Rebecca Jane Harris⁴ (Ancil M.³, Zach², Isaac¹) was born February 15, 1826 in Humphreys County, Tennessee, and died August 9, 1859. She was buried in Craig Cemetery, Hurricane Township, Fayette County, Illinois. She married William O. Cole, son of John Cole and Rutha Caroline Conner, on October 24, 1823, in Fayette County, Illinois. He was born in February 1822 in Bedford County, Tennessee, and died March 20, 1905. He married a second wife, Dorothy Eleanor (Scribner) Revis, widow of Harris Revis, and daughter of Pleasant Scribner and Mary Ann Venable, on March 31, 1862 in Fayette County, Illinois. They had four children, all born in Illinois: 1. Martha Mahala Cole, born about 1863, 2. John Jackson Cole, born in July, 1867, 3. Alemeda Rosetta Cole, born in January, 1870, and 4. Charles Edward Cole born in August, 1872.

Children of Rebecca J. Harris and William O. Cole:

1. Ophelia COLE b 1844, Montgomery Co., IL; m Mr. MIDDLETON
2. + James Melmon COLE   b 22 Apr 1846; m Rebecca Jane CLINE
3. + Giles M. COLE   b 8 Jun 1948; m Elizabeth RHODES
4. Sarah Ann COLE b 24 Mar 1850, Montgomery Co., IL, d 23 Jan 1928; m 29 Oct 1868, Fayette Co., IL, Thomas Alexander RHODES,   [s/o Elliott Wilburn RHODES² (Alex.¹) and Martha Jane Hicks⁴ (Catherine Harris³, Wooten², Isaac¹] b 22 Sep 1845, Fayette Co., IL, d 22 Jan 1923; both bur Little Hickory Cem., Fayette Co., IL; descendants listed under his name in Part III, Ch. 8.4, Descendants of Martha Jane Hicks
5. + Arrilla Melrosa COLE   b 26 Jun 1851, Montgomery Co., IL; m Isaac Alexander Holland RHODES
6. Mary Jane COLE b 1853 (7-1860), Montgomery Co., IL; m 28 Jan 1875, Fayette Co., IL, James Asberry "Berry" RHODES³   [s/o McComas RHODES², (Alex.¹) and Sarah Jane COLE], he m 2nd 25 Sep 1884, Telithew Jane CULBERTSON (d/o Thomas CULBERTSON and Jane POPE) b 18 Apr 1857, Ramsey, Fayette Co., IL, d 18 Apr 1940, James and Telithew had 8 children listed under their names in Part IX, Ch. 5 of Descendants of McComas Rhodes
   
   Children of Mary J. Cole and James A. Rhodes:
   1. Ellison Bert RHODES b May 1877, Fayette Co., IL
   2. Sarah Emaline RHODES b 1879 (1-1880), Fayette Co., IL, d 4 Jan 1905 (age 26 y 1 m 20 d)
   
   
7. Keziah Elizabeth COLE b 25 Jul 1858, Montgomery Co., IL, d 7 Jun 1891, Fayette Co., IL; m 6 May 1880, Fayette Co., IL, Thomas Allen CRAIG (s/o William CRAIG and Jane WILSON) b 1829 (41-1870), TN; he m 1st 5 Jun 1873, Nancy A. TICE
   
   Children of Keziah E. Cole and Thomas A. Craig:
   1. Rosa CRAIG
   2. Chester CRAIG
   3. Raleigh CRAIG
   4. Alta J. CRAIG b Mar 1886; m 4 Oct 1903, Montgomery Co., IL, Lorenzo D. BATEMAN (s/o George Washington BATEMAN and Sarah Lucinda LAWS) b 1879, Montgomery Co., IL
      
      Children:
      1. Rosco A. BATEMAN b 1905 (5-1910), IL
      2. Roy L. BATEMAN b 1908 (2-1910), IL
      3. Carl K. BATEMAN b 1909 (age 7 mo 1910), IL
      
      
   5. Josie CRAIG
   6. Christopher CRAIG
   
   

James Melmon Cole⁵ (Rebecca J. Harris⁴, Ancil M.³, Zach², Isaac¹) was born April 22, 1846 in Montgomery County, Illinois, and died August 14, 1914. He married Rebecca Jane Cline on July 5, 1866 in Fayette County, Illinois. According to the Montgomery County, Illinois 1900 census report, she was born in Tennessee in July 1845. They were living in Hurricane Township, Fayette County, Illinois when the 1870 and 1880 censuses were taken, and in Grisham Township, Montgomery County, Illinois when enumerated in 1900. At that time Rebecca was the mother of nine children of whom six were living.

