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/1430 Message Board Post: Isham, Zachariah, a son of Gersham Isham, and formerly an agriculturalist of Mazon Township, was born in Vermont, February 11, 1831. Coming to Grundy County in 1844, when the family migration occurred. Zachariah Isham grew up in this neighborhood, and became the owner of 240 acres of land in Mazon Township. On November 30, 1854, he married Susan S. Viner of Mazon Township and they had eight children. Source: History of Grundy County Illinois, 1914, page 837