from a findagrave researcher:
Joseph Enoch and Sarah Mitchell were married 05 Jan 1854 in Lexington, Illinois, when he was 21 and she was about 20. Their five children, all born in Illinois, were William, Louisa, Elmer, Andrew, and Lottie:
• William H. Enoch was born about Dec 1854, and died 25 Jun 1855 at age 7 months, 4 days. He was buried at Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Lexington, McLean County, Illinois. (
• Maria Louisa Enoch, born 17 Jun 1857, was the eldest surviving child of Joseph and Sarah.
• Elmer E. Enoch was born in Apr 1860.
• Andrew Enoch was born about 23 May 1863 (calculated from the date of his death at the age of 2 y 1 m 22 d). Andrew died 15 Jul 1865 and was buried in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery.
• Joseph and Sarah's youngest child was Lotta Alice Enoch, most often called “Lottie.” She was born 02 May 1868 in Lexington.
Sarah (Mitchell) Enoch was 34 when she died of consumption 01 Oct 1869, leaving Joseph with their three surviving children including Lottie, who was just a year and a half old. Sarah was buried at the Pleasant Hill Cemetery in McLean County, Illinois. A short obituary was published in the Lexington Courier 07 Oct 1869:
DIED.--At Pleasant Hill, McLean Co., Ill., Sarah, wife of Joseph Enoch, died October 1st 1869, of consumption aged near thirty-five years. She was a victim of consumption for a number of years, but patient and kind in her affliction. She leaves a husband and three children. A funeral discourse was delivered by the Rev. R. Pierce of the M. E. Church on the 3rd inst.
Joseph Enoch, a 40 year-old stock dealer born in Ohio, is living in Lexington at the time of the 1870 Federal Census. He has $20,000 in real estate and $10,000 in personal property. Counted with him are Maria, 23, Elmer, 13, and Lottie, 2. All the children were born in Illinois. The household includes a housekeeper, Ellen Chambers.
Joseph was married again, on 30 Apr 1872, to Anna Maria Olive (born 22 Oct 1840 in Newton Township, Muskingum County, Ohio to Rev David Olive Jr. and Anna Maria Manley). Joseph and Anna had two children, David and Olive:
• David Enoch was born 08 Oct 1877 in Illinois. David died in a shooting accident at age 12 on 17 Aug 1889, when he was fatally wounded by a shot from a pistol in the hands of a playmate. He is buried in the Lexington Cemetery in McLean County, Illinois. The Inter Ocean newspaper carried an account of the accident.
• Joseph and Anna’s daughter, Olive M. Enoch, was born in Illinois on 22 Jun 1881.
In 1880 Joseph, age 47, is working as a stock dealer and resides in Lexington with his second wife, Anna, 40, two of Joseph and Sarah’s children (Elmer, 19, and Lottie, 12), as well as Joseph and Anna’s first child, David, 2, plus one servant. Joseph and Anna both state their place of birth as Ohio, and that all four of their parents were born in Virginia.
Residing nearby, with the Silas Greg family, was Joseph's widowed mother, Julia, 64. She lists her place of birth as Connecticut, and that her parents were born in Massachusetts.
Julia Ann (Hatcher) Enoch died 11 Feb 1898 and was buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Lexington.
At the time of the 1900 Federal Census, Joseph, 67, “Annie,” 58, and Olive, 18, reside in Lexington, McLean County, Illinois where Joseph, born in May 1833, is a real estate agent and Olive, born in Jun 1881, is a teacher. The census records that Joseph and Anna were both born in Ohio. Both of Anna’s parents were born in Ohio; Joseph’s father was born in Ohio and his mother was born in Virginia. Anna, whose birth year is recorded as 1842 with no month filled in, has had one child. (This is incorrect -- She has had two, one of whom is living.) They own their home, and have a mortgage.
Other documents show that the family at one time resided at 1311 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, Illinois.
As of the 1910 Federal Census for “Lexington Ward 2,” Joseph Enoch, age 74, and his wife, Anna Enoch, age 70, have been married 37 years and are still residing at the North Street address. Joseph's occupation is listed as tax assessor. Both list their place of birth as Ohio, and Joseph indicates that he had been married previously. This census correctly records that Anna has had two children, one of whom is living.
Several discrepancies are found for the family between the 1900 and 1910 Federal Censuses. In the 1900 census, Joseph is 67, Anna 58, which is correct. In 1910 their ages are incorrectly listed as 74 and 70, respectively. In 1900 Anna’s mother’s and father’s place of birth is listed as Ohio, but in 1910 her father’s birthplace is shown as Virginia and her mother’s as Maryland.
Anna (Olive) Enoch, Ruth White's maternal step-grandmother, died in Sioux City, Iowa 07 Apr 1911, probably while Anna was visiting her daughter Olive’s family there. A Lexington newspaper included this notice of Anna’s death:
Lexington Woman is Dead
________
Mrs. Joseph Enoch, a Well Known Resident, Expired in Sioux City, Iowa
Body Brought to Lexington
-- Word was received by relatives in Lexington of the death of Mrs. Joseph Enoch, at Sioux City, Ia., early yesterday morning. She has been in Iowa only a short time.
