Before I Forget

--  Newspapers.com, Champaign County Gazette, April 9, 1902, Champaign, Illinois, p.11.


   In 1902, my third great-granduncle, Lucas Winnie Faulkner, died a few days after his prized parrot. I've seen few obits of people's pets (outside of Findagrave, mind you). I hope his grief didn't hasten his death. 

   And how did he persuade a local paper to print a parrot's obituary?


-- Newspapers.com, Champaign County Gazette, April 22, 1902, p. 9.


   Cousin Bait: My third G-Grandfather, Isaac Terhune Van Doren (1819-1905), was a half brother to Mr. Faulkner.

   Van Doren's mother, Elizabeth Voorhees Mount (1799-1878), had married Mr. Faulkner's father after the death of her first husband, Isaac Christian Van Doren (1797-1821).


-- Newspapers.com, The Champaign Daily News, October 20, 1905, p.5.

          My maternal Aunt Nancy snail-mailed me an original photograph of people we know not who. Nancy thinks they might be McCormick cousins. Or Van Doren cousins? Our McCormick and Van Doren ancestors migrated to New Mexico from Illinois and homesteaded land in that new territory. The people pictured in this image might be descendants of those early settlers. Nancy suspects it is her mother's mother's brother, a Great-Uncle McCormick.