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Harriet Caroline (Carolyn) Easton was born in July 1837 in Hutton Township, Coles, Illinois.¹ She and Algernon (Algia) Benjamin Wintermute were married on 4 February 1875 in Moultrie County, Illinois.¹ She died in 1906, at age ~69, in Paris, Edgar, Illinois.¹

(The Terre Haute Star December 18, 1906 page 7)
Mrs. H. Wintermute
PARIS, Ill.-Mrs. Harriet Wintermute, 68 years old, died of paralysis at her home here Monday. The funeral announcement has not been made.

Harriet Caroline Easton
Harriet Caroline Easton daughter of Daniel and Mary York Easton. She was born in July of 1837, on a farm, in Hutton Township, Coles County Illinois. The month and year of her birth were given in the Federal Census of 1900, for Wabash Township in Edgar County Illinois, at which time she was a widow * [note that Algia would have been living - died in 1909] and residing with her younger brother Stephen Riley Easton, who never married.

Harriet Caroline Easton was united in marriage to Algia B. Wintermute, February 4, 1875, in Moultrie County, Illinois, by E. B. Cleveland, Justice of the Peace. Marriage license number #2208 , Book A, page 5, on file at the Moultrie Co. Clerk's Office at Sullivan, Illinois.

Harriet Carolyn Easton Wintermute, 1837- 1906
Harriet Carolyn Easton was born and grew up in Hutton Township in Coles County. From the 1879 History of Coles County, Illinois, page 442, we find; "The village of Salisbury or Hutton is located there on section 9 and has scarcely attained to the dignity of a village. It is however an old place, having been laid out as a village December 28, 1837." Harriet Caroline Easton, at this time was just six months old. "No doubt at some remote period of its existence the inhabitants entertained lofty aspirations that it might just become a place of magnitude. But railroads passing within a dozen miles of it, having blasted those bright aspirations. The place was first called Stewart but when they obtained a post office, there was found another Richmond in the field, otherwise a post office already of that name and
this then was called Ashley, the wrong mail frequently went to the wrong place." The little town by this time had assumed so much importance that one name was found
insufficient and so matters were compromised by calling the post office Hutton and the town Salisbury, North Carolina, the native place of John Hulin, one of the proprietors ofthe place. "Salisbury has no churches or schoolhouses within its corporate limits bit it is surrounded by both on either side. It does have a Masonic Lodge - Hutton Lodge #698 which was organized in 1872.

Harriet C. Wintermute passed away, in 1906, at the age of sixty-eight years, at Paris, Illinois, and was buried at the Swango Cemetery, six miles South and West of Paris. There is no grave stone.

Algie B. Wintermute, husband of Harriet Carolyn Easton
While this writer was looking through the old Bible that belonged to Archibald Easton, now in the possession of his granddaughter, Mrs. Hazel Easton Coady of Paris, Illinois, a small business card that read as follows; "Prof. A. B. Wintermute, Business Consultant and Mind Reader". It had an Indianapolis address.