Whitsel, Peter 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 973, Young Hickory Township
Peter Whitsel was born in Beaver county, Pa., Dec. 4, 1804. He was a member of the Penn. Rifle company, and his brother Henry, was in the war of 1812, and is now living in Texas at the age of 89 years. Mr. W. married March 11, '40, Isabel Aton, by whom he had 7 girls. She died May 30, '65. He married widow Kline in '73. Three of his children only are living, - Mary A., Lissie, and Queen. His grandson James, is living with him. P. O., Ellisville.