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Marriage: Children:
  1. Anna Mary Utzinger: Birth: 7 MAR 1857 in Deerfield Township, Fulton, IL. Death: 1890

  2. Hilda Utzinger: Birth: 6 DEC 1858 in Deerfield Township, Fulton County, IL. Death: 19 SEP 1861 in Deerfield

  3. Elisabeth Utzinger: Birth: 4 JUN 1859 in Deerfield Township, Fulton County, IL. Death: 31 OCT 1871 in Deerfield

  4. John Adam UTZINGER: Birth: 27 JUN 1860 in Fulton Co., IL. Death: 15 JUL 1910 in Fulton Co., IL

  5. Jacob Utzinger: Birth: 9 AUG 1861 in Deerfield, Fulton, IL. Death: 26 FEB 1881 in Deerfield, Fulton, IL

  6. Anna Catherine Utzinger: Birth: 30 AUG 1862 in Deerfield Township, Fulton County, IL. Death: 10 OCT 1934 in Canton, IL

  7. Lewis Utzinger: Birth: 16 MAR 1866 in Deerfield Township, Fulton County, IL. Death: 24 JAN 1940 in Puyallup, WA

  8. Margret Utzinger: Birth: JAN 1867 in Deerfield township, Fulton County, IL. Death: OCT 1867 in Deerfield

  9. Martha Anna Utzinger: Birth: 22 JUL 1867 in Deerfield Township, Fulton County, IL. Death: MAY 1868 in Deerfield

  10. Simon Peter Utzinger: Birth: 24 DEC 1868 in Deerfield Township, Fulton County, IL. Death: 1 JAN 1941 in Deerfield

  11. Phillip Utzinger: Birth: 17 APR 1870 in Deerfield Township, Fulton County, Il. Death: 3 JUN 1935 in Fairview, IL

  12. Cora Marilla Utzinger: Birth: 23 JUN 1871 in Deerfield Township, Fulton County, IL. Death: 27 FEB 1951 in Pasadena, CA

  13. Sarah Alice Utzinger: Birth: 21 NOV 1872 in Deerfield Township, Fulton County, IL. Death: 15 AUG 1948 in CA

  14. Emma Belle Utzinger: Birth: 11 OCT 1874 in Deerfield Township, Fulton County, IL. Death: 24 FEB 1941 in Deerfield

  15. Michael Oliver Utzinger: Birth: 30 APR 1876 in Deerfield Township, Fulton County, IL. Death: 6 AUG 1962 in Canton, IL

  16. Edward Charles Utzinger: Birth: 27 JUN 1878 in Deerfield Townshiop, Fulton County, IL. Death: 18 SEP 1948 in Canton, IL


Sources
1. Source:   Cemetary Inscriptions of Fulton Co, IL, Vol.1

Notes
a. Note:   Here is an interesting letter from Jakob's brother Valentin, dated 8 October 1855, from Scharof, Deutchland.:
  "Dear Brother Jacob,
  Your last letter of June 14th, received on August ninth. The reason for not complying with your request for a speedy reply was that at first we did not know what to write. We put it off from day to day and from week to week.
  Thanks be to God, we are all well and happy and we hope and wish the same for you and our cousin Ehresman and his family. Our sister, Elizabetha, was married on August 14th last year and is living in Miesau. Five days before her wedding we received you letter, and she cried when she read it and that you wanted her to come to you. Her husband's name is Balthasar Lang. He is a farmer. His parents have four children, one of whom is in America, the others are at home. Our sister lives at present with her parents-in-law but ine a year or so, they will have their own house along side of his parents. We believe that she has married well and we hear from others that his folks are good industrious people, well-thought of. We believe that she has married very well. She has a complete household outfit. Our sister, up to now, is well pleased. The people in Miesau, of course, have not so much land as we have and are used to. But they have very good meadow and pasture land and are able to fertilize their meadows, thus expenses are not as heavy as ours, because they do not have to buy fertilizer, neither do they have to pay community taxes as they have their own forest which takes care of all current taxes. A man from Miesau, who was visiting our cousin, Gerhardt, together with our aunt Margarethe Wagner, negotiated the marriage.
  In spite of the fact that we had an abundance of crops of all kinds, prices in all lines are exceptionally high. For instance, cabbage, of which we had 20 hectoliter [about 2,000 lbs.], we received 18 gulden--about nine dollars. For one hectoliter of corn--8 gulden, speltz--6 gulden, oats--3 1/2-4 gulden per hundred pounds. Owing to a very thin stand of corn, its price went up very high. We were fortunate in having a good stand because we sowed early. Oats, barley, peas, vetch were abundant. Potatoes were a middling crop due to disease. Our new seed has good prospects.
  First part of September we received a letter from our brother, Adam. He and Peter are in Wisconsin. Adam hired out to a farmer when he arrived for $13. per month, but after working one and a-half months, he came down with the fever for 10 days. He was very sick and had the doctor every day. Later he worked in the harvest for $1.50 a day. He and Peter live 45 miles apart. They intend to rent a place for one-half the crops. Why they moved away, he did not say nor what Peter got for his land. Did he not like it there or could he not make a living there? We believed that when they left they would go to our cousin, Daniel, in Illinois, as the distance to either state is about the same. We also got a letter from cousin Daniel. He is doing well and intends to build a new house in the spring. Emigration from here to America has fallen off considerably owing to very unfavorable reports from there. Now we see by the papers that the harvest there was very abundant, without doubt, business will revive too.
  The Winterbacher's, Ehresman's brother-in-law and sister and their family are all well. We visit back and forth. This is about all I know to write. Please write us soon with a big long letter. We, your parents, sisters and brothers, greet you a thousand times.
 Our greetings to Jacob Ehresman and his family. Your brother,"


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