School, perhaps first in Panola Township, was located on John and Rebecca Brewer's land.

BREWER, William W. and Mary J. – Related to Panola Twp. settlers, John and Rebecca Brewer; apparently settling their estate, we find him deeding to O. P. A. Meyers the NW 1/4 of Section 19 in Panola Twp. on June 8, 1857. William served with Charles Dobson as one of Panola Township's first constables.

BROWN, Alva C. – Came from Ohio to Illinois in 1852, and later became an early El Paso resident, a dealer in flour and feeds.

BROWN, E. S. – Came to Woodford County from another Illinois location in 1837 and settled then or soon after on the east side of Section 10 in Kansas Twp.

BROWN, James P. – Came from Ohio to Illinois in 1852, probably a relative of Alva C. Brown, and was old time railroad clerk in the early days of El Paso.

BROWN, James W. – Came to Kansas Twp. from Tennessee in 1831 and later settled in the NW 1/4 of Section 30, his cabin being near the center of that Congressional Township.

BROWN, Josiah L. – Came from another Illinois location in 1844 and settled on the SW 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of Section 9 in Kansas Twp.

BROWN, Nathaniel – Patented the E 1/2 of the SW 1/4 in Section 20, Kansas Twp. on May 23, 1836.

BROWN, Zachariah and (1) Elizabeth, (2) Louisa – Zachariah was born in Tennessee August 14, 1812, and died May 14, 1865. He is buried in East White Oak Cemetery. He settled in Kansas Twp. before it was formed, in 1831, and before survey of the sections was completed. After the surveys, he patented the SW 1/4 of the SE 1/4 of Section 2 in Kansas Twp. on April 5, 1834, one of our earliest. The first Kansas school was taught by the Rev. Abner Peeler in 1850 in a log hut erected near the Brown cabin. A son died September 20, 1845, one of the first burials in the East White Oak Cemetery. He also patented land in Section 11, Kansas Twp. on January 4, 1836.

BRUBAKER, A. H. and (1) Catherine Schneider, (2) Elizabeth Brubaker – A. H. Brubaker was born in Pennsylvania on April 11, 1833, son of Jacob B. and Anna Brubaker. He came from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania to Greene Twp. in 1856, settling on the SW 1/4 of Section 4, prairie ground, the second farmer to venture out onto the prairie grass-land. He completed his purchase of this farm April 17, 1858. Maria, Elizabeth and Daniel Brubaker were in the early Panola-El Paso Methodist Church in 1858. Mr. Brubaker was a member of the State Legislature, and was the first man to use drain tile to dry the prairie land in Greene Twp.

BUCK, Daniel W. and Drusilla – Came from Pennsylvania in 1849 into Woodford County and settled on the SE 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of Section 29, Palestine Twp. by about 1854.

BULLINGTON, R. and M. J. – Lived in the Bowling Green area or town in 1838 when they buried a child in the cemetery there, which died on June 23, 1838.

BULLOCK, H. W. – Came from Kentucky along with Thomas Bullock in 1835. He was a Secor dry goods merchant in the late 1850's.

BULLOCK, M. R. – Came to Woodford County as early as 1834 and lived in our area, dates and place unknown. He was a relative of Thomas Bullock, County's organizer and founder, and Captain Wingfield M. Bullock, Commander of Company E., 108th Illinois Regiment in the Civil War. Captain Bullock then resided in Eureka, but for many years after the war was a prominent El Paso farmer. "Bullock's Grove" named for him.

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