Summers, William

Born: 1818-XX-XX Ohio

Died: 1888-XX-XX DeWitt County, Illinois

Flourished: DeWitt County, Illinois

Alternate name: Sumers

William Summers, a farmer, married Sarah Ann Johnson in October 1842 in DeWitt County, Illinois. In 1860 the couple had a son and a daughter. At that time Summers had a personal estate value of $450. In May 1853, Summers was a member of the jury that found Moses Loe, a client of Abraham Lincoln, guilty of manslaughter in the stabbing death of James Gray.

U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), DeWitt County, IL, 405; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Wapella, DeWitt county, IL, 183; Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, DeWitt County, 13 October 1842, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; The Clinton Register (IL), 10 August 1888, 3:6; People v. Loe, Martha L. Benner and Cullom Davis et al., eds., The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln: Complete Documentary Edition, 2d edition (Springfield: Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, 2009), http://www.lawpracticeofabrahamlincoln.org/Details.aspx?case=135583; History of DeWitt County, Illinois (Philadelphia: W. R. Brink, 1882), 86.