Pgs 412-686 - Illinois Ancestors

OF WEST JERSEY TOWNSHIP. 689
Dr. Cl~nrles A. Dnnn, and where her husband died, inoved to Cincinnati,
O., in IS31 with her family, ancl five years later, in September,
1836, settled in West Jersey toivnship of this county, where her son,
Augustus A., hacl built a cabin early that year, ancl ivhere he remained
to ~velcome his motller, brothers and sisters to their new home in the
~vililerness. Mrs. Dorm was accompanied by her children : Columbia
A,, mllo inarrled XP. Tillson ; Richard C., noticed in the history of
Toulon ; Willia~n E. and Caroline E., who married 0. 11. Slilith. In
1847 this pioneer molnan lnovecl to Galesburg, ancl died there, May 10,
that gear.
ilrq-tcstrts A. D247~z, son of Dr. Charles A. ancl Rebecca (Moore)
Dunn, was born in Georgia, inoved wit11 his 7~~idowecl nlother to Ohio
in 1531, ant1 early in IS36 settled in what is now West Jersey tomnship,
er,.ctecl n log cabin, in which the lnother and hmily-who came
in Se1)tei~iber of that year - took up their residence. Be wi~s elected
first slleriff of this co&~tv, in 1839, subsequently graduated in medicine
and practiced at (!alnbr!clge, Ill., until 1862, ~vhen he enlisted in Company
I), One-lluntlred-and-t.rvelfth Illinois Volunteer Infantry. His
left hand mas shot wrap at Icelly's Ford, Tenn., and wain wounded
at Fra.nklin ; the results of the latter leading to his death, March 2,
1869, in his fifty first year, he then residinq at Chlcago.
G'eorve Ei%%ey, \ride generiil and tomnsh~p history.
Ifi~nlztc7~ C(if~efney &~ze~y, one of the pioneers of Stark county, cliecl
at Galva, October 18, LS84, as related in the history of the f;bmily
given in other pages.
John Pifiley, who settled on section 19: Essex, in 1839, was born in
Fayette county, O., in 1802. His parents, Robert and Mary (Craig)
Finley. natives of Indiana, settled in what is now Ashland county,
O., prior to the War of 1813, nrliere they resiclecl until their cleath.
John Fii1le.y imi~rried Miss Rebecca Gaffney in Ohio, canle with her in
IS34 to Fulton county, Ill., ancl five years inter settled here. ,4s shown
in the ofganic and political cllapters, he was a ~ne~nber of the first
commissioners' court nncl seconcl sheriff. was county judge, justice of
the peace, and in a11 points :L most excellent citizen. Of their eleven
chiltlren nine are li ving : Anclrew J., William P., \1711o was 1;illed before
Iinoxville, November IS, 1863, aged thirty-three years, wliile
serving with the One-hundred and-t ~velfth Regiment ; '~riscilla J.,
John L., Mary E., Albert E., Robert M., Jklnes E., Caroline fi. and
Willis 0. JO~III I,. went to Caiifornia in lS52, enlisted in Thircl &I.assachuset
ts Cavalry in 1 S63, was made prisoner. escaped froin Dmrille,
ant1 was cornnlissiol~ecl seconcl lieutenant for bravery ; Albert P. served
with the Third Illinois Caralrr from 1861 to 1864; Janres E., of the
One-hundretl-ancl-t n-elftb was" wonntlecl before Atlanta, Ga., all of
~~rhicl~ is told in the nlilitillly chapter. The father of this great family
died at Toulon, February 28, 1SS3. His first wife died in 1856, aged
forty-nine gears ; brlt his second wife, Miss Sarah D. Adains, survlves
him. Andrew J. Finley was I~orn in Ohio, in 1628, came westwarcl
rvith his parents, marriecl Miss Marpret J. Carter, October 6, IP.iO,
and has been a perm:tlnent resirlent oi this county for about fifty years.
Their children are: Arabella, John L., William J., Mary A., Ella B.,