Living married MCCLEARY M. [Group Sheet]

1. Living
2. Living

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Marvin attended Pleasant Hill Elementary School eight years, Hoyleton High School two years and the finishing two years at Centralia Twp. High School. He went to University of Illinois 1937 to June of 1941 when he graduated with a degree in agriculture. He started farming at that time and has made that his career, except for teaching Agriculture and Science Courses at Ashley High School 1947-1948.
Ruth and Marvin were married at Wesley Methodist Church (now Grace United Methodist) August 11, 1944. At that time they moved to a farm two and one half miles west of Richview, six miles south of Hoyleton and ten miles northeast of Nashville. To this union a daughter Janet was born March 26, 1946.
Marvin has served on Wash. Co. Soil Conservation District Board, Co. School Board of Trustees, Co. Farm Bureau, Nashville Community High School Board of Education, Co. Health Improvement Assoc., Ill. Health Improvement Assoc., Wash. Co. Service Co. and has held various offices of the Church and Sunday School of Bethel Methodist Church of Hoyleton, Illinois.

MARVIN married RUMIG RUTH on 11 Aug 1944. RUTH (daughter of RUMIG WILLIAM EARNST and RICHARDS PEARL) was born on 9 Oct 1918 in On farm south of Nashville, Illinois; died on 26 Sep 2003 in Washington County Memorial Hospital Extended Care Wing, Nashville, Illinois; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington County, Illinois. [Group Sheet]

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Ruth attended Locust Creek Elementary School eight years and four years at Nashville High School. Approximately four and one half years she clerked at "Reuter's Variety Store" (Located on the north side of Main Street, what is now a part of Gutzler's Furniture Store). At the time of her marriage to Marvin she was working in the Office of County Superintendent of Schools for Mr. Kenneth Frieman.
Besides being homemaker and mother Ruth has served on Wash. Co. Home Bureau board as Vice-Pres. 1955 and Pres. 1956., Health Improvement Association Director of Richview Twp., Homemakers Extension Membership Chairman 1975 and 1976, a member of Wash. Co. Hospital Auxiliary and now does volunteer work at Hospital Gift Shop and has held various offices and duties in United Methodist Women, Church and Sunday School of Bethel Methodist Church, Hoyleton, Illinois.

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William attended Pleasant Hill School and the German Evangelical Parochial School in Hoyleton.
He was a farmer all his life except about one year, 1901, when he worked for the Granite City Steel Co. at Granite City, Illinois.
Wiliam raised registered Holstein and Guersey dairy cattle and during his later years he raised Registered Polled Hereford cattle. During the pre-tractor days he raised horses and mules and it was not unusual to have more horses and mules than cows onthe farm. He quit farming, July of 1967, and celebrated his 100th birthday December 22, 1978. His brother Edard observed his 102nd birthday December 13, 1978.

WILLIAM married HAUN MARY ALMA on 30 Mar 1904 in In home of her parents 3 mi. s. of Hoyleton.. MARY (daughter of HAUN JOHN ELLIOTT and NEWMAN MARY ELIZABETH) was born on 16 Oct 1881 in b. south of Hoyleton, Washington County, Illinois; died on 4 Apr 1932 in After a brief illness.; d. at place she was born.; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington County, Illinois. [Group Sheet]

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Her parents' home (farm) was recognized as a Centennial Farm in 1972 having been bought by John E. Haun Dec. 2, 1869 and is still owned by the family.

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William and Pearl spent their entire life in Washington County except for a few years in early 1900's William lived in Granite City and Madison area working for the B. & O. Railroad. About 1910 to 1918 William delivered block ice daily to homes and business places of Nashville for Steinhauser Ice and Power Plant located in southeast part of the city.
In January of 1918 the family moved from Nashville to the William and Anna (Huegely) Weihe farm, William Rumig's birthplace, located three miles south of Nashville. The couple spent twenty- two years of their life on this farm. To the east of this homestead stood the Locust Creek Church and Cemetery, located in the church yard. The family attended services at this until the church closed down in the mid 1920's. The Locust Creek School was one long mile through the woods to the west, where Mildred and Ruth attended elementary school. Following grade school we went on to Nashville High School and instead of the one long mile walk we drove three miles of dirt roads.
February 24, 1935 Mildred married Elmer Schnare.
In 1940 William and Pearl semi-retired to a ten acre plot they owned, one mile east of Nashville. On August 11, 1944 Ruth married Marvin Peithman at the Wesley Methodist Church, Nashville, Illinois.
The home was broken June 19, 1959 when Pearl, their mother, passed away. William lived another eleven years and nine months longer and passed away March 4, 1971. They are buried on St. Pauls Cemetery, Nashville, Illinois.
From 1979 Washington County History book

WILLIAM married RICHARDS PEARL on 1 Aug 1912 in First Methodist Church Parsonage, Nashville, Illinois. PEARL (daughter of RICHARDS JAMES and BABB PAULINE) was born on 7 Jan 1889 in On a farm south of Nashville, Illinois. [Group Sheet]

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Roy Johnson had name as Eberhard Friedrich Hermann Rodekopf b. December 27, 1838.
Bertrum Dueker had name as Eberhard Richard Hermann Peithmann b. December 2, 1838.
Came to USA in 1866.
Lived on farm 3 miles south of Hoyleton, Illinois, in section 35.

