OF

MENARD AND MASON

COUNTIES

MADE UP OF PERSONAL REMINISCENSES OF AN EARLY LIFE IN

MENARD COUNTY, WHICH WE GATHERED IN A SALEM LIFE
FROM 1830 TO 1840, AND A PETERSBURG LIFE FROM

1840 to 1850; INCLUDING PERSONAL REMINISCENCES

OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND PETER CARTRIGHT.

BY

T. G. ONSTOT

1902:
PUBLISHED BY T. G. ONSTOT, Forest City, ILLINOIS.

PRINTED BY J. W. FRANKS & SONS,

PEORIA, ILLINOIS.