Yoho, Samuel and Elizabeth Preble

I uploaded a five generation descendant chart for Samuel Yoho and Elizabeth Preble to MyBox. This report, in HTML format, includes the family of Charles and Anna (Brown) Yoho of Vermilion Co., IL. This report was available prior to October 2008 on my AOL website. This upload is part of my project to salvage work I did in the past.

Did you know there are two ways to spell Vermilion? When you are talking about the county in Illinois use one "L" and when you are talking about the neighboring county in Indiana use two "LL."

Members of the Henthorn family also lived in Danville, Vermilion Co., IL.

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Mr. Dickie
24 Feb 2011

Kyger, Daniel & Ann Henthorn

First Generation

1. Daniel KYGER was born about 1762. He died on 27 Apr 1849 in Georgetown, Vermilion Co., IL. He was buried in Apr 1849 in Mc Kendree Twp., Vermilion Co., IL, Mc Kendree Cemetery.

Daniel KYGER and Ann HENTHORN were married on 2 Sep 1796 in , Monongalia Co., VA/WV.

Ann HENTHORN (daughter of James HENTHORN II and Elizabeth UNKNOWN) was born on 3 Jul 1780 in , , Pennsylvania. She died on 9 Jun 1859 in Danville, Vermilion Co., IL. She was buried in Jun 1859 in Mc Kendree Twp., Vermilion Co., IL, Mc Kendree Cemetery.

Daniel KYGER and Ann HENTHORN had the following children:

+2 i. Nancy KYGER, born between 1796 and 1800, , Monongalia Co., VA/WV; married Sewell C. BRIGGS, in 1814/15, , Washington Co., OH.

3 ii. Hannah KYGER was born on 3 Feb 1797 in , Monongalia Co., VA/WV. She died on 28 Dec 1888 in Georgetown, Vermilion Co., IL. She was buried in Dec 1888 in Mc Kendree Twp., Vermilion Co., IL, Mc Kendree Cemetery.

+4 iii. John KYGER, born on 6 May 1799, Morgantown, Monongalia Co., VA/WV; married Mary SHEETS, on 7 Jun 1821, Grandview Twp., Washington Co., OH; died on 18 Apr 1883, Georgetown, Vermilion Co., IL.

+5 iv. James KIGER, born about 1801, , , Pennsylvania; died about 1865.

+6 v. Henry KYGER, born on 23 Jun 1804, Clarington, Monroe Co., OH; married Elizabeth S. SIMS, on 15 Nov 1827, , Washington Co., OH; died on 22 Nov 1891, Grape Creek, Vermilion Co., IL.

+7 vi. Mary Ann KYGER, born about 1805.

+8 vii. Marmaduke William D. KYGER, born on 2 Mar 1806, Clarington, Monroe Co., OH; married Maris JENKINS, on 24 Apr 1834, , Vermilion Co., IL; died on 16 Oct 1865, Danville, Vermilion Co., IL.

+9 viii. Sidna KYGER, born between 1804 and 1806, Virginia.

+10 ix. Elizabeth KYGER, born on 29 Feb 1808, , Monroe Co., OH; married William SHEETS, on 3 Sep 1829, , Washington Co., OH; died on 2 Jan 1894, Georgetown, Vermilion Co., IL.

+11 x. Daniel KYGER Jr., born between 1810 and 1814; married Susan HOUSH, on 11 Aug 1835, , Vermilion Co., IL.

+12 xi. Brooky KYGER, born on 8 May 1817, , Monroe Co., OH; married Thomas Scott MORGAN, on 20 Feb 1834, Georgetown, Vermilion Co., IL; died on 8 Aug 1852, Georgetown, Vermilion Co., IL.

+13 xii. Adam KYGER, born on 23 Jun 1819, Clarington, Monroe Co., OH; married Catherine SMITH, on 22 Feb 1844, , Vermilion Co., IL; died on 30 Apr 1904, Pansy, Douglas Co., MO.

+14 xiii. Minerva Angeline KYGER, born on 18 Mar 1823, Clarington, Monroe Co., OH; married Michael RITTER, on 23 Sep 1841, , Vermilion Co., IL; died on 1 Mar 1904, Georgetown, Vermilion Co., IL.

