This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Peart Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wg.2ADE/1486 Message Board Post: Peart, James P. - Many of the substantial agriculturists of Grundy County are carrying on operations on land cultivated for years by their fathers. Born on their farms, and spending their whole lives thereon, they are familiar with soil and climatic conditions, and can bring to their labors that intelligence and knowledge that insures success. In this class may be mentioned James P. Peart, the owner of 160 acres of land, which has been in the family possession for nearly a half a century. Mr. Peart was born on his present property, in Goose Lake Township, in March, 1877, and he is a son of Cuthbert and Mary Ann (Walker) Peart, natives of England. The parents of James P. Peart both came to the United States as children, their families locating first in Ohio, where Mr. and Mrs. Peart were married. About the year 1864 they migrated from the Buckeye State to Grundy County, Ill., where the father purchased a tract of eighty acres in Goose Lake Township. To this he added from time! to time, increasing his earnings by working in the mines during the winter months, and he was thus occupied until his death, October 13, 1910, when he was the owner of 160 acres of land and one of his section’s substantial men. The mother, who survives him, resides at Carbon Hill, Ill. They had the following children: John, who is deceased; Jeremiah, who resides in Goose Lake Township; Joseph, of Carbon Hill; Mary, who is the widow of Roscoe Brown, of Carbon Hill; Emerson, who is of Springfield, Ill.; James P.; and Jessie, who married Thomas Nicholson, lives at Divernon, Ill. James P. Peart received a common school education in the schools of Grundy County, and was reared to agricultural pursuits. On February 19, 1901, he was married to Anna Wilson, who was born at Braidwood, Ill., daughter of William and Margaret Wilson, and two children have been born to this union: William and Milford. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Peart settled on the farm of his father, in Goose Lake Township, of which he has been the owner since the older man’s death. He is thoroughly skilled in farm work, and the general air of prosperity noticeable on his property gives ample evidence of good management and industrious effort. In all matters pertaining to the welfare of his community he shows an active and intelligent interest, but has never been a politician, and supports Republican principles only as a good citizen. Fraternally he holds membership in the A. O. O. G. and the I. O. O. F. of Coal City. Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois, 1914, page 882