This stone reads:
OLIVE U.[Uretta] PRUETT
1853 - 1943
The name Pruett comes from her last (3rd?) husband, Charles Pruett, also know as Grandpa Charlie.
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Dryden Henderson Carpenter and Louisa Wildermuth's in this entry for their marriage December 24 1869.
Originally posted to Ancestry.com by Loren Cordain.
If you look at the first entry on the left side, you will see the record for the Carpenter-Vannatter marriage.
This document reads:
July 19th 1828.
Mr. Halsey Carpenter
Miss Sarah Ann Vannatter
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good deal of trouble as I didn't want to do it. Finally he said his sister Mrs. Swift would pay the assessments and I consented, but she wanted to keep the policy and she and I and Mr. Aldrich had a good deal of trouble and I finally burned the policy. I don't remember the year that Mr. Aldrich went away but it was in the fall. He went to his brothers in Breckenridge Mich.
The excuse he made to me was that I was sick so much that he couldn't take care of me. I had told him that if he didn't stop abusing me he could leave and I would go home, as we then lived in another house. He drank but wasn't bad only at times. We had not quarrel at the time he left, and I allowed him so sell a new carpet to get money to go with. He took the boys with him, and they understood that I was going to follow them to Michigan; but it was not understood between myself and Aldrich that I was to go. Between ourselves we understood that it was to be a final separation and I told him if we couldn't live in peace we better live separate. I got several letters from him that the boys wrote for him as he couldn't write and I now show them to you. In them he begs me to come and live with them. He sent me money to come once, but I took it to pay for the carpet. I told them I thought I would go, but changed my mind. About the last of 1886 the correspondence stopped and I never heard anything more about him, until I wrote once to a Postmaster to inquire if he knew where Aldrich was. I had been asked by the Pension office to find out about his service and wrote to the P.M. for that.
About the last of 1886 the correspondence stopped and I never heard anything more about him, until I wrote once to the Postmaster to inquire if he knew where Aldrich was. I had been asked by the Pension office to find out about his service and wrote to the P.M. for that reason. The Postmaster at Sugar Grove Mich. wrote that Aldrich was married and living in Canada. His nephew in Breckinridge John Aldrich, wrote me to write to Sugar Grove I got only one better that old anything about them.
Mr. Stinson, of this city, wrote the letter. Yes, I think it was Sugar Grove that he wrote the P.M. I sent the letter to the Pension office.
Q - I now show you a letter written by C.L. Stinson to the Postmaster at Ludington, mich, endorsed on which is the following: "Mr. Luke A. Aldrich gest a pension and his present address is Olds, Alberta Co M.W. Ter. Wm G Hudson, P.M.
Q- I ask you if that is the letter just referred to by you?
A - Yes sir, I think it is. I got only the one letter conveying any information relative to Mr. Aldrich. I must have been mistaken in thinking the Post Master said Mr. Aldrich was married again, but I got the impression somewhere that he and the boys were in Canada and they were all married. I don't know where I heard it if not from the Post Master. I never heard that Mr. Aldrich got a divorce of that he was dead, except that this summer someone said they heard he was dead. He never told me he was going to get a divorce, and I never was with notice. After Mr. Aldrich left I lived right here. About 3 or 4 years after Mr. Aldrich left, I married Barney K. Wheeler. married him March 11, 1890/ He lived in Marshalltown Iowa, and his little girl lived with my sister. No relation. I knew Wheeler12 or 13 year before I married him. His mother lived at Yorkville Ill. He had been married only once prior to our marriage that I know of I can't remember his first wife's maiden name except that it was Mary. I think Wheeler came from M.Y. gut I don't know where. His father and mother are dead. I think he has a sister named Julia Robinson in Aurora. Her husband is a railroad man named Tom. He also has a sister in Joliet, Ill. I don't know her name. He also has a sister in Yorkville, Ann Shummer, her husband's name Charles. He married his first wife in Yorkville Ill. She died in Clinton Iowa. I don't know when he was first married. I think his wife died at 28 or 30 years ago. He brought his two children to his mother and the youngest
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My father had been working Kansas sometime before I went down, and mother was anxious to hear from him as he had not written is one reason I went ahead. Mr. Millay was at home with my mother when I went away. We had never had any trouble of any account. He used to drink some and was too silly when full, but we did not have any quarrels. We never talked of separating and he was a gold old man. When I started for Kansas I expected nothing other than that he and mother would come to Kansas where we were. I did not hear a word from Millay while I was in Kansas and knew mothing about him after I started there until I heard from Kansas that he was dead. I always supposed he intended trying to find me. Julia Day is the only one of Mr. Millays children that I know anything about. My mother didn't know when he went or where.
