Excerpted From 1884 History of Cumberland, Jasper and Richland, Illinois, p.533. (Crooked Creek Township)

"JOHN CUMMINS, son of Daniel and Dolly (Johnson) Cummins, was born in North Carolina in 1807.  He worked on the home farm until he was fourteen years old, when his father died.  He then managed the place for his mother.  In 1827 he married Mary Morgan, who bore him two children --- Sidney and Cenia.  In 1830 he moved to Henry County, Ind., where his wife died a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  About 1832 he married Eliza Kibler, who became the mother of eleven children --- Jacob, William Daniel, Sarah L. (deceased), John F., Eva M., Reuben (who with one of his children, was killed by lightning while returning home from the harvest field in 1883), Mary E., Susan, Emma, Charles and Richard W.  William Daniel was born in Henry County, Ind., November 19, 1837, and was brought to this county by his father in 1838. In June, 1853, he married Elizabeth Strong, who bore him four children, now all deceased. Mr. C. was legally separated from his wife and in 1860 married Sarah J. McGahan, who has borne one child now dead. At the breaking out of war Mr. C. enlisted in the Ninety-Seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry, but soon after going to the front was taken ill and was discharged.  He has served as Constable twelve years and has been a school Director.  He is a Master Mason, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is a Democrat.  He is now a clerk in a general store, and also keeps the only house of public entertainment in the village of Rose Hill. Mr.C. is a member of the United Brethren Church."

-Submitted by Minga (Buckle) Stivers