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WAYNE CO., IL

1884 BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES

BEDFORD TWP

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STATES, GEORGE W., farmer, P. O. Cisne, was born in Monroe County, Ohio. October 14, 1851. He has been a resident of Wayne County for several years. August 8, 1878, he married his second and present wife, Agnes A. (Brown) Deselues, born August 14, 1845, a daughter of Elihu and Ruthana (Gregg) Brown, and widow of John Deselues, whom she married September 8, 1867. He died January 28, 1874.

<>He came from Ohio, his native State, to Indiana, and thence to Wayne County. He served four years in the late war, in the First Missouri-Engineer Corps, but was a member of an Illinois company. He also filled the office of Township Clerk and Collector.

By him Mrs. States has three children-William D. born June 8, 1868; Alice N., November 30 1870, and Mary E., February 17, 1873

Mr. and Mrs. States are the parents of two children--Sylvia D., born January 28, 1880 and Jennie B., April 10, 1882.

Subject and wife are members of the Christian Church and in polities, he is a Republican.

Their farm consists of eighty acres, which is de voted to general farming.

Note from Sandy (the transcriber):
The first three children are surely the children of Agnes A. Brown Deselues by her first marriage to John Deselues but the way the bio was written was confusing.