JANE M. CLIFTON, Sec. 14; P. O. Martinville; born in Chenango Co., N. Y., Jan. 1, 1831; left there in 1838, and settled in Coles Co., Ill., on farm with her parents; came to town of Clifton in 1844; in 1856, settled on the farm where she now lives. Was married to G. T. L. Clifton, in 1846, by Rev. Ross J. Perry; her husband died in the house where she now lives, Sept. 8, 1872, of consumption, and was buried in the Rock Church Cemetery; he was a local preacher in the M. E. Church for twenty years. Mrs. C. is also a member of that church; she has now 97 acres of land, and built the house they now live in, about ten rods from the old log cabin; has had nine children - Elmore T., James, Lewis D., Curtis, living; Sarah E., Elias, Ora Ann, Nelson A., Eddie E., deceased, all buried in Rock Church Cemetery.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.