Ann Graham

Ann married Joshua Cantrall about 1772 in Botetourt County, Virginia. Joshua was born on 8 Aug 1748; died on 9 Sep 1800. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Levi Cantrall, the seventh son of Joshua, was born October 1, 1787, in Virginia. His parents moved to Kentucky in 1789. He was there married to Fanny England, November 30, 1809. Sher was born October 2, 1792. They moved to Ohio, then to Illinois, reaching the place where Springfield now stands, December 4, 1819. They journeyed to a place near where the town of Cantrall now is, and there improved a farm where Mr. Cantrall lived until his death. The following notes are taken from writing left by him:

"December 4, I camped where Springfield now is a city. December 5, came across the Sangamon River and on the 7th looked for the location I now live on. December 8 set to build a cabin and got one raised and chinked and chimney up to the mantle, and the weather set in so hard that mortar could not be used. December 24 the snow began to fall, one snow after another, until it was two feet on a level and became extremely cold until the 11th of February. On the night of the 11th it moderated and rained until 12 o'clock. At this date there was Wyatt Cantrall, Matthew Holland, Alexander Crawford, Henry Crawford, Kellogg, John Dixon and myself, on the way to the American bottom for provisions. In the evening changed severely cold. Camped at Hickory Point. Met William Proctor with a lot of stock hogs and 112th camped together. December 13th camped at Dory Ford. By this time our company numbered 10 men and seven teams. December 14 camped at Padies on Kohoky Creek. December 15 to the American bottom to the six-mile prairie, then loaded up with meal and flour. On the 18th started home with 14 head of hogs, and the weather was thawing in the day and freezing at night and the waters began to rise and got so we had to head some streams. Some days we had to break the ice so as to let the hogs get through the sloughs. At night was cold. We come to old Father Bans, who was stuck in a snowdrift for three days with a load of corn. He was badly frost bitten. We helped him out and kept him in company with us till we got to Brush Creek. There we cut him a good supply of wood for fire. The water was so high that he was to stay until and water fell, but after we left, the old man ventured in and lost a part of his corn. He was a cripple all summer with the freezing of his feet.
The next day we got seven miles to Sugar Creek. There we had to cut timber and build a bridge on the ice and drove our hogs on the ice and swim out on the land. We got over and camped. Traveled one mile that day. New Day got to where the steam distillery stand, (where the C. & A. now crosses Sangamon, north of Springfield, and camped. By this time the river got over the banks and no ferry boat or canoe, we got a grubbing hoe and our ax and made a trough, and Bro. Wyatt came across to get tools to build canoe, but did not return for days. Fourth day while I was in camp Stephen England come with a family to the camp, and we sent a boy to Mr. Kelly's, where the city of Springfield now is, for a set of tools and made a canoe and commended swimming and ferrying with the canoe, and on the twenty-first day from the start we and party arrived in good health and spirits.
The snow yet remained in drifts until the 10th of March. The spring was fine and we began to improve. On the 25th day of April there was a heavy rain and that was the last till the 19th of July. The drought set in the the late planted corn never came up until the July rain, and in May, the 26th, there was a frost that cut the corn to the ground.
The season was so bad that we thought about moving back to the settlement, but in August went down to the American bottom and got a load of corn, and Bro. Wyatt and as far as where Selly mill stands, and my team stuck fast in the mud. There I had to unload the corn and reload one of the hottest days in August. All the drink was out of a horse track while I was doing this. Bro Wyatt had gone across to Spring Creek to Elias mill to get grinding. In a few days I went down to the Ridge Prairie and bought a set of mill stones and built what we then called a band mill, constructed by a large wheel 40 feet over and a rawhide or a tug around a wheel, and ground the first grain ever on the north side of the Sangamon River in the fall of 1820. Then the people came to my mill for thirty miles and in 1822, in the spring, I built a water mill. that was the only chance for the north for fifty miles for a while.
In the fall of 1830 I built a saw mill. The season was very dry, so that I could not grand none and had my hands to dig the foundation deep in the bed of the creek and in the month of November there came one shower and I caught enough of water to saw eighty feet of lumber and then it began to snow and snowed one snow after another, till it was four feet on a level and drifted till in covered the stake and ride red fences and in many places was seven or eight feet deep. On my farm, too, it took two good yoke of oxen to haul one shock of fodder and continued so till in February 1831."

"Levi" was left an orphan when twelve years old and was bound to a man who was a tanner. He was whipped so severely that he carried the scars, showing them in his old age to friends. At the age of fourteen he ran away from his master and made his own living. He taught his children to show kindness to the poor and needy by relating to them his onw hardships when young. Quoted from the book "The Cantrell Family" by Carmi G. Cantrell.

