Robert G. Ingersoll. He farmed in Palestine Twp. and died in Secor and is buried there. He was the father of Judge E. E. Robeson who died in 1953.

ROBESON, Rev. James E. – He was born in Wellsburg, West Virginia (then Virginia) in 1797 and died near Secor in 1888. Radford says Rev. Robeson was in Bowling Green in 1835, where he was a merchant as well as a pioneer preacher. He began his ministry when only twenty years old, and followed it until he died when over ninety. He was a one-time Secor resident, and an 1843 Justice of the Peace at Bowling Green. He was the father of C. A. Robeson.

ROBESON, James W. and Margaret (1841-1888) – James was born January 19, 1837 and died September 24, 1914. He was probably born in Bowling Green.

ROBINSON, James W. and E. – They buried a daughter, Sarah S., in Bowling Green Cemetery at an early unknown date. James came from Ohio about 1837, and was farming in Palestine Twp. thereafter. He settled about the center of the SW 1/4 of Section 9 in Kansas Twp. where he was living in 1872.

ROBINSON, Orman and Mary Ann – Orman was born January 23, 1805 and died February 27, 1852 and is buried in East White Oak Cemetery. He patented the E 1/2 of the SW 1/4 of Section 11, Kansas Twp. on February 4, 1834, the earliest we have in our records. It would indicate the Jeffersonian surveys were completed for that area in 1833-4. He also patented the SE 1/4 of the SE 1/4 of Section 2, December 30, 1834, and added land in Section 11 in 1836.

ROBINSON, William R. and Elizabeth – William was born August 17, 1828, died December 22, 1864 and is buried in East White Oak. They were living in East White Oak area in 1859, probably before, as he patented the NW 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of Section 14 on May 27, 1845.

ROCKENFELLER, John M., William, and Theodore – They all came to Illinois from Germany in 1855 and were farming soon after on Section 13, El Paso Twp. where John owned 120 acres.

ROGERS, S. T. and Miss M. V. Everest – Mr. Rogers was born in New York state on September 6, 1840 and died in El Paso on November 10, 1884. He entered Eureka College in 1854 and settled as a druggist in El Paso in 1858. Mr. Rogers spent three years in the Civil War, 1st Lieutenant, Company A., 86th Voluntary Infantry. He was wounded in the battle of Kenesaw Mountain in Georgia. There were many others killed and wounded in his company who resided in the El Paso vicinity. He served as deputy Internal Revenue Collector 1865-70. The GAR Post in El Paso was named in his honor, the "S. T. Roger's Post." He was El Paso's 8th Mayor in 1879. He was cashier of the old El Paso National Bank in 1884 at his death.

ROSS, James and Kate A. – James was possibly El Paso's first blacksmith, about 1857. He and Kate are buried in the Centennial Cemetery.

ROUSE, George W. – A manufacturer who came to Illinois from Connecticut in 1850. He had a small factory in El Paso at an early date.

ROWE – Member of the First Methodist Conference in Panola held November 7-8, 1857.

RUDDELL, Andrew – Came to Greene Twp. in 1856.

RUSSELL, Charles W., L. A., and William H. – Listed as coming to Woodford County around 1857 from Indiana, and thereafter engaging in farming in Palestine Twp. The location is unknown.

RUVENACHT, Mrs. Barbara – She was born in Alsace on October 26, 1815, and came to Woodford County in 1848, and to Panola Twp. about 1852. She was possibly the mother of John Ruvenacht, inheriting his lands in Sections 3 and 10 in Panola Twp. She apparently ran the farm land a number of years herself. She died December 26, 1900 and is buried in Baughman Cemetery.

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