. History of Pike 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 ... Digest of state laws .. . ofthe (dd men wh«» have gone through the ex|»eriences nf j>ioneer , j»erhaps, such remarks are just, but, considering theexperiences, educ^tiois and entire life of such men, such remarks arebetter unsai«l. They have luul their trials, misfortunes, hardshipsand adventures, and shall we now, as th
. History of Pike 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 ... Digest of state laws .. . ofthe (dd men wh«» have gone through the ex|»eriences nf j>ioneer , j»erhaps, such remarks are just, but, considering theexperiences, educ^tiois and entire life of such men, such remarks arebetter unsai«l. They have luul their trials, misfortunes, hardshipsand adventures, and shall we now, as they are far down thewestern declivity of life, and many of them gone, jxiint to them thefinger of derision and laugh and sneer at the simi»licity of theirways? Let us rather cheer them up, revere and respect them, forbeneath those nuigh exteriors beat hearts as noble as ever throbbedin the human breast. These veterans have l)een comj>elled to livefor weeks ui)on and, if bread at all, it was bread made fromcorn ground in hand-mills, or pounded up with mortars. Iheirchildren have been destitute of siioes during the winter ; theirfamilies had no clothing excej)t what was carded, s])un, wove andmade into garments by their own hands; schools they had none;. ^^t^. (/V^/Z/^-^vy/ :^/^w ^C 4- HISTORY OF PIKE COUNTY. 245 churches thej had none; afflicted with sickness incident to all newcountries, sometimes the entire family at once; luxuries of lite theyhad none; the auxiliaries, improvements, inventions and labor-sav-ing machinery of to-day they had not; and what they possessed theyobtained by the hardest of labor and individual exertions; yet theybore these hardshi])s and privations without murmuring, hoping forbetter times to come, and often, too, with but little prospects ofrealization. As before mentioned, the changes written on every hand are mostwonderful. It has been but three-score years since the white manbegan to exercise dominion over this region, e
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