. Pioneers of Menard and Mason Counties; made up of personal reminiscences of an early life in Menard County, which we gathered in a Salem life from 1830 to 1840, and a Petersburg life from 1840 to 1850; including personal reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln and Peter Cartright. m Rutledge,Samuel Berry and a score of the Clarys, while on the San-gamon river lived Anno Ritter. Here is where my fatherwould buy a dozen white oak trees in the spring for stavetimber and cut them in the spring when the bark wouldpeel and get enough bark off the trees to pay for Ritter was surveyor of Menard c
. Pioneers of Menard and Mason Counties; made up of personal reminiscences of an early life in Menard County, which we gathered in a Salem life from 1830 to 1840, and a Petersburg life from 1840 to 1850; including personal reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln and Peter Cartright. m Rutledge,Samuel Berry and a score of the Clarys, while on the San-gamon river lived Anno Ritter. Here is where my fatherwould buy a dozen white oak trees in the spring for stavetimber and cut them in the spring when the bark wouldpeel and get enough bark off the trees to pay for Ritter was surveyor of Menard county for one termand died on his farm and was a respected citizen. Gregory Lukins lived in the forties between Rittersand Petersburg on the Harris place. A LETTER FROM H. L. ROSS Mr. T. G. Onstot: I understand you are getting up a history of Menardand Mason counties. I thought I might be able to renderyou some assistance in getting up the history of Masoncounty, as there is probably few men now living who knowas much about the history of Mason as myself. Mason county was originally a part of Tazewell, andmy father, O. M. Ross, in all probability built the firsthouse and ploughed the first land in the county. In 1821he moved from St. Clair county to what is now Fulton. 248 History of Menard County. county. In 1822 he built a hoitse in Havana on the bankof the Illinois river, where the city of Havana now that time he established a ferry across the river. Thenearest ferry on the south was at Beardstown and on thenorth at Peoria at Fort Clark. He engaged a man tobuild a house and run the ferry for him, and gave himone-half of the proceeds and the use of twenty acres ofland. At that time the land had not yet come into market,but was government land, but in 1827 Ross entered onethousand acres of land at $ per acre. The land layup and down the river, including the land where Havananow stands. It also included the land where Bath M. Ross moved from Fulton count
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