MARRIED AMID FLOWERS

                            A Wedding in Dayton With Many From Ottawa Present

The handsome residence of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Barnes, just across the line into Dayton township, was brilliantly illuminated and beautifully decorated Wednesday eve’g, the event being the marriage ceremony of Miss Carrie L. Barnes and Winfield S. Green, receiving clerk at the Illinois state penitentiary at Joliet. The large parlor, in which the ceremony took place, was decorated with smilax, ferns and sweet peas and carnations, and was crowded with the guests who were present to witness the ceremony. It was performed at 8:30, Rev. T. C. Matlack, of Joliet, chaplain of the penitentiary, officiating at the event. The groom was supported by S. M. Ahern, of Joliet, as best man, and the bridesmaids were Misses Kittie Shaver, Etta Barnes, Maud Pickens and Emma Barnes, with little Lucille Ribbs as flower girl. The bridal couple entered to the music of Mendelssohn’s wedding march, rendered by Miss Addie Warner, and during the ceremony Thomas’ mandolin orchestra rendered a very pretty wedding serenade.

After the ceremony and congratulations the guests were seated at a wedding dinner, which was one of the finest ever served in this vicinity, and afterwards dancing was the order until time for Mr. and Mrs. Green to take the train for their wedding tour, and the entire party went to the train with them, loading them down with rice and best wishes.

The bride’s costume was ivory satin, brocaded, and diamond ornaments. She carried bridal roses. The bridesmaid, Miss Kittie Shaver, wore white silk organdies over blue silk, and the other maids were all attired in white silk and carried pink and La France roses.

The presents were numerous and very beautiful. The Joliet associates of the groom sent down a very handsome one, and the others were all in keeping with it.

Those present were:

Messrs. and Mesdames John Channel, M. Masters, Breese, Dayton; Frank Lansing, Wedron: V. Canfield, Dayton; Dr. and Mrs. Lovejoy, Marseilles; C. G. Werner, Ella Sage, C. J. Metzger and Merrifield, Ottawa; John Bogert, Dayton, and W. Van Etten, Batavia.

Misses Addie Werner, Breese, Grace and Barbara Green, Myrtle, Sadie and Hattie Olmstead, Nettie Furr, Lena Bruner, Florence Pickens, Jennie and Lizzie Bogert, Fannie Bryan, Mary Ward, Della Masters and Nora Barnes.

Mesdames Laura Parr, M. E. Furr, Wm. Ribbs, John Barnes, A. Ladd, O. W. Trumbo, E. Rose, and Pitts, of Marseilles.

Messrs. Basil, Fred, W. R., Lyle, Joseph and Ralph Green, Ed McCleary, Rob Rhoades, Gus Kneusel, Louis Oleson, C. A. Dawell, H. G. Warner, James Green and Ed Rose, of Ottawa, and Captains W. A. Luke and L. P. Hall, Lieut. S. M. Ahern and W. L. Phillips, G. A. Miller and T. F. O’Malley, of Joliet.

1. Ottawa Republican-Times, August 19, 1897, p3

                                                                                         Helen                         Charles                               Mary
Charles Hoag and his two wives in the Dayton Cemetery

In the following sketch, the names in red are of those buried in the Dayton Cemetery

Charles H. Hoag was born May 18, 1821 in Delft, New York. He spent several years in Michigan, arriving there in 1845. In 1847, in St. Joseph county, Michigan, he married Helen M. Robinson , who was born in 1829 in New York. They came to La Salle county in 1849 and settled on a rented farm in Dayton township. They had five children:
1. infant (never named) – born abt 1848, died in infancy
2. infant (never named) – born abt 1849, died in infancy
3. Mary D., b 30 Jul 1850, d. 25 Jun 1901, m. to  Leonidas “Lee” Fread
4. Clara – b. 28 Jan 1854, d. 27 Aug 1919, m. 22 Mar 1871 to Albert Fread
5. William Walter – b. 28 Aug 1855, d. 12 Jun 1879, m. 18 Sep 1878 to Ida Brumley
Helen Robinson Hoag died September 13, 1856.

On 5 Nov 1857, Charles Hoag married Mary A. Wells, who was born in New York November 13, 1841. They had nine children:
6. Charles Lincoln, b. 25 Apr 1859, d. 30 Jul 1928, m. 20 Dec 1884 to Callie I. Brady
7. George R., b. abt 1862, d. 1894
8. Lillie M., b. 25 Dec 1863, d. 20 Mar 1940, m. 11 Jun 1891 to Walter Carter (divorced)
9. Cynthia, b. abt 1865, d. 1868
10. Cyrus W., b. 8 Apr 1867, d. 14 Oct 1889
11. Frank Logan, b. 14 Oct 1869, d. 14 Jul 1936
12. Alvin H., b. 19 Sep 1871, d. 13 Oct 1939
13. Adams W., b. Apr 1874, d. 4 Mar 1943, m. 1 Mar 1898 to Josephine Beckwith
14. Maud C., b. 22 May 1879, d. 29 Jan 1962, m. 22 Dec 1898 to Caplus B. Stockham
Mary Wells Hoag died October 26, 1891.

After four years of steady toil on the rented farm, Charles Hoag purchased a farm adjoining the town plat of Serena, where he spent the rest of his life. Being public-spirited he did his share toward the improvement of his home town. In politics he  was first a Whig and later entered the Republican ranks. He held many local offices of trust, including town and school offices.

Charles died September 2, 1904.

On July 24, 1886, ten year old Leendert Bogerd was herding cattle for Mr. Baker, just west of Dayton, allowing them to graze as they moved along. He climbed a tree and when a dead limb broke off, he fell upon the roots below, which struck him in the stomach. He was found by the members of a Sunday school class who were out on a picnic. He was seriously hurt and said that he wanted to see his mother for he was going to die. He died the next day and was buried in the Dayton Cemetery. He was described in the newspaper as the son of Mr. and Mrs. Austin Simpson, but Simpson was his stepfather, having married his widowed mother.

The boy’s parents, born in Zeeland, Netherlands, had immigrated to the United States in 1872. Pieter Boogerd married Stoffelina van den Houten March 23, 1872, in Ouwerkerk, Netherlands. They left for the United States that same year, coming to Dayton, where Pieter’s brother, Leendert, was already living . In Dayton they anglicized their names to Peter and Lena Bogerd.

Peter and Lena had three children: Cornelius, born in 1874; Leendert, born in 1876; and Peter, born in 1878. Peter, the father, died in 1878 and Lena and the three children were living in Dayton in 1880, next door to John and Jacoba Baker, another Dutch couple from Zeeland.

After Peter’s death Lena remarried, in 1881, to Austin Simpson, a coal miner and farmer from Dayton. When he retired they moved to Ottawa where Lena died in 1924.