JOHN & MARGARET SOMERVILLE
First of our line of Somervilles to arrive in the United States was John Somerville. John was born in Ireland in 1776 and came to the United States in 1793 as a young man of 17. In 1798, he married Margaret Wilson. There is some Question as to the birth place of Margaret Wilson. William Somerville, a son, states that his mother was born in Scotland. (Page 1041, History of Olmsted County, MN.) However, the U. S. census of 1850 for Ripley County, Indiana (Adams Twp.) gives her birthplace as Maryland. Census records are generally accepted as accurate, so it may be that she was born in Maryland of parents who came from Scotland. (No photo available of John or Margaret)

Photo taken about 1884

The photo to the right is of Andrew Elliott Somerville and Pheobe Jane Cunningham 

ANDREW ELLIOTT SOMERVILLE youngest son of John and Margaret Somerville, was born in Beaver County, PA. July 29, 1822, He came to Indiana at the age of 13, and was married to Phoebe Jane Cunningham July 10, 1845, moving to Minnesota in May 1860. The family came by boat on the Ohio-Mississippi Rivers, landing at Reads Landing, in Wabasha County, MN.

Photo taken in 1884.  Andrew Elliott Somerville and sons.   Top row: Franklin, Charles Oliver. Seated: Ledyard, Andrew Elliott, Robert John, William Elliott Somerville.

Photo of William Elliott Somerville and first wife Agnes Mae Wiggin. 

The William Elliott Somerville Family

The picture below is the family of William Elliott Somerville and his second wife Maria Ann (Mary) Mueckl.  Four of the children are from the first marriage of William Elliott Somerville to Agnes Mae Wiggin.  Those four are Earl (b. Feb. 9. 1882), Mark Wiggin (b. May 26, 1883), Lee Lot (b. Dec. 7, 1885) and Birdie Glen (b. March 12,1889).   Seven children were born to the union of William and Mary: Emma Cecelia (b. 4/18/1891), Max William (b. 12/9/1893), Alexander Ray (b. 6/4/1895 - died 11/5/1895), Esther Caroline (b. 9/17/1896), Isabel Ruth (10/1/1898), Ray Alexander (b. 8/6/1904) and Viola Daisy (b. 3/22/1907).

Those pictures are, Front row: Birdie Glen, Max William, William Elliott, Viola Daisy, Mary, Ray Alexander and Isabel Ruth.  Back row: Lee Lot, Ester Caroline, Mark Wiggin, Emma Cecelia and Earl.

Grand Children of William Elliott Somerville are (Earl) Earl Junior, Wayne.   (Mark) Harold Elliott (b. March 16, 1907 - died June 30, 1977), Florence Evelyn (b. June 10, 1909, died September 8, 1995 in Brainerd, Minnesota),Violet Mae (b. 3/16/1911), Evangeline Grace (b.8/26/1913 died March 31, 1994 in Bremerton, Washington) Derwin Mark (born September 21, 1916, died April 08, 1997 and Dorothy, (b. 9/21/1916). Dorothy died 07/10/1917). (Lee Lot) Stanley, Alice, Eugene, Deloris.  (Birdie) Merrill Earl.  (Emma) Lincoln, Burton.   (Max) Marjorie, Darrell, Geraldine.  (Ray) Ray Junior, Dorothy, Dean, Robert.   (Esther) Joyce E., Edmond.  (Isabel) Dean.