Eliza (Thornton) Reno
Obitutary
The
Rushville Times Newspaper, October 14,
1909, Rushville, Illinois
Death of
Schuyler Pioneer.
Mrs. Louisa
Thornton Reno had lived in Schuyler County
eighty years.
Mrs. Louisa
Thornton Reno, Schuyler county�s oldest
resident, died at the home of her son,
Benjamin F. Reno, in Browning township, on
Sunday evening, aged 96 years, 9 months
and 7 days.
Mrs. Reno was a
native of North Carolina, and came to
Schuyler county with her parents in 1829,
and they were among the first settlers of
Browning township, which was to be her
home for nearly eighty years.
In 1838 Louisa
Thornton was united in marriage to
Jonathan Reno, son of a pioneer of the
same name, who had come to Schuyler in
1825. Their marriage was solemnized
in Browning township, and here the greater
portion of their lives was spent, as they
returned to Schuyler in 1843 after
spending one year in Iowa on what was then
the frontier of our western civilization.
Mr. Reno died on the old homestead farm in
1884, and since then his widow has made
her home with her son, Benj. F. Reno, who
purchased the old home place.
Tho she lived
to a remarkable old age, Mrs. Reno was
ever possessed of an unusually active mind
and she retained her faculties to the end
of her long, useful and beautiful life.
Her memory was clear of the early pioneer
days and her friends delighted in her
stories of the log cabin and tallow dip
days and especially of the winter of 1830,
known as the winter of the big snow.
Almost incredible seem the experiences of
the people who were making that early
history, and the discouragements they
encountered and obstacles they overcame
pronounce them people of more than
ordinary purposes and determination.
Mrs. Reno recalled the wigwam of the
Indians and her many experiences with
them, although for the most part they at
that time had moved to other hunting
grounds, returning, however, occasionally
to the former place of their abode.
The Rushville
Times Newspaper, Rushville, Schuyler
County, Illinois, c/o Schuyler Co. Jail
Museum, 200 S. Congress Street, Rushville,
IL 62681; 217-322-6975.
Submitted by Marcine
Lohman
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