Lucinda Brooks (Bigelow) Tuthill, widow of Cephas Tuthill, an early settler of Illinois, died at the residence of her only daughter, Mrs. Egbert E. Walbridge, No. 332 Marshfield Avenue, May 27, 1893, at the age of 91 years, and 11 months. Mrs. Tuthill was born at Peru, Vermont, June 9, 1801.
Her father, Reuben Bigelow, was for many years justice of the peace, and served several terms as member of the state legislature. he was the proprietor of a famous tavern at Peru, on the Green Mountains, where, in the latter portion of the last century and the first of this, the states from Manchester to Chester stopped for dinner, and was widely known and universally esteemed.
This beautiful daughter of "Squire" Bigelow was married to Cephas Tuthill, the son of a neighbor in 1826 and a few years after came with him and their one child in a covered wagon all the way from Vermont to Illinois. Mrs. Tuthill often spoke of this trip, which lasted for two months, as for the most part highly enjoyable, the only feature which she did not relish being her fear of wild animals, whose cries they could hear at night while passing through the then almost untrodden wilds of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.
She distinctly remembered the principal events of the War of 1812 and often heard the war of the revolution talked about by member of her family and others who had served in the Patriot army under Washington.
Cephas Tuthill and his bride joined his brothers, Daniel B. Tuthill (the father of Judge Richard S. Tuthill and Mrs. General R. N. Pearson), Russell Tuthill and John Tuthill, on a beautiful prairie in Jackson County, which still bears their name, and with other Vermont and Massachusetts families formed what became known among the people from the South, who for the most part settled in Southern Illinois as "The Yankee Settlement," which also became known widely as the first station of the "underground railroad" whereon many a runaway slave from Kentucky and Missouri made his escape from bondage. Here was established a good school, and here also in the schoolhouse were held regularly on each Sunday religious services, by itinerant ministers mostly. Later a preacher of the Presbyterian church, Rev. Mr. Bird, father of Abram Bird, general manager of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway preached here for several years.
Mrs. Tuthill was herself for more than sixty years, a consistent member of the Methodist church.
The residence of Cephas Tuthill, like that of his brothers, became a center of intelligence and unstinted hospitality and was known as such by all who resided in or passed through that part of the country.
The late Mrs. Dr. Loren Whiting, of Chester, VT, who died at the age of 92; Mrs. Susan Burton, of Manchester, VT; Mrs. Deborah Shearer, of Lansing, MI; Mrs. Dametta P. Tuthill, of DuQuoin, IL; Mrs. Laura Fairchild, of Mariette, WI; Mrs. Orilla Nicholas, of Richmond, VA, the later four still living at the ages, respectively of 90, 88, 83, and 78, and Mrs. Caroline Nicholas of Buckingham County, VA, were sisters of Mrs. Tuthill. Her three brothers, Dr. Miles Bigelow, of Michigan; Dr. Orlando Bigelow, of Illinois; and Dr. Asa Bigelow, of Ohio; were during their lives well known and respected members of the medical profession.
Her father, Reuben Bigelow, was for many years justice of the peace, and served several terms as member of the state legislature. he was the proprietor of a famous tavern at Peru, on the Green Mountains, where, in the latter portion of the last century and the first of this, the states from Manchester to Chester stopped for dinner, and was widely known and universally esteemed.
This beautiful daughter of "Squire" Bigelow was married to Cephas Tuthill, the son of a neighbor in 1826 and a few years after came with him and their one child in a covered wagon all the way from Vermont to Illinois. Mrs. Tuthill often spoke of this trip, which lasted for two months, as for the most part highly enjoyable, the only feature which she did not relish being her fear of wild animals, whose cries they could hear at night while passing through the then almost untrodden wilds of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.
She distinctly remembered the principal events of the War of 1812 and often heard the war of the revolution talked about by member of her family and others who had served in the Patriot army under Washington.
