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548 BIUGRAPHP AND REMINISCENCES<br />
Winn or Wing, Ira Ward, John ancl Borclen Dodge, William BIahany ,<br />
hilajor McClenahan, ancl perl~aps a few others. Mr. Frail was born in<br />
Donepl county, Ireland. After a voyage of seven ~veeks he and his<br />
brother lancled in New ITork, he being then nineteen years old. Fola<br />
some time they ~rorliecl on the Erie cri,nal and other public \\-o~lis, ant1<br />
in IS35 cmne to this county, each bringing n wife anel cllilcl. In 1837<br />
Barnabas moved to what is now Goshen township, squatted on a piece<br />
of land and next purchasing 160 acres. His brother nloved to i.inox<br />
county, \vhere he (lied in 1543, ancl was the -second body interred ill<br />
the &metery at Lahyette. Mr. Frail marriecl Jane Fairchiltls in<br />
Pennsylvania. 01 tlieir ten chilclren eight are living, namely : Ja~nes,<br />
John, Susan, Thomas, Elizabeth, Sarah, Margaret ancl Kate, all resitling<br />
in this county except Sarah, wllo lives at Curlington Jumction,<br />
Mo.; Lydia ancl Ilugll are cleceased. Mrs. Frail died ill 1882, aged 111)-<br />
marcls of sixty-nine years, in full conimuninn with the Catllolic churcli,<br />
which is also the church of the family. Prior to settleinent here Mr. F.<br />
belonged to the Pennsylvania citizen volunteers. Polit icadl y he is ;I<br />
democrat. He started farlning in this county over fifty years ago,<br />
with some means, ancl now ov7ns 160 acres of fine fanning lancl.<br />
D. K Fell, son of James ancl Isabella (Kyle) Fell; as born ill<br />
Roxburghsl~ire, Scotland, November 22, 1842. Some years later the<br />
father cliecl there, ancl in the summer of IS52 the ~viclo~v (now eightyone<br />
pears olcl) and chilclren came to Ainerica and settled in El~nim.<br />
She now lives with her children. The eldest son, William, emig~n~tetl<br />
from Scotlancl to tlle Fal1;land Islands, and thence to South Anlerica<br />
in 1854, ancl has resided there since ; James is in Henry county, Margaret<br />
and Isabella in Toulon, Elizabeth in I-Iarrison county, Mo., Eohert in<br />
Toulon township, Elliot in Clay county, Neb., Aclam, cleceased ; D. K. in<br />
this county, Walter at Cl~icago, ancl Jemillln in Erie county, 0. Aclam<br />
G. Fell served with Company I3, Nineteenth <strong>Illinois</strong> Infantry, and Coinpany<br />
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