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Old Settlers Gather for Brimfield Jubilee 1906 in Peoria County
In Brimfield Illinois the seventeenth annual Old Settlers Association field day drew an estimated ten thousand attendees on a sunlit Thursday August 16 1906. Spencer's band opened events at the park followed by vocal music and a welcome by E C Pulsipher. Hon G O Barnes of Peoria gave the day’s oration and Alf Whetzel presented a veterans’ roll of honor listing many local residents with birth and death dates. The day featured a parade of amusements including an aeronautic ascent by Frank Hekhart, music by mixed and male quartets and a grandstand gathering of old settlers who traveled long distances to attend. The report closes with a long obituary list for Brimfield area residents who died since 1905.
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Old Settler’s Association Oebr
Spencer’s
Orider
E. C. Pulsipher
Spencer
M. P. Lackie Sand
Pulsipher
Brimfield
sMuaic
CO. N. Barnes
Péaris
Old Settlers
Alf Whetzel
Association
Tennery
Tler
Knox County
Talloon
Hagel
Peoria
Acronaut
Belog
Frank Hekhart
Exenidg
Pine Pacey
Elmwood
Helen Tucker
Mary Tucker
E. Yoakam
Olive Herlott
Addison Pacey
E.L. Brown
Judson Harding
Privoll
A. J. Hawkes
Ohio
Tiltools
Beary Chamberlain
Brimfield, Sr
John J. Harding
Bolton
Lancashire
England
Lizzie Aiken
Joseph Gelriog
Isle of Man
Agnes Bichford
Ireland
Herman Kehl
An Ete
Mie
Biter Ciilon
Ragland
Anes Z
Charles Yessy
Peoria i
Hits
Asary Letterman
Germany
Rosefield Township
Peoria County
Fergus Smith
West Virginia
Wm. Bale
Jubilee Township
Pedria County
Lil
James Madison Kelley
Col.Kelley
Maryland
Dll
Brimfield Township
Wilson Barnes
Newtown
Penn
John Endres
Baltimore
Shmaela
Thomas Crahan
County Galway
Lewis V. Hamilton
Brimfeld
Edward Walker
J. J. Pursell
Jane
Ohio County
West Va
Ill