McNeil Yaw Connection

While organizing my family files today, I found this small note.  Looks like Grandma Mildred Arnold's handwriting. 
Merlene McNeil married Donald Coulom. So Don's mother was a Yaw, her father being a Yaw of Onarga. 
Interesting as the Robbins line also ties in with the Yaws.  I believe Benjamin and Cynthia Robbin's daughter, Cynthia, married Henry Yaw.  They are buried in the Onarga Cemetery.
More Research.

Articles

Some interesting articles I gleaned from newspapers.com relating to Johnson and Beckie (Zwig) Arnold.

--Paxton Record.  11 December 1919.  Page 7.

This article leads me to believe they lived somewhere else prior to the corner of Adda and Locust Streets location. It states "They will reside in the residence property which they purchased some time ago . . ."  They must have been renting out this home to the Forster/Foster family.  I saw an article that said Johnson lived on North Street (but I can't find it now of course.)  More research. 
They must not have lived in the North Street home very long, as the next two articles are their purchase of the Locust Street home in
1920.  

--Roberts Herald.  1 September 1920.  Page 5.



--Paxton Record.  25 November 1920.  Page 1.

--Map of Lyman Township.  1916.

The Burn's Addition is to the west of the High School Gym in Roberts, across Locust Street.  I believe Johnson and Beckie lived in the little yellow home on the corner of Adda and Locust.  We remember it as the home where the Bob Hoover family lived.  I thought my great grandparents built this home, but the above article states it was the residence property of the Baylers.   

I found the following article about the North Street home, but not sure it
makes sense.  The wording in the article is very confusing (as some of these older newspapers obviously had no proofreaders.)
More research.  What home on North Street did Johnson own? 
 

--The Pantagraph.  Bloomington, Illinois.  14 January 1922.  Page 12.

 

 --Paxton Record.  29 September 1938.  Page 7.

 

So Johnson and Beckie purchase a home in Roberts some time prior to 1919 (several years prior) on North Street.  They move into this home in 1919.  Then the next year, they purchase the home on Locust Street (above photo.)  Here they will live out their lives.  Both Johnson and Beckie died in 1938.  And the above article talks of the sale in 1938 to Mr. Fred Sturm.

 

No Arnolds here, but a nice shot from the front yard of the home on Locust Street.  Some Roberts ladies. 

Jerry Sturm identified some of them when I posted this photo on the Roberts History Group Facebook page:  "Starting on right, first lady not sure, next is my Grandma Ida Sturm, not sure, sure, Mrs Seng or Schuler?, Gerty Sturm, not sure last two. Picture was taken at Fred and Ida Sturm's front yard across from high school."

Beckie O.

--1900 United States Federal Census.  Lyman Township.  Ford County.  Illinois.

A middle initial for Beckie and all family members.  I wonder what her middle name is?  I checked 1910, 1920, and 1930 census also.  No middle initials for anyone listed. More research needed.

Joseph N. McNeil Related to Eli?

 

 

 

--Roberts Herald.  26 June 1918.

 

Today, while posting obits to the Lyman Township Cemetery Blog, I came across the obituary for Joseph Nelson McNeil.  Joseph was born in Adams County, Ohio in 1839 per the obit.  A coincidence that Eli McNeil's father, William Kirkpatrick McNeil, was also born in Adams County, Ohio?  Maybe a connection for the McNeil side.  The obit also describes family in the Dakotas, I believe Hattie and Eli lived in South Dakota at some time during the marriage.  Does anyone know this McNeil connection?  Email me at jandowell@hotmail.com.  Curious.

Another Family Album

 

I need to add names to all of these photos.  Research.

--Susan M. Family Photo Album.  2017.

James Tarvin

Information on the services of James W. Tarvin.  James was the son of Tom Tarvin and  Mary (Arnold) Bunker Tarvin. 
More research.  His father?  Where is he buried?

--K. Family Photo Album.

Husband Dyer

"husband - Dyer" 
This photos is next to Ida (Johnson) Ladd's photo in the album.  But I think Ida was married to Dr. Jedidiah Ladd. I am not sure who this is, but I have heard the name Dyer before I believe in the "New York Letters."
More research. 

--K. Family Photo Album.

Joseph & Arthur Johnson

I think Joseph and Arthur are the children of Amanda (Johnson) Johnson.  Amanda is a sister to Lora Ann (Johnson) Arnold.
Research.

--K. Family Photo Album.

Joseph Arnold ???

My "scrapbook identification information" photo is so blurry it is hard to read.  I do remember that this notation said "Amos Arnold's grandfather, died at ?  Joseph."
Although I do not think this is Joseph Arnold, grandfather of Amos S. Arnold.  Joseph died in 1852.  Early in the history of photography and "cabinet sized" photos.
More research needed here.

--K. Family History Album.

McNeil Farm

Section 8, Wall Township, Ford County, Illinois. 

On the 1884 plat of Wall Township this section is owned by C. Anderson, probably Christopher Anderson of Roberts.  The 1901 map shows Amos Arnold as the section owner.  There appears to be a small square between the H and the A in the word "Hattie" on Section 8 which would indicate a residence.  The home location does not appear on the 1981 Ford County, Illinois Rural Resident Directory.

--Historical Atlas of Ford County Illinois.  1884.

--Ford County, Illinois.  Rural Resident Directory.  1981.

RESEARCH:  Photograph this property.  Are there any buildings here?  Find a photo of the home.