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It looks like Joseph Vial was the first Vial in Lyons, Cook County, Illinois. It appears that they lived in Lyons, Cook County, Illinois, but were all buried in Lisle or Downers Grove, Illinois.
HISTORY OF EARLY CHICAGO
MODERN CHICAGO AND ITS SETTLEMENT
EARLY CHICAGO, AND THE NORTHWEST BY ALBERT D. HAGER
page 819
Joseph Vial, the original settler and proprietor of this hostelry, came to Cook County in the fall of 1833, and located at this place in the spring of 1834, where he resided until his death in the fall of 1852, his wife, Mrs. Louisa (Smith) Vial dying in 1856. When he arrived in the township there was one house at Lyons, the Polks house near there, Elijah Wentworth, Jr., at Flag Creek and the Laughtons and Forbes at Bourbon Springs. Mr. Vial's family, when he settled in Lyons precinct, consisted of Samuel, Martha, Robert and Nathaniel. The latter was murdered on the road from Lyons to Chicago in 1858. Mr. Vial was appointed Postmaster in 1836, a short time subsequent to which he resigned the position; at the time the stages changed their route to the road past Elijah Wentworth's, at which place the post-office then was. Upon the route again being changed, he was re-commissioned and held the position until shortly before his death, when N. Starr Carrington was commissioned, land he held it until its discontinuance. Mr. Vial was Justice of the Peace for four years.
HISTORY OF EARLY CHICAGO
MODERN CHICAGO AND ITS SETTLEMENT
EARLY CHICAGO, AND THE NORTHWEST BY ALBERT D. HAGER
page 822
J. L. WELLS, farmer, P.O. Western Springs, was born in Massachusetts in 1816, son of Augustus and Rebecca Wells. He came to Cook County in 1848, but in the spring of 1849 he returned East, and in 1854 came with his family and located in Chicago. He was employed as machinist for the Illinois Stone Company for four years. In 1858 he went to Lyons Township. and located on his present farm, which contains ninety acres. He has been engaged in farming since
that time, and has occasionally worked at his trade. In 1846 he married Miss Sarah Leroy. They had two children, one now living, Henry L. Mrs. Wells died in 1856, and he married in 1858 Miss Martha Vial, daughter of Joseph and Louisa Vial. They have had two children, one now living, Anna L. Mr. and Mrs. Wells are members of the Congregational Church. Mr. Wells has been Church clerk since 1874, and Sunday-school superintendent for fourteen years; he has also been Town Clerk and Township Trustee for three and a half years.
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