Went to Pekin Public Library tonite in Pekin, Tazewell Co., IL and found a book called "Illinois Centenial Farms" by Illinois Centennial Farm Heritage Association. Pub. 1986 Curtis Media Corportation. ISBN # 0-88107-060-2. On Page 123, an article by Alden L. HOUGHAM describes Hougham Hill. I hope somone finds it useful. There was a picture of the home also. "Moses Hougham emigrated from England in 1750. He and his wife Catherine settled in Wapella Township on Bucks road, coming here from Ohio with oxen team, covered wagon, and Parchment deed (still in family) signed by President Martin Van Buren. Built a small home on the homestead - now a garage. He was a Revolutionary War soldier living to be 101 years old. Their son, Moses II and wife Elizabeth, stayed on the homestead. They lost 4 children to the Cholera epidemic of 1854, kept coffins build and took the dead straight to Halsey Cemetery west of the home to prevent spreading the disease. Their son, Andrew and wife, Mary, 137 years ago built the two story house high on a bluff, overlooking Long POint Creek. The house remains much the same with hand cut sills and frame cut at Alexander Mill (which was located in the valley below, the mill made Busks Roads an important settlement; people came far and near to grind grain and cut lumber). Their son, Edwin Lee and wife Martha Parker Hougham stayed on the farm. Parents of Ferne Perry, Nellie Reynolds (by his first wife, Eva who died young), Joe and Harry Washburn (by her first husband, Eugene Washburn who also died young( and their son Norland. Ed bought heirs out at $50 per acre, some thought too much, plowed 5 acres a day with walking plow, 35 bushel average yield. Norland, too, stayed and married Malvola Hurd (direct descendant of John Alden of history ) and in 1925 built a smaller home east of the big house. Parents of Isadora Nusz (Berryington, Texas, 3 children, Alberta Chase, Glenn Nusz, Corene Mundy, 4 grandchildren), Alden Lee, World War II Veteran, farmer and Eureka Co. foreman (married Burnetta Bundy, parents of Alden Lee II, Gregory Edwin and Stacie Lea, 1 grandchild), Norland J., Jr. Wilson Township farmer and Eureka Co. employee (married Nellie Bradford, parents of Debra Colliver, Vicki Mearida, and Norman, 6 grandchildren). Norland enjoyed mushrooming, hunting, fishing, and trapping. Presently the 6th, 7th and 8th generations live on the homestead; Alden, Burnetta and 18 year old Stacie in a new home east of the smaller home, Alden Lee II (farmer and Wallace Computer employee) wife Donna Greenwood Hougham and 10 year old daughter Jessica live in the big house, Gregory (farmer and Eureka Co. employee) lives in the smaller house. Alden says the greatest chant it taxes..."I paid $3,925.00 in 1983 and Moses paid $5.48 in 1841." Also, it used to furnish a living for two families and now my sons and I have to work off the farm to make a living."