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 657, Farmers' Township
Nathaniel Easley, farmer, sec. 26; P.O., Ipava. In the year 1832
Thomas Easley ventured into the then wilds of Fulton Co., to seek for
himself a home. He was a saddler by trade, having learned his trade in
Wheeling, Va. He was also a Surveyor. While working at his trade in
Lewistown he used his surplus money in improving a farm in Farmers'
township, sec. 26. He was married March 7, 1836, to Lydia A. Buck, who
was born in Harrison Co., O., June 23, 1819. They have had 7 children,
of whom 4 are living. Mr. Easley died Dec. 7, 1849. Our subject,
Nathaniel Easley, was born May 10, 1848, in Farmers' tp. He is a
prosperous farmer, and is residing on the old home place with his
mother. He is also proprietor of a threshing-machine and clover-huller.
