Bateson, George bio

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 907, Vermont Township
George Bateson, farmer, sec. 21: P. O., Vermont; was born in Perry county, O., in 1843; his father, Lewis Bateson, was an Ohio farmer who married Nancy Forsythe and had 12 children; they emigrated to this tp. when George, the youngest, was about 13 years of age; in 1862 the latter enlisted in Co. A, 28th Ill. Inf.; fought at Mobile and in several other noted engagements; honorably discharged March 10, 1865.