Pool, Thomas 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 893, Union Township
Thomas Pool, son of John and Elizabeth (Fulton) Pool; was born in La Porte county, Ind., March 31, ’33; removed with his parents to Montgomery county, Ind., in 1837, thence to Wayne Co., Ind., in 1840, and to this county in 1843. He served 3 years in the Rebellion, in Co. I., 72d Ill. Inf., and was in the siege of Vicksburg, and the battles of Champion Hills, Mobile, Franklin and Nashville; was married Jan. 16, ’57, to Charlotte Leeper, in Fairview township. They have had 7 children, 6 of whom are living. Mr. and Mrs. P. are members of the M. E. Church. Mr. Pool began in life poor, and has gained a large farm which is well improved and stocked. His brother, Joseph Pool, went to California in 1858, and died there in 1859. Mrs. Pool’s brother, John Leeper, married a sister of Gov. Cullom. P. O., Avon.