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Isaac Engle
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History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with Sketches of its
Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil,
Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and
Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co.,
Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 433, Astoria Township
Isaac Engle, deceased, was born in Virginia in 1808. In an
early day his parents, Levi and Nancy Engle, settled in Ohio, where
Isaac grew to manhood. In 1826 he came to Illinois and located in
Menard Co.. and March 8, 1831, at Sugar Grove, he was married to
Cynthia Powell, of Ohio. In 1836 or 37 they came to Fulton Co.
and moved into a round-log cabin, where all the experiences of pioneer
life were passed through. Although for a number of years the
family lived in frugality, game was abundant upon the pioneer table,
and wild honey gathered in large quantities served to sweeten their
humble repast, yet for many years Isaac Engle struggled hard for a
livelihood in his forest home, and not until the whistle of the
locomotive startled the trapper and hunter into a sense of the fast
approaching civilization did he bring his farm into anything like
cultivation. Early in life he was led to believe in a higher
tribunal than exists upon earth, and thus having made his peace with
his Maker he awaited the summons that called him to a home not made
with hands, eternal in the Heavens, which occurred April 21, 1875, and
he was laid at rest amid the scenes of his eventful pioneer life.
With his wife, who had contributed not a little to their prosperity, he
left a family of 9 children. Isaac, the eldest son, has been
twice married; his first wife was Matilda Doty, the second, Miss Emma
Smith; Andrew married Susan Mitchell; Joseph married Ellen Wunderlich;
Elizabeth is the wife of Joab Darrow; Thomas is the husband of Rebecca
Rush; Louisa the wife of Nathaniel Smith; Brunetta married David
Bollinger; Emily, S. A. Russell, and Stephen, Cynthia Hath.
submitted by Carla Finley
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