Schuyler County Illinois Genealogy
Israel Hill, one of the pioneer farmers of Oakland township, was born in Indiana, in 1827, a son of Ishmael Hill, a native of North Carolina, born in October, 1808. He was married April 4, 1850, to Miss Louisiana Pemberton, a daughter of Thomas Pemberton of Kentucky.
Christian Pilger, a live man and old citizen of Beardstown, was born in Waldeck, Prussia, in 1836, and came of a good old German family. His father, Fred Pilger, was at one time Mayor, as had been his father and grandfather before him. He was married in this city to Miss Margaret Schuman, born in Baden, Germany, and came to this country when eighteen years of age. Her parents also came to Beardstown and died here consistent members of the Lutheran Church.
Samuel M. Schroder, a rising young business man of Oakland township, and one of the most progressive agriculturists of Schuyler county, was born in McDonough county, Illinois, in 1860, on the 27th day of April. His father, Nicholas Schroder, was a native of Germany, but emigrated to America with his mother when a lad of eleven years, in 1837. Mr. Schroder was united in marriage, in 1880, to Miss Sarah E. Smith, a native of Fulton county, Illinois, and a daughter of John and Rebecca (Barcus) Smith, natives of Pennsylvania and Illinois, respectively.
IchabodPerry ICHABOD PERRY, one of theearly setters of this county, residing in Mount Sterling, was born in Claibornecounty, Tennessee, July 18, 1815. His father, Edmond Perry, was a nativeof North Carolina and served in the war of 1812, receiving a land warrantfor 160 acres; but it is not known that this was ever located. His fathercame from the same State, and removed from there to Claiborne, Tennessee,where he purchased land and carried on farming until 1831, when he cameto Illinois. He spent his last years in Brown county. The maiden name ofhis wife was Rebecca Yarberry, also a native … Read more
WILLIAM B. MANLOVE was born in Schuyler County, December 28, 1830, near the town of Rushville. He is the son of Jonathan and Charity (Bodenhamer) Manlove. The former was a farmer of North Carolina and came to this county in the fall of 1830, traveling overland all the way, and settled near Rushville, where he stayed the first winter. The next spring, he went south and settled near Sugar Grove; and in 1834, he sold and moved to Birmingham Township and bought a farm where our subject still lives, of eighty acres. He put up a log house, in which … Read more
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