Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-10-20
PIONEERS REUNION.
Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting of
the Old Settlers Asso.
citation.
DEDICATE A MEMORIAL TABLET

/ Inose VINO Located Here between the
Years of 1916 and 1s45-Judge Gest
Delivers the Address-Exercises Are
Held at the Court House.
| Pioneer men and women, those
who have watched Rock Island
county grow from Il wilderness
into one of the beautiful, most pro.
ductive and thickly populated COM
munities of the Prairie state, assem-
bled at the court house today to cele-
brate the saith annual reunion of the
| Old Settlers association of Rock ISL
and county and to dedicate a marble
tablet on which are engraved the
names of those vino settled here be-
| tween the wears of 1916 and 1915, this
exercise taking the place of the usual
picnic.
| The business session of the associa-
| ton began at 10 a. IN. at Memorial
hall. The report of the obituary COM
mittee shows an unusually long list of
deaths during the year, as follows:
| Frederick Wendell. aged 81: jeremiah
Lequatte; Margaret Frick; Sophia Tit
teringtOn; Andrew Donaldson, 81:
Zilpa A. Gordon, So; Dudley Butler,
40; Mrs. Mary Ann Lyford, So: j. NJ.
Gallagher, So; ID. S. Swander, 6S; +.
NJ. smith, "A: J. w. Boyle, 90: An
drew Kittilsen, 81; Joseph Comet, IS:
| \. &. Tyrell, So: l.. 5. NOurse, 62;
Samuel Wainwright, So; T. j. Medill,
Sr., SO; Caroline Stoffer, IS; Rhoda
Powers, 81; Ellen Cleland, 81: Sarah
j. Kelso, So; Louisa Ziegler. 63:
G. 'orge kell, 7S; William Bischoff, IS;
4 Alice Beal, ~; Wilson Drury, SO;
Capt. L. j. Robinson, 81; Sarah Gregg,
81; Mrs. +. NJ. Sinnet, "a; w. II. Ell
wards, 75; Thomas Merrymau, 50;
Ann Coyne, Il; David Martin, 40;
George Brown, a; William Hayes, So;
Eliza beth Harper. 62: David kelso, so;
Michael Hartzell. SO; Christian Sim
mons. 70; j.. +. LAWSON, 6S.
Justice David Halves opened the
meeting with prayer. j. L. Beam. the
retiring president, delivered his vale
dictory.
Officers were elected as follows:
| President-Daniel Gordon, Moline
| Vice Presidents E. J Searle, Rock
Island; Daniel Montgomery, EIging-
| ton; G.. ii. Edwards, Moline and Fred
Osborne. of Osborne.
Secretary and Treasurer H Gle
| land. Rock Island.
Executive Committee - Thomas
| Campbell, Rock Island; l.. ID. Ell
wards, Coal Valley; NJ. j. McEniry.
Moline, and G. w. Wake, Wake.
Afternoon Exercises.
After dinner had been partaken of,
tables having been spread in Memo
rial hall, the program was resumed.
There was a song by a male quartet;
address of welcome by Mayor William
McConochie; response, NJ. j. Nc Eniry;
piano solo, Miss Ella Mitchell; unveil-
ing of pioneer tablet, with dedicatory
address by Judge W. II. Gest; song,
male quartet; recitation, Miss Grace
| Bromley; voluntary speeches and So
ciabiiity, closing with the singing by
the audience of Aud Lang Syne."
Names on the Tablet.
The tablet is placed on the west
wall at the second landing of the court
house. 1t contains over eight hun
dred names. On the left hand corner
of the slab there is inscribed an Indian
wigwam scene, on the right hand cor
ner log cabin and in the center a
| likeness of the old court house, with
the following lettering below it: Me
mortal tablet, dedicated to the pio-
neers of Rock Island county 1916
1915. Erected 1899 by the Old Set
tiers association" Following are the
names on the tablet: