- DAVID TEAGUE, farmer, Sec. 21; P.O. Beloit; born in Lincoln
Co., Me., Sept. 17, 1808; he
- went from there to Penobscot Co., Me., then came West and
located in Rockton, Ill., in 1838; he remained there till 1844;
then moved to Newark Township, and took up 120 acres of Government
land in Section 22, and afterward bought twenty acres more; he
built a log house on it, which he occupied with his family till
1854, then built a large frame house that is now occupied by
C. L. FOSTER, with barns, and all improvements, he afterward
sold this FOSTER place and went to Sparta, Wis., where he bought
another farm, and lived there with his family six years; then
sold that farm and went to La Cross Co., where he bought another
farm and lived seven years; then sold it, returned to Newark,
and bought 120 acres of land in Section 21, the same land originally
bought from the Government by his brother Samuel; there was a
residence on it, with barns and all improvements, and he now
lives on it. He married in Holloway, Me., in 1832, Helena ROLLINS;
they have had six children, five now living; only two live with
their parents.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 774.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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