The deceased was about 72 years of age and has been a resident of Lexington for the last 50 years. She was married almost 50 years ago to Mr. Joseph Enoch and they have resided in Lexington ever since. To this union was born one daughter, Mrs. George Clark, who is surviving. She also leaves her husband who mourns her death. The deceased has been ill for the past nine months due to old age debilities.
The remains will be brought to Lexington for her burial and it is expected that the body will arrive there Sunday afternoon and the funeral will take place some ... (not readable).
Joseph W. Enoch died in Lexington 01 May 1915 and was buried in Lexington Cemetery. According to his death certificate, the cause was chronic myocorditis (Book 9, page 14, #11). The local newspaper printed his obituary 06 May 1915:
Death Angel Visits Another Lexington Home.
Aged Man Called Saturday.
Funeral Monday.
Joseph Enoch was born at Dayton, Ohio May 18, 1833 and moved with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Absalom Enoch, to Mackinaw, Illinois in 1839. He united with the Methodist church, of which his father was a minister and a devoted member, when he was 8 years old. In 1846 the family moved to Pleasant Hill and the parents spent the remaining years of their lives in Lexington township, as did the subject of this sketch.
During the Civil War his two brothers entered the service and were members of Co. C, 9th I.V.I. The younger one John Wesley Enoch died in the service, but the other brother, Frank came home and for years was a resident of Colorado, where he died only a few years ago. Joseph, the subject of this sketch, enlisted in the service of his country, but was unable to pass the physical examination, owing to catarrhal and throat trouble. However he became an ardent and active member of the Union League which was organized at Pleasant Hill. Mr. Enoch has a sister, Mrs. Mary Hanks, now living in Fairbury.
His father, Mr. Absolom Enoch, opened the first general store ever operated in Pleasant Hill. Later he sold the business to Lowrie & Webster and his son Joseph took a position with them and was employed in driving a supply wagon loaded with groceries, dry goods and queensware which he would sell or exchange with the farmers scattered as they were at that time around the groves of the north and eastern part of McLean and parts of Livingston counties. Included in his route were Indian and Oliver’s groves in Livingston county and Rankins and Cheney’s groves and the east part of Old Town timber and all the upper Mackinaw settlements. It took him about two weeks or more to make the rounds.
On January 5, 1854 Mr. Enoch was married to Miss Sarah Mitchell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mitchell, well known residents of Lexington. Soon after their marriage the young man engaged in farming for several years, but finally quit that business and went into the buying, selling and shipping of live stock, and soon succeeded in amassing quite a fortune, but later, through some unfortunate ventures, he met with heavy losses.
His first wife died October 5, 1869. To their marriage five children were born, Louisa, who became Mrs. Isaac Bull, but who died some time ago; Lottie, now Mrs. Daniels of Chicago, Elmer who lived to be 35 years of age, also William and Andrew, both of whom died in infancy.
April 30, 1872 Mr. Enoch contracted a second marriage with Miss Anna Olive and they were the parents of two children. A son, David, was accidentally killed by the discharge of a gun in the hands of a playmate. It was a terrible blow to the parents as he was a bright boy and an only son. They also had one daughter Olive Enoch, now Mrs. George W. Clark of Appleton, Wis. A short time after his second marriage they moved from their old home in Pleasant Hill to this city and continued to reside here until the home was broken up by the visit of the Angel of Death. His second wife heard the summons, “Come home,” April 7, 1911, thus the unfortunate man was left to continue life’s journey alone, and it was a hard blow to him in his old age.
Mr. Enoch was a prominent citizen, an active business man and widely known in Central Illinois and also in Chicago. While in the real estate business he bought and sold 4,000 acres of farm land within 12 miles of Lexington and he bought 3,000 acres of government lands in the west. He also sold and traded property in Bloomington. From 1860 to 1870 he bought and shipped 40,000 hogs and 10,000 head of cattle to Chicago, and after that time he continued to be a shipper of stock until 1897. Mr. Enoch is said to have bought and shipped more live stock than any other man in McLean county, and his check or $40,000 was as good as gold, as men who knew him have told the writer. He was an active, public spirited and patriotic man. He served as assessor for years and is said to have been the oldest assessor in the county, and at the time of this retirement was in his 80th year.
During the last two or three years of his life, Mr. Enoch became a daily reader of the New Testament which was a joy and comfort to him. He was thankful to some of his friends who called upon him from time to time and who would pray with him.
The funeral was held from his late home at 2 p.m. Monday. There were some beautiful floral offerings and the attendance was large. Rev. D. S. McCown preached an appropriate and comforting sermon and was assisted in the service by Rev. E. F. Wright, who offered opening prayer and read the biographical sketch. The burial was in the Lexington cemetery.
