source: The Pantagraph, Bloomington, IL, Wed Oct 8, 1919, p3]
Mrs. T.L.Ijams, Native of County IN '42 Dead
One of the Pioneers of this Section Dies Last Night at Home of Duaghter
Traces her Family Relations Back to Early Maryland Sketch of Life
Mrs. T.L. Ijams, age ??, died at 9 o'clock last evening at the home of her daughter, Mrs. George Johnson, 103 North Moore avenue. For the past even years she had practically been an invalid. Mrs. Ijams was formerly Miss Rosetta Walker, and a daughter of Harriett Mercer and George Walker, who were among the early settlers of the state of Maryland. They came to this country in the days of the pioneers and settled at Blooming Grove, where Mrs. Ijams was born March 31, 1842.
A little over twenty years later she was married to T. L. Ijams. Her husband died in 1908. To the union ten children were born. They are: H.L. Ijams, Mrs. Hattie Watson, Mrs. John Kendall and George Ijams, all of Farmer City; Millard Ijams of this city,; Dr. L. E. Ijams of Marshall, Minn; J. M. Ijans of this city, Mrs. C. L. Nichols of Davie, Fla; Mrs. Homer Curtis of Downs, and Mrs. Johnson, at whose home she died.
She was the last of a family of six children. Four brothers, D. D. Walker, G. W. Walker and John and Edward Walker, together with one sister, Mrs.Sarah Railey, preceded her in death.
Mrs. Ijams united with the Methodist church at Farmer City, where she resided the greater part of her life. During the past three years, however, she has lived here.
Mrs. Ijams was a cousin of the late Judge David Davis, who at one time was chief justice of the supreme court and acting vice president of the United States. Other surviving relatives, who were brothers and sisters of Mrs. Ijams, and brothers and sisters-in-law of Mrs. Ijams are: W. H. Ijams, of Shell City, Mo; Mrs. M. R. Richardson of South Haven Kas; Mrs. Dr. Petterson of Mansfield; F. H. Ijams of South Leland Street, and Mrs. J. H. Wannacott of North Center street.
The funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Methodist church in Farmer City. Burial will be made at that place.
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Source: S10 Author: Ancestry.com Title: 1900 United States Federal Census Publication: Name: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004; Repository: #R1 NOTESource Medium: Ancestry.com CONT CONT United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900, Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900 CONT
Source: S59 Author: Yates Publishing Title: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Publication: Name: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004; Repository: #R1 NOTESource Medium: Ancestry.com CONT
Source: S6 Author: Ancestry.com Title: 1850 United States Federal Census Publication: Name: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005; Repository: #R1 NOTESource Medium: Ancestry.com CONT CONT United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Seventh Census of the United States, 1850, Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1850 CONT
Source: S7 Author: Ancestry.com Title: 1860 United States Federal Census Publication: Name: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004; Repository: #R1 NOTESource Medium: Ancestry.com CONT CONT United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Eighth Census of the United States, 1860, Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1860 CONT
Source: S83 Author: Ancestry.com Title: 1900 United States Federal Census Publication: Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004; Repository: #R1 NOTEUnited States of America, Bureau of the Census, Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900, Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900
Source: S87 Author: Ancestry.com Title: 1910 United States Federal Census Publication: Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006; Repository: #R1 NOTEUnited States of America, Bureau of the Census, Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910, Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1910
Notes
Note N353From Guy Ross& Robert Iiames
David Davis in his 1886 Will gave bequest and/or lifetime annual legacies to various of his Walker cousins. To his cousin Rosetta [Walker] Iajsm he gave a legacy of 0 per year, to be paid annually through the rest of her life. This would have been a somewhat comforting sum back in the late 1880's. Rosetta [Walker] Ijams of Farmer City, Illinois wrote to her brother John Mercer Walker on 13 Sep. 1886. "I recerived those papers you sent a few weeks ago. If this world only was made up of such men as Mr. Davis how different it would be. Just to think how he remembered his poor relations & as sister Sallie [Sarah Davis Walker Raley] say how little we deserved it. Your affectionately, Rose." This was sent to me by Roger Hughes Aug 4, 2006. He continues: "Here's and excerpt from a letter Rosetta wrote to George Perrin Davis, son of the late Judge Davis on 12 July in most likely 1887: "I received your kind note with a draft enclosed. It made me feel so sad to think I get it by your good father's death. How kind he always was to all of us. My Love to your wife & children." The above letter are found in the archived David Davis Papers in the Illinois State Historical Library of the Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum, Springfield, Illinois. There are hundreds of letters archived in this cache of Davis documents. So far, I've found that about 200 of the letters include mentsion of the various Walker Family members. From information from Mr. Hughes, the Walker family was the poor relations of Judge Davis.
