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*‘ was the one on Higgins road, that is â€"‘ ‘also still standing. E ‘Toll gate charges were thirtyâ€"five cents for a team and wagon and _ twenty‘five cents for a single horse ~‘ and wagon, or for the person who â€"â€" rode on a horse, at the gates farther r away from the city, but at the last gate but fifteen cents was asked of ~the man on horseback. tavern at Western‘ avenue and Milâ€" â€" waukee avenue, and had three daughâ€" %7 who were teachers. Three Diaâ€" brothers gisoâ€"had taverns on mm WNEDM 0° PW D EDT _}) , _ | ber 10, 1828, is buried in the southâ€" rode on a horse, at the gates fartheT| coc, corner of the Deerfield cemeâ€" away from the city, but at the JSt) or, whon she died December 13, gate but fifteen cents was asked Of| 1975 whie visiting her daughter. theâ€"man on horseback. Mrs) C. N. Pettis, the snow was so Into this western setting came John deep that it was impossible for any Pettis, scion of the Steubens of Ste9â€"| vornicle to make the trip to Wauconâ€" benville, New York, and the Y2"| is *whot was intended to be a temâ€" Suits who were born in Webbsville, porary burial proved to be a permaâ€" New York. His grandfather Steuben| pon} Sno â€" fror husband, Jason Langâ€" drew a pension for service in the don, is buried in the Wauconds cemeâ€" Revolutionary war. Actuated bYy 4| _; " wrs John Pettis died Februâ€" wanderlust, John Pettis migrated t9/.,/ â€" jso; in the hame of her sisâ€" Ilinois in 1843 and took Uup @OY@Mâ€"{ror Ariga Dickinson, while visiting ment land. He came to the t@Â¥@m" ) vor jJoun Pettis died August 8, 1898. while Susan Suits was visiting her| They are buried in the old cemetery sister, Alida. Two of these beautiful ; Barrington Center. eastern girls were married at the| ppores w Pottis has had 30 deâ€" home of their sister. Susan WAS 2| coongonts | He had ten living chilâ€" happy, lively, attractive young girl, dren. There are thirteen grandâ€" with sparkling eyes and a soft, PI€@Sâ€" | (y;g on angq three great grandchilâ€" ant voice. and who loved to dance. dren. John Pettis was a well read. MUCB|~ ppo oniidren of Charles William traveled man, so the acquaintance of | _ , Lucy Ann Langdon Pettis were: these two young people on the Westâ€"| n o_â€" 2000 200 muvos 60 William had to detour into the mud at the side of the road. When the Dickâ€" ern prairie soon ripened into love, ‘and they were married with great ceremony in the tavern on June 1, 1846. Susan‘s parents died when their seven children, Kate, Alida, Suâ€" Es m n e evt Emma, Clara iIdalitte, and Cora Mary. Three of these are now livâ€" ing, George, Sarah and Clara. William Pettisâ€" married Elizabeth Kale of Sac City, lowa, where Wilâ€" Hiam went to run a creamery. They Amson tavern was first operated there were no foreign guests. All were of deep snow covered the fences, and when the temperature remained at twenty degrees below zero the snow omm o â€" John Pettis badâ€" nine. children, Charles William, Francis Augustus, William Hubbard, George Maibe, Sylvia Irene, Laura Alida, Sarah Dt CHnut m w L formed a thick crust, over which the farmers drove their heavy loads of grain, and Mr, Snell did not get much toll. He therefore hired githgs of men who worked day and night to apen the roads. It was called Sneil road in those days. Mr. Richmond, who also‘bad a tavâ€" ern, operated the toll roads before Mr. Snell. Mr. Richmond owned the san, Rachel, Hubbard, Maibe and John Suits were very young, and they were reared by their Steuben relatives, consequently her parents were not present at the wedding. John Pettis had taken government land in Barrington Center which was underlaid with gravel, which proved to be poor farming land. The Dickâ€" insons had selected their 300 acres on Smell road, which was rich farming land, and because it was nearer to Chicago, was later sold for high ED in In the "Gold rush" of 1849 John Pettis left for California with an ox team which he drove all of the way from Barrington. His young wife and baby Charles, remained with Mrs. Pettis‘ sister, Alida Suits Dickinson, while her husband went to seek the fortune that he did not attain. trip to and from California. The journey via the overiand route was not repeated for the return trip, but the water route via the Isthmus of Edli.hrl.l.hm | George Pettis‘ family live in + that stood at the northwest of Deerfield and Waukegan which was the Simeon Tupper me, but was moved to its present twentyâ€"six years ago when by George Pettis. They had on the John Pettis