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TERRILL, G. F., farmer; Sec. 22; P. O. Adams; born in Orange county Va., in 1818; is the third child of Edmund and Nancy Terrill; father died in 1824; mother died in 1869; came to Adams county, Ill., in 1849; married Ann P. Morton in 1844. She was born in 1826, and was the first child of Charles M. Morton, one of the pioneers of Adams county. He was born in Virginia, in 1797; came to Illinois in 1833, and bought the farm of Elias Adams, who was one of the first men to settle in the county, and lived on the same place until his death, July, 1874. Mr. Terrill has had nine children: Mary H., born Nov., 1846, and married to Mr. C. Johnson, Sept. 1872; Edmund, born Jan. 22, 1848; he was a young man of great promise, and would soon have graduated from Monmouth College, died Jan. 31, 1876, while at home during vacation; Nannie M., born in 1852, married to R. D. Anderson in 1875, died Aug. 31, 1876; Georgia, Lucy L., Charles M., Eda M., Nellie Grant, and Jessie. Mr. Terrill has a large, well improved farm; his buildings are good, and he has a large orchard of choice fruit; he is convenient to schools and churches, and his farm is one of the best in the county. He makes farming and stock raising his business—raises wheat and corn, also very fine stock. Politically, is a Republican.