Burnell, Quintes

1853 - 1932  (79 years)

• Name	Burnell, Quintes
  Birth	7 Mar 1853  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Reference Number	BURN.Q001
  _FGRAVE	38051244
  Death	18 Oct 1932  [1]
  Burial	Dundas Cemetery, Dundas, Richland County, Illinois   [1]
  		Headstone, Burnell, Anna Belle and Quintes
  Person ID	I23266	Carl Wayne Gray Research
  Last Modified	22 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	Burnell, Nicholas Hizer,   b. 10 Aug 1823, Ohio d. 26 Aug 1854, Illinois (Age 31 years)
  Mother	Sumner, Sophia,   b. 21 Aug 1826   d. 24 Apr 1903 (Age 76 years)
  Family ID	F10261	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Burkholder, Anna Bell,   b. 2 Nov 1852   d. 14 May 1928 (Age 75 years)
  Family ID	F10268	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Jan 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Burial - - Dundas Cemetery, Dundas, Richland County, Illinois  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  About a full century ago a young man, Hizer Burnell, and his, wife, who was from what was then a well-to-do family, entered from the Government a homestead near Dundas, ILL. and established there in the wilderness their home. On the 7th of March, 1853, a son was born to them, whom they called Quintes. When this boy was two years old, his father died, a victim of that strange, but deadly malady of those pioneer years, milk fever. Within a short time, the young widow married a man who had a large number of children from a former marriage. Into such circumstances and influences, this boy was taken, and was reared, receiving from them, normally and naturally, marks that left their permanent impress upon his life. At the age of twenty, he was married to Anna Burkholder, and with her established their home on the homestead entered by his father. Here they lived continuously, excepting for a part of one year, for over half a century, or until her death in 1928. Here their eight children were born and six of them reared. Here they made their contribution to the life of their community. In 1890, he united with the Mt. Gilead Christian church, in which fellowship he remained until his death. For many years his influence ranked with the stongest in the church's life. For about the last three years he lived with the youngest child, Mrs. Maud Elliott of Gambier, Ohio. It was at her home where he quietly laid aside his earthly house on the morning of October 18, 1932.

  
  

• Sources

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