GEO. J. VINEYARD, farmer and pension agent, was born in 1834in Hardin County, Ill., one of nine children of Eli P. and Sarah (Hill) Vineyard.  The father, a farmer, was born Nov. 15,1806, in Virginia, came to Hardin County in 1811 when a child.  After his marriage he purchased 200 acres of land, on which he still resides.  The mother, born in Georgia in 1808, came to Hardin County in 1824 with her parents.  She died in August, 1874.  With common-school advantages our subject began life, and became owner of his present fine farm of 200 acres in 1861.  In 1855 he married Sarah, daughter of Jackson and Mary Moore, born in Gallatin County in 1838.  Their six children are John T., Benjamin F., Margaret, Mary, George A. and Lucretia.  Since 1877 he has served as justice, and since 188- has been pension agent, and has collected about $50,000 for soldiers.  Politically a Republican, his first vote was for Buchanan.
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