You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles
YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.
854 BIOGRAPHY AND l,EMINISCENCES<br />
where she . met ancl marriecl her late husband. She was among<br />
the very earliest settlers of Valley, coming here when Peoria liacl onlv<br />
one store, while yet it mas a clay's journey to a neigl~bor's house. ~l;e<br />
is considered one of the foreinothers of the townshi p, for, wit11 her husband,<br />
she participated in the clraina of settleinent ancl progress, aricl<br />
has even clistancecl old Time. Since her husba,ncl's cleat11 she has residecl<br />
on the ho~nesteacl rvith her daughter Mi nerva.<br />
John I;. DCC~U.VOL, son of Willia~~ and Amelia (Dorman) Damson,<br />
was born in Essex, Stark county, Sel~tember 9,1842. Here he was<br />
etlncatecl ancl continuecl to resicle ~111til Augfist, '62, ~vllen he<br />
enlisted in Company E, One-hundrecl-ancl-ti\~elPth <strong>Illinois</strong> Volunteer<br />
Infantry, and for three yerlrs participatetl in. the fortunes of that command<br />
as related in the military chapter. I-Ie received llonorable clischarge<br />
June 20, '65, ret~~rnecl to his father's house ancl resicletl there<br />
until February 2, 'TI, when he married T\iIiss Elizal)etll, cla~lghter of<br />
Jacob and Alice (Howart) Taylor, ancl took up .their residence on section<br />
thirty, Valley. where he was owlley of 124 acres. OC three childrei~<br />
born to them, William A. and Jacob S. are living. Mrs. Damson was<br />
born in Lancashire, Englancl, January 5, '50. I11 her ninth year she<br />
accompaniecl her parents to America, and settled u-it11 thein i< Valley,<br />
was educatecl here and remajnecl with them until lier marriage in '71.<br />
Mr. Daivson iS a republican in political life, in social matters a menlber<br />
of the I. 0. 0. I'., has served one year as collector, ancl since '62 hr~s<br />
proven a most creditable citizen, whether in war or peace.<br />
James L. Dnw~on, son of Anclreiv ancl Nary (Little) Dawson, uTas<br />
born in Ross county, O., in 1826. His father rv:~ born near Pittsbnrg.<br />
Pa., where he marriecl Miss Little, of the same county. In the fall of<br />
'43 the family nioved to Chillicothe, Ill., ancl the~ce to Starlc county<br />
in '47-8. Here both of them cliecl as recoycled in the sketch of the<br />
cemeteries-Mr. Dawson dying in '64. Of their nine cllilclren, three<br />
are living. James L. resiclecl with his parents-working on the farin<br />
or attending school in his youth. In '47 he came to th~s county, and<br />
two years later purchasecl his far~n here. Owing to the fact that the<br />
notes on his family history were returnecl without corrections ancl with<br />
complaint of inaccuracies, the greater part is omittecl rather t'han<br />
knowing1 publish what is alle ed to be incorrect.<br />
Mm. i$lizokth Bou~n, (laug a ter of Jaines and Elizabeth (I-Iamrnot)<br />
Cutler,mas born in Suffollcshire, Englancl, in 1832, came to Buffalo, N. IT.,<br />
via Quebec, with her parents in '36, and after tivo years remored 1~1th<br />
them to Batsvia, N. Y., where they reared a family of cigllt children<br />
of whom five are living. In '57 Mrs. Down, ac~oi
Change language