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
Cyrus F. Fordyce, farmer, sec. 6; P. O., Table Grove; was born
in Green Co., Pa., in 1807; lived in Ohio a few years, and in 1828 came
to Fulton Co.; in Ohio again during the deep snow; returned to this
county in 1831; saw hard times; in 1835 he married Parmelia Hughes,
daughter of George Hughes, of Farmer’s tp., and he has 3 children
living, - John, George and Mary.
