As read in the Flagg Family record book:
Lucy Douglas Flagg, daughter of Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Cutting) Flagg, was born 27 Dec., 1800 in Richmond, VT and died 25 Nov., 1867, in Jericho, Shelby Co, IL. She was married 12 Mar. 1823 at Cumberland Head, NY, by Mr Halsey to William Buell of Essex, VT, b. 2 Feb., 1801, d. 20 Nov., 1871. They left Essex in Sept., 1833 for Madison Co, IL, via the lakes and were three weeks on the journey of 1300 miles; their first home in IL was a one-room log cabin without a window, and here the daughter Mary (now Mrs Rogers) was born. The Buells moved later to Macoupin Co., then to Shelby Co., in the spring of 1847, where Mr Buell entered a section of Government Land (paying $1.25 per acre), and established a store and inn.
The privations this family endured would be considered intolerable today; at one time, all the children being sick, the daughter Susan died, and the mother had to perform the last sad rites without assistance and buried the body in an open field. The details of Lucy Flagg Buell's frontier life would make a most interesting story,--the visits to their neighborhood of Peter Cartwright, the prairie fires, the recurrence each autumn of the ague, the overland trips to the St. Louis market, and the advent of the IL Central R. R. near her home. "Mother has become quite a shoemaker; she has made ten pairs of buckskin shoes, and made the largest share of four buckskin coats." (Extract from letter of Marilla Buell [210] to Gershom Flagg [5], 10 Jan., 1849.
Her Shelby Co. home was a story-and-half double log-cabin, with wide porches the entire length of two sides. The traders and drovers always put up over night at "Jericho," as the Buell homestead was named, midway between Shelbyville and Greenville, IL. When work began in 1852 on the railroad-building, many engineers and stone-masons boarded at Jericho, among them one Joseph Strever, who later married the daughter Melvina [211].
Lucy Buell raised five sons to manhood, four of whom served in the Union army through the war. For the last three years of her life, she was partly helpless, her right side being palsied, but was very patient in her suffering.
Findagrave states that Lucy Flagg Buell was William W Buells first of two wives. There is no information on his other wife in the Flagg records, not surprisingly.
Lucy Douglas Flagg, daughter of Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Cutting) Flagg, was born 27 Dec., 1800 in Richmond, VT and died 25 Nov., 1867, in Jericho, Shelby Co, IL. She was married 12 Mar. 1823 at Cumberland Head, NY, by Mr Halsey to William Buell of Essex, VT, b. 2 Feb., 1801, d. 20 Nov., 1871. They left Essex in Sept., 1833 for Madison Co, IL, via the lakes and were three weeks on the journey of 1300 miles; their first home in IL was a one-room log cabin without a window, and here the daughter Mary (now Mrs Rogers) was born. The Buells moved later to Macoupin Co., then to Shelby Co., in the spring of 1847, where Mr Buell entered a section of Government Land (paying $1.25 per acre), and established a store and inn.
The privations this family endured would be considered intolerable today; at one time, all the children being sick, the daughter Susan died, and the mother had to perform the last sad rites without assistance and buried the body in an open field. The details of Lucy Flagg Buell's frontier life would make a most interesting story,--the visits to their neighborhood of Peter Cartwright, the prairie fires, the recurrence each autumn of the ague, the overland trips to the St. Louis market, and the advent of the IL Central R. R. near her home. "Mother has become quite a shoemaker; she has made ten pairs of buckskin shoes, and made the largest share of four buckskin coats." (Extract from letter of Marilla Buell [210] to Gershom Flagg [5], 10 Jan., 1849.
Her Shelby Co. home was a story-and-half double log-cabin, with wide porches the entire length of two sides. The traders and drovers always put up over night at "Jericho," as the Buell homestead was named, midway between Shelbyville and Greenville, IL. When work began in 1852 on the railroad-building, many engineers and stone-masons boarded at Jericho, among them one Joseph Strever, who later married the daughter Melvina [211].
Lucy Buell raised five sons to manhood, four of whom served in the Union army through the war. For the last three years of her life, she was partly helpless, her right side being palsied, but was very patient in her suffering.
Findagrave states that Lucy Flagg Buell was William W Buells first of two wives. There is no information on his other wife in the Flagg records, not surprisingly.
