WILLIAM C. GARRETT

He was born in Knox count y, Illinois. October I8, 1845, and came with his parents to this township in 1850. His father, James M., was born in Indiana in 1815, and came to Illinois with his father, George Garrett, as early as 1835, and settled near Abington, in Knox county; his older brothers, William F. and John S., having come to the state still earlier, being here to participate in the Black Hawk war in 1832.

His mother (Mary M. Cullison) was born in Knot county, Ohio. August 4, 1824, and came to Knox county, Illinois, with .her parents in the spring of 1842, settling first on Raw creek, near the present town of Gilson; moving to the vicinit y of Victoria, in the same count y, in 1845. She was married to James M. Garrett, in Knox county, in December, 1844. . The subject of this sketch was married November 25, 1869, to Miss S. Augusta Spicer, daughter of Hon. H. H. Spicer, of this township.. She was born in Greene township April 11, 1840.

Until March, 1872, they lived in the old homestead with Mrs. M. M. Garrett, at which time they removed to a farm which they owned in section 16, this township. By partition and exchange in 1876 they came into possession of the old homestead again, where they now reside. His farm consists of 220 acres. They have three children : Georgia (born February 24, 1873), Mortimer S. (July 6, 1877), and E. Roy (January 8, 1880). They are members of Zion Methodist Episcopal church. William C. is the oldest of the family. His next brother, George, died when a youth ; the next, J. Arthur, married Miss Lizzie Harbour, and lives on E. 4- S. E. Sec. 17, in this township. His only sister, M. Ella, who is a graduate of Redding College, lives with her mother in Abington.

 

 

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