Past and present of Menard County, Illinois .. . and he is now the owner of realty in-terests that return to him a good income andenable him to enjoy a well merited rest. Mr. Stone has been twice married. In Sep-tember. 1863, he was united in marriage to MissSarah Francis Harding, a native of Ken-tucky, and they became the parents of threechildren: Charles, who is conducting a drugstore in Greenview; Kittie J., the wife ofDwiaht Smith, also of Greenview: and the widow ..f Aamn Hatfield. Mrs. Stonedeparted this life in 1876 and in 1878 was again married, bis second union be-ing
Past and present of Menard County, Illinois .. . and he is now the owner of realty in-terests that return to him a good income andenable him to enjoy a well merited rest. Mr. Stone has been twice married. In Sep-tember. 1863, he was united in marriage to MissSarah Francis Harding, a native of Ken-tucky, and they became the parents of threechildren: Charles, who is conducting a drugstore in Greenview; Kittie J., the wife ofDwiaht Smith, also of Greenview: and the widow ..f Aamn Hatfield. Mrs. Stonedeparted this life in 1876 and in 1878 was again married, bis second union be-ing with Eliza J. Stone, a native of Illinois,who died in 1880. Mr. Stone has spent his entire life in Me-nard county, covering a period of seventy-onewars, and lias therefore been a witness of thegreater pari of its growth and his boyhood days there was much land thatwas still uncultivated and the homes of thesettlers were very primitive as compared withthe tine residences which are now seen through- w EC XM so< Si Wsoz s. ^ PAST AND PRESENT OF MENARD COUNTY is] out Menard county. He assisted materially inthe substantial upbuilding of this portion ofthe state especially along agricultural lines,and lias ever manifested a keen interest in thegeneral work of improvement. BERTON W. HOLE. M. Berton \V. Hole, who is engaged m prac-tice in Tallula. where his ability has foundrecognition in a large and growing patronage,was horn in Mason county near Havana, Illi-nois, October 11. 1870, his parents being Wil-liam II. and Rebecca Susan (Dieffenbaeher)Hole. The father was of English lineage,while the mother was of German descent. Hisbirth occurred near Salem in Washington coun-ty, Indiana, and his father was a native ofOhio. The paternal great-grandfather, DanielHole, came from England to America ami wasI lie founder of the family in the new the time of the Civil war William H. Holeespoused the cause of the Union and enlistedin the Eighty-Fifth
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