ELIZABETH REBECCA MCPHERSON PHARES
*Father was fortunate when he chose a wife in the person of Elizabeth Rebecca McPherson. To me she was a wonderful woman and one of the best mothers imaginable. She was small of stature, yet had remarkable endurance against bodily ills which aggravated her as long as I can remember. Her eyes were blue and disposition matched the sunshine that reflected from them. She had an infectious smile that persisted in direst adversity. She was careful with her tongue, and I never heard her speak ill of any person; rather, she always was noting the good in others. She was a woman of many Christian virtues, humble in spirit, kindly at all times, a splendid neighbor, helpful in sickness, a devout worshiper of her God. A good, old-fashioned mother whose children never grew too old to long for her comforting love and wise counsel.
Her father was REV. WILLIAM ALEXANDER MCPHERSON, formerly a Methodist but pastor of the Clinton Baptist church from January 1842 to May 1864. His father, DR. JESSE C. MCPHERSON, was a Methodist circuit rider, and a physician as well. The latter gentleman was the first treasurer of DeWitt County after its organization in 1839, but resigned after a brief tenure. The office was not coveted by him, nor by his successor, there having been at no time as much as $25 in the cash box during his incumbency. That same year he was elected as the first Justice of the Peace in the Mt. Pleasant (now Farmer City) precinct. He died at Clinton in 1850 and was buried in the Old Mills cemetery west of the city.
DR JESSE C. McPHERSON was a veteran of the War of 1812, and participated in the Great Battle of New Orleans, the most severe of the war. He also had a son, Jesse Jr., who enlisted in the Mexican War with Company F, Fourth Illinois Regiment, and died at Camp Rio Grande on August 25, 1846.
The McPhersons, of Scotch and Irish descent, came to Illinois from Tennessee, in the vicinity of Nashville, leaving that section because they were not sympathetic to slavery conditions. William Alexander McPherson’s wife, my grandmother was (1)POLLY WEAVER said to have been a native of Taylor County in old Virginia. She was of English and German extraction. From an old Bible at home I copied these words, in her ow handwriting: ”This day I forty years old, Nov. 3, 1850”, making her birthdate November 3, 1810.
In 1853, William A. McPherson married a second wife, who was (2) Elizabeth Lucy Hendrick, a native of Hartland Vt. She was born in 1826 and died at Clinton IL February 12m 1914, aged 87 years. She was a dear old soul, the only grandmother I really ever knew, and loved her stepchildren as her very own.
(Note: I find that William A McPherson was born May 29, 1809, near Nashville, Tenn., and died at Clinton on May 30, 1860. Polly Weaver, whom he married April 7, 1831, died at Clinton April 22, 1853.)
Elizabeth Rebecca, McPherson, Phares died at Clinton Illinois December 7, 1900, peacefully and well prepared for eternity, with only father and myself in her presence, together with kindly old Dr. G.W. Hyde. Funeral services were conducted on Dec. 9 by Rev. E.A. Gilliland, pastor of the Christian church, of which she had been a member since young womanhood. *info from: PHARES FAMILY HISTORY - by William Marshall Phares 1947 ( b. 1875)
*Father was fortunate when he chose a wife in the person of Elizabeth Rebecca McPherson. To me she was a wonderful woman and one of the best mothers imaginable. She was small of stature, yet had remarkable endurance against bodily ills which aggravated her as long as I can remember. Her eyes were blue and disposition matched the sunshine that reflected from them. She had an infectious smile that persisted in direst adversity. She was careful with her tongue, and I never heard her speak ill of any person; rather, she always was noting the good in others. She was a woman of many Christian virtues, humble in spirit, kindly at all times, a splendid neighbor, helpful in sickness, a devout worshiper of her God. A good, old-fashioned mother whose children never grew too old to long for her comforting love and wise counsel.
