1. “...a lad eight years of age when he accompanied his parents, brothers, and sister, in 1829, to Schuyler county, Illinois. Being twelve years of age when his father died, leaving wife, Sarah, and seven children, Oscar remained on the farm, helping his mother care for his younger brothers and sisters. On September 18, 1842, he was united in marriage to Elizabeth Turner, a sister of Berry Turner, of Woodstock township. Oscar was but a young man when he died, February 15, 1853, being only thirty-two years old, leaving his wife Elizabeth and four children to mourn his loss. He was buried in the family grave yard on the Howell farm south of Sugar Grove. [48]