Click directly on the family photos, and on the photo of the house at right, to read further history pertaining to the John Boylan house and farm.
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Clara was born in Hallock Township, the daughter of John & Christina (Holahan) Boylan.
Despite her headstone date of 1877, Clara, the last of 5 children, may have been born in 1875 according to the 1880 census, since her mother Christina died in 1875. She was raised by her stepmother Eva Weber Boylan, who married her father John Boylan when Clara was 4. Eva Weber's birth family was unrelated to the family of Clara's future husband, Joseph Weber.
Clara met a young man from Princeville, Illinois, a village just west of the Boylan farm in Chillicothe. She married the son of shopkeeper German immigrants, Joseph Bernard Weber, on Aug 31, 1899, and gave birth to their first child, Leo, nine months after the wedding. Clara and her husband Joseph had 3 sons : Leo, Clement, and Joseph V.
Clara's second oldest sibling Ella had married in 1897, also to a son of German immigrants, and had her first baby at the same time that Clara had her first baby. John Boylan was still alive to see the births of these two very first grandchildren. The Boylan farmhouse that had been built by John in the late 1860's must have been a happy hub of activity at this time, with John's four young sons from his second marriage, his wife Eva, and his two unmarried daughters from his first marriage, all still living together in the home. The oldest of the family, Ella, who lived with her Staab husband on a farm right next door, ultimately became the owner of the most of the original Boylan land and the farmhouse where she and the rest of her siblings had been born and raised.
The late 1890's were the last days of the three Boylan brothers, Thomas, Charles, and John, and their farms. Thomas and Charles sold their farms, Charles moving to Peoria with his two young adult daughters, and Thomas buying a house in Chillicothe where he resided with an unmarried adult son Thomas Jr. and several adult daughters either living with him or nearby with families of their own. John died in 1903, followed by Thomas and Charles in 1906. The small extended family of first cousins likely all gathered for their funerals.
A new generation of Boylans was born over a 25 year period from 1900-1926. John's four sons continued to live in two separate houses on the Boylan farm with their mother Eva Weber Boylan. Their sister Ella lived on the Staab farm next door with her small children, and sister Clara lived a short distance west in Princeville. The oldest John Jr. married and brought his wife, who was descended from the very large Mooney family, to live in one of the family homes on the farm. His firstborn child, a girl, died at the age of 4 in 1909. Youngest brother Arch married around this time, and his wife and new baby both died of pneumonia. By 1916 Eva had died even though she was only in her mid 60's. 28 year old Arch remarried and brought his new wife to live on the farm he had grown up on. The family members all lived within walking distance or a few miles of each other. Another 10 years went by, and by 1926, brothers Arch and Jack had many young children, and sisters Ella and Clara had young adult children. Unmarried sister Rose lived with Ella, and unmarried sister Lena lived with Clara. Unmarried brother Louis had a farm, and disabled brother Emmett lived with and helped his brothers with farm work.
Clara's older unmarried sister Lena lived with Clara and her husband in the early years, assisting her with childcare, but departed for Los Angeles in the early 1930's at the age of 56, clearly seeking a better life for herself after years of being a caretaking auntie.
1925 was a year that brought sadness. Clara and her sisters and their half brothers received the news from Nevada that their oldest brother William, who was physician, had died in his 50's, apparently of heart disease. His widow sent his two small children to Chillicothe for a time to be cared for by their aunt Ella Staab.
Then in the same year of 1925 Clara's husband Joseph, who had suffered with symptoms of pernicious anemia his entire life, died at just 48. This disease, which is caused by a genetic defect, is a vitamin B12 deficiency which is easily treatable today in 2013. Joseph's youngest sibling George died just two months prior to Joseph, perhaps of the same genetic illness.
Four years later, in 1929, Clara and Joseph's oldest son Leo is believed to have died of tuberculosis, though he too may have had pernicious anemia.
After her brother's, husband's and oldest son's untimely deaths, Clara's life was centered around her two remaining sons, their marriages, and children. In the 1930 census, she and her youngest son 18 year old Joseph were living in Peoria with married son Clement, a barber, and his wife and baby daughter Mary Lee. Joseph, also a barber, married young and had a baby daughter Charlene L. in 1935-36.
