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 954, Woodland Township
John F. Kingery, agriculturist, was born in Fulton Co., on the
old farm homestead of his parents, Wm. and Jane Kingery, in 1837; among
the rugged associations of pioneer life young Kingery spent his
boyhood. August, 1862, he enlisted in Co. H, 85th Ill. Inf., at
Perryville. Aug. 8, 1858, he was united in marriage to Mrs. Catherine
Smith, a daughter of Harrison Newberry, and relict of Geo. Smith. Of
the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. K. there were born 6 children, -
Lafayette, John W., Edwin F., Thos. J., Clayton and Sadie.
submitted by Jane Kingery
