STANDARD ATLAS
OF
SCOTT COUNTY, ILLINOIS
1903
Geo. A. Ogle & Co.Publishers & Engravers
134 Van Buren St.
Chicago
Transcribed by Larry Fearneyhough
Page 97
The subject of this sketch is a scion of sturdy stock, being born in Bedford county, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, April 9, 1840. When he was fifteen years of age the family moved to Quincy, Illinois, and from there to Mexico, Audrain county, Missouri. Seven years later they moved to Scott county, Illinois, and settled on the farm north of Winchester, now owned by Jesse Dawson. Preceding the coming of the family to Illinois, however, Mr. Rough, enlisted in company C, 53rd Missouri regiment, at Mexico, Missouri, in 1862, and was discharged from service April 1, 1863.
On the 9th of March 1865, he was married to Sarah Elizabeth Coultas, daughter of the late Isaac Coultas, one of Scott county's most responsible farmers. Mrs. Rough was born four miles southeast of Winchester, on the farm later owned by Jeremiah Hurd, and when seven years of age moved, with her parents, to a farm one-half mile east of Winchester. She was in every sense a popular young lady and has hosts of friends within Scott county. Four daughters have come to bless the union of Mr. and Mrs. Rough and have fittingly graced the home whose love and trust and tenderness they have known since infancy. They are: Alice Ann, Wife of Warren L. North; Isabel Turnbull, Katie Puffer and Iva May.
James Rough is naturally a practical farmer, having been born and reared upon a farm. It has been the study of his life and to his chosen occupation he has devoted his best thought. Given a common school education and gifted with common sense he has steadily forged forward until now he stands recognized as one of the most successful farmers and stockraisers in the county, honored alike for his sterling qualities of heart, his energy, his thrift and his good fortune.