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[1] ADS, Sotheby's Auction 5-13-87. Jesse Gum was a farmer whose land, as surveyed by Lincoln, lay between Petersburg and Tallula, now in Menard County.
[2] Quercus lyrata, a variety of oak.
[3] Thomas was Jesse Gum's son, and Jeremiah Davis was Jesse Gum's son-in-law.