Individual Notes

Note for: Cynthia Abigail Porter, 3 Oct 1835 - 21 May 1912 Index

Burial:
     Place:   Bone Gap, Edwards, Illinois, USA

Individual Note:
     DEATH: Death date on tombstone listed as 21 May 1912. She died by falling down a well on their property. Her birth and death dates are listed in an obituary and on her tombstone in Bone Gap Cemetery.

BURIAL: Bone Gap Cemetery.

NAME: Abigail appears on the marriage license of her son, Alfred Scott Hocking, original on file at Edwards Co. Court House, Albion, Illinois.

BIRTH: Parley Hocking on his family group sheet lists her birthday as 3 Oct 1837.

~ORDINANCE WORK: Parlie L. Hocking was the Family Representative who submitted this person for her temple work in 1948. For Cynthia A. Porter, ordinances were also performed as follows: Baptism 21 Sep 1996 Portland Temple; endowment 28 Nov 1997 Portland Temple; and sealing to parents 16 Jul 1998 Portland Temple. Baptism also performed 18 Sep 1991 Provo Temple and endowment on 4 Jan 1992 in Provo Temple.

NOTES: Cynthia Porter weighed 2 and a half pounds at birth. Before her death she weighed 240 pounds.

TIB: Logan Temple Index Bureau Card SL 54125 #11290 Book E-3, p. 538.

MARRIAGE: The certificate is not on record at the Edwards Co. Court House, Albion, Illinois.

Individual Notes

Note for: George Bunting, 7 Nov 1815 - 27 Dec 1891 Index

Christening:
     Date:   14 Nov 1815
     Place:   Quainton, Buckingham, England

Burial:
     Place:   Albion, Edwards, Illinois, USA

Individual Note:
     TOMBSTONE: George Bunting, Sr. of Quainton, England, was born 7 Nov 1815 and died 27 Dec 1891, age 76 years, 1 month, 20 days. Burial in West Village Cemetery. (Judith Rittenhouse has buried in Albion in another place.)

SOURCE: RIT001E. George came to the U.S. from England in 1830, settled in Albion, Edwards, Illinois, and married twice. Vital Records of Edwards County, Albion, Edwards, Illinois; Mrs. Virginia Bunting Cooper, North 5th Street, Albion, Illinois.

NOTE: One of submitters to Ancestral File for this family is Janet Flower, 1631 SW Yamhill #311, Portland, Oregon 97205.

OCCUPATION: Farmer and Stock Raiser.

CENSUSES:
Ancestry.com, 1870 U. S. Federal Census : Illinois. Edwards. Albion Precinct. 251/150: Bunting, George, age 53 (?), M, W, farmer, real estate of $5000/pers. estate of $4000. Born in England. Both parents born in foreign country. U. S. Citizen. With second wife Eliza, two children by his first wife, and four children by Eliza.

Individual Notes

Note for: Eliza or Elizabeth Colyer, 3 Oct 1819 - 26 Apr 1910 Index

Nickname:   Eliza

Event:   Given by Janet Flowers in Ancestral File
     Type:   Alt. Birth
     Place:   Wanborough, Edwards, Illinois, USA

Burial:
     Date:   28 Apr 1910
     Place:   Albion, Edwards, Illinois, USA

Individual Note:
     SOURCE: RIT001E, Alma Elizabeth Rittenhouse's folder.

BURIAL: Wanboro Cemetery.

BIRTH: Second white child born in the English Settlement. She was born in Village Prairie which in 1819 was about two miles north of Albion. A small stream called the Village ran through it to the Little Wabash. The town does not seem to exist in 2006.

CENSUSES:
1870 U. S. Federal Census : Illinois. Edwards. Albion Precinct. 251/150: Bunting, Eliza, age 50, F, W, keeping house, born in Illinois. Parents born in foreign country. With husband George, two children by the first wife, and four children of her own.

Individual Notes

Note for: Rebecca Bray, 17 Mar 1759 - Index

Birth Note: Source: Notes by ERL : In census as Rebecca Rittenhouse. She would be the widow of William Rittenhouse and the g g g grandmother of ERL.

Individual Note:
BIRTH: Date taken from ERL's "Record of My Ancestry."

MARRIAGE: Probably wife #2 for William.

Individual Notes

Note for: Thomas Welles, ABT 1763 - 27 Jul 1825 Index

Burial:
     Place:   Smock, Redstone Twnshp, Fayette, Pennsylvania, USA

Birth Note: Source:    Note by ERL in records copied from Franklin Township: No Thomas Wells found.

Death Note: Source:    Thomas Wells, of Redstone Twp. (b. 1763). Will dated 5-2-1824 and probated 8-6-1825. (Will Book l, p. 857.) Susana, wife (b. 1764); Polly Rittenhouse, dau.; Elizabeth Bartley, dau.; Hannah Chaffin, dau.; David, son. Grandchildren, children of Polly: William Rittenhouse (b. 1802); Elizabeth Rittenhouse; James Rittenhouse (b. 1809/1810), Susannah Rittenhouse; David Rittenhouse; Wilson Rittenhouse. ERL gives birthdates which I have in parentheses in green ink. She typed Grandchild, children of Polly even with James Rittenhouse which would delete William Rittenhouse and Elizabeth Rittenhouse; however, they would have had to have the name of Wells to be Thomas' children.

Death Note: Source:    Smock Old Baptist Cemetery. Tombstone has Thomas Wells, d. 7-27-1825, aged 62.

Individual Note:
     DEATH: (See RIT001E) Genealogical Records, Fayette Co., PA, 5 vols., Daughter of American Colonists, Chief Tanacharison Chapter, Connellsville, PA, Vol. l, pp. 53-54: Thomas Welles resided in Redstone Township, Fayette Co., PA. Will dated 2 May 1824 and probated 6 Aug 1825 (Will Book 1, p. 857)

SURNAME: RIT001E gives "Welles." SLG's charts give "Wells."

BURIAL: Buried in Smock Old Baptist Cemetery.