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Levi married Frances England on 30 Nov 1809 in Kentucky. Frances was born on 2 Oct 1792; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Wyatt was born December 20, 1790 in Bath County, KY., the same year that his parents moved from Bote tourt County, VA. He married Sally England and moved to Clarke County, OH., where they had three children. They then moved in company with her father, Stephen England, to St. Clair County, IL., in the fall of 1819, and in the spring of 1819, they built homes in what is now Fancy Creek, township in Sangamon County, IL., where they had six children. Wyatt and Levi lived on adjoining farms just north of Cantrall, IL. Taken from the book "The Cantrell Family" by Carmi G. Cantrell.
There Wyatt remained until after the death of his wife, Sally, on August 1, 1840. In the fall of 1841, he married Mrs. Polly Kingsbury, whose maiden name was Foster. She died about 1859.


Wyatt came to Whiteside County, IL "in 1836 and located near Sterling. He made claim of the prairie in the bend of the river, and also of the large island in Rock River, long since known as Cantrell's Island, upon which there was a large growth of timber. In 1838 he built a mill on the rapids of Rock River, getting his power by making adam of loose stones ............ It was at this mill that the people on the east and south side of Whiteside and the north side of Henry and Bureau Counties had their grists ground for ten years.
Mr. Cantrell took a prominent part in the affairs of the community during the early days, and was always regarded as a straightforward, honest, public-spirited man. He died recently at his son's residence in Kansas. (William and Stephen lived at Black Bob, Johnson County, Kansas). His remains were brought to Sterling, and buried October 31, 1877.

Taken from "History of Whiteside County, Illinois, Sterling Township," page 407. Original in Denver Public Library, Denver, Colorado.

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Wyatt married Sarah "Sally" England on 14 Aug 1811 in Bath County, Kentucky. Sarah was born on 20 Dec 1794; died on 4 Aug 1840 in Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He appears to have been the first of 14 children born to Levi and Frances.

Thomas Cantrall, on June 22, 1856, while working at a saw mill, was killed when a team of horses befame frightened by a blowing whistle and dragged a saw log over him.

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(Research):

Census Listings:

1850 Census
Illinois, Menard County
Enumerated 20 Sept 1850
318-326
Thomas Cantrel38 M Farmer 5250 Ky
Elizabeth Cantrel 30 F Ky (Second wife)
Clarissa Cantrell 17 F Ill
T. Cantrell 15 M Ill
Y. Cantrell 13 M Ill
Levi Cantrel 12 M Ill
N. A. Cantrel 10 F Ill
Frances Cantrel 8 F Ill
Mary Cantrel 4 F Ill
Thos. Cantrel 8 M Ill
Martha Cantrel 1 F Ill

Thomas married Priscilla D. McLemore on 3 Oct 1831. Priscilla (daughter of Young McLemore and Nancy Ann Plumlee) was born on 14 Sep 1814 in Tennessee; died after 1846 in Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eliza married John W. McLemore about 1835. John (son of Young McLemore and Nancy Ann Plumlee) was born between 1808 and 1812 in Tennessee; died in Aug 1871 in Whiteside County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The Cantrell family: a biographical album and history of the descendants of Zebulon Cantrell...covering the period from 1700 to 1898, edited by Carmi G. Cantrell, Google eBook notes that "D. P. Cantrall, son of Wyatt, was born May 7, 1818, in Ohio. That year his parents moved to Sagamon county, Illinois. March 13, 1841, he married Eleanor McLemore. She was born March 20, 1820. Their children are: Young M., Sarah E., Erastus D., Catherine E. Y. M Cantrall lives at Milledgeville, Ill. Mrs. Catherine Riddle lives near Rushville, Neb. The other two died youn. Mrs. Cantrall died January 15, 1864, and David P. married for his second wife Ursual Bull Janaury 15, 1861. Their children are: Eddie C., Wyatt B., and Nettie C. Mrs. Eddie C. Kirkpatrick lived near Lisbon, Iowa. Wyatt B. lives near Stanborn, Iowa. Mrs. Nettie C. Whiteman near Lisbon, Iowa. David P. Cantrall died January 21, 1892, and his widow died August 25, 1894. "

