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Cemetery no longer exists. Unless other arrangements were made, the individuals that were still located there were removed (if grave was located) and transferred to Bellefontaine Cemetery.
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Death of Abner Eads - We learned by telegraph from St. Louis yesterday that Abner Eads esq., died in that city on Monday. Mr. Eads was a resident of Galena but spent the last year in California. On his return last month he was attacked by the Chagres fever, of which he lingered until the day after his arrival at St. Louis. Mr. Gregg, our secretary of state, and his lady who is the daughter of Mr. Eads were telegraphed of his arrival and sickness, and immediately set out to meet him, but he had breathed his last before their arrival.
Mr. Eads was about sixty years of age; he settled in Galena at an early day and acquired a prominency as an energetic and able business man and a public spirited citizen. He has served in the legislature with credit, as well as in other public relations.
Daily Illinois State Register - Thursday, Dec 04, 1851
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(The journey to California back then involved taking a steamer from the Atlantic ocean to Chagres aka Aspinwall (Atlantic side of Panama), crossing the isthmus by cart (and in later years train), and then taking another steamer from Panama City to San Francisco.
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Abner Eads, an early settler who was elected the first sheriff of Fulton County (which then included Peoria) in 1823, operated Peoria’s first ferry. He bought 160 acres in Peoria. Part of it became City Cemetery, which is now Lincoln Park, location of the Lincoln Library branch. Eads moved to Galena about 1834. He is buried in St. Louis.
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(Said to be the son of Abraham Eads and Mary Margaret Mullins Eads)
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The credit of holding the first Protestant services is generally ascribed to Rev. Jesse Walker, a man whose name is familiar in the early history of Northern and Central Illinois, and who is remembered by the surviving settlers of 1820 to 1853 with feelings akin to veneration.
The seeds of Methodism were planted in Peoria county in the year 1823, when William Eads and his family joined his brother, Abner Eads, and other early settlers at Fort Clark. Rev. Mr. Walker labored among the early settlers in the northern part of Illinois as a missionary of hte Methodist Church. (Daily Illinois State Journal - Tuesday, Nov 11, 1879)
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Missouri City Death Records -
A Eads
Death Date: 1 Dec 1851 (transcription thinks it is a 7)
Birth Place: Kentucky
Cemetery: Presbyterian
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Cemetery no longer exists. Unless other arrangements were made, the individuals that were still located there were removed (if grave was located) and transferred to Bellefontaine Cemetery.
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Death of Abner Eads - We learned by telegraph from St. Louis yesterday that Abner Eads esq., died in that city on Monday. Mr. Eads was a resident of Galena but spent the last year in California. On his return last month he was attacked by the Chagres fever, of which he lingered until the day after his arrival at St. Louis. Mr. Gregg, our secretary of state, and his lady who is the daughter of Mr. Eads were telegraphed of his arrival and sickness, and immediately set out to meet him, but he had breathed his last before their arrival.
Mr. Eads was about sixty years of age; he settled in Galena at an early day and acquired a prominency as an energetic and able business man and a public spirited citizen. He has served in the legislature with credit, as well as in other public relations.
Daily Illinois State Register - Thursday, Dec 04, 1851
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(The journey to California back then involved taking a steamer from the Atlantic ocean to Chagres aka Aspinwall (Atlantic side of Panama), crossing the isthmus by cart (and in later years train), and then taking another steamer from Panama City to San Francisco.
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Abner Eads, an early settler who was elected the first sheriff of Fulton County (which then included Peoria) in 1823, operated Peoria’s first ferry. He bought 160 acres in Peoria. Part of it became City Cemetery, which is now Lincoln Park, location of the Lincoln Library branch. Eads moved to Galena about 1834. He is buried in St. Louis.
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(Said to be the son of Abraham Eads and Mary Margaret Mullins Eads)
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The credit of holding the first Protestant services is generally ascribed to Rev. Jesse Walker, a man whose name is familiar in the early history of Northern and Central Illinois, and who is remembered by the surviving settlers of 1820 to 1853 with feelings akin to veneration.
The seeds of Methodism were planted in Peoria county in the year 1823, when William Eads and his family joined his brother, Abner Eads, and other early settlers at Fort Clark. Rev. Mr. Walker labored among the early settlers in the northern part of Illinois as a missionary of hte Methodist Church. (Daily Illinois State Journal - Tuesday, Nov 11, 1879)
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Missouri City Death Records -
A Eads
Death Date: 1 Dec 1851 (transcription thinks it is a 7)
Birth Place: Kentucky
Cemetery: Presbyterian
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Cemetery no longer exists. Unless other arrangements were made, the individuals that were still located there were removed (if grave was located) and transferred to Bellefontaine Cemetery.
