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 752, Kerton Township
Jonathan Curless, farmer and stock-raiser, was born in Brown
Co., O., in 1836. His father, John Curless, was also born in Ohio,
followed farming, and married Phoebe Rumney, and they became the
parents of 7 children. They migrated to this county when Jonathan, next
to the youngest, was a very small boy; but the boy returned to Ohio,
where he grew to manhood and married Sarah J., daughter of James
Lemons. His children are: Nora A., Emery B., Linda A., Ulysses G., Ida
B. and Nancy J.,- 6 in number. On the breaking out of the great war Mr.
C. enlisted in Co. H, 189th Reg. Ohio Inf., for the term of the war. At
its close he was honorably discharged at Nashville, Tenn., and returned
to Ohio. In 1869 he went to Missouri, and in 1872 settled in Kerton tp.
P. O., Marbletown. Politics, Republican.
