Person:John Sebring (1)

Cumberland County Illinois is listed as the county of John's birth in the Clark County Marriage Register (copy in J. Abshier genealogical files). John E. Sebring's death certificate is in disagreement, and lists the place of birth as Casey, Illinois (in Clark County). The Clark County Clerk and Recorder was unable to locate a birth certificate for John E. Sebring. The date of birth of 3/1/1880 is on John E. Sebring's headstone at the Park Hill Cemetery in Bloomington, Illinois, and also on his death certificate.

According to "Sebring Collections", by Sebring and Sebring, published in 1975, John's parents, William and Hannah Sebring, relocated their family from Illinois to Arkansas in 1882. William and Hannah both died in 1884, and the five children returned to Hazel Dell, Illinois to be raised in the homes of friends and relatives. John was reared by a court-appointed guardian, Samuel Fitch, who was married to John's sister Amanda. Sam Fitch arranged for John to get a pension as a deceased soldier's son, under age 16.

According to the "Register of Marriages" kept on file at the Clark County Clerk and Recorder's office in Casey, Illinois, obtained in October 2002, John Sebring was a laborer at the time of his marriage to Nora Ford on April of 1903. He lived in Casey, Illinois at the time of his marriage. He later lived with Nora and his family at 602 So. Center Street, in Bloomington Illinois. This was his home address when he died, although he was in St. Louis at the time of his death. The occupation listed on his death certificate was Electrical Contractor.

According to Dolores Sebring, his granddaughter, he died while on a rail trip to St. Louis. She stated that, "he had a heart attack when he got off the train". This is corroborated in the book, "SebringCollections", by Sebring and Sebring, published in 1975, which states that he died in Union Station, St. Louis. His death certificate lists his "usual residence as 602 So. Center, Bloomington Illinois". I personally located and photographed his headstone at Park Hill Cemetery, Section F-96-4 & 5, in McLean County, City of Bloomington, Illinois in October of 2002. His death certificate lists the cause of death as chronic myocarditis due to generalized arteriosclerosis. There is some disagreement between the three sources cited for John Edward Sebring's date of death. I have used the date on both the tombstone inscription and the death certificate, which would seem the most accurate. The death certificate lists him as dying in St. Louis, Missouri.

1. ↑ Clark Co., Illinois Marriage Register; John Sebring & Nora Ford. (Dated April 1903. Copy obtained by J. Abshier in Oct. 2002).
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3. ↑ Research by Don Smith.
4. ↑ Sebring, John E. & Nora Ethel Ford; Marriage Register. (Dated 8 May 1903).
5. ↑ Sebring, John Edward; Death Certificate 62-048726. (Dated 21 December 1962).
6. ↑ Walter Wilson Sebring and John Cletus Sebring. Sebring Collections. (1975 third reprint, Mt. Vernon, IN; Weidrich Publishing (2002)).
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8. ↑ Research by Don Smith.
9. ↑ Sebring, John Edward; tombstone inscription.
10. ↑ Sebring, John Edward; Death Certificate 62-048726. (Dated 21 December 1962).
11. ↑ Abshier, Jerry D., personal knowledge.
12. ↑ Clark Co., Illinois Marriage Register; John Sebring & Nora Ford. (Dated April 1903. Copy obtained by J. Abshier in Oct. 2002).
13. ↑ Sebring, John Edward; Death Certificate 62-048726. (Dated 21 December 1962).