After I came back here I worked around at different things, and finally went to Plano and did dressmaking and staid there until I became acquainted with Mr. Luke A. Aldrich. He was living at Plan with his sister Marcia Swift. Aldrich said he was fifty-one when we were married I think Jan 15 1882. We were married right in this house. Mr. Aldrich had been married twice before.
His first wife was Sarah -, I can't think of her last name. I now think it was Sarah Holden. She died somewhere in Iowa, I think in Clinton, but I can't be sure. I don't know where they were married, but I believe in Indiana somewhere.
I do not think Aldrich's first wife, had a prior marriage. He had two boys by his first wife, Homer and James D. I don't know where these boys are, but they were at one time in Canada. Since thinking of the matter, I think Aldrich's first wife was named Holdridge. Mr. Aldrich next married myself.\
Q - Did you not tell me he had been married twice before he married you?
A - No, No, not Aldrich. Millay had been but I did not mean to tell you that Aldrich had. I don't hear well and misunderstood you. Mrs. Swift will know about Aldrich's prior marriage and his wife's death.
I knew Heburn was dead when I married Mr. Aldrich as I had had the letter from Mr. King of Wichita Kan. about a Nancy Heburn's claim for pension. I heard from Mr. King only once, and enclosed with the letter was a paper for me to sign fill out; and some people told me that I was entitled to the pension as Heburn's widow, but I knew I was soon to be married to Mr. Aldrich, and thought as this Nancy had children she ought to have the pension. Since thinking of the matter it might have been before my last marriage I got the letter and made the affidavit.
Q - I now show you an affidavit and ask you if that is your signature and if you made the affidavit?
A - Yes, that is my signature and I made that affidavit. I now remember that I was then married to Mr. Wheeler. It says in that that Hebrun was dead when I married Wheeler, but I didn't know anything about his death until I got that paper and the letter with it.
Mr. Aldrich and I lived together about 5 years as nearly as I remember. One of his boys was seven and the other nine when we were married. We lived with my father and mother in this house. Mr. Aldrich had no trade and worked by day's work. We got along pretty well until awhile before he went away. He insisted on having my mother's life insured, and we had a
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suppose when he said he would fix the matter he had in mind putting in another name. I knew of no divorce on the part of Heburn at any time. I told Mr. Millay of my marriage to Heburn and that I didn't want to marry him, Mally, because I did not think it would be legal; but I knew if Heburn ever made any trouble about it, that Millay and him would settle it for I trusted Millay. If the Justice who married us called the name, or called me Coleman, I didn't hear it, and I knew nothing whatever about the name Coleman being in the certificate until the day after. We staid the nigh of our marriage with Susan Gilman, Mr. Mallay's sister, and did not come home until the next day, and it was after I got back home that I first noticed the name. I was just going to put it in a frame and when I saw the name I didn't want to frame it. Thae Justice knew Mr. Mallay but didn't know me. There were no witnesses to the marriage. I had no reason to believe, before I married Millay, that I was free from the bond with Bebrun, and so far as I knew, I was still Hebrun's wife. James Millay had been previously married twice. He had two set of children, but none by me. I think he was about 60 years of age when we were married. I think he was born in New York somewhere, and came to Leland about the time of the gold excitement in Calif. His brother and sister, Robert and Sarah, came through in an emigrant wagon, and did not get further than Leland.
Mr. Millay made his home in that place until after we were married. Millay married his first wife in Princeton Illinois. I don't know when that was or what was her name. They had two children. I've hear Millay say his first wife died in Princeton, and in giving birth to their second child. Her people lived in Princeton, but I don't know if James and his wife every lived there. He next married Harriet Hart, who lived with her father about one mile from here.
Her father's name was William. They were divorced in Ottawa. They had eight children. They were divorced quite a while before I knew him. I know nothing about his first wives, but I've heard him say that neither of them were married prior to their marriage to Mallay. I think Arthur Dale of Leland will know about Mr. Millay's prior marriages. I don't know who else would know, except Robert Millay who now lives at Odell, or did some years ago. Mr. Millay and I lived together about 3 years. My father then went to Kansas and the rest of us, my husband and mother and myself expected to go also, and I went ahead of the rest, as my health was not good. Mr. Millay and my mother were coming later, but father had trouble collecting his wages and while we were trying to get that matter arranged, I got a letter saying mother was sick. My sister Mrs. Wm. Morrill, of this place wrote the letter. I came back here and Mr. Millay had gone before I got home and no one knew where he went. Mother said she had not seen him for some time. It don't seem to me now that it was more than a month until I got a letter from someone in Kansas saying that he was dead and asking what they should do. I wrote them to sell his stuff and pay his funeral expenses and send the rest, if any was left, to me. I knew he had a team and tools and supposed he had driven through to Kansas. Father and I had been in Coffee Co., Kan., but it was not from there I got the letter, nor do I now know from what place the letter was written. Julia Day, of DeKalb, is a daughter of Mr. Millay, and I think she knows about Mr. Millay, but she said she would not tell for less than $25.00. Only one child lived with myself and Mr. Millay, a boy about 12 years of age. And he went away with his father.
