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Note: He is burried in Block L lot #8 in the Oakwook Cemetery. He was 66 years at the time of his death.
Rodney was a Methodist, Republican, and owned 40 acres of land with a value of $1,600. He was the School Director for eight years. This information came from a listing believed to be 1877.
Henry County Marriage Records #150
1850 Census of Henry Co., Illinois (Indexed as Lerwill in Ancestry) Roll: M432_109; Page: 126; Image: 606 Rufus Linnell47 Farmer500 Maine Lucy 45NY Charles22NY John19NY Rodney18NY Joseph16NY Tho14NY Rebecca11NY Percia7NY
1870 Census of Colona, Henry Co., Illinois Roll: M593_229; Page: 366; Image: 260. Rodney Linnell37 farmer1600475NY Sarah25IL Lucy11IL Mary2IL Lucy64NY
Rodney E. Linnell is a farmer on section 1 in the township of Colona . He was born in Clayton, Jefferson Co., N. Y., May 24, 1832. His father, Rufus B. Linnell, was a native of the same town in which the son was born. His birth occurred there May 10, 1803, and he was the second son of Samuel and Sophia Linnell, who were natives of the State of New York . The paternal great-grandfather was of English origin and on coming to America settled on an island in the River St. Lawrence , which has ever since been called by the name of the family. The ancestor of the Linnell generations owned and improved a farm on the island. Rufus B. Linnell married Lucy Mellville. She was born in Oneida Co., N. Y., Feb. 10, 1807. They became the parents of eight children, and seven still survive.
The elder Linnell was a pioneer of Henry County , removing hither in 1844. The little household journeyed in wagons, or rather with a wagon and a buggy. The latter structure proved too frail for the business required of it and on its giving out the whole family proceeded on the route in the wagon. They had with them three good horses. The accident to the light wagon took place while they were in the State of Ohio . On their arrival the father exchanged a horse for a cooking-stove and ten bushels of corn. The location of their home was made on sections 1 of what was then designated township 17, and the farm was in a state of nature. The first business which engaged the attention of the new-comers was the preparation of a domicile in which to shelter themselves, and they proceeded to the erection of a log-house. They then gave their attention to clearing the land, and were occupied in that when the father was killed by the kick of a horse. After the death of his father, Mr. Linnell and an older brother assumed the management of the homestead, which they continued to conduct together some years. Mr. Linnell was married, Nov. 27, 1856, to Sarah G. Taylor. She was born in White Co., Ill. , and is the daughter of Merritt and Sarah (Hatchell) Taylor. The newly-married people took possession of a portion of the homestead situated on section 1, and which is now their property. They have had two children. Lucy A. is the wife of Thomas Cann and they live at Geneseo. Mary B. is the younger and lives with her parents.
1885 Portrait & Biographical Album of Henry Co., IL page 644
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