In the meantime, Clara's four younger half brothers (two married with many small children) with whom she had grown up had fallen on hard times leading up to the stock market crash of 1929. The youngest Arch, and his wife Clara, who was pregnant with her last child of five, both contracted tuberculosis in 1925, necessitating a half a year's stay in a sanitarium. Though they both recovered, and Clara delivered her last baby shortly thereafter in January 1926, the Boylan main farmhouse and farmland was lost to unscrupulous bankers by 1926. A smaller home up the hill from the main house, where Arch and his family lived while they watched an outside family rent their former home down below, remained in Arch's possession a few more years, but finally it too was lost. Arch's older brother John Jr. also lost another farm which had been land bequeathed to him by his father John Boylan. By 1930-33 the Boylan brothers were living with their families in rented homes, working as farmers on land owned by other farmers in the area. In the summer of 1933, the youngest of the brothers, Arch age 45, died of encephalitis contracted from a mosquito bite, leaving his widow with five children ages 14 and under. The older Boylan sisters Ella and Rose were unable to assist Arch's widow, and two of her children (Marjorie and Mary) were ultimately taken from her against her will by her oldest brother Alfred and his wife Anna Carroll Wilhelm, and raised on the original Wilhelm farm just a short distance from the Boylan farm.
Sadly, Clara Boylan Weber died when her three grandchildren were still small. The oldest grandchild Mary Lee Weber was 9 years old, and the younger two were just babies. In 1938 Clara died at the age of just 63, of unknown causes, living approximately the same lifespan as her mother Eva Weber. Her remaining three sisters, Ella, Rose, and Lena, all lived into their 90's. Rose and Lena never married. Ella and Rose lived out their lives in Chillicothe, still the owners of Boylan farmland upon their deaths in 1966. Amazingly, all three sisters died in the same year.
CHILDREN
Leo Joseph
...born 1900
...his World War I draft registration stated that Leo had blue eyes and black hair, and was slender with a medium build
...married Anna Sturm, children unknown
...moved to Missouri where he was a farmer in Ravenswood, Missouri at the time of his premature death
...he had returned to Illinois just two weeks prior to his passing
...died in 1929 of tuberculosis
Clement Weber
...born 1904
...a barber in Peoria
...known as "Lefty"
...married Loretta M. Auth (1904-1987) prior to 1930
...divorced, and married Florence Steinman (1914-1984)
...lived in Elmhurst, Illinois, then Peoria
...Clement and Loretta had one daughter, Mary Lee Weber Myers, born the Spring of 1929, who married Robert Myers around 1947, and had three sons and one daughter between 1948 and 1960
...sadly Mary Lee died at age 32 of Hodgkins disease 14 Nov 1961 when her children were still small
...Mary Lee lived in Broadview, Illinois, died in Cook County, Illinois, and is buried at Queen of Heaven cemetery in Hillside, Illinois.
...Clement, who was 57 years old when his only child Mary Lee died, lived to the age of 88, and died in 1992 in Peoria, Illinois
...he had four Myers grandchildren, and before his passing four great grandchildren, with two more born after his passing
Joseph V.
...born 20 Apr 1912
...a barber in Peoria
...at age 23 in 1935 Joseph married Hazel Louise Phinney, the wedding taking place at St. Peters Catholic Church in Peoria
...Hazel graduated from Peoria High School in 1932
...their firstborn was a daughter Charlene L. born around 1935-36, then a son Joseph Jr.
...Joseph lived to be 91, and died in 2003 in Peoria, Illinois (Obit: WEBER, Joseph V; 91; Peoria IL, Journal Star; 2003-6-12)
Hazel Louise Phinney (daughter of Corwin Dorwin Phinney and Macie Wilson) was born December 1913, and died July 2003 in Peoria, Peoria Co, IL. She married Joseph Weber on 28 September 1935 in Peoria, Peoria Co, IL. Burial site at Resurrection Mausoleum, Peoria, Illinois.
Children of Hazel Louise Phinney and Joseph Weber:
Charlene Weber
Joseph Weber, Jr.
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Name: Clara Weber
[Clara Boylan]
Birth Date: 1 May 1878
Birth Place: Chillicothe, Ill.
Death Date: 20 Aug 1938
Death Place: Peoria, Illinois
Burial Place: Princeville, Peoria, Ill.
Cemetery Name: Catholic
Death Age: 60
Occupation: At Home
Marital Status: Widow
Street Address: 2702 N. Madison
Residence: Peoria, Ill.
