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 931, Vermont Township
R. T. Thomas, farmer, sec. 23; P. O., Ipava. Wm. A. Thomas was
an Ohio farmer who married Eliza Dobbins and had 8 children, and
settled in Vermont in 1829. These old people still live here. Robert
T., their fourth child, was born in this tp. in 1839; enlisted in Co.
H, 28th Ill. Inf., re-enlisted as a veteran, and at the close of the
war was honorably discharged. In 1867 he married Mrs. Elizabeth Koons,
widow of James Koons and daughter of Abram Kost, and they have had 5
children, 3 of whom are living, - Hattie M., Arzula and Mary.
