Family: Charles Oscar Cavitt / Mary Inez Dryden (F280)
m. 20 Jul 1899-
Father | Male
Charles Oscar Cavitt
Born 4 Jun 1870 Belmont, Iroquois, Illinois, USA Died 16 Jun 1940 Watseka, Iroquois, Illinois, USA Buried 19 Jun 1940 Belmont Twp., Iroquois Co., Illinois Married 20 Jul 1899 [1, 2, 3] Cissna Park, Iroquois, Illinois, USA [1, 2, 3] Father Nelson Cavitt | F65 Group Sheet Mother Hester A Brown | F65 Group Sheet
Mother | Female
Mary Inez Dryden
Born 18 Nov 1878 Covington, Indiana Died 7 May 1949 Cook, Illinois, United States Buried Woodland (Iroquois County), Iroquois County, Illinois Father Santford C Dryden | F309 Group Sheet Mother Estelle G Hamilton | F309 Group Sheet
Child 1 | Male
Santford Nelson "Squire" Cavitt
Born 22 Apr 1900 Woodland, Iroquois, Illinois, USA Died 11 Nov 1951 Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA Buried Woodland, Iroquois County, Illinois, USA Spouse Irma E Caldwell | F162 Married Abt 1928 Spouse Roberta "Bobbie" Newburn | F163 Married Abt 1943
Child 2 | Female
Florence May Cavitt
Born 30 Jul 1902 Illinois Died 28 Apr 1966 Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, USA Buried Woodland, Iroquois County, Illinois, USA Spouse Hugh Ronald Cazayoux | F272 Married
Child 3 | Female
Mildred L Cavitt
Born 10 Jul 1904 Woodland (Iroquois County), Iroquois County, Illinois, USA Died 29 Sep 1997 Watseka, Iroquois County, Illinois, USA Buried Woodland, Iroquois County, Illinois, USA Spouse Melvin Alfonse Sullivan | F233 Married
Child 4 | Female
Martha Agnes Cavitt
Born 15 Oct 1906 Woodland, IL Died 12 Apr 1991 Moline, Illinois Buried Spouse William Lyle Fox | F303 Married 19 Nov 1927 Danville, IL
Child 5 | Female
Virginia Irene Cavitt
Born 1909 Woodland, Iroquois County, Illinois, USA Died 1917 Woodland, Iroquois County, Illinois, USA Buried 1917 Woodland, Iroquois County, Illinois, USA
Child 6 | Male
Charles O Cavitt
Born 25 Jun 1911 Illinois Died 17 Nov 1974 Winnebago, Illinois, United States Buried
Child 7 | Male
+ Howard Hamilton (Barney) Cavitt
Born 6 Aug 1913 Illinois Died 1 Feb 1970 Scottsbluff, Scotts Bluff, Nebraska, USA Buried Scottsbluff, Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska, USA Spouse Living | F206 Married
Child 8 | Male
Robert Dryden Cavitt
Born 14 Sep 1915 Illinois Died 16 Mar 1971 Buried Watseka, Iroquois County, Illinois, USA Spouse Kathryn McBroom | F231 Married
Child 9 | Female
+ Irma Lillis "Peggy" Cavitt
Born 18 Jan 1918 Illinois, USA Died 17 Dec 1982 Cupertino, California, USA Buried Abt 1983 Woodland Iroquois County, Illinois, USA Spouse Howard Wray Hill | F298 Married
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Sources - [S106] Illinois, County Marriage Records, 1800-1940, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2016;), 1899 Marriage Cavitt Dryden.
Name: Charles O. Cavitt
Gender: Male
Age: 30
Birth Date: abt 1869
Marriage Date: 1899
Marriage Place: Iroquois, Illinois, USA
Father: Nelson Cavitt
Mother: Hester A. Brown
Spouse: Mary Inez Dryden
Gender: Female
Age: 21
Birth Date: abt 1878
Father: Santford Dryden
Mother: Estella G. Hamilton
Film Number: 001321549 - [S106] Illinois, County Marriage Records, 1800-1940, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2016;).
- [S104] Obituary, Various Newspapers, (Name: VArious;), 1940 Obituary Charles Oscar Cavitt.
CHARLES CAVITT
Funeral Serviceswere held at two o'clock yesterday afternoon at the late home in Woodland for Charles Oscar Cavitt, 70, who died at 1:30 p. m. Sunday June 16, at the Iroquois Hospital in Watseka, as the result of uremic poisining following an operation. He had been ill for six days.
The Rev. J. W. Cavitt of Springfield was in charge of the services and burial was in the Body cemetery.
Born June 4 1870 in Watseka, the deceased was the son of Nelson Cavitt of Ohio and Hester Ann (Brown) Cavitt of Attica, Indiana. He spent his childhood in Belmont township where he attended school, afterwards going to Valpariso University and Illinois State Normal University. On July 20, 1899, at Oak Park, he married Mary Inez Dryden, who survives, as well as the following children: S. N. Cavitt of Woodland; C. O. Cavitt od Milford; H. H. Cavitt of of Peoria; R. D. Cavitt of Watseka; Mrs. H. R. Cazayoux of Denver; Mrs. D. E. Sullivan of Flint, Mich.; Mrs. William Fox of Watseka; Irma L. Cavitt of Evanston, One child, Virginia Irene, preceeded him in death. He also leaves three brothers, W. T. Cavitt of Woodland; F. O. Cavitt of Tulsa, Oklahoma; and James Cavitt of Cadillac, Mich., and two grandsons, William L. Fox Jr. and Dennis Richard Fox of Watseka
The deceased spent practically his entire lifr in Watseka and Woodland. He belonged to the Methodist church and had served as president of the village board, also sixteen years as a member of the school board.
- [S106] Illinois, County Marriage Records, 1800-1940, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2016;), 1899 Marriage Cavitt Dryden.