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Source: History of Alexander, Union and Pulaski Counties, Illinois. Edited by William Henry Perrin, ©1883 Chicago: O. L. Baskin and Company, Historical Publisher, Part V, Elco Precinct, pg. 219-220.
Miles Cauble, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Elco, is a grandson of Jacob Cauble, who was a native of North Carolina, as was also his son, Peter Cauble, the father of subject. The grandfather came to Union County when the father was about twenty-one, but remained there only a short time and then moved to Alexander County, where he settled near Mill Creek. Peter married a Miss Catherine Cauble, a cousin of his. She was the mother of nine children, and of that number subject was the oldest, and was born October 4, 1842. He attended the subscription schools of his county until he was about seventeen, and then bought a farm of forty acres about one-half a mile from Elco, near his present loction. This piece has now been increased to a farm of 367 acres, located in Sections 12, 13 and 18; also 107 acres in Section 1. Has about 300 acres in cultivation, and about fifteen acres in orchard. Also follows the raising of cattle and hogs, for market, quite extensively. Subject was married, December 4, 1859 to Frances Hazlewood, born October 12, 1843. She is the daughter of Joshua and Harriet Hazlewood, and is the mother of nine childen, seven of whom are living--Ezekial, born December 8, 1860; Evelena, April 3, 1863; Robert, September 8, 1868; Benjamin, December 25, 1870; Fredoline, December 6, 1873; Hattie, March 16, 1878; Dellie, June 25, 1882. Mr. Cauble enlisted in the Sixtieth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, Col. Owens, Company E, Capt. Foggarty, in August 1862, remaining out three years, and was honorably discharged in July, 1865. Is a member of the Elco Methodist Church. Also of Elco Lodge, No. 643, I.O.O.F. In politics, he is a Republican.
(1811—1861)
CAUSIN, John M. S., a Representative from Maryland;
born in St. Marys County, Md., in 1811; studied law; was admitted to
the bar in Prince Georges County about 1836; returned to St. Marys
County and commenced the practice of law in Leonardtown, Md.; member of
the State house of representatives in 1837 and again 1843; elected as a
Whig to the Twenty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1845); moved
to Annapolis, Md., delegate to the State constitutional convention;
moved to Chicago, Ill., in 1858 and resumed the practice of law; died
in Cairo, Alexander County, Ill., January 30, 1861; interment in the
City Cemetery (now Lincoln Park), Chicago.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
Source: History of Alexander, Union and Pulaski Counties, Illinois. Edited by William Henry Perrin, ©1883 Chicago: O. L. Baskin and Company, Historical Publisher, Part V, Thebes Precinct, pg. 230.
A. Corzine, farmer and hotel, Thebes, was born in Dongola Precinct, Union County, Ill., November 19, 1837; is a son of Evans and Margaret Corzine, natives of North Carolina. The father died when the subject was small and he with his mother removed to Alexander County, where young Corzine attended the country schools, aside from the duties of a farm life, that he was compelled to attend to. Upon reaching his majority, he improved eighty acres of land on Section 11, where he resided until October 1882, when he bought property at Thebes and opened a hotel, which he continues at this writing. He was married October 25, 1856 to Caroline, a daughter of James and Nancy C. Miller of Union County. The following children have been born to him: Margaret, Wesley, Nora, and Amy. Mr. C. enlisted in the One Hundred and Ninth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and served till the close of the war. He is a member of the Baptist Church and is a stanch Republican.
Source: History of Alexander, Union and Pulaski Counties, Illinois. Edited by William Henry Perrin, ©1883 Chicago: O. L. Baskin and Company, Historical Publisher, Part V, Elco Precinct, pg. 220.