Joseph Enoch and Sarah Mitchell were married 05 Jan 1854 in Lexington, Illinois, when he was 21 and she was about 20. Their five children, all born in Illinois, were William, Louisa, Elmer, Andrew, and Lottie:
• William H. Enoch was born about Dec 1854, and died 25 Jun 1855 at age 7 months, 4 days. He was buried at Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Lexington, McLean County, Illinois. (
• Maria Louisa Enoch, born 17 Jun 1857, was the eldest surviving child of Joseph and Sarah.
• Elmer E. Enoch was born in Apr 1860.
• Andrew Enoch was born about 23 May 1863 (calculated from the date of his death at the age of 2 y 1 m 22 d). Andrew died 15 Jul 1865 and was buried in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery.
• Joseph and Sarah's youngest child was Lotta Alice Enoch, most often called “Lottie.” She was born 02 May 1868 in Lexington.
Sarah (Mitchell) Enoch was 34 when she died of consumption 01 Oct 1869, leaving Joseph with their three surviving children including Lottie, who was just a year and a half old. Sarah was buried at the Pleasant Hill Cemetery in McLean County, Illinois. A short obituary was published in the Lexington Courier 07 Oct 1869:
DIED.--At Pleasant Hill, McLean Co., Ill., Sarah, wife of Joseph Enoch, died October 1st 1869, of consumption aged near thirty-five years. She was a victim of consumption for a number of years, but patient and kind in her affliction. She leaves a husband and three children. A funeral discourse was delivered by the Rev. R. Pierce of the M. E. Church on the 3rd inst.
Joseph Enoch, a 40 year-old stock dealer born in Ohio, is living in Lexington at the time of the 1870 Federal Census. He has $20,000 in real estate and $10,000 in personal property. Counted with him are Maria, 23, Elmer, 13, and Lottie, 2. All the children were born in Illinois. The household includes a housekeeper, Ellen Chambers.
Joseph was married again, on 30 Apr 1872, to Anna Maria Olive (born 22 Oct 1840 in Newton Township, Muskingum County, Ohio to Rev David Olive Jr. and Anna Maria Manley). Joseph and Anna had two children, David and Olive:
• David Enoch was born 08 Oct 1877 in Illinois. David died in a shooting accident at age 12 on 17 Aug 1889, when he was fatally wounded by a shot from a pistol in the hands of a playmate. He is buried in the Lexington Cemetery in McLean County, Illinois. The Inter Ocean newspaper carried an account of the accident.
• Joseph and Anna’s daughter, Olive M. Enoch, was born in Illinois on 22 Jun 1881.
In 1880 Joseph, age 47, is working as a stock dealer and resides in Lexington with his second wife, Anna, 40, two of Joseph and Sarah’s children (Elmer, 19, and Lottie, 12), as well as Joseph and Anna’s first child, David, 2, plus one servant. Joseph and Anna both state their place of birth as Ohio, and that all four of their parents were born in Virginia.
Residing nearby, with the Silas Greg family, was Joseph's widowed mother, Julia, 64. She lists her place of birth as Connecticut, and that her parents were born in Massachusetts.
Julia Ann (Hatcher) Enoch died 11 Feb 1898 and was buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Lexington.
At the time of the 1900 Federal Census, Joseph, 67, “Annie,” 58, and Olive, 18, reside in Lexington, McLean County, Illinois where Joseph, born in May 1833, is a real estate agent and Olive, born in Jun 1881, is a teacher. The census records that Joseph and Anna were both born in Ohio. Both of Anna’s parents were born in Ohio; Joseph’s father was born in Ohio and his mother was born in Virginia. Anna, whose birth year is recorded as 1842 with no month filled in, has had one child. (This is incorrect -- She has had two, one of whom is living.) They own their home, and have a mortgage.
Other documents show that the family at one time resided at 1311 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, Illinois.
As of the 1910 Federal Census for “Lexington Ward 2,” Joseph Enoch, age 74, and his wife, Anna Enoch, age 70, have been married 37 years and are still residing at the North Street address. Joseph's occupation is listed as tax assessor. Both list their place of birth as Ohio, and Joseph indicates that he had been married previously. This census correctly records that Anna has had two children, one of whom is living.
Several discrepancies are found for the family between the 1900 and 1910 Federal Censuses. In the 1900 census, Joseph is 67, Anna 58, which is correct. In 1910 their ages are incorrectly listed as 74 and 70, respectively. In 1900 Anna’s mother’s and father’s place of birth is listed as Ohio, but in 1910 her father’s birthplace is shown as Virginia and her mother’s as Maryland.
Anna (Olive) Enoch, Ruth White's maternal step-grandmother, died in Sioux City, Iowa 07 Apr 1911, probably while Anna was visiting her daughter Olive’s family there. A Lexington newspaper included this notice of Anna’s death:
Lexington Woman is Dead
________
Mrs. Joseph Enoch, a Well Known Resident, Expired in Sioux City, Iowa
Body Brought to Lexington
-- Word was received by relatives in Lexington of the death of Mrs. Joseph Enoch, at Sioux City, Ia., early yesterday morning. She has been in Iowa only a short time.
