LEYS, John Born 3-21-37 and died in Eureka 12-1-05. He was a Belgian who came to Woodford County, believed Kansas Twp. in 1857. He served in the Civil War in Company C., 33rd Infantry Regiment. He married Ann Taylor. John was a county official from 1874 to 1905.
LIVINGSTON, Lewis and Amy Powell (1814-1895) Lewis was born June 4, 1811 and died October 3, 1874. They were early settlers on Section 31, the corner section of Greene Twp. James Livingston had been the first settler in Clayton Twp. on April 14, 1854.
LOCKWOOD, Watson and Elizabeth L. Watson was born April 30, 1827 and died August 10, 1897. He is buried in Baughman Cemetery. They lived in the North Panola Twp. area in August, 1856.
LOLLIS, E. James Came to Woodford County in 1833 and then or later he settled on the W 1/2 of the NW 1/4 of Section 8 in Kansas Twp. We believe his name was sometimes spelled "Lawless."
LONG, Mrs. (a widow) Lived alone near Bowling Green in 1836.
LUCAS, William Settled on Palestine prairie in 1840, the place unknown.
McCARL, F. and D. They lived in or near El Paso in 1858.
McCLELLAN, Robert A. and (1) Sarah J. Tompkins (Died May 29, 1861), (2) Emeline U. Tompkins (Died in 1915) Robert came from Lake County, Illinois in 1855, after he had patented the NW 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of Section 27 in Panola Twp. on August 20, 1853. He purchased other land in 1854 from the Joliet land dealer, George W. Cassaday, who entered much land near here. McClellan served as Panola Twp.'s first Supervisor after it split away from Minonk Twp. in 1855. William Tompkins, his wife's father, was another Panola pioneer, of that year. Robert helped organize the Evergreen Cemetery on August 11, 1859, and moved a daughter's body to it, who had died August 12, 1858. He owned the land southwest of El Paso which became McClellans Addition. His original home, built there in 1857, is today's remodeled Zelda Risser home, the oldest now standing in El Paso. Robert was born in 1823 and died November 12, 1890 and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery.
McCLELLAN, Charles O. and Eunice Avery (1827-1903) Charles was born January 12, 1819 and died in El Paso on December 22, 1907. He purchased Lots 9-10 in Block 46 from Gibson on September 3, 1858.
McCLELLAN, Thomas D. and Elizabeth (1810-1870) Related to Robert and Charles, Thomas D. McClellan was born January 9, 1822 and died January 19, 1910. In El Paso at an early date, he began the construction of the first house, but did not complete it, the Baynes doing so, finishing second to David Hibbs. His home was the remodeled home now occupied by Walter M. Claggett at First and Pine Streets.
McCLELLAN, William H. One of the area's early prairie farmers. He was operating his land in the year of 1854 as was James Trotter of Kappa, and John Bodger. He became one of the town's early grain merchants. William purchased the James Seery home in Robert McClellan's Addition, and lived in it on W. Jefferson St. for some years. It is now the second oldest house in El Paso.
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