Father Name: John Boylan
Father Birth Place: St. Louis, Missouri
Mother Name: Christinia Holihan
Mother Birth Place: New York
Spouse Name: Joseph
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Clara was born in Hallock Township, the daughter of John & Christina (Holahan) Boylan.
Despite her headstone date of 1877, Clara, the last of 5 children, may have been born in 1875 according to the 1880 census, since her mother Christina died in 1875. She was raised by her stepmother Eva Weber Boylan, who married her father John Boylan when Clara was 4. Eva Weber's birth family was unrelated to the family of Clara's future husband, Joseph Weber.
Clara met a young man from Princeville, Illinois, a village just west of the Boylan farm in Chillicothe. She married the son of shopkeeper German immigrants, Joseph Bernard Weber, on Aug 31, 1899, and gave birth to their first child, Leo, nine months after the wedding. Clara and her husband Joseph had 3 sons : Leo, Clement, and Joseph V.
Clara's second oldest sibling Ella had married in 1897, also to a son of German immigrants, and had her first baby at the same time that Clara had her first baby. John Boylan was still alive to see the births of these two very first grandchildren. The Boylan farmhouse that had been built by John in the late 1860's must have been a happy hub of activity at this time, with John's four young sons from his second marriage, his wife Eva, and his two unmarried daughters from his first marriage, all still living together in the home. The oldest of the family, Ella, who lived with her Staab husband on a farm right next door, ultimately became the owner of the most of the original Boylan land and the farmhouse where she and the rest of her siblings had been born and raised.
The late 1890's were the last days of the three Boylan brothers, Thomas, Charles, and John, and their farms. Thomas and Charles sold their farms, Charles moving to Peoria with his two young adult daughters, and Thomas buying a house in Chillicothe where he resided with an unmarried adult son Thomas Jr. and several adult daughters either living with him or nearby with families of their own. John died in 1903, followed by Thomas and Charles in 1906. The small extended family of first cousins likely all gathered for their funerals.
A new generation of Boylans was born over a 25 year period from 1900-1926. John's four sons continued to live in two separate houses on the Boylan farm with their mother Eva Weber Boylan. Their sister Ella lived on the Staab farm next door with her small children, and sister Clara lived a short distance west in Princeville. The oldest John Jr. married and brought his wife, who was descended from the very large Mooney family, to live in one of the family homes on the farm. His firstborn child, a girl, died at the age of 4 in 1909. Youngest brother Arch married around this time, and his wife and new baby both died of pneumonia. By 1916 Eva had died even though she was only in her mid 60's. 28 year old Arch remarried and brought his new wife to live on the farm he had grown up on. The family members all lived within walking distance or a few miles of each other. Another 10 years went by, and by 1926, brothers Arch and Jack had many young children, and sisters Ella and Clara had young adult children. Unmarried sister Rose lived with Ella, and unmarried sister Lena lived with Clara. Unmarried brother Louis had a farm, and disabled brother Emmett lived with and helped his brothers with farm work.
Clara's older unmarried sister Lena lived with Clara and her husband in the early years, assisting her with childcare, but departed for Los Angeles in the early 1930's at the age of 56, clearly seeking a better life for herself after years of being a caretaking auntie.
1925 was a year that brought sadness. Clara and her sisters and their half brothers received the news from Nevada that their oldest brother William, who was physician, had died in his 50's, apparently of heart disease. His widow sent his two small children to Chillicothe for a time to be cared for by their aunt Ella Staab.
Then in the same year of 1925 Clara's husband Joseph, who had suffered with symptoms of pernicious anemia his entire life, died at just 48. This disease, which is caused by a genetic defect, is a vitamin B12 deficiency which is easily treatable today in 2013. Joseph's youngest sibling George died just two months prior to Joseph, perhaps of the same genetic illness.
Four years later, in 1929, Clara and Joseph's oldest son Leo is believed to have died of tuberculosis, though he too may have had pernicious anemia.
After her brother's, husband's and oldest son's untimely deaths, Clara's life was centered around her two remaining sons, their marriages, and children. In the 1930 census, she and her youngest son 18 year old Joseph were living in Peoria with married son Clement, a barber, and his wife and baby daughter Mary Lee. Joseph, also a barber, married young and had a baby daughter Charlene L. in 1935-36.
