Grant COLEBANK

                       1868 BIRTH: Ancestral File; FamilySearch, Aug 1993 Edition; Family History
    Library, Salt Lake City UT; NOTE: Metamore. COMMENT: Correct spelling is
    Metamora.

    1868 BIRTH: International Genealogical Index; FamilySearch 1994 Edition;
    Family History Library, Salt Lake City UT; NOTE: On IGI twice. Born at
    Woodford, Illinois and Metamora, Woodford, Illinois.

    1868 BIRTH: Family History Records of Warren L. Colebank, Bremerton WA; NOTE:
    Grant's father bought a 120 acre farm 31 May 1867 in section 31 of Palastine
    Township, Woodford County, 3 miles east and 2 miles south of Eureka, Illinois
    for $600 cash, the farm where Grant was born the fall of the following year.
    When Grant was 3 yrs old his father moved the family to Onarga, Ill.  It was
    here that Grant's father died when Grant was only 6 years old. There were 5
    children in the home and one yet unborn. In the 1880 Federal Census of Ash
    Grove Township, Iroquois County, we find Grant's Uncle James Hess living with
    the family.  We can speculate that perhaps James Hess had come from W.Va. to
    operate the farm.

    1890 MARRIAGE: Family History Records of Warren L. Colebank, Bremerton WA;
    NOTE: 21 Mar. Grant married Jessie when he was 21.  They owned a farm near
    Onarga. Grant's hobbie was race horses which he owned and raced.  Grant farmed
    until 1949 when he retired. He lived on North Walnut Street in Onarga.

    1890 MARRIAGE: Ancestral File; FamilySearch, Aug 1993 Edition; Family History
    Library, Salt Lake City UT; NOTE: 23 Mar.

    1970 DEATH: Ancestral File; FamilySearch, Aug 1993 Edition; Family History
    Library, Salt Lake City UT.

    1970 DEATH: Family History Records of Warren L. Colebank, Bremerton WA; NOTE:
    Lived to be 101 years old. He drove his own car in his early 90's and in
    his 100th year lived alone, waited on himself and enjoyed the out of
    doors. Buried at Onarga Cemetery.

SOURCES:
    1. Family Records
    2. Ancestral File
    3. 1994 IGI