William Hosher Tax-Payers of Woodford County Worth Township transcribed by Dena Whitesell

Hoshor, Wm., farmer; Sec. 29; P. O. Spring Bay; was born in Ohio, April, 1804; came to Illinois, and what is now called Woodford Co., in June, 1828; returned to Ohio in 1831, and in the Spring of 1832 came back to Ill.; married Miss Emily Jones in 1841; she was born in Ohio, and died in Woodford Co. about 1846.  His second wife was Elonora Williams; married in 1858; she was born in Ohio; two children by first marriage - Perry (now living in kSpring Bay tp.) Jane (now Mrs. Daniel Jones of Partridge Tp). Mr. Hoshor ranks among the very earliest stttlers, and being one of the first pioneers of the county, a further history of him will be found in the general history of the work. (Source:  Past and Present of Woodford County, Illinois, 1878, pg 618)