Children:

1. + Dorothy Ellen COLE   b Nov 1866; m John L. CARLOCK
2. Bernetta E. COLE b Aug 1869, IL, Fayette Co., IL; m 29 Nov 1885, Fayette Co., IL, George LINHORST (s/o Rudolph LINHORST and Catherine CLUTE) b 1865 (20-1885), St. Louis, MO)
3. Oliver S. COLE b 1871 (9-1880), Fayette Co., IL; m Minnie M.  ? ; lvd Grisham Twp., Montgomery Co., IL, when 1910 census taken
   
   Children:
   1. Harry COLE b 1906 (4-1910), IL
   2. Della COLE b 1908 (age 1y 11 mo 1910), IL
   
   
4. Charles D. COLE b 1974 (6-1880), IL
5. Sarah J. COLE b 1875 (5-1880), IL
6. Elmer James COLE b Dec 1877, IL; m 1st Orlena  ? ; m 2nd 1910, Sarah RUFUS
   
   Child of Elmer J. Cole and Orlena:
   1. Floyd COLE b Feb 1998 (2-1900) IL

Dorothy Ellen Cole⁶ (James M. Cole⁵, Rebecca J. Harris⁴, Ancil M.³, Zach², Isaac¹) was born in November 1866, in Illinois. She married John L. Carlock, son of Isaac Carlock and Lucinda D. Scribner, on April 13, 1884. He was born in Fayette County, Illinois in about 1844; he was age 36 when the 1880 census was taken for Hurricane Township, Fayette County, Illinois. Dorothy was his third wife. John and his first wife, Mary Jane Newcomb, were married January 25, 1872. His second wife was Della Walker. John died April 19, 1883, and was buried in Carlock Cemetery, Fayette County, Illinois. Dorothy then married William Sloat. His son, Ernest Sloat, later married William's stepdaughter, Rose E. Carlock.

Children:

1. William Lewis CARLOCK b Mar 1886, Fayette Co., IL, d 1 Jun 1938; m 1st Mabel  ? ; m 2nd Clara (CAULK) CARLOCK, wid of Levi Jefferson CARLOCK b Witt, Montgomery Co., IL
2. Ezra Elisha CARLOCK b 7 Oct 1888, Fayette Co., IL; m 11 May 1908, Messie E. ATTURBURY
   
   Children:
   1. Dorothy Lucile CARLOCK b 3 Sep 1911, IL; m 1st James Earl LUTON; m 2nd Oscar E. EWEN
   2. Wilma Fern CARLOCK; m William B. JOHNSON
   
   
3. Rose E. CARLOCK b Feb 1890, Fayette Co., IL; Ernest SLOAT (s/o William SLOAT and his 1st wife)
4. Melissa B. CARLOCK b Mar 1895, Fayette Co., IL; m Allen MAY

Giles M. Cole⁵ (Rebecca J. Harris⁴, Ancil M.³, Zach², Isaac¹) was born June 8, 1948 in Montgomery County, Illinois, and died November 12, 1893 in Fayette County, Illinois. He married Elizabeth Rhodes, daughter of James Ewing Rhodes and Elizabeth Revis or Reaves. She was born October 15, 1848 in Fayette Co., Illinois, and died there on November 27, 1933. They were living in Hurricane Township, Fayette County, Illinois, when the censuses were taken in 1870, 1860 and 1900.

Children:

1. + William Berry COLE   b 2 Jan 1873; m Mary Josephine CARLOCK
2. Mancil Hamilton COLE b Nov 1875, Hurricane Twp., Fayette Co., IL, d 1963, bur Mt. Carmel Cem., Fayette Co., IL; m Mary ELLER; the obituary of John Jiles Cole names his surviving brothers and sisters:

   Obituary of John Jiles Cole: "John Jiles Cole, 69, of Ramsey died 4:14 p.m.. Monday, Oct 17 in his home. . . . Mr. Cole was born in Moweaqua, son of Hamilton and Mary Cole... He married Irena "Tillie" Burlison in 1970. Surviving are his wife; ... brothers, Oral of Fla.; Earl of Indiana; Wesly of Centralia; sister, Mrs. Anna Huber of Schram City; ... two brothers and two sisters preceeded him in death."
   
