Lynn, J. W. (Billy)

Lynn, J. W. (Billy) MAGA © 2000-2014
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HISTORY OF CASS COUNTY ILLINOIS - 1915

Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.

Page 921

LYNN, J. W. (Billy), a progressive farmer, stock raiser and breeder, is setting an excellent example to other agriculturists of Cass County on his 200 acres of land, in section 29, township 19, range 8. He was born in Cass County, October 30, 1865, a son of T. T. and Letitia (Hickey) Lynn, the former born in Sangamon County, Ill., December 15, 1830, and the latter in Cass County, Ill., April 7, 1832. The father was a farmer and stock raiser. His life is treated of at length elsewhere in this work.

J. W. (Billy) Lynn was educated in the schools of his district, and was brought up on a farm. His 200 acres are named the Shick-Shack farm after a tribe of Indians that used to camp on the site of his residence. They obtained their water from the spring that now supplies the Lynns with water for family use as well as for the stock. Mr. Lynn is interested in breeding blooded stock, and this line of endeavor has been followed by members of this family for several generations, his grandfather having been the first to introduce shorthorn cattle into Cass County. In politics Mr. Lynn is a Republican and has served as a school trustee and county central committeeman, and for twenty years has been a judge of election. He belongs to Chandlerville Lodge No. 724, A.F. & A.M., which he has served as master; DeWitt Chapter, R.A.M. No. 119; and for the last eight years has been a member of St. Aldemar Commandery No. 47, K.T., of Petersburg. Both Mr. and Mrs. Lynn are members of the Eastern Star. In religious faith the family are Methodists.

On October 1, 1891, Mr. Lynn was married by Rev. R. D. Miller, near Athens, Ill., in Menard County, to Luella May Worth, born March 20, 1869, in Menard County, a daughter of Edmond and Lucinda (Turner) Worth. Mr. and Mrs. Lynn have had the following children: anna Irene, born July 11, 1892, married Miles F. Lounsberry, and they have a daughter, Dorothy May; Russell Moore, born October 28, 1896; Abbie Adell, born June 2, 1901; Letitia May, born December 30, 1903; William Worth, born September 28, 1906; and Zeta Josephine, born July 15, 1908.