302 – Conrad Stormer Grave. Glendale Cemetery.
Peoria Landmark #302
Born March 13, 1838. Died 1913. Grave located in Glendale Cemetery. Washington, Il.
Ancestry.com:
1860 US Census, Washington, Tazewell County, IL, dated 06-06-1860. His age 22, works as a farmer, real estate valued at $600, personal estate valued at $300, born in Germany. Lives with wife Nancy, age 23, born in IL. Also with them is Susan Staples, age 15, born in IL, sister of wife Nancy.
1870 US Census, Washington, Tazewell County, IL, dated 06-20-1870. His age 31, works as a farmer, real estate valued at $3500, personal estate valued at $1500, born in Germany. Lives with him is wife Nancy, age 31, (born in IN) and children Flora, age 9, and Nelley, age 7 (both born in IL). Also living with them is an Eli Price, age 19, born in IL.
1880 US Census, Washington, Tazewell County, IL, dated 06-21-1880. His age 42, operates a saw mill, born in Nesse, parents born in Nesse (Germany). Lives with wife Nancy, age 42 (born in IL, parents born in Canada and IN), children Flora, age 19, Nellie, age 17, Wilde (unsure of name), age 9, Luther, age 7, and Sean (unsure of name), age 4, all born in IL.
1900 US Census, Washington Township, Tazewell County, IL, dated 06-12-1900. His age 62, dob 03-1838, married for 40 years, born in Germany, parents born in Germany, immigrated in 1846, in the US for 53 years, owns the farm on which he lives. Lives with wife Nancy (age 63, dob 03-1837, has given birth to 7 children, 5 of whom survive, born in IL, father born in Canada, mother born in IN), son Luther (age 26, single, dob 08-1873, born in IL, works as a farmer), daughter Nelli Barnaum (age 37, dob 05-1863, married for 17 years, no children, born in IL) and son-in-law Alvi Barnaum (age 40, dob 07-1859, married for 17 years, born in OH-NY-OH, traveling salesman). (Below them on the census is son Wilde, with his wife Carrie and son Harold.)
1910 US Census, Washington, Tazewell County, IL, dated 1910. His age 72, widowed, born in Germany, parents born in Germany, lives on own income. He is listed as grandfather and living with Claus (?) Hughes, his wife Pauline Hughes and their son Clark Hughes.
July 22nd, 2009 at 7:07 am
This is the C Stormer grave at Glendale Cemetery in Washington.
July 22nd, 2009 at 8:17 pm
You’re good. For such an elaborate and detailed monument, I can’t find a single thing about him.
July 23rd, 2009 at 3:24 pm
If this has any dates, birth/death, on it, or other relatives (wife, children, etc), I could probably find out lots on him. A quick look at my sources and there are about a dozen male “C Stormer” who lived in Tazewell County. There are about fifty or so Stormers currently living in the Tri-County area.
My hunch is that this is either Christian, Conrad or Casper Stormer.
July 23rd, 2009 at 3:50 pm
Inscription reads:
C.S.
Born March 13, 1838
Age 75, 1913.
July 23rd, 2009 at 7:55 pm
Bingo!
(read your e-mail)
July 24th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
TCGHS.org has a Casper Stormer listed as one of Washington Township’s pioneers. Maybe it’s him.
July 24th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
Just lucky- it’s down the street from our house, and we just happened to be on a stroll a few hours after I saw the post…I knew I’d seen it, just didn’t know where!
January 1st, 2010 at 4:40 pm
Here is Conrad Stormer’s obituary:
Washington News, Washington, IL, December 4, 1913, Page 1.
AN OBITUARY OF CONRAD STORMER
Conrad Stormer was born in the village of Hittenrath, Kries Frankenberg, Kuhr Hessian, Germany, March 13, 1838, and came to America with his parents when he was 3 years old. The ocean trip was made in a three-masted sail boat, and it took eight weeks and three days to make the journey. They landed at New Orleans about the middle of December, 1846. There they boarded a small steamboat, sailed up the Mississippi and Illinois rivers, landing in Peoria, Ill., at the foot of Main street between Chirstmas [sic] and New Years. They located in Holland’s Grove, near Washington, Ill. Mr. Stormer lived with his parents until February 14, 1860, when he was united in marriage to Miss Nancy J. Nolen of Washington township. They lived in Washington for twenty-three years, and then moved to Holland’s Grove where they made a home for themselves in the timber and resided for twenty-years. From there they moved to Peoria where on December 4, 1908, occurred the death of his wife.
Five children are left to mourn the death of their father: Mrs. M. C. Hughes and Wilda [sic] E. Stormer of Washington; Mrs. Nellie Barnum and Luther G. Stormer of Peoria; Dean A. Stormer of Tremont.
Mr. Stormer had been in failing health for some time past. In anticipation of his approaching end he had made detailed arrangements for that last hour. A few weeks before his death he wished to be taken to a hospital in Peoria. Last Friday morning, November 28, he passed away.
Funeral services were held from the home of his daughter Mrs. M. C. Hughes in this city last Sunday afternoon, November 30, conducted by Rev. J. L. Miller of the Methodist church, and the body was deposited in the awaiting vault in Glen Dale cemetery.
Mr. Stormer was a good representative of the sturdy German, with high standards of honesty, a large degree of independence of thought and an aversion to set forms and conventionalities, both in religion and in the social and industrial codes of the day. In his demise a strong personality is removed from our community.
“Lord of our life, God whom we fear,
Unknown, yet known, unseen, yet near;
Breath of our breath, in thee we live;
Life of our life, our prayer receive.”
The 1880 Federal Census has Hesse and not Nesse. The children are Flora, Nellie, Lilly May, Frank L., Wilde E.,
January 1st, 2010 at 4:45 pm
Sorry, I clicked the wrong thing and didn’t get the rest of the children posted.
The remaining children were Luther G. and Dean Austin. Flora was married to Morris Clark Hughes and he went by Maus as did their son.
Here is his wife’s obituary:
Washington Post, Washington, IL, Friday, December 11, 1908, Page 1.
Obituary of Mrs. Conrad Stormer.
Nancy Jane Nolan, wife of Conrad Stormer, was born near Ten Mile, March 17, 1837. She was married to Conrad Stormer in February 1860. Seven children were born to this union and two, a son and a daughter, died in infancy. Her home was in Washington until 1883 when the family moved to the farm 6 miles north west of town and remained there until four years ago when they moved to Peoria. Here on the morning of December 4, she fell sweetly to sleep, after a long and useful life.
The husband and five children are left to mourn: Mrs. M. C. Hughes and Wilda [sic] E. of Washington, Mrs. Alvi Barnum and Luther of Peoria and Dean of Tremont.
The funeral was held Sunday morning at 10 o’clock from the home in Peoria, the Methodist minister from Tremont officiating. The interment was in Glen Dale cemetery in this city. The funeral party drove over and reached here at 1:30. Rev. Pruen held short services at the grave.