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enough money picking hops, as it was hop season, to take me back home to Sandwich. It was after I had left Heburn that I went to picking hops, and during that time I staid with my mother who then lived about one mile from there. I have never seen Heburn since I left him in Wis. I don't know what year I left him, but we lived together 2 or 3 years I believe it was, I got a letter from a woman in Kilburn City, or rather my mother did, saying that Heburn was married to another woman; and she said in the letter that the woman he then had could lick him just as hard as he had licked me and give him just as bloody a nose as he gave me. The name of the woman who wrote the letter was Mrs. Marb Webber. They called him Marb, but what his right name was I don't know. O did not hear another ting of Heburn until I got a letter from a Mr. King at Wichita Kan. Saying that a Nancy Heburn was trying to a pension and wanted my affidavit. King said Heburn was dead that was the first I knew anything about him after the Webber woman wrote to my mother. I never applied for a divorce from him. I never heard or had notice of Heburn applying for a divorce.
I came directly to Sandwich from Wisconsin, and have lived right here in the house in which I now liveed ever since. My mother was then staying in Wisconsin nursing and my father was her; and when my mother got through nursing she came here to. After I came back I worked out by the week until mother came back and then we got this house which had been rented, but in which I had a bed.
SOmetime after I got back from Wis., as much as two or three years, James Mallay came here to help my mother straighten up some trouble over a carpet, my mother being a weaver. Mallay was a stonemason and a kind of a lawyer. The first I saw him was when he cane here. Mallay lived the second station west from here at Leland. A year or so after I first saw Mallay he wanted me to marry him, but I didn't want to as we was quite an old man; but he seemed to take a liking to me and he was a good old man so I married him. I don't know the date I married him, but it was summer, and we were married in Ottawa. I had never heard at that time that Heburn was dead or divorced.
Q - How did it happen that you married Mallay not know whether Heburn was dead or divorced:
A - That was one reason why I held back and didn't want to marry Millay and I told him all about my prior marriage and that I didn't know what had become of Heburn. I knew I had no legal right to marry, but Millay said He could fix that matter all right.
Q - How did he say he would fix it:
A - He didn't say. He said we would go to get married where I wasn't know and it would be all right, and that is the reason we went to Ottawa. We dove there with a horse and buggy.
Q - Under what name was you married to James Millay?
A - We, I didn't see the certificate until after our marriage, and when he showed it to me it had the name "Coleman" on it. I said to him "Why did you do that," and he said it's all right and "I got the woman I wanted," and he said he had the name Coleman put in to cover up any trace of the former marriage, and so that Heburn couldn't make us any trouble, and that no one would know about it. I
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Q-Do you know if it was Clinton Co., or Benton County.
Ans. The name Benton sounds familiar and I believe that it is. I don't think he ever told me his sisters name.
No Heburn never told me that he and his first wife separated; he told me she was dead, and I married him understanding that to be the case. I don't know for sure if Heburn ever lived in Iowa. I only know that he said his first wife died and that his sister who lived in Iowa took his little girl. He could not read or write; and never corresponded with his daughter or sister. He had a locket with his daughters picture in it and I word it until I one day lost it. I don't know of but one living soul who knew John Heburn previous to our marriage, or who had any acquaintance with him, and that is Hank Nennis. I know of no one who knew him before he came here. The reason I think Nennis knew him and would remember him is because I one night went to the saloon to see if he was there, and I found him drunk and when I tried to lead him home he knocked me down. Nennis ran the saloon at that time. Heburn and I lived together here in Sandwich in my home about two years, and he got to drinking so and abused me so much that I couldn't stand it and I went to live with my Aunt, Olive Hodgden at Big Rock. She is now dead. I was at Big Rock a couple of months or so and Heburn found where I was, came there, and said he wanted to go to Wisconsin, and if I would go with him he would quit drinking and treat me better, so I went with him. I sold the house and lot I had here and took the money and bought 40 acres of land in Wis. We went from here to Fairfield Wis., out P.O. being then Portage, about 8 miles from Fairfield. I bought the 40 acres of Samuel Turner who lived in Fairfield, but the land was a Kilburn City, in June Co. Our neighbors at Fairfield were Elisha Plummer, Samuel Turner, Wm. Slack, Jos. Burton, and Levina Myers. I believe she married Lish Plummer afterward. I can't think of any others. We worked a Mr. Jackman's farm one year, but he and his wife had trouble and he left. We also worked to Jo Burton's farm one year. That was when we lived in Fairfield. We were there two years, and then moved into a house just across the road from the 40 acres I bought. Our trading place was Kilbourne City. A man named Griffin owned the house in which we lived. He is undoubtedly dead as he was old then. We lived in Griffins house about one year and then went into Frank Newton's house, which was also near the 40 acres. I can't remember the names of any others who lived there. We lived in Newtons house 5 or 6 months.