In the meantime, Clara's four younger half brothers (two married with many small children) with whom she had grown up had fallen on hard times leading up to the stock market crash of 1929. The youngest Arch, and his wife Clara, who was pregnant with her last child of five, both contracted tuberculosis in 1925, necessitating a half a year's stay in a sanitarium. Though they both recovered, and Clara delivered her last baby shortly thereafter in January 1926, the Boylan main farmhouse and farmland was lost to unscrupulous bankers by 1926. A smaller home up the hill from the main house, where Arch and his family lived while they watched an outside family rent their former home down below, remained in Arch's possession a few more years, but finally it too was lost. Arch's older brother John Jr. also lost another farm which had been land bequeathed to him by his father John Boylan. By 1930-33 the Boylan brothers were living with their families in rented homes, working as farmers on land owned by other farmers in the area. In the summer of 1933, the youngest of the brothers, Arch age 45, died of encephalitis contracted from a mosquito bite, leaving his widow with five children ages 14 and under. The older Boylan sisters Ella and Rose were unable to assist Arch's widow, and two of her children (Marjorie and Mary) were ultimately taken from her against her will by her oldest brother Alfred and his wife Anna Carroll Wilhelm, and raised on the original Wilhelm farm just a short distance from the Boylan farm.
Sadly, Clara Boylan Weber died when her three grandchildren were still small. The oldest grandchild Mary Lee Weber was 9 years old, and the younger two were just babies. In 1938 Clara died at the age of just 63, of unknown causes, living approximately the same lifespan as her mother Eva Weber. Her remaining three sisters, Ella, Rose, and Lena, all lived into their 90's. Rose and Lena never married. Ella and Rose lived out their lives in Chillicothe, still the owners of Boylan farmland upon their deaths in 1966. Amazingly, all three sisters died in the same year.
CHILDREN
Leo Joseph
...born 1900
...his World War I draft registration stated that Leo had blue eyes and black hair, and was slender with a medium build
...married Anna Sturm, children unknown
...moved to Missouri where he was a farmer in Ravenswood, Missouri at the time of his premature death
...he had returned to Illinois just two weeks prior to his passing
...died in 1929 of tuberculosis
Clement Weber
...born 1904
...a barber in Peoria
...known as "Lefty"
...married Loretta M. Auth (1904-1987) prior to 1930
...divorced, and married Florence Steinman (1914-1984)
...lived in Elmhurst, Illinois, then Peoria
...Clement and Loretta had one daughter, Mary Lee Weber Myers, born the Spring of 1929, who married Robert Myers around 1947, and had three sons and one daughter between 1948 and 1960
...sadly Mary Lee died at age 32 of Hodgkins disease 14 Nov 1961 when her children were still small
...Mary Lee lived in Broadview, Illinois, died in Cook County, Illinois, and is buried at Queen of Heaven cemetery in Hillside, Illinois.
...Clement, who was 57 years old when his only child Mary Lee died, lived to the age of 88, and died in 1992 in Peoria, Illinois
...he had four Myers grandchildren, and before his passing four great grandchildren, with two more born after his passing
Joseph V.
...born 20 Apr 1912
...a barber in Peoria
...at age 23 in 1935 Joseph married Hazel Louise Phinney, the wedding taking place at St. Peters Catholic Church in Peoria
...Hazel graduated from Peoria High School in 1932
...their firstborn was a daughter Charlene L. born around 1935-36, then a son Joseph Jr.
...Joseph lived to be 91, and died in 2003 in Peoria, Illinois (Obit: WEBER, Joseph V; 91; Peoria IL, Journal Star; 2003-6-12)
Hazel Louise Phinney (daughter of Corwin Dorwin Phinney and Macie Wilson) was born December 1913, and died July 2003 in Peoria, Peoria Co, IL. She married Joseph Weber on 28 September 1935 in Peoria, Peoria Co, IL. Burial site at Resurrection Mausoleum, Peoria, Illinois.
Children of Hazel Louise Phinney and Joseph Weber:
Charlene Weber
Joseph Weber, Jr.
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Name: Clara Weber
[Clara Boylan]
Birth Date: 1 May 1878
Birth Place: Chillicothe, Ill.
Death Date: 20 Aug 1938
Death Place: Peoria, Illinois
Burial Place: Princeville, Peoria, Ill.
Cemetery Name: Catholic
Death Age: 60
Occupation: At Home
Marital Status: Widow
Street Address: 2702 N. Madison
Residence: Peoria, Ill.
Father Name: John Boylan
Father Birth Place: St. Louis, Missouri
Mother Name: Christinia Holihan
Mother Birth Place: New York
Spouse Name: Joseph
Click directly on the family photos, and on the photo of the house at right, to read further history pertaining to the John Boylan house and farm.
