Norma Poole

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• Occupation: Polo, Ogle, Illinois, United States; Teacher
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• Occupation: Farmer
• Occupation: Teacher
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William married Nellena Brundage on 31 Mar 1893. Nellena was born on 21 Sep 1871 in Oregon, Illinois, United States; died on 3 Sep 1934. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
on the farm

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Abram married Rachel Phelps on 26 Feb 1863. Rachel was born on 22 May 1843 in Wisconsin, United States; died on 13 Mar 1930 in Polo, Ogle, Illinois, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Religion: Buffalo Grove, Illinois, United States; Episcopal Church in Canada; Methodist Church
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• Immigration: 1824, Quebec, Canada; from Ireland
• Occupation: Abt 1825, Little York, York County, Ontario, Canada; abt 1825
• Location: May 1825, Willowdale, (Toronto), York County, Ontario, Canada
• Immigration: 1839, Rock River Country, Illinois, United States; from York County, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1834 1839, York County, Ontario, Canada; Yonge Street
• Travel - Arrival: 26 Jun 1839, Buffalo Grove, Illinois, United States
• Location: 1839 1840, Illinois, United States; in the adjoining corners of what is now Buffalo, Eagle Point, Lincoln, and Brookville townships.

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Immigration:
William Poole, brother of the above mentioned John, Susan, Ann and George III, was born in Wexford County, Ireland in May, 1803. He came to America in 1824 with his aunt and her husband, Joseph Kidd. Joseph Kidd paid William's passage to America. They took passage in the sailing vessel Maria in April 1824 and were twice shipwrecked. They finally arrived at Quebec on August the first of that year and got to Toronto in May 1825.

Occupation:
William Poole settled on Yonge Street, near Toronto, Canada, then known as Little York. He learned the carpenter trade by working with a man by the name of Gilbert, who was located at a town, now known as Willowdale.

Location:
William Poole settled on Yonge Street, near Toronto, Canada, then known as Little York. He learned the carpenter trade by working with a man by the name of Gilbert, who was located at a town, now known as Willowdale.

Immigration:
After his return to Canada from his trip to Cincinnati, William Poole, together with other Canadians who had sympathized with the Rebellion, decided to seek new homes in the United States. His long journey via the lakes and by covered wagon to the Rock River country in Illinois is told in the chapter "From Canada to Buffalo Grove." (See story).

Residence:
William Poole built a house for his bride across the street from the Johnson home, nine miles north of Toronto. They lived there until 1839. Both this house and the old Johnson home still stand (1939).

Travel - Arrival:
They loaded their teams, wagons and baggage on a steam boat at Buf-
falo, N. Y., and came to Detroit; where, because the horses had gotten sick
on the boat, William Poole with team and family, Mosher with team and
family and David Huie and wife with Sanborn's team disembarked and
drove cross country to Chicago. There they met John Sanborn and the rest
of the emigrants, who had come around by way of the lakes to this place.

From Chicago, then a little village, they all came to Buffalo Grove, ar-
riving on June 26, 1839.

Location:
The year before, John Lawrence and Schuyler Lunt had purchased the squatter's rights to eight hundred acres of land which lay in the adjoining corners of what is now Buffalo, Eagle Point, Lincoln, and Brookville townships. Lunt sold out his right to Sanborn and moved away. This tract of land was divided among Lawrence, Sanborn and Poole, who later bought it from the government for $1.25 per acre.

Died:
On September fourth, 1886, William was taken seriously ill, when re-
turning from Polo with his wife. A doctor was summoned and the family
soon realized that his condition was hopeless. He passed away September
18, at the age of eighty-three.

William married Nancy Johnson on 6 Mar 1834 in York County, Ontario, Canada. Nancy (daughter of Abram Johnson and Catherine Hommen Fisher) was born on 22 Jun 1814 in York County, Ontario, Canada; died on 6 Aug 1905 in Polo, Ogle, Illinois, United States; was buried on 10 Aug 1905. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence-Occupant: York County, Ontario, Canada; Yonge Street
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• Residence: 1899, Polo, Ogle, Illinois, United States

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On the 6th of March, 1834, he was married to Nancy Johnson, youngest daughter of Abram and Catherine Hommen Fisher Johnson of Yonge Street.

Residence:
His wife lived for some time qn the home farm. In 1899, when her son John moved with his family to Polo, she went to live with them.

Died:
She remained active until August 1905, when she suffered a fractured hip. She passed away August 10 at the age of ninety-one, having outlived her husband nineteen years.

Nancy Johnson Poole was the last of that generation of early pioneers who had come so far and suffered so much hardship to make a home in a new country, and who had seen the many and varied improvements that came within their lifetime.