Portrait and biographical album of Pike and Calhoun counties, Illinois .. . g from the wall of his dwelling and shooii. Iturkey with his old flintlock gun. Mr. Squiers labors were wi?ll rewarded and ;was finally enabled to become more independent ^renting a tract of land, and in the course of t jyears was so prosperous he had the means ibuy two hundred acres of land in what is now H >•din Precinct and a i)art of it included in the loV^valley of the Illinois River. The one hundred a5sixty acre tract was timber land and the forty a al)iece was mostly improved. He erected his hoi Jon sec
Portrait and biographical album of Pike and Calhoun counties, Illinois .. . g from the wall of his dwelling and shooii. Iturkey with his old flintlock gun. Mr. Squiers labors were wi?ll rewarded and ;was finally enabled to become more independent ^renting a tract of land, and in the course of t jyears was so prosperous he had the means ibuy two hundred acres of land in what is now H >•din Precinct and a i)art of it included in the loV^valley of the Illinois River. The one hundred a5sixty acre tract was timber land and the forty a al)iece was mostly improved. He erected his hoi Jon section 23, five miles south of Hardin and 1 )a resident here with the exce[)tion of two or th jByears till his death, which occurred herein pyear 1857. His wife, mother of our subject, di^in Gilead Precinct in 1835. Six of their child bwere reared to maturity, namely: Caroline, ElviiC, Mary A., Asher Green, Luna P. and Cha 18Carlton. * The latter, who forms the subject of this revi,was in his second jear when he came to CaUKJiCounty with his parents and here he was brccp. RESIDENCE OF JOSEPH CRESSWELL, SEC. 35. RICHW00D5 PRECT. CALHOUN
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