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Clara was born in Hallock Township, the daughter of John & Christina (Holahan) Boylan.
Despite her headstone date of 1877, Clara, the last of 5 children, may have been born in 1875 according to the 1880 census, since her mother Christina died in 1875. She was raised by her stepmother Eva Weber Boylan, who married her father John Boylan when Clara was 4. Eva Weber's birth family was unrelated to the family of Clara's future husband, Joseph Weber.
Clara met a young man from Princeville, Illinois, a village just west of the Boylan farm in Chillicothe. She married the son of shopkeeper German immigrants, Joseph Bernard Weber, on Aug 31, 1899, and gave birth to their first child, Leo, nine months after the wedding. Clara and her husband Joseph had 3 sons : Leo, Clement, and Joseph V.
Clara's second oldest sibling Ella had married in 1897, also to a son of German immigrants, and had her first baby at the same time that Clara had her first baby. John Boylan was still alive to see the births of these two very first grandchildren. The Boylan farmhouse that had been built by John in the late 1860's must have been a happy hub of activity at this time, with John's four young sons from his second marriage, his wife Eva, and his two unmarried daughters from his first marriage, all still living together in the home. The oldest of the family, Ella, who lived with her Staab husband on a farm right next door, ultimately became the owner of the most of the original Boylan land and the farmhouse where she and the rest of her siblings had been born and raised.
The late 1890's were the last days of the three Boylan brothers, Thomas, Charles, and John, and their farms. Thomas and Charles sold their farms, Charles moving to Peoria with his two young adult daughters, and Thomas buying a house in Chillicothe where he resided with an unmarried adult son Thomas Jr. and several adult daughters either living with him or nearby with families of their own. John died in 1903, followed by Thomas and Charles in 1906. The small extended family of first cousins likely all gathered for their funerals.
A new generation of Boylans was born over a 25 year period from 1900-1926. John's four sons continued to live in two separate houses on the Boylan farm with their mother Eva Weber Boylan. Their sister Ella lived on the Staab farm next door with her small children, and sister Clara lived a short distance west in Princeville. The oldest John Jr. married and brought his wife, who was descended from the very large Mooney family, to live in one of the family homes on the farm. His firstborn child, a girl, died at the age of 4 in 1909. Youngest brother Arch married around this time, and his wife and new baby both died of pneumonia. By 1916 Eva had died even though she was only in her mid 60's. 28 year old Arch remarried and brought his new wife to live on the farm he had grown up on. The family members all lived within walking distance or a few miles of each other. Another 10 years went by, and by 1926, brothers Arch and Jack had many young children, and sisters Ella and Clara had young adult children. Unmarried sister Rose lived with Ella, and unmarried sister Lena lived with Clara. Unmarried brother Louis had a farm, and disabled brother Emmett lived with and helped his brothers with farm work.
Clara's older unmarried sister Lena lived with Clara and her husband in the early years, assisting her with childcare, but departed for Los Angeles in the early 1930's at the age of 56, clearly seeking a better life for herself after years of being a caretaking auntie.
1925 was a year that brought sadness. Clara and her sisters and their half brothers received the news from Nevada that their oldest brother William, who was physician, had died in his 50's, apparently of heart disease. His widow sent his two small children to Chillicothe for a time to be cared for by their aunt Ella Staab.
Then in the same year of 1925 Clara's husband Joseph, who had suffered with symptoms of pernicious anemia his entire life, died at just 48. This disease, which is caused by a genetic defect, is a vitamin B12 deficiency which is easily treatable today in 2013. Joseph's youngest sibling George died just two months prior to Joseph, perhaps of the same genetic illness.
Four years later, in 1929, Clara and Joseph's oldest son Leo is believed to have died of tuberculosis, though he too may have had pernicious anemia.
After her brother's, husband's and oldest son's untimely deaths, Clara's life was centered around her two remaining sons, their marriages, and children. In the 1930 census, she and her youngest son 18 year old Joseph were living in Peoria with married son Clement, a barber, and his wife and baby daughter Mary Lee. Joseph, also a barber, married young and had a baby daughter Charlene L. in 1935-36.