While we lived in that neighborhood Heburn was cutting wood off the 40 acres and we were also getting logs out to build a house. Heburn behaved all right and didn't drink any while we were at Fairfield, but as soon as we went to living near the 40 acres he began to drink hard, and abused me by striking me, and once pulled my dress nearly off because I scolded him for staying away from home a week and not bringing anything to eat.
Not long before I left him he got his bounty money, and staid away all week. He went to Kilburn City to get it, and when he got home he was dead drunk and didn't have a dollar left. We had trouble them and I got Mr. Newton to take me to Kilburn City.
I told him I was going to Portage, and he supposed that was where I was going and had my trunk checked there: but i had it rechecked to Chicago and come back here. After I left Heburn I earned
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Lydia A. Adrich Deposition 22 January 1907
I am 63 years of age; and my post office address and residence is Sandwich, Illinois. Occupation housekeeper. I am the claimant in this case and claim renewal of pension as the remarried widow of Duncan McDonald, who served in Co. D. of the 27th Reg. Ill. Col. Inf. And who was killed at the Battle of Bull Run, in June 1865, claim being made under the act of March 3 1901. I formerly drew a pension as Mr. McDonald's widow. I was married to Duncan McDonald I think in March 11, 1864 and he was killed the next June. Yes, it was in June 1864 that he was killed instead of 1865. I was born in Williston Vt., and lived there until we moved to this place, in May 1858, and this has been my home ever since, except that I lived in Wisconsin about 3 years with John Hebron, my then husband. I was never married prior to my marriage to Mc. McDonald. McDonald enlisted from Shabbona Ill, I believe, and that was his home. He was an orphan and he was raised by a man named Madison, and I think he had lived in Shabbona for quite a while. When we came from Vermont in 1858, went first to Big Rock, then to Shabbona and then to this town. I got acquainted with Mr. McDonald in Shabbona and when he came home on a furlough in Feb 1864, we were married. McDonald had not been previously I married. Just after our marriage, he bought a little home for me here and my father, mother, and myself moved into it before he returned to the army. He did not quite finish paying for it, and I paid the balance after I got my pension. I lived in the house until I married John Hebron who was also a soldier. I can't remember the date I married Hebron, but I believe it was in March, and about a year or so after I married McDonald; and I don't know why I married Hebron, but it just seemed that the men would have me and I let them marry me. Heburn was boarding at a hotel run by Mrs. Horace Wilder, and my mother cooked there and in that way I became acquainted with Heburn. I can't tell how long I had been acquanited with with him before I married him. I did not know him until after my husband, McDonald's death. Heburn was more than 30 years old when we were married, but I don't know how old he was. Heburn's parents lived in Boone Co. N.Y. I know he used to write letters home and I did the writing for him. I can't remember the town in Boone County where he lived. I don't know his parent's names, but he had a brother Harvey who lived in Boone County. I never heard him speak of any other relatives. Harvey was a soldier but I don't know his service. They met accidently at one time in the army.
Heburn was in the 58th Ill. Infantry, but I don't know when he came to this part of the country.
Heburn had been married before he married me, and he had a little girl. He told me there were married before the war and that his wife died leaving the one child, that he was all broke up and went to the Army. I haven't the slightest idea when or where they were married, nor do I know what his wife's name was, either given name or maiden name. His wife had one sister who was married, I don't know her name and two lived in Iowa somewhere; and the little girl lived there with her. The first name was Julia. She must have been about 8 years old when we were married. I never heard him say that he had been married more than once, and I never heard him say that his wife had more than one marriage. I think Heburn's first wife died in Iowa, and that it was near where her sister lived. The only name I can think of in Iowa that I recall in connection their residence is Vinton or Clinton Co.
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