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Benjamin George McCannon
BIRTH 9 Sep 1886
Sugar Grove, Kane County, Illinois, USA
DEATH 28 Jul 1971 (aged 84)
Sugar Grove, Kane County, Illinois, USA
BURIAL
Jericho Cemetery
Sugar Grove, Kane County, Illinois, USA

SUGAR GROVE NATIVE DIES…

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Aurora Beacon News, April 4 1970

MCCANNONS OF SUGAR GROVE
by Trudy Morrison

For many people, Sugar Grove is a dot on a map or merely a name. But for the McCannon family, it's been home for several…

Reprinted Photo 2010

Class of 1935, Sugar Grove High School

Don Myers, Frank O'Brien, Chuck Clerkins, Tom Frantz, Leslie Phillips, Neil Calkins, Adaline Garbe, Nellie McCannon, Emily Ravilin, Arlene Mighell

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Mrs. Perry Wilder of Aurora is the youngest daughter of Frank Mighell. Lee and Wynn Mighell, sons of Albert, need no introduction. Wynn was born a stone's throw from his present home. Their sister, Miss Ida…

Mighell family members at Eleanor Wackerlin Mighell's funeral.

Shirley Mighell Cherry on left end. Her son Craig Cherry on right end. Taken at Lavina & Harve Wilkenings home in Big Rock, Illinois. Circa 1987.

Handwritten Note:

Shirely Mighell Cherry, 1987

In Craig and Kat's new home in the their "Colorado TV" room, as they call it. Above me [Shirley] - the Navajo rug I gave the kids last Christmas as made by an Indian in New Mexico - another FSU…

Portrait located with Mighell Family Photos. Although there is no name on the photo, Arlene Mighell is noted in the accompanying Class of 1935 Photo from Sugar Grove High School.

Audrey (Mighell) Claesson

Email Messaage to Ruth Frantz from Pat and Dick.
Dated August 3, 2005

In the front are the three Mighell aunts: Elizabeth Wilson, Mona Knuth, and Audrey Claesson.

Behind them are granddaughter Jessica, brother Ron, grandson Jason, daughter…

The Albert Mighell Family portrait was taken in front of the "black brich" farm house, which as finished around 1906.

On the porch of the new house, about 1905 are seated Albert Mighell and Ada Mighell with children Wynn Mighell, Donald Stanton…

Taken Fall 1941 at Aunt Ida's.

BACK
Wynn, Paul & Rose Powers, Albert, Stanton, and Shane

FRONT
Charles, Ada, and Ellen

The Jericho School was formerly located at short distance east of the corner of Jericho Road and Mighell Road in Sugar Grove, Illinois. This building was torn down after the school district consolidation in 1949.

Source: "Sugar Grove, Illinois…

The Mighell Family and Lennington Family at the black brick house which Wynn [Mighell] built. Photo taken in the summer of 1908.