GOLD, HEZEKIAH S., was born June 6, 1807, at Cornwall, Litchfield county, Conn. He married Sept. 6, 1836, to Chloe A. Peet, who was born April 26, 1812, in the town of Warren, in the same county. They had one child there, and moved to Waverly, Ill., in the fall of 1839. In the summer of 1840 he bought land and built a house three and a half miles east of Waverly, in what is now Talkington township, Sangamon county, where they had two children. Of their three children--

HENRY M., born July 25, 1837, in Litchfield county, Conn., raised in Sangamon county, enlisted in 1861 for three years, in Co. I, 14th Ill. Inf. He was accidentally wounded September, 1861, and died Nov. 7, 1861, in the court house hospital at Rolla, Mo.

MYRON S., born Dec. 1, 1842, in Sangamon county, enlisted in 1862 for three years, in Co. G. 101st Ill. Inf. He was discharged on account of physical disability late in 1862, and lives in Talkington township, near Waverly.

ETHEL EDWARD, born Feb. 1, 1847, in Sangamon county, lives in New York city. He is--1874--superintendent of the Gold Heating company, manufacturers of sanitary heaters, 105 Beekman street.

Mrs. Chloe A. Gold died Sept. 3, 1857, in Talkington township. Hezekiah S. Gold enlisted Oct. 15, 1861, in the fifty-sixth year of his age, at Springfield, in Co. K, 2nd Reg. Ill. Light Art,, for three years, served more than full term, and was honorably discharged Dec. 30, 1864, and now resides on the farm where he settled in 1840, being the second settler in what is now Talkington township, William Eustace being the first.