Crawford County IL Archives Biographies.....Iliff, Z. 1839 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  Z. ILIFF, farmer, P. O. Palestine, was born July 30, 1839, in Hampshire
County, W. Va. He is a son of James Iliff. Mr. Z. Iliff spent most of his early
life among strangers, being six years in Ohio. In 1866, he came to Crawford
County, where he was joined in matrimony, May 14, 1868, to Mrs. Margaret Barker,
born July 4, 1838; she is the daughter of William Hicks, whose father, William
Hicks, Sr., was one of the pioneers of this county. William Hicks, Jr., married
Elizabeth Montgomery, who was the mother of four children. Mrs. Iliff is the
mother of three children-Charles Barker, born August 26, 1859, he died November
8, 1862, he was a son from her first husband; Lessie, born November 4, 1869; and
Nora, born May 8, 1874, are from her second husband. On the 10th of February,
1865, Mr. Iliff obeyed the call of Union to defend the stars and stripes, and
enlisted in the One Hundred and Eighty fifth Ohio Infantry Volunteers, and
served till the close of the war. Mr. Iliff is independent in politics, and is a
wide-awake, well-to-do farmer, and, together with his estimable wife, is a
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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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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