Dryden, David

Born: 1793-07-25 Virginia

Died: 1879-01-17

Flourished: Coles County, Illinois

Dryden married Mary Appleby, and by 1840, they had settled in Coles County, Illinois. Mary died in 1858, and the following year, Dryden remarried to Harriet Minor. In 1860, he was a farmer living near Mattoon, and he owned $1,500 worth of real estate.

U.S. Census Office, Sixth Census of the United States (1840), Coles County, IL, 200; Gravestone, Pleasant Prairie Cemetery, Coles County, IL; Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, Coles County, 5 November 1859, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Coles County, IL, 341.