ORCUTT-Josiah L. - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Josiah L. ORCUTT, deceased, Rob Roy, was born in Onondaga New York, July 25 1820. His grandfather Orcutt was a soldier of the revolution. His father died when he was nine, and he enjoyed considerable freedom, he was reared to work on a farm but neglected his education. He remedied this defect by going to school after he became of age. In 1847 he came to Fountain county, and on the 11th of October of the following year he married Hannah J. Crawford, daughter of Dr. Crawford. She was born September 22 1828. Her father emigrated from Warren county Ohio and settled first on Bear Creek in this township, a few years finally removing about 1835 to this place where his widow at present lives and where he died September 29 1847, aged forty-four years. Her mother's name before marriage was Elizabeth Cline. Mr. and Mrs. Orcutt had eight children, as follows; Sarah E. (dead), Laura A. (dead), Theodore C. (dead), Florence E. (dead), John L., Simon J., Luella and Lydia. Mrs. Orcutt was converted at the age of nineteen and united with the Presbyterian church of which she was a member twenty-six years. At last the distance being so great to Rob Roy, where she worshiped and a Methodist Society having been organized near her home, she withdrew from the former church and joined the latter. This was about six years ago. Her husband died of lung fever February 1, 1873. He was a reading, intelligent man. The family have eighty acres of land where they live, valued at $3,500 and eighty-seven acres in Iroquois County, Illinois worth $2,500.