Lewis Eblesizer (1799-1884)

       Lewis Eblesizer of Blandinsville township {ed.-McDonough Co., IL}, a man prominent and well-known for years throughout the Northwest part of McDonough, died at his home Friday morning last at 3 o'clock.  He had been in poor health for the past three or four years, his disease being an affliction of the heart.  For six months he has grown worse rapidly, and during a month or more his death has been expected almost daily.  Funeral services were conducted at Blandinsville Saturday, after which the remains were buried in the Liberty burial ground northeast of town some two or three miles.  He was about 85 years old.  Deceased was born, we believe, in Indiana.  He migrated from near New Albany in that state, about the year 1839, coming to Illinois in company with the families of Andrew Huff and Jacob Keithley.  The deceased was then unmarried.  Mr. Huff and Eblesizer first settled in Rushville, Schuyler county, where for a few years they carried on a plow shop.  About 1844 or 1845 they came to McDonough and settled upon the land where the deceased spent the remaining portion of his life.  Deceased still single, boarded with Mr. Huff, and the two spent the time in improving their land in the summer, and blacksmithing in the winter.  Some years later, was united in marriage with Elizabeth Nance, whose parents resided in Hancock County, near LaHarpe.  The fruits of their marriage was one child, a son, C.C. Eblesizer, now some thirty years old and married.  The wife of deceased survives him.  Mr. Eblesizer was a first class farmer in every respect, a man of strong convictions, yet scrupulously honest withal.  He was a kind neighbor, a warm friend, a man whose living was a benefit to the community in which he lived.

The Macomb Journal Volume 29, Number 21, 21 FEB 1884