A Whole Lotta Family - Person Sheet
A Whole Lotta Family - Person Sheet
NameRev Miles H “Old Jolly” Hart 
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173Birth24 Jul 1796, North Carolina11
Death17 Feb 1855, Coles Co, llinois11 Age: 58
Occupationfarmer13
FatherThomas “Uncle Tommy” Hart (1760-1830)
MotherMary Herald (1764-1855)
Spouses
Birth14 Mar 1804, Nelson Co, Kentucky11
Death12 Nov 1872, Coles Co, llinois11 Age: 68
BurialDry Grove Cemetery, Paradise Twp, Coles Co, llinois395
FatherJacob Yocom (1767-1850)
MotherMaria Eve Ambrose (1776-1857)
ChildrenWilliam King (1818-1874)
Thomas W (1824-1880)
Elizabeth Ann (1826-1890)
Joseph B (1828-1874)
Mary Herald (1832-1907)
Ambrose Yocum (1834-1895)
Notes for Rev Miles H “Old Jolly” Hart
From History of Coles County 1879. Unigraphic 1966. This is a reprint of the 1879 History of Coles County Illinois. There are a variety of biographical sketches and tax lists for Coles county.
Paradise Township
In the fall of 1826, the Hart families came from Hardin Co., KY to Wayne Co., IL, with a view to settling there. In the winter of 1826-27, Miles H., Moses and Thomas Hart, Jr., left Wayne Co. and came north. On reaching that portion of the Little Wabash timber now included in Paradise Township, they determined to locate. Moses and Thomas, both single me, remained, and, during the winter, constructed a cabin. Daniel Drake, from Tennessee, was found to be living about four miles west on the bank of the Little Wabash.
Paradise Village: The village was surveyed and platted by Joseph Fowler for Miles W. Hart and Clemme Goar, in the spring of 1837. In order to procure the erection of a steam-mill at this point on the Little Wabash, Thomas Brinegar and David Moore had made to Hart and Goar a donation of forty acres of land, and on a portion of this, adjacent to the mill-site, the town plot was laid. James T. Cunningham was at that time a member of the Legislature at Vandalia and he named the village Paradise.
Etna: Located seven miles southwest of Mattoon, the village was surveyed and platted by James Richards, County Surveyor, on land belonging to Daniel R. Bland and Richard Sayer, in March 1860.13
Paradise Township
In the fall of 1826, the Hart families came from Hardin Co., KY to Wayne Co., IL, with a view to settling there. In the winter of 1826-27, Miles H., Moses and Thomas Hart, Jr., left Wayne Co. and came north. On reaching that portion of the Little Wabash timber now included in Paradise Township, they determined to locate. Moses and Thomas, both single me, remained, and, during the winter, constructed a cabin. Daniel Drake, from Tennessee, was found to be living about four miles west on the bank of the Little Wabash.
Paradise Village: The village was surveyed and platted by Joseph Fowler for Miles W. Hart and Clemme Goar, in the spring of 1837. In order to procure the erection of a steam-mill at this point on the Little Wabash, Thomas Brinegar and David Moore had made to Hart and Goar a donation of forty acres of land, and on a portion of this, adjacent to the mill-site, the town plot was laid. James T. Cunningham was at that time a member of the Legislature at Vandalia and he named the village Paradise.
Etna: Located seven miles southwest of Mattoon, the village was surveyed and platted by James Richards, County Surveyor, on land belonging to Daniel R. Bland and Richard Sayer, in March 1860.13