Cook County IL Archives News.....Mr & Mrs Stephen B Garrigus Celebrate 62nd Anniversary 1921
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Journal Of IL State Historical Society, Vol 14 1921
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen B. Garrigus, 1020 Lathrop Avenue, Forest Park, Chicago, 
celebrated their sixty-second wedding anniversary, May 5, Mr. Garrigus is 87 
years old and his wife 81. They were married in Lacon, Illinois, and came to 
Chicago forty-four years ago. The couple belong to two of the oldest families 
in Illinois.

The Garrigus family in the days preceding the Civil War, had the only hotel in 
Lacon and among their guests was Abraham Lincoln. Mr. Garrigus served with the 
Union troops throughout the Civil War. There are two grandchildren, Helen and 
Edna Davies, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Davies. The aged couple have also a 
son, Percy and another daughter Nettie C. Carrigan.


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Source: Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Published Quarterly 
by the Illinois State Historical Society, Springfield, Illinois. Vol. 14 April-
July, 1921 No. 1-2.

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