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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History
of
Sangamon County, Illinois
Together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships,
Educational,
Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits
of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of
Representative Citizens.
HISTORY OF ILLINOIS
Embracing Accounts of the Pre-Historic Races, Aborigines, Winnebago and
Political and Military History
- ILLUSTRATED -
Publ. Chicago:
Interstate Publishing Company
1881.
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ENOCH WALKER was born in
Lowden, Franklin county, Pennsylvania, July 17, 1820.
When twelve years of age moved with his parents on a farm in
Wayne, (now Ashland county) Ohio, where he married Miss
Elizabeth M. Wilson, June 22, 1847. She was born
in Ashland county, Ohio, and was a daughter of Charles
Wilson and Mary Anderson. In 1849, Mr. Walker
moved on a farm in Indiana, where he remained ten months,
when he came to Illinois and settled in Salisbury township,
Sangamon county, the fall of 1850. Six months after he
went to Gardner township and lived two years, when he bought
and moved on the farm where he now lives, in section
twenty-eight, Salisbury township. His wife,
Elizabeth M. Walker died April, 1853. She was a
member of the Presbyterian Church, and the mother of three
children, viz: Mrs. Mary E. Mock, Mrs. Sarah J. Campbell
and Miss Harriet Walker. Mr. Walker was again
married Nov. 30, 1853, to Miss Jane Hall.
She was born in Ohio, and was a daughter of Margaret
Rawlston. Mrs. Walker was a
member of the Presbyterian Church and died July 13, 1854,
Mr. Walker was married to his present wife.
Miss Caroline P. Craig, Dec. 4, 1854. She was
born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, and was a daughter of
William Craig. His wife, Lillian S.
Skinner, was born in Pennsylvania. She was a
member of the Presbyterian Church and has had six
children—four living—viz: Lillian, John W., Annie E.
and Enoch W. Walker. The father of Mr. Enoch
Walker, John Walker, was born in Pennsylvania. He
was a farmer, and by trade a tanner. He settled in
Gardner township, Sangamon county, Illinois, in 1849.
He died Sept. 21, 1859; he was a member of the Presbyterian
Church. His wife, Elizabeth Skinner, was
born in Pennsylvania; she was also a member of the
Presbyterian Church and mother of ten children—eight
living—six boys and two girls. Mr. Enoch Walker
has a farm of one hundred and two acres in Salisbury
township, under good cultivation.
Source: History of Sangamon Co., IL - publ. 1881 -
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JAMES H. WELLS was born on
a farm in Clark country, Indiana, May 31, 1834. July
8, 1852, he was married near Salisbury, Sangamon county, to
Miss Margaret J. Sackett, he lived on a farm in
Menard county, until the spring of 1853, when he moved on a
farm two miles south of Salisbury, where he lived four years
then lived on a farm in the same neighborhood until 1860,
when he bought a farm of eighty acres in sections
twenty-seven, thirty-three, thirty-four and thirty-five,
where he still resides. He now owns a farm of one
thousand acres of fine land under a high state of
cultivation. Mr. Wells began a poor boy, but by
hard work and close application to business has gained a
position he may well be proud of. He and wife have had
a family of six children, five living, viz. Levi M.,
Harriett E., Harry R., Lelia and Richard Wells.
James H. died when seven years of age. Mrs.
J. H. Wells was born in Illinois, she was a daughter of
Thomas Sackett and Polly Sackett.
J. H. Wells was a son of James Wells and
Balinda (Owens) Wells, the former born in Kentucky, the
latter in Indiana. They had a family of five children
and both parents died when Mr. J. H. Wells was a
child. In politics Mr. Wells is a Democrat, and
cast his first vote for Buchanan for President of the
United States.
Source: History of Sangamon Co., IL - publ. 1881 -
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