Mayers, John C. 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 955, Woodland Township
John C. Mayers, farmer, sec. 19; P. O., Astoria; was born in Penn. Aug. 4, 1815; his father, Peter Mayers, was a farmer in Penn., where he was united in marriage to Miss Eve Brillhart, who bore him 12 children, John being the 8th, who married Barbara Kisley, who bore him 5 children. Mrs. Mayers died in Penn. in 1845. By his second wife, Lydia Dressler, a native of Penn., he had 2 children; she also died in Penn. in 1850, and Mr. M. united his fortunes to Miss Mary Wenz, by whom he has 3 children. Mr. Mayers settled here in 1854, purchasing his present farm of 80 acres.