Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Tabler, D C 1833 - 
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Author: History of Grundy Co 1882

D. C. Tabler, farmer, P. O. Morris, is the second son of Nathaniel Tabler, one 
of the pioneers of Grundy County; was born July 12, 1833, in Delaware County, 
Ohio and was brought to this county when a babe by his parents, who settled in 
Section 8 in this township. At the age of nineteen, he left home and hired out 
to his uncle, Michael Cryder, for whom he worked some time. Soon after, he 
purchased a horse and a shovel plow, and, with an unbroke horse that his uncle 
Cryder let him have, he made out his team, and with it planted his first crop 
of corn. He remained with his uncle until the spring, and, at the age of 
twenty-two, he married Julia E. McCloud, who was born in 1834, in Clinton 
County, N. Y., daughter of John and Paulina (Ricketson) McCloud, who settled 
in Kendall County in 1836. After his marriage, he resided two years on his 
uncle's place, in Saratoga Township, and, October 13, 1863, he purchased his 
first land, he and his brother Nathaniel buying 120 acres of land in 
partnership, paying $20 per acre; there were no improvements on the land. 
March 27, 1865, they purchased twenty-five acres of J. E. Mathers. November 7, 
1872, the brothers, by mutual consent, dissolved partnership, giving each 
quitclaims, after dividing up their land. October 28, 1873, subject bought of 
George Collins twenty acres of the west half of the southwest quarter of the 
northeast quarter on Section 17, paying $37.50 per acre for it. December 26, 
1881, he purchased of Jeremiah Collins eighty acres of the northwest quarter 
of Section 17, and has now 155 acres, all of which lies on the 17th section. 
Mr. Tabler is the present Commissioner of Highways, and has served in that 
capacity eight years in all. He is one of the representative members of the Au 
Sable M. E. Church. Of five children born to him, but one - Minne M. - is 
living.

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

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