OLID SETTLERS OF FULTON COTTHSTTUr.—Ooistti^tjeid.
Joseph W. Markley.—John Markley, the father of Joseph W. Markley, was bom in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, in the year iJ17U4, and moved to Ricliiand county, Ohio, in 1815. Lived there until 1885, when he moved to Pulton county, Illinois^and settled on section 26, in Young Hickory township, where he still resides. Joseph W. Markley, the fourth child, lived with his parents until he was 23 years of age, when he married Miss Rebecca Jane Harrell, in 1847, the daughter of Joel Harrel, who died in White county, Illinois, in 1846. Joseph W. Markley settled on section 25, in Young Hickory township, where he still resides. He is the father of seven children—six living, three boys and three girls. Mrs. Markley’s parents came from South Carolina; moved to Worth Carolina, then to Kentucky, and came to Illinois about the year 1819, and settled in While county, where he died at the age oi 97 years. He served his couutry seven years in the revolutionary war; was the lather of thirty-three children, his wile having nine at three births. Mr. Harrell only lust about forty hours’ lime by natural sickness during his whole life. Ho was married three times, his last wife being but seventeen years old when he married her, and he was seventy. She bore him twelve children. She is still living in White county, in her 77th year, and enjoys good health.
Joseph W. Markley is engaged in tanning and raising stock; has been collector of Young Hickory township for several years, and is populur with all his neighbors.
Mrs. Charlotte Willcoxen is the widow of the late Capt. Elijah Willcoxen. She is the daughter of Colonel Elijah Calloway, who was a member of the house of representatives of North Carolina for many years. Mrs. Willcoxen was born in the year 1792, in Ash county, North Carolina, and was married to Elijah Willcoxen in 1811, by whom she had fourteen children. They moved to Kentucky in 18i5, remaining fifteen years, and, in 1830, came to Illinois and settled in Pulton county, on the same larrn on which she now lives with her youngest son. Mrs. W. is now 80 years of age, is very active, and enjoys very good health. She has been a member of the regular Baptist church lor fifty-seven years, and still remains a firm and consistent member. Her posterity now living number 19*, two ol whom are ol the fifth generation. Her companion, Elijah Willcoxen, departed this life July 3d, 1860, in the 71st year of his age. He was born in Ash county, North Carolina, in the year 1789. He was a volunteer in the war of 1812, and also served two years in the Black Hawk war, first as lieutenant, then as captain. He was a nephew of Daniel Boone, the great western pioneer, and much admired a frontier life. He was the lather ol fourteen children—seven sons and seven daughters, twelve of whom lived to be men and women, and were all present at his funeral. His posterity, at his death, numbered 114. He was a member of the regular Baptist church, and died in full faith.
Isaac Hagarman, jr.—-Isaac Uagerman, the lather of Isaac Ha-garman, jr., was bom in the state ol New Jersey, in the year 1779, and moved to Pulton county, Illinois, in the year 1887, and died iu the year 1848. He had always been engaged in farming, and succeeded well.
Isaac Hagarman, jr., was the fifth son of his parents, and settled in Pulton county, in the year 1838, and lived in various places until the year 1856, when he settled in Young Hickory township, where he still resides. In the year 1881 he married Miss Maria W. Voorhies, who died in Fairview, Pulton county, in the year 1846, and on the 6th day of April, 1848, Isaac married Miss Cornelia A. Little. He is the fhther of eight children, of whom only three live, and are married. His son, John F., at the age of 19, volunteered in company D, 108d regiment Illinois volunteers; did bis country service eighteen months, when he contracted disease, on account of which he received his honorable discharge at Louisville in December, 1863, when and where his father met him to priug him home, but could not on account of his feeble health. He died at Mendotu, Illinois. His remains were brought home and interred at Fairview, Fulton county. For many years of his earlier life, Mr. Hagarman was engaged in mechanical pursuits, but lor the last fifteen years, he has been engaged in farming and raising stock, and has succeeded well.
David Luper.—Jacob Luper was the lather of David Luper, and was born in Pennsylvania, in 1792. He lived there until the year 1884, when he moved to Ohio, and settled in Huron county, wfaeie he died in 1852. He was the father of seven children — four sons and three daughters, all living, two in Oregon and five in Illinois. David Luper was born in Pennsylvania, in 1814, and lived there until 1834. He then moved to Ohio, and lived, there three years, and then moved to Ulinois and settled on section 16, in Lee township, where he still resides. In the year 1842 he married Miss Lois Curtis, daughter of Enos Curtis. Mr. Luper has always farmed since his first settlement in 111- j inois. He is a man who has always worked hard, and has prospered very tfelL He thinks the times quite good and brisk now, to what they were when he first came to this state. He says he has told good pork for $1.50 per hundred, and wheat for twenty-five cents per bpsh-el, half cash and the balance in trade. He used to be very glad to get I work at twelve dollars per month, and had to pay thirty-seven cents per yard for calico, to make a dress for bis wife. Mr. Luper is u very sociable man, and enjoys chatting about old times and the first settling of the country. We don't know of any man who enjoys life better than Mr. Luper. He loves his family and all his neighbors. He is one of the good farmers and heavy stock raisi-rs of Lee township, and is highly respected. He is the father of six children—two sons and four daughters, all living; three are married and three are at home.