EBERHARD married SCHNAKE LOUISE (LOUISA) on 19 May 1869 in Washington County, Illinois. LOUISE (daughter of SCHNAKE ERNST HEINRICH and BRINK CHRISTINE LOUISE CAROLINE) was born on 12 Oct 1851 in Near North Prairie, Washington County, Illinois; died on 3 Nov 1908 in Washington County, Illinois; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington County, Illinois. [Group Sheet]

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John E. Haun was born in Tennessee, August 15, 1842 and died near Hoyleton on December 28, 1914. He came to the Hoyleton area, Washington County, probably in 1857. His adult years were spent on a farm south of Hoyleton. Pleasant Grove Methodist Church was built on a corner of his land. He was a faithful member of his church and served many years as superintendent of the JSunday School. John was the first president of the Hoyleton German State Bank which was organized November 3, 1906 and remained president until his death.
John E. was the oldest son of Adam Haun and Mary Ann Elliott. On November 13, 1864 he married Mary Ann Newman (1843-1876) daughter of Martin Newman. To this union were born Ada, married August Cohlmeyer (a former sheriff of Washington County); Jennie married George Cohlmeyer; Elmer married Luella Farmer (1874-1908), and Annabelle Allen; Bert married Mary Rainey; and Melvin married Mary E. Poole. On January 3, 1878 John E. married Mary Elizabeth Newman, daughter of John Newman and Hester Ann House, born April 21, 1853 in Washington County near Richview and died at Beaucoup on February 8, 1934. John E. and Elizabeth are both buried in the Pleasant Grove Cemetery in Beaucoup Twp. To this union were born two children, James Wesley who lived only three years, and Mary Alma who was born south of Hoyleton on October 16, 1881 and died at the same place April 4, 1932. She is buried in the North Prairie Cemetery in Hoyleton Twp.
On March 30, 1904, Alma married William Peithman, son of Herman and Louise (Schnake) Peithman. William was born December 22, 1878 on the Peithman-Schnake farm also south of Hoyleton. William and Alma lived on the farm with her parents for about four years. They purchased a farm in Richview Twp and lvied there until her father, John Haun, died. They moved with their family back to the Haun Homestead in 1915. This was the family home until 1979 when William at age of 92 went to Friendship Manor at Nashville. He was privileged to celebrate his centennial birthday on December 22, 1978. William and Alma were the parents of six children - Harlan and Mollie (Liese) Peithman, living at Normal, Illinois; Lois and Elmer Groennert, living in rural Nashville; bernice and Don Richert, living in Belvidere, Illinois; Elva and Ed Rhea, living in rural Waverly, Illinois; Marvin and Ruth (Rumig) Peithman, living in rural Richview; and Muriel and Wesley Brink, living in Belleville, Illinois. Alma and all six of her children were school teachers and each taught at some time in Washington County.
From 1979 Washington County History book

JOHN married NEWMAN MARY ELIZABETH on 3 Jan 1878. MARY (daughter of NEWMAN JOHN and HOUSE HESTER ANN) was born on 21 Jan 1853 in Washington County, near Richview, Illinois; died on 8 Feb 1934 in Beaucoup, Illinois; b. Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Beaucoup Twp.. [Group Sheet]

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Philip F. Rumig born June 4, 1860, Duboise County, Ferdinand, Indiana. Phillip was one of a family of five, whose parents died a week apart during the epidemic. The oldest of the girls could care for the sisters but the very young twin boys, Phillip and Paul, were put into an orphanage at Evansville,Indiana. Phillip lived and was schooled at the orphanage until age sixteen, at which time he found employment driving mules for the mule drawn street cars of the city.
Phillip came to Washington County, Illinois in 1885 and worked as a farm hand at the Louie Hoffman farm just northwest of Nashville. In August of 1887 he married Christina Hoffman, born 1859, daughter of Ernst and Carolina (Brink) Hoffman of near Hoyleton, IL.
From 1979 Washington County History book

PHILLIP married HOFFMAN CHRISTENA. CHRISTENA (daughter of HOFFMAN EARNEST (ERNEST) HENRY and BRINK CAROLINA (JUSTINE FRIEDERICKE KAROLINE)) was born in 1859; died in Jul 1896 in Died of typhoid. [Group Sheet]

JAMES married BABB PAULINE. [Group Sheet]