My Present Past
A genealogical experience
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Wyanet, Illinois
The friends, relatives and acquaintances of Edward and Sadie Engel, from Wyanet, Bureau County, Illinois
Mrs Elizabeth Aldrich

April 06, 1878                                                           Wyanet, Illinois
Mr & Mrs P L Aldrich

April 06, 1878                                                              Wyanet, Illinois
S S  and Elizabeth Aldrich came to Wyanet, Illinois in 1855. They
had two children Percy, born in 1855 and Anna born in 1857.
Elizabeth's husband died in 1857 and she and her son Percy in 1876
became the proprietors of the Ellsworth House in Wyanet.
1860 Census                       Elizabeth Aldrich

Center, Bureau County, Illinois
1870 Census          Elizabeth Aldrich

Wyanet, Bureau County, Illinois
1880 Census  Elizabeth & Percy Aldrich

Wyanet, Bureau County, Illinois
1877 Bureau County Taxpayers    
P L  Aldrich
Wyanet, Bureau County, Illinois
1877 Wyanet Business Directory
Wyanet, Bureau County, Illinois
Background:
Jacobine Engel and Willie Hauter
Wyanet, Illinois
1880 Census          Edward Armstrong

Wyanet, Bureau County, Illinois
E M Armstrong

July 18, 1881                                                                 Wyanet, Illinois
Paul Bansen

August 04, 1880                                                            Wyanet, Illinois
1880 Census                  Paul Bansen

Wyanet, Bureau County, Illinois
1880 Census                         Frank Cross

Wyanet, Bureau County, Illinois
Frank G Cross

April 16, 1881                                                               Wyanet, Illinois
Frank Cross was a switchman at the Chicago Rock Island &
Pacific Railroad. His father Milton was an Agent/ Buyer,
contracting shipments of cattle and livestock for the railroad.
Emerette Alma Nichols and
Sarah Ellyn "Sadie" Nichols were
classmates in 3rd and 4th grade at
Wyanet, Illinois in 1867