Mrs. Elizabeth Eobuek.—The Rev. Squire Willcockson, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Kentucky, and moved to Ash county, North Carolina, where his daughter Elizabeth was born, on the 19th day ..f December, 1800. and then moved to Estell county, Kentucky, where Elizabeth Willcockson was united in mar-ringe to the Rev Joseph Allen ( Baptist) on the 16th day of June, 1822. Rev. Joseph Allen was born in Ash county in 1796, and moved to rulton county, with his wife, in the year 1825, sealing west of Lcw-istown, where they resided tour years. They then moved to Liverpool township, on section 11, in 1829, where their only child was born. May 30,1885,.and received hot Christian name, Elizabeth Ann. She was united in marriage to Richard Morton, on March 28th, 1850, and now resides with her husband and three daughters, on section 3, in Liverpool township where they are highly respected and esteemed. 1 he Rev. Joseph Allen and Ills wife, Elizabeth, in their early settlement, encounteied all the privations ol pioneers, grinding com in hand mil's; standing guard at night against the Indians, and enduring all the hardships of frontier life. Mr. Allen cultivated his farm for a living, and preached on tin- Sabbath at the neighboring houses of the Baptist faith. He served as a private during the Black Hawk war,and died November 7th, 1838. In life, he was highly esteemed by the church, and by all who knew him, as u zealous Christian. The duties ol the farm rested on Mrs Allen.
On the 27th of May, 1841, Mrs. Allen was married to Benjamin Ro-buck, who was born February 14,1811, in Brown county, Ohio; they are highly respected by Hie whole community.
Emaline Mills.—Ira Bishop, the lather of Mrs. Emalinc Mills, was born in the state ol Connecticut, and emigrated to Illinois in the year 1839, and settled in Trivolia, Peoria county, where he remained until the year 1856, win n he died at the age of seventy-seven years. Emaline was born in Connecticut, in the year 1811, and cume to Illinois with her parents, iu 1889, at the age of fifteen. She married Mr. Lem. Martson iu Cauudu, and had six children, three boys and three girls—three now living and three dead. Mr. Martson died in the year 1838; Mrs. Martson lived by herself and supported her family as best she could—giving them alia reasonable education, and preparing them for ordinary and honorable pursuits in life.
Iu 1840 Mrs. Martson again married (Gideon Mills), and settled on Copperscrcek, Fulton county, Illinois, and lived there until the year 1853, when they moved and settled on section thirteen, in Deerfield township, where she still resides. On the 4th day of November, 1870, Mr. Mills depurted this lift-, Mts. Mills agoin being left a widow, with an addition of eight children to btr former family, four boys and four girls— five living and three dead. Mrs. Mills is the mother of fourteen children in all; six of them are dead and eight are still alive. Mrs. Mills sent three sons to the support of the government during the late war, who all served their respective terms and got their honorable discharges, without either of them receiving a wound. James Martson and David Mills, her sons, served in the 55th Regiment Illinois Iniitnu-y; Nelson Mills served in the 70lh Regiment Illinois Inluniry. Mis. Mills has four children married — one living in Montana,, one in Kansas, one in Iowa, and one in Fulton county, Illinois. The rest are single, and living at home. Mrs. Mills is now sixty years ol age, weighs 268 pounds, but is in poor health. Mrs. Mills is entitled to great credit lor the manner she has supported her family through many hard struggles. Mrs. Mills is now comfortably situated on her own homestead, which is iu good order and very pro-d uciive, situated on Spoon River bottom.
James Daily, jr. — James Daily was the lather of James Daily, jr., the subject of this sketch, and was born in Lancaster county Pennsylvania, in the 1770, and died in 1808 in his native slate' Grandfather Daily emigrated from England many years ago, and served his country in the revolutionary‘war. Grandmother Daily . was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and died there in the year 1802. James Daily, Jr., moved from Pennsylvania, and settled in Fulton county, Illinois, in. the year I860.'- He first went to Union township, and lived there one year; then moved to Deerfield township, on section 12, and stayed there one year; then moved on section 18, where he has remained ever since. On the second of August, 1829, James Daily, jr., married Miss Catharine Foutz, and is the father of eleven children —five sons and three daughters now living, and ail married but one daughter —Elizabeth —who is at home with her parents. Mr. Daily sent three sons to the late war, who served their time and got their honorable discharges. Michael H., his oldest 8«n after he was discharged from the government-service, with his family, moved to the slate of Missouri, and joined the home guards, after which he and his wife and child were murdered by the desperadoes of that couutry, who took their team, cattle, and all the property they could find. James Daily, Jr., is the grandfather of thirty-five children. He has frequently been elected to office in his township, and lias always been looked upon as a competent niau and a good citizen! For many years of liis younger days he was engaged in carpentering and joinering, but, for the last fifteen years, has been farming and raising gtock He is in very feeble health now, having lost bis voice and speech about four years ago. and lias entirely retired from all business. Frederick A. Daily, his youngest son, 1ms removed home on the farm, where he intends to remain and take care of his aged parents while they live.
