Thank you to Alicea Tell for her contributions to this page.
Notes
1. James M. Vining and Laura Ann Vining were children of Amelia Catherine (Heath) by Norman Wells, her first husband (who died). It is uncertain whether they were legally adopted by Ebenezer Willard Vining or simply took the surname Vining.
2. No census record has been found for this family after 1870.
Family Data
Events in the life of Ebenezer Willard Vining: 1844 June 6 - delegate from Kane County, Illinois, at Second Democratic Convention of Fourth Illinois Congressional District, held at Ottawa (source: A Discourse on the Aborigines of the Ohio Valley) 1867 and 1869 - served as Mail Route messenger on Fox River Valley Line, an extension of the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad. (source: U. S. Philatelic Classics Society The Chronicle of the U.S. Classic Postal Issues, vol. 38, no. 3, p. 209.)
Census Data
| | 1850 | 1860 | 1870 | 1880 | 1890 | 1900 |
| Ebenezer Willard Vining | 36 | 46 | 56 | ? | ? | ? |
| Amelia Catherine (Heath) Vining | 28 | 39 | 49 | ? | ? | ? |
| James M. Vining | 9 | 18 | [living? in separate household] | | | |
| Laura Ann Vining | 6 | 16 | [living? in separate household] | | | |
| Pa[r?]melia [A. or M.?] Vining | 4 m. | 10 | 20 | ? | ? | ? |
| Smith [B. or D.?] Vining | | 2 | 12 | ? | ? | ? |
1850 Dundee, Kane County, Illinois - dwelling 172, family 760. Also living in this household in 1850 was Mary Heath (73 y., b. Connecticut).:
1860 Dundee, Kane County, Illinois - dwelling 7869, family 4914:
1870 Elgin, Kane County, Illinois - dwelling 107, family 107. Also living in this household in 1870 were Alice Heath (20, b. Illinois) and T. C. Sprague (63, b. New York).:
