TAYLOR, J. S. and Julia A. McCollum – Taylor died February 22, 1860, and his wife remarried a Sneed. They were residents at an early date in Panola Twp. Julia Taylor's name appears in the early Methodist Church records of 1858, and an infant daughter of the same name. They were living in El Paso village on January 10, 1859 when their son, John William Taylor was born, said on P 912 McLean County History to be the first birth in the new town of El Paso. They purchased Lot 3, Block 44 on October 25, 1857 from Gibson and sold it November 14, 1859 to Isaac and William Jenkins.

TOBIAS, Franklin R. and Caroline – Franklin was a local preacher in Panola from the time of the First Methodist Conference there on November 7-8, 1857.

Salome Tobias, believed their daughter, married Adam Brown in El Paso on December 12, 1865, and Salome died here. This Salome is the grandmother of Mrs. Gladys M. Beak, State Regent of the DAR in 1953.

F. R. Tobias purchased the SE 1/4 of the SW 1/4 of Section 27, Panola Twp. on March 26, 1858 and other land in said section the following year in November.

TOBIAS, Israel and Cynthia – Purchased Lot 2, Block 46 of Gibson on March 20, 1858.

TOMPKINS, P. H. and M. H. – Came to Woodford County in 1855. Mr. Tompkins was probably a relative of William Tompkins. He is believed to have lived in El Paso or the area prior to 1860. A son died here in 1862. P. H. became an early El Paso banker, whose bank finally failed.

TOMPKINS, William and Weltha V. – William was a native of New York state; came to Panola in the fall of 1855. A daughter married Robert A. McClellan, another early Panola settler. Tompkins patented the SE 1/4 of Section 27, Panola Twp. on August 20, 1853. He was Panola Twp.'s first assessor in 1855, and he opened a general store in Panola that year.

TOOL, Conrad H. – He was born in Virginia on December 11, 1819. He plowed his Greene County land in the fall of 1856 and moved to it in the following spring.

TRAXLER, Phillip and Christia – Purchased Lot 4, Block 46 from Gibson on December 29, 1857 in El Paso.

TRIBBY, D. W., John, Dr. Peter L., S. A. – Dr. Peter Tribby and John Tribby came to Secor in 1857 from Indiana. Dr. Tribby practiced medicine and was Secor's early druggist.

D. W. Tribby arrived in Secor in 1859 and S. A. Tribby came in 1860. They were brothers.

TROSBER, Deacon – He operated the first boarding house in Secor in 1857.

TROTTER, James W. Jr. – He was born in Duleek, Ireland, March 20, 1824 and came to America in 1849. He bought land in the school section, No. 16 in El Paso Twp. from the state on September 28, 1853, and other land in Palestine Twp. about the same time. He sold the El Paso Twp. land to William Ostler in 1854 and moved to Bloomington about 1855, where he died January 24, 1907. He was an Episcopalian.

TROTTER, John W. and Isabelle – Lived in Palestine Twp. in 1854 where daughters Anna Emily and Isabelle were born. The former was Anna Trotter Unbarger, later Anna Anthenat (1854-1933). Trotter volunteered in Company E., 94th Illinois Infantry, leaving his wife with two children to run his farm. He was killed in Texas and buried there. Fayette Anthenat Bailey is a granddaughter. He lived in Gridley Twp. when he left for the Civil War. He was an Episcopalian.

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