Cephas Tuthill and his bride joined his brothers, Daniel B. Tuthill (the father of Judge Richard S. Tuthill and Mrs. General R. N. Pearson), Russell Tuthill and John Tuthill, on a beautiful prairie in Jackson County, which still bears their name, and with other Vermont and Massachusetts families formed what became known among the people from the South, who for the most part settled in Southern Illinois as "The Yankee Settlement," which also became known widely as the first station of the "underground railroad" whereon many a runaway slave from Kentucky and Missouri made his escape from bondage. Here was established a good school, and here also in the schoolhouse were held regularly on each Sunday religious services, by itinerant ministers mostly. Later a preacher of the Presbyterian church, Rev. Mr. Bird, father of Abram Bird, general manager of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway preached here for several years.
Mrs. Tuthill was herself for more than sixty years, a consistent member of the Methodist church.
The residence of Cephas Tuthill, like that of his brothers, became a center of intelligence and unstinted hospitality and was known as such by all who resided in or passed through that part of the country.
The late Mrs. Dr. Loren Whiting, of Chester, VT, who died at the age of 92; Mrs. Susan Burton, of Manchester, VT; Mrs. Deborah Shearer, of Lansing, MI; Mrs. Dametta P. Tuthill, of DuQuoin, IL; Mrs. Laura Fairchild, of Mariette, WI; Mrs. Orilla Nicholas, of Richmond, VA, the later four still living at the ages, respectively of 90, 88, 83, and 78, and Mrs. Caroline Nicholas of Buckingham County, VA, were sisters of Mrs. Tuthill. Her three brothers, Dr. Miles Bigelow, of Michigan; Dr. Orlando Bigelow, of Illinois; and Dr. Asa Bigelow, of Ohio; were during their lives well known and respected members of the medical profession.
Lucinda Brooks (Bigelow) Tuthill, widow of Cephas Tuthill, an early settler of Illinois, died at the residence of her only daughter, Mrs. Egbert E. Walbridge, No. 332 Marshfield Avenue, May 27, 1893, at the age of 91 years, and 11 months. Mrs. Tuthill was born at Peru, Vermont, June 9, 1801.
Her father, Reuben Bigelow, was for many years justice of the peace, and served several terms as member of the state legislature. he was the proprietor of a famous tavern at Peru, on the Green Mountains, where, in the latter portion of the last century and the first of this, the states from Manchester to Chester stopped for dinner, and was widely known and universally esteemed.
This beautiful daughter of "Squire" Bigelow was married to Cephas Tuthill, the son of a neighbor in 1826 and a few years after came with him and their one child in a covered wagon all the way from Vermont to Illinois. Mrs. Tuthill often spoke of this trip, which lasted for two months, as for the most part highly enjoyable, the only feature which she did not relish being her fear of wild animals, whose cries they could hear at night while passing through the then almost untrodden wilds of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.
She distinctly remembered the principal events of the War of 1812 and often heard the war of the revolution talked about by member of her family and others who had served in the Patriot army under Washington.
Cephas Tuthill and his bride joined his brothers, Daniel B. Tuthill (the father of Judge Richard S. Tuthill and Mrs. General R. N. Pearson), Russell Tuthill and John Tuthill, on a beautiful prairie in Jackson County, which still bears their name, and with other Vermont and Massachusetts families formed what became known among the people from the South, who for the most part settled in Southern Illinois as "The Yankee Settlement," which also became known widely as the first station of the "underground railroad" whereon many a runaway slave from Kentucky and Missouri made his escape from bondage. Here was established a good school, and here also in the schoolhouse were held regularly on each Sunday religious services, by itinerant ministers mostly. Later a preacher of the Presbyterian church, Rev. Mr. Bird, father of Abram Bird, general manager of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway preached here for several years.
Mrs. Tuthill was herself for more than sixty years, a consistent member of the Methodist church.
The residence of Cephas Tuthill, like that of his brothers, became a center of intelligence and unstinted hospitality and was known as such by all who resided in or passed through that part of the country.
