Renner, Ephraim 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 456-457, Astoria Township
Ephraim Renner, farmer and stock-raiser, sec. 4; P. O., Vermont. The above named gentleman is a native of Ohio and was born April 26, 1833; his father, Daniel Renner, also a native of the Buckeye State, was a shoemaker by vocation. He married Miss Lydia Fry, by whom he reared a family of 10 children. Ephraim was eight years of age when his parents arrived in Astoria. Here his father leased property of Thomas Sidwell, a well-known early resident of Fulton Co. On this property he passed the remainder of his days, and his wife four years later followed her husband to that bourne from whence no traveler returns. When the war broke out Ephraim enlisted in Co. H, 84th regt., and participated in many famous battles, and was 110 days under fire during the Atlanta campaign. July 12, 1857, he was married to Miss Sarah Powell, by whom he had two children, - Oscar and Omar. Mrs. R. died Oct. 23, 1863, and in 1866 he was united in marriage with Miss Margaret Carnahan, by whom he has 6 children, 5 of whom are living, - Melinda, Melissa, Columbus, Charles and Arthur.
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