From "The History of Menard and Mason Counties":
Abram Virgin, one of the four brothers, the same year (1837) settled up in the eastern part of the grove in a log hut, as was the prevailing style of architecture in those days. He engaged in stock-raising and agriculture, and went through the hardships and deprivations common to those times. In 1853 he was afflicted with a mental malady that made it necessary to confine him in the Insane Asylum, at Jacksonville, for awhile. He was soon, however, restored and "clothed in his right mind." and returned home, where he lived and directed the affairs of his farm until he died of the scourge of cholera, which swept through this section in 1873. His wife was also stricken down of the dread disease, but lived a helpless, bedridden invalid until 1877, when she died also. She, "Aunt Betsey'' as she was familiarly called, was the friend and helper of the sick, afflicted and distressed. They had a family of several children, five of whom are living in the vicinity of their youthful days.
Abram Virgin, one of the four brothers, the same year (1837) settled up in the eastern part of the grove in a log hut, as was the prevailing style of architecture in those days. He engaged in stock-raising and agriculture, and went through the hardships and deprivations common to those times. In 1853 he was afflicted with a mental malady that made it necessary to confine him in the Insane Asylum, at Jacksonville, for awhile. He was soon, however, restored and "clothed in his right mind." and returned home, where he lived and directed the affairs of his farm until he died of the scourge of cholera, which swept through this section in 1873. His wife was also stricken down of the dread disease, but lived a helpless, bedridden invalid until 1877, when she died also. She, "Aunt Betsey'' as she was familiarly called, was the friend and helper of the sick, afflicted and distressed. They had a family of several children, five of whom are living in the vicinity of their youthful days.
From "The History of Menard and Mason Counties":
Abram Virgin, one of the four brothers, the same year (1837) settled up in the eastern part of the grove in a log hut, as was the prevailing style of architecture in those days. He engaged in stock-raising and agriculture, and went through the hardships and deprivations common to those times. In 1853 he was afflicted with a mental malady that made it necessary to confine him in the Insane Asylum, at Jacksonville, for awhile. He was soon, however, restored and "clothed in his right mind." and returned home, where he lived and directed the affairs of his farm until he died of the scourge of cholera, which swept through this section in 1873. His wife was also stricken down of the dread disease, but lived a helpless, bedridden invalid until 1877, when she died also. She, "Aunt Betsey'' as she was familiarly called, was the friend and helper of the sick, afflicted and distressed. They had a family of several children, five of whom are living in the vicinity of their youthful days.
Abram Virgin, one of the four brothers, the same year (1837) settled up in the eastern part of the grove in a log hut, as was the prevailing style of architecture in those days. He engaged in stock-raising and agriculture, and went through the hardships and deprivations common to those times. In 1853 he was afflicted with a mental malady that made it necessary to confine him in the Insane Asylum, at Jacksonville, for awhile. He was soon, however, restored and "clothed in his right mind." and returned home, where he lived and directed the affairs of his farm until he died of the scourge of cholera, which swept through this section in 1873. His wife was also stricken down of the dread disease, but lived a helpless, bedridden invalid until 1877, when she died also. She, "Aunt Betsey'' as she was familiarly called, was the friend and helper of the sick, afflicted and distressed. They had a family of several children, five of whom are living in the vicinity of their youthful days.
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Abraham Virgin
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