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R/RFHA Newsletter. December 1989 P.3
Courtesy of
JAMES HARRIS of Boonville, Indiana... portion of a letter from a Julia A.
Bristow, dated September 20, 1956, written from Lincoln, Nebraska.
"A
bible record of the family of NATHAN RAWLINGS turned up the other day and I am
sending it to you and it may be the Dr. Kirkwood you mentioned would like to
have it. Also a clipping was loaned to me telling of the death of JOHN T.
RAWLINGS, 83, of Petersburg, Illinois, on July 9, 1956. I might add this Bible
record came through my Douglass cousins and as you will note, ADELINE RAWLINGS
married William J. Douglass. (Ed. note: This NATHAN is son of NATHAN, the
Revolutionary War Hero, 1750-1821)
NATHAN
RAWLINGS, b. Sept. 16, 1793, d. Sept. 5, 1865, aged 71 years 11 months 19 days.
Married Polly McCleave, b. Feb. 18, 1805, and d. Sept. 27, 1903, aged 98 years,
7 months and 9 days. She was the daughter of Benjamin McCleave. NATHAN and
Polly's children were:
HARRY, b.
Dec. 26, 1922
SCOTT, b.
Dec. 28, 1824, m. Mary Ann Douglass Aug. 7, 1848, Lawrence Co., Illinois. They
moved to Sangamon Co., Ill, but later moved back to Lawrence County.
CALVIN,
b. Oct. 15, 1826
JANE, b.
March 13, 1828, m. Charles Douglass, brother of Mary Ann Douglas, wife of
SCOTT.
PROVENCE,
b. April 4, 1830
BETSEY,
b. July 24, 1833, m. Mr. Maltby and d. May 20, 1919. This family also moved to
Sangamon County, Illinois.
RACHEL,
b. July 25, 1832 or 1835.
BENJAMIN,
b. June 12, 1837.
ABNER, b.
Jan. 7. 1839.
ADELINE,
b. Jan. 12, 1841, in Lawrence Co., ILL., d. Aug. 30, 1912, near Old Berlin,
Ill., Aged 71 years, 7 months 18 days. She married William J. Douglass, nephew
of Mary Ann Douglass Rawlings, and son of Milton Douglass, on Nov. 30, 1865.
NATHAN
III, b. May 5, 1845; d. about 1908. He married Martha Cogdal. Their son, JOHN
T. of Petersburg, Illinois, died Monday, July 9, 1956, at Tullula, Ill. JOHN
was born Nov. 22, 1872, in Menard County, Ill. He married Anna Elmore Sept. 26,
1900, in Petersburg. Surviving are his wife, sons EMORY and LYNN, both of
Petersburg... three grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, a brother ROY of
Wisconsin, a sister MRS. LULY GUNSON of Bedford, Iowa. A son, CLARK, preceded
him in death."
"One
of SCOTT RAWLINGS' grandsons died in California in April of this year. He had
become very interested in his ancestors and we had been corresponding regularly
for some months before he died. He had three outstanding sons and they are a
credit to the name of RAWLINGS. These children were born in Lincoln, Nebraska,
but the family moved West a few years ago. FLOYD RAWLINGS died in Redlands, California."
(Ed.Note:
There is other information on this family in the R/RFHA files.)
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