Crawford County IL Archives Biographies.....Raney, J. C. 1836 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  J. C. RANEY, farmer, P. O. Palestine, was born in Greene County, Ohio,
November 8, 1836. He is a son of James Raney, who was born July 22, 1789, in
Berkeley County, Va., who was a farmer by occupation. In the year 1812, he
obeyed the call of his country, and fought for American rights and freedom; he
died in 1864; he was joined in matrimony to Miss Martha Siler, born September 5,
1794, in Berkeley County, Va., who was the mother of ten children. Our subject
went to school in Greene County, Ohio, where he farmed afterward. He was married
there, also, October 12, 1863, to Miss Charlotte M. Archer, born December 10,
1842, in Washington County, Penn. She is the daughter of Ebenezer Archer, born
1806, in West Virginia, near Steubenville, whose occupation was that of a tiller
of the soil, and whose father came from Scotland. Her mother was Marguerette
McCrea, born 1807, near Steubenville, Ohio. Mr. Raney has been identified with
the Republican party, but is now strongly in favor of the Prohibition party. He
has three children, Albert L., born November 25, 1864, in Greene County, Ohio;
Marguerette E., born December 29, 1866, in Greene County, Ohio; Archer Russell,
born July 1, 1873, near Palestine. In the spring of 1867, Mr. Raney came to
Crawford County, Ill., where he had bought 200 acres of land the year before,
lived on it seven years, when he sold out and bought the David Lagow farm,
situated just west of Palestine. Mr. Raney is a useful member of the community
in which he lives; he is an Elder of the Presbyterian Church, of which body his
wife is also a member. She is also known as a good Sunday school worker.

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HISTORY OF CRAWFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,
LAKESIDE BUILDING.
1883.


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