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GREAT GREAT GRANDPARENTS:

HEMPHILL-SMITH; SMITH-SCOTT; TAYLOR-CUNNINGHAM; PALLETT-McCLUN;
MANN-BLOOM; COOPER-BROWN; SCHWER-HOMEIER; LAYER-RINGEISEN

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Robert M HEMPHILL and Martha SMITH

16.  Robert M Hemphill 
b.  May 10, 1826, Ireland   (Immigrated 1850)
d.  March 22, 1901, Peoria, Peoria Co., IL
Carpenter
17.  Martha Smith
b.  Mar 13 1835, Columbus, Franklin Co., OH
d.  May 24 1883, Peoria, Peoria Co., IL

Married:   May 16, 1854, Columbus OH
Buried - Springdale Cemetery, Peoria, Peoria Co., IL

Children: WILLIAM JAMES, H. Jeannie; Robert M, Minnie, Fanny
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Abram P SMITH and Mary SCOTT

18.  Abraham (Abram) P Smith 
b.  May 30, 1815, Amherst County, VA 
d.  Feb 19, 1893, Jacksonville, Morgan Co., IL
Farmer
19.  Mary Scott 
b.  Jan 7, 1823, Morgan Co., IL
d.  Sept 5, 1890, Jacksonville, Morgan Co., IL

Married:   Dec 23, 1845, Morgan Co., IL
Buried - Diamond Grove Cemetery, Jacksonville, Morgan Co., IL
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Children: Ophelia, Sallie, Charles, Mollie, Unk, IDA, Katie
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Robert C TAYLOR and Janet CUNNINGHAM
20.  Robert C Taylor 
b.   Nov 27, 1816 near Campbeltown, Arglyeshire, Scotland
d.  25 Dec 1902 Sangamon Bottom, Cass Co., IL
Farmer
21.  Janet Cunningham 
b.  Feb 11, 1824 near Edinburgh, Scotland
d.   June 1910, Cass Co., IL

Married:  Jan 10, 1844, Cass Co., IL
Buried: Karr (Carr) Cemetery, Cass Co., IL
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Children: Ellen, JOHN WILLIAM, Angus, Flora, Maggie, Miza Josephine, Alice, Archibald, Jennie Cunningham, Katherine, Duncan
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William M PALLETT and Rachel McCLUN
22.  William M Pallett 
b.  Apr 15, 1818/9 AL or TN
d.  Feb 28, 1873 
Buried:  Bethel Cemetery, Pleasant Plains, Sangamon Co., IL (with 3rd wife)
    Methodist Episcopal minister
23.  Rachel McClun (Wm Pallett's 2nd wife)
b.  Jan 7, 1826, Indiana
d.   Mar 17, 1857
Buried: Wesley Chapel Cemetery, Ursa Twp, Adams Co., IL
(w son William Watson d 1856)

Married:  Jan 21, 1851, McLean Co., IL
Buried: Illinois (Sangamon and Adams Counties)

Children: Georgianna, MARY, William Watson
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John MANN and Eliza BLOOM
24.  John Mann
b.  Mar 30, 1824, Rockville Twp, Kankakee Co., IL
d.  Sept 23, 1911, Kankakee, IL
Farmer
25. Eliza Marie Bloom 
b.  Jan 7, 1829, Butler or Bradford Co., PA
d.   Jan 12, 1907, Rockville Twp, Kankakee Co., IL

Married: Jan 1, 1851, Kankakee Co., IL
Buried: Bloom Cemetery, Rockville, Kankakee Co., IL

Children: Florence, Alexander D, Warren Leslie, FREDERICK, Elvena, Walter S, John, Herman, D James, Marie M
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William COOPER and Lorinda BROWN
26.  William Cooper
b.   Jul 4, 1828, Brown Co., OH
d.  Sept 1915, Kankakee, IL
27.  Lorinda Adeline Brown
b.  May 12, 1829, Syracuse, NY
d.   Aug 20, 1900, Kankakee, Kankakee Co., IL 

Married:  Jun 19, 1854 Kankakee, Kankakee Co., IL
Buried: Mound Cemetery, Kankakee, IL

Children: Lydia B, William Brown, Mary Jennie, CARRIE, Adaline, Lewis, Arthur, William Brown
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August W SCHWER and Catherine Engle Sophia HOMEIER

28.  August W Schwer
b.   Mar 19, 1819, Bokeloh, Germany
d.  Sept 10. 1886, Flescher Cemetery, Crescent City, Iroquois Co., IL
29.  Catherine Engle Sophia Homeier 
b.  Feb 15, 1820, Germany
d.   Oct 10, 1904. Crescent City, Iroquois Co., IL

Married: Germany
Buried: Flescher Cemetery, Crescent City, Iroquois Co., IL

Children: Friederich Wilhelm, Henry J, John Christopher, Maria, Engle Maria Sophia, Catharine Sophia Caroline, Johann Heinrich Friederich,
LOUIS (HEINRICH DIETRICH FRIEDERICH LUDWIG
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Charles LAYER and Katharina RINGEISEN
30.  Friederick Carl (Charles) Layer
b.  Jan 28, 1836, Strümpfelbach, Backnang, Germany
d.  Feb 22, 1913, IL
    Businessman, church founder
31.  Katharina Ringeisen
b.  Sept 10, 1842, Alt Breitenfelderhof, Bairea, Germany
d.  Nov 14, 1895, Geneva, Walworth Co., WI

Marrried:  Mar 19 (9?), 1860, Peoria, Tazewell Co., IL
Buried: Wenger Cemetery, Gilman, Iroquois Co., IL
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Children:  William Frank, John Charles, KATHARINE ROSAMUND, Frank Robert