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Jill Elizabeth Rebman was born on 30 August 1940 in Oklahoma and passed away 11 April 2009 at Lake Forest Hospital in Lake Forest, Illinois. She was a resident of Gurnee, Illinois with husband Jerry Martin. Jill and Jerry Martin were dedicated conservationists and a bequest made by Jill in her will to Nadine Holder has been used for work on an historic ranch site in Cochise County, Arizona. Jill had visited Nadine a few years back and enjoyed the ranch site very much. Part of the bequest was used for a rain water harvesting system on the ranch house (photos among the photos at the bottom of the page) and part is being used for adding to the native gardens at the site. The site is a Bureau of Land Management protective site for the Upper San Pedro River, a major migratory corridor for birds and mammals into the United States. Jill's name has been added to a plaque of donors kept inside the house. Jill was daughter of Jack and Bettie Jeanette Mayfield Rebman. She was second cousin of Nadine Duguid Holder, owner of this web site. She was also fifth cousin, once removed, to Marion D. Monk, a fellow researcher on these pages, through the Woodward family. In the mid-1990's cousins Jill Martin and Nadine Holder made contact through a query in a genealogical magazine and immediately began working together on mutual genealogy. We collaborated on two books "Pioneers George Monroe Eikenbary and Amanda Evaline Welch Eikenbary" (privately published, 1996) and "Harvey & Rachel Woodward Welch of Wayne County, Indiana & Mercer County, Illinois" (privately published, 1996). George Monroe and Amanda Evaline Welch Eikenbary were our mutual great grandparents and the Welchs were mutual great great grandparents. The Eikenbary book has been filmed by the LDS Library and is available through them. The Welch book is out of print. Amanda Eveline Welch can be seen at our site http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~mygermanfamilies/RachelW.html. Information on our Eikenberry ancestors can be seen at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mygermanfamilies/Eikenberry.html. Use the Back Button on your browser to return here from these sites. |
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Cousin Jill Martin was owner and Nadine is Web Master of another site about our Mercer County [Illinois] ancestral families. Curiously, many of the Pennsylvania families associated with the Woodwards ultimately also wound up in Mercer County, Illinois. The home page of the Mercer County site is at http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~mygermanfamilies/index.html. On the Civil War Resources page on that site are three poems about the Civil War written by Jill. (Use the Back Button on your browser to return here.) Jill Rebman Martin's work background was as an English Teacher which she said uniquely qualified her for reading old handwritten documents. Jill lived in Gurnee, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, and had access to the libraries of Chicago and many surrounding areas through trips sponsored by her Genealogical Society (as far away as Ft. Wayne, Indiana, where there is a fine genealogical library.) Jill also did volunteer work for the Lake County Museum near Chicago, particularly in translating old letters and documents. She had written papers and a book documenting her work at the Museum. Jill was also a dedicated quilter and a sample of her work is included in photographs below. |
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