehouse; one sister Mrs. Helen Wells; and seven grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Charles Hill, J.P. Buck Thompson, Louie Carroll, Royce Cates, Richard Murr and Robert Lowrence.
Tyler Morning Telegram, Tyler, Texas. Friday, 24 July 1981, page 6.
 
Woodson, Delbert Elder (I2845)
 
210 Dangerously Ill.
Ed Gritton, pressman for The Press company, yesterday received a telegram from his brother, Al Gritton, pressman for the Champaign News, stating that the latter's wife is dangerously ill in that city. Their mother, Mrs. M.L. Gritton, of South Danville, Left for Champaign yesterday afternoon to attend the bedside of her daughter-in-law.

Newspaper clipping from Cora (Gritton) Hedges. Commercial News, Danville, Illinois. No date available.
 
Gritton, Allen L. (I466)
 
211 Dangerously Ill.
Ed Gritton, pressman for The Press company, yesterday received a telegram from his brother, Al Gritton, pressman for the Champaign News, stating that the latter's wife is dangerously ill in that city. Their mother, Mrs. M.L. Gritton, of South Danville, Left for Champaign yesterday afternoon to attend the bedside of her daughter-in-law.

Newspaper clipping from Cora (Gritton) Hedges. Commercial News, Danville, Illinois. No date available.
 
Gorman, Rebecca (I467)
 
212 Dangerously Ill.
Ed Gritton, pressman for The Press company, yesterday received a telegram from his brother, Al Gritton, pressman for the Champaign News, stating that the latter's wife is dangerously ill in that city. Their mother, Mrs. M.L. Gritton, of South Danville, Left for Champaign yesterday afternoon to attend the bedside of her daughter-in-law.

Newspaper clipping from Cora (Gritton) Hedges. Commercial News, Danville, Illinois. No date available. 
Moudy, Elizabeth Ann (I453)
 
213 Daniel W. Cunningham, one of the best known citizens of Salvisa, this county, died at Mt. Verde, Fla, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J.L. Rynearson, from heart trouble and asthma induced by an attack of influenza.
Lexington Herald-Leader, Lexington, Kentucky. Thursday, 20 February 1919, page 3.
 
Cunningham, Daniel W. (I2163)
 
214 Danville Commercial News June 6, 1916 - She and her husband had always made their home in Blount Township. Mrs Grimes was the mother of nine children, but all except three have passed away. These are W.S. Grimes of the city. Mrs Drusilla Rush of Georgetown, and Mrs Rambo of Danville, widow of Police Officer Thomas Rambo who died only a few weeks ago. Of the nine brothers and sisters of Mrs Grimes but one is now living. He is Spencer Shumate of Lexington, Ky. Funeral services will be held at 10 o'clock Thursday morning from the family residence. Interment will be at Cline cemetery.
 
Shumate, Mariah Josephine (I3880)
 
215 Danville Commercial-News 1922
Mrs. Margaret J. Van Vickle Passes Away
Mrs. Mary Margaret Johnson Van Vickle, wife of Everett Van Vickle, residing on rural route two, seven miles northwest of Danville, passed away at the family residence at 6 o'clock last evening following a long illness.
Funeral services are to be held Thursday afternoon at the Union Corners church at 2 o'clock. Interment will be in the Johnson cemetery.
Mrs. Van Vickle was born in Illinois Aug. 23, 1861 and was 61 years of age and known to residents of that neighborhood as "Aunt Mary". She was born and raised in the neighborhood in which she died and is survived by six sons. They are Charley, Bart and Mac, all of Iowa, Coy, Ray and Jewell who reside near the old home place. She leaves to mourn her besides her six sons, three brothers. They are James, Joseph and Edward Johnson, all of this county. Another brother, Charles Johnson preceded her in death just three months ago.
There are also a host of grandchildren and friends.
 
Johnson, Mary Margaret (I2093)
 
216 Danville Daily News, July 15 1897
A Large Funeral
The funeral service for Mrs. Minerva E. Clem, wife of Jacob Clem was held at the family residence in Blount Township yesterday morning at 10 o'clock. Reverend Isaac Embree, assisted by Reverend Thomas Snyder officiated. There was a very large attendance of old friends and neighbors and many expressions of sorrow and sympathy. Interment occurred in the Johnson Cemetery.
 
Cramer, Minerva Ellen (I2137)
 
217 Danville's oldest minister is dead.
Rev. John J. Cosat, in ministry fifty-five years, passed away yesterday - born in country.
Rev. John J. Cosat, who devoted his time and labors for more than a half century to the ministry of the Christian church, and who was one of the oldest residents of Vermilion county, having been born on a farm in Blount township, about six miles northwest of the city, is dead following a long illness from paralysis and a complication of other diseases.


