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................... 2a-2 Martha J. Lanton Lantrum? 1846 - I still do not know where she went, married or where she died.
........ *2nd Wife of Henry Lantern Lantron Lantern Lantrum:
............ +Lucretia Collins m: 1851 in rutherford co TN Father: Elisha Jerry Collins Mother:
I have not located Henry and his wife Lucretia. It might help in proving or disproving if this line is actaully mine could I locate him or them and or their possible children. I have been told in my family history that there were links to MS. No one said how or where in MS.
................... 3 Lantern
1860 Rutherford County Tn Census Image

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........ 2 Thomas Lantern Lanton LANTRON 1809 - d: in Carmi, Saline Co, IL
............ +Charlotte Collins 1825 - Father: Mother:
................... 3 George M. Lanton? Lantern? 1843 - d: ? moved to Carmi ca 1910?
....................... +Martha Booth d: in Missouri?
Email Richard Drue for more info on this line
m: in white co IL Father: Mother:
................... 3 Lucinda A. Lantern? 1845 -
................... 3 John Lantern? 1846 -
STILL SEARCHING FOR THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN OF JOSEPH LANTERN OF HALIFAX CO VA ALSO AND THEIR DESCENDENTS. PLEASE CONTACT ME IF YOU KNOW WHERE THEY ARE! THANKS MUCH
........ 2 Lewis Lantern? ca 1810 -
............ +Louraney Archer m: February 05, 1842 in wilson co tn Father: Mother: Information from Linda Wright after doing first hand wilson co research found that this marriage was not completed after being filed and 2 yrs later Lourany was marrying another ARCHER..DID Lewis and Lourany marry? Were there children? Did he die?
........2 Elizabeth Lantern Abt 1801-
Married James Poe of Wilson Co TN
See Sherrod Bryant of MIDDLE TENNESSEE site on ancestry.com for more on this line
........ 2 Joseph Lantern? ca 1800 -
........ 2 Jesse Lantern? ca 1800 -
........ 2 Lucy Lantern? 1810
............ +Moses B.Blackwell 1811 m: approx 1837 Father: Mother: Children and family's ages listed on 1860 wilson co tn census
Children of Moses and Lucy.......Martha b 1839, Thomas b 1848, Charlotte b 1851
The following information and outline is of my Joseph Lantrum, that is certain. Everything above is still questionable as I've still not located Henry after 1850 nor have I found any will or administration papers for him or any other clue as to his whereabouts and his family. I do feel however, that the above information and family is connected to our Joseph Lantrum line below. Any leads on any Joseph or Henry Lantrum/Lantron/Lanton/Lantern or Lanter lines greatly appreciated. Family folklore has it that this line is somehow linked to Mississippi. The family seems to have gone in all directions and the spellings of Devault and Lantern have varied so greatly that it's been difficult to find anything further on this line. Anything remotely close or similar in anyones findings will be appreciatively accepted.
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Same family as above who is listed as mulatto. Cenus doesn't indicate if they are indian until 1880.
The above Thomas married Charlotte COLLINS. The women were likely sisters and this is probably how Henry above met his wife Lucretia COLLINS, when living with his brother Thomas on 1850 census.
1860 Rutherford Co TN
Thomas LANTERN 53
Charlotte Lantern 34
G.M. Lantern m 17
L.A. Lantern f 15
J.T. Lantern m 12
W.K.Lantern m 8
all listed as free persons of color.
1860 TN Census -Joseph Willard Lantrum or any similar such spelling of the surname has not been located. I did however, locate a Joseph Lawton/Laxton next door to a much older Lewis Lantern, also 2 doors down or across the farm was a Jesse SAXTON born 1798, Could this be Henry's brothers, Lewis and Jesse, mentioned in the will of Joseph LANTERN; the bdates are quite possibly the same as these
Joseph was never found in Rutherford County OR Williamson co TN in 1860. Could he have been in Jackson County TN all along. Also, there was mention of Joseph b. 1842 living in Jackson TN when he was young, on the pension affidavit from the civil war.
Joseph didn't join the union army until August 1862, Mustered in Sept 1862 Chicago, Oak County, IL. So where was he in 1860? I know he married on Dec. 9, 1865 in Nashville, TN according to pension records. No record of marriage exists he stated in pension, so this is all the proof of Joseph and Sarah Grimes marriage that I have and the fact that they were together until death. According to Muster Record, he was discharged June 9, 1865. Came home, married his girl a few months later and by 1870 was in IL.
