hi mike,
I never expected to get an answer to that posting. thanks for answering.
no I'm not from or in st.charles. I'm in Toledo, ohio. the Dearborn branch of my tree moved to kane county in 1835 and other members such as nephews and cousins moved there over the next several years. all from new Hampshire. and the chapman branch moved there in 1844. they all seem to have done well. got started on the family tree about 5 years ago and can't stop looking. I can not keep it straight when it comes to aunts and uncles as to their being a great or great-great or grand aunt or uncle and a brother of your great-great grandmother might be your 3x great uncle so i'll just call him my uncle by marriage to a bloodline aunt got me looking into family who fought in the civil war when, after twenty years of having boxes from when my mother passed away, I started to look into them and found the discharge papers for this uncle, Robert marsden. he was in the 127th. company E ill. infantry, 3 years service. he had a brother who fought also. that led to finding my great-great grandfather, Samuel chapman, an emigrant from Scotland in 1841, getting involved in supplying horses for what I'm finding out was sherer's independent cavalry going into the 36th ill. infantry company B. Samuel was at pea ridge but resigned on 4-1-1862. wish I knew why. the smith part of the family moved to kane county in the 1850's and my great grandfather, son-in-law to Samuel, joined the 8th ill. cavalry as a bugler. of course, since I knew I had family in new haven, huron county, ohio at that time, I had to start looking into that group. my other great grandfather, luther davis joined the regular army and was chosen to be in one of the engineer companies. I can not confirm when he first joined but maybe, maybe early enough to have been in the pioneer brigade. whatever his first enlistment time was, when that was up he joined the u.s. first battalion veteran volunteer engineers and was mustered out in sept. or oct. (I have it somewhere just not in my head) 1865. he had three other brothers who all served in the 3rd. ohio cavalry. luther also had 2 brothers-in-law, one who joined the 23rd. ohio infantry and I'm having another brain failure, don't recall the other brother-in-laws service.
I recently started to try to figure out who 4 men are in 2 photos I have that Robert marsden is in. the first is not a single photo but a print made after the war I believe, that took 5 photos and made one print of the 5. it is in a frame with a feather and written on the print it says it is a "Lincoln feather". ??? in another print, taken at the 1897 or 98 reunion of the 127th. are the 5 guys from the other print, all now 30 years older but nothing on the prints to i.d. any of the other boys/men. the search goes on.
I guess all you really asked was if I'm from st. charles. no, and now you know all the stuff you did not ask about.
mike w.
P.S. as if this isn't long enough, now the guy adds a P.S. too......
maybe when I set up this computer I told it I was in st. Charles and the message board programing picked up on that? I have been trying to build up a map of sorts of places family has lived in over the past 504 years. I can go back to 1510 A.D. to new Hampshire. I'm stopping now. I don't want some ones obituary saying they died of old age reading this post.