James Cruse, farmer, P. O. Mill Creek, Union County. Grandfather Cruse came from Ireland and located in Georgia, where Moses Cruse, the father of subject, was born. The latter remained there until a young man, and then came to what was then Johnson County, now Union County. There he married a Miss Rebecca Miller, a native of North Carolina, some of whose ancestors came from Germany. She was the mother of seven children, four of whom are living, and of that number subject was the third, and was born February 7, 1846. When subject was about five years old, his father moved to a farm about a mile and a half east of Mill Creek, in Union County, where he resided until his death. Our subject attended the subscription schools but little, and received but a slight education. When he was about eighteen years of age, he went to Jonesboro and apprenticed himself to learn the blacksmith trade. He worked for about a year and a half, when finding that the trade did not agree with him, he came back to the home farm and helped his father there until he was about twenty-five years of age. At that age, he purchased his first farm, a tract of forty acres situated about a miles from Mill Creek, in Section 5, Township 14 south, Range 1 west, Alexander County. This place has since been increased to a farm of 116 acres, which he devotes chiefly to farming. Our subject was married in 1826 to Mary Freeze, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Freeze, both natives of North Carolina. She was the mother of one child, Petter, born February 12, 1859. This lady died in 1861, and Mr. Cruse was married the second time, to Lydia O. Freeze, a sister of his first wife. This lady is the mother of five children--Josephine, James J., Norwood, Melissa and Mattie. In politics, Mr. Cruse is a Democrat.
Source: History of Alexander, Union and Pulaski Counties, Illinois. Edited by William Henry Perrin, ©1883 Chicago: O. L. Baskin and Company, Historical Publisher, Part V, Elco Precinct, pg. 221.
Eli Douglas, farmer, P. O. Clear Creek Landing, is a son of Alexander Douglas, who was born in North Carolina in 1811 and came to Union County when quite young with a family by the name of Yost. He attended the subscription schools of his county in his youth and married Margaret Hinkle of Dongola Township. She was the daughter of Henry Hinkle, also a native of North Carolina and the mother of eleven children. Of that number, subject was the fourth, and was born April 21, 1831. His father was then living in Jonesboro Precinct, and there our subject remained until he was seventeen, attending the schools of his township. He then left home, when he came to Jonesboro, where he learned the blacksmith trade under a Mr. Wingate, and then after an apprenticeship of two years and eleven months he opened a shop of his own on the home place. In January 1855 he went to California where he carried on his trade in one of the mining districts there. In 1859 he retired to the life of a farmer and came to his present location in Alexander County, in Section 19, Township 14, Range 3 west. He first purchased 360 acres of which about 100 were cultivated. He has since purchased eighty acres more, and now has about 125 acres improved. Mr. Douglas was married January 31, 1863 to Mary DeWitt, born October 24, 1844. She is the daughter of John and Margaret Cruse DeWitt, and is the mother of two children--Fred, born February 10, 1865 and Stanley, born December 8, 1866. Subject was a soldier in the One Hundred and Ninth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry and in politics is a Democrat.
Source: History of Alexander, Union and Pulaski Counties, Illinois. Edited by William Henry Perrin, ©1883 Chicago: O. L. Baskin and Company, Historical Publisher, Part V, Elco Precinct, pg. 221-222.
J. Warren Durham, farmer, P. O. Elco, Alexander County. The ancestors of the gentleman whose name heads this sketch were among the early settlers of this county. The grandfather, William Durham, who was a native of North Carolina, came to this county in 1830, and resided there until his death in 1847. Thomas Durham, the father of subject, was born in North Carolina in 1800, remained there until manhood, and then went to Todd County, KY, where he married Mary Brizendine, daughter of William Brizendine. Came from there to Union County in 1831, settling near Mill Creek, where subject was born December 24, 1838, the fourth of seven children. Warren received his education in the subscription schools of his county, attending there until about eighteen years of age, and then worked on the home place. In November 1865 he purchased a farm of eighty acres, where he now resides in Section 12, Town 14, Range 2 west. Twenty acres of the farm were cultivated when he bought it and he now owns a farm of 120 acres, of which about sixty acres are cultivated. Subject was married January 22, 1860 to Sarah Bass, born in November 1842 and daughter of Matthew and Zeolody (Hutson) Bass. Mr. Durham enlisted in the One Hundred and Ninth Regiment Illinois Infantry August 15, 1862, but was transferred to the Eleventh, and was discharged at Baton Rouge, LA, August 15, 1865. Is a member of Elco Lodge, No. 643, I.O.O.F., and in politics is a Democrat.
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