Re: family history research
HIGGS, HALL, CAMPBELL, RANKIN, THOMPSON, STROUD, ADAMS
Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email) In Response To: Re: family history research (Ron Lange)
Date: 3/10/2018 at 20:41:04
Father Higgs of Hillsdale, whose age and bodily infirmities are beginning to tell upon him, still maintains :an active interest in politics and is thoroughly in earnest in his wish to help along the republican ticket. Although he can hear with the greatest difficulty he has sent in a request for a meeting at Hillsdale and wants Congressman Dolliver to be present. According to Mr. Higgs there is nothing too good for the republicans, nor nothing the democrats need more than a Dolliver speech.
Glenwood Opinion -- Glenwood, Iowa
October 21, 1897******
Artimissa Martha Stroud Higgs
Born December 25, 1824 in Dickson, Dickson, Tennessee
Died January 27, 1911 in Logan County, Illinois
Buried in Atlanta, Logan, IllinoisInformation on William Higgs' wife Artimissa (Stroud) Higgs:
Hon. Laban M. Stroud, who is now living a retired life on his farm near Pontiac, has been a resident of the state since 1830. He is a native of Tennessee, born near the city of Nashville, Dixon county, September 27, 1822, and is the son of Thomas and Sally (Thompson) Stroud, the former a native of North Carolina, born in 1791, and the latter a native of Virginia and daughter of Neal Thompson, who located in Tennessee in 1789, and there became a large and wealthy planter and where the remainder of his life was passed. Thomas Strond was a son of Jesse and grandson of Peter Stroud, both of whom were natives of North Carolina, but of English and Irish ancestry. Jesse Stroud moved from North Carolina to Tennessee and located in Obion county, where he owned a large plantation and a number of slaves.
Thomas Stroud grew to manhood in Tennessee and in 1812 married Sally Thompson, by whom he had a family of two sons and seven daughters, two only of the number now living, our subject and his sister, Mrs. Artimissa Higgs, now living with our subject. The other members of the family were Cassa R.. Fanetta, Sinia Sabury, Ellen, Obedience Lee, Mourning Tilford. Julian and Milton P.
Thomas Stroud was a soldier in the war of 1812 and served under General Jackson. He was a planter in Tennessee for some years after his marriage. but with the desire to better provide for his family, he came to Illinois in 1830, first stopping in Sangamon county, where he spent one season and then moved to that portion of Tazewell county which was later detached and now forms the county of Logan. On settling in the latter county he took up a claim of one hundred and sixty acres, a part of which was government land, which be improved and on which he continued to live until his death, March 7, 1858. His wife passed away in 1857.
The subject of this sketch was eight years of age when he came with his parents to Illinois. His educational advantages were limited. but his advantages for work were not. The farm was to be improved, crops were to be planted and harvested, and he must do his share of the work. In his youth, however, he learned the carpenter’s trade with his uncle, Colonel S. M. Thompson, but he continued to make his home with his parents until some years after attaining his majority.
On the 7th of April, 1847, Mr. Stroud was united in marriage with Miss Elvy Adams, who was born in Bedford county, Tennessee, January 9, 1826, and daughter of Captain John G. Adams, a native of one of the Carolinas, but who came to Illinois and located in Tazewell county in 1828, when his daughter was but two years old. He was in command of a cavalry company in the Black Hawk war and was killed by the Indians. His wife was so shocked by the death of her husband that she lost her mind and never recovered, though she lived many years afterward dying when seventy-five years old. The family were of Scotch ancestry and were early settlers of North Carolina, from which state they moved to Tennessee and later to Illinois.
After his marriage Mr. Stroud bought one hundred and sixty acres of unimproved land. which be improved and on which he continued to live until 1879. in the meantime adding to its area until it comprised a well improved farm of four hundred and twenty-live acres. Renting his place he moved to Minier, where he bought residence property and where he made his home for ten years. He then came to Livingston county and took up his residence 011 his farm adjoining the city of Pontiac, which he purchased at that time, comprising one hundred and sixty-three acres. all of which is under improvement. He had previously, in 1885, purchased a farm of four hundred acres lying northeast of the city of Pontiac.
To Mr. and Mrs. Stroud seven children were born. Louisa is the wife of H. H. Darnell, of Tazewell county, Illinois. Martha is the wife of William Neal Mountjoy, of Logan county, Illinois. Thomas Frank resides in Omaha, Nebraska. Mrs. Sarah Jane Livesay is a resident of Livingston county. Parmelia Annie resides at home. John G. is married and is engaged in farming in Livingston county. Warren M. is carrying on the home farm. After fifty-two years of a happy wedded life Mrs. Stroud passed to her reward December 5, 1899, while on a visit to the old neighborhood in Logan county, where so many years of her life were spent. Her remains were laid to rest in the Niblack cemetery, there to wait the resurrection day. She was a faithful helpmeet to her husband, to whom she was greatly attached, and was a most loving mother. The family and all who knew her in this life will always hold her in grateful remembrance.
Politically Mr. Stroud is a Jackson Democrat and he has been an earnest advocate of the principles of his party throughout life. His first presidential vote was cast for James K. Polk in 1844. and from that time to the present the nominee of his party has always received his ballot. By his fellow citizens he has been honored with various local offices, serving for many years as a member of the county board of supervisors. In 1872 he was elected by his party a member of the General Assembly, the district comprising the counties of Tazewell and Logan, and served two years, during which time he served on several important committees and was known as a working member. Believing that others should serve, he declined further political honors. Since he was eighteen of age Mr. Stroud has been a member of the Christian church and has ever taken an interest in the work of the church and in the evangelization of the world. His good wife was also a member of the same church. At the present time his membership is with the church in Pontiac.
Like thousands of the well-to-do men of this country, Mr. Stroud began life with but little means, but he had health, a good constitution, a stout heart and willing hands. He was not afraid of work, and with temperate habits and an earnest desire to do right with his fellow men, he has labored on until to-day he is the owner of six well improved farms, comprising about two thousand acres, and is well content to live a quiet life, enjoying the fruits of his labor in the past, while others shall take up the more active duties. Well known and universally respected, he can quietly review the past with the satisfaction of one who has not lived in vain, while those that know him can feel that the world is better for the life that he has lived.
The Biographical Record of Livingston County, Illinois, 1900, pages 131-133.
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