The deceased was about 72 years of age and has been a resident of Lexington for the last 50 years. She was married almost 50 years ago to Mr. Joseph Enoch and they have resided in Lexington ever since. To this union was born one daughter, Mrs. George Clark, who is surviving. She also leaves her husband who mourns her death. The deceased has been ill for the past nine months due to old age debilities.
The remains will be brought to Lexington for her burial and it is expected that the body will arrive there Sunday afternoon and the funeral will take place some ... (not readable).
Joseph W. Enoch died in Lexington 01 May 1915 and was buried in Lexington Cemetery. According to his death certificate, the cause was chronic myocorditis (Book 9, page 14, #11). The local newspaper printed his obituary 06 May 1915:
Death Angel Visits Another Lexington Home.
Aged Man Called Saturday.
Funeral Monday.
Joseph Enoch was born at Dayton, Ohio May 18, 1833 and moved with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Absalom Enoch, to Mackinaw, Illinois in 1839. He united with the Methodist church, of which his father was a minister and a devoted member, when he was 8 years old. In 1846 the family moved to Pleasant Hill and the parents spent the remaining years of their lives in Lexington township, as did the subject of this sketch.
During the Civil War his two brothers entered the service and were members of Co. C, 9th I.V.I. The younger one John Wesley Enoch died in the service, but the other brother, Frank came home and for years was a resident of Colorado, where he died only a few years ago. Joseph, the subject of this sketch, enlisted in the service of his country, but was unable to pass the physical examination, owing to catarrhal and throat trouble. However he became an ardent and active member of the Union League which was organized at Pleasant Hill. Mr. Enoch has a sister, Mrs. Mary Hanks, now living in Fairbury.
His father, Mr. Absolom Enoch, opened the first general store ever operated in Pleasant Hill. Later he sold the business to Lowrie & Webster and his son Joseph took a position with them and was employed in driving a supply wagon loaded with groceries, dry goods and queensware which he would sell or exchange with the farmers scattered as they were at that time around the groves of the north and eastern part of McLean and parts of Livingston counties. Included in his route were Indian and Oliver’s groves in Livingston county and Rankins and Cheney’s groves and the east part of Old Town timber and all the upper Mackinaw settlements. It took him about two weeks or more to make the rounds.
On January 5, 1854 Mr. Enoch was married to Miss Sarah Mitchell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mitchell, well known residents of Lexington. Soon after their marriage the young man engaged in farming for several years, but finally quit that business and went into the buying, selling and shipping of live stock, and soon succeeded in amassing quite a fortune, but later, through some unfortunate ventures, he met with heavy losses.
His first wife died October 5, 1869. To their marriage five children were born, Louisa, who became Mrs. Isaac Bull, but who died some time ago; Lottie, now Mrs. Daniels of Chicago, Elmer who lived to be 35 years of age, also William and Andrew, both of whom died in infancy.
April 30, 1872 Mr. Enoch contracted a second marriage with Miss Anna Olive and they were the parents of two children. A son, David, was accidentally killed by the discharge of a gun in the hands of a playmate. It was a terrible blow to the parents as he was a bright boy and an only son. They also had one daughter Olive Enoch, now Mrs. George W. Clark of Appleton, Wis. A short time after his second marriage they moved from their old home in Pleasant Hill to this city and continued to reside here until the home was broken up by the visit of the Angel of Death. His second wife heard the summons, “Come home,” April 7, 1911, thus the unfortunate man was left to continue life’s journey alone, and it was a hard blow to him in his old age.
Mr. Enoch was a prominent citizen, an active business man and widely known in Central Illinois and also in Chicago. While in the real estate business he bought and sold 4,000 acres of farm land within 12 miles of Lexington and he bought 3,000 acres of government lands in the west. He also sold and traded property in Bloomington. From 1860 to 1870 he bought and shipped 40,000 hogs and 10,000 head of cattle to Chicago, and after that time he continued to be a shipper of stock until 1897. Mr. Enoch is said to have bought and shipped more live stock than any other man in McLean county, and his check or $40,000 was as good as gold, as men who knew him have told the writer. He was an active, public spirited and patriotic man. He served as assessor for years and is said to have been the oldest assessor in the county, and at the time of this retirement was in his 80th year.
During the last two or three years of his life, Mr. Enoch became a daily reader of the New Testament which was a joy and comfort to him. He was thankful to some of his friends who called upon him from time to time and who would pray with him.
