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Generation No. 5


5. MARY ELIZABETH5 BREESE (SILAS GILDERSLEEVE4, JOHN3 BREES, AZARIAH2, JOHN1) was born May 15, 1827 in Basking Ridge, Somerset, NJ, and died May 02, 1918 in Ottawa, LaSalle, IL. She married (1) SETH SAGE October 02, 1855. She married (2) LEVI TUCKER 1874.

Notes for M
ARY ELIZABETH BREESE:
!RESIDENCE: LaSalle County.
     
Child of M
ARY BREESE and SETH SAGE is:
  i.   ELLIS D.6 SAGE.
  Notes for ELLIS D. SAGE:
!OCCUPATION: farmer.


6. THURLOW ELLSWORTH5 BREESE (SILAS GILDERSLEEVE4, JOHN3 BREES, AZARIAH2, JOHN1) was born June 29, 1861 in Serena, LaSalle, IL, and died April 12, 1933 in Ottawa, LaSalle, IL. He married (1) LAURA BROWN. She died April 05, 1933. He married (2) ROSE TOMPKINS January 17, 1883 in Sunbury, Livingston Co., IL., daughter of WILSEY TOMPKINS and ELIZABETH. She was born May 05, 1862 in Brookfield, LaSalle, IL, and died October 04, 1917 in Centralia, IL.

Notes for T
HURLOW ELLSWORTH BREESE:
!DIED: Was visiting his son, Larwill, in Ottawa. IL., when he died at age 72.

!FUNERAL: Services conducted by Nale Funeral Home in Fairfield, IL.
Services were conducted by Rev. R.W. Robling of the Ellen Moore Methodist
Episcopal Church.

!OCCUPATION: owned and operated a filling station in the southern part of
Albion.

!RESIDENCE: acc. to obit., he moved to Albion in abt. 1929 from Boyleston.
Lived in Wayne County for abt. 40 years before moving to Albion.
1933- Marseilles (acc. to Bend School newspaper story).
May 1889-Buckley, Iroquois county, IL (Larwill Breese birth cert.)

!OBITUARY: Daily Republican Times- Wednesday, April 12, 1933, p.9.

!EDUCATION: Educated in the public schools of Serena twp. Attended the Bend
School of West Serena. Newspaper article dated 4 Jan 1933 commemorates
the class of 1876 (eighth grade, most likely) and lists Thurlow as still
living.

More About T
HURLOW ELLSWORTH BREESE:
Burial: Fairfield, Wayne, IL, Maple Hill Cemet

Notes for L
AURA BROWN:
!RELIGION: Cumberland Presbyterian.

!OBITUARY: Wayne County Press, 13 April 1933.

!FUNERAL: at Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Services conducted by Rev.
H. R. Robinson.

Notes for R
OSE TOMPKINS:
!DIED: died while purchasing a ticket at the train station. (Was going to
Sheridan, IL to visit her sons, Larwill and LaRue). Coroner pronounced
death from appoplexy.

!RELIGION: converted and joined Methodist faith in 1893.

!OBITUARY: Wayne County Record- Thursday, Oct. 11, 1917

!RESIDENCE: 14 June 1870- Brookfield township, LaSalle County, IL
living with parents- 1870 Federal Census.

More About R
OSE TOMPKINS:
Burial: October 1917, Fairfield, Wayne, IL, Maple Hill Cemet
     
Children of T
HURLOW BREESE and ROSE TOMPKINS are:
  i.   ELLSWORTH CHASE6 BREESE, b. February 15, 1884, Ottawa, LaSalle, IL; d. February 1960; m. CHRISTINE GRAHAM, December 16, 1908, Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada.
  Notes for ELLSWORTH CHASE BREESE:
!RESIDENCE: Lived in Windsor, Canada.

!SPOUSE: Christine Graham, sister to Elizabeth Arden.

  Notes for CHRISTINE GRAHAM:
!RELATIVES: Sister was Elizabeth Arden (Cosmetics fame).

7. ii.   VERNE GILDERSLEEVE BREESE, b. May 24, 1885, Serena, LaSalle, IL; d. May 20, 1955, Ottawa, LaSalle, IL.
  iii.   ALMA LUCINA BREESE, b. February 21, 1887, Buckley, Iroquois, IL; d. April 23, 1913, Fairfield, Wayne, IL.
  Notes for ALMA LUCINA BREESE:
!MARRIAGE: Never married.

!DIED: at age 26 of consumption- TB.

OCCUPATION: Worked as a schoolteacher in Wayne Co. schools and also taught in
Ullin, IL.

  More About ALMA LUCINA BREESE:
Burial: Fairfield, Wayne, IL, Maple Hill Ceme.

8. iv.   LARWILL WILSEY BREESE, b. May 26, 1889, Buckley, Iroquois, IL; d. September 17, 1959, Ottawa, LaSalle, IL.
  v.   ERNEST ARTHUR BREESE, b. December 28, 1891, Buckley, Iroquois, IL; d. February 15, 1961; m. LILLIAN ALBY LEIFHEIT.
  Notes for ERNEST ARTHUR BREESE:
!RESIDENCE: Aurora, IL.
1917- lived in Canada (noted in Rose Breese's obit that he was from
Canada).
1933- lived in Yorkville (noted in T.E.Breese's obituary).

  vi.   LARUE FLOYD BREESE, b. April 15, 1898, Fairfield, Wayne, IL; d. August 04, 1968; m. DELLA THURBUR, May 27, 1924.
  Notes for LARUE FLOYD BREESE:
!RESIDENCE: 1933- Yorkville, IL (noted in T.E. Breese's obituary).

  vii.   MINNIE ELIZABETH BREESE, b. November 23, 1903, Fairfield, Wayne, IL; d. April 11, 1984, ,Kendall, IL; m. CLARENCE CLAYTON, September 12, 1923, Springfield, IL.
  Notes for MINNIE ELIZABETH BREESE:
!RESIDENCE: Yorkville, IL.
1917- lived in Fairfield, IL- noted in Rose Breese's obituary.
1933- lived in Yorkville (noted in T.E. Breese's obituary).

  More About MINNIE ELIZABETH BREESE:
Burial: Plattville, IL



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