Biography of Warren Churchill's Father, John

John Churchill
1814-After 1878

JOHN CHURCHILL was born in Boonville, Oneida County, New York, on the 14th day of August in the year 1814, and is the second in a family of ten, the children of Carolus and Polly Churchill, of the above point, but who removed to Ohio and located in Hartsgrove Township in 1833. The place of their settlement is now owned by E.G. Hurlburt, Esq. In the year 1842 they removed to Illinois, and remained there until their decease.

The education of the gentlman under consideration, was obtained at the common schools, and it is unnecessary to state, was far below the average of the present district school education. The first real estate he became possessed of was in 1851. This was the eighty-three acres now owned in part by R. Stenard. His life-work since then has been that of a farmer. The fifty-four acres he now occupies in lots 31 and 32 were purchased in 1856 and are equal in productivity with those adjoining them.

Mr. Churchill was, on September 20, 1840 united in marriage to Eleanor H., daughter of David and Elizabeth Bartram, then of Trumbull Township, but who was born in Madison, Lake County. (Her) father died September 2, 1875, and (her) mother December 31, 1854. This couple (Eleanor's parents) were of the pioneers of Trumbull County.

From the marriage (of John and Eleanor Churchill) were born two children: Adline, born April 8, 1844, married Henry Kellogg, and died July 18, 1866; and Warren, who was a private in Company C, Sixtieth Ohio volunteer Infantry, was in sixteen battles, and died of disease contracted in the service on the 3rd day of October, 1865. Politically, Mr. Churchill is a sterling Democrat.

History of Ashtabula County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Pioneers and Most Prominent Men. Philadephia, Pennsylvania: Williams Brothers, 1878, pages 230-231.

This information was transcribed by Cherre Loftus Flynn and posted on the Ashtabula County Biographies site. She is not related to the Churchills, however.