The funeral was held from his late home at 2 p.m. Monday. There were some beautiful floral offerings and the attendance was large. Rev. D. S. McCown preached an appropriate and comforting sermon and was assisted in the service by Rev. E. F. Wright, who offered opening prayer and read the biographical sketch. The burial was in the Lexington cemetery.
from a findagrave researcher:
Joseph Enoch and Sarah Mitchell were married 05 Jan 1854 in Lexington, Illinois, when he was 21 and she was about 20. Their five children, all born in Illinois, were William, Louisa, Elmer, Andrew, and Lottie:
• William H. Enoch was born about Dec 1854, and died 25 Jun 1855 at age 7 months, 4 days. He was buried at Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Lexington, McLean County, Illinois. (
• Maria Louisa Enoch, born 17 Jun 1857, was the eldest surviving child of Joseph and Sarah.
• Elmer E. Enoch was born in Apr 1860.
• Andrew Enoch was born about 23 May 1863 (calculated from the date of his death at the age of 2 y 1 m 22 d). Andrew died 15 Jul 1865 and was buried in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery.
• Joseph and Sarah's youngest child was Lotta Alice Enoch, most often called “Lottie.” She was born 02 May 1868 in Lexington.
Sarah (Mitchell) Enoch was 34 when she died of consumption 01 Oct 1869, leaving Joseph with their three surviving children including Lottie, who was just a year and a half old. Sarah was buried at the Pleasant Hill Cemetery in McLean County, Illinois. A short obituary was published in the Lexington Courier 07 Oct 1869:
DIED.--At Pleasant Hill, McLean Co., Ill., Sarah, wife of Joseph Enoch, died October 1st 1869, of consumption aged near thirty-five years. She was a victim of consumption for a number of years, but patient and kind in her affliction. She leaves a husband and three children. A funeral discourse was delivered by the Rev. R. Pierce of the M. E. Church on the 3rd inst.
Joseph Enoch, a 40 year-old stock dealer born in Ohio, is living in Lexington at the time of the 1870 Federal Census. He has $20,000 in real estate and $10,000 in personal property. Counted with him are Maria, 23, Elmer, 13, and Lottie, 2. All the children were born in Illinois. The household includes a housekeeper, Ellen Chambers.
Joseph was married again, on 30 Apr 1872, to Anna Maria Olive (born 22 Oct 1840 in Newton Township, Muskingum County, Ohio to Rev David Olive Jr. and Anna Maria Manley). Joseph and Anna had two children, David and Olive:
• David Enoch was born 08 Oct 1877 in Illinois. David died in a shooting accident at age 12 on 17 Aug 1889, when he was fatally wounded by a shot from a pistol in the hands of a playmate. He is buried in the Lexington Cemetery in McLean County, Illinois. The Inter Ocean newspaper carried an account of the accident.
• Joseph and Anna’s daughter, Olive M. Enoch, was born in Illinois on 22 Jun 1881.
In 1880 Joseph, age 47, is working as a stock dealer and resides in Lexington with his second wife, Anna, 40, two of Joseph and Sarah’s children (Elmer, 19, and Lottie, 12), as well as Joseph and Anna’s first child, David, 2, plus one servant. Joseph and Anna both state their place of birth as Ohio, and that all four of their parents were born in Virginia.
Residing nearby, with the Silas Greg family, was Joseph's widowed mother, Julia, 64. She lists her place of birth as Connecticut, and that her parents were born in Massachusetts.
Julia Ann (Hatcher) Enoch died 11 Feb 1898 and was buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Lexington.
At the time of the 1900 Federal Census, Joseph, 67, “Annie,” 58, and Olive, 18, reside in Lexington, McLean County, Illinois where Joseph, born in May 1833, is a real estate agent and Olive, born in Jun 1881, is a teacher. The census records that Joseph and Anna were both born in Ohio. Both of Anna’s parents were born in Ohio; Joseph’s father was born in Ohio and his mother was born in Virginia. Anna, whose birth year is recorded as 1842 with no month filled in, has had one child. (This is incorrect -- She has had two, one of whom is living.) They own their home, and have a mortgage.
Other documents show that the family at one time resided at 1311 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, Illinois.
As of the 1910 Federal Census for “Lexington Ward 2,” Joseph Enoch, age 74, and his wife, Anna Enoch, age 70, have been married 37 years and are still residing at the North Street address. Joseph's occupation is listed as tax assessor. Both list their place of birth as Ohio, and Joseph indicates that he had been married previously. This census correctly records that Anna has had two children, one of whom is living.
Several discrepancies are found for the family between the 1900 and 1910 Federal Censuses. In the 1900 census, Joseph is 67, Anna 58, which is correct. In 1910 their ages are incorrectly listed as 74 and 70, respectively. In 1900 Anna’s mother’s and father’s place of birth is listed as Ohio, but in 1910 her father’s birthplace is shown as Virginia and her mother’s as Maryland.
Anna (Olive) Enoch, Ruth White's maternal step-grandmother, died in Sioux City, Iowa 07 Apr 1911, probably while Anna was visiting her daughter Olive’s family there. A Lexington newspaper included this notice of Anna’s death:
Lexington Woman is Dead
________
Mrs. Joseph Enoch, a Well Known Resident, Expired in Sioux City, Iowa
Body Brought to Lexington
-- Word was received by relatives in Lexington of the death of Mrs. Joseph Enoch, at Sioux City, Ia., early yesterday morning. She has been in Iowa only a short time.
