"In the year 1849 the couple with their then living children (including mother [Mary Dyson Carrington]) moved to the farm home on the Cook County side of the county line two or three miles Southeast of Hinsdale. There they resided until their respective deaths. Grandfather Carrington d at the farm home on September 30, 1897. Grandmother d there on June 10, 1907, just three days before her granddaughter Mabel Butler Wilson-Carlson d at Farnhamsville, Iowa." [Starr Wilson letter] He was buried in Lyons in the church cemetery.
"The record shows that on August 8, 1849 Henry CARRINGTON, our great grandfather, and wife, conveyed by deed certain lands in Section 18, totaling 145 acres, "for life with remainder to their children in fee", to our grandparents, Nathan S. Carrington and Laura B. Carrington, his wife, of _____________ (illegible) is to _____ (illegible) Middletown, Connecticut [Starr Wilson letter]
98 William Henry CARRINGTON b 25 Mar 1843; d 28 Aug 1849
99 Susan Starr CARRINGTON b 8 Jan 1845; d 16 May 1913
100 Elizabeth Phelps CARRINGTON b 23 Jan 1847; d 15 Feb 1896
101 Mary Dyson CARRINGTON b 10 May 1849; d Aug 1932; m Alexander WILSON, a banker
102 William Henry CARRINGTON I b 29 Nov 1856; m Elanor (Ella) Lucretia PLANK b 1861
103 Lorenia Hopkia or Hopkin b 18 Sep 1859; d 21 Jun 1862
104 Laura L. CARRINGTON
105 Edward Butler CARRINGTON b 7 Feb 1862; d 3 Apr 1936
"Grandma, Grandpa, Susan, Elizabeth, Laura and in front I think that is Ed with his dog".
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