Fleury, Lewis 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 915, Vermont Township
Lewis Fleury, farmer and merchant, sec. 17; P. O., Vermont; was born in Penn., near Philadelphia, in 1809; his father, Pierre Fleury, emigrated from France to that place in 1798, was a brilliant, well educated man, and private secretary to the French minister, Petrie; married Elizabeth Sanford in Virginia, by whom he had 6 children; Lewis, the eldest son, grew to manhood in Washington, learned the carpenter’s trade, emigrated to Ross Co., Ohio, in 1828, married Mary daughter of Coonrod Zimmerman, and their children are 7, viz: Eugene, born in Kingston, Ross Co., O., Feb. 4, 1839; Mary E., born in Kingston Sept. 8, 1838, died Feb. 16, 1841; Adelaide, born Sept. 16, 1840, at the same place, died July 27, 1846; Eliza J., born Feb. 16, 1842, same place, and married David Bell; Julia, born Oct. 16, 1843, and married Robert Bailey; Estelle, born July 18, 1844, in Ross Co.; Adeline, born Aug. 7, 1847, in Fulton Co.; Edgar, born Dec. 7, 1848, in Fulton Co.; Belle, born April 1, 1853, in same county; and Ella, born in 1857. Eugene enlisted in Co. H, 65th Ill. Inf., May 19, 1862.