Farmer DNA

Commentary.

I spent some time Sunday afternoon reading through old deeds and abstracts from my family farm in west central Illinois. Jonathon and Elizabeth Young were early pioneers who settled in the part of Morgan County that would later become Scott County sometime in the early 1820’s. Both Jonathon’s and Elizabeth’s parents had been farmers in Virginia, then Kentucky, before moving further west.

Farming is in my DNA.

Reading the land description for Elizabeth’s father’s farm in Virginia in 1783 made me chuckle, as that is how many people I know grew up giving directions:  “.

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