Pickering, David

PICKERING, HESTON

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Date: 7/17/2003 at 18:27:35

1879 History of Jefferson County, Penn Township, p. 558.

DAVID PICKERING
David Pickering, farmer, Sec. 1; P.O. Pleasant Plain; born in Frederick Co., Va. in 1817; moved with his parents to Ohio; thence to Illinois; to this county in 1839, and settled in this township. Married here (21 Oct 1845) Miss Agnes Heston, native of Ohio; have four children - John, Betsy, Ellis and Elmer. . . . .His father, William Pickering, a pioneer of the Northwest, was a native of Virginia; he settled in Illinois in 1835; came with his family to this county.