Elder F. M. Lollar, who for the past several months has been ill at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Charles Chism In this city, passed away shortly after 7 o'clock Saturday morning, the immediate cause of his death being due to heart failure.

Francis Marion Lollar was born in Clay county, Illinois, September 14th, 1840, and at the time of his demise was 78 years, 9 months and 28 days of age.

When a young man before the Civil War he taught school. At the call to arms in '61 he enlisted as a fifer, Co. K, 46th Ill., and was promoted to 1st Sergeant, later 2nd Lieutenant, and at the opening of 1865 he was made a Captain by Governor Oglesby. He was wounded at the battle of Shlloh April 7, 1862. In 1865 General Dornblaser appointed Captain Lollar as Provost Marshal of Freedmen of Wynne Parish, Louisiana, from which position he was mustered out on January 20, 1866.

March 29, 1866, he was united in marriage with Mary Eliza Ingraham and located on a farm near Ingraham. To them were born seven children, all of whom survive their parents.

When about 40 years of age Elder Lollar took up the work of the ministry and for more than thirty years was a minister. His ministry included charges at Ingraham, Noble, Bogota, Latona, Fransonia, Union Chapel, Elliottstown and many other places.

—Albion Register. (The Southern Illinois Record, July 24, 1919.)

Elder F. M. Lollar, who for the past several months has been ill at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Charles Chism In this city, passed away shortly after 7 o'clock Saturday morning, the immediate cause of his death being due to heart failure.

Francis Marion Lollar was born in Clay county, Illinois, September 14th, 1840, and at the time of his demise was 78 years, 9 months and 28 days of age.

When a young man before the Civil War he taught school. At the call to arms in '61 he enlisted as a fifer, Co. K, 46th Ill., and was promoted to 1st Sergeant, later 2nd Lieutenant, and at the opening of 1865 he was made a Captain by Governor Oglesby. He was wounded at the battle of Shlloh April 7, 1862. In 1865 General Dornblaser appointed Captain Lollar as Provost Marshal of Freedmen of Wynne Parish, Louisiana, from which position he was mustered out on January 20, 1866.

March 29, 1866, he was united in marriage with Mary Eliza Ingraham and located on a farm near Ingraham. To them were born seven children, all of whom survive their parents.

When about 40 years of age Elder Lollar took up the work of the ministry and for more than thirty years was a minister. His ministry included charges at Ingraham, Noble, Bogota, Latona, Fransonia, Union Chapel, Elliottstown and many other places.

—Albion Register. (The Southern Illinois Record, July 24, 1919.)