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Note: 1850 Census Washington Township, Tazewell County, Illinois enumerated October 1850 Dwelling #981, Family #981 BALER, George, 31, m, PA, $1000, farmer ______, Elizabeth, 29, f, OH ______, Alfred P., 4, m, IL ______, Joseph E., 1, m, IL ______, Mary C., 55, f, PA Note: This 1850 census confirms that Catherine Kuhn's name was Mary Catherine. 1860 Census Washington Township, Tazewell County, Illinois enumerated June 1860 Dwelling #404, Family #392 BAYLOR, George, 41, m, farmer, $3,500/$1,000, born in PA _______, Elizabeth, 37, f, born in OH _______, Alfred P., 14, m, born in IL _______, Joseph E., 10, m, born in IL _______, Catherine, 65, f, born in PA 1870 Census Washington Township, Tazewell County, Illinois enumerated June 13, 1870 Dwelling #10, Family #10 BAYLOR, George, 51, m/w, farmer, $10,750/$800, born in PA _______, Elizabeth, 47, f/w, keeping house, born in Ohio _______, Joseph, 20, m/w, farm laborer, born in Illinois REEDER, Mary, 18, f/w, born in Illinois BREWER, Edgar, 12, m/w, farm laborer, born in Illinois Dwelling #11, Family #11 BAYLOR, Catherine, 75, f/w, born in Pennsylvania 1880 Census Washington Township, Tazewell County, Illinois Enumerated June 1880. Dwelling #169, Family #170 BAYLOR, George, w/m, 61, PA PA PA, Farmer ________, Elizabeth, w/f, 58, wife, OH PA PA READER, Mary F., w/f, 24, niece, IL Bavaria OH FLANEGAN, Molly, w/f, 12, niece (adopted), NV OH IL George Bayler went with his father's family to Franklin County, Ohio in 1823. His father died in 1832, and in the Fall of 1841 with his mother, brother Joseph, and sisters Comfort and Amanda, he moved to Tazewell County, Illinois where he bought 80 acres southwest of Washington with a 12 x 14 log house, for which he paid $100 and a horse. In 1853 he sold this property and bought 100 acres 2 1/2 miles south of town. On Sept. 9, 1845 he married Elizabeth Flenniken of Columbus, Ohio. They wedding trip was a long ride to Illinois from Columbus in a buggy with no springs! He was a member of the Committee which sponsored the Lincoln-Douglas debates and was Lincoln's host when he was in Tazewell County. In 1882 they moved to Washington, and to Emmington in Livingston County in November 1886. He died there April 1, 1897. His wife, Elizabeth, was a sister of Mary Flenniken, wife of John Bayler. A History of Tazewell County, Illinois printed 1879 Pg. 678 has the this small paragraph. George Bayler, farmer, sec, 36; P.O.,, Washington; born in York Co., Pa., in '18. His parents were John and Catherine (Kuhn) Bayler, natives of Pa., where his father died when he was 12 years of age. He came in the West in 1841 with his mother and settled two miles west of their present place, where he resided 11 years. In 1845 he was united to Miss Elizabeth Flenniken, a native of Franklin Co., O., where she was born in 1823; moved on his present estate in 1853. It consists of 140 acres valued at $70 per acre. Mr. B. is one of the early settlers and well known throughout the Co. Alfred P and Joseph E. are their living children. OBITUARY--Washington News, April 15, 1897 George Baylor, Sr., was born in Hanover, York County, PA., September 22, 1817. His parents removed to Franklin County, Ohio in 1823 where he resided until 1841, when with his mother, two sisters and a younger brother, settled in Tazewell County, Illinois. Four years later he returned to Ohio and on September 9, 1845, was married to Elizabeth Flenniken with whom he lived on a farm in Washington Township until 1885. Then feeling the effects of age and failing health, he left the farm and for eleven years resided in Washington. In June 1894 he had a paralytic stroke and since then he has been very feeble. November 1896, he, in the company with this wife went to make their home with their son, A. P. Bayler, in Emmington, Livingston County, since which time he has been confined to his room most of the time. On March 28 he was taken worse and passed peacefully away on April 1st at ten minutes after ten in the forenoon. The funeral took place from the residence of his son on April 3rd, the services being conducted by Rev. R. Crews, of Dwight. His body was laid to rest in the cemetery near Emmington.
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