In the meantime, Clara's four younger half brothers (two married with many small children) with whom she had grown up had fallen on hard times leading up to the stock market crash of 1929. The youngest Arch, and his wife Clara, who was pregnant with her last child of five, both contracted tuberculosis in 1925, necessitating a half a year's stay in a sanitarium. Though they both recovered, and Clara delivered her last baby shortly thereafter in January 1926, the Boylan main farmhouse and farmland was lost to unscrupulous bankers by 1926. A smaller home up the hill from the main house, where Arch and his family lived while they watched an outside family rent their former home down below, remained in Arch's possession a few more years, but finally it too was lost. Arch's older brother John Jr. also lost another farm which had been land bequeathed to him by his father John Boylan. By 1930-33 the Boylan brothers were living with their families in rented homes, working as farmers on land owned by other farmers in the area. In the summer of 1933, the youngest of the brothers, Arch age 45, died of encephalitis contracted from a mosquito bite, leaving his widow with five children ages 14 and under. The older Boylan sisters Ella and Rose were unable to assist Arch's widow, and two of her children (Marjorie and Mary) were ultimately taken from her against her will by her oldest brother Alfred and his wife Anna Carroll Wilhelm, and raised on the original Wilhelm farm just a short distance from the Boylan farm.
Sadly, Clara Boylan Weber died when her three grandchildren were still small. The oldest grandchild Mary Lee Weber was 9 years old, and the younger two were just babies. In 1938 Clara died at the age of just 63, of unknown causes, living approximately the same lifespan as her mother Eva Weber. Her remaining three sisters, Ella, Rose, and Lena, all lived into their 90's. Rose and Lena never married. Ella and Rose lived out their lives in Chillicothe, still the owners of Boylan farmland upon their deaths in 1966. Amazingly, all three sisters died in the same year.
CHILDREN
Leo Joseph
...born 1900
...his World War I draft registration stated that Leo had blue eyes and black hair, and was slender with a medium build
...married Anna Sturm, children unknown
...moved to Missouri where he was a farmer in Ravenswood, Missouri at the time of his premature death
...he had returned to Illinois just two weeks prior to his passing
...died in 1929 of tuberculosis
Clement Weber
...born 1904
...a barber in Peoria
...known as "Lefty"
...married Loretta M. Auth (1904-1987) prior to 1930
...divorced, and married Florence Steinman (1914-1984)
...lived in Elmhurst, Illinois, then Peoria
...Clement and Loretta had one daughter, Mary Lee Weber Myers, born the Spring of 1929, who married Robert Myers around 1947, and had three sons and one daughter between 1948 and 1960
...sadly Mary Lee died at age 32 of Hodgkins disease 14 Nov 1961 when her children were still small
...Mary Lee lived in Broadview, Illinois, died in Cook County, Illinois, and is buried at Queen of Heaven cemetery in Hillside, Illinois.
...Clement, who was 57 years old when his only child Mary Lee died, lived to the age of 88, and died in 1992 in Peoria, Illinois
...he had four Myers grandchildren, and before his passing four great grandchildren, with two more born after his passing
Joseph V.
...born 20 Apr 1912
...a barber in Peoria
...at age 23 in 1935 Joseph married Hazel Louise Phinney, the wedding taking place at St. Peters Catholic Church in Peoria
...Hazel graduated from Peoria High School in 1932
...their firstborn was a daughter Charlene L. born around 1935-36, then a son Joseph Jr.
...Joseph lived to be 91, and died in 2003 in Peoria, Illinois (Obit: WEBER, Joseph V; 91; Peoria IL, Journal Star; 2003-6-12)
Hazel Louise Phinney (daughter of Corwin Dorwin Phinney and Macie Wilson) was born December 1913, and died July 2003 in Peoria, Peoria Co, IL. She married Joseph Weber on 28 September 1935 in Peoria, Peoria Co, IL. Burial site at Resurrection Mausoleum, Peoria, Illinois.
Children of Hazel Louise Phinney and Joseph Weber:
Charlene Weber
Joseph Weber, Jr.
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Name: Clara Weber
[Clara Boylan]
Birth Date: 1 May 1878
Birth Place: Chillicothe, Ill.
Death Date: 20 Aug 1938
Death Place: Peoria, Illinois
Burial Place: Princeville, Peoria, Ill.
Cemetery Name: Catholic
Death Age: 60
Occupation: At Home
Marital Status: Widow
Street Address: 2702 N. Madison
Residence: Peoria, Ill.
