From: KyArchives Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2017 12:16 PM To: Ky-Footsteps Subject: Onyette.Ellen.Jane.Knight.Yenawine.1923.Bullitt.OBIT Ellen Jane Knight Yenawine Onyette September 1923 Bullitt County KyArchives Obituaries Decatur Herald, 25 Sep 1923, Decatur, Illinois OBITUARY for Ellen Jane KNIGHT ONYETTE Source: the Decatur Herald, Decatur, IL 25 Sep 1923 Mrs. Onyette, 95 Dies; Came to State on Horse Resident of Illinois Since Early Womanhood in Decatur 26 Years Sister is past 90 Mrs. Ellen G. Onyette, 95, 1759 Whitchell avenue died at 6 o'clock Monday evening in St. Mary's hospital. Death was caused by the infirmaties of age. She was the widow of H. D. Onyette, who died in August 1921. Mrs. Onyette suffered a fall in her home several months ago and the shock of that fall hastened the end. She had been in the hospital for eight weeks. To Illinois in Early Life She was born in Bullitt county, Kentucky, Nov 16, 1827. She came to Illinois in early Womanhood making the trip from Kentucky to St. Louis by boat and from there to Warsaw, Ill., by horseback. Illinois at that time was little more than a few scattered villages, separated by swamps and morasses. She saw and helped Illinois' early settlers push back the wilderness and watched the state become of of the leaders in the Union. With her husband she came to Decatur 26 years ago. Mrs. Onyette leaves one son, Howard with whom she made her home. A sister Mrs. Sarah Summers of Brook, Ky., also past 90, too survives her. She leaves two grandchildren and three great grand children. The body was taken to the Monson chapel to be prepared for burial. Funeral services will be conducted there at 2:30 Wednesday afternoon. Ellen Jane Knight, daughter of George Knight of Bullitt Co. KY married Jacob Yenawine 17 July 1847 in Bullitt Co. KY An image of this marriage may be found at https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89SQ-1CVY?i=130&cc=1804888 Ellen G. Yenawine, widow of Jacob Yenawine, married Henry D. Onyett 10 July 1855 in Jefferson Co. KY. An image of this marriage may be found at https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9S9-17X5?i=184&cc=1804888 The 1860 census shows Henry and Ellen (both age 32) living at Rockport, Spencer Co. IN https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GB9N-37C7 Submitted by: Anne Livingston http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00002.html#0000466 This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/