MRS. CASANDRA MARRIOTT, who has been a resident of Somer Township since 1856, was born in Anne Arundel County, Md., June 17, 1820, and is the daughter of Joseph and Keturah SIM. She removed with her parents to Knox County, Ohio, and was there married to Richard MARRIOTT, Feb. 4, 1840. Mr. M. was born Aug. 6, 1818, in Baltimore County, Md., whence his father emigrated to Ohio and settled in Knox County in 1831, the same year in which the parents of his wife located there. Richard Marriott was a farmer by occupation and after his marriage with our subject removed to Illinois and purchased the farm which is now owned by Louie Birely, and on which he erected a brick residence, one of the first in Champaign County. Here Mrs. M. and her husband made their home until his death, which occurred in February, 1870. After the death of her husband, Mrs. M. removed to Urbana and lived with a daughter until the death of the latter. Since that time she has lived with her son-in-law, C. C. Wilson, in Somer Township.

Mr. and Mrs. Marriott became the parents of six children, three boys and three girls, of whom the record is as follows: Cordelia became the wife of L. R. BIRELY; Franklin married Miss Lydia YEARSLY; Mary is the wife of Cassius C. WILSON, and lives in Champaign County; Oscar T. married Miss Retta HILL; Joseph died when twenty-four years of age; Jessie E. became the wife of Homer PRATHER, and died in 1883, leaving two children, a son and daughter-Benjamin Paul and Carolina Maude.

Mr. Marriott in early days was a Whig, politically, but upon the abandonment of the old party became a stanch Republican. Mrs. M. is a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and now, although sixty-seven years of age, is a strong, healthy and happy old lady, beloved by her family and neighbors, and an honor to her children.310