Father Name: John Boylan
Father Birth Place: St. Louis, Missouri
Mother Name: Christinia Holihan
Mother Birth Place: New York
Spouse Name: Joseph
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Clara was born in Hallock Township, the daughter of John & Christina (Holahan) Boylan.
Despite her headstone date of 1877, Clara, the last of 5 children, may have been born in 1875 according to the 1880 census, since her mother Christina died in 1875. She was raised by her stepmother Eva Weber Boylan, who married her father John Boylan when Clara was 4. Eva Weber's birth family was unrelated to the family of Clara's future husband, Joseph Weber.
Clara met a young man from Princeville, Illinois, a village just west of the Boylan farm in Chillicothe. She married the son of shopkeeper German immigrants, Joseph Bernard Weber, on Aug 31, 1899, and gave birth to their first child, Leo, nine months after the wedding. Clara and her husband Joseph had 3 sons : Leo, Clement, and Joseph V.
Clara's second oldest sibling Ella had married in 1897, also to a son of German immigrants, and had her first baby at the same time that Clara had her first baby. John Boylan was still alive to see the births of these two very first grandchildren. The Boylan farmhouse that had been built by John in the late 1860's must have been a happy hub of activity at this time, with John's four young sons from his second marriage, his wife Eva, and his two unmarried daughters from his first marriage, all still living together in the home. The oldest of the family, Ella, who lived with her Staab husband on a farm right next door, ultimately became the owner of the most of the original Boylan land and the farmhouse where she and the rest of her siblings had been born and raised.
The late 1890's were the last days of the three Boylan brothers, Thomas, Charles, and John, and their farms. Thomas and Charles sold their farms, Charles moving to Peoria with his two young adult daughters, and Thomas buying a house in Chillicothe where he resided with an unmarried adult son Thomas Jr. and several adult daughters either living with him or nearby with families of their own. John died in 1903, followed by Thomas and Charles in 1906. The small extended family of first cousins likely all gathered for their funerals.
A new generation of Boylans was born over a 25 year period from 1900-1926. John's four sons continued to live in two separate houses on the Boylan farm with their mother Eva Weber Boylan. Their sister Ella lived on the Staab farm next door with her small children, and sister Clara lived a short distance west in Princeville. The oldest John Jr. married and brought his wife, who was descended from the very large Mooney family, to live in one of the family homes on the farm. His firstborn child, a girl, died at the age of 4 in 1909. Youngest brother Arch married around this time, and his wife and new baby both died of pneumonia. By 1916 Eva had died even though she was only in her mid 60's. 28 year old Arch remarried and brought his new wife to live on the farm he had grown up on. The family members all lived within walking distance or a few miles of each other. Another 10 years went by, and by 1926, brothers Arch and Jack had many young children, and sisters Ella and Clara had young adult children. Unmarried sister Rose lived with Ella, and unmarried sister Lena lived with Clara. Unmarried brother Louis had a farm, and disabled brother Emmett lived with and helped his brothers with farm work.
Clara's older unmarried sister Lena lived with Clara and her husband in the early years, assisting her with childcare, but departed for Los Angeles in the early 1930's at the age of 56, clearly seeking a better life for herself after years of being a caretaking auntie.
1925 was a year that brought sadness. Clara and her sisters and their half brothers received the news from Nevada that their oldest brother William, who was physician, had died in his 50's, apparently of heart disease. His widow sent his two small children to Chillicothe for a time to be cared for by their aunt Ella Staab.
Then in the same year of 1925 Clara's husband Joseph, who had suffered with symptoms of pernicious anemia his entire life, died at just 48. This disease, which is caused by a genetic defect, is a vitamin B12 deficiency which is easily treatable today in 2013. Joseph's youngest sibling George died just two months prior to Joseph, perhaps of the same genetic illness.
Four years later, in 1929, Clara and Joseph's oldest son Leo is believed to have died of tuberculosis, though he too may have had pernicious anemia.
After her brother's, husband's and oldest son's untimely deaths, Clara's life was centered around her two remaining sons, their marriages, and children. In the 1930 census, she and her youngest son 18 year old Joseph were living in Peoria with married son Clement, a barber, and his wife and baby daughter Mary Lee. Joseph, also a barber, married young and had a baby daughter Charlene L. in 1935-36.