Newspaper clipping from Cora (Gritton) Hedges. No publishing information available. 
Cosat, John James (I50)
 
218 Danville, Ill. Commercial-News Friday, May 30, 1986
Lawrence Robert Reese, 76, of 3727 Illinois, formerly of Hoopeston, Ill., died at 11:20 p.m. Wednesday (May 28, 1986) at Lakeview Medical Center.
He was a carpenter and was a member of the Carpenters Union Local 269. He had farmed for several years in the Hoopeston area and had formerly worked at the C&EI Railroad Oaklawn Shops.
He was a member of the Old Union Church of Christ. Born Dec. 5, 1909, in Vermilion Co., Ill., son of Isaac Edward and Cora Norris Reese. Hew was married On Nov. 26, 1927, in Covington, Ind., to Hazel Fern Johnson. She survives.
Also surviving: two sons, James of Rock Falls, Ill., and Robert of Danville; six daughters, Mrs. William (Evelyn) White and Mrs. Jerry (Helen) Warner, both of Alvin, Ill., Lois Reese of Berwyn, Ill., Mrs. Glenn (Irene) Maul of Hoopeston, Ill., Mrs. John (Donna) Heideman of Crete, Ill, and Bonnie Allen of Chicago; three brothers, George of Tucson, Ariz., Bill of Hallsville, Texas, and LeRoy of Danville; two sisters, Ruth Fields of Covington, and Edna Davis of Danville; 26 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by four brothers and a sister.
Services: 10 a.m. Saturday at Lakeside Funeral Chapel; Officiating: Roger L. James and D. Eugene Houpt; Burial : Johnson Cemetery; Visitation: 4-8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home; Memorials: American Cancer Society.
 
Reese, Robert Lawrence (I2893)
 
219 Date of death from his father's obituary. Swisher, Oral (I4398)
 
220 date of Harvey's death found in his father's obituary McMillin, Harvey Hugh (I98)
 
221 date unknown Raines, Felix (I130)
 
222 daughter of Norman Dale and Peggy Jean Coonce Coonce, Cathy Jo (I3531)
 
223 daughter of Absolom Scroggins and Sarah Dorsey Scroggins, Eliza (I402)
 
224 daughter of Albert Emerson and Sarah R. Phipps Emerson, Nora Mae (I4382)
 
225 daughter of Albert Forrest Norris and Decemma  Norris, Mary Alberta (I3460)
 
226 daughter of Alva A. Heck and Laura S. Stitt Heck, Bessie Anna (I563)
 
227 daughter of Andrew David Reed and Nancy Smith Hancock Reed, Mary E. (I960)
 
228 daughter of Andrew Jones and Mary Elizabeth Patterson Jones, Myrtle Frances (I2626)
 
229 daughter of Austin Pierce and Pearl Black Pierce, Glendora K. (I4127)
 
230 daughter of Benjamin Fitzgerald and Eliza White Fitzgerald, Elizabeth (I2854)
 
231 daughter of Benjamin Franklin Brown and Rebecca Jan Tompkins Brown, Susannah (I1043)
 
232 daughter of Benjamin Truax and Martha "Mary" Partlow Truax, Nancy (I156)
 
233 daughter of Bingham Clark Green and Josephine Knight Green, Ellen (I3795)
 
234 daughter of Burch Thoburn Clearwater and Ada Marie Brockway Clearwater, Mary (I3351)
 
235 daughter of Charles Griffith and Martha Scott Griffith, Mary E. (I338)
 
236 daughter of Charles Jenkins and Elizabeth Skinner Jenkins, Ida (I4327)
 
237 daughter of Charles Montel Decker and Mabel Frances Hopkins Decker, Carolyn Janice (I3657)
 
238 daughter of Charles Samuel "Sam" Chambliss and Bertha Florence King Chambliss, Grace (I521)
 
239 daughter of Charles Scott Leonard Huffman and Maria Jane Huffman Huffman, Myrtle Ellen (I3294)
 
240 daughter of Charles Scott Young and Elizabeth Leonard Young, Samantha (I3069)
 
241 daughter of Christian Albert Bickel and Clementine "Tina" Raver Bickel, Freda Marie (I3755)
 
242 daughter of Clarence Archie McCarley and Hazel Fern Fravell McCarley, Doris A. (I3245)
 
243 daughter of Daniel Boatman and Bessie Davis Boatman, Hazel (I2635)
 
244 daughter of Daniel Ford and Sarah Fisher Ford, Edna Larene (I2350)
 
245 daughter of Daniel Ford and Sarah Francis Fisher Ford, Etta Estella (I2346)
 
246 daughter of Daniel Price Huffman Jr and Ruth Bloomfield Huffman, Elizabeth (I1985)
 
247 daughter of Daniel R. Madden and Mary Elizabeth Crook Madden, Hattie Belle (I1044)
 
248 daughter of Eban John Raoul Watson and Grace Elizabeth Clem Watson, Marie P. (I4091)
 
249 daughter of Ebenezer W. Taylor and Cordella A. Emerson Taylor, Lucy Alviana (I3502)
 
250 daughter of Edgar Carter Rule and Avis Walkup Rule, Mary Frances (I1525)
 

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