Her father was REV. WILLIAM ALEXANDER MCPHERSON, formerly a Methodist but pastor of the Clinton Baptist church from January 1842 to May 1864. His father, DR. JESSE C. MCPHERSON, was a Methodist circuit rider, and a physician as well. The latter gentleman was the first treasurer of DeWitt County after its organization in 1839, but resigned after a brief tenure. The office was not coveted by him, nor by his successor, there having been at no time as much as $25 in the cash box during his incumbency. That same year he was elected as the first Justice of the Peace in the Mt. Pleasant (now Farmer City) precinct. He died at Clinton in 1850 and was buried in the Old Mills cemetery west of the city.
DR JESSE C. McPHERSON was a veteran of the War of 1812, and participated in the Great Battle of New Orleans, the most severe of the war. He also had a son, Jesse Jr., who enlisted in the Mexican War with Company F, Fourth Illinois Regiment, and died at Camp Rio Grande on August 25, 1846.
The McPhersons, of Scotch and Irish descent, came to Illinois from Tennessee, in the vicinity of Nashville, leaving that section because they were not sympathetic to slavery conditions. William Alexander McPherson’s wife, my grandmother was (1)POLLY WEAVER said to have been a native of Taylor County in old Virginia. She was of English and German extraction. From an old Bible at home I copied these words, in her ow handwriting: ”This day I forty years old, Nov. 3, 1850”, making her birthdate November 3, 1810.
In 1853, William A. McPherson married a second wife, who was (2) Elizabeth Lucy Hendrick, a native of Hartland Vt. She was born in 1826 and died at Clinton IL February 12m 1914, aged 87 years. She was a dear old soul, the only grandmother I really ever knew, and loved her stepchildren as her very own.
(Note: I find that William A McPherson was born May 29, 1809, near Nashville, Tenn., and died at Clinton on May 30, 1860. Polly Weaver, whom he married April 7, 1831, died at Clinton April 22, 1853.)
Elizabeth Rebecca, McPherson, Phares died at Clinton Illinois December 7, 1900, peacefully and well prepared for eternity, with only father and myself in her presence, together with kindly old Dr. G.W. Hyde. Funeral services were conducted on Dec. 9 by Rev. E.A. Gilliland, pastor of the Christian church, of which she had been a member since young womanhood. *info from: PHARES FAMILY HISTORY - by William Marshall Phares 1947 ( b. 1875)
ELIZABETH REBECCA MCPHERSON PHARES
*Father was fortunate when he chose a wife in the person of Elizabeth Rebecca McPherson. To me she was a wonderful woman and one of the best mothers imaginable. She was small of stature, yet had remarkable endurance against bodily ills which aggravated her as long as I can remember. Her eyes were blue and disposition matched the sunshine that reflected from them. She had an infectious smile that persisted in direst adversity. She was careful with her tongue, and I never heard her speak ill of any person; rather, she always was noting the good in others. She was a woman of many Christian virtues, humble in spirit, kindly at all times, a splendid neighbor, helpful in sickness, a devout worshiper of her God. A good, old-fashioned mother whose children never grew too old to long for her comforting love and wise counsel.
Her father was REV. WILLIAM ALEXANDER MCPHERSON, formerly a Methodist but pastor of the Clinton Baptist church from January 1842 to May 1864. His father, DR. JESSE C. MCPHERSON, was a Methodist circuit rider, and a physician as well. The latter gentleman was the first treasurer of DeWitt County after its organization in 1839, but resigned after a brief tenure. The office was not coveted by him, nor by his successor, there having been at no time as much as $25 in the cash box during his incumbency. That same year he was elected as the first Justice of the Peace in the Mt. Pleasant (now Farmer City) precinct. He died at Clinton in 1850 and was buried in the Old Mills cemetery west of the city.
DR JESSE C. McPHERSON was a veteran of the War of 1812, and participated in the Great Battle of New Orleans, the most severe of the war. He also had a son, Jesse Jr., who enlisted in the Mexican War with Company F, Fourth Illinois Regiment, and died at Camp Rio Grande on August 25, 1846.
The McPhersons, of Scotch and Irish descent, came to Illinois from Tennessee, in the vicinity of Nashville, leaving that section because they were not sympathetic to slavery conditions. William Alexander McPherson’s wife, my grandmother was (1)POLLY WEAVER said to have been a native of Taylor County in old Virginia. She was of English and German extraction. From an old Bible at home I copied these words, in her ow handwriting: ”This day I forty years old, Nov. 3, 1850”, making her birthdate November 3, 1810.
