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RESEARCHER: Information sent to T.Mason on 4 Jan 2005 by Steve Treanor. "He served as a lieutenant in the mounted volunteers of the 1st Regiment of General Whiteside's brigade in the Black Hawk War, until the brigade was mustered out of service on 28 May 1832 at the mouth of the Fox River in Illinois. He served in the unit with brothers Martin and Nicholas. He moved from the old Bartlett homestead in Madison County, Illinois to Chariton County, Missouri in August 1870. The old Bartlett homestead, where Jesse and his first wife, Nancy Ann, are buried is about four and one-half miles southeast of Edwardsville, Madison County, Illinois."
RESEARCHER: Information sent to T.Mason on 4 Jan 2005 by Steve Treanor. "He served as a lieutenant in the mounted volunteers of the 1st Regiment of General Whiteside's brigade in the Black Hawk War, until the brigade was mustered out of service on 28 May 1832 at the mouth of the Fox River in Illinois. He served in the unit with brothers Martin and Nicholas. He moved from the old Bartlett homestead in Madison County, Illinois to Chariton County, Missouri in August 1870. The old Bartlett homestead, where Jesse and his first wife, Nancy Ann, are buried is about four and one-half miles southeast of Edwardsville, Madison County, Illinois."
RESEARCHER: Information sent to T.Mason on 4 Jan 2005 by Steve Treanor. "In 1880 she is a widow living alone near her cousin Lydia Gonterman."
James was a farmer. He had died before the 1880 Census as Martha is listed as a widow.
RESEARCHER: Information sent to T.Mason on 4 Jan 2005 by Steve Treanor. "He was a farmer in 1860. He is living with his family and his Grandfather Joseph in the 1860 Census."
RESEARCHER: Information sent to T.Mason on 4 Jan 2005 by Steve Treanor. "Daniel was a 2LT F Company 117 Illinois US Infantry out of Edwardsville, Illinois. Daniel was farming in Missouri in 1870."
After her brother William and his wife died in 1879 Lydia's family took in two of their children (Charles and Laura).
OBITUARY: Alton Evening Telegraph, Mrs. Lydia B. Gonterman, 100, Only Native Centerarian in County, Dies at Edwardsville.
EDWARDSVILLE. March 28. Mrs. Lydia Bartlett Gonterman, Madison county's only native - born centenarian, died early this morning at her home, 660 Vandalia street.
The aged woman, bedfast for more than a year, observed her one hundredth birthday last spring and would have been 101 years old May 16. In a weakened condition for many months, she had recently grown feeble, passing away peacefully in sleep at 2:15 a. m. today while attended by the family physician and with her two daughters, the Misses Laura and Jessie Gonterman, at her bedside.
Funeral arrangements have not been completed, pending word from relatives expected to attend the services. Surviving besides the two daughters are four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Born in Pin Oak Mrs. Gonterman was born May 16, 1837, in a log house in Pin Oak township, the eldest of 10 children of the late Jesse and Nancy Ann Adams Bartlett.
On Dec. 22 1858, she was united in marriage with Caleo Ball Gonterman, a son of Caleb Ball Gonterman. sr., and Elizabeth Miller Gonterman, early settlers of Madison county.
The couple began their married life in a one room house on an 80-acre farm in Marine township, one mile west of Marine. Their land holdings increased and they purchased the old homestead on the Edardsville-Marine road in Pin Oak township, moving to this location in the fall of 1886.
Three chldren were born to the couple, Thomas E. Gonterman and the Misses Jessie and Laura Gonterman. The son died Nov. 2, 1932, while living in Granite City. The husband's death occurred Nov. 23, 1911, at the family home in Pin Oak Township. Mrs. Gonterman and the two daughters remained on the farm until Jan. 27, 1915, when they moved into their present home at the east limits of Edwardsville.
Mrs. Gonterman observed her one hundredth birthday at her home last May 16, when a brief program, sponsored by the Madison County Historical Society, was presented in her home. Although bedfast, she insisted on meeting her guests and many were permitted a brief visit. In good spirits throughtout the day she appeared to suffer no ill effects from the observance progream and looked forward in her one hundred first anniversary.
It was the second occasion in slightly more than a year that residents of the county had attained the 100-year mark. The late Gaius Paddock, living north of Edwardsville, celebrated his one hundredth anniversary on May 11, 1936, several months before his death. He and Mrs. Gonterman were old acquaintances.
Mrs. Gonterman, as well as her husband, were members of the earliest families in the county. Her grandfather, Joseph Bartlett, settled in the district in 1807, and her father, Jesse Bartlett, born in 1810, was one of the earliest natives of Madison county. Soon after his arrival in the county, Joseph Bartlett located at Milton, then and important settlement on Wood River between Alton and East Alton. Two years later, in 1809, he was one of the first three settlers to locate in Pin Oak township. He was a former treasurer of Madison county.
RESEARCHER: Information sent to T.Mason on 4 Jan 2005 by Steve Treanor [stevetrea@sbcglobal.net]. "Thomas was one of the leading merchants of Granite City, Illinois, being the owner and proprietor of a large jewelry establishment"
She never married and resided with her mother and younger sister most of her long life.
RESEARCHER: Information sent to T.Mason on 4 Jan 2005 by Steve Treanor [stevetrea@sbcglobal.net]. "She was actively interested in public affairs. She was a conservative and was interested in domestic science and served as secretary of the Madison County Domestic Science Department of the Farmers Institute. In 1911 she was appointed by the State Board of Agriculture to the position of secretary to the Board of Lady Managers of the State Fair School at Springfield, Illinois."
RESEARCHER: Information sent to T.Mason on 4 Jan 2005 by Steve Treanor. "William was a farmer and a Protestant, residing in Christian County, Illinois. He enlisted on August 14, 1862, as a private in Company F, Regiment 117 State Volunteers in Illinois Union Army, and received an honorable discharge on September 24, 1863. "
Lived with Aunt Martha (Mattie) Burger's family after her parents died.
Lived with Aunt Lydia Gonterman after his parents died.
RESEARCHER: Information sent to T.Mason on 4 Jan 2005 by Steve Treanor [stevetrea@sbcglobal.net]. "Live with Aunt Martha (Mattie) family after her parents died."
Lived with Aunt Sarah Bartlett Hauskins family after his parents died
Lived with Aunt Lydia Gonterman's family after her parents died
RESEARCHER: Information sent to T.Mason on 4 Jan 2005 by Steve Treanor. "Two of Sara's children died in infancy, Lydia and Edna (Nellie's twin sister). She raised her husband's first two children Sallie (b.1862) and Charlie (b. 1863). As well as her nephew Jesse Bartlett the young son of her brother William R. Bartlett who died in 1879."