David married Eleanor A. "Helen" "Ellen" McLemore on 13 Mar 1841 in Illinois. Eleanor (daughter of Young McLemore and Nancy Ann Plumlee) was born on 20 Mar 1820 in Tennessee; died on 15 Jan 1864. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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Name: Clarissa Cantrall
Titles and Terms (original):
Death Date: 01 Sep 1916
Death Place: Road Dist. No.98, Menard, Illinois
Gender: Female
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Age: 83
Estimated Birth Year: 1833
Birth Date: About 1833
Birthplace: Sangamon Co., Ill.
Father: Thomas Cantrall
Father's Titles and Terms (original):
Father's Birth Place: Kentucky
Mother: Mclemore
Mother's Titles and Terms (original):
Mother's Birth Place:
Occupation: Seamstress
Residence:
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Burial Date: 03 Sep 1916
Burial Place: Athens, Ill.
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Digital Folder Number: 4007976
Image Number: 1074
Film Number: 1530829
Volume/Page/Certificate Number: cn27378
Collection: Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947

Notes:

James Alkire (jnjalkire@sbcglobal.net) shows that Young M. CANTRALL,was born 1838 in Sangamon, IL and died 1 July 1863 at Vicksburg, MS.

Notes:

She married Almanza Merrill, and they lived in Nevada.

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Census Listings:

1860 Census
Illinois, Whiteside County, Mount Pleasant
Enumerated 21 July 1860
Page 331
2544-2434
N. A. Merrill 30 M Farmer 1600 430 Ohio
Lycinda Merrill 25 F Ill
Frank W. Merrill 5 M Ill

1870 Census
Not located


1880 Census
Nevada, Washoe County
Enumerated 8,9 and 10 June 1880
60-60
Barber SK W M 51 Farmily Mining NY Mass Mass
Barber, Mary J W F 50 Wf Housekeeper NY NY England
Barber, Edward W M 20 Son Clerk Wisc NY NY
Merrill, M. A. W M 49 Family Mining Ohio NY NY
Merrill, F. T. W F 43 Wf Housekeeper Ill TN Oh
Merrill, F. W. W M 24 M Son Mining Ill Oh NY
Merrill, E F W M 13 Son Helper Ill Oh NY

1900 Census
Neveda, Washoe County, 3rd Ward
Enumerated 1 Jun 1900
SD 222 ED 41 Sheet 2A
119-26-33
Merrill. Lucinda Head W F Nov 1835 64 W 2/2 Ill Tn Ohio
Huntd, D. Rooms W M Jan 1840 60 S Mo Oh Oh

Lucinda married Noah Almanza Merrill on 13 Aug 1853 in Whiteside County, Illinois. Noah was born on 11 Jun 1831 in Ohio; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The biography of his father stated that he lived with his family in California. He was on the California Voter Registration list in 1882, 1888, 1890, 1892, 1896, and 1898 as a resident of Sacramento. His bith year was listed as 1841

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Census Listings:

1880 Census
Neveda, Washoe County
Enumerated 16 and 17 Jun 1880
Page 15 SD 81 ED 52
149-149
McLemore, Clarence W M 39 Family Carpenter Ill Ky Ky
McLemore, Maria W F 39 Wf Housekeeper Ind NY NY
McLemore, Josephine W F 13 Dtr At Home Ill Ind Ill


1900 Census
California, Sacramento, Ward 1
Enumerated 12 Jun 1900
SD 1 ED 76 Sheet 6A Stamped 130
209-71-97
McLemore, Clarence Head W M Jun 1840 59 m 39 Ill Ill Ill Carpenter
McLemore, Maria Wf W F apr 1841 59 M 39 2/2 Ind NY NY Cook
Scott, Julious Roomer W M Jan 1864 36 S Molder NY Vermont Vermont
Burdick, Frank Roomer W M Feb 1838 62 m 1 Architect Ny Vermont Vermont

Clarence married Maria ??? before 1867. Maria was born in Apr 1841 in Indiana; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The Cantrell family: a biographical album and history of the descendants of Zebulon Cantrell...covering the period from 1700 to 1898, edited by Carmi G. Cantrell, Google eBook notes that "Young M. Cantrall was born June 30, 1842. Married Emiline BUSWEL, February 5, 1865. She was born August 12, 1843. Died September 1, 1875. They had one child, George, born July 18, 1875. Mr. Cantrall married for his second wife Emma HUBBARD, March 6, 1877. She was born May 6, 1856. Their children, Frank, born February 14, 1880; died October 22, 1887, and Gertrude born July 26, 1891. Young M. Cantrall lives in Milledgeville, Ill."

Notes:

The Cantrell family: a biographical album and history of the descendants of Zebulon Cantrell...covering the period from 1700 to 1898, edited by Carmi G. Cantrell, Google eBook notes that Erastus D. Cantrall died June 22, 1867, when 19 years old.

Notes:

The Cantrell family: a biographical album and history of the descendants of Zebulon Cantrell...covering the period from 1700 to 1898, edited by Carmi G. Cantrell, Google eBook notes that she was born March 26, 1853. Married G. H. RIDDLE March 18, 1874. They have no children, and live near Rushville, Neb.