- MRS. CELIA CHAMBERLIN, widow, Sec. 20; P.O Beloit; daughter
of John and Elizabeth
- GILL; born in Montgomery Co., Ky., in 1815; her husband,
John CHAMBERLIN, was born in North Carolina in 1808; they were
married in Crawford Co., Ill. Aug. 3, 1835, and had five children;
came to Beloit in 1844; he took up 160 acres of Government land
in Sec. 8, built a log cabin and lived there three years; he
then bought forty acres in Sec. 20, and built the residence she
now occupies. Mrs. CHAMBERLIN owns 153 acres in Sec. 20. Mr.
CHAMBERLIN died May 20, 1872. John N., her son, owns 120 acres
in Sec. 29, in which the celebrated mineral springs are located.
He married Della A. CLARK, of Rockton, Ill., and has two children
living.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 740.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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