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 905-906, Vermont Township
Adams & Sexton, wagon-makers and blacksmiths, Vermont; have
been associated in business four years; Jonas Adams was born in this
county in 1849, learned his trade at Springfield, Ill., worked as
journeyman in Vermont, and in 1875 entered partnership with Mr. Sexton.
James Sexton, born in Madison Co., O., in 1833, emigrated with his
parents in 1844 to a point about 8 miles north of Ellisville, this
county; at the age of 19 he learned carriage-making at Canton, and in
1865 came to Vermont and followed his trade. During the war he enlisted
in Co. F, 84th Ill. Inf., and was honorably discharged in March, 1863,
on account of physical debility.
