HIBBS, David and Susan – They built their cabin in El Paso Twp. in 1835, and patented the land, the E 1/2 of the NW 1/4 and the NE 1/4 of the SW 1/4 in Section 28 on January 26, 1839 and November 1 of the same year. The January patent was only two days after brother John got his, earliest in El Paso Twp. David and Susan lost a girl baby, which died June 19, 1849 and was probably El Paso Twp.'s first burial in the Hibbs-Bigger Cemetery. David Hibbs began building the first house in El Paso in 1856; it burned on April 30, 1890. The Hibbs were from Ohio.

HIBBS, James M. – Born on an El Paso Twp. farm in 1840, probably the earliest in the township. He was a grandson of Samuel and Eve Hibbs, but we do not know which of the three Hibbs were his parents.

HIBBS, John and Hannah – They built their cabin in El Paso Twp. in 1835, with their brothers the earliest here. They patented the land, the E 1/2 of the NE 1/4 of Section 28 on January 24, 1839, first of record in El Paso Twp. under the Jefferson survey system, showing these section surveys must have been completed about 1838. John and Hannah were from Ohio.

HIBBS, Samuel and Eve – They are believed to have been the parents of the Hibbs Brothers who were El Paso Twp.'s earliest settlers, William, John, and David. Samuel Hibbs may not have arrived in Illinois, but Eve came on to live with her children. She died here July 20, 1862, and is buried in the old Hibbs-Bigger Cemetery. She was then 87 1/2 years old, having been born on January 13, 1775 … before Paul Revere's ride!

HIBBS, William and Nancy – Came from Ohio with the other Hibbs' and settled northeast of Kappa's site in 1835. Their first land purchase was on the SW 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of Section 32 in El Paso Twp. in 1850.

HICKLE, J. and H. J. (wife) – Lived along the Mackinaw in September, 1851 when they buried a child.

HILL, Daniel and Mary A. Hodgson (1838-1925) – David was born May 12, 1832 and died June 25, 1902. He came to Woodford County from Ohio in 1858; purchased land in the SE 1/4 of Section 28 of Panola Twp. (where William Steffen now lives) and engaged in farming and livestock raising. Daniel and Mary were charter members of the Farmer's Club.

HILSABECK, David W. – David was born January 9, 1819 and died January 9, 1905. He is buried in Evergreen Cemetery. He was a Civil War veteran. He came to Cazenovia from North Carolina in 1851, but fought with the Union Army. David owned land in Section 6 of Panola Twp. and engaged in farming and livestock raising after the Civil War.

HINSHAW, George and Susannah – Settled in Blooming Grove where Bloomington now stands in 1827, and on January 12, 1835 patented their first Kansas Twp. land, the NW 1/4 of the SW 1/4 of Section 1, and on the same day, the E 1/2 of the NE 1/4 in Section 14. They later accumulated much other land. They moved on a Kansas Twp. farm in 1840. Jehu Hinshaw was a son.

HINSHAW, John and (1) Cynthia Ann Peeler (died May 30, 1859), (2) Mary Ann Rhodes – John was born February 19, 1819 and died January 29, 1903 and is buried in East White Oak Cemetery. He settled in the White Oak Grove there in 1840, possibly earlier. Their first land patent is dated June 19, 1840 in Kansas Twp.

HINTHORN, Adam Jr. and Mary Ogden – Adam was born south of the Mackinaw on January 13, 1828, the earliest birth of record in our area, although it was in Money Creek Twp. in all probability. He died February 12, 1906, and is buried in the cemetery named for his father. Mary Ogden was born October 20, 1829 and died January 8, 1925, one of the pioneer women to live well into the

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