The Daily Dispatch, Moline, Illinois, Monday, August 5, 1974
Silvis descendant dies; services will be Tuesday

Miss Marguerite A. Silvis, of Rock Island, one of the last decendants of the founder of the town of Silvis, died Sunday in Franciscan Hospital after a brief illness.
Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Wheelan Chapel, Rock Island, with the Rev. Donald Gibson of Broadway Presbyterian Church officiating. Burial will be in Hampton Cemetery.
Visitation is from 7 to 9 tonight.
Miss Silvis was born in Carbon Cliff. Her paternal grandfather was Thomas S. Silvis, for whom the town named. In addition he had been Rock Island County sheriff in 1886 and had owned the property where the Rock Island Railroad shops are now located.
Her maternal grandfather, E. W. Adams, was a descendant of John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of this country, and had owned Campbell's Island where he had farmed.
Miss Silvis had been office secretary at Schillinger & Cook Insurance Agency and had been receptionist at the Rock Island Historical Society.
Surviving are three cousins, Mrs. P. T. Crockett, and Keene Crockett, both of Moline, and Mrs. Margaret White Ball, Kirkland.

Submitted by Jean Taylor

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