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| | Henry County Obituaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | His father, John Vickers, came to Kentucky about the time it was admitted into the Union as a state and took an active interest in the formation of those statues of which every old Kentuckian feels proud. |
 | | In 1837, Absalom Vickers was married to Elizabeth Welch, with whom he lived about 62 years, only abandoning their native state in 1850 with the great tide of emigration which began to drift to the prairie region north and west of the Ohio, settling in Hancock county, Illinois. |
 | | John W. Vickers was born 85 years ago this September in Illinois and come to Henry County as a lad of three with his parents, Absalom and Elizabeth Vickers. |
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