Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Symons, Thomas 1818 - 
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Author: History of Grundy Co 1882

Thomas Symons, farmer, P. O. Mazon, is a native of Devonshire, England, born 
December 13, 1818, and was raised and educated in England. He was married 
March 1, 1853, to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of John Vale, of England; she was 
born March 1, 1821. Mr. Symons came to the United States and to Grundy County 
in 1857. He settled in Nettle Creek Township and bought eighty acres of land, 
which he has since sold. He removed to Mazon Township, where he now owns a 
farm of five hundred and twenty-five acres of improved land in Sections 2, 5 
and 15, valued at $50 an acre. Mr. and Mrs. Symons have a family of four 
children - J. W., born in England February 11, 1854, and died in England May 
15, 1855; W. H., born in England March 28, 1855; Charles, born in England, May 
7, 1856, died in Grundy County December 28, 1874, and S. B., born in Grundy 
County December 18, 1857. Mr. and Mrs. Symons and oldest son are members of 
the Wauponsee Grove Congregational Church.

Additional Comments:
Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers.

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