   (Note: John Jiles Cole married Irene Matilda Rhodes [d/o Robert H. Rhodes³ (Anderson², Alex.¹) and Ida May Green, and widow of Raymond Burlison]. He was born 19 Nov 1909, in Moweaqua, Shelby Co, IL, and died 17 Oct 1977, Ramsey, Fayette Co., IL).

3. + James Easton COLE   b 17 Aug 1878; m Alice LOVEGROVE
4. Grover Cleveland COLE b Aug 1878, Hurricane Twp., Fayette Co., IL; m 1st  ? , m 2nd 1 Aug 1908, Cora I. PORTER (d/o Reese PORTER and Catherine CEARLOCK); the obituary of Glen Cole names his surviving children and brothers and sisters; also the obituary of his wife adds additional details:

   RETIRED CARPENTER GLEN COLE
   DIED AUG. 23 AT GOLDEN MANOR Last rites for Glen Cole of Nokomis, retired carpenter and World War II veteran, were held Sunday in Sutton Funeral Home at Nokomis. Officiant was the Rev. Harold Simpkins, pastor of United Methodist Church in Nokomis where Mr. Cole was a member. Burial was in Nokomis Cemetery.
   
   Glen Cole, 62, died Thursday Aug. 23, (1979) at 12:37 a.m. in Golden Manor Nursing Home, Nokomis. A son of Grover and Cora (Porter) Cole, he and Mary Lewiski were married at St. Louis in September 1938, and his wife preceded him in death in November 1977. He is survived by four sons and four daughters, Fred, Roger, Buck, Connie Oke, Brenda Rompasky, and Maria Warner, all of Nokomis, Barbara Johnson of Hillsboro, and Ronald of Springfield. He leaves 10 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. He is survived by two brothers, Grover of Deland, Fla., and Wayne of Ramsey; and two sisters, Esther Patton of Nokomis and Darlene Owens of Hillsboro. One sister, a brother and one son have died.

   MARY COLE OF NOKOMIS DIES ". . . Mrs. Cole died at 10:25 a.m. . . . at St John's hospital in Springfield. Born in Audubon Township on Dec. 14, 1920, she was the daughter of George and Francis Yazump Lewiski. She married Glen Cole in 1938 in St. Louis and he survives. . . ."

William Berry Cole⁶ (Giles M.⁵, Rebecca J. Harris⁴, Ancil M.³, Zach², Isaac¹) was born January 2, 1873, in Hurricane Township, Fayette County, Illinois, and died January 29, 1948. He married Mary Josephine Carlock, daughter of John L. Carlock and Mary Jane Newcome, on July 12, 1894 in Fayette County, Illinois. She was born September 28, 1875, in Fayette County, Illinois, and died July 30 1947. William and Mary were buried in Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Fayette County, Illinois.

Children:

1. Howard M. COLE b Jun 1895, Fayette Co., IL, d 1958; m 1918 Effie MORELAND (d/o George MORELAND and Mary DEILBECK) b 26 Jan 1899, Bingham, Fayette Co., IL, d 10 Jan 1982, Maryville, Madison Co., IL, bur Mt. Carmel Cem., Ramsey, Fayette Co., IL; the following from The Hillsboro and Montgomery County News on Thursday, January 14, 1982:

   Funeral here for Effie Cole, 82 The Reverend Dean Dolash was officiant Wednesday morning at Patton Memorial Home in Hillsboro at last rites for Effie (Moreland) Cole, 82, a former Taylor Springs resident and a Ramsey native. Interment was in Mt. Carmel at Ramsey. Mrs. Cole died last Sunday, Jan. 10, at 2:10 p.m. in Oliver C. Anderson Hospital at Maryville. She left the Taylor Springs area at age 37 and moved to Wood River until the past 12 years, which she spent at Hettick.
   
   Born Jan. 22,, 1899, she was a daughter of George and Mary (Deilbeck) Moreland. She and Howard Cole were married at Ramsey in 1918 and he preceded her in death in 1958. She was a member of the Baptist Church. Surviving are three daughters and one son: Valletta Stufflebeam of Lake Station, Ind., Doris Pate of Edwardsville, Vicki Pate of Wood River, and Kenneth Cole of Hettick. She also leaves 28 grandchildren. Surviving brothers are Tom Moreland of Hillsboro, Ralph Voreland of Kankakee, and Harry Moreland of Gary, Ind. She leaves three sisters, Hazel Vonland and Nellie Ondrey, both of Hillsboro, and Dorothy Little of Flora.

