Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Haymond, Madison G 1836 - 
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Author: Bio/Gen Record LaSalle/Grundy 1900

Madison G. Haymond

Among the retired farmers and worthy citizens of Morris, Grundy county, 
Illinois, is Madison G. Haymond.

The Haymonds have for many generations been residents of this country.  Edward 
Haymond, the grandfather of Madison G., was born in Virginia, of German 
descent, and in Virginia he lived and died, acting the part of an industrious, 
upright citizen in times of peace and during the Revolutionary struggle 
serving as a brave soldier in the patriot army. He was the father of four 
sons, viz.: John, whose life was passed in Virginia; Hijah, who moved to 
Illinois in 1837 and settled in Kendall county, near Newark, where he spent 
his life as a farmer, and died; Owen, who was a blacksmith by trade, and came 
west at an early day, spent some time in Kendall county, Illinois, and then 
moved to Ogden, Utah, where he died a few years ago at an advanced age; and 
William, who was born in Virginia in 1807, and when a young man emigrated to 
Indiana, and located in Shelby county.  There he was married to Miss Anna 
Griffin, a native of Kentucky. After a few years’ residence in Indiana they 
came to Kendall county, Illinois, landing here June 3, 1837, and settling on a 
farm near Newark. Here he was engaged in agricultural pursuits until about 
1865, when he moved to Norman township, Grundy county, where he died in 1873. 
After his death his widow returned to Indiana and died in Pulaski county, that 
state, in 1891, at the age of seventy years. They were the parents of twelve 
children, a record of whom is as follows:  Thomas F., for many years a 
successful farmer of Norman township, Grundy county, died in 1872; James L., a 
lumber dealer of Kankakee, Illinois, who died in 1897; Frances E., who married 
a Mr. Osborn and died in Iroquois county, Illinois, in 1898; Madison G., whose 
name appears at the head of this sketch; John W., who was a member of the 
Ninety-first Illinois Regiment in the civil war, removed to Tennessee soon 
after the war and ten years later to Asheville, North Carolina, where he now 
resides; William C., who served in the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Illinois 
Regiment in the civil war, and is a resident of Francisville, Indiana, engaged 
in the grain and lumber business; Margaret A., the wife of Nelson Gale, 
resides in Kansas; Surilda Jane, who died in Indiana at the age of thirty-five 
years; Mary E., who died in Grundy county, Illinois, about nine years ago; 
Amanda, who died at the age of fourteen years, in Kendall county, Illinois; 
Sarah E., wife of John Pruitt, is a resident of Pulaski county, Indiana; and 
Alpheus, of Kansas.

Madison G. Haymond was born in Shelby county, Indiana, November 9, 1836, and 
was nine months old when his parents moved to Kendall county, Illinois. On his 
fathers farm in Kendall county he lived until twenty years old, when he came 
to Grundy county, where he has since resided. For six years he farmed rented 
land here and then he purchased an eighty-acre farm in Vienna township. As he 
was prospered he made additional land purchases until he became the owner of 
two hundred and forty-two acres of land in this township, all fine farming 
land, well improved, with two comfortable houses and two substantial barns 
thereon. He resided on his farm until January 15, 1899, when he retired from 
active life and moved to Morris.

Mr. Haymond was married in 1861 to Eliza M. Pangburn, a native of Syracuse, 
New York. She died in 1895, at the age of fifty-two years.  The fruits of this 
marriage were two children: Freddie, who died in infancy, and Katie M., the 
wife of C. G. Donahue, a hardware merchant of Morris, Illinois.

Mr. Haymond received the degrees of the Masonic lodge many years ago and 
retains his membership in that ancient and honored order. Politically he is a 
Democrat, and for a number of years has served in local office.  Eighteen 
years he was a commissioner, and at this writing he is the supervisor of 
Vienna township.

Additional Comments:
Source:  Biographical and Genealogical Record of La Salle and Grundy Counties 
Illinois, Volume 11, Chicago, 1900, pages 475-477

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