The Cuming County Farm is the most complicated one of the three. Like the Pierce County Farm, Bruce and Hazel Emley acquired it or inherited it from Anna. Based on the timeline, I suspect this was from a will made up by Bruce Emley before he passed away in 1960. At that time, both Arthur Averill and Edward Averill Jr were both alive, but both passed away between then and the time Hazel died in 1979. . Apparently, however it happened, half of it went to Eddie Averill (Edward Averill Jr's heir) and half to Robert and Richard Averill (Arthur Averill's two children). As far as I've been able to reconstruct, Eddie sold his half to Lyle Roth and Robert got Richard's quarter in some sort of deal that involved Richard getting the Chestnut Street house in Des Plaines. According to land records, the more involved history of the Cuming Farm is shown below, along with family history events
- 1874 – Homesteaded by George and Orlando Pease in 4 parcels totaling 320 acres
- 1908 – Owned by C.O. Keiser according to “Geo. A. Ogle and Co”
- 1919 – Owned by Frank B. Hughes according to “Anderson Publishing Co”
- 1951 – Anna Emley passes away
- 1960 – Bruce Emley, Anna’s only surviving child, passes away
- 1962 – Arthur Averill, father of Robert and Richard, passes away
- 1962 – Fred Emley, oldest son of Edward Averill Sr passes away with no known children
- 1965 – Owned by Hazel Emley according to “R. C. Booth Enterprises”
- 1966 – Owned by Calvin Stueve Wis 2 according to “Directory Service Company”
- 1968 – Edward Averill Jr, father of Eddie, passes away
- 1970 – Owned by Howard Denton et ux according to “Title Atlas Company”
- 1976 – Herbert Averill, son of Edward Averill Sr passes away with no known children
- 1978-1984 – Owned by Lyle Roth Wis 2 according to “Directory Service Company”
- 1979 – Hazel Emley passes away
- 1985 – Owned by Lyle Roth according to “Directory Service Company”
- 1986-1994 – Owned by “Lyle Roth et al” according to “Farm and Home Publishers”
- 1989 – Eleanor Averill passes away – you’ll recall she inherited the Pierce County Farm
- 1995-2007 – Divided into 2 defined, equal size parcels between Lyle Roth and Robert Averill according to “Farm and Home Publishers”
- 2008-2009 – Divided into 2 equal size parcels (but different than previous map) between Lyle and Robert according to “R. C. Booth Enterprises”
- Between 2009 and 2014 – Robert Averill sold farmland to Lyle so that according to Tax assessor, Lyle now owns 252.5 acres and Averill owns 67.5 acres
- 2015 – Deed of Distribution to Audrey Lucille Averill executed
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