Mr. Wm. Stevenson

SOME ILLINOIS PIONEER SETTLERS.

It is pleasant to know that we yet have with us a goodly number of the pioneers who came into the State following closely upon the trail of the departing Indians. In Cass county, Mr. Wm. Stevenson observed the ninety-fifth anniversary of his birth, at his farm home near Little Indian creek, on the third of December, with a reunion of his family down to the fourth generation. He was born in Kentucky, December 3, 1813, and in 1829 came to Illinois whose political birth was the same date and month of his own, but five years later. At that time when but sixteen years old he drove with little help, behind his father's wagons, a flock of 300 sheep from his native home in Kentucky to Morgan county, Illinois, and has ever since resided on the farm (now in Cass county) he assisted his father to clear and put in cultivation.

Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Volume 1, No. 4, January 1909; By Illinois State Historical Society