My Genealogy Hound

T. J. WAKEFIELD, farmer and stock-raiser; P. O. Gibson; was born Aug. 7, 1842, in Tazewell Co., Ill.; lived there until the war broke out, when he entered as a private, enlisting in Co. B, 73d Ill. Regt.; he was three years in service, and was engaged partly in Sherman’s march; after returning from the war, he engaged in farming in McLean Co., near Towanda, and remained there three years; he then went to Blue Mound and engaged in farming; in 1864, he bought the present farm of eighty acres, earned entirely by his own labor and management; he has worked at carpentering and masonry, and sometimes works at plastering; in the winter time, engages in public work, shelling corn. He was married, in 1869, to Mary E. Parr, a native of Ohio; they have no children. Mr. Wakefield built his own cosy little cottage, and there enjoys a happy home.