BLOCK 5
LOT : 86
REMOVED
December 23, 1913
TO:
DIVISION 2
previously - DIVISION 1
David S. Shellabarger Mausoleum
LOT : 126
ROW : 17
COLUMN : 8
SUB. R/C : E/W
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David Martin Krone
b. September 15, 1798
York County, Pennsylvania
d. February 18, 1867
Decatur, Macon County, Illinois
buried: February 1867
disintered and relocated
December 23, 1913
to the
David S. Shellabarger mausoleum
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FATHER
Michael Krone
(1771-1843)
MOTHER
Sophia Frankeberger
(1778-1867)
MARRIED
Ruth Worley
(1798-1883)
December 6, 1825
Pennsylvania
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CHILDREN
with Ruth
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Memories of N. L. Krone:
In the spring of 1841, the Krone family moved in the Macon House, later known as the Revere House, at the corner of South Franklin and East Prairie. They remained in this house until 1850. Mrs. Krone conducted the hotel and her husband, David Krone, conducted a cabinet shop in the basement which was mainly above ground. The Macon House was the "leading" hotel at the time and it was here that lawyers stopped when riding the circuit. Extension tables were a novelty at this time and Mr. Krone made one for each of his children. Combined with his skill as a cabinet maker, he had engineering ability. If someone described a machine to him or furnish him with a rough drawing, he could build the machine. There came to Decatur shortly after the Krones, an Englishman named Launcelot Wilson, who understood the carding and spinning of wool and weaving of cloth. Mr. Krone made for this man a spinning jenny. It is described as a machine fifteen feet wide and with fifteen spindles. It was considered a wonderful machine. Mr.Krone also made for this man the other machines necessary for a woolen mill, a carding machine and a loom. Mr. Krone also interested Captain D.L. Allen in this enterprise and the two were associated. The woolen mill was established in the old Joe Stickell grist mill, which was located on the site of the present St. Paul Lutheran school on East Prairie. The plant was operated, as the old mill had been, by an ox wheel. This mill, for several years, made cloth, blankets and goods of other kind from home grown wool. Mr.Krone is unable to say if the plant was a commercial success, but he is assured it filled an important place in the community. Omitting the several grist mills, a distillery and the Oglesby temporary rope walk, this woolen mill may be said to be Decatur's first real industry.
The Daily Review - (Decatur, Illinois) - 20 FEB 1916 |
David Krone was known as a happy man,
and his wife Ruth was known for her cooking.
David and Ruth Krone ran the hotel 1842-1850. It was known as Macon House then.
It burned down in 1871.
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Abraham Lincoln visited Decatur a number of times on Court business between the spring of 1838 and 1860. One of the more interesting of those times, at least to Decatur citizens, was in December 1849. Mrs. Jane Martin Johns describes the events in her book Personal Recollections. She and her husband had been living in Decatur's Macon House for about two months. One day in December her piano arrived from Ohio. It had been transported down the Ohio River, up the Wabash River, then on to Decatur by wagon. The piano was boxed up on the wagon, but there was no one to help unload it. DAVID KRONE, the landlord of the boarding house, told her it would be no problem, as court would let out soon for mealtime. He said there would be plenty of help because the lawyers would come to the Macon House to eat, as it was known for its cleanliness and good food. When the lawyers appeared, the tallest turned to another and said, "Come on, Swett, you are the next biggest man!" He conferred briefly with the wagon driver, then went to the carpenter shop Mr. Krone had in the basement, and returned with two timbers across his shoulders. The timbers were laid across from the wagon bed to the door, and the piano was promptly moved in and uncrated. Mrs. Johns played for them that evening. It was her first meeting with Mr. Lincoln, but it would not be her last. He became a good friend of the family, and both Mrs. Johns and her husband were political adherents of Lincoln's.
from- Kyle, Otto R. Abraham Lincoln in Decatur, New York, Vantage Press, c.1957
Johns, Jane Martin Personal Recollections: of Early Decatur. Decatur, DAR, c.1912
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