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Facts and Events
Notes
- From "Biographical review of Cass, Schuyler and Brown counties, Illinois. Containing biographical sketches of pioneers and leading citizens":
- Lucy Wyatt, she being a native of Kentucky and a daughter of Walter Wyatt. Her father was a Virginian by birth. He was one of the pioneers of Fayette county, and from there, in 1835, moved to Illinois, settlingon Indian creek in Morgan county, where he bought land, improved a farm, and resided there till his death. The maiden name of his wife was Julia Bliss. She, too, was a native of Virginia, and died in Morgan county, Illinois. After the death of Mr. Wyatt she was married to John Creel, and came to Illinois in 1837, settling ten miles northeast of Jacksonville, where she resided till her death. The mother of our subject was ten years old when she came to Illinois with her parents, and remembers well the incidents of the overland journey and of pioneer life here. She assisted her mother in the household duties when quite young, and learned to card, spin and weave. After the death of her mother she went to live with her sister, with whom she made her home until her seventeenth year, when she was married to Maston Beard. He was a farmer of Morgan county, and died there. The parents of Mrs. Cosner are both members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, They reared seven children, viz.: John T. and Jacob deceased; Henry, Joseph L., Lucy, George and Mollie.
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