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

  WILLIAM PREVO, farmer and grain dealer, West York. This gentleman is a native
of Clark County, Ill., born February 25, 1839, to William and Setha (Bell)
Prevo. His father was a farmer, born in North Carolina, in the year 1800, and
brought to Clark County, Ill., by his parents in 1814. Here he was principally
raised and educated. He died in January, 1867. His mother, was born in Clark
County, Ill., and died in the same county in 1867, aged forty-seven years. They
were the parents of seven children. William was the second child born to them.
His early life was spent at home assisting in tilling the soil of his father's
farm and receiving such an education as the common schools afforded. When he was
twenty-five years of age, he left his home and began farming for himself in his
native county, and continued the same until 1866, when he moved to Hutsonville,
and engaged in a mill for about two years. In 1868, he returned to his native
county, and again engaged in farming, and in 1877 he removed to his present
residence at West York, and has since been engaged in buying and shipping grain
in connection with the duties of his farm. Mr. Prevo was married September 24,
1862, to Miss Penina Willard, a native of Clark County, Ill., born October 4,
1835, to Exum and Lucinda (Claypool) Willard. Mr. Willard was born in North
Carolina October 4, 1808; came to Clark County, Ill., in 1814 and engaged in
farming until he died in 1867. Mrs. Willard was born in Muskingum County, Ohio,
February 9, 1812, and is now residing with our subject. She came to Clark County
in 1828. Mr. and Mrs. Prevo have two children-Katie and Anna L.  Politically,
Mr. Prevo is Democratic.

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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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