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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 511-512, Bernadotte Township
Jeremiah Paul, farmer, sec. 24, Bernadotte township; P. O., Ipava; was born in Adams Co., Ohio, March 18, 1829. Left Ohio March 6, 1845, and came to this county, where he has lived ever since. Joined the 2d Ill. Vol. Cav. July 23d, 1861; was engaged in the battles of Hachee, Miss., and Holly Springs, at which place he was taken prisoner, but paroled on the ground and sent to Benton Barracks Dec. 22, '62, and there discharged. Was married to Anna E. Scovil Jan. 1, 1851, after whose death he married Mrs. Emma J. Griffith April 1860, by which union four children have been born, all of whom are living, - Charles H., Sidney R., Eva C. and Lewis. Both Mr. and Mrs. Paul are members of the M. E. Church. Green backer.