CROOKER, G. W., was born July 29, 1814, in Cheshire county, N. H. He was married February, 1839, in Amherst, Mass., to Lois K. Thayer, who was born there in 1814. They moved to Sangamon county in company with his father-in-law, Asahel Thayer, arriving at Chatham May 19, 1839. They had ten children, five of whom died in infancy and childhood. Of the other five children--

EDWARD A., born March 3, 1840, in Sangamon county, was attending Illinois College, at Jacksonville, when he died, aged nineteen years.

WILLIAM B., born March 9, 1842, in Chatham, enlisted in Co. I, 73d Ill. Vol. Int., was wounded at the battle of Perryville, and died at Taylorville, Ill., Aug. 11, 1865, aged twenty-three years.

SARAH T., born March 21, 1846, in Sangamon county, was married Sept. 1, 1864, to Dr. B. W. Fox, of Springfield. She died in Taylorville, May 15, 1869, leaving one child, LOIS F., who resides with her grand-parents in Taylorville Dr. B. W. Fox died June 20, 1875, at Quincy, Ill. His remains were buried at Taylorville.

GEORGE B., born Jan. 31, 1849, in Chatham, married Nannie Richardson. They have one child, EDWARD W., and reside at Taylorville.

ARTHUR H., born May 31, 1857, at Chatham, resides with his parents in Taylorville, to which place they moved from Chatham in 1867.

Mrs. Crooker gives a short account of the Chatham Ladies' Aid Society. It was organized Nov. 21, 1861, and disbanded early in '63. The socicty was small, but they made three large boxes of bedding and clothing suitable for tent and hospital, besides making up ten webs of domestic for the Springfield Soldiers' Aid Society.