BURGER, James Hiram Jr., and Elizabeth Potter – James was born in Georgetown, Indiana, August 31, 1846, and died near Kearney, Nebraska, March 1, 1919. He farmed many years near "Poketown" and clerked in a grocery store there. He later ran an early El Paso Hotel called the Summit House. There were eleven children born to James and Elizabeth. The family moved west in 1885.

BURGER, James Hiram Sr. – James was born in Kentucky February 25, 1800, and died in South Palestine Twp. May 17, 1875. He came into Illinois in 1854 or 1855, bringing an eight year old son, James Hiram Burger Jr. He farmed near the "Poketown" and Centennial Church area, where he is buried.

BURGER, Lemuel and Mary Engleman – Lemuel was born in Georgetown, Indiana on January 3, 1820 and died in El Paso on April 23, 1910. He and his wife came to Illinois in 1857 and settled in South Palestine Twp. where they lived until they moved to Iowa in 1883 and to Nebraska in 1885. Mrs. Burger died there in June, 1894. There were twelve children born to Lemuel and Mary. Lemuel married Mrs. Martha Warner on October 23, 1900, and lived then in El Paso. He is buried in the Centennial Cemetery.

BURTIS, D. H. – Came to Illinois from New York City in 1836 and became an early El Paso manufacturer in the late 1850's.

BUSCH, Charles – Came from Germany in 1850 and became an El Paso grocer in the late 1850's.

BUTCHER, David – Lived at Bowling Green in 1836.

BUTCHER, Jacob – Lived at Bowling Green in 1836.

BUTLER, David and H. J. – Lived in Bowling Green, Palestine Twp., in 1836.

CABLE, D. S. – Settled near El Paso in 1859.

CAMPBELL, George H. and Francis C. Henry – George was born in Monroe County, N. Y., November 6, 1837, died in El Paso on December 26, 1896. He is buried in the Evergreen Cemetery. He came to Chicago in 1856, working with the Illinois Central Railroad there and at Mendota and Lena, Illinois. He arrived in El Paso in 1858 to serve as I. C. Agent, soon also as T. P. & W. Agent. This was in the old depot a block south of the Campbell House, which he built in 1862-3 at a cost of $10,000. He was owner of a tailor shop with his brother-in-law, Smith Johnston, in which Sam Curtiss was employed as tailor. At one time he owned for a brief period in 1869 the NE 1/4 of Section 19 in Panola Twp. He served as Alderman, and in 1882 as Mayor of El Paso. (See Chapter

6, "The Campbell House.")

CAMPBELL, Thomas and Elizabeth – Lived where the windmill is, to the south of the old Charles Grieser residence on the farm owned by Mr. and Mrs. John G. Parr. He took over the old "Roxan" post office from Caleb Horn who first lived on this farm, when the latter moved into Kappa about 1853. A son, John F. Campbell, was killed by Hamilton's guerilla band in a raid on his trading post near Ft. Scott, Kansas, on May 17, 1858. The family was from Pennsylvania, and a daughter was an ancestor of today's Mayne family.

CANNON, Peter and Elizabeth Shoup (1831-1887) – Peter was born February 8, 1817 and died October 22, 1871. He lived in Secor in 1856, built third house there and ran the first boarding house in that house. He farmed east of Secor

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