WILL ROBERT (deceased), farmer, P. O. Lawn Ridge, was born April 15, 1822, at Delmar, Tioga county, Pa., and was the son of Robert Will and Margaret Lawson, of Forfarshire, Scotland. He was the fourth child and third son in a family of seven children, and was reared on a farm in his natal county until the year 1837, when, at the age of fifteen, he removed with his parents to Hallock township, Peoria county, and settled on Sec. 3, near what is now Hallock post office. There he made his home till 1848, when, on June 7 of that year, he married Miss Mary, daughter of Lyman Robinson and Polly Nurs, who was born March 19, 1823, in Broome county, N. Y., and came with her parents to Illinois in the Spring of 1843, arriving at Blue Ridge May 20, of the same year. Their marital union resulted in six children, three of whom are now alive, William, born May 1, 1849, and died when four years old; Helen, born Nov. 18, 1851, died April 26, 1853; John Wesley, born Feb. 1, 1854, died Dec. 29, 1872; Annie, born May 29, 1856; Minnie, born May 25, 1860, and Laura A., born March 25, 1865. Upon marriage they settled on the farm now occupied by his widow, and there all their children were born, and Mr. Will died, Feb. 14, 1876. Mrs. Will at present owns 120 acres of finely improved farming land worth about $8,000. Mr. Will was, through life, an active, useful man, and his untimely removal was keenly felt and deeply regretted by many. He was, for twenty years, justice of the peace, and had acceptably filled, in turn, almost all of the township offices; was a notary public for many years, and county surveyor at time of his death; also for over twenty years was recording secretary of the Methodist Church at Lawn Ridge, and represented it at the annual conference several times. Mrs. Will and family are also members of the same church. (page 765)