Augusta Vogt, Babylon, Fulton Co.

Augusta Vogt came to Illinois in 1885 when she was about 9 years old. She had been living with one family for eight years when she wrote a letter to the asylum in 1895. Unfortunately for me, this period coincides with the missing 1890 census, so we do not know who she lived with.

Additional information has come my way which confirms that the two Augusta Vogts were one and the same woman. Augusta's first two years in Illinois were not peaceful. In those years she lived in seven different homes in six counties. Perhaps she finally settled with Martha Whitehead, a widowed lady from Babylon, Fulton County. She had lived with Mrs. Whitehead for about 10 months between November of 1877 and July of 1888 and returned to her home in October of 1888. No information is available on Mrs. Whitehead and no reports were made of Augusta's marriage in Knox County, where she lived the rest of her life.

Her husband, John H. Pool died just 12 years after they married. A year before his death they were living on a rented farm. Augusta had two children to raise, and kept them with her. She was fortunate to live in a house that she owned free and clear and was able to stay home with her children. How she came to have a home is unknown, but it was certainly lucky for her.

Augusta lived until 1949. Her daughter lived in Kansas City in 1940 and her son lived in Rochester, MN. Her son lived with Augusta in 1930, when he was a schoolteacher. By 1940, however, Thomas Pool was a medical doctor and had 5 years of college education.