This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Isham Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wg.2ADE/1401 Message Board Post: Isham, Gursham (deceased), who was one of the pioneers of Mazon Township and the father of a large family, was born at Williston, Vt., March 31, 1801, and came to Grundy County in 1846. He located one mile east of the village of Mazon and there bought 160 acres of land. This property, he developed into a valuable farm, residing upon it until he sold it and bought 120 acres in the center of Mazon Township. Later on, he retired and made his home thereafter in the village of Mazon where he died October 8, 1877. On September 9, 1822, he married Eliza Sanford, and they had the following children: Cornelia, Albert, Edward, Michael, Zachariah, Lydia, Weltha, Jehiel, Clarinda. Source: History of Grundy County Illinois, 1914, page 836-837