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 892, Union Township
Robert A. Mitchell, farmer and stock-raiser, P.O. , Avon, was
born in the Emerald Isle, Aug, 12, '29, and is the son of Chas.
Mitchell, who came across the ocean with his family to Pennsylvania in
1831, Thence to Ohio, and from thence to Knox county, Ill., and in
1865, Mr. M. settled in Fulton county. He was married April 12, '55, to
Sarah Hendricks; she was born in Indiana, Aug. 21, '30. They had 12
children, of whom 10 are living, viz: Caroline, Oliver, Stephen A.,
Henry, George, Elizabeth, Silas, Emma, Mary and Robert. Mr. M. owns
between 400 and 500 acres of land.
