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Subject: Lemuel Gustin of Mercer Co., IL
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 98 23:29:33 GMT

>From "HISTORY OF MERCER AND HENDERSON COUNTIES", pub. by H.H. Hill and
Co., Chicago, 1882

LEMUEL GUSTIN, farmer, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Diltz) Gustin,
was born Juy 29, 1823. His parents settled in Madison county, Indiana,
about 1845, and there died. Lemuel was raised on the farm and inured to
all the toils and pleasures incident thereto. He is the oldest of eight
children. In 1847 he was married to Catharine Noland, daughter of Stephen
Noland. Her father, Stephen Noland, was born in 1801, and raised in
Kentucky near Cumberland mountain. He moved in a very early day to Wayne
county, Indiana, where he lived on the twelve mile purchase when the
Indians were bad. He was on the frontier in the war of 1812, and lived
partly in a fort or blockhouse, traded with the Indians, etc. There is a
stream in Indiana called Noland's fork, the name deriving from the
Nolands. Mr. Noland and wife, Nancy E. (Adams), a native of Ohio, lived
in Madison county, Indiana, from 1823 to 1856, when they settled in Mercer
county, Illinois. Mrs. Noland died July 20, 1877. In 1856 Mr. and Mrs.
Gustin came with the Nolands to Mercer county, Illinois, settling for a
time in Eliza township. In 1868 they purchased sixty acres in section 2,
Ohio Grove township, and have lived on it since. Mr. Gustin has been
justice of the peace; he has been school director six years. He has six
children living and two dead.

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