By 1887, Joe & Emma Muffley had moved to 318 Maple. Joe continued to work at Schott Saddlery. Will Muffley married Lillie Mae Kimmel (her brother Peter was a harness maker at Schott Saddlery) in 1890. Lillie’s father and uncle worked as steamboat mates, so lived in a succession of river towns. Will & Lillie Muffley were in Omaha in 1900, and later went to Washington, D.C., where Will continued his bookbinding work with the U. S. Government Printing Office. My daughter Lara & I have visited places in D.C. associated with Will and Lillie, e.g. place of employment and place of burial. I have photos of their church and one of their homes.
Julia Wilhelm Muffley died in 1894, and was reportedly buried in Halstead, Kansas, home then of her daughter Sadie. Sadie had married William Henry Lentz, harness maker, in 1892. The Lentz family had a farm near Halstead, Kansas.
The John Skinner McCreary family moved from Quincy to Galesburg, Illinois, sometime after Emma Jane McCreary married Joe Muffley (1882). This probably was after John’s stockyard burned. The insurance had lapsed, and McCreary family fortunes took a dive. In Galesburg Ward 6 in 1900, John McCreary was a day laborer at age 72. This, after years of having several businesses. In 1890 in Galesburg, Silas William McCreary (brother of Emma Jane McCreary Muffley) married Mary Alice “May” Jagger. May Jagger was a sister of Edna Una Jagger, who later married Albert Muffley (son of Joe & Emma Jane McCreary Muffley). Thus, the initial link between Jagger and Muffley was via the McCreary family.
The year 1906 was very eventful. Joe, Emma, and son Albert Muffley lived at 328 Chestnut. Joe was still at Schott Saddlery. Albert worked for George Ertel. Frank B. & Florence Muffley lived at 308 S. 3rd, and Frank worked for Schott. On Jan. 18, 1906, fire began in the harness area and was discovered in the barn and livery stable at Schott Saddlery by 3:10AM. It became one of Quincy’s most destructive fires. Blazing saddles. On June 11, Effie Wilhelm (daughter of Adam Biddle Wilhelm) married Harry J. Eickmeyer in Quincy, and four days later her cousin Albert Harold Muffley eloped to Monmouth with Edna Una Jagger of Galesburg, Illinois. Albert’s mother had wanted him to marry Bertha Slotman (whose photos are in Emma’s album). Previously, when a letter from Albert arrived in Galesburg, sisters of Edna Jagger tried to snatch it away. Edna read the letter on the run, and then ate the letter. With the marriage, Albert’s Uncle Silas William McCreary (married May Jagger) became also a Jagger in-law of Albert. Silas and May (= “Cuz-Unc” & “Cuz-Aunt”) had a son Dick McCreary who soldiered in World War I. Before 1909, any Muffley presence in Quincy probably ended.
