Tazewell County was growing larger by the time he became a young man. Instead of taking up farming as his father and grandfathers before him, he became a craftsman. He was engaged in the business of carriage and buggy manufacture. His finishes of Carriages and particularly pin striping were very popular in the community. He married in his mid forties to Miss Mary Allie Lantz of Pekin, Ill.
They resided on South Second Street in Chillicothe, they had 3 sons
George Welleth, Byron Lantz (Gloria Oliver Grandfather) and Clarence Elmer.
Oliver and Mary Allie were divorced around 1910 and she moved to California with her three sons to join her Father, mother and older sister who had moved there a year earlier. Oliver died at home at 710 East Jackson st in Peoria on June 23, 1924 of heart disease and
Nephritis. He is buried in Chillicothe. Mary Allie died in the late 60's and rests in Riverside, California
Tazewell County was growing larger by the time he became a young man. Instead of taking up farming as his father and grandfathers before him, he became a craftsman. He was engaged in the business of carriage and buggy manufacture. His finishes of Carriages and particularly pin striping were very popular in the community. He married in his mid forties to Miss Mary Allie Lantz of Pekin, Ill.
They resided on South Second Street in Chillicothe, they had 3 sons
George Welleth, Byron Lantz (Gloria Oliver Grandfather) and Clarence Elmer.
Oliver and Mary Allie were divorced around 1910 and she moved to California with her three sons to join her Father, mother and older sister who had moved there a year earlier. Oliver died at home at 710 East Jackson st in Peoria on June 23, 1924 of heart disease and
Nephritis. He is buried in Chillicothe. Mary Allie died in the late 60's and rests in Riverside, California
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