2. Ira E. COLE b Apr 1899, Fayette Co., IL, died as a teenager
3. Rosetta COLE b 1902 (8-1910), Fayette Co., IL
4. Burnetta COLE b 1903 (7-1910), Fayette Co., IL
5. Ora D. COLE b 8 Nov 1905, Fayette Co., IL, d 18 Nov 1914, bur Mt. Carmel Cem., Fayette Co., IL
6. Brian COLE b Fayette Co., IL

James Easton Cole⁶ (Giles M.⁵, Rebecca J. Harris⁴, Ancil M.³, Zach², Isaac¹) was born August 17, 1878. He married Alice Lovegrove in 1898. She was born in May 1880, IL, and died in 1960. She was buried in Ramsey Cemetery, Fayette County, Illinois.

Children:

1. Russell COLE b 3 Jul 1899, IL, d 7 Jan 1975; m June NEWCOME
2. Mary COLE b 1902 (8-1910), IL; m Mr. MORELAND
3. Reuben Ray COLE b 20 Oct 1905, IL, d 10 Apr 1956, bur Ramsey Cem., Fayette Co., IL
4. Edgar COLE b 1908 (2-1910), IL
5. James COLE
6. Robert L. COLE (1915-1916,) IL, bur Ramsey Cem., Fayette Co., IL

Arrilla Melrosa Cole⁵ (Rebecca J. Harris⁴, Ancil M.³, Zach², Isaac¹) was born June 26, 1851, and died November 3, 1908. She married Isaac Alexander Holland Rhodes³, son of John B. Rhodes² (Alex.¹) and his wife, Jane, on October 2, 1870 in Fayette County, Illinois. He was born March 22, 1848 in Macoupin County, Illinois, and died March 21, 1924. They were living in Cahokia Township, Macoupin County, Illinois when the census was taken in 1880, and in Buckhart Township, Christian County, Illinois when the 1900 census was taken.

Children:

1. Levithy Perline RHODES b 14 Aug 1871, IL
2. Arrena Jane RHODES b 25 Oct 1872, IL
3. Josephine RHODES b 26 Jan 1877, IL; m Bert P. PENDER b 1893, Morrisonville, Christian Co., IL
   
   Children:
   1. Mabel S. PENDER b 1900 (10-1910), IL
   2. Lula Edith PENDER b 30 Jan 1902, Christian Co., IL
   3. Russell Harold PENDER b 37 Dec 1903, Christian Co., IL
   4. Hiram Campbell PENDER b 2 Jan 1905, Christian Co., IL
   5. Ida M. PENDER b 1907, Christian Co., IL
   
   
4. Laura Della RHODES b 22 Jun 1879, IL; m 6 Jan 1897, Christian Co., IL, William H. NAVE b 1867, IL
   
   Children:
   1. (child) NAVE b  ? 
   2. (child) NAVE b  ? 
   3. (child) NAVE b  ? 
   4. (male) NAVE b 18 Nov 1903, Buckhart Twp., Christian Co., IL, (birth rec--"4th child")
   5. Kenneth Everett NAVE b 23 Dec 1905, Buckhart Twp., Christian Co., IL
   
   
5. William Giles Easton RHODES b 22 Nov 1880, Macoupin Co., IL, d 18 Feb 1928; m Ella Mae CLINE b 1888, Fayette Co., IL, d 25 Dec 1940; both bur Edinburg Cem., Christian Co., IL
   
   Children:
   1. (male) RHODES b 19 Aug 1904, Christian Co., IL (birth rec)
   2. Floy Pearl RHODES b 19 Aug 1906, Christian Co., IL (birth rec)
   
   
6. Herman Otis RHODES b 28 Sep 1883, Cahokia Twp., Macoupin Co., IL; m 3 Aug 1904, Christian Co., IL, Iva Josephine LUNEACH (d/o Philip LUNEACH and Sarah Catherine DONALDSON) b 5 Jan 1885, South Fork Twp., Christian Co., IL, d 14 Jan 1962
   
   Children:
   1. Leah Fern RHODES b 14 Feb 1909, Christian Co., IL; m 10 Jul 1930, John HUGHES b 14 Nov 1909
   2. (daughter) RHODES b 15 Mar 1911, Christian Co., IL, d 20 Mar 1911, bur Edinburg Cem., Christian Co., IL
   3. Eulah Louise RHODES b 26 Feb 1916, Christian Co., IL; m 1st Mr. BENNEWITZ; m 2nd 1 Dec 1956, Samuel BELL
   
   
7. John Mack RHODES b 18 Mar 1885, Macoupin Co., IL
8. Gennette Bell RHODES b 17 Oct 1889, Christian Co., IL

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