Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Body, Isaac 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

Isaac Body, a prominent farmer, on section 12, Ustick Township, is a native 
citizen of the State of Illinois, having been born July 12, 1837, in Iroquois 
County, to which place his parents, Isaac and Mary (Myers) Body, removed from 
their native State—Pennsylvania—in the pioneer days of Illinois. Their eight 
children were named Catherine, Susan, Mary A., John, George, Isaac, Sarah and 
Eliza. Mr. Body has been all his life engaged in agriculture, and when he was 
26 years of age set out for himself independently, and in October, 1863, came 
to Whiteside County. He spent the first year on a rented farm in Ustick 
Township, and in the year succeeding bought 80 acres of land. On this he has 
operated with satisfactory and substantial results. He has erected an 
excellent class of buildings, and the place is one of the pleasantest in 
location in the township. His estate now includes 220 acres in the townships 
of Ustick and Clyde, and 120 is in tillage. Mr. Body is a Republican, and has 
been School Director; he has also officiated in other township offices. Mr. 
Body was married Nov. 13, 1860, in Carroll Co., Ill., to Cyrena Dyson, and 
they are the parents of seven children: Adda F., Charles C., Delia E., Mary 
L., Samuel M. Elmer I. and Etta C. The oldest daughter is the wife of John 
Bristol, of Ustick, Township. Mrs. Body was born Nov. 15, 1839, in Carroll 
Co., Ill., and is the daughter of Hezekiah and Ruth (McIndoo) Dyson. Her 
parents were born in Indiana, from which State they removed to Carroll Co., 
Ill., in its earliest period. Their children were named James, Charles, 
William, Cyrena, Hezekiah, Ruth, Cornelius, Margaret A., Dimmis D. and Mary E. 
Mr. and Mrs. Body are members of the Methodist Church.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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