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Town Records of DeKalb Ill page 147, 1859
List of Overseers of Highways
No. 1 H. M. Stevens No. 12 Albert Hadley
No. 2 George Flinn No. 13 Clark Carter
No. 3 George Clark No. 14 Charles Pierce
No. 4 Randolph Cook No. 15 Thomas Hopkins
No. 5 Smith Goodel No. 16 Stephen Beemus
No. 6 S. H. Glidden No. 17 J. H. Ross
No. 7 Francis Farmer No. 18 William Plank
No. 8 Albert White No. 19 William Lindsay
No. 9 Enock Smith No. 20 Robert Lindsay
No. 10 George Stroop No. 21 John L. Crego
No. 11 William L. Hamilton
DeKalb May 31st 1859
Auditors met at the Town Clerk’s office Rufus Hopkins presents claim for damages allowed in consequence of laying out a road April 9th 1856 for the sum of one hundred and eighty dollars as allowed by the supervisor J. S. Brown, H. S. Champlain & Henry Madden on the 8th day of September 1856 we the undersigned auditors audit one hundred dollars of the above account which Rufus Hopkins agrees to take in full payment for said damages conditioned the said Hopkins removed his fence by the last of September AD 1859.
Subscribed by us this 31st day of May AD 1859
Hirum Ellwood, Sup
T. Richardson, J.P. & T.C.
R. Hopkins
Thomas Hopkins, Atty