_History of Champaign County_ p. 213
Chicago. W.H. Beers & Co. 1881
Reprinted 1972
R977.146 H6731A
time period is about 1800-1803
...the stretch of beautiful prairie in which the town of Mutual is
built. Along this prairie, and near and south of the town, John Runyon,
John Lafferty, Jacob Minturn and Justis Jones settled, and not long
after Henry and Jacob Van-meter, Nathaniel Cartmill, Benjamin and
William Cheney and William McLain settled farther down the valley, then
and still called Buck Creek, near what is now Catawba, a station on the
railroad connecting Springfield and Columbus.
Not my Cartmell - is it yours?
Diane Hettrick
dhettrick(a)earthlink.net