Descendants of Aquilla Sandusky
*Contributed by Patrick Anderson.  Thanks, Pat!

Additions/Corrections welcomed! 

Generation No. 1

1.  Aquilla6 Sandusky  (Jacob5, Samuel4 Sadowski, Andrew3, Antoni2, Marcin1) was born December 22,
1815 in Washington County, Kentucky, and died May 13, 1883 in Hamilton County, Illinois.  He married Matilda Wethington November 11, 1838 in Casey County, Kentucky, daughter of Joseph Wethington and Nancy Speake.  She was born Abt. 1816 in Adair County, Kentucky, and died Aft. 1883 in Hamilton County, Illinois.

Notes for Aquilla Sandusky
1840 Census Adair County, KY - Aquilla Sandusky listed adjacent Joseph Wethington
Aquila purchases land in Taylor County (deed found but not recorded)

1850 Census Taylor County, KY ; page 169 dwelling 292 family 292 - 22 Aug 1850

                    Acquilla Sandusky   34 M farmer $345 KY
 Matilda                   35 F
 N. E.                      10 F
 Elmore                     7 M
 W. H.                      4 M
 A. E.                       2 F

Taylor County Tax Rolls
1850    115 Robinson Creek
1851    115 Robinson Creek 1wm 2h gold watch 2 chi 5-; value under equalization law 1000
                                      total value 4190
1852    100 T Fallow 1wm 2h 4c 15hg ; 3 chi 5-16 ; value under equalization law 150 ; 
                                       total value 540
1853    95  Robinson 1wm 3h 5c 14hg ; 3 chi 6-18 ; value at .17 420
1854    95  Robinson 1wm 3h 5c 16hg ; ,4 chi 6-18 ; value at .17 535
1855    95  Robinson 1wm 3h 5c 15hg ; 4 chi 6-18 ; value at .17 630
1856    96  Robinson 1wm 3h 7c 12hg ; 4 chi 6-18 ; value at .17 920
1857    95  Robinson 1wm 4h 7c 23hg ; 4 chi 6-18 ; value at .20 1235                     

 In 1857-1860 Aquilla executed a number of deeds throughout Adair, Casey and Taylor Counties settling the estates of his and his wife's families and used the money to move to Knight's Prairie, Hamilton County, Illinois.  This was possibly due to opposition to the policy of slavery as his brother Levi was a staunch abolitionist and moved at or about this time to Missouri for this reason.

1860 census Hamilton County Illinois Knights Prairie Town 5s, Range 5e page 98, Dwelling 638, Family 638 date 18 July 1860:
Acquil SANDUSKY   44 M Farmer $2,000 land $800 personal KY
Matilda                       44 F KY
Nancy E.                    18 F KY
Joseph E.                    17 M KY
William H.                   14 M MY
Anna E.                      12 F KY
Louisa                          7 F KY
Franklin                        3 M KY

                    Probate Records Hamilton County, Illinois
                    Box 39 File 14 ; May 26, 1883 - John Barnett served as executor

                    Aquilla is buried in Ten Mile Cemetery west of McLeansboro, Illinois in the center of the north 
                    section towards the woods.  His great grand daughter believes that his wife Matilda is buried there 
                    and says that a stone marked her in the past but in 1998 there were no markings for Matilda.

                    Obituary 17 May 1883 in Times also 16 May Leader and 17 May Golden Era

Notes for Matilda Wethington:
Matilda survived her husband but despite a personal search of the courthouse records I was unable to 
determine her date of death or burial place.  Dinner with an elderly cousin revived the memory that                   she was buried adjacent her husband and that there was a supplementary stone adjacent his monument to that effect at sometime early in this century, but examination of the site today revealed no evidence of her marker.  
The cemetery plat in the county office indicated only that she was the purchaser of her husbands lot and so it seems logical that she is buried there.

