WAYNE  COUNTY, IL

1884  BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES

ARRINGTON TOWNSHIP

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GEORGE  B.  HILLIARD,  farmer, P. O. Jeffersonville.  Among the oldest men of Arrington Township, Wayne County, Ill., yet living, is George B. Hilliard, who was born on a ship between Massachusetts and Connecticut, March 17, 1794, and is a son of James Hilliard, of Ireland.  Subject was educated in Adams County, Penn., and was in the war of 1812, serving eighteen months in the Fifth Regiment under  the command of Capt. Thompson, and, being in the battles of Lundy's Lane, Fort George and several other skirmishes, where he was wounded in the leg by a rifle ball.  Our subject came to Wayne County, Ill., in the fall of 1853, where he still resides in good health, with his son, James W.  He was married, August 29, 1824, to  Margaret Foreacre, of Virginia, by whom he had thirteen children, three of whom are living -- James W., George H. and Sarah.  The following are those dead, who reached womanhood and manhood -- Nancy J. Craig, Margaret Winland, Susannah Galliager, William A., Mary Gutherty, Sarah Jeffers, Mariah Broche and John, who died in the late war.  Politics, Democratic.

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