R/RFHA Newsletter, December 1999 P.47
(Subscriber's name lost who submitted this information. My apologies.)
Carroll County, State of Illinois
On this 7th day of August A.D. 1852, personally appeared
before me, a Justice
of the Peace, one James Thompson, aged thirty-five years, a
resident of the County of Jo Daviess in said state, who being duly sworn
according to the law upon his oath says that he was well acquainted with
MICHAEL RAWLINGS in his lifetime, that he has often seen him write so is well
acquainted with his handwriting, and that the record in the Bible now presented
is in the Bible that he has seen used by the late MICHAEL RAWLINGS, and was
called his Bible...and that this is a true copy of said record, to Wit: MICHAEL
RAWLINGS and Mary Thompson were married Thursday, May the 15th, 1834." And
that he knows that they, the said MICHAEL RAWLINGS and Mary Thompson aforesaid,
lived together as husband and wife from the time of said marriage till his
death...and that he has no doubt of the record above copied, being the
handwriting of the said MICHAEL RAWLINGS. And that he, this affiant, was
present at the death of the said MICHAEL RAWLINGS...that he died in the County
of Jo Daviess in the state of Illinois, in the month of June A.D. 1850.
(signed) James Thompson
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written,
and I hereby certify that I believe James Thompson to be a credable witness.
Leonard Gop (?), Justice of the Peace
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Carroll County, State of Illinois
Thomas Thompson of Jo Daviess County, Illinois, being first
duly sworn, deposes and says he is aged almost sixty years and has been a
resident of the Township of Pleasant Valley in said Jo Daviess County for more
than thirty-seven years last past..That he has personally been well acquainted
with MICHAEL RAWLINGS and his wife Mary RAWLINGS, both of whom died in said
Pleasant Valley Township, and was and is personally well acquainted with all
the children and heirs-at-law of said Mary RAWLINGS, deceased, and that their
names and Post Office addresses are as follows: ADALINE, now the wife of Stuart
Morehead of Sanama (?), Carroll County, Illinois … JOHN R RAWLINGS, Sugar Creek,
Benton Co., Illinois … AMANDA,
wife of William Brock, Mt. Carroll, Carroll Co., Illinois … JAMES
C. RAWLINGS, Pleasant Valley, Jo Daviess Co., Illinois … JOSEPH M. RAWLINGS,
Pleasant Valley, JoDaviess Co., Illinois … SUSANNA M., wife of Alex McCain of
Pleasant Valley, Jo Daviess Co., Illinois … MARTHA ANN, wife of James Elliott,
Pleasant Valley, Jo Daviess Co., Illinois … CAROLINE, wife of John Wilson,
Wichita, Kansas... and none others. Neither are there any grandchildren,
children of a deceased child. The only child of Mary RAWLINGS, deceased, that
died did so at about the age of two years.
(signed) Thomas Thompson
Subscribed and sworn to by the said Thomas Thompson whom I
certify to be respectable and entitled to credit, and I certify that I have no
interest directly or indirectly in the prosecution of this claim.
Dated this 10th day of April, AD 1876...R.M.Hawk, Clerk of
the County Court Carrol County, Illinois
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