The deceased was about 72 years of age and has been a resident of Lexington for the last 50 years. She was married almost 50 years ago to Mr. Joseph Enoch and they have resided in Lexington ever since. To this union was born one daughter, Mrs. George Clark, who is surviving. She also leaves her husband who mourns her death. The deceased has been ill for the past nine months due to old age debilities.
The remains will be brought to Lexington for her burial and it is expected that the body will arrive there Sunday afternoon and the funeral will take place some ... (not readable).
Joseph W. Enoch died in Lexington 01 May 1915 and was buried in Lexington Cemetery. According to his death certificate, the cause was chronic myocorditis (Book 9, page 14, #11). The local newspaper printed his obituary 06 May 1915:
Death Angel Visits Another Lexington Home.
Aged Man Called Saturday.
Funeral Monday.
Joseph Enoch was born at Dayton, Ohio May 18, 1833 and moved with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Absalom Enoch, to Mackinaw, Illinois in 1839. He united with the Methodist church, of which his father was a minister and a devoted member, when he was 8 years old. In 1846 the family moved to Pleasant Hill and the parents spent the remaining years of their lives in Lexington township, as did the subject of this sketch.
During the Civil War his two brothers entered the service and were members of Co. C, 9th I.V.I. The younger one John Wesley Enoch died in the service, but the other brother, Frank came home and for years was a resident of Colorado, where he died only a few years ago. Joseph, the subject of this sketch, enlisted in the service of his country, but was unable to pass the physical examination, owing to catarrhal and throat trouble. However he became an ardent and active member of the Union League which was organized at Pleasant Hill. Mr. Enoch has a sister, Mrs. Mary Hanks, now living in Fairbury.
His father, Mr. Absolom Enoch, opened the first general store ever operated in Pleasant Hill. Later he sold the business to Lowrie & Webster and his son Joseph took a position with them and was employed in driving a supply wagon loaded with groceries, dry goods and queensware which he would sell or exchange with the farmers scattered as they were at that time around the groves of the north and eastern part of McLean and parts of Livingston counties. Included in his route were Indian and Oliver’s groves in Livingston county and Rankins and Cheney’s groves and the east part of Old Town timber and all the upper Mackinaw settlements. It took him about two weeks or more to make the rounds.
On January 5, 1854 Mr. Enoch was married to Miss Sarah Mitchell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mitchell, well known residents of Lexington. Soon after their marriage the young man engaged in farming for several years, but finally quit that business and went into the buying, selling and shipping of live stock, and soon succeeded in amassing quite a fortune, but later, through some unfortunate ventures, he met with heavy losses.
His first wife died October 5, 1869. To their marriage five children were born, Louisa, who became Mrs. Isaac Bull, but who died some time ago; Lottie, now Mrs. Daniels of Chicago, Elmer who lived to be 35 years of age, also William and Andrew, both of whom died in infancy.
April 30, 1872 Mr. Enoch contracted a second marriage with Miss Anna Olive and they were the parents of two children. A son, David, was accidentally killed by the discharge of a gun in the hands of a playmate. It was a terrible blow to the parents as he was a bright boy and an only son. They also had one daughter Olive Enoch, now Mrs. George W. Clark of Appleton, Wis. A short time after his second marriage they moved from their old home in Pleasant Hill to this city and continued to reside here until the home was broken up by the visit of the Angel of Death. His second wife heard the summons, “Come home,” April 7, 1911, thus the unfortunate man was left to continue life’s journey alone, and it was a hard blow to him in his old age.
Mr. Enoch was a prominent citizen, an active business man and widely known in Central Illinois and also in Chicago. While in the real estate business he bought and sold 4,000 acres of farm land within 12 miles of Lexington and he bought 3,000 acres of government lands in the west. He also sold and traded property in Bloomington. From 1860 to 1870 he bought and shipped 40,000 hogs and 10,000 head of cattle to Chicago, and after that time he continued to be a shipper of stock until 1897. Mr. Enoch is said to have bought and shipped more live stock than any other man in McLean county, and his check or $40,000 was as good as gold, as men who knew him have told the writer. He was an active, public spirited and patriotic man. He served as assessor for years and is said to have been the oldest assessor in the county, and at the time of this retirement was in his 80th year.
During the last two or three years of his life, Mr. Enoch became a daily reader of the New Testament which was a joy and comfort to him. He was thankful to some of his friends who called upon him from time to time and who would pray with him.
The funeral was held from his late home at 2 p.m. Monday. There were some beautiful floral offerings and the attendance was large. Rev. D. S. McCown preached an appropriate and comforting sermon and was assisted in the service by Rev. E. F. Wright, who offered opening prayer and read the biographical sketch. The burial was in the Lexington cemetery.
