Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . reststhere are now rich, cultivated fields and hand-some farm residences. Huntsville enjoys the unique distinction ofbeing the only township in the county settled bya pioneer who came from the West. In all theother townships the pioneers crossed the IllinoisRiver and either went direct to their destinationor tarried a while in the Rushville the first homeseeker in Huntsville Townshipcame from the West. This honor belongs to Wil-liam Spangler, a native of Pennsylvania, whohad afterwards lived in Kentucky and had reached manhood and
Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . reststhere are now rich, cultivated fields and hand-some farm residences. Huntsville enjoys the unique distinction ofbeing the only township in the county settled bya pioneer who came from the West. In all theother townships the pioneers crossed the IllinoisRiver and either went direct to their destinationor tarried a while in the Rushville the first homeseeker in Huntsville Townshipcame from the West. This honor belongs to Wil-liam Spangler, a native of Pennsylvania, whohad afterwards lived in Kentucky and had reached manhood and had a wife andfamily when he decided to push on further passage on a boat he went down the OhioRiver and up the Mississippi, landing at Quincyin the summer of 1832. He brought with him ateam and wagon, and loading his household goods,drove east through Adams County to the north-east quarter of Section 5, Huntsville Township,where he built his cabin and cleared a tract forcultivation, afterwards securing title by pre-emp-. HISTORY OF SCHUYLER COUNTY. 703 tion. Mr. Spangler resided on his homesteadfarm until 1851, when he removed to HancockCounty. Before Mr. Spangler and his family were set-tled in their new home, Willis G. Moffett cameoverland from Kentucky and settled with hisfamily on the southwest quarter of Section 4,and in the fall of that year John Thornhill andJamison Wilson settled on the north half of Sec-tion 22. Jesse Burke, a Virginian, was one ofthe first to settle in the south part of the town-ship, and in 1832 he built his cabin on the north-east quarter of Section 30. In 1833 the settlement was further increasedby the arrival of Reuben Allphi-n, from Kentucky,who settled upon the southeast quarter of Section10; Robert Clayton built a cabin on the north-west quarter of Section 13, but never acquiredtitle; David Tyree and Hamilton Anderson, withtheir families, located on the southeast quarterof Section 11, and Samuel Warren, Stephen Men-denball, Alfred
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