April 30th

Birthdays:

1587 Joseph Peck baptized Beccles, England the son of Robert & Helen (Babbs) Peck.  He married Rebecca Clark in Hingham, England and came with his parents to New England in 1638.

1682 Christobel & Peter Crary baptized, children of Peter & Christobel (Gallop) Crary

1794 Ira Janes in Richford, VT to Daniel & Annie (Saunders) Janes

1872 Charles Matney son of John & Ruth (Parks) Matney in Carrollton, MO.  He married Delia Gallacher who was born in Carrollton in 1876.

1886 Clarence Colclasure son of John & Laura (Edwards) Colclasure in Louisville, IL.  He was a policeman in Fairfield, IL for many years.  He died of a heart attack in 1952 and is buried in Maple Hill Cemetery in Fairfield.

Thomas Poehler son of Garland & Mary (Bryan) Poehler 

Weddings: 

1690 Hezekiah Loomis & Mary Porter.  Hezekiah, the son of Nathaniel & Elizabeth (More) Loomis was born 1669 in Windsor, CT.  He died in 1758.  Mary was born in 1672 and died in 1752.

1856 William Henry Harrison Fitzgerald & Emily Smith in Clay County sometime between April 30 & Sept. 17, 1856.  William the son of Derritt & Mary (Slaven) was born 1835 in Indiana.  He married 1) Louisa Ballard in 1854 in Clay Co. IL.  Emily, his second wife, was born in Ohio in 1838 to James & Elizabeth (Tewalt) Smith.  They moved to Clay Co., IL ca. 1839.  WHH & Emily had 15 children.  He died in Iola, IL in 1911 and Emily died there in 1925.  They are buried in the Iola Cemetery.

1965 Danny Falke & Gale Richardson.  Danny is the son of Jay & Dorothy (Lathrop) Falke.  He and Gale had one child and divorced in 1970.