Hickle, Aaron 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 918-919, Vermont Township
Aaron Hickle, deceased, was born in Virginia, but was taken to Ohio when he was 7 years of age, where he grew to manhood and married Sarah Stanhope, daughter of George and Mary Stanhope, of New Jersey. In 1848 he came to Vermont tp., and died in 1877. He left a wife and 8 children: Rebecca, who died Aug. 27, 1874; George, who married Miss Parmelia Wilson and resides in this tp.; Eliza, who married John Brown and resides also in this tp.; Samantha, who married John Mills and resides in Astoria tp.; Harriet, who married Wm. Grady and resides in Astoria; John, who married Agnes Diehl and lives in Vermont tp.; Sigourney, who married Elisha Elliot and lives in Woodland tp.; and Cassius A., who dwells on the old homestead.