BOLL, VALENTINE J., was born April 22, 1807, at Flersheim, Nassau, Germany. He came to America in 1833, arriving June 29, at Baltimore, being forty-four days from Bremen. He went to New Philadelphia, O., to see a relative, thence to St. Louis, and from there to Sangamon county, and made pottery for Chistopher Newcomer two years. In the fall of 1836 he started back to Germany by way of New Orleans, and arrived at his native town Jan. 2, 1837. He was there married, April 2, 1837, to Elizabeth C. Heller. She was born Feb. 13, 1819, in the same town. They embarked June 12, 1837, at Amsterdam, and were forty-nine days on the passage to New York. He went via Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland, thence to Portsmouth, on the Ohio river, thence to St. Louis and back to Sangamon county, late in 1837. His father, step-mother and five children, a married sister and her husband, Garred Young, and others, making a total of seventeen persons, came with him. He made pottery in Ball township for about eighteen years, and then engaged in farming exclusively. They had nine children, all born in Sangamon county, two of whom died young. Of the other seven--

GARHARD, born Nov. 2, 1838, in Sangamon county, married Jan. 5, 1862, to Mary J. Greenawalt. They had five children, THOMAS H. and JAMES A., the first and fourth, died young; MARY E., AMANDA F. and SARAH M., reside with their parents, one mile northwest of Pawnee.

ELIZABETH, born in Sangamon county, married John T. Burtle, Jun. See his name.

PAUL A., born in Sangamon county, resides with his parents.

GEORGE P., born in Sangamon county, married Mary M. Mollihorn. They had two children, WILLIAM A. and CHARLES V., and reside in Ball township.

CATHARINE J. married Patrick McAnanry, have two children, MATTHEW and ROSA, and reside at Tallula.

MARGARET and EVA reside with their parents in Ball township, five miles southeast of Chatham.