farm in Barâ€" before moving to Deerficld. Mrs. George Pettis has been presiâ€" mt of the Dorcas society for fifteen Warren Pettis married Margierite atch of Deerficld, daughter of Clyde id Martha Trier Hatch, and have itis married Margaret Mulligan, ‘County Tyrone, Ireland, one of the TT FAMILY WERE OLD SETTLERS HERE een children of William and Aun Lee Mulligan of northern Ireâ€" The George Pettis‘ had two ren, Edith Susan, who married n H. Johnson, son of Swan and Sernstrom Johnson of Half Day, it, 6 feet 4 inches tail, and the est man in seven counties. He hundle a sledge hammer as us other men did a carpenter‘s #t.. He came from North r Mr. and Mrs. Amos [ ame son who died in infanâ€" and Mrs. Edwin Yohnson have Continued from page 1 Jr. lived in Eigin, 11 amd lived in Barrington Luke, HL Mr. and Mrs. John Camm, Hall, Edmund Langdon owned lumber mills in Pelouse, Wash., had extenâ€" sive wheat land also. Walter Langâ€" don had a tobaccor farm in Massaâ€" chusetts. He compiled a genealogy of the Langdon family. While visitâ€" ing his sister, Mrs. C. W_Pettis, he a. winter‘s wtk. to help erect the. Deerfield Presbyterian church. were twins, and Roy Grant West. Roy West married Florence Reichelt {daughter of John and Laura Kool Reichelt) and have one daughter, The Wests and Reichelts live in Elgin, Clara Pettis married Augusâ€" tus H. Hubbard, mayor of Eigin, I1., son of Augustus G. Hubbard who tame to Chicago from New York in 1836. Cora Pettis died at eleven is a brick house northwest of the Northfield church, north of the John Streicher farm. The Haggie pioneer family came from Alsace. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Haggie have three children Leslie, Vivian, and Howard. Leslic Haggie married Irma Neargarder, daughter of Roy and Nellie Hall Neargarder, who came from Galesâ€" burg, IIl. ‘Mrs. Neargarder‘s parents were Ammi and Abigail Mart Hall, Mr. Neargarder‘s were Henry and Laura Michaels Neargarder. . Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Haggie have two chilâ€" Charles W. Pettis has had 30 deâ€" scendents. He had ten living chilâ€" dren. There are thirteen grandâ€" children and three great grandchilâ€" dren. and Lucy Ann Langdon Pettis were: Evangeline Alma, Elmer C. William, Maurice, Nellie May, Lincoln Norâ€" wood, Elizath Mary, Susan Celia, Charlotte Clara, Charles George, and Robert Edmund Pettis. Evangeline (Eva) did not marry. She taught in the Deerfield school and at the time of her death was bookkeeper for the Holsteinâ€"Friesen Cattle association in their office in Delafield, Wis.â€": Elmser Pettis married Jessie Carlisle of Alâ€" gona, lowa, daughter of Evelyn Ellen Van Ben Schoter, born in Ceylon, O., and Smith Henry Carlisle born in North Adams, Mass. Maurice Pettis, born in 1874 died in 1900. Nellie Petâ€" tis ‘married Fred J. Haggie, son of Samuel and Johanna Webber Haggie, of Wheeling. The Webber homestead years of age in Barrington. Charles W. Pettis, the eldest, marâ€" ried at nineteen years of age, Lucy Ann Langdon, daughter of Jason and Eliza Gould Langdonâ€"(who had four sons, also, Waiter, Charles, Edward and James) of Ela township, near Wauconda, Il. The Langdons came from Massachusetts to Lake county, and their son, Walter, is stifl living in Bradstreet, Mass. dren, Delroy, and Elizabeth May Haggie Lincoin: : Pettis married â€" Jennie Dukelow, of Ashippan, Wis., daughter The Langdon family was all musicalâ€" ly inclined. The members of the Hayden quartet were relatives. Mrs. Eliza Gould Langdon, born Septemâ€" ried Florence Smicer, daughter of Sammel and Jennie Oysler Smicer, of Greenfield, Mass. chelt (a descendent of sixteen ancesâ€" tors who came to America from 1620 to 1770, from the British Isles, all of whom served in the war of the Amerâ€" ican Revolution). Mr. and Mrs. Robâ€" ert Pettis have one daughter, Jean Roberta. Mrs. Pettis has taught in the Saugatuck school, Warrenton, Iil., | perpetuate the family name that one the Deerficld, Wilmot and Northbrook| county in Missouri, and a town in schools. C. W. Pettis taught school| Minnesota bear, as Pettis. . Mhmm,-ldnn:hln stimamesmmiztar _ Diamond Lake and some of the Ray| vISITING OFFICERS AT boys Wwere his pupils. He studied ls "ith E 8. Haimis in Waukeghh, and DEERFIELD 0. E. 8. wus all but admitted to the bar, but K0 :.hhekdh“-t._.lhh:”:dn: Worthy matÂ¥on‘s and worthy paâ€" marricd, up tron‘s night will be observed in the mm.u-uqd-x;. Decrficld Eastern Star chapter, No. county hmm.-qduhm"'-“m‘vmom to Mr. After Mr. Pottis® marâ€"| 20, with Worthy Matron Mabel vinge he resorted to any honorable ocâ€"| Griggs and Worthy Patron L. E. j Jflb‘-fl.