Joseph Enoch and Sarah Mitchell were married 05 Jan 1854 in Lexington, Illinois, when he was 21 and she was about 20. Their five children, all born in Illinois, were William, Louisa, Elmer, Andrew, and Lottie:
• William H. Enoch was born about Dec 1854, and died 25 Jun 1855 at age 7 months, 4 days. He was buried at Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Lexington, McLean County, Illinois. (
• Maria Louisa Enoch, born 17 Jun 1857, was the eldest surviving child of Joseph and Sarah.
• Elmer E. Enoch was born in Apr 1860.
• Andrew Enoch was born about 23 May 1863 (calculated from the date of his death at the age of 2 y 1 m 22 d). Andrew died 15 Jul 1865 and was buried in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery.
• Joseph and Sarah's youngest child was Lotta Alice Enoch, most often called “Lottie.” She was born 02 May 1868 in Lexington.
Sarah (Mitchell) Enoch was 34 when she died of consumption 01 Oct 1869, leaving Joseph with their three surviving children including Lottie, who was just a year and a half old. Sarah was buried at the Pleasant Hill Cemetery in McLean County, Illinois. A short obituary was published in the Lexington Courier 07 Oct 1869:
DIED.--At Pleasant Hill, McLean Co., Ill., Sarah, wife of Joseph Enoch, died October 1st 1869, of consumption aged near thirty-five years. She was a victim of consumption for a number of years, but patient and kind in her affliction. She leaves a husband and three children. A funeral discourse was delivered by the Rev. R. Pierce of the M. E. Church on the 3rd inst.
Joseph Enoch, a 40 year-old stock dealer born in Ohio, is living in Lexington at the time of the 1870 Federal Census. He has $20,000 in real estate and $10,000 in personal property. Counted with him are Maria, 23, Elmer, 13, and Lottie, 2. All the children were born in Illinois. The household includes a housekeeper, Ellen Chambers.
Joseph was married again, on 30 Apr 1872, to Anna Maria Olive (born 22 Oct 1840 in Newton Township, Muskingum County, Ohio to Rev David Olive Jr. and Anna Maria Manley). Joseph and Anna had two children, David and Olive:
• David Enoch was born 08 Oct 1877 in Illinois. David died in a shooting accident at age 12 on 17 Aug 1889, when he was fatally wounded by a shot from a pistol in the hands of a playmate. He is buried in the Lexington Cemetery in McLean County, Illinois. The Inter Ocean newspaper carried an account of the accident.
• Joseph and Anna’s daughter, Olive M. Enoch, was born in Illinois on 22 Jun 1881.
In 1880 Joseph, age 47, is working as a stock dealer and resides in Lexington with his second wife, Anna, 40, two of Joseph and Sarah’s children (Elmer, 19, and Lottie, 12), as well as Joseph and Anna’s first child, David, 2, plus one servant. Joseph and Anna both state their place of birth as Ohio, and that all four of their parents were born in Virginia.
Residing nearby, with the Silas Greg family, was Joseph's widowed mother, Julia, 64. She lists her place of birth as Connecticut, and that her parents were born in Massachusetts.
Julia Ann (Hatcher) Enoch died 11 Feb 1898 and was buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Lexington.
At the time of the 1900 Federal Census, Joseph, 67, “Annie,” 58, and Olive, 18, reside in Lexington, McLean County, Illinois where Joseph, born in May 1833, is a real estate agent and Olive, born in Jun 1881, is a teacher. The census records that Joseph and Anna were both born in Ohio. Both of Anna’s parents were born in Ohio; Joseph’s father was born in Ohio and his mother was born in Virginia. Anna, whose birth year is recorded as 1842 with no month filled in, has had one child. (This is incorrect -- She has had two, one of whom is living.) They own their home, and have a mortgage.
Other documents show that the family at one time resided at 1311 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, Illinois.
As of the 1910 Federal Census for “Lexington Ward 2,” Joseph Enoch, age 74, and his wife, Anna Enoch, age 70, have been married 37 years and are still residing at the North Street address. Joseph's occupation is listed as tax assessor. Both list their place of birth as Ohio, and Joseph indicates that he had been married previously. This census correctly records that Anna has had two children, one of whom is living.
Several discrepancies are found for the family between the 1900 and 1910 Federal Censuses. In the 1900 census, Joseph is 67, Anna 58, which is correct. In 1910 their ages are incorrectly listed as 74 and 70, respectively. In 1900 Anna’s mother’s and father’s place of birth is listed as Ohio, but in 1910 her father’s birthplace is shown as Virginia and her mother’s as Maryland.
Anna (Olive) Enoch, Ruth White's maternal step-grandmother, died in Sioux City, Iowa 07 Apr 1911, probably while Anna was visiting her daughter Olive’s family there. A Lexington newspaper included this notice of Anna’s death:
Lexington Woman is Dead
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Mrs. Joseph Enoch, a Well Known Resident, Expired in Sioux City, Iowa
Body Brought to Lexington
-- Word was received by relatives in Lexington of the death of Mrs. Joseph Enoch, at Sioux City, Ia., early yesterday morning. She has been in Iowa only a short time.
