Burson, Lemuel 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 909, Vermont Township
Lemuel Burson, deceased, was born in Guernsey Co., O., in 1818; married Elizabeth Otters, and had 5 children, only 2 of whom survive, namely, Jesse, who is married and resides in Vermont, and Franklin, who resides on the homestead. He died in 1854, leaving a widow, who is still living. By trade he was first a plasterer, but during most of his life he was a farmer.