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ROBERT married BOYLE MARGARET WALLACE on 6 Mar 1895. MARGARET (daughter of BOYLE JOHN and WALKER NANCY ELIZABETH) was born on 20 Apr 1857; died on 4 Nov 1914. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

John or (Jack) Piper was borfn and married and died in Ireland. Not certain of his wife's name.

They had 2 sons Robert I and William Piper. They came to America from Londonderry, Ireland in the early 1840's.

Robert I was born in 1811 and died 3/12/76. After arriving in America they came on West and he found work with the Swanwick family, who lived a little N. E. of Swanwick, Il. A few years later the Hemphill family came over from Ireland. There were 3 sisters, Rachel, Mary and Jane. Jane Hemphill born 1811 and died 4/6/1887, married Robert Piper I 10/12/1843. the Swanwick family asked Robert I and Jane Hemphill to be married in the Swanwick home.

After their marriage the bought a farm southeast of Lively Grove. Their 2 sons were born there. John (whose history appears elsewhere in this book) and Robert II born 2/15/1847, and died 6/29/1927.

The family lived on this farm till some years after Robert I's death. (John had married and moved to his own farm) Robert II bought a farm of 200 acres 2 miles west of Oakdale. He bought it from Robert McAfee. Robert II and mother moved there where his mother later died. Her sister Mary Hemphill had lived with them for some years and continued to live with Robert II as she said, to take good care of him. Mary Hemphill never married. Her Irish sayings were often quoted by many who knew her. Robert Piper II went to Clay Center, Kansas adn there married 3/6/1895 Margaret Wallace Boyle born 4/20/1857 died 11/4/1914. She was the oldest daughter of John Boyle and Nancy Walker Boyle.

Robert Piper II and Margaret Piper lived on his farm west of Oakdale. Aunt Mary Hemphill continued to live with them for 2 years and died there at the age of 98.

Robert II and Margaret Piper had one daughter Elisabeth Jane Piper, born 1/30/1896. In the Spring of 1904, they moved to a farm 2 miles S.W. of Oakdale, to be closer to a school.

E. Jane Piper married Ward James Auld 3/21/1917. Ward was born 12/21/1894, died 9/1/1955. He was the son of William Reynolds Auld and Louisa Kennedy Auld. Ward and Jane continued to live on her father's farm. He lived with them till his death in 1927. Jane lives here alone since Ward's death.

Ward and Jane Auld were the parents of 3 sons and 1 daughter. William Robert, Charles Ward, Margaret Eleanor, Paul Jean.

Robert Piper I and wife Jane H. Piper and all of his descendants herein mentioned on the Robert Piper II family belonged to the Covenanter Church, which was first located where the Oakdale Cemetery is now but was moved into the town of Oakdale.

The of the deceased are buried in the Oakdale Cemetery.

By Mrs. Jane Auld

From1979 WASHINGTON COUNTY ILLINOIS HISTORY

ROBERT married HEMPHILL JANE on 12 Oct 1843 in Swanwick home, N. E. of Swanwick, Illinois. JANE was born in 1811 in Ireland; died on 6 Apr 1887. [Group Sheet]

JOHN married WALKER NANCY ELIZABETH. NANCY (daughter of WALKER WILLIAM and MARSHALL SARAH) was born on 20 Jun 1833 in S. Carolina; died on 16 Mar 1919. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Adam John Boyle was born in County Antrim, Ireland in 1793, died in Ill. 4/30/1853. He married Margaret Wallace who was born in County Derry, Ireland 1/15/1795, died in Ill. 9/22/1855.

They were married in Ireland, were well-to-do Irish -- frugal and economical. They came to America in the early 1840's. They had 6 sons which came along. John Boyle, William Boyle, James Boyle, Thomas Boyle, Thompson Boyle, Adam Boyle. Adam Boyle and Margaret Wallace Boyle are buried in Hill Prairie Cemetery N. W. of Sparta.

John Boyle, born County Antrim, Ireland in 1823, died 3/17/1911 at his farm home near Oakdale, Ill. He married 3/1/1855 Nancy Elizabeth Walker, born 6/20/1833, died 3/16/1919. She was born in S. Carolina. She was daughter of William and Sarah Marshall Walker. Nancy Elizabeth came with her parents at the age of 3 to Illinois. There were 3 sisters and 2 brothers who came along. After John Boyle and Nancy E. Walker were married they settled on a farm 1 mile south of Oakdale, Illinois.

Their 9 children were born there, 4 of them dying in infancy.

John Boyle had learned the shoemaker trade in Ireland and worked some at it as well as farming.

The family moved to Clay Center, kansas in 1885, where they lived for 12 years, then returned to their farm near Oakdale.

Margaret Wallace Boyle, oldest child, was born 4/20/1857, died 11/4/1914, married 3/6/1895 to Robert Piper II born 2/15/1847, died 6/27/1927. They had 1 daughter.

Elisabeth Jane Piper, born 1/30/1896, married 3/21/1917 Ward James Auld, born 12/21/1894, died 9/1/1955. Their families names were in Robert Piper history. It was through Sarah Marshall Walker family line that there was Revolutionary War service.

By Mrs. Jane Auld

From 1979 WASHINGTON COUNTY ILLINOIS HISTORY

ADAM married WALLACE MARGARET in Ireland. MARGARET (daughter of WALLACE WILLIAM and UNKNOWN NANCY) was born on 15 Jan 1795 in County Derry, Ireland; died on 22 Sep 1855 in Illinois; was buried in Hill Prairie Cemetery, N.W. of Sparta, Illinois. [Group Sheet]

WILLIAM married MARSHALL SARAH. [Group Sheet]