In Memoriam January 26th

1892 Solomon Young age 76 in Grandview, MO the son of Jacob & Catherine (?) Young.  He was born in Simpsonville, KY 1815 and married Harriet Gregg in 1838.  They were Harry Truman’s maternal grandparents.  He is buried in Forest Hill Cemetery in Kansas City, MO.

1924 Sarah Ann (Warren) Peer Robertson Schell age 79 at the Civil War widows’ home in Wilmington, IL.  She was born in 1844 in Wayne Co., IL the daughter of William & Minerva (Gaston) Warren.  She married Hiram Peer ca. 1859 and had two children.  Sarah married 2) Amos Robertson in 1864 and had five children.  After his death in 1906 she married 3) Christian Schell.  She is buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Wilmington, IL.

1958 Lillan (Halberstadt) Fitzgerald age 84 in Joliet, IL.  Lillian was born in Finlay, IL in 1873.  She married de Lafayette Fitzgerald in Iola, IL in 1891 and they had six children.  She is buried in Iola, IL.

1993 Chester Wiggins age 72 in Wayne Co., IL.  He was born in 1920 and married Marjorie Shaw in 1941.  They had six children.