Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

Samuel GOTTS (deceased), farmer; was born in Norfolk, Eng., Jan. 19, 1819; he came to America 
at the age of 14; he first settled in the State of New York, and afterward in Canada; he came 
to this county in 1852, and lived here up to the time of his decease, May 2, 1878; he came to 
his present farm in the spring of 1855, where his widow now resides, containing eighty acres. 
He married Mrs. Hannah LUTHER in Joliet Aug. 15, 1850: she was born in Franklin Co., Mass., 
April 18, 1827; she has six children - Lydia Luther (by first husband), born Aug. 23, 1848; 
by second husband - Isabella, born, Feb. 9, 1856; Sarah, born Dec. 5, 1858; Alonzo, born Jan. 
9, 1863; William, born Nov. 13, 1868, and Charles, born June 17, 1872.