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Note: There is so far no indication anyone from his line matches the Lime Group of Oliver men in the Oliver FTDNA group.
I add him only because some of there lived in IL.
Posted on Genforum by Cheryl Graham Abete on December 30, 2005, #5154. No source given.
http://genforum.genealogy.com/oliver/messages/5154.html
Joseph Oliver, who was a native of the Old Dominion, and was born on Christmas day, December 25,1794. He is descended from a long line of English ancestry, and his forefath ers were among the earliest to brave the perils and hardships incident to the early settlements of the colony of Virginia. His father, William Oliver, was a captain of a company of volunteers in the Revolutionary war, and participated in many of the campa igns and battles of that eventful struggle. The war over, he returned to the bosom of his family. He was the father of twelve children, three of whom were soldiers in the war of 1812: John, Richard, and Joseph. John and Richard, being the eldest, were the first to enlist, and Joseph, in making a trip to Norfolk, Virginia, with a drove of cattle, there met his two brothers, who persuaded him to enlist (although not of age, his father had given him permission to enlist if he wished to do so). He enliste d in the cavalry arm of the service, and furnished his own horse, saddle, bridle and blanket. The government furnished him the other implements of warfare. Captain Sanford was the commander of the company of which young Oliver was a member. He remained the service until peace was declared, and soon after started on his pilgrimage for the then western wilds. Arriving at Kaskaskia, he began the life of a peddler, and with a horse and wagon traveled over much of southern Illinois. He purchased his goods at Kaskaskia, and would make frequent trips to the surrounding counties, and generally with considerable profit to himself. He continued in this business until the summer after the capital was changed to Vandalia. He then settled in Fayette county, and was elected the first Sheriff of that county, an office he held until the county of Shelby was organized. He then resigned his position in Fayette county to accept the clerkship of Shelby county. It was in the spring of 1827 that he came to this county , and he was soon after qualified to fill the offices of county and circuit clerk, recorder and judge of probate. Mr. Oliver bought a "squatter's" improvement of Josiah Daniel, near the Shelbyville spring, which consisted of a small cabin and a few acres of cleared land. He bu ilt an addition of one room, and here opened up county business. The offices were kept here until the county erected their first courthouse, a log structure. His office fees at that time were not sufficient to support himself and family. He therefore o pened a subscription school, which he taught, using the courthouse for a schoolroom, and at the same time attending to his duties as a county official. Mr. Oliver was also the first postmaster in Shelby county. The post-office was also kept in the court- house; but as the mail was limited to letters only, he often carried the letters in his hat, and would hand them to whom addressed on meeting them in the little village. By the present generation that would be regarded as rather a primitive style of dist ributing the mails. Mr. Oliver also was the first merchant in the county in the early days, deriving his principal trade from the Indians, of whom he would buy skins, bees-wax, etc., and give them powder, lead, tobacco, groceries, goods, and other things , in exchange. In his domestic relations Mr. Oliver was happily situated. While a young man, he was united in marriage to Miss Eliza Barthrick, a Virginian by birth, and daughter of Daniel Barthrick, an early settler in Fayette county, Ill. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver had three children born to them: Benjamin, Mary Jane and Eliza. Mary Jane Oliver was the first white child born in the present limits or Shelbyville. Her birth occurred Feb. 3d, 1828. Mrs. Oliver died April 13th, 1834, and on the 31st of Decemb er, 1835, Mr. Oliver married Miss Sally Fearman, a native of Kentucky. They had three children, William, Margery A., and Joseph. Mrs. Oliver, at this writing, has been dead about six years. Uncle Joseph Oliver is still a resident of Shelbyville, and a t the advanced age of eighty-six years is quite feeble in health, but still able to walk out. Wonderful indeed have been the changes which he has witnessed in the last half century, having been a resident of Shelby county for fifty-four years. Her growt h and development he has watched with the greatest interest. But a few years of earth is left for this venerable gray-haired veteran, before he shall be numbered among those of the past. It is pleasing and gratifying to his friends to know that he has l ived a most honorable and upright life -- a life which has shed honors upon himself and the generation in which he lived. And now in his green old age he is loved and respected by all for his integrity and purity of life
1830 Illinois > Shelby > Precinct 1 > 1
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1840 Illinois > Shelby > Not Stated > 1
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