Easley, Oscar 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 914, Vermont Township
Oscar Easley, farmer and mill owner, sec. 26; P. O., Vermont; was born in Freeport, Harrison Co., O., in 1835; his father, Isaac Easley, a native of Ohio, married Mary Norris, and they became the parents of 11 children; in 1836 they emigrated to this tp., settling upon 120 acres of wild land, and in a round-log cabin, when wolves and panthers abounded here; Mr. Easley died in 1861; Mrs. E. died in 1859. Oscar received a good education; when the war broke out he enlisted in Co. F, 84th Ill. Inf.; was in the battles of Chickamauga, Stone River, Resaca, etc.; honorably discharged in 1865; for 12 years has owned a good saw-mill. In 1859 he married Amy Freeman, daughter of Marshall Freeman, deceased. Children: Marshall, Perry, Fred, Lillie and Norris.