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children of Thomas J. Colo and El The first child of Thomas and Elvina Cole was William Trussel Cole, liorn 1832, in Springfield, In the spring of1833, he came as a oahe-in- lt;arms to Bureau county, to thefarmstead, north of Dover, described in the first episode.He spent his boyhood days on the farm near Green Oak and isremembered as going down Main street with his horse and wagon and waving cheery '“hellos” to his many friends. 1 He left home when quite young and spent several years steam- « boating in the southern states.In 1856 he returned to Illinoisand farmed. In Mav. 1857, he , married Mary J. Smith, a native of Pennsylvania. In 1861, a daughter, Belzina, was torn in Princeton. They later moved I to Milwaukee, Wis., where William enlisted with the Wis. ! Volunteers in the Civil War, was later made a lieutenant, and was badly wounded in the siege at Vicksburg, Miss., I ing treated in a hospital in Cairo when the war ended.
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Princeton Bureau County Republican
Princeton, Illinois, US
Thu, Jun 10, 1965
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