Biography of Henry N. Ives - Henderson County ****************************************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: A.J. Ives USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ******************************************************************* Biography of Henry N. Ives - Henderson County HENRY N. IVES, retired farmer and livery man, Oquawka, IL. In this notice we have to do with the sterling character which is the inheritance of Western of New England ancestry, a character born for success which achieves success in spite of all obstacle of discouragement, Henry N. Ives was born in Middlesex Co., Connecticut, May 6, 1824. A son of Jefferson and Mary Francis Ives , a native of Connecticut; (Jefferson Ives is the first mentioned son of Caleb and Sarah Booth Ives.) When he was about fifteen years old, young Ives having acquired some common school education, began to wage a battle of life for himself, working for farmers round about. On February 9, 1847, when he was not quite twenty-three years old, he married Rebecca A. Darnell, in Henderson Co, IL. Rebecca Darnell was born in Holmes Co., OHIO, November 04, 1829, a daughter of George and Prudence Gordon Darnell, a native of Virginia and Pennsylvania.. After his marriage he took up residence on a farm five miles east of Oquawka, Jenks Hollow, where he became a liveryman. At the end of eight years experience there, he went to Galesburg, IL. In less than a year he was again in the livery business in Oquawka.. Three years later he traded his establishment for a farm near Bald Bluff on which he lived an ensuing life for six years. Thence he moved and opened a livery stable , and prospered will until 1870 when his stable burned and a son, Frank Ives, died tragically in the fire along with a young lad named Dempsey. The boys were approximately fourteen years of age. for a year, thereafter, Mr. Ives operated a mail route between Gladstone and Aledo, IL. For a year, a railway baggage and express agent. Returning to his farm he managed it successfully for three years then trade it for 500 acres a mile and half south of Oquawka where he lived until he bought his present home in Oquawka. East side f 8th street between Schylker and Pike Street. In Politics, Mr. Henry N. Ives wa a Democrat and has ably filled at the office of Deputy Sheriff under three different Sheriffs. Some time ago, he acquired 160 acres of land in Jackson Co., Oklahoma. He is living a well earned retirement from active life , renting his farm land and giving attention to his property interests. -- Born to Mr Ives and Mrs Ives are six children: (1) Devilla Jessie Ives, married W. Wm. Unckles Oquawka, IL They had eleven children. (2) Samuel Jefferson Ives , married Lois Tinker 11/05/ 1879. They had four children. Henry Clifford Ives b. 09/13/1880 Maude Mary Ives b. 08/14/1885 Blanche Ives b. 11/15/1889 One male child died a birth. (3) William Ives , married Alice Thompson (?). They had five children. (4) Maud Ives , married J.W. Brainard. They have one daughter, Gladys, Brainard. (5) U. Grant Ives married Maude Camp. They had three children. Oscar Raymond Ives Clarence Ives Fred Henry Ives b. 01/13/1885 d. 02/10/1920 Frank Ives d. 07/04/1870 --------------------------------------------------------------- USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. -----------------------------------------------------------------