Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... Baskerville, James
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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

James BASKERVILLE, farmer, Sec. 22; P. O. Wilmington; owns 290 acres, valued at $40 per acre, 
born Oct. 12,1833, in Tipperary, Ireland; emigrated to the United States in 1847, with two 
sisters and six brothers - nine in all - their parents having died in Ireland in, 1845; the 
whole family located in Oneida Co., N. Y., where James remained three years; thence to this 
township in 1850. Married Jane FOGARTY in February, 1860; she war born in November, 1836, in 
Tipperary Co., Ireland, and emigrated to this country with her parents in 1846; have seven 
children - Mary A., Andrew J., Charlotte J., Anna M., George, John and Ella R. His brother 
Andrew enlisted in 1862, in the Chicago Board of Trade Battery, and died in the service, of 
typhoid fever, at Louisville, Ky., in 1863.


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HISTORY OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

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