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Submitted: 6/13/10 • Approved: 6/13/10 • Last Updated: 3/31/18 • R33865-G0-S3
Top of stone:
BALEY [sic]
Face of stone:
51 YRS. 11 M.
MAR. 23, 1850
Note: Name is spelled "BALEY" on stone but really was Bailey. Bailey Hobson was the first settler of DuPage county IL. From http://www.dupageheritage.org/yps/intro.html:
"Although most of the early settlers in DuPage were from the northeastern section of the United States, and most of them from a rather small area in New England, there were a few families that came from the South. Ironically, the first family to settle, establish a farm and erect permanent buildings in what is now DuPage County came from the South. This was Bailey Hobson and his wife, Clarissa. He had been reared in Tennessee and his wife in Georgia. The Hobsons had come north by wagon and had settled for a time in southern Indiana. When they learned about the rich land available, they moved to a homestead east of Naperville ... became the first settlers in what is now DuPage County. There is in the DuPage County Historical Museum in Wheaton an excellent re-creation of the interior of the Bailey Hobsons’ original log cabin ... the first erected in DuPage."
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Contributed on 6/13/10 by pasteffen99
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