John Gore

!Marriage(2): Illinois State marriage index. !Census(1850) Christian Co., District 22: Gore, John head 1781 SC Mary wife 1792 SC John son 1824 KY William F. son 1827 KY Benjamin T. son 1828 KY Rebecca J. dau 1824 KY Sophia D. dau 1833 IL Mjorwe, Marie 1839 IL Mjorwe, John C. 1844 IL ----------------- He participated in the war of 1812. His father was a vet. of the rev. war. He was born in South Carolina, of Irish descent, but moved with his family to Kentucky (presumably the Trigg Co., Ky area) when only a boy. He lived there until 1830, when he loaded the family's belongings onto ox-teams and moved them to Taylorville, Christian Co., Illinois. He built a log cabin on a tract of land there, where they lived for two years, when they moved to South Fork Twp, where he acquired 160 acres on sections 12 and 13 from a government grant at $1.25 per acre, consisting of unimproved prairie. There he erected a log cabin measuring 16x18 feet. He made his living farming, but also raised stock. He did most his trading in Springfield, but often had to drive his stock to St. Louis. He was a member of the Methodist Church, and active in the organization of schools and roads. Source: [Bio. of William F. Gore, Portrait and biographical record of Christian Co., Illinois, p. 230-2, 1893].