102. Enoch Cronk
PAST AND PRESENT OF BOONE COUNTY, ILLINOIS - CRONK, ENOCH
Farmer: Sec. 13; born in Dover, Dutchess Co., N.Y., March 11, 1805; lived in that State seventeen years, and came to Boone Co. in 1842, and has lived here thirty-five years; one of the early settlers; only a few shanties in the town of Bonus at that time; used to cart grain to Chicago, and has sold his wheat at 30, 35 and 40c a bushel; took seven days to make trip; married Mary Denny, from Dover, Dutchess Co., N.Y., in December, 1826; she was born June 28, 1806; they have benn married fifty-one years; have three children, Richard, Abbie Jane, and Joel; lost two children.
108. Moses MANSFIELD
In the spring of 1850 on May 5, Moses Mansfield and his wife Matilda Alford, his father and mother and brothers John, James, Howard, and sister Sarah Jane along with some members of the Alford family began the long trip to Oregon by wagon train. They arrived at the north mouth of the Sandy River on the Columbia River on October 27, 1850. While on the trip his mother and father and sister died on the Oregon Trail.
Moses Mansfield took a donation claim 16 miles north of Eugene, Linn Co., Oregon that he settled on September 1, 1851 and remained there for 10 years. In 1860 he moved to a place near Louse Creek, north of Grants Pass, Oregon in Josephine Co. The same year he began to homestead a place near Eight Dollar Mountain north of Kerby, Oregon. The place is presently know as the Triangle 3 Ranch. The mountain located just south of Eight Dollar Moutain is named Mansfield Mountain after Moses Mansfield. He then moved to the farm near Willow Springs.
110. John SWINDEN
Supposed to have been in the Civil War
118. William COPELAND
William Copeland/Coplen ( he changed to Coplen in Indiana c 1840) was a
merchant in Coshocton Co., Ohio. He moved to Newcastle Twp., Fulton Co.,
Indiana in 1839 and continued as a merchant there, living in Talma until 1862.
He then moved his family to Colorado, no doubt lived by the Colorado gold rush
then in progress. He mined and lived in Denver until his death.