History of Hancock County, Illinois, together with an outline history of the State, and a digest of State laws . jg„Q Joseph Hartman J Floto 1880. HANCOCK TOWNSHIP. Township 5—5, in the center, on the east line, and improperlynamed after the county, was for some time attached to St. Marysand Fountain Green. It is largely timbered and broken, but hassome beautiful prairie land and line farms. The west branch ofCrooked creek runs an extremely tortuous course through this tp.,entering it at sec. 26 and crossing into McDonough from 36,From the northwest corner of 28 to the southeast of 26, le
History of Hancock County, Illinois, together with an outline history of the State, and a digest of State laws . jg„Q Joseph Hartman J Floto 1880. HANCOCK TOWNSHIP. Township 5—5, in the center, on the east line, and improperlynamed after the county, was for some time attached to St. Marysand Fountain Green. It is largely timbered and broken, but hassome beautiful prairie land and line farms. The west branch ofCrooked creek runs an extremely tortuous course through this tp.,entering it at sec. 26 and crossing into McDonough from 36,From the northwest corner of 28 to the southeast of 26, less thanthree and u half miles, this stream meanders a distance of about12 miles, at one point making a circuit of over three miles andreturning to within 40 rods of its starting place. It is appropri-ately named Crooked creek. The east branch enters the McDonough county, and the united stream flows again intothat county from sec. 36. Among the pioneers of this tp., we are unable to mention but afew; viz., Major Williams, the Yetters, Wrights, Spangles, Longs,Anthony Duify, Dr. Wm. Booze, James G. Smith, T, , A. G. Botts, J. L
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