PIKE, JOHN, was born in Virginia, and when a young man went to Bourbon county, Ky., where he was married to Mary Moon. They had three children in Bourbon county. In the spring of 1828 Mr. Pike started, with his household goods loaded on a wagon made entirely of wood, each wheel being hewn from a solid piece of timber. It was drawn by a yoke of oxen, with one horse in the lead. The wagon was many times taken to pieces and formed into a raft to float the wife, children, and household goods across the unbridged streams. They traveled in that way until they reached Jacksonville. Ill. He was not satisfied with the country, and started back to Kentucky. On reaching White river, Ind., they halted, and again started for Illinois. Late in the fall of 1829 they stopped near the South Fork timber, about three miles south of the present town of Rochester. The weather being too cold to travel, and it was too late in the season to build, the family spent that winter in the tent they had used all summer. In the spring of 1830 Mr. Pike had twenty acres under cultivation. He also built a log cabin in the edge of the prairie, and lined it with clap boards. The next winter being the time of the "deep snow," when it fell the wind drifted it around the house until it was almost covered, thus making it very warm. Mr. Pike made rails at twenty-five cents per hundred, until he earned one hundred dollars, with which he entered his first eighty acres of land. That required the making of forty thousand rails. Mr. and Mrs. Pike had three children in Sangamon county. Of their six children--

MILTON, born in Bourbon county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, June 12, 1845, to Martha J. Porterfield. They had three children, and Mrs. Pike died March 25, 1855. He was married July 29, 1857, to Elizabeth M. Brownell. They have eight children, and reside in Auburn, Sangamon county, Illinois.

GEORGE H., born in Kentucky, lived with the family in Sangamon county until he was twenty-one years old. He was married in Bureau county, but if living, his residence is not known.

THOMAS, born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Elizabeth Baker, and had two children. He married Mrs. Sarah J. Breckenridge, whose maiden name was Mathews, and lives near Edinburg, Illinois.

ELMIRA J., born in Sangamon county, married Isaac Baker, who died, leaving one child, and she married Samuel Woodrow, has two children, and lives at the place where her parents settled in 1829, three miles south of Rochester, Illinois.

LUCINDA, born Nov. 29, 1833, in Sangamon county, married John F. Jones. They had one child, CHARLES T., who married Missouri Reavis, and lives at Campbellsburg, Ill. J. F. Jones died, and his widow married Edward George. See his name.

WILLIAM, born in Sangamon county, married Alvira White, and lives in Kansas.

John Pike died in 1833 or '4, in Sangamon county. His widow married in 1836 to James Martin. They had one child--

NANCY, who married Jefferson Smith, and lives two and a half miles south of Dawson, Sangamon county, Illinois.

Mrs. Mary Martin died in 1858.