GEORGE B. HILLIARD, farmer, P. O. Jeffersonville. Among the oldest men of Arrington Township, Wayne County, Ill. yet living is George B. Hilliard, who was born on a ship between Massachusetts and Connecticut, March 17, 1794, and is a son of James Hilliard, of Ireland.
Subject was educated in Adams County, Penn., and was in the war of 1812, serving eighteen months in the Fifth Regiment under the command of Capt. Thompson, and, being in the battles of Lundy's Lane, Fort George and several other skirmishee, where he was wounded in the leg by a rifle ball.
Our subject came to Wayne County, Ill., in the fall of 1853, where he still resides in good health, with his son, James W. He was married, August 29, 1824, to Margaret Foreacre, of Virginia, by whom he had thirteen children, three of whom are living --
The following are those dead who reached womanhood and manhood --
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