RUVENACHT, Christian and Catharina Risser (1835-1926) – Christian was born in Alsace on December 26, 1834 and came to America to Panola Twp. in 1852, buying his first land there from George Danforth on November 22, 1854. After working as a farm hand for others, he accumulated considerable prairie acreage there, including his home on the north half of the SE 1/4 of Section 3 in Panola Twp. He first broke most of this prairie ground. He married in 1864. He died December 11, 1904 and is buried in Baughman Cemetery. There were three children: Annie, Barbara and Solomon.

RUVENACHT, John – He was born in Illinois in 1848. Later a farmer and stockman in Section 3, Panola Twp.

SALTSMAN, Henry – Born April 18, 1808 in New York and died July 20, 1891. Henry operated a Panola village hotel and livery in 1856. He had visited Panola in 1855 and decided to locate there. He went back to New York for his wife and children in '56. He built his house, said to be the seventh house in Panola Twp. He was the first township Police Magistrate. He is buried in the Harper Cemetery.

SALTZMAN, Jacob and Magdalena Beller – Jacob was born December 1, 1833 and died on June 23, 1909. He is buried in the Baughman Cemetery. It is believed that Jacob and Magdalena lived in Panola Twp. prior the Civil War and were related to other Saltsmans even though there is a spelling difference.

SALTSMAN, Sanford B. – Came to Panola Twp. from New York in 1856 when seventeen. He was born March 8, 1839 and died November 16, 1876. He was in the Civil War, Troop G., 4th Illinois Cavalry. He is buried in the Harper Cemetery.

SAMPLE, Benjamin and Sarah J. – Benjamin was the first Police Magistrate in Greene Twp. in 1855 with William Harper the other. He sold "metes and bounds" land in the SW 1/4, Section 32, Greene Twp. to Samuel Arnold on February 23, 1850.

SCHAFER, Christian and Phoebe Boeshar (1837-1919) – Christian was born in Germany on September 21, 1834 and came to America in 1851, settling in Wheeling, West Virginia, (then Virginia). In 1854 he came by water to Peoria, where he purchased some lots and married Phoebe Boeshar, also from Germany, but who had lived in Brooklyn. They sold their Peoria lots and came to the new I. C. R. R. town of Kappa in October, 1854, where he engaged in the manufacturing of shoes, he cutting, and at one time, sixteen men worked for him assembling them. In 1861 he came to El Paso, branching out into other lines of business and becoming a leading merchant. He retired in 1893 in the home his granddaughter, Mrs. Ethel Coss, lives in today. He died January 2, 1906 and is buried in Evergreen. Christian was a Republican, whose first vote was for Lincoln.

SCRIVEN, A. – Farmed in Section 18, El Paso Twp. possibly as early as 1858.

SECOR, Minor – Member of the First Methodist Conference at Panola held November 7-8, 1857. He was possibly a relative of Charles Secor, for whom the town was named.

SEEVER, N. L. – I. C. R. R.'s second agent in Panola, Illinois. He came there in 1854.

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