The deceased was about 72 years of age and has been a resident of Lexington for the last 50 years. She was married almost 50 years ago to Mr. Joseph Enoch and they have resided in Lexington ever since. To this union was born one daughter, Mrs. George Clark, who is surviving. She also leaves her husband who mourns her death. The deceased has been ill for the past nine months due to old age debilities.
The remains will be brought to Lexington for her burial and it is expected that the body will arrive there Sunday afternoon and the funeral will take place some ... (not readable).
Joseph W. Enoch died in Lexington 01 May 1915 and was buried in Lexington Cemetery. According to his death certificate, the cause was chronic myocorditis (Book 9, page 14, #11). The local newspaper printed his obituary 06 May 1915:
Death Angel Visits Another Lexington Home.
Aged Man Called Saturday.
Funeral Monday.
Joseph Enoch was born at Dayton, Ohio May 18, 1833 and moved with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Absalom Enoch, to Mackinaw, Illinois in 1839. He united with the Methodist church, of which his father was a minister and a devoted member, when he was 8 years old. In 1846 the family moved to Pleasant Hill and the parents spent the remaining years of their lives in Lexington township, as did the subject of this sketch.
During the Civil War his two brothers entered the service and were members of Co. C, 9th I.V.I. The younger one John Wesley Enoch died in the service, but the other brother, Frank came home and for years was a resident of Colorado, where he died only a few years ago. Joseph, the subject of this sketch, enlisted in the service of his country, but was unable to pass the physical examination, owing to catarrhal and throat trouble. However he became an ardent and active member of the Union League which was organized at Pleasant Hill. Mr. Enoch has a sister, Mrs. Mary Hanks, now living in Fairbury.
His father, Mr. Absolom Enoch, opened the first general store ever operated in Pleasant Hill. Later he sold the business to Lowrie & Webster and his son Joseph took a position with them and was employed in driving a supply wagon loaded with groceries, dry goods and queensware which he would sell or exchange with the farmers scattered as they were at that time around the groves of the north and eastern part of McLean and parts of Livingston counties. Included in his route were Indian and Oliver’s groves in Livingston county and Rankins and Cheney’s groves and the east part of Old Town timber and all the upper Mackinaw settlements. It took him about two weeks or more to make the rounds.
On January 5, 1854 Mr. Enoch was married to Miss Sarah Mitchell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mitchell, well known residents of Lexington. Soon after their marriage the young man engaged in farming for several years, but finally quit that business and went into the buying, selling and shipping of live stock, and soon succeeded in amassing quite a fortune, but later, through some unfortunate ventures, he met with heavy losses.
His first wife died October 5, 1869. To their marriage five children were born, Louisa, who became Mrs. Isaac Bull, but who died some time ago; Lottie, now Mrs. Daniels of Chicago, Elmer who lived to be 35 years of age, also William and Andrew, both of whom died in infancy.
April 30, 1872 Mr. Enoch contracted a second marriage with Miss Anna Olive and they were the parents of two children. A son, David, was accidentally killed by the discharge of a gun in the hands of a playmate. It was a terrible blow to the parents as he was a bright boy and an only son. They also had one daughter Olive Enoch, now Mrs. George W. Clark of Appleton, Wis. A short time after his second marriage they moved from their old home in Pleasant Hill to this city and continued to reside here until the home was broken up by the visit of the Angel of Death. His second wife heard the summons, “Come home,” April 7, 1911, thus the unfortunate man was left to continue life’s journey alone, and it was a hard blow to him in his old age.
Mr. Enoch was a prominent citizen, an active business man and widely known in Central Illinois and also in Chicago. While in the real estate business he bought and sold 4,000 acres of farm land within 12 miles of Lexington and he bought 3,000 acres of government lands in the west. He also sold and traded property in Bloomington. From 1860 to 1870 he bought and shipped 40,000 hogs and 10,000 head of cattle to Chicago, and after that time he continued to be a shipper of stock until 1897. Mr. Enoch is said to have bought and shipped more live stock than any other man in McLean county, and his check or $40,000 was as good as gold, as men who knew him have told the writer. He was an active, public spirited and patriotic man. He served as assessor for years and is said to have been the oldest assessor in the county, and at the time of this retirement was in his 80th year.
During the last two or three years of his life, Mr. Enoch became a daily reader of the New Testament which was a joy and comfort to him. He was thankful to some of his friends who called upon him from time to time and who would pray with him.
The funeral was held from his late home at 2 p.m. Monday. There were some beautiful floral offerings and the attendance was large. Rev. D. S. McCown preached an appropriate and comforting sermon and was assisted in the service by Rev. E. F. Wright, who offered opening prayer and read the biographical sketch. The burial was in the Lexington cemetery.
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