Welker, Lemuel 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 757-758, Kerton Township
Lemuel Welker, farmer and stock-raiser, was born in 1834, in Knox county, O. His father, David Welker, was also a native of Ohio and a farmer, and moved to this county in 1848. In Ohio he married Margaret Darling, by whom he has had 9 children; of these 7 are living. Lemuel, the second of them, was brought up in Fulton county. At the commencement of the late war he enlisted in Co. I, 85th Inf., and was engaged in the battles of Stone River, Resaca, Buzzard Roost, Kenesaw Mountain, Chickamauga, Jonesboro and other places. Serving until the close of the war, he was honorably discharged at Springfield and returned home. He has a good farm of 160 acres, on sec. 9. In 1868 he married Caroline, daughter of Wm. Potter, of Pennsylvania. He has no children living. Mr. W. is Independent in politics, voting for the man and not the party. P. O., Marbletown.