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The settlement of Bruce Township was commenced in 1831. George Basore, a native of Virginia, after clearing farms in the forests of Alabama and Indiana, moved to the fertile State of Illinois and settled in Bruce Township in 1831. He was a typical frontiersman. The family manufactured all their clothing and most of their farming implements. It was an independent way of living and one highly necessary at the time. Mr. Basore died in 1860, having married his second wife, the widow of John Wood. Calloway Basore, a son of the foregoing, died with cholera in 1835.

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