Date of death calculated from tombstone inscription. Place of death presumed based on longtime residence in Hire Township, McDonough County.
In 1847 he was one of the first two Associate Justices appointed for McDonough County.
He was the son of Col. John Hungate and Mary "Polly" Coffman. The tombstone for Col. John Hungate was ordered in 1937 (124 years after his death) and shipped to LaHarpe. So exactly when was his "body" exhumed? Originally his memorial was set up as a factual burial in 1813 in LaHarpe Cemetery. In 1813, there was no Hancock County, Illinois, and there certainly was no LaHarpe Cemetery - the city wasn't platted until 1836. The verbiage on that memorial has been massaged to jibe with the fact that there's a tombstone in LaHarpe Cemetery.
The memorial for Charles' mother, Mary, is implausible at best. She died in 1855 rather than 1885, according to the Sons of the American Revolution application by Quinton Ward Hungate, her great-grandson. There is no evidence that she lived after 1855, no evidence that she was ever in Illinois. Should these statements be proven inaccurate, this text will be corrected immediately.
In 1847 he was one of the first two Associate Justices appointed for McDonough County.
He was the son of Col. John Hungate and Mary "Polly" Coffman. The tombstone for Col. John Hungate was ordered in 1937 (124 years after his death) and shipped to LaHarpe. So exactly when was his "body" exhumed? Originally his memorial was set up as a factual burial in 1813 in LaHarpe Cemetery. In 1813, there was no Hancock County, Illinois, and there certainly was no LaHarpe Cemetery - the city wasn't platted until 1836. The verbiage on that memorial has been massaged to jibe with the fact that there's a tombstone in LaHarpe Cemetery.
The memorial for Charles' mother, Mary, is implausible at best. She died in 1855 rather than 1885, according to the Sons of the American Revolution application by Quinton Ward Hungate, her great-grandson. There is no evidence that she lived after 1855, no evidence that she was ever in Illinois. Should these statements be proven inaccurate, this text will be corrected immediately.
Date of death calculated from tombstone inscription. Place of death presumed based on longtime residence in Hire Township, McDonough County.
In 1847 he was one of the first two Associate Justices appointed for McDonough County.
He was the son of Col. John Hungate and Mary "Polly" Coffman. The tombstone for Col. John Hungate was ordered in 1937 (124 years after his death) and shipped to LaHarpe. So exactly when was his "body" exhumed? Originally his memorial was set up as a factual burial in 1813 in LaHarpe Cemetery. In 1813, there was no Hancock County, Illinois, and there certainly was no LaHarpe Cemetery - the city wasn't platted until 1836. The verbiage on that memorial has been massaged to jibe with the fact that there's a tombstone in LaHarpe Cemetery.
The memorial for Charles' mother, Mary, is implausible at best. She died in 1855 rather than 1885, according to the Sons of the American Revolution application by Quinton Ward Hungate, her great-grandson. There is no evidence that she lived after 1855, no evidence that she was ever in Illinois. Should these statements be proven inaccurate, this text will be corrected immediately.
In 1847 he was one of the first two Associate Justices appointed for McDonough County.
He was the son of Col. John Hungate and Mary "Polly" Coffman. The tombstone for Col. John Hungate was ordered in 1937 (124 years after his death) and shipped to LaHarpe. So exactly when was his "body" exhumed? Originally his memorial was set up as a factual burial in 1813 in LaHarpe Cemetery. In 1813, there was no Hancock County, Illinois, and there certainly was no LaHarpe Cemetery - the city wasn't platted until 1836. The verbiage on that memorial has been massaged to jibe with the fact that there's a tombstone in LaHarpe Cemetery.
The memorial for Charles' mother, Mary, is implausible at best. She died in 1855 rather than 1885, according to the Sons of the American Revolution application by Quinton Ward Hungate, her great-grandson. There is no evidence that she lived after 1855, no evidence that she was ever in Illinois. Should these statements be proven inaccurate, this text will be corrected immediately.
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