. Pioneers of Menard and Mason Counties; made up of personal reminiscences of an early life in Menard County, which we gathered in a Salem life from 1830 to 1840, and a Petersburg life from 1840 to 1850; including personal reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln and Peter Cartright. it in its earliest days. I\.Watkins is now the sole owner of Huron, and is monarchof all he surveys. Concord was settled in an early day. Samuel Berry, abrother of John M. Berry, James Pantier, William Rut ledge,Reason Shipley, Jack Clary and Rile Armstrong were thefirst settlers. Jack Clary first settled at Clarys Grove,
. Pioneers of Menard and Mason Counties; made up of personal reminiscences of an early life in Menard County, which we gathered in a Salem life from 1830 to 1840, and a Petersburg life from 1840 to 1850; including personal reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln and Peter Cartright. it in its earliest days. I\.Watkins is now the sole owner of Huron, and is monarchof all he surveys. Concord was settled in an early day. Samuel Berry, abrother of John M. Berry, James Pantier, William Rut ledge,Reason Shipley, Jack Clary and Rile Armstrong were thefirst settlers. Jack Clary first settled at Clarys Grove, butwas living at Concord as far back as I can recollect. He-had a large family of boys, of which Rile Clary is the Berry lived south of Concord Church, was a veryreligious man and could exhort as well as any of thepreachers. He was a very solemn man. and seldom laughedor cracked a joke. William Rutledge was one of the largefamily of Rutledges. His son. McGrady, died two yearsago. He was over eighty years old. Reason Shipley ^38 History of Menard County. lived north, near the Sangamon river. George Kirby liveda few miles farther north than Squire Masters. We metKirby and Masters two years ago. They were both eighty -six and were both strong for that ra-YW w* l^tlli jS^H^feg jjftj Bfe SSyy
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