Pgs 412-686 - Illinois Ancestors

OF VALLEY TOWNSHIP. 659
C/~arZes 3L Ehdl, son of Harry and Sarah (Sham) Hull, was born
in St. Lawrence county, N. 'I.'., in 1836. His father, a native of Vermont,
v7as born near the New I-Iampshire line in 1799, and his grandfather
in New 13ampshire in 1758. This latter man served through
the Revolution, soon after mas rnarried antl settled in the village of
Kane, Essex county, N. Y., where lle was an algricultnmlist until his
death, in '41, his' wife cly ing about '51. Of their nine cliildren all
lived over sixty years. ancl four are still liring. He with five of his
sons served in the War of '18. Hwrv Hull was married about '24,
moved to St. La.\~7rence county about 'g6, aucl twenty years later to
Wisconsin. In '47 he came to Peoria county ; in January, '50, settled
in Stark, purchased one hunclretl nncl sixty acres on section 30, VaJley,
nncl cliecl here in '79. IIis first wife cliecl here in '62. In '64 he married
Mrs. Alice Snrnberger, of Victo~ia, Ill., 11~110 survives him ancl resicles
on the homestead. To his -first mamiage twelve children were
born, ancl to his last, two chilclren. Of the first, six are living : Silas,
Chrles N., Nathan HE, John D., Mrs. R. E. Diclrenson, and Mrs.
Sarah A. Bontnn, of whom Charles N. resides in Valley with Euphmsia
ancl Catherine, children of the second ma.rriage.' Charles Hull
sharecl in the travels anci fortunes of the family until '52, when he
went to Princeville to learn the blacltsllzith's tracle. In '60 he moved
to Osceola ancl followecl his tracle there. In '61 he married Niss Calista
E. Bales, of Orange county, (I., then visiting her sister at Princeville.
On September 20, '68, he enlisted in Company A, Second Illinois Light
Artillery, and was in ir.ctive service with the battery for thirty-four
months without iaeceiving a woond. On returning he morltecl at his
tracle until '70, when he removed to his Valley farm, which he hacl
purchased prior to the mar. In "76 he establishecl a general store at .
Stark village, the first business there. In '82 Mr. Speers and he built
the grain elevator there ; in '84 he purcl~nsecl his partner's interest
therein, and since has carried on his large interests alone. In politics
he has always been a Republican, avoiding office, and ever attentive to
his own business and the clevelopment of his district. ( Vide milita~y
cmcl Vcdle y i,istoories.)
George L. Jnck8ol2, son of R. and Jane (Lonsley) Jackson, mas
born at Mnrrick, Eng., in ISIS. His father was born ancl lived there
forty-four years. I-Iis inother was born at I-Ieley, in 17.38, married at
nineteen years of age, and fifty-two years later her husband clied, she
following hiin to tile gmre in a few years. They came to Orange, O.,
in '35 with their eleven children, l~urcl~asecl two farms there, and there
diecl, as noted. George I,. came with his parents to Ohio, and enmao-ecl
in fanning there un ti1 '47, when he revisited his native country ,
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tor ten months, married Rciss Margpret Carse there at Eichrnond, returned
in '48, and after spending the ~vintel*
Ol~io, moved to Brimfield,
Ill., where he was engaged in agriculture for eight years, a0nd
then purcl~asecl one hundred ant\ sixty acres on section 2S, Valley. In
'$2 his wife cliecl here. One of her cl~ildren cliecl in '59, but three still
reside here : Tho~nas C. and George R. on the homestead, and Percy
near Stark station. In June, '82, Mr. Jackson deeded his lands to his
boys, livecl with them until '85, when he b~~ilt a residence near Stark
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