‘- Thomas of Waukegan presiding. , eupbesi n‘s lage (AmiaY>| ‘The history‘ of the Decrfcld Maâ€" o im the Reichelt, Jr., and Marie Ward Reiâ€" As a member of the village board from the time it was incorporated until 1917, Mr. Pettis was always seâ€" lected to preside when John C. Ender, or William A. Whitney, the two sucâ€" cessive presidents, were absent. He always voted with the progressive members of the village board. In 1870 Mr. Pettis moved to Deerâ€" fheld" His first home was one owned by a ‘Mr. Courtney, north of the Carâ€" los Hoyt home (now Ed. Easten‘s), on Waukegan road. Then he moved to the John K. Clark house (now Peteanl‘!‘t)uruuuuvuk::n- his son ‘William was born. he where he farmed. In this house his m,n-n.addnchu.ln.m;“ board for one term, from 1896 to 1899. He was president of the Deerâ€" field Cemetery association from 1890 to 1925. He was a member of the Lake county board of supervisors from 1911 to 1913. He served on the Deerfield Gramâ€" mar school board for a number of years from 1893. He was a member of the Deerfleldâ€"Shields high school southeast corner of Waukegan and Deerfield roads, where Maurice, Nelâ€" lie, Lincoln and Elizabeth were born. The Pettis family then moved to the Gasthield house, on Deerfield road, where Susie was born, then to the Cadwell â€"Isasc Gailowayâ€"C. G. Muhike house (lately called the Lidâ€" gerwood house) on Waukegan road, where his daughter, Charlotte, and his sons Charles George, and Robert Edmund were born. moved to the Seth Hoyt house at the In 1892 the family moved across the road to a house that had been the home of Lewis Beecher, C. Cadwell, Clarence Sherman and Clinton Warâ€" ren, all related by marriage, and which had been in the same family since the land was taken from the government. 8 it 1.1:;.'.: LÂ¥ €. W,. Pettis was a man of great strength, fine physique and good apâ€" pearance, and in the days of the vilâ€" lage‘s isolation, when the men met around the stove in the country store, which was the begifiting of men‘s clubs, and tried feats of lifting kegs of mails on outstretched arm, or hoistâ€" ed barrels of flour, his feats were among the greatest. The men would also sit on the floor with their feet opposite each other and take hold of a stick.. The stronger of the two could pull the weaker over the head of the victor. He was also an exâ€" pert horseshoe pitcher. ture, and a carpenter. He rarely| presented a bill for his work, andfi consequently was unpaid for much that he did. . j tron‘s night will be observed in the Decrficld Eastern Star chapter, No. 940, on Thursday evening, October 20, with Worthy Matron Mabel In this house C. W. Pettis lived for thirtyâ€"five years, and where he died in 1925." His wife passed away April 13, 1921. Both are buried in the Deerfield cemetery. One of the tragedies of the boyhood of C. W. Pettis happened in the year that he raised a crop of onions for the purpose of getting money enough to go to Normal school. When he sold the product of the year‘s toil the money was not forthcoming, although C. W. did go to Englewood Normal the next year. In spite of the few years of reguâ€" lar schooling that C. N. Pettis reâ€" ceived, hecwas self educated. His penmanship was as beautiful as a piece of steel engraving, and as Jusâ€" tice of the Peace for many years, he had an opportunity to practice some of the knowledge of law that he learned in his youth and during these years he acquired a considerable law library, which he gave to his son, Robert, before his death, November 25, 1925, at the age of nearly seventyâ€" seven years. Some of these books were given to the Deerfield library. Evangeline (Eva), Maurice, Eliu-i beth, Susie, have passed away of the‘ same disease that also attacked their | mother, pneumonia, Mrs. C. W. Petâ€"| tis was a woman of singular meekâ€"‘ ness and quietness, â€"beauty of face | and figure, witty and graciously hosâ€" pitable in her home. Not one of the | sons of C. W. Pettis has a son to perpetuate the family name that one | county in Missouri, and a town in Minnesota bear, as Pettis. â€" THE RIGHLAND PARK PRESS, HIGHLAND PARK, ILLINOIS _ of _ Highland Park, Lake Cbunty, Hlinois SECTION 1. DEFINITION boundary or division lines of m parcel of property or public thoroughfares. SECTION 2. TENTATIVE PLAT Any owner of land within the eotporâ€" AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE SUBâ€" DIVISION AND PLATTING OF LAND. 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