History of Edwards, Lawrence & Wabash Counties, Illinois

Page 277 (Lawrence County)

“Enoch Organ, a Virginian, came to the county about 1820, from Tennessee where he had for some time sojourned, and settled on Section 36. Chaney, John, Enos, Cornelius, Daniel, Jesse and Betsy were his children.

He was a blacksmith by trade and, soon after his coming, constructed the first cotton gin in the county and operated it on his farm for a number of years.

He died in 1845 of a disease called Black Tongue, an epidemic of which many died on the prairie.

The family married, most of them prior to 1830, and settled down. The widow of Cornelius lives on the

S.E. ¼ of Section 23, where she has resided since her marriage in 1828, and where her husband died,

in 1847, at the age of 41 years.”

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