As read in the Flagg Family record book:
Lucy Douglas Flagg, daughter of Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Cutting) Flagg, was born 27 Dec., 1800 in Richmond, VT and died 25 Nov., 1867, in Jericho, Shelby Co, IL. She was married 12 Mar. 1823 at Cumberland Head, NY, by Mr Halsey to William Buell of Essex, VT, b. 2 Feb., 1801, d. 20 Nov., 1871. They left Essex in Sept., 1833 for Madison Co, IL, via the lakes and were three weeks on the journey of 1300 miles; their first home in IL was a one-room log cabin without a window, and here the daughter Mary (now Mrs Rogers) was born. The Buells moved later to Macoupin Co., then to Shelby Co., in the spring of 1847, where Mr Buell entered a section of Government Land (paying $1.25 per acre), and established a store and inn.
The privations this family endured would be considered intolerable today; at one time, all the children being sick, the daughter Susan died, and the mother had to perform the last sad rites without assistance and buried the body in an open field. The details of Lucy Flagg Buell's frontier life would make a most interesting story,--the visits to their neighborhood of Peter Cartwright, the prairie fires, the recurrence each autumn of the ague, the overland trips to the St. Louis market, and the advent of the IL Central R. R. near her home. "Mother has become quite a shoemaker; she has made ten pairs of buckskin shoes, and made the largest share of four buckskin coats." (Extract from letter of Marilla Buell [210] to Gershom Flagg [5], 10 Jan., 1849.
Her Shelby Co. home was a story-and-half double log-cabin, with wide porches the entire length of two sides. The traders and drovers always put up over night at "Jericho," as the Buell homestead was named, midway between Shelbyville and Greenville, IL. When work began in 1852 on the railroad-building, many engineers and stone-masons boarded at Jericho, among them one Joseph Strever, who later married the daughter Melvina [211].
Lucy Buell raised five sons to manhood, four of whom served in the Union army through the war. For the last three years of her life, she was partly helpless, her right side being palsied, but was very patient in her suffering.
Findagrave states that Lucy Flagg Buell was William W Buells first of two wives. There is no information on his other wife in the Flagg records, not surprisingly.
Lucy Douglas Flagg, daughter of Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Cutting) Flagg, was born 27 Dec., 1800 in Richmond, VT and died 25 Nov., 1867, in Jericho, Shelby Co, IL. She was married 12 Mar. 1823 at Cumberland Head, NY, by Mr Halsey to William Buell of Essex, VT, b. 2 Feb., 1801, d. 20 Nov., 1871. They left Essex in Sept., 1833 for Madison Co, IL, via the lakes and were three weeks on the journey of 1300 miles; their first home in IL was a one-room log cabin without a window, and here the daughter Mary (now Mrs Rogers) was born. The Buells moved later to Macoupin Co., then to Shelby Co., in the spring of 1847, where Mr Buell entered a section of Government Land (paying $1.25 per acre), and established a store and inn.
The privations this family endured would be considered intolerable today; at one time, all the children being sick, the daughter Susan died, and the mother had to perform the last sad rites without assistance and buried the body in an open field. The details of Lucy Flagg Buell's frontier life would make a most interesting story,--the visits to their neighborhood of Peter Cartwright, the prairie fires, the recurrence each autumn of the ague, the overland trips to the St. Louis market, and the advent of the IL Central R. R. near her home. "Mother has become quite a shoemaker; she has made ten pairs of buckskin shoes, and made the largest share of four buckskin coats." (Extract from letter of Marilla Buell [210] to Gershom Flagg [5], 10 Jan., 1849.
Her Shelby Co. home was a story-and-half double log-cabin, with wide porches the entire length of two sides. The traders and drovers always put up over night at "Jericho," as the Buell homestead was named, midway between Shelbyville and Greenville, IL. When work began in 1852 on the railroad-building, many engineers and stone-masons boarded at Jericho, among them one Joseph Strever, who later married the daughter Melvina [211].
Lucy Buell raised five sons to manhood, four of whom served in the Union army through the war. For the last three years of her life, she was partly helpless, her right side being palsied, but was very patient in her suffering.
Findagrave states that Lucy Flagg Buell was William W Buells first of two wives. There is no information on his other wife in the Flagg records, not surprisingly.
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