Below is the Jackson County TN census mentioned above
P078-26 WILLIAMS -Dist. #8, * ,PO Buck Point, Jackson Co., Tenn., June29, 1860- 538/ 538
James 78 M W Farmer 1000 543 Va W
Joseph LAXTON 20 M W Day Laborer Tn
*LAXTON
Joseph 20 M W
P078-28 McCERLEY -Dist. #8, * ,PO Buck Point, Jackson Co., Tenn., June
29, 1860- 539/ 539>
William B. 21 M W Farmer 50 Tn
Milla 22 F W Tn
John 2 M W Tn
Elender 1 F W Tn
P078-32 SAXTON -Dist. #8, * ,PO Buck Point, Jackson Co., Tenn., June
29, 1860- 540/ 540
Jessee 62 M W Farmer & Batchlor 400 600 NC
Sarah 50 F W Old Maid NC
1860 TN census- Henry not found
1870 TN Census-Have not found Henry and Lucretia yet
1870 Williamson Co TN
Joseph Lantron 27 (born 1843) M W Farm laborer
Sarah Lantron 24 f W keeping house
(formerly Sarah Grymes, daughter of Jesse Grymes of Nashville TN. THis information given in Sarah's obituary. Also on her death certificate, it states her father, Jessie Grymes was from NC and again, on one of the census I found her on, her parents were born NC, so apparently moved to Nashville from NC or caught in boundary change but may have happened alot earlier date.
1880 Union County IL located Joseph and Sarah LANTRUM as
Joseph LANDRUN age 37 male white b tn
Sarah LANDRUN age 27 female white b tn
1900 Paducka City, McCracken County KY
Joseph 57 and Sarah E. 54 LANTMAN family,
son Joseph W. 21,
daughter Jessie 12
Joseph and Sarah's son..... not sure why Joseph and Sarah went to Paducah but they wern't there too long, I now Joseph and his wife Edith's, first child Cecile, was born in 1903 DuQoin Perry Co IL which is the county right next to Jackson Co IL........ where Joseph and Sarah were located in 1910
1910 Jackson co IL Carbondale City Ward 1 located Joseph and Sarah as
Joseph Lantruw Lantrum
Sarah Lantruw Lantrum Wife
Jessie Huffman daughter
Who was her husband, she was remarried by 1920 no record of marriages
1910 Marion Williamson Co IL
Joseph the son and Wife Edith and kids Mildred A, (Edith Winegarner daughter) (also had another daughter before she married Joseph, named Matilda both girls adopted out)Cecile E, Joseph M and Elizabeth Madgelean
1920 Minonk Woodford Co IL
Joseph and wife Sarah
1920
The Lantrum's of Middle TN
1..........Joseph Willard LANTRUM born February 3, 1842 West TN, Rutherford Co
Died February 11, 1922, Minonk, IL Interment at Minonk Cemetery buried on Feb 13th 1922. Joseph's obituary stated that they went to Evansville IN, posey co, for a short time before settling in IL.
Minonk Cemetery, Woodford IL
Joseph married
Sarah Elizabeth GRIMES
Robertson Co, Nashville TN on December 9, 1865. She was born October 20 1844, Died May 18, 1937. She is the daughter of Jesse GRIMES of Nashville TN, previously of NC
I have not found siblings for Joseph, the family knows of none nor can I locate his father on census records in Tn, AL, GA, or MS thus far since the Henry and Joseph of RUtherford co TN and possible sister Martha J...... Still searching.
Joseph Lantrum served in the 82nd IL Infantry under the alias of PETER KOLB, listed below, to help protect himself from bushwhackers as stated on his pension files. The Eighty-second Illinois Infantry was a civil war unit composed mainly of German, Jewish and Scandinavian members. These volunteers were mainly from the Chicago area. The history of the unit includes such battles as Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Orchard Knob, Resaca, New Hope Church, operations around Atlanta, and Sherman's "March to the Sea"
Recently I received Joseph's Military record of the Civil War. It stated that Joseph was 5'4", dark hair, dark complexion and grey eyes, Laborer, single.
By 1870, Joseph is married to Sara. They are listed in Williamson Co Tn, Joseph is a farm laborer, age 27.
