Bond County IL Archives Obituaries.....Dressor, Nathaniel January 18, 1915 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Connie Thomilson eunicepeabody1@aol.com January 8, 2012, 2:20 pm Greenville Adovcate Nathaniel Dressor, former State Senator and resident of Bond County, died at the home of his son, E. W. Dressor on North Forth Street, January 18, 1915 had he lived until Jun 25, next he would have been 90 years of age. He was born near Temple, Maine on June 24, 1825, son of Rufus and Taar Dressor, both natives of New England. The Dressor family is of English extraction, the great grandfather having been born in England in 1740, and his son Rufus was born in 1795 and died in bond county October 13, 1858. Tamar Dressor was born in Farmington, Maine near Temple, on February 12, 1797 and died in Bond County July 17, 1880. Rufus Dressor and his family of which Nathaniel was one, came across the county in a covered wagon from Temple, Maine in 1837, it requiring two months to make the trip. Nathaniel Dressor married Sarah Elizabeth McFarland of near Reno, April 3, 1848 and to them were born five children, Alenia, Wife of Rev. John W. McCord of this city, Charlotte, deceased, Edwin W. of this city, Roxanne, who died in 1878, Julia who was the wife of Former Lieutenant Governor William Northcott and who died in 1880 and Winnie, wife of Fred Baumberger of Reno. HE is survivied by two sisters, Mrs. J. B. Denny and Mrs. Joseph Hardin of Sorento. Three brothers died within a few years, but there was a time when there were four of the children, Joshua, Nathaniel, Frank, and Mrs. Hardin, who were all over the age of 81 years. Francis Dressor a borther died in Reno Feb. 18, 1914. Burial was at Montrose Cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/bond/obits/d/dressor559gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ilfiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb