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Carl Richardson Potter

Male 1898 - 1944  (45 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Carl Richardson Potter was born on 14 Oct 1898 in Illinois (son of Andrew Jesse Potter and Della White); died on 3 Jan 1944 in DuPage County, Illinois; was buried in Sunset Memorial Park, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois.

    Other Events:

    • Census: 1930, Milton, DuPage County, Illinois

    Notes:

    Buried:
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/119111205/carl-richardson-potter

    Family/Spouse: Ina L. Unknown. Ina was born in 1896 in Missouri; was buried in Sunset Memorial Park, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Andrew Jesse Potter was born on 17 Aug 1865 in Vermilion County, Illinois (son of William H. Potter and Hester B. Lane); died on 12 May 1932 in Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried on 14 May 1932 in Johnson Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois.

    Other Events:

    • Occupation: farmer
    • Census: 1900, Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois

    Notes:

    Buried:
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5017604/andrew-jesse-potter

    Andrew married Della White on 19 Aug 1891 in Indiana. Della (daughter of Ritchison Trott White and Elizabeth Goodner) was born on 21 Nov 1873 in Vermilion County, Illinois; died on 6 Jan 1962 in Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried in Johnson Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Della White was born on 21 Nov 1873 in Vermilion County, Illinois (daughter of Ritchison Trott White and Elizabeth Goodner); died on 6 Jan 1962 in Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried in Johnson Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois.

    Notes:

    Buried:
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5016563/della-potter

    Children:
    1. Francis Dean Potter was born in Aug 1892 in Vermilion County, Illinois; died on 12 Aug 1954 in Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried in Sunset Memorial Park, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois.
    2. John Ross Potter was born on 25 Jan 1894 in Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois; died on 28 Jun 1945 in Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried in Sunset Memorial Park, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois.
    3. Clarence Elijah Potter was born on 29 Jun 1896 in Illinois; died on 25 Aug 1973 in Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, Indiana; was buried on 28 Aug 1973 in Johnson Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois.
    4. 1. Carl Richardson Potter was born on 14 Oct 1898 in Illinois; died on 3 Jan 1944 in DuPage County, Illinois; was buried in Sunset Memorial Park, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois.
    5. Raymond J. Potter was born on 3 Jan 1901 in Vermilion County, Illinois; died on 15 Jul 1917 in Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried in Johnson Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois.
    6. Hansel Adrian Potter was born on 26 Dec 1903 in Illinois; died on 2 Oct 1952; was buried in Sunset Memorial Park, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois.
    7. Edwin Jackson Potter was born on 13 Aug 1911 in Vermilion County, Illinois; died on 20 Feb 1998 in Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried in Sunset Memorial Park, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  William H. PotterWilliam H. Potter was born on 17 Aug 1816 in New York (son of Elijah Potter and Lanie Van Wormer); died on 25 Mar 1908; was buried in Johnson Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois.

    Other Events:

    • Occupation: farmer
    • Census: 1860, Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois
    • Census: 1870, Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois

    Notes:

    History of Vermilion County: Together with historic notes on the Northwest, gleaned from early authors, old maps and manuscripts. By H. W. Beckwith. Chicago, H.H. Hill and Company, Publishers, 1879.
    Page 896.
    William Potter, Danville, farmer and stock-dealer, section 27, was born in the state of New York, on the 16th of August, 1817. He came to this state in 1830, settling in New Town. He was married on the 26th of July, 1847, to Hester Lane, who was born in Franklin county, Ohio, in 1823. They have seven children by this marriage: Elijah, William H., Eliza J., John F., Mary E., Lincoln A. and Andrew J. Mr. Potter had but little property with which to start in life, his first tax being only six cents; but he has by hard labor, economy and good management, acquired a property of hour hundred acres of land. His taxes have since been as high as $250 a year. He went in an early day to Chicago from Blount township on foot, carrying his clothes on his back, and there worked for seventy-five cents a day digging the cellar for the first brick house ever built in chicago. His father lived to be eighty-eight years old and his mother ninety-three. Mr. Potter is a republican, and does not belong to any church.

    Buried:
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67726054/william-h-potter

    William married Hester B. Lane on 25 Jul 1847 in Vermilion County, Illinois. Hester was born on 15 Jan 1823 in Franklin County, Ohio; died on 24 Jul 1897 in Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried in Johnson Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Hester B. LaneHester B. Lane was born on 15 Jan 1823 in Franklin County, Ohio; died on 24 Jul 1897 in Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried in Johnson Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois.

    Notes:

    Buried:
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67724381/hester-b-potter

    Notes:

    Married:
    Marriage License Abstracts Vermilion County, Illinois. Page 60. No record of anyone signing for bride or groom.

    Children:
    1. Elijah Potter was born on 28 Sep 1848 in Illinois; died on 27 Sep 1915; was buried in Johnson Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois.
    2. William Henry Potter was born on 17 Jan 1850 in Illinois; died on 22 Mar 1925 in Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried on 24 Mar 1925 in Gundy Cemetery, Bismarck, Vermilion County, Illinois.
    3. Eliza Jane Potter was born on 20 Dec 1851 in Illinois; died on 11 Feb 1943 in Bismarck, Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried in Rose Cemetery, Bismarck, Vermilion County, Illinois.
    4. Burke Potter was born in 1854 in Illinois; died in 1935; was buried in Peyton Cemetery, Peyton, El Paso County, Colorado.
    5. Joseph F. Potter was born about 1855 in Illinois.
    6. Mary Elizabeth Potter was born on 5 Apr 1858 in Illinois; died on 25 Jul 1926 in Bismarck, Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried on 27 Jul 1926 in Gundy Cemetery, Bismarck, Vermilion County, Illinois.
    7. Lincoln Abraham Potter was born in 1860 in Illinois; died on 15 Mar 1888; was buried in Rose Cemetery, Bismarck, Vermilion County, Illinois.
    8. 2. Andrew Jesse Potter was born on 17 Aug 1865 in Vermilion County, Illinois; died on 12 May 1932 in Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried on 14 May 1932 in Johnson Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois.

  3. 6.  Ritchison Trott WhiteRitchison Trott White was born on 11 Mar 1848 in Vermilion County, Illinois; died on 19 Aug 1932 in Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried on 21 Aug 1932 in Johnson Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois.

    Other Events:

    • Occupation: farmer
    • Census: 1880, Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois

    Notes:

    LKH Note: First name also spelled as Richardson and Ritchison if different records.

    Name:
    son of James White and Nancy Wiles

    Buried:
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11063003/ritchison-trott-white

    Ritchison married Elizabeth Goodner on 30 Mar 1871 in Vermilion County, Illinois. Elizabeth (daughter of Henry Goodner and Susan Gritton) was born on 6 Jan 1850 in Vermilion County, Illinois; died on 9 Sep 1912 in Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried in Johnson Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 7.  Elizabeth GoodnerElizabeth Goodner was born on 6 Jan 1850 in Vermilion County, Illinois (daughter of Henry Goodner and Susan Gritton); died on 9 Sep 1912 in Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried in Johnson Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois.

    Notes:

    Buried:
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11063006/elizabeth-white

    Notes:

    Married:
    Marriage License Abstracts Vermilion County, Illinois 1853-1874. Page 153. No record of anyone signing for bride or groom.

    Children:
    1. Francis M. White was born on 20 Apr 1872 in Vermilion County, Illinois; died on 22 May 1900 in Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried in Johnson Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois.
    2. 3. Della White was born on 21 Nov 1873 in Vermilion County, Illinois; died on 6 Jan 1962 in Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried in Johnson Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois.
    3. Harvey Elmer White was born on 25 Nov 1875 in Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois; died on 19 Oct 1950 in Covington, Fountain County, Indiana; was buried on 22 Oct 1950 in Johnson Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois.
    4. Nancy White was born on 27 Jul 1878 in Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois; died on 15 Dec 1892 in Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried in Johnson Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois.
    5. Henry James White was born on 11 Nov 1880 in Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois; died on 27 Sep 1958 in Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried in Johnson Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois.
    6. Addie Josephine White was born on 22 Dec 1882 in Ross Township, Vermilion County, Illinois; died on 21 Aug 1959 in Henning, Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried in Johnson Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois.
    7. Thomas Clevland White was born on 18 Jul 1885 in Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois; died on 23 Dec 1934 in Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried on 25 Dec 1934 in Johnson Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Elijah Potter was born on 3 Sep 1790 in Fort Ann, Washington County, New York; died on 8 May 1876 in Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried in Johnson Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois.

    Notes:

    From Portrait and Biographical Ablum of Vermilion County, Illinois. Page 241-242.
    Mrs. Eliza J. (Potter) Boyce was born in Jefferson County, N.Y., one half mile from Sackett's Harbor, Sept. 19, 1813, and is the daughter of Elijah and Lana Potter, the former of whom was born in Washington County, N.Y., Sept. 4, 1787. He was there reared upon a farm and was married to a maiden of his own township, Miss Lana Van Wormer, in 1810. Not long afterward the young people removed to a point near Sackett's Harbor in Jefferson County. Mrs. Lana Potter was born June 2, 1793 and was consequently seventeen years of age at the time of her marriage.
    The three eldest children of Mr. and Mrs. Potter were born in Jefferson County, N.Y., Eliza J. being the eldest. Six more children were added to the family after they left the Empire State. With one exception they all lived to mature years, one being killed when about four years old by the falling of a tree upon him. About 1820 the Potter family resolved to seek what was then the farther West and accordingly removed to Richland County, Ohio, settling near the present site of the town of Ashland. That region was then a wilderness, peopled chiefly by wild animals and Indians, there being only four other white families in the township. Mr. Potter entered a tract of land from the Government and the family endured all the hardships and privations of life on the frontier. The nearest mill was thirty miles away and the road which led to it was for long distances nothing more than an Indian trail.
    As the country began settling up Mr. Potter distinguished himself as a leading citizen and was one of the first to exert himself in the establishment of a school which was effected after much difficulty, Mr. Potter riding three days to find a teacher who could even write. The family sojourned in that neighborhood for a period of seventeen years and in 1830 concluded to make another change of residence, this time seeking the Prairie State. After due preparation they in October set out overland with a two-horse team and two cows, and their household goods and provisions. They were three weeks on the road, camping and cooking by the wayside. They arrived near the present site of Newtown, on Middle Fork Township, in November following. The father three or four years later purchased land on the State road, at the edge of Eight Mile Prairie, ten miles north of Danville, where he open up a good farm and lived until 1856. Eleven years later Mr. Potter removed to Missouri and subsequently made his home with his son, Joseph, who was located on a farm nine miles from Chillicothe.
    Mr.s Lana (Van Wormer) Potter was the daughter of Jacob Van Wormer, one of the early pioneers of Washington County, N.Y., and a strict adherent of the doctrines of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His house for many years was the meeting pace for the annual conference and was the frequent resort of the itinerant. Among the early preachers of that day was the renowned Lorenzo Dow, who made for himself a name intimately associated with the early history of Methodism. He as his wife finally removed to Jefferson County and mad their home with Mrs. Potter, his youngest daughter. They intended going to Ohio with the Potter family, but on account of the mother's health they were obliged to remain in Jefferson County N.Y., where they spent their last days. The Van Wormer family traced its ancestry to Holland.

    Buried:
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67723996/elijah-potter

    Elijah married Lanie Van Wormer in 1810 in Washington County, New York. Lanie was born on 2 Jun 1793 in Washington County, New York; died on 18 Jun 1856 in Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried in Johnson Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  Lanie Van Wormer was born on 2 Jun 1793 in Washington County, New York; died on 18 Jun 1856 in Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried in Johnson Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois.

    Notes:

    Buried:
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67725621/lanie-potter

    Children:
    1. Sarah Ann Potter was born on 17 Mar 1836 in Illinois; died on 4 Jan 1877 in Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried in Johnson Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois.
    2. 4. William H. Potter was born on 17 Aug 1816 in New York; died on 25 Mar 1908; was buried in Johnson Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois.

  3. 14.  Henry GoodnerHenry Goodner was born on 7 Feb 1824 in Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois; died on 17 Aug 1902 in Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried in Johnson Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois.

    Other Events:

    • Occupation: farmer
    • Census: 1860, Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois
    • Census: 1870, Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois
    • Census: 1880, Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois

    Notes:

    Name:
    son of John Goodner and Margaret Swisher

    Buried:
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/52341860/henry-goodner

    Henry married Susan Gritton on 11 Feb 1845 in Vermilion County, Illinois. Susan (daughter of Amos Gritton and Elizabeth Holt) was born on 10 May 1826 in Ross Township, Vermilion County, Illinois; died on 27 Jun 1898 in Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried in Johnson Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 15.  Susan GrittonSusan Gritton was born on 10 May 1826 in Ross Township, Vermilion County, Illinois (daughter of Amos Gritton and Elizabeth Holt); died on 27 Jun 1898 in Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried in Johnson Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois.

    Notes:

    Buried:
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/52341936/susan-goodner

    Notes:

    Married:
    Marriage License Abstracts Vermilion County, Illinois 1826-1852. Page 29. Jacob Siwsher signed permission for Susan Gritton.

    Children:
    1. John Goodner was born on 18 Aug 1847 in Vermilion County, Illinois; died on 1 Mar 1903 in Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried in Johnson Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois.
    2. Amos Goodner was born on 6 Jan 1850 in Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois; died on 7 Sep 1872 in Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried in Johnson Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois.
    3. 7. Elizabeth Goodner was born on 6 Jan 1850 in Vermilion County, Illinois; died on 9 Sep 1912 in Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried in Johnson Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois.
    4. Leonard Goodner was born on 16 Feb 1852 in Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois; died on 11 Jun 1861 in Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried in Johnson Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois.
    5. Susannah Goodner was born on 11 Oct 1854 in Vermilion County, Illinois; died on 2 May 1915 in Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried in Johnson Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois.
    6. Margaret Goodner was born in 1857 in Illinois.
    7. Mary Goodner was born on 11 Jun 1860 in Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois; died on 24 Aug 1860; was buried in Johnson Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois.
    8. Lewis Goodner was born on 26 Mar 1866 in Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois; died on 2 Jan 1888 in Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried in Johnson Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois.


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