From Great Aunt Eloise, 18 Nov 1973
Rosetta was born and reared on a farm about 2 mi due south of Bloomington, McLean Co., IL. Her parents were plantation owners with many slaves and a magnificent home in MD, until the slaves were freed after the Civil War, which broke them, so they journeyed West in a Conestoga Wagon with 3 little boys bringing only bare necessities. Her mother was a beautiful, culutred native lady of England, owned many maginificient Southern pre-war dresses, but could not bring any of them in the wagon. They settled on the McLean County farm where David, Rosetta and Sarah were born. Her brothers were farmers except for David who left his farm hom when he was young, making his way to St. Louis, MO, where he began working in the large ELY Department Store. Beginning with menial jobs, he later became part owner of the store ELY-WALER and eventually bought the ELY name and he owned the whole store, D.D. Walker & sons.
23 Apr 1857 Sarah W. Davis writers to GP Davis that Rosetta Walker is going home to help with her mother
30 Apr 1857 Sarah again mentions it
25 May 1857 Rosetta working as a houskeeper
10 Feb 1858 Rosetta started school
15 Mar 1858 Rosetta were planning to attend the wedding of George Walker & Mary Lilly on Mar 18 at the home of William Lilly at 9am at Lilly, Mackinaw Township, Tazewell Co., IL, attend supper with the Betts and spend the night at Sara W. Davis and return home the next day but due to rain they stayed home.
[source Alice Cates]Title: 1860 McLean Co., ILL census
Title: Gravestone, Rhodes Cemetery, SE of Bloomington, IL
Text: George E. Walker formerly of Cecilton M.D. who died at his residence in this township on the 28th day of Oct. 1864 in the 67th year of his age.
Christopher Walker letter, April 25, 1985, Cecil Co H.S, obit in Cecil Democrat 12 Nov 1864 Vol XXIII no. 40.
Title: Davis.ftw
Repository:
Media: Other
Text: Date of Import: 14 Jun 2000
Title: George Walker Bible
Publication: George P. Davis viewed bible June 4, 1901, in possession of Rosetta Ijams
Note: A copy of this information on George Perrin Davis's letterhead is with the Willard King papers at the Chicago Historical Society., David Davis Collection Microfilm, Davis Syle Films, Roll D-S.
Repository:
Media: Book
[source: Roger Hughes]
Judge David Davis included in his 1886 will a lifetime legacy to Rose
of 0 per year. This would have been a somewhat-substantial gift
back in the 1800s. Here are a few timeline excerpts (some are quite
fitting, tying with the holiday season):
-- 13 September 1886: Letter from Rosetta (Walker) Ijams (at Farmer
City, Illinois) to "My Dear Brother" John Mercer Walker (at
Bloomington, living in the Davis Mansion). "I got a letter ... saying
friends were to meet at the cemetery to see about building a new fence
and getting a deed for it. I was not able to come." (And Lee couldn't
go in her place because the rains made the roads so bad.) "I told him
I would write to you & you could see what my part would be & let me
[know]. I suppose the grounds was paid for a long time ago. ...
"I received those papers you sent a few weeks ago. If this world only
was made up of such men as Mr. Davis how different it would be. Just
to think how he remembered his poor relations & as sister Sallie says
how little we deserved it. ...Yours affectionately, Rose"
(Note: Cemetery reference possibly is to the pioneer Woodlawn (Rhodes)
Cemetery in rural Blooming Grove, a few miles south of Bloomington,
where George E., Harriet and sons Edward and Thomas are buried.)
-- 18 December 1886: Letter from David Davis Walker to his brother,
John Mercer Walker. He enclosed a check. Said to cash it and that
is for Ed's wife (the widow Sarah Bay Walker) and for sister
Rose (Rosetta Walker Ijams) as Christmas presents. "Please write me
Sarah's address at once. ...We are well except daughter. She is very
delicate. We have been trying to get her to go to California but
haven't succeeded yet. The children all send love. Won't get into new
house before February. Affectionately yours, D.D. Walker"
(Note: The "new house" was to be an exceptionally substantial mansion
in St. Louis at 53 Vandeventer Place. St. Louis historians wrote that
the gated Vandeventer Place "had become the city's grand address by
the late 1880s." St. Louis was well-known in its earlier decades for
the gated streets/neighborhoods within the city -- enclaves of the
very wealthy; i.e., the city's barons of commerce and leaders of high
society.)
-- 23 December 1886: Letter from David Davis Walker to his brother
John Mercer Walker. Says he needs address for Rose (Rosetta Walker
Ijams) so he can send an express package.
