Marilla CHURCHILL

Father: David CHURCHILL
Mother: Maria PARKER

Family 1: George Merritt KINYON

(1) Portrait & Biographical Album DeKalb County, Illinois 1885 via Ancestry.com, entry for George M. Kinyon: "George M. KINYON… By his first marriage, Nov. 12, 1848,... wedded Miss Marilla CHURCHILL, in Sycamore Township, this county." 
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 _David CHURCHILL_|
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Notes

Updated October 13, 2013. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) Portrait & Biographical Album DeKalb County, Illinois 1885 via Ancestry.com, entry for George M. Kinyon.

"George M. KINYON… By his first marriage, Nov. 12, 1848,... wedded Miss Marilla CHURCHILL, in Sycamore Township, this county. She was a daughter of David and Maria (PARKER) CHURCHILL, and died March 26 following, and now lies buried near the Baptist church in Ohio Grove Cemetery. She was not taken up and buried 'under her mother's window,' as Boies' history says, but was taken to St. Charles and brought back. There was a second funeral, when she was buried in the same coffin, with the exception of a new lid, in the same grave. Her father was drowned in 1854, in Virgin Bay, on his way home from California, and her mother is still living in Iowa, the wife of Mr. Armstrong."

(2) Boies, Henry L.. History of DeKalb County, Illinois. Chicago: O.P. Bassett, printer, 1868.

- Chapter VII, "The Resurrectionists" includes a chilling account of grave robbers who procured bodies for a nearby medical school between 1847-1849. George KINYON's first wife, Marilla CHURCHILL, who had recently passed away was one of the bodies snatched. Her body was recovered after a mob descended on the school causing significant damage to the perpetrators and to their property.

(3) Our Pioneering Families, Genealogies of Whitney, Groathouse and Lignitz, researched and compiled by Vivian Gail Morrow Wade, Dec. 1986, first edition. Self-published manuscript available at DAR Library, Washington DC. Page 89.