September 1997. Springfield
Chapter was among the first in 1997 to buy a brick; the sales of which resulted
in the initial capital for the restoration of the Elijah Iles House. A brick inscribed with "NSDAR SPFLD. CHAPTER"
was placed
in December 2006. Elijah Iles, the third owner of the
house, is fondly known as the "Father of Springfield". The home, now located at
628 S. Seventh Street, was built by 1828, and is the oldest documented house in
Springfield, Illinois. A charter member of our chapter was Mary Lewis.
Her mother, Cordelia Iles,
was Elijah's
niece.
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