Crawford-Lawrence County IL Archives Biographies.....Fuller, Martin H. 1812 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  M H. FULLER, farmer, P. O. Heathville. This gentleman was born November 14,
1812, in Dearborn County, Ind., and is a true type of the old pioneer stock; he
is a son of Thomas Fuller, born October 30, 1774, in Virginia; he died May 5,
1839; he was married in Indiana to Susannah Torrence, born August 28, 1776, she
died November 20, 1857; she raised nine children, five boys and four girls. Her
father, William Torrence, came from Ireland; her mother, Martha Stull, came from
Pennsylvania; she was of German descent. Thomas Fuller came to this county in
1820, living five years at Palestine; then removed six miles south of Palestine,
where he bought land, near where his son, Martin H. Fuller, is now living, who
spent his youth near Palestine, and at the age of twenty went to the Black Hawk
war. His father, who had formerly been in the war of 1812; was an Orderly
Sergeant in this war. After the war, Martin H. took charge of W. Kitchell's farm
while he was in the Legislature. In 1835, he received a call to Lawrence County,
Ill., where his fame as a trustworthy man had preceded him. He followed various
occupations till 1840, when he came back to this county, where he entered and
bought land, owning at one time over 500 acres; he has now a farm of 237 acres
of fine land, on a part of which is a coal mine, and also the finest prospect
for an oil well. Mr. Fuller was joined in matrimony, in Lawrence County,
September 21, 1837, to Rosan Tromly, born November 10, 1814, daughter of Isaac
Tromly, who married the widow of Joseph La Motte, the old Indian interpreter,
whose successor he became. La Motte spoke seven different Indian dialects, and
was at one time the owner of what is now called La Motte Prairie, which was
given to him by the Indians for his services as interpreter. But the Indians,
who coveted the land and who wanted to be paid for it by the Government, killed
La Motte and threw his body in a deep hole of water west of the cemetery near
Palestine, in the creek which bears his name. Mrs. Fuller is one of our good
old-fashioned ladies who was raised a Catholic and still adheres to that faith.
Mr. Fuller is a Democrat in politics; his main occupation in life has been the
cultivation of our bounteous and virgin soil; he served his friends in many
ways, being generally considered as a leader and spokesman; he filled school
offices and was Justice of the Peace for twenty years, marrying in that time
eighty-eight couples without charging anything; on account of his fair and just
dealing, he is called the compromising Justice. His adopted son, Edwin Fuller,
born December 2, 1866, is a steady, intelligent young man.

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HISTORY OF CRAWFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,
LAKESIDE BUILDING.
1883.


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