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SAMUEL JAMES RESTORICK was born 1848 in Liberty, Indiana. His father was Samuel Restorick bap 18 June 1815 in Venn Ottery, Devon – Chapter K of Section VI of Restorick/Restarick Record refers.
Topeka Mail 19 Aug, 1887:
S J Restorick has moved to Willard, sixteen miles west of here on the Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska road. He will work in the brick yard there and at odd times employ himself as a tonsorial artist (hairdresser). Mr Restorick is a sort of jack-at-all trades and is bound to succeed. THE MAIL wishes him success.
Topeka Daily Capital 8 Aug, 1889:
Samuel Restorick, foreman of Yokum & Grey’s brick yard, was severely injured about the head yesterday afternoon by a falling brick.
Samuel’s opinion of part of Topeka is outlined in the article below from the Topeka Mail 28 Sept. 1894:
Topeka Daily Capital 12 Jul 1889:
COURT NEWS – Samuel J Resotrick(sic) applied to the district court yesterday for a divorce from Ellen Restorick, to whom he was married at South Bend, Ind, in May 1879. He says that he has been a true and faithful husband but that his wife abandoned him in 1887.
Argos Reflector (Argos, Ind) 12 Oct 1911:
Ellen Restorick was granted a divorce from Samuel J Restorick and court orders that plaintiff shall not be allowed to remarry within two years.
Topeka State Journal 26 Jan 1905:
WANTED – 500 people to come to Merrill & Restorick to be healed and taught, 420 Kansas, ave,. 1 door north post office.
The article below refers to Samuel J Restorick.
The Morning Union (Grass Valley, California) 11 Feb 1912:
SAYS SPIRITS ARE CAUSE OF TROUBLE
Elias T Humes Charges Peanut Vender with Beating Him Unmercifully.
Yesterday morning in Justice Mulroy’s court a pitiful scene was enacted when Elias T Humes, watchman at the Inkmarque mine, appeared before the magistrate and swore to a complaint charging S J Restorick, local peanut vender, with battery. The complainant alleged that Restorick beat him unmercifully one evening in December breaking his ribs and ever since he has been suffering from the effects of the beating being unable to come to town to swear to the charge. Judge Mulroy will hear the case some time next week.
The real cause of the rumpus will probably not be learned until the trouble is aired in court as both relate different stories. Both believe in spiritualism and Humes claims that through the medium of his ethereal fantasies he can heal the sick and perform other miracles. Restorick has claims along the same lines.
According to Humes when the spirits would not act at his bidding one December night when he was the guest at the Restorick home, his host became angered and started to beat him breaking his ribs and otherwise inflicting brutal treatment with his fists. Humes claims that since being thrown out of the Restorick home he has hardly been able to come to town.
Another tale of the affair is told by Restorick who states that spirits were remote from the scene of the trouble, but instead spiritous liquor was the cause. According to Restorick he was a model man – does not drink, smoke, chew nor use profane language, and he would not tolerate Humes’ action in his own home, so threw him out as he would anyone else who acted in a similar manner.
Sacramento Bee (Sacramento, Calif.) 20 Oct 1926:
GRASS VALLEY MINER DIES
Samuel J Restorick, a Nevada County miner, died yesterday at the home of his daughter, Mrs Fletta Bennett, 1113 XStreet. He was 78 years of age, and had been a resident of California for twenty years. The body will be shipped to-day to Grass Valley for internment.
Morning Union (Grass Valley, Calif) 21 Oct 1926:
Restorick Remains Arrived Last Eve: Funeral is Today
Samuel J Restorick, old resident of Grass Valley, died at the home of his daughter Mrs James Bennetts, in Sacramento last Tuesday night, after being in poor health for some time past. At the time of his death he was aged 77 years, 11 months and 15 days. He was a native of Indiana. He was highly patriotic and for many years was color bearer here in connection with public parades.
Mr Restorick came to Grass Valley many years ago, and for a long time conducted a pop corn and peanut stand at the corner of Mill and Main Streets. Here he vended his wares to the public, and always proved an affable, courteous and fair dealing business man. His advancing years caused him to give up his stand, however, and for the past few years he has been doing janitor work and odd jobs at local establishments. He served for a long time as janitor of the Grass Valley Public Library and also of the Congregational Church.
The remains of the deceased were shipped from Sacramento yesterday, and arrived here last night. The funeral will be held this afternoon. Rev E O Chapel will officiate, and interment will be made in Greenwood Cemetery.
Morning Union 22 Oct 1926:
RESTORICK FUNERAL HELD
… There was a large attendance of old friends of deceased at the funeral, and the floral offerings were many and beautiful. A group of old friends of Mr Restorick acted as pallbearers.
CHARLES EDMUND RESTORICK, born 1848 in Liberty, Indiana was Samuel James Restorick’s only child by his first marriage to Thermutis (Mootie) Eddy. The article below refers to him and shows he had disappeared from records.
South Bend Tribune (South Bend, Indiana) 15 Oct 1920:
Emma Restorick, a Walkerton nurse, alleges desertion in November, 1900, in her petition in the St Joseph superior court for a divorce from Charles E Restorick, to whom she was married April 3 1892. The defendant’s location is unknown.
(Emma and Charles had 2 sons, Otto born 1893 died 1901, and Chester born 1895, both in Walkerton, so Charles deserted two sons aged 7 and 5 years old. Emma married Henry B Worster on 28 Sept 1921.)
CHESTER HOWARD RESTORICK, was the elder and only surviving son of Charles Edmund Restorick. The article below refers to the tragic death of his first wife. The article shows she was only 14 years old when she married and had two daughter when she died age 16 years.
South Bend Tribune (South Bend, Indiana) 14 Oct 1916:
Death of Mrs Restorick
Mrs Chester Restorick, 1022 South 15th Street, River Park, died Friday night (13 October), following a six weeks’ illness caused by uraemic poison, aged 16 years. She was born in North Dakota, April 28, 1900, and was married Aug 20, 1914. Besides her husband she leaves two daughters Dolores and Lois Restorick. The funeral will be held from the Free Methodist church, Rev Jonas L Forsythe officiating.
(Chester had married Violet Myers in St Joseph, Michigan, when he was only nineteen years old. The daughters were registered as Restorick but married as Myers due to adoption by Violet’s family.)
