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

John POOLEY, veterinary surgeon and farmer, Sec. 13; P. O. Peotone. Methodist; Republican. 
Owns 120 acres. Born in the county of Norfolk, England, June 6, 1808; served apprenticeship 
as a blacksmith, and studied veterinary surgery; he practiced the latter in England, and 
also in this country, with success. Married Mary MILLER Nov. 12, 1830, in Methwold, England; 
she was born Feb. 4, 1810. Mr. P. came to this country in 1855; lived in Oswego, this State, 
six years; then to the place where he now resides. They have had twenty children, fourteen 
of whom lived to grow up; four of those fourteen are now dead, viz., William, Martha, John 
and Julia; the names of those living at present are Clara, Mary, Ellen, Sarah, Mariah, Susan, 
Bessie, Robert, Sophia and Emma; John was a soldier in the late war; he was a member of Co. 
A, 127th I. V. I.; he died in the hospital at Memphis, Tenn., March 18, 1863; William was 
also a member of the same company, and served in all the principal engagements which the 
regiment was engaged in up to the time of his death, which occurred July 28, 1864, on the 
right of Atlanta; he was killed by a chain-shot striking him in the side; William was a true 
soldier, and his loss was deeply felt by all of his comrades; he was personally known by the 
writer of this sketch, who was also a member of the same regiment, and was near him when he 
fell; William's remains, also the remains of a young man from Oswego, of the name of MURDOCH 
(who was in the same company and fell in the same battle), were buried side by side in one 
grave, and covered by the bloody ground where they fell.