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
Isaac Cadawallader, farmer and stock-raiser, sec. 14; P. O.,
Vermont; born in Ohio, in 1806, and in 1829 emigrated to Lewistown,
Fulton Co., with the family; in 1830 moved to Vermont, where he
pre-empted land in 1832. He was therefore among the very earliest
pioneers of this tp. His cabin was the second or third in the tp. He
still has some of the stock of bees he took from a bee-tree 40 years
ago. In 1831 he was married by Esquire John Howard (the first settler
here) to Miss Elizabeth Ackerson, a daughter of Garrett Ackerson, of N.
J., by whom he has had 7 children, all of whom are living and in
comfortable circumstances, - Thos. T.; Isaac B. resides in Nebraska;
John Garrett and Anna E. live in McDonough Co.; Susan C. and Sarah E.
reside in Fulton Co. Mr. C.’s father, John C., was a native of Penn.,
where he followed farming, and where he married Ruth Bogue and had 9
children; in April, 1806, he emigrated to Tuscarawas Co., O., where he
remained until 1829, when he came to this county. He died in 1866; Mrs.
C. died in 1843.
