HUSBAND..(full name ): LOOP, William Ferris BORN.....(date/place): 15 SEP 1822 Bainbridge, Chenango, NY CHR......(date/place): MAR......(date/place): 26 SEP 1845 Bainbridge, Chenango, NY DIED.....(date/place): 1 JUN 1911 Savanna, Carroll, IL BUR......(date/place): 3 JUN 1911 Savanna, Carroll, IL HUSBAND'S FATHER.....: LOOP, William Ferris Compiled by: HUSBAND'S MOTHER.....: STOWELL, Jemima Victor L. Bennison HUSBAND'S OTHER WIVES: 2 Georgetown Drive ---------------------------------------------------------- Amherst, NH 03031 WIFE.....(full name ): TERRY, Violette R. BORN.....(date/place): CHR......(date/place): DIED.....(date/place): BUR......(date/place): WIFE'S FATHER........: TERRY, Thomas R. WIFE'S MOTHER........: WIFE'S OTHER HUSBANDS: FILE: CHPECHWIWI.FGSV ----+-------------------------+---------------+--------------------------------+ # / | CHILDREN | WHEN | WHERE OR TO WHOM | SEX | surname / given names | | town, county, state or country | ----+-------------------------+---------------+--------------------------------| 1. | LOOP, Edwin B. |b. 1846 | | M | |m. | | | |d. | | ----+-------------------------+---------------+--------------------------------+ 2. | LOOP, Mary |b. 1850 | | F | |m. | | | |d. 1915 | | ----+-------------------------+---------------+--------------------------------+ 3. | LOOP, Kate |b. 1855 | | F | |m. | SHAW, ______ | | |d. NOV 1926 | | ----+-------------------------+---------------+--------------------------------+ 4. | LOOP, Alice |b. 1856 | | F | |m. | SPENCER, ______ | | |d. | | ----+-------------------------+---------------+--------------------------------+ 5. | LOOP, William |b. 1867 | | F | |m. | | | |d. 1914 | | ----+-------------------------+---------------+--------------------------------+ 6. | LOOP, Flavia |b. 1870 | | F | |m. | (1) TOMLINSON, ______ | | |m. | (2) RORABACHER, ______ | | |d. | | ----+-------------------------+---------------+--------------------------------+ 7. | |b. | | | |m. | | | |d. | | ----+-------------------------+---------------+--------------------------------+ 8. | |b. | | | |m. | | | |d. | | ----+-------------------------+---------------+--------------------------------+ 9. | |b. | | | |m. | | | |d. | | ----+-------------------------+---------------+--------------------------------+ NOTES: Family group sheet from Lora Carter, references: Obit., death certificate, 1860 and 1880 Carroll Co, IL census, letter from Flavia. Obituary: GOOD MAN GONE TO HIS REWARD - William Ferris Loop Passed Away Thursday Evening. - Was one of Savanna's best known residents and respected citizens. In the little village of Bainbridge, N.Y., on a chilly morning of September 15, 1822, William Ferris Loop, subject of this sketch, first opened his eyes to the light of God's beautiful world. Before reaching his eighth year, his father died, after a lingering illness, (being a victim of the white plague) leaving a family of seven children, William being the fifth child. Left in meager circumstances by the death of the husband and father, the family became scattered, the four older children leaving the home nest, to find what life's battles should mean. For three years, the mother kept the three youngest children living in a two room house, the one room being a loft and reached by means of a ladder. In the loft were two beds, over which the stars kept guard when the world outside was silent in slumber and whose occupants, two little girls and a boy (William) hid their curly locks under the patchwork coverlids to keep out the sleet and snow of winter and wind and rain of summer. But though poor, the mother, by hard work and best of management, sent the children to the village school during the winter months, and many were the lessons prepared at home before the fireplace, aided by the light not of a tallow dip, but only a pine knot. At the age of 12, being impossible for the mother in frail health to longer keep the home together, William Loop was sent to live with his uncle, Dr. Nather Boynton, who after three years failed in business and the boy of 15 was again sent adrift in the world with a limited knowledge of medicine (acquired while living with his uncle) and a "shilling" in his pocket. For the next few years he worked at wool carding and cloth dressing, oil making and plaster grinding, finally drifting back to Bainbridge, N.Y. and formed a partnership in the woolen business with Thos. R. Terry (father of Violette Terry, whom he afterward married, September 26, 1845). In the following year he decided to seek his fortune in the west. With wife and child, (the late Edwin B. Loop) and $43.00 in money he started from Bainbridge, N.Y. to Canastota, N.Y., by wagon, through the canal to Buffalo, then by "steampropeller" around the Great Lakes, and after two weeks, failed because of severe storms on the lakes, to make a landing at Little Fort (now Waukegan) and landed in Chicago. Being unable to find congenial work in the city went back to Little Fort and with 75 cents in pocket set about and organized the first school in that district and taught the same four months - the schedule of which may be seen among his papers today, and which is far different from the schedules used by the teachers of today. The following spring he left Little Fort and went to Galena where his health failed, and then he moved to Hanover, Ill., where he again taught school ... In 1855 he moved to Savanna where he has since resided. Mr. Loop was an important factor in Savanna's early history, having helped to organize the town into a city (in 1876) and having served as Justice of the Peace in 1858 and 1859. He built the first sidewalk in the city, and planted the magnificent shade trees, which now surround the home fo H. C. Rhodes (at that time his own home). ... His religious life began in 1857, when he became converted under the preaching of Rev. Atchison. He joined the m. E. Church on probation, but at the expiration of six months was told by the presiding minister that they wanted no Democrats in their church. He then went over to the free Methodist church, and asked them if they thought a Democrat had any chances of entering Heaven, whereupon he was voted into full membership, not having to serve usually required six months probation. ... In his disposition he was most cheerful, devoted to his home, his children, and flowers. In 1902, accompanied by his two daughters, Mrs. Spen??? ??? Mrs. Tomlinson he went ??? ??? brothers, all past eighty years of age, he seemed to take new hold of life, though the years of toil had made their inroad plain. Two years later his mind began to show signs of decay, though his [rest unreadable in my copy] Death certificate: #3825, Carroll County, William F. Loop, widowed, born New York, Sept. 15, 1822, Age 88 years 8 months 16 days, died 1 June 1911 at 6 p.m., retired, died in Savanna, Carroll County, 56 years in state, name of father: William Loop, born New York, name of mother: Jemima Stowell, born New York, informant: daughters, address of informant: Savanna, Ill., place of burial: Savanna, date of burial June 3, 1911, 2 p.m., undertaker: E. Hammerschmidt, cause of death: senility.