Marion was born on 7 December 1843 in Indiana to Horatio (1814-1845) and Jemima Jane Pendroy Pace. Jemima is a sister to McHenry County pioneer James M. Pendroy.
A veteran of the Civil War, Marion served in Company D, 23rd Missouri Volunteer Infantry. He started receiving his veterans pension on 10 July 1889 and his wife Sarah started receiving a widow's pension on 29 August 1904.
In 1867 Marion married Sarah Margaret McBride of Indiana. Five children were of this marriage with two not surviving infancy; Mark, Julia, and Minnie.
The Pace's were land patent holders in Sections 17 and 18 of Falsen Township.
Almon was born on 19 October 1845 in Farmer City, DeWitt County, Illinois, the son of Isaac and Phebe Davis Parmenter.
Almon was a Civil War Veteran having served as a Private in Company C, 32nd Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment from 13 September 1862 to 24 August 1865.
He married Elizabeth Ann Seay and they had five children; Isaac, Almon, Minnie, Olive, and Lawrence.
The Parmenter's were land patent holders in Section 14 of Karlsruhe Township.
The article "Dr.Edwin B. and Emeline (Burroughs) and Abbie (Walroth) Payne, By Phoebe Payne Teske" from the McHenry History 1885-1985 is quoted below along with edits from this writer.
"Edwin Briton Payne was the first doctor in Towner and McHenry County. He was on the first train when it arrived in Towner in 1886. He began his medical practice in 1886.
He married Emeline Burroughs in Connecticut in 1866. This marriage produced three sons who survived infancy. Their names were Ethan (1881-1944); John, (1870-1930) and Welcome, (1867-1897). [Welcome was a daughter and they had one other daughter, Frances who didn't survive infancy.] Emeline Burroughs Payne died in 1882 in Connecticut.
Dr. Payne married an Iowa girl, Abbie Walroth, in Towner on June 2, 1887. This marriage was the first marriage to occur in the city of Towner. This union also had three children who survived early childhood. They were Albert, (1890-1965); H. Beryl, (Mrs. Harvey Corrle) (1894-1967); and H. Mary,(Mrs. Albert Hanson) who was born in 1903 and still lives in the Towner area. Albert was the first white child born in Towner.
Dr. Payne was born in Connecticut [Kent in Litchfield County, 28 June 1844]. His parents were Seelye and Hannah Thompson Payne. He was the ninth child in a family of 11 children. He fought in the Civil War and was with the Army of the Potomac in all its great battles. He was captured at Warrington [Battle of Rappahannock Station],
Virginia and held prisoner in Richmond for three months, then again joined the army. He was wounded at Winchester [Virginia] on September 19,1864 and was off duty just a few days. He received his honorable discharge at Buffalo [New York] in August 1865. [Edwin served in Company E, 9th New York Cavalary and then after being a Prisoner of War served in Companies E and F, 4th New York Cavalry. He started drawing a Civil War pension on 8 September 1890 and Emeline then drew a widow's pension starting 19 October 1906.] After the war he returned to Connecticut and farmed for a time. Then he began the study of medicine. He was admitted to practice in Connecticut in 1881.
In 1886 he came to Dakota, established an office, and started a practice, being the first doctor in the county. He also took up a homestead claim near Towner [Newport Township, Section 1 and later Section 34] and for a few years he farmed in addition to his medical practice.
Dr. Payne was a Republican in political faith, and was a member of the Grand Army of the Republican and Knights of Pythias. He died at Towner on August 15, 1906.
He has one daughter, H. Mary Hanson, six granddaughters, Betty Corrie Marshall, Sharlot Hanson Mattson, Phoebe Payne Teske, Lola Payne Haugstad, Ione Payne Peterson, Bobbie Payne Flowers; and one grandson, Cliff Payne who are still living."
Orange Adelbert Potter was born in Ashtabula County, Ohio on 15 March 1948 to Loron E., and Thankful Potter. When he was five the family moved to Illinois where he enlisted for service in the Civil War on 15 February 1864. He reported to Company D of the 83rd Illinois Infantry on 26 March 1864. He later transferred to Company D of the 61st Illinois Infantry and was discharged on 30 June 1865 at the end of the war.
On 14 December 1868 he married Sarah Elizabeth Ingersoll. The children from that marriage included Myra, Alice, Daniel, Mary, Sadie, and Loron.
In 1903 the came arrived in McHenry County where they homesteaded in Egg Creek Township, Section 24. After Sarah died on 21 June 1914, he moved to Granville. He was active in the military organizations and was a member of the Granville Methodist Episcopal Church.
On 20 November 1915 he married widow Myra Willits Kenney in McHenry. Myra was born and married in Canada where her husband died. They had four children; David, Phillip, Adah and Elizabeth. After hus husband's death, Myra and her children moved to North Dakota
He died on 10 November 1924 in Granville and is buried in Marshall County, Iowa.
Frederick was born in Bradley, Penobscot County, Maine in 1845 to Jonathan and Lucy Powers. He had one brother, Franklin, and one sister Cora.
He was a veteran of the Civil War. He enlisted in Portland, Cumberland County, Maine. His was a substitute enlistment for David N. Estabrook of Old Town, Penobscot County, Maine. He served as a Seaman aboard the USS OHIO from 15 July 1864 until his discharge on 15 June 1865.
After the war he was in Dakota Territory as an early pioneer. He had land patents in McHenry County in the Towner area in Newport Township in Sections 2 and 9 as early as 1883. He was still in Towner area in 1910 but eventually moved back to Maine. This writer could find no record of wife or children.
In November of 1930 he was in Towner checking on his real estate when he died on 23 November. He was returned to Bradley where he was buried with family.
