Wages, Henry 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 475, Banner Township
Henry Wages, farmer, sec. 8; P. O., Canton. His father, Ephraim, was born in Maryland, and died in 1849; his mother, Nancy (Buckingham), was also born in Md., and died in Sept., 1870. Henry was born in Muskingum Co., O., in 1829; came, with his parents, to Fulton Co. in 1832, to Monterey in 1835, and to his present neighborhood in 1841; married Mary J. Brinager in 1856, Nancy J. Higgins, a native of Clark Co., Ky., in 1861, and thirdly Mrs. Mary Bybee. Children - John Henry, born Nov. 25, 1867, and Clara K, born Dec. 25, 1870, and died June 16, 1871. His second wife had 6 children by her first husband. Mr. W. owns 240 acres of land. Democrat.
Note: My Fulton Marriage Book Records states: Henry Wages married 1st: Nancy J. Courtney June 30, 1857 in Fulton County, Illinois, Book B, page 357, License #158; 2nd: Mary J. Hinze March 06, 1859 in Fulton County, Illinois, Book C, page 182, License #35; 3rd: Mary Jane Bybee (nee Brinegar, widow of James H. Bybee) February 23, 1864 in Fulton County, Illinois, Book D, page 36, License #46; 4th: Nancy Hughes January 30, 1882 in Fulton County, Illinois, Book E, page 151, License #36.