Matilda was raised a Catholic but her husband was not, nor were the children raised Catholic.  It is possible that after her husbands death she returned to the folds of the Catholic Church so alternatively I need to check the cemetery at Piopolis, Hamilton County to see if she is buried there.

More About Aquilla Sandusky and Matilda Wethington:
Marriage: November 11, 1838, Casey County, Kentucky

Children of Aquilla Sandusky and Matilda Wethington are:

                        i.  Nancy Ellen7 Sandusky, born October 05, 1839 in Casey County, Kentucky; died February 
                            13, 1929 in McLeansboro, Hamilton County, Illinois.  She married John Trap Barnett August 20, 
                            1863 in Hamilton County, Illinois; born March 14, 1838 in White County, Tennessee; died 
                            February 10, 1906 in McLeansboro, Hamilton County, Illinois.

                            Notes for Nancy Ellen Sandusky:
                            Buried in Oddfellows Cem., McLeansboro, Illinois east of town on Route 14.

                            Obituary 21 Feb 1929 in the Times.

                            Notes for John Trap Barnett:

                            Obituaries 15 Feb. 1906 "Leader"; 15 Mar 1906 "Times" .
                            Buried in Oddfellows Cem., McLeansboro, Illinois east of town on Route 14.
                            He lived in Texas 1858-1860 but returned to IL to fight for the north in CW
                            2nd Lt/Lt Co. K, 110 IL Inf. 1862

                            More About John Barnett and Nancy Sandusky:
                            Marriage: August 20, 1863, Hamilton County, Illinois

                        ii. Joseph Elmore Sandusky, born November 04, 1842 in Casey County,
                            Kentucky; died January 01, 1938 in Hamilton County, Illinois.  He married
                            Mary Elizabeth Bennett March 02, 1865 in Hamilton County, Illinois; born
                            October 26, 1849 in Tennessee; died October 07, 1935 in Hamilton County,
                            Illinois.

                            Notes for Joseph Elmore Sandusky:
                            He is buried in Ten Mile Cemetery west of McLeansboro, Illinois
                            Article 01 Nov 1934 Times-Leader /Article 02 Mar 1925 Times
                            Obituary 06 Jan 1938 in the Times-Leader

                            Notes for Mary Elizabeth Bennett:
                            Buried in Ten Mile Cemetery west of McLeansboro, Illinois

                             More About Joseph Sandusky and Mary Bennett:
                            Marriage: March 02, 1865, Hamilton County, Illinois

                     iii.    William H. Sandusky, born 1846 in Casey County, Kentucky; died Bef. 1934.  He married 
                            Charlotte Sneed February 08, 1866 in Hamilton County, Illinois.

                            More About William H. Sandusky:
                            Living: 1929, Oklahoma

                            More About William Sandusky and Charlotte Sneed:
                            Marriage: February 08, 1866, Hamilton County, Illinois

                       iv. Anne Elizabeth Sandusky, born October 05, 1848 in Casey County, Kentucky; died October 
                            24, 1937 in ?Detroit, Michigan.  She married Napolean Sneed September 17, 1868 in Hamilton
                            County, Illinois; born December 15, 1849 in Knights Prarie, Hamilton County, Illinois; died         
                            March 11, 1905 in Hamilton County, Illinois.

                            Notes for Anne Elizabeth Sandusky:
                            Obituary 28 Oct 1937 in the Times-Leader

                            More About Napolean Sneed and Anne Sandusky:
                            Marriage: September 17, 1868, Hamilton County, Illinois

                        v.  Louisa Sandusky, born July 15, 1852 in Casey County, Kentucky;
                            died May 24, 1934 in Hamilton County, Illinois.  She married Warner Pleasant
                            Anderson (Source: Flossie Gibbs Anderson, "John Anderson 1780-1873 and
                            Morning Maulding 1784-1846," McLeansboro, Hamilton County, Illinois; 1975.)
                            October 25, 1874 in Hamilton County, Illinois (Source: etal, Anderson Family
                            Bible of Edmund Anderson,  (Given to the McLeansboro, Illinois Historical
                            Museum).); born July 23, 1842 in Hamilton County, Illinois (Source: etal,
                            Anderson Family Bible of Edmund Anderson,  (Given to the McLeansboro, Illinois Historical    
                            Museum).); died April 16, 1927 in Hamilton County, Illinois.

