6/21/1900 N Okaw Twp, Coles Co, IL. The census listed John at age 46w ith wife Clara, 42, and a large family: Arthur, 17, Charles, 16,Rosc oe, 14, Pearl, 12, Laurenc, 9, and Leslie, 6. John married atage 22, C lara at 23. She had birthed 6 children, all living. Johnwas a farmer .
5/4/1910 Same place. That year he was recorded in the census at age5 1, married 29 years to Clara, also 51. Only the last two childrenwere s till at home, Laurence, 19, at college, and Lesley, 16. Johnwas a gen eral farmer. Son Charles was 2 doors down with John'sparents between t hem.
From the 1918 Coles County, IL Farmers Directory:
Daily, J. F. (Clara Hutton) Ch Arthur, Charles, Roscoe, Lawrence,Pearl , Lesley; Humboldt R1 North Okaw Sec15 O200a (1859) Tel.Mattoon. (He h ad a 200 acre farm and had been in the county since1859.)
The 1900 census taker recorded his birth date as 1/1854, anothercensus t hat same year says 5/1858.
