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WADE, WILLIAM A. farmer and stock raiser in the pioneer days of Greene County, who has long since been gathered to his fathers, was born at Lancashire, England, in 1820. At the early age of eleven, he departed from England for America. He first stopped at Philadelphia, and afterward became a resident of New Jersey, where he learned the trade of a shoemaker. About this time glowing accounts reached him of the fertile prairies of Illinois, and accordingly the youth directed his footsteps westward, and first settled, on arrival in Illinois, in Sinclair County, near Belleville, where he worked at his trade some two years, when he accompanied his parents to Pike County, settling near Griggsville, where he married Miss Mary Ann King. After his marriage he lived one year near Florence, where he owned a farm. In 1850 he moved to Greene County, where his health became so poor that he gradually sank and passed peacefully away, in 1858. To the care of his wife he left one child, Samuel W., who resides on the old homestead, who during the present year united his fortunes to Miss Hattie Smith, a daughter of Mrs. Peters. Mrs. Wade, who is an excellent Christian lady, resides in Tp. 12, R. 12, where she owns a valuable farm property, in the neighborhood of 300 acres. She was born July 24, 1824, in Greene County.