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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Rhoda E. (Emma?) Bissell: Birth: 21 APR 1844 in Belleville, St. Clair County, Illinois. Death: 13 OCT 1914

  2. Josephine Bissell: Death: 1904


Family
Marriage:
Sources
1. Text:   died of pneumonia
2. Title:   Web: Illinois, Find A Grave Index, 1809-2011
Publication:   Ancestry.com. Web: Illinois, Find A Grave Index, 1809-2011 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
3. Title:   Illinois Marriages, 1790-1860
Text:   ancestry.com, Marriage date: 12 Nov 1840 Marriage place: Monroe, Illinois
Author:   Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp
Publication:   Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.Original data - With some noted exceptions all marriage records in this collection can be found at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, or available through Family Hist
4. Title:   Illinois Marriages, 1851-1900
Text:   ancestry.com, Marriage date: 23 Nov 1851 Marriage place: St. Clair, IL
Author:   Jordan Dodd and Liahona Research, comp.
Publication:   Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.Original data - Index compiled from county marriage records on microfilm located at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah by Jordan Dodd of Liahona Research (P.O. Box 740

Notes
a. Note:   N63 Died of pneumonia.
  Notes from grandson's letter written in 1919 to daughter Charlotte:
  Wm. H. Bissell, Governor of Illinois, member of Congress, Colonel oin the Mexican War and one of the founders of the Republican Party. He is mentioned frequently in Hay & Nicolay's "Life of Lincoln". He was awarded a gold sword by Congress for service at Buena Vista which now (as of 1919) hangs in the Illinois Historical Museum in Springfield, IL.
  Emigrated to Belleville, IL from Conn. in 1834 (see Gustav Koerner biography)
  Reading:
 Bissell, William Henry. The slave question. Speech of Hon. Wm. H. Bissell, of Illinois, in the House of Representatives, February 21, 1850 . [Washington: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1850].
  Tingley, Donald Fred. "The Jefferson Davis-William H. Bissell Duel." Mid-America 38 (July 1956): 146-55.
  From a note by great-granddaughter Jessie Thomas:
 William Harrison Thomas was a friend of Abe Lincoln's.
  Illinois State Historical Library
 Springfield, IL
 Papers: 1849-1859. 6 items.
 Includes letters discussing railroads, slavery agitation in Congress, Illinois appointments, and politics; photographs. Finding aid in repository.
  Papers: In the Joseph Gillespie papers, 1835-1861. 1/4 inch.
 Includes Bissell letters (1847-1859) describing slavery extension to the western territories, political appointments, and reactions to fellow legislators; also the Illinois Central Railroad land grant and some of his legal cases. Finding aid in repository.
b. Note:   Died of pneumonia


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