Pleasant Vale Township is well adapted for farming and stock raising, and is t this time under a good state of
cultivation. It has many intelligent and enterprising farmers, and the whole Township is in a prosperous condition.
A man by the name of Kizer was the first white settler and made the first improvement on the south west of Sec.
22, in the year 1822. The first white child born was Andrew Jackson Stanley, in the year 1823. The first death
was that of Mary Jane McDaniel, in the fall of 1823. The first parties married were Potter Saxhorn and Matilda
Stanley, in the year 1824. The first sermon was preached in 1824, by the Rev. Hunter, of the Methodist denomination.
The first school house was built by Andrew Sherer, in 1830, on Sec. 21. O. Z. Hale was the first Justice of the
Peace, and James Talbert was the first Supervisor, he was elected in the year 1849. On completion of the levee,
Pleasant Vale will be unsurpassed for farming purposes.
PLEASANT VALE SUBSCRIBERS
|
NAME |
Residence |
Business |
Nativity |
When came to Co. |
| Brammell, John H. | Sec. 22 | Farmer | Kentucky | 1832 |
| Brammell, John W. | Sec. 20 | Farmer | Missouri | 1831 |
| Brewster, C. T. | Sec. 22 | Farmer | New York | 1822 |
| Brown, Harrison | Sec. 8 | Farmer | Missouri | 1829 |
| Clawson, E. | New Canton | Wagon Maker | New York | 1840 |
| Cochran, Jr., Thomas | Sec. 35 | Farmer | Ohio | 1858 |
| Cowee, F. P. | Sec. 2, 5s 7w | Farmer | Ohio | 1865 |
| Davis, P. H. | New Canton | Merchant | Indiana | 1829 |
| Emerson, John | Sec. 11 | Farmer | Ohio | 1836 |
| Evans, J. W. | New Canton | Physician | Ohio | 1854 |
| Fisher, Wm. F | Sec. 28 | Farmer | Missouri | 1835 |
| Gard, Charles | Sec. 10 | Farmer | Pike Co., IL | 1840 |
| Gard, Cicero | Sec. 10 | Farmer | Pike Co., IL | 1836 |
| Gard, Cyrenius | Sec. 5 | Farmer | Ohio | 1834 |
| Gard, Obed | Sec. 8 | Farmer | Ohio | 1831 |
| Gorton, John D | Sec. 22 | Farmer | MA | 1837 |
| Head, John | New Canton | Justice of the Peace | SC | 1840 |
| Hosford, L. G. | New Canton | Saw Mill | Vermont | 1840 |
| House, G. W. | Sec. 21 | Farmer | Ohio | 1844 |
| House, Henry | Sec. 26 | Farmer | Maryland | 1852 |
| House, William | Sec. 26 | Farmer | Ohio | 1850 |
| Howard, Henry | Section 19 | Farmer | New York | 1831 |
| Jackson, F. J. | Sec. 21 | Farmer | Kentucky | 1825 |
| Jackson, J. S. | Sec. 21 | Farmer | Pike Co., IL | 1837 |
| Jean, Joseph | New Canton | Wagon Maker | France | 1860 |
| Johnson, James R. | Sec. 10 | Farmer | Pike Co., IL | 1850 |
| Kendrick, Thomas | .......... | Farmer | Ireland | 1858 |
| Larrimore, R. D. | Sec. 4 | Farmer & Teacher | Ohio | 1837 |
| Lockwood, J. S. | New Canton | Physician | Delaware | 1867 |
| Mansfield, Jasper N | Sec. 22 | Farmer | Pike Co., IL | 1844 |
| Massie, M. D. | New Canton | Merchant | Pittsfield | 1838 |
| McFarland, Sr., Jos | Sec. 9 | Farmer | Ireland | 1844 |
| Messick, Alfred | Sec. 36 | Carpenter | Ohio | 1861 |
| Morey, Hiram | Sec. 21 | Farmer | Pike Co., IL | 1845 |
| Morey, Moses | Sec. 21 | Farmer | New York | 1831 |
| Morey, Mrs. Eliza | Sec. 17 | Farmer | Kentucky | 1832 |
| Morey, Nelson | Sec. 17 | Farmer | Pike Co., IL | 1849 |
| Palmer, Horace | New Canton | Blacksmith | New York | 1839 |
| Palmer, Nelson, H. | Sec. 27 | Farmer | Ohio | ........ |
| Saxbery, Peter J. | New Canton | Farmer | New York | 1826 |
| Saxbury, Benjamin | New Canton | Farmer | Pike Co., IL | 1835 |
| Seybold, Jacob | Sec. 10 | Farmer | Illinois | 1835 |
| Shaerer, Arthur | New Canton | Farmer | Pike Co., IL | 1837 |
| Shipman, James M | Sec. 27 | Farmer | Pike Co., IL | 1849 |
| Smith, Hiram R. | Sec. 21 | Farmer | Illinois | 1829 |
| Smith, W. G. | Sec. 5 | Farmer | England | 1848 |
| Talbert, James H | Sec. 17 | Farmer | Virginia | 1831 |
| Talbert, Joseph M | Sec. 17 | Farmer | Pike Co., IL | 1832 |
| Talbert, Thos. O. | Sec. 17 | Farmer | Illinois | 1831 |
| Tamsett, I | New Canton | Shoemaker | England | 1848 |
| Tipler, George | Sec. 12 | Farmer | England | 1853 |
| Uppinghouse, Wm. H | New Canton | Farmer | Ohio | 1844 |
| Wallace, James | Sec. 28 | Farmer | Ohio | 1837 |
| Wallace, Silas | ......... | Farmer | Pike Co., IL | 1850 |
| Williams, Joseph | New Canton | Hotel | New York | 1833 |
| Woodruff, Geo. M | Sec. 21 | Farmer | Illinois | 1845 |