Individual Notes

Note for: August Persson, 7 Aug 1866 - Index

Christening:
     Date:   ABT Aug 1866
     Place:   , Floda, Kopparberg, Sweden

Individual Note:
     P625, P362 1900 WI neg

SOURCE: Floda Genealogies, FHL film no. 1224711, item 10, p. 401, #75.

RESEARCHERS: Steve & Melanie Perner, Jon Schweitzer.

Individual Notes

Note for: Anders Persson, 5 Oct 1868 - 1952 Index

Christening:
     Date:   ABT 8 Oct 1868
     Place:   , Floda, Kopparberg, Sweden

Burial:
     Date:   1952

Individual Note:
     SOURCE: Floda Genealogies, FHL film no. 1224711, item 10, p. 401, #75.

RESEARCHERS: Steve & Melanie Perner, Jon Schweitzer.

Individual Notes

Note for: Ida Kristina Persdatter, 15 Sep 1875 - Index

Christening:
     Date:   ABT 18 Sep 1875
     Place:   , Floda, Kopparberg, Sweden

Individual Note:
     SOURCE: Floda Genealogies, FHL film no. 1224711, item 10, p. 401, #75.

RESEARCHERS: Steve & Melanie Perner, Jon Schweitzer.

Individual Notes

Note for: Anders Jansson, 24 Nov 1790 - 10 Sep 1876 Index

Christening:
     Date:   25 Nov 1790
     Place:   , Grangarde, Kopparberg, Sweden

Burial:
     Date:   ABT Sep 1876
     Place:   , Floda, Kopparberg, Sweden

Individual Note:
     BIRTH/CHRISTENING: Floda parish 1672-1860, FHL Film no. 206501, book C:5, page 68, no. 68.

MARRIAGE: Floda parish, FHL film no. 206502, book E1, no. 6.

SOURCE: Floda Genealogies, FHL film no. 1224711, item 10, p. 397, #42.

SOURCE: Floda Genealogies, FHL film no. 1224711, item 10, p. 394, #20.

RESEARCHERS: Steve & Melanie Perner, Jon Schweitzer.

Individual Notes

Note for: Karin Persdatter, 26 Dec 1791 - 27 Dec 1871 Index

Christening:
     Date:   1 Jan 1792
     Place:   , Grangarde, Kopparberg, Sweden

Burial:
     Date:   ABT Jan 1872
     Place:   , Floda, Kopparberg, Sweden

Individual Note:
     BIRTH/CHRISTENING: Floda parish 1672-1860, FHL Film no. 206501, book C5, page 74, no. 48.

MARRIAGE: Floda parish, FHL film no. 206502, book E1, no. 6.

SOURCE: Floda Genealogies, FHL film no. 1224711, item 10, p. 397, #28, #42

RESEARCHERS: Steve & Melanie Perner, Jon Schweitzer.

Individual Notes

Note for: Carrie , ABT 1866 - Index

Christening:
Date: ABT 1866

Individual Notes

Note for: Garret Michael Blue, 25 Jun 1791 - 23 Aug 1849 Index

Burial:
     Date:   ABT Aug 1849
     Place:   , Livingston, IL

Individual Note:
     BIRTH: DAR applications national nos. 711244, 270960.

MILITARY: Served as a private to 2nd corporal in the War of 1812 from 24 Sep 1812 to 9 Apr 1813 in the 77 Regiment (1st Regiment Virginia Militia-Connell's), Brigade 18, Division 1, Hampshire County, VA under Brig. General Joel Leftwich, and Captain's Isaac Heiskell Riflemen Company of about 50 men of the Hampshire Co. Virginia Militia. Served at Fort Meigs in Ohio. Discharged at Fort Meigs, Ohio on 9 April 1813 according to his discharge paper in the Warrent Land records of his son Garret Blue Jr. in the National Archives. He signed the military pay record as Garret Blue.

CENSUS: 1840, IL, Livingston, stamped page 227(B), down 2/10, line (8), Garret M. Blue,; males 1-5 to 10, 1-15 to 20, 1-20 to 30, 1-50 to 60, females 1-5 to 10, 2-10 to 15, 1-30 to 40, and stamped page 231 that has his Garret M. Blue signature at the bottom of the page, FHL film no. 7643.

CENSUS: 1850, IL, Livingston, north side of Vermilion, page 165, line 2, Garrett Blew, age 60, $3000 R.E., VA, FHL film no. 7689.

DEATH: 1850 Mortality Schedule, Livingston, IL, page 507 (509), line 34. Garrett Blue, age 60, died from Cholera Aug 1849, VA, on A.I.S., page B6.

BURIAL: Johnson Cemetery, Livingston Co., IL.

SOURCE: A Guide to Virginia Militia Units in the War of 1812, by Stuart Lee Butler, pages 16, 17, 37, 100 and 226.

SOURCE: The Soldiery of West Virginia, by Virgil A. Lewis, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1967, pages 144 and 145.

