Portrait And Biographical Record of Christian County Illinois Containing Biog
Portrait And Biographical Record of Christian County Illinois Containing Biog
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Mr. Peabody is a native of the county which is still his home, his birth having occurred on the 27th of September, 1848. His father, Amos Pea- body, was born in Connecticut, and the grand- father, Samuel Peabody, was also a native of the same State. The latter left the East and, joining the Stonington colony, came with his family to Illinois in 1837. He was a farmer by occupation and followed that pursuit throughout his whole life. He died in this county, being drowned in Flat Branch when more ...than seventy years of age. Amos Peabody for many years followed farming in Christian County. He married Wil- helmina Fredericka Stetcher, a native of Germany, who when a young lad}' crossed the Atlantic with her parents, the family settling in Christian County. Her father died in Springfield at an ad- vanced age, and her mother reached the age of eighty years. Unto Mr. And Mrs. Peabody were born three children, but two died in infancy. The mother died in 1850, after which Mr. Pea- body was again married.
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