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Ogle Family Historic Home and Barn at 42W352 Prairie Street, Sugar Grove, IL, built in 1893. Located on the Historic Gordon Family Farm Homestead.

Charles Ogle
BIRTH 21 Oct 1924
DEATH 18 Jan 2002 (aged 77)
Kane County, Illinois, USA
BURIAL
Sugar Grove Cemetery
Sugar Grove, Kane County, Illinois, USA
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77757505/charles-ogle

Helen Gordon…

Bliss House Museum with Bell from Sugar Grove Normal and Industrial School

Old Sugar Grove school bell finds new home at Bliss House

Published: Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2016 11:39 a.m. CST
By CHRIS WALKER - editorial@kcchronicle.com

SUGAR GROVE – The old Sugar Grove school bell finally has a new home. Originally located…

Will A. Johnson House, 263 Main Street, Sugar Grove, IL: Relocation (Part 1 of 5), 1997

263 Main Street, Sugar Grove, IL

The Will and Marie (Laycock) Johnson home at 263 Main Street was constructed in 1906 for Lydia Finley, who never lived in the house. It was initially the residence of farm employees of the Finley farm. It was…

Tags: 1997, IL, Johnson Family, Sugar Grove

William A. Johnson: Barn 1930s

Johnson Barn

Tags: 1930s, Barn, IL, Johnson Family, Sugar Grove

Will A. Johnson House, 263 Main Street: Relocation (Part 3 of 5)

Will A. Johnson House, 263 Main Street

The Will and Marie (Laycock) Johnson home at 263 Main Street was constructed in 1906 for Lydia Finley, who never lived in the house. It was initially the residence of farm employees of the Finley farm. It was…

Indian Motorcycle Business, Sugar Grove, IL

Indian Motorcycle Business located 264 Main Street, Sugar Grove, IL

Tags: Historic Commercial, IL, Indian Motorcycle Business, Sugar Grove

Greetings from Sugar Grove, IL, Main Street

Bliss Family Genealogy: Family Tree

Peley Young Bliss 1806-1888
married in 1842
Helen Louise Mather 1822-1914
had children
Janette Bliss 1844-1887 and Jedediah Harris 1849-1929

Jedediah Harris 1849-1929
married in 1889
Grace Ellen Carter 1869-1941
had Children
James Harris…

Bliss Family: Peleg Young Bliss, 46 years old, and daughter Janette, 8 years old. Circa 1852 or 1853.

Peleg Young Bliss (P.Y. Bliss)

Peleg Young Bliss was one of the earliest settlers and businessmen in Sugar Grove. He was born in 1806 in Vermont and passed away in Sugar Grove in 1888 at the age of 82.

As a young boy growing up at the age of…

Bliss Family: Helen Louise Mather Bliss (Mrs. P.Y. Bliss), 30 years old and Jedediah Harris Bliss, 3 years old. Circa 1852 or 1853.

Bliss Family: Jedediah (Jeddie) Harris Bliss, 16 years old. Circa 1865.

In 1891, Harry (as he was called in a newspaper article) moved the Bliss House across the road to build the 17-room house that now sits on the northwest corer of Bliss and Merrill Roads in Sugar Grove, Illinois.

Bliss Family: James Harris Bliss, 25 years old. Circa 1915.

James Harris Bliss was the last member of the Bliss Family to be born in the Big Bliss House located on the corner of Bliss and Merrill Roads in Sugar Grove.