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 854, Pleasant Township
Matthew Kingery, farmer and stock dealer, sec. 36; P. O.,
Summum; was born in Indiana Feb. 19 '21, son of Tobias and Mary (Onion)
Kingery. Mr. Kingery has always been an industrious farmer, commenced
with but little means and now has a comfortable home, the farm
consisting of 175 acres in good cultivation. He emigrated to Illinois
with his mother in 1837, his father having previously died.
submitted by Glenene Brown
