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Booth Family: Norman J. Booth

Norman J. Booth, age one year and two months. Judd Booth's son.

Booth Family: Florence Taff Booth, 2nd wife of George M. Booth, March 1931

Florence Taff Booth, 2nd wife of George M. Booth, March 1931

Booth Family: Captain Booth and the Colonel, Junior Booth, October 1944

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.

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

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 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…