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MAJORVILLE CEMETERY HANCOCK COUNTY, ILLINOIS |
These are adjacent sides of the same marker. On the north face is the inscription "Our Father and Mother". On the east face: "Elizabeth, wife of John Callihan, born Sept. 9, 1810, died Sept. 27, 1894". |
born Sept. 6, 1808 died Nov. 29, 1886 |
WILLIAM L. CALLIHAN born May 18, 1835 died May 24, 1887 buried at Bodie City CALIFORNIA |
Author - Marcia Farina |
John Callihan was born September 6, 1808, in Pennsylvania, the son of Thomas Callihan.
Elizabeth "Betsy" Long was born September 9, 1810, also in Pennsylvania, the daughter of John Long and Mary M. Young. John and Elizabeth were married November 10, 1831, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. In the early 1840s the Callihans and their young children left Pennsylvania and settled in Hancock County, Illinois. They spent the rest of their lives in Hancock Township. John died November 29, 1886, Betsy died September 27, 1894. Both were buried at Majorville Cemetery in Hancock Township.
Their known children were:
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enumerated Oct 22, 1850, dwelling #889 John Callahan, 47, male, farmer, value of real estate 1500, born PA
page 724, enumerated July 24, 1860, dwelling #3280
John Calihan, 54, male, farmer, value of real estate 3500, value of personal estate 1200,
enumerated June 13, 1870, dwelling #21 [immediatedly preceding the household of his son, Simon Thomas Callihan]
Callihan, John, 62, male, white, stone mason, value of real estate 5000, value of personal estate 600, male citizen of the U.S. aged 21 or more
enumerated June 7, 1880, dwelling #27 Calihan, John, white, male, 71, married, stone mason, born PA, both parents born PA
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