In the meantime, Clara's four younger half brothers (two married with many small children) with whom she had grown up had fallen on hard times leading up to the stock market crash of 1929. The youngest Arch, and his wife Clara, who was pregnant with her last child of five, both contracted tuberculosis in 1925, necessitating a half a year's stay in a sanitarium. Though they both recovered, and Clara delivered her last baby shortly thereafter in January 1926, the Boylan main farmhouse and farmland was lost to unscrupulous bankers by 1926. A smaller home up the hill from the main house, where Arch and his family lived while they watched an outside family rent their former home down below, remained in Arch's possession a few more years, but finally it too was lost. Arch's older brother John Jr. also lost another farm which had been land bequeathed to him by his father John Boylan. By 1930-33 the Boylan brothers were living with their families in rented homes, working as farmers on land owned by other farmers in the area. In the summer of 1933, the youngest of the brothers, Arch age 45, died of encephalitis contracted from a mosquito bite, leaving his widow with five children ages 14 and under. The older Boylan sisters Ella and Rose were unable to assist Arch's widow, and two of her children (Marjorie and Mary) were ultimately taken from her against her will by her oldest brother Alfred and his wife Anna Carroll Wilhelm, and raised on the original Wilhelm farm just a short distance from the Boylan farm.
Sadly, Clara Boylan Weber died when her three grandchildren were still small. The oldest grandchild Mary Lee Weber was 9 years old, and the younger two were just babies. In 1938 Clara died at the age of just 63, of unknown causes, living approximately the same lifespan as her mother Eva Weber. Her remaining three sisters, Ella, Rose, and Lena, all lived into their 90's. Rose and Lena never married. Ella and Rose lived out their lives in Chillicothe, still the owners of Boylan farmland upon their deaths in 1966. Amazingly, all three sisters died in the same year.
CHILDREN
Leo Joseph
...born 1900
...his World War I draft registration stated that Leo had blue eyes and black hair, and was slender with a medium build
...married Anna Sturm, children unknown
...moved to Missouri where he was a farmer in Ravenswood, Missouri at the time of his premature death
...he had returned to Illinois just two weeks prior to his passing
...died in 1929 of tuberculosis
Clement Weber
...born 1904
...a barber in Peoria
...known as "Lefty"
...married Loretta M. Auth (1904-1987) prior to 1930
...divorced, and married Florence Steinman (1914-1984)
...lived in Elmhurst, Illinois, then Peoria
...Clement and Loretta had one daughter, Mary Lee Weber Myers, born the Spring of 1929, who married Robert Myers around 1947, and had three sons and one daughter between 1948 and 1960
...sadly Mary Lee died at age 32 of Hodgkins disease 14 Nov 1961 when her children were still small
...Mary Lee lived in Broadview, Illinois, died in Cook County, Illinois, and is buried at Queen of Heaven cemetery in Hillside, Illinois.
...Clement, who was 57 years old when his only child Mary Lee died, lived to the age of 88, and died in 1992 in Peoria, Illinois
...he had four Myers grandchildren, and before his passing four great grandchildren, with two more born after his passing
Joseph V.
...born 20 Apr 1912
...a barber in Peoria
...at age 23 in 1935 Joseph married Hazel Louise Phinney, the wedding taking place at St. Peters Catholic Church in Peoria
...Hazel graduated from Peoria High School in 1932
...their firstborn was a daughter Charlene L. born around 1935-36, then a son Joseph Jr.
...Joseph lived to be 91, and died in 2003 in Peoria, Illinois (Obit: WEBER, Joseph V; 91; Peoria IL, Journal Star; 2003-6-12)
Hazel Louise Phinney (daughter of Corwin Dorwin Phinney and Macie Wilson) was born December 1913, and died July 2003 in Peoria, Peoria Co, IL. She married Joseph Weber on 28 September 1935 in Peoria, Peoria Co, IL. Burial site at Resurrection Mausoleum, Peoria, Illinois.
Children of Hazel Louise Phinney and Joseph Weber:
Charlene Weber
Joseph Weber, Jr.
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Name: Clara Weber
[Clara Boylan]
Birth Date: 1 May 1878
Birth Place: Chillicothe, Ill.
Death Date: 20 Aug 1938
Death Place: Peoria, Illinois
Burial Place: Princeville, Peoria, Ill.
Cemetery Name: Catholic
Death Age: 60
Occupation: At Home
Marital Status: Widow
Street Address: 2702 N. Madison
Residence: Peoria, Ill.
Father Name: John Boylan
Father Birth Place: St. Louis, Missouri
Mother Name: Christinia Holihan
Mother Birth Place: New York
Spouse Name: Joseph
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