This will be of particular interest to those of you related to Don through his father, Donald Eugene Cue. We are celebrating the anniversary of Don’s 3rd great-grandparents ; John Cue, Sr. married Effie Reese on 29 Mar 1827 in Clinton County, Ohio. In honor of their wedding 195 years ago, raise a toast today to Don’s 3rd great-parents: John and Effie!
John was born 11 Jun 1803 in Pennsylvania and moved to Clinton County with his father, William “Billy” McCue/Cue and family before 1810. The Cue family was extensive; his father Billy had at least two wives and sixteen children. Some family stories claim three wives and twenty-two children! John was the oldest known child of Billy and his wife, Rachel Bessie Gallaher (her name is not verified). Effie was born in Ohio but the identity of her parents is a still a question.
After John and Effie married in Ohio, they moved to Illinois sometime around 1831. John and Effie were in Tazewell County, Illinois for over 12 years and then continued west and arrived in Linn County, Iowa sometime before the birth of their eleventh of their thirteen children in 1844. Many other members of the Cue family, including John’s father Billy and Billy’s second (or third?) wife and children, also moved to Illinois and then Iowa. Iowa became a state in 1846; the Cues were in Iowa prior to statehood!
John was a farmer and a leader in the new community. He was a Justice of the Peace that performed weddings in Linn County from 1847 to at least 1854. He was also considered to be a “Suitable Person to be a Postmaster” for Hollenback in 1848; a rousing endorsement of his character. Hollenback no longer exists but is believed to be where the town of Palo is today. According to their grave site at Dickenson Cemetery near Palo in Linn County, Effie died on the 20th of June in 1884 at the age of 76. John lived to be 92 years old and died in 1895.
First posted in Facebook – Related to Renee, 29 March 2022