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This document was indexed under the name LANTRY and with his alias name, much confusion and took a while to find this information
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..2.......... Sophrano Jane Lantrum
B.unknown died in infancy
..2 ........ Jesse Lantrum(female)
............ +Fred J. Schramm
..2........ Male Child Lantrum, Died in infancy
Census 1920

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and 1930 Williamson co IL

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2................Joseph Walter "Joe" LANTHRUM
b.May 27 1883, lived at Marion and Carbondale,IL to Cairo IL where he was the proprieter of East Side Market,he also lived in LA and in Hillsboro IL, son of Joseph Willard Lantern/Lanton/Landrun/Lantman/Lantrum.
(Note the spelling is now with an added "h" in Lantrum. It has been said that grandmother Edith added this to stop the confusion in the mail deliveries since her husband and father in law had the same name and the same initials.
+m. 12 Jun 1902
Myrtle Edith WINEGARNER
b. 31 Dec 1876 in Centralia, IL
d. 5 Nov 1953
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Photo compliments of Dennis LanthrumTaken about 1928
Back-- Joseph Walter, Edith (Winegarner) Lanthrum
Front--- Cecile, Mitch, Jack , Madge , Patrick
Children of Joseph and Edith Winegarner Lanthrum:
3......... Jesse Jack Lanthrum b: February 01, 1920
............ +Helen Faye Etheridge m: December 27, 1947 in Oakdale, LA
................... 4....... Tim Walter Lanthrum b: October 08, 1948
3........... Patrick Nathan Lanthrum was born 8-15-1910 died 7-23-1978.
Married Victoria Knapp 2-19-1939 in Taylorville, IL.
born 12-7-1914 in Minonk, IL Died Nov. 23, 2006.
Children of Patrick and Victoria are:
4.....Patricia b. 10-15-1940 d. July 20, 2007 married Robert Fuehne
4.....John Michael (Mike) b. 12-16-1944
4.....Dennis b. April 5, 1952
4.....Joseph Terry b. 9-3-1949 married Linda Kay Anderson.
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Son of Terry and Linda is:
5........ ..Nathan Patrick Lanthrum---born 2-5-1980 married on Aug. 30,2008 to Nina Jones of
Sugar Grove, IL.
5...........Andrew Joseph Lanthrum---born 8-23-1982
3....... Joseph Mitchell Lanthrum b.1-5-1906 in Carbondale, IL. married Altha Lillian Watson in 1926
children of Mitch and Altha are:
4...... Shirley Lee born 8-24-1927 Died 1993/4
Married Donald Mitchell 1953(?) Died 1992
Children of Shirley and Donald Mitchell are:
5 ............. Cathy Lee Mitchell
married John Morvich
5.......... Bradley Mitchell born Unknown married Unknown
They had 2 sons
4....... Joseph "Joe" Richard "Dick" born 6-10-1931 Married Sue Channon 12/8/51 in West Frankfort IL divorced 1983 Portland OR.
children of Joseph and Sue are:
5................ Joseph Gary born 9/6/52 at Fort Bragg NC
5................ Melissa Lanthrum born 5/21/60 in Heidleberg Germany
married Paul Reimer
6.................... Andrew Richard born 6/4/63 in Benton IL. marrried on June 28, 1997 in Bakersfield, California.
to Carolyn Diane Brazier [born November 29, 1958 in Northridge, California]
4......... 2nd wife of Joseph Richard Lanthrum
Mary Christine Bird
married 5/1/89, Portland OR
3 ........ Magdalean "Madge" Lanthrum born 1-30-1908, in Carbondale, IL
married Joseph Leslie Boatwright
children of Madge and joe are:
4............... Betty Boatwright
4 ................ Patty Joe Boatwright
3 ...................... Joe Jr Lanthrum
3...... Cecelia Irwin/Erwin Lanthrum b: July 26, 1903 in DuQoin,Perry Co, IL d: July 29, 1990 in Warner Robins, GA, Interment Magnolia Hill Cemetery, WR GA
............ married (1) Johnny Gilbert George about 1921, probably in Marion IL
Children of this union were
Johnny Joe George and Mabel Louise George
Photo of Cecelia (Cecile) E/Irwin Lanthrum approx age 14
........ *2nd Husband of Cecile Lanthrum :
Virgil Thomas Upshaw b: September 24, 1908 in crossville, IL d: August 19, 1985 in Warner Robins, GA, Interment Magnolia Hill Cemetery, WR GA
Children of Cecile and Virgil are:
Carlos Albert, Thomas Patrick, Cecile Eugene,Virgil Merlin, Rosalee Darling, Michael Jack, Upshaw Real Estate Bryan Joseph,
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