David Williams was born in South Wales, December 16,1827. i He was married May 20,1847. to Sarah Williams, daughter of David T. Williams of Glenmorgansbire, Wales. He emigrated to j the United States in 1855, and came to Canton in the fall of 1856.
Mr. Williams has been eminently successful in the coal business — having some of the finest mines, and doing one of the largest busi nesses in the state. The first bank lie leased was in 1856 three miles north of Canton, on land owned by G. E. Piper. Worked these mines four years, when he commenced operations three tulles north of Canton. There he opened up five or six mines, both “ strips and drifts." At this time he commenced supplying coal to the C., 15., & Q. railroad, bringing it three miles in wagons. Seeing the immense labor, the company put him down a track to his mines, from what is now St-. David. This track is now taken up, and one pul down to his present mine, near the town of St. David, which lie opened in 1861. It is a drift mine of the best quality. In 1869 he opened liis Canton mines, which are located half a mile south-west of Canton, inside the corporation. These mines are reached by a shaft, one of the finest in the state. He has a track running from these mines to the T., P„ & W. railroad depot, where he has chutes for the purpose ol supplying the railroad company and the citizens. The depth of the shaft to coal •s ninety feet, and the vein is five feet in thickness. The capacity of both his mines is about 6,000 bushels per day. Mr. Williams deserves great credit for his enterprise and skill in developing these mines-He was the first to embark in the mining business extensively, and today, three powerful companies in Fulton county have followed in bis footsteps, and, with an immense amount of capital, arc making the coal business one of the most important branches of industry in the county, employing hundreds of men, and sending coal all over the western country. And to the subject of this sketch is due the credit of showing to the world that it could be done. We copy from A. H. Worthen, the State Geologist, Reports on page 92, vol. 4; he says:
“ We-have found here the most complete exposure of the productive coal measures that have been met within the state; and hence the section constructed in this county will be considered a typical one, and will be used for the co-ordination of the coal strata throughout the central and western portions of the state.”
Then, on page 98, vol. 4, we copy:
“ Coal No. 4 is a very persistent seam in its development, and has been found in every locality In the county, that wc have examined, where the proper horizon for it was exposed.
“This scam has been more extensively worked by Mr. David Williams, at Canton and St. David, than by any other person in the county. His main shaft is about half a mile south-west of Canton, and is about eighty-five feet in depth.”
Then, on page 99, sec. 4, we copy:
“This seam affords a heavy coal, rich in bitumen,and contains thirty-five to forty per cent, of volatile matters, and from fifty-five to fifty-six per cent, of fixed carbon.”
No. 4 coal gave the following as the average result of two analyses 'by professors Blaney and Murriner, of Chicago:
Bitumen......................................................3o!u6 j
Coke	>0.600
Riley Bristol, the subject of this sketch, was born in Litclifield, county, Connecticut, May 18th, 1822. He came to Farmington township June I8tb, 1888; settled on section thirteen, and was a farmer up to 1856, when he began the drug business in Farmington. Mr. 15. was married on the 2d day of November, 1848, to a daughter of Daniel D. Hatch, of Rochester, New York; she was born in 1824. and came to Farmington in 1889. They have a family of four children—Ellen, Charles, Emma, and Henry.
Richard Bristol, the father of the subject of this sketch, came to Farmington June 18lb, 1888. He was born in Litcliricid county, Connecticut, in 1779.
John Fouteh was born in the state of Ken lucky in the year 1800, and lived with his father until he was twenty-one years of age, when • he married Miss Khoda Ray. He lived in Sangamon county about ten years, and then moved to Fulton county, Illinois, and settled on section 22, in Isabel township, about the year 1887, where lie still resides. He has always been engaged in farming and raising stock, und has succeeded well in both.
When Mr. Fouteh first came to Fulton comity, he was very poor. He commenced forming first with a small team of oxen, and did the most of hiB cultivating with the hoe, but being a man of contented mind, he persevered, until he lias become one of the wealthy men of his township. He has always lived a quiet, peaceable life, and lias always been respected by his neighbors He is lift father of thirteen child red—twelve living and one dead; four are married, and the rest single and at home. He has been twice married, the last wife being Miss Lucretia Farris, who has borne him nine children, all living His father’s name was John, and, was born in-the state of Viiginiu many years ago, and spent his younger years in his native state when he went with his parents to Kentucky, and there married Miss Nancy Wherrott, and had one child. He moved to Indiana in the year 1807 and lived there until the year 1828, when he came to Illinois, and settled in Sangamon county, and lived there until liis death, which occurred in the year 1845. He whs the father of ten children — live sons and five daughters; five are still alive and married. John was his oldest son.