History of Hancock County, Illinois, together with an outline history of the State, and a digest of State laws . Bedell, as General-in-chief;Capt. A. P. Cochran, Samuel Steele, Cyrus Felt, John Gordon,William Yance, John Waggonner, John Cochran, Sr., John Coch-ran, Jr., and perhaps others. To our old friend, Elisha Worrell, Esq., of Chili, we are indebtedfor the following incident, illustrating the neighborly kindnessthat prevailed among the pioneers of an early day. The deep snowwhich fell in 1S30-31 caught some of the settlers with a scant sup- HISTOKT OF HANCOCK COUNTY. 429 ply of provision
History of Hancock County, Illinois, together with an outline history of the State, and a digest of State laws . Bedell, as General-in-chief;Capt. A. P. Cochran, Samuel Steele, Cyrus Felt, John Gordon,William Yance, John Waggonner, John Cochran, Sr., John Coch-ran, Jr., and perhaps others. To our old friend, Elisha Worrell, Esq., of Chili, we are indebtedfor the following incident, illustrating the neighborly kindnessthat prevailed among the pioneers of an early day. The deep snowwhich fell in 1S30-31 caught some of the settlers with a scant sup- HISTOKT OF HANCOCK COUNTY. 429 ply of provisions; indeed, abont all of them were in that predica-ment. One, however, had plenty—John Harding, who was one ofthe first settlers in the neighborhood, and whose name appears onthe first jury list. He had a number of fat hogs, one of which hewould kill at a time, and hitching his horse to it would mount andmake the circuit of the neighborhood, diaggingit through the snowand allowing each family to cut off according to their not that obeying the divine injunction under difficulties? %^ ^1; A^. CHAPTER XIY U. tr. R. R., Which in the anti-slaverj vernacnhir means the Under-GroundBail Boad. As Hancock county lies in a direct line between theSouth and Her Majestys Dominion of Canada, one or more linesof this road was early established through it, on which considerabletransportation of sable freight was effected. Conductors residedall along the line from the Mississippi to Detroit; and several hadhomes in this county, chieli} about Augusta, Round Prairie, andother eastern neighborhoods. These conductors wore no insignia of office, but knew each otheras if by intuition. They were generally intelligent and sharp-witted men, could tell a white sheep from a black one on thedarkest night, and would make their way through a dense forestor trackless prairie, with no better guide than the north star or themoss on the sides of trees. Xow that the days of slavery are over, and t
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