Jacob N. Hazene

Jacob N. Hazen, deceased, was born in New Jersey in 1804; married Miss Jane B. Mitchell there, and with her and their five children moved to Fulton county, Ill., in July, 1839, and to section twenty-seven, West Jersey, in the spring of 1842. Here he purchased 120 acres of wild land at $2.50 per acre, erected a frame house, which was the family home, school, Methodist class-room, and general meeting-house of the town for many years, the Hazens making every one welcome. Only live years did this strong man stand the wear and tear of pioneer times here, for he died in March, 1847. His partner in all the toils and troubles of early years outlived him twenty summers, dying in 1867, as shown in the cemetery record in history of West Jersey.