Jesse NORMAN, a native of South Carolina, came here in
1829, and bought the improvements on section twenty-three of a "squatter"
named Jesse PHILIPPS. Norman lived in this county until his death
in 1844. His only son, now living, Jason Norman, is a resident of
Wheatfield, and the oldest settler now residing in the township, having lived
here fifty-two years. He located on the place where he now lives, on
section twenty-four, in 1847. At that time there was not a house between
his place and Carlyle.
Copied from the "1881 History of Marion & Clinton Counties, Illinois"
Clinton County Biography Index
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