Water Mill at Grape Creek, Vermilion Co., Illinois

Water Mill at Grape Creek, Vermilion Co., Illinois

by

T. Clifford Morgan

Warsaw, MO

A mill was built about three fourths of a mile from Grape Creek on the bank of the Vermilion River in Vermilion County, Illinois. It was built by William Sheets and his brother-in-law, Thomas Scott Morgan. They had married sisters, daughters of Daniel and Ann (Henthorn) Kyger. William Sheets married Elizabeth Kyger on September 3, 1829 and Thomas Morgan married Brooky Kyger on February 20, 1834. In 1835 at the start of building the mill and the dam across the Vermilion River Sheets was 27 years old and Morgan 25.

The mill commenced grinding in 1834. It was known for a number of years as the Morgan and Sheets Mill. In connection with their grist mill they erected a saw mill and a distillery. The mill had customers for 40 miles around. They started with one run of stone but soon had enough business to add a second stone.

In 1850, Henry T. Kyger, son of John Kyger, bought the mill. In 1865, he formed a partnership with his brothers, Daniel and Tilmon and they made improvements to the mill at a cost of about $8000. In 1873, Daniel Kyger took full charge of the mill operation.

The huge grist mill ground corn and wheat night and day for more than sixty years. Power to run the grinding stones and saw mill was furnished by twin turbine wheels driven by water impounded in a huge fore bay or mill race. Water was forced into the latter by a dam built across the river at a right angle to the mill.

Lumber was cut by a gate saw fitted into a huge frame about 8 feet high and six feet wide. The saw mill turned out about 2000 feet of lumber a day. The price of sawing was 50 cents per 100 feet or a share.

Other buildings used in the mill business included a mill barn to house horses and oxen, a cooperage for making barrels to ship flour, a wheat granary, and a barracks for the mill hands. The customers who came for many miles had to wait their turn.

The mill continued in operation until about 1900 when the building weakened by age fell of its own weight into the Vermilion River.

Tradition says that Thomas S. Morgan was arrested on a complaint of men who wanted to use flatboats on the Big Vermilion river and objected to the dam at the Grape Creek mill. Morgan secured Abraham Lincoln to defend him when the case came up for trial at Danville. When the case was called, Lincoln asked the judge if the Big Vermilion River was considered a navigable river by the court. The judge replied that it was. Lincoln requested that the case be dismissed as the State of Illinois had no jurisdiction over navigable rivers and it was therefore a concern of the federal government. The court dismissed the case.

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Email: Dick.Henthorn@gmail.com
Posted: 23 Sep 2009
File: MorGrapc.txt

Roy J. Kyger

Roy J. KYGER

Born - 1882
Died - 1959

RESIDENCES: 316 Chandler, (probably in Danville, IL)

RECOLLECTIONS: Kyger's Mill Gone But Not Forgotten

Few and obscure are the landmarks today of pioneer days when settlers flooded into the rolling hills of the Midwest.

One of the familiar sights in this area a century ago was Kyger's Mill, near Grape Creek on the Vermilion River, six miles southeast of Danville, [IL] - then a village of only a few hundred.

Amid scenic beauty, the three-story frame building housed a huge grist mill that ground wheat and corn night and day. Through a smaller structure adjacent to it passed thousands of logs to be sawed into rough lumber.

The first mill was built on the site by William Sheets and Thomas Morgan of Georgetown, [IL] in 1835. When Henry T. Kyger purchased the mill in 1850, he enlarged the building, installed new machinery and formed a partnership with the two brothers, Daniel and Tilmon Kyger.

The original Kyger family was Henry T. Kyger and wife, their five daughters and two sons. Of these, two sons and a daughter survive: Mrs. Charles T. Bushong, 602 Buchanan St., R.J. Kyger, 316 Chandler and Willet T. Kyger, Pocahontas, Ark.

Power to run the grindling burrs and sawmill was furnished by two turbine shells driven by water impounded in a large fore-bay or mill race. Water was forced into it by a dam built across the river at an angle to the mill.

Both corn and wheat were ground by stone burrs. Lumber was cut by a "gate-saw" fitted into a huge frame about eight feet high and six feet wide. The sawmill turned out about two thousand feet of lumber a day, considered good in those days. The price was 50 cents per hundred feet, or a share.

Other buildings used in the milling business included a millbarn to house the horses and oxen, a cooperage for making barrels to ship flour, a wheat granery and barracks for millhands.

Henry Kyger sold the mill after operating it more than 30 years, but it continued to be used until the turn of the century when the structure weakened by age, fell of its own weight into the river. Only memories of its existence remain.
(Source: Written by R.J. Kyger and published in the Danville Commercial News, Danville, IL on 25 Nov 1951 - furnished by T. Clifford Morgan)
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