                             More About Louisa Sandusky:
                            Burial: I.O.O.F., McLeansboro, Hamilton County, Illinois
                            Obituary: May 31, 1934, "Times-Leader", Hamilton County, Illinois

                            Notes for Warner Pleasant Anderson:
                            Warner Pleasant Anderson enrolled in the 87th Illinois Infantry at the outbreak of the Civil 
                            War.  He was sergeant and then later Lieutenant of A Company that was commanded by 
                            Captain John T. Anderson his brother.

                            Details of some of the action of this outfit can be found in the letters and diary of McAllester 
                            Hooker, private in A. Co. whose daughter, Amy Hooker would later marry Warner's son, 
                            Chester Anderson

                            1880 Hamilton County census - 585/585:
                            Anderson, Warner P.    W M 37         Farmer
                            Louisa                          W F 27    wife  keeping house
                            Chester C.                    W M 5  son  
                            Mollie E.                       W F 1   dau
                            2 farm laborers

                           Warner is buried in IOOF Cem., McLeansboro, Illinois east of town on Route 14.  He is to 
                           the right of the lane that is the second entrance to the cemetery from the west, about halfway to 
                           the back, 3 rows in marked with a large pink granite stone labeled "Anderson" in a family group 
                           with his wife and two daughters.

                           Obituary 21 April 1927 in the Times.

                        Click here to view the Will of Warner P. Anderson.

                          More About Warner Anderson and Louisa Sandusky:
                          Marriage: October 25, 1874, Hamilton County, Illinois (Source: etal, Anderson
                          Family Bible of Edmund Anderson,  (Given to the McLeansboro, Illinois Historical Museum).)

                     vi. David Franklin Sandusky, born May 19, 1857 in Taylor County, Kentucky; died December 03, 
                         1947 in Hamilton County, Illinois.  He married Ella Ward 1882; born August 1861 in Kentucky; 
                         died 1902 in Hamilton County, Illinois.

                         Notes for David Franklin Sandusky:

                         1900 Hamilton County Illinois Census:
                         Sandusky, David F. - H W M 5/57  43 M 18       KY KY KY Farmer
                                         Ella           W W F 6/61  38 M 19 9 9  KY KY KY
                                         Annie M.   D W F 9/83  16 S             IL KY KY
                                         Silas          S W M 2/85  15 S             IL KY KY
                                         Thurman    S W M 11/86 13 S            IL KY KY
                                         Myrtle       D W F 2/88    12 S            IL KY KY
                                         Ray           S W M 9/92    7  S            IL KY KY
                                         Aquillar     S W M 12/93  6  S             IL KY KY
                                         Easter       D W F 1/96    4   S            IL KY KY
                                         Clarence   S W M 12/98  2  S             IL KY KY
                                         Lillie         D W F 12/99 6/12 S           IL KY KY

                        David is buried in Ten Mile Cemetery west of McLeansboro, Illinois
                        Obituary 11 Dec 1947 in the Times-Leader.

                        Notes for Ella Ward:
                        Buried in Ten Mile Cemetery west of McLeansboro, Illinois

                        More About David Sandusky and Ella Ward:
                        Marriage: 1882

              vii.    Mary Sandusky, born 1862 in Taylor County, Kentucky; died April 12, 1945 in Rector, Arkansas.  
                       She married Howard Allen 1882; born June 17, 1860 in Hamilton County, Illinois; died February 27, 
                       1920 in Rector, Arkansas.

                        Notes for Mary Sandusky:
                       Obituary 19 Apr 1945 in the Times-Leader

                        More About Howard Allen and Mary Sandusky:
                       Marriage: 1882

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