The late Mrs. Dr. Loren Whiting, of Chester, VT, who died at the age of 92; Mrs. Susan Burton, of Manchester, VT; Mrs. Deborah Shearer, of Lansing, MI; Mrs. Dametta P. Tuthill, of DuQuoin, IL; Mrs. Laura Fairchild, of Mariette, WI; Mrs. Orilla Nicholas, of Richmond, VA, the later four still living at the ages, respectively of 90, 88, 83, and 78, and Mrs. Caroline Nicholas of Buckingham County, VA, were sisters of Mrs. Tuthill. Her three brothers, Dr. Miles Bigelow, of Michigan; Dr. Orlando Bigelow, of Illinois; and Dr. Asa Bigelow, of Ohio; were during their lives well known and respected members of the medical profession.
Her father, Reuben Bigelow, was for many years justice of the peace, and served several terms as member of the state legislature. he was the proprietor of a famous tavern at Peru, on the Green Mountains, where, in the latter portion of the last century and the first of this, the states from Manchester to Chester stopped for dinner, and was widely known and universally esteemed.
This beautiful daughter of "Squire" Bigelow was married to Cephas Tuthill, the son of a neighbor in 1826 and a few years after came with him and their one child in a covered wagon all the way from Vermont to Illinois. Mrs. Tuthill often spoke of this trip, which lasted for two months, as for the most part highly enjoyable, the only feature which she did not relish being her fear of wild animals, whose cries they could hear at night while passing through the then almost untrodden wilds of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.
She distinctly remembered the principal events of the War of 1812 and often heard the war of the revolution talked about by member of her family and others who had served in the Patriot army under Washington.
Cephas Tuthill and his bride joined his brothers, Daniel B. Tuthill (the father of Judge Richard S. Tuthill and Mrs. General R. N. Pearson), Russell Tuthill and John Tuthill, on a beautiful prairie in Jackson County, which still bears their name, and with other Vermont and Massachusetts families formed what became known among the people from the South, who for the most part settled in Southern Illinois as "The Yankee Settlement," which also became known widely as the first station of the "underground railroad" whereon many a runaway slave from Kentucky and Missouri made his escape from bondage. Here was established a good school, and here also in the schoolhouse were held regularly on each Sunday religious services, by itinerant ministers mostly. Later a preacher of the Presbyterian church, Rev. Mr. Bird, father of Abram Bird, general manager of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway preached here for several years.
Mrs. Tuthill was herself for more than sixty years, a consistent member of the Methodist church.
The residence of Cephas Tuthill, like that of his brothers, became a center of intelligence and unstinted hospitality and was known as such by all who resided in or passed through that part of the country.
The late Mrs. Dr. Loren Whiting, of Chester, VT, who died at the age of 92; Mrs. Susan Burton, of Manchester, VT; Mrs. Deborah Shearer, of Lansing, MI; Mrs. Dametta P. Tuthill, of DuQuoin, IL; Mrs. Laura Fairchild, of Mariette, WI; Mrs. Orilla Nicholas, of Richmond, VA, the later four still living at the ages, respectively of 90, 88, 83, and 78, and Mrs. Caroline Nicholas of Buckingham County, VA, were sisters of Mrs. Tuthill. Her three brothers, Dr. Miles Bigelow, of Michigan; Dr. Orlando Bigelow, of Illinois; and Dr. Asa Bigelow, of Ohio; were during their lives well known and respected members of the medical profession.
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Abigail Bigelow Whiting
1797–1888
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Susan Bigelow Burton
1799–1867
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Deborah Knowlton Bigelow Shearer
1803–1894
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Damietta Pitman Bigelow Tuthill
1805–1896
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Dr Reuben Miles Bigelow
1807–1861
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Eliza Richardson Bigelow
1808–1814
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Lorinda Porter "Laura" Bigelow Fairchild
1810–1895
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Orilla Alden Bigelow Nicholas
1812–1833
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Dr Asa Bigelow
1820–1888
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