-- 12 July X??X(probably 1887): Letter from Rosetta (Walker) Ijams to
George Perrin Davis, son of the late Judge David Davis and an executor
of the judge's will. "I received your kind note with a draft enclosed.
It made me feel so sad to think I get it by your good father's death.
How kind he always was to all of us."
↑ Data: Text: Online publication - Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Eighth Census of the United States, 1860. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1860.M653, 1,438 rolls. Bloomington, McLean, Illinois, post office Bloomington, roll M653_204, page 550, image 553.
↑ Source: #S6 Data: Text: Online publication - Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2005.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1850.M432, 1,009 rolls. Bloomington, McLean, Illinois, roll M432_117, page 22, image 425.
↑ Source: #S73 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for John Mercer Ijams FOOT Ancestry.com, OneWorldTree (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc.), Database online.
↑ Source: #S73 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Lewis E Ijams
↑ Source: #S73 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for George E Ijams
↑ Source: #S73 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Millard Ijams
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Lewis Edward Ijams
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Lewis E Ijams
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Lewis E Ijams
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Lewis Elmer Ijams
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Thomas Lee Ijams
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Rosetta Walker
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Rosetta Walker
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Rosetta Walker
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Rosetta Walker
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Thomas LeRoy Ijams
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Lewis Elmer Ijams
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Lewis Elmer Ijams
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Harriet Harder Mercer
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Rosetta Walker
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for George E Walker
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Lewis Elmer Ijams
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Edith Hoysradt Ijams
↑ Source: #S10 Data: Text: Online publication - Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900.T623, 1854 rolls. DeWitt, Illinois, ED 43, roll T623 297, page 4B.
↑ Source: #S10 Data: Text: Online publication - Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900.T623, 1854 rolls. DeWitt, Illinois, ED 43, roll T623 297, page 4B.
↑ Source: #S27 Data: Text: Online publication - Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Marriages [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2001.
↑ Source: #S24 Data: Text: Online publication - Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Births [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2001.
↑ Source: #S83 Page: Database online. Dewitt, Illinois, ED 43, roll T623 297, page 4B. Data: Text: Record for Thomas L Ijams FOOT Ancestry.com, 1900 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004), Database online. Dewitt, Illinois, ED 43, roll T623 297, page 4B. Object: @M64@
↑ Source: #S87 Page: Database online. Year: 1910; Census Place: Farmer Ward 1, De Witt, Illinois; Roll: T624_237; Page: 16B; Enumeration District: 82; Image: 498. Data: Text: Record for Rose W Ijams Object: @M111@
↑ Source: #S158 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Lewis Ijams Sr.
↑ Source: #S47 Data: Text: Ancestry.com. One World Tree (sm) [database online]. Provo, UT: MyFamily.com, Inc.
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Edith Hoysradt Ijams
↑ Source: #S158 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Lewis Ijams Sr.
↑ Source: #S47 Data: Text: Ancestry.com. One World Tree (sm) [database online]. Provo, UT: MyFamily.com, Inc.
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Edith Hoysradt Ijams
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Lewis Elmer Ijams
↑ Source: #S10 Data: Text: Online publication - Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900.T623, 1854 rolls. DeWitt, Illinois, ED 43, roll T623 297, page 4B.
↑ Source: #S10 Data: Text: Online publication - Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900.T623, 1854 rolls. DeWitt, Illinois, ED 43, roll T623 297, page 4B.
↑ Source: #S83 Page: Database online. Dewitt, Illinois, ED 43, roll T623 297, page 4B. Data: Text: Record for Thomas L Ijams FOOT Ancestry.com, 1900 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004), Database online. Dewitt, Illinois, ED 43, roll T623 297, page 4B. Object: @M64@
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Thomas LeRoy Ijams
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Lewis Elmer Ijams
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Harriet Harder Mercer
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Rosetta Walker
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Edith Hoysradt Ijams
↑ Source: #S6 Data: Text: Online publication - Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2005.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1850.M432, 1,009 rolls. Bloomington, McLean, Illinois, roll M432_117, page 22, image 425.
↑ Source: #S7 Data: Text: Online publication - Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Eighth Census of the United States, 1860. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1860.M653, 1,438 rolls. Bloomington, McLean, Illinois, post office Bloomington, roll M653_204, page 550, image 553.
↑ Source: #S87 Page: Database online. Year: 1910; Census Place: Farmer Ward 1, De Witt, Illinois; Roll: T624_237; Page: 16B; Enumeration District: 82; Image: 498. Data: Text: Record for Rose W Ijams Object: @M111@
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Lewis Elmer Ijams
↑ Source: #S47 Data: Text: Ancestry.com. One World Tree (sm) [database online]. Provo, UT: MyFamily.com, Inc.
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Rosetta Walker
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Thomas LeRoy Ijams
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Rosetta Walker
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