Colonel James H. Jolliff settled about the year 1828 on Crooked Creek, Clinton County, a few miles southwest of the present city of Centralia, and built a water-mill, about 1830, on that stream near the site of Sherwood's horse-mill, erected in 1817. James was a Virginia soldier in the War of 1812, and with his brother-in-law, James Rhea, served with Perry on Lake Erie, being among the contingent of one hundred and fifty men furnished by General Harrison to Commodore Perry to complete the crews in his fleet. Afterwards both James Jolliff and James Rhea were engaged in the Battle of the Thames, September 17, 1813, where the celebrated Indian chief Tecumseh was killed. Both men were celebrated Indian fighters in the early days of the Northwest. Colonel Jolliff was twice married and left numerous descendants. His son Reuben W. Jolliff was captain of Company G, 111th Illinois Infantry and his younger brother Samuel Anderson Jolliff was a 1st Lieutenant in the same company, also in Company G was their step brother Pvt. Gibson Burton, son of their father's second wife Susannah by her previous marriage. Reuben, Samuel, and Gibson were with General Sherman on his march through Georgia to the sea during the American Civil War. Reuben and Samuel were in the Grand Review of the Union Army in Washington DC, May 1865. Gibson did not survive the war. He died of wounds suffered at Big Shanty, Georgia in 1864 and is buried in the Chatanooga National Cemetery, Chatanooga, Tennessee.
Jolliff Cemetery was founded on James' land and several of his kin are buried here, some in unmarked graves.
Jolliff Cemetery was founded on James' land and several of his kin are buried here, some in unmarked graves.
Colonel James H. Jolliff settled about the year 1828 on Crooked Creek, Clinton County, a few miles southwest of the present city of Centralia, and built a water-mill, about 1830, on that stream near the site of Sherwood's horse-mill, erected in 1817. James was a Virginia soldier in the War of 1812, and with his brother-in-law, James Rhea, served with Perry on Lake Erie, being among the contingent of one hundred and fifty men furnished by General Harrison to Commodore Perry to complete the crews in his fleet. Afterwards both James Jolliff and James Rhea were engaged in the Battle of the Thames, September 17, 1813, where the celebrated Indian chief Tecumseh was killed. Both men were celebrated Indian fighters in the early days of the Northwest. Colonel Jolliff was twice married and left numerous descendants. His son Reuben W. Jolliff was captain of Company G, 111th Illinois Infantry and his younger brother Samuel Anderson Jolliff was a 1st Lieutenant in the same company, also in Company G was their step brother Pvt. Gibson Burton, son of their father's second wife Susannah by her previous marriage. Reuben, Samuel, and Gibson were with General Sherman on his march through Georgia to the sea during the American Civil War. Reuben and Samuel were in the Grand Review of the Union Army in Washington DC, May 1865. Gibson did not survive the war. He died of wounds suffered at Big Shanty, Georgia in 1864 and is buried in the Chatanooga National Cemetery, Chatanooga, Tennessee.
Jolliff Cemetery was founded on James' land and several of his kin are buried here, some in unmarked graves.
Jolliff Cemetery was founded on James' land and several of his kin are buried here, some in unmarked graves.
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