Week Three of the
Boultinghouse kin
in this County Continued from 1/8/1998
The past two columns have told the Boultinghouse story, as
written by John
Sherman Boullinghouse in 1938.
He has told of the
arrival of two brothers
in America in 1773 and the eventual settling of the family
northwest of
Grayville in 1813.
This segment deals with genealogy.
The author's mother
was Sarena Driggers, and the father was Green
Boultinghouse.
The story
continues:
My paternal grandfather died in 1874 and grandmother in 1901 at
the old
homestead about two miles southwest of Grayville.
My mother's grandfather was Thomas Driggers, a Revolutionary
soldier.
After
the war, he married Matilda Wasden.
Several children
were born to them.
My
mother's father was the oldest boy and was named after his
father and
mother's maiden name: Thomas Wasden Driggers.
His
father died in
Tennessee. His mother and her other children with several
other families
emigrated to Southern Illinois, about the year of 1818, to what
is now
known as Phillipstown, White County.
Thomas Wasden Driggers, my mother's father, was married two
times.
His
first wife died leaving one son, Alexander Driggers.
He
then married Hannah
Hodkins, and they had four children, my mother being the
eldest.
They were
Sarena, Nancy J., Sarah and James. James died in
infancy.
Grandmother died
when my mother was about seven years old.
She had to
keep house for the
other two little girls the best she could.
My
grandfather never married
again.
In those days land was wealth, and my grandfather
became very
wealthy.
He was born in 1801 and died in 1880.
My mother was born Feb. 13, 1836 and died May 13, 1887, in
Alturas, Calif.
She had gone there with Carson Hon and his wife for the health
of both
women, who had asthma.
She requested that in case of
death, her body would
be returned home and buried in the Charles Cemetery at
Calvin.
The funeral
was preached by Elder Louis Hon, a Primitive Baptist and a
neighbor of the
family.
Funeral services were held June 17, 1887.
Ten children had been born to my mother and my father, Green
Boultinghouse: Margaret, Hannah, Francis M., Thomas Zachariah,
Mary E.,
John Sherman, Isaac Green, Ida Annice, William Gillison and
Carson "Dick"
Boultinghouse.
To be Continued 1/22/1998
1/1/98 Posting 1 of 4
1/8/98 Posting 2 of 4
1/15/98 Posting 3 of 4 Top of
this page
1/22/98 Posting 4 of 4
Three weeks of the
Boultinghouse kin in this
County
.
The Genealogy
Library will be closed until Feb. 4,
1998.
The Genealogy Library will be closed until Feb. 4, 1998.
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THE CARMI TIMES
and CHARLENE SHIELDS
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