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Death of Abner Eads - We learned by telegraph from St. Louis yesterday that Abner Eads esq., died in that city on Monday. Mr. Eads was a resident of Galena but spent the last year in California. On his return last month he was attacked by the Chagres fever, of which he lingered until the day after his arrival at St. Louis. Mr. Gregg, our secretary of state, and his lady who is the daughter of Mr. Eads were telegraphed of his arrival and sickness, and immediately set out to meet him, but he had breathed his last before their arrival.
Mr. Eads was about sixty years of age; he settled in Galena at an early day and acquired a prominency as an energetic and able business man and a public spirited citizen. He has served in the legislature with credit, as well as in other public relations.
Daily Illinois State Register - Thursday, Dec 04, 1851
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(The journey to California back then involved taking a steamer from the Atlantic ocean to Chagres aka Aspinwall (Atlantic side of Panama), crossing the isthmus by cart (and in later years train), and then taking another steamer from Panama City to San Francisco.
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Abner Eads, an early settler who was elected the first sheriff of Fulton County (which then included Peoria) in 1823, operated Peoria’s first ferry. He bought 160 acres in Peoria. Part of it became City Cemetery, which is now Lincoln Park, location of the Lincoln Library branch. Eads moved to Galena about 1834. He is buried in St. Louis.
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(Said to be the son of Abraham Eads and Mary Margaret Mullins Eads)
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The credit of holding the first Protestant services is generally ascribed to Rev. Jesse Walker, a man whose name is familiar in the early history of Northern and Central Illinois, and who is remembered by the surviving settlers of 1820 to 1853 with feelings akin to veneration.
The seeds of Methodism were planted in Peoria county in the year 1823, when William Eads and his family joined his brother, Abner Eads, and other early settlers at Fort Clark. Rev. Mr. Walker labored among the early settlers in the northern part of Illinois as a missionary of hte Methodist Church. (Daily Illinois State Journal - Tuesday, Nov 11, 1879)
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Missouri City Death Records -
A Eads
Death Date: 1 Dec 1851 (transcription thinks it is a 7)
Birth Place: Kentucky
Cemetery: Presbyterian
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Cemetery no longer exists. Unless other arrangements were made, the individuals that were still located there were removed (if grave was located) and transferred to Bellefontaine Cemetery.
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Death of Abner Eads - We learned by telegraph from St. Louis yesterday that Abner Eads esq., died in that city on Monday. Mr. Eads was a resident of Galena but spent the last year in California. On his return last month he was attacked by the Chagres fever, of which he lingered until the day after his arrival at St. Louis. Mr. Gregg, our secretary of state, and his lady who is the daughter of Mr. Eads were telegraphed of his arrival and sickness, and immediately set out to meet him, but he had breathed his last before their arrival.
Mr. Eads was about sixty years of age; he settled in Galena at an early day and acquired a prominency as an energetic and able business man and a public spirited citizen. He has served in the legislature with credit, as well as in other public relations.
Daily Illinois State Register - Thursday, Dec 04, 1851
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(The journey to California back then involved taking a steamer from the Atlantic ocean to Chagres aka Aspinwall (Atlantic side of Panama), crossing the isthmus by cart (and in later years train), and then taking another steamer from Panama City to San Francisco.
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Abner Eads, an early settler who was elected the first sheriff of Fulton County (which then included Peoria) in 1823, operated Peoria’s first ferry. He bought 160 acres in Peoria. Part of it became City Cemetery, which is now Lincoln Park, location of the Lincoln Library branch. Eads moved to Galena about 1834. He is buried in St. Louis.
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(Said to be the son of Abraham Eads and Mary Margaret Mullins Eads)
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The credit of holding the first Protestant services is generally ascribed to Rev. Jesse Walker, a man whose name is familiar in the early history of Northern and Central Illinois, and who is remembered by the surviving settlers of 1820 to 1853 with feelings akin to veneration.
The seeds of Methodism were planted in Peoria county in the year 1823, when William Eads and his family joined his brother, Abner Eads, and other early settlers at Fort Clark. Rev. Mr. Walker labored among the early settlers in the northern part of Illinois as a missionary of hte Methodist Church. (Daily Illinois State Journal - Tuesday, Nov 11, 1879)
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Missouri City Death Records -
A Eads
Death Date: 1 Dec 1851 (transcription thinks it is a 7)
Birth Place: Kentucky
Cemetery: Presbyterian
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