Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . ions. To Mr. and Mrs. Bates have been born sevenchildren : William E., a farmer in WarrenCounty. 111., who married Annie Hoke, and hassix children, Grover C, Mabel, Samuel E., HenryB., Zelma and Ernest; Francis B., marriedLina Davis and lives in South Dakota; Laurais the wife of Charles Gise, a farmer of Brown-ing Township; Charles L. a farmer on the oldBates homestead in Browning Township, mar-ried Pearl Heffner. and has three children. Ada,Lulu. Bula ; Ida J., wife of Charles Heffner, afarmer of Browning Township, and mother ofHarold and Geneva Heffner;
Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . ions. To Mr. and Mrs. Bates have been born sevenchildren : William E., a farmer in WarrenCounty. 111., who married Annie Hoke, and hassix children, Grover C, Mabel, Samuel E., HenryB., Zelma and Ernest; Francis B., marriedLina Davis and lives in South Dakota; Laurais the wife of Charles Gise, a farmer of Brown-ing Township; Charles L. a farmer on the oldBates homestead in Browning Township, mar-ried Pearl Heffner. and has three children. Ada,Lulu. Bula ; Ida J., wife of Charles Heffner, afarmer of Browning Township, and mother ofHarold and Geneva Heffner; Jonathan, lives withhis parents: and Blanche, employed by theBrowning Mutual Telephone Company. All ofthe children have practical common school edu-cations, and have been reared to make themselvesuseful in their respective spheres of family enjoys an enviable reputation through-out the county, and is associated with highideals, integrity and public spiritedness. has made himself a power as an agricul- m 7£$<. FRANCES MILLER HISTORY OF SCHUYLER COUNTY. 779 turist and a citizen, and has won the confidenceand esteem of all with whom he ever has beenidentified. BAXTER, James M.—Just fifty years previousto the fall of 1907, James M. Baxter came toSchuyler County with fourteen rugged years to hiscredit and a wealth of wholesome ambitionswhich since have found expression in the per-suit of agriculture, war. politics and the latter may be considered the key-note of the character of this successful farmer,for he has lived it seven days in the week andfifty-two weeks in a year, and now is roundingout his thirtieth year as Superintendent of theSunday School of the Methodist EpiscopalChurch, which he joined in the winter of 1861. Mr. Baxter was born January 20, 1843, in Car-roll County. Ohio, a son of George and Margaret(Knopster) Baxter, the latter of German an-cestry. His paternal grandparents were bornand married in Pennsylvania and settled i
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