1620 Richard Lake
buried in Wickford, England. The son of
John & Margaret (Reade) Lake, he was baptized May 21, 1620 in
Wickford.
1695 Sarah (Steele)
Judd daughter of John & Rachel
(Talcott) Steele born 1638. She married
Thomas Judd ca. 1658.
1867 Louisa (Draper)
Lathrop age 41 in Lawrence Co., IL. The daughter of Thomas & Catherine
(Harbert) Draper, she was born in Indiana in 1825. Louisa married Levi Lathrop in 1842 and they
had eleven children: Thomas, Ezra, Nancy, Catherine, Charlotte, Elizabeth,
Marion, Emma, Joel, George and Grant.
She is buried in Lone Tree Cemetery in Lawrence Co., IL.
1919 Christina Dempsey
age 1 in White Co., IL. She was the
daughter of Warner & Edna (Trapp) Dempsey.
Christina is buried in Maple Ridge Cemetery in Carmi, IL.
1983 Mrs. Viola Erkman,
78, of 607 W. Main St., widow of the late Russell Erkman, a former Sims
resident, died at 10 p.m. Sunday May 22, 1983 at Fairfield Memorial Hospital.
Mrs.
Erkman entered the hospital last Wednesday after suffering a broken hip at her
apartment. She also suffered from a
heart condition.
Funeral
services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Johnson Funeral Home with
Rev. Oakley Miller officiating. Burial
will be in Maple Hill Cemetery.
Visitation
will be held from 6-9 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.
Mrs.
Erkman was born at Mill Shoals July 7, 1904, the daughter of Gilbert and Amanda
(Rodgers) Jackson. She attended school
at Mill Shoals.
She
was married to Russell Erkman for over 50 years. He preceded her in death in 1977. Mr. Erkman was a construction worker for the
railroad.
Mrs.
Erkman was a housewife and homemaker and never was employed outside the
home. She moved to Fairfield in 1979 and
stayed frequently with her niece, Mrs. Ruth Belangee, of Bonnie. Mrs. Erkman was going to live with her niece
after her release from the hospital.
She
was a member of the Sims Baptist Church at Sims.
Survivors
include one sister, Mrs. Bernell Golden, of Fairfield; several nieces and
nephews.
Mrs.
Erkman had no children.
