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Among other early settlers (in Woodside Township) were William Southwick, Nicholas Pyle, Alfred Pyle, Thompson Pyle, George Stout, Joseph Insley, William Higgins, Thomas Cloyd, William Hawes, William Jones, Joseph Withrow and Jessie Southwick.
Jesse Southwick was born about 1762, near Lebanon, Connecticut; married Nancy Moore after arriving at the age of maturity, and moved to Oneida county, New York, where they had four children. All died of the disease called "cold plague". They then moved to Junius, Seneca county, in the same State, where they had seven children. The family embarked at Olean Point, on the Allegheny river, in a family boat, and arrived at Shawneetown, Illinois in December, 1819. He was in company with James Stewart, and they moved in wagons from Shawneetown to a village called Milton, near Alton, where they halted until March, 1820, and then moved to Sugar creek and settled in what is now Woodside township, six and a half miles southeast of Springfield. He died September 25, 1826, on the old homestead.