My first proven ancestor is William Beavers. He was one of the Pioneers of Coles Co., Illinois. He left home at the age of 17 and drove a team to Barren Co., KY remaining there for four or five years. In the Year 1818, he married Nancy, and after remaining at the home of her parents one year, rented a farm for one year, and in 1820 went to Clay Co., IN, remaining there for seven years, in 1827 he went to Clark Co., IL near Westfield, and lived there for three years, and in 1830, entered and moved upon the land which he resided in Sec. 10, near the village of Salisbury; he owned eighty acres. He first built a log cabin with a 'puncheon floor.' The Kickapoo Indians at the time owned this land and lived all around him; while cutting some 'bee trees' in Long Point, this county, he saw the 'runners' that had been sent by Black Hawk calling the Indians together. Mr. Beavers was remarkably active at his time in life, now being in his 82d year. His mother died in Virginia while he was an infant, and his father in Locust Grove, adams Co., Ohio where he had moved some years before. History of Coles County Illinois, Wm. LE BARON, Jr., published in 1879

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