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Dear Judith,
Or should I write cousin. Do you live in Galesburg? Are you a descendant of George and Ada?
My ggggfather Dr. Sylvester Churchill moved to Kirkwood, IL, about 20 miles away, ca. 1870+ from Indiana. I have not yet been able to determine why he moved to that locale. We're cousins to the Galesburg Churchills as they're also of the CT line, but it's not clear he knew them. More likely is that his former wife who died ca. 1873, was a Patch from OH/VT and an L.D. Patch was in Monmouth. They may also have known Barretts from IN.
What might interest you the most is that I'm currently self-publishing a "work of fiction" on the Civil War based on our Churchill family/Monmouth/Galesburg history, titled: South Under a Prairie Sky: The Journal of Nell Churchill, U. S. Army Nurse & Scout. Nell's namesake is my real relative b. ca. 1900 (I liked the name). She is a composite character based on many years Civil War study, particularly of women (see www.nymas.org/civilwarwomen.html) I was also able to access excerpts from the Monmouth Atlas of the war, as well as Chicago Tribune articles and the Warren County history. I have Nell attending Knox where she takes board with Mary Bickerdyke. After Shiloh her uncle, Dr. Sylvester, and she join Bickerdyke in the field. In October she's recruited by Gen. Rosecrans as a scout in TN. Those adventures are based on those of real life women Pauline Cushman, Pinkerton detective Hattie Lawton, and women scouts reported in official memorandum of the army. So the work is almost wholly fact-based. I have 2 collections of letters/journal from the TN area so I also have real geographic details. I hope to have the book out before Xmas. It'll be on amazon.com
This is good to know, however, how Ada was related to the other Churchills. She became the superintendent of the Female Seminary in 1860--I have a copy of the curriculum. When you go through the Knox College catalogue and student listing you see that the family names are the old Wethersfield crowd: Churchill, Foote, Sage, Comstock, Wilcox, Chauncey, Kellogg, Robbins, etc.
So many thanks for this information on the Churchills of Galesburg.
Kay Larson
(gggmother Lucy Churchill Eaton Carter)
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