SOURCE: "Descendants of John Blaw (Blue), d. 1757 Somerset Co., NJ", Fourth Edition, by William H. Blue, Aug 1990, pages 12 and 33, 1.1.1.3.9, FHL film no. 1697451.
5th GENERATION
1.1.1.3.9 Garret M. BLUE (1791-1849), m.1818 Jane SOMERS/CORBIN (1798-1849. They both were born in VA, he probably in Hampshire Co. Garret served during the War of 1812 as 2nd corporal in Capt. Isaac HEISKELL's company of rifleman of the 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade, Virginia Militia, United States NW Army. On the basis of this service, his son Garret received bounty land warrants for 80 acres in 1853 and 80 acres in 1855. Garret lived in Fayette Co. OH for several years, then moved to McLean Co.IL.
(which later became Livingston Co.) after selling his land in Fayette and Ross Cos. OH. Garret was the second settler in the present bounds of Rook's Creek Twp., arriving there in the autumn of 1831. He erected the first mill in the county near his residence on Rook's Creek. In 1836 he sold this land and moved to Pontiac Twp., just to the east, and settled a few miles northwest of town (Pontiac). Garret was active in the affairs of the community serving on grand and petit juries in 1838, and as sheriff of the county in 1840. In the election for sheriff, Garret and his opponent, John Foster, each received the same number of votes. He won the election by "casting lots". Garret and many of his family fell victim to the cholera epidemic of 1849-50. Family Bible and census records indicate that the victims were Garret M., his wife Jane, daughter Rebecca, son John and his wife Susanna, and son Daniel.

The location of his home in Livingston Co. was McLean Co. until 1837.
Served on Grand and Jetit Juries for Livingston Co., IL.

SOURCE: The History of Livingston County, Illinois, 1878, FHL film no.
934999, item 3.
Page 11
During the year 1830, Andrew McMillan and Garret M. Blue located on Rook's Creek, and their descendants are numerous. Blue's name and those of his sons frequently appear in the political annals of the county.

Page 19
The first mill erected in the county was run by house power. It was built by Garret M. Blue, near his residence, in Rook's Creek Township. This was justly considered by the early settlers, as a most valuable acquisition to the institutions of the county.

Page 51
At the October term, 1840, Garret M. Blue appears as sheriff.
At the September term, 1844. ... John Blue as Coroner.

Page 52
The first deed recorded was one by Benjamin Darnall and wife to Garret M.
Blue, consideration of $100, bearing date October 15, 1836, for the west half of the southwest quarter of Section 14, Town 28, Range 4; the said land being in the McLean County.

Page 75
Garrett M. Blue came to the township in 1836, from Rook's Creek Township, where he had previously located, and settled a few miles northwest of town. He was, at one time, Sheriff of the County. ... Blue resided here in until 1849, when he died of cholera.

Pages 79 and 80
And now this brings us to one of the most eventful periods in the history of the townships. This year, 1849, was the "cholera season," and the ravages made in this section were terrible; and, for the number of inhabitants in the settlement, the fatality was greater than in almost any locality in the county. Out of the total population of seventy-eight within the limits of the township, thirteen died. Among the number who perished by the awful scourge were ... sister of Franklin Oliver, mentioned in Chatsworth Township, was teaching school in Owego, and came in to nurse the Fellows family, and was soon numbered with the dead. Garret M. Blue, who lived northwest of town, dropped in to see the afflicted family, and while conversing with some of the attendants at the house, felt some of the symptoms of the disease. He hurried out and, mounting his horse, galloped rapidly home, where he arrived with the only sufficient strength to crawl to bed, for which he never rose. In this house, five died-Blue, wife, son, daughter and grandchild. John Blue lived on the farm known in later years as the Miller farm, two miles east of Pontiac. In this family occurred three deaths out of the four members. Blue and wife and one child all perished.

Page 217
Mr. John Johnson, who followed him in 1833, thinks he came in the spring of 1831, and raised a crop that season. He is certain he preceded Mr. Garret Blue, the second settler in the present bounds of Rook's Creek Township whom he thinks came in the autumn of 1831. ... Mr. Blue, already mentioned, was a native of Virginia. From the old Dominion, he went to Ohio, where that State was in its infancy. There he heard of the rich, grassy prairies of Illinois, and determined to emigrate thither. Hence, we find him during the summer of 1830 or 1831 treading his way across the state of Indiana, then thinly settled, and, by the time the frost came, he was on the banks of Rook's Creek and preparing to pass the Winter. His claim is now the farm of James Marks, whose father, Jacob, came to the settlement in 1836, and purchased Mr. Blues claim. Mr. Blue's family consists of his wife and several children. Mrs. Johnson thinks the daughter of his, Keziah, was the first white child born here, and that the marriage of another daughter, May, to Lemuel Barrett, was the first nuptial event in the settlement. "We generally had a frolic, when a marriage occurred in the neighborhood," said Mrs. Johnson, in a conversation with the writer, "but when Mary was married, there wasn't enough to make a frolic, if we had invited everyone on the creek.

Page 218
We have digressed somewhat in our narrative, and will return to Mr. Blue. He, as has been narrated, sold to Jacob Marks. When Mr. Marks took possession, Mr. Blue went to Wolf Point, where he passed the remainder of his days. One of his daughters married and removed further west; the other is now the wife of Reuben Bennett of Amity Township.