Illinois Family Group Sheet for the William H MIDDLEHAM Family #1
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Submitted by: Tara Loundree-Anderson
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Husband: William H MIDDLEHAM
Birthdate:
Birthplace:
Deathdate:
Place of death:
Burial:
Father:
Mother:
Other spouses: Alice CLARK, 20 May 1869, Rock Island, Illinois
Marriage date: 5 Jan 1848 (div)
Marriage date: Henry Co, Illinois
Wife: Lucy Jane MARSHALL
Birthdate: 20 Oct 1830
Birthplace: Bradford, New Hampshire [1]
Deathdate: 1886
Place of death: Polk Co, Oregon
Burial:
Father: Stephen MARSHALL
Mother: Lucinda CRESSY
Other spouses: Willis E CRESSY
CHILDREN
Child No. 1. Robert S MIDDLEHAM
Sex: M
Birthdate: Mar 1849, Henry Co, Illinois
Deathdate:, North Independence, Polk, Oregon
Burial:
Marriage dates: 28 Oct 1869, Rock Island, Illinois
Spouses' names: Mrs Ellen COMPSTON
Child No. 2. Annie E MIDDLEHAM
Sex: F
Birthdate: Sep 1851, Illinois (2)
Deathdate:
Burial:
Marriage dates: 24 Aug 1871, Rock Island Co, Illinois
Spouses' names: Peter H SHAFER
Documentation:
1. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1880 United States Census, Copyright (c) 2000, 2002 FamilySearch
(TM) Internet Genealogy Service, July 18, 2003, FHL Film 1255083; National Archives Film T9-1083; Page 483C, Family
History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA.
2. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1880 United States Census, Copyright (c) 2000, 2002 FamilySearch
(TM) Internet Genealogy Service, December 27, 2002, FHL Film 1254245; National Archives Film T9-0245; Page 333C, Family
History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA.
Notes:
* MIDDLEHAM, WILLIAM H MARSHALL, LUCY JANE HENRY 01/05/1848 / 00000176 Illinois Marraige records 1763-1900
* MIDDLEHAM, WILLIAM H REC L 9 IL US CAV ROCK ISLAND
* BIOGRAPHY: Lucy Jane Marshall was born October 20, 1830,1, a in Bradford New Hampshire,b the oldest of what would
become a family of six children. When she was 5 or 6, her parents moved to the frontier in Illinois.c Her father farmed
on about 480 acres of land just south of the Rock River in Colona township of Henry County and neighboring Coal Valley
township of Rock Island County.d Lucy's father died when she was about 15. About two years later, on January 5, 1848
Lucy married William H. Middleham in Henry County Illinois.e Lucy and William had two children, Robert S. born in 1849
and Annie E. born in 1851, both in Illinois.f Sometime prior to 1869 Lucy and William were divorced, as each of them
remarried in that year.
Lucy married Willis E. Cressy, who had recently moved to Henry County from New Hampshire, and was a cousin on her
mother's side. BIOGRAPHY: Willis and Lucy Jane had two children, Warren Plummer, born January 5, 1871 in Rock Island
Illinois, and Jessie L. in 1873.g In that same year the family moved to Chico, California where Willis taught school.2 A
biography of Willis Cressy publishing in 1903 says that he moved his family to Oregon in 1881.2 However, the 1880 census
of Independence, Polk, Oregon shows Lucy Jane Cressy as head of house with her son Warren P, while the 1880 census of
Chico, Butte, California has Willis Cressy living with William F Middlehane and his wife Annie. At this time Lucy Jane's
younger sister Isabelle was living in Independence with her husband Warren Cressy, Willis's brother, and daughters
Stella (or Estella) and Mabel.h According to Willis's biography,2 Lucy Jane died in 1886 in Oregon.
BIOGRAPHY: Family Bible of George W. and Sarah Ann Marshall Portrait an Biographical Record, Oregon, Chapman Publishing
Co. Chicago, 1903, biography of W. E. Cressy, p. 902.