THADEUS EAMES, the subject of this sketch, came to Henderson county an old man and is now ninety-four years of age, being the oldest man but one in the county. He is the son of Joseph and Mary (Rice) Eames, and was born in 1790, in Worcester county, Massachusetts

. His ancestry was English, having come over before the revolutionary war, in which his father fought as a private soldier. When he was about one year old his parents removed to Oneida county, New York, where he received his education in the common school.

In 1835 he emigrated to Henderson county, Illinois. Mr Eames was married on January 4, 1814, to Miss Orinda Cooper. To them were born five sons, of whom but one, Albert, is living. The eldest, Franklin, died of consumption in 1848 ; the second, Joseph, a grocer of Oquawka, died of cholera on a boat on the Mississippi coming home from St. Louis, where he had been buying goods ; the fourth son, Obadiah, of Red Wing, Minnesota, died in 1880, leaving to his family a very large estate ; the youngest son, 0. H. Perry, was also a victim of consumption.

In 1853, five years after the death of his first wife, Mr. Eames was married again to Mary Elizabeth Sumner. Mr. Eames began life with nothing ; he has now two beautiful farms of 320 acres each, on one of which he resides.

History of Mercer and Henderson Counties.

 

 

 

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