Oblong Twp. -
JOHN IKEMIER, farmer, P. O. Eaton.  He was born in Ohio July 3, 1838.  His father, Andrew, was a native of Pennsylvania, born in the year 1795, and died March, 1880.  His mother, Catharine (Snyder), was born in Pennsylvania in the year 1798, and died in the year 1870.  Subject was reared on a farm in Ohio until fifteen years of age, at which time he came with his parents to Crawford County and settled on a farm in Oblong Township, on the farm now occupied by subject.  His chances for education were rather limited.  In Ohio, the schools were far apart, and consequently he did not attend school very much.  He remained at home and worked for his father until about twenty-eight yeas of age, at which time he engaged in farming for himself.  He owns a nice farm of 120 acres, of which about all is in cultivation, and raises grain, principally wheat, corn and oats.  He was married in Crawford County, at the age of twenty-two, to Laura Stephens, a native of Licking County, Ohio.  They have one child - John.
--- Source: History of Crawford & Clark Cos., Illinois - Illustrated - Publ. Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers, Lakeside Building, 1883 - Page 345

La Motte Twp. -
Z. ILIFF, farmer, P. O. Palestine, was born July 30, 1839, in Hampshire County, W. Va.  He is a son of James Iliff.  Mr. Z. Iliff spent most of his early life among strangers, being six years in Ohio.  In 1866, he came to Crawford County, where he was joined in matrimony, May 14, 1868, to Mrs. Margaret Barker, born July 4, 1838; she is the daughter of William Hicks, whose father, William Hicks, Sr., was one of the pioneers of this county.  William Hicks, Jr., married Elizabeth Montgomery, who was the mother of four children.  Mrs. Iliff is the mother of three children - Charles Barker, born Aug. 26, 1859, he died Nov. 8, 1862, he was a son from her first husband; Lessie, born Nov. 4, 1869; and Nora, born May 8, 1874, are from her second husband.  On the 10th of February, 1865. Mr. Iliff obeyed the call of Union to defend the stars and stripes, and enlisted in the One Hundred and Eighty-fifth Ohio Infantry Volunteers, and served till the close of the war.  Mr. Iliff is independent in politics, and is a wide-awake, well-to-do farmer, and together with his estimable wife, is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
--- Source: History of Crawford & Clark Cos., Illinois - Illustrated - Publ. Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers, Lakeside Building, 1883 - Page 307