In 1853, William A. McPherson married a second wife, who was (2) Elizabeth Lucy Hendrick, a native of Hartland Vt. She was born in 1826 and died at Clinton IL February 12m 1914, aged 87 years. She was a dear old soul, the only grandmother I really ever knew, and loved her stepchildren as her very own.
(Note: I find that William A McPherson was born May 29, 1809, near Nashville, Tenn., and died at Clinton on May 30, 1860. Polly Weaver, whom he married April 7, 1831, died at Clinton April 22, 1853.)
Elizabeth Rebecca, McPherson, Phares died at Clinton Illinois December 7, 1900, peacefully and well prepared for eternity, with only father and myself in her presence, together with kindly old Dr. G.W. Hyde. Funeral services were conducted on Dec. 9 by Rev. E.A. Gilliland, pastor of the Christian church, of which she had been a member since young womanhood. *info from: PHARES FAMILY HISTORY - by William Marshall Phares 1947 ( b. 1875)
*Father was fortunate when he chose a wife in the person of Elizabeth Rebecca McPherson. To me she was a wonderful woman and one of the best mothers imaginable. She was small of stature, yet had remarkable endurance against bodily ills which aggravated her as long as I can remember. Her eyes were blue and disposition matched the sunshine that reflected from them. She had an infectious smile that persisted in direst adversity. She was careful with her tongue, and I never heard her speak ill of any person; rather, she always was noting the good in others. She was a woman of many Christian virtues, humble in spirit, kindly at all times, a splendid neighbor, helpful in sickness, a devout worshiper of her God. A good, old-fashioned mother whose children never grew too old to long for her comforting love and wise counsel.
Her father was REV. WILLIAM ALEXANDER MCPHERSON, formerly a Methodist but pastor of the Clinton Baptist church from January 1842 to May 1864. His father, DR. JESSE C. MCPHERSON, was a Methodist circuit rider, and a physician as well. The latter gentleman was the first treasurer of DeWitt County after its organization in 1839, but resigned after a brief tenure. The office was not coveted by him, nor by his successor, there having been at no time as much as $25 in the cash box during his incumbency. That same year he was elected as the first Justice of the Peace in the Mt. Pleasant (now Farmer City) precinct. He died at Clinton in 1850 and was buried in the Old Mills cemetery west of the city.
DR JESSE C. McPHERSON was a veteran of the War of 1812, and participated in the Great Battle of New Orleans, the most severe of the war. He also had a son, Jesse Jr., who enlisted in the Mexican War with Company F, Fourth Illinois Regiment, and died at Camp Rio Grande on August 25, 1846.
The McPhersons, of Scotch and Irish descent, came to Illinois from Tennessee, in the vicinity of Nashville, leaving that section because they were not sympathetic to slavery conditions. William Alexander McPherson’s wife, my grandmother was (1)POLLY WEAVER said to have been a native of Taylor County in old Virginia. She was of English and German extraction. From an old Bible at home I copied these words, in her ow handwriting: ”This day I forty years old, Nov. 3, 1850”, making her birthdate November 3, 1810.
In 1853, William A. McPherson married a second wife, who was (2) Elizabeth Lucy Hendrick, a native of Hartland Vt. She was born in 1826 and died at Clinton IL February 12m 1914, aged 87 years. She was a dear old soul, the only grandmother I really ever knew, and loved her stepchildren as her very own.
(Note: I find that William A McPherson was born May 29, 1809, near Nashville, Tenn., and died at Clinton on May 30, 1860. Polly Weaver, whom he married April 7, 1831, died at Clinton April 22, 1853.)
Elizabeth Rebecca, McPherson, Phares died at Clinton Illinois December 7, 1900, peacefully and well prepared for eternity, with only father and myself in her presence, together with kindly old Dr. G.W. Hyde. Funeral services were conducted on Dec. 9 by Rev. E.A. Gilliland, pastor of the Christian church, of which she had been a member since young womanhood. *info from: PHARES FAMILY HISTORY - by William Marshall Phares 1947 ( b. 1875)
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