Commodore Chauncey "C.C." Root Sr .9. (Manna Root .8, James Root.7, Eleazar Root.6, Thomas Root.5, Joseph Root.4, Thomas Roote.3, John Root.2, Thomas Root.1)born: 14 August 1812, New York, died: 19 August 1888, 76 Years, 5 days old, Grisham Township, Montgomery County Illinois, buried: 20 August 1888, Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Montgomery County Illinois,son of: Manna Root and Hannah Lunbeck, married: 21 July 1839, Vernon, Jennings County Indiana, Cynthia Prather, born: 19 January 1824 Vernon, Jennings County Indiana, died: 16 December 1908, Walshville, Montgomery County Illinois, buried: Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Montgomery County Illinois, daughter of: John Lloyd Prather and Mary Cower, Children; William Henry Root, Charles Root, Erastus Melvin Root, Thomas Benjamin Root, David Hiram Root, John Edward Root, Mary Ellen Root, Commodore Chauncey Root Jr., Nancy Jane (Root) Kennedy-Snell (Mrs. Arthur M. Kennedy)(Mrs. Robert Justin Snell), Cynthia "Alice" (Root) Price (Mrs. Thomas S. Price), Joseph Lane Root, George Grant Root.

Source; History of Montgomery County Illinois (no date)
C. C. Root, has a saw-mill in operation in the Southern part of the Township, which is doing a large and paying business. There have been several portable mills in the township at various times, but none of them did business on a very extensive scale. They have all been removed, and at present time, there are but the two mills, already mentioned in operation in this section of the county. Some attention has been given to Stock raising by the farmers of this township and a number of good farms are to be found within the limits, C. C. ROOT and C. H. Edwards, were among the first to make stock raising a specialty, and many fine cattle and sheep are seen upon their farms. While Stock has received considerable attention, agriculture is the principal occupation of the people, and promises to be for years to come.

Erastus Melvin "Ronce" Root.10, (Commodore Chauncey "C.C." Root Sr .9, Manna Root .8, James Root.7, Eleazar Root.6, Thomas Root.5, Joseph Root.4, Thomas Roote.3, John Root.2, Thomas Root.1) born: 26 April 1844, Vernon, Jennings County Indiana, died: 3 October 1892, aged 48 years 5 months and 7 days old, Walshville, Montgomery County Illinois, buried: Elmwood Cemetery, Litchfield, Montgomery County Illinois, son of; Commodore Chauncey Root and Cynthia Prather, married: 14 December 1865, Walshville, Montgomery County Illinois, Frances Ewing Barlow, born: 21 January 1847, Walshville, Montgomery County Illinois, died: 22 July 1933, Indianapolis, Marion County Indiana, buried: Washington Park East Cemetery, Indianapolis Indiana, daughter of: Rev. Joseph Barlow and Nancy Jane Blair, Children: Olive Cynthia "Ollie" (Root) Armstrong (Mrs Charles Allen Armstrong), George Commodore Root, Dr. Charles Clinton Root.