Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . on. After Mr. Hobarts parentsarrived another cabin was built, more preten-tious than the first, and in the years to followit served as home, school house and yet a resident of the Harris settlement,Mr. Hobart had planned for the making of ahome in Schuyler County, and had gone downthe State some fifty miles to an older settlement,where he traded a wagon, watch and otherthings brought from the East for a yoke of oxen,plow, chains, two cows and seven hogs, andenough grain and meal was laid in store to lastuntil mid-summer. As soon as the weat
Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . on. After Mr. Hobarts parentsarrived another cabin was built, more preten-tious than the first, and in the years to followit served as home, school house and yet a resident of the Harris settlement,Mr. Hobart had planned for the making of ahome in Schuyler County, and had gone downthe State some fifty miles to an older settlement,where he traded a wagon, watch and otherthings brought from the East for a yoke of oxen,plow, chains, two cows and seven hogs, andenough grain and meal was laid in store to lastuntil mid-summer. As soon as the weather permitted, ground wasbroken with a plow drawn by a team of oxen,and that year the Hobarts cultivated fifteenacres of timber land and about twenty-five acresof prairie soil, which produced a bountiful cropof corn, pumpkins, melons and turnips. In Aprilof that year Ephraim Eggleston and family ofsix children arrived in the settlement and lo-cated near the Hobarts, where they broke landand planted a crop. Samuel Gooch, Orris MeCart-. JOHN A. BALLOT HISTORY OP SCHUYLER COUNTY. 641 uey and Isaac M. House—all unmarried men—set-tled on Section 27 that same summer, but didnot get their crop planted until June, and beforeharvest time it was nipped by the frost. Following closely after the Eggleston familycame Samuel and James Turner, who migratedfrom St. Clair County in the southern part ofthe State. They had traveled northward to finda more healthful climate, for while residents ofthe American bottom death had claimed all theremaining members of their family. They builta cabin, but never occupied it, returning to County with the expectation of returningthe succeeding spring. While there James Tur-ner died and, in the spring of 1825, Samuel re-turned alone and located on the southwest quar-ter of Section 25, Buena Vista Township, and heever afterwards made his home in this neigh-borhood, where his children and grandchildrenstill reside. Late in the fall of that first ye
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